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lloio mt. _,,_ _ ..I_._---r "her his Port Perry's Market. 3 Port Perry is the latest place to ind awake to the benefits of a good market, 9, aid the matter is taken` up vigorously bv the local Board of Trade. The plan which is pursued there is thus outlined he by the Standard in it report of the Board of Trade meeting :-A motion mt was passed asking the Council to hand [W the market over to the Board of Trade, :h- to be conducted as a private enter- prise. The advantages to be derived be. from this move in the right direction or -are manifold; protection is given to both buyer and seller, and a more per- he fect system in the operation will be ef- y: fected. Nothing but cash will heal- lowed; no o'er of trade will becounten- T m anced; any buyer offering trade will _. be refused admission to the market. Cash must be paid and the delivery made on the market itself; this will 3 obviate the ridiculous spectacle of a 3 lady being asked to carry a couple of ,8 twenty pound pails of butter tothe a store of themerchant to whom she had 3- soldhsr produce. The two banks have I_ very kindly oered their services grat- ` uitously to assist in simpliying the sit- uation; the Western Bank will send a "one -week and the Bank of Commerce E ; clerk to the market to pay out the cash I: 3 the next, and so on, week -about. As I ._ . TELEPHONE 53. 06:1 ? Q Advertising in The Advance THE NORTH EBN ADVANCE, pf,"gSl_ater Shoes ? 13 so large that the m; `- tannage` in most leathers. Cbjguck CaIf;71`nadeAfrom the best selected calfskins, a1`1'dlse:-11 brown. 1-" Kidducl; black audseal brown, from selected Pm V leathers are wear and water resisting, porous and Am '.There arealso Best French Patent, I-`tench Enan - ' V V Russia and American Vv'u:s Calf." S1-ater'Shoe Polish only should be , used on these leathers, retains their * ' elasticity` and keeps them soft. II`1., _ 1 1 .1 0 -_ :.:Y- .. ,;_l9 _ =. {E lenge comparison. guarantee that your money is well and pm the very best medium by which you can ers, being a_welcome visitor in every 1 meat in- this kind of aidvrtising. Can` you nd anything more- certain. than : local paper. The sworn circulation of a Local Ne; We have the largest circulation in the Shoe Leathers - .___r_ .......n uvn I... `The sole leather is the best obt.-m;.. ab1e,and on every sole is the xzzakem name and price in a slate frame, when the nished shoe has passed its rigorous examination. I Catalogue. V-sag; Frawloy, sale local Agent BRINGS You FACE TO FACE WITH A BUYING CIRCULATION. 123 Dzmlop Stree;, Barrie. I _8~ly ` HAVE YOU TRIED l;aeLjaren s Perfect Headache Gui: Safe! and instantaneous cure 1'0 HM. Guaranteed to cure- ` -5' , _ - 5:` V" F0. `n . ` Ne . ..the Wong y h` Pros ve 1! `ratio 0 ll eqmll. and general w 8. la _ Stu . mach \ Row 913, L an A oak. To n"8 and wows " tn 338 T ab] ets will prove` \ Y` It ipovsitive blessing. , H W_ \' 50c. per box. Sold by D , ' . ' ' o -Lnren,.D1-uggmt, sole agent for Zanberior to 11 Dill . s and sxmilar preps. These .1. blets 3` re the latest production of 'teI_v medem ` medical Sc. fofthe urg lance" They are inm 1;]; A - Of Ind~ , rations. % 9 s=t"`h. Bow;1gse8:9 "4 `1diW '9' and K)dneys. ` ~--` weak- ![irIIiI1TNWmns1 L`Ulll1Ilsl.li. uuzu uuuuvvn "In. H. ugeuia 9 A _ .111 Rig` pf `a Newspaper : ' properly spent. 1 Only Half Baked... Rolled Wheat, like Panv Dried, Oats, is Pan-Drit=d" also. It has the crispness of a"biscuit done to :1 turn; Half baked food is hard"t0 digest-I. It is worth while to ask your grocer for MOLINA made by MOLINA TILLSON That Very accurately describes the flavor bf the Rolled Wheat which was not made by the right process. "Am-: NOT A PATENT MEDICINE. . . I'II IIICUDIIII-A----T __OHMIST AND DRUGS: ST. BK" TILSONBURG. rm Patna , porous and therefore sauna.` Enamel," pg ` nu! .. goiltskins. 