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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-4-12, Page 2TIIE EXETER TIMES DE.GnIet D I CKSON 8t, CARLING, Barristers. Solicitors. eretaries, Conveyencere, nommiseiencrallte. Metier to Loan at le per Beak 0.446 len cent. O1014:-FSON'S 131.001r, EXETER. tn. CARUSO, 8. A. L. a, Moneta =ember oe - he In will be at Rosen on Obereday of each week. R. a ootatiNs, Barrister Solicitor, Conveyancer, Et. naltarsn, . ON. OFFIOE Over O'leTeil's Bait _ ELLIOT Sz, GLADAIAN, Barristers, Solicitors, Notarieshbll CouvoyaReers 47,4). larMortey to Loan. OFFICE, e MAIN -STREET. EXETER, no. V, STAMM, P. W. PIAPiiitele. weeenween_iieleseeenteiriemeneepereeneenesa_neese., AI4DICAL 1-1R. J. U. RIVERS. M. B. TORONTO LINI 15 nexerrn. M1,,C.Ttn. Ireivee sits, alece-Crediton, On , ne.11014.11iSnAniQd. I) eerarateOfneee. Itendence SWAB AS fortnee nenitelrewst. Onion speekteatne retie el; Britoil:het eameas formerly, norm nt lir. Anion" ewe boUthng aUUh deer. a.4.1ttn4tallS, U. P. 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Our JOB PRIN TING DEPARTMEN T is one el the largest and boat eguippedin the County of Huron. AU work en.rusted to us will re. toy r. our prompt attenton. DeribillIIS ROEUEIGIII: Newspapers. 1 -.An person who takes a paper regularly from the post office, whether directed in hie name or unother's,or wnether he has subacrle- cd or not, is responsible for paYment. 2 -If a 'person ordera his paper aiscontinued be nmet pay all arrears env the publisher may continueto send it until tho payinent is made, end then collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the 001E0 or not. 8 -In suits for imbeeriptions, the snit may be Instituted in the place where the paper is pub- lished, although the subscriber may reside hun 'reds of miles away, i-Thie courts have deohled that refusing to bike new:papers or periodicals from the pose office, or removing and leaving thern uncalled For, is prima facie evidenee of intentional fraud. ?3,3vItsstiiosta4):stas. For Love and Fame. *rW) CHAPTER. VI:E.-Continued. '11),17 lady` therel She stayed an /le went forwaed with the physician, lamer. waited, outside. As we and while the latter knelt and mede came back a boy ran after us, and his erarainatien, the captain muttered talked with her by the porch of St. a few words cif eorefort in =dame's Gervais. She sent me away. and I ear Fin. all she nerd or heeded, do not know what was his business, however, be Might have spared ids But after we got laeme, and wben she iilis. Se bad been sumineoned so thought me ;Weep, sbe crept out of abrontly, and the gen nod se entire- the room and came here, aud put ly snanped the thread at ber sometbing in that eup. beard her ;ten:Tilts, that she had not yet cone go, and stole to tbe door, arid nected her husband's illness with any through the curtains Saw her do it t act of hers. Sbe had absolutely fore but I did not nnaw what it was or gotten the enterprise of the evening, what slie intended, I leave told the • antielpatione and heves. For the truth. But I did not know, I did not. e ehe was spared that horror. Bat swear did nal." thi$ illuess alone sufficed to over The eara ain silenced her protesta- v elni her, to sink her beyond the tions with a fierce gesture, and ramie of present comfort. she no turned front her to the women she longer rememberea ber higsbaud's accused. "Madame," iles old, In a IOW coltinese, but only the early days when iihsiendY voice, "is this truer he had come to her lo. ber country home, a black -bearded, bold -eyed Apollo, and wooed her impetuously and with irresistible will. All bis faults, all his unkindneeses, WCTO ture gotten now; any hie beauty. vigor, bie greaz peeetell, his courage, were remembered. A dreadful pain seized her bort when ehe eecoguieed that his hail evened to beat. She Peered white-faced into the physician's eyes, she kiing An Ibis lips. If elee retnene- beret! her journey to the Rue Touoleet at all, it was only to tabele how futile luipee were now. Re, wboni oho uld have won back to her, was gone ne leer forever The &toter shook his head gravere a