The Exeter Times, 1895-1-3, Page 2TBR, TINE
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Eo theuglit of the lonely nameoteny et
her life with Mexpreeelble Maims Could
life in that gleemy old fortrees Which onee
Elereetan bowed. "Mt Leon Dieverdimen.
Mr. Fleresteo."
" Madame Quittede's ciM
rcle le �o all
thee a, ietraneeter's preeenee alwayAe taakee an
impressien, said Daverdier. " re you a
retied. ent in Pa_ria, .Mr. Olereetees, er_. *
veneer only e yow, f am eeerna ferrule:sr
to me.
Very likely, monsieur, since I am a
reeident, and, an habitue in many placee
s,vherePerisiens arentoetly to be found."Dsts
nerdier ternedtePolorestesnd Flortietan Wes
going to wolf his hostees good -night, When
hie attention. was, attracted by LouieeMarcete
who had. risen from her scab and was
standing near the door 'of the dining -room,
paler than he bad ever Seen her before,
and with he eyee fixed upon Duverdier
with an expreasion of mingled horror and
aversion. Without a word, and vvith that
gaze unchanging to the last, elle passed
into the dining -room shutting the door
behind her. ' .
Duverdier noticed the maneuver with a
nervous little laugh.
" •
Madeuaomelle Marcet is no more
sociable than usual," he mid , lightly.
"Has she been suffering from one of
her hysterical attacks?"
Neitherth d a
r aeghter auswere
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his question, and he did not repeat it
Florestan changed his mind, and, metead=VET
of bidding. goodnight, seated himself near
Mne. Quijada's sofa, where he remained
while the Duturques took leave, a some.
what lengthy business, and while Dolores
and the new.conter conversed in low voices,
and with their heads very close together.
" 'This is the man she levee," thought
"but I don't think this is the
man who finds the gilding for this lux.
•
urtous sage."
He had made up his mind to outstay the
late veva' if he could without bad man
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ners, and he oopapied himself by a pro.
lound consideration of the stranger's appear-
mice. '
It WaS a' handsome face and a clever face
btit the olevernese was closely allied with
craft, the good looks were ria d b
arre y
obvioua indications of a premature decay_
suoh decay as rarely comes from any other'
cause than a dissipated and wholly evil
life. e part o e ace was 1
n lower f th f h'cle
den by &thick, black beard, but there were
lines about the eyes which told a whole
• .-n' H had lived
history to Gilbert .._ lorestan. e h
much among Frenchmen of all grades, and
he knew what those wicked lines meant.
(gam sorry for Madame Qaijada's daugh-
e . .
ter he staid to himself • and it WaS with
' l that h ' the b t'f 1
real sorrowe saw e eau i u
young head leaning so near the high,narrow
forehead, prematurely bald and deeply
lined -the fresh and pure ch.eek of girlhood,
almost touching the cheek of wasted man.
hood, with its livid, bloodless hue and
sun.ken outline. "Women are like barnac-
les," he said; "they are always ready to
fasten upon a wreck."
The time -piece chimed midnight. He
could not decently protract his visit,
having arrived at nine o'clock. Duverdier
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had a better excuse for lingering, and he
evidently meant to stay. ,
Mme Quija.da begged Florestan to re -
pea i
t Ifs visit. Dolores hardly looked up
swer to his artin ealutation• her
in an p g ,
whole g
bein seemed absorbed in Thayer-
d' r' h lf-whisnered uttera,ncea.
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"Where did you pick up your new
friend?" asked Duverdier, directly the
d closed
door upon the departing guest.
" At that general naimellatty of curios -
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t' the Duturque salon, I suppose," he
i les,of
went on answering his own question.
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Y. t h 1 eke a trifle too aristocratic to
conne out of the Duturque's collection."
havebrought
" We met him at Madame Daturque's,
,, the " M St - d ' d
he
a" same' Mme. tine, a rep ,
,I Beall I y Asir your mo ive
Y• And may I ' - t*
making free of this salon 2"
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" ne is a gentleman, and he seemed in -,3",-.....„.
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terested in us. In our lonely lives it is
pleasant to make an aggreeable acquaint-
ance whose aociety nem not compromise
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"Do think P i Id f
youe ez wou approve o
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such an acquamtance 2 .
" Perez is in spain."
"Yea, but he is not going to stay there
forever ; and when be comes back to Paris
and finds your English acquaintance dont-
esticated here, I doubt if he will be over
pleased."
e '11
"He will not make any objection to
an occasional viatt from Mr. Florestan.
Indeed, there is only on .person to whom
he seriously objects.". e
"Namely, your humble servant. I ac-
cept the prejudice as a compliment. And
now, 'best of women, to .business. I have
been making a proposition to Dolores, but
she is not an arithmetiohonand I can not iii.
