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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1900-03-23, Page 7T , tes . ••• WYE'S TRIUMPH. A 6TORY OF LOVE. ANI) WA.11, BY MARY J. HOLMES, Author of "-Lena Rivers," "Edna Browning," "Temrest And Sunshine," Etc., Etc, •••=iresenr-Zig; iikehg,M. wee remerleel, while in hie eyes, these wail a peenliar expressten which Amite Wive to see, as he _stood looking down • upon her, ' She would mire Jimmie. she knew, for she had beenew iteerstomed to is merry whietle, leo ringher laugle teasing jokeat ltostes expellee, aria its pegs would leave them very and SOie frankly eemitted, adeleg that "it Ives not because site wisbee te be rid ot lii� thate she woe glee; it pleased :her to eye lain in the path oe duty, even though that path led to thin - ger ned possible death." e01)., .dozet Annie, don't talk oe doges to amulet" Rose cried, with a stealer, - "Yoe Pan't begin to guess how it makes me feel, Or how terrible it would seem ie either he or, Tom famed die." "Can't I?" Annie netted, with such a depth ef mourful maims, that Rose's Mere flowed at ()nee Of. course Amite knew how it felt, end every Able et her evert was, bled - ug now, As »he remembered one who left her as full of life and hope ae ei- therTom or jihoele' but who came book no more Salve les the dead come baser, sheondeil and tottered for the grave. 33ut Annie would not give way to her 'own feelings theme She _wattle einitort Bose,- and oleo -rune the young seam who, she felt shrank ;from the 'perils spread out before hints So she tole how few there were, eomparatively, •• who tiled on the battle -field, while the ebeeme far lite la tee hospitals were greater now that better cum and skill had been procured. "Anale,--exeuse me, Mrs. Gasthenti" 4the aimmie spoke vehemently,. -while les eyes- kineled with a Strange gleam. "Why don't you go 1s 'levee? YOU might be -the meow of untold good to the poor fellows who need such care as you 'could give there." "I have thought og le" said Annie, -while 'Rose exclaimed: "You turn hospital nureeseeridieulons! "You now shale so long as I can pre- vent it. Shall she, Tom?" And she menvelee to . the hitter, who had ;feet corne in. "Shall Annie go into these horrid hospitals?". "X am not Mrs. Grahanes' keeper," 'Tom 'replied, "but I should be sorry to see her seting in the capacity of hos- 1t411 nurse, evert' though I knew that scene of our nableet, best women ere •engaged In that work." • "Yee, Old ehap," and Jimmie laughed a merry laugh.. "It's mighty easy talk- ing that way now, but suppose you, Oaptnin Carleton, are some day anew; the terribly Avouneed, thigh shot through, Nen selietered above the el- bow, jew-bene broken, and all that, - wouldn't the Mlle be easier to bear If :the Immo should happen to be 'Airs. Greham, or somebody just like her?" "Thelonleeelly•it would," Tom answer- ed. "Still 1 should lo sorry to have her there eerie the sickening' horrors." "Please. stop, I can't bear to bear ;exert it," Bose exclaimed. "I know it would be nice to be a Plorence Night - ane Annie emote. make .a eplet- .eld one, but TB never let het go, utilises .:eon, .or Jimmie, 'or Will is wounded, etud then well coew together, won't we, There Nees o reeponse from Annie, until ,Timmie- "Sy, Mrs. Graham, it I ern ever wounded, one yon hear I aln suffer - /44e some dienial hole, will jolt come and eare -for me?" He did not join Were or Tom's 'sumo with his owes It was "Jimmie •Carlotdn" whom Annie Was to mime. But it alit not matter. • Lifting up her lead, so that her eat, bine eyes leolted .into his, Annie answered, enhesitat- Ingly: • "Providence permitting, 1 will,. 11 1141 voted do the seine for any breve fclkev who follows, as my husband did, where elney to his country Rods." "So you see, you will fare 214 better than I, after all," Tom laughingly re - _Weed. while Jimmie thought withiu Yenisei e: "Why need she always bring that Imsband le? it's bad enough to know she's had one, without eternally heating about hie)." roolish Jimmie. It was folly for him to lie smith° se long as he did that tight, or t6 dream, when at test he :slept, of hospital wells expanding into 11 pahtee ti8 00 angel form with heir and hees titre Anunie's bent over his feverieh pillow, while soft, white banes dressed some gaping wound where the e nemy's bullet hail beee. Sheer folly, too, Ives it for "dignified old Tom," to *mita from his window the yoeng mon, until