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THE HALF-CASTE.
AN QLD C" VES:NESS'S TALE—.
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I:F `ifs, nn' oc.u,„
'• it to linetu wear, we, are. out we
kneytr 04,1: whatcyte ratty be." as env
naizith clever Mee- and name -chile',
ceteet., a 'rat a telt r and gtioter of
ratakse etete eewi ewe. And truly,
who vo '-t twee teouelyt that L a plain
goverieete "`hould in tee old ag have
Deco! .e . ,"•t ier. ]'et I mutat invent
a Riot --t meet write rothin but truth.
Here 1 p:ltese• rec•nllecetitr_ painfully
that in my lien sentence. I have sinned
against truth by e>it.tAiir Cassia my
"niece azid itatnne-child." when.. strictly
speaking, she is neither tete one nor the
other. She is no blood -relation at all,
and my own name Iia t terga to be C'as-
sandra. I always disliked it heartily
until filar. Strtlieelaittl milled me -e-- nut
I forgot that Y must explain a little.
Mr, Sntherlan was -•ant. thank Heave
ea: ---is, te vers good man; a friend of
MY late father, dial of the s'icace best.
nes, an Indian merchant. When tn.
tray tw t•n'ty-rifer year m' derv' father
died mid 'Wet were ruined --a quint way
expressing this. tont iii time erste
kerne t.t speak so quietly of every pang
lit :Setheriand was very: kind to my
mother :fail to ale. I remember. as
though it were yesterday, one day,
when he "at with us in carr little parlor,
and lueethee tar mother calling me
"Cassie." said l: tat,*hiugly that. I always
pat him In min 1 of a e•e'rlaitt Indian
spice. "In feet." he addled. looking af-
fectionately at my dear, gentle, little
s i•
Irl >tliei, aril .tn it 1 1 1 *-�•was
d i el es it\ to
r
p .
l Y
approvingly,r
ovingly» at tie-- :
fact. I t i
a.
we r e sitting thus,
with
myself in
the center. alight be likened to myrrh.
aloes, and a S to .
5i,,, One . !` • , e rw
it r y rlltlatttd a;i
ry
untrue; • d.1 he was o
r e f r ,t, notbitter
i but
„sweet as stammer." however. from
that time be always ('ailed me Cassia..
I rather like the name,e end latterly
it
was very r kind of' him te-----•- There
I am Torestathnar Inv history again!
When I was twenty -live, as I said. I
first gent out AS governess. This plan
Avtas the• result of minty t•unsultations
Isetwevit toy mother anti myself: A
bated tl;itlg sraas my leaving home; but I
facund I could thereby earn a larger and
more regular :canary. part of which be-
hig pat by, would se)lnetime lettable Me
to live Altogether with alt,' mother.
.�tu'lt were her plaunings and' hopes for
the future. As for my own-------Bntit
is idle to dwell upon things so long
es fhe same God
lfat the end f lifer all comes
It, was thrntiiti Mr. anthere. n : that I
got my first situation, lie wrote my
mother a hurried letter. saying he had
arranged for me to enter a ramify eon-
annum
on-aeeri imr whom he would explain before
toy departure, But soitlethiug itin-
tiered.his eau.:nen it was a pathlie meet-
ing', rett>emher: for, though still a
young man, he was held in much honor
among the city iuereh ants, and knew
the affairs of India welt, from early res-
idence there. Of mune, Raving these
duties to fulfill. it was natural he
should notrtsolleet oily departure; :5o I
tar ted without ae'tin.z hits, olid witit -
aaut knowing. more of my future abode
than its mune. and that of my employ-
er. it was a Yorkshire village, and the
gentleman whose family. I was going to
was a Mr. Le Peer.
My long journey was dreary—God
!,flows how dreary : in y math one suffers
s > much; and parting from my mother
was any time a snfllcient grief. In.
those days railways were not numer-
ous, and I had to journey a good way
by coach. About eleven at night- I
found myself at my destination. At
the door a maid -servant appeared; no
one else: it was scarcely to be expected
by 'the governess." This was a new
and sad "'coulee; home" tci me. I was
shown to any bedroom, bearing, as I
passed the landing, naterla rustling of
dresses ands uattlm away of little
feet. j1 ought to apologize for thatodd
expresser::, wltieh 1 think I learned
when I was quite a child, and used to
tie nome—a ante= matter, my position
feeling much like that of a fly in an ice-
house.
