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N9 I annuaimnu, 355 Dun op-Sh, Burial :O1'-ti I twin-an Iii III-nu`! an bEP|E 3 Rooms for ofccs. in Ross Block. No. 97. Dunlop Street. `Fireproof vault: lately occupied bv Dr. Wells. `Also two rooms with vault, lately occu led bv,l-load. Jacks & Fraser. Barristers; immecatc possession; Apply to C. H. ROSS. L ' Harris. Ynnnarv 1. lnnv. ' -_-F ]rneAdvance ffice uuuuu. Bill Heads (in pads) Statements (in pads) . Letter Heads (in pads) Note Heads (in pads) Programmes Fold era, Announcements Cards, Tags, Envelopes, etc. COME AND GET oun RATES Posters, JOB... PRINTING VANILLA, for ice cream. for instance; ` BAKING Powmm. for cakes. One in a drug. of course ; the other a chemical": and there are still othet-s-SPICES of all kinds. cream of tart '. etc. A A `The beat 1 cc to gc drugs}: at a DRUG STOR The druggi-It knows more about them than other people. w ood d : Co :1 1: .'`a%`1?:a`fm..x5`3 ,l 7` " ' tmnuxms onus STORE ~--v .vuuruuuurj_ < No. Seems.to`mq`T;-u` Mrs th!s,lon`g`,..t1' '1'. pt him. .He ai"` A. OFFICES TO RENT. on LEASE `Danna: `nu Am.-.- :.- D4.-- DI__I_ I7- -_ `l'\ ,_I_, )osseu_Ion.; nppw to La. r Barns, Vanuarv 1. I001. Drugs and `Chemicals In the Kitchen. *I11_chanan-.& Penslone One Door West Barrie Hotel Every Description . LOWEST uuuc, nun-a null zsmmunu also Smokeless Powder at can aniaply you w\7r(tlimt`lie bieiai: Guns, Ries and mmunition, shin Rmnlxnlnnn Dnunhno no ARE NEEDED EVERY DAY sun... `:0, wry. vi 3 '":i11i}It:me there wasAspn.re'antl"l'e'nten ,. living at the at. Because it must be. kept from the shadow. of suspicion, Lize did nothing..in the way or busi- ncss, but stayedet home: busying her- self to make the place tidy and home- like. she never went out save upon llollsewlfely errands. Nobody came to see her. The Bun went away regularly every morning toward 10 o'clock. Since he wore excellent clothes. paid his rent in advance and had a way` of scowling at all he met. the other, tenants set it down that he. was either English and living upon his income or else that he belonged in Wall street. `He was care- rul always to be home for dinner, though he went out again almost. `im- mediately afterward. Inevitahly Lize had much time for brooding. She had also plenty of food for it. I111-.. 1).... A...-mp. Kn nlnvnnn nvv\n{I1n u,Window Cards, Dodgers, on VDUNLOP-ST.` BARBIE. -rAui<,"" ' and Repairs, go to I 6:. CO. Wholesale end Retail Manufacturers. BEDSPRINGS, MATRESSES, PUMPS, W. H._BAllnNKER, Aovarrrss m BRADFORD STREET. 28-1 BARRIE. BARBIE. sV{.1" Bills, -..- re--. To spe;1I truth. be was living mainly V upon hope, A big thing-the biggest in gang history-was in hand. but as yet all rutlny and no return. A hundred yards tunnel is not dug in a day, even .when there are a bank vault and a half million at the farther end of it. The Bun was waiting. upon the tun- nelers. After they were through he would go at the chilled "steel. -A very prince of crncksmen.. he knew he would have it open in three hourl. Then he would take.,ail the swag- mouey, bonds. plate. whatever was worth moving-home to his at. three miles nway,rand lie quiet there, while others of the gang scuttled 01! to take the hue and cry upon a false scent. |l,.....n....- a.L...... ....... ........... Aunt` `Anni-Ann OF PRICES run! Catalogues, V. .1..~.`..