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The Brussels Post, 1892-1-8, Page 7AN. 8, I.199 '17 )3E 13RVSSELS POST. I;pFFODIL aY LI1I,A11 1t, J1l(0 0(1S. CHAPTER VL --(wag Deno) In a very short time a parcel was soot up after her and opening it she found a black loco overtimes, a wrap of prettily trimmed blame satin and a large hat with drooping plumes--evory1hiug blank save a shimmer of the fashionable yellow of oranges around the throat of the dress, A. note in the par. eel ran thus :- Dem Mrs, Dayeer :- Pray do as I ask you. In the box we shall occupy is a secluded corner in which you may sit, free from general observation. xb would be impossible for me to leave till the last moment and if you wish courteous treatment from Ino you must lot mo have my own way. 1 will await you, horn, in the reception room. Please join me as soon as possible. Yours devotedly, A. D. KAreals, Daffodil read the nota the second time. Hor eyes lingered on his words concerning the " courteous trout. meet" with rising fear and she took up the dress and began to shako it out. A tap at the door made her tory it down again and when oho once more took it up it was after she had partaken gratefully of the best supper the hotel mould afford sone up by her thoughtful protector below. About the sante time, in a more fashion- able part of the city, IIaideo Emfroy was (tarrying out her part of the scheme. It was at the tea table where Airs Daycer brown haired and sweet facets woman and her son graver faced now but handsomer than ever wero her only companions. " Jack," said Ilaidoe, lifting eyes that wore most unlike what they hail Leen in the afternoon, "I Want you lm do mea favor." 1Y.1rs. Deycpr looked over at her in a man- ner that said "What now?" but she did not speak. What is it?" Jack tusked, Ile did not look up and there was little interest in his voice. \VIII you do ill" the girl coaxed, " Yes," }hides clapped her hands. It wits an established 1101114 of hers, to act as like a child as possible. It alight make Jack think of her in a more lenient light, in the fade of all the shady escapades ho knew she lad Manlged fn, in her twenty-two yew's. " You have promised now and you never go back on your word, I know. You are to bo ready then at the richt time this oven. ing to take No to am Tho Matchless." Jaoklooked up then. He was thoroughly annoyed. ' You icnov, Ilaide0-" he began. " Yes, 1 know 3" intereuptetl the girl, ill a strained tone. " Brit just this once !" " You know I Hate the stage ! And this is the Kaytor troupe too," lie said, rising from the table. "But I have tioketo for a box and I must go. Linda Horton and her escort have de - id would ' c' ind go l where andI said I u to else get you to take mo ,Tack Da Cor 1" she fin. ) Y isbOd, with a break in her voice. "Yon never go anywhere with me," " A married elan most be careful how ho goes about with young girls 1" he towith a bitter and told her h t 1v smile that made his mother say beseechingly, "011, Haidoe, don't wound him." Haidee was sobbing now. Real sobs they were too. Partly frmn Fear of the failure of her plans, partly because of his coldness to her, This evident clinging of his to the mem- ory of Daffodil gave her anguish hard to bear, Jack looked at her a 11101110111 and then said "There is 00 use of your crying, Ilaulee, I will go with you this time," and left the room with a composed demeanor. IIaideo left soon after withoat a word to Ales. Daycer, who finished her tea alone and With a sigh escaping her frequently. Afterwards she went into her son's library whore she welted fol' 111111. " Jack, dear," she said, going up to hint, as soon as lie entered, in his faultless even- ing dress. "Why did you not refuse to go?' " She tools an un fair advantage of me, did she not, mother ?"he rejoined, kissing herr "Never minds. 1 0hould go out with her more perhaps.,, His mother {was Silent. "Mauler," ho said presently, "Do you think 1 should reel( a divorce and marry IIaioee. You know it would mak, her haply, and I01(1/po80 some happiness ought in colic otic of this mistake of mine, if pos. sible." Airs, Daycer drew book and looked up into his Mee, with troubled oyes. " J acl1," she whispered, " Mt11'ry liaideo I 011, Joust, 1 havo said your wife should bo forgotten, bob I would have yon marry any- one hitt Haidoo. She hesitated and flushed a little, "Tho girl is not good etou(111-" " Hush, mother, Do you remember what I Was?" Mrs. Dayoer's eyes shone, even through their soars. " Yon aro not that now," she said, fondly. i "T'fhauksto a mother's prayers," 110 re- turned, softly,. The entrance of Heide° in a marvellous costume of 10(1 and black, was the signal for the conversation to cease, At the theatre in opposite boxes sat the four with whorl w0 have 10 deal