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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-4-23, Page 2"ele' THE RIVALS, KEN NIUE CHAPTER IL " titer, what's the gores. for" Mr. Leith Leanungtom gazing at his wife over the top of his evening paper. "She's an ezgrateful little thing r teife exelainted angrily. "To think of the way I've treeeed her just as if she heel been uly--rny—my sister : Heaps o reople have aeked me, Who is that girl who is state Mg with yea t" No one ever ge.eseed from trey treatment of her that she was Ilstroltiet gov- erness Takeu her out, and given her evening dresses, and everything ! And now that she ahould leve me at two day's no- tice .1" "Well, but whet is she leaving fore'' re- peetedMr. Leamington. "Oh, el e gives no reasou. Reason ! What eeasen could she giver Mr. Leamington !coked puzzled. "/ don't consider it cotranonitr honest his wife went on. "Ater my bringiug her leere, only, to stay barele, four menthe,. She eertainly leronght me three ptoundstield said she would like to repay me zor her ticket /tut theu there are the dtveses:" "They were eta olio a yours d011e lerp, wereu t thee- 2" her blamed aeked. Ilis wife looked, sure deed. 4' Yes," be etude after a pause, "two of them were ; hut Oat makee no difference." 44 Did she not give any re4aQUI or say abe was sorry, ur anything "Oh. she cried, and apologised, and said ebe could aever forget ray leimittees. and that elm coudift help it. Rut I told her that AO mere words could alter my opittion of her heartleas conduct." Mr. Leamington rustled his t paper. " Probably the poor Utething --- he began, after a, peeve. "Oh, of course, it you are gcing to take Ler nert, you mey as well say a once thattit• tve.s 1 thee was in the wrong, ane that I haven't beep kind to bet." "No; I don't say that ; but I do think the girl isa good little girl, awl vety COUS:'livutiona. and }menet on Cipitz4Ity witn Harolil ; the little eult ie roily netting into Aar' kllid I MU sorra- she 25('Ing;gtett I'm eurehe wouldri t go and put tem to sell the treeuvenienee a gettiag 4 IIQW governess etitiemit a proper reaeen. Awl I don't see wh,y any hoe- should, be metsed for her reasen7.-110, 1 denit. And 1 shell tell her that if she tries for a ttew ettuatien I shall he delightet1 to give her a teetitteinial." "Leith Leetnessom at end stand at eltuad. He reed his sewsparen hey hatl Leen mars lel ten years ouil he nail never revolted I ekes'. For five miuutee ltdre. Leann:anon g,;411,41 at MIN mere ut amazement then tri anger, and the eilenve grew ettPretirte. ;qr. Leamilegrt% grew neeasy, mad, with irritable netvonenees, Mdett his neitepeper into a titian equareand went tin wattle:. Mn. Leamingtoh rote and left the room. " il iseLents," aiel Mrs. Leamington .coblly next meriting, "if you an make it convenient to leave this afternoon inateed of this evening, I shall tie obliged." May Lueans eyes tilled with tears, but she murmured assent. So that afteruoon, efore Mr. Leamington returned rrom his office. a cab drove nit to the door, and May's trunk was hoisted up bythe driver, ant May game di own and got n, with no corn - forting knowledge of any sympathetic, friend left behind, except Harold, who sobbed bitterly, and begged to he taken too. All the way to the station she kept far back in the cab, but her eyes were on the busy Streets, and often the started, arid the colour cane into her cheeks as she caught sigbt of a figure that seemed familiar, and then her face fell again—it was always some one else. At the station also she gave a wistful glance up and down, though a railway station Is an unlikely place to choose as a promenade, unless you happen to be seeing a friend off or are meditating a journey. Then the train rush- ed in, end May ,got hurriedly into a third- -class carriage'leaving her box to fate. for fear the train should go off without her and then the crowd stood back, the doors, were banged to, the whistle sounded, and; the engine puffed out elates of steam and started 01/1 taniale lIttle 1.12e,re7 levers fu ld heed Many hopes it left behind, er lune many hvea it ras tevernig, for good or for ill. And May leant I tie: and glut her tired eyes, and was carried home into beautiful peaceful old Devon. All the world had gone wrong with Mrs: Flushton. Her nephew had followed a dis- missed governess into the country, and he had gone to ask her to be hiswife. Mrs. Flush - ton bad spoken her mind freely to him on the subject—perhaps she had been a trifle harsh, but then her