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h 'th cd t' f the
spire er with a proper appre sa son o e
difference between capital well invested
and capital lying idle at a bankeee."
"Don't trouble yourself to sa another
Y
word," exclaimed aitheeQuijada. "I know
' Y" h
exactly what is coming. on a,ve got
into some new difficulty. on the Bourse,and
you want us to help you out of it -as we
have done before, to,our everlasting logs."
nI am not in a, difficulty, but I have a
chance of making a great • d
eoup,, an you
mayshare my luck, if you like.
if Thanks for the privilege. We are not
g biers " .
'slim :
"This is a certainty. The Valley of Dolce
Aqua Mineral Works -a valley westof San -
-Rosa, in the Sonoma Country, a valley
which is one silver mine. Since the Orme
ton that wealth has lain there, unknown,
undreamed of. It is known now only to a
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chosen few. The whole.valiey has been bought
for a song. Shares in the property are
now to be had at par. Once the truth gets
known they will go up five hundred' per
cent, You know what eilver has done for
Mackay. In the Dolce Ague. Vealey_there
is the making of twenty Mackays, Will
you go in for a thane in a big pile while
you've the chance 2"
"No," answered Mme. Quijada, with an
uncompremising firmness.
"That is a monosyllabic answer."
"At any rate it is one you can't misundere
stand. I think it was copper last time,
wen it not?. and the time before it was
lets& and before that rquickeilver. What
• i e t ti
will t b nex me, I wonder ? Perhaps
brase."
"My dear aunt you are unseientifie.
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brass Goes not grow in mineia'
"No? Only en the foreheads of men I
suppose." '
There was a lopg enema, during Whith
Duverdier paced' the room with a troubled
air,
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"Ali,
frequent that) meted since he found out
nwr fc ... d habout tl
her live atory. e queetunte her , le
had
stood not far Log from Oak Aloonly etrie.eft
have been, very much mom (kernel than i. a
int Thies ainall.romn. over the celabler's
, deeesteesenenees
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raeconsumptlort.VOleghOPCV9-.51Patee.
roaxts .5i.old la% clreidegegeomxiseeeee
tere:teaggedeee'groetsittiefeetion.-as gouty.
that he not the past. The friend's'
I remember heat are these et gay yore
age. Who wee tete Isamu you are our 0 atebe
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shoot . . . i u
"A MIMI:tees apprentioe called Tomette.
letter, and elm told hint vvhat she done.
Ile aprovednoad. offered M deliver the let-
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t h re would be a eta In
tietri:a?ill inbgr bno:7714Yetro071" th st
ening AO nri.m°11-Y,throughb,,, 14.2213ed, 'i
,t eehe eift„,e,Test'sgwe'et
obsetve " M
role 1 Eire"
...one._
ii op 1 mum a sWeeS 3 110G One pieasusee
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OhjeUt UUt one ark of brightnem Or coke'
a
seen from the window, grain °note
eyee and. oriole oneti net* as one might,
Nothing hot the dull gray houseeover the
way, mud the dull atreet right and
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troubleiteXseig, RXice V$ 00#
I do not kuow her Karnartle "
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"A millineee apprentice," repeated the
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old woman, musingly. "There hate been
many sueh in the attics. Bright ene.
feces,
enough b be wkebker the
. ugh to tree , u
Money ever reached its deetinetion. ie
doubtful' I never ukea her brother's
" a 1 st .111
countenance or rammer, en , ein al y
would not ba.ve teueMd hun with any delis
slate commitment:S.
gray
left of the window.
Florestan not only promised the eielers
down, but he propuaed also to go and, see
MIle...Latont again 2; and then, after gently
teuchrog the wasted, hand, he took Op hut
ss a
for Infants and Children.
6 lineeerodto°*0111641!teat°Pln—. dreitilat
trecororne.nelitaesuperlor.toanYP macripum
kmoYta ectene." IL .A. Amemiet. X. De
11i so. Oxford Ste Brooklyn, 1`1.. T.
Cialt°411 Cae' aell**)2•4 '
Sour Stomaccari,%larr, heels Ereetatteal,
gals wean*, eyes sleep,, and promote/I d&
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Iffiwout itlurlea medication,
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etrafirny.
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eraedy. Itwill
BfayeyouCtitarrh? Trythiell _ _ea _ 0
positively relieve and Cure you. nee, eh t
This InJecter tor its successful treatmen_. Is
Prnishedfree. ftemenaber,Slaloh"eilemedies
re.l.airr -mexantee t'"we satisfaction.
eve .-
sael girl-faees, have Passed bY InY
dootothrough the long yeerst and have
faded and vrished like my ,ewn dreams.
Tainette Tomette Tomette ' she repeated,
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till
a inxising.
Florestan waited atiently while the
13 ' th
slow memory of cad age wandered in e
"Did. h f Is'that
you me men o un after„
time. mademoiselle?"
