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A ductiol 1 Blake Street 14,15, 16, With excellent solid 17, Collingwood Sn, brick Residence, 11 7 and 8. Adjoining rooms, furnace and Collegiate Institute other modern con- g-ounds. . ' vemences. Blake Street: N S-Lots 48 and 49. Blake Street, -8 8 -Lots 37 and 38. Codringcon Street, 8 S-Lots 23, 27, 28 and p2. %. ~ ' Amelia Street, IV and 8 S--Lots 5, 6, 7. ' Eugenia Street, S S-Lot 6. Theresa" Street, N S--Lots4. 5. 6. 7. . Bradford St , 8 S--L`ot 11 and pt. Lot 12, with comfortable frame dwelling. ` `Cumberland St., N 5-Pt. of Lot 26. - Jacobs Terrace, 8 8-Lots 7 and 10. nraamra aI'.reeI:," W 5--Bslrt Lot 34. L. Butbereld . Foumhy property. Bradford Street, E S--Lots 3 23, 31 and 32. Bradford Street, E S-('1'hempson's Block) Lot 8. ' _ Charles Street, W S--Pt Lot 49. Ehzabeth Street, (Boys Block) S S--Lot 25. Sanford Street, E S--Par`ts Lots 21 and 22. . Hay Shore-S of John and E of Ellen streets, 2 blocks of land, about 7 ac. s E g of 24 andsmwi;-Q1 of 25 in em. Con. INNIBFIL `Pt Lot 11 in 14th Con. This property in- cludes Miner Point, and has on it a number of beautiful building sites. Pt E 5 12 in 16eh, W s E, about 35 acres. ' y ' ' `VKSPRA. . Pt W i 25 in '6th Con., about 90 acres. v W 1} 5 in 6th Con. Pzu-k Lots 3. 4, 5 and 6 on E 22 in 6th Con., 21 acres. Park Lot 6 on 25 in 7th Con.. 5 acres. . STRATHY dz. ESTEN, E V "unnn--om;-ran w.u~.m4. `Dunlap sweet, 3 8-La1-ge Brick Building, `known gas The Moore Block. ` [ Collier Street, 8 S-Lots 40 and 41. } ' John Street. S-Part; Lots 5' and 6. mm. um um omen unusm _mn%su BREAKFAST TV TUV- *G RA_TEF'UL COM FORTING ..v-u..n-- \- n vvnau Lot 12, S. s 7m Street. Lots 41 and 42 in 6th Con... Nottawastga. emical";~. 4.4` ..II vi Part 37 in 2nd 'Con., 85 acres. SUNNIDALE. Atlvety Low and on may Terms. 3Ann`m-wnsxf w.A.r.n. Bradford Street,` W S-Pa.tt Lot 34. H T. `Rubi-unnhl 3 `lE'....-._l-._._ -._. ._, 14-ly , _ _ _ .7 `--- - - &` There is time yet to show wisdom in. the mat- ter of using coal. Several necks of cold weath~ er, and \ ou wi=l be able to learn what entire satis- faction there is in our Coal. Costs .1 little more than ordinary kands, but it's'a lot cheaper to buv -it's so much cl:-aner and gives so much more heat- to-tf _ v-v_-.-1 Distinguished everywhere for Delicacy of Flavour Super-1or Quality. and high] Nutritive Properties. Specie. ly 2`ra.tefu1 and comforting to the nervous and dyspeptic. Sold only in 14-lb. tine.. labelled J AMES EPPS & 00., Ltd.. Homoeo- f>at(111ic Chemists, London. Eng- an .. - - ii Oice. 97' (lluulop-st`.. Barrio. `Near Market Square. M c La rty, .1-I endaohgli; 5. co. Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers. TANKs. and Repairs. go 10% w. HJBUNTKEH, 28-1 ): asnspnmcs, HQ ATXIIIAQI 'BABB!I- SIXTH WA RD. nAxm1:-nAsr wuu>.; at 16, excu ingwood Re: fl ze m vemences ._-_A_, `Tn `I . nn u BRADFORD STREET. COLLIRGVWOOD. faeoun 'in'A`I"ii7e's'Es, pumps, `B'I\-I`-=I-i?I'E; ' Solicitors, 8;c.', Barrie. 'A7N'E;'i'fs'z'>. o. 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Fted rites Fry aC(X)Il' ~` of farII- 2' I0 han t , SI ' ~" legal iask roHE$ : 0BE um un U Ll `_` re about . As .~`llddPDl'y as the vlsion came it was blotted out; but lt returned again. This `time the captain was mounted and it was night. It was the same horse. and he wanted to speed too fast and was pulled in. I could not make out how I followed on. but follow I did. and we bad Just descended a hill and Were` crossing a creek by a plank bridge when there came a -`red ash. followed by the report of a rearm. and the cap- tain threw up his arms and lurched to the right and'fe|i out of `the'sadd'le. `The horse sprang to the left on` that bridge. which had no railing. landed in` the creek and wentot! among thefun-._4 derhrmxh. lsaw that oice,,r was i being dragged along with Vhls'~",foot lt_i_; the et`irrup.l I also '_a|_:w; the-m_an_ :Wh0_`::' had _ii red _ the shot. 39, `was; _tall;jg1ga;pt,; "far-e_d,; mm: ; long f black ` ;ha}iri itI`t1d.jg"]lHt-ji;; oriin'%g:.