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in Cunhit anid 4. . wh PB n 1 uie * fme oo penitentiary .‘ idered what those boxes on the walls were . Tot; aud he was about : to: ask, ‘when ~a guar lm:‘ from one . of them with a m and started to pabrol the wall, and he had no need to ask. To wanted to go up on the hill \hd look at the Armory ° and the graveyard, but the schoolâ€"master said ‘they did not have time, and, on the \ moment, the air was startled . â€" with whistles far and nearâ€" six _ o‘clock! Atâ€"onee Caleb Hazel led the way to supper in the boardingâ€"house, whete Jt had been arranged by the schoolâ€" naster that they shouldâ€"all meet at ie railway station to go home, neft ay: at noom, â€" and, as the â€" Turner ys had to help the Squire ,iwith the logs at the river, and the schoolâ€" master had to attend to some busiâ€" mess of his own, Chad roamed | all horning around the town. _ So : enâ€" rossed â€"was. he with the people and the â€" $ Aand sounds of the . little iMage that he"came to himsell with | start and trotted batk _ to . the boardingâ€"house for fear that he might ,"; be able to find the station alone. ~T old Jady wasâ€"standing in the sunâ€" / Bhine at the gate. ‘" Chad pantedâ€"‘Where‘sâ€"*" Wl t"They‘rée gone."" _ _ ~ s tGonet* echoed â€" Chad, with a sinkâ€" a kindâ€"faced old lady spoke to Chad & mot! l{"nr, and where . the oy saw his . hot biscult and was ailmost afraid to eat anything at the table for fear he might do something wrong. For the first time in his life, too, he slept on a mattreéss without any feathorâ€"bed, and Chad lay . wondâ€" ering, but unsatisfied still." Not yet ‘had he been out ol sight of the hills, ‘but the master had told him ; that they would see the ~Bluegrass . next Mayy when they were to start _ back ‘Q motintains by train as far as on. And Chad went to sleep, \dreaming his old dream still. g heart. | / hemtme "Â¥es, they‘ve been . goueâ€"‘" _ But ad did not wait to listen; he whirlâ€" y:the hallâ€"way,.caught . up his fle, and, forgetting his injured foot, d at full speed down _the . street. e turned the corner, but could .not @ the station, â€"and he ran on about ther â€"corner and â€" stilk another, just _ when he was / about . to &1 into tears, he saw the low roof at he. was looking for, and _ hot, ti nd tired, he rushed to . it, fdly: able to. speak. Mas "thut cniine gone?" he â€" asked thiessty.â€" The man â€" who _ was ling trunks ‘on their corners into ,';* gageâ€"room . â€"did ‘not~ answer. s eyes Nashed and he caught.the by the coalâ€"tail. â€" #as that eniin= gone?" ‘he cried. Bian looked â€"over his. shouldec. . ®o my coat, you little «devil. weniine’s gone," he >added, icking. Then he. saw the boy‘s Â¥py face and he dropped the Cand turged to him. Rat‘s the matter?" he asked, r‘fliw as he looked, for he wecall that.sometimes down in miquntains a man â€" would disapâ€" "for veats and turn no aga‘n at _ When â€" * sweets" «substantials," . h.fi.‘ '. ; Mmfâ€"thefcm always â€" MOONEY‘S IP-ECTION REAM SODAS to te farther on, they turned | to overn mansion, arid by, %;f high â€" gray F,w.llv‘q.o. as . a house, wooden .“tdh: than a l::: â€"and, , ano 5‘%1. m, visible the â€"were grated â€" ~winâ€" the ‘penitentiaryt Every mounâ€" has heara that word,: and anâ€" the “Le#htn’." eoax back the appetite lad turned away with a sob. lef"‘ meâ€"they‘ve Jef‘ me," and then, controlling ~ihimâ€" thar another goin‘?" Lost at the Capital till toâ€"morrow «mornin‘." «. k sob came, and Chad / turnâ€" pâ€"he did not want anybody CHAPTER VI YOU h they to ,%hhn ¢ry. And this was time for erying, for:Chad‘s > p k at the graye under the pople nafhed vitdedly hger to ie 10 . ‘ gobâ€"to agk. a Wan .. now.