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A KOMANCK Of THK Oil. KK. ION - ' Hoed Into Lurk;" or the Muri-ma Whl<-h Overtook it M,.in.-i.-.. Voulh. Away up in the township of Enuiskilleu, jiut beyond where the Canada Southern Railway .-IIH-IX.-* from the shade and boli-, tudeof a tamarack swamp, lieu a little t.-wn whose stride toward decay and abandon- ment wan no lesa remarkably rapid than waa its origin. An hotel, a church or two, a mill that doee not grind, and several empty buildings, apeak of better times, but it has been many years since the place may be *aid to hive existed. One day, about the time men were deserting home, family, friends and their senses to rush to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, a poorly - clad, half-fed, but intelligent-looking lad asked for work and food at the farm hou?e of Anthony De Loure, near the site of the present town of Petrolia. The boy said that bin name was Graves, and that he had tramped from St. Thomas. The farmer took him in and was so pleaaed with bin work that he kept him, although he learned that the youngster had escaped from a reformatory at Detroit. Time wore on and Graves made himself valuable to the farmer, and became a great favorite with the farmer's daughter. The friend- ship of the young people soon ripened into love, and the first sorrow the young girl experienced was when her father knocked Graves down with a hoe handle for pro poHine for her hand, and suggesting that he would probably get the girl whether her parents was or was not enthusiastic over the match. That blow made a poor boy rich, a pretty girl happy, an old man angry, and built a town. It was suggested to Graves the idea that he had better leave the De Loure farm, and forthwith he packed his few possessions and resumed the honorable profession of a tramp, with which he had in previous years thoroughly familiarized liinm-lf. He travelled to St. Thomas, where a kind woman answered his request for a wrapper for his bundle by giving luiii a newspaper from "the States." Grave* went on his way. One day. while resting by the side of the railroad, his eye caught an article in the newspaper wrapped about his "duds." This article gave an account of the great discoveries made in I'eunsyl vania. It spoke of petroleum floating on the waters of small creeks, and forming in little pools in holes made by the cattle in the mud. It ihowed him the great secrets contained in the things we now look upon every day as ordinary, and he began to think. He loved pretty Loise De Loure and he had grit. One rainy morning Farmer De Loure and several of his neighbors were aston- ished to receive a call from a well dressed, lawyer like stranger. He said he was agent for (1 Marbank, a wealthy gentleman from the States, who desired to secure a large tract of land for the purpose of experiment- ing with stock raising and grape culture. The stranger talked well, stayed to dinner with Farmer De Loure, and finally went away with peculiar land contracts for many of the " l>a<-k lots " belonging to Farmer De Loure and his immediate neigh- bors, who were offered temptations they could not resist. A fortnight afterward Loise De Loure wing in the sunshine hesidd the lien door. A smiling, well dressed young man came up the path, and before she could arise, gave her a Kiss full on the mouth. She gsve him one stare of aston- ishment and delight, then she made him take it back. It was Graves. The young man fairly shone iu an entire new suit ana exhibited the first suggestion of a mous- tache. " Why. Mar Graven was about to startle me," cried the rosy maid. Just as Msr wan about to startle her again there came a sound of heavy footsteps. They were easily identified aa those of Farmer DeLoure, who appeared carrying in his hand the hoe he had used in his early arguments with the young man. " Yon walk," said the farmer, as soon as lie saw who the viaitor was. " Got done wslking," answered Graves. " Ride now. Own a carriage. Own all the land in sight. Own this house. Own this barn. You can stay if you behave." The farmer spat on his hands and took an earnest grip upou the hoe, when Graves held before his eyes a paper which set forth that one " Anthony De Loure did sell and devise unto the aaid party of the second part, G. Marbank, his heir and assigns, upon certain conditions hereinafter speci- fied," etc. While the old farmer atared at Graves and the paper an excited neighbor rode up on his return from what was called the depot, a platform in the woods, where there was a switch of the Canada Southern Railroad. "D'ye hear the news?" exclaimed the newcomer. " Why it seems that some young fellow named G. Marbank has found oil, d'ye hear ? Oil, right here in thin val- ley, and he's sold his secret for a starter. A sindicut has been formed up to Ht. Thorns*, and a train of men and tools hev landed at the depot this mornin'. Why, dam it, they've gut a city built over there a'ready, and they call her Petrolia, and more's coining on the train termorrow. Ouess I'll go home and dig for oil ! " and away he went. "Father-in-law," said Graves to the Atupifled farmer, " my real name is Graves Marbank. I.ft us go into the house and i-oimider this important news." They went in. In a week Graves and Louise were married. Domestic affairs were rushed in those days, just an everything else was. In a month ten paying wells were struck. (The speculation prospered, and in the course 01 a year a large town had been built on Farmer De Loure's farm, and was peopled by settlers who arrived from every quarter of the globe. Marbank sold out early and moved to " the States," but he took Farmer De Loure's hoe with him, and it was hanging aa an ornament in his parlor in Kalamazoo the last time I visited his happy family. His eldest daughter has probably covered it with red plunh and made a key-rack of it before this. Ayr Itffurder. II. 1'ad Heard of It. "I've heart of this gas business," said a hotel tiui'Ht from the country, as he toyed with the water faucet, " but this is the rlmt time I aver seen it." Then he went to the head of the stairs and bawled . " I lay, landlord, the gas pipes is chock fall o' wjter." tttv Tork SMB. HIM* rOR THE HOLIDAY 8. 1.1 1 1- Who Don't Want Kspenalve i- , . .. .,i - -Advk* for Young Mu. Some nics girls have taken the initiative in a very commendable fashion, and agree k> accept no presents over a 60 cent limit. They say the custom of holiday presents is a tax upon society, and many of their friends who ought not to afford it dislike to Feel their regard eclipsed by the expensive offerings of others. Ho all are given to understand that their regard is not to be appraised by the tribute brought, but trieuds may employ taste and fancy to devise just as pretty things as may be within the modest sum named. It is surprising, they say, what really pretty and valuable things can be found for 50 cents. One lady gives in her list at that price as follows : Small scent jar filled with lavender flowers ; a box from a little brother with 4" cents in postage stamps torn for use , a plain box of gooditatiouery. linen paper and envelo;>ss in plenty for three mouths ; a pretty luhu of lawn and lace ; a crystal jar full of the clearest honey from one friend, and the mate to it filled with delicious homemade cream drops and choice candies ; a French photograph iu a white frame ; a copy of Tennyson's late poems, the paper cover taken off and rebound by a clever friend in parchment paper, with water color deoign and pen ana ink head -pieces , a volume of " Murray's Receipts," covered with rose- bud chintz ; a fir pillow in soft gray linen, with the usual embroidered fir branch and cones ; a low side- table covered with chry- santhemum cretonne by deft fingers, and a low chair to match, bought it must be con- fessed, much the worse for age at an auction for 10 cents, and covered with the bright dark cretonne, fresh and ruffled, very oozy things for a houaeke per . a prettv Japanese paper knife in bronze aud gilded inlay ; one of the painted Russian bowls for confectionery or nuts ; a Mexi- can jar ; a dresser candlestick, of erunne- laoquered tin, you know, big, safe and artiatic, and a lot of bijouterie from the 5-cent store, where a humorous friend laid out his 50 cents in conveniences toasting fork with long wooden handle, wood-handled spoon, clamp, yardstick, reel, trellis there was no end to the fun and usefulness to the misshapen package. Per- haps the most enviable thing* were bloom- ing plants in pots, common things, nut c minion in their growth ; winter stocks, red and velvety ; wall-flowers, dark an 1 velvety, tilling the room with their spice. If any young man wants to know what to give a nice young girl let him ponder the list following : He may give her a rose- jar in pink or Aladan porcelain , one of those mantel urns with perfor ated second cover to let the scent escape. If filled with red rose leavea, which are sold by the druggistn, or with potpourri the better. A box of handke.-chiefa.embroidered lawn, in white, black and white embroidery . solid pale blue, pink and buff worked in the same shade, cream silk and crape ker- Chiefs, scented box of embroidered satin serge, which is the novelty for toilet boxes, portfolios and bookfindings. He might put the value of the whole in one lace kerchief, but moat girls would prefer the ili/.