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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1901-2-28, Page 6CEYLON AND INDIA TEA, GREEN OR BLACK I� PZ7" 'IEA Pure tea calms, restores anti cheers those in distress" DRINK IT. A tree sample of delIcIous SALADA Tea sent on reeelpt of postal mentioning which you drink—Sleek. Mixed or Onsn Tea. Address •' SALADA," Toronto or Montreal. GERALDINE'S FORTUNES +++i++i+++++e And 11,e had not the lash idea 01 the I lu whom Sir Charles had. reason to effect' hal tender. twit-jtatueg: halt- plow*. the utmost confBelt Instructions coa- Utined the moot explicit nstructions :tad the clearest Itatb•ationa as W the nature of his suspicions. h.st aunts, and rt:trted on IIs Weldon In Vie beginning of June. .1s Int *UAW !n the Ilan. ready 'ft* fits ywfury. handsome, with the exultemant of a whit ubiat t., be re. alined Iignt!n: up I... face, 81r Cburles near forced to feel. for alnust the Holt time, u glow of pride lu his hs it With void. F:Itzattwth. who w ,*slip. ped roues•.. James had long wince be - "voile u sotuosvhul unrtrp melte darl- ing ; the sensitive nature could not. 'ergot the early 'louts inflicted by the hard one. -"When Heiden .comfy -bark, 1 rhea: letie a handsome pair of young people about me." said 81r Charles to ttt•phew, in a solos too low for the Lad1,a to hear. "Iteldee ! Oh. yea- she is coming back olds summer, isn't she? Telt her from me that' "Why, you can glee your messages yourself I top are going to 'be away only a month, and she dose not re torn till late In August" "Oh, nh, yes. 1 had forgotten l" saki t.lte-young matt. with a moment's con stralnt : and ho turned to his aunts aids tightly told them to expect hint with n brogne and •a slhlllalah Hut something In hie ono had struck Bir Charles ; anti, when the ,young fellow had given both his :elute an unesually afffecttOn:tte kite nod preened his uncle's hand stead featly without looking him In the fate, and had driven off with unaccountable moisture in Ise blue eyes, the baro. net started forward wltln-an alarm ed expression of fire, awl called him nark. But Jameti 411,1 cwt or woul•t not Mar. hl. . telling of him sole arrival In Dub n. ;int of his fulfilment of hie miselon se far at least as ttt'e delivery of the letter to the lawyer was coa- rrrnetl. He knew wheat the subject f thnt letter was, and had been Instructed by file uncle to supplement it by replying to such -questions mu,-_ corning Deities end her -first appear- ance nt tt'arinf ham as Mr. Massey - might think Flt, to pat to him. But of this part of hlr task he sail noth- Ing, nor d1d the 'ollcltoer when he 'cknnwledged the receipt of the let- ter sal promised 81r (hams' to do ofd ntmowt 1a 'he mutter. Theo there was a pauee. .lames Was it bad cerrespondent. and they were not much surprised at not hear- ing from film ; but, en iretatt'l war in ,i rather more disturbed state than u aun), they began, after three tiueb'illebce, to be somewhat urn- easy- about hint. "1 dare ray we shall not hear a wnrtt truth - -he sadden -1y- turns up brimming over with adventures, and wad either for or against Irish pa- triots," saki Elisabeth. ' "Do you think It was quite wise to let him go to a place - like Ireland ..t much a time as this, conetdering now rash awl headstrong young Men are. ant how they cid rush into !auger for the sake of excitement r'• usked.E1:•anor, nervously. "Supposing ne should gut Into mischief !'• Slr Charles fidgeted and, pulled his oo,usteche. "!f yastug men went to get into mtecbbt, 'them eon -tmeke i{- ler ...hew uuy where; mid. If a lad o. twenty -ort can't take car" of Ism droit, 1 hardly think he it worth tak ear. of," Mid the baronet. "He's .l right, depend upon It. Ire:and isn't w d as it's PaIatcd • I've lived there, stl r l ares.' till here wap ei\traee o f anzlet) m Ise c a• well s%s iu theme, of his .Asters ; a.tti, when the month al ,owed for James' ho;l.tny war over .rid et -111 po pews came of him, they onld no larger title theirarm from other. He was to befromluspent i►do Shue travelling gbott the country. otnyhia ut Killarney, and 'tl'ltlug wrote Heenan of the Jamily w110 had n feat In County Howe. 'Without'say, ng anything about 1t to hie 'deters Ar Charles wrote to theso friends, an.. .cenlvel the reply that they hart H urd nothing of the y`uung mon wle,m they had expected• but who ad rater oppeare,I. !itr. Mna.ey, tou nad heard sothing about. him ante its delivery of the letter from'. Slr .:Imrlaw. 