be rose. He had tried. to bleed the atlent, witheitt waiting, in this mergence', for a barber to be stone mooed; but the blood would not flow. "It is neeless," he said. "You must have courage, madame. More narage than is commoaly required," he continued, in a tone of eolemnity. aimest of eevetity. Re IOW round and met the captain's eye% He made a slight "Ile is dead I" elm inuttered. "He is dead," the phyeician answer- , slowly, "More, maderneny - k goes further. It Is my duty to that he has been peieened." "Dead!" she muttered, 'With a tirn sob. "Dead I" "Peisoned, I ;said madame," the ph CARTE as ItTLE WER PILLS. Sials Headache and reheve all the troubles incl. dent to a bilious state of the system, such aa Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, Sze. While their moat remarkable success has been shown in curing S Headache, yet CARTER'S LITI'LIL LP/ER PILLS are equally valuable ba Constipation, curing and preventing this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disordere of the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowela Even if they only cured • Ache they would be almost priceless tizti those who suffer from this distressing complaint; i but fortunately their goodness. doe not end here, and those who once try them will find these little pine valuable in so many ways that they will not be willing to do without them. But aftefeall sick bead imi the bane of so inanylives that here is where ra makerour great boast. 0.nr pills cure it while others 40 not. Ceneeees LITTLE Livett.Pitts are vary small and very easyeto take. Oho or two pills make a doite. They are strictly vegetable and do tot gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please an who USB them. In viele at 20 cent% bye for $1. Sold everywhere, or eent by mail. OILBI1111 ill01011.111 CO„ Mow 'fork. • • lila ge graall !me. Tounleet. Se gar so good. But it is tlateful work," the old/ eoldier con - n4, with an oatb, looking askance at the groupe, which surrouned, read- eme and the eoetor. 'They it es horrible. It woold, be a mercy to geve her a dose now, and end all," But there was o One to take the c'esennsibilltY, and so the few who were abroad, very early that moro- lug saw- a strangle and mournful Pro, cession, pase through the streets of Pares, those streets erbiele have seea so many grisly and so many fentastic things. Aie hour liefore day-breale litter, surrounded), by a crowd of arm- ed men, eorne bearing torelves and some mikes anti halberds, came out of the Hotel de Vidoehe and passed slow - Ly down the Rue St. Denie, Tbe night was at, its darkest, the wind at Its keeuest. Vagrants, wretches lying one in the Bailee, rose up and wailed for *bele lives, or slowly froze ad Bombed. But taere are whose, things than death in the ppen; worse, at any rate, than that death eviatth comes with kindly numbing power. Awl some of thase knew it; nay, all. Tbe poorest ahe stood wieli both her hands on entceet whom. the glare et the eges.. her breast, andlooked, with e face. a sets surprised a, he linked in tbe porch stone, not at Idea, but beyond him. or pentehonste the leanest beggar wilt' She scarcely seemed to breathe, so looked otrt !Startled by tke cicnK 584 perSeet Was the dreadful stillness trawls. knew. lefes'self 11513131er than winch held her. He %nought shedid the lag's prisoner hounth for the not hear ; and be woo about to repeat Iiiii question, when oho moved her lips In a strange, meehanical feeble% and, after au effort. sPoke- "is it truer wbispered-in that staleta en silence every syllable was audible. old eVelli at leer fiest weed, some wo- men teii to einielderiug-"is it true tbat I have killed ray husbandI Yes. 1 lialriS killed him. I loved bine, and I have Wiled him. I loved hirn-1 bad no One DISC titt love -and I !lave killed bleu. God 1448 let this be lu this -odd, You are real and aM real. It la no dream. He has let it be." "Mon Dinar the CaPtailit muttered, Attie one woman broke into noise weePing. "She is mad!" But madame Was not mad, or onIS mad for the moment. "It is strange," the coo:tinged, with writhing Ups, bot lu the Baum even toxen-whiele to