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.. -y uAV\. 1 «Lo Nevertheless, Geo Breerle was from the market, never harmed. aHeha a way of bend- W9“ With the 60 in himself double from 1he thi and handed, open-he loofidng through between his egg at prietor. his barking enemy, which was more “Thank on Mi; active than a field piece loaded to 1!” N59“ I?!" h muzzle. aw in kn mm For so soon {see and briat! upside down b and __....,. ¢uvn ; ucu, - ~~~v- l iven by the weight nn’d height of pack almost into the middle of his y, came Geordle's head, crowned by its broad blue bonnet. While above all, black and square, towered the ck, the whole combination being Fough to drive the most unsuspicious arm dog Into hysteria of rage and noisy denunciation. plan. As he walked along the pack- man presented a very curious appearâ€" ance. First and nearest the and there were two short and thlc legs, squat like the props of a. corn stack. Next came an equally short but much thicker body, as nearly square, in- deed. u might be. (“A big sack 0’ can! (chaff) on the top 0’ twa wee cks o’ cant,” was the description of ordle by a local humorist.) Then, driven by the weight nn’d hniom Mr At the corner of the deal table there sat, by immemorial right, Geordie Breerie the packman, a man fully as broad as he was long, with a face smoothed and joll-ifled with good liv- ing, and made russet and purple by exposure to many a ,summer sun and winter gale. His huge pack stood in the corner, done u in black American cloth, flaccid and nert, with a comical lurch forward of its upper part, out of which he had extracted a number of was pieces to show Miss Keturah, when Miss Barbara should happen to be out of the wayâ€"an opportunity which had not yet occurred. Geordie Breerie, It was reported among his professional brethren. could frighten the fiercest dog in Scotland. and th‘a‘t 13y a. very simple _1.._ A Presently in the outer nrlor of the Red Lion, as the “casua " room was called by a very latitudinarian cour- bes of language, gathered a large an , for Whinnyligga'oe, a most rep- resentative company. “See that ye do, then!" was Miss'3 Chang Barbara’s uncompromising retort, as” having filled the order, she shut down! ‘ the panel of the bar with a decisive! [ALMS snap and went to see What her sisteri The t. Kejurah rnmnh: f “Madam.” said the tramp, cour- teously, “you need not fear that I shall not behave myself in your house.” The tramp’s hand mechanically sought the brim of his battered hat with a grace which to Miss Barbara’s experienced eye instantly betrayed that too common type, the “man who had seen better days.” He was thereâ€" fore more than ever a man to be suspected, to be watched, to be got out of the way of her sister. For to such Miss Keturah was often both ove§:kind and qnwieely liberal. “Whisky indeed? Bread and cheese) will set ye better, my lad. Keturah,! a pennyworth of bread and cheese for; a gnun chiel in the outer arlor.i Whatâ€"drink ye will have also. You‘ can pay for it? Well, if you can, and. that honestly, it consorts but ill with your onputting. Yet, after all, we keep a house of public entertainment, and we cannot be choosers any more than the beggars. But keep the peace ‘ my lad, or out you go from the Re Lion, money or no money. And mind ye that, no swaggerers within my, doors! There shall be no complaint‘ of unruly house or noisy brawling go forth from this house so long as I! am its mistress. I speak for Keturah plsol” _ _ ‘ , .She uddec aftgrthought It was to M trgmg _appegle‘d pen his L this and other counts Geord an important {jetsam in the outA u- of the Red ion, and was, b , the only man who dnrnfl 1 The nglity rom '1' E .fi. 8562 Is most appreciated in the rich, delicious flavor. 7, Try it today. so soon as that vast purple nd bristling red hair appeared dowry between Geordie’s )em, in ai on file tam} call the atten nity behind t added the last clause as an Kit Kgnnedy AFTER V.â€" ( Cont’d.) ‘kwa q pres to Miss Barbara that the distinction pparitio 1 most fecfxlegg rd like a steel 5 npor muc whose )egan t cn consola- even build 9_ partan eel syring BY 8. R. CROCKETT. vupon jests can US Uul-| Ihad known him when he was classical n'geimasber in t‘v'v- Academy of Cairn Ed- rep' ward. T v." was it likely that any one o! lus ancient cronies would recog- helf‘iinlze in the ragged tramp the smartly- l‘dlelattired youn college man who had 7’ as .fluttered the arts of many an ortho- face.‘dox civic dovecoat by a careless wave 11vâ€" of his hand, as he took the hill road byito the Black Do’rnal with his green affd‘botanical case over his shoulder. 