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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1900-01-19, Page 66 THE HURON OPOSITOR JANUARY 19 1900 VETERINARY TOIIN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario e) Veterinary College. Ali dissasee of Domestic, animals treated. Calls promptly' attended to and charges moderate. Veterinary Dentetry a specialty. aniloe and residence on Ooderloh street, one door Wad of Dr, Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112-1 LEGAL JAMES L. KILLORAN, nveyaneer and Notary Office over Plokard's Store 1528 B arrister, Solicitor, C Enblic. Money to loan. Main Street, Seaforth. M. BEST, Barriste , Solioltor, Conveyancer, a) • Notary Public, Oft oee up staire, over C. W. l'apet'e tooketore, Main S rect, Seaforth, Ontario. 1627 1%jf 0, CA.MERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & Cameron, Barrieter and Bendier, Goderloh,, Ontario. Office—Harnilto street, opposite Colborne Sotei. 1462 TO S. HAYS, Barrister, Solloitor, Conveyancer and xi, Notary Publio, Solicitor for the Dominion Sank. 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BY DAVID LvALL. (Published by the Copp, Clark Company, Toronto.) CHAPTER XVI. THE LOVE OF A WOMAN. Mrs. Malcolm knew that things were amiss between Neil and Katie, but though she yearned over the girl with the 'yearning of a mother, the matter was never mention- ed between them. They had too m ch re- spect for private feeling to make common talk of it, and to them reticence was atilt a virtue worth clinging to. But as time wore on Mrs. Maleolm found it difficult to i keep her tongue off Neil, as she saw the 'gradual decay of buoyancy and hope in the „girl, who took life seriously, and to whom "love's young dream" had brought little but complete disillusionment. She was much Surprit el when Enid Lawrence took Katie away to the Quill Pen's tea. She was still more surprined when Katie came back, look- , ing as if she had seen a ghost. * le Dear me, lassie," she said, with •some lisharpnees, " ye have surely been to a very ll place. Have you had your tea?" "Yes, auntie. ; "The air inust have been very bad there. Drink this at once—not a word." She poured out a glass of wine with her owe hand, and held it to her niece's lips. She revolted from it, but sipped a few drops obediently, and the colaur stole back faint- ly to her cheeks. "Tell me what kind of a plo it was. Was Neil there?" Yes, auntie. " "And a lot ,of writing folk—men and women—I suppose. Did ye enjoy it ?" " Not very much. It wee a strange af- fair, auntie. I can't think what they do it for." ' " Imphm ! That doesn't tell me much. Did Miss Lawrence bring you back ? " Yes. " 41 And where, may V ask, is my lord Neil?" "We left him there. He has another engagement, I think. He said he would look in this evening about eight o'clock." "Very kind of him. We will have an- other engagement, maybe, at eight o'olo k." Katie faintly smiled, knowing perf ctly what was in her aunt's mind. "Not to-nighu, auntie. Neil has s me - thing to say to me, I think. At least, I have something to say to him, and it may be the last time. " Mrs. Malcolm was silent a moment, eye- ing her niece keenly, and with the most solicitous tenderness. The sharpened fea- tures, the delicate flush, the frail look, all had been accentuated by the weeks of her London visit. Sho groaned in spirit, think- ing of her brother, to whom hi o child was the very apple of the eye. I am glad something is to be eaid at last, " she said with a jerk. " It is not a day before time." "Auntie, if after to -night I wish to go home to -morrow, you will not seek to keep me here?" said Katie, as she rose to go up to her room. She suffered her eyes to Meet steadily the tender yet mournful gaze bent on her. "No, Katie ; if yell feel that it is harne ye would go to -morrow I will not hinder— only I shall take ye myself. " A little sob caught Katie' s breath, There were very tender hearts left yet, and some true ones. "What a wonderful woman Miss Law. rence is, Aunt Grace.. "He will be a hap, py man who marries her, "she aaid sudden, ly. " -But I hardly think there could be one worthy of her. -" Dear me 1 Do you set her so high, Katie? iut it's nothing more than others i say. Yes! there is a man worthy of her, lassie, and he would give his life's blood for her ; but e'll never get her, " she said with a sig . "Who ils it, auntie? But