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:ac;)B s '1`er"ta.ce I West Baldwin Street. ..J --. "THE ADVANCE ormcn. `ANIMACsuneeRY.' T T111 TV Ask-tor thq octagon Bar Barrie. IN ONE BLOCK OF TWO ACRES EP"PS"S "'G%0'G'0 A 47'21 machine Oppusuc. But still she kept her eyes to herself. for Drusilla had a full sense of her dig- nity as a workingwoman. There were certain conventions that could not be dispensed with in her circle, and one of these wasthe formal introduction. ``He s a dear," she conded to Mazie Dunn as the two girls arranged their little trays and got out their shining in- struments and the A pink powder and creams. But I'm not going to let him think I'm easy." _ ' With which rather inelegant sum- ming up of the case Drusilla showed that she was a true conqueror or `men. so for many weeks Juliet on her * balcony remained cold. while Romeo at the typewriter sighed in vain. He threw small balls or paper in among the pansies, and Drusilla brushed them calmly into a neat little dustpan. but when the dark young, man had gone she picked them` out `carefully and read the tervid messages: .. .. ...-no I-\I naunvn " An admirable food.` with a.1l it's` natural qualities intact. tted to build up and maintain robust health and to resist winter's ex- treme cold. Sold in 1/4 lb.` tins, labelled JAMES EPPS & Co. Ld., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. England. 3 EPP8 S canon GIVING STRENGTH &. VIGOUR. VANILLA, for ice cream. for instance; Bnxma Powmm. for cakes. One is a drug. of course ; the other a. chemical s ` and there are still others-SPICES of all l.:-Aa. nag:-um l\` Oaofar nfn Drugs and Chemicals The best `lace to gt: drugs is at a DRUG wrnn 7 Th: dnmroviqt knnwn mnrn abou ` In the Kitchen. lace STOR . The druggist knows more abou -hem than other people. We keep a good `drug store Come and ask u. about Kitchen Drugs. MONKMAWS DRUG STORE on DUNLOPoST. BARRIE. THE M051` NUTRITOUS. ::g `mun nun SEWING MACHINE FOFl__ALE an. rell IJJU L!:L'V.lI.L lhliiuavwn "You are my pansy blossom." There only one girl In the world for i A Dominion Square Piano, early nw, and Ra. - mond Sewin Machine, nearly new. Apply at TH ADVANCE FFICE. 43-tf { u"'I\IE I\I ITEIII \aII ------ 9 Rooms for offices. in Ross Block. No. 97. Dunlop Street. Fire proof vault: lately occupied bv Dr.` Wells. Alnotwo rooms with vault, lately occu ' bv Hood, Jacks 8: Fraser. Bartistcts; im to possession. Applv toC. H. ROSS. Barrie. lanuarv 1. tool |-tf. 0 j--j The Best Blister known to Veterinary science. Safe, sure and reliable. Recommended highlyby Veterinarians. Medical Men and Horsemen. It has ho, superior. Every bottle guaranteed. Full directions with each one. Price 75 a bottle. For sale by all Druggists in Canada. and GEORGE MOINKMAN. Barrie; PREPARED BY Eureka Vet. Medicine 00., 35:34` ` LONDON, om`. gnunmu VETERINARY } cwsnc BALSAM CUT FLOWERS-Roses. Carnations, Violets. etc., fresh every day, Bouquets-Button- hole, Band or Corsage. Funeral Tokens in nu t`AQ:(vnn st:-.E.D"ToRE1 Ilvnvg nnuuu vn wv-----. _ _._- c an den 3. . VEG TABE%S-Cele;y, Crisp Lettuce, Cabbage. annipu, B ` VKGETABLlSS-Ucle;y, brllp Inn 16l.`l(lDI i Beets. Carton. tc. SEEeDS-Flower Seds, Vegetable seeds, Plants --4l Ilnlhn N:"r'iZf. TAYLOR] FLORIST AND snznsmm. Telephonc :5. . :55 Dunlap-St.. Barrio Uuly ULIUU. MU Ivvvvs, u-.. ...-- descend to an exchange of civilities. . , .4 3-..... _..-....lnm Clan n on-`ices TO RENT (in LEASE "I A AA-- I-'-_ -m... :.. `D... Illa;-In Nn, nn. Dunlnq . ll. nppny tun. I Barns. lanuarv x. Pu `are ETC Ill 0lCI5' kmds. cream of tartar, etc. TRADE MARK: DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS ac- Anyone sending a. sketch and descri tion may iokiy ascertain our opinion free w ether an nation in probably `patentable. Communica- tlonutri condent al. Handbookon Patent: sent tree. ldeut_ V cy for securing atents. I-on h Munn & receive Patents taken _ cpacialnatico.