in this chapter, Daffodil slu'iukingg and 1(0(8008, in the "secluded corner" Whiell was not se. elude(1 after all, Kayto', trilunphmlt, at- tentive, atlda01008, with mask thrown off and his heart in 1118 oyes every time ho Owned whom on the girl at his side, Held= with pas8onato heart thrilling 883111 pleasure as she Saw the WTSlrl'08i011 on the fine of her escort, Jack, who sat glowering dark• ly on the (Waal, Kaytor. When he looked at Daffodil, his face oitangod. Wounded levo and beerteiek hopelessness tniuglod 'with displeased surprise, And Ilaidoorealized with st'eret delight that ho was fain now to believe in lhatlodil e franl- •yDe n0' (t. even o'clecl drew nearer, ff ltl sol c , began to fool faint and weak. This mannas' of 11ayLet''s noes -what did it meats. lit a sudden agony she loaned over and asked breathlessly, " Mr. Kaytor, do we leave at eleven for I'inks)do-tall mo I" And when he had said " No I" in a langur ing tote, otic sank back, so pale that Jack tannish with a pang. " Her life of (030110. 11101(1 Is lolling on her health. z the couple die not 1.000 dot u l 1 Daffodil g 7 across can stage. Jack had changed agent deal, and Illeadee sho had never soon but 0100, and then for only e, feta 1801(1018, 73eshlos she was too =opted with her owe thoughts to look long at any of the people near, Even the seems on the stage passed panoralniOally'before her oyes, nnonjoyed. When the,oul came and she stood up to go, shelled made up her trend to escape, how, oho hardly know but she meant to 1na1t0 a . orate effort, Out into the moonlit 3fl t they passed, elle and Koyter, IIaideo .1g Jack ellolo behind. Tho ordering of carriagenecessitalo(l Kayla -rat leaving her on the steps for one moment, Jack paroled on with Ilaidee 111 a011111 of silent gravity Met made his companion 'Miaow i s lie touched her hams in helping hoe into IJ,oir closoeat7'iaga. Ile himself lingered, shat• ling sho door on hail= Dud turned to look at 1)allodil. Her sudden movements stir• prised him, Sho had eropt hastily down the street into the shadow of tho projecting vestibule of a private house. III, sound on the eitilation in a m0100111, and with a glad 800latna11011 sprang to help her to 0810pe as he knew site was trying to do. There was little tone to do what he could but vary shortly, he had a call wlteotod up to her very Iidiug place anal with a word I will help you, Come, got in 1" he had handed her in and the cab was tattling away to the hotel he had named to the driver. Banc to Haile° then, ho hurried and no walling to winless the hauled rage of Kat'. ter as 110 missed 11 is prey, he drove hone in a haste tat surprised 14aldee, careful as ho tiottally was with his team of thoroughbreds. "Toll mother to prepare hunch," he direct- ed, to Maiden, leaving her at the front door,' abruptly. "I will he back soon." And away he went to the hotel whore he presumed Daffodil wool(' be by this 1101e." Por one little interview," he said to himself. " I will be willingjto sins'),' foe years again. Anil perhaps I may find out that elle is tired of her profession." His heart was aglow with hope. He would forgive every thing to have her Mack. There was nothing hO wotll(1 censure in Mor, bo it what it might, and when he reached his des- tination he went to the clerk eagerly and inquired for the last arrivals. Au (lour later he entered his own house with a wearied step end mot his mother's questioning eyes with only it few brief words, "1. and sorry to have bothered you so, mother, I cannot eat any lunch after all. Good night. .Kiss ole, dear, and do not ask me anything. Only toll IIaidoe in the morn- ing I wish to speak. to her as soon as she has her breakfast." The matter ho 88iehcll to speak of cub minuted Haulee's triumph. After that in- terview she wore Jack's diamond ring on her engagement finger. He hail settled on this theist= after oonl• ing from the It -hotel whore he had not found Daffodil, She had tired of Kayber but 0110 had not been willing to cone back to her buslatnd either, to judge from the way she had eluded hhn and never dreaming that she bad not kllolvn whose assistance sho had accepted, he believed she was still the wilful heart- less girl of old and gave himself up to the effort to mance Heide° happy after he should complete the necessary at'range11leuts for securing a divorce. While Daffodil, on this sudden appear- ance of a third rescuer from dire straits had considered it only another llfttmg from one cage to another, and in great trouble 0 ) had given d rir n 0. counter command L t the cab- driver, which change of destination brought her into a position in which we will meet her in the next chapter. -C]3A1T1 T II , "Creatures so bright that tiro same lips and eyes They wear on earth will servo thong in Para. dlso,"-°hones. Tho