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.•.e Mystery
The.Yellow Room
By GASTON LEROUX Is COPYRIGHT, y1908,
B BRENTANO'S
wee then that Mathilele Stangerson, or
Roussel, learned that her husband was
no other than the notorious BalimeYerl
The yenta's. woman to her despalr
triedto commit suicide. She failed in
this, and was foreed to rejoin her aunt
at Clueinnath The old lady Was over-
JOYed to see her again. She had been
ansiotisle searehing for her and bad
not dared to tell. M. Stangerson of hex
disappearanci', Matbilde swore her to
ceerecy, so that her father should not
know $he bad been away. A Month
later 1IIe.. Stangerson returned to her
father, repentant, her heart dead with -
.in her, hoping only one thing -that she
would never again see her husband,
the horrible Ballineyer. .A report was
spread a few weeks later that he was
(lead, and she now determined to atone
for her disobedience by a 11fe of labor
and devotion for her father. Abc1 she
kept her word, •
All this she had confessed to Robert
Darzac, and, believing Ballmeyer dead,
had given herself to the joy,of a union
with WM But fate had resuscitated
Jean Roussel, the Balimeyer of her
youth. Ie had taken steps to let her
know that be would never atlow her to
marry Darzee-tbut be stlil loved her,
Mile Sta Orson flever 'for one.
, ng e ermo-
ment hesitated to confide in M. Darzae.
She showed him the letter in • which
Jean Roussel asked her to recall the
first hours of ,their union in tbeir beau-
tiful and charming Louisville home,
"The presbytery has lost nothing of its
• Charro nor the garden its brightness,"
he had written. The scoundrel pre-
tended to be ricb and claimed the right
of tajting her back to Louisville. She
bad told Damao that if her father
should know of her dishonor she would
kill berself. IU. Darzac had sworn to
• silence her persecutor, even if he had
to kill him. He was outwitted and
would have succumbed had it not been •
"Ain't It a beaut?" paid Mrs. Cassidy.
for the genius of Rouletabille. • She turned her face proudly for her
Stangerson was herseif help
friend Mrs. Fink to -see. One eye was
less in the hands of such a villain -
nearly, closed, • erith a great greenish
.
rhe had tried to kill him when he had
penile bruise around It. Her Hp was
first threatened and then attacked her cut andbleeding a little, and there
iri the yellow room. She had, unfor-
were red finger marks on each side of
tu at 1 , failed . and felt hers1f her [leek. •
"My -husband wouldn't ever thitik of
&meted to be forever at the mercy of
this .unscrupulous wreteh who was doing that to me," salcl Mrs. Pink, con-
eontinually demanding her presence at mating her envy.
clandestine lntervlews.. When he sent *I wouldn t have a man, declared
her the letter through the postoffice Mrs. Cassidy, "that didn't beat me up
asking. her to meet him she had re. at least once a week. Shows be thinks
f you. • Say, but that last
fused. The result of her refusal was something o
wo$ this Jean Roussefl liouleuthille
had traced him Vora Philadelphia to
Cincinnati. in Cincinnati he became
acquainted with the old aunt and had
found means to open her !mouth. The
story of Ballmeyer's arrest threw the
right light on the whole story. He
visited the "presbytery," at small and
pretty dwelling in the old colonial
style, which bad indeed "lost nothing
of its charm." Then, abandoning his
pursuit of traces of Mlle, Stengerseth
be teok up those of Ballmeyer. He
followed them from prison to prison,
from crime to crime, Finally as he
was about leaving for Europe be learn-
ed in New York that Ballmeyer had
flre years. before embarked for France
With some valuable papers belonging
to 11 merchant of New Orleans whont
he had tnurdered.
And yet the whole of this mystery
has not been revealed. Mlle. Stanger -
son had a child by her husband, a son.
The infant was born in the old aunt's
house. NO one knew of it, so well
had the aunt managed to congeal the
event,
What became of that son? That is
another story, which SQ far I am not
,permitted to relate.
TUE END.
FAN
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By O. HENRY.
[Copyright, 1906, by S. s. meClure Co.]