1 The sut•peno,, nt Waringham was ht ,t. height when, ten weeks after 'ernes t)twny's departure Geraldine Lindley le3 returned. byfile (1 rtes'• nr t hack to bar old guardians. -+tttgemt*1 faun Ia s. ;he Weiner Uretton, who received her with Joy and affection. Increasing •tdvrw had taken the edge off the Inf•taa-Ilke nsperlty of the elder ani. Lh.' bwltlteell bright -fatal yuun;t ri Wile WBftbmtd by broth whiter* M a ray of sunshine to cheer their .Ad age. As for Sir Charles, who had sept the Weft of her return a sec- ret- from hie own "asters, and had frond that huslneen required him to be t0 town at the time, his pride and lelight on finding how brilliantly she and fulfilled the promise of her pret- ty babyhood knew no bands. But at the first moment of his meeting her it Victoria Rtation he was struck by nn Indefinable likeness to the fairest among the da.11en of his own tinnily, *llIeh wits even more notiee- •ible In the grneefut and accomplleh• .t1 girl d sixteen than It had been In the merry, active little waif of three. He talk her back to Copaley, dreading all the way that she wonid Ask some question about Janine, the *newer or which, revealing the Anx- iety her old Play -fellow's long ab - wage wrier enlisting to his friend., most necesearlly pain her. But she (11 not ask a single direct ques- tion %oboist him, though she men- tioned his name several times, and each time fir Charles Mt {be sob - Jeri ,Trop. - It A -no through Mies Emma Gretton that she first hrnel the bad news which she receive,( with Sieh un - meal trnnqulllty of manner that the eller lady wow rather pained to see her show so little feeling. "Don't you ntllermtentl, my dear? We hove every reason -hl. ore ie two avert' notion -to holies. that eotaethdng very esrtotta, perhnpa •0tnething fatal, mss heve happened to the poor yang gentleman." "1 hope not, I'm sure, Mine I'mmn atnnnt her ; and the letter which Bnt It b no one's fsnit bat hla own if ftm ines% anti his sisters well-known Jamas darried to Mr Maawy, a man he hos got tnto emtw, dltflrnity. Von 'Irulent dWlke, had given ries. , errtous speech had upon the lutss:ou- ate, hnagtnatl:e. chil -woarui. Bile rtnutbtetl in ?rnnce-tour years, bit• lug lode pito ided, tit tits .uggteal'sa td M10 liretteot, with n suruolu'. After h0ttlig tuntddsnvl the utittet direfully for st,na.• day.. Sir Cbulo+. w!thoul maiitlwtliig the fact to lai. seater., had Sita. her um of the tamely miaow. and sent her to echo°. at 8t. Dents as ease (leralul.te Llnd- ley. Bb• exptoawd aunt eurprlr.t ort ;turning that Bretton, winch she had writ tw b •r owe, wee not her mune tut. hating been told. long before tis it aha w.t a the orphan dduubter to- __ tw... defer friends of 8:r Clc rlem. this last awoke,no wutplefou lu h:' mint ice. did not Sem.• to England fur au) holidays -tele had teen entated dmon by 8 r Ch.irher matey Ell-. tltrtk, wh }grew fierce each year In her rot tient ag.tlnst Ib' K1:I who hal token u1. .rt much 01 her ttrothare love •std. far worsts of We wuney. Tbl. b • agreed to the tufo readily, a !r put off tis, approaching day wlt't. ek girl he Iovedl ns Ills ..wn child pipet make the terrbi* discovery of her 'real position. Halted not -reck- oned fur this dlffteuily when no Ir- resistible Impulse of tenderness and admiration Med made him adopt the beeutlfal little waif and treat het no generously ; when It first occurree to hien, It was charaoterinitlo of film that he net about evading It. In epl:c of the cuts*. obJecth.ne of the Mistier eiretton, he Ineleted that rile wens to be kept ID entire Ignurnuoe ul the truth, that she war not to know Shot he himself lived near. nod that his sisters were never to tie men- tioned to her. fare war to be trade to believe that he came from a dle- tenoo to see her. Jame,. was Trottlu to be equally client ; aeb! as, besides being by nature houorable, he knew beide* wan not to be trusted with n secret, he ons discreet ; and, though ' _she knew hie home was with Sir Charles, she .114 not know where that home --wee, for eke Mad no recollec- tion of Warltglann Hall. As during those heir inquiring, self- tormepttitg, transition years a( a girl's life, from twelve to eixteea. Gelder was surrounded by people who could toll her nothing about her par- entage and her pronperte, she lived Ip happy ignornnee of her own history; while et certain natural reserve and dIetlnetion of manner. which increas- sel the effect of her beauty and ac- c•ompitehmenta gave rise t[. A belle stuong her eompanione Gott alio war "an hetrese-'a belief 'which in time o atnral!J) affected her also, and seem- ed the reesonahle explanation of the aemi.conventnel care whhei had guard- ed her childhood. At lent, as Miss Gret_. ton took no notice of the anggr'etiont 'n h 'r r•1 t pupil's •1 'tte•ra t h xt • she'Wcul, like to know MMething more `than had been told her':ebont h'r parent and position. the purl wrote mor' Wildly, begging Mho Oretton to let her know whether eertetn ataalt-az travaganeee !tt drew, tn whieh she [ted Indulged. were j,.etfted by ht•' prwp•cts. The old lady showed the•' letter gravely to Ole Cherie., wIN maid he would reply to it, but he, hoe not the heart to rebuke her, tA, war her ; lie merely wrote to nay that it Answer to her v.rr teirsl ^ att Vona, it was time for her t, kman that her father had been n hlothe .; offlr•er tit him own who had not leen very well oil, [sit tete) 1ra,1ilree nil' o Ic:va •r o ly t oval• -dl toe 11 h n r pr f P 1 Wonted was her truitee and guar- dian and there was no nee.