those who hod evien to hear wee worse iJeail any loud outcry, "that such a tbing abould be. God no Chatelete and, hugging his rage. ttialaked Heaven for tee CHAPTER' ,VIII. Winn Jeban, m a fever a indigo - teen, eleppea etealthily out of the tweet, tbe ftufa Touthet and sped up the clarg, quiet street utter Madame do Vidoehe, be load no teenier vex - ?two In WS mind Ulan to AVOrtalCa leer eud warn lier. Tbe lady lead spoimu kindly en the night of the ounper at Las Ancielye. Slew was young, WeelX Depressed; the plot agaigeee her see:a- ce to the cnild to be fieudisb to its rtnuinees. It needed. no tusgee to use every eliivairoue instinct. 14 Le nature -and theee in a boy eheuld bit anariS, or woe betide the men -and tinned him to save bee, thought that it he ceuld over - and warn bee all would he ud. at Vent hie purpose went than that. But as he ran, should not let it be, becieuse loveel I now crok over las eleoaider in ter - Wm. 1 -but verbena I Abell awake ror, and now peering, into the dark - presently and find it a dream. Or nese ahead, sometimee slipping nate perhaps he is not (lead, Is be1 Het the stetter in his haste, and sometemes ne, raati isst Tell Elits which l" stumbling os -era projecting Step, a With tbe words. leaPeti Atm and whimeical %bought trona ter lipa witb fitidden, frantio into his mind, and ba reoutene fasci- taken foe oe enotahefy, ha . Site sen. she Aa gated tranceung toward tbe doe- $913,11g, whether the aatroloemen Mate be given a trial in Lis parents atatione would be establuibed this , flashed nearly broke it. Re found nineselt confronted by three or four grinning ruffians, wbose eyes glistened they ecanaed Lis velvet clothes and the little, silver hiettone that fastened then. The maze who had epolmo be fore eeenied, to be the leader of OA party -a filthy beggar with one orna and a hare -lip "Inet bol" he ehuckl- ed; "so nen Oa feel, Nonsieer le afar - gals, can your flesh and blood like otner folk. And doubtlese wan money yoor peckets to eaey for your nigbro lodging." To be continued.. •ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. 'What the Legislators -of the Provinee are Bola.g at Toronto, THE LuD,THER. CUT, The crown. Lauds Deportment is in- formed that (hie egaeon. bea been itlb unusually gooa one the lumber (Us., tete. The snow, leas held out bog enottglt to get all the loge to, the river ready for "driving." The Outpett about afel,0110,00(1, Leet, alai*, is. one •of the legegeen elite in the Inetery et the prevueee. TEACHERS" nwriniNG ALLOW. AMES. Mr. Har,entort introtineen OA Act to anieled the Olin% S.thoola Act by at - lowing the Board of Trustees to re- celve Toomey by gut. or bequeat or .tbe eet,ablithreent -of. -permanent tichola,r- ebips, cinch else ailowa the Board a. Trusteige to, grant grateitiee end r- tulng allowaucee to teaeliere. .Mr. Hereourt also introduced en Aot to amend the Public Scheeis Act, wIneie enables tbel board to maim grants for :promoting gyen.nastiee and other athe tette exeeeisee, attd aleo enables the board. tie geant retiring allowances to teaebere CHANCE FOR YOUNG nilSBOERS, The eatterneyeGeneret intredneedan Act to aMend the. Industrial Schools Aet, which, provides 'that every Child committed to an Industaial ethool . " ,r1hik,y• What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Tnfants and Children. It contains neither Opieenne ltdorpleine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless ,substitute for Paregorie, Drops, Soothing Syrups and. Castor 011. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' rise by Millions of Mothers. Castorla destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. Castoria, prevents TOviatug Sol= anal, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatidency. Castoria assimilates tho Food, regulates -the Stoma and lowels, giving healthy and. Astaxai sleeps castamt is the Childreo's Panacea -the Mother's r Castoria. "CatrJ is Sa e4CSUGSt TatdiCitia for ebildree. efotbere have repeatedly told eet a. its ,,tood effeet up= their Children." BR+ O. 000o000000,, Iseren MASS'. Castoria. Hcasto,f.. is se Wen Adapted 10 cellar= teat recooneed it