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Eg The Gentleman g . @ from Indiana s CA . .. q imn y‘ ~~ * OJ es r., . \B l 4 :mv: . uâ€"Ju is mt k w t John vauited the bars and started to €ross the road. ‘They saw him from the veranda, and iss Briscoe called to him in welcome. As his tall Aigure stood out piainly in the brigkt lierht against the white Aust a streak of fre leaped from the.«ider blossoms, and there rang out th sharp report of & ride. There wore two screams from the yerunda. One. shite figure ran into the bouse. The otuer, a Httle one with a gauzy wrap streaming bebind, came fying out into th moonlight straight to Harkless. (‘There was a ‘second reâ€" port The rife sh : was answered by a revolver. Willi m Todd had risen up. apparently from nowhere, and, kneeling by the pnsture bars, fired at the flnsb of the ride. "Jumyp fer the s<badder, Mr. Harkâ€" tess!‘" he shouted _ "He‘s in them elâ€" ders . Fer God‘s sike, come back!" \Empty hnvded ax hbe was, the editor dashed for the trencherous eldbr bush @# faxt as l« long legs could carry #itm»~ but before be had taken six wtrides a linnd cliched his slceve and a girl‘s voice «is »red from close beâ€" hind bim: "Don‘t rup like that, Mr. Hurkless!y 1 can‘t keep up." He drop »ed her wrists, caught ber up g.hls nrms ns if she bad been a kitâ€" : and leaped into the shadow of the &rees thit leaucd over the road from i?' yavrd. The rife rang out agnin, nd the ‘ittle ball whistled venomousâ€" g‘ overbend. Harkless ran along the Fence and turned in at the gate. A Jnose strand of the girl‘s hair blew wross Ris check. and in the moon her +4 shone with gold. Sle bad light . "But you came with me," she gasped ’Emmplm atly. \ "I alway« thought you were tail," i@ answered, and there was afterward time when he bad to agree that this a somewhat vague reply. Heâ€"wheeled about and confronted & vlgl-*; n daiuty i: .le gure about five feethigh, a>fiush d and lovely face, bair and draperies disarranged and BOying. He stumped his foot with rage. "Get back in the house!"" be cried. "You mustn‘t go!" she panted. "It‘s the only way to stop you." "Go back to the bouse!" he shouted savagely "Will you come?" "Fer God‘s sake," ctied William Todd, â€"~comeâ€"back!â€" â€" Keepâ€"out of â€"the road!" He was emptying his revolver &t the clump of bushes, the uproar of his firing blasting the night. Some one screamed from the bouse: ‘"Helen, Helen!" John ‘seized the girl‘s wrists. Het !;y eyes fiashed lngd‘hu deflantly. i11 you go?" be roa * w lintt uod gray eyes and a sbort ‘ r Hp like a curied rose leaf. He get her down on the vernnda steps. 'gb of them Iaughed wildiy, 2 ."But you came with me," she gasped "No!" i messing at the heat of an oven C ; B L o n tn e mbre food t‘:an inexperienced ::fl nc :',- ~ o Mss + + ® NuzZ 4 mng pastry and delicate cakes are en y ; c 2 A if the oven is too hot or not tteleent hot eitough. The oven thermometer of the Imperial Oxford Range 'doq\:way with a" cucgswork. The least cxperienced can tell to a tyâ€"when the o â€"n is ready for haking or roasting. housekeeper wili appreciate this convenience of the Most cooking failures may be traced to the fact that you don‘t know ' ‘oven. With the Imperial Oxford Range you know that the heat M xnefrm,... â€" of the oven is evenly distributed and its exact â€" es /!4’":'3 Afemperature. ~â€" (tk ,i};i Write for the Imperial Oxford booklet. Or better Ne !."f:i'{’tq..’ §¥ â€" still, will yo.. call at one of our agencies and see . ue‘ / the stove itself? The Kidney Pill, makes healthy : kidneys and prevents and cures ‘ Rheurnatism. Try Buâ€"Ju and you will be ‘convinced‘ of its remarkable salutary effects. â€" Mn clgints Imperial Oxford Range â€" s > *BY BouUTH TAKLLINGTON. *4 "~*2"«*»*s"@ .'