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Cameron Hall.
iBY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY
Author of 91,71,4s Nficlatotores Lovoro,"A Fovfo(fon Mani -
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Lee's misfit parlors. Ladies' clothing i here fallea to your ?ht. while I
hought and exchaaged here."' , nothing but poverty.
1 euddenle' as sbe eat there,
Helena. waleed hesitatingly tures* i " „, . , ..
the street and entered. , greatest temptation or tier y
' life came to her; a temptation
The proprietress sinned derfsivelY
'When Helena made known her errand, • made her faint and giddY awl al
but she could scarcely represe a i eirh
• cry out with horror. for it led t
start ot surprise as the young girl • '''''
ehoon out the glowing folds of the eeeen trees above her, and a h
She lifted her white taco to
to her astouisheil ee•es.
beautiful India shawl and held it up I so'veuied. to morrow through tbe lc
i ing brandies to Helena's star
Size was too &brew() a business woe i throbbing heart: "Ah! if you c
inan to let Itelenii know that it Waa
4;4 any particular value, but take this (lead girl's place! 1
, ' couldn't you? The little slip of
"A shawl, eh?" tte sarsh Puttl,ng per you hold in your hand is
on a diO4.' ''britP b.; C gri"VS. and ehnknig only eeisting proof of 011ie Ca
ner heed eitbiouely; "if it wee a eles death; destroy tt. oral claim
leak. how, 1 Inin'''t P1' 4114e to incke wealth, Tae teliat the gods o
, Some use of it: 4s;,awis WI' not wont you. You are so poor, you n
much --they're out of style." tvealth tio much, poverty is eo
Helena was young and Atexpniene- ter."
no in the mem- of tie, worle. and Helena Ifeetheliff giteed at the
the teen melee; to Ler (lurk. vele tiered face with bated bree.th
vety eets at once.
,, Parted lips.
'et 111, 1 w;lait'll til sell it SO S'illeht— Tile dark eyes loolting up into
elle 'elicit, with .t piteous quiver ia own almost seelned to say: "Pove
her -.iee. **./ an, forced to sell it.** is so bitter; y4M may take My pi
-Weil," replied niadeine. noting the If you "Iva"
tear--A%iilic-e 4'.7' us, arel concluding It was a dazzling temptetiOn
thee a he eel wee rhort of funds, and the poor, desolate sewing -girl
that : e eetie lee th • to:erg:tin at her wealth or poverty for evermore.
'fit atg•tt. Ile Oda it• you. 1 "Work---work---werk!
will ti •• ,vc,, '.'ve, doollars ang a silIC My labor never liags;
Zr kin aln, `‘igrgain; remeadrer. it's And 'what are its wages? A bed
.53ral :i ivelme.:he gat hin. t latnigh."' St raw-
-1.0,, , E e ...1: , 4 ve-r tire hundred!" A crust oi hread--and rags."
giaa.t. but, the %volume "Oh. I couldn't do it," sobb
4'411 ion-ned a•v-‘,..; as thibeTth Ale. wes Helena. AS sue Covered per evli.
not “ti.,,i4n.s, t“ ioiy. face with her lianas; ' this gir
**nen.- respeneea 'Mena. drivel). :spirit would coree beck from t
in the veer- veep. ee desheeetielg '1, river to haunt ine, She aanild st
eve ehhit hoe; etio ea it. wine". , at any bedside in the dead et nig
I um 044;0 tel—talie it." .1 and whisper throogh the darkness
1441,,u,1 out A eithi •You are net (lane Cameron. Y
Ilve-dullor hill, and looked htsitiat- a" a utiFeratmle imPesYer 'AU It
rahotionahirsi
O a ,
•
the
Oice
ate'
rid
viieT
-
t110 '
"
her
der
eed
pie -
and
her
rty ,
aee
tO flab' in We envelope again and laid
it in hiark's desk.
"Love is the greatest curse of ilk"
• she thought. "Poor Mark.: how 1
pity hini. Yet, it is u. thousand
or times better so. lifark will learn to
forget Helena, Heatheliff's pretty, al-
luring face. and marry an heiress,
ed and my hopes will be realized at
ite last. In the first rosy dush of youth
ra love is the ruling passion; but when
be love llaS be crossed and bhplited,
and sordid gold Is the next grand dream
he of life:" se thought Miss Prudence.