it set in the western sky, thinking of Mare, ne he tried to make himself believe, Wandering wiry it wee that reminded him so much of her, 41101 Why he should be so deeply in- terested in One Who, Mail a Sew weeks pest, heel been to hire 31 stranger, To Ceptain Cerleton ned Jimmie Were nothing more than friends, end if, •dering the wok pteeeding their depot - tete, She wee quite es busy Ithee, and, airworthy 41S 1111101) 11120re,Sted 121 'the miens hreparetioes• fot their com- fort, it wee oiily behefse they Wert, lee. told uot, es "Widow Slimes once suggested to Susan, "because they were Cerheone, mut handsome and rich, :and, --end, there's no what wili heppmewhee a wielder' Tong and ea11d- 1301ne, but this 1 Imo% I've never nuvr-' tried, and my =WA been dead the; nineteen seers! ' Nobody need tell 1110 24he'd he se betty for nitylrode but them Carleton's, If 'twee the Colin, 1 w ouldn't mind, but that en ssy-f :wed ;teems, Ugh!" end in her ire at Arnie's thippeeed prefereutie fat sassy-feeed eTeenes," the wittoW spilled .tnore than halt the epiehl eheenlete she was carry - 111 to 'sane. TIMES, woe or i':111,--litteged it 1hFow what. hie name is, Any way, het Is that erailleel whlowla son, that used to pneker her mouth so when She saw that Semite each -Carletoue and eneteli away her gOwn for fear It would hit me, I reekon bell get the ofilect, with Re twelve hen - died a year, which be eeti we ter hie mother's support. One othee sous, you knew, is marriel, And ter gookesei lost to her whilethat boy Isaac Is net Imes' 1' for this world. Prkton life et Richmond did the buteness for him, or I'm mestalh (11 80 1('t 1U bo lieutenant, unit Jeutee Carleton only a private. 1)o you thine: I did right, and will that paragon of • yours, Mistress Oreinue, thinlheo, too?" That was what Jimmie wrote to Rose • aft•er he bee been gone three or four weeks, ane what Bose, with Ler lettietuotte thougbtlesuess, rend to Der mother and Annie, who were both in her morn when the letter mum. Attlee made an attempt to leave, but Rose hue ine'stee that them could he 110 secret re himmie'e letter; It there wee, size would skip it, she sale, and she read on, stumbling dreadfully, and mispronouncing wade, -ear Jimmites handwriting was rime very pleb4 and thio letter, written with it soft heel Pugh, with .a bit .ut slate.stone for e taele, was his very worst. She malt' out, however, that he had destined the. .ollice of second. lieutenant breeleet ho thought he did not deserve, it; that he had named Rli Simla as a Atter per- son for it than himself, and that he turd elated the- widow a "creleapple," or emceeing like it. All this was very cher. And after declaiming egainet Jimmie's sense of justice in one breath, and pronouncing, him "perfectly splen- did" in another, she kept on till ache reached the "paregon," which she rim- eereel "referee" making the :sentence me, "will that Pequot or yours, Ws - tress Graham, think I dill right?" "'What did he ,eall me?" Aunie eers elaimed, her face tuning very with° as, she leaned toward Roo, who, startled at her vehemence; tried again to make out the word, wheel was strangely Ses- teethe, from the feet that just es Jim- mie was writing it, bis ehatlow„ Bill, end struck hen familiarly npen the ehoelder, sayiug, with a 14 lIght• • "Writin' to your gal, j s'pose? Give her Bill linker's regrets," "It looks like regime and some like Patagoulan, Rosh said, deciding et le -et • that it was paragoe, and Wing by -eery of an explanation to herself of Annie's ' evident surprise, "yon did not like the idea of his ealli»g you. a Pequote. •,31.1 you, Annie. It wouldn't terve meant anything if lie had, and it was enthral that I should make the blunder, for that's the name lie gave the young girl at the Pequot Housee-the one he like ed, and 'to whom he •passed hiMeelf off as Dick Lee. Yon' remember I told you. about her." • • e "Yes,. I remembee," and voice Was a little husky -"the little girl who was net happy with her anut, sne so listened the more willingly to the bey's kind, winning. words." Annie did not know why she said thet --vailess it were wrung from her by some. enclave quid bitter Memory of what had been a bright sun -Spot in her cheerless aildhood. 