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C-7e2L-X47.-t_tWal, .111.1/4"scs=cf*,-4, APPLEDORE FARM CRAMER XL She looked at him, and her e?ree, which A Small wicket gate on the right of the "kilning with tee,0 whieh she eoold hard, just now bad been so f di a love, were perett led into at WOO alley or poososez aria- ly keep from Wittig, at the end of thi$ another gate led mte the toyou are sorry to lop me, then? You pleasent green orehard. The orchard wan uuderstand how my grief got the better of very large, and stretched away to the high» road on the right of the farm -house, an NSW screened by a eontinuation of the high yew hedge till it approached the farm Wild. ings ; then the hedge became more rural in character, and just now looked like a tangle of wild roses. The fruit trees were old and gray, and their hoheo covered, boughs were old and twisted ; but already the immature fruit— apples, pears, and pluirie-epromised a plen- tiful harvest, It was growing dusk when Ruth evened the inner gets and came into Ws green pieasaunce ; for the apple -trees stretched oat long, crooked brandies that intercepted the declining light, and the girl started as men in a smookfrock came out of the deep shadow with a sprig of green betveen. his lips, "Good -evening to you, noise." He pulled his forelock as he spoke. "Is it you, John ?" Ruth said, laughing. me just now. 1 mey perhaps not see you again for months, darling Ruth. You will not be hard-hearted I Say you love we, my own girl I' While he spoke his arm had again twined itself round her waist, but in a less masterful fashion ; and as he pressed her to his heart and rearmarek hie sorrow at this parting, Ruth's answering sorrow broke down her pride and her maidenly re- serve. She burst into teems, and sobbed out her grief while she hid her hot face on his :shoulder, He soothed her and kissed her till her tea,ra flowed more gently. Presently she asked him why he wan so suddenly leaving Appledore. He put his hand softly under her chin and raised the lovely, ahame-strielten fuse. "Why, indeed? How can 1 leave such A darling 7" he said petulemtls, "I want to take you with me, and never lose sight of you again. Why am 1 going, you ask? "You gave me a fright. I took you for a, Because, dear girl, I have prejudiced and tyrannical tramp." parents. Some busy fool has John Bird, a s'ouching, heavy-footed been telling them about your beauty, and ploughman, lifted his hat and began they have taken it into their heads that you to scratch hitt red head. "Frightened will fascinate me. You see, my precious chuckled. "A tramp wuunot find it a jo at 1 i Lord I was you, miss?" He e Ruth, they have spoken too late. I have to climb that there hedge, an' ennust climb l_oeve,, you, from the first minute I saw unless him coined a,oross the farm -yard, Good.night t'ye, Miss Ruth I" He began ,..I. She quivered- with delight at this avow - to shuffle toward the gate by 'which the girl "" ‘H had come in, and then he *topped again. said timidly. you ?" Have you really?" she " Miss% find it plaguey moist in the or. 'lie looked fondly at her, chard. There have been a don as heavy as "I have a mind to punish you fa the a two -hours' rain shower." doubt in that question." Then, as she "All right, John 1" Ruth gave him a drew herself away from him, he said, "I pleasant mile. "Good -night i 'Tell. Susan willletyou off if you confess how long you that if she can manage to come round on h you have cared for me." Saturday there will be something. for her." Ruth looked up with her saucy smile, "Good night and thank ye, rues." john buses she met his eyes her head drooped closed the gate behind him and went up the shyly, and her lover had to welcher to own alley.std in a tender whisper that she could not tell. "She be a trump—that she be," he s 1 "I did not think or know about it." she to himself. " Moren one as I've knowed said softly, "till I knew it was there." She would hesaid, 'What may you be loin' e ,, felt that she had owned too much; she , in the orchard at this time o' day, John . drew • herself out of his arms and put her but not Miss Ruth—not she I Even if she hand forward as if to keep him away. Site had ha' gueesed it she'd never ha' grudged looked at him anxiously as she said, "Why a poor man a few happles or a tatur. eily did your father and mother place you here? belief, she'd ha' been pleased of hie chance If they had inquired they would have o' gettin a few. Bless her. She's always learned that I lived with my