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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-10-1, Page 7THE `"It's a curious business,"" said Lord dared—she hardly thought in this mo - i1 Ej N Fc - m A� �LI' R MANY DAYS b«t Clanyarde, doubtfully, after he had giv int of delight, g � en Constance the letter; "I believe hex Where a6 she,,my darling. my aalgel4 •__• mind is affected, poor soul; and I really What have you done with her Where don't think you .ought to g1.• Who have you hidden her all this time t" "Poor fellow! And he carried his can tell what see may say in her Tay- A wan smile crept over the ashen face broken heart to Africa, and came back ings, and not a vestige of truth in it, of the dying stoner. • perhaps." "We era strange creatures, we wom- to find .a fortune waiting for him, ; He thought Mrs; 1'iTalsingham's death- en—mysteries even to ourselves," she- / your daughter married. Do you bed confession .might concern her re- said. "I took your child away from not think, if he were to return now, ' lations with Gilbert Sinclair, and that You, and hearing you were broken heart- ed av e h v- , er beak t o Y ur old to 't wool f o an to hear g o u, o the , l ci be bettor or C est ce y Mrs. Sinclair might be corisolod for nothing- the unhappy lady could tell, er pleaded strongly., I gave her into loss of her ol;ild by reunion with the i "This letter bears the stamp of Sir Cyprian Davenant's keeping. 1 lover of her girlhood?" I truth," said Constance, firmly. "I know no morn." "I doubt if anything would reconcile shall go, papa. Pray get a carriage "Th©n. I was not deceived. My Chris- • and let us start as quickly as possible ;' Label—it was my Christabel they her to the loss of the little girl. ger f "But, my love, consider the unhealthi- brought back to mei The instinot of a. affection for that child was an inlet- ness of Rome at this time of year. We mother's heart was not a delusion." nation a' • 1 might as well go and live in a fever "Can you pity—pardon?" faltered Mrs. hospital. The Pontine Marshes, you Walsingham. A pair of picturesque Italians know,steaming with malaria. lte Yes, If orgive you far all—for months ,an a duet by Verdi, and the converse- shoulbe digging our own graves." of blank, hopeless grief—all—because of tion between Mrs. \Valsingham and ; "You need not go there unless you what you have told me to -night. If Lord Clanyarde went no further, He like, papa, .but I shall not lose an you had taken this secret to the grave hour. She has something to confess— if I had never known—I should have did not wake any offer of bringing Con- some wrong done me—something about gone on steeling niy heart against my stance to the lady's receptions; for the Christabel, perhaps.'" cried Constance. darling; I should have thrust her from memory of that old alliance between Ile saw that the only wise course was me, let her motherless in this cruel Mrs Walsin ham and Gilbert Sin- • to yield to his daughter's wishes and world, and thought that I was doing g lost no time in making arrangements my duty. Yes, I forgive. You have ober hing like a cloud over her rep- for the journey back to Rome. wronged me cruelly; and it was heart- utatiou.. No one had any specific : They entered Rome in the summer less, treacherous, abominable, what you charge to bring against her, but it was sunset, the city looking beautiful as a ttt d fir t the s�anlc tofatiais Ulessed bt I lessedmoment. you dream. The atmosphere was cool and _ remembered that Sinclair had been her MayGod balmy, but Lord Clanyarde looked with pardon you, as I do!" devoted slave for a longtime, -and "You had a shudder at the silvery mists floating i are an angel," sighed Mrs. Wal - ended his slavery* by marrying some- ' over the valleys, and fancied he saw singhatn, stretching out a. feeble hand, body ilea, i the malaria fiend grinning at him be- I which Constance pressed tenderly in hind that diaphanous vett, Constance both her own. Death is a great healer As the weeks went round Constance ; thought of nothing but the purpose for of by -gone wrongs., "And will you showed no improvement in health or' Which she had come. forgive the friend who brought you spirits. Pride was making a sorry "Tell the man to drive straight to your own child, believing that he was struggle in that broken heart. She Airs, 14alsinghani's Napasaid ," she s, ' en nor y. would not