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A GHOSTLY MANIFESTATION
THE BRUSSELS POST. 7
"Florio, sir, wo aro afraid to go 1" he said
in a brambling 'Moe. '
1 "Afraid, my boy 1" I exolalmed in aura
_ prloo; "afraid of what? There is nothing
Bolero I tall my story, it will be well fon and nobody
mhero to harm you ; what are you
e to moko lb perfectly clear that it iafraid of ?'
s a "They are afraid, oir 1" chimed in the
parfectly true ono, As a lad, and AS a young maid.
man, neither ghosts nor the idea of ghooto "Afraid of what7" I again demanded.
ever troubled me. I heard strange otorioo agave von seen any thieves about?"
of them, told wieb all the vivid d000ripbion "No, Bir," rho replied ; "but they aro
which would tend to frighten sleep away— afraid to go t" and that was all I could get
601
d, t oothe tad was how
lin8 out. r whenh w
o
out f her,
side, the rain pattering against the windows, "oome along, boys 1 and don't be More
and the only light visible that whioh found children," I oaid to encourage them; "the
its way through the chinks in the shutters light is ready for you, and the house will bo
to the piboh-dark outside—told when oofoly fastened np as mei,"
everybody was ready for bed. Bub they ""True, air," add ono of them, John by
never disbarbed my elumbere. 1 eon.. name ; "but we are afraid. Lem eight—"
listen to any number of them ab any time, a What?" I inquired in wonder.
and they never had any effect on me, In "Last night, air," he went on to say,
foot, T diebelleved them thoroughly, and "there were fearful noises up -stairs where
though I could nob doubt the veracity of the we deco. Wo heard men fighting, and we
narrator I always regarded them as the out- trembled—"
oome of a obrong imagination, or the result "Nonsense 1" I oried, "Cook, whet did
of ton heavy and too late dinners. A white on give the boys for their per lash
tombstone in a ohurobyard did nob frighten nsupper y P
mon a very dark night, nor did the mye- "Only beef and rico, sahib," he replied;
teriouo movemonta of a donkey whioh had " the came as they always have.'
broken into it cause mo to start, mho moved "And no more? nothing else 1"
In the darkness In and out among the graves, "No, Sahib."
eo that I woo thoroughly unprepared for " Thoa you boys were dreaming or heard
anything like a personalexperience, and the rate. I heard nothing and saw nothing.
considered myself one of the last persona So, oome along 1"
likely to be affected by anything like a I went into the house and they followed
ghostly manifestation. me, On reaching the door ab the foob of bhe
Bub now to my story, whioh I shall tell opiral staircase I gave them their lantern
simply as the affair took Mao, leaving ib to (not an open candle, for fear of fire) and one.
the reader to draw his or her own conclusion. of them again exclaimed :
And to make it quite intelligible I most " We are afraid, sir 1 we can not sleep tip
explain the plan of the house whore it hap- there."
paned. The llouee itself was a large 0210, " Nousenao, boys 1" I replied, firmly ;
built of brick, and was what is Dolled a " there ie nothing there worse than your -
"flat;" that is, ib had no regular up -stairs selves] I Am down below, and the maid sleeps
roomo, though over bho ooiling there was a in the dining room right under you ; there is
great deal of room under the roof ; and the nothing to canoe fear, so go along."
lower inside walla had bean carried up to bhe Without another word they book the Mn -
roof to support it, a doorway being made to torn, and filed off up stairs. When the Leet
gob from ono part to the other. The walla had gone I carefully latched the door, saw
were think and bho doors and windowe were the maid into her sleeping quarters under
made of heavy hard wood, There was not a the dining room table, examined all the bolto
pane of glass in the house, and both doors ah natal and wont off to bed.
and windows—except two doors, of whioh I told my wife what had h'ppened, and
more preeontly—wore faotenod by unusually she put it down to nightmare on the boy&
strong iron bolts. My wife and I—for my part. However, It passed one of our heads.