summer sun shone down brilliantly cm the sparkling waves of Lake Ontario and the lovely little Island s0 dear to Toronto. oleos, with its beach dotted with glistening white and scarlet tents wherein parties of 111cr1•y idlers whiled away a season of hot weather intolerable in the oily. As the grove of Daphne was loved and re- sorted to by the pleasure seekers of Antioch, in the days of the Herods, so this leave washed 0p.hetaval of sand and vegetation, with its walks and nooks, with its lily strewn pools, its fantastic structures, its rows of 000l inviting tents its clays of rest, its evenings of nlnaio, is hold in the hearts of the resulent0 of the Queen City. "Twee hero in the open sunlight on the left of the promenade between the Seaside HOMO and the hotel Hallen at the Point, in the day's when Centre Island was less popular, that a certain commodious red and white tent sheltered 0 )'1"(1010110 bevy of gills, this warm afternoon in July. Laughing and chatting merrily as they lounged on low coins and divel0 and in lux. nrinu0 easy ubair8, clad in bright gowns alul 1100ntllul with hallus 1111,1 y0(lth, they 0rr- teinly gave plens)n)1 prnot of their att'ao- ti,ols its the " Crook '.tableaux Company," w•ihich hail been making a summand thing of it, at one of tlleTOronto theatres, provi0u8 to Lim arrival of the hot weather. '1'o -day they were discussing trintnphtultly the P110, comes of the season with their manager, 1111. Clayton, whose wife meted as their ohape• cone: "Dear me," Dried Leda Yarwood, putting her a1'o11 a(1'C0tietlately 100(111(1 the girl next her, " Take abort 011000ss 1 .If we had not found thislovoly blonde of ours at the Detroit depot in the spring, I rather think our stun COSMOS Meld 1101 have been qui to so pleasant to review. We ambitious lovers of Hellenic, mythology would have seen our castles 10 the air tumbling in ruins --our dreams (1f giv ing to the public a perfoet ropros0ntution of Grecian 3able,life woahl 110.80 faded into failuro had 1ve lob discovered this dimpled darling 0110)11011(10, Golden wigs and pearl and pink swanad0wn powder could never take the plow of these spun tresses and this matchless 0on1 110x)011, And I do think tau were in look when wo found her." " Feiottd lees, 1101001m, pm1011080"-iinish- ed the idol of the troupe, with great tear's its her oyes. ' Au 10111u:lcy position for you perhaps, 111 a fortunate one for as, For If you had had money to pray for that ticket 1hn1 yon asked for Ia11(i then pushed back with such (rm1110,1 eyt1S-.-" \Niton i remembered I had no motley to pay for it," was softly interjected. 1'--\1n 100ld 10,1 Init8e taken he liberty we did Ln imp -tiro if we could 110 (uly(himg for pm." " And I needed your him inose so much,' the girl w•o111111, gratefully. "Vou have repaid tis it thousand fold dearest girl, by the loan of your beauty in our tableaux,' "Anil now if we are done with the p0{(," spoke tip atllird young lady "Int 110 dente to the promo 1, in 111,0110ns of Chinese Pekoe and find the future in the bottom of out cups." (` 1'00, lu6 S," ochnod sone of the rust. "Tea I' ojaoulatol 11)1'. Claytau, 118)11(1 hastily "Aren't ,you hotcun1gh without making tea 111 sho middlle of 1,ile day." 11'0 flan o'olook." burs (;la ton said, yawning, "Time for 100 to get over to the city," he' husband said, "Isn't it hot enough for you without gniog neer to the city in the middle of the (lay?'' some ono naked, lewdly, "It's five o'olook I" ho rejoined, as ha wont out the tout door followed by a general htlrghe Tho g)daimon had. the 0011t1'e labh„looked. alit with °11111a, mild glees and various dainty eat Odes, I ;Isle "' said Lho wit of them all, as they drew lime and helped themselves,. ".1 hu- liove we aught to be 010141 00011on100.l. \V0 should not 10581(1 our substance 111 riotous living. We mint Calla halt. Let's give up Iishi" lleis caused a burst of laughter. "You're thinking of the hard work o) catulling then. 1 -las Chaello beets, complain - "Well, 1 second that motion -let's not have fish three times a day after this. I know it's An awful saerifigo hub something most be duo or .I'll resign and go home," ;mother girl said, tilting her 1)000 disdaiu- fully (15 elle took a seat far away from the cold piec440rfal dish, "What :hull We hare'!" Mrs. Clayton asked, Willie they discussed the momentous question, they presented a prettyploture Lo those of the pas'er0•by who 1(101.0 unmanner- ly eloug1 to take morn than a more peep between the breeze stirred 0urtains at the entrance. 'There Wer0 just ten of the g6isle, 11r. 