disappointmenthad been bitter, and the blow had been so unexpected. He had answered her very gently and very firmly, and had only got a little angry when she had said something about her fortunethat she had intended to leave him; and he d answered that it was her love and not her fortune that he had asked of her, and that he intended taking his wife back to India with him. And then he had said that he would never forget her naotherly kindness to him— it was the first love be had. known in his life —and then he had gone—gone to the dismiss- ed governess, to lay himself at that girl's feet, her own boy, that she had grown so fond of l—he had gone, and Mrs. Flushton was miserable. She sat knitting by the fire, her fair, fat, good-natured face wrinkled and troubled. Presently she got up and glanced at the clock. "The carriage will be here in a quarter of an hour," she said to herself ; "where shall I call this afternoon? Wednesday --I believe I've lost the list of calls I made out. Wed- nesday. I wonder, should I ?—Yes! go and call on Mrs. Leith Leamington I need give no hint; but I could 'Nether on to talk about the girl." Mrs. Flushton arrived early, and Mrs. Leamington was alone.. She was sitting in her Queen Anne drawing -room, dressed in yellow silk tea gown, her frizzled gold hair showing off against a pale pink and amber pomegranate wall -paper, her tca-table drawn up to her side , and a broken lute leaning against an inlaid cabinet by her, and a sickly fragrance of lilies in the air. Mrs. Flusha n, in her fars and crimson velvet bonnet surmounted by an upright critosou feather, sat down somewhat cau- tiously on one of the spindle -legged elbow chairs. "Will you take tea or chocolate, Mrs. 'Flushton ?" "Tea, please," said Mrs. Plushton severe- ly. She disapproved of innovations. "So you have lost your pretty little goy- ernese? she began, as Mrs. Leamington handed her her cup. "Yes," replied Mrs. Leamington icily ; „ I thought it better to send hex home," " hluels better 1." Mrs, Flushton rejoined heartily. " Me')." I ask what you MOAB 'by thee r asked her hosteee, pausing nth her haucl on the hanitle of the teapot. " Oh, nothing 1" replied Mrs. Fluslatoit, regrettieg her Impetuosity. I aek," Mrs„ Leamington continued, merely, "1 eeause I think I undeistand whit you allude to. It was certainly very evideut." " I only weeder I never eawit . eecetun- ed Mrs. Flushton, casting prudence to the winds ; "hut I must say, Mrs. Leamington, that if it were ZQ evident to you, I think you might—in fact, in the position in which you tetd. 1 think yoii enaht, to have warned me r *' Why t" The queetion. Kt calmly and shortly put, eok Mrs. Flusitton'a breath away. For a oment she gasped, and then her wrath rose. Why ? Why e Weil, I think you might eee why : I think you might have kuown that I shoeld not eare for my ueptiew—my nephew, to irotry a-- Nit ell, 1 daretey ehe was a very nice girl, but hardly sultana for my nephew." " No ? Dear me, now," eaitilrs. Leave ngton, with extreme concern. " ard thought it 1,SW suitAble : Of ceuree there would have beeu the difficulty of leaving the mother ; hut perhaps the might have gone to India with them. I really can't vee what you can object to in Mite Lem, —What don Captain Osliorne gay to her departure ?" 44 Say—eay ? Why, hen gone her honie 1" fa her joy at Mrae Flusittonte complete downiell. Mr. Leamington quite forga her rotiretteity it; hogtete patentees. " Well, / miller it vele- right of him," else answer- Flostwon rose, and glanced scornful- ly upaud down Mrs. Leamiugtou, from the tortoiseshell comb that surmounted her hair to the breeze elute with the buckle on it EiNkt rested on the fectettool. Mrs. Leamington, stroug in the blissful eonseionettees of perfective, steed the: eerutinv tintlinchiugly. 4.1 Ata surprIsed," begen Mrs. Fluelito her twin -seen feethers needing with Waimea- eion—" I sem tee -prised. Ilia yea *honlqi vt»ture to say that. I wish to make no emu- plainte ; 1 have myself to blame for hem; eo elind : Inn I only hope there hes been ect &Ansa in this matter . Mrs. Lmatimigton rate, etailing very sweetie'anti treeing her yellow earentettei over the thole Ala dear Mae Fiusliton, I don't wonder at your feeling a little vexed at your Widile$ being vaned. and our Wang set at naught, ae it were 1 It is natural for you to be angry ; but you meet remember t het young men will be young men ; they are very itemistroug in smelters of Ode kind; and after all, you know, you !neve no claim on Captain Osborne, have You? You lies'er saw lum till he came home this Nvin. ter, did you ?