wife was with mo and shared all my exper• We always kepb a light burning in our room
ionces—always entered the house by the big at night—a email hand poraffine lamp. This
doorway leading into the largo semicircular woo kept on the cheat of drawers againot bhe
porch, whore our palanquins were kept, wall opposite tho foot of the bed, In (=tee
n on we came to the passage. o Going 8very to and o6
Passing P 8 • of time 1 burned i6 down w, g
along thin we came fireb of all to bhe door into bed, with my head as usual quite close
on our left hand, opening into bho dining bo the door. Ib wan a small room, rather,
room. On our right, directly opposite title and the bad came °'moot up to the frame of
dining room door, was another door, at the the door. Meantime, 1 had, of course, pull.
foob of a ofroulor staircase, in the thick wall ed the door to, as far as it would go, but
leading up to the empty spaces under the could nob actually close ib, ao It hung ajar at
roof, Straight in front of no was the door the place where ib oaughb the sill. The
leading into the great central reoopbion room framework for the glass we had covered with
whioh oontained no furniture except an a curtain.
armoire, a table and a few ohaire. There was I woe tired and glad to get some rest and
a large front door to this room, but ib was sleep, more particularly s0 1 was juat re -
seldom open, and we rarely need it, our visit• uovering from a very sharp atbaok of a weak -
ore coming mostly through the poroh and ening illness. My wife very soon went off
passage, Going further on we came to our to sleep, soundly, and I quickly followed her.
bed room, whiob oonbained only our bed, a The house was perfectly quiet, and I was
traveling cheat of drawers, whioh served as fast asleep, when 1
a dressing table, a washstand and one or two "" Soratbh, match, ecratah, eorateh, rattle,
choire, Loading out from this was another rattle, bang, bang, rattle, rattle, bang,
room whioh we did not use, simply because scratch 1" and up 1 lumped, upright in bed,
we did not need it, my wife jumping up at the same moment.
And now I must call your attention to our In an instant all the blood in my body seem
bed -room door. Ib was made of wood, ed to curdle, my face grew pale and cold,
the lower half being panelled, but the and we tnetantly asked caoh of the other in
upper half was fitted with' framework bo a whisper :
receive panes of ghee, whioh had not yet "What's that?'
been tneerted. The door had neither look Soratoh, eoratoh,0oratoh, scratch, rattle,
nor bolt. There wan only an iron ring, rattle, bang, bang, bang, rattle, scratch,
hanging loosely, by whioh the door oonld be ooratoh, eorateh, at the door close to my head
pulled to. Bub It could not be closed, for ao if a thousand oats were eoratehing and
at the bottom, close to bhe aide on which the tearing away furiously at one of the lower
hinges worked, it (taught against the sill, panels, and olio vibration of the door owned
whioh had not been eufftoicnbly planed the loosely hanging iron ring to make a fear -
away to allow the door to shut properly, ful din as i6 was brought in contact with the
and'so ib was always ajar, and could very wood.
cagily be Shelia backward and forward, We listened—breathless 1 A pause 1 Only
as it worked on the plane where it oaughb ; for two seconds, however, and then it net off
and in shaking, the iron ring, to which I again, Soratoh, ooratoh, rattle, bang, bang 1
have referred, clattered againob the door, "Whab is it?" I inquired of my wife,
making a great nolo° in a more or leis " I don't know,' the replied—the was all
empty large house. of a tremor ; but "Thio won't do," thought
The only remark I have to make about the f, and ont I sprang from bed, the nobles
other door leading up into the spiral stair meanwhile continuing with unabated fury,
ogee, is that it !opened outwards, and Wa0 and I rushed to the lamp and turned it up.