But there was quite an excuse for
drecan O'f wealth for evermore,
f-ihe did not consider that a. men
heart hung in the balance;
loving heart whose every throb w
lor her.
How Mark loved her, bow he wo
shiped her, how Le wadi
i have been to give bis life for Ler.
IAli, if he had but loved her less; to
i it was not love that Helena ha
given him in return. --ie wes
pity.
"It is better that we eheele part
, Mark," she sobbed, "I WAS never in
tended for you. Yet she toted no
ithink of leaving him so cruelly, with
gut, a pang of remorse for the pai
he would suffer.
_ nit standing there in the gree
1 tapping her feet restliesly on the
,8 violet earret.
"Frederick eastleton would have
- been bis heir, as next of kin " ad-
- elided Hortense, "for of cou'rse the
gid 011ie, who We$ abducted near-. • ly Seventeen years ago . must be dead,
or she woold have been beard front
r long elnee,"
d . "How Frederick Castleton raus
y elate nie, Hortense," she exclaimed
gazing oat at A tall, bread -shoulder-
,
, I ed yrouug man who vs as leaning with
_ I a, cureless grace against an old beech.
t 1 tree, "Seel he has just - ,„„e
_
at the window, and turns away,"
a i And at that moment her husband
I joined him.
ei Vivian watched them with her
1
tv
' SKY FRIIIES.
t Queer 'Transit ror Miners Aex•oes the
'Youghiogheny- rtivex.
The Sky ferry may not have been $u -
Vented by the Yougli elver 'miners, but
they bare recognized it as a good thing,
and half a dozen a these navel trallie
portation machines ply the river to the
astonishment of passengers on Passing
trains, who store out of the windows of
the cars at the sight or a man flying
across the stream suspended in a smell
cage which travels on a wire cable
stretehed from one shore to the other,
onTehoef stkbye dte;s7teathee°buujitletrzavelrOleaS was
Xough, and it dates back to about 3890, .
'when Enoch johns, Zohn TaYlor, Tames
Iluridna, James Conroy, Itturray
roraet Price, flugh bleDerrnott and
Iferman Eholer formed a steck com-
pany and built a machine. The ameba-
nism of the affair is simple and con-
sists of a cage suspended from twee
traveling. wheels which run along
one inch steel cable stretched fi'em
bank to bank and tightened by means
of a simple windiaes built of timbers.
The cage will carry four passengers,
aim the propelling power ot the ferry is
furnished by a windlass which is turn-
ed by the passenger and winds op a 1,
light lige, carrying the cage across the I
stream.
To raise the ferry to a safe distance
above the river a platform is built, and
en this another set of machinery Is
placed, se that if the ferry is on the
opposite side of the river and a paeaell-
ger wisheS to cross lie can wind the
machine over to Iiirn and then make
the trip across the stream."
The ferry at Coultersville Is a stile%
company concern, to which any Leiner
may become a partner by paying:72 for
a key. There are several hundred keys
out now, and the ferry gives general ,
satisfaction. Since the Coultersville
rem* was built other ferries have been
built at Osceola, Robbins and Mauer,
*while at Scott Ifaven there is a steam
ferry which does a blg business and
1.1113S day and night. The sensation of
swmging out over the river in one of
these ferries is rather startling, as the
machine starts out from the bank with
swoop 'Met Carries it half Way aereee
or to the lowest part of the slack of the
cable. Then the traveler has to wind
up the windlass to reach the other
shore. No accident has ever happened
on any of these ferries, but at Qoul-
tersvillo they tell a stery of a miner
W110, after an argumoot with his wife,
In which he was "getting the wors-",, of
it," escaped to the ferry, threw off the
WindlASStiline and allowed the maphitie
to Coast. to tho Viers. he volt ,
64.1:Cording to the story, and It loses
' 4-minz the Woman bern•
tintliiiiiedghinimtil;11.tvrit011e'S fee MI hour,
but a woman was never noted for lief
Accuracy in throwing stones, and the
man laughed at her invitation to come
ashore and take his licking like a man..
