HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-1, Page 2For esiseeureged Farmer.
(By Jae. Whitcomb 11110Y),
The summer winds is round the bloorain
locustrees,
Alid the clover in Ow pastor' is a big day or
the bees.
And bey' s been a SNF-iggite honey above board
and on the sly,
Till they stutter in their buzzin' and stagger as
they fly.
They's been a heap o' rain, but the sun's (nit
to -day,
And the clouds of the wet spell is all cleared,
And tigas4ode is all the greener and the grass
is greener still ;
It may rain again tonierry, but 1 don't think it
will.
Some say the erops is ruined, and the °ern's
dr oweed, out,
And prophesy the wheat will be a failure with-
out doubt;
But the kind Providence that has never failed
us yet
Will be on hone one't more at the levonth
hour, I bet!
Doee the meadow lark complain as he swims
high anddry
Through the waves of the wind and the blue of
_ the sky?
Does tee quail set up and whistle in a disap-
pointed way,
Er hang his head in silence and sorrow allithe
day?
Is the chipmunk's health a failure? Does he
walk or does he run
Don't the buzzards ooze around up there, just
like they've anus done?
Is then) anything the matter with the roost
ex"s lungs or voice 7
Ort a mortal be complainin' when dumb an.-
imals rejoice
Then let us,oue and all, be contented with our
lot ;
The June is here this morning, and the sun is
shinin' hot.
012, lotus till our hearts with the glory of the
day,
And banish ev'ry doubt and care and sorrow
far away 1
Whatever be our station, with Providence for
guide,
For fine ommustances ort to make us satis-
fied.
For the world is full of roses and the roses full
of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips
for me and you.
THE SISTERS
CHAPTER MUM
HISTORY BEPEATS ITSELF.
Be was talkina to Patty and Eleanor in
the garden whenElisabethwentout to him,
looking cool and colonial in a silk coat anal.
a solar tepee. The girls were chatting
Very cheerfelly did Mr. Yelverton come
forward to greet his beloved, albeit a little
moved with the sentiment of the occasion.
He had parted froun her in a ball -room, with
a halfspoken confession of --something that
he knew all about quite as well as he did
—on his lips: and he had followed her now
to say the rest, and to hear what she had
to reply to it. This was perfectly under-
stood by both of them, as they shook hands,
with a little conventional air of unexpected-
ness, and. he told. her that he had come at
Mrs. Duff -Scott's orders.
"She could not rest," he said, gravely,
"until she was sure that you had found
pleasant quarters, and were comfortable.
She worried about you --and so she sent me
"It was troubling you too much," Eliza-
beth murmured, evading his direct eyes,
quite unable to hide her agitation from him.
"You say that from politeness, I sup-
pose? No, it was not troubling me at all
—quite the contrary. I ani delighted with
my trip. And I am glad," he concluded,
dropping his voice, "to see the place where
you were brought up. This was your home,
was it not ?" He looked. all round him.
"It • was not like this when we were
here," she replied. "The house was old
then—now it is new. They have done it
They reached high land after a while,
whence, looking back, they saw the other
buggy crawling towards them a mile or two
away, and, looking forward, saw, beyond a
green and wild foreground, the brilliant sea
again, with a rocky cape jutting out into it,
sprinkled with a few white houses on its
landward shoulder—a scene that was too
beautiful, on such a moraing, to be disre-
garded. Here the girl sat at ease, while the
horses took breath, thoroughly appreciating
her opportunities; wondering, not what
Mr. Yelverton was doing or was going to
do, but how it was that she had never been
this way before. Then Mr. Brion turned
and drove down the other side of the hill,
and exclaimed:" Here we are !" in triumph.
"Where are the caves ?" she inquired—
to Mr. Brion's intense gratification.
"Ali, where are they ?" he retorted,
enjoying his little joke. Well, we have
just been driving over them."
But the mouth, I mean
" Oh, the mouth—the mouth is here.
We were very nearly drivin over that too.
But well have lunch first, my dear, before
we investigate the caves—if it's agreeable
to you. I will take the horses out, and
we'll find a nice place to camp before they
come.
