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THE ATONAL : ,GODRBIOR. ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 5 1895.
COLIC,
Cramps and rowers
Merton, LMerrbr.e. tole
eatery end Moulton (UtM-
ppti.ai1•1ta 0135, Burin .ad
Bruises. Bine. !lungs. .al
faanburn can all be pro $'
b rsluved by
Poem Uevtr
Palo Killer.
.k T"1,,
O 1s C
CERTAIN,
'niHKaLER
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M • hall et mow .w sone rw•nn ,r ...n r.tl•er).
KISMET.
R.1sniks fee puree.. • all
Aad All our u t ,tl. idly.
For I love yo... sad you lege Jobe,
Aad ,Ida love. dtstr ,t Mot'y.
But Moll ..,r.. Me d. ih fax Fi-ok,
When 'hooch + t , S I"s waud. r
Not sen sweet Sallie Ont.. forgot
The gym of Charlie yonder :
While (.►.rite heed. his v.z. one N.I1.
Who swear* .1.. loves m. eely :
Aod thus the c•• cls grew.. orrtnplet•
Whoa, in *ash Inert N lonely.
Now should sou talo .ad love Mt ate,
Aad John wain 1 v Iy N•.1
Should S.fl love Frail wind Noll love
Charles --
ay. hew Gould Neat to fells•
-New Reiland !deputise
THE SUPPER OF ST GREGORY.
A tale for Keenan guides to all
Te caroler- .i.ht wore traysllsrs.Mll,
Who p•.se beside the narrow mil
Of t.reg.ry o. the Cadmus Hill.
(lye day before the nook's door some
A hugger, stretshiwg map'v palms,
Fenton and fast sick, in th. same
Of the Most Holy asking •1m..
And the monk answered . •'All 1 have
In this poor cell of mine I give -
The elver cup my mother gave:
1s Clint • name take thou it, and fiver
Yens passed ; and called et Iva to boor
The t mtorol crook aid keys of Rome,
The pony monk is Si. Peter's chair,
Bat and crowned lord of Christendom.
"Prepare • feint." St. Gregory cried.
"And les tootles beggars sit thereat,'
The beggars cams, end sue beside -
An unknown stranger with teem eat
"1 asked thee sot, the Postai .peke,
"0 stranger : 1.01 if ..ed he thine
1 hid tem weleome, for no make
Of ilia who is thy Lord and maw.'
lot relief, 't kers Mal oc woman resod here
that'd hem h'.."
"Need.. e be so sure of that, said Maas,
' mon guickly than he had yet spoken
"Wan... 11 hove •.yk idy ; dual► make ab
diff r.sw whet.
Here the .pecker laughed •gun, as the
peseta Mrs. Simpson wee flew moa a third
wife. She now rwearued di.crset ly tiles.
The Rsotlen.o,i lr.w • quill toothpick
true, h..'reuttest pec. et. He was begin
sing to be • teriated. Aad be was also
wondering wb.re les wilts father was this
morning. It would really be awkward 0
the old fellow should marry. He didn't be
live • word about it. Wailes wens always
t►inkutg of .•truing It win jut like
them
The oeupt. were li:.-,g in Mr. I'tile
1.14'. haute. ; for this re.oe ?,o.s could
let his own house and hove the not mooey
to new. ?eras was forohaoded, but that
fact did not prevent Its bone • .ery good
•roto,eu,ent that they should .11 live in the
old man a house. Mr. S'mpeoe would ant
remeeb•r tb•t he had oyer been able to
make u ate se advantageous u arr.a'stneot
with any of the mea who had been his
father in low. Hie own atfgesties that his
wife .• father was thinking •f marrying
again begin rally to worn him.
He was frownins and fingerinc his tooth,
pick, when the eeot opened, aid • tell
heavily built map entered and walked to
his place at the table.
Mn. Somp..n looked at him and er.bim
ed:
"Why father!"
Mr. Miesiilii-lwkit iiiiilLidillORMII.
But h. said :
"01, theuds'1"
The older mw hurriedly ert.oded his sop
for ceffee. He grew red in the face ea he
tried to silk unu0000rnsdly.
• •What'* the Natter new ' ' be asked.
A gave, oohs taco the anterior raised, "esu seem kind or ..'prised 'bout ooagthisg
Like Hie who on (..nn.earet trod, Lyddy. I wish you'd pass me the Nagar."
