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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1900-04-06, Page 7t OVE'S TRIUMPU. A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR, BY MARY J. HOLMES, Author of " Lena Rivers," "Edna Browning," "Tempest and Sunshine," Etc„ Etc. ssehreshIMMAMIOratgatMOV came for hili to g0. dome*, wIlen. with nn alacrity which almost belied the languor and weaknese he had eempllliu- ed of so' bitterly, he peeked his veli,( and started {gain t'or Itoeltland• This thee Ile wort' the "army blue"; but the Suit which at first had been so fresh anti clean, wee soiled, and wore, incl lett(ful to the frestielons young main, who only endured it bemuse he 1'an- eied it might in SOme wmv cotllmeu11 him to Annie (]ralntm. Ror•e lw.l written that site worthipp(d the very name of at soleier. cspedaliy if he were n paws . private, her symtpathictt Meg rpt: Tally •enhstecl for that clans c:1 people. And Jinunie was a poor private, and 0 iyctutcl d one .nt that, with )lir arm in a slim;, and a casae in his halal, and his 'curly hair eut :Mort, :utt1 his cont all wrinkled and soiled, mud his lcuel'sack •on his back; and he was going home to Annie, who surely would welcome ]lint • now. and hold his hand a moment, and -possibly dress his wound. 'Phut would le delightful; and Jimmie'( blood \lent :tingling through his ve ne as lie felt in tansy the soft ton'eh of Anni('s fingers rad'i; flesh, and saw her head cro \wn- h1 with the pale brown hair bending 'over hitu, fie felt n little disappoint. (meet that she was not nt the depot to meet hint, while his chagrin ilicre:tseh at the tardiness' of her Appearance after his arrival home, but she was coming; :at lost, and Jimenieh quiek ettr caught the rlJ$tle of her garments es elle cfimo down the stairs tend into the roman, -smiling soil blushing, as ehe took his offered hand, and begged him not to -rise for her. "You are lame yet, I nee• I had hop - 'eel your ankle might be well," she snid, :glancing at his cane, wl;'.e'lt he enrrite] more from habit, and because it 114'1 leen given him by an officer, than from :real sec .e .. ..tilt\. ' His sprained ankle was almost well, :and only troubled hint at times; but (after Annie's look of comnnliseratinn at -the crew, incl her evident intention to 'pity him for his ankle rather then hi :arm, he i'ovud it vnetly easy to be lame s �Ltgililt, and even made some excuse to •eye's( the room in order to show off the limp which had net been very peaetptt- •ble when he first eanie in. And Annie was very sorry for him, and inquirer with n mat l 4nY of interest into the -particulars of his beieg wounded, and "kindly rat where be could look directly •ot her, met thought. alas! how much be was changed from the fashionably 'damned, saucy -faced young matt who went from then) only n few months be- Short was 1 t bremeing to .l' \tb 110` hast \ m be- fore. w 1t 'him,--n•:ithcr wen his thin, burnt rice, —neither was that soiled blue coat; unci Ire looked as little es possible like a •'hero whom maiiiere c ,old worship. Such thui'1 ht:4 li.tsse,l themgh .Annie's mond, while hose, too, felt the clang(' in ,her b:te(lsu'rnc brother, an•1, with a l)ns:ssled rxpreesiwn on her Mee. said to , •h'im, as she stood by his side: "How queer you do look, with your hair vo short and the hollows in y ntr i •cheeks! Inas war clienge all the heys so winch? Are Tom and Will such { •frights?" "Ie eel" hies. Carleton said, reprov- ingly, while Attie looked up in engin^se, • •pitying :Jimmie, whose ehiu quivered Levee more than his yoke, es he Staid: "Tom and Will hart not been s ek like me; and then. there's 110 delaying Litee cams have easier tines, ns a eon - cern" tiling, than pri\ntcs.. I do not late:ut, by that. that I regret my pos]- tion, for I do net. Somebody must' take • la, private's piece, and it would better I. 3e I than a great Many