1'. /_ ,, -.x\..l CLUTC ::;c:1Ch I r r\.1"" that makers are able to home. No experi - 7! supposeitheylll-`ll'be there in the 1"e'ry:tront, a row of awestruck faces." _8Vhe_ smiled as she thought of the six tarlng races that had gazed strangely atjgheron her return home. Would I 3ga;c{e_been like them", `I `wonder. with no tjyfsteio-oI.%the glor_lous;d1sh_es with which ' `I`;.'ll(1}jtl__V(2l_{lB.lQAI10?Sr[)8ldt93 owould ji " lml've`.~:Vbeen,I'3:scontent with? their"- `?Ifr?ee,~-Jotlsejti sje reach your custom- district, and chal- u2.QLQ9.L9_QQ advertising in a 5, in black, Au tr ~ .132. mm f\.am V Efssing room befo're a mirror a_ still in the ush of youth, ajlqoking with unseeing eyes at the pale, gproud face framed In masses of heavy ; i`1ilacl:_ hair, In which diamonds gleamed i:l1_kp,'t;a1_s:.ot re: . * . Itis I83 ,._..-~ um-n Aufxt 1 est ' Gut known 1 morhing and. star the way` plain in The We contribu been sp, mo_rnin' pointed ment In thatajs the pen Rolf Ru its colu V`-`,C'l.`_11ZZz1t ._- -.-- wvu---a vg vvap IVIIIJ \a\ll-II-(FIJI: The two weeks of the opera had be- gun. A long line of carriages was {drawn up before, C_--- hall, waiting to ..-`deposit their burdens-stately brough- ams. smacking or solid respectability, smart landaus with gayly caparisoned horses, while along the streets leading 't`o5the hall groups of t'ortune s less ta- Ivored subjects moved quickly,`meetin g' out last in front of the hall, where they ` Joined the large, well groomed crowd gnushing slowly up the steps to sit in Judgment and perha'ps_iultimatel'y to `pay tribute to the new prima donna, Mlle`. Armstrong, ,a daughter of. their towns land} _ Iuv-. . tthough Ethat ob . ---V, - ---v `And Paul, looking in the soft depth 701 `her oul's eyes, was content. run... 4._.. ._..I._ A - and anus. gvu nut) 11 -:iAsten, Paul. I shall neveriforget. - You know my nature too well to be- lieve your own words. Forget you, _ with whom I have grown up, who a have been the best part of my life? Ah,` Paul. you know better. This is the hardest part of it Pau1-to leave you. It seems but a dream yetothat V Imam really going--going to see the world that has seemed to exist only in books. -But the years will soon pass, 2 Paul. We are__both young, and no les- son hemay try to teach me can blot out the teaching of 18 years of life; and with such a teacher. You believe ,me, Paul? ' - I_.S T\--_I I I n 5 .- - - I'll work hard, Beth. By tall I'm going to the city with Lawyer Boote. I heard the professor tell you you couldn t love; art had no room for love. Beth, don't let him teach you to forget me. fWhen he gives you such lessons as that, let what I say now so ll your mind that there will be room for nothing else. I love you, Beth, and some day you will be my,v_vife. Perhaps if you hadn't been going. away I should never have had the courage to tell you, at least for years. But I m glad you know."_ H`? : ...J..... I-|--_I ` r can wullljvllp V ~"dver In the corner a slim,ndnrk eyd . , girl hung on these `words. . Oh,` to see . this world, to have the dreams she had dreamed come true! She found herself I listening again. T uv-.. --- ~`- A ' , "(-)~11twi1:vthe- garden twilight was fall-, ing. The beautiful tender sky colors wereslowly fading into the dusk of 1 night. The very air, full of the scent.` . of the hay, was a caress. The very peaceof it seemed amockery to Paul _ as he stood before her. How could ev- rrything be so serenely beautiful while he was tasting the bitterness of life?` - could not put it into any fine 3 ..j. this desolateness of his. He 11.: only that if this love should be 1 ' -an out of his life the whole worth of l fe wasgone. s ` fou say'you'll remember, Beth, but ; s : won't-you won't. I know it as it ;. .:rs had already passed." ')nly a boy in years, yetra. man's pain had aged the stern young face. The pain in his voice touched the girl looking up at him. ` `C7911 ...-..I_ I___,:I C-5, 1- -- - ..-.-vv-..