go back to England and the Ile gave the direotign to the driver, spurious Christabel, though her heart and the man pulled up his tired horses yearned for that guiltless imposter. before one of the stately unlaces of the She would not suffer another woman's past, An Italian man -servant admitted child to hold the place of her lost dart- them to an anteroom lavishly decorat- ing; no, not oven though that strange ed with +lotures and bric-a-brac—a room in which Lord Clanyarde bad ea- t, had made itself clearer to her en Neapolitn.n foes or sipped coffee on than life. Mrs. S;nclair's doctor informed. Lord Clanyarde that Rome was getting too warm for his patient, whereupon that anxious parent was fain to tear him- self away from the pleasares of the seven billed city and those delightful evenings at Mrs. Walsingiiant's. "Our medical man threatens me with typhoid fever and all manner of horrors if I keep my daughter here any !auger," he said, "so we start for the Engadine almost immediately. You will not stay much longer in Rome, I suppose?" "I don't know," answered Mrs. Wal- eingham, carelessly; "the place suits me batter than any other. I am tired to death of London and Paris. There is some pleasure in life here; and I should like to be buried in the ceme- tery where Keats lies." "Yes, it's ti Moe place to be buried in, if we roust be buried at all; but that's ratter a gloomy consideration. 1 should strongly advise you to spend ringing upon you a stranger, and who experimentalized with your maternal love in the hope of winning you from the grave ?" "You mean Sir Cyprus Davenant?" said Constance, „Yes," "I felt angry with him when rrry fa- ther told me what be had done; but I am sure all he did was clone out of affection for an old frlend, 1 bave no- thoso Saturday evenings which Mrs.. thing to forgive. R alsin barn had made so agreeable to "I am glad. to hear you say that. Sir him, Lie had never seen the room Cyprian has returned from Africa t,ft- empty before tonight and a had a er a successful expedition. He is in he stunner in a healthier climate, and leave the burial question to chanes." ""Oh, 1 dare say 1 shall soon get tired of Rome. 1 always get tired of places before I have been very long in them; and if the artists go away, I shall go too." Lord Clanyarde and his daughter left at the ad of the week. There were fever cases talked of already, and all the American tourists had fled. Lord Clanyarde felt he was not getting away an hour too soon. They dawdled about among Swiss mountains, living a life of rustic simplicity that was wondrous- ly beneficial to Constance, but some- what painful to Lord Clanyarde At the Beginning of July they had estab- lished. themselves et a little lonely village in the shadow of white, solemn mountains, and here Constance felt as if she had passed beyond the region of actual life into a state of repose, a kind. of ,Painless purgatory. She had done with the world and worldly inter - etas and affections. Even the little stranger's heart must have been wean- ed from her by this time, Lord Clanyarde saw the gradual de- cay of his daughter's strength, and trembled for the issue. She had grown dearer to him in this time of close com panionship than she had ever been since the far-off days when she was little Connie, the youngest and love- liest of his daughters. Re told himself that unless something occurred to rouse her from this dull apathy, 'this placid calm which looked like the forerun- ner of death's frozen stillness, there Was every reason for fear, and but lit- tle ground for hope, Lord Clanyarde prayed more earnest- ly than he had ever done before in his self-indulgent life, and it seemed to him that Providence heard his ery for help. • One morningthere came a letter from daughter malike. It wasefromh�Mra Walingham, written in a tremulous hand, and addressed to Lord Clanyarde. 