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When you are going from `one room Io another to light gas. always my two matches.` If you carry but on), it Ivillgo out. Ityou only two. it won't -Bxbuxy Gllottu. L _ He _ lost_ the address his friend had Staten- . Near Market Square. Vs/rn. IV|cLarty, t um RELIABLE AUCTIUNEEM G. 3. FORD LATE OF OR0, Has purchased the premises occupxed bv Chas. Mc- Guire,' just can of the Victoria Hotel, and has 0 ned up business in all kinds of Black- smithing. orseshoein. etc All work will be done promptly at the lowest gure. Remember the place. HANDLES ALL KINDS OF AUCTION n-nciuu-I FARM s'rocK SALES Are a specialty, d parties 'nte di t ha e sales, willconsult thairn own intere;ts 1:137 thgix sales in his hands. 3'0rdcrs left at Tm: Aowuwcn ofoe will be attendedtto` 35' G: R: sunw 31:03., uum_y uuzu: HUI. Peggy sat up with a little start, and a half air of rebellion. .'.l`hen. 811 8` once-, she felt his eyes burning into here, and her courage ed, leaving I V617 weak, pliant little girl. un,......__ n I... 1............ ...-min Ielnln lzimn VVVV` ' \lJI`YlLIl'lIIlnv- Anyone sending a. sketch and deacri tion may quickly ascertain our opinion free w ether an invention is probably `pntentable. Communica- tlonnstriotly condent al. Handbook on Patents sent tree. Oldest ency for seem-in atents. Patents taken t 1-on h Munn & . receive npccuu notice, without c urge. in the 3 A2 4 AA: A. "g`gA=`,.`. {Our Motto: 2N0. x and No. a sold in Barrie at Seagers Drug Store. V V7-7-. ---V g -u--7- -v----' A handsomely illustrated weekly. Lartzest cir- culation of any scientic our-nal. Terms, $3 a year: four months. 81. so I byall newsdealers. IIIIIIII a ll. ---_ , . _ ||___, \[__|, Canadian Branch Oioe, ` Head Oice. MONTREAL. - LONDON, ENGLAND M. C. HINSHAW, 8AM. J. PIPKIN, Btranch Manager Manager. APIKI 3% ILIGIJIU UL `yieax-: t'3ur x1`1'3x'1t'ii'a..V 5.1`.-'o1?!"l3 a nvisdeiers. M N &Co.3'B~=*=vvNew York Branch Omoe. 625 F 811.. Washington, D. C. Application to GEORGE PLAXTON. I2- on-:n nu} uruu w : i=;;..`..a ooo. rm: furnished and ratcvqu AGENT, Onn In RnthweII' mill. Tone no omer_ as an nuxnureu, pun! nuu ltotions are dangerous. Price, No. 1, 81 get box; No. I. 10 degrees atronger,88 per box. o. 1 or 3, nailed on reoei t of price and two 8-cent stem 5. -- The Cook mpony Windsor Ont. E` 03. 1 and 2 sold and recommended y all responsible Drnggiata In Canada. sq-lv GEORGE ruuu'uu. A Barrie Ont. Ofce in UBLV 1 , Bothwelfs Block m1Isu1}nvn's_ BusI1IE_s`sJ%J%t%:AuI_.MI;_:;ht;`E. W vvuun, puauv L100: 5511 Peggy, he began aguinjthia time Wing his hand overhors as it trembled on the arm of the big chair. I want to tell you something, added-Richard. . I)-xr---_. -I-..-J I`-.. 4.-uAnntun:I\ nn MAKERS `or PORTRAITS FROM THE SMALLEST MINIATURE TO LIFE s1z1~:. sHAw BROS. No boasting, but Solid, Seund. Genuine Work. Shorthandr thotioughly taught in, three months. Bookkeeping in all no bunches. Business Course II- _- ._I'_A- $!....-I__. C-4 J. cI}LVE1zWELL s Halrcutting and Shaving E /a'r|or jorrosrrn nangm norm!-. BARBIE. ` - - - -7 _.g_- .._..._.s _...1 ..4. ._ ..1...._. Imanise in THE Anvuucvl . ` The qtiality of any_ thing that affects th taste-- the quality which graties the palate-thu's ie the woxd Flavor dened If you have never tried A Rich, Nutty Flavor If never tried Til1son s Pan Dried Rolled Oats you can : possibly know the true, rich, nutty avor of the ripe oat kernel when it. is at its best.` Pan Drying yields the nutty flavor that steaming destroys. Ask `your grgcer for pedal notice, Wltnouli cause. us um Scientic Hmerican. . u.-_.-_-_...u.. nI...o..omI umnklv T.nraAnf. nlr VV U011 JUI1 HIJILIULI-III-I5, G\l\IU\l A-Unvnluunvu Peggy closed her eyes again and gath- ered together her fast tailing courage with one mighty efort. ``D0n t. ' 511 Dletgded. `.`Don t, Richard. ' :. 1... .._-__. - ;._:d- ....In- an [IQ nnlr- Cox. Count Srnnr um Smnuaz Avimun, III! on W.