'rend '41s. Clayton oonlplotiug the flown members of the troupe. Educated, beauti- ful, with an enthusiastic love for the °lassies of the Hellen:s, nine of the girls had form. od a dranlatio club in the small town they tattled tltoit' home, near Detroit, and meeting with snub unlimited praise from all critics 0111de1' the management of 0 retired theatre owner and his wife they had nlaclo a tour of the States obtaining u high plain among Mahon troupes of the (lay. At .Detroit, 11107 had fallen in with their "Aphrodite " she Was scenes, time called, just as they were leaving for lbronto, the first Canadian city visited. Dali'odil'o'store was not forced from her and she told them only a part, That elle had three married sisters intt they eared little for Ilei•, that she had run away from a per• sistont smiler and had forgotten in her mad desire to leave the city that she had no money to exchange for the ticket she asked for and then so despairingly pushed beck, and set- Islied that she hada right to wlthbthl any thing she did not wish to speak of, they took her to themselves and having tried her, now .rusted, and more, idolized her. 'l'Ilo nf11e girls w000 generally styled 1110 ",\luses" a few of them never pretending to call each other any name hub the ones assign- ed in the list, Lode \'arwood, 11 5up01b brunette, was the only one not so nicknamed and 1)all'udil WW1 given the befitting one of .01 1rnd Ito, while to stray acquaintances site was iutrodo2nd 114 Miss Peowe, auanle nmch laughed at by her companions but one she studiously adhered to as good enough for an :=stoned name. And for Mr's. Clayton, 8,8 mother," so to spook of the Muses, the name of "Mem" was chosen, Memory being the parent of the Nine, in fabledlore. 1301101d these charming nineteenth century Muses, then, drinking Lea and talking "for- tune," "Tell me mine first, Men 1" Euterpe, the charmer, said, laughing. "Am I going to be to a crowd soon? and how many admirers aro hovering around me now? How soon shall I get a letter and is my wish closed ?" Mrs. Clayton took the tett-cup Molded to Mor and looked at 110 scattered grounds i1) Ice t a 1 ld a critical silence. Thalia, or Tallio,as sho was oftener called, the wit of the company, lean- ed forward with exaggerated solemnity and oonvulsed her observers with her tragic interest. " HIS. 1"sho whispered, as a giggle broke the suspense. "The Oracle is about to speak. But first please pass the butter." "Yes," said Moa, gravely. " You aro going to be in a crowd soon. A very jolly crowd. Not a large orowd-" Just a nice crowd?" finished Euterpe, anxiously. The girls all laughed "That means a sprinkling of gentlemen," Leda remarked. "That's it, exactly, "Mem said, putting 110 cup down, tam aot which the owner pro- tested against, saying, "Yon haven't told me half enough" "It's too hot for mo to thiol.," 'Mrs. Clay• ton said, re001ing out her hand for a fan. "Tell mine, anyway, Mem, won't you?" Daffodil asked, holding out her cup in a snowy hand. " Yes, tell hers, Mem 1" the root second- ed, sitting up and 1001ting intereslo " You never find 1011011 in her cup, es a rale, but to -day it looks very portouons. (aro nut' Aphrodite her Adonis today. "Boa"an Adonis who will appreciate and return her affection, not one who will be deaf 00 )n 6110 old taloto Ilia worshipper's (1000- , t1D11." "('rneliel of all cruel things is Ole pain of mnrequfted!ova I" 11lrumrod Leda. What pang shot thrnu(l11)afodil's heart ae511e remembered sho love given lar in vain? Sho even sighed a little in rcgr01 that sho had not loved Jack as he did her. ".Love 1" she 1114er011, aloud. " 11'hat is love 1" Tho girls eat silent for second, looking at her serious face, surmised. " Aro ,you in earnest?" some ono asked. "Wave you never loved ?" "No"she mews rod. " 1have never laved, " The gills see1110(1 01(1a7.011.he700(1 100x8010 -doubtless because each had =aided that an ry/Jitirr du (wnn• 11001 Loon he main cause f of woo in the past that sho seldom referred to, "Sho is teasing tis, git'i1" at last ea)d Tullio. " How well she plays sho Innocent." "Na.y," Daffodil continued, "1 have never, neve)' in all my life aeon the man to whom I ceuldoftera d0\'01001180011 as they say 0pr)ug8 from the strands (1100fot." " You little fraud of ass Aphrodite, you little humbug of a Venus, a pretty goddess I of love you aro 1" oxplainei Leda, " 1 always told yew, you wore noising e 81)0talco 111 bestOwleg snub an nppollataon on ole. I often weeder if I have a heart at tall," ' horn it is 1" exclaimed Men at Misfile. mons. "\Vhitt, my heart?" ' Your fortune. I have never soon any thin;; in0111' cup before, my (1(01', worth w nrn.l:in or. 113(w, nolo, your ndvel Lures 1110 evoked lygoing tollcg)n over again. Here It stranger With hie heart i11 his band 1 Anil shell to stoma of W,tl Its soil rolls and exile old ---ell girls )Us gain's to b1, 0, street case 3" Da1lilUls (n'canly ee0e1is 1111311011. Sho rose 111and W001, and 0111,01 it, the doorway to lords out 