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SJ THE WAITER In the bay-window of the board- ing-house sitting-room a little group was discussing the girl who Lad just passed down the front steps. "The airs she puts on 1" "And the mone<- she spends I" "It's a pity she hasn't someone to look after her. If she were my daughter " They paid no attention to George Hurstaway. who longed for courage to speak his mind, and de'end Syl- via Grex in her absence. To him she aeemed aF1 that was perfect. He had thought himself lucky just to spend a week under the same roof. Their fellow-guets would have aid that Miss Grex had snubbed him on every possible occasion. Of course, Hurstaway reflected gloomily, ehe could not possibly be interested in a very ordinary fellow, plain and by no means smart just a city clerk on his annual vacation, who was not accustomed to femi- nine society. He wished that he could approach her dashingly as the other men did wonderful dandies, with the latest thing in waistcoats, socks, and slang. But in the boarding-house society he wag of no account what- ever. This was, in some ways, the most miserable holiday he had ever spent. Presently he must go back to town and the office. lie would never see her again. With an angry glance at the gos- siping party in the window, he walked moodily upstairs. From his seat at dinner that night he could observe Miss Grex across the table. She seemed even more excitable and high-spirited than usual, and, with pangs of jealousy, George Hurstaway noted the evident ad- miration of her masculine neigh- bors. When the meal was over, he won- dered listlessly how he should spend the- evening. Finally he was left alone in an lcove adjoining the hall. There he must have closed his eyes. He roused himself with a start, to hear Mrs. Beatson's voice raised shrilly : "So that's your little game, is it, Mis ! To pack up your luggage and eneak off a day beforehand, without settling your bill 1" "I didn't know you were in. I've left a note to explain. I'd have written again directly I got home." "Oh. of course ! Nice goings-on ! My word!" "I meant *f send you the money. You can't think I intended " "You'll pay me to-morrow," de- clared the proprietress thickly, "before you leve this house, or I'll know the reason why!" She stamped off. Sylvia Grex sank down OB a basket-chair, quite close to Hurstaway. She was cry- ing a little. He reached out and touched her arm. "I heard." he stammered. "I couldn't help hearing." She lifted her f/vce, shrinking away. "What must you think of m!" "I have to apologize " "Do let me explain, please." He could hardly realize that this was the vivacious and haughty Miss Grex he had admired from afar "I quite thought I should have ome extra money this morning. It was my birthday yesterday, and an uncle of mine has always sent me a present five pounds. I counted on it this year, too, but perhaps he has forgotten." Sne bent her head again. "You se why I spent all I had A Million Persons Breakfast every morn- ing on Post Toasties Suppose you try the food with cream and sugar, as part of break- fast or supper. You may be sure it will be a delicious part. "The flemory Lingers" n PoBtum Cereal Co.. Ltd Windsor. Ontario. with me. I thought I could easily pay Mrs. Beateon'c bill to-day. I've ben extravagant having a good time." "I'm not one of the fellows you've been friendly with. I haven't taken you about anywhere," observed Hurstaway slowly. "No one else need know. When you get home you can pay me back. I'm just a stranger, that's all ; but I'd like to remember that I'd helped you, even in such a little way." "Yes you'd lend " "Please let me!" "But you mustn't! I couldn't take it!" He turned away. "There's no time to ask my father or mother, though." A few minutes later Hurstaway was walking along the promenade, happier than h had been unce his holiday started. Next morning Miss Grex went away. Everyone in the house wa astonished to hear of her departure before breakfast. On the stairs George Hurstaway found one of his own visiting-cards. "She dropped it! Now she won't know my address ! But she's com- ing back here in September. If I could manage to run down for a week-end. I wonder if she'd mind." He was occupied during the next few days mainly in thinking of her. Ordinary amusements were out of the question. "I've only just about enough for Mrs. Beatson," he reflected: but he did not regret the fact at all. When asked to join in different excursions he pleaded engagements, and went for solitary walks. On the Sunday, however, he made a discovery which appalled him. The return-half of hie ticket was gone ! He remembered that once his let- ter-case had slipped from his pock- et, and all the afternoon he spent in searching the beach, without suc- cess. There was no one available from whom he could possibly borrow. There was no time to wire to friends even if the poet-office had been open. Mrs. Beatson, he deliberat- ed, would never consent to retain his belongings as security for part of her bill, and he was due back at the office the following morning ! At an early hour, desperate, he sent a telegram. The answer Boon reached him. He stiffened as he read it: "Excuse not accepted. Stay away for