perhaps yoa do not wish to tell me. " . "1 wish, but I must not. The secret is not mine'laesie. Now to your bed, and lie in a darkened room or I bid' ye get up. Ye will need your strength for eight o'clock. Yet it is wonderful, just. wonderful, how the wauf of caller air comes when we need it. I am not too feared for you, Katie, for because the Lord bears you, and such as you for ever in His tender mercy. " With this benediction Katie laid herself down quietly upon her , bed, preparing for the ordeal from which her woman's heart shrank. To give him up 1 These are not words to ring sweetly in the ears of the woman who loves. She had not long lain down when she heard tbe rattle of a han- som in the terrace, and she knew that it stopped at her aunt's door, She took her watch from under her pillow, and saw tlutt it was but little more than half -past s'x. Her face flushed, and she raised herself on her elbow to listen. If it were Neil colne already, she felt herself scarcely able to meet him. She was relieved when the d or opened, and her aunt looked in. "No, it is net Neil, Katie, but M es Lawrence back again, Will you see her " " Why, yes ; but what can she want so soon, auntie? She must have forgotten something." - Shall I bid her come up here ?" "If you please, auntie. I am not able to get up just yet. We can use that freed m with her, I think. " For certain. She's a fine young wain n, Katie. and my heart is sorer than it as for the man I told ye of. I will send Aleion up with her, and I may get a word af er you have had your crack." • Katie raised herself to a sitting postu e, but was too exhausted to make an attest pt tetrise. She smiled when she saw Eni serious face in the doorway. , "My dear, can you forgive me? I arri frightful intruder. I have no excuse to offer, but I shnply had to come. " "What for ?" aeked Katie bluntly. "How sin I to tell you, how to expl in myself without ieerning ridiculous ?" 8 id Enid, and closing the door, she sat down on the bed. .“ It was borne in on me all. he way to Cadogan Place that I ought to h ve said something to you before we part d, and when I'got out of the carriage, int ad of going into the house, I simply jum ad into a hansom. I have no doubt the n en thought I had gone suddenly ma& " "They could not think that," said Ka ie earnestly, and somehow as she looked 1. to Ersid's face the trouble that had been so dark an hour ago seemed to melt away. I can't understand myself how I sr mild - dare to take such a liberty," began Enid rather quickly. "You don't know me, but I aseure you I am not a person who pokes her nose into other people'a business, but quite the reverse. Will you acquit mei of impertinence in what I am going to say ?" Katie Forbes, most undemonstrative of women, bent her head suddenly and laid er lips to the shapely hand which had such oy in kind deeds. "Von are to see Mr. Macleod to -nigh " said Enid, faitering slightly, but elle° r- aged to go on. " Something:tells me t at it will be a crisis in your life—and is. Katie, whatever you do, don't give hm u;.," "1 intended to .do s�," Katie answe ed quietly. " We are.not as we were. W at I feared from the beginning has only me to pass. He has found that I am unsin id to him. I don't blame him, and. I wo Id not reek to bind him by an irksome ie. You would not in my place. " " Not if I were convinced that the' tie had really become irkeome to him, " 8 id Enid earnestly. • " But, Katie, I think if you do this it will be a great,gre'atinieta e, and that you will ruin him. , "Ruin him 1" repeated Katie; "what — oan you mean? It is not as if he cared me any longer. He will be glad to free. ' "Believe me'dear, you are yerong. grant youethathe has swerved a littl that he hail succumbed to Lady Edwa charm for the time being ; but it will s pass and he will hate himself for it. Ka for be d's on if you ,give him up he will simply let him- self go, You don't know what it is to ive a fast life in London—how it ruins ni body and soul. That's what will happe him when he realizes that he has nob, caring whether he lives a noble, cleanly or not. " Katie was silent, impressed by passion with which Enid spoke. " What do you think I should do then ?" she asked at lase, in a low veice. " Wloll' I think you should marry him as soon ae possible." "But how can I do that ? " queried Katie ehrinkingly; "He has never men- tioned marrying to me eince he left ravock. " "He will speak of it to -night, " Enid. "Oh, I marvel at myself the, should dare to speak to you as I am do But I em driven to it—I cannot tell wh " Perhaps God has put it into your h to be ley friend. There is nobody I speak to—no one to whom I dare men Neil's name, My aunt is so angry with him, she will scarcely be civil to him when he conies, and I would not let my father guess anything for the world. 