0001' 1 11 crocus 8011 as it lay (li011111lg lm aen(1, and rooeale 0111100?, 3(13(113'. (.1111133 in the "Mauna " jarred upon her. Sirs felt thee could 10(801• he a "ease" v + o with her. Sho imd gone tin m(,lf 0 much site felt 0111 and boyyo of aitch thimge. '1'wo figures strolling down tho hearh, yonder, 1 it happy 1 11a11- cnnghl,her eye. Thu slow idle 11 Y 1 nor of hot it made heir divine that they were lovers. Sho sighod---and started I They Lad tented end in 1)10ir contented smiling faces, 1)atfodilrecognized this iloward and Annie, the Iittle modest trilo•hcarted as- 81s1,ant 1 ih0 1ureed 1)0.0k into the tont, sighing. A young malt tv10 howl boon watching her turn. oil aw.ty too, whim she had gone in. "('xod 1"said his friend, 'Foliar, . to him, " Yon aro not rid of that cursed fever yet. .And you brood come that affair 6 o much, You want to quit thinking about it," The young 111011 811101 &'Od, "It was a horrible death," 110 °xiMimell. " lint that was not what I was thinking of Whoa you cauls up, 1 have 11ad, (0111500(111ry', 4,11)1 can folluw11 up all is well. You must. help (01'. 11 la the (est feele 11 hope of illy life." They west away slowly to their breezy apartments ;1 1110 110101, There ensued it long talk and nftorwards 'Telfer went out and d,Wnatair=1. "11e isa regular fait rbut I must forget halt. Alt 1 Isere he fa now 1" l0, nnutouicd to himself as 110 stood under the elm:triolightnear the 'eag0"and watch. od the p'ISlllgers landing from the loaded /eery bc,t0, The evening was dr0tving on and the baud in their pavilion wits alroa11y looking over tel oveliug s music, aro De 1110 (100 ren,) The 01d Sol1s tan's' Soliloquy. 1 ala lying at rest in the sanctum to-nighl- The piece Ix deserted and still I TO ((q' right the exchanges an11 mantlsoripts white, To my left aro the ink anis the gl1)11- Yce, 1110 ,11111. for my master a oid-rnshionorland quaint, refuses to write 11'!01 a Don • Ho Insists (lint o1(1 Franklin, 1(10 editor saint, Used a quill, and he'll imitate Ben. I love tho old follow -together for years Wo'hltvo managed the J"or,Hrr'0 Gr1,Mle, And although 1 am old, 1'111 his favorite shears And can crowd the mon 01sy01, But 111y duties aro rather too heavy, 1 think, And I oftentimes envy the quill As it lazily leans with its nib In the Ink While 1 m slushing away with a will. Reit when I was now -T remember it wolf, Though a snore of long years have gone by - The henviosteharo of 1110 editing toll 00 the quill incl I think with a sigh Of the days when 1'd sc'sser nn extract or two Brom (1 nulgltbol9 ng (lelltor's 10n(let, Then longi, In my sleeve at the (minas it new In behalf of the general reader. I am being paid elf for new merriment Mon, For my muster is wrinkled and grey, And seldom lays hold on his primitive pot Except when he wishes In say, " We are needing sone money to run this nla- emo°, Or, "ITh atslastlload off please that Lo remit 'b1'ought 118 11710 015011, rind 00 notLy It couldn't be split." 110 14 nervous and deaf end iegetting gufto blind• (Though 1e hates to acknowledge the latter), .111,1 I'm sore to say it's puzzle y Ly If f bs0, ter d Jlendortali 111 tho au°st,1 bis matter. The conlindt ors pingo° hill ,whenever theysco The result of a luckless end carer, But she ,bawl l ng old rascal lief. Ivy's IL to me, And I Make 00 remonstranee whe.t01'or. Yea, 1 shoulder the blame -very little 10are Far 1110 jolly cum(o:.l tor'.s lest, Per I Hint( 1,0 it 111001 with1111 sliver')' hair Thai will 00011, V1,1`)' 5000, 0 at rest, Ito hits inhered run long for the true end the good "' ?did the manifold doubles that irk ns." His only emolument raiment lull rood, And -a, pass, now and then, to the MOUS. floigl,o I from the past comms a memory bright Of 0 lass Of the freshness of clover Who used m0 to clip from her trusses ono night A memorial look for 1100 favor. That dons little ;oak is still glossy and brown But, the lass is much older end fatter, And the youth -he sans tali tor here in the town - I'm employed on the stall of the latter, I am lying at roast in 1111 sanctum to -night - Thr, I), a00 is deserted and still - The stars lire abroad and the -moon is in sight Through the trees on the brow of the 1i11. Cloud' hurry along in undignified haste And the win rushes bywith a wan- dL Bolla 1 l: 'd like a Nvhopping(oIo big rat in ta,1! e- Iloly I'd like to shut down on his tail: To -morrow. "Ai wait," he cries. "but little ionger,"- The '1'1,0 •Dol11.110 glowing with Mol �ro- "Andy man through me shall grow purer, stronger; Try words shall echo, my deeds inspire. It lifts man's soul from its weight of sorrow - '11110 Hood -the l3oauty-I dream and plan ; There 00mes lo -morrow, anti then to•nlorrov, And yet to -morrow, and I 0 titan," By the clan' whence the (910800 their gray