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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-1-15, Page 4A STRANGE COIIRTSHIP CHAPTER SLI. —Anent. I•: one. ("1•oi'ps i nems-slry to ask the ques ion : " �1 her is Mr. Winthrop'a widow now residing ? ' It is i.ear three years since Weiland her point-blank. A handsome, frank youu? . bane, with Carry, fled from 'Wo, shot Ball fellow, very fitted in appearance to tri in that winter's night, and left neer footsteps confidence, and who seemed thoronghlt behind thein. Her secret and sudden flight aelaamed of the partlaehad heenconemiseio, was a wonder to the isometry round—not of cd to play, had called upon her in perso:.• nine days, but of ninety. Iu the femme but declined to give his name. disteots, editors t "It is tnycousin'swish to live privately.' re €oris, .het Imre. and • she had re 'yeti less enterprising' than in t,•. totem, or it P•, , with great iailigisat€nr. wotdd ,certainly have got into the news- '• and if it were otherwise, what right havt Wets ; as it was, it formed the maple of 'You, nzay f ask, to make any such in ' ciUL LYn":-enation in countryhones, mei (vas duke' S' ' Irmo to evert (linnet-tat:to l t „ei trr ny ; At this he stannu red, coloured, looke. pe. o reclaimed to poems eau a:; ire infer- i exceedingly disconcerted. and left the thhaat, . n ninon the minter. but t114':r accounts I house, as the triumphant :Martha vigorous were vii ole different. Of course mem r -p, I ly 0xpreesed it, •• with his tail between hie preached the truth ; .but abase w1,i^i) +came 1eegs, anal a Ilea nn leis ear." nearest to it ave:red• that Mrs. Winthrop had left her home toavn d the pie: ncc of her step -son, who, happily for tide ti:e„ry, had chanced to arrive the very morning after her departure. His temper was violent, his m Inners were odious, axed his absence freut 11'apshot, during the brief period of her wedded life, proved tbathisstep-znother and himself were far from being on ,'cod Though thus mysteriously debarred front Pliabei's society, she • heard from her very regularly, anti was almost :as well acquaint - eel with occupation and mode of life ae though she had shared them. 'Upon one occasion she had even received aphot ogreph, with "Bunn this at once" tepee it, of the residence ber cousin had chosen. In a break of at line of Web chap cliffs, 'eras a swan, terms. She was a young woolen of spirit, weeded chine, through which a stream and had 0e11 to ;scold his radetiese, anti per. t. ran down, and was lost in the yellsn baps to antieepate being turned out of the lionise. It was elloweed that Horn Winthrop was ea.p: bleof anything. The ee--planation of the affair tint found most general eredetnce, however, was, that, overwhelmed by the calamity of her bus - baud's suildelt death, at tt time when she teas so ill fitted to bear it, ttabelsmincl had given way, Mad that she bad been plaeed by her friends in a private asylum for the in- sane. The village doctor who had attended her in her :onfinement eront rued this tier so far a; to admit: that, since the birth of her child, Mn.oWinthrop hail "never been herself ;" while Horn on his part, for rea- sons of his own, took nasins to contratliet this view of the question. That foul play had taken plate, never entered into anybody's head ; and, indeed, there was Philip Dad, the miller's son, to vouch for the fact that ;tire. Winthrop had left the Hell of her own free-will though beyond nd tI t ha nothing in g could be extracted fromn, hies by the most ekilful brain -seeker. Philip was pump -proof for the (test of refs' ns --he had tontine; to tell. t'4'heo he had oeeaiou to write to his Bebwed tlb(e t. Lo addressed her under (ewer to Mem Martha Darr. at tlr,'elamere. All eommuttieat ene, art% they evet'e few enough. irate#hd.•d foe Mated, fleet lhaa,ed through her con. ins hauls, alai cat _<, for- warded n� Pne /mew whither. It tial IPA likely that she should have fled to Bra •'amere, Tct trespass a seemed time, with hie Oiled and rand too, upon Martha's $1014101 in. -.tats o,a hospitality wee, of tonne. ne+t to be thought of ; and as for taking loel,,itme for It1'rnat in the little town. if itegos,ip had been odious to her of olid, how could she have endured it note f Above all, it was her chief n"lis i. tuado to keep the place of her retreat aseeret from Horn 44 iutihrop, and Bracllmere was the very spot to wined: his tierce eyes would turn for her ; and did turn. Smarting from his recent .iiaraat.ttiturs at the fair hands of