ELI
ARLENE, •
Mrs. Fink has dropped into
Mrs. Cassidy's fiat, one flight
below.
dose Jack gave me wasn't no horoeo-
the tragedy of the yellow room, •The
second time he wrote asking for a pathic one! I can see stars yet. But
meeting, the letter reaching her in her ho 11 be the sweetest man in town for
sick chamber. she had avoided him by the rest of the week to make up for it
sleeping with her women. In that let- This eye is good for theater tickets and
ter the scroundrel had warned her at silk shirt waist at the very least."
that, since she was too 111 to come to 1 • "I .should hope." said Mrs. Fink, is -
him, he would come to her and that be Miming cOmplacency. 'Oat Mr. Fink
would be In her chamber at a per- is too mucb of a gentleman ever to
ticular hour on a particalai• night. raise his hand against me."
Knowing that she had everything to •'go on, Maggie! said Mrs. Cas-
Berliewies, Brodhagan ; James ;Evans,
Beechwooci ; James Connolly, fear from Balimeyer. she had left her WY,* laughing and Opplying with!)
chamber on that night. It was then hazel. "You're only jealous. Your old
• Goderieh. •that the incident of the "Inexplicable • man is too trapped and slow to ever
gallery"pecurred. I give you a punch. He just sits down
•
Robert Smith, Harlock ; E. 1 -lin- The third time she baddetermined and' practices physical culture with a
chley, Seaforth; • James Clunraingsr 0 keep- the appointment. He asked newspaper when he COMeE braille. Now,
Egtnondville ; J. W. Yen, ' Holnice- i ain't that the truth?"
villefor it In the letter he bad Written in
, • her own room on the night of the in- . Wt. Finis certainly peruses of the
Any money to be paid la may be cident in the gallery, whIch he left on papers when he comes home,"eeknowe
Paid to Tozer & Brovirn, Clinton, 01 her deek. .In that letter .he threatened edged Mrs. Fink, is ith. a toss of her
at Cutt's grace;ry, Gadet ich. to burn her father's papers if she did head, but he certainly don't ever
Parties desirous to effect insurance .not meet him. It was to rescue these
or transact other bueiness will be . papers that she made un her mind to
promptly attended to on application see him. She did not for one moment
to any of the above officers s.ddressed doubt that the wretch would carry out
to their resiactiVe postofficeslosses • his threat. if she "persisted 'in avoiding
inspected by the director 'who litres him, and in thrit case the labors of her
nearest the scene. • . father's lifetime would be forever lost.
- Since the meetleg was tbus inevitable
, she resolved to see her nusband and
• t his It fo
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appealo sbetter nature.wasr
this interview that she had, prepared
herself on the /eget the -keeper was
killed. They did meet, and what pass-
ed' between them may be imagined.
He insisted that .she renounce Darzac.
Sbe, on her part allirmcd her love for
him. He stabbed her in his auger, de-
termined to convict Darzac of tbe
crime. As Larsen be could do it and
had so managed things that Darzae
eould never explain how be had ein-
eleyed the time of his .1.:esence from
the chateau. '-13alimeyer's precautions
were most cunningly taken.
Larsen bad threatened Deezne as be
had threatened Mothilde-with the
same weapon and the same threats.
make no Steve O'Donnell out of me
just to amuse himself -that's a sure•
thing." •
Mrs. Cassidy laughed the contented
laugh of the guarded and happy ma-
tron. With the' air of Cornelia exhib-
iting her jewels she drew down the
collar of her lemon° and revealed an-
other treasured bruise, maroon color-
ed, edged with olive and orange, a
bruise now nearly well, but still to -
memory dear. .
Mrs. Fink capitulated.. The formal
• tight in her eye softened to envious
admiration. She and Mrs. Cassidy bad
• been elitnns in tbe dowutown paper box
• factory before they had married, one
year before. Now she aud her man
occupied the flat above Mame and her
• man. Tberefore she could not put on
airs with Iarne,
"Don't it hurt when be Soaks you?"
asked Mrs. Fink curiously.
•"Hurt!" • Mrs. Cassidy. gave a so
-
prune scream of deligbt. "'Well, say,
did you ever have a brick house fall
• on you/ Well, that's just the way it
Loewe uae out uflywUe.e ta ti
warmer at home for bit'. He buys me
• things, but be looes so gime about it
that I never appreciate 'ent."
Mrs. Cassidy slipped an arm :trowel
• ter chum.