'They tell me I am dying, and the near approach of death has melted the ice about nay heart. I have been a very wicked woman, and now conscience urges me to make you what poor rep- aration I can for the most cruel and treacherous revenge—not upon the man who wronged me, but upon the innocent girl for whose sake I was des$r1•iave deeply injured your daugh- ter, Lord Clanyarde, and I meant to carry the. secret of that wrong to the grave—to leave her desolate a,nd child- less hild less to the end. But the long lonely nights, the pain and weariness of de- ea.y,' the reary seclusion from the dreary outer world—these have done their work. Conscience, which had . been deadened by anger and revenge, alo vly awakened, and there came a longing for atonement. I can never un- do what I have done.. I can never give your daughter back the years that have be,�n darkened by sorrow—her wasted tears, her vain regrets. But I may do sanaethin ., Let her come to me—let her stand beside my . death -bed,. and I will -whisper the story of my crime in- to her ear. I will not write it. `She quickly if she wishes to Must come w y q to tell,for death what I have hear ,tares me in .the face, and this letter ,nay be lisng reaching youi Every day drifts inc fun, fixer down the dark river. now swiftlyit rushes sometimes in the dreary night -watches! • I can fancy I hear the ripple of the tide and the hol- low moan of the great ocean that lies r before me—the unknown sea of death and eternity." • Here came a broken sentence, which Lord Clanyarde could not decipher, and it seemed to him that the writor's mind had 'Wandered toward the close of the letter. There was no signature, but he knew the handwriting, and Mrs. Wal- singhan3's address was engraved at the to . p been more than a week The letter had on the road, and was readdressed from the hotel where Lord Clanyarde and his daughter had stayed at the begin- ning of. their torr, singularly desolate loch to his fancy in Rome " the flickering light of a pair of wax candles that had burned down to the sockets of the Pompeian bronze candle- sticks on the velvet -draped mantel- piece. "How is your mistress?" Lord Clan- yarde asked, eagerly. The Italian shrugged his shoulders. "Alas, excellency, it goes always the same. She still exists, tbat is all." "Tell her Mrs. Sinclair has come from Switzerland in the hope of seeing her." The Italian summoned hies. 11 als'ing- She struck the bell three tunes, and ham's maid, who requested Constance at the third shims the door opened and to come at once to the sick -room: She . C rias irdDachant came in.. It was was expected. But she must prepare Yp herself to be shocked b Mrs. Waking^ he who had withdrawn quietly at Mrs. ham's appearance. Fier end seemed Sinclair's entrance, and whom she had near. mistaken for the doctor. "She has forgiven all," said Mrs. Wal - "You had hatter go to your hotel, pa- „ Conatance's pale cheek grew a. shade paler. Fie is in Rome, and has paid me Many visits in this sick -room.. He has talked to ore of your gentleness—your divine compassion: But for that I do not think 1 should ever have had the courage to send fox you—" "I thank him with all my heart," ex- claimed Constance. "Let your lips thank him too," said Mrs. 11 alsingham touching the spring' bell on the little table by her side. EXETER TIMES 1� NEWS INA;NUT8LL pa," said Constance, "I might have to siugham• You were right when you stay here a long time. You can come back for me by and. by." On reflection Lord Clanyarde consid- ered this the best arrangement« He really wanted his dinner. Indeed, ho had never yet found any crisis in life so solemn as to obliterate that want. The servant led the way through a suite of reception -rooms to a tall door at the end of a spacious saloon. This opened into Mrst Wttlsingham's bed- room, which was the last room on this side of the house; a noble chamber,with windows looking two ways—one toward the hills, the other over the stately roofs and temples of the city. Both windows were wide open, and there was no light in the room save the rosy glow of sunset. The bed was in an al- cove, voluminously draped with amber damask and Roman lace. Mrs .Wal- singham was in a sitting position propped up xvith pillows, facing the sun - glow beyond the purple hills. There was a second door opening on to the staircase, and as Constance ent- ered, some one—a man—left the room by the door. She supposed that this person must be ono of Merl. Walsing- ham's medical attendants. The doc- tors were hovering about her, no doubt, in these last hours. "You have Dome," gasped the dying woman, "thank God! Yon can go Mor- ris," to the maid; :"I will ring if I want you. Come here, Mrs. Sinclair. Sit down by my side. There is no time to lose. My breath fails me very oft- en. You must 'excuse—be patient." "Pray do not distress yourself," said Constance, seating herself in the chair beside the bed; "I can stay as long as you like." "How gently you speak to me 1 but you don't know, You will look at me differently presently—not with those compassionate eyes.. I am an awful spectacle, am Y not?