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OFf THE HOME." will the ves be re hey bequ ; sore an s by the 1+ .Â¥ AT DIS 1€ W & A RFTI ath t 5 ypes s¢ nheroes nembered Xâ€" manâ€" in jured xterna l LMN Or lid not Of W mt & "Well!" he exclaimed, taking Mona‘s band in one of his, and patting it with the other, "how is the poor grannic?* I protest I never was more cut up than when I found how desperately she has t:hen swindled! She would stick to t.h; ip,. in spite of all that or eould say. The few solvent m‘flm backed out some years ago, and the rest are mostly mem of straw, so they‘ll not leave Mrs. Newburgh a rap." "Poor dear grannie is very, very misâ€" erable, Sir Robert. It is so curious that so clever a woman should have believed in what many of her friends and adâ€" visers doubted." "She was always obstinate, my dear, devilish obstinate! However, I {ave & bit of good news. A friend of mine wants to buy the house. He will give a decent sum, too: and 1 want your grandâ€" maother to convey the money to me fer "SALADA" "Do see him, Mona; your ieelinfis may be touched when you find yourself face to face with a man who sincerely loves you. And this man has proved his sinâ€" cerity." "Or his determination to gratify his whim, cost what it may," added Mona. "You have no right to impugn his moâ€" tives. Great as my desire is to see you lifted safe above tg'e bitter flood of povâ€" erty, I would not urge you to a repulsive marriage," "Forgive me, grannie. I am ungraâ€" cious, selfish. If I marry Mr. Waring, I will do it cheerfully." Sir Robert was a thorough country gentleman. He seemed to bring an atâ€" mosphere of the woods and fields with him into the chill, dull diningâ€"room, which had a deserted air. A middleâ€"aged, middleâ€"sized man, plump and rosy, with pepper ard salt colored «muttonâ€"chop whiskers. looking always as if he had come fresh from a bath. _ His shirt fronts were the snowiest, his clothes the go-siest. his voice had a mellow ring it, which atoned for the loud, auâ€" thoritative key in which he usually She rose and brought the writing maâ€" terials. "I will see him, but I do not promise to accept him, unlessâ€"â€"" "Let him plead his own cause," interâ€" rupted Mrs. Newburgh, stretching out her hand for pen and Jmper. "He will induce you to take a different view, I am sure." With difficulty she traced a fow lines, excusing their brevity on the score of illzess, and asking him to call on the following day, when Miss Joscelyn would receive gim. "You must address it, dear. He does not know your hand." "It is of no consequence," said Mona. Removing the writing materials, and taking out an envelope, she sat down to direct it. "I eannot see him," murmured Mrs. Newburgh. "You must go, Monaâ€"exâ€" plain bow incapable I feel." _ C self, and my folly, my contemptible folly! I ought to forget self aitogether. It is the best way to be happy. Ah! shall I ever be happy again?*" Captain Lisle was not the only visitor to Greem street that day. Late in the afternoon Sir Robert Everard w#3 anâ€" nounced. "It is not natural, Mona, to be so cold and indifferent. Yet I have not detected any liking on tfom' part for any other man, except, indeedâ€"â€"" s "No, no," interrupted Mona, quickly. assured, dear grannie.‘ "Then, Mona, you will love young Waring when he is your husband.‘ "Oh! yes, I dare say I shall. Now, grannie, I am foing to read you the paâ€" r, try and listenâ€"it may rest your g(:uin a little." "I will, Mona, I will; because you have given me a little hope." ‘The rest of the dull, drear November _ The rest of the dull, drear November day Mona moved slowly perhaps, but firmly, as if keenly alive to the work she had to do. But side by side with her clear perception of duty and responsiâ€" bility, was another sense of coming pain and sacrifice. Were she alone, with only self to provide for, she could launch herâ€" self upon the ocean of lifeâ€"fearlessly, if hopelessly. But she must not desert her limndmother! and if she could provide or her by "accepting service"â€"so she termed it in her own mindâ€"with Mr. Waring. If onlyâ€"it was not to be