'When the Peewit girl was mentioned in her presenee.mlee before, she had gathered thateit • wee mostly Arm Carleton's pride Which had taken the boy away from any more rambles on the beiteh or moonlight seils. upon the bay, and petheps it was a de- sire to defend and excuse the girl Which prompted her to advance a reason why Dick Lee's attentions had been 80 ae- eepteble. She would have given 'much to recall her words, which. made Mrs. - Carleton dart a quick, carious glance at Ler, while Rose exclaimed; "How -do you know she. was not happy with- her matte - Did Jimmie ever tell you ;Moat herr' • "Never," Amato replied, feeling glad that a servant appeared just at that mo- ment, telling- Rose 0 little girl was in theletehen asking to sse her. It was a daughter of one of the sol - diets whose mother was sick and -had • sent to Mrs. Mather for some little delicacy. Such calls were fregeetet 111 the Mather house, for the soldiers did not receive thee pay regularly, an(1. them setts much destitution among their familieS, who, but for Rose's liboolity, would have suffered far more than they As freely es water, her money wee_ used to relieve their wants, end now, forgetting Jimmie and his Pequie, she mitered at ono into the little gieee story, and when told that the eltk wo- man had expreseed a wish to see her, she said, "Pil go now, there's Jae° just come he PII have him, harems the horses end take 3 -on borne, It must be 0 mile or more to your house.". • Mee merely acted upon her impelsete and 'wee son in her earriage, with a huge trustee at her feet erre the little • giri opposite, enjoying her ride so much, Never Weis the whiew more neetalien Annie Greenlet 11.0111(1 be.ve tiolie for Eel, eohn end Ierene Simms, or possibly Willihre Rakers the Mine Othees obe was eolith for "the Carletons„" and ber voice melee letve been just as sweet turd hopeful when she bade them fare- well, as A was that bright epring morn- ing, when, in the parlor of the Bather mansion, Tom.aud Jimmie were wait - big to say good-bye, At the very Met moment Bill Baker had anuommed his intention Of teethe'. tco, "Tierteen dollars a month and dog's fare was better. than layhe round luun," he. saki, "imil livin' on the old gal,. who was ghee' most too Weight and blue for his notions. Besides that, he felt kinder hatled to the corperal, and wanted to be where ho meld oee ben and wait 011 him Ithe arty other rugger," Jimmie weal gladly have dispeeeee with such ..a singular attaehee, but Bill could not be shaken off, maid es he 41(1 in various woye evince a strong regard for hesformer eeptive, Jimmie was forted to submit to whet he termed 1 "hi s thorn in the flesh," giving from his own puree money for Billy's outfit furelehing the mother with mewls. to repair her dwelling and make it far more eminfortable than at peemet. This he was ettre pleased 'Annie, end no sac- rifice was too costly if it won her re- gard. elle had prayed for lere, he keels-, for Rose had told him so, end prayers like hers, though they did not avail to save her George's lite, would surely shield Wan freest danger, :lio should eome back again when the war was over --come beck to find an older grave by Rocelerehe churchyard gate, while the wife, who teeny Watered that grave with tears, would be as young, es beautiful, and far more gielistelooking than now, when, in her widow's weeds, elle offered him her heed at while, bidding godspeed to -him end the noble Tom, ivho stood beside him There Neem tears, and kisses, rind blessings from Rose Nal her mother, few low -spoken words of sympethy Niel good-Nrill from. Annie, and then 'the two young men weir° gone, ilaif en hour later end the custom thee thundered through the tow, bear- ing away to the fields of bloody oar - nage, three more young; vigorous lives, and leaving desointe two • home, one the lonely •cottage where Bill's Mother wept alone, the other the elather man- sion, where Mrs. Carleton and Rose sobbed bitterly, while Annie strove in verions,evays to comfort them. MUTER XX. , ' It was eery lonely at the. Mother monelon atter the deparbie° of the Me elms, end it required all Annie's tact to keep Rose from sinking entirely un- eer the sense of desolation which crept oi er her as she began more and more to realiee wluit the war meant, and to tremble for' the safety of her husband nue her brothers. They wore still in, Washington, but they, might be ordered to advance at any moment; Nee ill a tremor of distress. Rose waited and watched for every Mail which 00111(1 bring her tidings 'of them. Next to her husbantes letters, Jimmies die tier the • most good, for Jimmie turd in hie name a world of hopefulness and humor; and