—living death. Would you believe that I was once a beauty? Sant painted my portrait when we wore both at our best—" with a bitter little laugh. called her an angel. And now let me do one good thing on my death, -'bed. Let me be sure that the rest of her life will bo bright and happy, that there will be a. strong arm and a true'. heart between her and sorrow. It will help to lift the burden from my conscience if I can be sure of that." Constance spoke not a. word. She stood before her first lover blusbing like a school -girl. She dared not lift her eyes to his face. Happily there was little need of words. Cyprian put 'h!s arm round the slender figure in its dismal bleak dress and drew the love of years to his breast. "God has been very good to ue, my darling," he said. 'May He never part us any morel I think He meant us to live and die together." Constance did not question this as- sertion. Her heart mutely echoed her lover's words. In the early spring ofthe following year Davenant awoke like the palace of the Sleeping Beauty, and the com- fortable old servants, who had grown fat and sleek during their period of comparative idleness, rejoiced and made merry at the coming home of their mas- ter. They had known him :from his boyhood, and to them this raising up of the old family to more than its form- er prosperity was like it personal eleva. tion, Even the neighboring villages had their share in the gladness, and there were more bonfires and triumphal arches between the railway station and the park gates on the evening of Sir Cyprian's return with his beautiful wife than ever had been seen before by the oldest inhabitant. Baby Christabel was waiting to re- ceive them on the threshold of the old oak -paneled hall; and Martha Briggs, resplendent in a new silk gown, de- clared that this was the happiest day of her life—an assertion which .Tames Gibson, the gamekeeper, resented as a personal affront. "Bar one, Patty," he remonstrated. "I should think your own wedding -day ought to be still happier." 'No, it won't," cried Martha, decided - 1y; "and I think you ought to know, Jim, that I never would have given my consent to get married if my mistress hadn't—" "Set you the example," cried James with a guffaw. "And a very good ex- ample it is too. Sir Cyprian has prem- ed me the new lodge at the south gate- -five, rooms and a scullery. That's the missus's doing, I'll be bound.', (THE END.) THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE • WORLD OVER. n Interesting Items About Our Own Country Great Britain, the United States, and Alt Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for easy Reading. ',CANADA.. The Moncton sugar refinery has been burned, involving a loss of $200,000. The Supreme Court will open its regu- lar fall sitting the second week in Oc- tober. Mr. Harry Sehadel of Hamilton fell in a fit and broke his neck, dying in- stantly. The assessment returnsust complet- ed show the population of London to be 31,794. The next convention of the American Publio Health Association will be held in Toronto. Receipts of the Hamilton Arts School for the past year amount to $3,624 and expenditure $3,450. Albert Wilson, a murderer, reputed tobe insane, escaped fromths Toronto Asylum on Saturday. Joseph Beeline , a contractor, is charged at Regina with defrauding the Dominion Government. Ex -Treasurer Harvey of Guelph was committed for trial on the charge of embezzling pity funds. It is rumored that the Sanford Manu- facturing Company intends removing from Hamilton to Toronto. Mr. George E. Mills of Hamilton has received the contract for building the Grand Trunk car shops at London. Mr. Timothy Almond, well known in Hamilton, where his mother resides, was killed at Coney Island, N. Y. The wool -growers of the Northwest are still holding a large portion of this year's clip in hope of obtaining high- er prices. 