Presently the other buggy climbed over
the ridge and, down into the hollow; and
Mr. Yelverton beheld Elizabeth kneeling
amongst the bracken fronds, with the
dappled sun and shade on her bare head
and her blue cotton gown, busily trying to
spread a table -cloth on the least uneven
piece of ground that she could find, where it
lay like a miniature snow -clad landscape,
all hills except where the dishes weighed it
to the earth. He hastened to help her as
soon as he had, lifted Patty and. Eleanor
from their seats.
"You are making yourself hot," he said,
with his quiet air ot authority and proprie-
torship. "You sit down and let me lo it.
I am quite used to cothnlissexiat business,
and can set a table beautifully." He took
some tumblers from her hand and lookint
into her agitated• face, said suddenly, "
could not help coming, Elizabeth—I could
not leave it broken off like that ---I wanteel
to know why you ran away from me—and
Mrs. Deff-Scott, gave me leave. You will
let me talk to you presently ?"
"Oh, not now --not now 1" she replied in
• a hurried, low tone, turning her head from
side to side. "1 must have time to
think—"
"Time to think 1" he repeeted, with just
a touch of reproach in his grave surprises
• And he put down the tumblers earefully,
got up, and walked away. Upon which,
Elizabeth, reacting violently from the
mood in which she had received him, had an
agonizing fear that ho would impute her
inclecisimi to want of love for hire or in-
sensibility to his love for her—though till
now thet had seemecl an impossibility. In
a few minutes he returned svith her sisters
and, Mr. Brion, all bearing dishes and bot-
tles, end buggy mishions and rugs ; and,
when the luncheon was ready and the groom
had retired to feed and water his horsee, she
lifted her eyes to her tall lover's face with
look that he understood far better than she
• did. He quietly catee round from the log
tee which he had been about Id seat himself
• arid laid. his long limbs on the sand and
bracken ab her side.
What Will you have ? " he asked carc-
lesaly roast beef and salad or chicken
p10?• I can recommend the selad, Whites
has travelled remarkidele well," And all
the time he was looking at her with happy
contentment, a little smile under his red
moustache ; and her heart Was beating so
that else could not answer
When the sylvan meal was euded, and
the unsightly remnants cleared away, the
two Ince sleeked. a soothing cigarette under
the trees, while the girls teckea up their
cleat gowns a little aud tied hendltereniefs
over their heads, and then, Mr. Brion,
armed with matches and a pound of cendlea
marchea them off to see the caves. He tooe
them but a little way from where they had
camped, aud disclosed in the hillside what
looked like a good-eized wombat or rabbit
hole. "Now, you stay here while I go and
light up e bit," he said, impressively, and
isa straightaway slid down and dissepeared
into the hole. They steeped and peered
after him, and saw a rather muddy narrow
shaft slanting down into the earth, through
which the human adult could enly pass
"end on." The girls were rather dismayed
at the prospect.
" It is a case of faith," said Mr. Yelver-
ton. " We must trust oueselves to Mr.
Brion entirely or give it up."
" We will trust Mr. Brion," spiel Eliza-
beth.
A few minutes later the old man's voice
was heard from below. "Now, come along.
Just creep down for a step or two, and I
will reaoh your hand. Who is coining
first ?"
They looked at each other for a moment,
and Patty's quick eye caught something
froin Mr. Yelvertords. " I will go first,"
she said ; "and you can follow me, Nelly."
And down she went, half sliding, half sit-
ting, and when nearly out of sight
stretched up her arm to steady her sister.
"It's all right," she cried ; "there's plenty
of room. Come along 1"
When they had both disappeared, Mr.
Yelverton took Elizabeth's unlighted candle
from her hand and put it into his pocket.
"There is no need for you to be
bethered with that," one will do for us."
And he let himself a little way down the
shaft, and put up his hand to draw her
after him.
Groping along hand, in hand, they
came to a chasm that yawned,
bridgeless, across their path. It
was about three feet wide, and perhaps
It was not much deeper, but it looked
like the bottomless pit, and was very
terrifying. Bidding Elizabeth to wait
where she was, Mr. Yelverton
leaped over by himself, and, dropping some
tallow on a boulder near him, fixed his
candle to the rock. Then he held out his
arms and called. her to come to him.
For a moment she hesitated, knowing
what awaited her, and then she leaped
blindly, fell a little short, and knocked the
candle from its insecure socket into the gulf
beneath her. She uttered a sharp cry as
she felt herself falling, and the next instant
found herself draeaged up in her lover's
strong arms, and folded with a savage ten-
derness to his breast. This time he held
her as if he did not mean to let her go.