~7niliaFer h ~ l r ._-- J`.-.- vs ;. As the oleer descended from the -saddleand hitched his horse to the i fenee I` sawvawotnan's face at the wln-_ { now for a moment. Thesame face was seen again -for a moment as she opened the door for the captain. She was 9. tall. dark haired woman. and the face bore a smile. It seemed to me that I -stood and watohed the horse for th_e_ next quarter of an hour. The animal -chewed at the fence rail. broke down i A small bush with big hind feet and 3 pa wed -a deep -hole in the earth in his ` lmpa-tienee. ` ' ' A- ,-_.I_I,__| _ -u - e_n- __ ,4 n`? -- `-3, ... .,.-~ _- ...- On the night that the order was is- sued to double the men on the posts"! was ill in my tent with a sore throat and fever. My tent mates were one guardor detail. and I realized that I -was light headed. I could not fall. Into a sound sleep. but I dozed at `Intervals. and the noises of the camp were con- fused with queer dreams. Ofa sud- den this confusion cleared away. and I had what you call either a dream or a vision. I saw a man in the -uniform of .3 federal captain. mounted on adark bay horse. ride up to a farmhouse.` The face and form of rider and horse were as-plain to me as it`-I had seen them in my normal state of health at -noonday. The captain was a man of -about 30..blue eyed. with brown hair. `brown.-mustache and a front tooth lled with gold. At the corner of the 1 -left eyeiwas a small scar from a wound ; Indicted -years before. 1 A- AL- -m__-__ .:---__.1__: 4..-..- 4-,; -- -u-v-.---v .. `up v- "That all these murders had been `committed by one single hand no one douhted._ A knife had been used in -every Instance. The murderer had crept up in the darkness. leaving a trail be- hind `him in some cases. In no `case had he struck over two blows. and the surgeons --said that he had always used the same knife. Sometimes his victim had made a brief struggle or cried out A or red his musket and sometimes had lived a few hours after the attack. If you wonder that a soldier onipicket -could thus be craftiiy approached and i done to death. let me tell you that in . only a few cases were the posts in the `open. `They were under the trees. in the midst of a wood. on the edge of old -elds grown` up to briers and weeds. alongside of a creek . the babbling of which wou_ld`drown all other noises. `A man was posted there to stand still. not to walk to and fro. He might have participated in half a dozen battles and made a record for bravery. but within half an hour after being left alone on the post his nerves were more or less unstrung. The very darkness and lone- liness would do that. He might nally . lean his back against a- tree or sit down. and he might keep eyes and ears on the strain. and yet he could be `approached. - r\._ ..|... ..:__|_.. 4:... LL- -_..1___ __, . For a period or three weeks along the front or our brigade a pickethad been murdered on his post every night. The front was a mile long. with the posts within ten rods of each. other. and a bushwhacker had crept up on the lone picket with `all the `craft of an Apache and stabbed him to death. The one assassin had killed 22 men before any great stir was -made about it. The brigade was being equipped for the spring campaign. many changes were taking place among the oicers. and the murder of a few pickets did` not count for_ much in the general confu- i sion. All that was done when the mat- ter was `nally taken hold of was to put two. three and four men on a post in place of one and to send out small scouting parties to look for a needle in l haystack. as it were. ` "nu.