father." cheerful, is Miss Ruth. The sight on she "Poor dears 1 they do not realize any be enough to warm a chap—ea salve for condition of life except their own," he said, sore eyes,' the *Maus says." smiling. "It could not occur to them—I It is possible that at another time Ratit am not sure that it would have occurred to might have been puzzled by John Bird's me in their place—that—that your society presence in. the orchard, but now she walked would have been likely to prove dangerous - on the soft, deep grass under the trees with- 1,,. attractive." Rah turned away her our giving him a second thought, The yew e head and colored with vexation. He saw hedge was too thick to see through, but on the movement, but he went on as if he were the right the orchard, was parted from the unconscious, "You must be merciful, dear angle of the high -road by an up-sloping girl. Remember, they have never seen meadow; and the hedge between this you. How could they dream that such a meadow and the orchard was a dwarf treasure of beauty was buried alive at hawthorn, over which, as she stood Appledore?" on the banir, Ruth could easily , see passers-by on the road be! ore ; the ,..,, Do not flatter, please. I cannot bear " they reached e protecting screen of He looked surprised at her abrupt tone. yew which made the middle of the orchard "My darling! surely it is not flattery to such a secluded meeting-pls. ce. Ruth say what 1 think !" smiled, and stepped quickly down from the He tried to take her hand, but she waved hedge -bank. Mr. Bevington was coming him back. She leoked, he thought, unus- along the road, but he could not have seen ually serious. . her; he was looking at a field of oats on the "Why did you try to make one care for other side of the way. The briars, covered now with pale, blushing, golden -hearted YOU? If you think their feelings are blossoms, hid an old disused gate nearer nItujal, surely you ought to have avoided the farm end of the orchard. Ruth fancied me ' Mr. Bevington was completely puzzled. the gate had been nailed up, and she wish - It was difficult to believe that this beautie ed she could open it. It seemed so hard oi,; ful girl who now held her head so proudly Mr. Bevington after his long tiring walk t erect and looked at him so gravely was the have to go round to the entrance at the merry, sunshiny creature he had been liv- back of the farm -yard. She wondered why ing and jesting with, or the tender, love - he had not come in by the lane that led stricken Rtith who had so lately been sob - down to the house from the road. bingi on his breast. VIC OF Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored. THETIMItlefLOVE Weakness, Nervousness, bebility; Land all the train of evils front early errors a later excesses, the resalts of overwork, sick. ness, Worry, etc. Full strength, development and tone given to every organ and portion of the body. Simple, natant methods, /mune. diets improvement seen. Tatilure impossible. 2,000 references. ook, egplanation and proofe Mailed (scaled) free, ERIE MEDICAL, COQ 4kti,111) PLY, jedicee they will never consent t receive mooned I. oeithe not merry you against their will." He WO down and kissed her, hut he did not speak at OWX 1 he felt angry,. "Think how young we are, he said, after a little. " Why need we frighten ourselves about things whiell may never happen? shall have more power when t am Older, Beeides, d do not de- pend *wholly on my parents. One of these days I must come M for My godfather's property; and then, dearest darling Ruth, I shall ba my own mentor, Everythiug may have changed even by the end. of this year. Tell me that you will keep our secret, To me it is an ex- quisite pleasure to share anything with you that is only known to us two," He did not wait for her answer. He clasped her in his arms and whispered that this was their last good -by: he had to leave the farm next morning early enough to catch the Orst train from Purley. "Your father has arranged everything most kindly, dearest; come." He dzeve her arm through his, arid they pamed up and down till the increasing gloom warned Ruth how late it was. Bevington remonstrated when she said she must leave him, but he was obliged ed to let her go. He stood among the trees looking after her, He was charmed, but she had puzzlee him in this last interview. 