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'Trni :AtWESTRAL GHOST; or
The Haunted Roon, at 11lexnbling; Hall.
It, is now forty J •ears since Josiah Mont -
Ming, clock and watchmaker, retired
'''from Grace Church street and the little
• shop where he had done extremely well,
to his native village in Eseex. He was
the- son of a small farther, and the de-
scendant of sturdy yeomen; the iustinets
of old family Were strong in him ; when;
therefore, being a goal way past sixty, he
thought the time had come to sell the
business and retire, he was encouraged
by the fact that the Hall of his native
village -wage for sale, with the park and
grounds. He bought them ; took his
family into the country with him and
settled. down, for the fifteen years of life
which remained to hint, not as a country
gentleman exactly, for the good man had
no idea of going into society, but as a
-:mixture of retired tradesman and farmer.
During the latter years of his life the
old roan spent most of his time locked up
in his own room, on the first floor, hav-
ing two windows facing the south and
four ironing west ; beside it was a small
dresssing-room which he occupied as a
bedroom ; a.nd no one at all was ever al-
lowed to enter the large room, which was
always locked ; but his grandson knew
that it contained a bench, a lathe and all
the tools requisite for mechanical work.
Sometimes he worked there till late at
night, sometimes he would not come out
even for dialler. There was something
uncanny abort the old fellow working by
himself continually. nobody knew at
what. He might have made watches,
but he brought none out; he might have
turned things with his lathe, but none
were ever shown ; he ,night have been
prosecuting Deme grand research in the
horelegical mystery, but he said nothing
about it.
He kept on working till the day of his
death. It happened, one Sunday evening,
that his unmarried daughter and his
daughter-in-law were in the drawing -
room when the old nran unexpectedly
walked in. He stood before the fire and
looked at them, turning from one to the
other with a strange smile. It wag so
seldom that he came out of his own room
that the two ladies were perplexed and a
little frightened.
" My work," he said, with another
weird. and uncanny smile, " is finished."
The words were hardly spoken when he
suddenly reeled, caught at a chair, and
fell heavily on the ground in a fit.
In the morning he became conscious
again, and presently began to understand
that he was dying, and that be had bet-
ter give euy directions he had to give at
once. They sent for his grand:sen. who
was at Cambridge. and it was to hinr, his
heir, the old ratan t%ve the one inj•n;etion
that he seemed d to care ai,o ne. " Lee no
one." he ai+l, shakita his lean and Torg
forefir ger in the most solemn manner,
" let no one presume to enter my room.
Let it remain locked, c.r. if any deeire to
enter "--here he laughed and his hearers
shuddered—" lot him enter alone and at-
ter
iter dark. I shall be there," he added,
while they sha+llered again, " ou the
watch—a day and night watchman—a
watch that always goes—a repeating
watch. a keyless watch, with the newest
improvements, an everlasting watch "—
here his mind wandered a little—
"Watches neatly repaired. Established
forty years. Clocks kept going." -And
then he laughed again, and breathed his
last. It was dreadful to see an old man
die with a laugh upon his lips !
They buried him in the churchyard,
under a magnificent marble tomb. among
a great nmanber of Meenblings, including
his only son, And it was, as stated
above, his grandson who succeeded, being
then only one -and -twenty years of age.
His successor shortly afterwards mar-
ried, and in course of time had a family,
like most people, of sons and daughters.