11Ir. A. T. Fuller, an iron worker in the Ontario Rollin Mills, Hamilton, g is said to have fallen heir to £90,000 in Belfast. The Rev, Father Point, S. J., the old- est priest in the Dominion, died on Sat- urday at the Jesuit College in Mon- treal, aged 95. Askeleton was unearthed at Winni- peg which is believed to be that of Thomas Scott, who was shot during the Red River rebellion. Miss M. Phillips, of the Kingston General Hospital, has been appointed superintendent of nurses of the Gen- eral Hospital at Lowell, Mass. A deputation from Montreal waited on tbe Government at Ottawa to ask a guarantee of $500,000 bonds in aid of the International Exhibition. "I have not lost an hour in corning to you. If yen "have done me a wrong that you can by any means atone for, pray do not lose time." "Death is waiting at my door. Yes, I must be quick: But it is so horrible to talk of it, such mean, low treachery. Not a great revenge; a pitiful, paltry act of spitefulness.( Oh, if you knew how I loved Gilbert Sinclair, how firm - Ly I believed in his love—yes, and he was fond of me, until the luckless day you crossed his path and stole his heart from me." I never knew—" faltered Constance. "No, you .wronged me ignorantly; but ;that did not make my loss lighter to bear. 1 hated you for it. Yes, I meas- ured my hatred for you by my love for him. Life was intolerable to me with- out him, and one day T vowed that I would make your life intolerable to you. I was told that you were making an idol of your . ohild, that your happi- ness was bound up in that baby's exist- ence, and I resolved that the child should be taken from you—" "Wretch!" cried Constance, starting up in sudden horror. "You were there at Schoenesthal—you pushed her down the slope—it was not an accident—" "No, no. I was not quite So bad as that—not capable of taking that sweet young life. To take her from you, That was enough. To make your days miserable—to make you drink the cup alt tears, as I. had of you. That was my end and' ails. I found a`, willing tool in your French nurse- maid, a skillful coadjutor in James Wy- att. att. Everything was well planned. The girl had learned to swim, the year be- fore, at Ostend, and was not afraid to plunge into the river when she saw some one coming. This gave a look of reality to the business I' met Melanie Duport at the ruins that September morning, and took your baby from her; I carried her away im my own arms to the place where a carriage was waiting for me, and drove straight to Baden and from Baden traveled as fast as t could to Brussels, keeping the baby tin my own charge all the while." "She was not drowned, then. Thank God! Thank God!" cried Constance, sinking on her knees beside the bed,and lifting tin her heart in raise nd thanksgiving. Of Mrs. Waalsinghani's guilt—of the vain sorrow she had en OUTSIDE TEETH, The Food. of Some Animals Masticated Before et hinters the itiontit. All the members of the crustacean tribe, which partake of the structure of the cray-fish, lobster and crab, have their teeth outside their bodies altogether, their nippers and what are called maxillipedes, or foot -jaws, being used to masticate their food before it enters the body at all. In addition to these the crayfish has teeth in its stomachs; so, too, has the Echinus, or sea -urchin. Among the fish proper the carp has a large tooth projecting from the hack of its skull into its throat,and an African snake, the Rachiodon, wbich 'addition, tion to the gas in d 1' oneggs, h , lives imperfect, teh in its mouth, prolong- ations of its anterior -vertebral spines which come through into its throat. The ends of these seines are covered with en- amel like true teeth. Their purpose is to break the eggs, which are swallow- ed whole. The shallow nature of the mouth would allow the contents of the eggs to be spilt if the shells were brok- entthere, but the teeth in the gullet breaik them . after the mouth is clos- ed, and thus nothing is lost.. THE TITLE " REVEREND." Tine. title "reverend" was :until the sixteenth century addressed to many others besides clergymen,. such as Judges and eminent writers ;.but from that time its use has been strictly con- fined to • the olergy. .children Cry for Pitcher's Casto& been discovered. They had tunnelled their way into an empty cell, and four of the bars on the window had been sawed. through. As a result of disclosures said to have been made by the finding of documents. upon the person of Edward Bell, alias Edward J. Ivory, of New York, arrested in Glasgow on a charge of being con- nected with the dynamite eonspiracy,the guards on the Government buildings in London and the powder magszioe at Woolwich. have been doubled. The St. James' Gazette, In an editor', al