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There was a day in June when she did not come to the oftice. A tnbute of b'ossoms awaited her, and I could read anxiety in the old booklreepet's back where he stood by his desk on the far side of the room, as the minutes passed on beyond the usual time of her appear- nn'ce When thegrey haired young man came inchie first glance was directed tpmsrd the desk, of which the lid was The man who dictated and signed most of the letters that she wrote was a puzzling fellow. He looked not more than 35, but his hair was almost white. He was always very considerate of her, in his manner, and she obviously looked up to him as a great man, I wondered why he did not see that she needed a long rest and the tonic air of the moun- tains. Probably he found her indispen- sible in his business aiffuyr, yet I fan- cied he might make that plea some day and be answered by the reaper that no mortal is indispensible. Lsstly, there was the old bookkeeper, who tnusthaee lived somewhere in she country, for he brought her such flaw. ers as the florists do not sell and laid them on her desk before she came down. He would be a one in the offiee' then, and he did not know that I was watch- ing him from across the chasm. I have seen him spending 20 minutes in ar- ranging halt a dozen wild tlowers, and than dodge quietly away at the sound of a step in the hall. In all my days " the window I never saw him " dress her till she had first spoken to him. As spring advanced her window and mine were often open. It was then that a my cf sunshine striking down upon her one bright morning showed me that her eyes were hazel. I had thought they might be blue, for her hair was light, She was a slender figure, not strong enough, it seemed to me, to work so hard. I noticed that her cheeks never had in them enough color to be visible from across the canyon. \She was very faithful in her work, and I think the young man with the gray hair appreciated it, for I often saw him praise her. Io was easy enough to know when she received this commen- dation, for it pleased her extremely. I did not think it fitting even to ask what name she bore of such acqasint- ances as might have been able to an- swer. I would not have known what firm employed her, but I could read the gilt letters on the glove door of their ottice when there was light behind it in the hall. It was h ud to make them out, for, of course, they read backward to me, being glued upon the other side of the door, but I looked across so often that I should have made them out at last had they been Chinese characters. She used to wear new and tuneful c!othes, and her hair'was always just right. Her desk and the typtswriting table were never in disorder, and from that I inferred that she had been well brought up, a conviction re-enforced by my observation of her bearing toward all who spoke with her. Busy from morning till night, she never seemed to be hurried or worried and it seemed to me she never had unfinished work to put aside ah the close of the day. There was also a square shouldered fellow who bristled mth energy, He seemed to be employed in on tside work, and it Was only in the early hours that he had a chance to talk to her. She treated him with sufficient cordiality to cause jealous feelings on my elde cf the a ll on-tor it pleased me to fancy myself in love with her, She was on the western bank and I on the eastern, 150 feet above the bed of the stream. Crossing was easy, but I could not go, because I had no errand. How could I invade the office of Shangh- ton & Bland and say, 'Gentlemen, I have come to tell your secretary that I admire her I' F There were two clerks and a. book. keeper in the employ of Stoughton & Bland, and I judged that all of them were deeply conscious of the secretary's charms. The youngest of them was ob. viously in love with her, and he fre- quently got snubbed for his attentions. He was a ull and handsome youth, with corn colored hair that rolled back from his forehead in a wave which he had the good sense not to spoil with a comb and brush. Between her and me there was a. great gulf, a chasm with precipitous walls of stone. We were so near to- gether that I could see the color of her eyes when the light shone fairly, but between us was the gulf and in the bottom of it a. roaring river, In the morning the river run southward. At noon it was full of cotA1icting tides that clashed and surged. In the late afternoon iWan mostly northward tc- ward Printing HouaeSquare and Brook- lyn bridge. It was a river of humanity, and the gulf was the canyon of Nassau street, in New York City. Through aWindow. "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" "Yukon