simply fastened by an ordinary doorlatoh. Instantly the noise oeaeed 1 I aoaroely seem -
The affair of which I am writing took ed to think what to be about—if burglars
place in a large island in the Eaat far away ware In the hem I wee powerless ogainob
from Canada—in a country full of ghostly them—if the noises wore of supernatural
stories, and equally full of a belief in all origin, what then 1—if bhe result of some
kinds of ghostly manifeetatione.Ihadheard, cleverly designed pian to frighten 00, ib
but had taken no notice of them. The must bo exposed. These thoughts seemed
native `town to which we had gone in north to flash through my mind, and, quick an
of health contained very few foreigners and thought, I Blipped on my dreeeing.gown,
fewer acquaintances ; oonoequently wo had seised the lamp, and made for the door. It
to " shift for ourselves; and with the email was ae I had left it exaobly 1 I pushed 10
ammount of luggage we took with ue found open, and went out into the big central
our home in this large houoe, whish we reception room, which the small lamp
rented from a native. We liked it ; the air scarcely lit up, I looked behind the door
was fresh, very pure and bracing ; medical where bhe noundo Dame from, and there woe
help was at hand, and with our cook and nothing 1 Next I went carefully to every
eervante and my pupils we eettled in. The door and window, looked into every corner,
home was surrounded by its own grounds, examined the armoire, everything was fat.
and the kitchen as usual, stood away by toned, the home was perfeobly silent—there
Ibeolf. WAS nothing 1
We were simply on a visit ; we did not I"went kook to my room.
burden oureolvee with unnecessary furnf Have you seen anything ? my wife ask•
ture, bub were content with buying what ed me.
few things we needed, and servants and ed, a"Nond 'oat elite left ib. "everything
is et18 fasten.
pupils did nob add muoh to our burden, for 1 strange."
during the day they wore all engaged in I turned down the lamp again, and got
one way or another, and, provided they had into bed, wondering all the time what i6
a fairly comfortable mat or mabtreoe on was and what it meant, and little inclined
whioh to lie, did nob care very much for sleep,
where they slept. Cook, a swarthy eon ofNo sooner was my head ten the pillow.
Madras, guarded hie kitchen and cooking than—
utenalle at night ; my pupils coiled ap on Soratoh, ecratah, ooratoh, bang, bang,
their matbraoeoo np•etaire, in the " room" clatter, clatter, bang I began again:
at the top of the spiral etairoaee under bhe I flew out of bed, hurried into my dross.
roof ; and my wife's maid slept under the Ing gown burned up tbo lamp, again rattled
dining room table on her mattress, whioh forth, and with the same result, Inebantly
was iemoved every morning the first thing
the noise stopped 1 AU was quint ; every
and brought in the last thing at night. I door and window was safely bolted—all re I
always saw them all safely in the house, left i61 But, thinking that, perhaps, the
and go caoh to kir or ger own aparbluetit, nativeo might be playing trioke on un, I ex -
before retiring myself, and made it my amined the neighborhood of the door,
nightly practice to see that all the doors whence the sounds mane, very, very care.
and windows were eeourely bolted—for we fully There was no string, no wire either
did nob care to lose bhe few things we had at to; or bottom, or nail to whioh it could
with uo, which in such a fir diabant pinoe be attached. The wall, every inch of which I
could not easily be replaced. examined, was solid as bricks could make i6.'
The few days wo had passed in the house Tho floor? I examined that, too. It was a
had pegged pleasantly and the nights nndta- baantiful floor, inlaid with different kinds of
torted, save by the howling of dogs outside, wood, forming an athletic) pattern. Every
When one night our pupfie were later' than bit of wood was in its plooe—thorn wan no
usual in coming in to retire for the night, trap door, no sign of tnterferenoe of any
I went out to look after them, and found kind. Iloeoe there wan no trickery, or atm -
them and the maid all gathered round the ningly devised means of frightening me out
bright fire is tete kitchen, buoy in amusing of my wits as well a0 out of bed, I woe pug.
and interesting conversation, Their oyes zled and beaten I Again I went off to bed,
were gliotening in the firelight, and their after burning down bhe lamp, and again, no
laugh wee very heartys 0ooner wag my head on the pillow Akan—
" Como, boys" I said " it is time for youSoratoh, ooratoh, scratch, bang, bang, Mat-
to be going to reob now. And you," to the tor, clatter, bang 1 It went again.