.The young people knew very little about
the watchmaker's shop, but they knew-
that
newthat the elrarchyard was (pall of Josiah
Membliugs, and very easily they grew to
believe; in a legendary history about the
family greatness. They were the ancient
Jtck?tve of the estate, the lords of the
manor ; they were found ou the spot by
the 'i .masa conquerors; they experienced
enemy adventures in the various civil
wars; there carne a time when their for-
tunes were quite fallen ; even the Hall
passed for a while out of their hands;
them carne the second founder, who
amassed wealth in the city, and bought
back the old house. And they really dirt
not know—the innocent girls who built
up this legend—what a collection of ribs
they, wero. Putting together,
b`or•fn4'teen years or more the old man's
last wishes were faithfully and piously
obeyed. No ono entered the old man's
room ai ..ail ; the key was. in hie grand-
son's possession ; it• became a matter of
eomntoxl belief that the old man haunted
the roma. The maids at duels, and after
dark, would hurry past the door ; in full
daylight, they, wquid stop and listen,
trembling, if by chance they relight hear
tho sound .of a dead man's footfall ; and
the younger members of the family wore
brought up to feel doubly grateful to an
ancestor who had nob only reetorad the
fortunes of the house, but had endowed it
'with a haunted room. '
One day, howevor; when :,,aura, the
Oldest daughter, was inher father's study
leaking Torr somn•rlring else, she found
hanging' tip in a aupheard the key of the
•haunted- room, It was a bright sunny.
Morning ; • there oonld be no fear of ghosts
on snob. a day ;'she looked at -the key, she
retnerbercd the soleinn injunction, which
of goers et everybody knew, but the sight
of the key filled her with strange and it
resistible aerie-ity aird a longing ele•h as
she had never before known ; she took it
clown with a trembling hand ; she crept
like a thief out of tho'study and up the
broad stair to the door.; she put the key
in the lock erul turned it,. It. was a little
rusty, hub the bolt flew back and she
of ened the dt,or, Sbrange, how hard she
had to press that doer with her shoulder
before it opened; she went in and looked
round curiously, yet but for a single aro-
urerrt ; a grating noise bthind her caused
htrr to turn quickly ; to her horror the
flour was closing of its own accord, and a
great bar was slowly rising behind it.
She shrieked and fled; there was just
time ; the door closed as she rushed
through, there was a noise as of a falling
bar, and Laura fainted away. When she
recovered the maids were running up the
stairs and about the house, wanting to
know who had been ringing bells and
who was making such a strange noise in
tate ho'.ise,
'When Laura told her story, her father
put on the semblance of great wrath, belt
secretly • ho rejoiced bemuse here was
proof positive of the haunting. No fam-
ily of ye-'torday ever got a ghost. In
fact, it is only the members of an old
family who can be got even to believe in
ghosts at all. It is a carious thing that
in poor and new neighborhoods, like the
East Bud of London, there seems no place
for a ghost. Now, for a thick population
of ghosts, give me Northumberland.
The next day Laura said that she had
felt a cold breath on her cheek.
The next day after that she said that
a, heavy sigh had fallen upon her ear as
she fled.
The day after that she said that the
sigh was a faint whisper of the words
" My clear child,"
It was enough. The ghost was estab-
lished. Henceforth unpleasant . things
might be said of money made in trade,
but the old family tradition would not be
attacked.. There was the evidence of the
supernatural bar, there was the door
closed by an invisible hand, there was the
voice, there was the ringing of bells, there
was the strange noises heardbythemaids
while Laura was lying supine and uncon-
scious. No ancient Scottish house ever
had such a ghost. The Squire, however,
put away the key inahis strong box,
among his valuables. The door, he said,
should never again be opened in his life-
time. But Laura used to stand outside
like a Peri, listening for another message
from the other world, and it became re-
cognized in the family that she was her
great-grandfather's favorite. This gave
her akind of rank. Respect was due to
one time singled out by an ancestor who
haa been such a benefactor as to become
not (ally the restorer of fallen fortunes
(which is in itself romantic), but also the
family ghee,. All the Memblings walked
1 rr•ue upright than befogs; they stuck
oat their chine, so to speak; they be-
lieved in their coat of arms ; what was
better, other people believed in it as well.
