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" What is true happlueas?'' I italted,
But no ono mad,* reply ;
The q lestion waS SO Stowle 1110,1
I greatly woodered why.
0 Is t' 1 asked, "l in married life ?"
One ianiveraa( groan —
So.prano, alto, taiar., base,
00,1110 throogla the telephone.
" 1 it it uonstant, active toil?"
I queried, and a sigh
Pieree as it mighty whirlwind, made
A negative reply,
la it in lalleneas and rest ?"
I asked next, but a " Ne"
Emphatic was the answer made,
Although the voice was low.
" What then," I askeit, "is happiness?"
But no one made reply ;
Arid yet the question aoeina so plain,
I greatly wonder why.
THE DOCTOR.
CHAP TE la III.
"A DEAD WOMAN'S JEALOUSY BI4GHTIXG A
LIVING LOVE."
The grata turfs were ueetly plane i over
the new -made rave;gthe little °hare myard
on tee hilt was empty again; *he e ealight
was mending loam claim:Mg bands et gold
over the le wly mounds; the hire e were
singing in the shades of the pone ,e war-
den, aud nothiag round about spoke of the
new -corner to that abode of the deem
Pauline Gray, the beauty, had et el out
of the brilliene London world year- efore,
and been twirled arid forgotten. Pealine
Lennerd, wife of the oouutry &Mem wait
laid in the earth to.day, eat wheo er she
was to be forgotten or uot remainea to be
seen.
The young widower urued he, and
for the first Mime teamed that his late wife
left a will behind her. Wben or whore ehe
had made it be did not atop to ask, but this
secret act of hers seemed to cry oat even
from the new. ma te grav I, that he had never
been trusted.
" Mies Etizetteeh Leigh," the lawyer
asked, looking mune me room ; "is she
preaent 2 "
D. Lenuerdsi she waa not; and the
lawyer coughed once ort erica se he leieurely,
untied his pepera, and curiosity we vividly
depleted oa every face preeent with the
exception of hie who might have been
supposed to be the moot interested in the
matter. That curiosity gradually deepened
as the reediag proceeded, and when the
Inveyerti voic ceased, there wa e garners'
flatter and stir throughout the room.
Miss Elizabeth Leigh was declared whole
and sole heiress of Mrs. Leauard's fortune.
The dootor' face went a shade peter, and
a slight tremor ran roaad his weihshemed
month—sigma o agitation then did not ptes
unnoticed. Perhaps the conclusions drawn
from them were no nearer the truth than
such coaclueions usually ere.
The old mem, in the little cottage a. few
perchew from the semshore, when he heard
othis daagither'a gooe fortiane, was no longer
old. He was upright, elastic, juvenescent.
He walked and spoke as he lima walked and
spoken five -and -twenty years before, ere
yet Miss Letty, his daaghter, was dreamed
of, when he had married an heiress; and
with the ettitely strut and ariatocratio drawl
of that period came bsok his old paosion for
the sins and follies of a town life.
No man knew better than he that they
were sins and follies; few, perhaps, knew
&swell how mach they mist en the iong run;
for we have sail he bed pleyed the game of
life in cities, end lost it; bat eaoh know-
ledge was as a witbe ot flex to his over-
mastering desire to taste of ihern ortoe again,
he ie ever so scant a sip, before he bad lost
all his reliah for them.
So, when the little cottage had been re-
furnished mad hereatifiernto hie satisfaction,
Mr.Leigh went to London on a visit -3
neoeusary one he called it; and from thence
he sent home a lady housekeeper, to be at
once a aompanion to his daughter and a
miatress over the servente—for the humble
little nest now Imitated of three.
If this sadden step up in the world gave
the pleasure which such a step might be
expected to give to the fortunate heiress,
she had, to say the least of it, an 03d way
of showing ie. Not that she grew pale, and
drooped and faded like a fragile flower.
She was fragile enough, but she was no
flawer. , She Was a sensitive, loving woman,
with a warm, throbbing heart, that hed
great power of feeling pain,
and, like all
hearts worth eiveing, greatpower of bear-
ing it.
She went about, and smiled, and talked,
and received calls, and returned them, as
hakes:tee ot the preemie day are bound to do,
in common gratitude for being better off
than other people. Her new dresses, and
mantles, acid hats—for Letty deteeted bon-
nets—were of the very best (panty, the very
newest fashion, and the most becoming
etyle that she could prooare ; and in them
all she took, and openly showed, a natural
girlish interest; bat, withal, she was not
thoroughly happy in her new Mate. The
money seemed to have brought & weight
with it ; and the girl in her was fast dying
out under the burden.
Then, again Letty was foolieh enough to
remember and still clang lovinely to the
few friends she had possessed when she was
humble Letty Leigh; and not all the new
ones which the shine of her gainem brought
her could compensate for them; and upon
them, at her father's express command, she
was obliged to tarn her back.