-n of fancy lawn. A scent stand in silver and painted crystal or porcelain in gay- flowery painting, holding four flowers of different perfumes. A porcelain, mlver or bronze enameled awing glass for the toilet with candlestick to match. Silver button- hook and slipper buckles. Gloves, tan, pearl gray, and noisette or palm- wood tints, in perfumed box. These are all aafe pre- sents, things that a girl won't have to force her feelings to be grateful for. that hit woman's tastes, and bring the giver plea santly before the mind a good many times in a week. 1'erfumed mucilage is an addition to polite stationery, ana is much better than bandoline for keeping crimps iu place. Huttonhooks with long, ornamental handles all of solid silver, which allow a lady to button her boot without much stoop- ing, are out for holiday presents. The most successful gifts are sure to be elegant things for the toilet or desk. .V I "rk Vail and r'.ipreu. |-r..f.-..,.j III*, k I.- on " VulffBW " Hong*. Professor Hlackie delivered a lecture on the " Love Hongs of Scotland," at Oourock, on the 16th ult. He aaid the Scottish Ian guage was infinitely iiuperior to the Knglisli as a singing language, and more beautiful than Greek or Latin, and more ahame to them in Scotland if they did not study that language scientifically. There was a ten dency among their west end people of Edinburgh and Glasgow not to sing Scotch ftonga because they were " vulgaw." (Great laughter.) These people had been de- nationalized and had loHt their former state. They had brushed shoulders with some Duke or Duchess in Edinburgh, and now got their music from Paris. He classified the love songs of Scotland under two heads love songs of joy and love songs of sad ness. Borne when in love were said to be love-sick ; but when he was in love he was not sick ; he was very happy. (Laughter and applause.) There was one song which he sung in Glasgow some time ago which made n sort of a row. (Laughter.) It was done quite innocently. il.aiii:ht-ri He confessed he was wrong, but he did not think there was very much harm in mngim Kelvin Grove" on a Sunday night. How ever, he was a bad boy . and he would not do it again. (Laughter.) He naid there wai a capital song entitled The Kiss Ahint The IHx>r," and that was the only- proper place for a kiss. (Laughter.) After referring to other Hoottiah songs, the Pro- fessor concluded by singing" TheBarrin' o' the Door." ' r. i P. in ii Mutton. " I see scientists all agree that the pro blem of perpetual motion cannot be solved," said Robinson. "They ought to come down to our house : they would find a solution there," growled Thompson. "How so?" " Oh ! my wife says she's continually on the go." The seven hundred and thirty -five- pound fat woman is still on exhibition in Chicago id the advertisement of the museum reads Weighty Winnie! Mm last week in Chicago, The doctors aay that she can't lire until Candlemas. Be sore to see her this wsek. You may never have another chance!" A NTEKN CHAME. A Fuiwncer Train Funum! by .. Loco- motive. The Calgary Herald tells a very good story of Qu'Appelle " Jackson and a New York gentleman named Davis. While going west to Calgary they disembarked at Maple Creek to get a buffalo horn or two. fohshed buffalo horns, bound together by a strip of Indian blanket, sell for 16 a pair in SJew York, and 75 cents a pair in Maple 3 reek. This opens a field for speculation. >ur two travellers began to speculate. In 'act they were speculating atill when the ram silently drew off and iped weatward to Calgary. Maple Creek, with all its attractions, does not compare in the minds of tourists with several other places along the line Its public buildingii are toon ixhausted, and its trade in buffalo lorns, although brisk, it mono- tonous. Our t .iiri-t-. with a cart- load of horns on their hands, began to bethink themselves of the ladies of the party, reading novels and playing bezique in the distant Pullman. To think is to act with some people. After much telegraph- ing and delay, the two belated travellers procured an engine and at S o'clock pullexi out of the station amid the applauiw of the aborigines snd began a stern chase after the passenger, three houra ahead. It is gratifying to know they were not forgotten on board the sleeper. Various speculations were indulged in as to what Messrs. Jacluon and Davis were doing as their engine aped over the flowery land, whether they were polishing their horns, or indulging in a liiir 1 1 and so forth. It is a matter of record that the passenger never made such excel- lent time as it did on that occasion. I'p hill and down dale it flew, and through the grassy meadows of Alberta it aped, strictly on time. As night came on, and the headlight of the pur- suing engine began to glimmer in ths distance, the ladles on board the train invaded the smoker and gaied anxiously back. Here she r !" and "There h't? is !" followed with little ahrieka of merri- ment, beguiled the hours, and lonely bachelors came to the conclusion that those fellows on the engine had all the luck." It waa not till a quarter past >. at (ilt-ichen. over 'JOU miles from Maple Creek. that the travellers finally caught up. and entered the rear car triumphantly with an armful of buffalo bones apiece. The ex- citement waa treiuendouH. and " Qu' Ap|-ll.