Or His on whom the Golden' gazed- The doughtier passed the moat. Sal ma -
Whose fora, w.. u the Sou of God. Mused to gaze at her father, whe bad the
"Knew .t thou, he said, " the gift of
old
And a the hand he lifted up
The Pou'if woryelled to behold
(Nee more ha mother's elver sop.
"Thy prayers and alms have rumen sod
Alfons
Sogs tly aloes the flowers of heaven.
I an'Th.• Wonderful, through whom
Whets er thou &skeet shall be gives.
He sp.ke and vanished. Gregory 1.11
%Yoh h,e twelve guests tut mute &cooed
Prone no their loon, lnowig weal
Ther eves of yeah h.d nos the Lord.
The old ore.. Ly.nd a not vaiq :
N..r vain thy ort, Verso•• Paul,
Tolley .t o .r and o'er anion
in on, \'torn..'. fr•.coed wa1L
Si 1, wheresoever pits shot..
1ts bread with arrow, want and min,
And love the beggar a feast prep.res,
1'he uiiavit.d Guest comm In.
U.he•rd, br own nor e..re are dull,
l'naten, loonies our eyes are dna,
He walk. oar ...oh, The Wonderful,
And .11 /.rod deeds are done to Him.
- John G. Whittier
THE STORY OF
' PA'S WOOING.
gmpaence of • well- premised mss of 70.
\\,'".1 didn't hardly know you. she mid.
"%eel t
never son you 'await whiskers
ulMee I eau remember."
Mr. Littlefield put his band oompleoe.tly
ever his lend, wane reast.cbe. H. had .l
ways wore • full beard.
' Thought 1 d try eha.i•t,' tie notarised.
"I did it myself. My heed s jest se
■ tidily ---
He held up his band as he spoke, and
glanced about him with pride. Then was
• *light tremor to Tri- gagers. but not
enough to proclaim l.'s CO years.
Saddesdy he eat back is hat oh•ir. His
fresh, toddy face grew or....
"We •:n't ant no b'oswin on our
"Thous • feet,;' responded Zona*. "Go
eased, pa''
Pa bent his head. His voice quivered
somewhat se he began :
"Heavenly Father, for what we are shoat
to receive male us duly thankful. Anson.
For more than forte years Lyddy 1.d
hard Ors hleseirg at evil/ mal when her
father had bene present.
She felt 11 to he an ill omen that he had
forgotten it fora moment, even though he
woo Isle
She oat bee: is her chair and looked at
kiwi frrtively. Hew strange hie taco erne
without hie beard, and with that mu•toche
sweepioi bask at each side.
"i declare, p•," she broke out, •'I tool
kinder loot mein' you so. What made you
de ,t ....
"Tye boon thinh in' of it this some 1150,
was the sooner. " N Anally i thought
1 d de it fere the eonv*stion meets over to
Gurley I e'pp000 you're gots' ain't you.
Lyddy
Mr. Littb6.ld was m•t'eg a very good
breakfast, .otwith.tand.og his remit o0
armt,n, ert+snmoe with his toilet.
"N... mid Lvddy, "1 sort gain t
was n.' hind to gad, you knot, pa.
Mr. Littlefield looked disappointed.
Mr Simpson shoved hs chair gratingly
•w.y from the table, se he remarked that
he'a lAd,ly didn't t•.• no time to (*about
the soaoory be eemv*shIoma.
'I deo t knew. but M.'n Baptiste, you'd
be Oh,.kfs' of attendiw,' was the re
spoon.
The o' I Realism's ,loiekly added that
"there wasn't never r'.yhrd. to go any•
whore winkle."
Hie dnmgntet i+t id at k''.:n silenm. It
wee etas that elm did not go any where with
hot lather. Rut, thee, she did wet go any.
were with anybody. She elwais 'naiad
•t bison, ,the was hese She I mew that
her father was around : hot she did trot no
ties ben any more then she noticed the old
do., who slept in differ. nt not -of tbeotty
place.. A •td she ' did not es -19 tor doge,
t►ongh she Intesde 1 1 t treat them well.
Oise cont .d and washed a•l ironed for her
hiker. 1f he 'Anal I L. seek eh•' d take
'feet elate tete' of him.
Lit he never win sulk !the 'opposed he
you'd be, efmaItmee. l,d old folks died.