gloom borrow. The sweetest of sweet -voice Bellow lay, And Murmured, " To -morrow 1 To-mot4'owl Tomorrow I" - Was there a thrill as of mocking laugh- ter Sounding long after, And dying away The swift yea's speed and his 1110 is Duty :- A11, the 0111. -time light In the eyes is dead :- "I am faithfill still to My dt'e100 of Beauty ; To -morrow, to -morrow, Jamin° t" Ito said. By the ollil' whence the waves their gray gloom 110100ty 'Cho sweetest of sweet -vetoed 11011ocs 1108. And murmured, "Toanorrow (8rnlno1 To. 1tlot'raw Was there it thrill as of mocking laugh- ter, long Soundingafter, And dyhig away d 7901 SWI ft yen 10 speed and the light is failing; The (1)11, 170A tarn to the misty W041 The white head droops, noel he stands bewail - big . I triorth's warted, dope( nil, disheartened guest " I'no Intl') T11014.1 1)•i 11 he. no 11m0rnw's greeting 1 Of my (;rand, groat \\ ork bat the ruined shell ; I have always dreamed, es the Scare wore 'Th"re (1 y, r. is 301to•morl'OW1"'-Tho dark night fell, i IIS' 1111 clifrwh'm"o the waves their gray 810010 borrow The s08e010,1. of sweet-reiood Echoes ivy, "','Moro is yet to -morrow I" alio soloed, "Tuannrrov 1" 11'110 there a thrill as o1 tender sadness Changing to wittiness, And (lying at(tty ) The Read Surgeon Of the Lathan Medical Company is now at `.Toronto, Canada, and may be non• suited elthee in person or by letter on all chronic clisoaess noontime to man. Mon, young, old, 00 middle aged, wllo•8nd them. selves nervous, weak an exhausted, who are broken down from excess or overwork, re5ultiug in many of the following symp- toms: Mental depression, premature old age, lees of vitality, loss of tnomory, bad drend115, dilution of sight, palpitation of the heart, cods:ions, lack of energy, pain in the kidneys, 110adae110, pimplen on the fade or body, itehiing or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wanting of Who organs, dizziness, spooks before tins 0700, twitching of the muscles, eye Ws 101(11l.,ow, i re, baelifuhices, deposits in tan maim, loss of will power, tenderness of tlta oath? and spine, latah and llttbl,y muscles, thh11.1.1 10 810.,.1, fa)Inuo to he rowed by sleep, 5O1s(io nun, ;halloos of hoarin!;, lose el' voiee, ,wire for solitude, (7.(')t11)11.113' ofteMime, 11(111,11811 eye surround• ed With LeAl.'0 rnt'n1,1,o11ylooking skin, I eta,, ern all Hyn111'0(10 of nerv0u8 tLiohih).y that lead to itlaamlty and death union cured, l'ho spring or 0 i t al force having loot 169 1 on sine every fonetion W01100 in 0enstinlion00. those wife t.hrou 1 .Ursa( eonnnitic'd in ignorance may tae (ermine. t ly 1,1110l, Send your address )orbook on all di010008 peeu]i0r to mal. Books soot free sealed, 1 f which ar >t>1am W7 0 'disease, L le s Irl 7 Heart 1 Y I Faint spells, purple lips, , 111l mees1 1m lrita tion, skip heats, hot thistles, rush of blood to the Head, dills pains in On heart with boats strong, rapid and irrognlar, the second heart beet, gn)01ror than the tllvt,paln about the breast bone, etc., 0x11 positively be cured. No euro, no ppay. Hold for hook. Address M.V. LUI31OY, (14 1M eadonnll, Avenuo,Tor• man, Dna 1)i9(r11et makes miserable (11na0 wino cherish it, Contidolco as a good thing to have, oven if it is sometime sabwsod. LATE DRITISIINEWS, Torpedo nr.t notli11g devices are Dow co 1 mined so envie i 1e that the British Admiral ty los ordered nllich heavier nets for its 11088 war ships, •. The cargo ship of 11e future will in some opinions he a tivs-masted vessel with auxili• any atoum, such as is Now building 1111 the Clyde, She will carry 0,000 tons. ((01101181Sugli011 eimula'y (looters are enn- piwining that the 3)1100(18 help their own pookots at 111e expense of the physicians by praclieing medi0100 among thepariallionoro, although they have no medical degree. 811000 1f ill, an old inmate of Tomes Ullion wilfully set lire to herself on Sunday evening, and was so terribly burned that she expired early on T1100dt13' morning. An affray which took place between Nor• lasignal seamen at Hull, on Friday night ended fatally on Monday morning when the most seriously injured man,Adulph Johnson, who hail gradually stork, died. A telegram states that the ship Lord 13ea- oomafield, from Grangeuotth to London with a 0ergo of pig -iron, is believed to hat e been lost with all hands in the recant gales. Five lads on Sunday founts a loaded shell on the western shore at Southampton. Prompted by curiosity they ignited the (ns 0, and the shell exploded, injuring four of thein. One of them named fenny has since diel in the infirmary. While a seaman named Snaith was ex- amining a revolver belonging to an elderly Ulan named Morgan in apublic-house at Swansea on Wednesday night, the weapon was accidentally discharged. Tho bullet passed through Morgan's lung, and