"You poor thing!" she said. "But ev-
erybody can't have a impend like
Jack. Marriage wouldn't be no faller..
if they was all -like bito These dis,
contented wives you hear about- wive
they need is a men to come home lust
Molt their slats in once 5 week :11)(1
then make It up in kisses and choeolete
creams. That'd give Sett some interest
In life, What 1. want is 0 masterful
man that slugs yon when WS; Jagged
and bugs you when. he Mill jagged.
Preserve me from the tnan that -ain't
got I he sand to do neither!"
Mrs. Fink sighed.
The hallways were suddenly filled
with sound. The door flew open at the
kick pf Mr., Cassidy. His arms were
occupied with bundles. Mame flew
• and hung aboul Ws melt. Her sound
eye sparkled with the love light that
shines in the eye of the Maori maid
when sbe reeovers consciousness in the
hut ot the wooer who has Opened and'
• dragged her there,
"Hello, old girlt" shouted Mr. Cas,
sidY, Re sbed bis buudies and lifted
her off her feet in a mighty hug. "I
got tickets for Bsienum & Bailey's, and
if you'll bust the string of one of them
• bundles I guess you'll find that silk
waist, Why, good ereningeMrs. Fink!
1 didn't. see you at first. How's old
Men coming along?"
• l'ele's very well, Mr. Cassidy, thanks,"
said Mrs, Fite. "1 must be going
along up now, Mart '11 be home for
supper soon. • I'll bring you down that
pattern you wnnted tomorrow, Mame,"
Mrs, Fink went up to her flat and
had a little cry. It was a meaningless
ery, the kind of cry that only n woman
• knows about, a cry from no partieular
cense, altogether an absurd cry -the'
meet transient and .the most hopeless
cry in the repertory of grief. Why had
Martin never thrashed her? He was
as big and strong as Jack Cassidy..
Did he not care for her at all? •1Ie
never quarreled. He came home ancl
• lounged about, silent, glum-. idle. • He
was a fairly good provider, but he •ig-
nore.d the spices of life.
Mrs. Pine's ship of elrean2s was be-
calmed. tier captain ranged .between
plum duff and his hammock, If only
he would shiver his timbers or stamp
his foot on tbe quarter deck now and
then! And. She had thought te sail so
Imerrily. touching at ports In the De-
lectable isles! But now. to vary the
demi*, she was ready to throw up the
sponge, tired out. without a scratch
• to show for all those tame rounds With
her sparring partner. For one moment
she almost hated ltfaMe-Mame. with
her cutsand bruises. her snive.
presents and kisses, her stormy voy-
age with her fighting, •brutal, iovftig
mate.
Mr. •Pink came home at 7. He was
permeated :with the curse of domes-
ticity.' Beyond the portals of his cozy,
home he eared not to roam, to ream.
He was the man who had caught the
street car, the anaconda that had swal-
lowed its prey, the tree that lay as it
had fallen.
"Like the supper, Mart?" asked Mrs.
•
116 wrote Datzac urgent letters (leder- . feels -just like when they're digging
, lug himself ready to deliver up the let- you out of the ruins: Jack's got a left
that spells two matinees and a new
ters that bad .passed between him and •
his wife and to leave them forever
if be would pay him his priee. Re
asked Darztte to meet him for the pur-
pose Of arranging the 'lintel., appoint-
ing, the' time when 'Larsen would be
wIth Mlle- Stangerson. When Darzac
went to Elpinay, expeeting to find 'Ball-
ineser, or Larsen, tbere, he was met by
au aceomplice of Larson's and kept
waiting until suet] time as the "coinci-
dence" could be established.
It was ail done with Machlavenian
cunning, but Balimeyer had reckoned
without Joseph Rouletabille.
* * *
Now that the mystery of the yellow
room has been cleared ep this is not.
the time to tell of Rouletabille's so -
ventures • in AMerica. Knowing the
young reporter as we do, we can no.
deratand with What acutnee he had
teaced •sten by step the story of Ma-
tbilde •Stangerson tied Jeen Rotiesel,
At Philedelphia he bad quickly infOrm-
ed himself as to Arthur se'illiatn Ranee.
There he [Weed of Rance's net of do-
eotion and the reward be thought him-
self entitled to for It, A rumor of his
marriage with Mile. Stangerson had
• (Mee found Its way intO tbe drawing
rooms of Philadelphia. He also learn-
ed of thince's eentinned attentions to
her and his importunitica for her hand.