Then a new factor in the case turned
up as a group of hungry miners reach-
ed the shore and those on shore were
'unable to reach him. By this time the
woman hael become tired of fier eser- •
else, and the man solved the problem of •
his own escape by falling out of the 1
cage Into the river, to be dragged out.
Park, his last words caine*bark t
her like a voice of doom that nigh
lia.ve warned her: "Never be false t
ette, Helena, for if you were I should
go mad and kill myself—perhaps
both of us."
"We must part. Mare. dear," she
inurinured. with a. tearless sob. The
crimsoo. roses that nodded their pen -
fumed heads near her and the green
restless branches above her sceined to
plead. for him. 'nut, siiilling her
conscience and its accushag cry, Hel-
ena turned resolutely away, and the
die Was irrevocably east; An hour
later a square packet containing
pitiful little note, a sum of money,
and the ruined piok silk dress. wee
left at Miss KirkWOOd*:1 cleor„ feel at
about that time a, tear -stained note
addressed to Mark Forrester wets left
'with Iiis Meter Prudence.
For a monient Prudence attired cur-
iously at the little square white en-
velope. then, without the least com-
punction, broke the seal awl read the
pathetic, tear -stained letter orioily
through from beginning to end, read
it over twice, then placed It care -
o Whole soul in her pale blue eyes.
t "What a contrast," she sighed,
o erearily. "How desolate lite le
when a young girl sells her life for
I gold!"
"Don't fly in the face of fate." re-
plied Hortense, slowly. "To -mor,
!row your husband changes the will
1 he made seventeen long years ago,
and he has promised to leave every.
thing to you. Ale Vivian, you 'who
knew once what the direst. poverty
' means, should know how to prize
that. You will inherit his vast
wealth."
To -morrow. Ab l how little they
• both knew the strange event that,
waa to take place within •one short
• hone
t Vivian re pressed her lips tight-
ly and her blue eyes glittereil with
, blue, steele, glittitr as the words
rang in her ears long after Hortense
had left her. "You will inberit hie
• vast wealth,'
"Ahl Frederick Castietoin" she
murinurecl, "how little I dreamed
that tlilhert Cameron was your uncle
when I' married hino I remember
; how laughed your love to scorn
when you told me ye 1 bad nothing
now, eat your expectations were
great. I laughed, and told you
I had chosen an older and aealthe
ler lover, end I ha.ve not for-
gotten how you turned from
me liorror that deepened into
loathing. when I Was lutroduccd to
4 you as Gilbert Cinuerou's bride, and
then. oh: then, I vowed that
would never allow one dollar of my
husband's money to go to you, and
to -marrow shall see ray vow fulfill -
on, her. 'Miss Prudence --tall. grim,
about her frieet the silk aro a miserable imposter who h
eitv;:i :.1a, load iil,a) promised 'Mena, fiinim int" ra l'hte• Itn usurPer
into I lo• bargain. 1 my rights. No good can come
11 It wee verteiule fate that prompted ' such a living Ile --exposure must 101 -
the vrafty " i o select, a dingy„, I r a Qr.! •
shop-worn old- l.rocade that hod lain It was Helena, Heathelifi's Orst b
on her qaelres long YearS. tor struggle with the warning voi
"This will just about 14 you," she 01.t.,,°,115tie.n.ee' w1at Said, slipping the slleen :skirt Weil Alter alt. WWI, IMIXISA would, ta
peewee 0.0, \homing mat and be, Poor 011ie as clead. Woul
drawing the bosom+ over it. "Why,, ft b. 4 -6int otter oll, if sante
It loohs quite set lish, miss; old fasli- this vaSt'iuWearth wat4 /14)Wered "CI
eons ala aye revive; you might Wear her, who needed it so, when the
It lionie just as it IS." . I Was no one in the world to inher
With a sore heart Helena quitted
lee d
the parlor, and walked out /Titre 1 If the h
bit of paper she eld in
erne% ell street again h
hand Was destroyed, who woul
nelena had„elerfigt lihr litael int° ever be able to find out the dere
Alla heekeeeifi the cild broceed siM : tis? -00 oue could prove that sh
shirt to put away the -We-dollar .