eood. Week's salary follows by post." The manager had always disliked him, and, after recent reprimands, had thrown out the broadest of hints that he should seek another situation. Hurstaway hardly grasped the truth until he had actually left the bnardiuir-houee. Dully h reviewed his position. He was left with a few copper coins. *& The waiter in the rather dingy restaurant in the side-street was snatohing a few minutes' ret. A big party of excursionists had just left after a late lunch, and it was not likely that there would be any further customers yet awhile. He was rather surprised, there- fore, when the swing-doors opened. "It's raining fiast now !" remark- ed the elder lady audibly. "This isn't much of a place, but we can shelter till the shower's over." Miss Sylvia Grex glanced round as they sat at a small table, but al- most before her gaze could ret on the waiter, he had turned his back. She eaw a stout man approach him, and overheard a sharp command : "Attend to those ladies at once! What is wrong with you?" But the waiter vanished through a curtained doorway. The stout, foreign-looking person caine for- wardT "I am sorry, but my waiter he is ill. Kindly excuse him. I myself will take your order." "Coffee for two, please." The proprietor presently, with much condescension, set the cups before them. A quarter of an hour went by. "Ready, dear? I think the rain'e ovr for the present. Shall we move?" Miss Grex roused herself, seem- ingly with an effort, and assented. A minute later the waiter had ap- parently recovered. He reannear- ed, and began to clear the table. Beneath one of the chairs lay a glove. As he picked it up, he no- ticed that the proprietor was occu- pied. He held it tightly for a mo- ment between his two hands. There was a curious, strained ex- pression on his face. As he retired with the tray, the door was pushed open again very softly this time. Miss Grex had re- turned alone. She stood looking awkwardly round. The stout man suddenly became aware of her pre- sence. "I believe I I left something be- hind just now." "Certainly! I will inquire at onee. Yes." He rang a bell, and the waiter stepped ot. "Have yn picked up anything from that email table by th win- dow t Come, come I Are you deaf t' Slowlv the waiter's hand sought hi lir9t rtocket. "The lady's glove ! YOH have it. Why did you not tell me, George? Whv ?" The stout man was growing angry. "T WPS keeping it, sir, until un- til "Yes, yes; of course!" Grex drew th proprietor aside. In the big mirror before her ehe saw the waiter's reflection. With a rapid movement he carried the :;lov to his lips. When they swung round to face him he bowed and held it out, impassive and respect- ful. "Very well, miss; I will not re- primand him, since you wish. George, the door for the lady !" As she passed, the girl's eyes sought the waiter's face. H was looking down, with head bent. "Eight o'clock, outside the pier!" He heard the whisper, and flush- ed suddenly, with a quick gasp. N-nine o'clock is when I'm free." "Nine, then!" She disappeared. "Do not loiter there all day, George ! Write these menus- quick ! Tchah ! I will do them my- self. Your hand shakes. You are ill yet?" "No, sir," George Hurstaway ans-wered quickly. "I feel consid- erably better now." Shall we go through?" Miss Grex asked, indicating the tur.i- stile. "If you don't mind being seen about with me. I'm not known in the town much, after all, because I'm kept indoors a lot." "And you think I'd care if " "My position, you see," Hursta- way rerrfinded her quietly. "People would think you you'd loet your senses!" "I choose my own friends." The jirl swung round to him as they walked along the pier. "And I don't consider what they do for a living!" Hurstaway was silent for a mom- ent. "You said you'd come down here again." "You've stopped here all the summer? I never expected to meet you." "In there least of all, I suppose." He waved towards the distant cafe. "Why did you take up that work?" "It was all I 'could get, when I found I'd lost my situation in the city. The day after you left I I went in for a meal just as the pro- prietor was discharging his waiter n a fit of temper. He offered me ;he job. I was in rather a hole." He bit his lips as Miss Grex gave a cry. "Explain it all. Yes, you must tell me." She listened to his few faltered sentences, and guessed the remain- der of the story. "Then it was all through helping me that your trouble* came!" Her voice was unsteady. "1 lost your card somehow, but I remembered the name of your road. I returned that money next day to your lodg ings in town." "My landlady kept it, then, for the rent I owed her." I wondered why you'd never written even a line. So you didn't know my address." "But I hoped I'd see you again if I waited till September. That was one of the reasons " The reasons why you stayed !' she echoed softly. The look on her face made Hurstaway catch his breath. "I imagined you'd quite forgotten m." You'd have cared? But ai the boarding-house you avoided me hardly ever spoke !" "Oh, you're very foolish!" HP could just catch the words. "You were so different from those others ' I I liked you all along. I was so afraid I'd show 'it, though. Now T don't seem to mind, after meeting you this afternoon." "In the restaurant?" he queried, puzzled. "I recognized you directly, al- though you tried to hide. I left mv glove on purpose. You you kissed it. That shows Rprstaway drew b.ick from her. "I'm poor, thoiiTh a waiter shabby clothes." He set his lip" together. "You can't think wh.it you're saying." He held out his hand. Rut the eirl laughed shakily. "I'M going to do the waitine now. You'll rUe in the world. Wont you if I believe in you?" George Hurstawnv caught her hand. A new confidence came to him. He threw back hi.