—Ah, well 1 young men, espe- eially a they have mingled ntuelt with the world, are very cold-hearted ; you could hardly expect four months— They'll take all they van get, and give you nothing but Atgratitude in return ; perhaps even laugh at your fondness behind yourback 1—must you go alreatlye—feetnasee.'" "Mrs. rinslitonpaid some more calls, and then she drove: home and dressed for dinner, and dined all alone. Her remiss?. last poison- ed arrows rankled in her breast, and the house felt very lonely and tilent. She sat alone by the draweug-room, lire, and her spirits sanklower and lower, " Lamb at my fondnese behind my hack 2 I don't be - Hove it 1 Perlums I was harsh to him, he spoke up in much a manly way! How proud Mary would have been of him ! He never know a mother, poor fellow 1 How gentle he would have been to her 1 as lie alaays was to wonder what she would have done? 011, I don't believe she would hoe% seen him unhappy 1 I meant to be a mother to him for her, but have I been it ? Hnven't I let pride— Oh, my boy, my Fred 1 If •,lie can make you happy, and if she is afpod A footman came into the room softly and put eomecoals on to thefire and stole out again. nip; pusliton wept on klattnig t the Bre bane up melt:rack-led for a little time, and then died down again, and the rooin was reduced to an oppressive silence. "Such a bright cheery, manly fellow 1" What a difference his absencemakes 1" Mrs. FlusIdon thought. Half an hour passed, and then the silence was broken suddenly by a coal falling out of the fire. Mrs. Flushton started, shivered, and drew her light shawl around her. .A sense of utter desolation and depression crept over her until it touched her heart with a finger of ice. Was all her life thenceforward to be like this s Mrs. Flushton was not given to looking much beyond the interests of the moment, but now she suddenly thought of the misty years stretching far away into the future. She was hardly past the prime of life ; she had half her life yet to live; was it all to be so lonely, so loveless, so1-- The door opened and her nephew walked in. His face was white and drawn, ancl his eyes were wild and moody. "Why, Fred! what's the matter ?" ex- claimed his aunt, starting up. "She has refused me," he answered short- ly, and dropped down into an armchair and stared into the fire. The vicar's wife sat in the sunny vicarage parlour, busily looking over some white frocks for a destitute baby, while the baby's mother stood by the door anxiously watch- ing, and unconsciously curtsying at intervals as the heap grew larger. "There, Mrs. Hewitt, I think that should do; and you can sendHetty for the fiaamel to morrow. The woman came forward with a profusion of thanks, and began rolling up her goods in a bit of white calico. " May I come in, 'Mrs. TNT, Ole 2" paid a voice at the Frenchwindow that opened on to the lawn. The vicar's wife turned with a smile of welcome. "Come in, May dear! I was half hoping for a visit from you this morn- ing 11 have so much to do, I was longing for a helping hand." As May Lucas stepped in, Mrs Tweedie looked up and noticed her red eyelids, and thought: The poor little thing has some froth trouble about that love affair of hers: she has come to ask advice.". "It is all sewing, dear, so we can sit by the fire and chat with my big work-baskee between us.—Shut the window ; it is very cold, though it looks so sunny." May came in and nodded to Mrs. Hewite " How are baby and Hefty ?" she asked. "Ah, Hetty 18 a very naughty Orb". replied the vicar's wife, without waiting for her to reply. "She hasn't been at the catechising class. for I don't }WOW how long " " Wen, Ma!atn, it's just this way. What with baby and • iS We% never mind now. Don't forget the flannel to-morrow.—Goodanoruing. I hope the frocks will lit baby," The woman curtsied her way out; and Mrs. Tweedie shut the dor after leer stud returned to Mey, " Firet, bow is your mother, deal" she said, sitting down, and eelectieg a netdie out of her ease. " Very well, thank you, deer Mrs. fweedze.' " Anti next, dear, what about youreel I suppose you want to krow if the vicar has had ..arier suitable Answer to his advertise - meat about yen t" She gleneed at the ntrl AS she epeite, wondering if she were begin - nine, to regret having seat away -her lover. Mrs. Tweetlie and the vicar were both very fond, of May 'LUCAS, god on her sudden return from the post which they bad found for Ler, a half -tearful coutideuce