"These are may pupils, then?" said I,
cheerfully, "Which is Miss Zillah?"---
for 1 -remembered Mr. Sutherland had
Mentioned that name in his letter, and
itseppeeculiarity naturally struck me,
The mother and daughters looked.
rather blankly at each other; and the
former said: "This is Miss Le Poer
and Miss Matilda—Zillah is not in the
.room at present."
Oh. a third sister?" 1 observed.
o." rather pertly answered Miss ,
Le Poer; "Zill is not our sister at all.
but only a sort of distant relation 'of
pa's, whom he is very kind to and
maintains at his own expense, and who
meads our stockings and, brushes our
hair of nights, and whom we are. very
kind to also."
••Oh, meed!" was all I said in reply
to this running stream of very previia-
ciafly-spoken and unpunetuated Eng -
Hain 1 'Sas rather puzzled; too; for if
myelnory. was correct -and 1general-
ly r inhered Mr..Satherlantl's letters
ver eerie', probably because they
wet emselves so elear—be had par-
tieiclarlyy mentioned my future pupil.
Zillah Le Poer, and no Miss Le Peer
besides.. I waited with some curiosity
.,r the girl's reuppeatrtinee. at last 1
ventured to say: I should like to' see
Miss Zillah, I utideretood"—here I lyes-
itated, but thonttht afterward that plain
speeeeh was best ' I knife t atuod from
Mte Sutherland that site was to be ray
pupil,
Of course... of course." hastily said
go angling with lay father and Mr.
leutherlan. It means a scatteriaig off
in all directions, as n. shoal of minnows
do when yon throw a pebble among
'them.) I asked if the. fatuity were gone
to bed, and was informed ••no;"so I ar-
ranged my diene and went down -stairs,
unconsciously reassured by the fact
that the house was neither so. large nor
so aristocratic as my very liberal salary
had inclined me to expect.
"Who shall I say. miss?" asked the
rather untidy servant, meeting me in
the lobby, and staring with all her eyes,
•as if a stranger were some rare sight..
"Miss Pryor." I said. thinking re-
gretfully that I should be henceforth
that, and riot "Cassia;" and seeing the
maid still stared, I added, with an
effort: `•I am the new -governess."
So under that double announcement.
I appeared et . the parlor -door. The
TOMO was rather dark: there were two
candles; but one had been extin-
guished, and was being hurriedly re-
lighted as I entered. At. first .I saw
nothing clearly: then I perceived a lit-
tle pale lady sitting at one end of the
table, and . two half-grown up girls,
dressed in "going-out-tortea" costume,
seated primly together:; on the sofa.
There was a third; but .he vanished out
of one door -as I entered• the other.
"Miss Pryor, I believe?" said a timid
voice—so timid that I could hardly be-
lieve that it was a lady addressing her
governess. I glanced other: she was a
little woman with pale hair and 'lieht
eyes — fri;ghten ed -looking eyes — that
jest rose aiid telt in a• minute. I said
•"I was Miss l'rrnra and concluded I ad-
dressed M[rs. Le Poer. She answered,.
-Yes, yes:" and ]tel,! nut, hesitatingly,
a thin, cold, bird -like hand, }which I
took 'rather warmly than otherwise; for
i fait really sorry Tor her evident ner-
vonsness. It seemed so strange for
anybody to be afraid of me. "My
rlaai hters, Miss Pryor. she then said,
iii tt 1 er tone. li'hereu yon the
'two
a�o..cc n t .
*iris rose, courtesied, blushed --seem-
ingly more from awkwardness. than
modesty -and sat down again. ',shook
hands with both, trying to take the in-
itiative, and make myself!, sociable and
•
thea lady, and I fanciest site colored
slightly. "Caroline, retell your cons,
in.
C'ar'oline snikiir went nut. and shortly
returned, followed t•y a girl o.der than
herself, though vied in childish, or
rather servant. fashion, with short pet-
ticoats, icoats, short sleeves. and a bis;lemma-
holland pinafore, '/.ill wvttlin t stay
to be dressed," explained Caroline, in a
loud whisper to her mother; at which
Mrs, Le Poer looked more nervous and
utn fo ttbl than ever.