mold, " bring in your mattress, for i6 is "That'll right 1 Gs it f" I oried, as I agotn
tithe." sprang out of bed,
Immediately there WOO a dead eilenoe. "Ito getting tireaomo, though, " I soil
The laughter wan hushed • gloomy wanton.to my wife ; "I can't make f6 out 1 But if C
ano00 at once appeared, and a kind of tui- 000 only get hold of bho evil•door, he (Mall
live inquiring glance WAS oaob from ono to feel this,' for 1 fol, angry at the oontinuod
the other, Not one of them attempted to dioturbanoo, and seizing a huge stick with
move, except the maid, I may hero hay that ono hand, and the lamp with the other, out
bho boyo' ages ranged from about 10 to 14. I want again, Bch the nettle had stopped 0e
"Caine, boys 1" 1 repeated, "oome along; quickly as b"loco, and again all wan quiet,
It's time for going to rest now ; why do you Again I examined every Window and Rook —
wait7" all Were oately tautened 1
Still there was no answer, 16 then Struck ale that perhaps, as the
"Aro you not tired?" 7 ihqulred, noise 'viae so terrific and peouliar, pos.
Then one vouohoafed an answer,
account for it, T must confess 1 Mit hops,
toady puzzled, and, without being alarmed,
woo oorboinly very uncomfortable, What
war the nolo° 1 Who or what made ib? The
iron ring made that owful banging, hub what
oagoed the ola1teri, g pound and the furious
soratehiog ? So going into the dining•room 7
called to the maid by name, and eaid
"Aro you awake?'
"Yes, sir," was her reply ; and she raised
hereat# on her matbreee and throw book bho
cloth in whioh she had enveloped her head,
" awake "inquired' "1
Wh era ou wa °? I
Why Y,
boo °au't eloop. Have you heard the rate
ruoing about?"
I shall nob forget the look she gave me a0
I held the email lamp near her and its light
lib up her dark Noe. Bub the eyes seemed
to light up of themoelvee, and a loole of dia-
guated weariness crept over her features,
"Rotel" she exolaimed. "Tnat'0 not rats,
and 1 am afraid. I heard them 1"
"Heard what 7' 1 asked. " If the sound
did not oome from frolioeome robs, what
made it ? There are no people in the house
oxoopb ourselves, and the boys are up•otaire
asleep."
They are spirits 1" ohs exclaimed, "I
heard them, and a row they have been mak-
ing. I have been listening to them—but I
kept my head covered for fear, I beard
them rushing with a kind of ntisoleee step
to your door; then scratching and rattling
it ; then I heard them rush book to the door
at the foob of the stairs and rattle, rattle
away at bhe latch ; then book to your room
again, backward and forward, backward
and forward. They have been making a
row, They are apiribs, and I wish they
would rest, for I want to steep 1"
"Se do I," I replied. Still her words
rather staggered me. Yet account for these
noises on any other bypotheals I could not,
Bat enirite 1 and in my own house, and close
to the head of my bed 1 Strange ; but what
was it ? I was ae wide awake as possible.
Every faculty was in good working order,
and now the utter disbelief of years gone
by was to be rudely—and I thought it very
rude of them so to intrude on my rash and
peace of mind—ehatbered.
The maid threw her cloth over her head
again and retired under the table ; bub her
room, too, woo innocent of any thing cap-
able of being turned to a000an6 for causing
bhe noise.
Again I returned to my room, but would
not tell my wife what the maid oaid. Quite
enough for me to have my own thoughts on
bhe matter without disturbing her peace of
mind.
" However," I thought to myself, " if
I can pub a stop to this 7 will, 1f I ooh
only get this door over the bad plane
at the bottom, whoever or whatever they
may be won't be able to maks it
shake again, and we shall be saved all the
clatter. So with a great effort I lifted the
door eo as to bring 10 over bhe uneven place,
and then with a strong pull I closed it tight
at Met.