-cg ubuluo Yes, yes, she can go, but bring her T back, bring her back. I've seven. but I can't spare her forever. Then some"- how Beth found herself In her moth- er's arms, who for once In her life of habitual self control had given way. And so the ultimatum went forth. Beth was to go. . T n--4. :.. AL- - ,.g_._v - My good woinan, think! She has a `I fortune in her voice. She has a. voice Ina thousand--a gem. But it is In the `rough. It needs polishing, years of it, and it must be polished gently. Then I `lt,Willshlne--oh,dochI__ Z. . ml l`|un._ 1-: J-`-- * * - roughly.- ,. ..c.u,y. uuu Iucea woman, tearing idly at the red Woolen curtain tassel that had never before been treated so , _..,~- g nn_ null: auu uuteu." ` ' _ -. .4 The world was two months older. `Into the best p'arlor shone the after-- rno/on `sunshine, playing gleefully on walls that seemed to. shrink from the -unaccustomed glare. In one of the -prim straight backed chairs, -at the H front window, sat Professor. Helfen, a while opposite at the other window sat a weary. sad faced tearing idly rd WOOIQTI nnvfnln 6-am-...'l n..-A. Come back` to Erin, mavourneen, nja_vourneen! ' Joyously sweet and `clear, nearer and nearer, came` the 5*9`voice. The "professor sat, motionless, 9 listening with bated breath, lest `he lose voice ceased he looked out. Coming -gt syllable of that sweet oldsong, "sung in that sweet young, voice. As the ` 1} :t_oward`the house, balancing in either _hand 9, foamingpail of milk, was .a fwyoung girl. Even ere the song was " nished a harsh, tired voice called sharply: Come, Beth; don't yell so. s,You ll wake baby, and. I've been an , hour getting her`to sleep. Hurry and "set the table." . j.l`l1e professor grunted scornfully .H'ml Yelling, is it? The voice or an` angel! Music; I escape it not even here. I'll wait and listen." A u-uo:\uI.I --- ~' ` " t1'.'e_tches' of green meadows, dotted ~_.w`Ith_thee darker green of the trees, and ; V':`3i1'_`'the " far distance the everlasting` ghjls,` majestically grand- in the soft _.~pu1_-ple beauty of thehrvast ro1l1ng'out- ;`..lIne. rr WHISPERED I-`OR YEARS. _,,_.-- - ......., nun .a an ong 1, called so. y,v and.I ve to and J can uses In mum nenentn the our Ihlno door, The while my _rhymes are munnurinx in your ear ` ' A Ifestleu loro like that the billown teach, A . For on t cue sonnet waves my soul would reooht , mm on depth: and rent within you. don. AI, through the billowy voice: yearning hero. Grest nature strives to and o_ humon Ipdoch. - T AIonnet,iII..w.'.'0fIno1ody: ` . From heaving wutu,-not tho impngionotl ,- ; V, A1bin_ow`.hfoi tidal lmllk ;,on..`;md: apt. 1 ' `-M? T [A muicd lesson by the Io'uhoro.] , You ailvety billovn breaklug on the bench - Fall back in foam beneath the cur clan. whilu my lhvfnon u-. ......-.......a-.. 1.. .....- saucu cuuuluon or the blood, and that, In turn, is caused by poor food. and especially by tainted meat. It used to 9 be considered that scurvy was caused by the want of fresh vegetables or lline juice, but it is known now that the_`eat- lng of salted, or lmproperly preserved meat or tainted meat In any _torm. can produce scurvy even when llmejulce or vegetables are belng_taken' at the same.tlme.-. _. . ' -. A - BUIITVYQ Science has come to the conclusioh a that scurvy is caused by the impover- ished condition of the blood, and that, In turn. I: nnn'nm l hu nnnn 1...: ---1 _.`. v_--- -- van Ihilulbl-bl ID ll: l'UuUueu:` 188` spoonful; four teuspoontuls (liquid) are equal to one tablespoonful; one heap- % : mg n tablespoonful of butter_ Is one ounce; two heaping tblespoonfuls of our afe one ounce; two and one-half cuptuls ore pulverized sugar 'are one pound.--New York Pres_s. A unv vuc slll Zgvggig-1; a level teasp spoonful of sugar is f\nnn'uuIn J....-- A.-- ..-- V some Uaetul `Meant:-eI._ An experienced cook tells me that these are the T measures indicated in the books: Two cupemean one pint;" ` one cup of butter is half a pound; but- ter size or an egg is two ounces; one cup of granulated" sugar is half . 9. pound; two tablespoontuls (liquid) are equal to. one uid ounce; two wine- giussruls are one gill; one teaspoonfui of salt is teaspoonful; one tea-' nnnnnfnl hf m........ 1...- ._-_-r- - - 7. --._ --`av\aI:\v\Jo AWuho? said. a voice Inside, answer- ing his knock. I-Paul! And the door `slowly opened.