-- -- For three years she had been the Buu s girl. 01' course he was master- ful with her-often to the point 01' bru- tality. But he gave her no rivals until Long Lou came luto,the gaugand openly set snares for him. She, was- young. still in her teens, handsome and strapping, with a level head and ,a tree. peppery tongue. The Bun did? not go wholly over to her. but he did spend at least half his abundant leisure and very much more than half his rather scanty cash in her company and for her pleasure. * n\.. ......,.|- .L..-_J.I_ l__ .___L |n_n..._ _'_-n..In_ uuluuuJ DQDII 9-a-nv Since the Bun had becoine a lender; me relt himself estopped from the stunt! things, though often his ngers itched _ as he let slip an especially tempting op- portunity. Tbe itching svns-peg-nap ; tug" am root or his grievance against Until her day he had been vqu -ite,= tent to work under orders, although he ,was rnpncious enough to be full of soup envy over missing a chance at thebig things. Lize had made iendership a condition precedent to herself. size we not much to look at. but What with Wit and grit and the lightest fingers. in all the gang 8116 easily came to be a sort of queen in it. A ' T . .\ I .V.... `-`\h-1\1\ -Anna -I.- I._A I____, LI..- to wvvnu n.IIII-I i "JV.' "" All told. the gang numbered perhaps ` gggy--men and women and It te wp 1tl`-:; ful waifs that could notbe `calleq chlgl-j awn, though they were small; andif young. '_1`l1e most partengaged Iqltghtv 3 work -- shoplifting. {panning tickets, * snatching purseta from timid hands or ` jostling, to their loss. the wearers or amboyant tabs and scartpma. _ - ' i n1__..,. I-Inn Diln }\nt` I'|t\l|l\b\mJ\ - I-`4IV._ Md 3 choice nssortmoot of qameg, was Mr. Ralph Montgomery:-(pp 4 -warren Puget. ESQ "Or eYeI"Io_'ama!3yZ;,'4 _ for the country's good. `outside of trict bunineaouygvthoi '5 other equally well souudi_x_1.a when occasion offered. In` `ohi_nag;[.y.`V13 vmage he had been known `au`aack:g1. 100 until he left the.counu'y,-.4de1q:g1`oyHA It was his forehead. round and bulg~ mg, that had gained him hisjtiicknaine ` with the gang. ._I."l LI... 1\nn\r\lu nanny`-.I....._`4I _.-_.|__._'_, III? VI 139 IIIUVIWDXCIVIII A One day at a railway station two Italian laborers were talking volubly in their native tongue. and two Amer- .,ican laborers were regarding them su- perciliously, yet with some pity, as -one might view the efforts oi` a chim- panzee to make himself understood. Presently one of the Americans. who certainly thought that he belonged to a superior race, said/to his companion: IIIIVI--1. nu`-1" -45 Inunaununann I-`(Ann I Ancient olculatlon. \ `fKlsslng." said the antlquary, "was I commoner in Philadelphia 200 years l ago than it is now. ' See what a belle wrote in her diary In 1701. The good. old mantook ou`trhls'poc,k ethook and readtheee words. which he had copied" carefully from some dusty volumeof the past: `foue hates to be always- kiesed; especially as.