` `"' '"'`""'" mm IUII Branch 011100. noLLn OATS Irancn Lvutnilgcr | .;.ATLAs"T."f ASSU RANGE COM PANY. ..I an; __- -.. Fnnunn Photographers and Crayon Artists. TILLSOWS . PAN omen The Tillson Co'y, Limited. Tilsonburg. Ont. 30001: ; Cotton Rootompouul 7.. __----nCa-II- ...u.A ont\II.1-\`C C ACQI il 1:; successfully used monthly`b-y over 0,o00Lad1es. Safe. effectual. Ladies ask vnnr drnmrint for Cask : Oman loot cou- 10 owmmes. B816, enecuuzu. name: an; I'll znr .1 he no 0 ma nun (Iguana-nun. at for Cook : Cotton loot Cou- er,a.8 all Mixtures, p Pl-inn. No- 1. S1 --LAB LDUU ELUVV G ULAIQV `I399 I 00. Why not, little girl? Drnnu-'- :I..lL_ nluunnmvg n .u}u3uInIa..n.u- n_nd Salmon around sag not on ehon | . Quality, Style, and Fine Art, I at low prices. (Rgiatcred) -W. 1v1e1.An'nr. J. MUSGROVE. _l'II` I I Founded x8o8 nu L--.-ou\4o' Lu The Ontario Permanent _ Building n and Loan Association Calls attention to the Special Facilities ojfered to Investors andBo'r'rowe'rs. "1 'V H] uuu, amuuu assoc Peggy's white cheeks all at `once Grew ery, but the said it: Because! know what you are going to say, and] d0I1 t want to hear it. " 11---, n. an n- _|.- I__.-.._. Albg TEN ANT-Why pay rent, when, on such an month] pa. ments, you can become your own `lord ? nu ve the choice of at a monthly rate of $1.20, $1.50, or $1.90 for $xoo.oo bor- rnwed- "-'i-Eh: PUBLlC-Why spend an our ocm money? 6oc. a month placed with the . P. . and Loan Association will yield you in about 8 year: A PRESENT of $100.00, or a prot of $41.40 on: your monthly pavments. TIJE IQIllE3RE III`.-- ___L ,,I___ TH E INVESTO R--WhY not P1306 you! $100.00 with the O. P. & L. Ase'n, and have it doubled in 12 years. beside receiving during the in- terval GZ per annum paid to you every six months? In other words, for your $xoo.oo you will reeeive as interest $66 and a lump sum of $200, making a grand total of $266. -you-- V- 7---. An investment safe as government securities and much more protable, ralizing the investor an equiva- lent to :5 per cent. per annum, simple interest. For printed matter and further information call on WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO, `95 Dunlop-St., Ross Block, Barrie. i Conveyancing Blanks per dozen I15 Gents. O. H.LYON, Assignment of Chattel Mort- gage Release of Equity of Redemp- tion per dozen `V-4 II vvauu IIU nun; an Poor Richard! 80 she knew. afhei 311. the secret which he had qtterd himself he had k_ept`from all the world, most of all from the tiny. pink and, white girl whom it molt concrned; Then all at once .1: much Him "white there was ailudioroha aide, to tha`situI- , tion, and Peggy was axndzed to 500.5. bit of a. roguiah smile _about `tho oornerao! ` his ne mouth ashe asked: ` `7` (lI J -__ 3|, ,, _ A_I._L.' _.-- I- -`-n ` SEQTREAS. BARRIE LOCAL BOARED. 12-tf ` Chattel Mortgage iStatutory Lease House Lease Farm Lease Assignment of Mortgage per dozen 25 Cents. Evenings ab residence, 67 Owen-St. Agreement for Sale of Land per dozen 35 Cents. Envelopes, printed per 1000 $1.40 - __: rues:-cc 3Bill Heads and Statements per 1000 ;- 20 Cents. [Get our prices and see `our stock The Advance Printing ice. Qeeds, heavy paper. ?rinted Letter and Note Heads in Linen, Bond, Laid and wove papers, padded, very cheap. """V in WC SUI]-Is Up 9, 5,". - It was a mean Vthing `-`for hip! $9` and she afterward tdld "hi ` . 10- `NOW; hpwever, ahebtit ` Give as, much 39. i $5i.`?I. . _. 40% l-V.~'.\;7` 7` Ialiantly: . NI` .1. L._ -_ _- __.`-_a.; .3-) |..`..`..=`T... '.I\.'r.l E. F,ONNELL, lanthanum .- .. __-_A_ _ _- __ AND UPWARDS AND UPWARDS 'r-:;;wa':";o;.;*;o`;::`.;;. yos. know? what I was going.tg57Bhy?,!? 7 ' ' I: m... .. ...-...; :;.u..-... -1.5... IIu1n'.Iv1\* an - Omonnn f7 A BA._L.o OFA`1"l-l.E'.':-Kil7MAAl.)A`A'\f` hillphldwnntgdhi`-`.,m`.!_n,.V%,.% .. I; '" i you 1.. W Kins P He had worn it an army of heathen-13h nun - as W h e Wu coming to ' moths thieves og.g!h ::::' atngkm`: 2:. . _ And shatter our club. on thtaewgoaxild 151-. n, ~ ; But we had bold Nepgun And when are tho nun : hick 1;... . ' "53 Bphlug ` ; His carackes w To tl}e kirtlese`;:1fh:e`:Oll1IOd of dam.` With {us saints and his mm` would tuck u._ u. had thought 1 I egolatern frame, - ` - - . 