( for her t e get herself In tiny of a. young lady' •l;ttle warts and whites. So that, whue Slr Charles and hl lantern lived with strict. "et•ottom• whleh hortlere:i upon niggar.11lncen n WarIngham, tie tttttn vagrant piek ed up In a plied held among her con pnn'ona the Segel position of a rIc1 girl 1„ whore men✓,* war On nhJeet Happily this slevnskwh was not at talned at grent reit, for the achon at St. Dena, though good, wan not a fashionable tont,. T., meet the et pintos of Deldee's edncntlnh, Sir ('Earles. unknown to hln cistern, t. whom he understated the cost of it, hail sold one of his farms nod cut down some timber e0 a remote port of the estate; Mit, during the thirteen years bet /ren the child'', .tinptlon and her return from France no day passed without same cutting /illusionIse tis from EI be ()< way to her brother's Ortel foal philanthropy, which wool, keep n vagrant do eoro1S7r while his misters almost starved. If they starved, however, lin starved too; and he might have• p•,Inted out to her that they might all hate Revel more coati xtably if die.. wou only Wive consented to reduce their retinue of Idle servinta and the number of horses In tit. stable tc their modest needs. When lleldee hell been away two years an 1 .fnmen wee nineteen, the Jamas took leave of kis untie rind • began to coos.• tris uncle some. unease nese by growing rather "wild,' and at last announced ida disinclination t,, enter the eh,rch, for which, thnt being the only profenslnn In which Sir Merles had strong Internet. hr was intended. Argethent, persuasion miming followed, and at length the young man consented to be placed with a private tutor In Order ,to prepnrn himself for the only pro flieston In which. an his "mete esnnrw' him. he hied any thence of rapid nd t nwcement. Rut two yenrm later. jot before lied dee'. expected return, amt Jnrt he'ort he had completed hi. twentc•firet year. a fresh fit of mad Impntlener ngninat hie Intented earner melon him; he etprewed n restless wish to travel. to see 'something more of life the world tl.an the r.Rbl temerity want of money had forced neon bin' allowed him to do. And Air Charles to keep horn (inlet. nw,Ived to Intros' him with e tong -belayed task whieh le bad cwt bimssU-to go to Ireland find engnge n solicitor he find for nerdy known, now 1!, Ing In Duplin to My to tree.. out the ptrentegn c. Certnln engin a spleions whleh had strengthened rut the year, went by. that the chi I hive not Moe left by acoldent la ohm nrtghhrirbrr' of Waringham Hill. Iru•reAse.d fids Will to entre ths mystery which hung • 1' say It way hW own wish to go," said., lieraldlns, qukdly. And Muss Lama told her sister, whjui they were a one, together, that, la turolog Out so clever, their, old pupil was growing rather hard. 8bo was clever -there woe no doubt of that. Her pl lying of harp and piano was showy and brilliant ; her drawing and rotating were r. markable for clear. careful resemblance to the copy ; her i tttcbt Berman find Italian correct and fluent, And the wish fur further Improvement, which was not likely to die 111 the society of the ex: - schoolmistress, nae her devote her - eel( still to study. To the uh 1 ladies she et mod a pnragou. 'How fortunate, ley [tear!" wall the edler to tier sister. "She will make en stlmlrible 14 -overflew I 'shall not Idt.t that to 8Ir ('hnrlos; but we must do our beat, very gradtl sly, of cease, 10 prepare Gernldtoe'a mind for the thought of a career of tuition. Then, Indaetf, Sir (twice' generosity will tot have been thrown away. Abs will be rails .te enter :t nobleman's family, *lune ; end. Infer, with the help of Sir Charles' Influenes, she might be- come principal of n Indies' college. Her prospects in the direction of instruc- tion are p,sltivety boundless." "I hope she may be worthy of them. Rebeuea. Site certainly shows moot eraisetrortby Industry. Rut vo•t know she has hardly yet aerived nt the traclal te+•t of the period when >uung girls are apt t' let frivolous and regrettable [dear of gny:•ty and admiration turn their attentlnn from steady effort to the vain thin/sof tltie world." "If you mean • to a hurbanl, Emn1a, i am 'lure 1 hope alta may find .one. For I know, If I had been handdoiue eimegh to attract n worthy man. I would have Jumped at Ids," cnndld- ly confessed the elder, whore long. rithered face and keen black ryas would now and then sparkle with n Bari' of humor and shrewd common thru.u��h the crust of prim rigid- ty, formed Ly nearly 1miTit ccliter, of *flr:et scholastic diecipllne. • For uearly a year tieral tine lived nt quietly, as uneventfully nu if she .Ad been A cloistered nun. with uoth- ng but Sir Charles' visits to break the no teitony of the long .lay+ of lilthteut study. varied uuhj sow, meaanred coneetutlunnls of tnlie ur two a slay, which wero np "hat the eller Miss Gretton. active .toi 'else wan by nature, now eared t• take. and by the girl's visits to the ienclIburtug cnttagcre. • in none of ' hese expeditions did the ever .it ar far as Weringhsm ; and she never *rased holy near It Was to Copaley'. No news came to Sir Charles, either if his nephew's fate. or of any result it the search for Geraldine's parents. lath the autumn of the year In which the young girl reached the ng of seventeen. Than Mir Charles receiv- d a tetter frons lir. y1:' a y. which. 