,..
ib. \
. try alt' e 1 edpupil. I
eu It I m
11 4
:.
y
• so • i -
t t fended it theZillah carefully 1
had t d!!a yz
ito y ca h d
. tdire , r. S Merl ii 1
t
ru t'd my lI ut a
Y
yowl a
tobe aw r frit lata who only'
u n ,
..
�' y Y
wanted •'ftnIsliinit.' I even thought
she might be a beauty:. With some sur-
prise, I
urprise,' found her a halt -caste girt--•
with an ovi tofua
Itfcror'full Illud
ao
Ins, and eyes very black and bright.
She was untidily dressed, which looked
the worse, since she was almost a wo-
man grown; thouth her dull, heavy
face had the stupidity of an ultra -stu-
pid child. I saw all this; for somehow
probably because 1` had heard of her
before—Iexamined the girl rather
closely. Zillah herself stared at me
much as if I had been a wild animal.
and then put her finger in her mouth
with a babyish air.
"How do you eco, roy deer?" said T,
desperately, feeling that ail four pair of
family -eyes were nron ane. " I hope
we shall be good friends soon." And I
prat out my hand.
At first the girl seeded not to under-
stand that I meant to shake hands with
her. Then she irresolutely poked ont
her brown Lingers, having first taken
the preeaution to wipe them on her
pinafore. I made another remark or
two abont my being her governess. and
her studying- with her tonins, at which
she opened her large eyes with a tlt1IT
t sound but I never heard the st u nd of
her voice, Iv
It must have been now near twelve
o'clock. I thnnght it odd the girls
should be kept up so late; and began at
last to spet•itlatte whether I was to see
Mr. Le Poer. :tiy conjectures were
soon set at rest by aloud pull at the
door -bell. which made *errs. Le Poer
spring up from her chair, and Zillah
vanish like lie.:htning, The two oth-
ers sat cowed, with their hands before
them, -and I myself felt none of the
bravest. So upon this frightened
group the master of the honse walked
111.
"Nulla, Mrs. Le Poer! Cary! Zill,
you fool! •Confouud it, where's the sup-
per?" (1 might have asked that, too,
being very hungry.) "What the deuce
are you all about.
"My dear!" whispered the wife, be-
seechingly, as she met him at the door,
and seem o
e d intin `to me.
g
�t
Certainly I could not have believed
:d
that the voice
I just heard belonged to
the gentleman wito hadnow entered.
The gentleman, I repeat; for I never
saw one who more thoroughly looked
the character. He was about fifty, very
handsome, very well dressed—his whole
mien bespeaking that stately, gracious
courtliness which now, except in rare
instances, belongs to a past age. Bow-
ing, he examined me curiously, with a
look that somehow or other made me
uncomfortable. 1-I seemed viewing,
over my feminine attractions as a horse -
dealer does the points of a new bargain.
Ant soon tite`interest of the look died
away. I knew he considered me as all
others did—a very plain and shy young
woman, perhaps lady -like (I believe I
was that, for I beard of some one saying
so), but nothing more.
"I have the pleasure of meeting Miss
Pryor?" said he, in an ultra -bland tone,
which, after his first coarse manner,
would have positively startled me, had
I not noticed that the two are often
combined in the same individual. (I
always distrust a man who speaks in
a very mild, measured, .womanish
voice.)
I mentioned the name of his friend,
Mr. Sutherland.
"Oh, I recollect," said he stiffly; "Mr:
Sutherland inforined you that—that
Ile evidently wished to find
outlexactly what 1 knew of himself and
his family.
Now, it being always my habit to
speak the plaintrutlt, 1 saw no -reason
why I should not gratify him; so I stat-
ed the simple facts of our friend's letter
to my mother—that he had found for
me a situation in the family of a Mr.
Le.Poer,•and had particularly charged
me with completing the education of
Miss Zillah Le Poer.