- " Jackaon. and Mr. Davis, of New York, were the heroes of the hour. What did it c,,,t them ' Well. 286 miles at II a mile means 111* apiece. They did not own up to this, however, it wan another man on board the tram who told ua I lie figure. In... i lv. i. anil Animal i HIM H HI il HO ... Professor Forbes. State Kntomologiit. has completed s thorough examination of Southern Illinois wheat pnxlunnK countisa where losses have been caused by the ravages of the chinch t>ug-. aud he fiuda that the infected area has larifely increased during the year. He considers the outlook in consequence very gloomy for the IHM? wheat crop. CANADA A.Sli HOCKT Xul.XTAl* IXHTHT. An Ottawa telegram* says : James Fletcher, honorary entomologist uf the Department of Agriculture. |>akiii|{ upon his work during the pant season, reports the discover) of n< new injurious insects. Two, however, which will receive special attention before next season, will be the grub or maggot of a small rt\ which haa attacked the steins of timothy and other grass crops in most parts of Canada, and s smsll beetle which commits serioui depredations among the siiruce forests of Lower Canada In July last, in response to ni.|tiirie from the farmers of Manitoba and the Northwest, who feared, owing tu the dryness of the season, that the insect called the Rocky Mountain locuiit would commit great ravages in the dryer parts of country, he visited the heart of the dis- trict where these insects breed, a plateau west of Kegina. and upon examination found that the fears were without founds tion, aa the specimens collected and sub- mitted turned out not to be the true Kocky Mountain locust. This point as to the exact identity of the specimens i* one o( Kreat importance, ax this Hocky Mountain locust is by far the incut destructive of the many species found in Canada. It wan the fact that the insect wan committing great depredations in Dakota and the other States just south of the line which gave rise to the fears that these ravage* would extend into Canada One swarm of thr Kocky Mountain locusts committod depre lain in- ill the Wood Mountain district in the month of June, but they pasned away before any serious damage was done Mr. Fletcher thinks that owing to the rapid manner in which the country in bemx settled there will never again beans ! structive invasions of this insect like that of 1874. that when the ooantry in fully settled the insect will entirely disappear. I ...I. .11.. i. In a i n. u I say, Smythe. old chap First Chappii ie, howdy do ? pie Second Chappie- Aw, don't call me Sui) the. )' know ; call me Smith. First Chappie But, bah Jove, yer name was Sm\ tin- Second Chappie Yeas, but I've changed it to Smith. Smythe in too doocid com- mon. doirtoherkiiow.--//nr/wr'ii /;.; An Infallible Koinnly. 1 How are you coming on. old boy *" I'm not coming on at all. I'm going on." Hold u and an you know some remedy for the misery I'm suffering from this morning ?" Yes. I know a good cure fur it. Don't get drunk last night. Good bye." ild up: I've got a fearful headache, i awful taste in inv iiimith. Don't In school. The teacher takes out hia watch. ' As we have a few minutes before we close, you can aak any question you wish." One little kid comes forward. "Teacher, what time ia it, please?" Suit f'rancitfo Cllroiucle. BURST ArPLIKS A TEST. Robby. aged 3. complained that his tea. the regulated milk-and-water article, was :iot to his taate. His mother, beside whom tie was seated, said : " Why. Robby, my tea is very good." Suppose we changt teas," suggested Robby. t'rum Uabyhuod WUITKD M-I.I , KKI.I i A benevolent young lady, who had for a long tune sought to convey some laating moral lessons to young boys at the North Knd who had been gathered into her class, while convening with one of the youngsters recently, referred to the dea'th of his brother, when he spoke up in a tone expres >.ne of pride and gratification : " Oh. that ain't all the dead I got ; I had 'nother brother die awhile ago."