'coupled with reports' in the news ,apers. eta me upon the • w hale Iouse- thoutlerbolt. - James (ttw war one irreeted au a charge of murder. Th' toillin was s farm:r named Hughes end the motive 01 the outrage Wn: aid to be revenge for the resentment Hughes had shown et an Irsult of- 'ered by James Otway to his (laugh •er._ _ 1tlr.l ltar:ee and tits slaters. tit one decided that there was some nes cake. th it the James Otway who has' eon apprehended could not be their nephew ; aid the baronet wrote back •o th • lawyer to th:fit effect. \Ir. Mas wy replied that he wee sorry to "any here erne no Jwlsslbltlty, of doubt spin the subject Mr. Lindley Fielding he wrote. 'your unworthy cous!u, Mont whom volt have sQ often bed to consult me. called et my officio the other day. rankly owning (hit the 'dght of an other member of his family In difned- Its was, next to his klndoeaaof heart. he Alt-nctrot whieh had token bpm o see Ills nephew. He said Mt it hs ha( 'mud Mr. James Otw sty much de. tret(sed and eshatnal of himself. nit That he withal his family to forget Yds eel:tence, should the law, on or. count of soma doubt as to who struck he finishing brow at Hughes. - 1 !ow hlm to tiro, In addition o this, evidence, I, hallos •Sesser to mistrust Nr. riddling es f .vltnes. In any matter, myself visited the prisoner, James (Away, who war n trutlh, as his relative had for ono. teorrcctly reported, deeply cast down tn•1 nnnble to look me in the Inc'. 1 lave done what I could fur him, and t-east_nadestake u' most ably defended. But I fent 1 mast add that the most you can tap.. for iv thatthe eapltal spntener -naybe rem utas In his rime t I o eon t4P orvitude. I will not press you to ame and see shim, knowing your re• uctance to d„ no. Von may rely up - in hie tinting the benefit of ever) •xertlon In my power. Mr. Field ng made runny Inquiries, which 1 hnrwarod with caution, about Mlle latent Suri herself ball borne her ,w. I •KE THE _QUO'S RIGHT al life outwardly well ; but the REMARKABLE la fteroo craving* to a young wumau oldesta Connected With Her Cora for ezoftemeut, for admtratiou, for sympathy. for lore, were biteneined by her pteltlou to ouch a ilegreesof feterhuat lu her passionate euro- tiouul nature tlhat. Itud it nut b ru for oto reeource, rho must here broken the bound./ of her gull priauu life. Tills resource war the commtut one of wolitury wouteu—tbu rp,lliig of ream after roue of good paper with bad verse, lung -winded •tortest trite assays, of no vat is'to any and but the owner; but they saved her trona madmen of oue sort or soother, and that of ouunee war eometb'ag. :be war much alwired by the "gul- den youth" of the country ; but her auumaluus wraith= hal kept awn) auy admirers whom her pro- tec•tresse. would hs•s oottsdered worthy of euo.,urugemeut, until lately; wbeu the only eon of the old Pleur od tieringham, Reginald Bam- ber, a Luulaomu luau of ab,at thirty. Jost returned from America, on the lookout for a wife, had b-ew'eo mush struck by the girl's beauty and grateful niftiest) of manner that he had entreated hlr father to ask dlr Charles the truth about . her. Ue was a man of to, calm and prudent a nature to offer himself to her lu spite of everything ; bet he was deep- ly enough In lore with her wit to be abie to realm the temptation of throwing himself +c gots) deal lu her wary. She WAS more of a coquette than the disbaluful indifference with which rise halt treated the ndmlrn- tlon of the county gentleman arutuxl would have 1 'd her friend's tu be- lieve; :nod the attention of the dig- nified, handsome, sweet -voiced Reg- inald Bamber, whom all the: girls *be knew were raving about, produced •t pleasant variety In Iter dull life which Ind her to give him tacit en- varngement, and to snake him Leel more euro of her liking titan he had any reeeon to be. .Whoa Mr. Balnber_,pproacdo.I the +object of Oeral line's blalory as .Te- •Icutely as he could, nod asked Sir ',Lacier If he thought It fate to the rid to let her remain In a neighbor- hood where the 'suspicions cast up - +e her birth might possibly Injure 'terpriene•cte, the baronet felt that tbu ticar's worsts oentpined a truth to whieh he had lung trlea- ublfdd himself. "'100 are right, Uamber," sold he, ifter a tong pate.P, .luring which he tad tett like a culprit. with bent 'read, acourjng and excusing himself, 'it t•t not falx to the girl. Aad I will set It right -yea, 1 will set it eight. She shall come here, what- ever my sisters may say ; it Wa.ringhaw Hall, no one will 'Sar.• to say a word against Iter. Heaven stows her prceettce will let a Hoed 1 eunehlae into the 0141 vault, and 'rigbten away sown of tate black .h+uk wa that have crept talo 'the -o ner's of lute year.. ''.• The vicar was auuu':.1. He thought riot at all =likely that tin bar - logged obstinacy he could meow ,,hen he war at last (sicced by cis- - crostancea to make up his mind up - 41 ally point; but whether tate -flood • st nehlne" would king continue to .;see: any light In the grim presence • those two withered slaters who toted her already. and whose hate +',nakl not be likely to dlminieh when 'rought into per.tinal cont.tct with ie1 O.,j.