One out of them all, and only one, was
still deolared fit to be her friend. That was
Dr. Lennard; bat he had turned his back
upon her. Some people hinted that spite
was the real reason ot this midden coldness
on his part; others and they were meetly
very young ledies with a larking tenderness
or the handsome young widower, pro.
nonneed it his extreme grief for the loss of
his wife that mettle him unable to bear as
yet the society of her friend.
Carious reasoning this; but some people,
and particularly very yonng ladies, have
the gift of seing eo deep into things, that
their commoner neighbors cannot follow
theca.
Bat ere the spring had come round again,
before the °menus had cropped up about
his young wife's grave, the doctor was mire -
maned in hie medical capeoity to the cot•
tage of the Leighs. Mr. Leigh wets back
then from London—pompons and grand,
and stately, brit anxious withal, for Letty
lay moaning and tossing on what might
prove her deathbed, if speedyrelief did not
come.
It was a fever, a bad case of ityphura Dr.
Green had mid ; and ab the word the sem
vents had taken the alarm and kit. Mrs.
Atherton, the lady housekeeper, was at her
wits' end; we Macy she vvopld have left,
too, but that her keen, worldly eye had
fastened upon the rich, silly old man as a
likely prize for her to win. The fact that
Letty, and not Mr. Leigh, was the rightful
owner of the levishly mattered guineas, she
quite ignored, for she had seen enough to
convince her that her father's will was le,w
to the motherless girl, and she meant to
make her will law &leo at some &sem dete.
Very excellent plans, no doubt, and toter -
ably feasible; but the plenner of them was
scarcely fitted for the post of eiek nurse,
and so Dr, Tortnerd saw, He did not get.: u
the real remote, hat he B&W en0Ligh 50 con '
Vino° him that Mrs. Atherton eves inelined
to neglect hen Oberge, rind spend her *
in the tiny elneviug room, mouthing
ooneolation to that oharge's papa.
vima tete in the afternoon when
eammons remitted Dr. Lennard litter
when he stood at the door of the Lei
It wee open, and he went in, and into
tittle aitting.ropm. No one was there, e
rather annoyed, he ratm the bell near
In auswer to it Mr- Leigh himself appea
and presently Mrs. Atherton. Paying le
heed to her softly uttered but incese
lamentations over the shameful ingratit
et the servants and her owa poinful p
Ilion, he requested to me hie patient.
Letty Was in a high fever; her cheeks
burning crimson, her gray eyes flaming a
fleshing, her long, thick hair tossed b
over the pillowa. She did not know
dootor; she knew no oue ; and her sh
V0i0e Went On without pause or stop,
her words were meaninglese; she was
!Wong.
" How long hes she been like thia ? " w
his first question. Whet tntedioine has a
taken 2' hie 1113X1.
Ie seemed the answer to neither Mims
him, for he gave a little anXiOna frown, a
emptyieg the glass that stocel half fall
on the table, he asked for a clean one, a
Shen prepared a freeh potion, end held it
She sick girls lips. She drank it eageri
it was mid, and eho likedet.
When it was dreined to the last drop, a
Mra. Atherton had left the room to &hen
to his dirsotions, the dootor, etanding
the bedside, Mid his cool hand on the eirl
hot, throbbing brow. At his touch t
bright, dreamy eyes unolosed, and the r
lips erailed grstef ally.
"You are kind," she mid. " like yo
Don't go away again—don't leave in
They all hate me, everyone hates rue no
you know; for she oareed me, and the our
has never left me. Never."
The eyes closed again wearily, and th
little hand that had been raised to ton°
his sunk down. The potion wee doieg i
work.
The dootor sat quietly by the bedside an
waited for Mrs. A.thertan, inwardly (Melia
at the delay. Every now and again th
gray eyes would open to see if he wee sti
there and then close, content that he wa
As be sat and looked down on the pal
young face lying within yard of his own
and met the trusting, loving gaze of thoe
shy eyes thet had never so met his i
health, a vague, half -blissful, halfmainfa
thought grew in hie brain; and yet it wit
scarcely a clear thought, only a suspicion
a wondering sarrnies ; bat faint se h was
15 made 1.1ini think with yearning pity o
She slight hold that young life had on thi
world. When at length Mrs. Atherto
come baok he left his direotions with her
and returned to his own home to poral
and wonder over this strange &way the
had seized nom him, and which he could
nut shake off.
Every visit showed Dr. Leonard mare
clearly that no attention was beieg paid by
Mrs. Atherton to Letty. He had pro
nonnoed her illness fever of the brain, and
not infections, and on his word the servants
came berm, bat ;het did not mend mattera
as ter es he was concerned; indeed it made
them rather worse; for whett Mrs. Atherton
Bat and talked for the hour together to Mr.
Leigh, he lee himself enjoy her flatteries
with an easy oonscience, thinking that one
of the servants was watching by Letty.
Instead of that the dootor often found her
alone, and parched with thirst; and at
mole firma he always attended to her wants
himself, in perference to seeing Mrs.
Atherton &bona her. Orme, coming early
in the forenoon, he found her sitting ap in
bed, her hair pushed beck from her Mae,
and looking so pale and collected, that he
thought an the &et gnome that the fever
Load lett her. As he went forward to the
bed he saw that she held an old shoe in her
hand, which she was turning over and
exemining eagerly.