Ile IOW tliken to drink, he had said, to
pair of Oxfords-eel:id his right! Wen,
it takes a trip to coney and six pairs
of openwork. silk lisle threads to make
that good.".
"But
"But what does he beat you 'for?"
inquired Mrs.. Fink, with wide open
eyes. •
"Myr said Mrs. Cassidy, indulgent.
IY. "Why, because he's full. It's gee-
erally on Saturday nights." .
"But what cause do you give him?"
persisted the seeker nfter knowledge.
"Why, didn't 1 marry hint? Jack
cbtoes itt tanked up, and I'm here, ain't
I? Who else has he got it right to
beat? I'd jest like to catch him once
beating anybody else! Sometimes it's
because stover ain't ready, and some-
times. it's because it is. Jack ain't
particular reheat causes. He just
lushes till'he remembers he's martied,
and then he makes for home and doetti
Me up. Saturday nights I just move
the furniture with oharp corners out
of the wily, so 1 won't cut my bead
When he gets his work in. Ile's got a
left swing that jars you. Sometimes I
take the count in 'the drat round, but
• when I feel like having a good time
during the week or want some new
rags 1 eome up again for more pun-
ishment. That's What I done • last
night Jaek knows I've beet) wanting
n black silk welst for n month, And I
didn't think just one black eye week]
drown lila grief at his unrequited love. bring it. Tell you What. Mag, VII bet
It ten now be understood wby
tabflle hod shown so marked it coolness nigh04
you the lee cream he beinge it to -
of demeanor toward Rance when tbey •Mra Fink was thitking deeply.
met In time witnesses, room on the day "Me Mort" she sald,-"eever hit Me
of the trial. * lick in hla life. It's Just like you
The strange Rensse"tangeeses 1°78" saki Mame. he tellies in groueby and
ter y had now been laid bare. Who ain't got 0 Word' to say. Ile never
Fink, who bad striven over it.
• "."&i -mm -yep," grunted Mr. rink.
• After supper he gathered his newspa-
pers to read. • He sat in his stockinged
feet. •
• Arise, Some new Dante, and sing me
the befitting corner of perdition for the
.man who sitteth in the house itt. his
stockinged feetl Sisters of patience
who by reason of ties or duty have
-
endured it in Silk, yarn, cotton, lisle
thread or woolen -does not the new
• canto belong? •' : ,
' Tbe next day was Labor day. The
oectipations of Mr. Cassidy and Mr.
Pink ceased for one passage of the
sun.. Labor, triumphant, would parade
and otherwise disport itself.
Mrs. Fink took Mrs. Cgssidy's pat-
• tern down early. Mame had on her
• new silk waist.. Even her damaged
eye managed t� emit a holiday gleam.
jack was fruitftilly penitent, and there
was a hilariousscheme for the .day
• afoot; with -par;Its and •picnics and
PilsenerIn 11. • •
A rising, indignant jealousy seized
Mrs. Pink as she returned to her fiat
above. • Oh, happy :Mame, with her.
bruises and het- quick following balm!'
But was Mame to .have a monopoly of
hanpinessl Surety Martin Fiuk was
• as geed 0 man as Jack Cassidy, Was
bis wife to go always unbeiabored and
• uncaressed? A sudden. brilliant, breath-
less idee -came to Mrs. Fink. She
• woeld show Mame that there were
husbands as able to use their fists. and
perhaps to be as tender afterward as
any Jack.
'elle holiday promised to be a nominal
one with the Finks. • Mrs. Pink had
•tbe stationary washtiths it the kitchen
filled with a two weeks' wash that bad
bees, stinking overnight. Mr, Fink sat
in his Stockinged feet reading it news-
paper, • Thus Labor day presaged to
speed.
Jealousy surged high in Mrs, Vink's
!lout and higher still surged 'au nude -
clots reeolve. If her man siaidd. not
strike her -ft he would not so far
prove his manhood. Ids prerogative and
Interest in conjugal affairs, he must
be prompted to his ditty,
Mr. Fink lit hist pipe tted peacefully
rubbed An ankle with it storkinged •toe.