is oen pener to y one seriptitie karewo ea me," XL 4, Aeons,4rOoklyx, THE FAO -SIMILE SIGNATURE OF APPEARS ON EVERY WRAPPER passed carom tt The Premier omen answered, abuese harelity. n ball after being three years an in- . . eaid they expected that about twenty an older man the Symptoms mtght be nuestionlega woke from limn flow it came to one eo 11MI of the coat, up to O. toarae, or be apprenticed or placed one II leer* and eseh would be sided with those 0, /W this CAS° not tea not tor; then turning swiftly, looked my, 0 whiule he Lad been a witness, in it tonne lame, It also provides that Moneieur de VI- doehe has heen Palaeneth" where the coeliac lay, and with it euggeeted it, or it eprung from SOisee CHANGES. IN REGISTRA.TION. dreadful peat of laughter throw bar- precocious aptitude le the !evens owo bildren committed to an Industrial In reeving' the tiecond reading of this "You are clear on that point," tbe captain of the watch said. Ho was Self upon it. Her fibrin twice ao M- alan, lately ed tbe air, so rang through the empty ort a auddela there it was in his naiad, cheat abate remain under tbe guerti- nature, it le imposeible to say. Due ... e Aot to amend the Regietry A.ct, the tile eaptain raised his bands to his nenomo. Ho bad, only a fon minutes 1 INVESTMENTS BY TRUSTEES. hinsei .ne the Sediecil Board unttl they object was to sea:ranee matters so e,e,,,P„,„ age „, ..,e eee„.e. AttorneyeGeneral• explained that the a gray-haired, elderly transferred from tbe field to the ball below, so pierced the brain, that full-grown, full -armed a perfect °"""s" s""1"st" '''' - s'''''''' einem of paris, and his kindly nature that every inetrument affecting the had not been wholly obliterated by ears* awl the melt sbrilnk baelt• leek" in %chicle to consider ie before he Ma Gibson also introduced au Act to description and title of lands he en- cF See tAt. the woman. ontain alth villainy. inWel caught mudame up, and the time to amend the 'Trustees' Investment Act. -Wed in nricAIS bOOTitN•SO that in mak- "to her" the eantam "Perfectly," the doctor ansWered. t ' - ' Put it into execution came; but in tbut It enables trustees to invest in. multi- trig it search for title all the'infernea- "More, the poison ueuet bave been ad- a-mpang bis foot in. a rage and ad- dressing the physician. "I must take interval he found no flaw in it. Rather eimil debentures, and provides that en. ‘q tion will be before the searcher. Thh ministered tvitbin tbe hour." he reveled no it. It eatisfied tbe boy a eoutors aull trtiStees shall not be liable bill passed its second reading. : her away, but I can not take her lake Vedanta rose shivering from the dead mules side. Tbis new terror. 60 th13. See to lien tnan. Give her some - numb wortio tban that of death, thing: drug her, poison her, if you seemed to thrust Ler from him, to leke-maything W atop berl Her raise a barrier betweeu therm The cries will, ring in any ears a twelve - soft white robe she had tbrown round. Month hence. Well, woman, wbeti is Iter when she ran trum her bed. was Id" he continued, Impatiently. nrad- not whiter than her cheeks; the eines woman had touched his arra. lights were not brighter than her "The boyl" she muttered. "The eyes, distended •tith horror. "Poison- boy!" Her teeth were thattering with Nil" she muttered. "Who would poi- terror. She pointed to the Nate where son him'?" the aervants stood most thackly near "That is the question. madame," the the great curtains whach shut off the captain of the watch answered, not atm:rose. without pity -not without admire- He followed the direction of her lion. "And if, as we are told, the band, but aaw netting but scared faces poison must have been given within and cringing figures. "What boy, the hour, it should not be difficult woman?" he retorted. "What do you to answer it. Let no one leave the inennee room," puling Ins mustachios. "Whore "The boy who came after us to the is the valet who waited on alonsieur church," she answered. '41 saw him de Vidocher 0 minute ogo-there- He was stand - The raan stood forward from the t.ng behind that man, looking under rest, shaking with