't She is a sweet darling," he thought, " but she is only half -won, Absence some- times makes the heart grow fonder. Well, we shall see." CHAPTER Ruth found her father smoking by the light of a single eandle. He did not often smoke in that room, but to -night he had wished to be alone, and there was always a chance that one of the servants Might pass through the great stone -floored house -place, which., though it was called a kitchen, was seldom used for cooking. Mr. Byrant raised his head and looked at his daughter when she came in, but Ruth kept in shadow, where she knew her face could. not be clear- ly seen. She felt thankful that meals were over for the day. After high -tea at seven o'olock her father amok ed. a pipe or two and semetimes drank a glass of ale. He usually chatted with his daughter before she went to bed, but to -night Ruth was impatient to be alone. Her head ached strangely; she hoped her father would not expect her to talk. He rose presently and, said he was going to bed. "I have to be up extra early," he added; "Bevington goes by the first train. Good- night, my laser In a tew minutes, the briers began to [f am not a stone or an icicle, dearest," shake violently, and then briars and the he said gentle. "How could I help loving half -hidden gate were pushed inward with you and longing for your love? I would a sudden jerk that scattered the faintly- not give up the happiness of these three tainted blossoms and sent their petals flying months for anything that could be offered over the grass. ,e me." Ruth stood under the trees silent and a Something in his words jarred her, and little startled by the young fellow's vehem- yet she loved him far more tenderly than ance. He stopped to replace the gate, she did when she canoe into the orchard. which 'he had almost forced from its rusted "Have you told my father you—you— hinges, and then he came to where she care for me ?" she said timidly. stood. He looked away from her. "Well, no. "You are a good girl," he said gayly. I could not do that till I had spoken to you. "Have you been waiting long ?" Now that I am to leave so soon, there She glanced saucily at him. ~ • seems no use in talking about it. He is "I should not have waited Ionia but 1 n already upset, I fancy, by my father's sad - have only just come. den change of plans • because you know it He looked at hergravely,and as she smil- was arranged that if I liked Appledore I ed at him he took her hand in his and held was to stay a collide of years. I have to it firmly. leave to -morrow, deem girl; and it is kinder "I want to know what has come to you. to say nothing itbou4e it to Mr. Bryant till Why have you changed to me? I do not I come again. Then, who knows what may think I have offended you. You are happen? Eh, darling ?" not touchy or smell -minded. You would' He took her -hand, but she turned so not take offenceat nothing, would you? white that he put his arm round her. He What is it? Won't you tell me, Ruth ?' thought she was faint. The tone of his words thrilled through " To•morrow 1 Oh, it surely cannot be her. She could not hide the sudden joy to -morrow 1" that filled her, and her eyes fell under the The agony in her voice ree.esured him. glow she Saw in his. She fried to look up, "There is, I fear, no help for it. My but it seemed as if she could not, mother writes she is not well, and she is "You will tell me, you sweetest girl!" anxious to have me at home. The fent is, His voice had a yet more tender tone; he I believe my father expected me to leave was thinking how beautiful Ruth looked to -day. His letter is peremptory—absurdly as she stood with flushed cheeks and down- foe, cast eyes listening to trim. "Ah 1" he went He pet his hand under her chin and rain - ori softly, "if you knew whatm,c, I have to tell edher you, you would have been kinder to e hsweet, pale face. %Arne sweetest, we have not many instead of colder these last days." I minutes left. Why should we waste them? "I am not vexed with you," she said --shy.I Promise me that you will write to me, my ly -"you havemot offended me." Ruth !" He kissed her very tenderly. She was so intensely grateful to him for owu d, to your letters." The girl's pride had I "The joy of my life will be in looking for- ke took both her hands in one of his and put his free arm round her waist. war Ruth shivered at his touch; it frightened broken down. In the near prospect of her, and yet she loved him more than ever, parting she once more clung to him. She felt that all her happiness was centeed in this assurance of his love that she could not I hie love but still conscience would not be vex him by drawing herself away. silenced: He drew her still closenand passionately this Rut "I have never kept a secret from father, kissed her glowing cheek. At broke away from him in alarm. she said," "and—and he is out of spirits. 