-Ch1cago News. > -V wnbuib but Co H seemed ages to Paul before the boy returned ith an answer. He` opened it slow y, yetwith quick n- gers. Memory has been whispering eight long years, Paul. `Can I then tor- get? Ah, tis you who forgot; all my foolish little letters unanswered. You were cruel, Paul. Didn't you hear me tell you my heartache in that last song? I was singing to you-.not my erce Italian lover. I'm alone` after the opera in my dressing room. . Like ` a ash he saw all; heard the profess- or s `voice saying, You can't love, child; art has no room for love." And the seven long years of silence grew shorter. Paul knocked at the door the stage,` hand pointed out to him. He had evi- dently been expected. I`7Hn97I .....I.: _ . At the _end_of the third set. an act of 1 triumph for the little unknown country girl, a note was handedher. She tore it nervouslyopen. "You looked long at me more than once tonight. I knew then memory was whispering to you. Was it faithful, I Wonder? Did it tell you all? Did it tell you where and when we lastmet? Did it repeat the words that were spoken then?" There was no signature. _ T` 11550-4 A J ` *` ` Z _ ` ..--.., ,... wv wUI&I>~llJ__ yum ul.lKu0Wll B1115` -' er; whose `fame, rumor had. whispered, would `become worldwide. Then `into the living silence came a voice so i daintily. sweet and soft it seemed born , of the air. Slowly it rose higher and stronger. like a bird that gathers _strength inits upwardiiight. till, when it seemed almost too heavenly sweet for- an earthly voice, intothe sight of the breathless audience -_ came the singer. A moment of absolute, dumb silence, then the very. roof sent back itsecho to swell the triumphant. ovation. But. as the singer bowed right and left her eyes felland lingered on the tear stain- _ed, happy face of the woman in the front seat. ` Only a man in the proscenium box sat motionless in all the excitement. So this wa Bertha, this beautiful wo- man who moved these thousands _at her pleasure. This was the Bertha who had stood in the old church, the sunlight powdering the dusky hair - with gold as it streamed in the chan- cel window. while she sang Come Unto Me. Her voice was glorious now. But coming down through the silence of eight years the voice of his` memory sounded innitely sweeter. With the dream of a sunlight shining like opals through the trees, sparkling like jewels in the dusky hair, with the pure scent ,of.God s own air and the unutterable peacegof nature, the glare of light, the glimmer of real opals and jewels. the hot perfumed air, the cease- less rustle otsilks. seemed a sickening substitute. ' ` They were all here to see her. All had` an equal right to look at and listen to her--her who by rights should be his alone. Well, she had learned her lesson well. Rising like a. mocking whisper above the din of sound he could hear the voice. "I shall never for- get, Paul." L11! - -7- .. v--_u-vs vv uunw JUU Glen '> 5 '-In breathless zdarkened {silence -the vast audience `waited for the opening aria, to be sung by this unknown sing- er;-whom: fnmn Flirhnn haul ...|.n_;_-_-.'I e sue .;1aughedE-l s-etondil A` .one-the night you told me not "to for-` yours, after all, Paul. Foolish, un- worthy of anweringthough they may have been, those letters came right from myheart. Pshaw! '1`hat.laugh- ter made my eyes` dim for a moment. But you tired. of them after .a year. I'm afraid the professor was disap- pointed in metor awhile. But I had my art, and` art leave no room for love. _That s the lesson you told me 3 not to learn.` Yet for seven long years, T And then I ivent_`to;_the old orchard, , ,I`a`ul. It we justjsuch a night` as that` get. I'm afraid the forgetfulnees is" day after day, it has been a part of my daily food. Yet 18 years `is almost thrice seven, Paul, and habit is strong. I wonder where you are._" ` `Tn I'\nnnbI`u`In-... J- -_I_ - , -- THE spNNe'r's V VOICE. Scurvy. A--... _ 1. - uuuuuuul _-__.__' v-uv swan a ' rounded; ~ tea- vulcn`-. III..