‘‘ And, sobercd at onte, he walked on Rotu.bil- . . He touid not w that tb u&kw was baek in the town, ng for. him. If he waited until the next morning, the â€" Turnersâ€" would probably. have If he waited until the next morning, the â€" Turnersâ€" would probably. have gone on; whereas, if he started out uow ‘on foot, and walked all night, he might catch them before they left Lexington next morning. ~And if be missed the Squire d&nd the ‘Turner boys, he could certainly ‘ ~find the schoolâ€"master â€" there. â€" And 4f not, . he could ‘go on to the mountains alone. Or he might stay in the "‘spttleâ€" dightone nahtook b96 pC along hE g 93. . headâ€"â€"he â€"and he always wodd.;flj&m M£ back to the mountains. If he _ :nnd Jo'&ui-:‘ll. he only had Jnku‘g:q w + ies s would ies beadpeit; w n only Had Jack. But, cheered" thâ€" his determination, he rubbed the tears from his eyes with his coatâ€"sleeve and clinibed the" long .. hill, * There was th> Armory,â€"which, years later, was to harbor Union troops in.: the great war, and beyond it was~â€" the little city of the dead ‘that sits on top of the hill far above the shining river, At The great iron gates â€" ht stopped a moment, peering. through. He saw a wilderness of white .slabs and not until he made his way @cross the thick green turt and spelled ‘out the names carved on them, could he make out what they were for. How he wondered wheré he saw the innumâ€" erable green mounds, â€" for he. hardly knew there were as many people . in ‘ths world living: as he saw . there must be in that placc, dead. But he had no time to spare and he turned quicktyâ€" back to the pileâ€"â€" saddenedâ€" for his heart went back, as his faithâ€" ful heart was always doing, _ to the lonely graves under the big~ poplar ~Back in the mountains. ~â€"‘When he reached the top of the slope, be saw a â€" rolling country. of low hills stretched out before him, grecning with‘ spring; with â€" _ far stretches of thick grass and _ many woodlands under a long, Jow\ sky, and ho wondered it this was~ the Bluegrass. But he "reckoned"â€" notâ€" not yet. And yet he looked in‘ wonâ€" ET ty n C @>r at the green stopes, . and â€" the woods,. and the flashing creek, and nowher@.in front of himâ€" wonder of altâ€"could He see & mountain. . Jt wus as wosb liacel bad> told him;, only Chad was not looking for any such mysterious joy as thrilled. his sensitive soul.â€" There had beeifa light | ! sprinkle of snowâ€"such / a fall ~as may | come even in carly ‘Aprilâ€" but . the | : noon sun had Tet the wheatâ€"helds and ' the pastuces bossom through it, and | / had swopt it from the gray moist pike until now there were patches . of | white ouly in gully ahd along ~north J > Inllâ€"sides under 1ittle groups of pines â€": and in the woods, where the sunlight _ could mot reach; and Chad trudged. . steadily on in spite of his heavy rifle ard his laine foot, keenly alive _ t6 the new sights _and â€"â€" sounds _ and . smells of the new Worldâ€"on until the" . shadows Jengthened , and _ the=~ air~ chilled again; on, until the sun began®, to sink close to The farâ€"away haze . of the horizon. Never had the horiâ€" Â¥on looked so Iat away. _ His_ foot . began to hurt, and on the top of.. a hill he had to stop and sit down*for _ "a while in theroad, the pain was so keen.