1 cannot bear to deceive him I mayn't "You must not" she said in afrightened, hawe hurried voice. "No, please loose my hand He interrupted. "If you wore married, and let me go. I see now it was wrong to darling, you would have to keep your meet you here, Mr. Bevingtore but I ---I thought I might trust you. husband's secrets from your father." He let go he hand and looked imploringShe laughed at thee She Inked her ly et her. od own bright self again, he thought.' are right, dearest girl, I ought not cent" "That would be quite different. I should not be left to live alone with my father. to have been so abrupt ; it has all been too sudden for yoa. Yon see, darling Ruth, I Now I could not help the consciousness thee I was keeping something hidden from have been trying for days to find you alone him." not given me one chance. I onlyyoehtleehegart "I see you do not love me. You are to tell you how I love you, and now. Ab if you selfish, Ah, Ruth lit you loved me even of my own feelings juht no knew how dearly I love you, you would 4 little you would be glad. to do something take some pity on a fellow. Can't you fdeernemnyds eoak nits h hteeysuccess ei our love ecs:lo give mea crumb of eemiatl Won't you She was silent; she looked still doubt. say you love me before we say good -by? tui, 1 "Good -by 2" the girl stared at; him with h even 7» he sem, frightened, eyes, and he saw her love thin. ing in their depths. " You will think rite very ignorant and "You decline 1" he ‚whispered, as he bent old-fashioned," she answered quietly; but I have never kept anything front my tether. It will not be for long, will it, that I must keep this fleeted ?" Then her eyes ,filled with tears,' Moved out of all resetve, she said "la it not wiser to sey good -ley and over het, "yoti well own that you, do not Iwant to lose me? You Care for me enottgia don't you, to wish me to stay at the farm?" "You are not going away?" she seed in a in earnest it, saying goed.by 1') end it? If your people have those nre. read, and the thought ot hooka brought the memory of Mr, Olilford. She. tooled feom the thought of him, She hoped he would uot resume Ids visits at •A.ppledere. It Would not be possible to talk to him as she used to talk, She should always be with - lug that be eves gr, Bevingten. Ruth would not have dreamed of seeking_ her father's advice. She had been accustomed to see him consult her grandfather on all stibjects, and until Mr, ,letokeeay died she had looked up bo the unerring wisdom of the old scholar. It imourred to her that She had hegleeted for weeks her visits to the grave where her grandfather lay, be- side her mother. She rose and openee door beide the tire -place leading to' the kitchen, and when she had given her orders to the cook she put op her hat and Vent along the road to the village chureh. (To, Bei. OONTINIIED. He bent over Ruth and kissed her. Their faces were so much alike in point of features and complexion, and yet the ex- pression was so very different. The frank sweetness of the girl's mouth was the dom- inant expression in Philip Bryant's; but his lips lacked the chiselled firmness of Ruth's and his chin had not the deci- sion which made hers so remarkable. Her forehead was broad and square also. Her father's forehead expressed benevolence rather than much power of judgment. The eyes, alike in form and oolor,were unlike in their revelation of character; while. Ruth carried her head, erect and looked frank and fearless, her father's head was often ben forwari, and his glance was shifting and unsteady. Ruth felt sure she should not sleep, and she wanted to be up early, in the hope of getting a last glimpse of her lover. She was, however, so healthy that her nerves were strong, The excitement of the evening had tired her witheut creating that sort of feverislediaturbance whichmakes rest impossible. She fell asleep almost 'at at once. She roused early and dressed, but when she reached the top of the stair- case she heard her father's voice below, and she went back again to her room. She felt that it would vex Mr. Bevington if she exposed herself to remark. She had hoped to steal quietly down to the study and wait there till he Came. She opened the window and leaned out; she heard the trap come up to the front door, and there was a murmur of voices. Ten mioutes or so passed, and then the