1 m‘ “A worthy young manâ€"a diligent 1031‘ young man; learned and hopeful, sure i081 to rise!” declared the parents, peeping out through the first floor blinds immedi- lbgl‘lately 9ver_the shop. C116 Heartshorn !' Stop though a man in the corner not star ous shad of - “Thank on Miss Barbara; present- ly, resen ly!” he answered, taking of? hat politely to the divinity within the veil. “when I have spoken to these excellent fellows here, I will accept your kind invitation!” He opened out his ‘coat and sat down beside Geordie Breerie, calling jovially for glasses round as he did so. All complied with his invitation ex- cept the tramp in the dark corner, who sat moodily drinking bv him:pr upon tms Jocund company, enter a well-attired, well-groomed figure, leather-breached, ridmg~whipped, bla- tartly assertive, floridly prosperous. “And ye are welcome; come awa hen, sir!” cried Miss Barbara through the wicket gate, whence she spied upon her guests, and from whence she rebuked the evildoer and bade the worthy Pharisee come up to the high- erhseati. thg_Red_Lion synagogue. But Walter Mag from the market, and willing to stand yell. with the _company as a free } “No; it was to me!” said the young- er, but secretly, thinking of certain {2811098 exchanged at the last Choral Ynion. And now the worthy young man, the handsome eye-glancer, the collector of botanical specimens, the lover of Lilias Armour, belle of six parishes, sat unknown and unknowable on a wooden bench in the outer parlor of the Red Lion, drinking by himself, none paying heed to him. Upon this jocund company, enter a Wellâ€"attired, well-groomed figure, leather-hreeched, ridingqvhipped, bla- tantly Aassertive, floridly prosperous. l “A handsome young man! Did you see how he waved his hand to me?” said the eldest daughter at the nar- row_e; windows of the floor above. LILIAS ARMOUR'S TWO HUSBANDS. The tramp sat in the corner most remote from observation. He did not wish to be recognizedâ€"though, indeed, ‘the‘rg was up one in 1:139 compapy whq “It's no that,” ava! She was 2 well rid 0’ her. greet is Juist tha1 a change but me “But what for need ye fret aboot that?” asked Geordie Breerie, resent- fully. He was angry that the subject should be changed, for he liked no- thing better than to be joked about Miss Barbara Heartshorn and his chances of one day becoming landlord of the Red Lion. Rab Irvineréi'zr lug'ubriousiy. “Aye, aye, it‘s a sair wari’ any way ye tak’ it!” said Rab Irvine, shaking his head with feeling mournfulness. “Did ye hear that my brither Tam’s wife was deid?" vantageé. A weel-médé unmarriéa man has his privilegesâ€"as is weel- kenned. “I tell ye what, Geordie, ye will atan’ at the back 0’ that coonter some day yet,” Rab Irvine, the journeyman smith, would say, jocularly. “The auld runt Babby is fell fond 0’ ye, that’s plain to everybody. Did ye no see what a laugh she took to hersel’ when ye gied the table siccan a drive wi’ your neive that ye spilled the jug o' tippenny doon your breeks? It was fairacompromisin’, yon.” “0 no so verra,” said Geordie, much flattered; “the like micht hae happen- ed to any body, even yoursel', Rab, though you haena’_ my_personal gd; ing a little upon it in confidential con verse with his cronies. an of In his brov turne Mac CHAPTER VI ’ he said, ‘,‘it’s no that a besom, and Tam’s . But what gars me at gveryhody is gettin’ 0015 his head still more aried_ landed pré gn This parchment was dear, however, and for common purposes papyrus was so much more convenient that the Egyptian paper never really was sup- planted until the birth of a system which got paper out of cotton, about seven or eight hundred years after the discovery of parchment. ' It is not the leép at the start but the steady going on that gets there. â€"â€"-John Wanamaker. The World then worked on for a thousand years before we hit on the plan of making the modern paper out of linen rags; a very lucky thing, for up'to that time the monks, who could not go to the expense of much new parchment, had industrious-1y Vbeen scraping out the copied records of an- tiquity and works of its great masters to make room for their own writings. For sore teetâ€"MInérd’s Linimen At the same time the kings of Per- gamus became a literary sect, and wanted something whereon their svcribes could write their books. So the skins of the beasts, occasionally used in some places already, began to attract increased attention; they were prepared into d-ry substances, and called, after Pergamus, "pergament," or parchment, and vellum, meaning skin. The run on papyrus being very great that p1ant began to show signs of scarcity in Egypt, and for that reason, among others, its exportation was at one time forbidden. It could be Written upon one side only; but books were copied into long rolls of sheet glued under sheet, the sheet which felt the first glue being called on that account the protocol, a term still preserved by diplomatists. This papyrus grew abundantly in lakes and mamhes, to a height of about ten feet; the diameter of its stem was two to three inches, and from its surface peel could be taken off, layer after layer, to the number of some twenty coatings. The use of this peel occurred to the Egyptians as an improvement upon ordinary bark and the new writing material soon be- came popular. It was a simple thing. the Egyptian idea to papyrus; the improvement on the use of tree-bark being the use of peelings from a reed instead. This reed was called Byblos, or papyrus. then very common and now very rare in Lower Egypt. From its name. Byb- los. comes the Greek word meaning book, and thus our own word for the Scriptures. Bark had ben used for tablets, and for writing leters which were capable of being folded up, during the best period of the Roman world, and such were still in use under the later em- perors. The tablets were of bark on which the Emperor Com'modua 1n- scribed his little list of victims, the discovery of which led to his own vic- timization. "Hoots!" said