11.ev'er re •Jrrerf t • Mr.. S,•npin. that
she wee not the hest k• -'d of daughter, or
that Inc father did not have the hat bled
of a time.
1ne me" who drove the dept, wave
al.•y.'long out the Bootee daily sperm,
widish Mr. Littlefield had boogbt for year.
It was tree that %eras, if it. were .t bogie,
s4wo,s get the paper ••yd had their", road-
ies at it, bet the old seas tad It patty
ems, anyway, soil be always emoted e
road every lash of 1.
)11V'T you think pe', kind Of odd
lately, /AMASS
1 be man to whore the question wap pot
was eta ng o• the other side of • onion
table which eras platted against the wall IN
the kitchen. The breakfast was spread an
the table.
Mr. Simple's paused aomtentarily in his
act of .1.umg ; f.w peas round his plats
with bile knife with a view of eeting the
peas. Rut, Ins many other earthly things,
peas are elusive, particularly when pursued
by a bread. backward curving blade.
/genas persevered, however. H• *but hie
teeth hard and drew his brows together.
II• !trough, the toting' vegetables to a full
sap Ls ruining ,the rinks* up against •
piece of brown bread which acted as a kind
of bulwark. Rayon -aecoapli•hd this,
%w.as looked up and said
"Her ,
Tnt. Ira. Mr. Simpsons usual method of
saying "What! .
"I too t ' Ju think pa • Lied of odd he-
ly' esnfntiy repeated the woman.
H*r oompanton cat oto a dice of ginger
bread and began to ear re it on his plate.
H• waited until he lad pia.•., a rube of
this wk• in his mouth before he mid indis-
tinctly
"No.1 alai notteed notion . (isms you're
groin' notional
Mrs Simpson was slowly sipping tit Iron
Inv mower. •tioriatitosally dipping • twisted
doughnut in her drink.
"I done t think mea am 'me thing* fess
the, re ehnekof right under their ....., 'a'
tt•.ir hoods rapped at th• same Hae," she
remarked work .nee d'.daie. 'i'ye bete
maims of it for mere a • month; n' i don't
know whet to make 01 11 "
Mr. Simpson leaned bask in los shat..
i1. had bnehed hie .ones of 'interbreed
and was locking at the denehnom.
H.sunk d hie teeth audibly • few tones
in a wteditative monster: them he 'aye •little
lamb as be r'..po.del.
"0Id g.Nem.a ain't thi.kfa of earth.',
WPM, is he r'
Mrs. Rupe'. fleshed .II over her thin,
aervw tare se she replied •
"O..... he •I.'tM•rryia' ' Why, he's
le W eightieth year t Heide.', with em air
Neither Mr. temper tzar hie wile acid
moue to Mr. Utelellsit Irsosenniemely
Lydia", had to her mind plotted bgr harbor
feemewhat .studs the pale of the .o-- u
laureate that absorbed her. He wag old
of anise, rid folks did. t oars onion thugs
as they seed to errs. She been'( woe .ver
60, Sal that was diCe•ea.
Lyddy bad ..i cod ...Mimes that beg
father'. fare had a hied el wistl,.l, lomme.0
leek es he sat with hes paxr ea his k.se
sifter he had read it, o: as be waned for
lr•, t, fat►.\ readier i.
But she sever tb.usit stab about that
look
The seat day he said t• her that he
"oould.'t help kiador within' .he was gds'
to that..ay..►toa."
•' 'Tain't tea ease for um to tbi.k of it," she
replied, ghostly. "Yon sen ye. Yon ain't
got eosins' elm a do.
But it'• kinder !osm.oss, neve: herb' so
body with ye,' said Mr. Littlefield. " (t'
you knew I'm what you'd tali • sociable
.ort of • tine, Lyddy. Your motile ralways
said shat I was reel ..:able.
1 he speaker was reohne at the window
to toe kitchen with h': .'e in his bend
and bit bot on the book .f ht. head. Lyddy
lid nest look up ft om the milk pal : she
was washing It at the en' She oolv said
with • ~e'er ,stomp: tut 'old tolls .I
ways would take up yam= anima.
Her father stood • women longer. He
stroked hie mnetiehe ..d he at rsigbaned up
involuntarily as he did so. But he WY MM-
* a.us tbi#t no did net get moats comfort
from this wen of the:wu.t•ebe.
He walled to the end et the kito►es
when his b-dre,.a was. He put his hat
and los *•oe oe the bed. Re .toyed .own
what aimlessly about the small room.