, j was not this 011ie. Fate must hav
11 en her fingers
,
as amender, and forty—hed never been
as in love.
ad To her tat girlish dreams of love
of and a handsome lover had evcr been, i
he very height of folly. she could ^
do very well without them.
te. Him could she realize, who knew
ce so little of love, what Poor ldark
would sutler?
ed, If was left a. WiliQW,," She
murmured, AWha AIMS what might
, happen! Ahl who knows, if I were I
but free." she mused, glaueing at
e mirror. "Alit what is life worth
without love?"
It, Was bea.utiful face that was
reflected there. but there was not the
innocent frankness about It that a
woman** ewe eiehteen shOtild
wear. There was too much crafty
Worldlifiess about it. The dross of
ruby satin, interlaced. with rich
amber lace, set. eli her blonde Inetete
to mat:retell, :wit re% in she, 'who aite
BO hard to please, smiled with setis-
fled pride as she g.
A carriage dashiug up the avenue,
breaks in upon her dey drecun, and
-"elan's brows meet in a. dark
ve.
froWre. ' • t,
1 Size tans the Silver bane .1e on
ere * •
1
d It Was a. warm afternoon in June,
of and the Run was ereepine; slowly to- ;
it Wards the west:ern h.,.thiog In 1,
re a timid of glowing gold the 4%7-e0Y- 1
it °red walls of Cluaitriel e, etete-
ly uninsien On the outseirte Date 1
erd 'nal% petits surrotiiutea it, ded
p- here and there tvith fountains that •
e sparkled in tee suelight.
a Statuary 1 .!
1
ci
e. age, and beds of rare exotics were ; the table near her impatimillY, [lila
d arranged with skill that might have ,i in an instant a i4ervant opens the
_ charmed an artist. The lingering : door of the draWing-room, bowing
rays of golden sunlight stole softly profoundly.
n through the lace -draped windows ei ! 4 "Katy,' she says, "1 ant not at
an elegant boudoir in the western, home to any ,one who calls to -day.
- evieg of the spacious old hall,
9. fell upon the hau I t f and : remember, except Mr. Castlet ."
. fair "Mr. Chstlet on - has been here talk-
! ' '
k young girl who sat beside tne ease- 4 tug
e ment. to Mr. Cameron, ma'am," re -
1 plied Katy, "but he left just now.
We eallelier girl by courtesy, for at .1 1 sitev him going clown the cord
intended this whea it gave this. my
Something hard tied See l.' y to its
countere4 .1 terious package into her leen
depth, I through the agency of the old bro
With an exclamation *eve. meted silk dress pocket.
-Helene mint:et:led the i de, and to anutterho.w "Yes. there was surely a, fate 1
1 this," she told herself.
tier intense eurprise e v forth is. i
/
leather vt allet , ,) i OW 'With ago, With the Money the old pocket.
m, ! book contained she could now r
cce wsrkins ee i p are Afiss Is.irkwood's
att, had cam' ea lynx eyes ot .
the store -keeper aythese long years.
dress, That thought settled th
. pink sil
e Nut open. Olio 'wallet as she 1 041 will do it," cried Fieleuit Heath
°Mike(' aloefe i imittained a roll of
bins to which cliff, rising to her feet, 0 ad pushing
as uttathed a pack- 1 lier brown curls back 1,•om her.
*t of papere t • with a bit of lad-
ed ribbon, ' flushed and excited face. "I will.
1;:ntoi1ne .-- , take fate and fortune into my own
seating he adjacent Pack, atm bands. I will take tills deaf. 011ie's
on a twig+ screened. , .1
ILace; no one will ever know."
by a dust alder bustles, Helena, Ah, reader, do not censure our
'with • ed breath and flushed beautiful, faulty heroine too severe-
-
cheeks proceeded to examine the ]y. Remember how- easy It is for
parol
re minutely.