not go with me, sir," she said. "Aluislrapin, my sweet, pretty maid I Juneau a. man ought to"--'), sir," she said. "Where are you going, my pretty maid lr" "I'm going to Klondike, sir," she said. "Wherefore to Klondike,my pretty maid?" "To marry the man who has gold," she as.) . maid." _ - "Well, what if I do, good air,” she said. "Let m9 go instead, my dear, pretty "With your warm heart my own, my sweet, pretty msid"-- "No Chilkoot p as over you, sir,” she said. --New York Truth. "You'll freeze to death, my sweet. pretty "Let me go instead, my dear, pretty maid l.' “If you bring to me gold, you may, sir," she said. aim to the fiiondilie, g OETRY. I don't want to go any further with this anon-y. It has come to a point where the recollecjions aroused are really too pcuitl--Boiston Transcript. And I glanced across the way. 'Well, you probably have some rational explanation for it,' said he, 'but hung me if I know why you should have sent that carbload of funeral em- blems Sober on the occasion of her wedding. If you wished to intimate that men-ridge to me was cquivalenb to death, it was a bad joke, air, and if you duin't then what in thunder did you mean? I've carried that puzzle with me 2,000 miles this summer, on our wedding journey, and now by Lucifer, you've got to tell me the an- ew: r l’ closed for the firgt time at: that hour in many months: Immediately a messenger boy came in with a. telegram, and when the head of the firm had read it he looked toward the closed desk again, so I knew what muatzbe in the dispatch. Thelbook- keeper was watching over his shoulder, and by and by he plucked up courage to ask a. timid question of his employ- er. The answer made him look very Yet the girl was on hand at) the usual hour the next morning and was the recipient; of cordial greetings, though she had to ask the bookkeeper for his In the afternoon, when she stood by the open window for a few minutes, I thought she looked quite ill, and, worse than that, she seemed apprehensive. The blight of melan- choly was on her. I fancied her as one of those unfortunates who in youth are told that there will be no maturity, that the seeds of death are planted and must: grow, Three days later she was absent again. Then I saw her on three succes- give days, leaving out of account an intervening Sunday. Again she failed to appear, bat only for a day, and the remainder; of the week she was in her accustomed place. That wan offieient, however. I hur tened to a. florist/s and give orders for such tokens as seemed to be appro- priate. 'Yee,' r replied, ‘ghey were for her.' I longed to share with those who had known her the privilege of express- ing my sorrow at her early death-in. deed I resolved to do so, even at the risk of committing an impropriety. Therefore, when I saw the pasteboard boxes dispatched in the custody of the messenger boys, I hastened to intercept them on the street. It was may enough to read the address upon the boxes, but there was no name-only a street and number in Brooklyn. And so that; was the end. The s‘ght of her at the window day after day , a feeling of cheer from her bright pres- ence near me, and, then the sorrow for the loss of one whose very name I did not know. I missed her heartily in those succeeding weeks. The name was not familiar, but the man himself I had certainly seen. Ah, to be sure! He was the doctor who had come to the offioe across the way, when the end was drawing near Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday passed with no glimpse of her, the in the afcernoon of that last day a man who could be known for a doctor half a mile away made a. long call upon the head of the fiern. Tney conversed very seriously for a few minutes, and then drifted to general themes and laughed and puffed their cigars as if nothing were wrong. That tized my estimate of the gray haired young man M) a. very low point in the scale. There was no sign of her during the week. On Monday I saw unusml sigma in the office across the way. First: the old bookkeeper came in, and while he had the office to himself he sub in her chair, and I saw him shed tears. Then the young man with the corn co'ored hair appeared, and upon my word I was afraid to see him stand by the open window, with such a. look upon his face, leeb he shou'd cash himself down to the bottom of the gulf. A little later the three clerks, the gray haired man and an elderly person whom I took to be the second member of the firm just arrived from abroad--- tor I had beards. rumor that one of them had been in Europe nearly a year --tsgsembled in conference on a plane of equality which only a mutual deep sorrow could have adjusted. After a while two clerks brought in some large paste-board