811 $0 c;~.k ... ..l Auquuu ' . IJUH U, I-\nlULlDl\Io His face grow a trifle paler as ho sag. Y` Clmk _. _..L ISLLIA on--:cnI9" .....ua., nut! yuu uvvvlb-VW, '7-5'7 ~ ivva as much `posfs'ibIe 20, 1898. ULIB UL Dpuxn I -Austin `Dobool. don t'wnnt: to; hTe ar. it;:'W..;Kl;'en a 7 id rmly a whispered :|n'It'yet."_ Rinhfd Ihrnnn `A L3-I '--A. __.! LI. . -um W.-Ii-|3'v 5 Wl|l3P.9l'0.I`..3 JllIV!05t;",-V _ V Richard sprung -'to his" feet} with enough exnltation in the movement to V startle` her. V -`g`:When may I tell you, Peggy mine? Perhaps he drew her torherifeet, per- haps qhe rose; but all" at onfoe she -toum) herself standing before him; with him holding her dangerously o;oee by the two tiny, burning hands. ' "gamma :1-.. a.L- -I---------A 3' '-` He NOW A11 For 1 maiesty h N that ha Th6 31 He must p Ere at S_88 is mme g at his bullet and chain. To 1* '1-`otu .1...` (hilt his as had thou noward And D""F d Hawkins where are IIIIS lnu Inn [uuvu Iuvtu Lruluug ght like an eggshell crack`; may get to his Flaoone, . to his Devon again. ' bowl rubber: to Bacchun, the galleons of Spain! any to St. June: whetted to hack nu; lay at some lustier games he can hope to outthwaek ul: s'ot Peru he would pack In his greatness aheuld lack us! vvvv rung IIIILHIIJ5 Ila]-IS ` Some day, she stamrnored.` Then, % noting the happy laughter ` in. his eyes,- rhe cried out: Oh, Richard, why did you do it? It is almost ag bad as if you had really told me, and you've made me say thingrl had no right to say, and - Thnrn Inc: a Rina. .0 L.-........ :... L-- -- nus. vcuuai A #10 Ill) KISIIU _ IIU ally, an. '1 There was. hint of tears in: her re-T proaohtul, big eyes, and `shetugged hard to loose her imprisoned ngers. Instant- ly all the teasing ed from his manly taco. `and he dropped her hands. Hvm... .....n n......... I.;L ._-__ -r -4. ICIIII A19 Uwuvvj usuypvu HUI uuuuao Very well, Peggy, but may I ask ; you this: Do ,you realize that it would 1 not be quite--kind, to givofme permis- * aion to tell `you some day,` and thennot to make me happy bygiving me the `right answer? n.........|.. 1:..- -_.-____-s I. -L-- - ` D13-e;gvE;;; quivered hlplessly, but I _she nally lifted her_eyea to him brave- -I ll-be-kind, _ ly`and answered, _Yes, I realize,.and- - do DIS '"IIIIJ\II For a moment `she feared that he was going to kiss her. But after a moment, with a wistful, half contented sigh, he turned away, and with one accord they walked toward the door. `At the portal he stopped her and asked again: Don't . make_*me wait long, little girl, and don t let any one also tell you the same ' story in the meantime. I'm not afraid to trust you with the other fellows, but-but I `shouldn't be happy to know that they had told;-told you the story, even though I knew you wouldn't care tor__them. -on u-v---u She` answered him only by a look. for some one came up with the frantic explanagion that he had been looking everywhere for her, as this was his dance. 80 she slipped away from the yearning Richard, who made himself ridiculous all the rest of the evening by forgetting that he had left his name on 3 ` half a dozen programmes _before he had oarried'Peggy of to the-library. . TIVL-.. .----.-..n. 55-...` Anna; Ddnknusa """""""" " VIIJ V "' """ """"J' When supper time came, Richard all at once lost sight of his ladylove. He hadn't had a chance to speak to her since the little scene in the big arm- chair, but he had not for an instant lost sight 9! thepretty white `muslin gown, with its tiny sprigs of pink rosebuds. But in the confusion of the breaking up of the last waltz she mysteriously disap- peared and nally, in sheer desperation,- he hunted out her mother, hoping to find the lost maiden under the careful wing of the loving chsperon. uT|'rI_...... :. n..........on ....11...I um av:-vnnl LIV IV 1 All` Uaauyvn vane W` UL U . Where is Peggy? called the sweet faced little mother. I've lost her, and I hoped you would bring her. Poor Richard s heart sank and with some murmured explanation he plungedo in the midst of the gay little throng. .The search was fruitless. Everybody