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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1910-11-24, Page 7November 24th, 1911, •. D.Meirk30.4.410. 11 D. *TAGGART • McTraggart Bros. ,BANICERS-eee' 10*.i.P*11! A GENERAL !BANKING Cr 1WESS TRANSACTED, NOTES DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS ISSUEP NTELEST ALLOWED ON DO, POSITS. SALE NOTE$ PURCW *SEP. ••1••• *.mt a,* •*” ir** it** - I. T. RANCE. - NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, EEAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESEN- TING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. a W, BRYDOINE, BARRISTER, souerroa NOTARY1, PUBLIC. ETC. OFFICE -Sloane B1eek-C1 INTON4 ....••••••••••••••tiMel CHARLES 13. HALE REAL ESTATE anJ INSURANCE 'FMB - - - HURON ST, 1.0...•=d• DR. W: GUNN L. R. C. P., L. It. C. S. Eldinburg Office -Ontario street, Clinton. Night calls at front door of office or at 'residence on Rattenbury street. 111••••....••••••.•••••• .-DR. J. W. SHAW--. b-OPPICE- RATTENDCRY ST. EAST. -CLINTON.- DR. C. W. momrsoN. PHYSICIAL, SURGEON. ETC. 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P., Etc., Specialist in Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. and Throat, will be at Holmes' Drug Store, Clinton, on Tuesday, March 1st, 29th, April 26th, May 24th, June 21st. If you require .Gasses don't' fail to see Dr. Oven. The gicKillop Mutual Fite Insurance Compann -Farm and Tsulated•Town Property- -Only ;risured-- • -OFFlt'ERSe- . J. 13. MeLean, President, Seaforth P. 0. ; C. IdeFlwen, Vice -President Bruceheid P. O.'T. E. Hays,. • Sep.- Treasurer, Seaforth P. 0, -Directors-:- William Chesney, Seaforth.; John Grieve, Winthrop; George Dale, Sea - forth eohn Watt,. klarlock ; John Clinton Nenrc.fteents 7 .•.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 T 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 .. . Clinton News -Record CLINTO4 eems of subscription -.41 per .year • advance $1.50 may be charged if not so paid. • No paper diseenthitie until all 'arrears are paid, uniese at the opinion Of the publisher date to which every subscripticn is paid i$ dettoted the label. 'AdvertIsing •ratet7Transteat ad nt- tisements, . 10 cents per nonpariel line foe first insertion, and 3. car per line for each subsequent insert ion. Small advertisements not to exceed one limb, such as "Lost." 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McDonald, Dikrict Passenger Agetat, rain Station, To- vluito, Oat. 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 • V41+. .."Ank .0m** 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. 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