Carry, as well as tram tit,' savagfie displeasure of !us hailed master, Mr. hlurk had been despatched in hot Inst° toIkaekmere, and awakened once snoreth e,• telmirationof that risingwatering.place aaa visitor out of the season. Ile avoided Tl c'onle, however, putting up at a notch less ambitious houseof eutertaiu meut, and main- tained as lnR `reat h incognito, as hi,i waive fronkness (when in his eupst permitted. lie had hung about Bellevue Terrace, and cast eheep's-eyes upon Miss Barr's abigail--nt.t without results. The excellent IlaeheI, in- deed, was no longer there; .the was "not dead," but "gone before " his arrival ; let let ue: hope, to a better place. She had not I o n able satisfactorily to explain her right to certain properties abstracted from Niles Jennings' lewel•drawer during her ettortresidence with that lady, and traced, through the medium of a pawnbroker, til Iter own possession. When Mr. Simcoe, who (at Martha's request) had uudertakee o cotduct a private iuquiry into the matter in person, took occasion to cross- examine her, it unfortunately happened that this good woman was in Liquor, and would vouchsafenothing in the wav of informa- tion, except a. monotonous chant, the bur- den of which was, that she asked his par- don, but knew her place, and hoped the cat would spit in his face. Untouched by the simplicity of this ballad, Mr. Sirneoe would have summoned a policeman, but for Martha's urgent supplication. " Only upon one condition, my dear madam," said he, "shall I forbear to do so—you must get rid of this drunken thief within the hour." Which was accordingly done, though her departure almost broke her mistress's heart. Her successor had two eyes which reeip- oeated Mr. Murk's soft glances. As a gentleman supporting himself on his own means at a hotel, it was only natural that his honourable addresses should be welcome to her. But when he came to put the all- important question : 'rJetnima-Jane, my own dear love, to what address does your missis write to her cousin?" she was unable to gratify his curiosity. Though her edu• cation hadnot been utterly neglected, she could only read 'print ;' a running hand was asundecipherable to her as ancient Cornish (now only known to choughs). As for let- ting dear Mr. Murk glance his eye over an envelope, it had, unfortunately, become her mistress's invariable custom to pocket her letters as soon aro she had addressed them, and to poet them herself. The retreat that Mabel had chosen was not, indeed likely to be discovered, so far as faithful Martha Barr was concerned. She could not understand the reasons which made her cousin so solicitous to live re- tired. To her sturdy common-sense, the terror in which the young widow stood of her step -son seemed, perhaps, ridiculous and chimerical ; but she had no doubt of its genaixeness. Mabel had appealed to her on helralf of her helpless babe, to maintain the secret of her hidin¢-place inviolate, and henceforth the trust was sacred to her. She desired greatly to consult the astute Mr. Simcoe, and to demand from him that as- sistance and protection which she knew well he would be eager to afford; but she held sends. Across the straahu was a wader bridge, toed beside the bridge a cottage at whose thew stood a fair lady with child in her arms. These two figures Martha haat era oat, before commit- ting the rest of the ventre to the flames, and they formed the toy of her life. Thanks to the blessed wan, under which, it is ssid, nothing is new, and yet that hasduno such new antigoo,l trains for the absent and the surviving in these letter days she had thus both Mabel and her Georgey ; and ethenever tidings eatnefrom theformer, these portraits were produced, to illustrate, as it were the letter -press. Mabel had not manystriking incidents to de -tribe. as may be well imagined : and, to sa • truth, her letters might have been term. e.i the Annals of tipster t:leorgey. In them wereehrenieled with minuteness sucheveine as theeutting of his teeth, and even of his hair a lock I.r' 1.its of tali was {nolo e Ids s dtuun- knuwn ":darty "') ; his favourable rashes ; his wicked (and delightful) escapade, ; his latest acquisitions at vocabulary, When lie had the measles, they were almost daily itulletha�, " A tnr'-4 excellent cloetcr for- tunatelvresieles in the village, else Heaven ouly; knows whet we should have done. Yery like cur num dear old Dr. Bowen at ' nelloutelip. He is the only person I can speak to Itrre:the:its, except Inv land- lady , bat my street