marâ€" riawe. He shall not fancey he of being dragged do tunes that it was nc to some one else. Co my feelings so comple think it necessary tc sures for selfâ€"defence I believed in him! i believed in hi orâ€"but I will n self, and my folly! I ought It is the best shall I ever be Cantain Lisle to be thus influenced by one man. in my acceptan another who Kerhnps real I suppose 1 shall accept 1 Eliot says, ‘One may |r heights, but you know sistent self awaits you or terrible dead level of nec I am fast sinking. But, I will pose to Captain I headed worldling. He sh: or suspect my contemp He shall not fancey he was of being dragged down tunes that it was necess to some one else. C'on!d mw foalinas sa aamimlatale brou â€"th engaged meet,"* s one ano not @T NOW IS THE TIME CEYLON TEA. The or some le~‘ CY LON TEA. The quality is such that you will never regret it. Lead packets only. 40c, 50c and 60c per ib. At all grocers. BLACK, MIXED OR GREEN. Won at Last 1 to buy that trial packet of ~*~v of that kind. _how utterly selfâ€"deceived, more of myâ€" contemptible meunelsore‘s eidhamaith g.’ the drawing a ghost of her °/ % ludkâ€" 4 s. Then ensue« er | sion, at whic râ€" l her granddaug wa i from which t "I thought so, too; but I will go, dear grannie." R R She came back quickly, kissed the old woman‘s cheek, and disappeared. Mona weut rapidly downstairs, and straight into the diningâ€"room, without "It is frightful, having to go deliberâ€" ttul.x to listen to an offer of marraige," cried Mona, starting up and walking fo the window instead of the door. "I thought you would not mind." Mrs. Newburgh had not long returned to her own room, and had just taken some refreshment, when Mr. Waring‘s card was brought. A strong feeling of humiliation and disgust arose in Mona‘s heart, the calm indifference of which she boasted the previous day failed her at the moment of trial. Thus cut off from remonstrance, Mona : felt she was left to her fate, and Mrl Waring; grannie was resolved to leave the decisionâ€"the responsibilityâ€"to her. | Mrs. Newburgh hur not long returned "Do not keeg{ the poor young man wnitin;,” u_i:i Irs. Newburgh. We s NC a @0 ols onl n‘ on se oo a year, and even on that she could not long count. "You see, Mona, the condition to which we are reduced," said Mrs. Newburgh, when their friendly counsellors, with grave faces and kindly expressed sympaâ€" thy, had withdrawn. "I purposely asked you to be present at this conference, that you might understand the frue state of the case. I leave you to draw your own conclusions. No, dear, do not reopen the discussion. I trust to your own common sense and right feeling. I am quite exhausetd. Ring for Wehner to help me to my room. I can see no one else toâ€"dayâ€"no oneâ€"remember, Mona." "Poor old soul! won‘t last long, I dare say. The girl will marry; no doubt of that; she is deuced handsomeâ€"a wellâ€" bred one too. Would run smooth and easy in double harness. _ Fellows are cooler and more cautious than they were in my days, but there are plenty of rich ones who might indulge themselves in a handsome, penniless wife." Go, ask her if she wiil be able to see me and Oakley toâ€"morrow, that we may settle about it. It wiil be a something between you and want." "I will go and tell her," said Mona, hastening away. "Will it be enough to save me from the necessity of marrying any one?" she thought. Sir Robert Everard put his hands in his pockets, and paced the room, whistâ€" ling softly. "My grandmother will be glad to see you toâ€"morrow at twelve," said Mona, coming back. "All right; just sit down while I write a line to Oakley, asking him to meet me here. We will have a consultation, then we‘ll see what is best to be done; we must secure whatever money Mrs. Newâ€" burgh gets for the house from the claws of the liquidators. Lady Mary wants herâ€"both of youâ€"to come down to the Chase. I am in to shoot in Rossâ€"shire; Evelyn comes with me. The other two are going for a month with their aunt to Biarritz; so you will be quite quiet. A change will do your grandmother a lot of good, and set her up again, hey?" "Thank you so much; it would, indeed. I am afraid it will be some time before she can be moved," returned Mona, who shrunk from the idea of visiting the Chase again. "You will be all the better for being turned out to grass yourself, my dear," he resumed,. kindly. "It‘s hard lines for a young thing like you to be plunged into such trouble. Why, you are not as old as Evelyn. 