It youthful hearts to be deeeled by the
In la feed two hundred dollen* glitter of wealth and power. 11e1-
Pa v, bllt the w
Packet of dingy 'nn as only a, romantic g:rl of save
s'el t s.
eaught her attention and ' enteen—she looked only at lie bright
pellelonntl.
' side of I he pict ure, heedless of the
, n the outside of the parchment, darknees that lay beyond.
written, in a peculiar hand, the i "I must destroy this tell -'ale letter
a line werds in crimson letters, : first of fa'," she said to herself. "I
ea hough traeed in blood, that held t afn remember every word of it, for
na fascinated and spell -bound: ; it is stamped in letters of fire on my
v
„ 1 twain." Re:vexes „keit "..Niv CONFESSION.-- t
i She glanced hurriedly around; no
'These lines are penned by a dy- t. one was in sight, and, taking the
4 woman, who has been guilty of confession in her cold, white hands
a ruel crime. Before 1 pass away Helena tainted her soul with her
,etant the •N v 1 1 0 3 e world to know nrst sin by. tearing it into minute
hat became of beautiful lietle 011ie pieces and throwing them into the
eron, who was so daringly ab- stream -that flowed through the green
Sucted from Cameron' Hall when she park.
was a babe of but a few months old. , To her great horror they would not
"1 was baby 01lie's nurse, and I eink, but floated down Qat of her
lotted the child because it resembled sight. She was in a paroxysm of
.tiny Own lost _darling. , 1terror. What 11 they should sail on
'I was discharged from Carneron 1and on and be washed upon some
jeraleabire I would not be separated mossy bank, dry in the sueshine,
*OM the little one, ana for revenge and, , becoming legible, betray her
I fled in the night, taking the child I secret? What if some one picked the
-with ens 1 fragments up, put them together,
"Fate was against me; for a few
m.1 and read the story of 011ie (Amer -
weeks later, one story night while en's true fate?
sassing the South Perry, the chile 1 Ffelena laughed aloud. "I won't
ed
el'
ippee from any arins and into the think of such a possibility, ' she told
,dark river . . herself, "1 shall go joyously on to
."Daby never rose to the surface. the fate the gods have mapped out
•So ....perished beautiful, darkeeennli for me. 1 am so young, why should-
.. 1iie, ih-e heiress of Cameron Hall, n't I taste the sweets of life that are
!who WEL* never destined to enjoy the• -
held to. Inv • lips, enjoy poor 011ie
Wealth and affluence that were hers Cameron's wealth, • and • be happy,?
-Iiy birth. _ Good-bye, old life," she cried, reek-
, .• lessly, smiling through her tearslike,
April sunshine. ''O•ood-bye, work-•
roome and poverty, you have looked
your last upon Helena Heatheliff-h-I
hope I may never rue it."
. _
CHAPTER IV,
•
g the foil -
Which, by the stra
- eighteen one can seareel
'I inclose %his confession in the
heocket ot nig dress which I will, dis-
ttose of to° a dealer in misfit gar-
eeie,nts, where it will be found some
eday and the cruel mystery of the
disappearance be solved.
14 inclose the etioney efs a reward
eip the finder of these papers, if he
lee she will see them delivered safely
fo Abe hands of 011ie' s father, Gil -
Cameron, Cameron'Tilall, In the
11)zirbs ot llaignaors,
liieloao taluc child's portrariii, re-
, dates, and all the paperd
essarp te ?rove beyond a doubt
truth et 00 above.
Margaret
4:Ifitrin slarlded face Heleue Heittlie•
lett stared et the patella:unit holding
terrible ge'efeeret *kat lead fallea
to her hateiti tank a miraculous
ale
She exe.mlised the pavers 4.ad daitgi
iltarefully. 'Veto) )ittle 49111e care -
eke setneal, "0 retu Aver*
WAg now rya wealt be abet'say ems
e and eat hillwel--trhat a pity,
* 41111.:061i 1340110
Helena Ileatheliff looked fate firm-
ly in the face. Tete struggle was
over the great temptation had
conquered her.