t;eorgey has Lids oarn etre'e of aequaintauee--his chief friend is the old iieherxuan who i} Sia ood asto 1. supply u w' l;s -i t L l a• b e p�Y o.tis.Yoattwill laugh at tide; utthey are ourselo 1umer, and Parry and. I prize them esceetliu '1y. ((eery is most kind, and is devoted to the child. My heart smites me for so selfishly dolarring her from the conap any of her lover; beat she is content, for my Stakes to wait a little longer yet. and the xiei, of it would be rz.tterrihle. When Georges ge•te a few months eider. we shall be better able to. dispense cath her services I think of von, dear Martha, a inlndred titres a day. 114:w I wish you amid he our comp:a:ion In tem walks alar,;; the clitrmeth (at this you trek alarmed, bet :lever fear; you may be -ere that Master G. is always carried). and n these beautiful sands 1 But why do I vex thyself (and as I !letter myself, you also) with eneh thenyhts ? Alas: the sight of y ou would till ire with only too well-founded fears. 1 do not know even whether the day will ever arrive when I may tell you writ fears. In the meantime, be assured, my dear cousin, that, but for them, and for ouren€orceclsep. oration, I should now be happy. My boy is all in all to me You used to admire my poor husband, I know; well, I ;eorgey is a vert handsome likenes of his faather,and so tovh and tender-hearted? Oh, if you could but see him 1" Mabel's lettere were all of •this homely type, and would havo portrayed a life of wholesome sunshine, but for the shadow of one morbid fear. At last cause a coumnunication of a very different sort : no linked home news long drawn out, but a few rapid Iines, that breathed expectancy and hoped-for acticn ; above all. in the greatness of its tidings, the apprehension that hovered over all her sky seemed almost to be scared away. "A mir- •tele has happened, .Martha, dearest, or a something that seems a miracle l I may not now tell yon what it is, for the same reason that I have so long kept silence ; but I have good hope that, at no distant date, I may tell you all, and that by word of mouth. In the meantime, send me the address of some honest lawyer—a man to whom one can trust a secret of the last importance. Mr. Simcoe will help; you so far, I am well convinced, for', the sake of old times. I scarcely know what I write., Conceive that it has become possible that the man we fear may have good cause to disquiet us no longer— that the way of life that looked so rough may be smoothed for my tender boy, and you will make allowance for anything I may write. Do not, at all events, doubt my sanity. Let me have your reply by return of post. I shall not sleep till have got it —till I have seen this lawyer. He must be told nothing at present, Mn Simcoe w111 make an appointment for me with him at the earliest date ; but he must not, of course, mention my name. I am still cautious, you see, although in such a transport. For years, dear Martha, I have known nothing bub Fear ; and now that Hope has come, I scarce know how to entertain hire." Martha Barr endeavoured to commit this letter to memory, but falling in that feat, and having burned the envelope, and cut off the address, she took it straight to Maison Tiddliwinks, and placed it in Mr. Simcoe's own hands. " The poor young lady must be mad," said that gentleman, when he had read it. " No, no," said Martha : " somethinghas greatly excited her, that is all." "Excited her 1 When a woman writes to say : ' I want to see an honest lawyer,' I say.she must be mad ma'am. There is, in my opinion, no such anomaly in existence. I her peace. She yearned to clasp Mabel to should just as soon go down to the sea shore whom the young mother described with such ecstatic fondness ; but she made no attempt to do so, leat, as Mabel warned her would be her own bosom, and to behol the childyonder with the expectation of catching a dry fish. There are clever lawyers, no doubt —too clever by half—and there is a still larger assortment of stupid ones ; but as for the came, should she be watched and their'honesty—I have had a good deal to do followed. That Horn Winthrop was, i with the law in the way of house -property, for some cause or other, exceedingly;and I really cannot Iend myself, madam, desirous to ascertain where his step -another to any such gross deception as you pm -- resided, • was clear to Martha ; not only hadpose." she discovered, though not till some time I "But if you don't know of one person - after the fact, Mr. Murk's attempt to am i ally, Mr. Simcoe," argued