‘ The sun was setting. now in a glory.of gold, rfose, pink, and crimâ€" san. Uver him, the still clouds caught the divine light which swept swiltly through the heavens until the little pink clouds over.the east, too, turned , gohien pink and the whole: heu,m} were suflused with green ‘and â€" . gold, { in th» west, dlodd was piled on cloud "like vast cathedrals that must have Ibe:n built for worship on the. way sttaight to the very throne of. God. And Chad sat thrilled, . as be had becn at the sunrise on the mountains the morning after he ran away. ‘There . | was no storm, but the same . loneli~ ness came t him now ahd h6 wondérâ€" «d what he should do. â€" He could not wet much farther that nightâ€"his foot hurt too badly. He looked up â€" the clouds had turmed to ashes . and ° the bair was growing chillâ€"and he g: | on his feet and ntw on. At ‘ 'bmwm of the hill. down a‘ little .M he saw a light and he turned | toward it. The house was small, and ‘he could hear the ctying of & child ‘inside and could seo a tall man cutâ€" | ting wood, so he stopped at the bars «6 1" "The man stopped his axe in midâ€" ‘airâ€"and turned. (A woman, with .A baby in her arms, appeared in the light of the door with children crowd« "‘Flello!" answered tre man. * ~ "I want to git to stay all night." ‘l%‘_u- nesitated. We don‘t kiep people all night." _.‘Not keep péople all _ aight," "Oh, 1 reckon: you v%"‘ he said. Sratets . dor ‘tas that it vu; n&n was ‘|@sling sheiter and the thrust in his 6 8 00 ted, in a paâ€" "Come ib!" bient, vlirh; L reckon." ... ; topped his axe in _ mid ed. A wortan, with .. @ arms, appeared in . the door with children crowd . "A wo +4 mind sudden prayer poplar «t &u sce the Stars rising. _ It | wi yery still shd yery lonely and he was Tng: 7. o Webptiet and ter than had ever been in his Jife, and & o of. helpicssness â€"rose to his npsâ€"if â€" only ‘had Jack!â€"but he held it back. "I got #0 ack I!ike a man> now.‘‘ And, saying this over and > .Gyer to himself, he went â€"to sleep. » ;3 OV , Rain fell that nightâ€" gentle. rain and warm, for the south wind _ rase at miduight, . At.four o‘clock | <a shower made the shingles ~over Chad rattle sharply, Mtwm% the lad, and then the <rain ~ ceased; and When Chad climbed stifly â€" from his loftâ€"theâ€"world: was â€"drencebed and still, and the dawn was warm, <for ‘wpring had come that mma Chad trudged along the roz 11â€" ed. â€" Every now and then hehad â€"to stop to rest his foot: Now and then he would see people getting breaklast ready iu. the farmâ€"houses â€" that: ho passed, and, ~ though his little beity ready in. the krmâ€"ho'nm,i&t _he passed, and, ~ though his | betty was ‘drawn with pain, he would not stop mPsk for something to â€"eatâ€" for he did not want io. risk.Another rebuf.â€" The sun tose and fhe _ light leaped from every wet blade of grass and bursting leaf â€"to meet «dtâ€" leaped as though flashing ‘back gladness that the spring was.come. For_a little while Chad: forgot his. hunger â€" ‘and forgot his footâ€"like the â€" leaf= and grassâ€"blade â€"his â€"stout â€"heart aniswéred withâ€" gladuess, too, . and â€"he~Arudged . Meanwhile, far behind him, ~an old curlage‘mlied out ofâ€"a.big yard ‘and started toward him and toward <Lexâ€" ington. In the driver‘s. seat wasâ€"an old grayâ€"haired, grayâ€"bearded.. negro with knotty hands and a‘kindly face; while, on â€"the ovalghaped seat behind the lumbering old vehlfi;(.,.t a dittle darky with his bare legs ‘ â€" dangling down. In the carriage sat â€" a man â€"who might have been a stout squire straight from merry England, except that there was a little tilt .to the srim ‘of his slouch hat that one never