others; but, Mose, 1sha11 regret it, perhaps, if by j'the mean4 my looks become obnoxion:a tete my sister and frienem., ' There was 0 marked emphasis on the "rord friends, and Ji nit:y eyes wont -over appettlingly to Annie, who venom - Flared how proud the boy Diek Lee used Agro be of lets beauty, and guessed limy i'Itosc's remarks must have wounded .trim• Misr. suspected it, too, and lug her arms around his neck she tried i :to apologize. "Perishes me, Jimmie," she said; "I Aid not moan nttythieg; only your heir • i so short, -•'-just like the convicts nt 1`Oltnr.ei.tn\rn,-•••end your cont is so tum - rifled and dirty; but Ilanuah can wash :that, or I me buy you n new one:' and hose stumbled on, making platters ten !Mose worse, while Mrs. Carleton sue- ,c(dcl in tenting inn the convClw fito n upon 'something besides her sou's personal tw- 4enrtulea . ° Altuie WaS very sorry for hint, and 111("r sympathy expressed itself in the eoft 1'.g ht of her blue eyes, w'hii•.h rest- ed so kindly upon him, and in the law, 'vette enciettee of her voice when the '::Addressed hint, and her eager haste to , bring him whatever she thought be g•\vanted, and so save hint the train of 'walking. Mee Carleton saiv through the rues (:tt once, She find noticed no limp when Pinnni0 first come in, and she read;ly euspecttd why it was )rut on. 13tit it • was not for her to (x ese her son. From a Int: , who hard spent a few day( het the Alnther House, and Who mere lived neer It,trtford, Airs. Carleton ittul learned that the I)1'. Hemmed, who lied ;•d]ed of cholera in '40 was highly re- , epect(cl,hoth As a gentleman and a mites ' titling physician, and this had helped to iecoielle her in a ggrent mensere to : tchrtteem! might result from her eon's ,evident liking foe Annie Graham, nee ' Annie Ilownrcl, end, as she more than half suspected, tale heroine of Jimmtie's lh - ' sitfancy. ,1e yt y. How very beautiful ,Tim.ntie thought AAM& was, after he had time to re - 'cover himself and look at her closely. am Wes i11 better health, And certainly 111 1(ettnn '.'1+.3 th yft W0811 he save het eel*. ir..t, othot,t tsars rentiilris. 1101'' - ext'( were uragnTer, lel her noir more hlxuri(tut, and worn more in aecortlance with the prevailing style. '.this wan Itose's doings, as Waft also the inerens• est length of Annie's dress, which swept the floor with so long a trail that the Widow Simms 1111(1 made it the subjeet ot" sundry invidious remarltts, "Needn't tell her that a wilder (meld wear su(11 long switeltht' gowns, mud think just as much of the grave by the gate. She knew better, mid bliss Gra- lune wits beginning to get frillicky, She could let through a mill -stone." This was Airs. Sintms'S opinion of the Jong, gored dress which Jimmie noticed ht once, admiring the graceful, semme•t- rieni tl)Ilenrntuee it gave to Annie's fig - ere, just as he admired the softening effect which the plata white collar and cuffs lead upon Annie's dress. When he was home before, everything about her :was blaek of the deepest. (lye; but rime the eosehr(n(i4s of her attire wait ileved somewhat, and Jimmie lilted the change. Ile could look at her with- out seeing -coin tautly Mote him the grave by the churchyard gate, where :slept the man whose widow she wets. She did not seem like a widow, she. wits so young; only twenty -mile, as Jhnmic knew from Rose, who, delight- ed with the friendly meeting between her brothel and friend, carte again building Castles of what alight be. Could hose have had her; choice in the matter, site would have veleeted Tom fo' Annie. He was older, steadier, whsle h!e; letter's seemed very much like Tom om 71.417 found the Saviour of wham Isanc Simms once talked so ,enr- 1,'stly in the prison house et Richmond. He was better than Jinunie, Ilene rea- soned, mud more likely to suit Annie. Stili, i1 it were to be otherwise,. site was santisfiecl, and in e. (evict way elle