--lt is attended by so nnahy `inconveniences, . It discom- the .econou"|y';ot _o'ue's neclt`er- chlet. qlaordere onefafhlgh roll and rat'- J lei the eer all:'y, hf onef s -countenance." , '.l`he;autlquary -.o`pAen`ed anp'ther,;shet V or. toolecap and said that he would. now ' * read..an extract from at love letter, a -typical love Mletterc of the __elgliteenth_ a century. t'1`hv`ex't'ract"wes`:~ CD t the silver .s_trea,m_ 9! . rn_y`(1earest_ aw tier! and eta!thtul;5l9've' .W1|;!r We Wllllnzly re- : celved into the ;t'nllIpo`u d* or your -tenderly tecuomghlch .1-\ .; ; yu-gin] 'heart;?4liy-'='yohr'-wallln `f `|1Dc`..t_hI.b t i0`i,&l1Ill:i!Ft1i9ll11? =`;W1 W vvuvvwv 'vI`OI III." III`, ` that s:the way to keep me"rrom' another derously tanzrn a _ . _ *~ g They were in the trontfroom. looking ` out -over` thefstreet. The bed, a cum-, 3 brous brass hedizened al1air._posed' as a L secre_tary.th'roughout the daytime. Lize LL. had lettt down, thoughshe stood mny said in re. hissing whisper. He was inur- not notice it. but one window was half open. and a keen. wet morning smell ; drittedin, T Again. he caught the girl and shook her hard; She looked up at him undauntedly. sayi`ng, with a hard laugh: Why don t'Wyou hitvme? T Are you afraid '2" ll\V-4 ,`- -- - . `lusolt -Yiin!vetftrIck: ed_`lli!F :\Y,ou `wo_inun-and :11; better one." the Bun dressed n street clothes. The Bun did f ow`-vuuvi " f` )- Q 9'_Y_ou "iiiomthingt to T1 'ain't1n tn mind tb dtand It. 1% my got. to stay here until__ the usual time; By the Lord. I won't stay hungry! W . ' _`.`How! run than -9 7 4-- -----s ,` `,. _.:L_., .. -'`,.`t'-"::\ ,_, \ :;;>~`,`.!.'b`$~'`.*;u_,\..5~'. '7"*l,.>7`.'-A`,-`. ..;`-X-f`,'_ %_`'-':"i.`o?_ -~?.`-.-fl"-`eh 3? v--`- v--ave u-wu-up vuuo-cw-vvnv-vvuo g The very next week Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Montgomery went traveling south for the lady's health. Sincethey did not ask toihave their lease vacated. but paid up'i.'or the full term. the land- lord still regards them as having been pattern tenants. `And the police who ran down tutilely` "several promising clews to the biggestebank burglary of the season never dreamed that they had helped the burglar out oi.` a particu- larly tight place. ' -3.: -our 0000! by`: Here. you! Quick!" she panted, pushing him weakly toward the bed and down upon it. Then. with her last remnant of vital force. she pushed a clicking catch out of place and let the `heavy bed snap together, catching the Bun harmlessly but uncomfortably in its grasp. When there `came thunder- ous knocks upon the door of the apart- ment. she crept to it painfully and let in the police. A glanceat the bed" made explanations unnecessary? 1 III]..- ........ ._.._.L ..._--I_ II_ -...I II ..- "Dndoeu." It is an elementary and not a particu- . larlyi brilliant Joke to refer to all for- eigners of the Latin race as dagoes.": But how many of us who thus adver- tise our narrowness know where the word dugo originally came from? 1.. -.._I- .I...... LI..-- I...-...A..- IL. --AAA nip wnogv wnoaoocuvbog vvo-u-v cuuvnou c In early days the` beware of wood and drawers of water in California were Portuguese. They cultivated thrifty little gardens and carried on 'a shing trade alonzthe shores and up- the creeks near San Francisco. The most common name among them was Diego. pronounced Deeaygo. and the transition from Diego to Dago was natural. The epithet was transplanted to the Atlantic coast. and the Ameri- can hoodlum there, as everywhere ; round _It a convenient term to express his crude intolerance.. ' V : IO Idullvnovn uuuuv -cu-ovu yv u--o up-r-at-w--- .- _'I'hat am no language them tel.l;2`rs" arqtalkinf. It : nothin' but a jabber." V` -_-.y vcov aanulg I VVU|.|'[ stay nungryln -"H0"-1 5'0 khe`p:1t?""'Lu~ ..g.);_ LTher'e=isv`not.