"Hush 1—you are quite safe," he whis-
pered to her in the pitch darkness.
CHAPTER XXXII'.
THE DRIVE HOME.
An hour later they had reached the shore
again, and were in sight of the headland and
the smoke from the kitchen chimney of
Seaview Villa. and in sight of their com-
panions dismounting at Mr. Brion's garden
gate. They had not lost themselves, though
they had taken so little heed of the way.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
SUSPENSE.
• Mr. Brion stood at his gate when the
little buggy drove up, beammg with con-
tentment and hospitality. He respectfully
begged that Mr. Yelverton would grant.
them the favor of his company a little
longer—would takes pot -luck and smoke an
evening pipe before he returned to his hotel
in the town, whither he, Mr. Brion, would
be only too happy to drive him. Mr. Yel-
verton declared, and with perfect truth,
that nothing would give him greater
pleasure. Whereupon the hotel servant
was dismissed incharge of the larger vehicle,
and the horses of the other were put into
the stable. The girls went in to wash and
dress, and the housekeeper put forth his
best efforts to raise the character of the
dinner from the respectable to the genteel
in honor of a guest who was presumably
accustomed to genteel dining.
They descended the steep and perilous
footpath zig-zagging down the face of the
cliff, with the confidence of young goats, and
reaching the little bathing -house, sat down
on the threshold. The tidewas high, and
the surf seething within a few inches of the
bottom stop of the short ladder up and down
which they had glided bare-footed daily for
so many years. The fine spray damped their
faces ; the salt sea -breezes fanned them de-
liciously. Patty put her arms impulsively
round her sister s neck.
• "Oh, Elizabeth," she said, "1 am soglad
for you—I am so glad ! It has crossed my
mind several times, but I was never sure of
it till to -day, and I wouldn't say anything
until I was sure, or until you told nie
yourself."
"My darling," said Elizabeth, respond-
ing to the caress, "don't be sure yet. I am
not sure."
"You are not ? " exclaimed Patty, with
derisive energy. "Don't try to make me
believe you are a born idiot, now, because I
know you too well. Why, a baby in arms
could see it 1"
"I see it, dear, of course ; both of us see
it. We understand each other. But—but I
don't know yet whether I shall accept him,
Patty."
"Don't you ? " responded Patty. She
had taken her arms from her sister's neck,
and was clasping her knees with them in a
most unsympathetic attitude. "'Do you
happen to know whether you love him,
Elizabeth'i"
"Yes," whispered Elizabeth, blushing in
the darkness ; I know that."
"And whether he loves you ? "
yes.o
"01 course you do. You can't help
knowing it. Nobody could. • And if," pro-
ceeded Patty sternly, fixing the fatuous
countenance of the man in the moon with a
baleful eye, "if, under those circumstances,
you don't accept him, you deserve to be a
miserable, lonely woman all the rest of your
wretched life. That's my opinion if you ask
me for it."
Elizabeth looked at the sea in tranquil
contemplation for a few seconds. Then -she
told Pattythe story of her perplexity from
the beginning to the end.
"Now, what would You do ?" she finally
asked of her sister, who had listened with
the utmost interest and intelligent myin-
Neely. "11 it were your own case, my
darling, and you wanted to do what was
right, how would you decide ?"
Well, Elizabeth," said Patty, "I'll tell
you the truth. I should not stop to think
whether it was right or wrong."
"Patty 1"
" No. A year ago I would not have said
so—a year ago I Might, heve been able to
give you the verybest advice. But new—
but now "—the girl stretched out her hands
with the pathetic gesture that Elizabeth
had seen and been struck with once before
—" now, if it were my own case, T should
take the man I loved, no meteor what he
was, if he would take me."
Elieebetli heaved a long sigh from the
bottom of her troubled heart, She felt that
Patty, to whom she had looked for helialiad
made her burden of responsibility heavier'
instead of lighten "Let us go up to the
hoes° again,' she said wearily. There is
need to decide tceeight."
When they roweled the house they found
kileanor gone to bed, and the gentlemen sit-
ting on the veranda together, still talking
of Mr. Yelverton's familyhistory, in which
the lawyer was profeseionally interested.