aided and abetted Jimmie in nil his Onus to be frequently alone with An- nie. ]t was Annie who rode with hen when Mrs. Carleton was indispc6cd, and Rose diel not care to he—Annie who rend to him the books which Rose 'c• ne too shield_ far anything,— Annie n tri u )t IlUll Ml Annie who brought ]lis cane, end Annie who :finally attended to lift .wounded ruin. The physician did not come one day; Mee Carleton was sick; and hose tositivel• could net toueh it, tied 80 Ann:(. timidly offered r services, end Jimmie knew from netted expel -heave just how her )'oft fingers felt up -cal his arm, his pulse thrmblc:ng and the blood tingling in every v(in 118 '110 (dressed Itis wound So carefully, ,asking anxious- • ,h Tut himverybadly. He • if 1 t, hurt would have. suffered martyrdom sooner than lase the opportunity of feeling those soft lingers; upon his flesh, and so it• came abort that Annie was his 501- gem)1, and ministered daily to the wooed which healed far too rapidly to suit the young; mttn, wito began to shrink from it •1•etrlrn to: the -life be had felled so it ksem(. ']'cin had written twice for him to come res 8e411 as possibly, and now .only one (ley more remained of the month he was to spend at home. The Willow Simms was ready to go with him; Su - see had gone to. her another, and the cetlatgy was to be closed, subject to a continual ovc) sight from Ales. Baker n11(1 an ocetesional oversight front, both Ease and Anne. The bee whi h Isaac had ]ridden in the barn, waiting for the Nu -fire which should celebui-to our na- tion's final victory, had )leen brought from its hiding -place, and baptized with the first and only tears the 'widow had sited since sire went back to her hum- ltic home ruin Left him, in the graLveyiu•d. Sacred to iter was that box, mid she put it with her best table 'and .chairs, bid- ding Annie Graham see that no halts befell it, and saying to her, "In 04180 I never •c e beck, and peace is declared, burn the box for Isaac's sake, right there on the grana piot.which he dream- ed about in Iliehnit ltd•" And Annie promised all, as she pack- et) the widoli es• bunk. putting in many little dainties which Itose blather had siijijitie(1. and which were destined for tite 'soldiers whole the widow Was to ale•;• . She had been all tiny with firs. Simms, and Rose 1111(1 been bnek one forth With hur'peekages, curtailing iter calls bce(inee of Jimmie, with whom site would spend ns much time as pos- sible. Jimmie. was not in a very tocsin] mood that clay; the house wits very lonely g •h young. mats d1 without Annie, turd the n d 1 It 1 \ Lt ) t t , 3 .. nothing but walk front' one window to 'another, l0olcing, always in the direction or- Widow Simms's, and (400)0el• heed- ing at all what either )tie mother or els. terrier's saying to hint. When it began to grow dark, end be hear(] Itoso speak of sending the carringe for Ailtl'Ie, nA she had promised to do, he said: "I ought to see Mug. Simms myself to-mighe and know if everything is ht rescreens( for' to :narrow" I will go for Mm. Graham, and 'hose.—doti't order tin' cvu•ringe,—there Js 0 fine moots, eltd., thee—that is,—I would rather walk." Jimmie spoke hurriedly, and some thing in his manner betrayed to hose the reason why he (referred to wehic, "Oh,- Jimmie!" she exclaimed. "I'1t so !Anel; tell her so for me. I thought nt first you did not like each other, end sews thing \wi16 golf g wrong;. I nm so giacl, though I had picked her out for ' orm I 'most knew he ftutcied her, tool then he is it widower. It would he more suitable." Lose meant nothing disparaging to- ,iitnnmie's Ialit. She did 111]111 Tom, with hill thirty-two years, better suited t1 1 tn1Y who had been 0 wife,(, than stu(3-fneed, teasing Jimmie or only t \array-ft,m•. Flit love sever eonsult:4 lit,' (4iitnbility of a thing, and Timmie tens desperately in love by this tint(. It stns not poss;ble for one of his temper:t- u,,,at to Ili a trltula 11011112 with An- THE WINGIIA.M TIMES, APRIL ll, 1900,. 