alarm, and told his arm." Three strides brought the briefly all he knew; how he had left captain of the watch to the place m - his master in his usual heealtin and cheated. But there was no hoy there found him in some kind of seizure; -there was no boy to be seen. More - how Vidoche had bid him look in the over, the frightened servants who cup, and how he found a sediment in stood he that part declared that they It which should not have been there. had seen no boy -that no boy could "You mixed this wine yourself ?" have been there. The captam, be - the captain of the watch said, sharply. having that they had had. eyes only for The man allowed he bad, whimper- Madame de Vidoche, put small faith ering and exc.using himself. in their protesta.tions; but the fact "Very well. Let me see madame's remained that the boy Was gone, and woman," was the answer. "Where is the searcher returned baffled and she? She is here, I suppose? Let perplexed, more than half inclined to her stand out." think that this might be a ruse on the • A dozen hands were ready to point woman!' Part, yet at a loss to see her out, a dozen lights were held uP see what' good it could do her. He tbat the Chevalier du Guet might see asked, her. roughly how old the boy her the better. She was pushed, toae. nudged, impelled forward, until she "About twelve.," she answered, look - stood trembling where the man had ing nervously over her shoulder. In stood. But not for long. The cap- truth, she began to fancy that the tain's first question was still on his boy was a familiar. Or what could lips, when, with a sudden gesture of bring hum here? How had he entered? despair, the woman threw herself on And whitber bad he vanished? her knees before him, and, groveling ' in a state of abject terror, cried out "How Was he dressed?the captain asked, angrily, waving back the sere - that she would tell all -all: All, if they would let her go 1 All, if they ants, who would have pressed on hem would 'not torture ber 1 In their cueiosity. The captain's face grew stern, the "In black velvet," she answered. lines about his mouth hardened. "But he; had no cap. He was bare - "Speak 1" he said, curtly; and with a headed. And I noticed that he had swift side -glance at the mistress black hair and blue eyes." who stood as if turned to stone. "Are you, sure that the boy you saw "Speak, but the truth only, womanl" here was the boy who followed you while a murmur of astonishment and and spoke to madame in the street?" fear ran round the circle. he urged. "Be woeful, woman! It should be mentioneed that at this "I am certain of it," she answered, time the crime onecret poisoning was feverisbly. "1 knew hina in a =- held inospacial abhorrence in France, ment." bring him: in with youa" slumber; but only to iwake in a few 31 the poisoning of husbands by wives "Are you sore that madame did not store souse ot retribution anal eusttee, , tor breach of trust. lay reason; only of It more than satisfied tbe boy's love their continuing to hold an investment Ile felt not the sligbtest misgiving eral law, by instrument at trust or by the gen- of nimble! and trickery. therefore, when it earns to playing S.5,000 FOR BEET SUGAR. Ins part. He went tbrough it without , • • pay, without a scruple or thought The Minister of Agriculture has et responsibility -nay, he followed givea notice of a resolution to provide madame home, auti hid himself bebind a5,00d for the encouragement of the the curtain, with no feeling. 00 up- growing of sugar beets in Ontario. SERVICE Oh' JURORS. prehenston as to what was coming, with no qualms of conscience, Mr. Tucker introduced a bill which Bat. when he had seen all, and lying amends the jurors' Act by providing tbat jurors may be summoned by re- spell -bound in his boding -place had gistered letter instead of by personal witneesed the, tragedy, when covering his oars with his hands, and cower- service. A Le ROUlt BUREAU. mg down as if he would oower through the floor, be had heard Vidoche'a Hon, Mr. Latchford has given notice death -cry and winced at each syl- of a bill providing for the! establish - !elite of madame, heart -broken