The horses were in the little beegy, which
stood at the gate.
"Ali, i
here theyare !" BARI Mr. Brion.
" Yolverton s waiting to say good-
night, my dears, He has to settle at the
Wel, and go on board to -night.
• Patey bade her potential brother-in-law
an affectionate farewell, and then vanished
into her bedroom. The old man bustled off
at her heels, under pretence of speeking to
the lad•of-all-work who held the horses ;
and Elisabeth and her lover WM left for n
brief interval alone.
"You will not keep me in suspense longer
than you cau help, will you ?" Mr, Yelver-
ton said, holding her hands. " Won't a
week be long enough ?"
"Yes," she said; "1 will decide in a
week."
"And may I come back to you here, to
learn my fate? Or will you come to Mel-
bourne to me?"
"Had I not better write ?"
"No. Certainly not."
"Then I will come to you," she said.
He drew her to him and kissed her fore-
head gravely. "Good -night, my love," he
said. "You will , be my love, whatever
happens."
And so he departed to the township,
accompanied by his hospitable host, and she
went miserable to bed. .And at the first
pale streak of dawn the little steamer sounded
her whistle and pulled away from the little
jetty, carrying him back to the world, and
she stood on the cliff, a mile away from Sea -
view Villa, to watch the last whiff of stroke
from its funnels fade like a breath upon the
horizon.
CHAPTER XXX.V.
HOW ELIZABETH MADE UP HER MIND.
When they were gone, the house was
very still for several hours. Elizabeth sat
on the verandah, sewing and thinking, and
watching the white sail of "The Rose in
June" through a telescope; then she had
her lunch brought to her on S white-
napkined tray; after eating which
in solitude she went back to her
seeving,aud thinking and watching again. So
4 o'clock—the fateful hour—drew on. At a
little before 4 Mr. Brion came home, hot
and dusty from his long walk, had a bath
and changed his clothes, and sat down to
enjoy himself in his arm-ohair. Mrs. Harris
brought in the afternoon tea things, with
some newly -baked cakes; Elizabeth put
down her work and seated herself at the
table to brew the refreshing cup. Then
home came Patty and Eleanor, happy and i
hungry, tanned and draggled, and n the
gayest temper, having been sailing Sara's
boat for him all the day and generally
roughing it with great ardour. They
were just in time for the tea and cakes,
and sat down as they were, with hats tilted
back on their wind -roughened heads, to
regale themselves therewith.
When Patty was in the middlelsof her
third cake she suddenly remeinbered some-
thing. She plunged her hand into her
pocket and drew forth a. small object. It
was as if one touched the button of that
wonderful electrical apparatus whereby the
great ships that are launched by princesses
are sent gliding out of the dock into the sea.
"Look," she said, opening her hand care-
fully, "what he has given me. It is a
Queensland opal. A mate of his, he says,
gave it to him, but I have a terrible sus-
picion that the dear fellow boughtit. Mates
don't give such things for nothing. Is it
not a beauty ?"—and she hel
thumb and finger a silky -looking flattened
stone, on which, when it caught the light, a
strong blue sheen was visible. "1 shall
have it cut and made into something when
we go back to town, and I shall keep it for-
ever, in memory of Sam Dunn," said Patty
with enthusiasm.
And then when they had all exerained
and appraised. it thoroughly, she carried it
to the mantelpiece, intending to place it
there in safety until she went to her own
room. But she had no sooner laid it down,
pushing it gently up to the wall, than there
was a little click and a faint rattle, and it
was gone.
"Oh," she exclaimed, "what shall I do?
It has fallen behind the mantelpiece! I
quite forgot that old hole—and it is there
still. Surely," she continued, angrily,
stamping her foot, "when Mr. Hawkins
took the trouble to do all this "—and she
indicated the surface of the Woodwork,
which had been painted in a wild and
ghastly imitation of marble—"he might
have token a little more and. fixed the thing
close up to the wall?"
"Ah," said the old man, "we must hunt
it from top to bottom—we must break it
into pieces, if necessary. I will telegraph
to Paul. We must go to town at once, my
dears, and investigate this matter—before
Mr. Yelverton leaves the country."
(TO be continued.)
Member of the Legislature.
In addition to the testimony of the GoV-
ernor of the State of Maryland, U. S. A. a
member of the Maryland Legislature, lion.
