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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1909-3-11, Page 8e laotttw&T1 Maacu 11, 1909. THE )RIli1NAt AND ONLY GENUINE BEWARE DFS IMITATIONS THE Slt"NAL: GO')' RIC IIONTARIO. Meadow Brook nEgt MAN &Belk Mae 25 eta. M illii LINIMENT -'L1MIT[D-- Imam C t AICaMRa$ t SOLI) ON TIIE MERITS eP M1NARD'S LINIMENT Croni G ODERICII PACIFIC $42.15 PACIFIC COAST SECUNU ULASS ONE WAY DAILY UNTiL APRIL 30T0. -Nest 8aeect Route Tourist Sleeping Cars on all Trans APP', to J09 Kinn. Agent. Oocle GRAND TRUNKRAILWAY SETTLERS ('II.l1 I 1 I. \ \ iV. Alia %by bad Ire I a permitted ti love her no madly, of to dream of a it was the night b.•t,•re the one ap- time when he eOuld cell her "his own pointed for the bridal, and in the )u Rose, pia "'le Again 5011again solitude of her chamber, a young girl he repotted those wunis to htnleelf ..ept,in the utter hopelessness of the stud then as he thought whose sit pe�r. At the morrow 'e early dawn .euuld he when anotiw uw1 b11ou1f II.. 'Would be there to claim her as his have set, lie groaned aloud, and it bride, and though he was noble and dexl'atraug tones cried out, "How can good, there was hi her heart no an- 1 give iter up..' severing chord of love, end alto knew' _ The sun had risen, mud, btruggling that without such love their uniou througli the richly curtained` window, would be unholy. Earnestly, and fell upon hie bowed head, but he did with many tear4 had she striven to not heed it. He was sleeping at :-st. awaken again the deep affection she and in his dreams, another than Dr. had felt for him in the time gone bv. t'rayton had clairrleul Rose for his but it could not be, and shudderingly bride, even Death, and without a She thought of the long weary years tear he laid her in her,cofldn, and bur - when she should be mit unloving wife, kit her w here the soft sighing ceder bearing a crushed and aching heart, and the wtuspernig pines would over - wherein was enshrined the memory shadow' her grave. From that dream of one of whom it would soon be a he was roused by Jessie, who shrieked in ear. "Wake, Uncle Dick, and On the table at her side lay her come. end is there s (nlying WITh the help • bridal dress, the gift of Richard Dela- foe" field who. without a r uadow on hid ef For a time the selfish port of Rich- hma, or a wa•enns uh i15e To$e71 ,, and [)elafield's nature gained the'ki- lns voice, had : lied he, to accept it 0 h as a token of i esteem he should (Trident, and he•eaid aloud. "Thank ever feel for he Alas, pc+or Rose, ('(fid' .Rather thus than the bride of ,as your tears tel. like rain upon the auutiher." orange wreath whi •h seemed to Mock Still this feeling did riot prevent your woe, 'row httde did you 5f4Jkr h.action,and with a firm atea)Q of the anguish it cost the donor to 'end composed manner he weal wi say to you the words he did, or that Jessie to Cedar Grove, going immedi- ately to Rosa`r chamber, when, for a lt+, for you cou7,T weep, wit e r, +u. he.atood ep al tha.ecene this privilege was denied, and his was before him. She had fearfully chang- the hard task -of enduring in silence ed since list he saw her, for the dis- .the burning pain which no tear -drop Oise had 0dcancel with rapid strides, c_anieto moisten. ud riow nttterly-ineeneible, and white Slowly the hirers of night worn ne the wintry snnw, she lay with her an ey and as' the =moon rote brad -tit , Wn hark, nnul her lips apart, •..„...+cr_m„f_ iirker--_tr--Htt-4„i„tens, While her hands nervously picked eit re}s fell upon the bowed turns tit • bot reothea nt000d her! Many n Rosa. elmo, with clasped hands and 1 'he h,,1 1)r. Clayton heard that this t l.ttellese cheeks, sat just where first - v-'15 a ::nr+- rimers o1 death; en'd thou h he-he-her-praying---weeping-think• t•,• find'„seul r'laucheat it as an net t•.,'.onos fyhim, he shuddered now as tinge \came' ever her• I e ;,au' It,(ui her, and bowing his head int'^end praying again, until _at 'net I. it calm\ which ere long, resolved it - else) the pilloy, he wept tike a child. ;,-.71f ipho\a fixed deternima[irlp. elm, i' •a moment Richard Delafield stool would tetthilii all how she loved vtea g upon the apparently dying itiehard Delafield, and how, though girl and the weeping man, who seem- th.