~without.o_ sue. inthe . n.x...'4xc:.. `nanoin-an W I"I I IV g -3-; V. -- 7----` Ahnnzlsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest ch fmlstlon of any ngientmo urnnl. Terms. 83 1 . `oar: mu months. 01. wall nowndealera. - IIIIIII . II. unan..-A...-, ul vBIJE"l.` IOWI and Bulbs; ,;.;g.z mun, without. onarse. In we Scientic Ilmcrican. I I...-`J-as-Inn`? WGQHIY. A ARE NEEDED EVERY DAY UEBUCUU LU nu C9\.I-lllnaav V- --. -__-_-.., On a certain damp morning the young man coughed. That night he coughed again. Drusilla was worried. Finally. she retired into the obscure recesses of ` her room. When she reappeared she had a bottle in her hand. She set it on the fire escape shelf. In huge letters onpthe label was the admonition: : For Coughs Take Spears Specic)? Then before the young man could nod enthusiastic response she whisked back into her room. leaving him alone with her suggested remedy. --~--L ------l-- - -In-ullnw hnffih GO TO THE NEW z-AND- T Wltn nel: uuggcauzu u:u.u:u,y. The next morning a similar bottle adorned the young man's desk.` and he took a dose conspicuously. stnifding close to the window while he measured it into _a spoon. - ,_A AL. ...._I. .AouLIncnn` na m It mu) _u Ipuuu. V But the cough continued. and the next day Drusilla wrote on a slip ot paper: Shut your window." . . The young man clicked on some- thing rapidly on his machine and plant- ed his reply carefully on the ledge: "I would rather die." "Well, he is devoted, said Maxie Dunn,_it he won't shut a window be- ` tween you. But maybe it you. talked ` `to him you might get him to be scare-. ml of himself. ' ` I guess I am not responsible if he is a tool, was Drusilla s sharp com- ment as she soaked her finger` tips in warm water preparatory to giving them a treatment. AL- ---_ -__.h --_;. 1.1.- J mun! 28, `19..0Ir'r duly once, however, did she con- '------: -I-A nun Awn`\uI\I`Itl ll. KIJCLLI 2 LL B65 I-A.l|\rI-DUO But that day the sun came out, the dry, soft` air of the spring was like, balsam, and the cough stopped. So stopped also the exchange of courtesies. and the young man sighed for illness or worse it it wouldeonly bring a look of warmth to his lady's eyes; ' ` And worse came. . It happened one day at half past 6. f pDrusilIa s shade, was down. but the dark young man knew that she was-`in. her room, for once her pink `tipped n-_ gers had adjusted the curtain and .a savory odor told oi.` her supper cook-, The garden was really only a box oxi- the are escape, but there were pausles ~ ----I-- --A Ind-an cg fin`) 1115- _ _ cllckety-click-click. went th type- writer, and then stiddenly Clause clang," deadened by its distance to the fifth oor, came the ring of the rq englnebells. V ` T ` rnI.- .1-.. -ununli I-nan innnahl nut `Fir enguu-: .ut:ua. The dark young man learned out. Far below him he saw great crowds gdther-1 mg. The smoke ' oated -up from} the 'T1.`9P;,` : , Wiuuu. - I Run down; run down," ordered -the young man. It's the only way to `save your life. Down the re escape. Go at once."_ he continu_ed"peremptorily as = ` Drusilla wavered. | So down she uttered, frying pan and all, looking like a pink blossom as she grew smaller in the distance. t Then the young man. watching her, saw her turn andcome back. As she i reached the oor where the names `were raging she swerved _ aside and 4 ran desperately up the steps. I My garden, my garden!" as she saw the terror in his face. couldn't leave itto burn. ` But the young man did not stop to hear the end._- Like a madman he ran. to the elevator. Then he sped to the street and began the climb toward. Dru-_ siila. Far above, him she was stag- gering with her heavy burden. halt blinded by the smoke. . s . A`_- A-a.-I a.|..a...1 H.-mu :1-an nfnhnnd- she gasped = "I. l ..n..;a.. masses. drltted up the are escape: i over the blooming little.`-gapden.w, e - The young man shoutedvehoarsely; - A. Yon," he began. What should he ` call her? He had never heard her . name. Young lady. little" Lglrll he shrieked. -But there was utter silence _sc1-on the way. . 