1 suppose grandmamma is not in the sweetest of temperâ€"a little bard in the mouth just now, eh?" "Oh, no, Sir Robert; she is an angel. She seems to have lost faith in herself; she has not the force to insist on anyâ€" thing; it breaks my heart to see her so pitifully gentle." _ % M Mr. Oakley obeyed the summons. Mrs. Newburgh, revived by her new hopes, was up and dressed when Sir Robert and the solicitor arrived. She had, with the help of Webner‘s arm, descended to the drawing room; but she looked like a ghost of her former self. Then ensued a long, melancholy discusâ€" sion, at which Mrs. Newburgh insisted her granddaughter should be present, and from which the latter gathered that it was of no use endeavoring to save anyâ€" thing onut of the wreckâ€"that whatever the unfortunate shareholders possessed must pass into the clutches of the comâ€" pany‘s creditors; a call had already been made, and would be followed by others, until all was swallowed up. It was therefore deemed more prudent for Mrs,. Newburgh to reside in the house she had bought, than to move to another for which she would have to pay rent. Her income had of course been narrowed to a miserable eighty or ninety pounds "She must be badly hit. I am awfully sorry for herâ€"for both of you. Just write that, my dear, will you? I‘ll post it as I go along. Ard I must leave you now. I am going to dine with Rivers. You remember Rivers who was at the Chase when you were with us? Rich old dogâ€"wovldn‘t spend a penny on anyâ€" thing but his dinnersâ€"they are firstâ€" rate. He a crotchety old sinner; seldom goes to anyore‘s house. Lady Mary was rather proud of his staying nearly a week with us; but he did not get such dinners in my house as he has in his own." + Sir Robert Everard talked on in kindly, easy way, while Mona wrote note. thing ont of the unfortuna must pass int« pany‘s creditor made, and _ 1 others, until a was therefore oi no 1 r onut 0 unfortu his the «Is it possible?" "I don‘t fancy that anything is a seâ€" ; eret," said Waring. "Perhaps it is not fdrtopm-youioranmto-ba But you see time flies, and I long to able to tellâ€"Sir Robert Everard that I have a right to discu«« w:*» ~im what is | _ _"I am so much, so very much obliged ‘ "It would be impossible," interrupted ‘to you for seeing me!" exclaimed Warâ€" Mona, in a low tone; then pressing her ing, starting forward to take her hand, clasped hands together tightly, she said ‘ which he shook nervously and droppéd with some solemnityâ€""Since you believe | immediately. â€" Mona murmured someâ€" I could make you happyâ€"â€"" | thing, he did not hear what, and sat‘ _ _"You will be my wife?" interrupted | down beside the fire. | Waring eagerly in his turn. ! _ Waring resumed his position on the‘ "I will, Mr. Waring, and try to be a ; hearthâ€"rug. _ An _ awful pause ensued. £00d one." She grew very pale as she ‘Mona gazed at the glowing coals, and ®POke. thought of Lisle‘s expressive voice and _ "You are a great deal too good for me; perfect, easy selfâ€"possession. _ Waring and as you do not care for any other felâ€" cudgeled his brain for some suitable low, perhaps you may end by caring for phrase to open the dreaded yet longedâ€" me." for conversation. The result was restâ€" There was an awkward pause, then less change of attitude, and the words, Waring walked over to the writing table "Awful nasty weather." His voice was and took up a faper-knife with which he strong and harsh. "I hope you took no played nervously. cold on your journey to town." | _ "There are one or two things I should _ It was an unlucky allusion. | like to tell you, if you do not mind?" "Not a cold; I had a slight chill," reâ€"| ‘What can he be go‘ing to confess?" turned Mona, who had some sense of thought Mona. She, however, only bent humor. , her head in silence. "Yes; 1 am very ungracious,. There is another cireumstance I ought‘to menâ€" tion; you may not like to know that my rame is not Joscelyn. My grandâ€" mother always called me by my second baptismal name; I am really Mona Craig. My father was of very humble origin, I befieve; and Mrs. Newburgh never forâ€" ve my mother for marryinf him; but ?denly loved him as a little child, though I have forgotten what he was Yla "But I cannot help giving it to you! And if you do make up your mind to take me, you might just let me forget that you were driven to it.