"It 'will be no sin," she murmured,
lifting her loving face up the ten -
lifting her lovely face up to the sun-
light, "for I-leeena, the poor sewing -
girl, to graep the dazzline wealth
which fate itself .must haee sent to
me, Poor Mark, ;' she sighed, press-
ing her heeds over her throbbing
heart.
It was the first thought I'ze had
given to her handsome young lover
weose kisses were still weem upon'
her lips. And with the tnought
came the terrible realieatiee that if
size clung to Mark end his bate, she
must giVe Up that erilliaat rosy
be deemed
womanly, and yet, as you glanced
at the fair fate Trained in waving
blonde hair, It was hard to believe
that Vivian Cameron Was the young
bride of Gilbert Cameron, the old
millionaire who stood near her. Yet
sueh was the case.
"1 am going down to the post -
office, my love," he said, leaning 1
fondly over the chair his young wife '
sat. "Would you like anything from •
town, Vivian?" •
1 Vivian Cameron smiled, and the
smile deepened almost into asneer
upon her red lips. "hrothing, unless '
, it is a new set of diamonds," she
answered, carelessly. "The set
was examining at 13urke's the other
day were fine white stones. You
inay order theni if you like. That's
all I can think of, I han so well sup -
Plied, thanks .,to you, Gilbert," she 1
added.
1 The old millionaire's face flushed
hotly -under the fire of his young
wife's bright eyes. "You shall have
I them, my love," he said, tenderly.
"You shall have every wish of your
• heart gratined, my beautiful Vivian,
and all that I ask in return is your
love, dear," he added.
And, as if he could not trust him-
self to speak further, he stooped
down suddenly-, kissed her, and hur- s
riedIy qiiitted the roerie
The door had scarcely closed be- • t
hind ere the silken curtains of t
an alcove °petted, and a tall, dark
woman glided into the apartment.. c
"Fortunate Vivian," she cried, ex- a
ultingly, "how liberally the gods are t
providing for you. It was a ,lucky
hour for you when you married Oil- r,
bert Cameron.'' d
dor."
Vivian Cameron bit her crim
1 lips angrily.
1 Going without one word to 1
; Could he slight her so much
1 that?
°
$he sunk Back 10 her chair
Katy withdrew-, closing the d
softly after her.
Half an hour passed by, yet
carriage that had dashed up
avenue so hurriedly had not to
its 'departure,
There was a conunotion do
stairs, yet Vivian Cameron, handl
over her novel, did not trouble
pretty head to find out what n
the matter.
Suddenly there was a hurr
:knock. Peaty put her head in at
door in a pale, breathless sort of
Way. •
"If you please, inceam," she be-
gan, incoherently, -master says he
must see you for e few—"
"Didn't I tell you I would see no
one;" cried Vivian, stamping her
dainty slippered foot upciii the velvet
carpet ie intense tvratle
"But it something so very im-
portant, ma'am," urged Eaty, earn -
y.
"And I tell you again that do
tot care wbat he wants. I will not
ee , him. Say that I have a head-
ache, and do not wish to be dis-
urbed, Do' not dare to knock at
his door again to -day."
In a, moment later, another step
ame hurriedly down the corridor --
step that made Vivian's heart
hrolz, and .her cheeks flush --for she
new before he knocker' that it was
rederick eastleton at the library
oor. •
Sfal
mr.
as
and
OPT
the
the
ken
ng
her
as
ied
the
A low, bitter htugh broke from
Vivian's conipresaed lips.. wa
mad to listen to you, Hortense
when you told in wealth would sat
isfy' all the cravings of a hungry
bead," she exclaimed, starting from
her seat and pacieg restlessly up and
down the room: but it does not do
it,"• she cried. ''Tt will not buy
love.''
"My dear niece' replied Hortense
Montgomery, coMposedly; "you seem
to have all the leve you crave. You
are 'an old man's darling,' and he
fairly .adores you."
"I would rather a thousand times
be a young man's slave, and give
love for l'ove," cried Vivian, dash-
ing aside the laco curtains and glanc-
ing impatiently out upon the lawn,
"You have brilliant prospects,
Vivian," exclaimed Hortense, follow-
ing her niece to the window and lay-
ing her ' hand on her white arm.
