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The Huron News-Record, 1891-06-24, Page 2R The llonl sear k:RKl:a Ytter-ail,kfi 1ta Advance. Wednel•*1ay, • Juune 2, 4th,° 091, WON :BY A PWT. a4IiY 11111`11M, 11i,AtRBIED 'itkl ALAN• QUQ$ N Bll L FIR FATiI>fii. "Ib is sq pet:ftctty -unreasonable of yen papa,,"pouted Minnie MoAlstor, only • find fretted daughter of Lawyer MoAlster, and pretty and willful as a pet kitten ; "eo perfeet- I,y unrea.eonable, and it is ee impu- dent of that fellow to write and ask you for my hand before I have set eyes on hila." "But you have set, your eyes on him many a time," interrupted her father. "Oh, yes," with a toss of the dainty head, "when he was in his first jacket, and i in pinafores. I know all about that. Because we were two pretty children, and pleasant playmates, our stupid 'fathers said 'Let us pledge our children to each other.' And now, after tiwelvo years, when L am seventeen and he twenty-oue,' the impudent creature coolly desires me to be true to that nonsensical trash, and writes to ask a renewal of your consent." "Which he certainly has." "But which it will do him no good to obtain," continued Minnie; "for -I say positively I will not see rim, nor speak to him, nor glance at. him if he comes here. If you write and tell him to Dome, I will run away to Rockwood, anyhow, and take vocal lessons. I know I have musical ;genius, if it were properly cultivated; and there is a splendid professor at Rockwod who has a large class in training. I want to join it, and I shall go away next week if you consent; but if you let that horrid, impudent, insolent Walter Graham come here to look after my fortune (for that is what he wants), I shall go with- out your consent." ',My dear," said Lawyer Mc- Alster, coolly, viewing his irate daughter with twinkling eyes, "let me correct one error you have fallen into. Walter Graham ie worth three times what I am at this moment. His father's whole property is in his hands, and he is wealthy. So I hardly think he is looking with covetous eyes on your few thousands. No ; he remem- bers you as a most sweet child, and, being of a somewhat romantic turn of mind, he thinks it would be pleasant to follow out the wishes of his father and yours and renew the pledge made by them. However, if he could see you at this moment he would think you anything but a sweet girl." "Then I wish you would call in an artist and have my picture taken on the spot to send him." "But I would rather not, for remember I desire you to see and at least treat this young man as the poet says we treat Vice, the monster—first endure, then pity, then embrace." "Oh, yes," pouted Minnie, "you lawyers think there is nothing in life but bargain and sale. You would have -me coolly pledge my- self to this fellow because you think he would be a good match, and you would rnake a regular dry law affair of it, without any love or wooing in it." "You are in error again," inter- rupted her father. "I would make a law affair of it by having you permit this 'fellow,as you call him, to go to court and allow him to make his plea. I don't ask you to promise your hand to him till he has done this—but you refuse even to see him." "Yes, I do refuse to see him, and there is an end of it. I am not going to be won in this matter-of- fact way. I am going to fall in love without meaning to, and be fallen in love with in some unex• pect3d, romantic way and have it all like a story -book.' Mr. McAleter smiled. "You will doubtless fall in love with that professor over at Rock- wood," he said. "Ab, no—he Weld and gray. I shall meet my fate in some un- looked•for manner, when I 'least expect to, I suppose. But will you let me go to Rockwood V' "I will think about it. I would rather you should take lessons here, I suppose you will be just as well pleased, will you not 4" "Yes—if you keep Walter Gra- ham away." .At the end of a week Mr. McAlster informed Minnie that ho had secured her an instructor for her voice. "I wrote to a friend," be said, "a musical gentleman of my acquain- tance, and he bas secured an excel- lent teacher, who will be her) some time next week. IIs will make his home with us and will devote his whole time to you. I will pay him well for it, and you will progress much faster than •you • would at Rockwood. I waist you to study hard and apply yourself mistiletly,= ttn-eyou e-ntlaice•=dTrshall,_ pester you no moro about Walter 0 Orabapl, for I have written to bila how you feel upon the subject,, and now