of her piti- ful 'story bad been drawn free, May by the - vicar's wife iu answer to her questionieg. A day or two ago Mts. Twdedie hadanet May awl Captain Osborne in the road that _ led to the cottaget and had easily guetsed who Was the stranger in their unfrequented village. She bad returned beaming to the vicarage, and informed the vicar all had come right at last But as May appeared next day MHO white and wistful than ever. apd with no 14f.Wa o esonfide, Mrs. Tweedie lied taken her severely to task, awl bad been completely unable to untlerstend the quixotic remote May bad to offer for liming ruLned her happiness with her own hand. &ley made no answer to Mrs. Tweediest remark about the Advertisement, but finer - ed apieee of linen nervously, and then aek- ed, a strained voice ; $1101 1 bent this or run it I" "Weil, rue it, dear. But you'd better not use bleolt thread on white calico," an - steered the vicar's nife May leuglied a little heiterical laugh that exidtti in 80111ot/deg very like a tole " The feet is, I am a little upset this she began, speaking eainfully, "by -by 3. letter I'v Would you like to tell me ;Jaen it, dear 1" For AaSIVeY, May took the letter out of her ecehe and lteutled it to Mrs. Tweedie, alto took her spectacles out of the can that s kluging, with her key% hy Wel chain to br 44.., and vat -0y put them on and 1;euan to d. May got up and went aerose and looked out et the waidow a the fresh green lawn, where the etartlinge were hopping about intent on neet-Intilatiug, and then her eyes wandered to where, among, t 0 emeinn bud. ding trees, the queer little old church stood, with gray tower against the blue of the elty. it was the hour for the ehoir-boys' practice, atid every now and then a distant chord on the organ and the sound of the boys' }ugh emcee, endlessly repexteug one thfficult etude of the anthem, mingled with the sound of the bird's singing near at hand, and the ntore distant seem& from the fax -off Presently May was startled by a hand be- ing laid gently on her shoulder. " My dear, would you mind if I took this letter to the vicarl lel like to hearwhat he eve before I advise yon ; though I know quite well what I Nimbi advise you," she aided. "111(100(1, the vicar will advise just what you advise, for it is always what is wisest and hest," May replied lovingly. Perhaps that is wiry I alwava consult him, beceetse we always think the same i Rut really, my dear," she added seriously, " this - is so important a matter, affecting the hap- piness of two—or three lives, that I couldn't take the entire responsibility. So lusty I rea4 it to him t" May nodded ; and the vicar's wre trotted across the room, went out and hanged the door, and presently the door of the VIOAT'S study opposite was heard to open and shut, and then all was silence. May sank into a low wicker -work chair. She felt her fate was being decided, and her heart began to beat with great dull thuds, and the room swam before 1:er eyes. "1 could uot trust to myself ; but if they think So too, then it muse be right, and I Win go," she kept saying to herself, like a sort of les- son. Meanwhile, this was the letter that the vicar was reading to himself at leis study table, evhile his wife sat opposite, watching his sad, gentle few, end firm, kind mouth as he read, MY LEIB Miss Lratet—I do not know if I am not taking an unpardonable liberty in writing to you; but I am an old woman, and a very miserable one, and you must forgive rne. My dear, My nephew has taken his berth in the Decran, and he sails for India the day after to -morrow. Now, all I want to ask you, dear, is this: are you sure, are you very sure? If so, then you must not let this letter affect you, and we must all try to bear our lots bravely. But if you are not sure, if you have let any con- sideration besides your own feelings in- fluence you, oh, for Gml's sake, come up to London by the 10 N. mail to -morrow, and I will meet you at the station. Oh, I know what it is that I am asking of yoa but what else can be done? I dare not speak to him; and I feel my heart just breaking. I am an old woman ; I haven't a relation left except this poor boy of mine ; and of what use is all my wealth to me if I cannot make the only person I have to love happy with it? He is my dead sister's child, and I had hoped so much of him—he had made such a place for himself in my empty old heart. Must he go away and leave me again? 