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” No' be ...wee too inuoh taken up y
litics'o clubs to waste hie time unon an
PO r - . -
Old woman like me or to pay much eaten-
tion to hi ti sister. 'Isom inore of her then,
ever, poor child, for she MO no one now
o be in on 5
t takeh ' to the country
Sunday afternoon, and her Sunclays
bat and bowed himself out of the mem.
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His first vteit•waa to the Bon IVIarche,
Where he those an eider.down guilt of the
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very best ctu,alitO,ee'vered with rose-colored
silk. It was a relief to him to think
that there would be one little bit of vivid
color in that long neutral -tinted streets
thOUgh laobody woold see it except the
little old lad y
...o.
mete ese of 109.stcrial le eip universal and
ha merits so wen known that it seems a work
, tion to endorse it. Few arethe
of supererogation . —
int U eent families who dO not Keep vassorm•
*Al- ecaciee
Cameos Marl% D. De
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingd,x,deBefenned Chervh.
Tait Cieweens
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your ' Castor*" and ehall always eontieue to
a 't hag inVariablypr uced beneficial
, et set as i ed .
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Elmo; F. Nam, Bt. I),,
44 TheWintimp," ill5th Street ana 7tia Ave.,
New. York Ciez.
New Tons.
.ssenexte, 77 Plea/tax S , , _
LEGAL.
dina corridors of the past. Presentlythe
old -woman took up her missal and began
to look throngh the well -thumbed pages.
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were meetly apent in this rooxn.
She was very good to me. She used to read
to and cheer me with her company,
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"When the warm weather begins I Will
send her some pots of stmlee and Wall-
flowers from the flower market, and beg
1 . H. DICKSON, Barrister, Soli-
I 4. cater of Supreme Court, Notary
Fablie, OenveYanner. Contnelaslensr. &12
Money to Loan:
Oftleein anson'eElock, Exeter,friend
Between the leaves there were many of
those little pictures of Madonna, saints,and
martyrs, which Romanists love; and every
one of those little engravings, with /sir
th •
me
though it was too plain that all the happn
Mess had gone out of her own life. 6'he
lived in this house till the dark days of the
mune, an in a a. ime
Corn d ' 11 th t t' she had no
weetheart no except an old
new 0 ,the
he to put them on her wi doW-eill, as an
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aot of Christian chanty, e saa o intee .
" he "(It h' . If
"It is too dreadful to think of peoplelxving
insuch a street, while within half an hour's
walk there are the laughing gardens and
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Barrister Solicitor, amino , Etc.
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leSETER, . ONT.
OFFICE : Over O'Neil's Bank.
lace borders, was a Souvenir of Knee emu.
ished friend, and on every one of them
there was some sera, of writing
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She looked through them slowly and
carefully, and at last Mine to a little pia-
onian. She was a splendid worker -a
W , . id
industrious, monomical as good as go .
And so the t h I ding her
years orep on, e e ea
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dull, uncomplaining life, and I sew the
second empire crumble and fall into
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rm.Florestan:
n as I had seen the first and greater
After the I,
e w xte villas, the ga .
hgilded t d 1
es an g ass
porehee the bright -colored folly and frivol,.
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ity of blue Avenue de L Imperatrioe, or
whatever these republicans call the place.
I only remember the old name that I knew
when was a boy." •
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The eider -down dispatched to the old
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-El LLIOT & ELLIOT,
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Barristers, Solicitors, Notanes Palk
COLVeyaLOSTS &O, &O. .
enektoney to Loan et Lowest Rates of
, Interest.
OFFICE. - MAIN- STREET, EXETER.
B. Ir. 'ELLIOT. PREDERIOK 'ELLIOT.
ture of St. Stephen, on the back of which
was written:
' To Mlle Lafont from her loving
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Toinettes-St, Stephen's day, 1857."
"There is the name, at least," amid the
spinster. " Toinette 1 Yes; I remember,
She was a sweet girl, and I was very fond
of her, and I think I helped her to escape
a danger. But like the
empire. troubles egan
Toinettek brother took her away to
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London with him at an hour's warning.
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He had been entangledwith the Commums
and he was in no email risk of being sent to
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New Caledonia. From that time to this I
have heard nothing of her or of him. I
think if she had prospered and been happy
she would have written.to me, o I fear that
8,)
all has not gone well with her.
"If ldthat
you cou only rememberyoung
lady, Flo s w
restand next visit as to a man
be had sometimes occasion to employ while
he wee secretary of legation a man who
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may be, loosely .desoribed as a private de-
teetive. To this' person he imparted his
desire to find out the whereabouts and
ocaupatdon, surroundings and character of
a, certain Oland° Morel, einployed before
the Commune as a chemist's assistant-
subsequent mode and manner of life an-
itnown.
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mamma
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great she vanished
rest of my friends. They were all shadows.