4 Then he began to cough. Help! h`e gurgled. Help! This brought Dm- sllla. in a pink wrapper. with a little trying pan in her hand. She opened the door and looked out anxiously. ;1Q1Vl.-L 1- I50 -1... Anunnnnn nliivlh [J-IE UVUI uuu nvv-an-\-, no- What is it?" she `'1em'a-1:1-c"i.'comi1i to the railing. 1 Look!" shouted the young man, `- \ Already the `names were working up. Firemen were crawling up "ladder like lies. and shrieks came from the people 3 within. A1v\-_._ _`l-':_- _.q.. `-101 ,9 Annnnt` Dlinuea Dy we Iulunc. . h At the fatal third door she stopped. Across the iron tire escape swept waves or ame. Two remen just below, un -e conscious of the girl. above them, were trying to turn a stream of water on a` `window. The noise was deafening. The dark young man shouted trantical-. ly, and at last his voice reached them- Turn it this way; turn it this way!" % But they saw the motion of his hand and the pink gowned girl above `them and comprehended. As the water play- ed for a moment over `the .blistering iron the dark young man . plunged through and dragged Drusilla tosatety. ML -- ---- -11 .I......n'|ua:1._'l'\s-Itnllln smd tilrollgn anu uruggcu LIL uuaua vv -u-v-V. They were all drenched-Drusilla and her rescuer and the_ little garden. When they reached the street the dark young. man led Drusilla to aisecluded 1 ` niche in the doorway of the big omce i building. All about them raged the ex- citement ot a terrible catastrophe,` and Drusilla, safein the little haven, quiet- ly proceeded to faint away. The dark young man caught her inhis` arms and mopped her face with this wet hand- kerchief. Then she opened her eyes and saw the informality or his atti- tude and blushed.` H... u_-_-_u. I.-..-.. Ind-nunnn {aha tune anu. ulusucu. We haven't been introduced, She reproached faintly, but she. did nog draw away from him. A - _ `_`A:s it that mattered." said the busi- ful-(-1;11:l-: ':)1"1il man. UJU U-IV `v9VIO;IV; ---- --v-- .. --- , _, , in it in the spring, and later aftiny rosebush bloomed. Then` geranium: heldrull sway until winter, when Dru- silla took the box into the house and , raised a few pale violets. ' ~~~1- __ 1-..--..nn- .7.I..I-nil 4:?! {ha Elastic Marble. A In one account of Rome the author ` mentions ve or six slabs of elastic marble as `being in the possessions of the Prince `Bo:-ghee. Being set on end they bend backward and forward. When laid. horizontally and raised at end -they form a curve. It placed on 4.1.1. -._.1 - -1--- `.0 uvnn in: gay enu -Lucy LULLLI u. hutvwn .. a table and a piece of woo?!-orwany other substance is laid under them touching the table. The Abbe ._Fortis ; they fall into a kind of curve, each end was told that they were dug uplnear the. town of Mondragon. in` the king- dom of Naples. The grain is like that 1 of ne Oarrara marble or perhaps, of ` the nnest Greek. They seem to have ` suiferod some attack of fire. A` slab 1 of marble similar in every respect to V those described and highly polished has ' been exhibited tor years atwthe British museum. M.` Fleuvian de Beivae snc-_ ` ceeded in -making common granular limestone, a granular quartz, complete- ly exible by exposing it to a certain degree of heat. In Lincoln cathedral,. England, there is an arch built otfwhite marble `which is quite elastic, yielding to a heavy tread and returning or re- bounding to its original position on` true elastic principles. IEEIKII In uuccu anus, u..- . --_- w some, and one day-, seeing tro;i'hi-s- car- i rings a dancing master with pearl col- ored stockings lightly steppint over the broad `stones and picking his way inex- tremely dirty weather, he alightedand ran after him with drawn sword in order to drive him into the mud, but into which he or course followed him- self. ` s ' r e r V This nobleman was once taken: for the Duke or Marlborough and was mobbed in consequence. The duke was j then in disgrace with the people. and Lord Peterborough was about` '_tov_jhe roughly handled. Turning to them, he sai : - ` . Gentlemen, I can conyince you ,by t two reasons that I am not the Dukeot Marlborough. In the first place, I have only 5 guineas in my pocket, and in the second they are heartily at your serv- TWO Ucnvlnulnu av-u_-vq-. A Lord Peterborough, W119 11,Ved_ in the reign of Queen Anne. was very. trolle- - A - - --J Ann aw. unnin from hi c P1-etc:-rod Au-cut. _- 2 VA thief broke into a. large mansion early in the morning and found himself ` in the music room. Hearing footsteps % approaching, he hid behind a` screen. .. ' 13..