-_.l.1| _, V u-u ulna V1 C1`; First rate, Joe." L V Tha.t s_ nice," little Joe would say. And they would lie quiet and look out ,0! the; window utothVe river and beyond -.._--.. ......n' nuuo sucu` curs, terrined, and the matron would threaten to inove him to a room by. himself, and that frightened him to silence, for ever since the accident he had a great love _or.the child. The child wouldlook at his huge friend in surprise when he. tell into one of -his rage: and say: Oh, John, that's not nice!" _`And John would bite hirlips at once andhe patient. Then the child would say: . A _ "How do you feel, John?" . j_ ' the `I:I8;i.io1- would `answer; L` ,`T....9j,g! . . ;' 'uang.;1.;-- . .- whipered to her to look at the boy. Pretty boy! He thought I was his dad," he said and wouldhave laughed only his pain made him groan instead. Again he caught the nurse's hand. Said it was nice, he did. Cute, ain't he? And then his face twisted in b pain." . But neither could the sailor rise ` from his back, and neither could the sailor hope to sail the sea` again, torhe was in_ the same case with the child, and both were slowly` dying. At first sometimes the big brown man would forget _himselr in his pain, and the nurses would shut their ears, terr-meld, and thn mn+wm mania-. `n. ----- ~ -.._. V u u V vuuuysvu aszuu. The sailor did not abuse anything any more just then, but lay groaning, and every now and again when the lit- tle nurse slipped by in the shadows he called to her softly, and the rst time he said: " V ' Pretty little .chap."v , The.` nurse nodded and smiled, and y the sailor smiled back, and until morn- . ihing came at last he only! groaned and watched the child and did not curseat | all. but mrm-v Hm.` 4-1.... ..;.....- ---~ r - can 95:: ausuh That's nice, said the boy and be- came unconscious again. V Tho 41311 ---1- -'-- _v uunu VULJ yscobuy 3 Good morning, dad. . How are you i this morning?. The sailor, looking into the little fel- % low s eyes, was abashed and` stopped his swearing and was silent foria mo- ment and then muttered clumsily: I'm all right." ` HfI'\I....L9.. _1_- ,n. .. '- . A turned to the sailor's face, and his eyes 1 fell upon the sailor's eyes. He was not quite sensible yet, for it seemed he mis- took the sailor for his dead papa, and he said very prettily: flnn -:`n......!..... _1-.u un- .,........ .....,,.u.\.ucu ul. LIJU muu. 18 W8 in pain, and great allowance must be made for that, but never in all her life had the _little nurse to listen to `such _words has came from the big brown bearded man's lips. He wanted to get up and go right away. but he found he ` could not move his great `massive .egs. So he began to abusehis fate and the railway and the hospital and the nurse and mankind in general.- He was a very bitter mouthed man indeed. The "little nurse by the light of the night lamp did her best to oothe him be- cause he roused other patients, and there was -a terrible groaning and wail- ing in -the small ward. And all at once `In?! tlrunn J-A- `-1- --A-- ..-..a... ovvnaub n.uuu nuucclg. The man came to his senses first, and it was night. The nurse on `watch was quite frightened at the man. He was In no!n nu-ul .........J. .n_;_.__ nu-nun, vula 1.116 WUIJJUIIU \V il1`u VVZIS -So theboy, quite insensible. was laid on a cot in the men s ward. and next to him waslaid 9. big brownbearded man. * also lnsensible, from -whose clothes had been gathered quite a sum of mon- ey and whose few papers went to show he had been a sailor. He was 9, very rough looking man indeed. Tho rnnn (Allin-\:\ J-A L1- _...._..,.-. l!