•rt, WW1 .tflut .eking 1a some perplexity at hie old 'fiend and neighbor for 'cine minutely. after thin •tuuounocntcnt, the tlrar •awe to his feet and got out of Ills !df!Ienity in a eh.rnctert.tle manner. ' "Well, thluk it over, think it over,' he naid,Ts le: shook hands with tee ,arotot raft left him to hta_Ifsfle- PERMANENCY. Some Medicines Only Relieve For a Short Time. Dedd's Mfdise , P t Cures Stay Cared -rite Casa of Mr. Gilchrist, of Pot t Hope, Proves Title. Port Hope, Ont„ Feb. 21. -- (88pw(al).-Away back In 1690. Mr. Char. Otlobrist, ex Chief Constitute of title to,s,, w u, ti front Iota- iels, He Was la • very bad rluipe. auJ netur ._v --1.J u.: web &Sulu. lie war cured to lkod's Kidney 1 : le In Marcia of that year Untie). ba' time tbuugbt that the choose woel !s- tunt. Five year. have elaponet. and ill'. ttitchrlst 1. stili enjoy UI L good health. O t :. p: tl ::A. 11.90 he wrote: e1 blab been a sufferer tut ten years with Dtabetes and Klduey disorder.. My arts war of a d, :k. brteky color. stud the Ruin while pawing War euvestbutg awful. I have been treated - by the doctors, and have tired al- most every wedletue advertised, but . could. get no relief. Lately 1 load beep very bad. The pain in my back was dreadful. 1 could not sit in u rhulr without having a eueltitn at the • small of my bu•kt 1 heard of . Dodd'• Kidney 11,1s, stud decided to try once more for a cure. They cored we cow- pletely, and 1 can heartily recow• mud them to anyone." Oa July• _, 1900, he writes: "I am • very well, and have been so sauce the miring of 't)et My urate 1e a oat - Aral healthy color. There Ir no pain In my' back. I am suns 1 would have. • been In my grave now. but for Dodd's - i.idney 1'11L. They_ certalfl!J' waved my life. There la res medtolae Ake- - them," and to this letter be edd. "+ill that 1 .ay about Dodd'• Kid- ney Pills Ie the truth. If they were not toot(. I gvouli not say they were good. 'The citizens of Port Hope all know me. -awl can vo'ch for every word I- have written."_ Pomp nuel.laits only relieve:lipid's &Limy Pills cure. to stay qurel. If you want a sstldaetury, perma- nent• and sure cure for Kidney Com- pinint, tow the only remedy with an unbroken record ofsurees.o In every care. and nut a single fallure-Ilotld's Kidney Pills. )e raid;ne_ Ltnddcy. ttf_i►hotw he_erg+ have heard through Mr. James Ot- rny, your nephew: 1 - tlnn't -emir vlent h^ lite In hie restless, mischief pinning brain about this young Indy: hut 1 world advise you to its on the owkowt.'-t - - A few weeks later the nit prison- -re were •teles"at the .Munster As - uses, and the sentence passed upon lames Otway sae -''Penal servitude f life." CHAPTER V. Ft years hail roamed uneventfully overa ctannut honeeho!d at Wa Inghamgr \ Hall mince len slay when -tor ('entice Otway and his 'liters had !earned thn terrible news that their neh 1Iew J alum find been *err tweed, ern woherge el-parileipathtna is n .murder, to penal servitude for ilfe. He was dead to them now.; his nmmn was never mentioned ; his rnn1, which find been, by order of his Aunt Elizabeth, kept constantly eet1ilyt'T4rTear letmett+-tltl-tie- 'My of hie spprehenslan, was Jookrl op, Jn•t as It was, by her own hvnet and bad sever Knee best opened. It wee a sepulchre 'of deal' memories. m:' y of which Os' -y =geed wo- rse i would lain • ttten- t0r rn'lecle000 told h of a boy• Merla serer7 and jt . there nit.nit.synllrithetlo treatment: � The !;.%11 became gloo ter than et er, }:':'abeth More imperIogre Elea. nor mot• querubtte, Fpr Charles, now clove time .00. _BIPTe_tllcllt. The very err v ft nt iv- t he youngest mTddla-aged by thle time -had aogolrei 0 mourn - '.11 gravity which harmonized with the threadbare carpets and tits moldy hanging'. and with the fallen !ortnnse r,f the family. Ore cowed/Mon Fir Marilee held which his abater. did not 'here. Ther times n week he role over to 'Ytpmley to see hie adopted laugh• tree, who, at :.-, was etlll with her old( Inetrictreus-the 'cringer being lend -thing 'something like the Ilse of n mm Moist of rho peopie about t Ito nelghbr.rho.sl. tool learned Ler N..rv, thonglt she hrreelf atilt re• melted In Ignorance of it ; and elle Wei n cir'Ie of aegnatntaneen. ton - 'tiding of ttftwe few lawyers end 'kwtorw an.l ehe'rgymen about lope 'ey whose Mins Gretton honornl with her Intimacy, anti 1.1 a rhlrpinge(ole onr of Md mal in. among theme Wit- ter she weeds Inng settee have learn- ed) tin tnnnner of her eomltg to w'nringham, tent for n very natural ,rnaplclon to whleh her likeliet% to tin Otwnv family, Plr ('hart,"' natlus. Queen Alexandra, through the as ce•s,ou of her huaband to' the throat+, botwtnee invested with a cumber -f quaint end old-time prer,gativea. Amoco; there W the right t, the greater purti4t of any whale that may be either caught or *trended along the British east. The whale le legally regarded tie a royal Belt, 1t the amino way as the eturgeun, mud an ancient statute unser yet re- pealed, provider that' the whale stall