* h"nd. "Yes, in spite of everything." "T, too, feel perfectly sure of that." Hurstaway leaned over the pier railings, and 'tared across the sea into th<? darkness. "Dreams," he muttered "dreams are sweet!" And one day his dreams came true. London Answers. Cheese may be kept fresh if it is wrapped in a cloth damped with vinegar and put in a covered di*h. Or. Morse's Indian Root Pills are just the right medicine for the children. When they are constipated when their kiJneysare out of order when over-indulgence in some favorite food gives them inclifrstion Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills will quickly and surely put them right. Purely vegetable, they neither sicken, weaken or gripe, like harsh purgatives. Guard your children's Health by always keeping a box of Dr. Worse's Indian Root Pills in the house, They M Hvp tt\ Children Well TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING GOSSIP PROM ONTARIO'S CAPITAL. The New Corporation Counsel New Labor Paper Down Town Problem A BIB Audience. After several months' delay the City Council has decided to appoint bin Wor- ship Mayor Ueary to ui Cori*urat.on Counselship, made vacant by the eiovauon ot Mr. H. L. Draytou to the chairinaubuip of the Dominion Railway board. TM salary is u> be W.OOO a year to begin wtttt. fills .tt not much advance over Mr. Geary a income as Mayor, which was *?,SOO. But it hag the advantage at being perman- ent. UesuicK Jir. Geary has expressed the lope that when he makes good the sal- ary will grow. And it doubtless will, borne aldermen who opposed Mr. Heary'a appointment on tie ground that he waa not a big enough lawyer for UM j<>u, -u.ii they would be prepared to pay *2J.joa a yuar to the right mui. Viewed from thia standpoint, it is just a question if the city will not do an well with Mr. Geary on the job as it would with some roan with a made rcputatiou at a fanry salary. It la true he baa not had much -..m-iei -M in legal work. But thin u partly offset by nis intimate knowledge of municipal affairs. Beeides, he is young, nergetic, diplomatic and ardently ambi- tious. SOME so ui::- ESS. The sound criticism of the appointment s on the ground that no member of FOR MAKING SOAR SOFTENING WATER, REMOVING PAINT, DISINFECTING SINKS. CLOSETS,DRAINS,ETC. SOLD EVERYWHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES oun ent present ocil' should be appointed to a penman- 1 n job during his term of office In the | 19,282 instance the Mayor admittedly. POISONOUS SNAKES. Took Over Twenty-Four Thousand Li res in India Lust Year. According to a report just pub- lished in Simla, India, the number of wild animals destroyed in India in 1911 was 25,840. ae compared with in 1910. This total included did not give the subject dismtereBK-d con- ton's lancet* is reported in a num- ber of cases to have resulted in a high proportion of cures. As in previous years, however, the statis- tics relative to the successful use of this instrument can only be accept- ed with reservations. _, __ .p. Quite Sincere. __,. ' aideratiou. and that is something thei-4,251 wolves. nublic. having elected him to the Chief Magistracy, had a right to expect Irom him on every mime, particularly on on as important as this one. There is a good tigers, 5.352 leopards, and ( "Sir." said the young man re- spectfully, "I am a poor man and Nearly 172,000 snakes a ITU i net Ql inn ? al deal of underlying aorenees phase of the matter. about tan There U some surprise that Mr. Geary, by his action, has expressed a preference Thia increase is largely accounted you are a millionaire. It seems pre- sumptions :a me, no doubt, to for by the Differing of rewards by j aspire to the hand of your Slaugh- ter, but my love for her is so great the Burma Government. That this action was necessary is proved by Dy niB action, UHS expresoeu * yi^ . for his legal profession as against politi- 1 the fat that in one area the paddy cal life lie oould have had a nomination fi W w<> k i n f c ^ t ed that lor Parliament any time during the lint , . five years, and with the star of the Con- their Cultivation was impossible. serrative party in the abundant he might Altogether 1,947 persons were have been expected to have had a brdli- ,.,, , , ., i j ;iui carjr. And he may yet return to i KUlea Dy wll< the political arena. Meanwhile be is to ( by snakes, the figures for 19!0 being "2.382 and 22,478 respectively. The number of cattle killed by wild ani- .~- _ _______ _____ _____ , ____ mals was 91.709, against 93,070. and T<rro"nto"i"an~event of Importance, noi so ! by snakes 10,533. as against 10.990. uiuch for the immediate effect it will have -11/4.1, -.,,) * Kn -i!f/> \i\tf- of hn in politics or in lauor aflairs. but because < of the potentialities for the future. The man beings it is said that in the eduo,in.chi .