wheels crunched over the road. Ruth did not hear any leave-taking; she guessed that her father was driving into Purley with Mr. Bevingtone The girl suddenly broke down and she cried bitterly, then indignantly wiped her eyes and tried to laugh at her- self; but her heart felt twice its size, and she was utterly dejected. "It won't do to go on like this." She checked a heavy sob. "I'll go and get some brea,kfast. I'm no better than the dairy -maid was; and how did' scold her for crying after Peter!" She found Bridget dusting the sitting, room. e • "It been't seven yet, Miss Bryant," the woman said, in an aggrieved voice. "Never mind," Ruth answered cheer- fully ; tell cook to set my breakfast in the house.plaee—some milk and some bread and butter." Ruth knew that her lover would have breakfasted in the old-fashioned room, and she longed to be where he had been so lately. She was paler than usual, but she looked very lovely as she took her place at the end of the huge table. The sun stream' ing in through the lattice opposite seemed concentrated on her as the only ,bit of color in the room; in its full light her hair look- ed a warm auburn flecked with gold. The window wes threenfided. The lower part of the bay was filled by a deep ledge on which later in the year, Ruth' 'dried roses and carnations and jasmine flowers for sweet - pot ; later yet it was strewn with lavender and basil and many another herb, set to dry and shrivel in the warmth ; and this process, which had doubtless been continu- ed by generations of Bryante, seemed to have created a permanent fragrance in the old house -place, fragrance that triumph- al over the tobacco soent of occasional pipes Mr. Bryant smoked there. In this early morning hour the faint flagrance was help. ed by sweet fresh air coming in through the open lattice laden with flower scents from outside. The yellow bloseoins of a Persian briar showed themselves in full beauty ageinee the window-. Ruth wore the blue govere she had worn yesterday '• it was associated now with Mr. Bevington. He had touched it, and the girl flushed as the memoir of that close pressure came back. Last night she had shrunk from the thought of her meeting with a kind of fear, bat now it made her happy to close her eyes and call back the sweet memory. Only one fact troubled Ruth—the aoret she had to keep from her father's know- ledge. It mutt certainly be wrong to break a promise, she thought ; and elle knew thee her lover counted on her ailence. She was restlese,and discontented after breakfast, andfor the first tirne it occurred to her thitt elle had rtot enough to do. The time had gone by swiftly enough in these lest weeks, while she sat at her window hidden by the curtaine and watched for Nir.Bevington.Ruth asked herself what she had done with her tithe before he dame to Appledore, An tinewer dame at mum : shelled Children- Cry for Pitehees Castorla) sad trembling tome. "Surely you are dot , BEAUTIES OF HALIFAX. How a Visitor is Impressed By What Meets His View. Among an nespitable People in a City "Which Ras Arany Natural Attraetione— FeatureS or Special Interest in Respect to Romantic Scenery. Out into the mystic and ever wonderful Atlantic, reaching toward the motherland as if the first of all the provinces to -wel- come and receive strangers and visitors from the old world, Nova Scotia brings to our mind contrasting conditions. Within, the herbore and cities and, people of the Garden Peninsular Province of Caneda re- present nothing but hospitality: while without, the cruel, beating waves, theswift running tides, the blinding fogs, and the sullen rocks suggest all that is inhospitable. The Bey of Fandy does not suggest the characteristics of the people of the provinces on whose coasts it spreads its foaming breakers, and the expulsion ofthe. Acadian should never be credited but to the few, who, in council, passed decrees that should conseree.the interest of a growing British commonwealth. In fact, in whatever part of `Canada one may travel he observes that the virtue of hospitality is prominent, end nowhere is iG more striking than in the city of Halifax. This is the first thing that impresses a visitor there. Distant hills and further dis- tant mountains shelter one of earth's most peaceful cities and most beautiful harbors. From the summit of the citadel, which, towering high above the city,overlooks not only the plan of the wle- city but also of the landscape for miles around,one canhave a complete bird's eye view of the harbor