sces except on the head of a Southerâ€" ‘n@r, and in his strong, but easy, good:natured mouth was a pipe of eornâ€"cob with a long cane stem. ‘The horses that drew him werea bandâ€" some pair of half thoroughâ€"breds, â€"and the old driver, with his eyes . half closed, "looked as though, .even <that early in theâ€"morning, he were â€" dozâ€" ing. * Auâ€"hour later, the pike ran through an old woudrnâ€"covered, bridge, to ont side of which a road led down to the water, and the old negro turged the carriage to the creek to . let â€" his horses dvink. The carriage stood still in the middteâ€"of the stream and preâ€" s¢nlly the old driver turned his head: ~â€"‘‘Mars Cal!" he calle«i in . a<. low voiee, The Major raised ‘ his . head. The old megro was pointing with his whip abcad and the. . Major . saw something sitting on the stone fence, some {wenty yards _ beyond, _ which stirred him sharply from his moad of contemplation, x h83 ‘‘Shadeseof Dan‘l Boone!" be said soitly.. 1t was a. miniature pioncer= the little still figure watching _ him sulemnly and silently. / Across â€"the hoy‘s fap lay a long rifleâ€"the Major could see that it had a flintlock â€" and on his tangled hair was a coonâ€" skin‘ capâ€"the sealp above his stcady dark eyes and the coil hanging down the Tad‘s ngck. And on his Jeet were â€"moccasins!. . The carriage . moved out of the stream and the old driver got gown to hook the checkâ€"reing over the shining bit of metal that, curved back over the little saddles to which the boy‘s eyes had swiftly . strayed. Then they came back to the Major. ‘"Howdge!" said Chad. "Good mornin‘, littlé mah,"~.said the M%.plmmtly. and. Chad knew straightway that he had â€" found â€"a friend. But there was #ilence. . Chad scanned the horses and the strange vehicle and the old driver ~ and . â€"the lit tle : pickaningy wm' ‘heating â€" the boy‘s voice, had up on his seat j andâ€" was grinning over ‘one "Of â€" the whoels, and then hl-..?on rested on the . Major »with a simple confidence and uncomscious appeal that touched the Major at once. yX s the "Are you goin‘ my way*".â€" The Majot‘s nature was too mellow â€" and casyâ€"going to pay any attention : ~to final g‘s.. Chad lifted his old. â€"gun and pointed up the road. / ... "I‘m aâ€"goin‘ thataway.". "Well, don‘t you want to ride?" ‘‘Yes," he said, simply.~ ; _ _ . "Climb. right in, my boy.". . f So Chad climbed in, and,â€" holding wna 40. 9006 on t en en in shope Tor as this rsa teaches it If you work in years. E‘-m“ ot * =‘n emplay no % fl"-"o-u{&fia im '.'3 n?fl o it sn ooo in en t our reis one hird for & SANDERS DEESS CUTTING SCHOOL 31 LEele Sirget, Strattord, Ont., Canade. W A A Fricad on ‘the RomiP CHAPTER VII BY MAIL i TWE ; ues lal use L F age the old rifle upright bet ween ‘his knees,: “: he. looked %fl&'fi-f m’vm_l:mm d hin with a. quick smile. ... _ > s c ane w’| ‘‘Where are You from:,; little man?"*\ ‘om | â€" 1 come ‘from the mountains."" and | : !‘The mountains?"" said the Major, ~ tor| The Major had fished . and â€"bunted and | in the mountains, and somewhere in wjj}. ‘Ahat Unknown region he owned a king= to dom of. wild mountainâ€"land, _ but he he;, knew as little about the â€" people.. as fast beiknew about the Hottentats, _ and ho Cared chardly more. etty _ ‘‘What are you doin‘ up here?" not â€" ‘I‘m goin‘ nome,‘‘ said Chad. + __ > "Mow did_ you happenâ€" to. come away . _"Oh, I been wantin‘ . to . see . the scttlemints."