4o* is it you understand so much? Oh, it is such a comfort to me that you think Neil is tiot bad: Everybody, even Angus, seems, to believe that he has gone very far astray.," "It is different in London, dear," said Enfd gently. "What shocks you in the en, to dy life the aid ng. /3 art ean ion country is of small consequence here. think Mr. Macleod is not walking as best friends would wish him to walk ; when he gets away from Lady Edward's fluence he will beebimself again ; and will help him to attain the old ideals." I his but in. von e . "But when? It acorns so hopeless, nd she is so beautiful. I do not wonder that he admires her." . Enid was silent. She could not deny her kinswoman's irresistable charm, by which she had herself been influenoed many tiches. "Lord Edward is coming home item Vagos on leave very soon. His brother, the Duke of Evesham, has not been well lately," she said thoughtfully. "1 •think, we all think, that Lord Edveard should in. on his wife going to Vagos. The Duke says she shall go next time." Katie said nothing. She was interes ed, ti, but she did not altogether comprehend the situation. In Kilravock a husband ,nd wife living apart were a world's wonder; the ways of London folk seemed past find- ing out. '' Well, I must go, "aid Enid, jumPing up, "Von queer little thing, to think hat a few hours ago I did not know you; nd now I am as much interested in you a if you were my own sister. And you are quite sure I have not been impertinent?" " Impertinent 1—you 1 Oh, Mies L w- rence, " said Katie, and her eyes filled. "Have you seen - much of Mr, Fr ser since you came to town ? " was Enid's ext question, and she appeared to find s me The T anging Pains . ..or Rheumatis Are 'Caused by Uric Acid ,Being Left in the Blood by Diseased Kidneys To suffer the most excruciating pains to lege the use of imbs, and to have the joints swollen and iisfigurect is the lot of he • victim of rheu itatism. Uric acid inthe blood is the cause of rheumatism. If the kidneys are active OaeY remove the uric acid. That is their spetial work. If, on the other hand, the -kidneys are deranged, there is sure to be urio acid in the blood and rheumatic pains through the body. No amount of liniment will ever eine rheumatism, It sometimes relieves, but cure can only be brought about by setting the kidneys right. The most effective kid - nay remedy known to man is Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. They cure rheumat stn permanently by making the kidneys active a their work of removing the aria Id rein the blood. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills positively cure backache, lumbago, rheumatism nd all disorders of the kidneys and liver. cne pill a dose. 25e. a boss, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates is Co., Toronto. 14 heuma4m Uric Acid in the blood. Unhealthy kidneys are the cause of the acid being there. If the lcidneys acted as they should they would strain the Uric Acid out of the system and rheuma- tism wouldn't occur. Rheu- matism is a Kidney Dis- ease. Dodd's Kidney Pills have made a great part -of theirreputation curing Rheumatism. 9n get at the c.fzuse of those fearful shootingpains and stiff, achingjoints. There is but one sure way- -Dodd's idney ills' 1 • 111110:111:11CMNIMIN fault with the fastening of her bracelet, so earnestly did she keep her eyes on it. "1 have 'seen a good deel of him, but not so much as I would like," Katie answered innocently. "He is so busy always. I never knew any one'to go to so many meet- ings, and. have so many engagements in one day." 