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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1909-2-11, Page 88 luetuway, retitItt Attl I I, iikM. STOVE OLIS You get not only MORE Stove Polish, but also the eesi stove polish that money can bugwben you use "Black Knight." It is not affected by the beat, -and with very tittle labor the stove stays bright and shiny when polished with " Black Knight." Shines quickly too -and always ready for use. Keeps Stoves, Grates, Ironwork, etc. fresh and clean with practically no trouble. Irma are usable to obtain Mack K MAW' is year tows, s-nd sans et nearest dealer aad mac fen Mad T r. r. PALM Ce. t rarent. ige Illtedba. • • eel. CHAS. E. GRIFFITH UPHOLSTERING ANO REPAIRING HAIR MATTRESSES RENEWED AND RE -MADE CARPET All order, promptly attended to LAYING Charints moderate Repair Rooms One door West If ( Harper* Store Store. West Street. Residence -Elgin Avenue. On li: lt I ell. OXT A Woman's Sympathy • Are you discouraged? Is your doctor's Mil a heavy ananetai load? Id your pain a heavy physical burden? I know what these mean to delicate Trot:non--I have heen discouraged• too: but learned how to cure rayself. want to relieve your bur - Aerie. Why not end the pain and atop the doctors bill? I can do this for you and win it you will assist me. all you need do is to write for a free box of the remedy which has been Platted In my hands to be given away. Perhaps this one box will cure you -it has donee° for others. If so. I shall be happy and you will be cured for lc ((he cost of a postage stamp). Your letters held t onfl- dentlally. Writ* to -day for my free treat went. MRS. F. E CURRAIrl. Windsor, Ont. GRANO TRUNK RAILWAY T EM WINTER RESORTS ROMA, trip Tourist tickets ih,rit on sale to all prin,ipal WINTER RESORTS. including California, Mexico, Florida, etc. THE NEW AND ATTRACTIVE ROUTE to Manitolii, Saskatchewan and AlhertA, is via Chicago and St. rani. Minneapolis or Ihthith. Baggage checked through in bond : exam- ination. t0 Through Pullman sleeper Tort to Ottawa, leaving Toronto daily P .1 p.M. Full intormat ion froru TIM SI' •NAI, : GO!), RIC -1 ONTARIO. •t• .0• .0• Meadow Brook BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES Author of "Tempest and Sunshine," " Lena Rtwers," "The English Orphans." 446 " I • 6& 45 46 46 sirs 4 4 4 4 46454,54i) • away. . thet 'mute, Lay borne was tar • •Oter eliaking the dust from my travelingeireami. and slain** my thirst • dterruirilitt)liewbbligehgohururdic ibt. the s/i•dsePootal,4 a bucket of root water stood on n little stand iii -the parlor, 1 innuired for sonie one Who would take to Mrs. Lansing- my card, and thus apprise. her of my arrival. The Luellen' itn- (+dietedy summoned a bright, hand- some mulatto boy, who. after reeeiv- ing my orders, and favoring Inc with a sight of his ivories, started off bare- headed. aria' for that matter bare - bodied too, for Cedar tirove, which 1,he landlord pointed out to Inc, in the distance, and whir+, with its dense surroundings of trete. looked to me eve, iseen •a pet project of mine to co delightfully cool and pleasant. After • Smith as a teacher. and when one day waiting rather impatiently for an hour A!! nround the heuse• eas still, in looking over a Heston paper I ac- or more, a large. old-fashioned car- eitile within. the children and the cidentally came across the adverties- , rage, drawn by two rather poordook- neiclesors tree softly *A they sent ment of a Georgia lady. Mrs. A. D mg horses. sto.ppeel before the door. It from rrrom to room. end their far.' • Lansing, who wished for s privet,: belonged to Mrs. I.ansitig; and the wore an tiniontis, trenbled look. as ti veer:nee. I resolved at one,. to apply footman, jumping down tune the they already felt the presenee 01 Ow for the gituation, greatly tearing lest rack behind, handed me a note, in shadow hovering near. The honer I might be too late. i which the lady begged me to (some di - brass km -wiser was muffled, and the 1 wee not, however. for after wait- rectly to her house, saying she was deell-toneel ehurchhell acros:•••• the way ing' impatiently for a feu seeks, I herself indisposed. or