Martha, "you quire the address, but she had seen Horn, t must surely have heard several highly spok- with. her own eyes, at Brackmere, a, place en of ?" which, Sitncoite though she was at heart, i . " Only when I have heard then( speak of she did not believe was likely to have had themselves," was the resolute reply. The, any active attractiou for him. He had fact was time, during his earlier building made no attempt to intrude upon her, and speculations, Mr. Simcoe had been very sore after a• while had left the ;glace ; bub she ly bitten by au attorney, and the wound had never felt safe from Itis machmatfous. Not never healed. All that Martha could get long ago, indeed, s though despairingof out of him was the. mitigated approval �of gainneglua end by riraft, he had' despatched one Mr. Oakleigh, a City solicitowhom Mr. • eimette had of • late employed in' connection ' with St. 1•tbe dreda's. " I have never seen the man in any life," said he, " which is perhaps so far fortunate or him; but he did not cheat um in theonly transaction I have yet had with him and, what is an undeuiaUo recommendation, he has been but few years at his trade," So with Mr. Oakleigh the appeiutmeut was made, (TO 141s CONTINUED.) SUB.TERRANEOUS LONDON(. The New ruder -Around Ratlwav Which Runs sseneath the 13rittsb letrrt•a1sa, The underground railway twit"eh passes under the Thames from the ;icy u: Loudon proper toSouth London represents an entire- ly new departure iue l:,ng:d..h railway t out - mu nictation. It differs front t!mother under- ground lines, the Metropolitan ard Metro- politan District railways, in the depth at which it runs below the surface, iu the pro- cess of :construction, and iub the ,rotor em- ployedfor trains. An ordinary tutdergraund road. beginsand ends on the surface of sortie street. The new City and South London Railway begins and ends some fifty or sixty feet below the -utf a ee of the street. The easiug of the *.annals needed for the other subterranean :nes in the British metropolis consists of coneentrie rings of brickwork, often not less ti -an two or three feet in thickness. The new subway, on the otherlaa:id, is described as a gi;*antie iron drain pipe, or rather two drain pipes, ride by side, which have been (thrust AT SLAIN me= for three utiles through a bed of solid clay, as a scoop is thrust through a chem. The scooping was done by a huge steel cylinder, some 11 feet 6 iatebes.in diameter, and front 6 feet to 7 feet long. The cylinder is made of plates au inch truck, whose snrfaee is WO, fully smoothed 'inside and outside, and which atone enol are sharpened to a cutting edge, The cxeavation is made by aettingthe ey'lisa- der against the face of the clay and settinghalf a dozen powerful hydraulicjolts to worir behind it. As fast as the clay is dislodged and tills inside the cyhnderit isshovelled up and carried back ;and as soon as the cylinder has been pushed forward a couple of feat of cast-iron plates are bolted together length- wise to form a complete ring. By a eouca- ten ation of such rings the tunnel is formed. So rapid was this prowsof construction that at one time the contraactora, working simul- taneously front six different points, aecemp- Iiahed not leas then 1110 feet of tunnelling per day. The spaces required for terminal anal intermediate stations are lined with mato* wort:, They are reached from the street both by stairways and by elevatore. Emit of thelatteris large coon a to convey at: one trio 10(1 passengers, the maximum number winch anyone trate will be alltawed to carry. The emplo_emeat of electrie motors for tb° propulsion et railway trains had Lithe - ,, been tried only on a small scale intheV• .eel Kingdom. The substitution of thief :o for t STEAM LOt'O 1 O'rty r, on the Laity and South London V s is, there- tore,virtually a novelty to Er isluncn. The track laid in the tunnel. is O; the 4 foot lie inch gauge, the up line running through one tube and the down lire through the either. The sleepers are lair (without ltallast,direct- ly upon the bottom of the tulle:, and the rail itself is of little more than WI the normal weight. Theeleetricetnginesweigh nlilyabout 10 tons as against the 40 or 50 tons of the ordinary steam locomotive. They are a tppsblo of working up to 100 horse power, and draw - inn a train at,. speed of overMImile 3 an hour, although tai miles is the iute•nehed average. Of these motors the company own 14, emst- ing $7,000 apiece, Each train will con ist of three carriages, whose seats, as