7111' 114 h( had lived 11n11 1103 110 111 11)10 with her. liar emeriti beauty, bright. •riivd by the nuxiiier:ert or (lre:is and tn• proved health, mill the livened little asst Utioits Site paid 11101 just bemuse he was It sultrier, lied 1111hhetl the work bee 1,1!11 when he watt home before, (121(1 he Louie net go buck without he:tying from her uwit lips whether there w'ls alts hope for hint, --the senmp, the l;cilte• 1:r:ue, the rebel, as he 111111 1)00 u stilled by turns. %%'hat hose said of Tom broiltlit a shadow to bis face, 011(1 ales he walked rapidly tewar(1 Widow SiitMs'S, not limping now, or scarcely touching his epic to the ground, he theuglit of Tom,—old Tom, be eel:eel hint,•. -wondering how emelt he had been interested in Annie Graham, and aslc- ing himself if J1 were just the thing for 111111 to take ndvnutage of Torah( tib - 14000e, 111(1 SnlilllaI,t him iII the (iflet:- thus of one whorl he might, perhaps,, 1141T. W0I1 bad he tui opportunity. "But Tom hats had. his tiny," Jimmie thought. "1Ie can't expect nuother wife as rice its Mary was, and it is only fair for mo to try my luck. I never loved any one before." 'Jimmie' stopped suddenly here; stop - pee in his soliloquy and his walk, and, looking up into. tate starry slay, thought of the boy et New London, and the hills beyond, .and the hotel on the beach, and the white -robed little figure, with the blue ribbons in the golden hair,.nnd the soft light in the violet eyes, iw'ltieh used to watch for hie coming, aril look so bright end yet so modest withal when he came. Louise her aunt had called her, and he had designated her es Le or Lulu, just as the fancy took him. "I did love her some," Jimmie thought, "xis, I loved her as well as a boy of seventeen is capable of lov- ing, and I deceived her shabbily. I wonder whoie'she is? She mast be twenty Or more by this time, and a wo- man much like Annie. If I could find her, who knows that I inigllt not like her best?" And for a momentJhnnlie revolved the propriety of leaving Annie to Tom,. while he sought for lair first love of the Pequot Ilot:se. lint ,;Seine Graham had made too strung 00 impression upon hile to be given up for a former love, who might be dead for aught he knew, and so Toni was enst overboard, and Jimmie. r"c•sume(1 his walk .in the direction of Widow Simi -refs cottage. The widow's trunks were all packed and ready; everything was done in the e(•ttagc which Annie mid do, and with a tired flush on her 'chert(, a tumbled look abort her hair and n rent iu the Week dr(cs, macre by n pail on one of the boxes, Annie was waiting for the carriage, incl half wishing, es (,he laok- ed out into the bright i'noonlight, that she was settlg to -walk home instead of r,,` 1 in d 11.e fpr •0 1her n• sit 411' R It (1 do c good, she thought, joist 1)8 :Jimmie np- I:eared at the door. He had- ensue to see if there \ons nnyt]iltig he could do for Airs. Simms, he said, and to- escort Airs- Grahnm home. - Anni''cheeks e b u -ere :very red as she went for her (;howl, and then bade good-bye to lies. Simms, whom she did Int (sport to star on the morl•ow. As S0181 as they were outside the gate, Jimmie drew her shawl close round, her neck and, taking her cr . m in hr,'s:1i d to 1101: "Th( night •is very tine, end - Worm, 'too, for the first of Nove:abet: 1011 won't mind tacking the longest yeasty home, 1 tiro sure, as it is the lest time I may ewer wall: with you, and there is something I must tell yon • be- fore L go back to danger and passible den lie" Ifo had turned into a long, grassy lane, or newly opened street, where there were.'but few houses yet, incl An; Ade knew the route would at Icast be a mile out of the way, but she could not resist the nitfn who held her so c•Ictsely to his side. She must hear what he had to say-, ;unci with 011 