011, don't let anything I say influence you if you do not care for him for himself ; but, if you mistook, oh, then, don't let your pride lease you to make three people wretched and spoil three lives If you send me a telegram I will meet you. The DeccaTh does not sail till evening, so we shall be in time.—Forgive me, my dear, and believe me to be, your friend. ELIZABETH BLUSHTON. It seemed quite a long time till the door iopened again and the vicar and hiswife came in together, Mrs. Tweedie's face beaming in such a manner as to show plainly that her husband and she was agreed. "My dear," began the vicar ; but his wife interrupted him. " It is all right, May, darling; he thinks as I do 1" "1 think there can be no hesitation, my dear. The feelings that prompted you before were very honourable; but now this letter shows you that if you refuse to marry this young captam, all the ill will happen to him Vutt yiot thought you would bring about by accepting him. 1 think your duty is quite clear—if your incinatiou is." Therewas a pause and May said nothing, but the soft pink colour came into her white cheeks, and a soft light into the eyes they were turned away towards the green lawn; The vicar's wife knew it all before, so of course the vicar did too. "1 will go up to town myself with you 10- night.—And remember, you must be married from the vicarage—your own old home!" the vicar continued. JOHN LABATITS pliafale Ale Aud. XXX MO Stmt. Ifieheet awaras arta detlels for Pnrityand Gee. - leuce at Centennial lkthibitio n, Pbi»d1ph1 1876; Canada. 1C•76 i Australia. 1371; awl Paris, France, 1878. TEST MO X Lk S t:e0 Fid. 1.1 11. 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ASK YOUGEO 4:1 11:1 Lt VIM "And well ask Mrs. Leith Leamington to the wedding!" added bis wife joyously. .After that, a little hush fell on the three ;ac the open wincloW.. Tlao vicar's wife wee ' busily and silently planning tl.e ele!a.ils ot the wedilmg festivities. The vicar's thought , had goniehow wandered back to May's father Itie predeceeser, whom he had known slightly In Oxfort days, atu whew grave laymthe churchyard clotehy, in the midat of ' tlte little viliage that bad Wen the swami of his work. May herself was trying to realize lt... She had been so unhappy theeelast few days ; such a hard fate she had thought to have been hers and row —and tow -- The eltoristere had finished their practice, arel were etvagglieg home in twos aid , threes across the tielde. They had left the • church door open, afid cue mall troy, the pride of the village choir. hail been kept to practice his solo. Suddenly his clear , high voice broke the (met morning =came 1110 words of the anthem; " HOW beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel • of peace le -how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace 9—aud bring eresal tidings—and brutg glad tidings -- glad tidings of good things fa ETIlp Exp.] TELE FIY.KPER 18 aablISaed ovtztry Thunday worn 222, TI MES STEAM PRINTINQ HOUSE 4.3p-8treet.neady.ppo.ite Jewetau swAc.azoto,,,,,At..bmohn w.41e4. neither:it urietora iroimertninannirser.taAr.trtriNa eente eh fig INatqaeOti naerkion ,per line 9 mite To insure Insentient, aoverneureent F should hs Swaths nettater tbart Wednesday IPOVaiO3 Oereera PitiVT Q PEP ARTAIRNIT is one 'the lareett be . ,eateguippectie the Oonnty •Ifuron. %L. A, 4t: a %notelet t u, nt 'Mat ra4Ot% e ir prvist rt4 Cieesions itegtvrtling Nowt. papers. AnYlizeslIVel t itsitn%).± r, tlys'art'r • the post:Oleo, whether eirceted in his name or • nuollum s. or whether he has hucribstl or not • is responsible for payment, • 2 If a per.on orders his paper diwontinued be must pay all arrears or the publisher may continue to send it until the payment is made, and then collect the whole amount, whether thepaper is taken from the Mike or not. 3 In snits for subReriptions. the Mil may be initititicil in the plaeu ufberv the paper IN pub Malted, although the egbeeriber may retitle bundretle of m hes away. I Tile court: have devideil that retneing to takeumvApapers orperladleals front *he int.