There is only this lonely room and that
snants isame," said Florestan.
His name -yes, I remember. His name
de Morel "
was Claude-Clau .
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"I have reason to believe that he was
concerned in Some of the entre es of that
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said Florestan, finally, 'and that
Jbird-ca
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S, Graduate Victoria Univ re ty:
office, and residence. Dominion Lembo a
they ,Ese ler.
bird-cage,
e, s changing ocwith ithin cupant, that
remain. I try to cheat myself with the
fancy that the bird is always the same; but
Memory which had. failed Mlle. Lafont
f
when11 the sister's she tried to recall s surname
recalled the name of the brother without
an effort.
"I thank most cordially, madem.
period,
when the troops from Versailles got into
Parish f • d etprudent t et out with
e found i ., o g
as little delay as possible. '
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"If he was active and influential at that
T)R RYNDNIAN, coroner for CI°
A- Oomaty of Huron, Cale°, opp,,site
Carlieg Eros. storo,Extiter.
even he changes, I put away my poor
little dead denary and buy myself a new
one, and call him by the old name, but
, you
11 f thy • laTt with 4hich you
oise e, or e amie i i y .. e _
have answered all my questions, began
Flerestan : when the old woman interrup.
time, I ought to be able to find out all
about him," said M. Jalum " for there has
been a pretty sharp lookout' upon those
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Separate Offices. Residence same 3,s former .
ly, Andretvv st. Offices: Spackinmes building.
main st ; Dr Rollins' same as formerly, north
door; Dr. Amos" same building, south door,
a. A. ROLLINS, M. D.. T. A. Amos, M. D
Exeter, Ont
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it is long before he gets to know me as the
dead bird did. Ah, monsieur, that is what
makes life hard, that it should be so short
f or some and so long for others." .
" Yes mademoiselle, that is emery we
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all feel. But it is some consolation to have
ted him.
"Do not suppose it has been irksome to
me to talk to you," she said, with her sly
mil, "My life is very lonely, and I have
few intelligent people to talk to, and I
k
dare say you know that women like to taik,
especially old women. You have let me.
myself
talk about myse an nay little
gentlemen-eapecially upon those who
've me
escaped a voyage over the seas. Gi _
a few days to make my, inquiries, Mr.
Florestan and I will call on you with the
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result.
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This was all that Gilbert Florestau could
do towards the fulfillment of his promise
d H
to Mrs. Ar en. e wrote a long letter to
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AIMMOOMM=MWOMIA
AUCTIONEERS.
lived a blameless life as you have."
"Limpets live blameless lives," retorted
.I poor
history. It is always a pleasure to tell
one's own history."
her . 1. ,
hafter his interview with Mlle Lafont
relating all that he bad learned about
T HARDY, LICENSED A.110-
- I 1 • tieneer for the County of Huron.
Charges moderate. Exeter P. 0.
MIle.Lafont,with a touch of scorn. " There
is no more merit in my blameless life than
in a limpet's. But you were asking about
Toinette." ,
" If you ha e pleased yourself, dear .
mademoiselle, you have done me a seryine
all the Baum, and I should like,ee•-
. ... eeeeent
you with some little souver• . of our con-.
venation. I canenot voiciure to offer
Antoinette Morel. It was a relief to his
trio? tebe able so to write, for when in-
• - . h• • . h ,
truated with . is commission e had feared
that his investigation of Robert Hatrell's
life in Paris might reveal an intrigue wnich
lel BOSSENBERRY General Li-
,
a `4 • eensed Auctioneer sales cenducted
in aliparts. Satiatetiiehgearanteed. Charges
moderate. ilensall P 0, Ont:
"Yes. Please tell me all you can. Her
surname, in the first place."
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"Impossible. I have quit ta ferrgotten it."
you.
moneY." .
"'ay do net," said the little old lady,
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dravenig up her head with a certain hauteur
which did not ill become her. I sm very
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it would not be well for the wife to know.
Happily,'in this memory of a past love, or
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perhaps only a passing fancy, at/ was inno-
cent. a city - idyl set in a young man's
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AG-RICULTURAL
. Keeping Well
Th 11 ' the f
The vee upon e
of very greatedanger to
certainly is so if 'the conditions
location are such that
.1
le
Water Ciean.
may be a source
arm y
the household. It
of soil and
drainage from the
makes a few little channels for 'tself toward
the tile. It is known tha such little
channels are made from points • as far away
as twenty-five feet from a four. oot dram.
It may be taken for granted then hat a well
drains naturally, a very large aka about)
it anethe importance of allowing °thing
a filthy nature to exist within t area
ought to be apparent. It some haps
pens that a well is contaminaVed sy ma tter
fkom a, considerable diatance, Y
surface water, in time of a spring fresh
or a heavy ram at other seasons. To obviace
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this the ground about a well should have a
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1-3- tioneer for the Counties of ECuron
mid Middlesex ! Sales ()midi:toted at mod-
erate raitee. °moo, at Post-011os °red.
ton Out.