A'ergo film grew in frost of the one wigi•
dos. In that lilac • pita of rebuts had built
their nein sed the young set were new
aiming there is comtant •::psctotios of
the arrive' of one or beth parsons with
worts.
Mr. LittIN.Id eat dew s •-t the chair by
the window and leaped hammed to wash
the birds. Presently the father and the
mother came. the menthe gaped and swal-
lowed.
"They •ia't lo...ume," .aid Mr. Little-
field ►'mild. "I'm it real ,teieMt ten.
L
was always hatter to sok., If aettteg dee.
Thee days Net, when she morahg same
she had gin op all seek '.,sail.., it she
maid he said to have W i. Hat, as .he
festered her father's 000ktM, she did sot Ie
him teat .he wanld ten ' .he "wasn't driven
b d.etb " The aid ors above her looked
no pleased and Rrwlful .a them weed. that
Lyddy', heart pe.. *mimeo quid heat of
...shit like gig'".
"1's_ atgtty glad you tbougbt .f it," he
said.
She washed him walk down the path to
take the depot wages_
"He.* • restaged Nokia' old w, if he is
my father,- .bit said to bersolf.
"014 pstlama. • same shirk, ain't. 1.
mail lease, with hie laugh. Lyddy did sot
know why the itemised the beg\ grated se
ups her.
"M.bbe he'll be makes ■p to mete gal
over to the monyestleo, rem.•rled Zonas,
chucking.
Mr. Littleffeld.oaveresd agobiW y with the
three sober people a the dept wagon.
They were going a (hurley to the *eaves
otos, but whoa they arrived they separated
thewlves from him.
Aftor Mr. Littlefield had takes hie place
,n the ohuro►, be best his head Newer' to
the book .f the pew in frohi of him, and re-
peated in • whisper the pst:ti.s to the Lord
for • .omp•nis..
The repesUog of the payer seemed to
pat the maker .f is in good pir:ts H. rose
with eheerf.l agility to lei a wooer pass
i.15 the pew, for the people wore beginning
to come to feat sew.
%%he. be eat down .gain he stroked hie
moustache; thou he turned and looked .t
tit. woman snout • haw fest away from
him. H. protmded that hit win gwzing be-
yond her at mmt•ling the other sode of the
ohnro►.
H. aetio.d that her gray hair was wavy,
and he thought it was petty. She b.d •
dark face with lin and striating all over
i1 ;
but for all those 1•... .sd wrinkle@ It
Imo • Derain fresh appearance. As he
weaned an hewed and emtl.d,grootug•ome
body who sante tab the seat opposite. 1b.
man seamed to warm Mr. Littl.Aold's Woo-
ly heart. He eat op greet He wiled to
ksow mina way b gat imtrodsad. Es ro-
metiMgewd bis pgtyer. It WgN be trhet
was ' f'"'-'0 will le -sewer it
e say on
owe of them hied chat lino ss to be al...•
!hero ain't so►edy loco allays that wants
tett with m,"
The Bond, @tall b,•iilson-• old fen broke
from its enamel lisso : the mouth nailer ►ho
auetaobe began to tremble with self-pity.
The *tolled hands resting on oke shag" arms
@ bet tightly.
The old ,moat tat there for • few steme.ts.
Then be roes sod loelt dein by the bed.
He visa obfi„ d to going his mo. -menta,
though he was yenog tor his tsars.
H• always payed night and moraimg,
kaml"tg by his . d, bat be could set re
ameb., that he had ever prayed in the day -
t on 'rte tn., ; sed the tact naturally add-
ed se •mportaoce a the tunnies to hie owl
ekes, end he weld not help Oinking that
.t wou'd kart the ear • Off 05 is the eyes o:
bed.
The rur•t's' 1 whiepot became &edible
"Ob, Lord, Thos koowvet hew I batt
situated. I need • somps.io., Lord. lf,
•a thy wisdom, Thou thtoksst it beet, I
pray Theo mad re • ..mp.nioa. Thou
or wept 1 have prove..." enough to be real
'emforte.de, •.d lny. Lyddy mmethisg.
to. 1 pray Tsee, Lord, tit 'ik about • oom -
perion for my de,, •g year*. For Cariat •
sine. Ates.'
..lust as be bad said "a mu" his dangle,'
opened the door. She shrank tack. Nhe
ibougot her tether bad gone out, sold she
came with • broom , bar hand.