-... H ;- n -1_r....1. bin; nlnaf :l.nol|.`. upyruuuulus, LIB I-III} UIFIIII-lib Cl nun.---u v . From 7 to 8 %o_ cl'o_ck-. the eldest.d,&.\181|" A ter had a lesson on the. piano. -`:` _,___ n L- A -n-I--u_'A.I_- --."._4I:4Innn. LEI.` LIEU. u ICRHUII -UI-I LIIIV. ' From .8 to 9 9'clock the second; 611083` ter took a slng1nII;lesson.:.z ' * l n___. n ;.- an -9..1-..|. Ls... ahlndtvann Lax IUD as sung-p ;---wwvuu I From 9 to 10 o'clock tl1.e_e1deI'- son had a v1ol1n;.less,on.- : , V 1 = :. vn____._ an 4.- 11 -9..1-.I. 4.1.- .Al'~`I-v`a?u `nu-Ann Ha VIUILII .Ivc(wuo I gm 10 to . 11 .o*c1ok .t1;_eV_{at';_ll1'1.". ')n took a lesson` on nutea: ~:_.= .- at . ; an -_I_-I_ -I'I AI.` Ia.-`LISA-n 'I'31lSI .'U It LEVY yous: Ilvluuu; Every morning Drusilla picked off the withered blossoms, and in the evening ` she watered her plants, for Drusilla was busy all day; polishing and ling the nails of the patrons oflthe manicure establishment in which she worked, When a typewriter was first placed at the window of the big otce oppo- site the fth oor of the tenement in ; wh'ich'Drusil1a lived and a dark young ' `over man seated himself in front of it the [oung girl watched the installation I {he heads of her purple paxisies. I ` -~-`~ -- LL` uvnnivv-Irv rnnn 1 LUUK CJCHIUII H `UV "5VBI\ , At 11 o'clock all the umungg utilita- ._tera.assembled and stnd1ed.a1jenr*j_Ip11t`- Jun: piece tor;pIano.: v31Hi!,!,>ute_ agnnl . ." "anti,/_ AC_<.I -A .1; ;;....'-nn' `' `V . A u Two can... nonun-- .' - ._-,L__-____|. _.I..- Ilium` II Outside it was raw and gusty. white, high lying. clouds scucidingf-iso :- thickly across" a pale sky that only} wan and. watery sunshine strained. through the `breaks between. -Inside "there was theibalm of May. especially- in the south parlor, where I knew` I" *should uid Myrtilla. ' ` ' . Mvrfilln is tall and twenty. with panavqnuwu ------- ---. _ ..--.._ . Myrtillal. 1s_ tall and twenty, with a child's foot and a turn of the "head and neck that would become an Aemprssg She has coral red lips. ya ne, Vstraightfl nose, olive skin, dark ,a'lm`ond 'eyes,-; heavily lashed and lidded. and a`ldw. straight brow,- deeply shadowed guy dusky oss silk hair. In virtue of-all this she reigns as a queen over most men. We had beenengaged until two` weeks ago--to be exact, until the date of the Verinews ball and the `episode of the Grantley girl. ' ` ` ,__; LJ_L-___ '.....u. `kn. UL Luc vuuuu-nag 5.-.. . _ - The ball is ancient history now; he- 'sides._ it has. really nothing to do with the case. I left off danclng--with the Grantley girl at 4 a. m.-to ing myself into tweeds and` set forth upon a week's journey. Coming home from it, I found my table numbered ' with my letters to Myrtilla down to the most fragmentary note--those `of the last week unopened--my ring, my 1 books, a bracelet or `two. V the locket with my picture and a litter of those idiotic things one sends at Christmas and Easter and on birthdays. It was ` this litter that saved me from utter despair. _ I reasoned that if Myrtilla had cared enough for me to keep it all this time she could not give up caring for me in a moment. ..n u s__ ___ LL--- -urns an J-tn-nah `Inh I0!