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eae eUBCA ES tad see ORS 6 LISTOWEL 8 eaten DARD | THE POET AND THE CHILDREN. x With a glory of winter sunshine ir his locks of gray, fn the old historic mansion He sat on his last birthday. With his books and his eeagatc Pictures And this houschold and his While a sound as of myriads sincine "From far and near stole in. It came from his own fair city From the prairie' alesse plain, From the Golde n Gate o set And the cedarn woods of f Maine. And his heart grew warm within him, And his moistening eyes grew dim, For he knew that his country' s children Were singing the songs o: The lays of his life's glad morni The psalms of his evening time, Whose echoes shall flont forever On the winds of evory clime. All their beautiful appar ag Sent forth like birds of c' . And tang in the poct' Prateful, but solemn and tender, a nd a greeting like farewell. with a sense of awe he OS Sonne To the voices sweet nnd y The last of earth and the first ie heaven Scemed in the songs they sung And waiting a little longer onderful change to come, Be heard the summoning angel Who Calli God's children home! And to him in a» holier welcome as the mystical meaning given Jf the words cf the blessed Mast "Of such is the kingdom ct heaven."' AN ABDUCTION. In the absence of Jules, Mme. Champonnet's one female domestic, Me- lanie, serving in this bourgeois house- hold in the double capacity of cook and cham bermaid, opened the docr to Raoul de Malplaquet and ushered him into the salou, '"'My mistress," she said, down in a minute."' A niipute? Yes, but such a minute as one only experiences in hairdressers' or barbers' shops, and which enabled Ruoul to completely inventory the fur- niture of the room in which he found himself while the hands of the clock were making the round of the dial. On the stroke of the half hour, in fact, Mme. Champonnet appeared, hot, flushed, breathless with the speed of the toilet she bad made. "*Your parden, monsieur, for keeping you so long; also, as I do not know you at all, for asking you the object of your } calling bere,"' Raoul rose to his feet **Madame," said he solemnly, "to cone to the point at cuce, you havea daughter, Mile. Georgette, I believe. Shd is charming." She is, monsienr.' HS0 charming nell it only remained for me to see ber once to know that it is useless for me to attempt to resist the passion with which she bas inspired me. Iam cursed, you see, madame, with a@ wost impressionable nature"-- "*You have come, then, monsieur, ta ask of me the hand of my daughter in muarriage?"' 'But, no, notatall, madame. Impres- sionist though I be, I amalsoa poet and could not reconcile myself to the idea of marriage in the vulgar, prosaic fash- ion of nowadays. I am here, madame, to ask your permission to--abduct your' daugbter."' 'To avduct Georgette! You are mad, monsieur!"' ""With love--I confess it!" "Dut no, no, I tell you. Your propo- ; sition is simply preposterous,"' *B "will be t reasonable, all the same, ma- dame, since I simply loathe convention- ality and seek my bappiness in an indi- vidoal way. | prove it by wishing to abduct ber. abe on her part permits herself to be abducted, it establisbes beyond cavil wher profound love forme. We become at.once, madame, with your permission, ¢he talk of the town. "Exactly, and I do vot like scandal."' 'Bat fame is not scandal, madame, and see--always with your consent-- how easy it will be. We rush to the station; we leap aboard a sleeping car; we dash into Spain, that land of chiv- alry and of flowering orange trees, and there, at midnight, by the light of the oon, we marry clandestinely"-- "Which is just What I object to, I tell you, monsieur.' "Marry clandestinely, I repeat, in some obscure little chapel, dimly light- ed by asipgletaper. The romance ends, you observe, madame, i in the most ortho- dox manner.' 'But Georgette herself--she will never consent, ménsieur. Abduct a girl like her, with every (aa aati and suitors by the scor "'Granted, madame; ties ask ber and see! Your daughter, as the Comtesse de Malplaquet"-- 'Eh? What name did you say, mon- sieur?"' "Comtesse de Malplaquet. Further- more, madame, I would add that I waive the payment of that 10,000 francs that you have put aside as your daughter's dowry. My own fortune is amply suffi- cient; my income, alone, 200,000 francs a year. You will, my dearest lady, you will permit me to abduct Georgette, whom I truly adore?"' Comtesse de Malplaquet! Two hun- dred thousand francs a year! , Mme. Champonnet began to soften. 