seemed to have drifted into the supper room, and still Peggy was not among them. He plunged into the most impossible corners and hiding places. He even looked into the depths of the big arm- chair in the library and still there was no Peggy. Atlast, when his face was white and his palms were burning where his impatient nails had dug into . them, he heard a soft, tearful little whisper from the stairs, and there, in the turn above the landing, he found , her, sobbing to herself as though her very heart was broken. Il`I)Anan-n 3 Ln tendon` (`III 11` VUIJ uounu W-I wbvavuo Peggy, he cried, kneeling on the step beside her and chang her cold hands between his feverish palms, Peg- gy, `what is the matter? Peggy dabbed her wet little ball of I handkerchief into her eyes and swal- lowed a sob. It s-g-it s that big George ` Waters," she choked out, and then, ` with a new fit of sobs she buried her disoonsolate little head in her lap and oould go no further. 1-).:-|..._.1 ..-L Id. J-mad-In and uunilan , To tug 85 um Uuucu uuu uucuuo `[85 that greatness sheuld But where are galleons of Spain? IIIYOY. G10;-ianal The don. may attack as T r his stomach be fain ' Wlxftiftveach us before he can'ra.ck 113,. H8 d where are the galleons of Spajn? A Debs uuuiu. 5U nu auauuws. Richard set his teeth and waited. ` Then all at once he understood, for he 7 had been afraid of Waters all winter. There was no further _room for delay. Leaning over he caught the sobbing lit- tle gure in hisarms, and there never was any "joy in the world so dear as his when he felt her nestle her face on his shoulder while her crying grew less violent ind nally subsided into an oc- __ -1 ..:._L -` 1-_;\-w:-an lII\I\"I)'I`- VIUJULIU uuu IIIAOICIJ -a - w - . - V - . _ . - - oasional sigh of growing content." I-r1|.-_`_ ..I.- l....`l Lnnnrnn rI1AO: 11: Fly uurucu nus uwu up data an... ......... Never mind, little girl, you,.needn t explain. I know that-that-tbat ,- pudent cad has presumed to tell u what you didn t-want to hear, and] know it wasn t your fault." But don t you think; little girl, that it is time for me to tell you what I_ had to say a con- ple of hours ago? ' _ V Ana` Danni! nntnnnv th1'OuRh Wllv I-IU YVKII-Ill ULL Inluv up crate recital of the secret which YES; congratulated themselves was all their oivn and had never been so deliciously told by any one else in the wcrld.-Ohi- oago News. a Future Blacksmith shop. 3 ~ , A blacksmith : shop without a forge | may really come to bee popular institu- tion in the near future. The idea orig- inated in Belgium. The metal to be heated is plunged into a metal tub of water, and, apparently with little rea- ' son, becomes instantly white, hot. i As a matter of fact, the metal tub is connect- ed by wire to one pole of. a dynamo. -'_1'he-water is a_cidulated,v and `when. the metal is plunged into the water an arc to be established all around the submerged portion , :which may; then be removed nd hammered on an anvil ftho any h ea`te_diu`etel.- '-_Iyi0"I1`]A.II;,liel.'0j3.I"1`,ir:1`!:i.,I-if . - ~ * 0BB.lUul:u 515? U! 6&0 V1 ll-Ia vvanvvu-vn When she had h become quiet, he gen- y turned her face to his and said: u-xr....-.. mind "IN-.l>.'In air} vnn mandn t pm 01 IIUIITH USU` And Peggy actually smiled typugh her tears while he went off into a elab- ,_:;__I -1 LI... annmn` 1-nhlnla than Ag Ajhmd Txrggody. - An Atohiaon man gohangry-the other `night, and hlntingran I,n817`fdrewal_1 at _hia_ 1g1i1y.f`_ld_haughtify out of the I.`;'.'. .- -....a`mt'I:lnn f1InnI'.nn.I:A_ Whgn hg nl tlqu,unu5uuan; us.- When he, '1 ;990`.h la.as1.son..19 ._ . V r , .'I!hna.another tragedy. was turned. `V: I U II. v-w how and oniho front4sa+te- g-padh dd `~_i_j:,` however, his pants leg $!?,*.`i ` Vvei `W3 compelled into 5 comedy.