'Except a woman of fashion, laughed Enid. "He does work hard, and he is a very good man, is he not?" "Angus 1 the very best. Have you never heard him preach ? " "Sometimes I go, but I do not know that it always does me -good. It makes me feel certain parts of my own -life impossible, and I can't get away from it; then chaos en- sues." "Von rhould ask Angus to advise you if you are in any difficulty, eta(' Katie in- nocently, as before. -- " Why didn't you ask ' him yourself, then ? asked Enid bluntly. "About Neil, do you mean ?'" Katie reddened as she spoke. "1 think he is a little hard on him ; that is why. " " Men are often hard on one another, though our sex gets the credit of thet fault," said Enid. "But 1 have hot thought Mr. Fraser hard on his friend when he has spoken to me about him. Goeclebye then, dear. Promise you will give him another ehance. " 'If he wishes it, I will for your sake," said Katie, and when the door closed the sunehine seemed to have gone with Enid. That young woman slipped very quietly out of the house, so quietly that Mrs. Mal- colm did not hear her, and bade the wait- • ing hansom driver take her to :Bruton street. She had taken some trouble- to do a kind act; too late, however, to be of any •immediate use, CHAPTER XVII. THE WOUND OF a FRIEND. When he got to the inbankme4, Neil Macleod took a cigar f om his case and smoked it furiously. Ble was very much put out and wanted something to eoothe him. He had got himself into a tigh place, and did not know how he was to get out again. He was very angty with Katie for her persistence. He had told her the Quill Pen Club was not a place where he cared to introduce her, though he could not have • made any reasonable objection, and he felt chargrined that she had found him out. His love for Katie had cooled in six months; but no man cares to look cheap in the eyee of a woman who has been accustomed to look up to hire. He had. been posing as a busy man full, of engagements, moving in a sphere from which Katie was necessarily shut out, and he knew that she saw through it all and clesPised him for it. How was he to reinstate himself, or did he wish to be reinstated? These were the questions he put to himself as he paced slowly albng the river wall In the direction of West- minster. It was one of those tender and lovely evenings we have -in London at the latter end of April and the beginning of May. The waning aun, gleaming through a delicate lute°, cast a subtle light upon the brimming river, and beautified even the ugly objects which line the banks. Its ef- fect on thinge harmonious, as the stately pile of the Parliament houses was magnifi- cent and indescribable. For Neil the river possessed a subtle and ever-increasing 'fasci- nation. He was one who saw beauty and fitness where others beheld only chaos; to stand upon one of the bridges that spanned that wonderful highway to the sea was to fill him with a thousand unutterable thoughts ; to stir in him the highest aspir- ations, which, had he only allowed himself a little leisure, might have found adequate and commanding eXpression. But he had allowed himself to drift upon the rest- less sea of an emptier and a baser life, and fine thought which brought him nearer to God and humanity had of late visited him but seldom. It is with many of us as with the stiff-neoked generation of the earlier time ; we shut our ears to the knocking of the Master at the door, until the Holy feet grow weary of the threshold; and, lo, ' we awaken one day to a terable sense of the desolation we have brought upon ourselves. Bat the hour and its influences had still power to move him, and Lome order came out of the chaos of his thoughts. He felt more kindly towards Katie, and by-and- by a vague pity for himself and for her swept over his soul. They had been happy °nee with a happiness no longer possible, at least to him. The new and gentler mood won him to a sudden resolve; he would go Oh to Porchester Terrace at once and try to make up some arrears of his long neglect; and he was anxious to know what she would say; how she would receive him after the experience of the afternoon. He was oroseing towards the abbey, fully determined to hail the first empty hansom when'he saw just within the gates of Palace Yard his friend Merrick in doe° converse - tion with a tall mah of decidedly military bearing, an aristocrat evidently ; and though Neil did not know him, he fancied something oddly familiar in his seriking face. No dpubt he Was one of the distin- guished members of the Upper or Lower House, with whose face he had become familiar through the public prints. He was about to pass on With a nod to Merrick when he was b okoned by a wave of the hand, a enmmos he bbeyed, nothing loth. "Lord -Kik& ed to you, Neil matter-of-fact Neil Macleod." rook wishes to be introduc- " said Merrick, in quite a voice. "My friend, Mr. 