his letters were,full of fun, mid quaint description of the life he was leading. And still of the three young men, ---Wile Mather, Tom Carleton and Jimmie,— the latter suffered the most acutely, Lor in addition to his dislike of military he was compelled to endure the jokes nue jeers which the coarser and more unfeeling of his comrades beeped upon him when, from Bill Baker, they heardthat his first experience in arme- bearing had been learned in the -mint of the enemy. To one et instinns it seemed a great thing that he had step - three and brought to Waehington so illustrious It &heeler es. the "coterie," as he persisted in selling him, tend the story was repeated with such wondettel additions, that einineh when once by tweldent he was a listener, to the tele, felled utterly to reeogniZe himself in the I "chap 1vho had run so many miles from, end then taught se many helms with, the redoubtable 111:!," who, while annoying his geondem captive so terri• bly, still, under all elt•creastanees, ovine ed for him an attachment as singular as it was sincere. leverything•which lw meld do for Jimmie he did,becouting lit - ovally his servant and drudge, end thus saving him from many a hardship wh:ch, 118 a private, he would other- wise have encountered. It was (1 fancY of Jimmies that by serving its ti pri- vate in the army against which) his hand hoe onee been 'Mee, he should in some way expiate his .she end, perhims, be ether of wierring favor Prom Annie Graham, whose bine eyee Were Pen- stantly before tem, just ns they line lotteit when, in her times of 'Meek, she stood in the sewing stmhhine bidding 111111 geml-bye. Sone Mee his 431110111 in Witehingtou, Ire hed been offered a ite- (mid Ileutenauey in Captain Carletmes company, but Ire eteadily declined the office, giving no eeplanatiou to any one except his brother and his sister Rose, to whom he wrote: "Perhaps I was foolish to donne the offer, end for a moment I wee hOrri- bly tertMted to :tempt • its espoielly when, by doing SO, 1 collie to same des gree eseape rey 'thorn in the flesh,' who, notwithstanding that let dos me many n Itinentee, annoys me r:xcessiro- ly. But t could not feel that I desorv- rd the mg. n might to belong to 1101110 (.2!' Wile had !lever spurned th') tild nag, end so I stood firm, aml bested as at sabstitute that other Simms Io' ',L.12.1. iTat0.•.;!1 or Me end enjoying it the more este the et,ratft. takable sive of envy and wonder which she detected hi the hwee of her eons- panionteas she limed her humble home in the Hollow. Rose tete asked both her mother mut Aimee to acconerney her, hut they had declined, and for a time after Rose's dentutttre they sat to- gether in perfect silence, while a wh- e ts- Main or thought wee passiug through the it Of each, seunies Agitation when Rost reed "Petinot" tor "temple' had surprised Mrs. Carle- ton, while whet she had said of the girl and her aunt had awakened a feel. ing of disquiet tine S1181)1601I. U1'2). Carleton was proud 'of her OWn and iter letsbettil's family, --proud oe her weelth, and prowl of her pesthole Not offensively eo, but in that 'gala asSnr- ed kind of way so enteral to the high- ly heed 13ostoulah. It was this Wale which hat promoted her to resort to so extreme mensures witit the bee Om nth), when Ow Thiele how much he ,was irrtereeted in the little Permohand vi.eii, dttriter, jimmies brief stay in reeks hand, ehe, with a mieliet's 51111011 Whets thm, detected In him Nips of intetest in Annie Mebane, her pride again holt fright, end she Vag half glee to have him g from the possible temptation. Something in the uobler part of the no - mates nature told her how wrong the feeling was, while each day some new development of Annie's gentle t1110144' tion character, made the desolate yoUng creetere dooret to her. That she WAR superior to most people In her rank of iti*putme.tt, Uttok,o. owl 131,1,hmitl ••••••• w •••• • Mere theet once wonaeroa how one. Illot ber had ever become the wire of a.,nae- : chanic. Ohe teas not thluktag of' this,. however, on the afternoon when ,she wati alone with A.nnie, while Bose was away on her errand ot mercy. She was thinking wither of the suspicion which bed Just found a lodgment in her Mind, And was devising 80441e means of testing its reelitY. ire this- end she at latit 4121.140 .sonbe e51$1101 retnark ahent ltoehbtnd 011X1 its people,. weep; it An. the Me ;Always lived there, "Only slam I was uturricd," 'was iho reRlyy„ou Afieneilmblgro-0ajirkleetovna;toet11.1411110)8ei ,tr: 0 tban like Nt:iwinn-Tdon tior. Were ee b.iNv Connecticut." Annie. 