It was a woman's shoe, very email, very
dainty altogether, and had once been a pale
drab color. It was far too mull ever to
have fitted Letty's foot, and the interest
she showed in it puzzled the doctor.
" What is that, Letty ? " heasked, gently
touching her hand to attract her attention.
She looked up at him, no spark of recogni-
tion in her eyes.
"It is e, it Oe, little hit of the curse she
left behind her on the sande, the night ehe
followed us, the night I heard her sobbing
breath all round me in the sir. I found it
in a paddle on the shore; the earth
wouldn't hide it, the sea woaldn't swallow
it, because, you see, it was a pert of her
came, and I deserved it. I didn't think so
Shen; but know now I did. I knew it as
soon as ever he gave over noticing me; he
would not look at me, he never smoke to
me; and I did so love him."
The wild, bright eyee were brimmed with
tears as she repeated over and over again
that mournful plaint—" I did so love him
I did so love him 1"
"Heaven help me," thought the dootor,
as he turned away from the wistful eyes,
is love of me always to bring a blight 2 "
He drew the shoe tenderly from her
clingieg fingers, and, laying be,ok her head
upon the pillow, strove to soothe her into
quiet. But still her cry was the heavy
curse that lay on her, stopping her breath,
Graphing out her life, killing her.
" It is heavy on no both," said the
doctor, eoftly, as he stooped and kissed her
hot oheek, and then went out to seek her
fathee.
Thanks to that interview the poor girl
W58 no longer neglected. Dr. Lennard was
not one whose word, when he gave it,
might bo lightly disregarded, and now he
spoke oth more freely than was his wont.
The consequence was Mrs. Atherton be.
stirred herself, and made an anxious
watcher on the instant; but trusting very
little ia her, tbe doctor sent down old
Judith, and made her shift herself with
her niece. Perhaps he thought that faith.
Mal servant, Mose-mouthed and cautions,
the fittest to listen to Hach words as he had
listened to that day. Perhaps he knew that
their meaning might be penetrated—for he
by no means underrated the woman's
shrewdness they would be as safe with
her as with himeelf.
Miss Leigh recovered but alowly, and Dr.
Lennard still continued his visits. He
came as a friend now—as more than a
friend ; the bright and sadden flashing of
Letty'e oheek hinted that he was welcome;
bat then the doctor was not bound to see
that. He read poems to her; he took her
out on sunny afternoons to look at the sea
from a seat in her little garden. He bent
over her, and watched over her like a
mother might over an ailing child, but he
never forgot that she was the heiress of his
dead wife.
Lefty never forgot it either. She thought
of it with an icy thrill each time her heart
Sold her, as it sometime did, how dear he
Was to her; the memory of that, and of
She fearfullook that had shone over his
wife's face that morning months and
months before, when she had said she
would live to °arse them, rose up between i
her arid every hope of one day being his a
acknoWledged &Stirling.
Dr. Lennamcl did not armee° that it was
anything but friendship that drew him se t
often M thee quiet little cottage, but ita
shy young mistimes did; still as she seemed, n
she knew it 9740 love. te
OM, not every winalan know when a
n patesa the rubicon of temperate friend.
1, and enters the fiery land of love
lime We think elle deem We think she mnet,
oily if ehe would puler aoketewledge it candidly.
Letty 'sow, Her Warm woman a hear*
rose ap with a glad throb when he was by,
and her keen woman's eye del not Mil to see
an aneWering love gleam on the pile, cad
face that, only unbent to her, and OM
rarely, She drew a new life from this
tlY• hoowiodele, and brightened and straugttn
red, erred day by day. Bat when the weeke
ttle elipped by, till the sea lay still and &Ming
ant Under the Sane 81111, and this love, that she
nde knew 'MIS ill ilia heart, never rose to his
oaf- lips, she began to feel, with is keen, miser-
able appreciation ot its nobleness, the reel
is reason of his strange silenoe.
nd Letty began for the firat time, to under.
ack !Mend, and to 'tread around, with bleeding,
the aturtabling feet, the hard road a woman's
rill jealottey had mapped out before her. As
hat the hetresa of his wife, no pan in tier eon -
de• vont cell could be farther remeved from
the hope of winning him than she. And a
ea horrible coat/idiots that he wilts right in
he Maim and that no matter how strong his
love, be would never own it, pressed upon
ed her. A shuddering sense of a dead
woman's jealousy blighting her living love,
OD Mooed round her clay by day; and again
nd the wall that had broken from her dry lips
to in the fever broke ftOrn Shona now: "15 wen
y; part of her ourse and I deserve it."
Pert 1 It was all. It Was the open
nd tra,nelation of those mysterious fits of
d seeming friendliness and real watching.
by It told why she ohose the girl she thought
's her mat to inherit her mousy. As none
he bat the brain of the woman could have
ad planned and retitled mob a barrier between
an honorable man and the hapless girl she
te bound in her golden lettere, BO none bat
e. the heart of a woman could fully feel its
w, power. Letty felt it. She sew now why
se the wile, thinking her husband loved her,
should leave her money to leer, knowing
e that the doctor as an honorable man woulci
h be kept frora ever seeking her in merrie,ge
ts by that very fact.