on the Eastern situation, suggests a new triple alliance, composed of Eng- land, Italy and the United States4 The formation of the ,new dreibund might lead to a fresh grouping of the powers, and the delivery of Europe both from Turkish, misrule and the dangerous thraldom to Russia into which it is sink- ing. At a representative meeting of bar- risters at Montreal it WAS decided to form a. Canadian Bar Association, and a committee was appointed to carry out the purpose. In interviews the principal Ottawa lumbermen said that their cut this sea- son would be about the same as last year, but they are employing a small- er nuraber of men in the woods. Five prisoners in the Kingston Pen- itentiary had an elabarate plot on foot to escape, but \vers caught. When found they had several saw -knives, which they used to cut the bars. The Canada, which recently won the victory over Vencedor, the Chicago boat, was sold by auction in Toronto. It was purchased for 83,250, it is be- lieved for Senator Sanford, of Hamil- ton. The steamer Moravia sailed from Montreal for Brazil, carrying about 300 immigrants. The warnings of the officials influenced nearly half of those wohl intended to go, and they left the vessel before she sailed. The Dominion Government published in Canada's Gazette a proclamation warning Canadians not to take part in any filibustering expedition to aid the Cubans, and reciting the penalties imposed on the Foreign Enlistment Act. Interestingtests were made at t he Niagara miitary camp ranges of the penetrating power of the Lee -Enfield rifle bullets. It 'was decided, in view of Private Hatton's death, to provide additional protection for the markers. A human skeleton was unearthed last Thursday in Winnipeg under the exact spot occupied by a Ft nian saloon during the Riel regime, wheel is believed to be that of Thomas Scott, who was mur- dered in Fart Garro in 1870. Steps are being taken to obtain a complete iden- tification. At a meeting held in Toronto of vet- erans who had served in the British army for ten years and received hon- ourable discharges, it was decided to petition the British Government and al- so her Majesty, the Queen, through his Excellency Lord Aberdeen, to have the provisions of the present pensioners' warrant extended to the ten-year men. GREAT BRITAIN. The foundations of the new Roman Catholic cathedral at Westmlinster have been completed. The new armored battleship Illus- trious has been launched 'from the Chatham dockyards. UNITED STATES. Jennie Plovencher was found starv- ing by the police in Riverside Park, New York on Wednesday. Dr. Charles F. Ives. an aged dentist in West 35th street, New York, sutcid ed with chloroform and gas on Thurs- day. Ned Crane, the famous baseball pitcher and holder of the world's re- cord for long distance throwing, com- mitted suicide by drinking chloral in Rochester. The Buffalo Democratic Convention representing New York State unreser- vedly endorsed the Chicago platform. and pledged active support to Wee J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall. The press bureau at the National De- mocratic headquarters in Chicago cal- culates that DIr. Bryan in November, will carry 36 out of the 45 States, and 324 electoral votes. The record of the Court of Common Pleas in New York shows that P. J. P. Tynan, the dynamite suspect under ar- rest at Boulogne, has been a citizen of the United States since August, 1888. The receiver of the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railroad has indefinitely suspended the operation of the road, and will ask the court for an order to sell the rolling stock and pay pressing claims. Mrs. Delia Parnell, mother of the late Charles `Stewart Parnell, who is in a precarious condition at Bray. near Dub- lin, says she bee no recollection of who assaulted her in the United States in April of hist year. The New York Suns London corres- pondent status that the recent release of the dynamiters in England was part of a bargain by which the Government secured some needed information re- garding the plot for which Tynan and Ms associates have been arrested, According to the commercial agen- cies of New York, there is no actual ini- provement in business througibuut. the United States. Trade and industry are checked by political turmoil and finan- cial distrust. No ehange is anticipat- ed. until late in November, and then it