`uo.:m -~h \ - . . qheese having; in th: immb` it "So! Vhnhyn I-nI:.l....: ...`_*`u' n_,, .`. . ' vow -u-OIOQVO 0 Not. of: you!" he cried. etilivery low.. V Then be seized her. ung her prone upon '- the bed and knelt. with all his force - upon her chest. -He" heard a taint. sick- ening soundot crashing-ribs. but Lite did not even groan. He sprang up and down. again. Again came that sound ~ of slA1at.ti.-ringliofiie. !ni.siilte_:oi' hlarage it almost sickened the Bun. He. slid from the bed and stood looking at the girl. a great tear wavering in his eyes. - She sprang past him, clutched the win- dow casing. ilungherselt. hall through it and shouted. at nret weak and hoarsely, but with the gathering strength of mortal. anguish: .Helpi Help! Help! Mur-deri Heipi". ' Thn nnu I|IIIIn'ivnn:` .l.l... 71'- I__.-,,,,, -A uuuvww : In--v vuvn Iaunvo l_VIDI I-\lUio Llze almost-tell `forward. She was dead white and shaking like a leaf. yt somehow-the managed to get the Bun onhls feet. ` ' ' ` .._..-`v . uuwplau OI~O\_Il `until: 0 ' sacsyi V ' The cry paralyzedhiqn. He" kuew it would be answered. In ten minutes. in ve. it might be. people would be swarming` all about. Yet `he didvndt move to `seize and silexice the girl; He was in the grip oi`. a;gre_at superstitious dread. As elad hehad heard much of hellre, or. retribution. Now It seemed to hlmiall his evil deeds: werecon`1in'g back at him in concrete form. nu... __u-_ __-_. , --uw-- --u ciao: OI! VVIIVIUFV `ULIIII The police were beating on the outer door. In three minutes-' He dropped to the oor and crawled to Llze feet. They were pretty feet and dalntl-ly shod in red high heeled suppers. He patted. them softly as he mumbled out: You've done for me. Llze, but I take that back.` '1`he-the other one ain't no more'n the dust under your teet;" I'I.'.. ..I......-s..n.n .n......-;..a. cn.- _. .- ~ It is highly probable that it such a readily "scandalous proceeding as this auction had been premeditated and ad- vertised beforehand .,it -would have been _promptlyvsq_1'1ashed~byth e pillars of the church, but the suddenness of it took thefcrlftics oi!f1:heir.tjeet."snd it was well` A ,ln."h.nd- end "going one _ hsfd ti`1'ne1,-tot ake_;l) i'eapt.l1.-p . gs; 1.; ma... .'.o_. .1 .` ---..1.-;.;.`..5 - ..;' n. -1 - _ _ Ull-Ilia! . The b9y._-tresh and fair and Innocent looklngbaa the run of boys in gilded hells"'are apt to be--wasdotr_ inks. trice, r and lnvten minutes more had added his lnd1v1dual`un1t:.to the circle around the main `center of osculatory interest. ,,u_n';. ___,I._n_I- A.I_-A. 15 ...`..I_ - had time to take nreatn. 2.` '1`hdm1n1ster's da'ught_er was the? auc~ tloneer. A cane with, a strip .` A ~01--red bun:31<]>`n it.waa her;1NV8nd. 01'. ' I It would probably be difficult, not to ! say impossible, to explain why this 5 startling and sensational news should spread so rapidly through a whole par- ish. -But that such was the case is a stern fact. Young men idling away their time atthe club knew -it iniitteen minutes and started in a body for -the 3 scene of the auction. Other young men I who had not been tochurch for years hurried from their telephones into their best clothes with all the haste demand- ed of the` volunteer re department. It spread even as far as Mike Dady s gam- bling establishment and caused that that sort." of stoicism that the roulette table -fosters. . And so there was a