Snit was worded. She r„'er..ted about
pray lig ni;ht and Sold n., but it d: 1 net
n em swami / to address the lord at oche:
tram.
The old mus was • Tittle hard of haring
and he had not not sed tae opening of the
doo-.
He pl•or d his h inda f o the ..d. of the
hod ' ad brood b,moe:f, to that he could
nee mon easily.
He mw Lyddy and boors car used.
"Why pa' ' she •rolai:1nd.
She had vague '\ought• o' t•nd•ig for
the doctor. When a men gee, and preys
atter br.a4'&st, sifter having prayed before
breakfast, .he telt as if something taught to
be done.
"Ike your stom.eh seam to be out of or
der, pa • - she asked.
"Oamach, no, ' was the respesee.
Mr. Littlefield reached forward and took
hu nue from the bed, planned it fir,ily os
the floor and loaned heav,'y ea it, as he
•.rnfrented t\e Ironton in the doorway.
"' we boon addressee, my Maker," be
said ..Ietnnly
"Ain t you s as well as romm•n ' she
tiled.
"Yee, 1 In
At this point the old man I spay to waver
front his firm attitude.
"1 was Limier ier lonesome,' he said, "s' I
thought 1 d make • bit of prayer. 4:0d
hears prayers, yes knew, I. • Idy.'
"Lonesome,' rspwsel Lvddy, new he
ginaing to he irritate -I. "i don't gee how
one o*, my that when ae 'a' %ens are
round here all the tiara"
"1 know yea he, het maeboa I'm olio
side. I don t know how 'tie, hat i he sot
d ile
H.i. votes was pitched op to the high note
of age as h. went : '"Your mother •Iw.y.
said 1 was a rad mood fe mer,
you want me to eat down and .pend
my tine talk:• to you • .
Mn, Yiesp.ou pat this immure with sown
w ane. She want ns_ : "1f von do, 1 can tall
yes I've gat my work stealing 'round
waiti• to bales.
•'Tads', that," said Mr. I.ittleihead, "bet
I'm *amide."
I.ydly turned •way with her broom.
Rhe took iter implement tato the hoot pariah
which she swept with .sett vigor. Oho
hadn't any patinae* with her father when he
told her It. was "enbtd.ta" What did he
mean ' /tumid..f what t She bad •bah
mag Uto.th% that .he wwald try to go idle
Idea m teat M.?Mties, hot 'lm lido', gee
haw i• the wield she .odd de It
ably.
Woes the brim was gives out the woman
found the place and handed the book to the
old man. He took it with trembling hand.
He was inwardly g1•d that be had shaved
off that long beard.
H. tried to hear the amiable( of the dif
forma ministers, but his mind wandered to
• vow., Diseases way, •aid he freed that
be mould not follow their weirdo.
At moos tickete were given to the people
out of town to the reddest•. Each t eku
bore • we and address, and entitled the
bearer to a diner.
Them ooavaotians wen • generally hoe
pintas time among the Baptists.
Mr. Littlefield took big bit of paotebo•rd,
found the nett street and the right house,
and when he reached the yard be flung op
has head sad walked .ciartly up the path.
He could amt help • little start when the
dark woman wail the roily heir .posed the
door to him Them he gathered kiersolf up
and mad gallantly
"I guess I'm is tusk this time e:gett hest
h ere."
The two eat alone at the dingier tall*.
Afar toe drat cup of t• • they Iowan to talk.
I luso •ovoe mall you frank ! There is
nothing hke the fnnk.w of are, and no
tbi.g Ilk• age for the &akin, of Imdtog
I.sstiooe.
A. he shred hie cram and tea Mr.
Littlefield inquired :
"Ie your hrsb.md I; '.g ! ' Mrs. Tate
looked steadily don-. ,to her to.*sp at elm
enewered :
"The Lord took Mr. Tats Ave years .go
the 17th of I.st Feint's '. H• had old
fashioned "assumption. He woo sick • long
time "
"It must have been reel warn' a you,
Mit Tan. '
Mr. Littl•6el1 spoke w'tb ue.tioe. The
veers seemed to roll off Ira. T. sit oppt
site this woman .oil talk with h.e while he
drank eaoelleat to .ad ate an exsollest
diciest was baying the effect .f • mirmle
e pos him.
"Twee waria', ' wadi the response, "but
the Lord helped me to bar it."