upward glance -et the clear blue sky, where she fancied George.. was looking down upon her, ehe n' raved herself to listen. "Annie," he began, "I've ehlled you Mrs. Graham heretofore, halt for to- night you must be Annie, even if you give rte •no right to call you by that name again. Annie, I have been- a scamp, a wretch, a rebel, and nhnost everything bad. I deceived a young g;ri years ago when I .was a boy.,Itose told .you something about it once. Iler uame was Lonise,--Lulu I called het, --anti I made her. think I loved her." • "And didn'tin`t you love her?" Annie asked suddenly, iter voice ringing clear in the still n'ght and malting Jimmie start, there wets something so gr.iet acid determined in its tone.. Still he had mai suspicion that the wo- num beside hint ',vas the girl he had left on the bleach at New L0n0In, and he continued: "Yes, Annie; I did, ns boys of seVenteett lave girls of fourteen. She was pretty and soft, tend Dyke 4111(1 good, and I kissed her Once on the forehead, mid thee I went away and never saw her after, or knew what became of her - And I am telling you this by way of (hnfess,ng my misdeeds, for I've been a fast and reckless young mins. I've gambled, and. sneered at the Bible, and brakcn the Sabah heaps of titnes, and tih•ted with mere than forty girls, some of thein not vera' respectable, either, and )lone 115 pare n9 little Lulu. I rain . aw ny'fram ltonle Mel nearly broke m3• mother's beast. .e joined the rebel army and fought againet my brother at the battle of Bull Run. I was captured by Bill Baker and led with a hither to W0(,hi'ngton and there :shot up in pri' ':ion. A fine character I -give myself. and yet after all this I have (fared to lore yon, Annie Grahnm, rind I have brought you this way to ask if yen will be •sly wife. Not now, of Course; not before I go beck; but if I come throttgh the war alive will you be mine then, Ai nfe. • Tell me, darling, and don't tremble so, or turn your face away." Annie was shaking in )'very joint, and the face which t)imnlie tried in vain to see was white as ashes.. She had ex- peeted something like this settee heeled her (Iow21 that grassy lame, but never- theless it came to her with a shock, leaking her feel ns if in some way (he- had injured her mad hatband by listen- ilt1* to anothe love. And still she could not: at ' nee repulse the young utas whose arm was around her, and who hod drawn her to a gap in a atone wall, where he made her sit down While site nnsWt red hire. Strange 11eel- itn;s hitd swept oter lu•r a)1 she heard ( Jimmie earleto'u's vo-1ee telling her hew much s1ie wan beloved, --how from the tit'st moment he saw her he had been interested in her, and Asking her again 1f false had anything to give the "re- creant Jimmie." -Ile said the last Playfully, but there Wats tt great fear at his heart lot her silence portended evil to. Wyo. "No, Mr, Carleton, I have no heart to give yon. I buried it with George; I never eau love another. Forgive me if hr (1117 way I have misled you. I wee only hind to you, its I would be fo any soldier." "13111 Baker, for instance," game save aptly from Jimmies lilts, lie was cruelly disappointed, for he had not believed Annie would refuse bin,' ns be end done. ile thought it „cull deal of himself as a Carleton, Nay, be believed himself superior to the man lite was st,ulding between hinisel! and the woman he coveted, and to be 1.0 decidedly vet used by die who had been Content with a person in George c;nn}litu�'s position angered hint for :t : nu recut- sheltie knew he was offended, and when he spoke of Bit Baker, (lie said to hint gently: "You m'italce me, Mr. Carleton, If ltcwessary, I could do for 'William Bah kez more than I have done for you; but it would only be front it sense e duty, --there would be no pleasure in it; \Mile cluing for you w11s,a pleasure, be- t4,0you are Airs. Arather's brother, - toad