that Prof. 13angenawell is coat lea: you, need worry no more about that ffellow's annoying you.'" `r'Prof, Bangotawel.l1" repeated Zinnie. "What a Aatee 1' kn2w he is old, and tall, ,and thin, and. wears green spetltaoles, and w.ill, be as cross ee a bear, but I don't care so long as I can wake lessons Lu sing ing, if he is an of;re.n' Prof: Bangemwell -looked any thing but an ogre as he stood in the parlor an hour after his arrival, and was presented to Miss Minnie, his pupil, who had just come in from a walk. He was tall, as she had said, but not old, being certainly not over twentyfive, and not thin, for he had the splendid figure of an Adonis, and his dark, magnetic eyes were not covered by green goggles, and the sweet smile that parted the handsome lips under the long blaok moustache proclaimed him anything but "cross." "Why, Prof. Bangemwell is per- fectly splendid, papa," Minnie cried, after an hour's conversation with the professor, finding herself alone with her father. "He is just as handsome as he can -be ; and o'h 1 what eyes And he is eo agreeable ! I know we shall get on splendidly." "There, there, that will do," said her father„ frowning. "I would advise you not to rhapsodize over a common professor of music. He wasn't brought here to play the agreeable, but to teach you music." Minnie pouted, and thought her father "awfully cross," and went back to the professor. He wanted to hear her voice, and so she sat down at the piano, and he stood veryjear and gave her suggestions about her position and told her how to draw in her breath and how to economize it ; and then, when bhe sang a passage, he told her where she failed, and sang it for her, that she might understand it better. His voice was a splendid, oaring tenor, and it just lifted Minnie up to the "seventh heaven" to hear him sing. They were full two hours at their first lesson, and then Minnie played and sang some simple airs, and the professor join- ed in the chorus. So they whiled away another hour; and then Minnie went to her flowers, and the professor soon joined her in the garden, and proved himself as learned in botany as music. "A magnificent man," Minnie said that night in her room. "I have heard and read of such men, but never saw one before ;" and all that night long she dreamed of handsome, dark eyed Prof. Bangem- well. That 'was only the beginning. Pros. Bangemwell not only taught Minnie music and botany, but love. It was useless for her to try and conceal it. Her father frowned, her mother chided, and Minnie told them both "how foolish it was to accuse her of such nonsense," but at length she did not try to conceal her passion for the hand- some professor. "Yes, I do love him," she cried one day when they were warning her not to allow herself to fall in love with a poor music -teacher. "I do love him, and he loves me, and I am not ashamed to confess it. I would rather die than give him np, too, if he is a poor music -teacher." Her father groaned. "Wild, insane child," he said. "•,I will go and discharge the fortune-hunter immediately," and away he went in a rage, leaving Minnie in tears. Half an hour later Prof. Bangem- well, dejected and sad, came to Minnie. "Darling," he said, "I have been turned adrift by your•stern father. I must leave the house to night and forever. Can you give me up or will you go with me? I am a poor man, but I will work for you, slave for you, if you will be mine." She clung to him weeping. "I will go," she Paid, "to the uttermost parts of the earth with you." "And you will leave all—father mother, home, luxury V' "Yes, gladly, if by so doing I can be yours forever." He drew her closely to his breast and kissed her tenderly. "Then, little one, if you love me so truly, you can forgive me for a little deception, I am sure, I have been playing a part, Minnie." '.Then, who—what-•- "she began. "I don't understand." "Then I must explain. I am Walter Graham." She sprang from his arms in wonder and amazement. "Walter Graham !" she repeat- ed. •'Yes, Walter Graham. Your father wrote to me how utterly you scorned my suit. I had not and could not forget my childish fancy for you. Through all the years I have been in foreign lands I have remembered you and hoped you would not forget the pledge made by our fathers, But I found you had forgotten and refused to see me. Then your father wrote, ask- ing. me ,i£ le could sk•ing.me.i£lecould uot,play-the• part- of a musio•toacher for a time and i stating the cane as it stood, Vertu, xaately .; had a'eopived a thorough ins ical education: in. •Gni wany, which enabled nie. to play my Cart well.. I did not need to disguiset ata: there was rig danger of your' tecogniziug ate, and your father and Mother' were In the. secret, Z ewe, saw and conquered. WOO you forgive Ma_?" Slue crept'izto his arm% "f'VWhy, I suppose ;shall have to," she said; "for I love you so, I could not be angry with you." Just then her father came in. ho 1" he cried, "you have. eoncluded'i to acceptthat horrid,. impudent fellow after all, Minnie? Well, well, I aro glad that things haye ended so happily. Take her, Prof. Bangemwell, and if you find her half as good a wife as she bas been a daughter, in spite of her caprices, you will never' repent having taught music, I know. A GRITTY SCHOOLDN•Ar'AM SHE WANTED THAT BOY AND SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE HIM AT ANY OOST. I was driving along a highway with a man who was selling farming machines to farmers, writes a corres- pondent, and about two o'plock in the afternoon we came along to a district schoolhouse. The school ma'am and about twenty scholars stood under en elm tree, about for- ty feet high, near the house, and in the topmost branches of the tree was a boy about fourteen years old. "Anything wrong here ?" asked my friend es we halted before the door. Budd Hawkins says he won't and the teacher says he must 1" cried a little girl. The teacher then Dame forward. She was a plain -looking girl of about twenty, with a mouth showing great firmness, and with some embarrassment she explain- ed ; "He's the terror of the school. He refused to mind, and I started to whip him. He broke away and run out and climbed the tree. I've been up about twenty feet, but had to give it up and come down." "Yer can't conquer me 1" shouted the boy. "Budd, I order you to come down." '•I won't • "I have sent for an ax and here it comes," she said as she turned to US. "He'll come down with the tree, if not before." We offered to use the ax, but she declinedthe offer with thanks, and, stepping to the tree, she swung the implement around and buried the blade in the wood. "You dasn't 1" shouted Budd from the top. "I'll do it or resign," she an- swered, as she struck several blows. At the end of three minutes the tree began to totter and Bubb to yell in alarm, and a few seconds later it fell with a crash. I thought the boy was badly hurt, if not kill- ed, and was relieved as the school - ma'am sprang fcrward and yanked him out of the branches, and while applying the gad with one hand she pulled him into the schoolhouse with the other saying : "Now Budd Hawkins`; you've got to do some of the awfullest begging ever heard of in the state of Ohio,or I won't leave enough hide on you for a flea to bite." He was hard at it when we drove on. NORWEGIAN ENGAGE• MENTS. THE MEN INSTEAD OF THE WOMEN WEAR THE RING. "Leap -year reigns forever in this heathen land 1" exclaimed an Eng- lish tourist, stopping in a Norweg- ian village. One evening he had been taking a lesson in Norsk from a young lady, a good natured Nor wegian being present, who had just walked sixteen miles across the mountains. When the lady rose to go to her lodgings in an adjoining house, says the Youth's Companion, the Englishman offered to escot her through the darkness. She declined the offer, and in so abrupt a manner as to surprise him. When she had gone the English• man asked the Norwegian if he spoke English. "Not much—only a few words," he answered. "Tell me what means that ring the lady wears." "She is going to be—how you call it?" ask• ed the Norwegian, in scarlet perplex. ity. "Going to bo married V' "Yis, yrs I" "But," continued the Englishman, "what I am ignorant of is the dif- ference in your rings between mar- ried, unmarried, going to be mar ried and never going to be mar- ried." "Oh, you will never tell that," said the Norwegian, laughing loud- -1y.. "'Wo nalatlat fft'krt`h " tt✓o'fri'1W in this country as you do, but Il they mark the men. Amongst us it is the man who the ring." "Oh, I see ! That is new light 1" said the Englishman, taking the inan's large left hand, on whose fourth finger was a plain gold ring. "That is your wedding ring, then V' "Nai, nai 1" he replied, laughing and blushing. "That means I have got to be married 1" "And then what becomes of it l" "We put it on the right hand in stead of the left," said the Norwe- gian, holding out his hand to bid the English roan "Godt nat." Then, as he was closing the door