` 1116 in u Luuuscuu. i still, I knew there was a tough job. ahead. But I did not dream she would ` go to the length of refusing to see or hear `me or even to listen to my side of the casethrough Aunt Bab, most tact- ful of intermediaries. Her people back- ed her, too-all but_Dicky. Dicky is fteen and owns the distinction of be- ing the only thing in trousers Myrtilla has found herself unable to subjugate. i I cannot atter myself that Dicky s advocacy of my_ causewas wholly dis- interested. Dicky has a `fine taste "in terrier pups and a relish for stolen gal- lops on my hunters. At home he is al- lowed nothing more hazardous than`a steady going `cob, However that. may be, it meant a lot to have any sort of friend at court. Otherwise, how should . the hall door have swung open at my approach? The servants had strict cor- cders 'to.shut it civilly in my face. ,, L`. _.__ 1'; I....-J-.. -an cnlvu-9 van ,UUL'5 |.U-Buul. 1|. ysvzug on nan, .. She s'1n there. It beats me why you want her, why `yhu want any girl, when you've got heaps of dogs `and `horses," Dicky said. grinning, ask I shot past him.` She's "been real hateful pdlite; not good for even a fight this whole week," .;D1_ckyV s voice pursued me down V the hall. ,, ,__L|_ ._-..|-.. I... .. any-nncun -Inf nnnn ' my uuuu Bun uu but; us: vvvvv ... She sat down and took up _her em- broidery, her race still further averted. V Then I knew I had won halt a point. If she had been as angry as she be- lieved herself to be she would `have marched away with her nose in the air. _ A- -.._1_ a-........n.. tuna (1:-av '5 1 luc unu. . 'The south parlor.1s a square jut. open upon three sides to -the sun, with walls more than half windows. iron -barred outside and full of green` growing 1 thingsuwithln. There is a big replace; `A-_'.`_A..lII_ ...L...;A In lnnnl- nf If hop avpg u.uu5a Vvxtunu. -LI-Avsv _.... .. ....., ___ Myrtllla stood in front of it, he; `intently xed upon the smoldering logs. I At my entrance she started ever so lit- tle, turned her head the least bit and kept on staring in the tire. I , u1t_..L.III-. II T -cvnnflirnl` "l'I'l\`I`fF]v- over Lue ucuuu m. um yu.,..... ,.........--.... But when the young man looked across and smiled Drusilla stepped over lger threshold and shut the door with a -1-..` K891; Uu BLIIIILLI5 All Ipuv usvo ; ' My:-tiua, I ventured lrresolutely. ; my hand still on the doorknob. an. ....a. A-.."-. and fan`! run 1191- am- De alone. . . _ 5 Something happened then. I am nei- ther poet nor romancer, but my ranging -eye saw in the south `window a crea- ture ot tropic charm, slim and - tail. `green gowned as a w_ood"nymph, with wonderful golden tawny eyes: and a crown` still more wondeptnily red. ` As I went to her she siiivered and -setali her green gown fiut,t ering defensively, _ but I paidno heed to "it. only said joy- _ ously. baring my head: as A ...-....I`Ih.| VA nltn a FAQ` V I lnurcueu HWEJ Wlbu uca. uvuv can u... ..--- L I began again formally, Miss G1-ey,,' but stopped short; She had begun to whistle over her work `softly, medita- tively. as though she knew herself to be alone. r In , N, -;'|_n__ I. .... and I-`non 1' am n . H.l'l Illy-ul.I:." , . .Myrt1lla's head `came around so that I saw her prole out of the tall at my eye. I tancIed"she stared, but dared . notdmake sure of It.` My. `wood nymph barely nodded; .her..tremors were all at j rest. I bent toward her low enough to look into her golden tawny eyes and 5 ranonz. - -A .. ` ,~ 1 ` What have you done ;,to yourself? You are so beautiful, so strangely, so rarely ebeautlful,.lt makes me desperate that I dld"`not -keep my: heart for you, or,l'_rather,"lt would make me desperate lfeliearts were things that could -be giyf 3 en or kept'.t1t.wl1l.'_ V H . " Certainly` the wood ny3np_h stared; the golden tawny ey-es`, looked at me y l unwink1n g._',`;lld;yrt1lla s`head .h.adttuyrn-'- 3 `ed a little n1ore.jh,_Hf .were the ~least- bit parted, as though. her {breath came yhard: Lrstraightened and stuck ' 9- Ha handzin my. poket;as-I~added: "The.p1ty=ot`sitl_ Th". `rls a trneheart Vgonefto `waste? ='1`r'ue hearts __are`;_*vnone 1...; `am 1 -iii:-_v.` 5h'me"scbrn`-" . - nll*l'..}L'-'}IL ously. Dunn; lug Hung`. - , I _,h Amaryllial You` are a re;g1.0 I was never` so glad to see any one in a1i'my:l1te. . ' A ` ..__.un-o.. |......~a AIIQUIQ annnn an 1-hut * \.'uu'n-; Dun `fully from the reside. I acted ,1fghear and went on'mantully; ' , _.