kiss- inan unusual degree for one inured to in: game going on at the church, led by the minister's daughter -herself. Here was a fine chance to `get even. Mike had had to close up his place once for several weeks because of a cathing sermon, preached by this same clergy`- man, and the remembrance of it still 'ra'n'kied.' 3 A. w .I-Iere. boy. he said to a tall, freslr him a roll of bills, you go over to the `church = fair, and r it fi;th`e']' sky pnor astute individual to prick up his ears . daughter is goingfto` be paldtor a sweet g k1s8}r5uphi.nD i'1.`..f.I:.I.1,t 8ni1~.Tbid,up.. Don't. looking youth, of seventeen, handing ! 19*.-9113.030-' 180 to}1, `liiit 6? ; your wad-underbthndi .I?l,|b9 their? in g_;_., .,.- _ ._ n_.`n`.. _._`.il 1,. - -.`_`A -v- w-av -var -vv_v navunw The minister : dauglnter stepped to the table where the chairman usually presided. There was a A sudden hush. She looked over her auditors a, moment ' with a calm, penetrating gaze. Y. G11-la." the said, "we have got to he kissed!" ' ' ' g A. . an ' - - wvu wv------ v.-- rn -yr-any-u vv -_ any can II There is no help for it, 51;; convtin- ued. We must raise a lot `of money A before this night is over`. "Now, my plan is this: `We will all stand up and he kissed at auction, one at `a time, to the highest bidder. Now, girls, don't go back on_ me. Remember, it's in a good cause. How many can I count 4.. 0|) 011 ?I) aw--~-v-, ----vw--V- wvunavu yogvoc wonovu-un- V In ten minutes more eight exceeding- ly pretty, girls, headed by one who was t prettier than all of them, led into the main room and grouped themselves about a chair. One `of them `stood up in the chair, to which this legend was attached: . / uvv-ouvunu She will make a failure of it. an- 'nounced'Mrs. Mlntby, the oicial critic of the minister's family. That girl is too 'harebra !v`ned.` and. besides,~ what does she know about such matters? She wouldnft. be seen in churchhalt the time it common decency didn't make her go." urnI.-;.n_. __ n -__'___-4-. --, _. - .' _:T;;t s 3.0;" ussnted Mrs. Dickater. All she cares about are the men and outdoor sports anyhow." ' `Lin-`I nah. .-1.-.. `LI..- 4-1.. _.___ -7-0- vnvu 10 `V ".:1IiI1"n}f3w,; when the fair was half over. it began to seem as it these pre~ dictions were to be fullled. The "booths combined had taken in ha-rely 850. and to send those poor children away for this summer--tor the minis- ter s~daughter, with a ne scorn or tor- ..l..._ _.l.._A-__ 1.-.: n.__n_4.. . ' tor the next two hours. own -u was-canary. vv Olll u IIIIO DMUIIJ UL l.\Il.' eign missions, had insisted that chari- ty should begin at home`-seemed `a des- perate.chance, and at this particular moment it seemed as it nothing `short of a miracle would swell the receipts ---~-u-- A-A cizorua of Oh s and feminine screams and protests was her answer. 7IVL....- I... _- I....I... A-.. AA. M _l.- --._;1_ i thmfivaa golngo_o1v`x; I Atnvtnhrough the half open door could he heard a .o,t_ pe..op,l9. and an expert; gn ranch .nnamu, it he.-ha'd.opased= by: and ven had casua1ly,l9oked within. wou,!t_l have ` known `that 0.. `c'hu1-ch fair was in prog- held under the ausptces or the Young Women : guild, andthie year the min- It waeindeed the annual church fair lIt:ex_"Vs daughter was in charge of the proceedings. Her father, `away on his vacation_,_ had called her into his study before h1s_depa_rtu1_'e and appealedh to `hop bmm chm-'.