ut- went of a bureau of labour and ,in- terance-when, with quaking limbs dustries, which will oollect statistics and white cheeks, he had crept at last of importance to the working elas. down the stairs and fled from the es, eee accursed house, then the boy knew all; BILLS BECOME .LAW. knew what he had done, and was hor- The following bills received their rornstriekenl Even the darkness and he third and final reading: - freezing eold were welcotoe, if Rill incorporating the Board of Tres - might escape. from that house -if he tees of the Presbyterian Church in mtght leave those haunting cries be - Canada. -Mr. Gibson, hind. But how? By. what road? He Bill respecting the Town of Leans - fled through, street after street, al- ington.-Mr. Auld. ley after alley, over bridges, and along Bill respecting the Davenport Metho- quays, by the doors, of churches and dist Church Burying Grounds. - Mr. the gates of prisons. But every- where the sights and sounds went Bill 1 respecting St. George's Church, with him, forestalled him, 'followed Oetawa,-Mr. Powell. hum. He could not forget. When at Bill to consolidate the debenture Iasi., Utterly. exhausted, he ,flung hint_ debt of the. Village of Arthur. -Mr, self down on a pile of refuse m a Gibson. distant corner of the Hales, his heart Bill to confirm By-law No, 351 of the seemed bursting. Be had kilW, a Town of Durham, and a certain agree.. man, He had worse than ItTilhleedIastwroo: ment entered into beieween the said man. He would be hung. town and the Durham Furniture Corn - lager had told him truly; he was doom- pany, Limited. -Mr. Jamieson. ed, viten: up to the evil and. the devil! GOVERNMENT MEASURES. He lay for a long time panting and shuddering, with his face bidden; Bon. Mr. Gibson amended -his bill for while a burst of agony, provoked by preserving the franchise to Canadian some sudden pang of remenabrance, troops, South Africa so as to include now and again racked his frame. The the members of the Strathcona Horse spot he had, almost unconsciously, and any other voters doing military chosen for his biding -place was a serviee, corner between two stalls at the east Mr. Gibson alio amended bis bill to s.jeciliranis gonranratislitaforry steh?... sheltered' from the winde and piled end .of the market -an engin well benefit tizoet rric;kutnn breast -high with porters' knots and vice in South Africa, so as to include rubbish. The air was a little less bit- grants by way cif supplementing the" ter there than outside; and by good Pan of the members of such forces, or fortune he had thrown himself down makingprovision for their equipment, or by way of insurance or other pro- em an old sack, which he, by and by, vision for death, or for the families or drew over him, Olherwese he must have perished. As it was, he present- Persons dependent upon the absent ly sobbed laimself into an uneasy soldiers. vention and destruction of noxious in - Hon. Mr. Dryden's bill for the pre - soots was also amended. It is now provided that where the owner or oc- cupant of any lot neglects to comply with the Act, the inspector may cause the work to be done, dud shall then roake report to the Municipal Council of the cost of the work. The Commit natty then direot what amount it pleases to be entered on the collectors' roll against the owner. mor'e particularly. it was believed to be common; it was suspected in many eases where it could not be proved. Men felt themselves at the mercy of women, who, sharing their bed and board, had often the motive and al- ways the opportunity; and in propor- tion as the crime was easy of com- mission. and difficult to detect, was the rigor with which it was rewarded when detected. The 'rank of the Princess o,f Conde -a Trenaouille by birth and a ,Dourbon by marriage -did not avail to save her from torture %vhen suspected of this; while the sud- den- death et a man of position was often sufficient to expose his servants, and particularly his wife's confidante, to' the horroes of the question. nlad- ame's woman knew all this. Such things formed the gossip of her class, and in 'a paroxysm of fear, in terror, in dread., lest the moment should pass and ate:tinter forestall her, she flung both fidelity and prudence to the winds, - "I will 1 I will A111" she cried. And I swear itis true.1 She went to a house in the Tou.rnelles quarter to- night!" "She, ?