'Neil Htartedl and looked momentarily confused, thou h he could not have told why. It was n novelty to him now to be introdnced to diistinguished persons, and he had quite lost he diffident manner he had brought with him from the Glen. But for some unexplained reson he felt decidedly uncomfortable, and could think of nothing to say after the conventional expression of his pleasure at the meeting. Lord Kilrav- ode did not help him much. His keen, flashing eyes dwelb searchingly on Neil's face for a apace before he spoke at all. "1 have wished to know you for some time, Mr. Macleod, and I am obliged to Mr. Merrick for this opportunity. Will you do me a favor ?". "Certainly, Lord Kilrayock, if it is in my power," said Neil, readily. "Call at my house to -morrow morning at twelve o'clock." Neil looked profoun4ily surprised. '1 shall be please of course," he ans- wered, politely, " bu "To -morrow, at t , elve, then—one hun- dred and thirteen Cadogan Place," said Lord Kilravock, gravely. "Good, evening, Mr, Merrick; I am going into the House now to hear a young protege of mine, the member for the Belton Burghsonake his maiden speech." He lifted his hat and lefb them. Neil turned to Merrick with a low evhistle of surprise. What do you suppoee he wants, Mer- rick, eh ?" , "I'm sure I couldife say. He is inter- ested in you beyond a doubt," said.Merrick, but without enthusiatim, "I ought to go in, too, but I'm sick of the whole concero. I have to dine at the Bath to -night with the Lockharts and Sir Douglas Greeh, Ho* many deep. aro you ?" There was good-humored scorn in the question, but Neil did not meet it with hie usual banter. "I've nothing on it at all. I'm going out to Bayswater presently, but Ill walk a bit with you if you're going home now. I feel oddly depressed, Merrick, as if there was a catastrophe hanging over me." " You deserve to be depressed," observed Merrick, drily. "I've been waiting for some time for some much ho eful sign." "Why, are you going t preach to me now, Merrick? I thought II was ,safe with you, anyhow. One would think I was a scoundrel the way Fraser tind yen andoth- 1 ers go on." "Well, I thought you behaved like a bounder this afternoon at the Qaill ,Pens', Neil," said Merrick, bluntly, "'Upon my word, when I saw her face I felt sick and ashamed of myself and of you." " Whose face ?" asked Neil, Init his own flushed guiltily.' "Oh, you know. Are you going to marry the girl, Macleod, or are you not? she's one of those sweet, womisnly creatures that a breath of suffering crus es. What they are born for, God only kn ws, unless to heap up sorrow, for themselves and blame for the men they ;give their hearts to. 1 can't get her out cif my head." Now, this was to Macleod an attaek from a totally unexpected quarter, and for a moment it struck hit dumb. Merrick seldom spoke of women but with a jest or scathing criticism; this earneat, even indig- nant tone betrayed c�nitierab1e warmth of feeling. Yet he had s thought a hundred time any closer acquaintance and Katie Forbes, cer could have , little but simple -hearted woman fr "I've told you befor again, Macleod, in 'wor (wetly shrunk in from permitting between Merrick ain that Merrick contempt for the m Kilravoch Glen. but I'll tell you as strong as I know how to make them. Yon are making a blundering idiot of yourself. You have become the talk of the town for a woman who is not worth a hair of Katie Forbes' head. As I said to her this? afternoon, I would to God I had left you in your High- land glen." "Did you say that to Katie ?" asked Neil, feeling as if the heavens were about to al eouo.ld: ? tm don't need me to tell you that and it is the truth. When are going to to drop this infernal folly, Mac - it is ruining you. You've never written a line fit for publication eine° you came to London—nothing but drive % and worse. She's laughing at you, and she's tired of you long ago. Don't you for a rnoineat imagine that her ladyship ever gave a serious thought to you." . The scathing emphasie on the last word roused Macleod's hot Highland temper, and involuntarily he clenched his fist. "You're jealous, Merrick nothing but jealousy would make youlsay such things," he said sullenly, and the smile with which Merrick listened was more maddening than his words. "I'm not going to quarrel with