"Ohl" said Mr. Le Poer. `Were
these all your instructions,, my dear
Miss, Pryor?" he added, iilsrnuat-
ingly
i answered that I knew no more
having missed seeing Mr. Sutherland
before I came away
"Then you conte quite a stranger into
my family? I hope;you have received
the ,hearty welcome; a stranger should
receive, and I trust youwill soon cease
to merit that: name," So .,sayin,,, he
• graciously touched the tips ot my fin-
gers, and in mellifiuoni tones ordered,
supper, gently reproaching his wife for -'emg as strange as if I had suddenly TEST BAKING POWDER O'PAYI
tievatte delayerl that meet. "You know. • ,come the heroine of a fairytale; then E jSip yO ,
nay deaf, it was a pity to wait for ane;
and J;[ias Pryor tnuat he #,.ceding ro-
resl%rgetne ' x,
4100 1 werebein eel itiei efly fit�lliske 1,
The War wits ordinary enough• -wire
bread; lalitterelle cheese; but Mr -
Peer 41
tis:Peer.ditl tate honors with, most• gentle-
' manly courtesy. I fitment, never did
it poor governess meet with such atten-
tion! The girls did not sup with us;
they lead taken the earliest opportunity
of disappearing, nor was the half-caste
cousin again visible. We had soon
done eating—that is, Mrs, Le Poer and
I; for the gentleman seemed so iudiffer-
ent to the very moderate attractions
of his table, that from this fact. and
from a'•eertitin redness of his eves, I
could not help suspecting be had well
supped before. Still, that did not pre -
rent his asking for wipe; and having
ppolitely drank with me, he composed
Himself to have a little confidential
talk while he finished the decan-
ter,
Mr".M.Siss Putheilryor.and do?' you correspond with
' The abruptness of his question start-
led me. I felt my cheeks tingling as I
answered ered most truthfully, ti
"'Skill, you are a dear and valued
friend of his,he tells me?"
I -felt glad, so glad that I forgot to
make the due answer about 3fr. Suth-
erland's being -very kind."
My host bad probably gained the in-
formation he wanted, and became cotn-
munleative on his part. "I ought, toy
dear young lady. to explain a few things
concerning your pupils. which have
been thus neeldently omitted by my
friend, air. Sutherl:nt•1, who could snot
better have acceded! my request
than by sendinga lady like yourself to
in trust Tny faintly: here he bowed,
and I bowed, We did a great deal in
that way of duinb civility, as it saved
him unable and .ue words. Mlv
dicta enters you Naive seen, They are, I
believe. tolerably well informed for
such mere children," I wondered if I
hadrightly
indeeded them at thirteen and
fourteen. M only trouble. 1le. !
ss Pry-
or, is concerning' my
niece."
I
e
reI
luoked surprised, notsuspecting Zillah
eall r
hese a relative. I c»t ho
to be !tear
niece through !!obit, and for the sake
of free: fatter, utr poor deceased broth- -
-or.'' continued fir, Lel Poer, with a
len„
tteued and untt
r -Irl•e visage;
• "but in truth she has lio Regal Claim to
belong to my family. Mv brother—sad
fellow altt'uys.'-Ius"liau life not over-
sernpulous-ties between natives and.
Europeans: in tact, toy dinar Miss Pry-
or, Zillah's mother--- You under-
stand?"
inderstand?"
Ignorant a as. I was, I did: dimly un-
derstand, colored deareply, and was si-
lent. the unpleasant pulse whieh
ensued, I noticed that Mrs. Le Poer
had let her knitting fall, and sat gazing
ou her husband with a blank, horrified
look, until he called her to order by au
impressive '•'.A, little nurse wine, my
oleate" 1terheanl sank with an Manned
gesture, and her lord an master con-
tinued addressing me; -Of course this
explanation is In strict confidence,
Regard for my brother's memory in-
duces me to keep the secret. and tax
bring up this girl exactly as my own -
except," he added, recolfecting himself.
"with a slight, indeed a necessary dif-
ference, .• Therefore yon will educt4lte
them all alike: at least so tiaras Zillah's
small Capacity allows. I believe." and
he smiled sarcastically. "her modicum
of intelleet is not greater than general-
ly belongs to her mother's race. She
would make an excellent firth and that
is all,"
"Poor thing!" I thought, not inciiued
to despise her even after this painful
information; how could I, when—now
that fairly nonplussed urel What made
the girl. an object of interest, to Mr.
Sutherland? and why did he mention
her as Miss Zillah. Le Poer when she
could legally have no rightto the name?
I should, in my straightforward way,
have asked the question, but Mr. Le -
Boer's manner showed that he wished
no more conversation. lie hinted
something about my fatigue, and the
advisability of retiring; nay, even light-
ed my candle for ate, and dismissed his
wife and myself with an air so pleasant
and gracious, that I
thought I h
ad
scarcely ever seen sucha perfect gen-
tleman. tleman.