• Who is she, woman ?" the captain asked, sharply, She vowed positively that she hada minutes with a scream of affright not, and. squally positively that the boy could not have, lollowed them: in without being: seen. In this we know that she was miataken; but she be- lieved it, and her 'belief conameneicat- ed itself to her questioner. rubbed his head with his hand in extreme perplexity. If the boy were a neessengeit from the villain evnorn. this wretched womaii had been to visit, what could. have brought him to the house? Why had he risked himself on the .scene of the miuirder? Unless--uniess, indeed, his mission were to learn what happened, and to warn his master! • The captain. caught that in a mo- ment, and thrusting the servants on one side, dispatched three or f our men on the? instant to the llaie Touchet. "Parr-ILE:Li I" he exclaimed, wiping his forehead when Utley wete gone, "I was forgetting him. The villain! I will be sworn he tempted therl But now think I have netted' ell-oreadame, the maid, the, man, the devil!" He ticked them, off on his fingers. "There Is only the lad wanting. The odds are and a dismal, return of all his appre- heostions. .StUI, nature, was already at work to console hien; and misery sleeps pro- verbially well. After a time he dozed again for a few minutes; and then again. At length, a little before day- break, he went off into itisounder sleep, from which he did not awake un- til the wintery sun Was nearly an hour up, and old-fashioned people were thinking of dinner. After opening his eyes, he lay awhile between sleeping' and waking, with the sense .of sorae unknown trouble heavy upon him. pn sud,- den a voice, a harsh, rasping • voice, speaking a strange, clipped ja.rgon, ronsed him, effectually. "Ile is a runaway!" the voice said, with .tWo or three unnecessary oaths. "A crown to a penny on. le,' my bully boysl Well, it is an ill -wind that blows no one any good. Reuse up, .the little ,shaveling, will you Lila is not the way.! Here, lend it me." The next moment the bay sat up, with a cry of pain, for a heavy port - they will get lima toe, in the Rue ,er's knot, fell, on los shin -bone and • COLD STOR,AGE BILL. The Minister of Agriculture's hill to provide for the ineorporetion of co- otperaniveo cold -storage association 134bre. Aiur• Wooes Phosphocline, The Grect Thlgtish. Remedy. Sold and recommended by all druggists in Canada Only reli- able medicine discovered. Six packages guaranteed to cure all forms of Sexual Weakness, all efteets el abuse or excess, Mental Worry Excessive use of To- bacco, Opium or Stiarolants. Mailed on reeeipt of price, one package six, lei. One wnl please, six zeill care. Pamphlets eree to any address. The Wood Company, Windsor, Ont. Wood's Ehosphodine is sold in Exeter hy W. Browniug, druggist. MANUFAOTURE OF BINDER. TWINB In reply to Mr. Duff, am Mr. Stmt.. S maratfe.ctured at the Central prison, need it was estimeted that 4200 tone would be available for the use of the tanners this year. The price would be fixed and advertised an June 1. Al- ready farmers had been notified by ad- vertisement to send in tbeir applica- tions. Every facility would be afford- ed to them to purthase direct. .A111 they had to do was to indicate the quantity they wanted and it would be shipped on receipt of the money. TRIS LAe3OUR RESOLUTION, Mr. Preston moved his resolution to make it a condition of all Government contracts that workmen employed on them be paid such wages as are gen- erally aocepi ed as current in each trade, and that th.e same oondition ap- ply to all sub -contracts, and in. the ease of all works receiving public aid. RENTING MUNICIPAL POWER. Mr Bridgland'e bill to amend the Municipal Light and Heat A.ct passed its second eauding, and it was sent to the Municipal Committee. It propos- ad tot allow man: es ,;aies generating their own power to rent the same. PROTEOTION OF SHEEP. Mr. Carpenter