you, Mac- leod," he said quietly, "80 we'd better part here and not meet again uuii1 we feel more cordial towards each ether I repeat, I regret the part I have played; I blame myself for it more than I can say, but I thought you were made of better stuff." With these words, the sting of svhieh long remained in Macleod's mind, Merrihk jump- ed into a passing hansom and droves off with- out a farewell of any kind. Macleod stood on the kerb staring stupid- ly after the retreating vehicle. Merrick had meant well, but unfortuna ely his home -thrusts had touched a very tender place, and took exactly the opposite ffect to that intended. Macleod's better meod had passed. He was in a blazing rage, and he knew that to go out to Porchester Terrace in such a mood would mean nothing but in immediate ruptu:e between Katie and him- self. That he did not immediately desire. After a moment's thought he entered a stationer's shop, wrote a note, which he des- patched by special messenger to Porcheater Terrace, then, out of tune with the whole world, he drifted into the Wanderers' Club, where he dined moodily -at a table alone. In the smoking -room he met an acquaintance,. w o suggested that they should turn into- a m sic -hall for an hour, While he listened wi h moody contempt to the feeble drivel in hich a section of the British public finds its -recreation, Katie Forbes was busily en - gaited packing her truhle for Scotland, in which occupation she was heartily aided anA, abated by Mrs, Malcolm. (To be co ntinued.) Curing. a Cold. To get rid of a cold, send to the druggist for a mixture containing sulphate of- atropia and two hundred and fortieth of a grain; bi-sulphate of quinine two grains, and Fow- ler' e solution, five drops, to each, dose. Take a dose ones in two hours for three or four times, or until the throat beginsto feel slightly dry. If this does not entirely re- lieve the symptoms, repeat the treetment the next day. Copy this prescriptiod ' ear°. fully, and use it with care, as some, of the ingredients are poisonous. There is no dan- ger in using it if the directions are fellowed exactly. Before goiug to bed take a warm bath. The next morning sponge th body rapidly with tepid water, rubbing i bard until the blood circulates quickly ad the skin is in a glow. Take more exeroi e than usual, and do not sit in a, hot' room with the windows shut. Mix a teaspoonful of cream of tartar in a tutnblerful of water and drink it during the day. If there is constipation take a gentle laxative, as a rhubarb pill. it is very important that all the avenues of the body for carrying 'off waste matter should be wide open. • • Rice -Throwing. Rice -throwing at weddings—at least at those perfornied iti churches—probably soon will be a phing of the past. A clergy- man in Springfield, Massachusetts, recently raised hie first objection when a number of the friends of the bride and bridegroom scandalized him by throwing rice in the "sacred edifice." He threatens to stop the custom, even though it should be neeessary to invoke the law to do so. Other cle gyman heartily commend the stand he bas taken. "The throwing of rice at wed ings," they say, ." is a heathen custom pro ably having its origin in India, for among t e Hindoos the throwing of rice 10 expressive of the hope that the bride will in time be a happy mother of children. During the marriage ceremony the bride- groom throws three handfuls of rice over the bride and the bride does the !tame over the bridegroom. A preliminary rite is tb place an earthen vessel filled with water on a heap of rice. The Brahmins then repeat over the vessels several invocatione, calling on Taruna, the god of the waters, to scantily 40:031111, s some are To=day. • Pinpi your feet in wrong shaped shoes; make you ne ons, irritable; spoil your temper; lose your coii1entratiou. Yott can't expect to go the even tenor of your wayint shoe that cripples. "Slater Shoes" are made to fit feet—to cover every tender joint comfortably—make you forget you have a painy foot. Tli1 t the first time they're worn, and ever after, because the stretch and shrink has been for ever taken out of them while six days on the lasts. Twelve shapes, all sizes, six widths, all colors, styles and. leathers. Goodyear welted, stamped on tile soles with I name and price, $3.50 and $5,00. 