The man liked tint reference to the
lord.
H* was silent for • womeat Then Is
passed hie sup for the third time.
"I don't know whoa I'.e drunk such
tea," he mid. "What kind do yos a s,Mi.
Tate !"
"Realm black. Rot i guess its in the
n tmpi.'.
"i gnome likely 'tin, I-vddy, she's apt to
bile her tea."
"It spine tea to Lile it,' remarked Mrs.
Tate.
''lio I tell um.
Another short silence.
"ie this hoses 'vontb onddg.ly asked
Mt. Littlefield.
Mlrie 'riot, But i have fir N tt • a
loses I li.., er till--"
"Till what!"
"1 marry. Hot 'tonal no ways likely i
*ball marry alis."
"1 den t 1.m0w'bout that, niter -mod Mr.
Littlefield, with • great deal of manieg.
"A lads like son, yens, Nokia' as you be,
must have• I.n of shame."
Mrs Tate insole no reply to this ave by
• oomeioue smile
"Ions et ehaaoea,.' repeated the moon
116111,
Sud'imly Mr. Littlefield began to dilate
open the lonely .oadit,ou of • widewer,eva
though he lived with hie married d•.gblor
He west a to explain that he evened the
booms, shat be hod 116,000 in dm hook, and
that if he should take another wife he would
give her 31,000 outright. He said he had
never been man, and he ea's't gum' to be-
teg mew.
..'Yen deet !sew ..Skim' 'beat ma," he
tysas es, ep.ki.g flouter sed /beet. "hut
yes i e send enybody ewer to N helmet
Mesa am eek all they want to, 'u'U tbinp
11m. ; W% es 1 say, why—
Tho speaker passed. He was pent at
the woman opposite eta, sheeting how
o leaanat she aeesaed to be, and bow good
bar tee tasted.
"If you ain't ne objeedo.e," be togas
anion, "1 trite you'd get somebody to go
over to Wi..l.w, will yea r'
"4.'. Tate woe (*Idiom her aapk io enc
templauvely Yes gl..00d ap M the aswrdy
Noe 5pporu her.
"Yew said yew daiag►t.r treed
ohs remarked.
"Yee; out Zones, he's got • boom, ,l
they e's move there. Yo see,' sowfidently,
"they'.e get other set re.s, 'a' 1'a tired
of brine ea oatetder. I've beim an out-
sider ever snot Lyddy'1i mother died, The
Lord ,mors 10 save lead toe here. 1 ha
Lord's hood is in it !"
"1 guess 111 meed Deans Miller over to
Wiesner sumo Mine Sart week," mod
Mrs Tae. "How old De ye, Mr. Little-
1.ld."
Ti. man 'aimed hie hand over hie
montes►s Hs hcaatated an Instant. Theo
he answered : "I.1'11 he 73 Sort Augaei,"
And to himself he said . "Su 1 shall he
73 then.'
He ouuld not put that q,aeettoa to the we•
moa eating there. But Mrs. 'fats remark.
marked, with apparent frankness :
" ''.'ain't no use lents such things hll.
I was 56 last birthday.
She was 65 lot birthday.
Mr. Litt.eli•id name up bravely with his
rejotner. "You was ' he exclaimed. 1's
astemaiog how young yes look.
Demos Miller w.• duly seat to Winslow
t, make uvesugauoa. When he ca 1n• Laub
he told Mrs. Tae that evarythiur was just
as Mr. Littlefield had said, oely--. Here
he panned and grisued.
"Only what?" impatiently.
"Tam.' moot' moue ab. replied.
Bo is "apposed that Zulu had to tale his
wife to hte owe boom before the sunnier
was over. He swore about It He said
Lyddys p much' to no put in an utylum.
He began te ay eomethI.g extremely there -
.restful about widowers, bat•Lyddy. looked
ea Sim se strangely that be remembered
and did not main Use Best ,1 ,
Mr. Lottlt6eld carried himself with the
air of • soogs•ring hero He talked of Mrs,
Tate to eve,yooe who would lutes. He
,Sid that some folks d,dm t behove that God
answered prayer. but, as far him, he win
moray fey "them kind of folks." Mr. Sinop-
/los would sot allow his wife to p to the
wedding He said "It woe all • meas of
temfeols.y ; and likely'. Mot, it ne.or'd
have some .bout, if she'd had sense *sough
to have went to Net Invention with the
old man.'