-_-Atchiaovn Globe. '_vr,:a"1`l" and was_ rippiedl 1-om. _ 1 ,6 ,a nd.t-he angry man who 1 me- I society people might have thought that it was not exactly up to the high. ggt notch of elegance, but since the par- , tieipants were wholly unconscious .0! its shortcomings what did it matter. There is a more real weight in the ex- pression of ignorance being the greatest .bliss where social matters are concern- ad than in any other condition of life. The ordinary little girl who slips into 3 thin gown and dances all night with the boys, whom she has known since childhood, in the simple ballroom of s family club nds more nnalloyed en- joyment in the entire procedure than does the veriest brocade clad, jewel weighted belle who glides in stately elegance through the gorgeous eotillon in the most sparkling ballroom of one of society's real leaders. When the lit- tle girl has romped her cheeks red through a gay. easy german or, more frequently, through a haclmeyed waltz, she would open her big, blue eyes in amazement if a frigid debutante in the real "thing stared at her as decidedly unconventional. But the little girl doesn't even dream that there is any dierence between her dance and the one whose details are so exploited in the society columns, so she is a thou- sand times happier than is her blue blooded sister, breathing the atmos- phere of wealth and all the gnawing envie, rivalries and disappointment: pertaining thereunto. D-xnrnuu nu-can CAI!!! `HE. -- 4 r;r,1yr mu ' `_ nine. the n;gmj_pgou. : h `We; pram`-in antipliohel eons`; _fdivldeibetwe_eu Inform and the hnntrea queen. ' Then in e eon; we'll celebrate The praise: of her who keeps her state At Cnldoeend the Cyclades, ' Which gleam efer-across the see; And otttimes chooseth to repair 7 To Pephoe' sweet. pellncid eir When through the blue is borne enter 8:` new white ewena her glittering car. And. last, to Night we will rehearse A holy. high and solemn verse. -Poems From Horace. Catullus end Seppho and other Poets." by Edward George Eer- Hy dearest Hermione looked up from her` morning correspondence. Her `air was one of ` profound abstmotion, % and-the commenced to auguviny coee 1 with quite uncalled for generosity. ,u___u.-__ '1.-- 1.-.: n .1... n,,_ vrauu quauv liuvuanvu ...... 3---- -.._-., - It V is altogether too bad, she ex- claimed, as I rescued the cup with the fifth lump suspended above it. She took no notice even when the sugar opped into the marmalade, and her-forehead was puckered into a frown. ' aAI'l1`I__A. :.. .ILa!! I .--3.` 534-I-5!-III `AER an IUUIMIIIK 81 W5 uhalvwus l Oh, here is a letter from May Vere. She has just had a present from her. fa- ther-in-law, a diamond tiara, and she says-this rather doubttully-that it. isquite the best of the whole lot. She will wear it first at the duohess recep- tion. That makes the sixth tiara in the M family, doesn't it? (Mrs. Mark Vere is my wife's cousin). , "1 suppose so-if you say so. , I was frankly more interested for the moment in the money market column an in May Vere s latest present. ere followed a longishvpause. Her- mione rattledthe teaspoons and made much of the cat. Then her voice came to me across the table decorations with just a touch of tretfulness:' ll 1'-nlp I9! WDD yuvnpavu anuv -u guy" "What is an" 1 said.-a.itting down and settling my paper at;-eah. unn. 1...... .z. .. 1..u.... 8-anus `Mnv Vern- auun. , I tossed the paper on to an armchair. Although we have been married three years that particular inflection in my wife's tones `never fails to arouse my curiosity, and-well, something else. [III 7 ---an An`-u mink nun!-Inh"_.. I ha. KJLIII "I should look so nice in a tiara. Jag. ` I LI, _ __A_._. ._ L- .: gnnnngnhnzn UUIAUBIUJ, Cl-l\l""WVIl, II\lIl-IIJVI-Illl. vnuvu If I were only rich enough-- I be- an reokleuly. You see, I knew I wasn't. Hf\I. 1nn`9 'I' Rh-In- cannon lial: T urn BIM LUUnauuIaJu -I-\-I nvw, -any vv .. vv .....- -. Oh, Jack, didn't mean that. I am not so mean as to reproach you. We have really everything that is necessary. 7 A tiara can be done without. I couldn't bear to have anything butau very expen- sive one, and May won't look anything but plain in hers, however beautiful it Is. But still-'-well, what I meant was that it seems almost a misfortune that I should look so nice in one-as havdng one is onto! the question. 141 _1_..u. ..-- A.l.-A. H `I __l.I Hf -.