- be known ag G. E. Geary, K. C.. Corpora- Counsel. A NEW LABOR PAPER. Tho appearance of a new labor paper In iinTiy a tvpeM/lUT. more reu -13 mi . many year* city hall reporter lor one of , Provinces and Eastern Bon gal and the local dailies, and always an active ; ^asam labor agitator, as well as temperance lec- turer aud Methodist local preacher, lie was also a member of the Board of Edu- cation for come years and was a member of the Dominion Governments ComaUMiOB >n Technical Education. He will likely this year be a caudida. for the Board of Control. There have been many previous attempts to establish a labor organ in Toronto, but the attempts merely served to help fl the newspaper graveyard. A pi;xir called The Toiler" was the last victim. There are higher hopes for the la.eet venture. It start* off with fairly liberal support in the way of stock subscriptions from labor organizations aud individuals, so that it : assured of sufficient capital to give it a uuiive to get on i.s feet. To prevont con- trol of the publication falling into the bands of any individual or organization, >r even group, the number of shares per- mitted to any ou tmbscnber is strictly limited. It has yet to be demonstrated that th labor onraninations will support an "or- gan." Tho fault with previous publica- tions Is that they have been too much Organ,' and not enough attention paid to making ihc paj.er interesting. WILL AVOID GENKKAL POLITICS. It Is expected that the newspaper will keep away from tariff aiui other iri>ucB of a general character, deviating itself to ,ssue which specifically effect tfce city Laboring man, tuch as conditions -ji labor and workmen s conspns.ition. It will, in i.s general etfeot. probably emphasis* ra- ther than diminua ISM cleavage between itr iiid country. Its brat poliiiral activity will donations > in municipal affairs. A labor "slate" lur nearly all the civic offices is within the range of possibilities this year, moderately successful there the next move. >io doubt, will be to get into Pro- vincial and Dominion polities. The estab- lishment of the paper foreshadows the ilrst serious attempt to launch a real labor party in Canadian polif.ci. IN BOND 8TKEEI' ClirKCH. In my letter laot week some reference was made to the down town problem con- fronting Toronto churches, and the dis- position shown in some quarters to shirk it and in others to meet it The so.e:uu fact is that of the 50.000 persons living south of College street, only a small frac- tion has boon reached by the churches. Both iu preaching aud in works it is uu- | doubtedly the tact that some of the churches in down town Toronto are out . of svuipathy with the masses whom they are supposed to serve. The church perhaps most popular In many ways with the crowd is Bond Street Congregational, whose dowtinioh aro presided over by Bev. Byron U. Stauffer. j who came here several years ago from ; Buffalo. His methods are much less sen- , sational than those employed in thia pul- pit twenty years ago by the lato Dr. j Wild, but he contrives to make his nor- \ vuee In cresting, and hi- always draws fall houses. Ho is a man of considerable personality, a fliw-nt speaker and embel- ; lishes his sermons with frequent refer- ences to the affairs of the hour. Some might call some of his addresses lectures rattier thnn wrmons, meaning that there is less of spirituality about them than is usual. Bond s.ret church is offlotinu's compared to a business, of which the preacher is the general manager. Bearing out the analogy, he has there an offlte . which he occupies several hours a day. And yet Bond street has no empty pews, and that Is one point gained. A 8PURGEON NEEDED. What the church In down-town Toronto ' needs to-day is a Spurgeon. It wants a . man with fire and spirituality. The har- 1 vest Is waiting for him. lie conld take siirh a bu'.Ming as the now arena, which ' will scat V.UOO persons, fill It three times : on Sunday and possibly on any other v- eninit in the week, if he had the physical streiiRth But where is the Spurgeon eoin- ! ina from? Down town Toronto noods more, of couree. in the way of church service th.in K preacher, even if ho were a Spurgeon. I It needs a small army of workers. It has [ a few now loyal and devoted, but their i number* are sadly out of proportion to ; the work that Is to do. Ono wonders of the churches really appreciated tho work that lies right at their hand. TOKONTO'8 BIGGEST AUDIENCE. Toronto's new mniomeiH showplace. The Arena, has been successfully launrh- ed with n week's "musical festival." De tinned primarily for hockey matches, the promoters hope they can m.iku use of it In the off season for all sorts of speoin! productions. The problem will be to fill it. It will bold eight thousand people, twioe is ninny 08 any other meeting-place in Toronto, and a amall rity in iteelf. The sight on the cloeiag mght of the opening week, when every Mat wa Ailed, was one l"Mg to be remembered. The layout of the building lit that of an ovnl amphi- theatre, wi hout galleries. 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