in our horso cars, will run from end to end. As with the trains on our elevated roads, an attendant will ba stationed on each plat- form whose duty it ia, when a train roaches a station, to open the car doors, call out the name of the station, .and threw open the platform gates, which fold back against the ends of the cava. There will be no distinc- tion of classes, and no tickets will be sold. The intending passenger will simply put down four cents and pass througn:ttm'natile. He can take either an up train ora mown train, one platform being readied by a pas • - sage carried under the ether. This new underground litre is, as we have said, about three miles long, running from the city end of London Bridge to, Stockwell, on the Clapj,anr road, about a mile short of Clapham Common. It lu:s cost $1,100,000 per mile. Assuming that expenses will con- sume one-half of the eart,inps, the road will need to earn $110,000 per mile per annum to pay the sto-kholders five -per cent on their investment- The sum named is five times the earnings per mile of English railways taken as a whole. But, of ce'urse, the Lon- don local lines are the proper subjects of comparison. The Metropolitan earns a90,- 600 per mile; the Metropolitan District$105- 000, and the North London, $200,000. Not even the North Loudon has the advantage of running for its whole length alenge route as crowded with traffic as is the high road from Clapham to the city- Twenty trains an hour can be run, and it is confidently ex • peered that in the morning and evening hours, at all events, every tract will contain its full complement of 100 passengers. What is a Horse Power ? When men first begin to become familiar with the methods of measuring mechanical power they often speculate on where the breed of horses is to bo found that can keep at work raising 33,000 pounds one foot per minute, cr the equivalent, which is more familiar to some mechanics, of raising 330 pounds 100 feet per minute. Since 34,000 pounds raised one foot per minute is called one horse power, itis natural that people should think the engineers who established that unit of measurement based it on whir horses could really do. But the horse that can do this work does not exist. The horse power unit was established by James Watt about a century ago, and the figures were fixed iu a, ourieus way. Watt found that the average horse of Ills district could raise 22,000 pounds one' foot permitute. This, thea, was an actual horse power. At that time Watt was employed in the manufacture cf engines, and customers were so hard to find that allkinds of artificial in- ducements were necessary to induce power users to buy steam engines. As a method of encouraging them, Watt offered to sell en- gines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse power. And thus he was the means of giving a false unit to one' of the inost im- portant measurements in the world. Professor (alittle distracted)—" I'm very glad to see you. How's your wife?" " I regret it professor, but I'm not married." "Ah, yes ; then, of course, your wife's still single ?" Small boy—" Ma, do .clergymen ever strike Y Mother—" They do, my son. When they are offered another place with a larger salary they immediately strikeout for that place." DEADLY POISONED ARROWS. wThey Are !Used bythe African It't three When we first encountered the tribes who fought with poisoned arrows, we evere not t prepared to be greatly, impressed with the a danger, but we received a severe lesson in 'tact.;:. IRS7, during alight with the Avis- ibLa savages- Young fellows, inspired by tau example of Lieutenant Stairs, B. I-, rushed with brave homicidal intentions to the front, and thetiny arrowssaileel in show- ers.past then! ; but some of them found ther intended bdl"ets and were arrested quivering in arms and shoulders. With contemptuous smiles the young teen drew thein out and flung them away, and some eentiuneel answering the savages with rifle - shots, while others Bought the 4111',..4,00D, bear- ing with them the arrows with which they hall been wounded. lVhein the Clays fight wee over, of course the had more leisure to examine the missiles, and our anxiety eras great when we observed that they had been freshly smeared with a brown, gummy -like substance which emitted a snbtle,acrid odor, with a suspicion of asafoetida in it. The ar- rows seemed to havo been plunged into a pot containing a goodly quantity of a resinous sebst euce, and twirled around in it and well soaked, and then lifted up in