`$ What was the dem er from which ou
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helped to save her ?"
"Her romantic love of a man who was
her superior in station -au Englishman."
oor and I live upon charity but it is a
P ' charity.— '
kinsman's I have enough for my
small wants and I like to think myself a
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lady, though my father was a shoe -maker.
" I3elieve me, I know how to honor good
k ft b
hiatory, li est ewer etween the leaves of
a book. . • ,
orestah N en 4 o som e o
Fl ''xi t.'gair. t the b r Id
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salon in the Rue St. Guilleume, where the
three women' lived in luxurious seclusion
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MONEY TO LOAN.
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"You do not think that any evil came
out of that love 2"
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birth and refined manners, whereverI meet
them," replied Florestan, deferentially. "I
He was thvisitorh•
e only on t Is occasion,
although il Was the evening which Mme.
Quijadis seted.part for her friends. It
ONEI TO LOAN AT 6 AND
P er cent, $26.000 Private Fund's. Best
L amine companies represented.
L. H. DICKSON,
Barrister. Exeter.
"‘It almost broke the girl's heart ; no
han that I believe the man
more evil t . . with a
meant honorably, though he trifled with a
girl who adored him. He did not mean to
betray her. He was tout:lied by her love
want, therefore, to effer you some little
gift -something for this room in which you
spend your days, for instance -which you
may receive without the slightest deroea-
tion of dignity." -
" Ab, monsieur, do not laugh at an old
was-
obvious that her circle was of the smallest.
The room was full of flowers, as befored- '
costliest flowers. Masses of azaleas and
III 1•1 lighted th dark paneled
w 1 e 1 acup e .for
walls; a shallow vace filled with gardenias
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sat! .,.-.-,:g
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height of some two feet, a naouncl-like or-,
rangement around the well curb, as shown
in Fig 4. A well may also be contarni nated
by earth worms, rats, mice, or toads. It is
therefore, to lay the
SURVEYING.
for him. He gave her some half dozen
jaunts to the villages near Paris; tete-a-
tete Sunday afternoons upon the Seine,
woman -more than old enough to be your
grandmother. It seems a satire to talk of
exhaled an almost oppressive ,perfunae in
he drowsy atmoenhere. and Dolores wore'''d•t4'..-r-tL,
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a cluster of heavy roses, faetened
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any way enter them.
wise, upper portion of
the wall in cement and bring the wall up
tight under the platform. Ventilate by an,
opening covered by wire.
..._
FRED W. FARNCO 61B,
• .
Provincial Land Surveyor mid. Civil .
t
. EzT0.1z,Tmi.t„. mimic.
Office, Upstairs, Samwell's Block, ExetenOnt
which are not always so harmless as in this
case. He respected her innocence- and her
friendleesness, and she was able to respect
b erself. I was her only confidante and I
" e ran
warned her of the peril which sh.
when she gave her heart to a man who was
very unlikely to,marry her. She had notgentle
my dignity in this one poorwhich
room,
serves me for bedroom, arlor, and
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iskohen."
" Ah but dignity does not depend on
' . , , ,
surroundings, except so faros tney Datong
to character. The exquisite neatness of this
room would alone tell me that I am in the
yellow
• - .
amid the rich black lace of har bodice
• - -
with a diamond pm. These things told of
wealth from sonae source or other, and
Florestan suspected that' the source was
not altogetber holy.
. . , .
Louise Mareet received him with a
Her black
Thesoil is not everywhere
ous character. It is
being perhaps loose and
.
...raga •
often
of a homegene.
in layers, one
t th assa e
open tothe p g
..•
.
The Feeding Value -or Roots.
•
There are . many substances which if
chemical analysis be taken as the sole
.
guide for feeding value, would appear to
be ideal rations it is tiometimes found
VETERINARY.
long come from the south, and she had
in Paris, a ' brother,
apartment of a lady."
__
He looked round the poor little room so
smile. plain gown and
complete absence of ornament contrasted
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Am, ...et.
only one relation who
did not often come near her."
"Do you kno'w how the brother earned
his living ?"
"He was an assistant in a chemist's
shop."
"Did you ever see him ?"
"Two or three times. Toinette brought
him into this room, to allow him off, and
to let him talk to me. She was
, d f h' 1 aus, h was cleverer than
mon o im, ec , e
most young men of his station; but I don't
think he waS kind to her as he might have
scantily furnished, so old and faded as to -
d -work and wall- a er yet with that
woo . . P P , . .
look of airiness and perfect purity winch
some women know how to give to the poor-
thin.. only seemed to him
est room. One t,
crut °± ,harmony and seeing that Mlle.