‘ "It is a tremendous question to anâ€" swer," said Mona, hesitating, yet feeling she must accept him. There was no other way left, and she was touched by his unaffected humility. "Yesterday or the day before I looked on you as a stranger; toâ€"day I am to decide if I am to pass my whole life with you or not. I must say what sounds unkind, that I do not love you, that if this great misâ€" fortune had not befallen Mrs. Newburgh, I should A:robably have refused youâ€"so I do not deserve your love!" _ ellowing herself to {»‘zuse for a momentâ€" half frightened, half angry, at her own faintness of spirit. â€" i "Thenâ€"then, Miss Soscelyn, could you make up your mind to marry me? I think you might grow to like me by and by, and I need not say I would be deâ€" lighted to carry cut any plan, and," with emphasis, "that you think would be best for Mrs. Newburgh‘s comfort." Mr. Waring stood on the hearthâ€"rug. He was not so tall as Lisle; his broad shoulders and rather short neck further diminished his height. He was built more for strength than grace, and, though not fat, was, it must be admitâ€" ted, fleshy. His hair was dark, almost black, abundant and wavy, and his broad, goodâ€"humored face was redeemed from absolute plainness by a pair of fine, soft, darkâ€"brown eyes. He was in genâ€" eral ruddy and freshâ€"looking, but the etâ€" citement, indeed, it may be said, the terâ€" ror of the moment, had blanched his cheeks, till he met Mona‘s eyes, when he blushed furiously. _ _"I do not indeed." conviction to her hearor She raised her eyes as she spoke, and meeting his, could not restrain a kindly smile, feeling no little sympathy with his uneasiness and evident sense of difâ€" ficulty. "You are amused, I dare say," he cried, his power of speech unlocked by the magic of her smiling eyes; "you must be amused, to hear me blundering like an idiot about the weather, when my heart and mind are filled with hope and fear. Tell me, Miss Joscelyn, did Mrs. New:â€" burgh show you my letter?" "She did." "And will youâ€"will you let me tell you how awfully I was taken wiht you the first time 1 ever saw you at that Richmond dinner Lady Mary Everard gave last yearâ€"before you were presentâ€" ed, you know?" "Oh, I don‘t suppose you saw me. I never can push. _ Young Everard and some other fellows were round you all the time: but I have thought of you ever since. Do you know, last season‘s balls were the first I ever went to. I thought they were all rot. I like the racing set better. I used to go only for the chance of meeting youâ€"and you would scearcely ever dance with me. To be sure, I am a stupid beggar about dancing," A pause. "I think I always gave some dances," said Mona, rather at a loss what to reâ€" ply. "Oh, you were always civil!" exclaimed Waring, taking a little cup from the mantelâ€"piece and turning it round and round as if examining the pattern. "Not like some girls, who are either killing sweet, or snub you right and left. You are gentle and grave. I used to think I should never have the pluck to ask you to marry me, butâ€"aâ€"you see, when Mrs. Newburgh came to grief, I was ashamed of not offering at least to be of use to )-ou.,’ "And are you content that I should accept you as a refuge from the ills of poverty?" asked Mona, looking gravely, salmly at him. "I am," said Waring, after a minute‘s pause, putting down the cup, and speakâ€" ing more collectedly. "It‘s not pleasant, of course, but I have faith in you. If you promise to be my wife, you will try to like me, and I‘ll try to