-was EW YOR®, t.V.. AM® WINDSO®, ONT. # , .f.mmaoms a 0 % 4 4 The Gurney Foundry â€"Co. Toronto, Canada Montreal, Winnipeg Vancouver C "Did Miss Helen shake bands with you Sour or five times?" asked Briscos, ebuckling. "No. Why?" said Minnie. . "Because Harkless did.. My hand aches, and I guess William‘s does too. He nearly shook our arms off when we told him he‘d been a fool. Seemed to do him good. I told him he ought to hire somebody to take a shot at him every morning before breakfastâ€"not that it‘s any joking matter," the old gentleman fnished thoughtfully. "He tuck up the fence like a scared rabbit," Mr. Todd responded, looking into his hat to avold meeting the eyes of the lady, "and 1 didn‘t have nocall to foller. He knowed bow to run, I reckon. Time Mr. Harkless come out the yard apnin we see him take across the road to the wedge woods, near bailf a mile up. Somebedy else with him vhenâ€"looked like a kid. Mnst ‘a‘ e=* mcross the field to join him ‘They‘re fur enough toward home by this." "I should say not," said William, with a deep frown and.a jork of his head toward the rear of the house. "He jokes about it enough. Wouldn‘t even promise to carry a gun after this. Haid he wouldn‘t know how to use itâ€" never shot one off since he was a boy, on the Fourth of July. This is the mird time be‘s be‘n shot at this year, but ne says the others was at aâ€" what ‘d he call it?" "‘A merely complimentary range,‘" Briscoe supplied. He handed William « cigar and bit the end off another Liiaâ€" seif. ‘"Minnie, you better go in the mouse and read, I expect, unless you wunt to go down to the creek and join tnose folks." â€" "Me!" she exclaimed. "I krow whon to stay away, I guess. Do go and put toat terrible gun up." "No," said Briscoe lighting bis cigar @nliberately. "It‘mall safe; there‘s no question of that; but maybe William aud 1 better go out and take a smoke in the orchard ‘as long as they ‘stay down at the creek." "Pooll! ‘They‘re all right. Thatscal awag‘s half way to Six Crossroads by this time. isn‘t be, Willtam?" CHAPTER IV. DGE BRISCOR swmiled grimâ€" ly and leaned on bis shotgun 46 the moonlight by thr veâ€" randa. He and William Todd had been kicking down the elder bushes and, returning to the bousé, found Minâ€" nle alone on the porch. "Safe?" be said to his duughter, who turned an anxious face upon him. "They‘ll be safe enough now, and in our garden." In the garden shafts of white light pierced the, bordering trees and fell where June roses breathed the mild might breeze, and here, through sumâ€" mer spells, the editor of the Herald and the lady who bad run to bim at the pasture bars strolled down a path trembling with shadows to where the s /07 6D. "Maybe I oughtn‘t to have let them 30 pille, 50e Limiteod 3! eC we "Do you know, Mr. Harkjess, you @4104 I have not ‘met,‘ have we? Didn‘t we forget to be presented to each other?" . _ She struck the bench again. "Ob, you Inugh at me! You make a jJoke of your own life and denth and laugh at everyâ€" ‘"Purest comedy," be said gayly, "exâ€" cept your part of it You shouldn‘t have done it. ‘This evening was not arranged in bonor of ‘visiting ladies‘ But you mustn‘t think me a comedian, Truly, 1 didn‘t plan it My friend from Bix Crossroads must be given the credit of ld::m the scene, though you divined ‘‘There‘s no summer theater in Six Crossroads. There‘s not even a church. Why shouldn‘t they?" be asked grave ly. "During the long and tedious evenâ€" ings it cheers the poor Crossroader‘s soul to drop over bere and take a shot at me. It whiles away dull care for him, and be has the additional ¢xercise of running all the way home." "Ab!" she cried indignantly. ‘"They told me you always answered like this." ‘"Well, you see, the Crossroads efforts have proved so thoroughly bygienic for me. As a patriot I have sometimes felt extreme mortification that such bad marksmanship should exist in the counâ€" ty, but 1 console myself with the thought that their best shots are, unâ€" bappily, in the penitentiary." â€" "There are many left. Can‘t you un derstand that they will organize again and come in a body, as they did before ywa broke them up? And then, if they come on a night when they know you are wandering out of town"â€" "You have not had the ndvantage of «n intimate study of the most exelusive men who remain in that neighborhood while their relatives sojourn under dis cipline. If you had the entrese over there, you would understand that these