Lafont liked to tal to him, an was quito
"le if d 't
ready to give hinpher con ,
fidence • he von-
tured to express hss wonder at the style of
art which she had chosen to adorn her
'avails.
. "sou wonder that I should surround
oddly with the subdued splendor of her
aunt and cousin- but .the melancholy ex-
• • '
pression in her face was hardly more pro-
nounued than Mlle- Quijada's ennui. And
Florestan told himself that the young and
lovely womateewas not much happier than
the faded spinster, whom e.ge he was
unable to guees. That iron-gre,y hair was
evidently premature, and the deep lines in
ft seface were those which sorrow plows in
young faces, rather than the wrinkles of
advancing years.
le.
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yet
that either the animals will refuse to eat
them altogether, or fail to do well when 1
restricted to them, writes a correspondent.
ke.%.e
..ednde, ...
PIG 2. DIPPliqu-
of liquids down through
.
underneath may be
impervious clay. Sue
over, are rarely to be
erfect y eve con
a p 1 1 I
ke474ttte• ,
?die - -
te .
sti•tt.:1
-•
.
'IG 3. NATrat.e.t
sometimes very s
sharply
a gradual dip. Fig 1 shows
of the soil,' and a well
It can be men at e, glance
, d upon the left-hand
ing own
stratum
a str
h la
found
d•
mon,
r
t,
anti
dug
..
sne
'twhile
i ,
y ers
'
.,,,,,vefr..,
roteitaion.
such
down
then
-tete
ers..
directly
of nearly
y
of soil, more-
existing in
.
but inclined-
.
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•
again With but
a strecture
through it
. .
liquids aoa
side andmtrik•
It is important then that fooik should be '
'apetizing.that they should be relished by '
the stock. ,Again one cannot consistently t
dein the use of articlea of food at leaet
a u 3 J ,
to any considerable extent,, unless it can be
d d h d t
profitably pro uce or pure ase a a com. ,
.
paratively reasonable figure in the in arkets-
The chemical analysis o roots has proven
' f ,
satisfactory, they are relished by mock, t
they can be profitably grown, and when 1
fed out to farm animals experience bat I
.
shown that the results obtained have cense ,
up to all reaaonable escpects.tione. I find
them valuable as a food for all farm stock. -
Horses soon learn to like them and it has
,
been a custom with Me to feed about two
good eked roots tit a horse every day: All
the young cattle get rutabagas, seldom
more than sixty pounds of out mots n. da,y,
d d' th d size epen ing on b,he age an ze of the .
animal. I ahn to feed the cows what sugar
eau The brood
beets they will eat up cl .
soves get a few roots every day and seem to
at and relish them . as well as grain.
Poultry areo a,, cse . o
efond f light f eis 1 finely -
chopped beets at frequent intervals..
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been, seeing that . she was a stranger and
alone in this great city."
" Did he know of her love affairs ?'
"Not at the beginning; but afterwards,
h' 11about
at my shehum a her
Sunday jaunts with the Englishman. He
made a great fuss, and swore that theth
Engl.* h oh ld m e. her. and although
is man ou . al y ,
my poor Toinette entreated him not to
interfere he evently did so, for a few days
after their conversation the girl received
a letter from her admirer, bidding her fare.
well, and inclosing an English bank -note
for two thousand five hundred. francs. She
ht the letter to me in despair.
brought
She wae heart broken poor child. Site
told me she had never hoped to marry him.
Sh lv nted to be with him for a little
e "1 ' wa
while now and then, as she had been at
Bougival him
myself with scenes of bloodshed," she said,
"with the image of the guillotine which
made my poor father an orphan in the
morning of his life -with the picture of the
P
fall of the fortrees. with whose ancient
b wers there fell the aristocracy of France
../ . . 3
old '
never to rise again with e power, or
the old. influence over the fate of men. It
, ,
is a strange taste, perhaps, but I like to
look at the dreadful re '
cords of that revolu-
. ..
tion which robbed, me or rortune and sta-
tion
tion before I was born, and whieh has given
so little except .loud talk and empty
. .
promises In p ace o a x oo away.
1 f 11 •tt k I
rood over the dark days that over- to b , .to
- -
shadowed Paris before tens century a•ncti
b n It is a morbid fane samba ti
were . bonn. - .3r, e P '
but it pleases me, elm history of my
country is written in blood and Ilike to
,
re.
ad that history."