-Ii`. "-4.; u.`I.`.~ 1.-- _1..".__ n iv ' uv l!l. uunyge. A a;:be`l;a`d.:\.1:idenly announced her `bonnets. ' determination -to take r__an- active part. much to the surprise of every one, as up to the i`pre"`eent- time she. had been more interested in playing 3011' than in spiritual, matters and had even been called a regular tomboy ? by certain recalcitrant beings in old fashioned IOU ytcutg V5 6-\I\l\O two on l The Bun came in always smelling of tuber-ose.Awhich Long Lou had adopted `as herfspecial perfume. Further. he * made but a pretense of eating the poor ` meals Llze set before him.` Therefore 5 `she was certain he meant to dine. later. She. would not have grudged him the dalntlest fare while she ate bread and water. lt'shehad thought he -ate it alone or only in masculine company. But where it touches a man. women are klttle cattle, particularly womeh of Lize s order. V Carefully. methodlcally. she laid her plans. j Y A-.. `I ...q --an n IIItIfi"l\-II 1 V-'1;here was _a pause; a hand was raised, another, and then another. T.` L-.. _.l.___L__ -__ -___ _.I..I_L -___-A.I..._ f 1_`here was ehutter or expectancy `as the*q,:i'n'1ster?e_ d;o;n_ghter..;,c`an`h;e inte the l1ttleb'ck roorn ovtl the `main oor of the church wherethie members or the committee, the majority or them youngend /retty.ra11 stood talking at Anna " .'-'"'-' ".'. `.-'f~.";*.-.. -59 uuvcutvst, w her Very wand: :19 ~"d0` her; share." And an nhn had muhvlnnln -'..-nu-........: 1.-.. THIS YOUNG LADY WILL BE KISSED AT AUCTION. How. MUCH _ WILL YOU GIVE? Yes." said Mike, his cool, insolent eyes sweeping the crowd. He was bidding for me. He was my--what do ' you call it?-proxy. I111 take the kiss, it you pleae.. A dead silence-an awful pause. For the mat` time that evening a ush spread over the faceaof the minister s daughter. a ush that made its way ifrom her rmly rounded. throat up over _ ; her checks to the line of fair hair on her forehead. ' An Eskimo Trick. "I The short, chunky, `wooden looking Eskimo men wheedle silver out of the populace ~by~playing_a game requiring considerable skill. This consists in lifting a donated nickel or dime out of the ground by the crack. of a -whip. _-The whips these chaps use are like an ` ordinary bullgoad, jwith a number of leather lashes added tothe total length or tvventy-tour. feet. They shoot these long. lashes ialong "the ground: like ` snalses_,strai ght at ngcoin set `edge up in the` dirt, fiends} tasfaclf gtipe rreaches ;1he.t p,1i.l'~ii 4 919* 5 3;. e1uir,1.!;;si;vw;,tbV?ie.`.~ -;'..9 hot~.,nd._ likely. 9. `In av 3 `av navy: ya: U. `7`e.e:" -repi-i.ed Billy,'I `knew of one once." ` _But do you think he stayed there? Well, I did hear that they tried to put` him out." ' V And they did not succeed`? I - No. According to latest accounts,` `V they had not succeeded. . V .Wh_v. how was that? Well, sonny, it- was this way: They couldn't and? a lawyer in the place to draw up the papers!"-New York` Tribune. -._- ...- ~ .- -- now..- The; she turned to the gure she `had s_een--the old family colored cook, black as the ace of spades, who had come to witness de proceedin s. Come here, mummy, she whispered. and, drawing her close and putting her arms around her, she kissed "the black face a resounding smack. - Then she turned to the gambler. And here," she said, is my proxy. Take your pay, sir!