she would have longt.r tolled the hours of II and 9. Inc at ench stroke the siek num had sereetticiN4',.stlio.a aletetierre-ntroormnerathti,n. glady her- • mime down to meet me, and also add - Mg. that if would excuse her she turned upon his pinew. and :named tem 1 was expected to perform and I would rather not see me until slipper - se if in pain. So when the Rabbit!' the branches was to testel„added. when she hoped to feel better. cAnte the leeopie woot_up...u.nammino_n- in a P.S.. "Before making any -definite 1.. Atethe_ortremity of Main street, vie tel to the house of God. where they arrangement, with mee Lee. msa. turned in at a ponderoue gats. and reverentlt prayed for him who Was Landing " Wilbelt. to be informed if. after passing through two or three liaashic from their midst, and who. either by 'her friends•or herself. she fields or lawns, stopped at last in front ere another week relied round. would is eonsidered pretty. as a cf of Cedar Grove, which staid upon a he "where renereeatiens ne'er break' decidedly ordinary looks willartZflpre- slight eminence overlooking the to tip. and Sabbath, never end." (erred." WTI. , In perfect delight I gazed around me. For many (lays lie hal lainesin a "Spiteful, jealous ate thing" ex, for it seemed the embodiment of my heel of stupor fr‘ni i ,whieh nathine Harmed Lisne. who was looking over . childish dreams, and involuntarily 1 mused him save th rush of the en-. my shoulder, "1 wouldn't stir a step." exclaimed. "This is. indeed t•lie sunny. rine as it swept ne as the meadow Rut I thought differently. My- cur. sunny South." It was very beautiful, et lee feet re the 'ti' Thee lee- would- amity -was-qeirseeFeereiturnr 'the earlar that 141 eiriMin 7..4. and -garrietr,-wittt • start up. ask ig ear, ly teethes -had' of. her strange freak; and then. too. • their winding walks on which no rk• eome. Anna. i ego, and Jarme." Much six hundred dollars per year would of gunfight fell, so seetlrelY were the les talked of 1 absent ones, and as amply atone for any little peculiari- shaded by the cedar and the fir, the .II” by day n- at hi and.still they ties in my employer. so 1 -auswered . catalpa. the magnolia. and the lig canto rose he stele like it little child. Iter letter ferthwith, assuring/ her that tree, meet of them -seen now by me as he said to hi, wife, el ellen, never neither my friends nor myself hal. far the fi- ' time in all their natural see them more." ' • . ever been hy of calling me pretty h•auty. r....inded one so .forcibly of "And if ynu do not," she asked. - in short, was deeitleellv 'homely. Eden. The house itself was a large. ••tvItat shall I tell them" end- Trusted that nn that point la s9uare building it r tended siiiihren a time . lay as i her quire east T should‘Thase her. • sides by a piazza. hieh I afterwards •':i/it . unheard -then opening his eyes "What a eh. Rowe said charts., found was the fami . sitting room; it - answered. "Tell Anna. rny stricken when 1 told him what 1 had weitten. being thee. that they •ee, that•t•here is for her a. balm in "Yen know Fon are not homely 'You morning and evening i ebowl-iellioteteheme-the--Lesd-torieth • need tet -be, TT vinyl , hut Ton ere hart onee been white', ho ehasteeeth, and though the waters far from being So now To, he sure. %YRS nearly all worn o thrnugh which she is passing be deer) yon are'not what many would cell presented a rather dilipi and trntibled, theNihae not averflon. handsome. but you ate decidedly once. . with its 'broken it for .the everlasting arras aro beneath her." "And Won.. hare you no message for het.'" asked my mother as he ceas- ed speak intr. '..11h, Rose, ROSA," he answered epiieldee,----"Tell -her--tell• her il•ine -but not here --not. in this room. eenks- I do not love her. and she 'ennes aril finds me cone. nelli tier to eny_geave. She will be - Ye you if yOu tell her there how ' -arelie was tom", and hew. through • ; Ittng weary nightS before 1 died. I wept and prayed fnr, her that she micht one dhy mee•t-tne ip the better T • , 1. j ,nover dreamt to love one .' l'.4 more than another. but if I did ',dr her she was inv pride. the one •• wrou-i-rdoted Pte. it -ought me oral unfeeling. because 'I layed ' • . hid her Adieu that m .raing. . es did net know that worthe et dawn of -dee I stole up to her • -imber to loo'.. on her once more • ti - la,t, last time There were 11 licr r:i...4:. 