-Ile reposed in the state of matriniony
• liee n lump of unbicialhd suet in a
pudding This was his level Elysium-
• to sit at ease vienelously girdling the
world in print amid the wifely splashine of teals •and the Agreeable Malaita
of breakfast dielies departed end din -
rim, ones to 'come. Many kletts Were
far from his mind, lint the furthest one
was the thouglit of heating bis wife.
Mra. Pink turned oh tbhe hot Water
tind set the waebboarde in the audit
• Op from the flat below eame the gay
• laugh of Mrs. Cassidy, It Sounded like
o taunt, a flaunting of her own ha
p-
If
4
ptheas In the tare et the unsiturrii
bride alms. Now was Mrs Fittlee
time.
feutitletay see turned iike a fury upon
the nem rending
"Yea laze matetes sta. cried "Must I
WOrlt MY arms or wastang awl wiling
for tht ugly likeii ot you? Are you a
moo, or are yea 8 klteben 'mend?"
Me Filet drepped Me paper. mieltre•
less from surprise She feared that
he would not strike- that the prdvoete
lion bad been Melnik:lent. > She leaped
at him anti struck lent fiercely to the
fare with her ellitched hand. le that
Instant she felt it Orin of •hive for him
elicit as she had not felt for many *
day. itise up. Nearilu pink, rand come
into your kingdom! Oh, she must feel
the weight of his hand now Just la
show that he vared-jost to show Mutt
be eared!
Mr Pink smug to his feat Mag.
gie caught hint again on the jaw with
a wide ming of ber other band. She
(Seem' her eyes. In •that fearful, bliss.
ful moment before ins blow should
come. Site Whispered his name to bete
self. She kilned to tbe expected shock,
hungry for it:
In the Oat below Mr. Cassidy, with
it shamed and contrite faee, was pow-
dering Maine's eye in preparation for
their junitet. From the fiat above
came the sound of a woman's Voice,
MO raised. n hinneing, a stumbling
endu shuffling, a ehalr overtineted--•
unmistakable sounds of .domeStic con -
"Mort and Meg scrapping?" postulat,
ed Mt...Cassidy. 'Twill know they
ever Indulged. Shall I trot up and see
if they need a sponge bolder?"
• One of -Mrs, Cassidy's eyes sparkled
like, a diamond. 'The othor twinkled
at - least like paste.
"Oh,- oh," she said softly and with -
Mit appareut meaning, in the feminine
ejaculatory manner,' "I wonder Itk-L
wonder if-walt. Jack, tiff I go up and
see!"
Up the stairs she sped. As her foot
struck the hallway above out from the
• kitchen door of her fiat wildly •flounced
• Mrs. Fink. ,
""Oh, Maggie," eried Mrs. Cassidy In a
delighted whisper, "did he? Oh,did he?"
Mrs, Fink ran and laid her face upon
'her chum's shoulder and sobbed bop&
lessly:'-
Mrs, Cassidy took Moggle's face be-
tween her hands and lifted it gently.
Tear stained it wns, Pushing and pair
• lug, but tts velvety, • pink and white,
becomingly freckled surface was un-
scratched, unbruised, unmarred by the
recreant 0.4 •of Mr. Fink.
"Tell me, .Maggle," pleaded Mame,,
"or I'll go. la there and find- otite
What was it? Old he Lturt you.? What
did he do?"
Mrs. Fink's- face went down again.
despairingly' • cm. ' the bosom of her
•friend.'
"For Ga wire saee, don't opez. that
doore Mame!" she sobbed. "And don't
ever tell nobody- keep It under your
hat. 1 -le -he never touched •me, tind-
he's - ob. Ga eel he's . waehin' . the
clothes -he's wasbIn' the eltithesi"
TESTNG :FIRE CLAY.'
114 Most Practical Method .11; to Lit-
•. • erallY Eat it.