~- I ` .._-a-v vi vw II-AIIJ DI-[C11 RILIU VOICES. `Now, one beautiful bright spring art- ernoon at the railroad junction in the * town two `trains lled with pleasure seekers smashed together, and the doc- tors and the matron and the nurses "were plunged into a world of work, for ambulance after ambulance came driv- ing up from the scene of the accident and `left to the care of the girls many people sorely hurt. And among them was a very little boy about 6 years old whom nobody knew anything about be- cause his tather and mother were both killed in the collision, and there was nothing on them to show who or what they were except that they were very poor. It is comprehensible that a very great `deal of attention wasvpaid to this e little fellow, and he would have been placed_ in the women's ward, as the hospital was too small for a children s ward, but the women s ward was full. ,Hn 4-`ha `line: .-...:a... a......-..-n-I, In the little country hospital the` young nurses were very good and at- tentiveito everybody, not having been in the business -long enough to have grown callous. They were nice girls, -mostly in their rst year's course, and their lips 'would.twitch and theirfaces whiten ` very often in .t-he operating room or when they held a patient s hand while he died in the night. But. they were brave and went about the pretty hospigal singing softly in the cool corridors, carrying little white clothed trays to the sickrooms. and be- ing the best of medicines themselves by reason or their neatness, their bright eyes and their kind voices. Nnnr Ann I-uu...4:a--I `11,4-, - ve-- so an alunlho -.- 4- -`I -o-:-o-x-o~:-;>+o-:~o-z-x-o~:-o-2-o+o-xeo-2-o-`:3 .O+o+o+O+o+-Id-o+o+o+oo:.o+og i ;?l`is n__a`ture s` m1racl`eAto me. b Her fairest worke-a noble tree. -. --Ninette M. Lowater in New York Sun. its g1.-eat roofs . But heaven : own blue aurrouhds its head. It holds the joy of summer morn, ` The strength of winter : wdest born. God : bifda hd aheltet in its Secure from-everything that harms. It how: when south winds wander past, But breasts unharmed the eroest blast. \Vi1o_logs" hdt 1 noble tree No fellowship may claim tromme. NATURE'S MIRACLE; ADVANCE. 30,3 Fife .'.l aysm_!th is a sharp man,"' said`; Bloobumper. "I should usethe comparative degreb Instead of the poa1ti ve,"_saidfSpatts. . - ta-Hqw*n:tnau". : ~ j "I L!1.10i1`l`1 % ..-v- anew: use `ICCIII Bra in ; I Well, Colonel Hay," one said, ad- vancing with Voutstretched hand and her sweetest smile, I.sup'pose we shall soon have the pleasure of seeing the` ` great re embahhed in your ` liquid verse; shall we not?" _, -.. -u visa uuuucu s-I-1-all not?" _ e soon after the great Appropute. . 5 ~ People who have the mistaken idea ` that poets prefer to be addressed in what lscommonly called high own language sometimes say strange things. ' One such misguided individual spoke to Colonel John `Hay in a hotel parlor re in Chicago. ; Well. Colonel Frau ..... ..-u - - _. ...... ......c uvcl: uu.si1lpDOl1`(l a but- ton was lost, and an exceedingly clum- sy and ugly one replaced the lost one, 1 which was of pearl. On `reaching * Shanghai she desired a tailor to copy from this .garment, which was placed in his hands as a model. , He brought `back the garments, exquisite creations `in lace and tucked muslin and each of the dozen adorned with a button ex- actly like the one on the sample gar- ment. , . ` ' Upon having his attention called to the ugly button his reply was, Likee missy," and he wasgreatly disappoint- ed that his `efforts to please were not appreciated. He had spent many hours i in search for likee" buttons and no doubt was greatly disgusted witbthe unreasonableness or the foreign lady.-v Alice `Hamilton Rich in Woman : _ Home Companion. l ` Chinese D;-enmnkeru. ' The sewing. as well as dressmaking is all done by men tailors in China. There are many `amusing stories told of them as copyists or the Amer1can s way of making up `garments. A friend had need of a dozen nndergarments. As she came over on. shipboarda but- ton was loaf, and on M.----- ~-~ {- How--do--you-feel tonight, dear : John? said little J oe s voice very soft- % ly_ and tenderly. There was a moment s pause. The sailor s voice rang out with a glad cry: First rate, Joe. That s nice," said the child. And the little nurses; running in, round the friends had gone together.