-. .1: AL... __-____1-.... u__,u Bay. m ybu tell me the way t; Eon. !'here when Apollo`: god melody tang Into the sky from his harp at he sang? _.nnlfI-It nninnrnat I Innul {us (`an ` do! u; down to diam as ions. _ canted at night by tho longing I boot. Qhsen. far away in this sacred Eolo, ,-`Where his great` Iecret of` heavenly sound `Woven at music and thought can be load. 5 '0nce on tho undulito breast of Bola. While he was playing at tending hlc sheep. _l'ha>buo Apollo gunk into n sleep, v 4,` though aleevins. I mm to ho then- oh. could. I and it. um mg .5: E011. _ l`ouch_iu mugs lipa. that they quiver and yield Puuions 01 harmony can have sealed! ' 7 I IANAGK. And on 4 rock. to this day In Eola. Rated Apollo his -pulsating lyre. `Filled as it fell hil hand: with NI mun as he lay on the lareuit of Eoln - Into this stone from his harpstrings than crept. Some of his melody. while yet he slept. w: my Hill` In: 5 Iuurcu wr Hwy , ' E;-"I1 on `the mount: n.A dcp in the` dale. Until the dhylight in heaven grow; polo. -to7l:`JoIn. T Flore` when Apollo : cod melody nag law the Ikyilom his tarp II he lung! Llltbddaylongdblaurchtornoln. Oh an "flnn Innnnnxln Adan In I-|u'Anh B an Ilvul lull uni : CU BU BIB`! ' --Beatrix Demnrest Lloyd in Century; ; `".". u""u -` -- -' i You don't?" retorted the gentleman ~; oi` similar characteristics. "W y, Idol: T here. I raised so` many dierent kinda of new wt-eds from the "last batch of. ' governm__*_I_It aeedajhat enough college profesnora come to._ the `_placemto.v. study. it ` `em. Llast uugnfggri yo pgy (er __`;LA._new.H' GIST, . EARRII. V I y , A Blessing. _ . "I don't think these here free g overn- % -ment seeds is mom, said the g=ntle- % man` with the horny hands and__strag- ; gling beard. - " 1 . V4111--- _I_.;n.nu _.,. ,,. n .. ' .' .- ' 1 Enouglri- lnterrunted Mrs. Parvenn hanghtlly. Evidently you cannot rise above the common level. My daughter will move in the highest. circles of so- 1 clety and will be rich enough to have 5 aprlvate secretary to write anything that shednes not wish tohave printed. I do not wish to have her time wast- ed.-London Answers. .v.--u ..w\.uJu-aw`; Is! no nu opt In "But- your daughter will` need , the. knowledge." protested the teacher. She'll need It for her correspondence. nu\1'.' . Drop spelling! exclaimed the teach- er. "Why ?" ` v "`!t I; -s-(gait.-ommo1`1." 1`-eplled Mrs. Par- venu. Everybody learns to spell." Ml); _...... .a.......|.._.. ._.n| _._,.n ..n_. _ Too Rich to s.`..u. _ "I wish. said Mrs. Parvenn toher daughter's teacher. "that you would drop spelling from the list of Janet's. studies." - - ' The popular pen was the good gray goose quill. It was not until 1819 that we got our rst steel pens from "Eng- land. where Perry had Just begun their manufacture. Henry Clay learned to write by tracing letters on sand with a sharpstlck. and Daniel Webster's rst pen was surreptitiously plucked from his mother's pet goose, his ink being- soot mixed with water. A few lndivid-_ 3 uals were the envied possessors of gold 1 pens. which were made in Europe. but 1 the majority used Dutch quills." . our Grandfather : Letterl. George Washington never saw a post- age stamp" or an envelope. says Sue-:. cess. They were unknown here until` 1837. after Rowland Hill had introduc- ed them in England. Letters were written. folded and addressed all on the same sheet and stuck with -a wafer or with sealing wax. Our early states- men could hardly have dreamed of the millions upon Amillionsof portraits of- themselves that would some day be dis- tributed broadcast by. agreat postal ; system. In 1808 the mall routes in-" cluded a