please you with all my soul and with all my strength, as somebody says in the Bible, I think," added Waring, to enforce his professionsâ€"bis religious â€" studies were slight and somewhat mixed. "And it will go hard if I don‘t get you to love me, unlessâ€"unless," his large brown eyes grew imploringâ€""you care for some othâ€" er fellow! Eor God‘s sake, don‘t say you love any other fellow! I never fancied vyou did." She hesitated after she had crossed the threshold, and closed the door, standing tall, infinitely sad, in the simplest mornâ€" ingâ€"dress of black silk and cashmere she possessed, a lace scarf pinned round her throat with an oldâ€"fashioued brooch, her bright hair turned loosely back surâ€" mounting her fair, pale face like an aureole. ‘"Were you dreamily. At that. dinner she had first met Lisle. He had not spoken to her, but she had even then felt a degree of attraction to him which surprised her, and he had remarked herâ€"orâ€"said so. "I don‘t care what your name is as ng as you will take mine. I am no eat th{;g as regarnts family myself. have heard something of Mrs. Newâ€" irgh‘s whim before." there?" Her tore carried asked Mona, "I don‘t know what I should do withâ€" out my asterisks," he said in a melanâ€" choly voicc. "When the heroine faills into the hero‘s armsâ€"a row of asterisks. When the villain puts the rat poison in the mayonnaiseâ€"a row of asterisks. When the good aunt mcralizes â€" when the wicked uncls sx~~râ€"â€"in !1 times of At Lillian‘s dance I got introduced to an author man just after dinner. As he was staying in the house, I thought I ought to be friendly to him, so I told him that we all thought a good deal of his stuff in our village, and that personâ€" ally I had read one of his books right through. He replied that it was an exâ€" tremely cold day, but that he quite hopâ€" ed thesnow would hold over, and we then separated. _ o t oke 5 § I said: "Now, what do you do when you suddenly get stuck, and absolutely can‘t think of anything to say next *" This was before the dance began. Afâ€" terward, fecling very well disposed toâ€" ward everybody, 1 approached _ him again. (He was in a corner, looking raâ€" ther lonely.) ~ Now I put down things on paper myself sometimes, so of course we bhad a god deal in common. He replied: "In such a case 1 put a row of asterisks." Lies Through the Hich, Red Blood Dr. Williams Pink Pills Actâ€" ually Make. Common pills purge the bowels. Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills make _ new â€"rich blood. .. Purging pills gallop through the bowels â€"tearing the tissues, irriâ€" tating the organs and woakening the whole system, Dr. _ Williams‘ _ Pink Purging pills act only on the sym{:toms of disease; Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills go straight to the root of the trouble in the bloodâ€"and cure, Mr. John Burk®s, Elmdale, P. E. L., says: "I think Dr. Wilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pil}s the best medicine in the world. I had an attack of prneumonâ€" ia which was followed by extreme nervâ€" ousness and rheumatism. I tried some of our best doctors but got nothing to help me until I began taking Dr. Wilâ€" liams‘ Pink Pills. After taking the pills some weeks I could actually feel the new blood they were making coursing through my veins, and in the course of a few weeks more I was completely nestorâ€" ed to health." Remember that it is only Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills that can make this new, rich, healthâ€"giving blood. Imiâ€" tations and the soâ€"called "just as good" medicines, never cured anyone. _ Insist on the genuine with the full name, "Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills «for Pale People," on the wrapper on each box. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockâ€" ville, Ont. Pills do not purge at all. _ They‘re tonic pills, soothing pills, strengthenâ€" ing pills, blood building pills. _ Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills actually _ make new blood. That is why they are the only scientific cure for all blood disâ€" eases. That is why they cure _ heaâ€" aches and backaches, kidney troubles, indigestion, neuralgia, rheumatism, heart trouble, and the special ailments of growing girls and mature _ women. "I have not been as steady as I ought to be," resumed Waring, looking down and growing red. "You see, my brother and myself were brought up by an old bachelor guardian. We had no women in the house, and that made us rather rough,. Then I have lost a good bit at cards and races. I‘m a little too Tond of play, butâ€"now that you are so very good as to promise me your hand, I have an object to live for, and I will never touch a card again, and never lay anything beyong a pony on a race, and, and I‘ll try to beâ€"not unworthy of you. I will indeed! Now, have I your permission to go and tell Sir Robert Everard? He is a good felâ€" low, and we‘ll settle something about Mrs. Newburgh. She ought to get out of town away from annoyances." ezn sGeaQncEn dendevile ud QniEn dGreSn 2e iBuaZecSe rEuaty idectratnct "It would be impossible," interrupted Mona, in a low tone; then pressing her clasped hands together tightly, she said with some solemnityâ€""Since you believe I could make you happyâ€"â€"" 4 "Thank you," returned Mona, touched by his eagerness to serve her. "I am grateful to you, Mr. Waring." (To be continued.) eendQedGadGadte RudQe aQeaQedSaaSnaSvite QudQaate B ile ideaGuate 2e ateaty it t That Row of i § > â€"â€"â€"» Asterisks best to be done. Don‘t you fancy that I would hold back because you refused me. Whether you saf‘ yes or no, I would ask nothing better than to be of use to you; but not being a relation, it would be awkward forâ€"â€"" is made faultlessly. That is why it has outdisâ€" tanced all others on sales and satisfaction. ONLY ONE BESTâ€"BLUE RIBBON TEA. "Really, you know, I can‘t say that "Jove!" I said, "that‘s rather an QUALITYâ€"â€"Thy Name is Blug Ribbon Do you use asterisks much 1" Blue Ribbon Ceylon TeA THE ROAD TO KHEALTH ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO he "Surely you can tell. Is he still deâ€" | cent to you?!" ' "Oh, ratherâ€"always." "Then I expect he still wants you to ‘ have it. It sounds as though he‘s rathâ€" ; er keen on you," I said, jealously. Lillian jumped up. "I shall tell him." "Tell him you didn‘t know your own mind. That‘ll be rather bad luck on you, you‘re generally so sure of it." | C J\Ju EC sruclaul wU SuPC UHP PF. * "Then I shan‘t tell him I didn‘t know my own mind," said Lillian. "Well, you must say something." "I shall tell him I didn‘t know my own â€"heart. I shot out of my chair. "Dick," said Lillian, plaintively, "must I propose to you*t" "Youâ€"ohâ€"meâ€"Lilâ€"â€"*" * I think I shall put a row of asterisks erc. That author chap was quite right, you know. Once more, ple_ue?_ f"h_ C And again, Mr. Printer. "People are sometimes," said Lillian, very sadly. "I don‘t know why." "Butâ€"a motorâ€"bicycleâ€"â€"" "Even with better things than +that. Well, Dick, suppose Arthur offered it again, and you refused it againâ€"â€"" I put my hands over my ears. "Please, Lillian," I said, "I can‘t stand it. The mere thought is agony. It almost seems as though I had lost it. Don‘t go on." Not a Successful Missionary. (Harper‘s Woekly.) A young woman who teaches a class in a Jersey City Sunâ€"ay schoo!l was recently taikâ€" ing to her pupils relative to the destrability of increasing its membership. When she inâ€" Vited the coâ€"operation to that end of the several members, the youngiter nemrest her ghook his head Gdarbioualy. "lwcfl boy im our neighborhood to come," e«â€" "And he offered it again*t" (‘l’es." "He must have been very keen on your having it." "He wasâ€"then." "And you refused it two or three times?" "And now you want it badly?" "That‘s it," said Lillian. "And I don‘t expect he wants to give it to me now. He kasn‘t offered it lately. What do you think of it, Dick ?" vpiained. "but all the cthors kis lMk me." _ "Just like a woman!t" I said. "But I‘m glad it wasn‘t a motorâ€"bicycle," I added. "Is that all, Dick?" I thought for a little while. "If you really want it badly, I should tell him. Tell him you didn‘t know your own mind at the time." "But