> _ â€" P c i _‘‘The settlemints," â€" echoed â€" ~the Major, and then he understoodâ€" HMe recall@d having heard ‘the mountainâ€" eers. call the. Bluegrass region the "settlemints‘‘ â€"before." > "I come down on a â€" Tafts with Doiph and. Tom and Rube. ~and the schoolâ€"teacher, an‘ I. got lost in Frankforb. . They‘ve gone on, I reckon an‘ I‘m trying to ketch ‘om." "What will: you" do if you don‘t?" "«Follweâ€"‘em,"". said Chad, sturdily. ©‘Does your. father Jive down. in the mountains?" : * S yewe "No," said Chad, shortly. ‘The Major looked at the Tad graveâ€" Iv ~‘Don‘t <little boys «lownâ€" in . the mountains, ever say ‘sir‘ â€" to . their clders?" e "No," said Chad. "No, sir,". he added gravely," and the Major _ broke into a pleased laughâ€"the ~boy was quick as lightning. _ i "I ain‘t got. no daddy. . ‘An‘. no mammyâ€"f ain‘t got~ nothin‘." . It was said quite simply, as though his purpose merely was not to sail under falseâ€" colors; and the â€"Major‘s answer was quick and apologetic: _ â€" "Oh!‘"" che said, and . for a moment there was sitence again. Chad watchâ€" cd the: woods, ‘the fields, and the Cattle, the strange . grainâ€" . growing about him, aud the birds ~ and . the trees.. Not a thing escaped his keen eyc, #nd, now and then,. he would gsk a question which â€" theâ€" _ Major would answer with some surprise and wonder. ~â€" His artless â€"ways . pleased the old fellow. "Â¥ou haven‘t told me your name." ‘You hgin‘t axed me."‘ "Wull, L axeâ€"you now,"â€" laughed the Major, but Chad saw nothing to laugh at. 7 ""Chad,"‘ *he said. "Chad what?"* ; ' Now it had always been enough in the mountains when anybody. _ asked his name, for him to answer. simplyâ€" Chad. He hesitated now and <his brow wrinkled as though he . were thinking hard. "I dton‘t know," said:â€"Chad. "What? Don‘t know your . own Aame?‘* . The boy looked up > into The Major‘s ftace with eyes ?-!"wm so frank and unashamed and at the same time soâ€"Yaguely. troubled ~ that the Major was abashed. & C3 "Of course not," he said ~%ry.‘ as though it wereâ€"the most na al thing:in the world that a boy should not know his own name. ~ Presently the Major said, réflectively; __~... "Uhadwick." "Chad," corrected the boy. .. @Â¥es, (I know;" and the â€" Major went un thinking that Chadwick hap penéd to e an ancestral name in his ‘own family.. } > + hx s â€" Chad‘s brow was sti wrinkled he was trying to think â€" what old Nathan Chetry used to call him. ~â€"~â€" "I reckon 1 â€"hain‘t thought. o‘ â€"1my: name since I leftf old Nathan," . he said. Then he told bricfly about the old man, and lifting his . lame _foot suddenly he said: "Ouch!"‘ The Major looked around and Chad explained: â€""I hart my foot comin‘ down the river an‘ hit ‘:}o'm walkin‘ â€" so much." â€"The Major noticed â€"that the boy‘s face‘was pale, and that there were dark hollows ‘under. his . eyes, but it never occurred to him _ that ‘tflt! h‘d was hungry, for, . in u: @jor‘s < Tand, nobo% ever wen ‘,Mngl!"y tor‘ fong. % . gu, was suffering now and he leaned back â€" in ‘his seat and neither‘. talked .. not looked at the passing felds. By and by, he spied a crossroad stote, .._ _ â€"The Majorlaughed: â€"‘"You: ain‘t wettin‘ hungry so soon, _ are you? You must have caten breakfast pretty early." YA ces 4 «uie TWs Oomey OO\ ol en P "I wonder it I can‘t get somethin‘ to eat ,;n that stote." The Major laughed: â€"‘"You: ain‘t wettin‘ hungry so soon, _ are. yg" w30 them \Aheâ€" schale enftit? cware" on > k h n ‘»iv m‘ <%. g,;b H‘S"} ht ‘ C n V,p; welling hills had sitel :;"‘? \rt«’ .26 - llke T. kn eatl s + hn w Jn amat & to mz‘ at s was a wondethil Hide tor Uhit.. 1t was. all true, just as the schoolâ€"master had told him; the big, bes _ houses he saw now ‘and then up avenues of ~blossoming. locusts; the endless stone fences, the whitewashed barns, ~the : woodlands and pastures; the meadowâ€"Tarks ‘Autâ€" ~ing, (luitezh‘f hl_mkh!