• love were •hopolesr,, ape could not ed wholly incapable of action; then e,ull another- her husband." Anrfs he to'eeing himself, he went in quest of '.could relents,- ter- -etre knew he would. the flack %semen, commanding them "Rut if the ehot(Id nut?" seemed w'hi in a voice they dared not disobey to I. I in her t:Iit. For an InsPant hcr� l • come at once to the sick -room. He i,,.I,t .mord st and Then 'he'.en= hod heard that nothing but violent -w-,e..I.,1.1, "1, will n t do k•" s:tinual .rnspiratkon had its yet sleet %lel:e inem: nt I sin against IMM I en of any avau l in ansa extreme t :..•i a/et Dl:nh; : -and calmly- giving orders to It wns--i-Irenee- mini thin res„- - that, effect, he himself assisted while the kignite peel.- h r Mei I. um 'I froth `es of kot .•rnuri n '-I-i voter henerle n pp and the b tadmdnisfer- a , I nume.f eenne-went, t 1" r i l...r.vric4,- t:e it werfal tonic, he bade Jessie : 1,d n:lked t ,yr •• ru e t ,en... ellen. ,"t `fair- ler mother, while be took his Ate rt":rl ' ' . i ",.free stern ration at the Fredside to watch the eyeteihl .. . . :eel it ..:alt, Quieted in a measure by the cool demeanor of his companion, Dr. Clay - 11 t: Ute ll• , sat t , , r,.kitt ,n ,he turned away, at 1 shuddering, she •cc riot why, sought her pillow. It. - now the first of June, end its • '"It soundern clime the air wait al - ,•.Id; hot, sultry, and laden with Low Rates 1. mic, ii"'ase. For No weeks a fenrful whose nature the oldest phy- to terwn points in eines eei•?ns did not nmleretaud, had been "ng in the towns adjoining, find Saskatchewan and Alberta '• eky-olte-lft-iftrtemringirepe-itr-441- -i life and vigor, were in the evening •. longer numbered (Iming the lie- ^. -n lapid wns the work of death. hi great alarm the terrified inhabi- Isles 11a,1 fled from place to phaco. tett the destroyer was nn their track Pacific Coast • itd the "brain fever,'t as it wee ani -uI, claimed them .(oi its victims. . yet, there find been no cases in Excursions '' • but the .people were in daily- :. I of its arriyel, and a feeling or se pervaded the village. Mrs- sesing, on tate enntran•, though;ue- ::y_alnrt rrl.-avea at the mention of via Chicago or Port Arthur, EACH TUESDAY during March and April daily until April 30th, VANCOUVER B C SEATTLE. WASH. PORTLAND, ORE- for the pally, unconscious pf • •• -:`dark Hone • hut•ering near. But n on the incoming succeeding the • 1 of Which we have spoken, rhe .1, in passing RONar 's -doo-the- nd of .oma one talking incohe,- •rely while et the same time a ne. to gill carie rushing out, exclaim - "The Lord help us -young Mise mew gut the Brain fever, and gone ,:1 in' noel " she fled in' wild alarm +t -Hee f.,tlivnt extremity of the build' and gathering her frightened e'tildren together, with Ada, around her, she Called to the terrified ser- vants er vants from the window- bidding them toe --teff him at vahnoul his life not to venture near .,• infected room, hot in -hasten with tall speed to her. And there, trembly --- • int', weeping, and wringing her handswash,nt fear, the wash, Bold -hearted wer- Oltln' stayed. while parched with fev- ,r and thirst; the suffering girl lay ,„"ruing in her pain; now asking for eller to cod her burning brain, and acaiu claspitlg her thin,, white hands ntvnlsiyely upon her brow, nut if 10 11 the agonized throbbings, lest else there was who did not for - 1 In her excitement Mrs. Larn- e .. foiled to notice the absence' of little eesne, whn going tearlessly to the bedside of her beloved teacher, cr'r,tly bathed the aching head, and administered the rooting draught, while with ehilrfieh love she ki elthe nshrn lips, and smoothed back the fang tresses which floated over the Mlle,. in the hall below there was the Hound of footsteps, and the bride• cream's voice was (heard, asking for his bride, but his cheek blanched