moved the second reading of his bill which proposed to raise the dog tax tor the protection of sheep. The owner of a. dog killing sheep is also required to pay full value. The bill went to the Municip- al Committee, after an animated dis- eussion. tMIU 3. id t binder twine was being STOR1 For Infants and Children. As sinus *letzten of e is ea evory wrappst. COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. THERE 1$ ID KIND On PAM OR AMIE, 'STERNAL CIR EXTERNAL, THAT PAIN -KILLER NULL sat PIE - LIEU'. LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND RUA- ITUTED. THE NENU1NE NoTTLE ARO THE HAHN . PERRY DAV IE Ai ON. Sive ,.., NERN E. Nrwrill z learerr that a lamas res BEA *MC radius Aliustood; redonethe +wail -awe+ weakness of body or mind =mg by oterAtork, or the errors ores., cams ot 5routh. This 11eree47 Kb. stiosluretkelyeuree themostrte mime v3eealt o thee lanntarshavtargib AL $t per pseIseor six tor 0, tea es. alailob rti,co4.ta tr7.11.emeannoes, hold at Brownitens Drug Store Exeter The Experience of a Native ID the Zulu. War. Into the terrible tragedy of war are Inserted now and then bits of comedy and. kindliness, which, like Shakes- peare's jesters, lighted the otherwise Intolerable gloom. During the Zulu War in South A.frica.,and, overwhelming force of na- tives was opposed to it little band of English sailors. PrOla the '411,111110et stepped a warrior laden with an anci- ent lerearra, which he calmly mounted upon a, tripod in the open, while the sailors booked, on, admiring his pluck, but wonderingmuch what he propos- ed to do. At last one jovial tar sug- gested that their photographs were about to be taken, and by common consent no shots were fired. Having loaded his piece with great de libe eation, the Dula prinied it, sight- ed it and leening hard upon its breech, he irred. The recoil knooked lam head ovee heels backward, while a great roar went up fro= the delighted sailors. He sat up, looking clazzed, and then( the amusement over, he, witit his coontrymen, chaeged, and Were annihile Led by a volley from the steadily armed pieces of the little band dO bineje eke ts INIONIMIOESSOSIVOSIIIISOOLIOSIAOSIONIZO4C0441CITT,11.7.11213101,113 SUGAR AND PROSPERITY. The theory was recently broached that the prosperity of a country may be estimated by the amount of sugar whech its inhabitants consume in a year, and certain political economists do not hestitate to maintain tbat statistics beer testimony to the truth of this theory. These statistics show that each) inhabitant of the coutries named con.smnes on an average the following amount; of sugar na a year: -England, 91.31 pounds; United States, 59.30; France, 31.02; Germany, 30.22; ikustria+-11ungary, 147.31; Russia, 12.01; Turkey, 7.08; and Italy, 6.28 pounds. Children Cry for C STO THS COUNTRY OF OURS. Canada lacks only 237,000 square miles to be as large as the whole con- tinent of Europe; it Is nearly thirty times as large as Great Britain and Ireland, and is 300,000 square miles larger than the 'United States. A MATRON'S MISTAIL.It. Mx.v,13rown, explaining tol a visitor. -This is ray wife's maiden effort at landscape painting. Mrs. B. -Now, John, you know bet- ter. I'd been married more than a year when I pointed it. A PROLIFIC WRITER. Askit-Whom do yoa oegard as one greatest writer of fiction? T,ellit-The weather man. Rherttatis ? SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC (HOBE A UNIVERSAL LIBERATOR. Relief in six hours! What a Riad lair*, *age to the pain -racked, bed -ridden, dee- pairing sufferer from rheumatism's orual grasp -and. this is a fact, borne but by • volumes of evidence, tor this greatest of pain concreerers. Rhounsatism is durable -South. Ameri- can Rheumatism Cure ie an absolute speedo, and radically cures the most stubborn cassis in from one to three day. 1 suffered intensolKozn theumatisas and seiatiba, Tried AMY ilitiSaieS niart5,, physiciarie t exit Any last hcaennelint.a ados us outeeewcbafScieroflitali.metyeiv remeetn; joleft.lceleutoueed ltrrett, Thottsande of Creed nitivese teal the 5-ann0 Otory-aloret ea.r ME haver tenger,-22. Sold hy C. Lutz, Exeter.