he may have changed his by now. That‘s the difficuity." "I say," I began excitedly, "you don‘t mean that somebody actually has offered you a motorâ€"bicycle and you‘ve refusâ€" ed it?" "Look here, what has happened? Somebody offered you something?" "This is very interesting," I told him, "I shall certainly remember what you have said, But, look here, supposing one doesn‘t know how to begin, supposing one wishes to relate a very delicate matâ€" ter and doesn‘t know where to startâ€" could one lead off with a row of asterâ€" "Well," he began doubtfully, "of course you mightâ€"â€"" al when the author himself gets stuckâ€"â€" a row of asterisks." isks "Look here, let‘s take a concrete case," I said. I was rather proud of "conâ€" crete," but when I often say quite good things at dances. "Let‘s take a conâ€" crete case," I repeated. "A motor bicycle," I replied, promptâ€" ly. (Some fools say motorâ€"bicycling is going out, but that‘s simple rot.) * "A motorâ€"bicycle," Lillian _ repeated softly to herselt. "Well, then, Dick, supâ€" post Arthur offered you a motorâ€"biâ€" eycleâ€"â€"" "I say, may we have that over again, please ?" l "If the thought is agony, what about the actual thing ?" I had a sudden and tremendous susâ€" picion. "It wasn‘t a motorâ€"bicycle," said Lilâ€" lian, with a smile. "Oh, well, thenâ€"â€"" "But something almost as important," and she gave a little laugh. _ K "Buppose," said Lillian, "you wanted something very muchâ€"â€"" "And suppose," she went on, "someâ€" body offered it to you," and she gave a little sigh, ._ .. _ "I should take it," I said. It seemed a pretty casy problem, but there‘s genâ€" ecrally a catch somewhere. "And suppose you refused it * onee * * * and twige * ~*> * A the nsupposeâ€"â€"" _ "All right, Dick; Dick, what do you want most in the world ?" I closed my eyes and leaned back, while Lillian fanned me vigorously. "No, it‘s no good," I said at last. "But. Dick, we‘re only supposing." "Oh, wellâ€"go on." "And suppose you refused itâ€"â€"" "Great Scott, I interrupted, "do you think I‘m an absolute idiot ?" . __"In that case," I said, "I certainly shall." She stopped and began to play with her fan. _ _ "Suppose Arthur offered you a motorâ€" bicycleâ€"â€"" "Look here, let‘s let that idea sink in a bit first." "A bracelet, let‘s say." "Wellâ€"â€"" "And you refused it?" "YTes." "Why ?" "I thought I didn‘t want Thank you.â€"London Punch. 39 it." and Perhaps the -imilest and most effecâ€" tive method that has been devised for kiling these attached spores is to sprinâ€" | kle the seed grain with a dilute soluâ€" | tion of formalin, made by pouring half a pint of formalin into ten or twelve lgnllons of water, The formalin can be procured at almost any drug store for 25 cents. The seed grain _ should _ be | spread out on a clean floor or wagon box, j and the formalin sprinkled over it by means of a sprinkling _ can. The seed should be thoroughly shoveled _ over and mixed while it is being sprinkled so that every grain receives some of the | solution. Ten gallons of solution will sufâ€" , fice for 20 or 25 bushels of grain, | When the grain is dry, it should be | put into clean bage to prevent the enâ€" | trance of fresh spores of smut, which are always fioating in the air of barns. Wants Them to Work. In the course of a conversation with the president a few days ago Senator Pettus, of Alabama, confessed that he | would take rank among the poorest men in the senate. "I agree with William Wirt, who was attorney general of the ‘United States, that industrious lawyers work harder, live better and die poorer than any other class of people," said Snator Pettus He does not believe in leaving moeny behind him and thinks it | encourages laziness, "I have grandsons and great grandsons and still another lgeneution coming on," said he. "I do not want to have them so that they will not have to work, for these men with millions do not have to labor and conâ€" sequently they do not work." "Is it true, senator, as fuoted in the newspaâ€" pers, that you said if you had life to live over again you would get out in the midâ€" dle of a big farm and stay