boxes, which contained flowers, for though they were opened in a part of the office that my view did not well command I got a glimpse of white blossoms and green leaves. I think those men were all sincere, but not one of them--not even the old bookkeeper felt a. grief that matched mine. Nothing just) like that has ever come into my life. Perhaps I should have found nothing sympathetic or at- tractive in that woman if I had met her face to face, but when that meeting on this side of the grave had become impossible I pictured her in speech and in heart and soul as all that her sweet face bad promised. Ezen so late as September I had by no means forgotten her or the ine', dents connected with that time of strange and fanciful sorrow. It was on the Mth day of that month when a man of familiar aspect, yet certainly not an acquaintance, walked into my office, He came slowly up to me and laid two cards upon my desk. One was my own, and the other bore the in. scription, 'John M. Douglas, M. D,' 'That/e my card, and the other one is vours, isn’t. it T said he. I nodded. ‘You lent it with some flowers, to 811 De Vaux stir-eat), Brooklyn, on Jane 28, didn't you l' is grave. " Whatever the news may have been be communicated it to the light haired youth and the square shouldered fellow in the latter edge of the luncheon hour before the chief had returned. They took it very hard, and the younger of them stood by the window afterward when he should have been at work,and helooked the picture of grief. 'When I learned the deaf mute sign language a few years ago,' said the young lawyer, 'it was for a definite pur- pow, and since then incidentally it has furnished a good deal of amusement to me. There are not many deaf mates 'n this ciay, and when in coming down in an elevated train one morning I dis- covered chat the cross seat cpposite me was occupied by two young women who were conversing in sign language my interest was at once excited. They were neat looking girls, and as I settled in my seat I discovered that they were having an animated conversation on a certain young man whose merits and demerits they were frankly discussing, never dreaming that any one else in the car could understand them. Bad. denly one of them noticed that I was looking intently at them, and on her fingers she said to the other girl: Wun Barbed? He’s the man I'm going to msrrr,'--Womstn Lita, ' 'Don't; look up just now, but in the seat across from you is a young man on whom you have made an impression. He isn’o bad looking' 'No; he " looking at you. I don't like his mustache. Just look at him now, conceited thing , He is curling it/ q think his musbsche is very nice,' said the first girl. ‘Don't look in his direction so frequently or he will sus- pect asf ‘Act? Of course. I'll be charmed. Bat,' moving forward and speaking in an undertone, 'do come around the corner and tell me all about it. Here comes that idiotic, irrepressible donkey, Jim Berton. He's grinning as though he meant to stop, and I don't care to be seen falking to him.' 'I glanced idly oat of the window to give the girls chance to inspect me, and with diffioalty I suppressed a smile. She looked me over critically and then with her fingers she said ', ‘You sawvhim first. He is yours. I don't like blonds myself.' 'It was you at whom he was looking,' can}? tht reply. ‘He locks bco slow to suspect: any- thing. Besides I can see him by look- mg in the mirror, and be doesn’t; know it. I am going to size him up again now.' And as she turned toward the mirror so did I, and I caught her glance square in the eyes. The young woman flashed a bit and then pretend- ed to be looking out of the window. The girl who admitted that I was not bad to look at nudged her friend and with her nimble fingers said : 'Excuse mé;I am sorry to be in your wsy.' - Chat girl read my hands in ems ze- ment, and I would not have missed the expression of her face as her eyes met mine for anything. It was a. blush to remember. Without explaining to the other girl, who was behind her, she grabbed her arm and husbled her about face and out of the other door. As I reached the platform I saw the girl whom I addressed explaining it to the other girl, whose face indicated that she We s struggling between mortificr tion and mirth. Just as they turned toward the bridge both of them looked hick at) me. I smiled and raised my hr. They laughed and on they went. It was a pleasant little entertainment: for a. down town tripd-New York Sun. Mrs. D, A. Gray, of Watertord,isays : 'For a number of years I was a greats sufferer from indigestion and general debility, and many times was unable to attend to my household duties. I was treated by nearly all the doctors in the town and got no permanent re- lief. I read of a cure by South Ameri- can Nerviue which seemed to exactly ht my case. I procured one bottle and got great relief, and six bottles, cured me absoh1tely, It certainly has not an equal.' 