to a marble whiteness when told that she was dying in the chamber above. In a moment he had her in his arma- his precious Rose- -dying-dying-he nn believed, for he, i, had heard of the strange disease, and he thought there was no. hope. With a bitter cry, he bent over the trnconacious girl, who knew him not, for the light of reason was obscured and darkness was upon her clition, "('an nothing he done? Is there re, (help?" he minified wildly, and e little Jessie, sed by his grief, .an- swered, as rhe laid her 'oft, white hind nn Rosen forehead, "God can help Inc,, and maybe Uncle Dick can. 1 mean to gn for him," and -.gilding mei I- - sly from the room, she was „on on her way to Sunny Bank, look - erg, with her gnlden curls floating over her hare white shoulder', as it she *ere indeed an angel of mercy. till then lied he thought how he must .tIone in hie library eat Richard leave her alone in that ter south land 1)'lafield, hie arms renting upon the ---many mirex away from her native trate, and his face buried in his hill*, and that to him wmtld be ds - hands. All the night long he had sat vied the eolaos of weeping over her there' thug, musing goodly of the fn. early grave, tufa when Phi would he gone, and he SPOKANE, WASH, I $42.1 I [ 011,1 went on with the prepara- rareligion..gion.. din ans. expressed not I J One-way Second class from GODERICII. To Cobalt and Gowganda the pioneer 1.ml.. i. in 1.rnend- Trunk and T. & N. O. Railways. Through Pullman sleeper Toronto to Ottawa, leaving Toronto daily 111.15 p.m. -_= @9t1Hnforntation from F. F.LAwitgetca, Town Agent. GOWGANDA The New Silver Field Through Passenger Ser- vice every day from -- — Toronto. 5.IS p. m, week day.. Sunday Special WIN) p. m. Bleeping and Dining( (lar service for Sudbury and Sellwood. (Direct connection at tiellwn(rd with the Gowganda Traneport Company for Burwaah, Phoenix and Gowganda. The only through passenger service, the shortest and cheapest route. Loyal to Parry Sound and inter- mediate pointe leaves Toronto a a, m. For farther information apply to neatest Ticket Agent, or write Passenger Dt ertment, (lenedian Northern Building, Toronto. Ont, A, Woman's Sympathy Are you discouraged? le ynurtdnctor's bill w heavy financial Insult Is tour pain hese wmean to loth-ical ate womekn —i ow have been dl+roeregeed, too; but learned how to ore myse�lf. I want to relieve our bur- docntrrr'Whill?nlend e•antdo his and anthe will If you will motet me. All you need do 1e t0 write for a free bot of the remedy which his been plae'ed In my hands to he given awe Perhaps this rine bolt will cure 10U—tt Tina done so for other' If so I shall be happy and rem will he curer! for 7e (the east of a proK m oar ) • 1 tote too, arose, dud atter hurriedly 1'a'•Ing the retow\resumed his post, and there on each ;side of Rose they stood, Ihoee two hien, the one with !tie fair handsome face stained with tears, praying earnestly that she vigil' Live; while the ,other, with d.iirk, lowering eountenanee and wrin- kledettrow stood with folded arms, and firmly cbmpreaced lipe, struggling to subdue the evil passion which .. h ispered, "Let her die! There will be a eomtort • in weeping over her grave, and knowing that she Bleeps there in all her rnaiden purity, In the meantime Jessie had been missed, and a servant dispatched to fund her. But this the woman failed to doas-shewas then at Hunny Bank, and Mrs. Lansing was about ventur- ing to go in quest of her, when rhe appeared with her uncle's message, shying, "she knew Miss Lee was dy- ing. she looked so dreadfully." "Jessie -child," screamed the af- frighted Mrs. Lansing, shrinking from Om little girl as it she had been a lontheome thing. "Have you been there -in the room?" _Without__ any - attempt, at. conceal- ment, Jessie told what she had done, end when her mother exclaimed, "You are a dead child,",she answered ienrlesely, "1 am not afraid to die." Just then the negro, who had been rent to the village for the family phy- sieiau, - returrred, bringing. the news that the fever had broken out there the