- I:,*I,,H Journal. The I ... i nt Wife. " Are you aa fond of me as you were of your first huahaint " Yes, indeed, ami if you were to die, John, I'd be juat as fond of my third. I'm not a woman to care, for anything but love." A big wolf attacked a little S year-old girl as she wan driving the cows to water near Comatock, Minn. ; but one of the cowl charged the wolf, tossed it in the air, and then ths fanner's dog came to the rescue and the wolf fled. LITTLE i > .,1 i i jr t.in. i. . of II,.,,. MI... Are Juat I ilin.u lil.- IB. FCtUHMZNT suarr.NbfD. A 4-year-old miss of Mam street, with a serious air, said to her mother the other day : Ma, I think I ought to get a ipanking." Mamma made an effort to ook her sharply in the eye. when the little one added : I guess you needn't mind this "ime. I won't be naughty again." Itufalo The .,.-.... .1 of ..,. ,i Wall.. Says a correspondent of the Milling 'lflil. who has recently been travelling in China Of course we had to go to the great wall of China. This country abounda in great walli. Her mural defences are moHt extiiKive walled onuntrv, walled elites, walled village*, walled |.ala<*'-, and temples- wall after wall and wall within wall. But the greatest of all is the great wall of Chins, which cresta the mountain range and crossed the gorge from here sume fort) iiiilesaway Squeezing through thelsst deepgorge and a deep rift in the solid rock cut out by ages of rolling wheels an.l tramping feet, we reach the great, frowning double bastioued gate of atone and liar I burned brick one archway tumbled in lhi was the object of our nnwion. the great wall of China, but two hundred and thirteen years before our area; built of great slabs of well hewn stone lax) in regular courses some tw.nu feet high and then topped out with large, hard burned bricks, filled in with earth and closely paved on the top with more dark tawny bnck the ramparts high and thick and castellated for the use of arms. Right and left the great waK sprang far up the mountain side- no 1 straight, now curved, to meet the mountain ridge, turrvted each three hundred feet frowning mass of masonry. No need to tell you of this wall . the books will tell von how it was built to keep the warlike Tar tars out -twentv- five feet high by fnrt\ thick, twelve hundred miles long, with room on top for six horses to be driven abreSHt. Nor need I tell you that for four teen hmnlrud years it kept those hordes at bay, nor that, iu the main, the material used upon it is just aa good and firm an.l strong as when put in place. Twelve hun ill-ill miles of this gigantic work built mi the rugged, craggy mountain topo. vault ing over gorge*, spanning wide stream*, netting the river archwayn with huge hard barn of I..|.|T. with double gates, with swinging door* and bars set thick with iron ar r a wonder in the world before which the old time classic Nen WfinderH. all gone now save the great tiyramid. were tovs. The great pyramid las *:,. iNHiiim cubic feet, the great wall .350.IKK).0NI . ul. i. f.^.t An engineer m Heward'ii |>*rty here *ome years ago Ka\f it .s hi opinion that the cost of thia wall, figuring labor at the same rate, wmilil more than euual that of all the 100. 000 Hilled of railroad in the I'nited States. The material it contaiim would build a wall mx feet high and two d-et thick right straight around the globe. Yet this wan done in only twenty year* without a trace of ,lfht or bond. It ia the greatest null viilual labor the world has ever known. A i n.r i: - l h l.l.l in t BLOW. < ...liio, the Mksll of MM Ua at a SJI >lr..k r Klllr.l In the J UOfle. A man-eater which for six month* bad seen the terror of the neighborhood had been traced down and wan seen to creep into a ravine, says the Rev. J. U. Wood in Good Words." The beaters were at once ordered off, as they could not bo of service nul might be. charged by the tiger, which had already been rendered furious by a wound. Unfortunately , these men are in the habit of half intoxicating themselves with opium before driving the tiger from his refuge, and one of them who had taken too large a doae refused to escape and challenged the tiger, drawing his iword and waving it defiantly. In a moment the animal spnng upon him, dashed him to the ground with a blow of hia paw, and turned at bay. After a series of desperate charges he was killed. The hunters than went to the assistance of the wounded man, but found that he was past all aid. the lower part of his face, including both jaws having been carried awav as if bv a cannon ball. The terrific effect of the single blow mdi cates the power of the limb which atruck it Had the blow taken effect a few inches higher the whole of the head would have been carried away. By a aimiUr blow a tiger haa been known to cruah the akoll of an ox ao completely that when handled the broken bones felt as