1 k issed 1 hem • tell her eat. and•perches,* heart will en:ten towards her poor •,1 father." From that time he sank rapidly. and ne bright September day. near. Use oar of -unset. it was 'told in Meadow rook that he wee dying. On such °c- ations. 4 a smell country village. le liveliest • sympathy is telt; and ow 'those who knew and loved- him ,oke to each other softly and low, hile even the little ehildren ceased liar noisy play upon the common. 1(1 with a timid, curious glance W- ards the open windows of the sick te•m, hastened mile, where they Inn,,. rpt cloisely at t eir mother's side, ondering--asking of her what death as, and if she were twee that he. the ing one, would go to Heaven. Titeinitime, the sun was' almost set, 11 :1- its. last golden rays fell upon fate of the stiffen•r, a radiant mile _lit up his features. and be ex - aimed aloud, "Tis the glorious light the Eternal shining down upon me. hot weep, mother. We 'shall not parted long." he continued, as he It. into,' Iris forehead a tear frorn the rey-haired, wrinkled woman, nn wee 'hewn his head was pdlowed, st as it had been, long. long Iwo, ell neat a tender babe he lay in tha mother'e arms. To her it seemed •itot Land yet it was fifty years :inee was lent to her, and now, when ts would have hie own again, --he :Aid bmissively, '"Thy will Ms deep: " On -before had a great .or- . oW I. 'fallen \epoti lier, leavtne her herteeforth to Walk alone, and then lier••• .had 1,1)41 -nigh fainted be- te alit the blow, t.ir AN. was. younger far by many years. itt- new she was .4,1. and already she toted the roar .,f the deep dark river who:, very hank: .she stood, and n V. !I ORO 11.1ft current her firatehorn as float - mg; sp she stifled her own et. for, he hat said, she kneel^ i1. nubl not be long err, they met again. "Where is Fanny," he 'tusked. d his arms (doled fondly around h wife. Tt mattered not that time and rare lied dimmed the Nato, et her eyo. and robbed her ether+ of its girlish bloom; to him - she wite beautiful .till. for thrnngh weal and wroe_ahe_ltate _teen faithful te her marriage Vow, and now the bittereirt pang of ill was the lea, - neregated both Thdethbeuipaildin nL and' it now P. 0! it itt .lf oh cl •f Do tsr wl F. F.LAweetecis, C.P. T.A. 1 CANAWAN PACIFIC YOU WILL FIND OUR SERVICE TO THE Northwest Sitinfactery in every respect Our trains run throuah ts.thout change, by a route that el more direct and .n • Me than any other. and of courts mass faster time. Moly airport from Toronto. Apply to JOS. KR*, Orig. Agent,Oodeeich, Itsieticketa reservations, antral! GOWGANDA The New Silver Field Through Passenger Ser- vice 5.00 p.m. Train from Toronto. Sleeping and Dining (ler service for Sudbury and Sellwood. Con- nection at Nellwood with the Gowanda Transport Company for Bitrwisah. Phoenix and nowrganda. The only through passenger nem ire, theshorteat and cheapest route. ,t;cs• Parry Sound train Nieves Toronto 14.00 r For' f net her Information; apply to n eareat Ticket. Agent, or write Passenger Depart men t htnatiian Northern Building, Tmonto, Ont. ▪ ...maa, 01111P..-14• •ae444•40004•1111111• Repeat it Core will al. erase cure my (soughs end teethe it• St•••••• - e Gad of the widow and the fa- therless watch river and keep you all an that id the lase, when I ask for my ehildretn. there shall net one be mim- ing," he mid, as hie arms, unclosed, and then. with low, wailing. moan, the mother bent over the white lane ot her Inc. go that the wife might not the fouled change whieh had eome upon it. for my father tram dead! You who hem. kept with me while deseribed the death seine '.0 011. un- ferttinate Ilerbrrt, and of my Painted father earl j•ern nett- yeti not my, 1.c4 me die the death of the right- s, and let my last end be like hist" onti Lnnely end desnlete was the home et whieh eerier(' rme day ton late, for they hod burled him, and there wait naught left to me etf my father ,tvre the leek of heir which they eever-' •_tel from Ina heed na he lay • In the ootTin 1-r”, he seas retie; hut an long tis life and brine ',More. en long shall !and retneolbraneaa of him linger in -.1y Memory-, and if nt the last meet 'orn in the better world. will not ia n measure the Meister" influenee nf Ilia dying moo•rige, whieh has led erinderrr, there! PTIR A'tsr tie, re -!