will, of course, be contingent on bow the Presidential contest goes. There has been some speculative buy- ing in pig iron, hides, cotton, and wool. Several cotton mills in the Fall River district have resumed work, and prices of some cotton goods have advanced. A better demand for dress goods has been experienced during the week. The boot and shoe industry, on the other hand, has decreased in activity, and iron and steel manufacture is very dull. GENERAL.. President Kruger is thinking of vis- iting Europenext spring on private bus- iness, and will very likely go to Eng- land. The latest advices from Madagascar describe the island within the French protectorate as in a horrible condition of anarchy. Chancellor von Holienlohe has gone to Ausee for some shooting, which would seem to indicate that there is to be no immediate action of the pow- ers in Turkey. Over 120 emigrants left St. John's, Nfld., for the, United States and Can- ada owing to the failure of the Labra- dor eishery. Several hundred more are arranging to follow. The American Legation at Constan- tinople has received news that a fresh massacre, in which a large number of Christians were killed, has taken place at Ehin, in the Valley of Kharput. A French scientist says the world, as far as Europe is concerned, is com- ing to an end, The earth is certainly cooling in France and Belgium, and great physical changes are likely in the near future. The Ambassadors of the powers held a meeting in Constantinople on Mon- day, at which a plan was agreed upon to land sailors from the guardships to protect foreigners in the event of re- newed disturbances. The correspondent of the London Times in St. Petersburg calls attention to the bitter anti ltnglish feeling in the Russian pre..s. A similar tone prevails in the leading Austrian organs, which accuse England. of Machiavellian designs on Turkey. It is announced in Vienna that a scientific party from the warship Al- batross was attacked on August 10th by natives of Guadalcanar, Solomon -is- lands. The geologist of the expedition, Poulton, a midshipman, and two sea- men were killed. Many natives were also killed, There are at present 4,475 patients in the London hospitals of whom 3,649 are suffering from scarlet fever. Sir Isaac Pitman, the originator of a system of shorthand known by his name, is seriously ill in Paris. It is reported in London that Lady Beatrice Butler, one of the most beau- tiful women in England is to marry Lord Waterford. The Queen has agreeably astonished the poet Burns' enthusiasts by revealing herself as a collector of Burns' relics. Marie Coreldi, the English authoress, vigorously denounces female bicycle rid- ing, which she regards as the height of feminine vulgarity. It is reported n London that the Duke of Fife, son-in-law of the Prince of Wales is negotiating with one of the Vanderbilts for the sale of Mar Lodge, Braemar. While there appears to be evidence that a dynamite attack was intended upon Balmoral castle while the Czar was visiting the Queen, the feeling of alarm in England is subsiding. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to the Liverpool Reform Club, urging the organization of a mass meeting in be- half of the Armenians, send stating that, if desired, it might besible far him to take part in the proceedia'gle. 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(Where Other Medicines Have Failed. and Doctors Have Pronounced the Cases Beyond Cure, This Great Discovery Has Proven a Genuine Elixir of Life. Oho ;Sim Verdict Comes From Old and Young, Male and rentals. Bich and Poor, and From All Corners of the Dominion. If it is the case that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one had grown before is a benefactor of the race, what is the position to be aocorded that man who by his know- ledge of the laws of life and health gives energy and strength where lan- guor, weakness and anticipation of an early death had before prevailed? Is not hie also e. public benefactor? Lot }yose who have been down and are irc w up through the use of South Ani- ioan Nervine give their opinions on this subject. John Boyer, Banker, of Kincardine. Ont., had made himself a hopeless invalid through years of over- work. At least he felt his case was hopeless, for tate best physicians had failed to do hint good. He tried Ner- vine, and these are his words ; " I glad- ly 1y wa.v it : Nervine