They entertained people at the hall,
and when they offered them quarters for
the night spoke with reserve of the
haunted room ; they laughed, but with
affection and reverence, not with scorn,
at their ghost; the girls bade th sir friends,
when they left them. after a hair -brush-
ing have uo fear, because their ancestor
worked very quietly and disturbed n-
one outside his own room, though, they
added, as might be plainly heard by any
who listehecl at the door after clax'k, he
was always at work. 1t was, in fact, one
of Laura's fictions that she could hear
the lathe at work, and the Squire, 'who
good-humoredly received the avowed in-
eredulity of his friends, always finished
the conversation by saying that the key
o.f the room was in his strong box, where
he intended it to remain.
Things might have gone on in this
quiet and peaceful manner until now but
for a misfortune, the nature and extent
of which will become presently apparent.
All misfortunes, said the sage (who mar-
ried his cook), proceed from love.
Yet, who would have thought that the
Humbling of the Memblings would have
followed amen so simple and natural a
thing as the engagement of young Dal-
maboy to Laura ? Certainly not she her- I
.pelf, nor her father, nor her sisters and
brothers, because. Dalmahoy was in every
respect; a. most eligible parti, being not
only young, tolerably well off and hand-
some, a good waltzer, a good rider, a
good shot, a !good actor and 01311 of those
gallant headlong lovers before whom fem-
inine courage breaks down, but ho was
also—e point naturally insisted upon. by
tire 14:tcurblings—a man of undeniably
gond family.. There was no ,ante or
trace of trade in the long line of Dalna-
hoys.
When Jack Dalmahoy came to Mem-
bling Hall --the ging almost believed that
the place had never possessed any other
name, so that they could, if they pleased,
earl themselves the hlemb]ings of Mem-
bl.ing--ono of the first things they did,
after showing him their gardens, stables
and other interesting parte of the estab-
lishment, was to tell him of the family
ghost. Ho naturally laughed, and spoke
with disrespect of the spectre. Laura re-
buked him, lotting it bo understood quite
plainly that she was to be taken with the
ghosb or not at all. Who would offend
his mistxest by objecting to such a trifle:7.
1 would gladly," said Jaek, " havo the
ghost in my room every night if that
would give you any pleasure, lrrvite
hint, Laura, to visit me,"
Laura gravely shook her head, This
was not the proper spirit in which to
speak of an ancestor who walked, Ho
,night even be listening at that very mo-
ment, Indeed, the opportune cracking of
a piece of furniture gave some color of•
probability to the supposition.
After dinner, when the ladies had gone,
Jack asked the Squire to allow hint to
pass x the night in. the haunted room. His
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request was refried, gently but firmly,
" I am not," said the chief of the Mem-
blings, " c a: particularly superstitious
tnau, but the fact that there is undoubt-
edly something supernatural in the room,
and the equally undoubted fact that the
appearance and manifestations are con-
nected with my grandfather, make me
respeot his desire to remain after death
unmolested in what was, in his lifetime,
his favorite room." •
Laura was angry when she heard of
this proposal. Did Jack, she asked, con-
sider her greatgrandfather in the light of
a oommon ill-bred ghost, one of those un-
thinking and vulgar ghosts who break
the crockery, throw the fcu'nituro about,
rattle chains, and are disagreeable in the
house ? " For nay part," she said, "I
look upon the tenancy of this room by my
dead ancestor as a singular proof of the
affection in which ho continues to regard
us. His spirit remains with us," she
added, elasping her hands and turning
her soft eyes, which were as limpid as a
pair of opals, up to the heavens, " be-
cause he loves us still. He isour guar-
dian angel, he watches over the house.
Wo aro under his special protection, and
if we were to lose him, through any act
of irreverence or intrusion, farewell the
luck of Membling Hall !"