night before, and that in one fam- ily two were already tread, while a third am thought to be dying. In the etmeet ed may, Mrs. Lansing now announced her intention of leav- ing the place at once slid fleeing for safety to her brother's plantation. which was distant snout twelve miles. "And leave Miss. Lee alone? oh, mother!" paid Jeanie, beginning to erg, while Halbert, frightened as he was, remonstrated against the unfeel- ing deeertton, But Mrs. Lansing was determined - "she couldn't help her at all if she stayed," she said, "And the colored women would do all that was neces- eery; it 'liken t "like leaving her alone with Dr, ('Inytou, for there were a dozen' able-bodied females in the house, to wait. upon her," "And if she 'dies?" suggested Jessie; but her mother would not hear to ma- tinee and urged nn by Ada, who- was no lens frightened than hermit, the ordered out the traveling carriage, which goon stood before the door. She would fain have had her broth- er accompany 'her, but she knew it was, useless to piepose it, Still she would see him before she went, and her waiting -maid was sent to bring hien. "i'll go, Let me go," said Jessie, and ere her mother could detain her, she was hall way theta. Entering the room on tiptoe, ahs gave her uncle her mother's meneage, and then stealing up to Rose, wound her arms round her neck, and layin,t her ,,oft, warm e'•t ek careseingly nvainet the white, thin face of her lyncher, wept her last adieu. They would never, never meet again, for crt' The rummer flowers were fader!, one wo ld be safely in the bosom of the Gorse Shepherd, who would .lead her in green pastures, and beside the still waters of the better land. "Bury her under the tall magnolia, a little wnys from father," was Jes- sie's lest in)nnetton to 1M. Clayton, whose lents buret forth afreah, for not eteee•e held transhould be alone. Why had she ernes- l w nne lVr es t0•dli her se reat, i<t Y in veila,eet. mita. tl w etrrtiewrt,Wft nee ed itie.path-that tittle, humble girl. attempted to di it :.tr. Delafield outer from plug. She is Mit 1txteu, for their lives, rhe eh aid.-etcru all endangered b; reutaiuiug iu town, soul as several other taurines were gorug to leave, she should follow their example -then bid- (11ug Iuut hasten to tient the nwweut Rose was dead. bite entered her ear - 1 Hage and was driven rapidly away. followed by Halb.atand two or three negroee on horsebaek. Unfeeling as this progeeding aeemed to Richard, he still experienced a sensation of re- lief at the abeeuce of the (aunty, and thinking they would probably be safer at "The Pines" than at Cedar Grove, tie returned to the ehawber above, where Robe still lay, in the salve deathlike unconsciousness. perfectly still save when a movement of the head, or • faint moan, told how she buffered. Everything had been done for her which could be done, and now there waa naught for them to do but to net and watch, which they did in perfect silence -Dr. Clayton, with his head buoyed upon the pillow, while Mr. Delafield leaned against all, with compressed lips, wt eyes dark as midnight. fattened upon the white, still face before hint- - The clock- iu the hall btruck the hour of eleven, and then, with a fee- ble moan, the sick girl withdrew her hand from beneath the covering, and when the stern man took it within his own he forced back an exclamation cf joy. for it was moist with perspira- tion! There was hope, and his first impulse was to tell the good news to his companion, but the demon. which all the morning he had hugged to his bosom, whispered., "Not now -let him suffer yet a little longer!" Soon, how- ever, casting this 'thought aside as unworthy of him, he said, "Look up. Dr Clayton, she ie better. She may live. Bee!" and lifting the damp hair from her brow, he pointed to the dewy drope which stood thickly upon it, "Thank Heaven," was Dr, Clayton's exclamation,- and bending down, he said, "Rose, fay precious Route -the - t, ill• sive,-_awl _sou peva. save 114r . - he eontinued, "dvancing towards the dark statue, whose hand he pressed to hie lips. "To you the credit is due. ler you worked when despair bad ren- dered mo powerless to do anything, but now 1' am strong. 