"Every marriageable girl -in Bane,
more WAS dying with envy when you
married Mr. Cameron." ,
Vivian's face paled strang,cly. "If
I had not married him his money
would have gone eo,,his. nephevr,
Frederick Caetleton," she mused,
"I thought he had -gone," she ,mur-
s• Inured, tossing aside her book as
, she sprung to her feet, glancing
breathlessly into the mirror.
Thee she sprung to the door, and
flung it •:ipet-i with a pretty cry of
surprise.
Frederick Castieton stood in the
doorway 'with a look on his hand-
some flushed face she had never seen
there before.
It Was evident that something very
,unusual had happened, and he stood
there to break the news to her.
-6h, Prederick----Mr. Castleton!"
she cried, wringing her little white
jeweled hands imploringly. “What
can be the matter"
Her heart gave a great throb .and
she cried with a breathless sob:
Has anything happened to my—
myt--,husband?"
"Yes--and----no," replied Fredere
Lek Castleton, with a curious twinkle
in Ins dark -blue eyes. "Yon must
prepare yourself for a great shocky
Mrs Cameron," he said, quickly,
for the news I have brought will
a very great shock to you."
'Do not keep me in suspense, Fred -
she sobbed, clinping io his
CONTINUED.
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The Bears, Whiskers.
Whiskers have been tabooed at the
Philadelphia zooand a crusade against
few days the keepers will trim the PINI
them will shortly be started. Within a
bears' mustaches, which have grown
yery long and annoy the beasts.
The whiskers have curled around so
far as to tickle the bears every time
they move their heads. The hairs are
fully eight iriches in length and caused
one bear to cut himself so badly with
his claws in trying to push them away
that the keepers feared for a time that
serious results would tollow.
The trimming of the bears' whiskers
will require several days and is a dan-
gerous operation. Each bear has to be
cornered and placed in a cage so small
that in it he is unable to move. The
objectionable whiskers are then trim-
lited with long shears. The position of
zoo barber is not much sought after.
The animals often struggle and fight
until.exhausted before they will submit
to the operation, and it takes all the
patience of the keepers to bring it
through successfully.
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Not Sold Anywhere Els
There's only one post office in this town and
only one Slater Shoe Agency. You cr,,,n't hay
"Slater Shoes" from any other <feeler her,
The manufac-
turers make this
rule so that they
n keep tab
on their differ -
eat agents and
always have
th.,eu61)ress,:lectaiornes
Go0u1: otodyinieerritlie;I:-
smooth inside, no tacks, lumps I lor P‘ threadilYs
under the foot...—,.er
I
4, - alater" the sole must be
stamp e with the makers* trade :nark, a Mate
frame with name aid hrice* Same sr ee.so,
i‘.11 LOCAL AGENT.
e.,,onmrommommwrieCor.r.....nmInc.‘ _
rim forsell.
tag only 2; doz. inieltageS Sweet Pea. Seod at 10a.
each. Each paeinwe containe a splondrd mixture at tho meet
rantvariettes °tall gators, The Ride le Of thebestraukoandm
el, with polished nickel barrel. Wm:Tann:1 sad s pates. It hasimproredeleb*
eights, pistol grIpand walnut stock, and shoots withforriSc remand great
Wam raC9
vs s advertisement and we will forward the Seeds. Sell them,rettuntholnoneyand Aldo bogebt
Sou ire° la Express. Thseesson tar sellingseeditis short, sO Order at oilve. Seed SUPPLY COrt TOrOlitOe
Hat For Horses.
The American truck driver who some
years ago took an old wide brim straw
bat, cut two holes in the brim and then
With it humanely protected his horse's
head from the fierce rays of a summer
sun little thought that his idea would
be adopted later in thiglarid and be --
come the foundation of a lucrative
business. That there was evidently a
market for Stleh a device is shown in
the fact that over 8.000 of them were
sad last season alone, and the trade
next summer is expected to go far
ahead of last year. The firm making
them is understood to do quite a large
export business as well as domestic
trade.—Millinery Trade Review.
The Fore of the F'uture.
Liquid air is the forbe of the future.