-an-`Isl `C It-Q]! $30!: rvllalnw I nunvuunwi `lint than we do, my ;:;de. es)`. '.l.'o oelebmg this festal day? `In GHQ nigh miuna On `sh: l|n'lIn put valuing Uuvsvuu vvn Peggy was very pink after the last dance. Richard always went into that particular waltz with especial fervor. Afterward he explained to her that it was because his first dance with he!` had been that particular one, and she 1 was tease enough to act as though she wasn't at all conscious of the particu- lar signicance of the thing. So to night, when he reluctantly let her slip from his arms, she hadn't quite the necessary courage to refuse his plea that they go somewhere to rest. 01.. I___.._. _-L..L J-In- umnnn` `I-Ton UIIU II |J|lIl'\Il- uuv uuvuvovuo 1 don't see that," I said. "I would rather have you as you are. `III-..-`.. 3- g-A-.ncuuI1-an -alga-gnu--v`4Aouat` -A LU IXIUUIHV [U83 1059! Ill I See, the bin wheels to his decline! `ll -.L- 51...... . Ma. 4:... 5.. $..u.-..`I. an BIB, we nun wneus to uni uucunuz Haste. Lthen; `tin time to breach thowino! Ow-aides; winevishall quit it: lg! Noptnn'o s 110 but. IIIUIICL GI$ V? JVIK May is general'i;ack;1'owladged an plain - HI -n.g-.H- non-nnnuinn wan 12.!-11 have U V! VII-Inna llv ucnuuvnovu Would it? smiled Hermione. And 3 I am not yet proof against Hermione s smiles. so. in sport I suggested some- thing to her which had occurred to me-- just as a joke, and nothing more. That she would act on it I never dreamed of for a moment. Eek Hermione still de- olares all that followed was entirely my fault, and that but for me she would not have to suer the prolonged igno- miny of being the only girl outof seven married cousins unable to boast a~dia~ mend tiara among her possessions. TIT- 1.-.`! .... .._I .._......-...-..A._ LL- `:1 wasn't comparing you with her. It jvonld be absurd. -1,3 r1-___,-s__-- ;___1 A-IJVAJVQ VI Inca-vac` :v- r uuuuuuu V.--u We had several engagements the week of the duchess reception, but that was the first and was very generally considered the most important. I also happened to be very busy just then. I rather expected a bad quarter of an hour when I told Hermione how abso- lutely impossible it would be for me to -do` more than just look in at quite a late hour, but, as is often the case where *- she is concerned, my antioipations were not fullled. ` - ` She smiled at me very sweetly, said she could nd plenty of people to go with and that I need not worry on her account, and -I fancied I detected signs of relief in her expression, which may have been the reason why I made my way to the reception rather earlier than I originally intended. , ' l'I'1I.- .'l..-I....-... ._L.. ._-... ._l_.._.. IL. L.) TALE OF A TIARA. The duchess who was giviugit had scattered her invitations broadcast, as is within the rights of a duchess. The spacious rooms were extremely crowd- ed. It was some time before I caught sight of my wife, but not long before I heard of. her, for Mrs. Jack Voyce- Voyce is my name- appeared to be cre- ating quite an unusual sensation even for her. '9` And have you seen, pr ' tiry Mrs. Voyce? And have you hear her tale of. the tiara? What fun she is. isn't she? seemed the principal topic of con- VEE`." ` ` ._ __._ _.____ '_-LL_Q _ , . A`, . IILIUJ 6U 5ULLl\JVVl-IUSW Iv I-vnue She knew what that meant._ Hadn t he carried her off to that particular somewhere every night since the lit- tle club had begun its inforinal fort- nightly dances? Still, she knew that she had better not go tonight-she had known for weeks that it was com- ing, and this last waltz had convinced her that it was coming very soon. And Peggy didn't want it to come, at least not just now, for this was Peggy's first winter and it seemed a shame for a girl to tie herself her first season. Then, too, Richard wanted so much that it should come, and there wasn t anything in the world that Peggy loved so much as to make Mr. Richard wait. It didn't matter whether she delayed him by tak- ing an unusually long time to adjust 1 her veil when he had called to take her ` some place in the evening, or whether he had to toast his toes before the re while she dallied over making his cup of tea or even in the telling of his great secret, which poor Richard congratu- lated himself no one, not even Peggy, knew. To be frank, everybody in `the little club had discovered it before he had confessed it to himself. Still Peggy yielded and was led off to the big chair in the corner ,cf the library, where Richard could perch himself on the window seat beide her and where the other young people were good enough never to intrude. ,L __._1 1-1. L..