1 am myself again. and if I have any skill it shall be exerted in her behalf:" - There was a curl on Richard Dela- f'eld'e iip-a blur before -his eyes, and an icychill at his heart, which pre- vented hiM ro-venteif-Aim from enewering• Ritter were the thodghts which crowded upon him. and which he strove to put away. II she- lived, would it not be in a measure owing to the efficient means he' bad employed -and why ehould he wish to save her? Would he not rather see her dead? it_ was an evil spirit which ccunaellesl with him thus, but ere long the noble nature of Richard Delafletd couqueted, and when at last her eyes unclosed. and t turned towards Dr. Clayton, whose name she breathed, arktng for her bridal dress, he looked on calmly, whale his rival kissed her again and again, telling her she should' yet wear it and be his bride, but when he saw how sire shuddered at three words, feebly answering, "No, no. Have they not told you that 1 cannot be your bride, for another has come be- tween us?" a thrill of'joy ran through his frame. but soon passed away as he thought it was merely the vagary of a disordered mind, _.11LShat day and night they stood over her. applying the remedies said to be most efficient in cases of the kind, and when the next morning came she was unquestionably' better. though still in great danger from t tendency of the disease to the lungs. which, however, was less to be feared than its return 4. the brain. Very carefully and tenderly they watched her, and had not Mr. Delafield been blinded by her supposed love for another, he mina have been •how mush more readily she took things from him than from Dr. ('layton, fol- lowing hien with her eyes whenever he moved away, and seeming mueh more -quiet when he was at her side, By the close of the third day she was nearly (reg from the brain fever, but - much fear was felt- by Dr. Clayton lest it ,should assume the typhoid form. which it i,-1 ere long. and then for three weeks rhe rived in. wild delirium, driving Richard Delafield from her presence, shuddering when he came near, and begging of Dr. Clayton, whom she railed her brother Charlie, "td send the black mart with hie ugly face., away " e This state of -affairs was *tweet in. tolerable to Rie hard, w'ho, if he had loved Rose before. felt that she wait tenfold -dearer to him riow, and so, though he dared not come in her eight when awake, he. watched by her when she slept, etanding over her hours after hour, and enduring withta- nned superhuman stttertg¢li the care which Dr. ('layten could !hardly be said to share, so nbsorbr'd Nos he in grief at the thought of losing her at. last. Thus the days wore on until her frenzy abated, and she ...arils into a state of apathy, from which nothing could rouse her, not even the sight of Richard Delafield, from whom she no Inger shrank, but for whom she seemed to have conceived a kind of pity, asking him sometimes "if he hated ber because she did not love him, and telling him how hard she had tried to do so, but could not, and that he must go away and leave her alone!" And all tine while it never oceurred to him that she faneied he WKS Dr, Clayton, though he did mar- vel at her never mentioning ler nf- fianred husband, in whole arme ahs would' fall asleep, and whose hand etre would kiaa, ceiling him Charlie, and caking if he had Dome to carry her home. Matters were in this state when one day, towards the dusk of evening, he wax surprised by the appearance of Halbert, who paid that the cholera had broken nut at the Pine+, and he must come 'Immediately, adding fur- ther, that hie mother and Ada lied both had it, that 'leveret of the Marko were dead, and that the man, who two days before heti been pent to Ce- dar Grove, had died upon the road. Greatly alarmed for the safety of his people, Mr. Delafield started at once for the Pima, whither, in another chapter, we will follow him. CHAPTER XXV. The unexpected arrival