Wm. C. Harden testifies as follows: "746
Dolphin St., Balto., Md., U.S.A., Jan. 18,
1890. Gentlemen: I met with a devere
accident by falling down the back stairs of
myresidence, in the darknees, and was
bruised badly in my hip and side, and suf-
fered severely. One and a half bottle of St.
Jacobs Oil completely cured me. WM. C.
HARDEN," Member of State Legislature
Things Worth ReMCHIbCrillg.
It is well to remember --
That every promise is a debt.
That the average man about town is a
huge bore.
That it's no disgrace to be poor, but
mighty inconvenient.
That ehildren hear more than grown folks
gave them credit for.
That the men who smokes cigarettes is
not necessarily brainless.
That the poetry of a girl's feet usually
does not mate with the prosaic hoofs of her
father.
That the girl of the period knows more
than her grandfather—for her grandmother
—is deed. —Music and Drama.
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absolutely stnaller than the largest satellite
of Jupiter, Saturn's satellite, Titan, or the
satellite of Neptune ; hut compared with
the Earth, which is a small plena (in com-
parison with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or
Neptune), it must be considered as really
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deserving, to rank rather as a email planet
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THE HAMILTON MIRACLE,
The Case Investigated by a
Globe Reporter.
and looking as happy and light-hearted as
upon her wedding day, welcomed her
visitor and appeared delighted to have the
opportunity of telling frankly and fully—
while awaiting Mr. Marshall's return—what
Dr. William' Pink Pills had done for her
husband.
"It was a happy day for me," she said,
"when Mr. Marshall tried Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. Look at all these things we
THE FACTS FULLY VERIFIED1 bought, hoping they would cure him," and
the good lady turned with an armful of
straps and tacklings of all kinds. There
One of the Meet Remarkable was a combination of harness and attach -
Oases ments of leather used for the "suspensory
treatment" by wino the crippled man was
On Record. 0 hung in the barn by his body with his feet
but a few inches from the floor. There were
enough belts, bandagesssupporters and soles
to set up a good-sized etore. Then Mrs.
Marshall showed a collection of crutches
and sticks which her husband had used.
The whole collectiou was a large and re-
markable one.
Mrs. Marshall showed a letter received
that day from New York State, in which
was a query similar to many that had pre-
viously been received by Mr. Marshall,
" Write me if it is a fact or only an adver-
tisement."
"Here's a bundle of letters," said Mrs.
Marshall, showing about a hundred letters
tied together, "that my husband has re-
ceived during the past two weeks, and I
can tell you he is only too glad to answer
all the letters cheerfully and readily, for
he is anxious to give all the information‘ he
can to others suffering as he did." A firm
step here was heard at the gate and in a
moment a sturdy, healthy -looking man of
middle age, with glowing black side whisk-
ers and ruddy, pleasant features stepped
into the room. It was Mr. Marshall, who
gave no indication of ever having been a
sick man, suffering from ataxy. When the
reporter's mission was explained, Mr.
Marshall's face lighted up with a smile,
which caused a responsive one to rise upon
the features of his wife, and he expressed
his perfect willingness to tell all that was
asked of him.
"Why, I feel a better man now than I
did ten years ago," said he, cheerfully.
"It's four years next August since I did a
day's work, but I guess I can soon make a
start again. • .About my illness It was all
caused through falling and hurting my back.
I kept getting worse until I couldn't get
off a chair without a stick or crutches.
The lower part of my body and legs were
useless. 1 tried every doctor and every
patent medicine, spending hundreds of
was the special mission of a Globe reporter a dollars. Everything that was likely to
few elays ago.
help me I got, but I might as well have
r
thrown it in the bay. I suppose my wife
A close Inquiry into the circumstances
first showed that Mr. John Marshall, has shown you the apparatus I used at one
whose residence is 25 Little William street, time or another. A dozen city. doctors
off Barton street, in the northeast portion gave me up. I got enough electric shocks
of the city, while employed as foreman for tor half a dozen men, but they did me no
the anan fi
good. I lost control of my bowels and
CdiaOil Company, ve years ago
A Man Pronounced by Eminent Physicians
Permanently Disabled Fully Recovers
--Fac-sindie of the Cheque for $1,000
Paid by Royal Tempters of Temperance
for Total Disability—Hundreds of Vis-
itors.