--'1`om Masson in Brandur Magazine. _ *- What Heaven Ldcked. -Billy Saunders is a natural born: wit. He isln his eightieth year, liv- ing here in New. York, and is still working at his trade, painting. `On a recent occasion Billy and one or two of his mates were beautifying a law- yer's otce. The younger partner,` thinking totakea also. out of Billy. said: ' IDLIC 56111` `IUD VOICES Long Lou was 8: wanton spendthrift, alwayseuger to ing away money with both hands. Though she did not know the game that was on nor the Bun I part in it, she had a very shrewd Iuspl-_ cion of It all. ` ' J ,1. __-_ 1.1.- -..I_ --A-nuns: -_`.`f`say, Billy, did you ever know of a painter going to heaven '2, A - 4117-..!) _.-_u_.1 1'inI_ 111' n__._.__- -A- ____ --vn vs unan- She looked around the crowd almost nppealingly. Was there no one to help her in this dilemma? Suddenly her eye lighted on a gure that stood half con- cealed from view-a short, squat gure -and there came to her voice a ring of triumph, IIVJO , A. What a.'re1ief, whispered one of the committee, to think her reputation has been saved by a young thing like that! Why, it doesn't mean anything: to he kissed by him. An` act of Provi- dence. I verily believe!" ' I AI___..A. __ 1; 1.. _-_I_. 1.1.- IL-.. A_-___-: '\Uv'a."!;::1~1;1ed to her, and she put the bills In a box. ` twnlwug 5 1 VA IIJ vvllw I In 0 Almost as if in reply the boy _turned `half around as the gure of Mike Dady slowly forced its way through the cir- cle. ' V was bidding for some one else, said the boy, holding out the money. . IIXP-.. I) _-.lJ Il'!I-_ I_.l_ ---I :____I'.._A. ; "?iIaTeB" &'EtiE:L',~ she ma, with your kind permission I will be I my own auctioneer, and I will spare" you the usual compliments. I am here to raise an the qiouey I can for the poor children," and I "am selling a kiss to the highest bidder. How much am I oered? ` ' . ~ Twenty-ve dolla1_'s." V_ The rst bid, ladies and gentlemen. is $25. Will you make it thirty? . Thir- ty it is, thirty, thirty-thirty-ve. Is thirty-ve the highestybid '2 fI'\I.- .L..II .l _ _ . . -_.A. ._--_J.I_ _.-.__ _L-_..-J __---v., -.v ---v --a- The tall innocent youth now stepped to the front. Itis but justiceto the boys; from the club to say they did not recognize him. . ' .I ;ll make It forty, he said. The auctioneer was unmoved. I am offered $40. she said., Gen- tlemen, bid up. Forty. forty, forty, going at forty--going, going, gone. . Young man, the kiss is yours at $40. URL`..- --A_ _ _`Il_.I.L -_.-.._ - A.-LL-.. Al -v-.-3 ---o--' u--v a. div ., v u - - you Yaw- There was a slight pause. a nutter of interest. This nice looking, gentleman- ly appearing boy. with $40 to bid for a single kiss. who was he? At any rate it didn't nzattor much. He was only -a. b0y- V, T Yo:1:shall be paid, she said. The money, please. - ` ._-_. I__._J_S L- I_-_. -__3 ._I__ _,-L `us a beer, old gal! 1i'\il,'-`:d";7:A .. - nu Luuo . I no It came at last. rainy and cold. wit, _ a raw east wind, and smotbfr: (`>118-ta: coming up from the river: Ital 5 mot. mg with every ne1'Y* ten. ea falls, deliberate. yet 9`i-`it mt` in the door opened she-839"-' would see--the Bun 0V1'F.`!-`?9-A 9` nuh. Joyous conceit. He. had-;t.sh1'W3 lvmgy ly stowed in an 1mmacniatei~ li..n~boA,-n English suitcase. A! ;;.q1`v.--A the bed he called husk!!! 9 : 34?`? f since I came out of that ~DQ`3h1 _ ~ -~;_*.