"Now shake it if you oanl" I thought,
and, turning down the lamp once mare,
went off bo bed.
Vain hope of peace 1 The enemy, whoever
or whatever the enemy was, seemed to be
aimply infuriated with my attempt to balk
him, for no sooner was my head on my
pillow again then the soratahing was renew.
ed with tenfold vigor, ae if the very door
would be torn to pieces. I6 was simply
awful, and I seemed to expect to hear
ahrieke of angor added to the frightful
eoratohing. I eat up in bed and looked
at bhe door. It could not, and did not,
move, and the iron ring hung motionless;
but down in tnab far corner that poor
panel seemed to fie the point of uttoak of
a thousand fiends. Suddenly I oried out
in the native tongue:
"Be quite, and listen. 0 ye, whoever
and whatever ye are," and, strange to say,
eo 00oner did I begin to speak than
perfect eilenoe—decd silence—reigned.
Listen, 0 ye, whoever and whatever
ye are," I continued, " for I don't
know ; only yourselves know. Ye are
free to oomo to my house and visit me dur-
ing the daytime, but now it is night. I am
tired and want to sleep, eo get ye to your
houses 1 If ye be friends, speak 1 if yo he
not, depart; or if ye will not depart, be
quite and enjoy youreelvee fn peace, for I
am tired and want to sleep, So good
night 1"
Alas? my little address had no effect.
Quito the contrary 1 At it they went again,
and I pitied the poor door. If they match
ad furiously before, now they seemed to
tear away ab it mercilessly. How they did
peg away ab it 1 and the noise was almost
deafening. However, there seemed to be
nothing more to be done. I had been out
and examined everything. All woo safe. I
had used plain words and words of p020ua
cion, and bhey had no effect. So 1 gave up
in simple despair, and lefo the "spirits" to
their own sweet pleasure.
It was now long poet midnight, and quite
tired and worn out I dropped off bo Bleep to
the music of the scratching and tearing oloaa
to my head. Uneasy sleep it wee, and in
the very early morning I woke to bhe sweet
music of the eoratohing whioh still continu-
ed 1
" I must find out what it is, if I ooh 1" I
thought. Just then I heard the door in the
por0h at the other end of the house open, so
I knew some one was going out. Is the
mystery about to be solved ? No, for the
ooratohtni' still continued with unabated
fury I There was the attack on the panel
°bill going on as hard ao ever. But the open
door allowed a certain amount of light to
get through to our door, and I thought 1
would avail myeelf of it.
" I'll oatoh you this time I" I thonghb,
"If there be springs or trap door, wires or
string I'll see what they are,"
So whilot the noise was still programing I
very quietly and noiseleeely drew myself up
in bed, ready for a spring, I ebretehed out
my left hand and pushed aside the curtain
over the frame fur the glees in the door very
quietly and ooubiouely, sprang out of bed,
and in loss than half a second my head was
through the opening for one of the panes,
and I wan gazing at the place whence the
stand name, and narrowly searching for
Something, though what I did not know,
But quick as I had been, it or they had baog
as quick, for no sooner was my head through
the opening than bhe noise moaned. Theft,
woe no wire or string to he seen, no trap-
door of any kind; a mouse could not huge
got away ; all woo elbeue.
"1 eau nob understand it," I said to my
wife. " But I ohall get up now and go for
your early coffee,"
I partially droned, pub on my drew
ing-rown, threw open the windows, and
was going out to the kitchen to get
the must morning obffao for my wife,
When, just as I got opposite the door load-
ing to the oplroi atairaaee, I mot the boys
coming down. I naw at onoo there was
oomebhing wrong. The poor boys' fasts
were gloomy and of a pallid hue—there was
not the usu tl oheory " Goad -morning, efr"—
and dnpreeeien and even &extort' eoemed to
bo written on their oounteaano0e,
"Sow have you elope, my boys?" I in.
gained of them—and they know abooldtely
nothing of my nightie experience.