4011101110KSINSBIJ R. WILLIS, SOLE LOCAL AGENT FOR SEAFORTII, the contents, which are then poured over the head of the bridegroom. In the next stage of the ceremony three female relatives wash the feet of the young couple three times over in milk, whit they are seatec within the pandal in a owing, ' They are , th en swung, while the women chant the Praises of Krishna, the lover of shepherde see. Balls of sadron, mixed with. rice, are thrown toward the four points of the compass. This is an offering to. the gods and the manes, all of whom are sup; posed to be present as invited guests. Saff- ron among the Hindoos is regarded as ans.. piciour, and is as indespensable on wedding occasions as are the orange blossoms among Europeans. As the father gives the bride away he presents to the bridegroom grains of rice tinged with red, along with betel leaves. At the end of tbe ceremony grains of parched rice are eaten. Somewhat as Europeans send out wedding cakes and cards to !friends on hymeneal oceanious, the Hindoos distribute betel leaves, with the nut of the Areca palm and grains of rice, colored red. Ever Renewing. We are continually renewing and assort- ing our stook of Perfumes, Atomizers, Tooth Waidiee' and Powdere, Brushes Combs Hand Mirrors, Manicure and Toilet Articles generally ; all up-to-date goods at lowest possible prices. No need to say much about our continued success in our dispensing department. We are accurate in our work, which always in- sures safety to our patrons and the ublic. II Our sales of Paine' s Celery Compoil d are increasing iteadily. It is the popular medi- cine; we strongly recommend it. Our best efforts are always put firth to , make our establishment the ' popule drug store." Lumeden & Wilson, Dr ggists, Seaforth, Ontario. • il In Memorium. 1 Lines written in memory of Jane 3rown, , belovedwife of Mr. Wm. Chapm, n, sr., who died on December 28th, 189 1 aged 63 years, 10 months and 16 day. , Gone, and the world goes on as before Suddenly called from tbe old homestead' door, Dear faithful wife, to come back no more, i Oh, sad is our home. . 1 . i Gone, and the seasons will, come and will go Wreathing her grave in bloseoms and snow-, Snow on the bosom that sheltered . us all, That bosom of love. 11 Home's not like home, for mother's not the Dark is her room, and empty her chair, , Angels iave borne her away from ail care, I To her Saviour above. Even this sunlight misses her face, . The wind singe a dirg around the old place, • ' E'en melte things het sayings and doings_retrace, Oh, how lonely it seems. • - 1 Thuny ftimes, was tho way that she trod, Yet wit the sandals of faith brightly shod, Climbe she the steps to the portals of God-, Trusting in Jesue. Oft he ear eyes grew dim from sad [tears, , Gui In our untried feet through the years,. Pia nin 03f future with hopes and with fake, Soothing our sorrows and tears. Wil she, forget those whom sbo careseed, We t o er, laughed over, hushed on her breast, Wltb hr dear lullabies into evieet rest, I hildhood's innocent rest. No, we believe ihe stiii faithful will be, - Fondly Will guard those that prayed at her &nee, That her spirit will look bapk o'er death' e -dark sea, 1With her husband and darlings to 115, I • . And when we have done with earth and its lore, Mother, ',dear mother, will welcome ;us ther, To the Home of the blest. • 4 Sleep, partneasleop, with your hands on your breast, Poor weiry hands that needed to.:rest ; Well we.have loved you, but God loved youibeet, willed it, and has given yon rest. A riMEND. A. Boer Girl's Wedding. " A *vedding is always an event .1 almost nation4 imPortance and is really ia most • pictureeque ceremony," writes the eutho of " Oone Paul's People' " of " The Boer Girl of SouthAfrioa,'' in • the' Jannary Ladies' Home •ilournal, "The friends and relatives may, arrive a day or two ithead of time, accodin to the distaned to be traveled, and the Boe home- stead becomes an animated ecene„ Scores of ox -teams are scattered about the sur- rounding plain ; negro servants are bistling aronnd ; guns are fired promiscuously Wben- ever more guests arrive; dancing, feasting and coffee -drinking are carried on' in the cottage and everywhere around ; im- promptu siteaotang-matches and horse -rat -ea ere decidedT and joy is unconfined. After the ceremony, and after all the guests have kissed the bride and bridegroom, the wed- ding feast is eaten, and then the guests spend the night in dancing and playing games. It