thirty could not gather themselyes into a, company and march the seven miles without physical debate in the ranks. They are not precisely amiable people, even among themseives. ‘They would «warrel and shoot one another to pleces -:Lb“nhpthn.' they worked in a company dreams. ‘This was so much prettier. not cared for them for almost half an h1 It was so much more beautiful to dainty and smallsand piquant He had no notion that he was sighing in a way that would have put a fyrâ€" nace to shame, but he turned his eyes from her because he feared that if he looked longer he might blurt out aome She picked a long spear of grass from the turf before her, twisted it absently in ber finzers, then turned to him slowly. Her lips parted as if to speak. Then she turned away again. The action was so odd, somebow, as she did it, so adorable, and the preâ€" served silence was such a bond beâ€" tween them, that for his life he could not have helped moving balf way up the bench toward lier. "What is it?" be asked, and he spoke in a whisper such as he might bave used n1 the bedside of a dying friend. He would not have laughed if he had known be did so. She twisted the spear of grass into & little ball and threw it at a stone in the water before she anâ€" swered : & "It was a little too picturesque, I think. I know about #ix Crossroads. Please tell me what you mean to do." "Nothing.â€" What sbould. 1?" "You mean that you will keep on letâ€" ting them shoot at yo@untii theyâ€"until you"â€" She struck the bench angrily with her band. "Nover for seven miles. Foor wiles was their radius. Five would see them git dond," . â€" _ co .0A l o e glance rested on .the bank, but its diameter included the edge of her white skirt and the tip of a little white, bigh heeled slipper that peeped out from beneath, and be had to look away from that, too, to keep from telling her that he meant to advocate a law compelling all women to werr criap white gowns and> white Ed silppers on moonlight nights. ful and ailittle sad. He noted that her hair curled over her brow in a way be "I beg your pardon, Miss Sherwood. In the perturbation of comedy I forâ€" "Kt said. bead. had not pictured in the lady of his Neither knew that neither had spoken. was melodrama, wasn‘t it?" she He laughed, but she shook ber of Have of PlattviHe ‘ "He was here this afternoon. I teased him a little about your heading in the Heraldâ€"‘Business and the Craâ€" die, the Altar and the Grave,‘ isn‘t it? | â€"and be said it bad always troubled l him, but your predecessor had used it, and you thought it good. 80 do I. He asked me if I could think of anything, that you might like better and put in < place of it and I wrote ‘The Time Has Come,‘ ‘because it was the only thing I could think of that was as appropriâ€" ‘ ate and as fetching as your hendlines. He was perfectly dear about it He was so serious. He said he feared it wouldn‘t â€"ha Rocentable L didn‘t notica | that the paper be handed me to write on was part of his notes; nor did he, I think. Afterward be puot it back in bis | pocket. It wasn‘t a message." The Macdonald Consolidated Rural school opens on Monday. The numâ€" ber of pupils who will attend the school ig large and there is no doubt but that this new seat of learning will be liberally patronized. _ There are a large number of applications from scholars outside the sections. These will be admitted if they pro vide their own transportation and as long as there is no overcrowding â€" in the school.â€"Guelph Herald. . Chalece snt Stritnnee a e Colic, It might have been bard to convince a woman if she, had overbeard this speech that Miss Sherwood‘s bhumility was not the calculated affectation of a coquette. Sometimes a man‘s unsusâ€" "How dear and good of him!" She spoke earnestly, and ber face was sufâ€" fused with a warm light. There was no doubt about ber,meaning what she picion is wiser, and ~Harklcss knew that she was not fiirting with bim. In addition, be was not & fatuous man; he did not extend the implication of her words nearly so far as she would have bad him. "I‘m not so sure he did not notice. He is