And the doctor, seeing this Mao, end
d losing head and heart together he the
a neighborhood of this shy, waywardmire
e would strive to regain both by telling him.
11 self, over and over again, that he Gould riot
a. marry the same fortune twice. While the
e, young girl dreamed and sighed, and the
strong man played with the fire, Mr.
e Leigh waa lookiug out for is linalmead for
O his daughter. To find one that salted him
1 proved rather diffieule. Those who might
s have sought the hand of the heiress, in
, time and opportunity bed been grantee!
, them, the old man looked upon with
f lamoet contempt. He was no miser. He
• did not want gold to mate gold. He wanted
O gentleman Inc his child, and, to find one,
he went to London. Tient city was the
o universe in the eyee of Ur. Leigh. His
t brilliant youth and doubtful manhood had
been.petesed among its glories; and, in his
age, its charm was ets great as ever for
him. So he went, and Mrs. Atherton
remained in charge of Letty.
• The corn was ripening for the siokle ;
the low, marshy grounds were patting on
their !autumn garbs of purple and deep,
rank greenery, and the little cottage was in
a glowing tangle of blooms when its master
reeurned. He mune alone, and he looked
haggard and anxious • but he would be
cheerful, and he told them that he expected
company following him.
Mrs. Atherton wets all aomplacenoy. She
was overjoyed at her dear master's safe
return; see was pleasantly exoited over the
tohoinanging guests, and delighted with every -
Not so Letty—the girl was tired out ;
the new bets, and dresses and gently sum-
mer mantles had been worn again and
again; the gushing young lady friends had
sank from patronizing celestiels into psi -
sive bores. The novelty of being an heiress
had worn off, and she Makened at its
monotony; and tbat the life of an heiress,
be it lived in town or country, is mouoton-
ons, let no one deny. Hs h monedertieff
opened for her the gates of 'many bong -
coveted pleasures, but it had barred the
only oue she oared very ranch Inc entering.
It found for her many new friends • it lost
Inc her one old one; and with the ;enmity
of is woman and the waywardness of a
child abe turned her back on them all, to
grieve and cry out for the unattainable.
Dr. Lennard was everything a rich lady
penitent could expect or desire, bat some-
shing—what ehe could not tell—hed
changed,hira at onae and completely. He
never called her Mies Letty how; he had
ceased to come in when the delicious
twilight was dropping down over the heat
and harry of the long summer day; he
never milked onit with her; he never est
in the shady little parlor and read
favorite bite from his favorite authors, as
he had done in those firsts, never-to-be.for-
gotten daya of her convalescence.
the
etilt
glue
the
nd,
So, weaning all this, the girl had grown
tired of everything, and of herself above
all ; and there were times when, if she
oonld have gone and laid this heavy weight
of gold in the hand that had dropped it es
& curse at her feet, she would have done it,
At others she tried to think of the pleasures
it had procured, and would still proonre,
her father, now getting to be en old man;
when ehe tried to look bravely out on & lonely,
barren, life -track, where her one star should
be the faint glimmer of her father's love,
her only solace the attendance of him.
Some women seem not so much women
as heroines; snob tread the hard path
spread before them with unfaltering step,
and trample down the thorns ander their
feet aunts/it:Mingle,. They live in the
months of men; their names make a light
about them on the pages of history. But
Letty Leigh was not one of them. She
was passionate, and loving, and tender-
hearted ; and the only light she was fitted
to oaat Meant her would be on the faces of
little ohildren in the heart of a gaiet home.
For courage, read love; Inc endurance,
faithfulness ; for heroine, woman; and you
have the picture of Letty Leigh.
Altogether it was not mach wonder that
the thought of strangers just at that par-
ticular time was the reverse of welcome to
her, bat that she kept to laerself, and began
to lavish her love on her father, in the vein
hope that the more she loved him the less
she would grow to love Paul Lennard
Almost the firat question of Mr. Leigh
had been:
" Where's Doctor Lennard 2 "
Mrs. Atherton explained that eince Mr.
Leigh had left for London there seemed to
be no attraction for the doctor at their
quiet little cottage, and he had ceased to
call altogether of late. She looked up
tinder her lashes at Letty as she spoke, and
Laity, meeting the glance, flashed crimson.
"1 wanted to see him," continued Mr.
Leigh. " I Met get him and Captain
Hanker, and Wilkinson, and Dodd, to meet
my friends when they come."
These myaterions friends, whose corning
made such a commotion in the village,
proved to be two exquieitea of the first
water—London water, to be understood.