"Slept, air 7" they h.quitet In return, In
ahtobishtnen6; We have not slept, iiow
oibly my wife'° maid had heard it, or Mild • mould Wo?"
"Why?' Required,
" Tell him, John," said one of them; whilst
the other broke in, "Although yon nom.)
mend uo to sleep np there again, wo oan not.
We are killed with fright I'
" What le i6 ?" I again Inquired.
Thee John opoko.
" 16 was awful, sir, and we oan not boar 1b,
It was this. What we board the night before
teat we also heard last night, but 10 was far
worse, There were, as it seemed 60 n, two
mon up 13tairo engaged in a fierce ebrugple.
They oeomod to be in the middle of the
home, ander the roof, and they fought
desperately.
We hoord a glad of whisper-
ing,
hig er-ing, quarreling, as it were, bat we heard go
words, It seemed as if ono was wearing
boots, ami the other wan nob. Thou the ono
wearing b' oote ran, and bhe other ran after
him, baokwarde and forwards, baokwarde
and Iorwarde, all In the dark; down Obey
ran, down the etaire, and we heard them
rabtliug the latoh as if they wanted to get
out. Book then they would oome, and rush
pant tie, and as they passed the air was toy
oold 1 Than they would fight and straggle
again, and we heard the whispering sound ;
than again they would run ; the oma wearing
boots ran first, then the other utter him.
Down they would run, down the Maim
again, rattle the latch, and I was terribly
frightened," the poor boy added, almost ory.
ing " for once as they were going down one
of them seized my leg and dragged me half
way down. His kande were like ice," he
said, drawing hie ehonlders together, and
shivering at the remembrance, " but he let
go and I crawled book to my plane again,
trembling. This went on for a long time.
Then they fought again, and ab lout the ono
without boots threw down the one with
boots; he then danced about, then fell him
self, Then all was quiet."
Ib was abraege, and 1 was intent. What
to think I knew not, nor do I to thio day.
The other hope confirmed John's abatement,
and Mood looking frightened and sorely puz-
zled. I am perfectly certain that I was not
mistaken ; the maid had hoard the extraor-
dinary sounds, the movements of "spirits"
downstairs, and the rattling of the latoh ;
and now confirmation comes from the boyo
of something uncanny. In bhe full flood-
light of day I examined every inch of wall
and floor near that door, but their was
neither mark on it, nor place for string,
wire, or trap door near it. All was perfecto.
I mentioned this extraordinary affair to a
doctor living near, and he and hie wife ar-
ranged to sleep in the house with us the
next night, We spent the evening ab hie
house, and we all went to our own about 9
p, m. Sitting outside, round the door of the
porch, I found my servant, together with
the eon of bhe landlord, to whom I had sent
word of the affair.
" Wall, lade," I eaid, ae we approached
them, " have you seen or beard anything?"
The landlord's son answered :
" We have nob seen anything, but whilst
we have been sitting here we heard a sound,
as of sem, one having hurled a big atone
against your bedroom door."
" Was any one in the hone?"
" No, air,' they all aoewered.
We went in and examined everything, but
found neither atone nor mark.
The doctor and I turned down on a' couple
of mabtreooes in the reception room on the
floor, opposite the front door. Hie wife
slept with mine ; and the boyo had again
gone np•staire with the men -servants and the
landlord's eon, feeling safe in their company.
The doctor soon fell asleep, but I kept awake.
At about 11 p. m. I heard a steady march
over me of one—only one—marching back•
wards and forwards. This was kept on at a
steady pace till 12. Then there was a furious
bang ab the front door ae of a huge atone
having been hurled against it. There was
then a howling of doge and then all was
quiet. I heard nothing more, neither did
those up stairs, but that was the Last night
Cenpti
1 a that house Others trted to live
there afterward, but had to leave. What
was it?