because,—beeause—" She diel not know how to flu:$h the sc utc'lice, foe elle could not herself tell why it had of late been so pleasant for her to do for Jimmies Carleton those lit- tle • nets of kindness which had devolv- ed ell her. She was only interested in It}m as a eoldiel', she insisted, and she tried to make hint understand that her decision was final; that were George dead a down years, she should give him the same answer as ,site did now. She could not be his wife. Anel. Jim - tide understood it at last, and by the terrible pangs of disappointment which crept over hint, the Pequot girl writ fully avenged for the 100ny times she had watched front her window of the hotel, or wanted sadly along the road by the bar- to see if Dick Lee were (hieing. But A.nntic had no wish for revenge She waswill • r' him, 3 sorry for 11 m, and she tried to comfort )lint with the as(,m:utce of her interest in him, and by telling Hint that, if ever he was sick la hospital or in crump, and unable to cense ]souse, ehe •wo•nld surely go to Mut as readily ns if he were her bro- ther. .limnme did not care if:reticulaity for each comforting then, and his face, wren he reached hoarse, wore so dark_ and sorry a look that hose knew at once that something was wrong; but ;1 6 lereerahed fromasking anyquestions diets,—feeling intuitively that bath 'An- nie and her brother would • prefer to have her do so. • it W118 a very grave, • silent party which meet at tate breakfast table next urnma, tied only Annie c \\ us at all i- elba-fr.:to talk. She triad to be cheer- ful tot appear es usual to the silent ming" man who mem: looked at her ns she eat opposite hinl,with her smooth bands of hair so becomingly arrange], and her eyes so fell of pity for'Ilim. She could �"'4' t n d not revoke h„ • c r. ) -1 d c om, but she Was (lorry to send him from iter w.th thalt look upon his face; and when, after breakfast, she met him for a few moments alone in the library, she Imid her hand timidly upon his atm, and sail, "Jimmie, don't be angry with me. Try to think of 1110 118 your sister, -- your bust friend, if you like. It grieves me that 7 have made yeas so unu:tpi>y." She had never culled him Jimmie be- fore in his hearing, and as she "clic) it now, the dark, handsome 'face into which she was Iodizing, Luehed with a sudden joy, ns- if lie thought she were relenting. But she was not; site could only be his friend,—his bet friend. she repeated, • and her face was very pale, as she told him how she should remem- ber him, and work for him, and • pray for high, When he wits Gone. Andthen - she gitwe ltim her hand, staying to him, "It is nearly time for you to go. I would rather say good-bye here." And Jimmie' took her hand, and, pressing it between.his own, said to her: "Yoe have hurt me ernelly, Annie Gt,ullnm, for I believed you caned for me; but I cannot hate you for it,though I tried to do so all )tight long. I love you just the sinew as ever, and always 1 shell. Remember your promise to come b to me when 11)111 sick, end let me kiss you once for the sale of What 1 hop- ed might be." Site diel not refuse his 10(111eat; and when at last'lte left her there was a red spot on her 0110011 where Jimmie C'au•leteu's Fps had been. Prom her window' she watched hits going down the walk; and while with Widow Simms he waited for the coming of the train at the depot, elm on het knees was praying for 11110 and his safety, just as, eighteen months before, she prayed for George whcit he. was going from her. CHAPTER XXIII. Jimmie's: journey wee performed in safety, and lie won golden opinions from his travelling companion, for whom he had eatred ns kindly 11s if it had been his mother instead of the "crabbed widow" in her eternal Leghorn, with the veil -of faded green. Ito had lett her at one of the hospitmle in • Wnshing;ton, inhere she was to begin her work as nurse, and hastened on fo join his regi- ment. Captains Carleton was glad to welcome back the brother 'Munn he had niiseed so mtic+h, but he sera that some- thing 1vAs wrong; and thi1t alight, ns they sat around the tent fire, he ask• ell what it was, nlhd wily the face, usu- ally so bright and cheerful, seemed se sober and sad• Tom had meed° minute iugiirics eoneerning his mother, and Rose, nand Susan Simms, teaa1 evert poor old Abs. I3atker. 