reaching into the northern basin and south- ward twenty miles toward the, ocean ; and the beautiful northwest arm of the harbor as it breaks away from the main channel and running in a north westerly direction forms, in conjunction with the harbor, the picturesque Point Pleasant. We might give greatest praise to Haligonian scenery were it not that Canada in nearly every part of her vast dement is possessed of the grandest displays of natural phenomena that defy the pen of the topographer or the brush of the artist. The citadel is in the centre of the city; and, viewed from the harbor, suggests the presence of a stranded modern ark, upon a modern Ararat, with its three high spars reaching into the heavens. Within is a Spartan city. Here high walls encompass one and the gay and unrestricted are for- ever excluded. Men here must walk, talk and act " straight" ; and if they wish to see feathered bonnets or eat with the "mote gentle" sex it must be seen andeenjoyed without. It is a city of magazines, of offices, of posts, of "quarters" and squares, and the cleanest of cities. The place may be visited on special occasions, but a few of its wonders are never seen. No one knows whether the tunnel from the citadel under the harbor to Dartmouth is a reality or a myth.' From this commanding position looking in a north easterly direction we can see one or more 'nano -war ships in port. Usually there are two; sometimes there are five, including visiting admirals. They look harmless as without motion these great Leviathans rest their snorting, screeching, thundering in- ternal forces. On all national occasions peaceful citizens who never go to battle and only know what thunder southis like get an idea of what a naval battle might be. Every night the citizens, these who have a mind to leave the hum of the city, may enjoy listening to the best band music and that played on the water. Di have this privilege they may ascend the citadel and there, amidst silence, with stars twinkling above and below them, rest and drink in the silvery strains ; or they may launch out from the ducks any- where along the harbor in any sized boat and, sitting there, without tide or wind to disturb, delight themselves. But in neither plac e can an enemy be hidden. There is focussed upon him a flaeh of the brightest and most searching light imaginable. This electric search light often fells upon the friendly city ad the most hideous, screeching thing that could be invented often disturbs the most restless soeiety in the city. Halifax is occasionally treated with a ceihs,m naval contest," while a "fight" between land forces on the large commons is e common thing. Point Pleasant is now to our rightmemost due south. This is one of the most pleasant of places and is a natural park. Many "summer shelters" adorn this cool retreat. A beautiful sight eau herebeseen of the bar that makes out into the channel. Ten miles distant the breakers can be seen wasting their energy on the se.nd,and, struggling as if endeavoring to tear away the navigators' only hope, it reaches Zeit from "Gibraltar the second" or properly named York Redoubt for half a mile. In a south-east wind the breakers upon this reef are immense Bald the whole mouth of the harbor is walled by them. Here is where the wreck of the majestkileritish. ship "Le Tribune" occurred. Here is where Capt. Barker exclaimed "Not a soul quits this ship as long as two planks hold together" and as a result the lives of two hundred' men were thrown away to save the reputation of one. Opposite is Herring cove, Made immortal in the minds of men as the place where the ship finally laid herself to rest, sinking with all on board. "La Tribune was a captured French ship and was taken to England as a prize, but she learned how inhoapitable are the coasts of Nova Scotia. KAIVIONO kIROI THE DEPTH% t:1ng:*Ols :tsCaI11ln 6l1$eh$1fo"1Ire Ca;t.,T:r0of D17kirt:d the Lake Erie tugboat Stauffer," said a welf.knowo commercial traveller,the other day, " has a diamond ring which, astde front its treele value, ;is prized almost' be- yond prism by its possessor, owing to the singular manner in which it came Auto his possession. Capt. Peternon is one of the oldest lake skippers in the Bervice, and he keeps t at n igt fox waltlutshe thre: ianuye 0 days at likestiati t for he doesn't have to, as he has laid by a sung come as long as he Byer, One night a year or so ago the Captain's 'wife awoke some, where along about midnighe, arid heard some one in her room. She sea -earned a