Jack desisted, though loth to relinquish
his interview with the ghost. Indeed,
when one thinks how seldom one gets the
chance of a talk face to face with a ghost,
it is not surprising that Jack was sorrow-
ful when it vanished.. I have never my-
self liad suoh a talk, and with the excep-
tions of a friend who saw the ghost of
Joe Morgan, another who was privileged
to amuse Lady Ditty, and a third who
received Lady Bab, I think I know no
one who has actually talked with them,
And, without going quite so far as a cer-
tain learned counsel of my acquaintance,
who ardently desires a half-hour's
friendly interview with the devil, I must
say that there are many ghosts for whom
one would suffer a great deal of inconve-
nience and time: Doctor Johnson, Eman-
uel Swedenborg, Cagliostro, Doctor Dee,
Cotton Mather, George Psalmanazar, the
late Count of Albany, Robespierre and
Cornelius Agrippa, all occur to one in a
breath as most interesting ghosts if they
would only come and talk in. a friendly
way and without frightening one. Two
or three days afterwards Jack tried an-
other line. As he could. not be allowed
to sit up all night and converse with the
del watchmaker, he begged permission
just to see the room. He would not go
in, only open the door and look round.
" It is not, Laura," he ~;aid, " as if ono
wanted to go against your ancestor's ex-
press rule, but simply to pay a kind of—
mark of respect—you know—morning
call—just to look at the place, not even
to go into the room."
I believe that one of the reasons why
the Squire refused permission to spend
the night in the room was that he was
afraid of revelations. You see, he knew
more than his children, he entertained
well-founded doubts as to the greatness of
the house, he knew all about the shop,
and it did occur to him that a conversa-
tion between his grandfather and his son-
in-law might be awkward. Fancy a poor
relation turning up when you have been
comfortably established for a generation
and a half, to remind your friends that
the family crest was only forty years old
or so, that the family history was fudge,
and that the shop, the good, old, honest,
despised shop, was the foundation, and.
not the restoration at all, of the house ;
and fancy a Membling asked to turn a
guest into a room where he might, and
very likely would, he informed by the
purchaser of Membling Hall how his
money was made. " We have," the.
Squire might have reasoned, " a highly
respectable family ghost. But there are
reasons why that ghost should be kept in
the family, and if it have disclosure, to
make or garrulous reminiscences to prat-
tle upon, let these things be conveyed to
the ear of a member of the family only.
Or, as the ghost shows no inclination to
leave his own room, let there bo no dis-
closures at all. There is at least no oc-
casion to invite revelations about the
shop.''
Tho least ghostly time in the whole
day,.I take et, is the afternoon. No one
expects even a• medium' to have any luck
in the afternoon: Seances are always
conducted after dark ; old-fashioned wiz-
ards used to conjure up spirits at mid-
night ;
id -night; if devils, spectres, lutins, holegob-
line, lasted till the morning, they wore
gone at all events by dawn, The " gar-
ish light of clay " is painful to supernatu-
re.]. eyes; they wink when it begins, they
wink horribly if they have to endure it
many minutes; long, long before noon
they aro away and in hiding. Who
would have thought, then, that old 1VIem-
bling would have played the trieks ho
slid actually in the afternoon ? You
shall hear.
It was an afternoon in d'anuary---the
first week in the year, Snow was spread
upon the fields, though it had melted on
the roads ; there was a gentle mist kis
ing from the earth, through which the
sun was shining feebly, a, 'blurred eirele
of pale glory, without warrnblt. But the
san was already sinking. and the pale
winter twilight was going to begin, the
moist and the white snow making it light-
er than usual and yet ghostly, if one can
use elm word, of a :four-o'oloek appear-
anon—an afternoon tea -time manifesta-
tion, The light was serene.
'Jack Dahnahoy and Laura, after Wel-
chem, sat tc g othex. talkbing of the little
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nothings which please young leveret,
Preseirtly the conversation flagged. Then
some young and sprightly devil, seeing
the chance of doing a little mischief, by
firing Jack's imagination, which had at
the moment nothing to work upon (being
tired of pretending imaginary perfection
in his Lanra), whispered in his ear that
it would be something to pay a visit to
the haunted room. " The very thing,"
cried Jade with alacrity;
"What is the very thing, Jack ?"
asked Laura, looking up with surprise.