cured me and I am today as strong and wela.as ever." Samuel ,lye, 05 Meaford, was cur id of neuralgia of the stomach and bowels by three bottles of this medicine. Sas. Sherwood, of Windsor, at 70 years of age, suffered from an attack of paraly- sis. His life, at that age, was despair- ed of. But four bottles of Ner✓ine gave him back his natural strength. A victim of indigestion, W. F. Bolgev, of Renfrew, says : " Nervine cured me of my suffering, which seemed incur- able, and ha,d baffled all former me- thods and efforts," Peter Eason, of Paisley, lest flesh. and rarely nae a good night's sleep, because of stomach trouble. He says; " Nervine stopped the agonizing pains in my stomach the first day I used it. I have now taken two bottles and I feel entirely relieved and can sleep lilte a top." A repre- sentative farmer, of Western Ontario, is Mr. C. J. Curtis, residing near Wmca- sor. His health was seemingly com- pletely destroyed through la griype. No medicine did him any good. "To three bottles of Nervine," he stays, 'I attribute my restpration to health and strength." Neither man or woman can enjoy life when trouble,', with liver comni<atrtt. This wits the sentiment and feeding of W. J. Hill, the well- known bailiff of Bracebrid„e. "I was so bad," says he, " that one of my modiesi attendants said that I was dying, but, think dad, I ani not dead yet. Plats t e first few doses I took of Nervine a c one rtenced to feel bet- ter, and ani to»de,y reetored completely to niy usttai •1kehlth.r' A resident of Oa Maritime ifr'oalhees, In the pe;'son oi< Zoise oci.aueetn, N.B„ says : "Fur tvaclitt Y rs 1< WV a martyr to indi- sastion, apisbtipatjon acid headti,ahe. The t'S.t'ttit t'it of seep rah phyeictane ua not_ h xtle, 11 have teakeni ii, faW bottles of Nervine, and can truth£u111 say that I am a new man," A shrewd observer of human nature has said ; " The hand that rocks the cradle moves the world." How im- portant it is, then, that health and strength should be mead the lot of the mothers 05 this country. The wo- men of Canada are ready by scores to tell of the benefits that have come to them through the use of South Apaerl• can Nervine. Mrs. B.. Armstrong. of Orillia, wife of the eolporteur, of the Bible Society of that town, suffered for six years from aeevoup prostration► Medical assistance . did not help. " tti all," she sage, "I '',save1`'c $liZ buttes of Nervine, and can tiu'iti t llY stir this is the One medicine tiiot Has efeetoil a cue in my aaee." Ms. Zahn Dieu Woody has been for 40 pears a reetttent of P'teshertme and huts remelted the al- lotted three -score years 2nd. ten. Three Years ago her sesteih qustiatned S rYav� ere shock through the death oi', a daughter. Nervine was reeonusaenned. She perseveringly took 15 bottles of Medicine, with the result that she la to- day again strong and hearty. 1Thn- dreds of women suffer from impovarleli- ed blood and weakened nerves. r" A,t vitality," says Mrs. J. Paths. of Brampton, " seemed to bave forsaken my system, I was uneale to get, rose lief from any source until I eeetiitfeiieed taking South American i'1,etvtrie. fihe results are roost satisfactor —•treater far than I could have Hoped for." It came within the way of Mrs. .ii. Stap- leton, of Wingharn, to treat under the best physicians, both in Canada and itingland, for heart disease and tt'erv- ous debility, but she failed to get am; relief. " I was advised,' she says, "to take South American Nervine, and trust say I do believe that if 1 had not done so I would not be alive tee day." Newspaper space is too valuable to permit of further additions to these earnest words of testimony frons Owlet who know just what they are talking/ about. In the common language of. the day, they have been there, and are speakieg from the blast. The dozeilt or more witnesses that here speak have their counterparts ty t'ite hundreds, not only in the province of .rbntaf10 but in odery other sect+oh cif the taofliln• ion. South American Nei• Lite is base on a scientific priaci_ le dial MOUES a cure a certainty, no nattcfs hope deg• perste the oast may Ab. It st ltta at tie nerve centers team winch' nowe the life brad of the asitae system, It 4g not a' medicine of pntnast9g , but i$f complete acid coirii7reitalii9l'4 Sit illi appiieatiton. C, LUTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter. Thos. WICIiE'1'T, Crediton Drug Store, Agent.