TORONTO DAILY GLOBE, July 25.—This is
an age of doubt; especially in regard to
cures by patent medicines, and not without
reason, for too often have the sick and their
near and dear beloved ones been deceived by
highly recommended nostrums that were
swallowed to be of less avail than as much
water. The old, old fable of the boy and
the wolf applies also too frequently to
many of the specific concoctions for curing
the ills that flesh is heir to; and when a
real cure is effected by a genuine remedy
those who might be benefited fight shy of
it, saying "it was 'cure, cure' so often before
that I won't tay it." When such a state of
affairs exists it is • advisable that assurance
should be made doubly sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and almost
miraculous cure was made known to Cana-
dians through the medium of the Hamilton
newspapers. It was stated that Mr. John
Marshall, a well-known resident of Hamil-
ton, by the aid of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People, had been snatched from
the very jaws of death, placed upon his feet
and enabled to mingle with his fellow -
citizens with more than renewed health and.
strength and even brighter spirits than he
had experienced for years before. This
remarkable statement naturally excited the
wonder of alniost a continent. Some
believed, most people doubted, although
the facts were placed so clearly as to ward
off the slightest suspicion of fraud. To
investigate the very extraordinary cure and
place before the people of Canada and the
United States verification or otherwise of it
fell upon the edge of an oil vat and hur;
his back. Thinking little of the affair, Mr.
Marshall continued to work on, but after a
few months he became ill, gradually got
worse and in August, four years ago, be-
came stricken with that dread disease,
locomotor ataxy—a disease attacking the
nerves and rendering that portion cf the
system attacked perfectly helpless, pro-
claimed by the physicians to be incurable—
which left him from the waist downwards
without feeling, and utterly unable to move
his lower limbs. All he was able to do was
to raise himself by the aid of sticks and
crutches and drag himself around the house,
and occasionally to the corner of the E•ktreet
on fine days. His legs were 'with-
out feeling, pins and even knives
were stuck mto them without the sick Man
experiencing any inconvenience. He could
take a walking stick and • beat his legs until
the blows resounded through the house and
yet he felt nothing. During all these years
of torture Mr. Marshall consulted every
doctor of ability in the city ; tried every
form of treatment and took almost every
kind of patent medicine, but without receiv-
ing one tittle of relief. The agony was fre-
quently so intense that he was obliged to
take morphine pills in order to receive a
reasonable amount of sleep.
As the months and years pasted by, al-
though the doctors continued to treat him
in various ways, they plainly told the
suffering man that he could not get better,
the disease was set down in the works of
specialists as incurable. The doomed man
was a member of United Empire Council,
No. 190, Royal Templars of Temperance,
and under the discouraging circumetances
he thought it advisable to apply for the
payment of the total disability claim of
$1,000, allowed by the order on its insur-
ance policy. Application was accordingly
made, but before the chum vvas granted the g f. •
patient had to offer conclusive proof of his W. W. Buchanan, general manager, and one
water and couldn't sleep without morphine.
During the day my legs were cold and. I had
to sit by the stove wrapped in a blanket,
suffering intense agony from nervous pains
in the legs, neck and head. Yes, I received
from the Royal Templars a $1,003 cheque,
being declared totally unable to follow my
employment. One day in April I took a
notion to try Dr. Willia,ms' Pink Pills,
carefully following the directions accom-
panying each box. Why, in three days I
got relief and kept on mending. I threw
away the morphine pills and the crutches
I recovered my appetite and regained con-
trol of my bowels 8,nd water, and I went on
getting better and stronger, and now you
see me stronger and more healthy than I
was for years before I was taken ill. I tell
you am feeling first-class," and Mr.
Marshall slapped hie legs vigorously and
gave the lower part of his back a good
thumping, afterwards going up and down
the room at a lively gait.
"1 weigh 160 pounds to -day," he con-
tinued, "and I've gained 30 pounds since I
first took Dr. Williams'Pink Pills. I haven't
such a thing as a. pain or ache about me,
and another thing, I can walk as easily in
the dark as in the light."
Mr. Marshall offered to make an affidavit
to the truth of the above story, but the
reporter considered that wholly unnecessary.