very wise. Do you know, I have the impression that the old fellow wanted me to meet you." "It was," John answered unsteadily, "He kubw how great was my need of a fewâ€" minutes‘ companionableness withâ€"with"~â€" "No," she interrputed. "I meant dear and good to me. I think he was thinkâ€" ing of me.. It wis for my sake he wanted us to meet." "Look at the moon," he responded. "We Plattvillians oyn that with the best of metropolitans, and, for my part, 1 see more of it brre. You do not apâ€" preciate us.. We have large landscapes in the heart of the city, and what other eapital has advantages like that? Next winter the railway station is to have a new stove for the waiting room. Heayâ€" en itself is one of our suburbsâ€"it is so close that all one‘has to do is to die. You insist upon my being French, you see, and I know you are fond of monâ€" sense. How did you happen to Put "THe Walirus and the Carpenter‘ at the bottom of a page of Fisbee‘s notes?" "Miss Briscoe"â€" "She doesn‘t read Lewis Carroll, and it was not her hand. What made you write it on Fisbee‘s manuscript?" "Could you realizte that one of your Aungers might be a shaking?". she cried. . "Is your seriousness a lost art?" Her laughter ceased suddeniy. "Ab, no!~ I understand Thiers saidthe Â¥French laugh aiways in order not to weep.. 1 haven‘t lived bere fve years. I should laugh, too, if I were you," _ > "In Carlow county!" "He might bave written it himself." "Fisbee has never in bis life rend anything lighter than cuneiform inâ€" shoes patch . moonlight on fi-;:u were dusty; he drew them under the bench with a shudder) to bis vroad shoulders (be shook the stoop out of them), She stretched her small white hands toward bim and looked at them in contrast and broke into the most deâ€" lclous‘ low Jaughter in the world At this be knew the watch on his lips was worthless. It was & question of minâ€" utes til} be should present himself to her eyes as a sentimental and suscepâ€" tible imbecile. He knew it. He was in wild spirite. ":Wu it? How were you sure it was mfiufifflnmdh he oct a watch upon his Hps, though he knew it would not avail bim long. : He had ‘driveledâ€"along respectâ€" ubly so far, be tho«, 5t, but he had the sentimental lougings of years, starved of «xpression, culminating in bis beart She continued to look at bim wistfully, searchingly, gently,â€" Then her eyes trayâ€" To be Continued for a man you had |s In the cutting room the work is chiefly done by hand on account of the stickiness of the rubber. The rubâ€" ber sheets and rubbered cloth are cut out.into patterns in a similar manner to the pattern cutting in leaâ€" ther shoe factories. ‘The next departâ€" ment,visited was the making room in the fourth storey. Each maker gets all the pieces which are required . for his or her ticket which may call for from 15 to 45 pairs a day.The woâ€" men and girls make all the ladies‘, misses‘and children‘s rubber shoes, and the male employes make all the men‘s rubbers, including the lumberâ€" men‘s boots and the arctics and exâ€" cluders which figure so largely in the orders from the Northwest. The making department is in a large, airy, wellâ€"lighted and altoâ€" gether pleasant room and nothing more could be desired for the comâ€" fort of the operatives. From the making room the goods are sent ‘to the varnishing room, where they are vulcanized. _ Next motning they go to the packing rcom where after being trimmed, they are packed into cases ready for shipment in detailed orders. GROWTH OF THE CONCERN. to the fact that everything is geared on the main shaft. Next the people witnessed the washing of crude rubâ€" ber and followed it into the milling room, where the mixing.,sheeting, deâ€" signingâ€"of soles afifl"ifiléix and â€" the applying of . the rubber to: cotton takes place. Then they saw the ctude rubber in the process of drying and seasoning. The different grades of rubber come from South and Central America and Africa. The best qualâ€" ity comes from Bolivia, and of this grade the Merchants‘ Rubber Comâ€" pany are extensive usersâ€"even more so than some of the larger rubber