A FIGH TING MISSIONARY
meat re Afriea to r'reasb and Reaalsed
e Flgbt.
The latest oewap•p.rif from looden oon
t.im a bolt dozen Bose about the baogw,t of
a white man In Genual Afrio.. H• u the
bat white mm to inset that igaoa,ntoes
death to that rano.. His mat was Stokes
and he hu had • remarkable career, to
weigh the Mash newspapers made me ref-
ormat. Stokes was me of the first minnow.
Moss who was amt out to Victoria Nyan-
za. In the course of • few years he thought
he mw a chance to make a fortune in Atti-
cs, and be abandoned the m,aionery hold.
The growth of his inflames was remarka-
bly rapid and was owing to his intimate
knewledge of the country and the great sus.
mos of hit business estsrpriies. It woe due
to Stoke far more than to •us other age
moo that liwaug., the tugutvo Kug of
l'ganda, was able to regain hie throne. He
hat now been bongo(' to the northeast coc-
o a of the ('wngr Free Stain by an editor of
that state, and the .0.11510111 tion] /.....,bar
say. the affair IS oreatine greet .xoltume.t
mbar o,
Tit. cable dispatch from Zanzibar is cos
firmed by 000tber dispatch from Brussels
tell agor reoest events int Longo Free Neat .
It appears that when Gait. Danis, woo
drove ►h. Arabs of the Upper (Congo scroee
Ltln Tanganyika and out of the ('unit•
Free State, mime home oo lave of •Maw,
Commandant Lotbaire succeeded him isi
oom.'a.d of the troops. Machine oath
down the Congo, he caught and .recuses
Cant Kibcoge, who was mainly responsible
for the murder of l min Pasha At the ..ins
tins he learned that a white mon had been
selling gots and powder to the Arab .avers
and to Kiho.ge. Later he eaugb► this shote
man us the Iwai rover. His proved to be
the trader Stokes. A court-martial win or -
smutted is try him, sad bo was filmed guilty
and hanged. 1'he Ilan river is to the morn -
east part of the .tau. Tlat region wac
another centre .t Arab sieve raiding, and
Lotbatn must have gime theta to pot an
sad to the Arab clave trade In that quarter,
just as Inmate had deme ruse further
Ss.th.
Fdte.. or sixteen years age Stokes was
scot to Uganda by the church miesionsry
society of England, and tor several v•are
he win oma of see most active of the pie.•
tier mtwroartes in that sou.try. A'I re
pore of his work were to his erwdit. He
..em.1 to hake an unusual faculty for win-
ning the favor of the n.1,.e and ter keep.ug
miactonery waterproof* moving. He win he
Loyal to to • tan 01 clam ary 'harmetsg
t ied Christian zeal. Ht :had far more pea
sad erecutis• abt;ity then any of his eggs -
rodeo 'except Alex. Mackay. •sod wine theme.
fore more moment than most of them iso
the history of the early struggle, ei the
1'gande misdo..
Everybody wk:. kap, tr ck of hs enter-
prise win much eurprieed 10 or 11 yams
ago to heir that Stokes had *sddesly left
the missionary service and had 'sabot lied
is bushier on hie own mei.nt as • trader.
He .eead .t tit.time to hate aban-
doned.11 Om high prineiples be had pro•
lofted, aid wee willing to do amnion to
mak• money. Hs Imminent was to take
anything fess the cont to the lake region
that he mold .:.hangs Inc ivory. ilia pan -
sips' trade geode were sus and powder, be
tones they were what the motive* most
eagerly craved Hi. Manisa= wan regarded
as nefarious, but he deva pd it to large
proportions before the prohibition of the
gam and powder ars& with waives was ea
tabtiahed. it is said that he bas shore oar
vied on the trade es • large .Gabe in tpie of
the p.'nbibitiee
He had some anal stir. with the big
iodism traders in the Zesg'bar enact, bat
nebedv mans to know just what it ors- 1s
M probable that a large part of hie atiipis.l
capital win provided ley thea, mid they, of
esune, .bared is hie proles.
Sege yeses ye he Beat iota the interior
• warms i 2.000 penmen. It wee acid •t
the time to be the tarpest Media' 5540.
yes ever seen fa angina Wrist with the
.e�teeppMenof .se party gent to the meet by
A Common
Affliction
bind W Taint
AYER'S .5"::
A Cdl<HH111*'$ STORY.