'It'is sudden -very tsudden-bat he's awfully in love and is just too lovely to live. Will you ant I.' th, no go,' said the second girl, 'and in a long experience it is the first time that I ever failed at this trick. He does not even look down at his shoes. I will net that he is awfully conceited.’ "2hey kept up a. very free discussion of my appearance, and when we reached City Hall station I arose to go out, and they followed right behind. The car had been well filled, and the girls were in a hurry. I stepped to one side and in a sign language said to the one right behind me: Two girlfriends met on the street; and stopped to shake hands._ _ ‘Bridesmaid ! flow lovely I I did not know you were ongaged/ replied the line de siecle Grace. 'It was with dfieulty that I could prevent myself from acknowledging unis compliment in sign language, but I didn't want to spoil the fun. The second girl looked at me again by way of the mirror and then said : “All right,' said my friend, and two pairs of eyes were turned on my shoes, whichIknew were all right. Being forewarned, I was not embarrassed, and I thrust my feet a litble forward so that they might be in full view. 'So glad to see you Grace,’ said the tailor made Alice. ‘Was just on my way to ask you, as my oldest friend, to be one of my bridesmaids.’ Wis, clothes ht him we”, don't the)? Wouldn't he be angry if he knew that we were bulking about him l I think that he is nies.' 'He is wiring at us too much. Lab’s look at his shoes and embarrass him. He will think that their is something wrong with them.' Nervousness, Indigestion and General Debi i y have Driven Away the Bun. shine, but South American Nervine Brings buck the Heart Gladness. A Little. Surprise For the Bridesmaid, Bad the‘IaLaét Laugh Smileless Women, In all the long busy days the borne woman with her numerous cares and duties certainly should fiod some few moments of absolute rest. She should avoid hurry as much as possible, and not try to crowd two hours' work in one. Many women feel that every minute they sit with idle hands is wasted, and of course this idea px‘evenbs them obtaining any benefit from en- forced idleness. It makes no one rich- er in either health, strength or worldly goods to fill every Waking minute with hard wo k, After a mother is through with her day’s work she invariably picks up the never-empty mending basket and works until bedtime. Is Ibere any wonder that her back is bent and her Goa is furrowed witiWrinlrled Tue reaction that will come some day will cost) more than ever was gained, Life should not be made a treadmill, and to the housekeeper who works early and late at the expense of her health it is not much more. Help is hired for the outside farm work s' im. proved machlnery lightens labor on every hand except in the house. Why cannot the same be done there? The partners in the firm are equal though they be man or woman, and one should not flourish at the expense of the other. It consideration were always made a. part of love, farmers' wives would be different looking women, as a rule, when youth had left them than they are. They are always the one; who remain at home that the others may take vacations; they are expected to do and know everything, and yet not camplain. Eager n qaTitsrr-os,c-aiuuro Trib. “he: To be sure, every mother wishes to see her children as well dressed as those of her neighbor, but if there is only one pair of hands to do everything the little ones must be dressed plainly d the mother is to keep her good health A quantity of fancywork in a house looks very well, providing it has not been put there at the expense oi strength. Constant work and grind will tell on a woman’s nerves in time. Her good temper will take wings, if her health holds out otherwise, and then life will be made miserable for herself and all who must live with her. B-gin in time to take rest, if it is only tor ten or fifteen minutes every day, but let it be absolute rest-mental and physical. It is not lost time. A half hour a day spent thus will manifest its good effects at the end of the year. And when possible take a week or two and that away from home, as a change of scene is often of inestimable benefit. Returned Khnlilrer--1 dida't say that I said you could take your pick. But you will have to use it in some- body else’a diggings. _ so. pick - Eager Inty1irer-Grest Scott! It I can: go and take my choice-- A Doetor's hcmage Prescribed for his Patient) South American Rheumatic Cure. and the Men’s Own Words for it : It Saved my Life.' Wm. Easkine, Manager for Ir. R. R Hopkins, Grand Valley, writes : ‘I have a patient who has been cured by South American Rheumatic Care. He had bum trying everything on earth without the slightest relief, and had taken to his bed. Three doses reliev- ed him, and when he had taken two bottles he was able to drive out. He immediately came to me and said this great remedy hadsaved his life. This remedy relieves in a few hours and is curing the world. 