014111. And then 11.1r8. Carleton male agreet blunder by asking Ilene "Were you bore in or neer New Lon - done I have been there severed thnee, and May know your Needy." At mention of New heretlee, .hmemo's ..eyes thiebee tem hies. Carleton with it remitted look, as ie she felt that there was e deeper meanieg le the queetImi- leg to which, she was being entente,' • Itrlomicrie 14T:fel lionistitire "I was born in Hartfeed„ and livee there until I was eight yeam ale, when mily parents both died of (helmet; ie wee. dee, reel I went to live- with ley (mut New Haven," . Mos, Carleton answered Thus far there was quite as rnuell to prove es Mere was to elisproye the ewe reetness or her surmise, and thinking to "I may as well go farther, note 1 have commenced with being rade," she contiemed, "rarctou me, Mix. Globale, if I pore inquisitive, but 1 carrot help feeling interested in oho to whom 'ROW is SO greatly atte.etwaleine I do or re- member that I ever heard any :of 001141 history lieforeyour husband, went to war. I do not even know your maiden na:M0;t k.11e' 's heart heat' almost and and her Iseas were very red, es she honed: ."Xty father was Dr. Howard, and I was Annie Lonise Howard. leecuee me, Mrs. Carleton, it 1 cannot talk emelt of my girl -life after ihy mtreets stied. It wamt not a teepee' 01)0. 1 rens wholly, deeenclent epee my aunt, who, while giving me every advantage in the Way of educatenecept before rtie esteem - sternly the fact thet I was en eblest of charity that it embittered every mo- uton rny efe„end seller), C• seeof- fered me his love 1 acCellted 1t finding .in him the only real frieud I ind .1,,r,nown since the. day 1 was an or-• - Annie was crying now, and exensiog herself she left the prior end repaired to her own room. wlime her excite- ment spent itseit ie tears end sobs .os. site reeelled all the dreadfulyears wirer) she was snbjeet to the earivicee of the most opt:Mous of women, who had et - tempted to force ter ento a marriage with a millionaire of 'sixty,and hail driven her to accept the lovewhiell George -Graham had offered her; George' had not been her Neal In an letellee- true point of view, mil none latew this i fast better ;than .411n1e herself. But le wee the.kintlest, tele -Wrest of husbands, and else 'hail heed. tern deveteilly Tor the needy virtues which the snake emselfiell nee) he • was. Ceperie Carleton 113111, Shninie both could syne sneeze. with'hier teeth; , and enseine- tions for better then George had erne; but never mice during her brief. 0)03810(1 life had she allowed herself to weirder what her lot might have been hall it heel), east with people like the Carle, tons. And since her husbeee's death anything which looked- away from that grave by the churchyard gate eeemee re) terrible to Iter that now, es- She knelled. Mrs. Caeleton's questionings, ane geess- what end prompted them, every terve quivered with retire -wheel could oily be soothed by a visit to George's grave. There,. ou the turf which *0- 010(1 hine sho had wept out emery a grief, and 1a eterted for It no -we the villagers watching iter es she passed their doors, and curiously 'speeelatieig, ne people will, upon the time to come: when the long black dress and graceful girllsti form woule not be SO often seen among the Roehland dead .Alreally the gossips of the 8 01011 were coupling her mune with the -Carletens, the tnejority giving her to Tose, the eel- er 2111d 111010 1vetth3' of the two. A whis- per of this. gossip had been borne tt) Ales. Catletoti, 'lm, while pretending to ignore it, had telt troubled as she m- etaled all the inaidente of Jimmitee visit at laome. Themt, when the easp8. cion came to her that the woman 5011001 Rose had taken into her hones>. hole was possible idea:oil with the girl of New London, whoee name she could not remember; she felt tor it mo- ment greatly disturbed. There was a fierce ,staliggle meth lier pride, tt verse reasoning with herself, and then her better nature triumphed, arse her heart went out very. kindly toward poor An - tile, at that monient standing by her" htetteeues grave, and wondering why Inn' thoughts would keep striving aWay t.) the wayward eoung man who lied boiln traitor to hi» tonntry, but was trying to Atone by voinntarily beliring the lierdships of a private's life when a better' was offered