be divided between the King nod file mason, the bend only Mon,: assigned to the King, while the remaluder d the body gar to the Queen. The reuutu .4 tits w tmslral divlrlou was to furnish the Queen's wardrobe with the whalebone necessary fir her stays, a fact which 1' explicitly net forth It quaint old Latin lu the statute. As; consort of the reigning Kltig. Queen Alexandra has a number of legal prerogatives, placing her upxt all entirely different footing to that of married women in general. Is fact Loin a legal standpoint she 1s a'i0- gle, rutins than a married woman. Thur she may purchase and ,wavey lands, and do other acts of ownership without the ct.ncurrouce of her Wie- land, and she can gnu it her owe mime, lu.teutl of to that of her her bred. 11 one was, ate appears la the courts by her own At(oruey lleu- eral and her own tiulioltur (lateral, who fire entitled to a pia..., within the hitt. Though In all respects s subjeot of the King, yet In point of the se- curity of Iter life and person, she to put on identically the eante footing ur her husband, and It Is Net as much treason to conspire against her as it Ie to plot against the King. If she herself become.' guilty of uuy trett- eon, the only oourt by which she uwa Im tried, 1s by the House of Lords. The last odeasIoO on wliTch a Queen Consort was tried for treaaou wow that of Queen Anne Boleyn. one of the many wive. of that royal bliss bean(, King Henry VIII. 11 may be remembered, too, that' when King ileurge IV. endeavored In vain to s- core 4 divorce Aum his consort, Queen ('aroline, In the third decade of the century, which has Just come to a close, he brought the case before the House of Lords ea the only court competent to deal with the mat- ter.' Queen Alevanden will be crown on the same occaeion a. her husband; ISSUE NO 9. 1901 !is destruction of lung by a growing germ, precisely as mouldy cheese is destruction of cheese by a growing germ, If you kill the gerfn, you stop the consumption, You can or can't, according to when you begin, Take Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil : take a little at first. it actg.- as a food ; it is the easiest food. Seems not to be food ; makes you hungry ; eating is comfortable. Yougrow strong• The few nt bur tbia p are a to er. Take more; Oka saber. not rtoo much ; enough is as much as you like and agrees with you. Satisfy hunger with usual __fuod,i. _ whatever you like and agrees with you. When you are strong again, have recovered your strength—the germs are dead ; you have killed thein. 1f you have not tried It, send for free sample, Its agreeable taste will surprise you. but with this difference, that, where Nice for the Tortoise. M he 1st crowned by the will of the " Now. Keel," send the mistress to' people. elle le crowned by hie sole 10 - her new -Ir Imported maid. "In the Jt(notion•lllrwill alone determiner: ttot kitchen there Is a pet tortoise, and matter, and It was because of thts , I hope you will its very kind to It, prerogative of ti u Yovoretgn that . Do you know s tortoise when you King George 1V. was enabled to pre - see one r' vent id. euuaort, Queen Caroline, I "No, mum, 'burs, and what loiks ram being crowned. or from even Is it?" crossing the threshold of We.tmin- ez edited it to her the 1 r aver 1irf" wpol an r' I+ that It, mum?" " Tes." " Shurethat is what O1 was ming to break the coals irld,•'-I.oadoa Aa - ewers, I Deadly f.a Grippe Numbers Its victims by thoasanda, leaves a deadly trail of d1 and ster Abbey, while his coronation was ARK YOU (101,10 Wear? 11 so. seal a letter or portal Card to the uuueralgned answering the following questions: Where are yon going? When are you going ? Where do you start from' How many ars In your party? all danger from the deadly malady ; goods yon eau prevent the dleease If you Special low rate settlers' tickets will ...breathe Catarrhoeone.' The on sate during March and April to germ cannot develop where It Is used; }01011 in Manitoba. British Colam- that 1s prevention. You can cheek and tom• Oregon. California an 1 ell West - destroy its ravages by Catarrhozou. ern !tales. Full p•rticnlara from B. by simply breathing it. That In sure, ! Il. Bennett. General Agept, Chicago Sold 0, two st. s, 2;c and I{1, by & Northwestern Heilway. King :Ions.- ate *egrets. er by malt prepetapn street east, Toronto, Ont. (To its rYmtln .d l tecetpt of price. N. C. Polson d Co:, ! How's This? Kingston, Ont., and Hartford, Conn. Ws otter One tuatdred Dollen RewArd t t•1(Oth('t' SON GS11:R1i 'htldreu should be 'snug,! to Loy* _- - - 111.16611,- -_- --.- In- almost every civilisel country there are societies for the protection ,f birds, but Italy IA the first cuun- -ry In when .trenuout e:fort bah ,.en rade to en11.4 the sympathies of ehtel eit 1a litM-'tlireotlua.