-_-:'--a Inn`-__"n-Hf` n" 31 `ISO 11611.]: uuu. vvcuu vu -..`u..... ....-, "I've played and lost-float? so misa- erab_l_y.. > ._L1s_ten-A-`then. -tell g mg .311 , you t A " y 491*? . ~d"'~ >"",'_'Af `i"?* 1: ; m*"8?7`:`. x ` I ,Amaryu1." _ A ` . 0+-`$1!-1ttaLaw1hly`they" are not? came Scorn` 7 Q_`__,A'- ..u.*. a......m'.s -1" nfrdni-ad nnt ."1NInt`n1-ally one is ne1'wons'at'nnd.lngl oneself slone` with "a lunatic. Only a"`.`3n.`.t.`c.' talk -to thins: as~th9.tIhstl=ey. were people." , 7 Don"_t mind her, Amnryllls," .1 and softly`. Poor creature, she is jealo V She thinks you` are no more thln, av-l blooming in a pot. , We know better, of ----......- II i s-lam. - m ngxuint a} le gat-vgfy straight andadded: - ll\V_AL.......I`- --`A In nnnunrlv hf .$UuraI:. "Really I am not dream you [had so `.mch'imag1nation. . `Myrtilla `said out- I ..;right, snipping her thread as she spoke. I stared harder than- ever at Amaryl- lis.` saying: Imagination is a fearful [thing sometimes. I am glad, Am_a_ryl- `9~ ----- -IJ.-..-L1pa.'.- `A-sin`! ~II- vnuj fggjjhi f [H1115 BUILJCLIU-ICE. I ulna anuu, ...-..,,- 113. you altogether. lack it. You would U-never see in ordinary civilities to no I pretty girl anything to turn your love- ` -ly golden tawny eyes green-. . - u~r\-_-.|._... .... and-`Can nn~I- "own:-9 nfhnp `I `UNIV!-I tawny I:.y_\u asvua.--. .. Dancing or sitting out `every other number, I suppose,` comes. under the "head of `ordinary civilities " Myrtilla 1 ! Said. her up curling. - ' ' ~ "I'kept on quietly: And even if you felt hurt you would let" me explain. The Verinews have hearts as big as {their fortune. Thus it happens I owe. them what money can never pay. - Not -. u__.-I- 1.1.... ..-...n 1| Imla UCILI vvuau. I.uvuc_v wuu us.--.. rung: `so many years back there .was'aA-t;i'Vg' urry in the street that put` my govern-_ % er in theworst sort.or hole. `It needed .__.L `.2... ....L and n vvn - not UL` .111 tu_t:_ wuxav. mu :..va. uvu.. .. ......,.-_ 11 cool million to get him out, and `a Verinew m1llion`did it. gYet the gov- ernor was hardly an `acquaintance. L Verinew learned his extremity by chance and came to his help. because, ,_,__.-_1 IL L- .:.lA...!L `Iain! `Mn cuuuuu auu. \.u.u.n: I.v uzu .u..`.. ...n........., as he phrased ~-it, he didn't think the `other side was putting up a square deal_. It does .'not` lessen the ' obliga- tlbn that he got his million back, plus -3 ----l|l- `I'-.....L....II- lnn (Icon!-|_ ITJIA lllllln MU awn. An-w a-.-..-v_- _.._ `.__._ a good prot. Eventually the -(;`:rant- Jey girl will have it, with several mil- lions more. She is a granddaughter-_ unacknowledged because Mme. Veri- new wishes to seem as young as their . tortuneebut the very apple of the Veri- " new eye. They wanted her to be the belle of the ball--she was shy e.nd_ sensi- tive and frightened half out of her wits. Somehow she trusted me- ___._.1__ -1. s.1....a.n nnla WLLB. DUILICUUVV. aux: Lzuuuuu an. ``I don't at all wonder at that, said a voice from the replace. , |__ ___1 ..-..--_....I. IITIYI-anon ` slam. _ V _ V _ Impertinence! she ejaculated in the dimness at her room, but her lips smiled in answer to the look that the young man had given her. - - A-- A In ---- ..... p.-AR AI1+ far -urnfpn VU-LUV LLVIJJ IA-IV Llswynuwvo I `bowed gravely and resumed: When she is not frightened she is pretty, Am- aryllis. Her head is splendidly red-- not quite so red as yours. She is .light on her feet, too, and loves to dance as. "well asythe owers do. The trouble is she has not `yet quite caught the rhythms she must move to, so needs "must lean heavily upon her partner. I understood; some of theeothers did not. Occasionally one was urried, still `more occasionally one impertinent. And a_ single cad let hertsee he was ashamed of dancing with her in spite of the mil- lions. At her rst ball! Think of it! s I had to take away the sting of it some- how. Perhaps I did seem devoted, but she didn't misunderstand. A I told her abput Myrtilla in our very nrst waltz. A nun. 1mnHnnla}a m-v frnm the tire- uupuu. n1._yu.unu Ill vuu. n.., ........ .. ..-...- A little inarticulate cry (mm the tire- place here, Covvertly I saw tears on Myrt:ula s cheeks. She made as though to rise, but sank back, turned away her head and resumed the furious stabbing with "her needle. I gathered the green- .,,._._nn.. 1.. ..... I...-`An Inl nnv Wltu ucr uccunc. ; 5uu.u....... ..... ,- --._ cry of Amarylus in my hands, laid my cheek against it and said dreamily: uA_._-.__II.l.. ball. vv\t\ II7\`I,.T nrn CHEERS ugzuuau u. uuu can. u.\........, . Amaryllis, tell" me why~I am fated to love dusky hair. All the painters land poets agree that red is ever so I much more beautiful." 11 A _. _.--- _.--.- Q1351: 10-Iilll 1711" at] Mv IIJUCLI ILIUIJC Utauuauu _ _ _ Are you sure, quite sure, you do love it? Myrtilla V asked tremulously. She as_ not answered in words. Five minutes later Dicky,` bursting in ` upon us, found us side by side, looking down at Amarylliidthrough sunshine grown suddenly a and golden. After a long look Dicky whistled, turned on his heel and said from the door over his shoulder: So I you two have made` it up. McSnitters_ { said you would, `cause that red lily ' bloomed so etarahead of time. But I don t care about that. All I want is to ' know what you're gain to give me I when you get married." - magically warm 7 Q38. 1' . [ ` Obviously the cessation of the brain's activities is no criterion. A medical \ authority who has lately considered this absorbing and important question `oers the following denition ot_ what 1 we call death: Death," it is suggest- ..a in ma mama given to the inability We can ||Cll|.1-lo -Lliiusu, a. mu ..-.,_..- ed, is the nam given to e inability of the organs or the body to act togeth er with that harmony which is charac- teristic ot lite, although the derange- ment 013- this vital harmony does` not preclude a possible activity of the indi+ vidual organs, which recalls Herbert Spencer's well known denition or life as a continued adjustment of internal relations to" external relations. -.- Har- per- s Weekly.- V - What Constitutes Death. Is the cessation ot_ the heart s `action an invariable sign of death? There is on record the case or a woman whose" -_ ..-_n---.: 1... nqunnlnl u-mush-n. IECUIIU use cant: vs no uvuu... .. ,_-_- heart was revived by articial respira- tion some time after she was supposed to have died. but the heart stopped again . when the articial respiration ...;.~.. ..u...... cur` 'I|~AlIA In l\`l'I I-nnnr BIRD dead? again WHUII Luv 95 uuynu. .\...,-....._-.. was given up. There is on record also the case of a decapitated murderer whose heart continued to` beat for an hour after the execution. Wu the man ---`--0.. 1.1.. .....u.. -0 O`\1n"'hlUn`lI man nuu givcu um. But the blossoms oried out tor water, and presently Drusilla's fair head, adorned with a perky black velvet bow. bent over the pansies. The hands of- the young man remained suspended over the keys. Then he rose and walked to the window, but Drusilla picked otl! some dried leaves and brought out an-' infinitesimal watering pot. She made a cool picture in her` white shirt waist. InLLI_ _..\.lX A0 ngnn `art-h_ _ VA Bargain. I have something for you here, my love,. said Mr. Darley ashe proceeded to open a large, round `box. - o What is it,_ precious? \ Wait and`see.p -. - V - ! Darley carefully` unwrapped the arti- cle gnddisclosed a lady's hat. a; 1; A l'__-..A_.O)l Inn narna. I (:18 uuu. umcxucu a. aau; a nu... Isn't it a beauty?" he asked, "I bought it myself as a surprise. to -you. Don't you think it is a perfect dream '2 ? it... 1\_`..I-... ....'unuI nib I-ha `ha? nn .l._l0I.l' In JUU LIJLIJL ll. 19 Cl. yussuwu \-sun Mrs. Dairley gazed at the hat :1-r;d ' burst into `tears. " ` - -x _-..'_ .u..ns -1... ...;h..: "3511. V style alt all. Ulllibl. LIILU lcasus I can't wear it! she cried, It doesn t suit me at all.` Ion meant to. please me, I know, bl1t`.it_18n i; my ' : n`n-_u. Ania I '1`!