he is not expected to recover. Smith has been arrested. The Rothschilds annually give 100,000 francs to be distributed among the twenty arrondissements of 1'aris for the assistance of deserving; parsons who have difficulty in paying their rents, John Pawns lately said at a labor denlol- 0traton that the trades unions' effort to ob• taiu an eight•houe day was a failure. The trades then:solves cannot and will not en- force it, so the only hope is through legal enactment. The Liverpool snob has determined to drive out the alollanimedan Mosque. It stones the nuleazle when he appears to re. cite tho lawns or call to prayer, and hos eves broken into the mosque and Maltreated e child who was praying. A cloth laid clown for guests to walk on when entering a London house for dinner caused a lady to stumble and injure her knee, and she sued. Although the dofen0l- ant,(loaded a gas jot showiug the carpet, the verdict gave the plaintiff twenty pounds. Tho British Museum has received as a be- quest the Tapling Collection et stamps, con- taining about 300,000 specimens, exclusive of many cards and envelopes, and valued at between 0230,000 and 6300,000. Mr. Tapling was more than twentyyearsin mak- ing it. 11 is pronounced the finest collection of stamps existing. The visitors of Sandhurst College have denounced the playing of polo as a direct incentive to oettva ga1)t habits- At the same time nP oto association, lately organ- ized in India by Sir Frederick Roberts, has decided to apply to the Government for State aid for the breeding of suitable pon- ies. •uEngland iia run A mesmerist 1 0 1 up against the vagrant act, A Dr. Vint who professed to hypnotize, has been arrested under the clause which snakes liable to three month's imprisonment with hard labor any one pretending or professing to tell for. Luilos or " using any subtle craft or device to deceive or impose upon any of her 11a• jesty's subjects." At Goldington, a village in Bedfordshire, a cow belonging to 1'lr Charles II/betas, dairyman, has given birth to a calf which possessed someextraordivaryoharacteristics. It had three jaws, in eaoh of which was a distinct tongue ; two noses, three Oars, and four eyes (three of them perfect in appear• =eel, together with six legs and the same number of feet. Tho monstrosity died stein after it teas born. ear #re Frit is 1hr cdi,u'aet(•ri0((' of 11ood's S0r0apnrllh, Imnl it 10 nlaldleslrll e0el'y day in the remark- able mune title nlrdlelne areompllsbos, Drug. pints say: When we s,•31 a bottle of r400d's Sarsapa. silo t- a new ellst1lllel' nail 11141 sure to see hila 11'11.0 In a ic•w weeks after more, -proving Mat the gond results from r. Mal bottle war- rant 00ntloning its nee• T,1714 positive 11)131(31 Hood's Sarsaparilla )111e0('5Me4 by virtue of the Peculiar Combina- tion, l'ropadion and Process used 111 lis pre- paralion, and by which alt the remedla. •'alae of the ingredients used Is ret,uued. I -good's Sarsaparilla is thus Peculiar to .Itself and absolutely tut equalled as 0 blood purine', mit as it tonic for bnildingup the weak and giv)n1: nervesti'ength. Hood's Sarsaparilla gold by all Grigglsts, fit six for ps. Prepared only 1y C. I. IMOD S ('11., Apothecaries, Lowell, 310,0. IOC) doses One Dollar Competition. In order to 0000rlain the views of chem- ists throughout Great Britain as to whioh of the ren,odios for outward application had the largest sale and greatest popularity, "Thr: Medd coal l)ricogisl " instituted a post card competition, =oh dealer to name on e,post card the preparation which had the large51 sale and was the most popular with onstomers. and the publishers received 036 of these cards, with the following results : St. Jacobs Oil 384 Elliman's Embrocation 172 Holloway's Ointlnent 32 Allcook's Plaster 19 Bow's Liniment 7 Pain Killer 7 'Vaseline 4 00ti0ura 2 Scattering 8 Total 635 1,000 Miles in a Canoe. Mr, Uddogren, who travelled 1,000 miles in a 001180, from Gothenburg 111 Calais, has arrived in Parts. He sltid that he had not eontinaod his voyage by canoe to London, firstly on account of the stormy, wet, and cold state of the weather, and secondly, be- cause 110 dict not himself feel equal to the labour it would entail He is now in Paris for the purpose of making arrangements for an early departure for Africa, probably in January next, where ho will do sone ex- tensive canoeing. Mr. Uc1c10gren willleave Calais for London by the ordinary steamer on Wednesday next, taking his boat with hint. While in London he intends deliver- ing some lectures on his summer travels,_ and he will also write an account of his ad- ventures, which will bo published simultan- eously in I'arisand London, “German m n �T�gy3. Y11Ca Syrup 99 Here is an incident from the South —Mississippi, written in April, z89o, just