- Dr. Vftelamu Tonle recently point- ed out to the tending Italian teach - yea tlint little children could easily de taught to love hdris. and that this lesson, once learned, would never ,xe forgotten, weerea.i it the Ieesun .ere not taught until the cttil.ln'u ,aid to It, etcopt by lla:t-tc persons who were naturally sympathetic and .ons of dump creatures, In (t r Inn 1 Germany, Franc.. nn'! F.n an R !1e poli. there are ninny per.ams who ire Intere.te.l In bird. and who are Ming what they can to prevent them trim befog toted far the rake of their plumng.', but lu order to do really :ffaetuai work n more thorough cru- -Ada to weeded and it 10- tu•y from Tanta' of tail ren that oeavoLt, the right typo 000 be obtained: The .fr.ceor'w - .ng gratlox luta at- tracted a /e111 deal of :attention and many think It woakl be well fur teacher.[ thnugh,ni the country to carry' lt.into elf ::, whh•it they could 'aslly do by simply lwpressini7 on their pupil.. the fact that it le wrong, to be creel toward bird.( or any other innocent cr•nttires. Women In France. A recent volume treating Of the work of women in Fr•tnca give+ thin table of women workers In that country: Physicians. 450; auth err, 519; artists and eculptre+ses, 3,'01); singers ani actresses. 8,000; nurses. 18.000; milliners, 80,000; Government emplay'eete 50,000; [)embers of refl. ptudue orders, +9,000; teaehre e, 10.)- 000; In bluenose] houses, _15,000; Lind owner., 500,000; fact's-ry girls, 573,- 61)0: domeitic Iervant+, 6,(1,0011; seamstresses, 950,000 ; farm laborers, 2,700,000. TAKR NOTICiC. M red by on h say rano of ('ntarrh t at cannot Hall's C.tarre tura P. J. CHE"IZY & CO., Toledo, 0, Ww the underarnu 1. bate known F..1 Cheng for the Imse U �eare. And botlevs him perf•etly been I k' In a t hu.i'uos tran'.ectloM and financially able to carry out Amy oblciauoga pride by their arm. Wear&Tauox, Wholesale Dragrlata. Toledo. WALLING, KI"Ad k Maevii, Wbolswle Drtiorlato Toledo. •.. I Hell's I:At-rrb lure 1a taken Internally F inn dtrmrtty new the Alms and meesaa-Msad Items of the gqnerp. Teetlmental. Dept 6M I'r(ce Tao. s'r trot In. Rolt hr All drtteglala Hall'. Family pllb are the bust lisped flatly, a.l 'Travel. It p:'(entintntivet el the Grind Trittlk Rttl.w iy ('otnptay had in th dr charge h other day two chl!dre.i. wh-prole .b v mare. the gtnkest trap el er re- x/MA betweml'r• cru, N 8 and ('ornt- '1: Moan, vn2,033 (lel 1 t It. c� eta the m R :1 ntartiy sixty --It hours 'and thlr- :l!iRT minuteen. The ttttf--Alden wepe - .['nun, and melte tIte trap to join their p•lrents, Rev. Mr. and NIrs. .1. 81111r Ion, In the city on the btnkyy cod the 8.nurt Ither. They keit Teero nt ' • 1 • aftentma on 110, t me exprea<, 11 i1', ti'rtnitnfe- .ieti.nt, Montreal-__ tet 5:10 o'clock the fo!I•,wl•1g after - tooth R'hlin here they etre en- ✓•rtnlnexl by repree'ntathsa ' of 66n MThpnny, and nt 11�.:tn r1F:eek to ilio evoKting they. bonrdto( .h'• "Feat Flyer," arriving in Dear- born -station, Chicago, at 8.13 t:e'or'k h� folrnying evening. This eexltintt,dl 'heir Journey the mine evening, le'iv- ing for ('onnel! Binffs at 10.37 o'rl'+'!t' Ind r•nchell their dstination nt 3.45 d ch ck _th-2_nexk __uftornm:t. The'r journey was anvil en t , T,ut they ...cooed to enjoy every Ahtmlte of the timet they were on the trains, Pts' the men It r1t'trge, as we 1 as the pacsnt- pptg re, a wpb them every nttentioa. The tote time oecuped front Truss to (Muriel Bluff. tens seventy-two h',nre, fro which. of Cantron, the etgpr nt Montreal end Chlcttgo are to M dedneted, its we'l tin th • differ - ewes of an horn In enitern And e, n- trnl titan. The foreegOing 'how. (lop Of the pnellIhtlkle . of modern rill - fir Te are a Glia' le t (? tine flay Take iwtweve nevem Q.tinlne Teht•l.. Al drat l l. edited the m•mr>if 1t fail, ro eye!. r.t•. E. W. (trnvr',.igne' use I. ea, reit I.mx. 'Iha.hrd 1lnotrt Mane. Ono Iuntelretl and'fortyonn 1ton 1sts. oompeing seventy-seven pnrII. s are said to hat! cllmbn 1 Mont Blanc between Jere, nth and Oct. 1st of the yens 1900. Of throe ellmbery thirty nine were Pales, thirty 'ITht 1'rm h. fifteen Garman nn I thhrie.m .tmrr- Senn. No other eonntry wen. repre- sented by more than flys climbers. During the year the apace devoted to advertising MINAIU)'A LINIMENT will contain expressionsre•tions ofuncer- tain notitc e - tain sound from people who speak from personal experience as to the merits of this beet of Household Rem- edies. Rasslaa Outposts Near at Hand. In tete Sebring Straits, Months and Ans.ries snake ,,nets. fig Diomede la.. tins -and Little Bionic -do stand elder by elle, oho loom -,r Mustafa eut,pult, the other 002 own. A Itttln strip of n arrow sea Ile'• between elle two, and so clear 14 the air on a fair day that 11 seems as 1f from" one Wined you o:dlJ e.a.ttly rrnch norn(s a hand to the other. Nertb, acs to Kotsellne Polos, to PAut f11 p•, a barren sand spit, extern ling far Into the Arctic sea. It U the home of a tribe orf Eski- mos, who got. the Holsten school and church an•i lean to sing hymns, to *peak a I.ttln English, and to use met p.--C7tiengu Chrvaiele. Acute and Chronic Rheum/mon. are equally Influencedbythr nl+n s t magical pain - subdulug power of Nereilie.