of their Master's sister -arid her renege at "The Pines," as Mr. Delafleld's plan- tation wag called, produced quite a sensation among the blacks, who hastened to receive their runts with many demonstrations 01 joy, rather more nffret.cd tlhno heal, her Mr. I,ane- ing wap not. very popular with them Halbert and Jenne. on the eoutrnri. were general favorites among the set- vanta, apo thought them little leas than angels, particularly Jessie, who, with her sweet, young less. laughing eyrie, and wavy hair, flitted like a sun- beam from cabin to eahin, /eking after tine old Aunty, or that old Uncle and nereaming with delight when in G.'+x but atm' found three babies, all of an age, and belteytng to the sante mother, who boasted of having given to her master "fifteen as likely girls anti buyer as there were ,it Georgy." As yet the triplets had no names, but the arrival of the ftunily suggested A new idea to Hannah, Mho, nesting her+alt by Jessie, proposed that they le Balled, "Nieh,ird Delatield. .Ada ,fnni rose am! ,Lesairi.(.arising. Willi the first and lent the little girl wag well plea:'ed, hitt, objected to the middle twine, and taking one of the infant; upon her lap. she told the story id her beloved teacher, who wee tieing .at tee ter Greve_, nittt naked that the child She Tell might be called for her. So. baplizel by Jeseie's tears, which fell like rain upon its dark and wrinklcal fate, the babe was christened "Rosa Lee," The house which Mrs. lancing termed her country residence (fur she always spoke id her brother's po-s- .e..:i"ns its her tw•itl, was a targe, double log bee kir,. to.utiNMing 'to- ilette very elegant in the way tot eirnittire, but stilt tort -renting an air of neatness and eombort ; for Aunt Dinah, who had charge of it, prided herself upon keeping it neat and clean, tis her chaster, .was likely to conte up- on her at any time without naming, and she liked to impress hire with her rate qualifications as housekeeper. %(With Mrs. Lansing, however, she was less pleased, but still as the sister of "Mars'r Richard," bite Erna entitled to consi,trr:Uion, and now in • turban, and all the dignity of 1, pee:tiun, the old lady hustled about from room to room. jingling her keys, kicking the dogs, cuffing the wooly Pare nr aflirTRt'1t1€Iireetght 'Whit- chn)e- ed to be in her way, and rx'caeinnally stooping down to kiss little Jessie, who, being - of rather a domestic turn, folloc. e 1 her from place to place. her - sell Assisting in spreading the supper table, which, with its 'news. cloth, mei-cake: iced milk, hot coffee and smoking steaks, conn presented a most inviting -aspect.-- -- • Relieved of their fears and thinking themselves beyond the reach of dan- ger, itre. Lansing and Ada gave them- selves up to the enjoyment of the hops, talking and laughing gaily, without a thought of the sick girl they had felt behind. apd who that night was to have been a bride. Once, in- deed, when alter sunset they were assembled upon the rude piazza. Adi spoke of her, wondering if she were dead, and how long it would be ere Dr. Clayton would marry another! Such is the world, to which ,Ada form - ("1 no exception, for how often do we I .rr the future companion of a bro- 1 n -hearted man selected, even before e wife- of his bosom is removed for- • er from his sight! For a tong time Mrs. Lanaing sat -were with Ada and her children, .lking on indifferent subjects and uccsaionally congratulating herself that they were beynnd reach of the fever, unless, indeed. Jessie had con- tracted it b} her foolish carelessness! On her lap •rested the little golden !head of the child, who was humming .natchere of "The Happy Land." a favorite bung which her uncle had taught her, and which she had often sung with her teacher, asking numer• onewquestions concerning the bett.