- _.I.:J-.- V Vwvnvcnu More than `one man patted me on the ` hack and congratulatednie anew. I felt myself, generally speaking, quite as lucky as they thought me, for I admire her, too, but I could not help wonder- ing how they would have liked partici- pating in my present anxiety on her be- } halt. ` `gnu!--_.___.I-_.- .l_...A. 3--..._QA. _-.l_..I __I__L } H`ermione just doesn't mind what f she does, acandid girl friend had said % to me `before our marriage, and once or [7 twice I have been forced` to agree with her, for if my suspicions were correct and this tale apparently so widespread were to reach the ears of .my most un- necessarily particular uncle, Lord Our- rah, who I knew to be present, having } seen him,:whaf would -be the unfortu- aate result! failed toimagine. ' C -;';.I"'I`_.`_.-'... '3- L--L `Q-Anal EIIU IUBIQIU an I--nnv\n uv anal!`-act-VI | Lord Curran is best described as one of the old school. Hid ide a about wo- _ men Hermione calls iar to may ` the le`ut"o't _it."- '1`heyAo_or.toi`niy are not gtthe prelhnt day, but dutebaok to the I. 7 shaman nnnnhiul ihnmnnldrnn llU9m `ii quid pons die".-Bducoi.) I.-:. '.I.-n .._- .a_. ..._ 1' _.1.. .... minus-s feast. ' ""3: 3Ju`?J.'i 'iI3'aiS'v2 :cnpJNoRm1p1u}I ADVANCE. How SHEESTENEQ. yvith e.;.l..m ...+..;1....,.. :enddoi9sy as.` the`! 19:9: $9,1d.lsnit1 98-` pecially in avoiding anything approach-' ing to notoriety. Just as I went over thisafreah in.my mind my venerable uncle approached me with that peculiar- ly beaming smile of his which always icretells disaster. 1: l'I__-LL_. __-_.__.. :AII- Ioruwua Qsannvus. ' Pretty woman, your Vwifo, Master % John, said be. A little lacking in % retioenco, `oh-eh?" And just then Her- mione came along, and I had torun Que ' - ,1- -n .1:..4.....a.:-... ........ Cgnlwllian fnr hfg mione along, and 1 mm torun ulu risk of distorting myteatures for life . in my eorts to signal to her not to join` us. Fortunately my uncle : sight is not as good as it used to be. But though `I did` my best at smoothing things ever-_-my wife even going to the unusual length of doing as I desired and keeping out of . the way-it was very evident that our sti backed old Tory relative was seriously annoyed and that he meant to take his own time about coming round, for my suspicions were correct, and that wife of mine, had been mad enough to include Lord Curran among the mnny to whom she had told her tale. ' :)I'I'II ,1. 2.. LL. --.\-1` uwvncgg :51 Mg nuu lauxu nu uuv. * What-in the world were you frown-L ing about like that? was her `greeting to me. Really, if you are going to practice for a contortionist, don't you_ think you might choose a more suitable time and place? n-IL-.. .1... I...-...l.-4l cl! oh. man nhn-nt lull! uuu pueum . ' Then she laughed at the men about her. Here, `said (she, is a. poor {al- low who has not heard my tale c! the tiara. Shall I tell him? A I don t want to heur-I can guess- Come, Voyce, don t be snlky, - said my brother-in-law. It has been an im- mense snccels-the success of t would otherwise have been `a very evening. Upon my word it was a bl. .' 3! It was Jack s idea- This is past a joke- b Oh, ct course, interrupted Her- mione, we shouldn't have expected you to have the nerve to carry it out. Oh, Jack, don't 30,-! [went to tell `can, you- ' 1)-; I Wu - . But I thought of what I had to tell lIe`r-'by Lord Ourran s orders--and I went. In the midst of my justifiable ag- gravation I could not help being sorry for her probable disappointment-my pretty Hermione; could not help ad- miring her afresh for her happy reek- lessness or `prevent myself envying- for that one occasion the fellows who had enjoyed her tale unrestrained by personal considerations. a IITI-.4-n --nu unneen n`nnA Gk `lnih wt DUI-I01 Uuunsuwn u unvuun When we were alone at homeeugain, these feelings were `still mine. Hermi- one faced me. The electric light lit up her gleani-ng neck and arms. Her dress was white. Her uffy golden hair was surmounted byan exceedingly beautiful diamond tiara. on .11 _.