" My dear girl," he saicl, " let us go
this afternoon ; go, beg the key, we will
pay a visit to the haunted room."
Laura hesitated.
"You know, clear girl," said her lover.
" that you are yourself as curious to visit
the room as I myself."
" I have seen it," she replied. " and 1
heard—"
"Yes, Laura." Tank had heard the
story before. " 1 perfectly remember.
But we shall only open the door and look
in. Go, dear, and ask your father for the
key."
The Squire gave his consent with some
reluctance. He even returned with his
daughter, bearing the key with as much
respect as if it were the key of a city's
gates, such as that which the citizens
of a mediaeval town used to bring out
when they had eaten up their lager rat.
" Here is the key," he said solemnly ;
" if you merely open the door and look
in, no harm will be done, I should. think.
As the sun is setting, you might even, if
you please, go in. The injt'rnotiou was
that no one should go in except after
dark, and alone. But Laura may be con-
sidered an exception."
Jack said that ,if he went in Laura
should go with hien, and that, as regards
respeet, he would look on the room as the
family vault. Laura said he meant, she
presumed, the church, not the vault.
First, he oiled the key, which was
rusty ; then, accompanied by Laura, he
turned it in the look, and with some dif-
ficulty, because, he said, it was like some
fellow pushing on the other side, he suc-
ceeded in opening it.
Could the "fellow," Laura thought,
with a shudder, be her revered ancestor ?
When the door was open Jack forgot
his promise, and stepped inside, looking
about him curiously.
It was a long, low room, lighted by
three narrow windows looking west, and
reaching from floor to coiling. It was
most curiously furnished. For, beside
one winclow,'there was a table furnished
exactly like ono of those used by working
watchmakers, with glasses in bone
frames, such as they stick in their eye
when they look at a watch, and, observ-
ing a piece of dust, which they blow
away and thereby release the machinery,
declare that the watch requires cleaning,
which will be eighteen -and -six. By such
subtleties was the forearms of the Diem-
blings commenced. Lamps, jets for gas,
low stools, trays containing portions—
dissected bones—of watches, small brush-
es and dusters, themselves covered with
crust, now covered this table. Before the
next window stood. a lathe with tools,
" chunks " and wheel.. Before the next
was another table, larger than the first,
and covered wibii books, papers, mathe-
matical instruments and drawings. "My
great-grandfather," said Laura, thinking
of the mythical and almost disbelieved
shop, of which even the younger members
of the family were somehow conscious,
" was in his day a great mechanician."
" W]iah did he hang the walls with
peacock's feathers fur?" asked Tack.
1t was a strange thing ; one side of the
room was given over to a watchmaker's
table, a lathe and books on mechanics ;
the other sidle Was decorated with every-
thing bizarre, as if the old man had re-
solved on gratifying his own taste with-
out consulting the baste of the ago. A
Persian carpet lay on the floor ; there
was a broad sofa on which he had often
slept, covered with costly skins, a chair
also covered wibh skins stood facing it;
common tobacco pipes and a common to-
bacco jar stood. upon the plain mantel-
rhelf, on which were such trifles as pots
of glue and paste, glasses which suggested
the "rummer" of a country pubic house,
a spirit case open, a note -book and an
umbrella. Tho fireplace itself was a
beautiful specimen of costly brass -work
and tiles, there worn carved cabinets very
precious, filled with china, though the
old roan .died before .the groat • china re-
vival was born,and there were pictures
worth crying over, so delightful were
,hay. The whole of that side of the room
was covered with peacocks' feathers at-
tached one over the other to the wall.