Mrs. Le Poer preceded me up -stairs
to my room, bade me good -night, asked,
timidly, but kindly, if all was to my
liking, and if I would take anything
more—seemed halt'-inelin d' to say
something else, and then, hearing her
husband's voice, instantaneously dis-
appeared,
1 was at last alone. I sat thinking
over this strange evening—so strange
that it kept my thoughts irom immedi-
Ay flying: where I had supposed they
/ere sure to fly. During my cogita-
tions there came a knock at the door,
and on my answering it, a voice spoke
without in a dull. sullen tone, mut an
accent slightly foreign and broken—
"Please do you want to be called to-
morrow, and will you have any hot
water?"
I opened the door at once to .Zillah..
"Is it you, dear? Come. in and say
good -night to me."
The girl entered with the air and
manner of a servant except for a cer-
tain desperate sullenness. . I took her
hand, and thanked her for coming to
see after my comforts. She looked
thoroughly astonished; but as I went
on talking. began to watch me , with
more interest. Once she even stalled.
which threw a soft expression over her
mouth. I cannot tell what reason I
had—whether from a mere impulse of
kindness, with which my own state of
desolation had something to do, or
whether I compelled myself from a
senile of duty to take all means of mak-
ing a good first impression on the girl's
feelings—but' when I ,bade Zillah good-
night 1 ` leaned forward, and ,just
touched her brown cheek with mine
French fashion: for I could not :'real y
kiss anybody except for love.
I never saw a creature 'so utterly
amazed! She might :never have, re-
ceived that token of affection since her
birth. She muttered:a few unintelligi-
ble words—I fancy they' were in Ilin-
dostanee — flung >herself before me,
Eastern fashion, and my poor hand,was
kissed passionately,' weepingly, as the
beloved ladies' hands are in novels; and
romances. Ail my hated was never
• kissed save by this poor child! ,
• All, passed in a moment, and I had
hardly recovered my first surprise when
Zillah was zone. I sat a little while,
•aog;lit a vision of my own known self»
awitlt my ale, tired face, and sad -colored
;own. It soon brought me back to the
ealities of life, and to the fact that 1
ens now two hundred miles away frorri,
env mother and from—London.
1 had not been three weeks resident
?tt the Le Poer family, before I disco;-
eyed that if out of the domestic ovate -
des into which I became gradually in-
itiated I could create Any fairy tale, it
would certainly be that of "Cinderella
nut my poor Cinderella had all tile
_roubles of her pprototype without an t,
of the graceseither of mind or perso:e.
It is a great mistake to suppose th:e.
ev i'ry victim of tyranny must of nec•••c-
sity be an angel. On most minds tee
Ipression has exactly the opposite.effei:..
t dulls the faculties, stupefies the lit
stiuctive sense of right, and snakes the
most awful havoc among the natur• l
affections, I was often torted to doul,t
whether Mr. Le Poer was very a
wrong wizen he called Zillah by Ins :1-
vorite name of the "ugly little devil.''
There was something quite demoul to
in her black eyes at times. She was 'tt-
zyy too—full of the languor of her native
clime. Neither threats nor put'' .111 -
Monts could rouse iter into the sl..,.)t-
est activity. The only: person to'whim)
she paid the least attention was Mre,
Le Poer, who alone never ill-used leer.
Poor lady! she was too broken -stair: t
to ill-use anybody; but She n" ref
praised. I do not think Zillah heel
ltea#'d the common 'civility, "Tit.'. :
you. until I canto into the bous-a
since. when I uttered it, she seeneel
senrcely to believe her ears. When -,tt,
joined us in the sekteel-room 1fouiiel the
girl was very ignorant, Her youngte•et
cousin was tar before her even in tee
commonest knowledge; and, as in tilt
cases of deadened intellect, it coet b''r
incalculable 'trouble to leant the sine
`
pleat thing*. I took infinite piaili,swit t
her, aye, olid felt in her at strung alit 'r-
est --ten times stronger than in the oth-
er two; yet for weeks she seaerzte•r
scarcely
to haveadvanced
at a11. how-
ever,
it must be taken !uta acctant
that he
was rarely suffered to relnttie
with ane half the school -hours without
being
summanedto somemenial t
tl
t"
tt other; and Vieeb-
stowed u. the many' black looks, as be-
ing the cause why she herself had son,.