'Just at that critical moment,' said the soldier, home on a furlough, in dr. scribing some of his experiences at the front, 'we discovered that, through some oversight, we had been provided with nothing but blank cartridges I' ‘How terrible y cried all the girls. ‘Wasu’o it l' he asked, gratified by the sensation he had created. Of course bullets were an absolute necessity.’ 'Fortunately, just at that iustant,' explained the soldier, 'one of the boys happened to think of that box of pound cake that you girls sent to as as a. gdt of your cooking school, and'--- The president of the London Cham. berof Commerce gives 12 maxims which he has tested through years of business experience and which he re- commends as tending to insure success: 1. Have a definite aim. 2 Go straight for it. 3, Masher all details. 4 Always know more than you are expected to know. 5, Remember that ddfieulties are only made to overcome. Ot iourW they said gathering clover round him. 'What did you do T E wr Inquirer-Are there any good mining locations still open up there? Returned Klondiker-1 should say so. You can go there and take your Bat he had no opportunity to finish the story, and to this day he is regard- ed as a very poor specimen ofa soldier, anyway.--Chiesgo Past, 6. Treat failures as stepping stones to further (Hort. 7. Never put your band out further than you can draw it byolr. ll, Listen well ; answer cautiously , detife Bromptlyi 12. Presérve'. by all means in your power, 's sound mind in a sound body.' 8, ht; times be bold; always pm dent. 9. The minoriby often beats the majority in the end. 10. Make good use of other men's brainn_ Twelve Busmess Maxims. Some Difference, Of Great Value. Find Rest A Nova Scotian Farmer Tells of His Intense Suffering From Rheumat- ism and How He Found Relief. From the Bridgewat r, N. s.. Enterprise. Such 'suifc:ring as rheumatism causes the victim upon whom it fastens its )lf is almost unendurable. Only those who writhe under its pangs can imag- ine the joy cf one who has been freed from its terrors. Mr. J.W. Folkenham, of New Elm, N. S, is one of those who have been released from pain, and who believes it to be his duty to let others know how a. cure can be found. Mr Eo'kenbam is a farmer and like all who fallow his arduous but honourable calling, is sulj act) to mmh exposure. It was this exposure that brought on his trouble sud caused him so much suffering before he was rid of it, m says I--.) the spring of 1897 I contracted rheumatism. Throughout the whole summer I suffered from it, and about. the first of October it bo came so bad that I could not get oat of the house. The pains were leashed in my hip and back, and what; I sub fered can hardly be expressed. I became so helpless I could not dress without aid. Eventually the trouble spread to my hands and arms, and at times these would lose all feeling and become useless. In November I bypsn using Dr. Wiliams’ Pi k Pile ard after taking four boxes began to improve. After using six boxes the pains and soureness had all gone and I was able to do a bard day's work. I intend using a. few boxes more as a. precautionary measure. and I would earnestly adxiae those off ring from this painful trouble to give Dr. Will- iame’ Pink Pills a fair trial and be made well. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves. thus driving disease from the system. Avoid raft. tations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearirg the full trade mark, Dr, Will- iams’ Pink Pil's for Pale People. An engine which has been in cor- tinuous use for 120 years has recently been released from labor in Birmingr ham, England, and will henceforth do duty simply as a relic. It was made by James Watt, in partnership with Boulton, in 1775, two years after they began the manufacture of steam engines. It has a 32 inch cylinder and an 8-foot stroke, large dimensions when compared with modern engines J but a low pressure of steam being used, the great power produced by modern high- pressure engines could not be realized. Since its construction it has been working steadily for the Birmingham Canal Navigation Company. Its place will now be taken by two triple-sxpsc- sion vertical engines, with a capacity of pumping daily 1'A713,000 gallons. ' Tae hen didn't done it , God done it,' l 'It appears that at an elementary tx- amination in English which was held in a school near New York two sentences were given out to be Correo.