--'• nf ts•r enemy ste4 neer. eh° n••••,tinn lorntft *Itl Vie tele tf4 in Niers frit elf 4onnntl. 6,111141nd tt% rerenly .41 elide ynot!,e- 014. n''n••..r,, t. .:1.er o n much menet, their nen meinten- tines. which nreesss-iie weela vole* upon us, their (quids.... ft had ta.tiong: anrell real -looking. Von ve got bad/inure (lee/teed- miters. round - wtl1eh vin 'm to -'s, • splendid hair (and he, pulled and 'try. were twining. The fi( rs with one of my :there thick enrlabyway of in were bare. but sorurintouslclean; adding emphari: to his wnnisl and while the morns- husked the enstle your romplexinn i: nett one half 1111 - furniture I had confidently ex et. ' sallow and muddy as it used to be. to see- • _ .• Depend upon it. this *Mrs. Angeline Seareely was I seated in the pare, Delafield I.ansirig. of Cedar Grove.' , when I heard a sweet, childish vol will 'think yon have deeeived her." exclaim. "She's • In ihaf-ehe 1/ "Nonsense " 1 rereeee ',eating my- untie at the same tame a pair of et s.elf at the pianec-'.'hien wait .ntyle my bine eyes looked through the Trey .. eonstant etunnanion. Mrt. , 14neing . of the door, and then were quirt; .y having written that she. %cal very per. eithdrewrt, their owner laughing tioelar ahnut fnuse.. aloud - ria. if she had accomplished V.t.', to fell the troth. 1 was not some. daring feat, and calling out. "1 eery, much of a 1,,,rf.inee hitt innk. - seen her,. Idal--1 did. And She don't it- upon the SonCi ver much as. 1 leek erns,. •rierther. You ilabsn't peek did tipon the ter West., I fancied that in tha'. Oast searr' eee.enten ...nee sa_ •!....1,.. aftepirpf4.44,-__i_ • Thi!.:17_ Were my future pupil..! wage ;melts would pdar. • i,r; the real , (Nilo. ure; and al ready, my heart warmed • Fee! I eetermined t,.plaw as well sei , towarrie then,, particularly her' with re.- :lsle. _aaeleaseeweele-siftew -week -1 - the gayer! voter. and.- 1 was - just peaerieed„ rintit. own 1 had nearly I thinking of going out- to find them, civet imp all hopes of ever hearingwhen 1 heard a light footstep on the from the hvly nratti. 1 ne day re- .1 -airs. and the next moment a tall, reeled a letter hearing the-W---s---part--- Ark -eyed -girl. apparently fourteen Ot -o mark, and corwi. Ti•c a check on a i.fitteell-Yalits of age, entered the room., Besesi bank for etioney sufficient to introducing herself ae Misis Lina •'.efray my expenses_ There were also1.ansing, and welcoming 014 SO cor- n few haiio stily itten lines,- saying - dially that I felt myself at once at that 'Mr- 1.a.nsing eonsidered our home, engnrement as settled. tint aha should -Mother... said she. "is inthsrineed, not expect me until the letter 'part of as 1 believe she wrote you. an April, CIS Sho mild not immerlistely sent me to receive you, and ask 'what get rul of her present governess, A YOU would like." painted insipid (Totten's. from New I had scarcely slept a moment ties ayoorrikd...e.rel the .veriest humbug in the night previous. so I replied, that if convenient, I would go immediately ".1 sweet time i null have of it with to illy room. •Ringing the hell she a short, all I advise you to rive up going. mertem." said Charlie. "itivi Ontte tor a dilMumnply°•nmulatcttoteroom.hnhlshe Why, only think. April there id hotter ('ressy. and who, .she said. wee to be than pepper. and -of course yon'll take gntaiyirdi.ttelnwdasantu.sirporwillowinintf, aheiarnrioip. airyi he • fever and il ie. " . But 1 was not to be persuaded The chamber, which, thmigh not furniah- "sonne; ,toutti" had for me a peculiar ed with elegance, 'still. eontairied rinothe'r reason whieti, more than all fas,inati,,,, at,,) ,then. too, thf,,, wit, teitu'egreytiheianthg pfro.rbermi y teth.).m.f jorrth .t e.ydenwhtoicial others. prompted Illt! tO _ go. lieonoti