The ceiling of tho room was of polished
oak, dark and deep, relieved with a little
gold. The effect of the pals wintry light
falling upon their splsnclors was very
strange. Laura clasped herr lover by the
arra and gasped, Then she locked round
and shrieked,
Six years before this, when she stood
within the room, she had seen the door.
closing slowly, and of its own accord, be-
fore her.. Now, as she turned, she saw
that the same thing was happening again,
but that it was too late; for with, a
heavy, grating noise the door shut close-
ly while, also of its own aecord, there
slowly fell behind it a heavy wooden bar.
As the bar fell there was a sound as of
a deet, sigh, Then all was silent,
The pair, thus strangely made prison -
ere looked .xt each other with pale Tacos.
Even the mac, as brave _a fellow as may
be, saw with a terror whielr froze his
blood this great bar lifted without visible
hands and falling slowly as if guided into
its place.. Ho rushed to the door and
tried to lift it. Its free end was lying in
a strong clamp closed by some spring.
He ooulrl not lift it orb, nor could he by
any strength tear it away and open the
door,,
Another shriek from Laura called, hire
to her side.
"Fingers," she cried, "fingere at my
throat! Jack, save roe, Save me!"
Jack took her in his arms and soothed
her. "Nothing," he said "can hart us.
Whatever it is, nothing shall hurt yocl
till it first—oh, Lord!"
He stopped, because a breath of ice-cold
air blew violently iubo his face, and again
the solemn sigh was heard. Laura sank
upon the floor, in a terror the like of
which she had never imagined or sus-
pected. Jack lifted her gently and.laid
her upon the chair beside the fire -place;
What um? Laura held Jack by the.
hand, imploring him, not to leave here–
not
er—not to leave her alone. He 'stood beside
Icor, his heart beating, his brain afire
with wonder and terror. 'What next?
A. third time they heard the sigh as of.
one in deep trouble and perhaps anger;
again soft augeis.tonchod Laura's throat,
and again cold airs vexed their cheeks.
Meantime it was growing darker; the san
was quite gone down; the short winter
twilight was deepening into gloom, and
ho snowfields through the windows
stretched white and cold.
Then there began a ringingof bells and
a beating of drums. Jack hold Laura
more tightly and whispered to her tb be
of good cheer; nothing, he declared, with
a positiveness which he did not feel,
should or could hurt her while he was
there.
The bells seemed all round theta, as if
they were being rung in their ears; they
were soft and melodious bolls, not harsh
and strident, and the drums, like the
bells, were soft; their rolling was as that
of muffled kettle -drums, and when they
stopped for a moment the heavy sigh was
heard, as if lamenting the necessity for
making all this noise. The bells rang
and the drums boat for an hour and a
half, as it seemed to the terror• stricken
couple, prisoners in the room, who were
fain to listen. In truth, they rang and
beat for about five minutes, and then
they stopped suddenly, and that dreadful
unseen person began to sigh again, heav-
ily. Also Laura shrieked, because the
fangers began to play again at her throat.
Of all forms of supernatural visitations
that of fingers at the throat has always
seemed to me the least desirable. The
apparition of a sheeted ghost, with or
without claims, the squeezing of hands
left inadvertently outside the. sheets, the
cold breathing upon the sleeping brow,
the groaning behind wainscot walls, the
dragging of chains, the sighing or sob-
bing by the bedside, the shying about of
crockery, the shrieking in the garden,
the upheaval of heavy furniture, the
creaking on the stairs, the lurking in un-
suspected placee, the unreasonable claim
to property in a place after you have be-
come a ghost—:all these things are effect
ive, though perhaps overdone. New ghost
machinery has to be iirve nted if the pop-
ular imagination has to be fired, and I
take it that the mi -enable falling off in
ghosts during the last fifty years roust be
attributed mainly to Lha weariness of the
ir'tiagivation, which refuses any longer to
be stirred by ole '.fashioned modes of spiri-
tual manifestations. Even rapping has
had its day, and one sees no hope for
ghosts in the future, airless they are pre-
pared to bring trustworthy information,
as to the rule; and regulations d'outre-
mer•. Then, indeed, there would be so
great a run upon ghosts that the good old
times would comeback again, and many
a musty family ghost, long since laughed
at, scorned and forgotten, world return,
to bloom and blossom again among a cur-
ious and credulous posterity.