Thet they were very great gentlemen,
ndeed, no one contel doubt, seeing their
parkling ringe and fashionable costs and
meant (excuse naention of them), which
were surely cat from that f &moue pattern
hat wee designed, so the great artist who
made them explained, to welt about in and
othing Mee. By no mama might the
rimer eit down in them,
The carious ones who watched these
entlemen walking arm in anti through the
Mame in Oonapithee with Mr. Leigh, wore
completely dazzled by Out% fashionable mt.
milleme, and retired in -doors, mutely
wieladering at *he grandeur of Ur. Leigh'a
ommections. Lefty hermit, standing in the
poroh, her straw hat in one hand, leer
trailing drese and the folds of her lace
ehewl caught tap in the ether, felt utterly
&bathed and sheraefaced, ea ehe knew her.
eelf under the observation of a pair of gold.
rimmed eyenglaimes, ostensible, surveying
the flowers, but in reality levelled et her;
and her heart palpitated Morality as she
submitted to t wo soft butterfly preseuree
from pale, straw...colored kida and felt
umueless odor of dietilled weters floating
about her as the gentlemen passed.
Letty knew her father was angry with
her by the cold, measured way he spoke as
the little mtrty turned in -doors, apologizing
for his (Laugher's appearance in delicate,
half -tinted words. elm had known all
along that they were coming that after.
noon ; she he known, too, that her father
expeoteci her to dress her beet and look her
best, and she had intended to do eo purely
to please him; but a trivet, simple thing
served to change the whole ourrent of her
thoughts, and prevented her doing either or
the other.
That morning, standing inthe garden
looking over her flowers, Letty had raised
her heed suddenly to find Dr. Lennard
watching her a short way off up the lane
He Was riding slowly when Mee first saw
him, but, urging his horse into a °enter, he
oarne straight on and stopped at the gate.
Letty's Mae flashed rosily, and her small
hands, not brown now, but like enn-harnt
lily leaves, if such could be imagined, flung
down the flowers she Imel getthered, and
began eagerly to unfasten the gate.
For an inetaut the grave doctor leaned
forward in his saddle, hie stern month
twitahing, a patch ot burning red on e&ola
swallow cheek. If the girl had looked then,
she might have drunk in each is draught of
hive from the fathornlese dark eyes bent
upon her as would have quenched the
thirst of her heart forever ; but she did
not ; she only raised her Mae, still flushed
when he spoke.
"Yon need not trouble to undo the
fasteuing, Miss Leigh, for I lime not time
to come in this morning. I should scarcely
heve ventured on stopping it I had not
seen yon in the garden as I rode by."
The young face darkened ae onoe, the
clear eyes grew troubled, se you might
have aeen the depths ot a tiny lakelet
change tinder the shadow of a storm•cload.
" Your visitors have not arrived yet," he
remarked, as he saw she would not or aould
not speak.
"No," replied Letty; "but they are
coming to -day, and paps expects you will
dine with ne."
"Yes, I know he does," mid the doctor,
ooking away from her towards the sea;
and I am not sure whether I can come or
not."
"He will be very disappointed if you
cannot," mid Letty; she might have added
with Math, "and I, too, shall be cruelly
eliseppointed if you do not."
"Web!, tell him I will do my best to get
here," said he; "but a dootorni time ia not
is own, you know, that he should use it
or his pleasure."
He spoke lightly enough and pleasently,
at he did not eneile, and Letty did not.
"1 shell be still more pressed for time
ext month," he continued. "Doctor
Gmeen thinks of going over to Paris for his
attimn trip, and I shall have is good
umber of his patients to look after in
ddition to my own, while he is away."
"And when will you go away 2 " asked
atty.
"When I feel I want a cheange," he re.
lied ; "005 before. I am as well and
appy as I hope or wish to be in my own
Met way."
He was looking down on her, halt•sed,
watohing the deepening color
n her cheeks and the restless movement of
er flugere. A strange look, it went to her
eert, and made her feel sick and faint
nder the noonday sun, for, as her eyes
et his, ehe knew that her closely guarded
menet was being ruthless looked into; she
15 it through every quivering nerve, bat
he would not submit—she would mei ont
er little useless role of indifference to the
st.
"I am glad you are so content," she said.
15 is not everyone, be they high or low,
ho can say with truth fleet they are as
appy as they wish to be."
" Barely," eaid the doctor, "you are
moeg the few who can say so ? "
"1 am not," she replied, steadily 'and
don't ever expeot to be. I am only a
0123812—and women, you know, are always
shine for something more than they
Vs got."
"Well," said Dr. Lennard, "the next
et thing to being perfectly content es to
wieely ambitions."
He did not look at her as he spoke, but
e felt the warning was meant for her,
d her eyes flashed angrily.
" I hope yon are wise in your ambitions,
iss Leigh," he continued.
" I do not pretend to be ambitions—I am
ly fancituG" she replied, ooldly.
"Only fencifal 2" repeated Dr. Lennard,
nsingly ; " perhape that is so. Well,
ep to year harmless fancying, Miss
igh ; it is the safest."
Raising his hat, he then wished her a
od morning, and rode off, and Letty had
swered with a stiff "good morning," as
e turned and went into the house.