made me wipe the perspiration .frutti Wad the horne of the dark man, as 1Uty tuee• called hint.and though there wat "Shall I iva:di mis-us' feet first, or It trdly a probability of my ever meet- comb her bar." meked the -nerves. ing him there, such a thing was still (touring a piteher of water into a yeesible. MIA like Longfellow's Even- small bathing tub !reline. wiei. ofi the broad MississipPi. This was entirely Ilea to inc who fell that each dm of the oar earried had always- beeu_acteUettesed to-avent her nearer Its her lost Gabriel, se lipteernyself. So 1 fleClinell her offers each flay I felt it stronger and strong- .,0 e.sistatice, telling ire "1 preferred er conviction that somewhere in the brine alone, and smut,' dfr every•thing southern land 1 should find him. for- myself which was, necessary." In the Meantime. Anna had been "Laws, missue"' ',he answered. roll - with us for a few weeks, but greatly . itig the whits.r.. of her eyes, "'taint pot ehmiged from the .inna of former ways likely you 'as, lowish and •'range tinier., Listlessly she moved from Teem all dat ar bar," 0e:41(1011W to me the+ to radii -*ever smilinc, never weep- • od now. sotnewhat tangled eiirl,. Mg; andseldom speaking linters; ,he - tAlty„ Mia, feriae ,iteaettites it.,, e weresseret ethireseed. To her, even. .filesin' I'll 1. • boun' sheenever ttettivierie dark, deep night, and tele!) ••. 1 taelie it erattlt I h it herself."' a eloont did her presence east e.:er With semis diffieutty f-ennvineed ilo• , have kept her with ns. 'we still felt eeeeee ansesiterietees. we rt, if , I ti ,i rislieved wh4 en rite -h•ll Iiirter a 'hfirTlf been a kind f mon. trosity. she bit e in Ruston, - where little Jamie o seen Hie room. the oet which 1 bolted-she hoertme the idol of hilt grandmother, against. any 14414 -- 44trucler. The win- -wheat nob, ere'cheerful-nem --had ere dna A lof my eitamter looked out upon (*eng a visible effect Upon Anna. 'he rarden. where new were blorwtoin- main Will , ton, liad visite(' us. and see,. after spending n short time. 11505 and finer„,4 of every imasibie eeme. had sail- Iiiie and form. A little to the right, pi bnaoheiernesrJoh sifsnsiinnyrmen•liffinitrnursia: .411;4%1. aabitsanahut ear quintiartemirnogf %moiler awaandy hen -he should retort) with mune, mere imposing hithan that of Mrs. Lan- raenwthitoP eh ho5511:!•hhnue I•ti'l'IhtemTne. nlo..„iingt.4. ay:wled:mp* grde iyeat.d.rdin n( thtamp atetraa7m we: dm long so Ahr tired. meet of Inc grounds. As nearly as 1 _A cna dark. snotty- morn- -odd fultarqo',. it stshsi upon a little atter part of April. when 1 hill. for the . res aimeareel to ri 4P GO last statetl nn my jonrney. The s r - In o eerrPorrningirethlr:."grouto741611'r bni'lltnr-- ',e...., . while. ae I aftervrards learned, es, Inner rows eon/tatted of the grace - fel magnolia. the wideapreading ca. t fl Ina, the beautiful ehina tree, and the persimmon, whose leases in the eitumn wear a meet. brilliant hue, and present set fine A anntrasiete the derk green of the pine and the fir. Very, very pleasant. it looked to me, (vitt' its white walls joint diseernible an el the dense foliar., whieh stir- rminderl it, and for a long time 1 -torsi goring ' towards it wondering ti hese home it was, and if the inmates were 114 happy as it seemed they might be... At laet, taint with the fatigue t f my journey and t•he odor of that ftheere, -whit+, trent the gaiden be- lew, eame in tit the (men window 1 flare myself upon the lounge (feather turd looking altogether ton formidable) and was anon feet, asleep. dreaming of Nfearlow Brook. of the white house tin the hill, and the (lark men. whea 1 thought, told me that it. shmild one day he my home When at lam 1 the trees WPT, In:irer, and here, while hut few emelt things gars token that spring was with tis Tt is not atritnee, then, that I *linnet fancied meeelf in another world, when after a prosper nns son voyage orte morning went on shore at Charleston, and first breathed the soft balmy air of the South. Deno anti green wise the foliage of the trees, while thousands of Agee and flowering shrribe filled the air with a perfume .almtairt sickening to the man- FrOM Charleston to Augusts was A wearisome ride, frit the oars were erne -dal and dirty, and them vine te me nothing remarkably ptomains in the long etretchea cypreas swamps and pine ebarrkina through whieh we pasteed. it was lair in the making when we merited the town of 0-----, from whence 1 was to proceed to W---, by Atop. Ti wee a most biwtotho] night; and for hours 1 watc•fied the soft retwediebt se ft glimmered the trees which lined either zin the narrow mad, and whew beennhes nften swept irest the windows of Iffirthering vehicle. 