r ii 1 se of i win
i s to o a ma i n s tett h t
tale d
saht»a �
tette!! t puzzled ulyselr ilt seelit'e:life"
straitzgely incompatible was Zillah's ptt-
sltioil 7yttln :lit Suthnr.and sexpneset'•l
desire concerning her, Sometimes 1..
thought I would write and tee:Waal.
to him; tint I did not like. Nor it,d I
tell nay mother half the tles'tgren
and odd things belonging to this faint
ly—colisideriug that suchreticence
even toward her nearest kindred in
every governess's duty. In all dnme•t-
tie cireles there must be a little Elmer -
lent. the secrets of which theme ob-
servers should strictly keep.
More than once' determined to into
advantage of the very polite and soeiat-
ble terms which Mr. Le fuer and my-
self were on, to steak to him on the
subject, and argue that bis benevolence
in adopting his brother's nitfnrtnnate
child might not suffer bybeing testifieel
in a more complete and gr.trion•e tni'm.
But he was so little at hone—and no
wnnilere fur the miseetably cell. seclud-
ed and painfully -economical nay in
which they lived could have little"
charms for amen of fashion and talent.
or at least the remains of such, wale!.
ho evidently was. And so age arable
as h , could be! his couver cation :it
meals—the only time I ever saw aim—
was a positive relief from the dull
blank, broken only by the girls' squab-
tiles and their another's faint remons-
trances and complaints. But whenev-
er, by dint of great courage.I contrivptt
to bring Zillah's name on the taapis, he
always so adroitly crept out of the sub-
ject, without pointedly changing i
that afterward I used to -wonder how I
had contrived to' forgot arty purpose,
and leave matters as they were.
The next scheme I tried was one
‘vhieh, in many family jars and family
bitternesses among which my calling
has placed me, I have found to answer
amazingly well. It is my maxim that
"a wrong is seldom a one-sided wrong;"
and when you cannot amend one party
1 the next best thing is to try the other.
I
Likewise. I always had a doctrine that
it is only those who have the instinct
and the sins of servitude who will re-
main hopelessly oppressed. I deter-
mined to try if there was an thin in
Zillah's mind or disposition that cnnld
be awakened, sous to render her wort h y
of a higher position than that she had
held. And as my firm belief is, that
everything and everybody in time rise
or sink to their own proper level, so 1
felt convinced that if there were any
natural superiority in Zillah, all the
tyranny in the world would not keep
her the pitiable Cinderella of such ordi-
nary people as the Le Poers.
I began my system by teaching her,
not in public, Where she was exposed to
the silent but not less apparent con-
tempt of her cousins, but at night in
my own room after all`tlte house hard
retired. I made this hour' as little like
lessons as possible, by letting her sit
and work with me, or brush my hair,
instructing her orally the while. As
much as her reserve permitted, I lured
her into conversation on every indiffer-
ent subject.
ndifferentsubject. All I wanted was to get
at the girl's heart.
One day Iwas lettering her in a cni-
etway on the subject concerning , vhiclt
she was the first young wani:ili that
needed.lectnring—care over her person-
al appearance. She certainly was the
most slovenly girl I ever saw. Poor
thing! she had many excuses; far,
though the whole family °dressed shab-
bily, and, worse -tawdrily her cloth s
were the meanest of all Still, nothing
but positive rags can excuse, a woman
for neglecting: womanly : neatness. I
often urged despairin,ln upon poor neatness._
:fah that the coarsest frock was no epol-
oggeefor untidy• hair; that the. meet • lin-
- pleasant work dad not exclude the poi-
,sibility of making face and hands clean
after it was over.
'`Look at yours. my dent," said I
once, taking the • reluctant fingers 'tend
spreading them out on mine. Then- 1
saw what I have often 'noticed in the
Hindoo. race, how delicate was the
shapeof'her; hands, even' despite .leer '
hard servant's Work...Itold her so; for
in a creature' so crusher there aas'bttie
fear of excites. vanity. and I• made it a
point to praise her eve •y good quality,
personal or mental.
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cure diseases of the scalp, end tiie ion t suc-
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Ilio use for a short thee of Il tea a flats
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them to push forward it new ei.t vigorous
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!fs use a nutter of economy..
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color that evil! noterte.,11 ca. ( ,,,.• s, ingot
a single preparation, it is ppl:ttt %arbour
trouble.
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or
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