All that forenoon, we are sorry to say,
se Letty was in a very bad temper—so
d that, instead of putting on her most
inning dress, and doing up her thick,
ssy hair, a la mode, to receive her
hero guests, ehe donned a simple muslin,
d leaving her hair twisted up in ite usual
h neeligence, she put on her bat and
nt off for a weak, and it was on her
urn, as she etood tired and (lathed in
porch, that she met shoes formidable
angers. She knew she looked rustic and
, and everything she should nee, on the
ment of introduction, and she knew her
her was angry with her for so doing—
very angry, she hoped, for Mr. Leigh
a in the habit of getting into furious
sions now and then.
t was said ono, when his first wife, the
rem, was living, Mr. Leigh Orrick her
n in the garden with one blow, and left
there, bemuse she angered him by ra-
ng to let hina have more money. That
many years ago, and Letty, of course,
w nothing of it, but Mae knew enough to
that it would not do to cross him too
ch., So ehe went to her room, and mak•
a hasty but most becoming toilet,
oended to the ratlaer late dinner, look.
so fair and fresh that the old man'el
w relaxed, and the yonng gentlemen
red her with a steady stare while they
d up to receive her.
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1887: It is with pleasure that I certify
to the feat of my mother having been cured
of a bad rime ot rheana&tiern by the use of
St. Jacoba Oil, and thin after having tried
other preparation° without avail." Wm H.
We CONNELL,.
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SEVENTH PARLIAMENT
Opening of Parliament --
Parliament wae formally opeued to•det
by Iis Exoelle40Y the GOVerher,Genera
ht 3 O'clOek- 'the attendeneeox tbe flo
of the Senate Cbohlber wail large ail
fl,_1WaYe the eeee et the opening of is he
Parliament, while Mao ganierim we
literally packed. Indeed at au early hen
is large gathering mumbled at the Sena
entrance, of those who were provide
with tioketa for the galleriee t
look down upon the red obam
her beneath, where sat iu low
necked dress the wives, the dattSbtere an
She Mende aed reletives of Members 0
Parliament and Senators, in addition t
She favored few whom Hr. Uoher of th
Mai k Rod may ohonee to select.
Lord Staidey as initial wite enrrounde
by the judges ot the Supreme Court i
their soarlet robes anti the representative
of the militia in their gay attire. Th
scene was ta pretty one indoecl au He
111ajeaty'a representative delivered th
speenh, fire, in English and the
in Frenoh, to the faithful COlnitnell
at the bar ot the Member. Returning t
the COMmonki the lionae adjourned until
to.noorrow, when the discueeion on th
addreaa mil take place. Outside th
buildings there was an immense gathering
and tile ocoupants of the Vioe. Regal oar
riage were cheered on their way to an
trona Rideau Hall,
Prim:leas Louise Dragoon Catania eupplied
an escort to His Excellency and the Gov
ernor.General'a Foot Guards provided a
guard of honor. The weather was exoel
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SPEE011 1011011 VIE TIMONE.
Hon. Gentlemen of the Senate:
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
I am glad to welcome you to the duties of the
first session of a now Parliament, which I hope
will be memorable for ajar:deliberations and for
measures adapted to the progress and develop-
ment 05 050 Dominion. rhe session in which
you are assembled has opened auspiciously for
the industries of our people. Let us hope that
their labors may be crowned with fruitful re-
turns from le.nd and sea and that the great
resources of Canada may continue to reward the
toil and enterprise of its inha,biumts.
nEoLrEocuTy NEGOTIATIONS.
My advisers, availing themselves of opportuni-
ties which were presented in the closing months
of last year caused to be shown the willingness
of the Government of Canada to join in making
efforts for the extension and development of
the trade between the Republic and the Domin-
ion, as well as for the friendly adjustment of
those matters of an international character
which remain unsettled. I am pleased to say
that these representati.las have resulted in an
assurance that in October next the Government
of the United States will be prepared to enter
on a conference to cmsider the best moans of
arriving at a practical solution of these im-
portant questions. The papers relating to this
subject will be laid before you. Under these
circutnetances, and in the hope that the pro-
posed conference may result in arrangements
beneficial to both countries, you will be called
upon to consider the expediency of extending,
for the present season, tho principal provisions
of the protocol annexed to the Washington
treaty of 1888, known as the modus vivendi,
TEE CATTLE TRADE.
A disposition having been manifested in the
United Kingdom to impose on sea -going ships
engaged in the cattle trade iucreased safeguards
for life and greater restrictions agaiost improper
treatment, it careful inquiry has been made as
to the incidents of that trade in so far as this
country it, concerned. While I am glad to learn
that our shippnag is free from reteoach in that
regard, your attention will be invited to a tneas-
are which will retnove all reasonable apprehen-
sion of abuses arising in the future in connec-
tion e,ith so important a branch of our
commerce.
JuilISOloTION or mAlliTimE COUILTS.
The early coming into force of the Imperial
statute relating to the Vice -Admiralty Courts of
the Empire has made it necessary to revise the
laws .n force in Canada respecting our courts of
maritime jurisdiction, and a measure will there-
fore be aid before you designed to reorganize
these tribunals.
onimiNAL Lew CODE.