‘i and . , a strange new black bird with red wings at which Chad. wundered very: much, as he watched ; it balancingâ€" . itself against the wind and singing as it poiscd. Everything seemed* to ~sing in that wonderfu} land. And the seas of bluegrass stretching away on every side, with. the shadows ~of _ clonds passing in â€" rapid . . succession~ â€" over them, like mystic floating islandsâ€" and never a mountain in sight, What a strange country it was, o ‘"Maybe some of your friendsâ€" are looking for you. in Frankfort," . said the Major. ‘No,â€"sir, I reckon not,"‘ said Chad â€"for . the. man : at th<o\sla.tiou © had told him: that the men who had asked about ‘him were gone. hi Sougn Roy .t "All of them?" asked the Major,~~ Ot course, ‘the man. at the station could not tell whether all . of. them had ‘gone, . and pethaps â€"the schoolâ€" master hal stayed béhindâ€" it. . was Caléh Hazel it anybody. 5 . ""Well, now 1 wonder," said. Chad â€"‘‘the schoolâ€"teacherâ€" . might _ ‘a‘ staved." ts " € Again the two lapsed into silenceâ€"â€" Chad thinking very hara.. He might yet catch the schoolâ€"master in â€" Lexâ€" ington,_and he grew very cheerful at the thought. . e "Â¥on ain‘t told me .yo‘name," he said, â€" présently. . The Major‘s _ lips smiled under the brim of his hat. @You hain‘t axed me," â€" \ "Well, ‘F axe you now.‘‘ Chad, too, was <smiling. > t "Cal,"" said the Major. "Cal what*" P t "I don‘t know." . *3 4 %% "Oh, yes, you. do, nowâ€"you foolin‘ me‘"â€"the boy lifted one finger at the Malor."~/s "Chad Buford, you little _ devil, come hych this minute or ~I‘ll. beat the life outen you!" : _‘*Bufordâ€" Calvin Buford." . "Bufordâ€"â€" Bulordâ€" Buford,‘ repéaâ€" td the boy, cach time with his. foreâ€" heat wrinkled‘ its. though _ he_ were irying to recall something. _ "What is it, Chad?" â€" _ ‘"Nothin‘â€"nothin‘." i And then he looked up < with . _ beâ€" wildered face at the‘ Major "and broke into the qguavering face : ofâ€" the. old main. ns U "Whatâ€"what"‘‘ said the Major exâ€" citedly: ‘The boy‘s face was as honâ€" ost as the sky above him.. Well that‘s funnyâ€"very. funny,"" _ : _‘Well, â€" that‘s it," ~â€"said . Chad, "that‘s what oleé Nathan used to call imne.â€" L reckon~I ‘hain‘t nuver thought o‘ my name agin #il} you azed me." TThe Major Jooked atâ€"the lad keenly and then dropped back in his seat ruâ€" mnating. * Away back in 4778 a linchpin )nd' slipped in a wagon on the Wilderness Road: and his grandlather‘s only broâ€" ther, Chadwick Buford, had concBuided to _ stop there for a~while and . hunt and come on later=â€"thus tan an old letter: that the Majort had â€"inâ€" his" stron« box at homeâ€"and that brothâ€" er had never turned up again and the mg;-m;m was that he had been killâ€" ed by Indians. > Now it would â€" be strange it Re had wandered p in the mountains and settled there _ afid . i This boyâ€" were a descendant . of > his. 1t would be very, very â€" strange, and then the Major almost laughed at the absurdity of the idea.â€"‘The name Buâ€" ford was all over the State. â€" The boy had said with amazing frankness and ~ withoutâ€"a â€" particle of ~shame, that. he. was. a wailâ€"a: "woodscolt," he said," with pdl)jxhi'u-dor, And :m the Majot »dropped the matter out his mind, é¥cept m so fac that it was a ‘peculiar coincidence â€"â€" again saving, half to himself: Toronto, ‘Jan. 9.