tewcitie in Malne,_Georgia. New Hampshire. New York. Pennsyl-' 'vania. Maryland. Kentucky and Vir- ginia. making atrlweekly deliveries in `summer and biweekly in winter. There was no postmaster general in the cabl- net until 1829. -"Letters were charged 25 cents postage for anything over 450 miles long. Half a century later 10 cents prepaid carried a letter 3.000 miles and under -that distance 5 cents and 3cents. . _ 0 -v `anon: u-`pvt! . '1-`be captain had been shot through the body. `He had been dragged by the stirrup until his body had become `en-` tangiedvamong the underbrush. The horse badeaten every bush and limb within reach. but hadl:'een without water and was just able to stand. His rider was _ probably dead within ve minutes after being shot`. You may. have made `up your mind to hear that the assassin was also discovered ` through my dream. but he was not. IV have always believed that it was his hand` which knifed the -pickets. butt` lit is only my belief. No one charged .wi-th any of the crimeswas ever brought to book so far as i know. I could have identied the bushwhacker among a thousand men. but I never had the opportunity. A week after the ' nding oi the captain's body our bri- gade was marchi-ng and ghting 40 miles away. and if the assassin was a farmer living. in the neighborhood of his crimes he was safe from discovery. A. week If_Ir. a's'.-ail ;_ - zrisht w.h1enjI `in;,Washies+ ~~ ` ton` vim: of..th, ; Ian_e of _a captainin our brlgade.`*I"read_ this in print instead of; hearing, the t news. While regiments fm ay_-`be hri_- W gaded toge_ther.? the men `are,..s_tra_ng's`5to ` each other. ;;Asijde .!to_m themoyements of .reg_imental -one seldom hears` anythingin areglment outside" of the ' nairsof his own company. This officer. so it was stated. had left camp on a. certain afternoon on his horse and had not been heard of since. My vision. came back to meso clearly, and I was so sure that it furnished a clew that I reported to my captain. He ridiculed. the `idea. but sent nieto the colonel. My statements were received .~ with a smile. but I was given a pass and a note to the brigadier general. He was a gru old dog. and he called me a tool before I had spoken ten word. When I had given a close description of the missing olcer. however . he began to 'listen, and the result was that I went out with a squad sent to search. We. passed for-two miles over a road I had never set foot on before. We came to a farmhouse I`had never seen in my waking moments. We found the black haired woman. and she corroborated. my story of the.captain' arrival. She was a widow. living with her mother. and the captain had been calling for ` many weeks. and it was a case or love ; A horse had gnawed a fence rail: :1 horse had pa_wed up the earth: the cap- tain s horse was a bay. When we re- turned to the bridge we found _the marks where the bushwhacker had Jumped. W7. eund where the iron shoes` of the horse had scraped the stones. and where "he had clambered out. In the woods. a mile away. we found horse and rider. c rm we `I,'B- ' 1c of tlfs ' up-to-d_ab- in him; when:h5 ite.V*of_ ` 5iny`jtent'iihiIteiI`*iiiii`e`5`ii:'hnd`ir6iiid}tne -from my troubled Sleep. Heisnfid, I was Inutterinzgand throwing my arms about %._u_s be mine in. I_ at once related the "dream or vision to him. but neither of ` an attached any importance to it: one with n` tever always has queer dreams 1 and fancies.` . ` T j A _--..--_- .. -.. .. .. ..........,. Am-r he was out or shzln I sat down on a log to watt-h a whim hoppmgv about. I may have up.-m u mm- ["98 watvhlng the annual when 9. slight noise at my right iatm'tle`I nu-. and I look:-d around to nd old John Parker smlug within to-n film 9! me. He had been` an-s:-mu-a so om-n. that lb`:-re conl_d h1."ll0~lll|iilIlk(-9." Itwas the . llttleoldj man '_wlth the" sump ,_sh`om. :d e'~:'-fq.h_ `-`th`,"`.o`n'-"?: h!l_lr,~ tilt-" may gar-, fumes ::th' Pl'**'97`!