Fire clay has been. in use for ,cen-
'tildes, and yet 1. believe the industry
is one 'which lacks definite hews more
than any other, including thoSe which
are either modern or ancient And of
less prominence. You can go • to a
• natitufacturer of steel . and sp•eeify
what you want •by actual figures or .
statements and you can (Steck tbe prod-
uct by chemicalanalysis or mechanical
tests and. thus !hake sure you get what
you,need. The peoducer knows how to
combine •certain elements and • what
quantities of variatie kinds to combitie
in order to. get it result at least. very
closely approaching what you call' for,
hut not so in the dre clay htisiness. In
the past the rook skilled and • highest
• salaried chemists. have been- employed
.to. make tests, to •prothote nod 'Carry •
. through Investigations on • the: natural
produet and. to .study. the workings of
•certnin %manufactured. and elaborated
• articles derived therefrom. The result .
has been, generally speaking, confusion
worse :confounded. Two • professors,
working at similar times on brick. or
clay obtained from the same %Wee
•and manufactured under exactly •equal
conditions, have recorded .diametrically
opposed eoncluslons! The same scien-
tists at different Periods have 'reached..
vastly varying eondusions Wheli test-
ing identical qualities and .shapes of
brieks, so can you wonder if a promi-
nent tire clay manufacturer should ex-
claim. as I heard one on an occasion
after having the above exPerieuee,
"All tests of fire clay are empirical, and
• I would spoiler trust our superintend-
ent to pick and select ilia clays in the
old.fashioned way than pay a high fee
for a highbrow's reeommendations?"
T.he chief method of lestifig • tire clay
by a praetical man is titerally to eat
it. Be can deteet grit and sandbest.
by that method, and. a good (Ire clay
(free frcim since, quartzite or flint
clay) is free from grit. His only other.
pet•sonal test is 'by experiment. -En-
gineering Magazine. •
Tofeaceo Smoke. .
' The body is a factory ef poisons,
' says a big pathologist. These poisons
are eonstantly beteg poured out at the
• tate of eight pounds a day. Ote-third
of all these noisouous excreta passes
throogh the lungs In •the form of
steam or vapor. The lungs within
their comparatively small compass con -
tela a folded surface of about 1,600
square feet. in area eqiial to the doer
of a room forty feet square. it • is
through this surface thnt the oxygen
Is drawn into the body, and the poison-
oUs earbott dioxide throwt off. Smoke
in reality Is nothing more orless tban
a cloud of fine earbon dust -soot And
when this dust conies into contnet with
the eurface of the lungs it forms 0.
thin coating which obstructe the en.
trance of oxygen laden air as well as
the exit of the poisonous outbreath-
Inge The emokce or he Who inhales
smolt° either directly et' by Sitting In
a • woke laden Atmosphere is • both
starved and polsoned-starved for oxy4
gen, the most important of all the
foods. and poisoned by • his own ek,
ereted waste.-Chicego Tribute.
The Source.
ASeum-That little; boy Of yoltra
seems to be nervout Does he Inherit
it from you? Henpeck -1 guess go,
De certainly did not get it from him
mother, for shell got more nerve than
ever.
Old Mon's Dream of 044.
At, once funny and pathetic 14 10,
ter reeeived a short time ago at tbar
Bristol office of Davidson and Melte*.
Toronto and Winnipeg. It was writ-
ten from Admiral eltreet, Exeterine
reply to a letter containingerni.gro.
tion literature. The following is- *
faithful copy of the letter:
A postman brought a letter from
Mt, and I was so glad to have it, 0*
it looks as if I am going to Foreign.
parts, as •an old witch told met V
should years ago.
Me, and mother be ready to go4.
Wages be high for my kind of work
yer says. I carries newapapers, and
be 70 'Tars old •come next Augult.
Were mighty towns like London is
they wants papers too read, so I ex.
peets I should have heap of money
out there.
I saves up 11-1-1 1-2 last year. as
you see 1 am of a saving nature,.
Just what they wants out there.
When the tickets for money comes
to go to the ship, us will be off likp
mad men, as us be told there miles
of gold. to be turned np and brought
horae. You shall have your share -
for sending us out there, when us -
comes borne.
• Please send tiekets as 8000 as 701;
coo cause us wants to get out trona
this free trade place, as us can't buy'
meat here. and I be told beef awl
mutton is cheap in Canada. It wilt
be a treat to taste at bit of meat. I
am so filled with joy cause you bs
sending Mother and I out that., that
I can't write no more now, but your
shall have your proper share of the -
gold mountains when us cornea Wok -
Please write soon, aa us be packing.
out traps now,
I be, your obedient servant.
• -Courier-
For Canada's Archives.
Dr. Doughty. Dominion arellivist,
hes returned from a visit paid tat
England in the interests of the work
of the archives, and has brouelek
back with him an exceedingly in-
teresting collection of historical pa-,
pers and prints.