«At the request of Mr.oA. W. Briggs, the cooas‘tsivh â€"of argument on the status of class C shareholders of the York ~Loan was wdjourned ging die yesterday â€"afterâ€" nOon. * â€"‘This . afternoon at $.80 the official Ytélerce will hear argument _ on the claims ol the borrowing shareholders. Friday . morning, 10 o‘clock, . has bech appointed for arguments on the gontention of Mr. A.C. Masten, â€"teâ€" presenting the Nova Scotia, .. shatreâ€" holders, that action of: the company in Exlending its aperations to â€" that province was ultrta vires, . andâ€". that therctore the sharcholdéers _ aro . &n titled â€"to h o. setwrm . of : th« it certainly is very odd (To be CA niraed) tor . that ind â€" that d s man { no 4 :i,f‘:,- * Aopinget yh l .tfn,‘i 3 o nnt \oltre oc i ces C rersthiak" Wenk {"" : o "‘Z‘ ‘Yl o ',.A‘A'«»;*?A-‘v.“-":»\;’ m ";.* i ung Tor cGern |‘e"‘*¢”§:1 l cof AiviBg a% ChÂ¥nper Ph ',,v‘,;lj.v coustdet with which ( .::y..,.fg&.fi peicd. (but a change was mute to come as the Kaiser loresaw. aud endta‘ 6 > oys P eA Py "matine ‘and (its natural compiement | ~an ellicient" navy: > flaving adopted the woteeuve'.ifl{ta, . and being e ed ~ about by nations _ with _ : equally exclusive, Germany soon be gan to reéalize‘ her limitations. . ‘She was â€" ~ turning out more g0ods of all kinds\ tnan . she ‘¢ould sell. At the same â€" time the cost ‘of living was adâ€" vancinig and made more costly by the: import duties on foodstuills from abroad. The result has been that the glut of overâ€"production has been fol= lowed ~by reduction of ~wages, and the industrial tlasses . in‘ Cities ‘find !(hey can no longer »dispose . of . theit labot for sufGcient money wherewith to purchase the mcugll{ies of life. . Germany is now entering on ." the se ferantn ‘m i Tea . id 4 ¢ .‘ihmfufifi’fi?fitm“v‘iaé' corn laws. These conditions are lack of éemployment for the masses, .. in creased prites for foods, . waréhouses hlled with able: goods and capiâ€" tal looked .. up or u_ vast ta~ tional and industrial works and: enâ€" "terprises undertaken with tho idea that good times would last indefinâ€" itely.~ How thnf conditions : : effect the working people of Berlin is shown by: the pathetic tales of poverty. 1t cently . published. in the first / week, of â€" December, according to official statistics, mo fewer than 11,947 chilâ€" ‘dten attending the primary schoali‘ ‘[under the compulsory education law, went without breakfast, â€"and had. no. prospect of a meal at midday . "or. ovening when they returned â€" home» About half this number ~reteived _ a meagre portion of food from the Chilâ€" drcu‘s Canteen Society, a charitable organiza tion; / the |‘remainder. were feâ€" ported _ actually starving _ <to death, Such a bortible state of aflairs in One of : the grandest and wealthiest cap itals of Rurope could not be permitâ€" ted,‘ and ~ the city had. to provide the ineans . Tor feeding the> little ones slowly perishing for â€" want ol fo0d. Never was there a more striking ilâ€" lustration of the lack. of balsice in the nodetn industrial system that 1¢ sults from _ soâ€"called protection. The natural economical forces, restricted and perverted in their operatipn, Te voil upon the: weakest firstâ€" by conâ€" signing the ~toilets to idleness and their . children to starvation. The fabric of Germian industrialism is thus shown to be cresting ~"on a rotten foundation.. Not can there b¢ any Lope . of permanent improvement unâ€" Mdeu e ioi roncl foundation.. Not can there be _ any bope . of permanent improvement unâ€" til