`P "9 Em!` :`.u ;_ m.,_. V. .. . v `sous -vs. uuuur `II! Illlll lllf` l`lll.'|lC_- "55 the {Inn day of march. with six `Inches of snow; still on the ground. `I went with my` fltlwr mm the woods after a load of wood W9 [and a yoke . of axon and a salad. and wlwn` the u-st load was he-ape-cf up my (mm-r drove 611 with It and left me `be-mud" to out down a. dead ash and olvar. a road around -a but of a swamp. Aflniu ha unnn no-A A0 .11.-ho I Q`; .I-A...._ A Whileowning live or six comforta- ble houses. which were empty. old - Parker llvedaione in a miserable shan- ty and cooked and washed and mend- ed for himself. No one wasever per- mitted to enter his house. and he never entered the home of any one else. There were a few men with whom he would converse. but,he did not give them -his condence. There was no mourning in Red Oak when it became known -one morning that old Parker had been found dead in his shanty. The feeling was rather one of relief and congratulation. It was soon ascer- talnedthat his affairs were Ina mud- dle. Hexhad left no will. and the pa- * per: in the hands of his lawyers did not represent the `half of his passes- sions. It was hardly a fortnight be- fore at brother and `sister turned up. each claiming the estate. and through ` them it was leayrnedthat the old man V , must have -been possessed of at least 1 ss5.ooo in gold when he died. or this a sum only about $`..'.ll0 could hefound. The town was turned upside down overthe ai'!air. and It had got into coun when we moved into the village. That was in ,~mid,winter. As a boy. i. could not understand or interest my- Iselfln the legal complications of the `case. but the tat-.t that old l'arlter;had hidden a big lot -of gold somewhere appealed to me `tters strongly i`he_ sawmill and all -hls:house's were search- ' ed. ' but no trace could he found. It was generally believed that he had Vburied it. but until -theisnow melted no effort could, he made rtellnd the cache. I\-'sI._ CAAL .l___ -1 an .' i I 11' was THE LI'l"l'LE OLD MAN. mill. and `the first lumber `turned out was wanted for the erection of a. church. Because the old man was ask- . ed to makes discount in price in favor of the Lord. as it were. be shut down the mill. boarded up doors and win- dows. and the saws never turned again. He bought two stores and ve or six houses and shut them `up. and he bought every Improvement-for the hen- et of -the town. On the other hand. he -lent men money at a tow rate of in- terest to make Improvements. eneour-- aged people to settle there and built: the rst schoolhouse entirely at his own expense. I'I?Ll.I-- -:_`.l_... Q__ __ -.I_. --__.A___4_' l' was a boy or 11 when the family emigrated from Ohio to -Michigan and settled in a town of 1.500 people. 'I`he`re `had justpdied a citizen named John Parker. who was always referredto as old Parker. He was one of the pio- neers oi` the town. and his eccentrici- ties had greatly retarded its growth. No one ever learned where he came from for anything about his private -life. He came alone. lived alone and -died alone. He was a queer looking little old man. stoop shouldered, of rshambling gait. and there were days when he refused to speak to any one. % He bought 200 town lots and then re- tused to sell or lease. He built a saw- That I really and traiy saw a ghost on a certain occasion is a matter of le- gal record. and I believe It is the only ghost ever legallyiknown to a. commu- nity. ` ' Till .ita__eu'y` to believe thnt it : kingdom come.