facâ€" tories. ~ The present output of the factory is 1400 pairs per day, or a cath vAlue of $1,000 per day. & not sparing anything to give the best article machinery can produce, ‘With the addition of, this new'?mhlne the capacity of the Irrtory will be 4,000 per day. The company has recently cnwnY into contracts which will war the production in 1905 . of close ‘Wpon 3,000 ;;I}- per day. This will require over hands. The pre: sent number employed is 145. q ~ The company is establishing its own branches at Montreal, Ottawa, :Toâ€" ronto and 6 hn he4 h oantmpinin hn ex The first department the visitors were taken to was the steam plant, in which is detmonstrated the most modern â€"way of converting steam from coal by the Jones underieed stoker, the most improved system known. Next the engine rapm was visited and the people were greatliy impressed with the quiet manner in which the heavy machinery ran, this being due The intention was to take the visiâ€" tors through in groups of ten. The travelling representatives were all in for the day anrd assisted in conductâ€" ing the visitors through" the works, but it was utterly impossible to stick to the plan of talirg them through in groups of ten because they came alâ€" tozether too fast to be so handled. Manager Rieder when seen by the Telegraph said He had reccived many applications from people anxious to see the process of rubber making and as it took.about two hours to make a complete trip through the works, meaning considetable loss of time, ‘he evolved the idea of baving an open day when all who desired to visit the factory could do=so. By agtual ¢ount « 1,100 . Company on witnessed the process mem trom the erude rubbe? to the finizhed article. The lactory was open to the public from 9 to 12 a.m. and.from 2 to, 5 p.m. ~At 9 a.m. a number © of people were. waiting toâ€" zo‘ throtigh the works and from that time on there was: a continualâ€"stream of peoâ€" ple making the rounds of the different departments. The factory was . runâ€" ning on theâ€"regular shift as it nothâ€" ing spetial was on the tapis, The idea is a new onein Berlin, and â€" its wisdom was gmply demonstrated. The visitors iesm delighted with: what they saw and picked up a great deal of information about rubber making. The employes entered cheerfully into the spirit of the departure and altoâ€" gether the day was a distinct sucâ€" THE: PROCESS OF RUBBER MAKING. it tA trorel % 0 Merckants" Rubber Comâ€" pany Wednesday. . »*stitch in time." they will invariably have the ial effect and save m'hwnmy.aa-flvq. all DragySsts in Canads and U. 6. Amorica, in bozes, 25 conts. it was his intention to spend the ‘af= Aernoon in conferring with countyâ€"and town officials with the view of mak, ing arrangements for the eollection of information as to local history, for his . department and to agitate . the formation of an historical society here. He hoped to be able so to preâ€" sent the advantages to be gained by having such . an organization as to have a movement in that direction started. v 7 AN HISTORICAL S0CIETY HEBRE Similar organizations have long exâ€" isted in maty parts of the province and new ones are being formed in different points throughout Ontario. Guelph Presbytery is to convene in Guelph next Tuesday. Mr. Alexand8r Fraser, of Toronto, Provincial Archivist, is registered at the Walper House toâ€"day. When inâ€" terviewed by the Tclegraph, he said on tke. lake and Boettger broke through. Luckily the water was> not deep enough to go over his bead, but it reached as high. as his neck, and in there he stood, unable to get out, until rescued by Messrs. D. A. Bean and Richard Collard, who witâ€" nessed the accident from the street. On account of the ice being so thin, it was not strong enough to bear his weight when hbe tried to climb up on it out of the hole, but it was of suffiâ€" cient thickness to prevent his being able to break his way to shore before being overcome by numbness. An oar and boards were thrown to him, but even with these he could not make headway. Then the rescuers got out a boat and by breaking the ice with an axe got near enough to pull him to the boat by means of a rope which had been furnished bf\ orher rescuers. Boettger _ had been inâ€" ‘the water for about halt an hour whenâ€"l@g was finally taken out and was so numb that he could not have stpod it much longer. Naturally he was wet through and through, beâ€" sides being chilled to the bone. He was taken to the home of Mr. Jackâ€" son on David street, where he ew2s given a change of clothing. 