He carried conviction to the inquirer's
mind by every word and action, and there
was no gainsaying the fact that the cure
was one of the most marvellous in the nine-
teenth, century. All the neighbors bore
testimony to the genuineness of the cure.
None of them ever expectecl to see Mr. Mar-
shall onUiis feet again and regarded his
restoratfen to health as nothing short of
marvellous.
• The headquarters of the Royal Tempters
of Temperance for Canada are in Hamilton.
At bbe bl' h' h f thed M
total disability to the chief examiner, and
Mr. Marshall was Saab to Toronto for a
special electrical treatment. It proved no
more successful than the others that had
of the most prominent temperance ad -
vocates of the Dominion, was found, In
response. to the reporter's question he
said: Oh, yes, I am well acquainted with
preceded it, ansi a number of city doctors Mr. John Marshall. He has been a mem-
and the chief medical mumbler of the Order ber of one of the councils of this city for
signed the medical certificate of total dim- aheut seven years. He is a well-known
Milt/ and Mr. Marshall received from the citizens and a reliable temperance man.
Dominion Councillor of the Royal Templars
a cheque for $1,000 last November. One
day last February came Mr. Marshall's
salvation, although he did not accept it at
first. A small pamphlet telling of Dr.
About four years ago he was first taken
seriously ill, and his case wag brought before
the Order. The provisions under which
the total disability • claim is paid in our
organization are very strict. The weekly
Williams' Pink Pills and the diseases it sick benefit is payable to any person under
cured, was thrown into the house, but the doctor's care who is unable to follew
it was placed aside and no notice was their usual vocation, but the total dis-
taken of it for weeks. Ono day the ability is a compseatively large sum, only
sick man re -read the circular and I paid a member who is disabled forlife, and
concluded to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, declared by medical men to be entirely past
althoueh Mrs. Marshall tried hard to dis- all hope of recovery. In Mr. Marshall's
tual as all the others • but on April 14th—• He was exa,minecl upon a number of occa-
memorable day to him—Mr. Marshall began dons, coverieg a period of upwterds of two
to take the pills, one after each meal for a years. • The medial men who ,exaniined
start. In a few (Jaye a change was noticed, him all agreed that there was little. hopo of
ancl as he continued to take the pills he recovery, but they woeld not give the
gradually improved, and in a little over a, J defirete declaration that our law demands
Mohtla he was able to take the train for —that the claimant was permanently
Toronto and aide an astonished brother -ha_ and totally distileled unti laat govern -
law. Nowho can walk four or five miles ben When 11i18 declaration by two
with any of his friends. regular physicians was made and our Dom -
The Globe representative paid a vieit to inion Medical referee, we paid Mr. Mar -
the house of thn man thee reseued from a shall the totai disability hengflt of one
living death. Mr, Mareliell's home, cosy, theusaud dollars. Ho was paideffy a cheque
comfortable, with climbing tiowere covering on the 13enk of Montreal. There le tto,
stB ftont, was reached only to find him out, doubt whatever elsout the remarkable char-
teking a few milesav' conetitutional up town. enter of Mr. Marshall's care. A large num-
Mrs. Marshall, with smilereathed face, ber of our memberin this city were intim.
suede )in, setying they would be as ineffec- ease there was some di ficulty, it is true.
ately acquainted with Mr. Marshal/ and,
called upon him frequently. All were
unanimous in the belief that he was pant aLf.
hope of recovery. His cure is looked upon.
as next to a miracle. I have conversed with.
him a number of times about it, and he
gives the whole credit to Dr. William'
Pink Pills and the application of cold water
which is recommenced as a subsidiary
treatment by the proprietors of the =di- *
cine. He drops into my office every day- or
two and is apparently enjoying good healten
now.,,
The general offices of the Order are in the
old Bank of Upper Canada, building juat
opposite the publishing house. Mr. J. IL
Land, the Dominion Secretary, was easily
found, and in response to the questions
asked simply corroborated all that the
general manager had said. Mr. Land is
neighbor of Mr. Marshall, living within a
block of him in the northeastern part of the
city. He was well Bac-painted with him for
years before he had taken sick, and pre-
nounced his reoovery as one of the most re-
markable things in all his experience.
"1 have not much faith in patent nos-
trums," said Mr. Land, "but Mr. • Mar
shell's case proves beyond a doubt that Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are a wonderfnl
medicine. He seems to have exhausted all
other means and methods of treatmentdur-
ing his long illness and all without any
benefit, but his recovery was rapid and
wonderful immediately after he commenced
using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills."