A code of criminal law has been prepared in
oyder that that branch of our jurisprudence may
be simplioed and improved, to which your beat
'attention is invited.
misoELLANEOus AtEAsUREs.
Measures retating to tne foreshores of the
Dominion and to the obatruction of its navigable
waters will be submitted to you and you will
also be asked to consider amendments to the
acts relating to the Northwest Territories, to the
kxchequer Court Act and to the acts relating to
the ttadesmarks.
TEE FINANCES.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
The accounts for the past year will be sub-
mitted to you. The revenue, after prove:11°g
for the ,ervices to which you appropriated it,has
left a surp UB for the works which yu designed
to be carried on by capital exp-nditure. The
estimates for the coming year will belaid before
you at an early date.
ELEsS You, My muLDREN.
Hon. Gentlemen of tho Senate:
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
I pray that in the consideration of toes° mat-
ters and io the performance of all the labors
which wit devolve uoon'you, your deliberations
may be eivinely aided, and that your wisd
and patriotism may enlarge the prosperity of
the Dominion and promote in every way the
well -bows of its people.
gar. Speaker laid on the table the certifi-
cate of the election of Mr. Smarted for
Chiaoutimi.
Mr. Hazen, on rising to move the address
in reply ect the Speech from the Throne,
craved the indulgence of the House as is
young and inexperienced member. It was
pleasum to know that the sesame had
opened auspiciously, and the* the prospeces
of tlae farmers were good. The policy of
the Governtsient had added wonderfully to
the growth of the country and its fame
abroad. It was pleasing to know that the
advisors of Her Majesty had reminded the
neighboring Repubeic of her willingness to
join with there in developing trade between
the two countries. (Hear, hear.) In doing
this the Government had been Amply
following out the policy they initiated
in '79. It must be gratifying to the Home
to know that the time had been fixed
when the tionferenee would be held for
She purpose of amicably dealing with
all the met ters in dispute. That
conference wonld be awaited with great
intemet by the people of the continent. He
would content himself with expressing the
opinion *het when the accounts of the past
year were leid before the House it would
be found hem our finances are in a healthy
condition. There was a earplas to be
(tarried to capital amount, and now that
the greet question of trunk linee and canals,
had been completed, and that tlae greatest
expenditure for pablio work e had been
nude, that would probably have to be made
for half a century, the increase of expendi-
tures in future years would not he more
then the inOrciftee of population would bear
without burdening the taxpayers of the
country. By one ocoapying a prominent
position in the polities,' life of this
country (Sir Rioneird Cartwright), the
people of the Maritime Provinces
had been grossly inanIted, unfairly deal*
with, and Spoken of in a way not
conentent with foots. This applied also
to Manitoba, the Northwest Territories
and British Columbia. Ho wished to say,
standing before the hon. gentleman, that
the pecmle of the Marititne ProVinces and
the people of New Branewiols had just as
muoh regard for prinoiple and for right as
the hon. gentleman who spoke of them an
if they were dirt beneath his mighty feet.
The people in St. John and in New Brum-
wit& were asked if they were in favor of
Mweetriotect reciprooity and the results of
that policy, or were they in favor of
attempting to obtain a modified form of
reciprocity, Still meintaining and still
aheriehing Britieh connection. That wen
Wi 121 ko. no (111%1)f:441°1i' intiell 111 liitetta ill" 0 NO Geew totBUtuhae.
EtelbeTrivetrndl::era'
mentfor otim:e;lorOf hinMhaomoveTsdoireytithe
oPeeoh from the throne,
Mr. Corbouldi on rising *0 secOnd *he
addree0, expressed his aPPreoletion of the
honor conferred on him by the Government
in malting him to du au. He notioed 50 150
rGe letveillrhd° ten:Putt thHaqi f11 tEh%hI e<IGe OU" ell (311r tY° !heat 1845t i°011710"atdt Zo at ibh tie°
wore willing to twee negotiations Inc Mew
ce110 enoteriy0.11 nof tionuarcitaf loci; iirho le ion831 6 wth years had aa
wheithhute
eei tryeing:ioodshtititlettie2.i
oeetieLfftewetOrkYs Sceaby
awsre
that Canada wee very prooperom under the.
treaty of 1854, so mach so that the Govern.
ment of the United Metes thought it proper
to do away with the meaty. Canitele had
&lemma been really to enter 11170 5 meetly
upon the tonne of the troaey of 1854, but
ell her offers have been retailed by the
Washington Government tipon Some pre-
text or Pretence.
Mr. Laurier oongrataleted the hon.
eentlenaen fpr the &billet, with which they
had moved and amended the addreas.