him. Ile hail ask- ed if she wonld think' he aid right, met • the querstiort had shown that he earee for herr gone opinion. Yes, she did think he -WaS right, 1111(1' 51)41 resolved to send hina a message to thet effect when Rose Wrote to, him hext. There wits 310 wtong to the dead in the thought, and her tears dropped just as fast upon the mar- 31,:ereashna Ls e stooped to kiss the me cut upon it, turd then left the silent geese' Menutinto Bose had visited her sick woman in the IIelloSv—ritul fed the huh- • gry ehildren, end dropped upon the door the six weeks, baby which she • tried to hold, then, gathering her shawl about her, turd holding trp het skirts, Slut as she- always did where lit the honteR ,Of the poor, sho re-entered het carriage Nei Ude ;fake drive her next to Widow Sitruns's. Illvorything there wee mot tine eltitts ets soap and sand and the widows tws1 hands could make it, while Susan MO Very protte picture, in 1IOO ilerk gulf gowit with the scarlet velvet :ribbon in her black hair,. Ihreire wee r1 a:Meer of a • violets on and their sweet perrtuno 111114141 the room. into which Bose came deuring, her eves shining like stars, and laer dwelt,: so brilliant a eolor that the widow berm directly to wonder "It there wase't some paint there." The widow was not In be beet mood, for she was very tired, having done a beery washing in the morniing before Bose !tether had thought at opening her bright eyes; then, after the coarser, larger pieces were dried and ironed, she had tried to win, a work tO which she had clung as tenet:toasty as if on every stream. in New Ditgland there wore not as cotton or woollen factory capable of doing the work so murk easier and bet- ter limn herself." The widow WM PAO et spinning, Net she lute turned the weeel with is right good vete until Terme IWO cemPlained that the centime cats humming ;hurt his head. and made lum thud( or the 201011 815 rit howled so dismally around the dreary prison in ltiehmond. Libby, they called it now, .nil Isaac always shuddered when he heard the Mem mad thought of what Ito suffered there. Issue was very weak end pale, and hie face looked like that of some /hung girl as he lay among his pillows, in that pretty dressing -gown which Rose bad bought end Attlee had mule for him. Ile was sleeping when' Itose cause and the Wilk/VS “USIII"Sii)" came warn- ingly as a greeting, but canw too late, for Itoze's blitheemne voice had. roused him, and his glad, welcoming smile more than coureterbelaneed the froson wheer settled on the widoeee tee° wlein 11113 $ale her boy disturbee. 'Rose was nere,Storned to the WidoW'S Way», and throwieg or her shawl and untying her het, site stIt down ou the, foot of Isaacet liel, and drawing Jim-mie's letter from lets pocket began: "I've got Reel splendid news for you, A sur. ?IMAM LAD? NAL 194 TOLD NOW DOAN'S =WRY Ma CUBSD ifXR OF DARIZAOHS AND MADE HER SIFRoNo AND NEALIsfY. ••••••••••••••171:0 IN A nnowiT 1 ril'ila sildS TOLLS litiw sat ZIAS bilVOYST) TWO AND BALL? YJW4 05' taKuNoto 11104V , ---FbZe INO4 1)241,04:601:1‘1.1-717AlgtaTUP:10* 38(11414 11010 esz Vitt e113ll4klittt1 ollft; cloWils1.1 t:i10,arsivle stIttirtz porary relief. They BMW go to theses* 1 of the trouble (ma root it Grit of tho syktere, NThoetfrooat'vtiiiiollu D(mmulanuilittutteyPeyiplisti. et a permanent (=Wive elmraeter, altogether 8432111(0 41123? of the fenbetttutes or cheap, . imitations. - Ore strong* proof of this is the two statements made by Mrs, E. W, Trump, of St. Thomas, Ont. gl'im first of these, made May Ida; 11397, is as follows: "Winn I mot - molted, takirg Doan's- Kidney Pills X wog tick aryl 12218031341 le with, Eevero pants m my back And itulueys. 1 yvao also very weak aud netvous. Sumo using these )/ills the pains have been re- moved, ray nerves have been strext,gthere., ed and good health has been restored to me. They area splendid medicine Ibr kidney 100141)105 0! any kind," The second statement Whieh we give, below is of recent date, and shows what splendid health 1Vi3's, Trutt:mints has./. since Doan's Kidney Pills oared ilex. over two and 4 half years atm. , "Over two years ago I wrote telli* of the cure made in my easo by Doen'S Kidney Pills. At tho present time 3 am eejoying the very hest of health, sleep Iv( II, eat well and- my old enemies, bank- .,, iis:!„.,::::74,:at.,11:11:::Lit::::::.,,,, ache and. kidney trouble have 1200410 wee— ...... Yee. 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