Dr. Dougley spent a month int
England, during which time he was:
busy making arrangements for ths
transfer here. of .certain old papers
relating to Canadian history and col-
lecting prints. Altogether about IQ%
prints have beeadded to Canada's
collection as a result of the visit.
They include a very gooel series a
early governors of Canada, military
scenes and some early impressions of
the Rockies.
The papers include a number relate
ing • to Lord Durham's mission to.
Canada, and were presented to the,
archives by the •Durham family..
Others will arrive later. They include,
a diarp in Lord Durham's own hand-
writing and another in that of hie
secretary.
CURED OF CONSTIPATE
•
Mr. Anctreiars praises Dr.,
• Morse's Inc:Ilan Root P11104. -
Mr. George Andrews of Halifax, 1+1.5.„,
writes:
• 'Tor rnany years I have been trouble,*
with chronic Constipation. This ate-
ment never comes single-handed, and 1
• have been a victim to the many illneSsee
that constipation brings in. its train.
Medicine after medicine I have taken he
' order to find relief, but one and all left
• me in the same hopeless. condition. It
seemed that nothing would expel from
me the one ailment that caused so much
trouble, yet at last I read .about these
Indian Root Pills,
That was indeed a lucky day for me,
for I was so impressed with the state.,
ntents made that I determined to
give them a fair trial.
• They have regulated my stomach and
bowels. I am cured of constipation, and
I claim they have no equal as a medi-
cine."
• For over 'half a cgotury Dr. Morse's.
• Indian Root Pills have been curing con-
stipation and dogged, inactive kidneys,.
with all the ailments which result ,frone
them, They cleanse the whole ,systers
and purify the blood. Sold everywhere
at 28c. a box.
9
A Toronto. Grace' Darling.
William . Bateman, Toronto Island
constable; and his wife figeered in a..
scene of splendid heroism recently.'
The 'yacht Nelda, with- seven people..
on 'board, was overtaken and capsize&
by a. gale of southwest wind. • when;
-just eatt of the pastern entrance of
Toronto harbor and about a mile oft ,
shwe in the lake. .
. Two of the people on the Neldu.
• v:ere drowned, being imprisoned in tine
cabin by the waves. The other live
owe. 'their lives to the efforts of Cone
stable Bateman and his wife, who
'without a moment's hesitation, 'put oft
in a. small boot and effected a resat&
'at the. risk of their own lives, . .
The storm came eteldenly as a light-
ning flash, the' wied rising inunediatee
ly to a •velocity of fifty Miles per -
hour, and the riot el waves also made -
the surfece of the. hate one et/tether
of foatn. After forty minutes' linr& •
battling. with wind and Wave, Gan -
stable Bateman and his wife got the.
Survivors on board their' small boat
and landed them safely on the i8land..
It is only four or five years since. ,
'Mr, Bateman was appointed' constahle
at the island, and yet in that time
he and his no .less heroic Wife have
rescued close on ball a hundred pee-
Ple from. the waters of the harbor an,l.
the lake. Mrs. Bateman has acted the.
"Grace Darling" on more that .one
occasion, having tescued over a score.
of persoris from watery graves. She,
holds the Medal of the Royal Hue
mane Soeiety for life-saving.
41
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Asthma Catarrh
WHOOPING COUGH CROUP.
BRONCHITIS COUGHS COLDS
CSTABLISH60
A simple, sofa and saertive trentenrnt for tron.
tidal troubles, without dosing the stomach sattb.
drogo. ;lister mith AUrresS for itlirty yOorli,
ler rendered strongly abbr.:hue, inept:et%
Veith every breath, retakes brenthhig easy. trrtheA
the Stta thrOati Arid Atolls 00 cough, outstare
with. young children told A WO* to eibaerinu-
rcstfisl aliehts. IS invtiluablo tr,c th•a.0
hut All hind.
hadd AI postai for besermtive t30l.31. '
ALL DIVI0SI8T3
TrP Cresolens Anti,
at,pho Throat Tablets
for theirrdutod throat
'A are vaunt?, of-
fcet,es and ardia
Of yoor cleopgiq ce
fAalz oa.IddillatAin:.
Yap Crtgoloca
xsesee.ettee
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