-1.1 I'n`I`IYVI'Al' nnid style at an. _ L V ' ` Don't `cry, dear. The milliner _sn_1d Vypn-' pould V exchange fit, and -111 yo:x ,1l_. snot; tobi -`ii}?f"t1eB;t01.`I*;:15f*`i'c*" ff ' 0Wn711p;f " Ml.ANDM.E [W3 A FOR_S_ALE. THJE!i9!!.!i.t*|n!\.'3!S,ETl p1clul'U Ill HUI VI MAI-In urea... 77 _.-..-. A little whiff of damp earth. blow across, cooling the heated atmosphere. ,A__.l_.. I-Anna (IDA!!! +& Q vicvrv V`-' ` f` 8 1 I Bin bones gm1;`; a8:r:'E:e:ttcE.`."an3fal 3,3? o't` I.-antzeneu. ` ltpcues thousands. of cases annually, Such endorsements as the one following are a guarantee of merit. A , g 1...- la--- Q-unnlno A` Tnn vnIQ' S lIl"_ following are guarantee or lucxu. cured two Bone spavlns of Ten Years standing. Earlville. N.Y.. Mar. tr. x9or. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co.. Gentlemen :-Some years ago I used your Kendall's Sugxvin Cure on a horse that had two Bone B avina. andxt_ removed t_l\em entirely. Thcso Spavins ad been on mm from blllh and were of ten ears` standing. I now havegz case 0!! a. mare that was njured b falling through gt budge. and am going to give her comp one treatment w_nh your Spavin Cure. Please so-nd me a copy of your " freause on the Horse and his -Diseases." Yours very truly. CLARK 0. PORT. Price $1 : six for $5. As allnirrrent for family use `it has no equal. Ask your dmzztst for Kendall : Spavln Cure. also "A Treatise on the Bone." the book free, or address .. n n ucnnu I nn Fnnnhm-n Falls- VI- wua nouns are Wine In medicine 3 . and Dually lleul Themselves. Most people have seen a sick eat eat crass or an uneasy dog seek out some weed and devour it greedily to make his complaining stomach _feel better. . some few may have read John Wesley : di- rections on the art or keeping well- - - - -~A _-n. I............ (Annual Mani! ITECUDIIB uu Lu: in. van. u-..u.g.... ..--- which have not, however, found their, way into his book of discipline for the ~soul-and have noticed with surprised interest his claim that many medi- cines in use among the common people and the physicians of his time were discovered by watching the animals that sought out these things to` heal their diseases. If they heal animals, they will also heal men, is his invin- cible` argument. Others may have dipped deep into Indian history and folklore and learned that many of the herbs used by the American tribes. and especially the cures for rheumatism, dysentery, fever and snake bites, were learned direct: from the animals by .noting the rheumatic old bear grub for tern roots or bathe in.the hot mud of a % sulphur spring and by watching with ` eager eyes what plants the wild crea- tures ate when `bitten by rattlers or 4 wated by the fever. ~ -----A -I-...-..&..I Iwln nf aura-gpv DOIYIBIICC UOIJIIII I'I9l'3CC-VIII . true hor_ses sell at lea than half that acgal value" and _ ug nguhgg desirable for use or sale. `I xgmgdy heasy. A fowbottlesofp , In-UTIPT: r-r---.7---.-- Demands Sound I-Ion-sou.only._ _- 1.-..-. ..n at ham than thexractual value : lfc book free, acute . DR. B. J. KENDALL 00.. Enosburg Falls, Vt. - WCSLUIL U] Isl-IV cvvvuo The most elemental kind of surgery is that which amputates a leg when it is broken--not always or often; but only when the wound testers from de- cay or fly bite and so endangers the whole body. Probably the best_illnstm- non of this is found` in the coon. who _l has _a sore ot traits that place him very high among intelligent animals. j Wh_enja coon s ftoot, is shattered by a bullet` `-he will cut It on! promptly and h" the. stump in running water part- 3 part- coonng we ueuteu uu..u........... 7 The evening hour grew to be an im-t portant one to Drusilla, for she arrived home at 6, and the dark young man did not leave until` 7. She sat up late nights to e nish a certain blue lawn A that had a train that trailed over the iron steps of the (ire escape, to the fur- ther undoing or the infatuated young man over the way. She bummed little tunes` that caused the `complete cessa- tion of the clickety-click-click" of the machine opposite. ` vs . ,,LlII -1..- I...-\& has nvna in "\DY`H`f-