- ed by the younger scholars. The first sentence was to be corrected as to its subject) mutter, and the second sen- tence as to its syntax. These were the sentences: ' The hen has three legs.’ ' 'Who done it 'l' 'Whea the papers were herded in, it was found that one of the exuninees had apparently regarded the sentences as subtly connected in thought, for the answer was as folio ms : A fine surface will hold down water. Hawkweed is receiving notice as a dangerous and threatening pests, - W. H. Rawson of market gardening fame in Massachusetts is quoted by Rural New Yorker to the etfect that in planning a late crop of peas there is little danger of mildew if early varie- ties are used, The pain that sometimes strikes a man at the most inopportune moment is due to indigestion. It may come in the midst of a dinner and make the feast a mockery. It is a. reminder that be may not eat what he chooses, nor when he chooses. He is a. slave to the weakness of his stomach. A man’s health and strength depend upon what he gets out of h 8 food. This depends upon his digestion. Remove the ob. struction by asking Dr. Pierce’s Pleas- ant Pellets. They are a positive cure for constipation and its attendant ills ---headaahe, sour stomach, flstultimoe, dizzinrsss, biliousness and "heartburn." The "Pellets" are very gentle in their action. They simp’y assist nature. They give no violent wrench to the system. They cause no pain nor grip mg. Send 31 one-ent stamps to cover cost of matting only, and receive free a copy of Dr.1herce's Medical Advertiser. AddroSi, World's Disponnary Medical Association, Buffslo, N Y. For regions infested with Hessian fly Country Gentleman advises a wise rotation of crops and the use of varities of wheat having stiff ilinty stems which are more resistant than other varieties to the attacks of this insect. "Loam in the form of carbonate of lime, as in marl. wood ashes, etc., can usually be applied with safety in the spring or at any season of the year but autumn is always the safest tine to apply caustic or slacked lime," says good authority. Our native sparrows fre" said he be weed destroyers, weed seeds forming unimportant: part} of their winter food. The Bookman tells this story illustra- ting the bumote of a school examinat- ion : COULD NOT DRESS ALONE. Agricultural Brev1ties. Oldest in the World. The Correction. "I only want. to show you our new patent reversible hen’s nests.” "What on sirth is them." “Its an ordinary hen’a nest, only it reverses itself every time a hen lays an egg and drops the egg in a basket be- low." "What good is that l" "Can't you see?The hen burns round to look at the egg, but it ain't there, and she concludes she didn’t; lay any and sits right down and lays another one, and so on, Only $50 " “BY gum ! Gimine a dozen.”_New York Weekly. But the Peddier's Invention Caught Even the Canny Farmer. "Now, jest you go right along. You needrfo stop here," said Farmer Hay- fork authoritatively. I don't want: no ligunin' rode.” "I don't beer what yer selliu'." re- p'ied the farmer I dou't Want) it, an won't take it, an that's all there is about it, I know the tricks of you city abarpers. I read the papers I do. You can’u catch me on any double back ac tion pumps, or any self workin' churns, or patent Egyptian corn fresh from the pyramids. Not much. An I doa't want to take any mowers on trial, either, an sign a receipt for it and have it come back as a 90 day note fer $10,000. No eiree. And you can’t buy my farm, either, an then have me buy it back at. a big advance because some confederate of yore comes along an offers twice what you give for it, Nixy! I'm no chicken. Now, clear out." "I only want." "Oh, yes. You only want to get my name to anything at all so you can make a note out of it. I'm up to all such tricks. I read the papery, I do." An admiral of the Turkish fleet, sea- sick in a. storm. was disturbed by a grating noise. He inquired whence it proceeded, and on being told it was the rudder of the ship he desired it might 2 immediately taken oft-indian Tit. its. "I am not selling lightning rods', responded the sleek looking peddlar, whose sudden appearance at the gate bad aroused the ire of Farmer Hayfork. The best side of men comes out when they talk of their mother or their chil- dren, Of their children they are usually quite ready to talk, but their reverence for their mother is not to'd to every- body. When a man talks to. you about his mother, you are to feel honored; it is a mark of his respect and regard for you. The strong man's ayes moisten as he talks of his mother, as he tells how she taught him to be pure, self reliant, bras e, as be pictures her fidelity and tenderness. You find him in his odiee, but he gives you a few minutes of his time. Almost un- consciously you make an allusion to your boyhocd or ask about his, and then, if you are the right kind of a man and he knows you well enough, he talks about his mother. Let him do the talking, and you have made a good pastoral call. You cannot say anything that will brine him so near to God as his own talk about the mother. trjikffcl---=sc-gp" p, "/iflm VE-rr: C 7 - ec-rar-ue-sta--' =cccfccrc: %v%;f; fl 'a5s-CEEi??