'But wait, but wait; you go too fast, monsieur," said she. "You spring up | in my way like a Jackin the box! Your credentials, your references, please ; for, paid all, understand, I do not know I love your daughter. I It rCesdeaidaSar Certainly, madime; a /perfectly proper precaution. My notary, Maitre Pitou, 18 Rue Bonjard, will put you au courant of my entire history." "And Gegrgette--ahe does not know you, monsieur." '*Wrong again, madame. I saw her atthe vaudeville Mage: days. ago, and the responded to the arder ef my gax with a sympathetic blush. Ask her, madame, ask her if I may abduct her. desire no more." 'Well, so be it, 'monsieur. I have only the interest of my child at heart. Six days from today, then, return for your answer."' . '*Six days from today, madame." Raoul bowed and departed. Ruoul, Comte de Malplaquet, had renily been, up to this hour--so Maitre Pitou, 18 Rue Bonjard, said, whose in- come was large from his care of the comte's estate, and larger still from his care of his morals, according; that is, to thé report he gave Of them--a young man of the steadiest habits, wholly ig- norant of the taste of absinth--in his briefly, a rara avis in the matrimonial market. It was only this crazy abduction wheme of his that worried good Mme: Champonnet, with her. old fashioned way of regarding things. Still, after all, it was merely a pretense, the fool- ish notion of a romantic lover, a mock abduction, in truth, since she, forc- warned of it, was du accomplice in it. Then the title of comtesse and 20,000 francs a year falling to the lot of a de- scendant of the hurd ware trade certain- ly merited some little concession in the way of maternal scruples. She decided to lay the whole matter before Georgette, '*Abduct me," cried she, 'like a real Lochinvar! Why, mother, how charm- ing mm . "'And you are sure, you are sure, Georgette," the mother continued, de- termined to do her whole duty to her child, "that you have observed this gentleman sufficiently to be certain that he will be ugreeable to you?"' "Observed him sufficiently when ho has foliowed me like my shadow every day for a month past!" Naturally, thorefore, when Raoul ar- rived promptly to the moment at the appointed hour there remained only the preliminaries to settle for the affair. "Which will take place, madame," ~Raoul concluded, "on Friday next at tbe midnight bour"-- "The hour of crime!" **Por me the hour gee On Friday, then, I say, at 11:30 p. m., stop under your pe Fi The sound of a mandolin played by me will be the tignal. The dead latch will-be up, and you will be sleeping--like the dead, madame. Georgette will descend; we spring to the carriage; VM have it in Waiting; gallop to the station, jump aboard the rapide, and next day find ourselyes the' leading article in th: morning papers. You, by noon, will be interviewed by all the reporters of the city, visited and condoled with by all your enemies, and a day or two later will receive, from us a letter detailing our happiness. Now, as I have still many things to do before my departure, I bid you au revoir 'Without see ing Georgette?"' "To see a girl L am soing to abduct would be improper, madame And Raoul, the case won, " withdrew. On Friday, then, at midnight, the abduction, as arranged, came off, Mme. Champonnet, even by a happy fore- thought and an eager desire to increase the comfort of the affair, having dis- patched, secretly, of course, to Raoul's address a trunk containing Georgette's bandsémest and thinnest. clothing. It was always so hot in Spain! Spain? Picture, then, her consterna- tion, her maternal despair, to receive from--Norway, 8 whole month, too, after the abduction had taken place, the following telegram: 'Did not go to Spain atall. Too hot. Here we are freezing. You ought to have sent a bearskin in the trunk. Not married yet. The religion here is Prot- estant. Tomorrow we start for Asia-- © Warm ourselves. We do not know the religion there."--F rom the French. _ a A Florida Frost. Far on in March, when the thermom- eter bad long been in the eighties, saya F. Whitmore in The Atlantic, the wind whipped suddenly into the north and the air cooled 50 degrees in a night. We were in the field. perspiring in linens when the change came, with an abrupt overcasting of the shy. A whiff like the breath from a glacier struck us, the wind blew cach moment keener, and before we fairly saw how it was our teoth were chattering. It seemed unbe- lievable, but presently there was no doubt that a January norther was upon us two months out of season. When we realizéd this, we set all hands at work to earth over the half grown potato vines. Only a few hours of the day were left, but the men worked desperately with hoes and plows through the bleak twilight, and much was done, but not all, When we came out, shivering, in the first daybreak, we saw that our short harvest was to be lamentably shortened. We perceived now at last how it wae with us. @ were not farming, but gambling with the elements. The cli- mate had been merely toying with us, a trump card of spring frosts lying in its sleeve. Bicycle Shoe Clerk Loses a Customer. A Denver shoe store recently employ- ed a young man for clerk who had been in the bicycle Business so long that he was an-enthusiast. A young lady called at the store for a pair of shoes, "IT wanta pair of shoes," she remark- ed demurely. "*What gear?" he inquired, bowing. "Sirl' "'T meant sehat size." **Abont 2 "What in what last?' **A O last, I think.' "Do you like the high sad--the high heels?" "Just medium." He got the shoe she seemed to want, and after fitting it carefully remarked absentmindedly : : ou can wear loose bloomers with that frame, and it will =e punoture, Keep it well greased, an The lady called for teal olerk.