there ?" *‘Well ' I don‘t remember saying that, but I cerâ€" tainly have thought it a number of ltimel," was the reenonse, After having dreamed three successive nights that John Trainor, to whom shs was related, and who mysterioraly disâ€" appeared twelve days ago, had been disâ€" covered dead in a stream, Mrs. Charles Dillingham, of Oliver, insisted upon am investigation being made toâ€"day. The body was found as had been pictured in her dreams. Trainor left his home in Oliver, January 26, to come to Unionâ€" town. _ He was not seen alive again. When Mrs. Dillingham first dreamed that she saw Trainor‘s body lying in waâ€" ter she attributed the incident to her worry over the man‘s disappearance, When the dream was repeated Friday night and last night she would not be satisfied until a search of the creock which run»s ajlong the Baltimore amo Ohio railroad between Uniontown ang Ollvcjv-l:begu‘: 'n_oedendbo:‘y‘: found as Mrs. Dillingham clared it would be. § Every mother who has used Baby‘s Own 'lyablets will tell you that they are the best medicine in the world for the cure of constipation, colic, sour . stomach, indigestion, diarrhoea, sleeplessness, tecthing troubles, and other ailments of children. _ You can give these Tablets to a newâ€"born baby with absolute safetyâ€"they alâ€" ways do good; they cannot possibl do harm. Their use means hult{ for the child and comfort for the mother. Mrs, C. F. Kerr, Eigin, Ont., says: "Baby‘s Own Tablets are the best medicine I ever used for stomach and bowel troubles, and destroying worms. No mother should be without a box of Tablets in the house." Get them at your drnfihu or by ‘mail from the Dr. Williams Mediâ€" cine Co., Brockwville, Ont., at 25 cents a box. Locates Body of Relative in Dream. (Uniontown â€" correspondence Pittsburg Now, smut is very prevalent in many oat and wheat fields, and the loss to the Province by this disease alone amounts every year to two or three million dolâ€" lars. Smutty oats and wheat are caused by planting seed oats and wheat that have smut spores attached to them. These spores are so samall that it is imâ€" possible to see them on the seed with the naked eye. If this method is carefully followed, no smut heads of grain will be found in the crop. _ Apple scab is one of the most serious diseases of the apple. It can be ;;revmtod by spraying the trees with eaux mixture. Four applications should be givenâ€"the first just as the leaves are unfolding, the second just before blosâ€" soming, the third after bossoming and the fourth two or three weeks later. If the season is a wet one, it is advisable to give another application in July or August. The formula for Bordeaux mixâ€" ture is as follows: Copper sulphate (blue stone) 4 lbs. Fresh stone lime 4 lbs. Water, 40 gallons. Make a stock solution of bluestone by dissolving 25 pounds in warm water in a barrel and add water to make up to 25 gallons. Every gallon of this soluâ€" tion in this barrel contains one pound of blue stone. Spring is approaching and farmers will loox‘: be pln.utli’ng the seed for the seaâ€" son‘s crop. With some crops clean seed moans d crops, and dirty seed poor crops. ft?ois important, therefore, to take a few simple precautions, especâ€" ially when it is known that these preâ€" cautions will save much money. Into a second barrel put 25 Eound- of fresh stone lime, and add with stirring small quantitics of water to slake it. When fully slaked make up to 25 galâ€" lons by adding water. Every gallon of milk of lime in this second barrel conâ€" tains one pound of lime. To prepare the Bordcaux, empty four gallons of bluestone solution into the spray tank or barrel, which _ already sthd have 25 or 30 gallons of water in it; stir the milk of lime thoroughly and empty four gallons of it through the strainer into the spray barrel with conâ€" stant stirring; then add water to make up to 40 gallons. The codling worm may be controlled at the same time if 6 oz. of Paris green are added to every barrel of the Borâ€" déaux mixture used in the application made after blossoming. (By Prof. W. Lochhead.} MOTHER AND BASY. patch.) 4n â€"__ _