11 was long SIMeoto. the, sun was no longer shining Idler annner when we arrived et -et at my windows. for it was late in W- - brit no thie*.ly wooded is the the afternoon. and the thereat heat of eanntry around. that r obtained twit the 'lay past 8Prtilging nil. 1 amide rlimpee no the to." until 1 commenced deeming with scene tee- m:M(1,miy found myself "Ulm," as the nidetion. Jot 1 expected to meet the driver said, dismounting and mere inistroes of the house luinPer-Unte Ing the door of one essa yew My toilet was nearly onmpletal when hetet int, wheel 1 „mond, 1 heard in the hall the patter of child- WonIsiperhapa, erwerpara feworably ish feet, while a mund. bright eye was with acmes" severe, et the applied to the key-hnle. it was the NorSI; but • • t seek 1 lan same which had looked et me In the • moo sod a,....„.4anis.aossonas 1 lwelor, and tutiriorrs to Me. its ertnier. • I sainned oat .'it the goer Mgt en a A BOY'S STRUCCLE FOR LIFE J. Nev, of 154 Baldwin Si., Toronto, says : " I can trace my son Harold's trouble to when he had the measles five years ago, from which he never really recovered. Some of the best physizi ns attended him, but with months of suffering lie in turn contracted Whooping cough, bronc`dtis, and then pneumonia." "Month after month wznt by that we shall not soon forget; months of :daplest: nights, fearful ••oughs, weakening nigh, sweats, left my boy a mere shadow. had no appetite, and my heart ached to Le.: how he was wasting away. He aLlent , one wholz sammer at the Lak:side Ito.ne for Sick Children, and came honie greativ improved, but the cold winds of October took him off his feet agala. The doctor advised me to send him to Muskoka, but heavy doctor's,bills had depleted illy flnancidl resources, and such a step'seemed out of the quest( am." " At this point we tried PSYC !ME, and human lips can- not describe the change that took puce. No words can expre,s the thankfulness of his mothe,• and myself when we saw the crisis was over, Inn realized that our boy was fighting his way back io life and health. PSYCHINE had. Mastered that which all the doctor's prescriptions had failed to check. Day by day Harold grew stronger, and fill through the winter, although continually out. of doors, he failed to take cold, and he outon very quickly. By,the spring Jo was,completely cured, and de- veloped into. a strong, sturdy lad..._ J'STCHINE is ike greatest strength restorer and system builder known to medical s -Acute, and should be used for Coutha, Colds, Weak Lungs, Loss of Appetite, Weari• :is, etc. All druggists 311: TRIAL SENT FHEE stores sell PSYCH I NE N/1.1 thisTam ..E5,. T. A. Stsso. and SI bottle. DR. T. A. SLO 1-•••••• Spi•• Aw . Isere, aisi ore, • I•mlit• al l'SVCIIINE FRIA- CUM, LIMITED. TORONTO. PS PRONOUNCL. SI -K: N: NE ilri R AT T Of T '1 fOirrownig Wry -creature 'with go14•11-1107111411M- ed to run away. 1 was too quick for her, however, and catching her in my arms. I pushed back the clustering ringlets; from her brow, and gazing into her sunny fare, asked her name Raising her white, waxen hand, she did for me the office I had done for her. vise pushed back my curie, and i.;,k_11111.._iit__MY lace. answered. "Ma says it's -Jesaica. but Lime, Hal. and Uncle Dick call me Jessie, and I like that a heap the best. You are our new gnvernee.s, ain't your She was eingnlarly beautiful. and yet it was not so much the regularity of her features, nor the clearness of her complexion which made her in Tt• was the light which shone in her lustrous blue eye, which gave her the expression of aa angel, for such she was an angel in her