scream that awoke her husband wide open, and he saw a man hurrying towards the window of the room. The Captain jumped out of bed and got to the window in time to grab and recover his wife's $300 sealskin coat which the burglar had under his arm. But the thief got away. Next morning the Captain, discovered, that his gold watch and chain were gone. The timepiece was worth $1.10, and Capt. Peterson went out on the leke that morning feeling blue enough. "Time business that called him out on the lake that morning was to haul in a number of seines which had been dragged by a heavy storm three miles from where they had been set, He felt so bed,over the loss et his watch that he tried. no get some other tugboat master to take the job off his hands, but everybody was busy and the Captain had to go himself. When the last seine had been hauled in he saw something sparkle in the sun on one edge of the net. He looked to see what it was, and was aston- ished to find a ring entangled in,the cords. It was black with mud all but in one spot, and that sparkled like an electric light. When the Captain came ashore he took his singular find to a jeweller and asked him' what it was worth, When the jeweller told him that the sparkle came from a dia- mond and the ring was good for the best $500 bill that was ever turned out, Capt. Peterson forgot all about being blueeiver the loss of his watch. The jeweller said that the ring had undoubtedly been many years at the bottom of the lake. It might have be- longed to some one who went clown with one of the numerous wrecks that occur every year on Lake Erie. Capt. Peterson has had several offers of more than twice the market value of the ring for it, but he refused them all." " Wall Pocket. This wall pocket although not new to a great many will be a help to those who have the fineribbed palm fans whose edges are broken and are on the pine of being thrown out. The edges may be "cut and fine chenille or Japanese gold cord drawn to each notch, and the edges touched with gold. A soft pocket is pieced on the Brent, haring something at the top to keep it in place, as half a smell hoop or bit of steel. Sir Frederick Leighton,t e greet English painter, is 'a stalwart, long -nosed man of pompous manner, with curly heir and a flowing grey board, and always wears a voluminous silk tie, • loosely knotted, the ends flowing superbly over his shoulders. He is a profoundly ornate speaker, but his period, like hie paintings,sinell too strong- ly of the lamp, and the art etuderits, Whoni he addresses with watittese suavity ones a year, find him a hit of a bore. This one is of green silk, and green velvet of a darker shale, with two shades of green ribbon. This makes a convenient recepta- cle for the silk or chamois piano duster. OR M N AND womam TW OWEli ELECTRIC BELT. Made Multi Os. A. OWE.N -r p epxine., The OtaY Scientific and ReactiOal ineetri6 Belt made for germanise, prefacing. a Gelatine Current Of Electricity for the Imre Pt Disease, that can be readily fe tend regulated. both in eeantity and pow ied to any part of the bedy. It can be 'worn at any time during Working hours or sleep, at 07 cure 1Uaem Generai IA t ta Debility vOtta Diseases sexual Weakness IntiCeyea teliDcrias '' Kidney eV. Larne Rack, Urinary Diseases Electricity properly applied is fast taking the place of drugs for all Nerirous. Rheumatic, Wed - nay and Urinal Troublee, and will efffiet cures In seemingly hopeless cases where every other known means has failed., Any sluggish, weak or diseased organ may by this means be roused to healthy activity before it is too late. Leading medical men use and recommend. the Owen Belt in their practice. 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If this power can developed into ele °trio force, carried by wire for several miles and ap- plied to the crushing of -ore, smelting and transportation of material from the mine to the smelter, the future of Algoma is assured. The absence of coal, so great a drewback now, will no longer be felt and the enormously rich natural products of the country may be prepared on the spot for the ultimate market. The useful and beautiful are never separ- ated. treed 30'YEAR.5 ElPfPlfrICE. Tobacco b one of the few article 3 of manufact- ure who5e real merit can only be found ou by- actual . u5e.. For thirty year. we have been ma- Kinthe be6f (s‘trade,5 of to'- bacc'o. and we recommend ASTIFFPLUCKUT a5 3 reliable; and .5uperior article„ " Tan a. 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