after the Grippe had visited that country. "I am a farmer, one of , those who have to rise early and work late, At the beginning of last. Winter I was on a trip to the City of Vicksburg, Miss. ,where I got well drenched in a shower of rain. I went home and was soon after seized with a dry, hacking cough. This grew worse everyday, until I had to seek relief. I consulted Dr. Dixon BRAZILIAN SUM.. who has since died, and he told me to get a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. Meantime my cough grew worse and worse and then the Grippe' came along and I caught that also very severely. My condition then compelled me to do something. I got two bottles of German Syrup. I began using them, and before taking much of the second bottle, I was entirely clear of the Cough that had hung to me so long, the Grippe, and all its bad effects. I felt tip-top and have feltmthat way , ever - since." P1CT11R J. BIUAr s, jr., Cayuga, Hines Co., Miss. a 110 Utiltzat!(ne at 1a Etinent) and a :ELrel' ht Aearup0. The somewhat pathetic fact that a bag of Brazilian earth 8hon1d have boon planed in the colhn beside the corpse of Dom Pedro may serve to recall to 11111(1 n somewhat analogous incident tvhie]1 occurred at the; time of the birth of 10, grandson, tho oldest' son of 000wn Princess Isabella and her husband, Priuoe Caston of Orleans, vomit Ll'13tt, Tho imperial couple in question' 180110 married many pees before tete prin- e0ss had any prospcets of becoming a' mother, and when lieally it was officially'. announced that she had hopes of presenting the nation an heir to the throne the news hailed With nautili popular rejoicing. ! Unfortunately the princess happened to Ino ; Lrai•eliog in Enropo at tho time what this announcement was 1001)0, and )ler 1111y01. ohms insisted that tender no circumstances must she nndo'talte the return journey 1,0 Brent until after the birth of her child. Tho advice placed, sho imperial family in a somewhat difficult predicament, for a000rtl• Mg to the to -ms of the national 001151110 - tion it wee indispensable that the heir to the throne should be born on 131100111011 soil Indeed, worn lie to make his debut in the world of foreign t00(110ry it would, accord- ing to the legal experts, constitute suf- ffotont ground for raising the question as to the validity of 1110 child's rights to the 0001(111. Afton' numb deliberation and dis- cussion the following ingenious 00103I= of the difficulty was determined open: :\ couple of 8100kfttl5 of earth were brought fo'ott Rio do Janeiro 11,1141 811.0W11 across the threshold of the Brazilian legation at Parts, and 0 few hoots before the birth of the child the princess was a nveyodt111111 +r and to um aplu'tneht on the 110ornf W'11011 a par, that of the tl':ulslttlautfc bol) hail lien plate ed, The young prince, therefore, was de. ular°d 1e hove' been horn on Ih'a., lulu suA, since not only was there Brazilian earth on the rotund, hut, 1OnfOOV('l', the I.; (1311(1, by villa. of its cattll-terrm dual 011 p100(0110 lll'tt 11 .;"0, w1L4ta. 'tided :le 1,,,.1'1 01)113aI'„t'l, nut tit 1'.n'is or t'r,ut0o, lint of the 11raz)lian eupnre, A M.letilodist layman in New York has brought down a great deal of wrath upon his head for suggesting that,, if the clergy would use wise methods, they might 3111 their churches, now sadly neglected, in the lower part of New York city, with interest- ed and outhusiastio congregations. His idea; is to have bowling alleys and billiard rooms in the basements of these churches, instead of prayer meetings, and that what are called "soft drinks" should be permitted. He thinks float by this means the mote and boys among the poo•Or people could be interested in something more serious, end Chet, =dm any circumstances, the re- sult would bo mora satisfactory than it 18 110W. The bar -ronin and the low concert hall would be emptied i1) favor of the church basontont, end in the testa the whole corn- nvMity might bo elevated, Tho Methodist ministers broke 0111 into 1111 uproar on hear- ing these remarks, anti were unitni111((11013110 favor of Using th(+baoementsi(1 the Old Wrty. 'rho author of tit is ,onlu,i,n nutclo tli)8 0ont- (Malt 011 11,0. 10011-1ow'n douches: 1'2 should sty, tear one of 1111,1 down and ole.'1 in its $10.1'1 11110 ehll,honse, with all 001(011/ inooc:'nt (31tneh, (13.hreading mono: gynlnasinnl, bowling alley, and a biz!, ands teruun, with a fine or :mu, where religions a 1l viers 11.1111 1C01 111'00 co 111,1 ho held." .... ....+,.-..,r .,,... WITt li)UT AN EQUAL. Y tai � '\,, a ri" ldy`%iEl`lyt "'f t�I➢E�1R1 YDS !r 'r'11ADE \ � �'.. MARA IV BURALCIA LtiMIBAO SCIATIC THE G`EA' Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Swelling's. THE CHARLES A. VOCELER COMPANY, Baltimore, Md. Canadian Depot: TORONTO, ONT. 3