While he approved of the manner of their
speeches, he regretted that lee could not
endoree the naatter. It had been said that
in former yeers SpeoChee from the fltrone
were oharnmerized as shining chiefly
because of onaissiona. The present speech
bristled with omisoinne. So far there had
never been any EXplanntion from re-
sponsible Ministers au to why Parliament
lied been dissolved. T50 Speech from tha
Throne gave no intimation of theme
reesome and no reference Was made to the
repeal of the Frenchise Ant, the uteless-
nese of which heal been demonetrieted,
since the election could be held without
is revision of tbe voters' list. He failed to
see any reference to the (amendment to
She eleotorad baw so as to prevent the out-
rageous frauds which had characterized
the late election, or any reference
to the conveyance of Cemeadian malls
to Europe. For the last forty years
oer mails had been cerried in Canadian
be .tome. Towlety the mils of this
loyal °centre. Immo carried through the
United States to the city of New York.
He denounced the Pastroaster-Generel art
a traitor, whether veiled or unveiled, he
peoniauldeen.:* say, bat he denounced hira to all
loyal men and true. (Laughter and ap-
Sir John Macdonald mid he heel listened
with great intermit to the speciah of Ur.
Laurier. It was chareeeterizeci for ha elo-
quence, felieity of lenatiege, and happineee
of expreseion, bat there watt a tone of
bitterness mud ex&operat'ou not usual in
his speeclees. If there ever WAS a party
disappointed, if there ever Wail an hon.
member or public man disappointed in the
result of the lam election it woe Mr.
Laurier. The certainty which he hied 11.12
day. Mr. Leerier knew perfectly well
that the propriety or impropriety of the
dissolution was not to be diaouseed by the
House. The prerogative of the Crown was
admitted. Of course where dissolution
Wee threatened, and Perliament was eating,
there could 505 remonetrence against the
proposal, but when once prorogation had
taken place, the prerogative of the Crown
was admitted without remerk. The whole
tenor of modern Parliamentary dtsoipline
was that an appeal to the people WW1
alwaye in order. Mr. Leader had stated
that hie (Sir John's) languege at Halifax
was unfriendly and irnpaiitio to the Gov-
ernment of the United States. He ad-
hered to every word he had said. He said
the United States was it great nation, and
will be a great nation, but he had spoken
in the same sense as the beet and ablest
and most patriotic °hieing in the United
States now spoke. The Uaited States,
whose citizens were a patriotic people, had
to come through difficaltiee inoidental to
all young denaocractiee. The United States
we,s in great danger, and Mae people were
writing and using their beet intelleats for
the purpose of freeing the nation of the
dangers of maisliem, anarchism, atheism,
and Canada was not beeet by any of them
danger°. Ile had nothing to take back of
what he had said at Halifax, and he could
tell Mr. Laurier that he had had the sym.
pathy and sapport of great men in the
United States. He could only say with
reepeot to the statement that it was a
Pyrrhic viatory that the Conservative
party were satiefied. He ought to be satis-
fied, beaease at the end of thin Parliament:
if he lived, he would be 82 years of agmand
he could only say that we were going to
last for that time unless we dissolved. He
complimented the mover and amender of
the reealation.
Pensive and Expensive.
Many is woman ehrinks from elongating
a physician about faeotional derangements
and weaknees, and prefers to stiffer in
silence. She is sad and pensive, and her
neglect of her ailments will prove expensive.
It may cost her her life. One of the moat
skilful physicians of the day, who has had
& vast experience in oaring dieessee peculiar
to women, has prepared a remedy which in
of inestimable aid to them. We refer to
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the only
remedy for woman's p,ecaliar weaknesses
and ailments, sold by druggists, under a
positive guarantee from the menufaciturere
that it will give satisfaction in every case,
or money refanded.
lafow to Wash the Hair.
For washing the hair, semi The Ladiee
Home Journal, a small piece of kitchen soap
put in very hot water until a thick white
ends is achieved, la beat. Use this first
water to cut out the duet, and, atter that,
.waide the soapy water ont of it thoroughly
with clear water that should be very hot,
holding your head over a begin and letting
it be poured from a small pitcher. Dry the
hair first wibh towels, and then do not
braid it while it is damp, but have it either
fanned until it is dry, or if possible, stay in
your room and let it hang loose mail it is
free from all moisture. Do not be induced
under any circumstances to use a fiae math
upon it ; it is death and deattuction to the
hair and not good for the ecalpl If *here
are obstinate spots of dandruff, rnb in a
little timeline and breath that place well the
next morning.
Not a Miracle, Now.
Until recently Consumption WAS con-
sidered incur/able, bat now people are
beginning to realize that the disease is nob
incurable. The career Coostimptionis not
a miracle, now. Dr Pierce's Golden Med-
ical Discovery will oare it, if taken in time,
and given a balmiest. Tina world•renowned
remedy will not make new lunge, but it wilt
restore diseased ones to a healthy state
when other means have failed. Thoneands
gratefully testify to this. It is the most
potent tonic, or strengthmestorer, alterative,
or blood.cleanser, and nutritive, Or flesh -
builder, known to ?medical potence- For
Weak Lange, Spitting of Blood, Liver
Complaint end leyripepsia, or Indigestion,
ia an unequaled remedy.
—Have men more pride than women
Howerd nye that "it ire en interesting
ace question raieed by the fent that while
white women very often merry blaok men
in vary rare that a whiM Man marries *
lack woman."
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