Now for a bib of history by way of ex.
planation, if it oan be explained, Tne King
of the country bad a few years before been
assassinated—strangled. He woe surprised
in his palace, and in full drug as he was,
abated from room to room by the assassin,'
until at length he tried to find safety in hid-
ing among the rafhere, jue6 under the roof.
From hie hiding plane he was dragged and
slain.
The actual regioide died in the home
whore I lived, on a bedstead close to the
door whence all the noises 'proceeded -he
died there about three months before I took
the house, within three yards of where my
pillow was 1 Of this foob I was not then
aware.
I oan only ask, How iaib to be explained 7.
and add that this ebory is absolutely true in
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forolble and inebruntivo. Nraotwalpreseub•
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hausted, showing new means by which they
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the civilized world would road, understand
and follow our view°, there would be a
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Brings bloom to the cheep, strength to the
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sealed, on roeeipb of ben onto to stamps.
Adriroos all all orders to M, V, Lubcn, room
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A Great Ory for More Women
has ben going up from the tar west for a
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Though, for bhab matter, there'd no secret to
is,
Ao many a man understands very well.
If you're low•epiribed, gloomy, depressed,
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If your stomach is foul and your mouth seems
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And so Dross you become that they call you a
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Go to the drug store and get a bottle of Dr,
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PALATABLE Au MILK.
Sold by all Tlro001sis, 50e. and $LOO.
TEACIIERS eon make money during vendee
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TORONTO: ONT.
CHOICE FARMS FOR SALE IN ALL PANTS OF
MANITOBA.
Parties wishing to parobaoe improved Maulloba,
Farms, from 80 a0re0 upward,, with Imatedi, to
poseeselon, call or write to t:. L h o VLSOK, leo.
Arthur's Block, Main et„ Wlaolpeg. Information,
1urn10601 free of °barge, and settlers aeelsted fu
making selection.
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AT OUaaoNT RAMS 01' UTMOST.
BE WARE OF IMITATIONS.
ROYAL
Dandelion
COFFEE,
None geoulne but the Royal, Prepared by
Ellis & Keighley, - Toronto.
Allan Line Royal Nail Steamships
Bailin during winter from Portland every Tbnaaday
and Idalilaz overylaburday to Liverpool, and in enm-
mer from Quebec every Saturday to Llverpool,0n111ag
at .donderry to land Inane and passenger's for
Scoound and !reload; also from Baltimore, via Han
fax and St. John's, N,F., to Liverpool 'fortnightly
during Bummer months, The steamers of the Gina
gow kr all during winter 00 and from Hata,
Portland, Bouton and Phllodelphlo and during slim-
mer between Glasgow and Montreal weekly; Oleo
gow and Breton weakly, and Slava and Phlladel•
pith. fortnightly.
For freight, paooage or other Information apply to:
A, Sahumaoher 0 0o., Baltimore ; S. Ounard E, Om,
Taffies Sloes h Om, St. John's, NM., Wm, /hemp.
eon de Co, St. John, N. B.; Allen 0 Co., Oblegao it
Love it Alden, New York ; H. Boruller, Toronto l;
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Oatmeal Skin Soap
MAKES THE HANDS SOFT:
AND THE COMPLEXION
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Seo that the Coy's name it
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Beware or Imitations.
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(LYCORI'OBATED )
A Mutual Benefit Association,
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Aesoolatlon ONE LENT PER DAY, a person aged
twenty-two, and two 00nta per day a person aged
forty tour oan secure Five Dollars per week while
disabled through slckaese or a oident, also for two
and throe cents per day, persona aged as above can
secure for their dependants, Five Hundred Dollare 1n
event of death,
LIVE $ ruEE OWNERS eau provide against loaf
by death Gironeh diseaee.or accident of their stock,
at easy rates, Those Interested, gaud for proepeotuees
eta, Reliable Agents wanted lu unrepresented dla-
Diets.
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2 A. DORENWEND
\ TORONTO, manufacturer oI
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BO V'S QBARRIAGE TOPS
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