It is an explosive of it most dangerous
kind. It may be -used as an aneesthetin
It may be used to purify anything, In
a word, says Sir Walter I3esant, it is
another giant caught, Imprisoned and
made to work the will ot man. "I have
not tbe least doubt," he continues,
"tbat before many months are past
lldUjd Rir will be captured by the in-
ventor and used for the destruction of
o wbole army many miles distant h3'
iummei bey.
"`"•***---
Eso.)1 Shattered Nerves and
These Troublesome, Disfigurin
Blemishes can be Removed
by the all Powerful Blood
Purifying Burdock
Blood Bitters.
1 The nasty little pimples that come
on the face and other parts of th
body are simply, hall eal ions tha
the blood is out of ol.der apd re
quires purifying.
They are little irrit:iting rernii:(1
ers to you that you nee;I (k0111% -'J 0
treatment with Burdoek Blood' Bit
ters.
When. B.B.B. Makes your bloo<
pure then the pimples will vanish
and your skin become soft and clear.
Here is evidence worth eonsider-
ing:
Mrs. Morrice Ketch, Bristol,
Carleton Co., N.B. , writes: "1
take great pleasure in recommend-
ing Burdock Blood Bitters to every
one troubled with pimples, 1 was
for years that I would break out
with them at times on my face and
back. I tried all sorts of remediee,
ineluding doctors' medicine, but
everything failed to cure 1n6.
At last I heard of B.B.B. and
thought I would try it.
'When 1 had fluished taking
two bottles I felt a, great deal better,
so kept on using it until I had taken
in, all six bottles. It has conapletely
and permanently removed every
pimple from nay .body and I never
elt better in my life than I do at
he present time.
Weakened Systeini
THE AFTER EFFECTS OF LA ORIPP
Have You La Grippe?
Did it Leave any After Effects?
t If it 'did, read what Mr. F.
- Brophy, of 5/T3ntrea.1, Quo.., has
say of the good Milburres Heart
f ancl Nerve Pills did him.
ivOnhandsorneopen
fuo, Polished
N19e1 'Watch, kino14.-
can Lever Movement
for selling only "t doz.
Ntekagesuf Sweet Pea,
Seedet 10e. epeckaga. Each prmlz.
age eardansasoletedenilzture of the
most fragrant variation of all colors.
You ma CMU thl 'Wotolo ix re
afternoon by lotting to wort at once,
Mall us this adverticoment and we will Vinyard. tke Eibedd.
,11011 them, reOuret ear money., callelec gtharantee safe dolly -
IOW; 741lerd es4e14Ltt rO 111'1'Sr:4141 tt)i'lrOVoTtc7
He Writes: .1 had a very sever
attack of la grip
which left me all run down, very nerVO
and extremely weak. I could not sleep
night and was trouhleci with profuse
spiration, w'lich caused roe much antic)
ance. Hearing of the good effects of Mij
burn's Pills, I began taking them. Much
iny gratificatioo they braced me up, invigd
atcd my -whole systeaa'and niade me fen
like a. new man. I can recommend them t
all mitering as I did,
SOLID arl,7,1:1TirTynd
COLD r1,1' Meirlrls2_118811na
Phis R pet These Pineeart-
finished in gold and eiteme, prettaY
etigrafed and neatly turtle& throe to a
set. They are isucli splendid value our
arentosellthom inalmost every house.
Send no thin adrerileernent and we
trill forward the Flue. Sell then,,
rentru tile money, ond this beetle.
besont you
by return mail, absolutely frac,
Yibtatitintott Novelty co.,
Box 105 Toronto, Can.
SOLID
GOLD
gire:this beantiful
!Solid Gold Ring, et
with Pearls, for- selling,
Owe *fibs Most fragrant rarle.
:4-1(dt011V,e,14„1:,
ud this
ogrerediment and we will far.
ward the Sidde., Sell, them. to.
lawn thenieney, entitles -Watt-
S DIN Gol,poionset
ttal basentyoti,daretItIlylmck-
ed In a ralreteneilbei, Write to day. Th a esmsun for Mt,'
ing 00(4'10 8t"t. Seei filIVPlY Co., Teorooto, can.