Inquiries among the city druggists dis-
closed the fact that an extraordinary de-
mand had arisen for Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and that the claims made for them by
the proprietors are borne out by the mime
erous cures. It may here be remarked that
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are offered by the
proprietors as a certain blood tonic and
nerve builder for all diseases arising from an
overtaxed or weakened condition of the
nervous system or from an impoverished or
vitiated condition of the blood—such as tbe
complaints peculiar to female weakness,
loss of appetite, inability to sleep, dizziness,
pale and sallowoompletions, loss of memory,
that tired feeling which affects so many,
and disease resulting from over work, men-
tal worry, abuse or loss of vital forces, ole..
John A. Barr, a well-known and popular
dispenser of drugs here, told the reporter
that he knew of no patent medicine that
had such a demand upon it, or one that had
done all that was promised for it. On that
day he had sold no less than forty boxes of
the pills and since he received the first In-
stalmenehe had sold nearly three hundred
boxes. He told of several cases of great
relief and cure that had come under Ina'
notice. Mr. Wm. Webster, MacNab street,
after suffering from ataxy for years, front
the first had found certain relief from tak-
ing the pills, and he is now a new man.
Mr. George Lees, corner of Park and Main
streets after years of illness of a similar
nature, had taken three boxes of the pUts,,
and was able to walk out greatly improved
in health. Another case Mr. Barr vouched.
for was a city patient, who had been cured
by the pills of the effects of la grippe, after
having been given up by the doctortr.
Many others had. spoken highly of the Pink
Pills as a fine remedyfor nervous an.
blood disorders. Other druggists told the
same story.
• One thing worthy of note in connection
with the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in
the light expense attending the treatment..
These pins are sold in boxes (never in bulk
or by the 100) at fifty cents a box and may
be had of all dealers or direct by mad frona
Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont, or Morristown, N. Y.
Let Them right It Out.
A bigger fool than Thompson's colt came
to the surface in Chicago last week. ffe
• interfered to save a woman from being
beaten by her husband when the wonuam
turned upon him and almost beat him Iddeath. The philanthropist had seventeen
wounds to show for the encounter.—Rockee-
ter Herald.
When the wise man finds the husband
licking his wedded wife like thunder, he will
walk on and mind his business, for he wont
even get the thanks of the wife, for inter-
fering. The Port Huron murder is not the
only recent instructive object lesson on this
point. Harry Johnson, at St. Joseph, saw
a woman with a bloody face and a baby in
her arms, trying to escape from a pursuing
man, who proved to ber husband. The
couple's name was Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette
Singleton. • Johnson made the lord and hue -
band quit his abute and walked on. Single-
ton slyly followed with a club, assaulted
him from behind, broke his nose, mashed
his face to a jelly, fractured his ankle and
left him for dead. Johnson will recover,
but won't be good-looking hereafter.—
Detroit Pews.
Lord Northesk Dead.
Lord Northesk's death has been received"
with great sorrow and regret in Scotland.
He had always from his youth been delicate
and suffered when young from pulmonary
weakness, and his only sister died of con-
sumption. His death was sudden at th• e
end, for he ruptured a blood vessel onlyas
few hours before his cle,ath, when he appeared
in perfect health. He was a man of very
wide scientific and antigearian pursuits and
h cl a very fine 11 t` f fossils ansi an-
tiquities, which only a short time ago he
presented to the Edinburgh 1VIeseurneBus
place in Scotland near Arbroath was one st
the oldest and mast picturesque of Scotch
houses, and he had recently restored it.
Lord Northesk left iestructions that his
body be cremated.
The Bright Sitio.
Youngliusband—You've made aloe' of nee
Mee. Younghtisbancl—That will be handy
fer you now, my dear. You can do silly
things and keep the baby amused.
A lover shoeld be treated with the same
gentleness as a hew glove. The young lady
should treat him with the utmost tender-
ness at first, only making the smallest
advance at a time, till she gradually gaite
upon him and twists him ultimately round.
her little finger ; whereas the young lady
who is hasty end in too great a hurry
will never get e lover it> take her hand, but;
he left with nothing bet her finger-ends.—
Reaelegf ,