Florestan found his society appreciated
by Dolores, who brightened at his coming,
and seemed to e •
mop h' is conversation. She
talked very' little herself d h•
, an a e wall
evidently afraid df her mother, but she
w n
as not without intelligence. There was
something in her look and manner which
suggested the idea of an imprisoned
spirit, a nature bound and trammeled, a
bird caught in a, net. -1
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Monsieur and „Berne. Duturque arrived
mon after. Florestan, and the professor
t t ' d th amall ci bl lb
en er ame . e . s a a sem y with
various reveries,suites,nocturries, and gavot-
tee of hisown composition, whioh were so
Impressed with the stamp of the composer's
• s• • •• / •
mdividualsty that to Florestam a untrained
ears they sounded all alike. The utmostk.
he could find to say about them waa that
• • • •
they were strikingly origmal,
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or •Asineres-justto see and
to hear his voice: just to know that he
cared for her, though she could never be
more
more to him than his humble friend, And
now he bade her farewell forever 1 His
letter was a kind letter,a gentleman's letter
written in very good French: I tried to
make her understmid that there was no
°thee courae for the Englishman to take
if he were an honest mare. If she meld
not be his wife she could bennothing to
him. I told her that it was skind of
him to send her a parting gift, whfeb, would
be a dot for her when she ahould marry
- ,,
some honest young rnan ha her own stataen.
trvvaa she to accept his OW'
e w.
asked Florestan. .
"Nob she 1 The poor romantics thild bunt
into a fresh flood of tears, and asked me if
1
/ &mid think her so Intee as to take a price
• "1 1 It was a very quiet evening. Louise
"Do the pictures never spot your s eep
.
selv B with our dreams 2" ask- Marcet sat in her favorite corner, toad only
or,., Tr tern e y
a ,if.., ores an. replied when she was spoken to. At ten
"
ery !te... hom. a e I. n e my o'clock Mine. Quijade invited her guests
. v Id 1 h v th's u d r
11 her blessed image to re- into an adjoining room, 'where tea and
PI. ew, an1,1 Shvet h d h 'th sorbets and daintiest sandwiches were servs
assure me. e °tic e her rosary wtih
her long, lean fingers and , glancede ed vsith some distinction. Fltsrestan neted
o - the massive silver and delicate poreele,'
wall beside her bed where a plaster statu- in,
. . -.,..
ea th t d little ette of the Virgin o er .s.00 on a i and formed hie own conclusions. Converse-
Swiss bracket above a benitier. tion grew livelier with the stimulus of this
1' lit refreshment. The -excellent Duturque
"Whanshall I brm ou t decorate o ig
s Or. o. y ur
devoured f le-gras sandwich by. the dozen,
room, mademoiselle 2" inquired Florestan,° •
. and drank much stra w -colored tea, out of
g a e i e ye s .
Illi t the l'ttl old lad o Serene in
BM .
her simple faith. shallow egg-shelle cope, while his worthy
'feni d t ' ' '
"All, monsieur you tempt me to impose wx bble wee calrea,talking.in a, gentle
on your generosit'y, " Armin all the time to Mme. ,Quijaela about
th d l'n uenexes o , t
e e i q t
And then, almoat reluetantly, the" an- ' f her latest bonne a an
dent spinster confessed that there was one This entertainment Meted nearly en
thing for which she had been longing for hour, and the block chimed eleven soon
the last after the little narty returned to the
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eentOttICA'
see neenend e.,
,.:, -,,..
ERLY.Pno
F?Gt• I l'E°P TEC
ing a I vor of clay or other
a a-
impervioua soil, will be conveyed-
into the well.
•
When it happens that
exisba upon the surfabe on
the atrate, slope toward the
remains pure, but wheal the
. . .
therek nothing to hinder the
,,,,,-..,.
- se
Ms '4.' •
m ....
ED W
e Bete
more or less
directly
nothing filthy
the slide where
well, the water
reveree ia true
, .
fllthn.hquids
,
While I advocate the feeding of mots to -
all farm animale,„ where succulent, food in
sorne other form is available, yet I bee
• . .
lieve that Mots are pre-enmaently a most .
valuable and an enonomie food for sheep.
el'o • n 1 e i ent stetion in an
At the t.I. i Inge, e p r rr) , I
'in t t ' .
.experx ent cos duoted, o ascertain the
* ' oots for
relative value of oriailage and r.
'fattening limbo, the ectote gave emelt the •
meet Tie '
exited resulte. Not only thie but
the economic' value of reota as a factor 'in..
the ration of fattening lambs . was etericlus
, , . . .. . , ... ,
sively proyen. It ie very.. expenssvete con- ,
stuot a silo. and get suitable machinery, .
while in tenon s cl feedin oots no " reat
initial outlay isi occasioned and., the, mote
f ` 1 valuable ucetilett food.
mina ia . . .
soaking clown Dad running 'finally pito the
well, made som ,
- ewhist less harmful but not
vvholly, so, in their passage throligh the
soil. Fig 2 ahoWs another etruetute of mil
that is often font& Here the (Arian, dip'
on two sides toward ,
the well which has
perhaps been dug putpOsely in '0. depressioin
With blse idea of a greater likelihood ou
there finding water, Arty 1
filth Ob two ides
-
of e., well mey th e b mtiveye i to it
. " '
Moreoyer, in the com of 'loll that is horrit?g"
enouts in char ter there is mat ral roan-
ao ' a u d''
toward a well,as is indicated. in Fig8,
age,. ' . , , ,,, '
Land drainage is toward both wale and
&mud rile drains laid three rods apart,
• , . ,,,
and sunk tour feet underground, dram all
• •
the land. between, unless it be a retentive
°lay soil. The land midway between two
drains has its surface Water tionVeyet &Way
...