touthent home, which without her would have been datk and chearima. Har brother. whom she called Hal. was three years older, and not nearly so hand/tone He was very dark, and it seerotei Inc that 1 had seen o face like his before; but ere 1 could remember where, a faint voice from the pima. Which faced the east andwail now quite rool, called out, "Halbert. Hal - come here." at's Ina," said Jessie, getting down from . my arms. "That's ma -- come k<nd see her." and following her. I mons tood in the presence of ifreee Limiting. who was reciining rather in- dolently a large willow chair, while at her back, was a neirres.s half asleep, but appearnig whie eirake whenever • her mietrese` oved ne was a chubby, rtertecheeked woman. apps y thirty-6ve years of age. Her eyes re very black. and she had a habit o frequently abutting them. -•• es to sho off the long, ed ey•elaslies. On theewbole, I thought, I she war quite prepossessing in her ap- , ca. an opinion, 'however, which ' changed ere long; for by the time I reached her, there was a dark cloud on her brow, evidently 04'4watt:sure or of des.appoirt••• •sit.. Still she was very polite, t•fferinr me her'. jewelled hand, and saying. "Miss Lee, I sup - pt ee• .Teu are welcome to Clieorpa:' then, after an instant, ahe added, • "You don't look at 4n like I •thought you would." I was uglier than she expected, 1 presumed, And the tears started te my eyeat ea 1 repbed, "I wrote to you that I was very plain, but after s little I shall look better; I am tired now with traveling." A ,tratige. peculiar smile flitted over her face. while she intently regarded me as if e• as -air.' herself of my san- ity. I was- puzzled, and tn nay per- plexity 1 said something about re- turning home, it my looks were so thsairreeable. "They were used to use there, mad didn't mind it," I mud. at the same time leaning my heist against the vine -wreathed Milers, I sobbed aloud. Lithe as a kitten, little Jelm' spnwig up behind me. and irandiug her arme around my neck, asked .why 1 ruled. ma make you cry" she said "Uncle Diek says abet makes all the governesses cry " -Jeasica, Jessica, get down this mo- ment," said the lady. "T did not in- tend to hurt Miss lee's feelings, and do not understand how 1 could have done so. Sbe is either acting a part, or else she strangly mieundmetande I never acted -eirt-in my lite, and, somewhat inasigeents I wiped away my Ware and awed "what abe meant." There was the amine einile on her face which I had noticed before, AR she Raid. 'Do you really think your- self rigl-yr Of course 1 did, 1 lead noway thought othermae, for hadn't I layer' told so ever mince 1 wite a child no larger than Jemie, and the impreesion/thua early recei veil had never Ine jO era- dientee Thus 1 enewered her.' and' she believed me. for She, replied, "You Mein yen mi love n in c I are miatakan ire - hood, you are not. 50 new Neither do rinderstand how with thrive! eyes, that hair and brnw, you can think yruirAolf ugly. 1 do not believe yeti meant to deceive me, but, te tell the truth, T am disappointed; but that rennet noir he helped, and well make the best of it." Perfectly astonished, 1 listened to her remarks, giving her the credit nt meaning what she said, and for the first time in my life, I felt as I sup- pose folks must feel who think they not handsome! After Una little atorm was over, site evidently exerted her. self to be agreeablefor -a few rate mente. and then rether abruptly ask- ed me how old 0elm. "Not quite eighteen!" she repeated in some surprise, "Why I supposed you were twenty•five leaat! Don't yon think she 10flitf, Older than Ada' turning to Liu*, who ammo -red quick- ly, "Oh. ns. mother, nnthing like as old. Whe. 1 shouldn't think her over smeenteern to most." (To Ill Co WTI/II:hitt O. & G. Railway Appliatin, Ottewalfele 4-E. N. Leg/IS (Hur- on) today presented to Parliament petition from In. MeNI .president, and A. IL MeDonnid meretary of th, tittelph Goderich Railway ('om- pany, asking ter an extengion of the 1'ne to eonatruet and eomplete Ita branch lines to St. Marys and Clinton vieseltratbr . 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