would be a breach of etiquette for any of the guests to depart before the dawn, and, indeed, the fiddler's rnusic and the sound made by the dancing feet are often heard until noon of the following day.. The wedding tour consists of a journey to the cottage and farin which the husband. has secured from his father and which ad- joins the old homestead." LIVER TROUBLES, biliousness sallow eomplex ion, yellow eyes, jaundice, etc., y eld to the cura- tive powers of LAXA-LIVER PILLS. They are sure to cure. A Taltikof Three Maids. Lady, making inquiries as to maid's char. acter—" Did you find her honest? Former Misstress—" Honest! She never took even an order from me 1" "Did you water the ferns in the drawing - room, Bridget ?" "Yes, Mum. Don't ye hear the water drippin on the oarpet e" Misstress—" Did you polish the mirrors in the parlor, as I told you before I went out, Norah ?" Norah—in a disheartened voice,---" Sure, Ma'am, I've tried them with the boot brushes rubbed them wid the stove brushes; gone over;em wid the furniture polish, and niver a bit of shine tan I git on 'em 1 faith I think if you'd let me do them my own ouldfashioned way—just washite 'em, and wipin"m dry wid a rag, they'd he a sight cleaner !" WORMS cannot exist either In children or adults when DR._ LOW'S WORM SYRUP is used. 25c. Ali dealers. Good Breeding Within the Reach of All Good'breeding, like the laws of gravita- tion, should be left to take -care of itself. The moment a man tries conclusions with the laws of gravitation he meets with grief. If he gets a trifle out of the perpendicular down he tomes with a smack at the end of the fall certainly' calculated to astonish. weak nerves. If a man or woman has got what is called good breeding, he or she has it. So much is certain. But what is good breeding' 1t is - not the superficial politeness found in so- ciety. So much is also certain. ..—Real good breeding is simply a. general walk in life which always avoids giving un- necessary pain, which sinks self, and which is uniformly kind to all people. A factory - girl, in this sense, may be, and often is, as well bred as the princess. The very height of good bree mg is to. be able to behave one's selfepro erly, and there are millions of hard-workm matrons and maidens everywhere who can 410 that- - The flowers and the fun, the f °lies and the fairy-like abundances of njoyment which wealth can purchase are often, it may seem, unequally divided. But good, breeding, the art of always being frank and yet dignified, of patient self-control, of thought for others, of kindness to all, ts 1141 general as the gift of a heart. A duchess, in the best sense of the term, is no more well bred than a milkmaid, if tbe latter- has a gentle mind and disponi- tion. 1 FOR internal or ,external use HaGYARD'S YEL- LOW OIL cannot be excelled as & pain relieving and soothing remedy for all nein. Do Everything Well. If you have something to attend to, go about it coolly and thoughtfully, and do it just as well as you can, Do it as though it were the only thing you ever had to do in your life, and as if everything depended (si- ft. Then your work will be well done, and it will afford yon genuine satisfaction. Often much more depends upon the manner in which things seemingly trivial are performed' than one would suppose, or that it is pos- sible to foresee. Do everything well. Make that the rule of your life and lives up to it, and you will find it most eonducive to your - own happiness,_and to the happiness of those with whom you are brought into con- tact or communication. —Mrs. De Bathe (Lily Langtry) was among the passengers who arrived le.st week in New York aboard the steamer Lucania, from Liverpool. Healthy, Happy Girls. Healthy,happy girls often linguid and deipondent, from no apparent cause, in the early days of their womanhood. They drag along, always tired, never hungry, breathress and. with palpitating hearts after slight exercise, so that to merely walk up- stairs is exhausting. Sometimes a short, dry cough leads to the fear that they are going into consumption. Doctors tell them. they are anaemic --which means that they have tog little blood. Are you like that? • More pale and anaemjo people have been made bright, active and strong by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills than any other medicine. Mr6. M. N. 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