A S di - ' l) ine
. u mous rea r,
She hold hereels tiO still to match what
Wa9 truittering in his dreaMs tlust tithe hardly
breathed.
s, he e
"Mary- .
"Voles' me," She thought to . herself, att.-
there was no measioo for her tothink of '
any one e 1 0 ' •
"M ry must eve that ne 'comp eve
a - ' ° '
though I, do . have to take ib old of the boo •
k 'It s too bad too I'le
eeper 0 salary. I- 3 • . 1
t ' . • ' a 1. )
the Only support of a willowe mot mr. , ,
All wen etill again She lay there an
. '
te ht. rrio 0 . .
trAeos just 0,3 &lean as he eau be n- 13
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murmured.' "/ don't believe he was aslee
&bun,»
FOR
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THE
'
TWENTY-F1VE YEARS
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D
Awl
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. 7. . END
COOK S BES T FRI
LAVOttOr SALS IN CANADA.
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for her broken heart. 'Ffe has been very
11 ' ' 1 t3 '01 ' d th I t
Mete o rne, e le al , an e erue es lot
of all was to tsend me thia money. i" ab
all seall
gotta it beok to him.' I begetect her to think
better of it, and eel remember that if het.
heath failed her, or work should be hard to
got by and bed that there would be nothing
,
etWeerl-er eta starvation. ,
b 1, 4.1f there were
not,' she eatcli, '1 would slop eat the Rr/o9 of
. .
my love. 1 i not sell im in heart, I
'' O a n y .
gave it to him freely, soa would again, and
again, end egain. 1 Iove him as 1 love Goa
Etna ifie eitinte." .
"Did she rebus% the note?"
'
"It Wised out other hanae, bat whether
it the is I
thirty yearsever mince she had „salon.
h t f 1 a ' ' 'Ws aa Florestan a preached his hostess to ttske
• egen rt .ee age or epoig on wi i cream- _ , , p
ing flensitivenesa to cold. She h h d d dd I d
had tonged leave, w en t e oor opene au en y an
for a duvet, a little eider -down guile, to a, mart walked tosannouneed, into the room,
put upon her bed. Every French' woman ealuted Mmes Quijeda with a carelees nod
of any substance hag her dime; but how as he paesed her, and made straight for
wee he, Whom little peneion jest mewed the piano, near vvisioh Delores was seated
for food and fire to save money enough to n s . ,
, s telki g to tl o profestor. Ile leaned over
b h lf d t 9 it' W a h p D lores and began to talk to her ws„ flout
uy erse a uve . a no pm- o , ,
stble. She land been trying for thirty taking .the faintest liaise of any one elm
...
'
years, but when by much hard pinching in the room.
e
and ;scraping there were a fey? francs in " Yee .arel. late, Leon," said. Mme.
the tirelire, there came ilokness, and the, Quijada. " I had . given you up for to.
' ' t 'night." '
timbre had to be broken o pay for meat.
icuie and wine sod soup. " I've no cletilit you Were able to amuse
, ,
.
"Y.'ou shall heve the duvet this evening. yourself without me, roP I a
" rod the 1 te
You
A Soelet3, Lainp
Dealerea"Here. • madame, is a brained
ix which will deli hit ' f e 1
yo
g y a i proper y
• t We e • f . '
at ended. all A the 'A texaDinner.
Speaker Lamp.' " • , .
a Y e ' a queer
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0 me
Dealer-,"it'S se brilliant when We full "
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Beggars are promptly ail. sited in VI a
caught begging on the street. . -
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Gas institrite of Lendbo, fer the
, o of improving. the methods in gas
ii a , ...
frik Wad TOTaided al 18,
. , .
reaohed giver triore'than dart say ,
Ahe had written her letter and itudesed the
money lb the envelope when her brother
happened to meet, hen nu* vitas had, been
shall sleep under it to,night," oried arrival, witiv a resentful glance at Moe.
" ' tan "Ala I aoked to be introdueed to
x loreetameriettanted at beingable to grattfy es . Y e
a lonwoheristied wish of this patient crert• your new friend.? '„, • , , ,
are, " Assurodly,, if monsieur permits,"
mostly • by tleepage. Rist ,all through the
lend adjaeMat to atile draiii the water, also,
. s
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r'v . hundred eartkinakes Shock li
i e , ,
Japanese every .yeen. '
po.,. • .e o. •
orkg
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