-.etuwl tri madfe.n:il 1aloe five times the quantity of any other Rheumatic remedy. Penetrates at once through the tissues, renehen the source of the disease and drives it t. Nervillne Is undoubtedly the ng o ort t (DIN iplrify any remedy lathe world. Tour money back If you do not find It no. Drug- gists sell It. Some Men. The man who will do anything for hie friends or anything to his ene- m:ew frequently 1+',omos known out, sbk, of his awn tuwnehip. A min who trios to win .neeees In a hurry, int'ndIng to be worthy of It at. teener. generally lly forget. the latter para of tie- f•nett•eet. A nano always troll foolish when he Bret takes off his heft to the girl he bee known from childhood. Men who let the gas biro jest a Ill. tie, in melee to save mat'h's, tutee Iwen known to mi -ere I n. financiers, Wo nmv think people who always agcy W1111 11.e nett mashy, htit some• how we keep on liking them. lfisard'u Liniment Cures Onriret In rows The Ponithern RAliway Co. gives a 01',00f1,00n noortgnge to '*earn IMnpi+ to boy line from Louisville to Pt. ural.. BROWN'S •'Th0 bed..111rtpat•elles ler odds, e..sb, rel sonnet. ■la 11. A. WA1'0O5, T.spruee Letterer. " Pre•ewl.eal a IM Mei " o acv. Nttlt Wile PESCHHL .tlxrrlr's Shone Age. In some grottoes In AlgeriaFrench explorers have recently discovered w{t,... eipi-*laic. -iii("gled with remains of rxtl.ei nulmals belong- ing to quaternary time.. Further evlora LWn+ In Ileal.e Inot sesta P R the age when the grottoes were inhabited the coast of Algeria had a configuration different Irom that of to -day. Ar- :,g the animals ase ',orbited with the ancient and laminae Inhabitants of Algeria were the ,.BlQ STRAWBERRIES.. rhinoceros, the hippopotamus and 111111 pleats peat veld for 'LA fiend ter (tat various specim of rtAmhants. IL lL ■ALLMIT, Dlahelnr. Oat 1H111O-tell nTmc-Cor6ii SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. Toronto. and $1.00; all druggists. A Brave field,. A mal and woman tw.-entiv motet a tis'.tre party . fe.1 In ItOi, dnrinq (In fired act ; came to an agreement der- ltq( th, s;Zioad act. And rk:pped.aw,y after lh' Med net to find a clergy - mer to tnopry th m. " lib • eertelrtly wan a brave brldr.' " How iso r• "Po wear a ready-*reale bridal '4t Flt." -Cleveland lWn-Uenler. Mlnartl's Liniment Cures.Dfstemper ndversity hope fe one.-Burgit. Fencing Farms IN, wAIM IM=!"�� = now == :iE�s.xgs's= 710,1* .'stony .het r tier 1110,1,11 lea ••, • holt Nppen see arid, PROST Ironer M bene:... s•de. Anew bit 111011? met Ilett M. ltd , 'sensed, Mt. CLOTHES USN Sent on Trial at weals;. erica If not t•AL .1sctnq money refunded. Ou.ranto,•d torus raster sari de Oscine work Inas a- 'other u,s.Jdne on tbem rket. A marhln. for •recta to ►A..'l:a Rig g ond ey made. Thoauuda 1a w For terse nad ortoes •ddrar S TANDARD sV1'TLY CO.. Hamilton. eat 1 DROPSY[ Treated Free. We hem male dropsy and is c tmplleauons • apeelalty for twenty years.Q uiek whet Cams wont eases. oink w vasnaoataL and 10 DsJl treatment rasa. DB H. H.01USEY'ne01(s, Boz p ASLMTA.0a. A]' 7117--A(71fNTtl iN event ?owe 1n Canada to evil mad.. o,,,. neon 4, Waggs-That'll elo ns well. I Jnat ttUiing• good COltlmleetin•. run rat l• oar.. want. to k,pk nt the weather torr- grown '1'alknlna Oa, McKlnntnu 11111., i'e .5.110. Ont Oast. LimalcaifilAei 4-13- " _.. " Making Fast Time" W. Ir. m.len(■ meet screed. Nn ether fen. , eon rnmp.te rw:en•hd:y w tib the •• Pap." we 'new M i.ri .ho ,r qua.ny se need. Reece, we Dow Iurnl.h ■ mit better trace than e.er. Prices leaver this year. anew look Mtn It. Noe morn here for price. W .Ian menuneters lawn fences and xat••. W(1 in yokiny and low In price. The PAGE WIRE FENCE CO. (Ltd.) WALKCRVILLC, ONT. OE.NTS—THEQUKIN IR OKAPI KVERY t� (aeealian will whoa a' LIN of tM. 'Marla." We will hetes the hlslts'. b••S tR and best A Aright, nut .ntic new hock Is new tiring prrp.r.d by a d1., ingni.bed l en sultan Antrim. Complete fen,m+slnl neck maned free. Exton liberal terms. Mrl)tf mid R Logan, London. (fid. w ]1.77 H AC'IIl Oh gzft FI tMkX M f It 'filet r ♦ M1D T, and eMrtrklan• new to py I tontalnlnff nnosllmt. eked br Eternities Beare Of Onlineen lona fry. tiro. A. %oiler. Publisher, Rt Lands, Wo, C.& A. Ilime nice tion the palter. AUCTiON SALE -miler IT FARM, t .ere.: neon, eattIMV.Isth Manh.101t ttltsla.ona a, reel, Hamilton: Hanle he. 4es Marne, bink bard. good water, r, Rat .nation 0.0. R Martin & Martin, Hamilton 1; Itt'IT FARM FOR RALg-OYII OF Tag 11 linens In the S,epprl P.nic.uls. et 1A 'nom., 1n m11M from llnmihm. on two rttil- n wrA tps.w... WIII heso In I.jl� ,,,fes"."_ mil- we". pew. bra. WIII i. 1n en9 Aird Into we're 15 to {s acres to stilt per. rha.t r.. Thi. 10 a dec4Aed bargain. lddr(s Jonathan Carpenter, 1'. O. be. ow. Winona f in taro. Mee. Wln.low'. Soothing (lyrip she'll,' ab way. he need for Children Teel hing. 1' bee the child, .often. the gn rat. nares ain't 00154. mad .. 11.e le.• remedy for Disinherit. 1.0501! five cents is bottle - SOFIETIMES YOU NAVE TO SPEAKPLAINLV to your Grocer In the Suter matter, If you speak plainly and ask for St. Lawrence Sugars You gave 5 per cent. In value. OUR ORANI!LATED SUGAR 100% PURE. Our Ootden Yellows se gond as most Oranulated • now offered. ST.LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERY 1 1i ft 11