-- Denver Times, "bitters,-at-teast=his fortune-s--reality;- HEROIC LIFE SAVERS, | An Entire Crew, With One Exception, Lost In an Attempted Rescue, In tho series of "Heroes of Peace" there is an article in The Century on 'Heroes of the Life Saving Service,' by Gustav Kobbe. Mr. Kobbe says: District Superintendent Jerome G. Kiah, with headquarters at Sand Beach, Mich., is one of the heroes of the life saving service. He holds the gold medal, the highest award the United States government can bestow for heroism in saving life. His name is associated with what was both one of the most daring attempts at resone and one of the great- ext tragedies of the service--a tragedy which wiped ont an entire crew with the exception of this sole survivor. Mr. Kiah was at the time keeper of the Point aux Barques life saving sta- tion on Lake Huron. A vessel struck too far out to be reached with the shot and line, Tho peril of attempting a res- -cue with the surfboat was only too ap- parent, but Keeper Kiuh mustered his men and made the launch. For awhile their strength and skill enabled them to surmount or push through the tu- multuous seas, but, once in the open lake beyond the shoals, where the storm was free to riot at will, the real danger began. It was a test beyond human powers. The keeper remembers that twice the boat capsized and was righted. After that he has a vague recollection of the boat capsizing and righting her- self several times, and of the crew clinging to it until, one by one, the surfmen, perishing of cold, let go their hold and vanished -beneath the waves. Ho has a dim remembrance of the boat, with himself clinging to it, grating over the shoal, and then being flung up on shor He was found by two men, standing, with one band on the root of a fallen tree, steadying himself with a lath in tho other and swaying as if walking, but not stirring bis feet--a dazed, tot- tering wreck of his former self, mur- muring in an incoherent way: "*Poor boys! Poor boys! They are all gone--al] gone!" Temporarily shatter- ed in mind and body, he was obliged to resign from the service. He was long in recovering, but finally it was possible practically to reward his bravery with the appointment to his present position. THE AMERICAN STATURE. The -- of ap x feck In inna Might ng Serious Consequence a paper read by Major Hensy 8. Kilbourne, surgeon United States army, before the Association of Military Sur- geous of the United States, he advocated the theory that the physical power of a race or people--and consequently their capacity for work--is measured by their average stature. For every inch of height between five and six feet the ex- treme breathing capacity is increased eight cubic inches, the vital capacity being at its maximum at 85 years. A table of measurements of 190,621 native white Americans, accepted for the mili- tary service of the United States, shows that the number of men below 63 inches in height is but little greater than that of the class above 73 inches. The most numerous class is included between 67 and 69 inches, and this standard class would have s greater chest girth thaa. the average. The mean height of 125 United States naval cadets above the age of 23 years was 67.80 inches. Ag these men are drawn from all parts aa classes of the United States they repre- sent very nearly the typical pbysical development = the American people of 25 years of a Major Rinewse concludes that the commingling strains of Celtic, Danish, Norwegian and German blood among our people have thus far worked no de- terioration of physical quality. "Notso with the swartby, low browed and stunted people now swarming to our shores. Absorbed into the body of the people, these multitudes must irretriev- ably evolve an inferiority of type. To realize the result of such a contingency let it be considered that the loss of an inch-in stature might bring in its train the loss of national ascendency. Let us take care, then, that the state shall suffer no injury."