+ renuniing anti iceman; thenounealled Prima fame evidence of intesetiento freadt eta_ LONG LIM The Conditions Lend to the Attain - went of Advanced Age. Farr:tele, as usual, make a large proper - two, lti per cent. of our list, says the Phila. delphia Ont of 1,000 old men in this eauntry noted Ity Dr. C. M. Hanunond 461 were farn-tere. and 44 nearly all began life Num the farm." As three-fourths of ou population and fully half our workers are on farms this uroaortion is not as large as it appears on the surface and indicates that the Chance of Old age is really no greater on the farm than anywhere OM Olt of the iiftyoline French ventenarians whose occut • petions were known twenty-two were farm- ers and eight land -owners, so that in France., while a larger proportion than here sprang from the laud, the proportion is still one. third lees than the thremfourthe of the total inhabitants, which the land bears in France. The moat distinguished of French cente- nariatne Al. Chevrettil, who died this year at 103, had Jived in Paris all his life. The world over the chance Loth of death and of birth seems less in the modern city than in the country. In other words Loth the birth and death rate are less in cities. Special habits have little or nothing to do with long life, and it 'will be found as our Rat of old men grows that a fair proportion use spirits and tobacco. Early hours are the rule and a dinner m the middle of the day, as well as offpsring, but these ere ao universal in the aunt from -which old men and women ,come that it is not easy to draw conclusions. The very careful medreal inquiry made by Prof. Humphrey allowed that a little over the average height and weight—for men 5i feet 8e Inches and 138 pounds, and for woman 5 feet 3 inches and 129 pounds—was most favorable to long life. Itis a familiar .medieal dictum that a man is "as old as his arteries," but there is little in such facts as have been gathered to sup- port it. But the encouraging lesson in all such facts and figures is the proof they offer that the average of human life is lengthening and the years of health, activity, and com- fort Were:whim Q1t1 men mid women are fee More eomillite than they oitee were. In England, from 1838-54 to 1881-82, the death rate dropped from 2e.5 per 1,000 to 19.5, and this stands for an average a ddition of two years to the lives of men and three years and four months to the lives of wo- men. In this country, which shares this advance, this Means that at the end of thirty years 4,000,000 more people, cr a state as large as Pennsylvania, will be alive, who under the earlier death rate would have been dead. In Sweden, where a longer compari- son is possible, the death rate in 1770-90 ( was 28.5 per 1,000; in 1880-5 it was 17.5. t The death, rate in London was once 40 per 8,000; it is now 16, 16, and even 13. The death rate here is far higher -2.25. This enormous addition has changed life after 60 or '70 from the "lean and slippered panta- loon." ofeShakspearee-to hale, vigorous, and hearty years, in which life is enjoyed to the utmost. If the question is often asked what civilization has really done to increase hutaan happiness, we can unhesitatingly point to the green old age which we chronicle Ibis morning—every man and woman proof of an advance we all share in a larger or less degree. People who Eat Bonen. There was an account recently given here of a man who crunches the shells of the boiled eggs that he takes at breakfast. There is another man in town who eats bones and who is known among his friends as the "great American bone -eater." He is a teientist, and when a question was put to him he said :—" I do not follow this habit for any fantastic reason. I beleve that the organic chemical elements found in bones, such as phosphate and carbonate of lime, are greatly needed in the human frame for the development of the osseous system. I do not make it dinner of bones, but merely take a little bone delicacy at times'when not hi company. I will go through the rib bones of a spring chicken or quail, or what not. I will have the grilled leg bones of a young chicken, which are easily eaten when well grilled, and are very nice. Then there are the grilled bones of a sucking pig, or of a lamb, and, in fact, there are sundry bones that can be prepared in various ways to the advantage of the eater. I have had benefit from bone eating, and I know several bone eaters. Some of the African regroes, who are very strong, eat the bones of game after making theni crisp at the fire, and books tell of the bone eaters of Europe in olden times. I would advise you to get o few dainty bones in nice order and try thene":— New York Sun. BREAO-MAKERIti W 72. «EaseLSVW MU UV. ze afr f:RMASTitt Fea U44 fo's' Ala 'MAI Vier PUREST9 Co''TRORICESTI BES) CONTAINS NO ALUM, AMMONIA, LIME, PHOSPHATES, orally miuticra materials. E. W. GILLETT, "Ingar.ZA.S.Ta. linen ate: tnilleseeee7teneneeraetteeegm VIZE.Q311AN'S WORN.1.3 OWID ER S. ArsatActranttotate. Contain their oats •euratitiva. 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