if they were loose in s bag. The wonder at this terrific strength diminishes when the limb is measured The tiger which killed the foolhardy mas was b) no means a large one, measuring nine feet five inches from ths nose to the- tip of the tail . yet the girth of the forearm was two feet seven inches. The oorrm ponding limb of a very powerful man scarcely exceeds a foot in cirvuniferen Not until it becomes a man -eater -. the tiger much dreaded, especially in the case of tin me natives who do not possess docks or hi-nl-. Indeed, when an hnglmbman baa offered to kill a tiger whom lair was wed known he has been requested not to do so. as the tiger did no harm and killed so many deer that it mipplied the neighbors with meat. The tigress ia much more to be dreaded as a man-eater than the a:uiiial A I.i an Frufnnlly. Joseph Lambert, laborer, has been ftu-.l la and lla d costs under 1 Geo. II . c. sec. I, his offence being that be waa awear ing violently all the way from Stratfoni i Tiddington. The Act provides that " a day laborer, common soldier, aailor or sea man " shall be fined Is for uamg profane or obscene language ; any other person under the degree of a gentleman. 2a . and fur even- parson of or above ths dscrse of a gentleman. 5s. For a second offence, in each case, double . for the third offence. treble." The clerk said he had never known the Act to be put in force before. irulh. Thl. I. Iliiiroli. .Inke. If you want to be very new. and at the name tune very neat, just take your victim b> the coat collar and whisper: "Say. we ilont aay chestnut any longer in Buffalo We've got a new gag." He will of course look disgusted at the turn the conversation is taking, and you hasten to add. " We say locomotive. ' Thia will change his facial expression to one of surprise, and then you crush him. " You don't see where that comes in. do you ?" He in intiTf-teil hy this time and aimwera promptly. " No. where?" The only answer to this last query ia At the depot," and if your victim don't laugh I i-ati. 1 !... Ml,.. Hate TrlMl It ..! the best proof of the great power of Polson'i NKHVIUKK over every kind of pain is ob- tain.il 1.) the use of a 10 cent hottl-- N.-rviliut- rsquirea no puffing . svsry bottle tells its own story. It cannot fail, for it H a combination of the most powerful ).am subduing remedies known to medical science. Nervihne ia equally uaeful in external or internal (wins. Trv the great remedy Ten cent bottle at anv ilrux atore Large 'bottles only 2ft cents. ^_ ^^ - I "ii thousand families in New York are I Mul to make way with their vegetable refuge | b) burmiii! it in the kitchen range. An i effort is being made to extend the practice. 1 and if it in auccvssful New York will pro bably be the cleanest city in the world. i>( nufleruiK r. II.-M-.I i aa many rtaya ( ..rn i fttiM. in the amrrrtiate an much kufferiu^ a* aay -nikl.' 1 1 -. It i> ili>. inatiu- n.ilt..|it pnwr I'ulnaiu'a dim Kurart.'r that main* it pnvxiil) auccvaaful in renii'Viutfoinia Takenoaubatituu. bowvvsr hlcbly r*c.inui*ndiwt Putnaiu Paio lew! rn F.itrsviiT u th ueat. Hur*. eat* and ^ Rev. Edward White, who has been aston ishing the London religious public by hi. merchants lectures on the animals of [ Scripture, has beau on a visit to his old ' charge in Hereford, where he has given a fresh illustration of hia inventive faculty by an able lecture on Number in Naturv an Kvidenceof Creative Intelligence." He Walled Too Ixmg. What do yon think of such a man as Jones?" demanded Smith as he met an acquaintance on the street. I dunno whv " " I've known him for twenty years. MM yet when I wanted to borrow Sill h" i-inaiiile.l aecnrity !" "Ah! you *hould have struck him nineteen yearn ago I" Iff trail t'rrr I'm*. SETH THOMAS WATCH Best Watch in America for the Price. The Wrong l-ellerv Tom You have never met my wife, Bob. Permit me. Hob Ah, yea -pleased. I assure you. Kn<>w you well, though, very well. The'Brnle Sir Hob Tom has shown me lot* of letters from hit dear Lizzie. The Hrnle Sir! My name n Amelia ! I .,11. CUnouMFTION. * + T. Itel I 1 wn I I WO i.rl I | FS PKKK. I wim v.Ln.m t run TUB mw iniii to *.,, ill** *lr'* ft" I F I' A bachelor of East (irand Fork*. 1'ak. Have a dance. Among the Kuestii were to unmarried yount{ women. 1'nriiii; the f\>'ii ing the host i>rnnoed marnatfe to Iu of them. They all declined with thanks. ' Branch C5ice. 3V Yongt St, Taroito DUNN'S BAKING POWDER Mr. Jervey Is Mr. Podgers at home* Girls at the door No, sir ; he went away about fifteen minutes ago. Ah urn. when will he return ? Us said he wouldn't k* back for several hours. Thank you. Will -..- ^j,^,., _______._.,_ vot. please announce ins to Mis* Prodgsr. T JHE COOK 8 BEST FRI END.