•r orld, where "Sainte in glory stand, Bright. bright as day," and wood. -,leg tf. when she died, Jesus would tak:- her there to sing. "Worthy is our Saviour King." Very ajJuraiiy, now, her thoughts reverted to her governess, and as she listened to the whispering wind sigh- ing through the trees, she fancied it was the voice of Rose bidding her "Dome to the Happy Land." Sweet little Jessie it was the voices of angel children, which you heard thus calling through the pines; for from their shin- ing ranks one beauteous form was missing and they would fain allure it back to its native sky, Come I now to the saddest part of my story. Beneath the evergreens d the ,tinny South is a little mound, over which the shining stars keep watch, and the cypress spreads its long green boughs, while the children of the plantation, dark bruited though they are, tread softly near that grave, which they daily strew with flowers, speaking in low tones of "the Angel of the Pines," as they term the fair young girl, who passed so suddenly from their midst. It was now nearly five weeks since Mrs. Lansing had fled from the pevatilenoe which walked at noonday, and though it had in a measure abated in the village, there were still frequent caret, and she would not have deemed it aafe to re- turn, even if typhoid fever. whi '.t she feared nearly re much, 1, I not beet in her own house. So there -was no alternative but to atay, uncomfortable though she was, for the weather was intensely hot, and she missed many of the luxuries of her home Still was healthy there, and this in a measure reconciled 1.-r to remain. Occasionally, it i she heard rumors of the cholera on some dist- ant plantation, but It seldom vaned the pine regions -it would not come there; ahs wee sure of that; end se- cure in this belief, she rested in com- parative quiet, while each day the heat became more and more intense. The sum came up red, fiery, and heated like a furnace; the donde gave forth no rain; the brooks were dried up; the leaves witheredupon the trees, while the sur wan full of humming insects, which at night fed upon their helpless, sleeping victims. At the close of one of these sooreh- in sultry days, Mrs. Laing and Adan sat upon the piazza, panting for a breath of pnre, noel air. At the aide of each stood a negro girl, indu'tri- ously fanning their rutistresaee, who Molded them as 1 they were to blame, because the air thus net in motion was hot and horning as the winds which blow over the groat, desert of Sahara. An they eat there thus, an old man rime up from the negro quarters, saying "hu woman done got aids wid the cramps" and he wished "his mtetie jest come down see her-•• (Tit nit CONTINUA()) How's This? We otter one hnndred delis,, reward for any ewe„ of catarrh that cannot be enred by Hal'. 'a1wrrh 1'nre. 1'IIENtY h CO., Toledo, 0. We the undersigned hart) known F. .1 Cheney for the ae.t anew, years, and believe him perfectt• honorable M all business t.rans- aetinnn end Itnanetal' „ t.e.. to nwrry oat any obligations made by ,. rim, WAI. DING KI,IAIt k MARyt., wholesale fhrimeste, Toledo. 0, Halts ('atarrh tore is twice. ielernally. art Ina directly upon the bteswt Foul murnna nor Nee„ of the ,ysla•m, Trat.t"oniele Fent free Arles 7, egeedwell'ate pptl .r not nl.l h e all drnagt.Ia, Take • Family I'III' for nv,stipatton- "Yon say the victim wag shot, in the head 1" gnor iwl tb. eon! ner. 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And the McCormick-Process—our way of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, cooling, and packing—is the result of fifty-one years' experience. just what this Process nicans you cau judge for yourself by opening a package of our Jersey Cream Sodas : Break them and note their won- derful crispness. Taste them ana prove their superior flavor. An ir- resistibly delicious lux- ury -yet a Must Avhole- some and sustaining fcxxl McCormick's Jersey Cream Sodas are pre-eminently the best. The " Little Lord Fauntleroy the package distingitiehes them from all others. SCORN ICKS J ERSEY CREAUSISCUITS SODA QUININE COlk,D5 LA GRIPPE Breaks up a cold at the start. At the first sneeze or chill, take Campho-QuInfil* Cures iiki#74 hcitirt. At your dealer's -25c. The Signal's Clubbing List for 19o9. 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