a bunch and covered over with a banana oe a piece of plltryule= leaf. Quivers full of the arrows showed us that the weapons were consider- ed by their owners to he dangerous, for those so smeared were tied together, head downward, and apart front the others. Yet the wounds trade by these slender ar- rows were mere puuuetltres, suet) as height havo been mottle by finely riotedbuteltcr's skewers, and being exceetihngiy ignorant of the effect, we contented ourselves with syringing them with warm water anti dress - new thein with bandages. In 441110 instances affectionate men sucked their comrades' waunda, to make sure that nothing of the subslanee,slhoald be left to irrittu'v them. In no instance was this method of any avail. All who taro wounded either died after terrible sufferings from tetanes1nrtdevelopetl • 411011 dreadful gangrenous tumors al to in- eaapeeitato them front duty for lot:.; periods, I or wreck their constitutions so completely by blood -poisoning that thole lives beeame a burden to them, --.From " The Pigmies of the , t4 Greet African Forest," by Htxrv;t1. `1'i'.t,strw:-a fin Januaty Scribner. She Was Partioalar. int aoh•ted um—. YIN. MUM ; Ord it:i mein a Waite a place as mitt' If the wuuiut tau . aisy and the wages lark.. ; but is yet' baggy loight or Clark ?" kation-." Baby it quite fair. Imported. Bell—" Thin Oi nt:ire iltedin:' the place. 0i trill only stalk alts °R Will a bhuenet 1,4hy ; it looks better wilt #ut -�tne lion a bronze„ 1l eoden—” Do you see that old twel over there? 111* face looks a hundred and his hair is as lthael; as charcoal ; he certainly must dye. " Edgely--"Ah, well; so must wo all." At Fergus Falls, Minn., on Sunday night Henry Veber began shooting at his wife, ton and three daughters. Tho son sial one daughter were bit, al d may die. 'Titan Reiter attacked his W. fe with a knife and st:ebbed her several time;,. The ravage then wound up by banging himself. . Ten easons FortheWonderfui Succuss of Hood's Sarsaparilla, the &'lost Popular and Most Er,t°e iveiy Sold Medicine in America. Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses great medicinal nitwit, which it positively demonstrates when fairly tried. 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I then tried Northrop & I.y an's Vegetable Discovery, and the benefits if have received from this roedioine are such that x cannot withboid this expression of ray gratitude. It acts imrne.. diately upon the Liver, and its good effects are noticed at once. As a Dyspepsia remedy 1 don't thinly it can be equalled." INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE. ARDENED AND ENLARGED Mrs, H. ldalt, Navarino, N.Y.s writes ; "For years X have been troubled with Liver Complaint, The doctors said my Liver was hardened and enlarged, i was troubled with Dizziness, Pain int my Right Shoulder, Constipation, and gradually losing flesh all the time, AU food soured on my stomach, even with the closest attention to diet, Y 'was wader the care of three physioians, but did not get any relief. A friend sent me a -bottle of Northrop & e I.yC><lAii s Vegetable Discovery, and it affords roe much pleasure to inform you that the benefit I have received from it is far beyond ray expectation. X feel better now than 1X have dons for years." ' t 1 . P'""g :t 7 txlslt .N. C., A tI �erzZ g AL u et t. t<,i &u:ifata,atet, $nifty;,: and h:xnosusea 1"att• 1 torments -met' totezemort Gtootoomy1ste,wit tuts-teUtu„sn:. JLf',rvrtsITXF. a; :7'0 uncourittre 5CLat to ertvenr. Wine 1.120 i•':tCEiTHEIVtt1. Scraet-ymen, Tomato, Ont,tallia:mesa larailt xeter umbor Yard '1Ite underri, nett wishes t.) inform the publie in general that ho keeps --constantly in stook— Ail Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL DRESS OR 'UNDRESSED A large steel; of Hemlock always on hand at mill prices. Flooring, Si ng, dreesed. -inch, inch and-a•quarter, ineh'and-a,half and two inch. Sash Doors, (hinds, :llaultlings and all Finishing Material, Lath, eke. SU1Nt;LESe'eSPEUI'.tLTY.-Comltctitionehallenged. The best and thelttttgest Mock, and atlowest prieea. Shingles A 1, .All ono timber thoroughly seasone and ready for use. No shrinkage assured. A e 11will 'car out the above. Tuft OLD ESTABLISHED Jas. 11V Bili, J tainSt 483 Solid Gold 'crotch. held for etlar:tio.uute lately.�'-j( East sal wale/tin tbo worT1. redact tInekeeper. War- 2aa I tt ranted. Deasy oi.r s.. !looting Case,. nod, la.. and gene' alses,whh wr.' . and aces of equal v,; •• Ont I'e wenn oean:bh ' r c� toSttl,,r,, ul. our Tarte rtnti %' '•+.art "' tublo line of Slfaueehotrt L.