Geordie Broeric. with contempt, “dinna bide for him. It’s only a puir feck!ess gaun body that's been sittin’ there tipplin’ by himsel’ the hale forenicht!” “One man is as good to me as anâ€" other," cried Mac Walter, whose strong suit was an affectation of re- publjcay equality; “beggar or laird, “Excused! Nonsense! Drink it, man. And if you cannot rise to get it, faith I will bring it to you, and have a look at your physiognomy as well, which you hide like a bashful bride!” And as he spoke he rose from his seat and made his way between the chairs to the corner where sat Chrisâ€" topher Kennedy. The introduction of Papyrus by the Egyptians gave a great uplift to letterâ€" writers and to literature generally. It is, as the Germans would say, the "name-father" to paper, and a very re- spectable and worthy elder too. The Romantic History of Writing Materials. (To He continued.) roerie, with him. It‘s body that's by himsel' Steamed Squash au Gratin is ex- cellent. The squash must be cut in small pieces and steamed until very Onions au Gratin are very nice for winter serving, especially with a roast. Boil them as usual, then cut them in pieces and arrange them in layers in a well-greased baking dish, alternating the layers with a well- made white sauce, seasoned nicely. When the dish is full, sprinkle the top with fine dry bread crumbs, dot it with butter and bake a tempting brown. This over, she is taken away by her women attend-ants. The guests mean« while listen to the music, supplied by a Chinese band, pending the arrival of the bridegroom, who goes through the mock eating and drinking ceremony in his own house. The musicians have :1 cosmopolitan iepertoire, and piay anything from "Stop Yer Tickling, Jock!" to Tosti‘s "Good-bye!" The bride is now led up to a smaller: altar, on which all the untouched comestLbles are arranged. Here she‘ kneels and prays, giving special raver-l ence to her father as he takes up his} position at each of the cardinal points} of the compass In turn. Her\ farewells duly finished, the bride is led to the altar in a specially prepared apartment of her father’s house. - A quaint business of feasting with- out'eating follows. Delicate glasses are filled with highly-colored and scented liquids; fragile China. bowls, each having its ivory chopsxicks, are prepared with comestlbles unknown to the “foreign devil.” These are all offered to the bride, who raises them to her lips without tasting the con- tents. The first part consists of an elabor- ate farewell between the bride and her parents, whose blessing sh obtains. At the same time the groom under- goes a similar experience in his own parents’ home. How would you like to be married before you ever meet your bride, or bridegroom, as the case may be? Thaf is what happens in China. A wedding ceremny in that land is in three parts. each carried out inoepenâ€" dently of the other. A typically Eastern note is; how Here is an exclusive photograph of John Drinkwater and his fiancee, Miss Daisy Kennedy, well-known Australian violinist, whose marriage has just been announced. Mr. Drinkwater is world famous for his biographies. WINTER DISHES WEDDING CEREMONY 1N CEENA e1ica.cy_ to 1 Here they kneel and pray, long and, ‘earnestly, before again joining their ‘ guests, who are now being entertained by another band, and by expert Chlm 3ese or Malay dancing girls. When the day bfeaks it makes light of it, but when the night fails it keeps it dark. bender, then peeled and cut in cubes. Next make a good white sauce and ar- range the squash in layers in a but- tered baking dish, alternating with the white sauce. Sprinkle each layer very lightly with grated cheese and top the dish with bread crumbs and grated cheese, season tastin and bake a delicate brown. The band plays loudly and continu- ously, except .at intervals when the gongbeaters perform. These start in. 'rotation, slowly and softly; then the beats grow quicker and louder until all the gangsâ€"and there may be two or three dozenâ€"are struck with one tremendous and impressive crash. lSileuceâ€"then, for the first time, the bride and her lover meet at the altar, being by this time already man and wife, truly married. They are subse~ quently ceremonious-ly conducted to their wonderful bridal chamber, where - the bride's- three or four hundred silk- , en dresses are displayed. Minard's Linlment Heats Cuts. The festivities contlnue until 23. 1am hour, and their net result ls one very happy couple, not so very different in their loves, hopes, and aspirations from Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed. who have just survived their own particuv lar ordeal somewhere in Canada. During the dancing the bulls des‘ cends, and this time lg permitted real- ly to eat and drink from the enormous variety, of refreshments provided. 'There is, too, except in rigid and very conservative families, an ornate wed- ding-cake a l‘Anglaise, to be cut and distributed. At this point every guest is the recipient of some really valu- able gift. The groom is in due course ushered In and led to the altar, where the‘ Chinese equivalent of our page-boys bring him many bowls of mysterious, foods ad as may varieties of liquids. ever, provided by gong-heaters, whose job is to drive away any evil spirits who may be trespassing. pped to