But to have one's throat felt, touched,
and fingered by ghostly fiugers ! That is.
if you please, a thing which in no way
attracts the curiosity or stimulates the
imagination. Quite the contrary;; it
simply terrifies.
Laura shrieked and would have fainted
had she thought it would be of the boast
use. But she was tor much terrified for
fainting. In real monleuts of crisis, in
upteeme moments, as the prigs say, one
is too much in eararest to 1ain;t, One may
faint comfortably when a tootle is pulled
out, and 1•eel all the better for it after-
wards, but when a more serious operation
is performed no one thinks about fainting
and takes ahloroforrn instead.
"N n-othing," • said Jack, with less
heart in his tone than he could have
wished, "0 -can hurt yott while I am
here."
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A quick and, certain cure of every variety of
1fetidache,anldwill give immediate relief fom
all Neuralgic ilgic Affections,
These :icihdots are invaluable for SLEEPLESS,
NESS, for NERVOUS or MENTAL ]DX HAUS•
'I'ION,,resuiting from overtaxed mental energy
or excitement, acute attacks of indigestion .1140,depression following alcoholic excesses, or .from
Any cause whatever that robs one of rest and MIL.
the both' with pain.
The timely use of these Tablets will surely pre:
zein serious trouble, and just as surely effect a.:
speedy Wile after the difficulty is well advanced, -
A box s1u,ultl always be on hand for such, ernar-
geneies.
WOMEN ESPEOIALLY
Find -these Tablets most happy in their effect,
'l'he Manraehes and 'pains and distressing feel,
ir1,�'s peculiar to the period readily yield under
the influence of a single dose repeated es neees-
sity may require, The exhaustion. and nervous,
orstek headache which follows the excitement
or fatigue of shopping or tawniest may be im-
mediately overcome by their use.
RichnrttIII. Headache and Neuralgia.
.tablets
Aro endorsed by leading physicians and are used
in thoasancls of families. Avoid taking ,Anti-
pyrine Wafers or Powders, which experience
Proved to produce fatal heart depression.
Headaches caused by over -indulgence in food
or drink, late at eight, can be prevented by tak-
ing two tablets before retiring and two in the-
raerr111r 0.
• An Important Feature to be remembered
is the atter harmlessness of Rielutrd 11T.ITead.
arhe amt Neuralgia Tablets, Ira injiuious•
after•etr els can possibly come from a free use of
them, Theyoontaiu No Morphine, OhtoraI,
cocaine, Antipyr•inaor any Poisonous or-
Harmi'ul Drug.
Price 21; (Dents for 2 L Tablets,
sent l,y 11)111 on Roeeipt of Price if not on Salty
by your Druggist,
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EVERY DRINKING MAN
Who stops to thick the matter over will.
admit that he would be better off without
it. He knows where it will all, end some,
day.
WE COULD FILL VOLUMES
With the story of tire (Gold Cure, and the.
happiness it has brought into 1550,000,
homes during the past twelve years.
THE CORRECT THING ,NOW
Is for men to take the Gold Cure as soon
as they find they cannot abstain from the
use of liquor without discomfort.
WHY SUFFER DISCOMFORT
In the effort to regain the mastery, when -
for a comparatively small sum the ten
dency can be absolutely eradicated,.
OUR TREATMENT NEVER FAILS'
To effect the purpose intended, without
shock to the system, or leaving the slight-
est after ill-effects. Thab is our record..
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OAKVILLE, ONTARIO,
Where the Sanitarium is located, is mide
way between Toronto and, Hamilton, on.
the Grand Trunk Railway.
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