there is a complete change, "he feadal â€" system By which the land i8 hoeld it large estates must be abolish~ ed,and. the soil pfaced: within rcach of: those who are able and wilting to cultivate it, aud impart dutics. ; on iqodstufis must be removed. Freedom is absojutely . necessaty _to prosper}â€" tyin these days of world wide" comâ€" petition. â€" 1t ~may "prove necessaryâ€" to go further â€" and lightcn militaty par« dens stop. the waste of capital ~ in permanent, unproductive works, _ inâ€" cluding palaces and battlcships. There ‘can be no ~more * monsirolls wrungs than is made. evident it warchouses stacked . with goods and : gratnaries butsting with food, while milons of human beings are in want of coverâ€" ~"ing ~and children _are sparving â€" : for lack _of: sustenance to kéep ‘body and ilo_\fi together: ACHIES 35 4y f (~~*‘Away down in the Sietra ~Madre Mountains ~ of: northern Mexico _1 cerme actross a Chinaman who â€" has made â€"a great mefifimm who is destined to become â€" & . very tith man," _ says Mr. Thomas oR Hamby, of San Antonio, Tex.. "This son of the Orfent, whose name is Joe, has the biggest potato farm in the whole‘ republic. He speaks both English and Spanish well, and he is ‘as quick and progressive As any Yankec I ever beheld; His neighbors admire and like him immensely, and all hands say there isn‘t a squaret \ manain Mexico. s 3 CHINAMAX‘s SUCCESS 100. "Joe came into Mexicoa about five Years ago: and bought 600 acres ‘of unimproved but productive land ~at trifling cost on credib. He started in raising potatoes and made -mch“u‘: first season to pay for his place. success caused him to buy more m- erty, and he now oWn$ â€"3,000 f Not once has he had a failure _ of crops, and this season he told me he expécted his shipments of potatoes: be ‘about: seventy carlonds. the finest | ever sawâ€"and in quality tully equal the % that o oncncet in dlent a â€""Ths farm is â€"at 1 without inrigation. <Jog. told 4 he bad maidle «. beginming T6 pi th ntinental divide the . great elly rerythinag went eus _could â€" be s and the CoSt akt go¢ it does IN MEXâ€" 500 the e tha the N ie 1 A. B. McBride Conver ancer, etc Office 14 No)::he Beriin Telephone 4 Emdns c d / fl.:l:d the Colege : 76 and ont teantous" ces W on are ht e nove and, throw . it cooesisaitny + on DR, J, 8. HETT, PHYSIC) ~‘AND 8U Â¥â€"G. HUGBES, . : Dentist. Ocdfellow‘s All branches of dentistr; ‘,: Tumens Block. dealy 5 TT And Awoaoieys pony W. 8.Wilkinson, L. D. $., D oo dfi convenience â€" rom a distance . are particula quested to make appointments, Offics: Over Bank of Hainilton, w;m‘ Will vial> Kintire the and â€" Fr RMMd%' lmbmmu.‘;; ohloo will be closed every â€" W YA 1",% the month, . Dentistry p ECkEL _L. D. 8. D. D. & ?m%&:gfi’&a * Chicago College of De Roral Uoilege of treuier Sa Denta '-‘-""'nun" Â¥e Mr J.. X‘!gls*:_ aoobe évery Ist EXPERIENCED . VETERINâ€" ARY SURGEON _ J . . .. . Jesuer of Marringe Liconade OMâ€"aâ€"Post Ofice, St. Jagobs, Ont. By giving a better course of i thy thas any other at inatitution Jm Hntmgraale ait in a.....’.i':.":fl'.&.:m. 3 {- hphulun. h graduates sucoded. ‘if interested in your ow ;o:h.r:vv.vn:g_n:whfm ' nes" Jn free Shortband ar d Telegraphio. h en Wh.t.w term_opens January{6th. BLLIOTT & Mo LAOHLAN, j Spocialty, Nose, Thrcat OHN L WIDEMAN +/ _ Barcisver, solicibot, Xâ€" Ray and Electric The Leading School te READE B.A DENTIST : Office~ Open Daily STRATFORD, ONT MEDICAi: College of Dental W . w ELLS, D. D . graduate of the l.'.'!‘:: _Office and feteph : ¢ Prisoipa 4â€"99 Waserlioo:. Py%