--Boston Transcript The Popular Side Comb. The side comb still rides the top wave of popular favor notwithstanding its general adoption and consequent degen- eracy into the cheapest of materials. The prevailing broad method of wear- ing the hair makes milady of fashion as dependent upon its good offices ag her less favored sister of the shops, the on's distinction between them being the dil- ference in material. The latest combs are small, of amber or shell and deco- rated with finely cut steel. Sometimes the steel is but a narrow band of bead: while again it broadens out into ar besques, points or curves, or even clover leaves or flower-de-luces. Many of the combs are also set with gems, real rt imitation, while others for evening wear are studded with colored stones to barmonize with the costume worn. Making a Distinction. Miss Cayenne had caused her a great deal of annoyance by forgetting what her long suit was and remaining oblivious to trump signals. He mopped the perspiration from his brow and ven- tured the observation, "I was under the impression that you said you.were ac- customed*to playing whist." "Yes,"' she answered sweetly, "I play it. I don't work at it as some people do,"-- Washington Star. A great deal of trouble is expended in educating the showy, high stepping orse. He is trained to step high and act showily by being driven along & path whereon rails are set crosswise. He steps high to avoid stumbling, and in time always steps high. Bergen, Norway, paper church large enough to seat 1,000 per- sons. The building is rendered water: proof by a selution of quicklime, oar: dled milk and white of eggs. _ THE SELFISH WOMAN. A TRICK THAT ENRAGED HER SLEEP- ING CAR COMPANIONS. She Emerged the Pink of Perfection, While the Other Women Barely Man- aged to Get Their Hats on Straight Be- fore Leaving. A sleeping car which arrived in New York numbered eight women among its passengers, and one of them displayed wisdom which made the other seven her enemies. She was a prim looking, mid- dle aged woman, and she had attracted attention the previous night by the busi- ~nesshke-way-in-which--she ~ordered-her-- supper. It was evident that she had traveled on a-sleeping car before and from their nervousness it was quite slear that the other women were novices in night traveling and that they were anticipating great discomforts. It was not until the morning, however, that the wise woman proved her wisdom as well as her selfishness, Two hours before the train was due in New York she left her berth and dis- appeared in the end of the car. This sleeping car, like others of its class, had four wash bowls for men with large mirrors over them and only one wash bowl for women, in a room so small that two women could not stand in it at the saive time. Half an hour after the wise woman arost the other women in the car began to stir around and four of them went at the same time to com- plete their toilets. The wise woman still occupied the room and they sat down to wait. Half an hour passed and stili the wise woman didn't appear. Tbe men in the car bad become inter- ested in the comedy, which promised to develop into a tragedy. They had al- reudy completed their toilets without interfering with one another. '*This is un imposition," said a big woman whose bair was disorderly, 'and Lam going to investigate." She disnppearcd, and the other pas- sengers heard her voice, first mild and then loud and angry, but the responses of the wise woman could not be heard. '*What du you suppose that creature is doing," said the big woman, when she returned. "Why, I never heard anything like it. Here we are within an hour of New York and not one of us has had an opportunity to wash her face and that woman inside has a little ulcohol lamp going and sho is delibrr- ately curling ber huir. She should have some senso of decency. I'm sure she ia old enough.' This information cast the other wom- eu into the depths of despuir, and as the train sped on one of them, the youngest woman in the cnr, began to cry. Her woe was greater than that of the others because a certain young man had prom- ised to meet her at the station, and she would not have him see her as sbe then looked for the whole railroad. Tho men in the car evidently thonght that sbe was good to look at just as she was, but none of them knew her, and this in- formation could not be conveyed to her. A delegation of two women was sent to compromise with the wise one who was curling her hair, and they returned in disgust. "She sa a ti phe is going to com- pitts her toile re she comes out," said one of them. "She is curling her bair all over. I asked her if she wouldn't please just curl itin front and then put ber hat on. The rest wouldn't show, you know. She said she would attend to the curling without any as- sistauce from me. This is simply dread- ful. I'll never ride in a sleeping car again. It isan imposition to have