-- Los Angeles Times. A __-v-.. -u uuuuo 1|. Salli 5UUUUy.' " The sailor tried to rise in bed, but ` was unable `even to call out. He saw the river, but he could not see the oth- er side. It was dark. He was afraid. \ His ngers closed round the child's fee- blv_ A `K11 V` `nu .. ..... um: nu.u u uuuuge ugnt. It didn't say `good night, John, % whispered and tried to squeeze 1 tr1end .s hand. It said `goodby. " Th +l\ ulna 1- `-A3 ' v.....- --... -.euo uyuu LDC IILLIU uUplwlo Good night. said` the sailor in very low, husky whisper, while Joe's little hand rested on his. But the boy : eyes were wide with a strange light. It didq now `onna-1 n8..l..J.! 1-|._ n u I _..__., av vv wlvlayc And so one night thesteamboat came ' up the river and turned the point and cast its light upon the little hospital. Gnn nlcrl-if- ad{r1' Lu- .._n-- --- .- V- "awn IA DLIJULIJULCLI l'Uu.l.|. "_~That's nice. . And they would lie very still or grad- ually go to sleep. Aunt` tun; A-.. _)._L; .1 _..._ .....--v yuan uvvv escala UIIJCB Ul-I uJe`1'1V' er. When the steamer turned a point, its light ashed for an instant full on the front of the little hospital. Joe and John, hand in hand, very, very weak now, would lie and watch for it. Joe t hadpmade a story that It knew they were there andsmiled in on purpose to say Good night. Always he piped good night" in return and John also. Then Joe, squeezing the once powerful hairy hand, would feebly ask: How do you feel. John, tonight? First rate,` Joe. poor John would answer, with a smothered groan. 'l`hnf - rno M `vv-v Pray hard, Joe. gt Pray hard for me to conie along. Pray for two, Joe." And little Joe prayed for two. The two used to watch for the searchllght of the big night boat which run between two great cities on the_rlv- an `I71-ukn 4-1.. ...L.......... :.__4.4-- 1 V... ---p guns Jvu LU LIJJ uuly, L W UIun" Good old Joe," said the sailotxt, and said nothing more until prayer time, when he squeezed Joe's hand and whis- pered: ..-- ._... uvI.nn.l|uIa\J [av yncuca uu Luv KUCISB I John," said the child, I would jump out and pull you to my ship, I wpuld." Joe." the sailor. and Would you feel sorry, Joe, to_ sail away and leave me on the wharf, or- or' if you was safe in a. line big ship, see` me busted to pieces on the rocks? '7.-.1... H ......:.a .|_|__ -1, 911 It-v _--we -..-no at U 1310, John, 3:1-(1m;l.Je child very ear- nestly; I would want you to come I-nn _-'w-- \v\'.nn`lIQAQlVAJ I `:Joe, say you was rich as Vanderlillt and he was going a long sail, would you leave me behind? ll`? _ `D uuv-vy-- -1.-v Jvuo For hays the poor Sailor was In much trouble, and one night he whispered to his little companion: ` `OT-.. ......_ _-_- __ ,. _,n_u, , ,, C. - c at: ---vow u-vv-o It you an avnauwn At last they told the sailor that there was no hope at all for him. A clergy- man came to prepare him. He took the ` news very calmly, but instantly whis- pered: _ e And the little fellow, Joe? Don't tell him. said the minister. He is so innocent heneeds no prepa- ration. But you?~ i '11.... .'I-_.. LL- __ - _ as . 4 ` --uvvg -vvu So the summer went on,` a d -very few patientsdcame to the hospl 1, and John and Joe were all alone, save for the nurses who grew to dread the time that was seen to part the friends. AL I-..` .A.1:-_ .L_IJ LL- ._-n-... LLAA. 41_,_- Iv vs--, `among... J van Qnavna It I up; now would say with real pleasure, '.l`ha; nice. Joe.". ` V And when they -asked him, how It went withhim he always said, though" sometimes with an effort, I m_ pretty well, thank you." Then everybody ........`l.: ...... _.n.1. ._..,1 _u......_.. urn1.-4.o.. -emeu` aways nddeclreudr to have his hands fand by the nurse. He. co_u1d`not* about to see the other patients,` but he learned all their names, `and as soon as he heard them moving he always asked verypolitely: _ . s And how do you feel, Mr. Smith? % And Mr.` Smith would always" an- swer because it pleased the child: First rate, Joe. That's nice, said Joe. And" so he would ask each in turn, and to each an- swer, always the same, he would reply cheerfully, "That s nice. ` `cg. jI__- LL -: -__I_-3 Ll__. I_____ ll. Annropriate. an Inn... 41.-