` And all at o..nIdden.there's me_rcy.in her eye, Lndnhn lnmrhn and dimvnlnt ud u -om-mt. ..... uuu nu In O.IIlU|l|I-I-IIVIUI ulcycy 111 Incl` eye Andahe laughnuld _dimpleI.IIIid the Itorm n gone -Ripley D. Baunden in St. Louis Republic. |uc:o. of. f anghty, " I-Ike vhs!tti<.!.t=.taI=.4!oa!`,ina; 0o.meIo-of 8,-;I`uddui.;t`and. yon,?d6u.'t know: why: Ian start -11-` rueluinr. and: i.t'nll tone by: ind Iwecp.j . ju,:d it`: -1Ii.!ull mm; Ybii ,ca'tch;;your and! it"a`iown'cIear put; ' analiur in the air. -theovary neat .uliiItO the ahinea (air! And if'a this `tha`t the`tXruth iavahowa Why sweat Damp Nature la a woman known: She can nurae her wrath through a mighty long truce. - But it breaka for keepa when it does break loose! And aheatorma like a tyrant and makes things hum mm in `in : su'MM gi_t. Too llgtlnell. E V -No. said lfarnu-r Maddertrfls ? `.`t|mt Boston teller that comes here to run the paper doesn't seem to get along very.,we-ll. our folks ain't much for style. an when he referred to a skin % game as `an epidermal pastime -thP&' `/tbh_0l"l'If';h9.v Ifvna- bev.-guiln _a` ".t._~ j - - - -.s .1` ---yuan. I 'I`lie-so areisome of the reasons whyi the Ainorlg-an colony in the British me tropdlls grows every year. But there is a more siihtlejreason. Anwrioans love to c"-ouw here. The writer "has talked to very many Ann-ric-ans. and almost all of tluam admit that in com- ing to Ellliilld, they are coming to a plm-`e for which they have a great re- am-ct and iove. Awbvretht-y expect to nd vvegrytuing nished; and orderly and quiet.-London Telegraph. ' ` much engrosses him. Nature is Kind In California. The New Englandfarmer must forti- fy himself in his stronghold against the seasons. He must be ready to adapt himself to a year that permits him to prosper only upon decidedly during the drought x `are leisure unless. indeed. his ambitiogs for wealth too % giis horses are plenty and cheap. His fruit crops thrive easily. H10 is able to supply his table with fewer purchases with less com- mercial independence. t r1n._ ._4_. A..'_.._ 2.. -n___--p___ u,,_ - _ , hard, terms. says The lnturzmtionial Monthly. l But the Californian izitlie country has ` When an American has made a for- ` tune. he nds it almost impossible to i live quietly in.hIs own country. There i I la something in the very atmosphere of the United States that makes people wish to burn the candle at both ends. Over here they `may subdue the incan- dest-enoe to the verlest glimmer. But chief among the. attractions that this country has for Amerlvans is that they can eseape the "newspapers. Here wealthy persons (L-an spend their-money as freely as they wish. and they still remain private persons. ' nu......- -._;. -_.___ -- -L_ ___-,-_~ _._L-- r snub} nd fee tho c a.ycn.. nes. 1: nd prizetz Americans In England. Whatever may be` the points of con? trast lu-tween us. there is no doubt that V Americans In ever Increasing numbers are settling In England. It is re"-mark able how many. have madepe-rmamant tmnu-s In London. They like to live there. dry season he" knows before- hand what engagement can be made without regard to the state of the ' weamer. mm the state of the weather } In predetermined. . I... ...-- -4-`~- Hls position is therefore less that of ; the'kni-ght in his castle and more that .1 of the free dweller in the summer cot- i E -tage, who is. indeed. not at leisure. but ` ` can easily` determine how hefshall be I busy. it is of little importance to him who his next neighbor is. _At pleasure he can ride or drive to find his friends. -can choose. like the southern planter of former days. his own range of hospital- _ lty: can devote himself. if a man of f-cultivation. to reading during a good ` many hours at his own ehoioeor. if a man of sport. can find during a great part of the year easy opportunities for Ihunting-or for camping both by `him- self and for the young people of his family . `I- 4.I._` _I_.. _ -----._ L," I," I, A ..