only a little bit of a cubby hole reserved for women, while the men bave all the room they need. I'm going to sue the road." . An indignant discussion followed, and just asthe train was pulling into New York the wise woman made her appearance. Conscious that not a single flaw could be found in her toilet, she ignored the angry glances @* ghe other women. It was too late tof them to make elaborate toilets, end the men withdrew from the smoking roam, 50 that they might at least use the mirrors to set their hats on straight. They trailed after the wise woman as she left the car, and if angry glances could have stabbed her she would have become a coroner's case right on the platform. '"This isn't the first time that I have seen such an exhibition," said a com- mercial traveler who had been in the car, "and really I don't blame the wise woman at all. She simply showed her experience. The fault is in the con- struction of the car, and it is a short- sighted policy to make them so incon- venient for women. It takes a woman longer to dress than a map, and I be- lieve that if the car builders would sao- rifice the space occupied by a section or two and put in wash bowls for women more women would be willing to ride in sleeping cars. As it is, the average wean would rather sag atom than make a trip that involved a night ride. "' --New York Sun. Made Sure It Was Used. An old farmer and his wife, noted for their niggardlincss, had a custom of allowing the servant only one match to light the fire with each morning. One morning the match failed to kin- dle, so the servant went to their bed- room door and asked for another one. A whispered consultation was held between thetwo; then andibly the wife said: "Will you risk her wi' anith#"ans, Jobn?"' «**T doot we'll hae tae risk her, Janot," replied John, "but be sure an seek a sicht o' the ane she got last nicht."-- London Answers. Sympathetic. suppose Mrs. Manywed real- "Do you ly loves her lawyer admirer? "In a way, yes. You see, he secured all her divorces for her, and he's a sort of « connecting link with the past."-- Philadelphia North American. -- ~S 3 LAS ak bag intants ee Children. The Fac-simile Signature of Appears on "Bvery Wrapper, EES ES THE CONTAUR COMPANY, Ty MURRAY STREET, hrw .onn city S'RAIGHT AS AN ARROW TO THE MARK. In all diseases that affect humanity there is some weak link in the chain of health, some spo' that is the seat of the trouble. It may 'be the liver, it Rey be the stomach; perhaps: it is the bowels or ie : kidneys; most likely it is the blood. Burdock Biood Bitters goes straight to that spot, streng thens '2 weak link in the chain, removes the cause "of the 'ssise, and restores health, because it acts with ictasites force and curative power upon the stomach, idneys, bowels and blood. 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Probably the morai in this story is, "Some alligators never know when they have enough." --Atlanta Constitution. ; The Successfal, He--The trouble with too many peo- ple in this world is that they never stop to think. She--Yes, but I notice that the most @uccessful people are the ones that don't bave to stop to think. --Chicago News. Time It Was Retired. ge ose is @ pretty good bicycle Wale what?" "It has made quite a number of oen- tury runs "--Philadelphia North Amer- ican. A NURSE'S STORY, Talls ties she was naceraa of Heart and Nerve Troubles. The onerous duties that fall to the lot of nurse, the worry, care, loss of sleep, irregularity of meals soon tell on the pacrogs system and undermine the health. Mrs. H. L. Menzies, a professional nurse livi ng -- the Corner of Wellington and King Streets, Brantiord, Ont., states her case as follows: 'For the past three I have suffered from weakness, rage n of reath and palpitation of the heart. 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For instunce, a rod of silver, which should melt at 1,830 degrees P., when thus treated will not. change form and melt together until 5,730 de- grees F. Pailadium, which should melt at 2,730 degrees I°., shows no sign af yielding at 2,900 degrees F. It would seem that these rods of metal, unable ta expand while in the powerful grip of the aluminium oxide, which contractea on heating, simply cannot melt as they would under porimal conditions, Mrs. Tuos. McCann, Mooresville, Ont., writes: " I was troubled with biliousness, headache, and lost ap- petite. I could not rest at night, and was very weak, but after using three bottles of B.B.B. my appetite has returned, and I am better than I have been for years. I would not be without Burdock Blood Bitters, It is such a safe and good reme dy that lam giving it to my children," WG LE. o2-callbre Serelinantss lor a) 892, cost on. 32-cali ater on the "arate two Shesuats ed in the ody tetere Te also tells Pwr w