___ II ..L- L-..` ..- uuuuuuu Ulill-(In The horrid old man, " she kept to- peating. Why did you tell him? "Teddie bet me a tnrguoiue dagger `that Iwouldn t, so of course I had to. I didn t think he would really mind. No one else did. . And, benides, every one was talking about it. He would have found out. She paused and then con- tinued: Yon said, `Why don t you hire one for the week? " I never meant it, ll Ll-III-I\lI So it is my fault that Lord Curran consider: you so full of resource as to have no need of the tiara he had order- ed for you and will now save for the next bride?" HU VUI DU LU bl." Ul-lUo Peggy leaned back and let her whit lids utter in happy content over her deep blue eyes, whereat Richard felt hi! last bit of common sense leave him. _ ,1 I_-_--_.. 3-..`...- D1920 IIL II-I\lI I Of course I shall always say so. Oh, she does. But"-"-here she came I close to me-I-it has reminded me of something. Do you remember when we ` were first engaged promising to buy me one as soon as ever you could aord it? I would rather have one from you than. oh, 9. dozen from your crabby old un- cle, and even wait for it, so you need not make any more fuss, need you? I11L_A. L-__-_-.I LL-_ _..._ ..-- -.-u- I105 IHHKB any H1018 IUB, nyuu IUIIX What happened then any one may guess. u.1'._ ._-_.. I.......A. -4 l.......L.. T....1. A-.. au`U:I:1 your heart of hearts, Jack, dar- ling, nished Hermione, you are not sorry any more? 1)..` LL-L :5-A au1-aAnL `An -uucnnk LA aunt. uv--4 um-J But that is almost too much to say. My wife's tiara is still to be bought, and they are not cheap things by any means.-Madame. K Nnntlonl Ingenuity. V 9 A striking instance of nautical tn- genuity and fraternity in fmished by a writer in the London Telegraph: _-:I-_ 1..-... L-.. ..l.-_'-_A.__I_ _I_l_ Z IIOAIIUA An-I -.-VIA-lxnvna vava-ca`:-I A sailor "from her majesty : ship Ganges arrived in one" of the side streets of Walworth, in search of a shipmato passing a half holiday with his parents. who had recently moved to that noigh- borhooq.._ ' `AV 1.: \n ovuv van In\-\--vuw --- on-vu-nan -usu- given him and proceeded to ask police- men, postman and shopkeepers it they knew where a sailor boy from her ma- _ jesty s eet lived. None of them could give the desired information, and the dwellers in private houses, whom he summoned by knocks at the door, were equally devoid of knowledge on the subject. - "`La; aun"nnnL `Ann -an-an Q.--`an-unkn :4-n liinnidvvvi f1-`he gallant tar was somewhat BOD.` plhsed,- but at length he met a ven_der of paper decorations for Ohristxnas Thee hawkers always carry a long tin trumpet through which they announce 1 their wares to the public. The sailor 3 gave the man a penny for t 9 use of the 1 instrument for one minut , and then sounded with all his force the Ganges dinner call, adding, If that doesn't. bring out Joseph, then he ain't in this locality. th.at s_all.v . a;..A ..........I. :. 1-..`. a.I..-.-. |.-1a - _..|_ . IKHJHILVJQ U1-ICII D an. Sgr enough, in less than half a min_-' ate a window was raised" 50 yards fu`= ther down the eat. a nautical looking 1 head appeared the eperture, and from 1 strong, healthy lungs came the cheering` response: Ship uhoyl Full speed, and f here you are! Why, -the grog s been, ` s-waitin for you this half hour." ` lI1I.`...... AL. A._. J_I-_J-~l'.__J` .._I. ALI. 3 V1 woven: ova Jvvl U-an no on onvn-cu Thus the two friendaufbnnd each oG_h- or through a`bug1o call on a tin trwnpotj and spent a. jolly holiday togotlaoz.-; CEBU U10 UL UUJJILIJUIL BUIJHU ovvuvv ---tr Peggy? he asked, leaning danger- ously near her. `Pl .... __L _.. ...LL an 1304-`; cl-oil! and