-errgC-srE =.: - "r-E-pr, 7.} Jr--'- (ii-r-s ir-cc-fir-rf-L-FTE-YC: 'i-i-is-ii-c-ill-l-tillicit, fir,,..7;â€" - 'iii,r-i?iii-ttiiiili jet-tce-its-Fai-i-e-E-' ./ = =- NOT TO BE FOOLED. A Turkish Admiral CATALOGUE Fate. J. S. Roos-sole Local Agent. Guessing or Lc.r1tvi'_ntphoes His Mother. It Slater Slloes ty bear a pedigree tag which tells exactly the leather they're of, its wear, pecularities or faults. Goodyear Welted. $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per pair. the difference represented in a ;.teirr-ltti?i') sealed letter and an opened one ii] I Q Jain}? ll with a responsible signature. ‘ t2'a .i if? The sealed letter 'Pa: contain '\ ijiiiilta a large cheque, or a bailiff's notice. The EEi© opened letter-well you know just what it is. 33*" The common shoes may be good ones under the finish but how do you know? pair of common shoes, is just The difference between buying a pair of " Slater Shoes 'r and a Egfififiifi: cTifyttiiicdi' _ - rss" _-.c,l3aiiss),i, _, 3&3: &E/;fx//’°/ The growth of the Russian Empire, says the London E npire, supplies one of the mcsb remarkable features in modern history. Consisting less than four centuries ago of the Tsardom of Muscovy, with an area of 37,000 square miles, the Russian Empire of to-day includes no less than 8,660,282 equare miles, being iiiie-ywenth of the land surface of the globe, and of this enormous territory 6,56L,778 square miles are in A is. This vast empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacifie and from the Polar regions to Afghanistan, 18 but sparsely inhabited, the density of population in the Asia- tic dominion, being only three per mile, while that of the whole empire is only _13 per mile, the population in E 'gland and Wales being 370. A nearsighted, bashful youth, whose father is a. well-known commission merchant in Cincinnabi, while walking along Fourth street dimly discerned th young lady across the stress whose face he could not distinguish, but whose figure was so striking that for a mo. went !his bashfulness vanished. He determined to indu'ge in a mild fl rte.- tion. With mincing step he followed, and when nearly up to her, fortunately for his plus, she dropped her paraeol. in a jiffy he picked it up and, raising his hat, was about) to present. it with a stammering speech, when the young lady exclaimed : 'Why, George, is that you , . 'Yc-yes. Susie. Worh you have some soda l' She accepbed, and this was the h'rat time in many a dsy Gcorge had shown himself so gallant to his tisttr.--Cin. cinnatti Euquirer. ' Frances Willard once wrote to a friend who had just lost a daughter: 'Dear Sister Anna, how much richer are you than II Here I Bib alone with- out a child to die, while you are mother to an angel.’ Elder Brother-Freddy, I'm sur- prised to see you soak your bread in the gravy on the dish, Io’s exceeding- ly bad form. It is 18 years since the first Japan- ese newspaper was established and now there are in existence 575 daily and weekly papers, 35 law magazines, 35 medical magazines, 11 stisnti6o and [a large number of religious journals. On Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, the new brick residence of Mr. Ben. Johnston, on the outskirts of the village of Drayton, was found to be on iire, The furniture was all got safely out, but the house was burned to the ground. The origin ofthe fie is un- known. It started in the kitchen where there had not been a fire for hours before. The building was in. sured tor $800. Loss abouo $1,000, Growth of the Russian Empire. - Iheddr-- Well, iths awfully good tai-London Fun. Charles Hamilton, Owen Sound, aged seventeen years, was sentenced by Judge Morrison to seven years in the provincial penitentiary tor setting fire to a barn. LARGEST CIRCULATION . . OF ANY . . . NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTY An Interrupted FlirtatiOn. " {ESAX‘EE MP. '. 'i',] "l. 1%t ara I.” Lei? I iaii? ' tice. The ":5.“ , what . . BE irh%? it is. mUil Form Versus Taste. A Philosopher. ONE ISSUE A WEEK ONE DOLLAR AYEAR SUBSCRIBE NOW