13ut not a word of Ahelle. /he could tint speala of her, with that unfinished letter lying hi. his little travelling welting -case, •-- that letter commencing "Ally (leak Airs, Grnhntn," a22(1 over the wording of which Tom had spent more time by far than he dill ver the first epistle sent to Mary Illi tl•• 111 to1hAt had been dashed(1 offa in ril the heat of it young m'aul's first at. dent passion, just no Jimmie two weeks ego would have written to Annie. l3ttt: Nom was eight 3•eats older than 31m - tithe .Iiia first love hod stet its full:. (ions or Thought. A life of; pleasure wakes even t':e strongest ltti)1d frivolous at 142 t. • 1111- wer.. . ;he noontide sun. is Clark and music discord when the heart is low.—Young. Opportunity is rare, and a \vice men will never let it to by Lilo—Bayard Taylor. If a man be endured with :a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. -- Plato, Recollection is the only paradico front which we cannot be turned out.--Rltc•h- ier,. Of all the paths that lend to a woman's love, pity is the straightest.—Beaumont. Who hath not known i11 fortune, nev- er knew herself or his own virtue.— "Unbecoming forwardness oftener par:^.- ceeds from ignoranee than impudence, -- Grenville. Hagyard's Yellow 011 relieves pain, reduces. swelling,takes out inflatnu1ftjjon, Cures Rheumatism, Croup mid Ridn;;y Complaint, Can Le used externally or taken internally. Price 25c. Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Pclthrin. As the mind must govern the hands, sa in every society the lean of intelli- gence must direct the man of labor.— Johnson. . Mrs. Chas. P. Tomnir, Hope Town, P. Q., writes: "I used to be troubled with ever( Headaches and Coustipation, but Laxa-Liver Pills have cured 1110 and I heartily recommend them. to my friends." 13:, ohne.(, M. P., West 1'1 the f• •-- ft(oaual 011., nuke frid L'turier 1 ow it came that be Rouuipt enthc lie, was s:l bx(>ru] views 511(1 touleueles towards o . His answer, in e31'eet i was as follows "Up to the ago of eighteen Iooeld nothing but French and Mired out a'Sooteli farnutr in order to learn licit. Ural;i' morning this good held family worship, and the did memb( ra of the household read its amt averse of the l3ible. In the (rugs( m time I was invited to remain with the, family while morning service was hald, and I had every opportunity of jutigiti of the sterling and consistent diameter of that good farmer and Ids family, and I must admit that the impressions I there. roeeived have retrained with me thrones. life, and have , undoubtedly° influenced: zee more than I know." One of the, members of tont particular family is notes the wife of Rev. T. G. Williams, of St. James' Alethodipt church, Montreal., an& 1 have the story from his owu lips. a 41ren Ory for -x. r3rs How many yards does it take to make a lady's silk dress? I don't know, but it always takes two yards and a halt more than you buy the first time, . R. A. Climie, Listowel, has sold the, 185 acre farm belonging to the Joint Aft Clilnie estate to David Nichol, of At— wood. This is a valuable property within the corporation, and the price realized was 46,850. r• r R•I°PAS° Doctors fi AGoo � Pres eripti.nFor ma T MILES Ten for five cents, at Druggists Grocers, Restaurants, Saloons, News -Stands, t,eneraf Stores and Barbers Shops. They banish pain, induce sleep, and prolong life. One gives relief 1 No matter what's the matter. one will do you good. 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