{ i. ; ya , •- Samples.ib, These anopia, as "=Ypw • • wed as the swatch, we seed Fres, end ager you havalrato them in yeti Dome farm months and ws pn than to lupe, oe:ay;tarecanal,theybecomeyouravepre?_c_0 That. :....:ie at nota iyn n aura of raeelrtna: rho b�3ntc1• ERRORS OF' YOUTH. Nervous De- b ty, Seminal Losses and Premature Decay, promptly and permanently cured by i)oe$ not interfere wit • • 'etor nuns occupation and fully restores lost vigor and insures perect manhood. Pricy SI per box. Sold by all drug - „lets. Sole Prop.iotor, H. SCHOFIELD, Seho- ileld's Drug Store, Brat STanas, Tononvo. HE LAST VOYAGE. Arrival of the Steamship Harlaw at Hali- fax front Newfoundland. HALIFAX, Jan. 14.—The S. S. Harlaw has arrived, completing her last trip to Newfoundland for the season. Capt. Far- quhar reports very boisterous weather on the Newfoundland coast. He left the chan- nel on Sunday evening, called at St. Paul's the following morning andlanded the mail. He found all well on the island, Supt. Campbell reports the gale of Saturday, Dec. '27, as the severest for many years. One of his boats was completely broken up. On Tuesday, December 30, a severe,gale from the north-east damaged the cable so that com- munication by telephone was. cut off. The break is supposed to be near the island, where the cable passes over a ledge. Should the water become smooth Mr. Campbell hopes to be able to repair the break. After leaving St. Paul's the Harlaw pro- ceeded towards the Magdalen islands to try, if possible, to bring away the crew of the American schooner .Admiral, wrecked at Bryon island, nine miles north of the Mag- dalene. After steaming through large quan- tities of ice the Harlaw succeeded in reach. ing Amherst, were the wrecked were, and after considerable delay and agood deal of hard work caused by the. drift ice succeeded in getting Captain Harding and his crew on board. The Admiral was on a voyage from,. the Bay of Islands to Gloucester with a car- go of herring. The vessel and cargo were a total loss. The island being completely sur- rounded by ice, the men had given up all hopes of a vessel being able to reach them this winter. There was great rejoicing when the Harlaw was seen steaming through the ice. A good deal of credit's due Capt. Far- quhar for the effort he made at this season of the year, which, it believed, was never before attempted. A terrible plague of diphtheria in Croatia hasalrcady destroyed hundreds of children, and in many instances parents are letting their'echildren die without medical aid, hav- ing lost all with in the doctors. The depopulation of Iceland is going on steadily, The depreciation in the valise of the Iand had been very marked of late, whilst the taxes have considerably increased, and the Icel,anclers are said to beernigrating in shoals. Tho population, which was 80,000 ten years ago, is now tinder 60.000 h 1 . t:ict;liendacheand rel eve all the troublesinel •' •:tt to a bilious state of the system, such as ..ifainess, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after t, 'ng Iain In the Side, &o, While their most a c:asrlcable recces:3 has been shown in curing Ircadache, yet CAuT1ta's Ln-rw1 Lrran PIL r.r,' equally valuable in Conatipation, curing • n•1 preventing this annoying complaint, while • raise correct all disorders of the stomach, • .;date rho liver and regulate the bowels, > . s if they only cured •a,' they would be almost priceiesa to those, ▪ suffer from. this distressing complaint: fortunately their goodness does not end •! MI, and those who once try them will mid • , :xe little pills valuable in so manrways that ` ,ey will not be willing to do without them. is;ns after all sick head •s rho bane of so many lives that here is whores :•r snake our. great boast. Our pills cure it :-",.1q others do not. �. •e ,'s Lams Lrvus PILLS are very small y easy to. take. (Inc or two -pills wake . N . Tbeg aro strictly vegetable ar.,l de :rib i or purge, but by their gentlo canon ' '•x all Alin use them, In vials at Ca cents: for $1. Sala everywhere, or sent by mall. ,. CAETNII Dll CO., i?err YorL' - ' 'i 30.24:2•3n. DIPALJEM RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, Sore Throat, Frost Bites, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Etc. Sold by Drnggists and;Dealers everywhere. Fifty Ceuta1 Laugua bottle.sgee Directions in 1 THE CHARLES. A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, Md. Canavan Depot : Toronto, Ont,