-(')ld.liihn did `not look about. `though. to see if he had an. ax or a gun. but- gaway. It was a sunshlny day. and l 3 `he continued to rub his hands. I re-` peated. the question in a louder voice, but the result was. the same. I` looked nothing was in sight. So far as 1 could tell. he had notiyet seen me. and. feel- ` lug a bit embarrassed `over the situa-A tion. I rose up and moved over to make my presence known. I had started-to repeat my question. and my eyes were full on him. when be dissolved. He faded out of my eyes as a wet nger mark fades from a school slate. and I found myself looking at a snow cover- ed log. "I looked for his "tracks. but there `wasnone. ` I looked for the spot where he had sat. but the snow had not been disturbed in the slightest. I did" not have a t of the shivers and run} thought the glare onthe snow had -in some way played me a trick. -I "had ; the tree `down and the road cleared ; when fatherlreturned. and when ;I told mmor my strange visitor I expected to he laughed at. Indeed. I laughed as I told it, but father didn't. He began` to question the very closely, and by: the time he had loaded the sled `I could ? see `that -he `took the matter seriously. i When we were ready to go, `be asked I `me to point out the exact spot where \ *old John had sat. This was easy} `enough to know. "as my own tracks ~ were there in the snow. "The snow on the log was `piled up and frozen hard. T }-but father soon `cleared it on with the ` : ax. Then he pounded on the log, found % T `lthollow and cut into it. He had hard- ` ly struck 20 blows when there came :1 `papers with it to clear up the mystery sound -to show -that the ax had struck something besides wood. and ve min- utes laterwe bad old. Parker s missing gold out of the hollow log. It was in two tin boxes. and there were many of his life and assist the heirs in set-' tling up the estate- They were gener-. ous `to meeln settlement. and it was part of the legal records of the county that I saw a ghost at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of a bright day and recover- ed the treasure because of it. vqu `run; 1353. .IlllIL. IIC .-15'l'7aa'~ lb _trlghtened?.s1;naly I was not. '_ Perhaps this because I had never. seenthe old man when llvlng..~;He.looked so realrbefore me. that I` never thought (`of spooks or ghosts. I simply ' believed that his dying had been ll. mistake-`-that he had -gone away instead or dying. I. was no more in fear of him than of the trees about me. I` wondered a bit how he could have approached me so closely without my having heard him, for the Snow had a frosty crust to it, but there he was. and it was not long before I said to him: wuss`. vv -so-9 Dld.yoIi` come out here to ksee my father?" I\II cf. g... . Ilia rubbed nu` skinny nnnae V: `and looked at the ground at his feet. and I tool: In every detail as clearly as you see this print betoreyou. V W53 ' n$'M\`A.|A\:'a $4'..___.-I__ _.._.._I. - mvenisein nus ADVANCE"! {mgf I Are a npecnalty. and parties Intending to have sales, wiil consult their own interests by placing their Ialeqin his hands. . ' 3 0rderI left at Tan Anwmcx office will be In-If V A.\1r1n n n VALUATOR AND Al`-I;-'(Al'SER. HANDLES ALL KINDS OF AUCTION ' - SALES. r-jtum _s'r#ocK, sues I LATE or ORO. Has purchased the premnses occupied bv Chas. Mc- Guire, just east of the Vlrwrla Hotel, and has onemld up business in all kinds of Black- Imithing. orseshoein. etc. All work will be done ` promptly at the lowest sure. Remember the place. I _ 14-tf` w. lIIcLAll'l`Y. !_1he Old Reliable Auctioneer EPPs s``c@caA %J??=:t- $i1`.'.1`_ .. nu n----n _ cgAyfHouGHTs EJi _Ef3 159 3%