6 . Bocttger is sixteen years of age and is an employe of the W.G.&R. Company. Manager Rieder and his gssistants &re to be congratulated upon the enâ€" tire success of their novel move. It is one‘ that could be emulated with ad~, vantage by other interesting manuâ€" facturing concerns of the Twinâ€"City. COLD EXPERIENCE OF RARLY SKATER. A youth named Herbert Boettger, whose home is in the Courtland Aveâ€" nue Terrace, had an experience. in Victoriaâ€"â€" Park, oh Friday â€" evening which he will not soon forget. . He and arother. lad named Roberts were skating on the thin coating of â€" ice . Mr. f:said he would have 1 dflmhw“g in full _ operation at night so. that people who could not get out during the day could visit the works, but &umb‘:miqbu. However, he has decided to have the {actory open on some halâ€"holiday for the benefit of: the employes of other factories and any others who could not be present on Wednesday. â€"He desites to thank the many who accepted the:invitaâ€" tion, but asks any who were through on Wednesday not to come on ‘the next day the factory is thrown .open, as it might prevent many who have not been there from taking advantage of theâ€" next chance they : willâ€" have. Every visitor was given a souvenit in the shape of a badge to which was attached a miniature rubber boot. ~â€" inesseent o Sufaing apera clork commencemen on the ‘site of hhctoc;':su. h‘m. * For Wee FolK as well as Big Ones "Grown Ups ‘‘ have no monopoly on Mooney‘s Perfection Cream Sodas Children take to these deâ€" licious crackers like they do to bonâ€"bons. There‘s an appeâ€" deliciousness about them that is simply irresistible. Wholesome and nutritious, BB vo jus the strength and to the nerves food for little ones to make At your groâ€" cer‘sâ€"in the of We en a full line of all Tâ€"usser also the "Al R:g:r" French Truss the newest on =ho market to.day, . Is not affected persp or so no rusting or br h Tangle foot No charges for fittig and guarantes .v Cmflmpnnn WOLFE, Jx. Painter and Papor Hanging, Wil a der ake contracts for painting and paper hang ug in Town and Country. Rustâ€"slass work yuaranteed. Charges reasonable. Apply a re«idence, ccrner of Queen and Princess 8t*, Waterico * Phone 402 YY _ _ _ C. W. WELLS. D. D. &., Th.u-hy and Friday of each m@" 3:Mwmmw 4A olmb'toeo The wm-u= offie will be closed every Friday afternsen. pRUSSECS$ LA k lt becAuliss and ‘Throat Hospitald, v.::n:w h:muduun W ad ouse Tuesday and Frida lhomo':-mlfl Tmmom.u‘fl.onr. C D.8., m guw Surgeonsc 1x b.6 erouy u-lv-fi Jumr:.::u- of dentistry znah.‘. !fl& Store. Entrance between 'm-hd'o i8r and Stuebing‘s grocery, â€" land,_Also Moyal and Impo:inl Rge, lar: Water00. W. R.Wilkinson, L.D.$., D.D.$ * DENTIST. + %# allist of . Dloontiate of the Coneve, d of the late Dr, Waliden‘s‘ residence. R. W. L HILHUIARD, Q guorq:amual'l‘ohub Univ Rludhu.dkh-noul-d throat 1 stisntion given to the use of the X â€" Ray and Eleétric Currents 4 in the diagnosis and treatmient o suitable YR DAMEKâ€" Specialist in modical a11 hests Prarchng Aip eeate,tocs in Royal Lond n e and Golden Har, Kows and Threat Bespiy is bondont Hug sou‘s ofice, Beriin y fMee sn King Sireeb, Opposite Wooltsn w "Â¥mHe4ins MISCELLANEOQUS fo o ie T n ioi sn dlooâ€"Post Office. 36. Jacobe, Out. cBRIDK & FLINTORT, . & Mimce . ae e 1J ~G. HUGHkS, WINN, ue H WEBB, M. D. irne Store, Waterloo, On Agenat G. N. W,, Tol. Comftpany‘. _ R. C. T. NORCKUR, Office: Canadian Block, Berlin. for the fly ssasonnow on Opposite A 0. Bxshmer & Co., 1 King St. Kast. Dentist _ Office in Oddfâ€"liow‘s Blook Flypad And all kinds of Office Onen Daily. A. J. ROOS, MEDIOAL DENTAL Trmes sold DRURCIST BRERLLN .. Sm 1