- ~~..--4.*'.'.' mm..- ._ _. L -`--- -- " '-` "2'. "'l"I . ' 2 :-The excitement ran high. Deacon \ _B`tt-adbu1_'y_ _Simpkins,' forgetting what tgte awaited him gt home, bid $10 on Susie Perkins. whom his good- wife had once designated as _sassy. Rudd Castleton, the best golf piuyergin town; was a great help in bidding H up. and so also were`Jack Clubberiy V and Billy Sparks. mt... _l_LI. -_.1 I__.L _.;_u ._,_ -..- .--..J yruggu. The ninth and last girl was none oth- er than the minister's daughter her- self. On the table by her side lay a -collection box holding over $200, the proceeds of this unusual tralc. Per- haps, the consciousness that " she had succeeded, that those poor little tots would get their outing, was enough to `make her oblivious of herself. LL nu... -AL- .-I.- .__-- .-I--- ----i |---~- __-.__- -w- vuuuqvc cw V. n-vlnwvano ' ` At any rate she. was calm and bean tifully collected as she steppedon the, chair, disdninlng the helping hand that a spectator held out to her? IlT_J.l-.. -_J ._-_LI,__ -1 ,,o . -y`w:V...' uV_cu{w_:_\Vn-_u>I-" >IlC"v-IUIII'Y`U$`-"IIK.`II${j `"Now, n xaaxeno un'd7 egg;3;1g;;aep, goof mtich am I otrered Iona sweet kis's`!f What! Only two dollars? For'_shame'!} ',Do yon preciate what you get;-` . t_1_ng'l _.Fl. ,_:dld you say? Now makejlt it is. Seven from the gentle- nianf on the right. Seven. seven , seven s-.-eight,` eight--will some one make` it nine? '_1`hat s right. You'll never re- gret lt. . Nine, nine. Now ten. Thot s better. Ten it is. Come, gentlemen. bid 1111- : ' ' -l ' H1]... -_-.!A._.._-._; .,_-, - o I -~ tbs?" ataodrvby twcha`1r'dndf%vi?a\~d zher nag; Nun? Inlnn nut`: ......:-I.....'.._ n _r.._` `_ ` 23 Dunlop Street, Bar;-ie 27lv All goods thoroughly reliable] in quality and style. E_verything here to make buy- ing a PLEASURE AND ....'l`HE LEADlN G.... - . 1 Harness Shop? T %McCandless James % \-l\lIJ VI. II: Mull Lize indeed` was -the only woman trusted in that way. , Torture would not have made her betray the trust. nor was there enough money ln the world ' to have bribed her. In thelace of all that -she sat through many nlght. With her hands clinched. starlng-"at the llght and occasionally -smlllng aihard. .593` Derate smile and waiting torl4thht'otl:'_dr3' night when the Bun ` a fortune. ` 1. -,,, ,- .,-,r __._.; -._.-n --i.u~ ....u|." ffice-97 Dunlap Street, Banie Lime,` Ceme.nt,_% Culvert Pipe, Field Tue, Lath Sl\ingIes1 vnc? r`Xn 'i'- ! mll, rah`! v--' -o-c-- V- I.` LU!!! _'.l`elop_hone x5_. cur rLdwnRs-noeeo. Carnations, vioxm, ' dc, fralxevery day, Bouquets-Button-A hole. Band or Corsage. . Funeral Tokens in nnv dndcng . sn1:3's-_mom Seeds, Vclgtablc seeds, Plants ' and Bulbs. WM. TAYLOR seam .$TORE Make no mistake ! This is the GREAT Scott in the `above lmes. 7...`. o VI-IIJJU uul. VI Ivllgl W ;, `There is no beer_." Liza llgld. not stir: ' DB from her seat. ~ * - 'l\n Y\_-_. -1", , .. 3; -4 ,z;';,/_.u-' .nu'v `PROFIT to you. IE , \.oI'IlP gnu 1511001`; IQ I . Cob , cramps. Beets. Carrots,` FLORIST AND SEEDSMAN, zone :5. p55 Dunlop-SI ... DoLLARs SAVED BY DEALING WITH All the best quality and GO TO THE NEW guaranteed --AND- ?.'..S$n...%""`.- 3.:';'..?.'. ---a -Lvuu ucr scum. - . '1; ~ +, ..h J. ~ The Bun almost gaj pad.`-; `- I ` told you to have it-1-to._.;hnT1e` A _ comfortable?" `he jnurleg. " me you t 0' your mind?! ?`%.a KY4 nu- _,