--
foreht years Witham'that , I tried a peat
which were Wally no_.
bet some gave e teff, i
wee at lent advised to try A er's flaw
=la, by a friend who told me that I
lest purchase six house., stet live thea
.ecordl gt rwdl ei4a, 1 fMl,M.1 who
took -*..• �hr' three
(Hitt'., rod
lurk the neem Or a Mx of ales,tooe tai(.
tle% without aetteleg soy direct benefit
before I had Anyhed the fourth tools.
my hands were as
Free from Eruptions
as over they were. My bu.lneq, which
Is that Of a esbdrIver, requires me to
be out in cold and wet weather. orten
without gloves, anti the trouble bas
never returned." -11105•11 A. Jonas,
Stretford, Ont.
Ayer', Sarsaparilla
,dge1ttud at the World'. )'..jr,
4 er's .PSUa CI.as ie the Bowe e.
Bah -ill sewed Etat of I,'Keadti
Mwaatta, was dnv. u tretm hes thaw. by the
Ilohemmdeu element iso his •uuutry ecmi-
mted ►y the Arab tenders .lee boa m
they were supreme, Stokes **old do be
mor t..Jtng t• L Janda The fast win
widely poll stied te the followus year them
Stobee will really the mea who put Item.
■ a back ea the throne and so•t,i.d the este
e maarim to return to i soda. Mw.opi
native support*•. w. io mooly too -seem iw the
Boddu deur. i...fid it win Stoke.' goes and
pawner t .,et eeeot d them to .. in the day.
The mt.•lunai11. hero ► .0 very mesh
oehemed of Sake., end but. h.d little to
my about him for years
During the year when nuthio..... heard
fiom Stinks, who, win ou his l'.nm reld
arpdilioa, •red there were tt,e ' •eport. int
1s death. Stole.s len• a,. ,, l'g.ud. s.
.tructef t.• bring news of the explorer M
ch. aw,t c f•.,c, ,,..,.,.... 11. withdrew
the men, bee eve., just before Stanley Haw
peered.
The or me of whisk hi was .aid to be
gwilty, and Inc which be wee put to death,
a e4 the moat dso1Jwhle Chafer tar He
was found guilty of supply:art n,un'tio&a d
woe to the A•ek- with beck to fight his
own thee. The whites have tea at ser
w tb Arabs Gimj I. bemuse eb. y porei•"ad
railing tor doses. a murderous 1u.meo
• inch •11 c .11 zed mations declared, •t the
Hruwl@ cor for woe, most be suppreseed,-
New York Sun.
w.mw w the Searle.
Some new, or newts tu'd, atones of Lord
Chief R.ros , i'l;r.dy. owe et the Irish
ja•lgr of the leer• eenent,nn have omitted
in the Env len !.w pttr.. -ft. aid
heron's repute's •i a humot:at i et boss
k •pt alive in the Croute courts by malty
tale' of hu 'myiogs white en the beach
Who n a women, who had been conyteted R
fore tion of rou. ery and who bad committed
an *insult fn a police *thaw iw the coon -
room, was ar.•atgned fuer center, e. he pro
cveded ,n an masse- est al fo seri.a cent
to 'mteece he: to t'.'tpert•tioe, bet
closed the rarefies w,th * teriatiole of the
osual tortoni!' Ay s.yior, "And may (wd
have mercy upon therin who,sba'I have to
menace y..0 Otte'."
A prisoner against whom the imitate
was *trona was aniuitt.d before the 'hid
baron. A motion ter the prueser •
hain mdM
O ra wode, het the judge turd ul
the moon( sed mid : "The pneoner will be
d,echa'ged at noon to mono* 1 fel oat
fee R-aterterd'n the morning. anJ wish to
have two hours' *tart of situ!' rhea,'
A lawyer, who urged t be rood ' ebt, tor of
his client in prima @inc• the ening
ms • reason for clemency, was dMese-
pntoted when oke jufle*Ind to the pr ,mat:
"Your conduit in jail hes been as good m
your conduct out of it hag been bed. In the
intent of the onmmnnity, the Immo yes
remain in prime the better it will h."
Humor on tbo beach has died away MAO
higher matte, mon in ireland..nd only is
the lower course do the judges strew pt 'm•
oad.wslly to give a mmmica1 tar■ to their
.xpge de.s New Yee! Tribune.
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