behind him he said in confidential tones : "Yis, that young lady who was talking,to you is going to marry me next month 1" wears P.F.V. MR. HUNTER ON SIR JOHN. THE STORY OF THE GREAT STATES- MAN'S CONVERSION. AS TOLD BY EVANGELIST HUNTER -THE REVIVAL MEETINGS AT OTTAWA—SIR JOHN AND LADY MACDONALD CON- STANTATTENDANTS—THE EVANGE LIST'S TALK WITH TIIE PREMIER. St. Thomas Daily Times. To the Times Rev. J. E. Hunter has furnished, in an interview, some pleasing reminiscences of the deep interest manifested by Sir John and Lady Macdonald in the meetings held by himself and Mr., Crossley in the Dominion square Methodist church, Ottawa, a little over three years ago, and which continued for about seven weeks. Sir John and Lady Macdonald were present at the evening meeting on the first Sunday, and on that occasion stayed for the after meeting and remained to its close. From that time their interest deepened and they attended frequently, Sir John being present on his seventy-third birthday. Parliament was in session at the time, and S•r John would hasten home and get his dinner, and tele- phone the usher of the church to reserve seats for him ar-d Lady Macdonald and some friends who generally accompanied him. These friends included members of the cabinet, members of parliament, lieutenant governors and other distinguished visitors to Earnscliffe. The late premier's son, Hugh Mao- ri/meld _ wen ietshone -. t. 4 hieee somewhat nervous about it, I had interviews with Sir John on the question of his personal salvation, one in the church and the other at his home. During these interviews I said : 'I are glad to see you have taken the htand you did ; you never did a more manly thing in your life.' " Sir John said he Iiad never had any doubt RH to the reality of these things, he had never been sceptical, though he had been sinful. He had never, ho said, forgotten the home training'and the godly influence of his parents. In his early days he had associated much with the Ryersons, and had often heard them preach at camp meetinga, and their sermons made a deep impres- sion on his mind, which he had never forgotten. Said Mr. Hunter, "I would like to know before leaving you, Sir John, if you have accepted Christ as your personal Savior 1" Sir John said, with tears in his eyes,"I have, Mr. Hunter." Mr. Hunter asked if he had any objection to state this at the closing meeting. Said Sir John, "I have no objec- tion, but you know there are some who will say if I do it, that it is from sinister motives, but I will think over it." "Thank God," bald Mr. Hunter. ".flay the Lord bless you You have helped us very much in our meetings in Ottawa. Doubtless for it you will have many stars in your crown of rejoicing." "The following Tueeday night," continued Mr. Hunter, "was to have been the closing emoting, but when the night arrived, we found the meetings had taken such a turn that it seemed impossible to bring them to an end Rev. Mr Carson, the pastor of the church, announced that he;had something important to say, and then moved that the evangelists be invited to stay an- other weak. In a moment Sir John was on his feet and seconded the motion, remarking that we ought to remain another week, at least, and the motion was carried by a unanimous standing vote, and we remained. Sir. John's interests continued to deepen till the close, and he was at the farewell meeting, as was also Lady Macdonald. When he came to bid us good-bye there were tears in his eyes and ours, and we felt very much drawn o him and that he felt a fatherly nterest in us. The last thing he did 'as to turn as he was going down he stairs from the vestry and kiss iis hand to tie; • which he seemed to o as tenderly as a mother would brow a kiss to her child. This vas the last time I saw him, lthough we here had letters and elegrams from him, in which he ianifested the deepest interest in nr work, and I have no doubt I ball meet Sir John at the gates of eaven." c7 .4. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. ave you humors; causing blotches? Does your blood run thick and sluggish ? Are you drowsy, dull and languid? s a bad taste in your mouth, and e your tongue all furred and coated ? Is your sleep with bud dreams broken ? Do yon feel downhearted, dismal, Dreading something, what, you know not ? Then be very sure you're bilious— 'hat you have a torpid liver. and what you need is something to rouse t and make it active encugh to throw off be impurities that clog it ; something to nvigorate the debilitated system, and elp all the organs to perform the duties rtpected of them, promptly and energet• ally. That "something" is Dr. Pierce's olden Medical Disovosry, the great lood Purifier, whioh its proprietors ave sdoh faith in that they guarantee it o cure. lilt does not, your money will et refunded. But it will. Buy it, try, nd be couvinoed of its wonderful power. f the proof of the pudding is in the eat - g, the proof cf this remedy is in the eking. —H. P. Smith, proprietor of the lhippawa house, lett the hotel for lie purpose of enjoying a walls- and 411-trdad lie' pi veinerif fir ° he door of his house. 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This developing is what costs." The mining regions of Colorado - are populous with such mon as this The pluck and patient endurance which these men show are almost beyond belief. Many of them make colossal fortunes eventually, and. many, many do not. Ah, those many, many who de not ! What broken hearts and wrecked and ruined lives lie hidden there ! Surely that is a strange and grim fatality which takes the morning and mid-day of a man's life, and in the afternoon leaves only the ashes of "Inattained ambition. The rude cabins among the inhospitable mountain -peaks have their woful stories of disappointment and des- pair to those who can read their mute language. In them the hard -work• ed miner has had his dream of wealth and power and reunited love, while in hie Eastern home his mother and. friends wondered year by year why he did not send the money to pay off the mortgage on the farm, and why a coolness eeenred to come be- tween him and that neighbor's daughter whom he had hoped to deck with the gold of the Western mines. His Eastern friends can- not understand the hardships ands chances of a miner's life, and too oftoh they forget him as one who somewhat Lacks the ability to make his way in the world. Thus, unno• ticed by fortune and neglected by those friends who should cherish him moat, he wears out his life in a. mere hole in the ground ; yet through it all, and even unto bitter old age, he has his dream of friends and home and love. LITTLE BUT LIVELY. "Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make tno mighty ocean, And the pleasant land." 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Ii: is a initeeeloilg. rnedleine and hag pariorrncd rea01,4 p,.tcsttg+9 is ci which we, eau give.,yell, �Knowt14t4G4o¢ • ifiro.C.,Touxiox Melville . writes ;,,"A,I,baytlpeat ,Sealant' inXS'PPlmmR1Sling aeraDiscOY, Ihaveutwobot 'yourYE4mE4Yped' ;Mop, PA • it completely %µred me at a b?d %nee of .Dy0ep41a. I alea,.arae ite4 exueiient DIoQd.., l,Iedioine, .4151 pure Cure tor nidal y trQuble ,'r The Rest #I{edlellne,.-20. ila0 Dr„tc W140,f .0the Bankof ConifeerGerTORritQaW%Itepe"4HaY' ing,pnifere4 f'ov over, four years; lrou Dyspepsia: pad We* stomach, and hav1Aic tried piunernu .. remeQlee. thhutlittleef;ect,IwaantieatadvisQ togivelioaasora PreoesYiWfa7roikv Aagrexsiv / /' dpy AP i . - 1 i iitiOC. yes ... , . • It give* Rti`eiaath.—Ma, J. S. Nucor, of �fraaite Rill, wdteg : "' neve belle- Lt trent the use o; your; Vsorrasr a,Dxac%vzat. My appetite has returned, and I feel stronger"so • A Pleasure to u4,—Ms, L. H. 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Then, as he was closing the door behind him he said in confidential tones : "Yis, that young lady who was talking,to you is going to marry me next month 1" wears P.F.V. MR. HUNTER ON SIR JOHN. THE STORY OF THE GREAT STATES- MAN'S CONVERSION. AS TOLD BY EVANGELIST HUNTER -THE REVIVAL MEETINGS AT OTTAWA—SIR JOHN AND LADY MACDONALD CON- STANTATTENDANTS—THE EVANGE LIST'S TALK WITH TIIE PREMIER. St. Thomas Daily Times. To the Times Rev. J. E. Hunter has furnished, in an interview, some pleasing reminiscences of the deep interest manifested by Sir John and Lady Macdonald in the meetings held by himself and Mr., Crossley in the Dominion square Methodist church, Ottawa, a little over three years ago, and which continued for about seven weeks. Sir John and Lady Macdonald were present at the evening meeting on the first Sunday, and on that occasion stayed for the after meeting and remained to its close. From that time their interest deepened and they attended frequently, Sir John being present on his seventy-third birthday. Parliament was in session at the time, and S•r John would hasten home and get his dinner, and tele- phone the usher of the church to reserve seats for him ar-d Lady Macdonald and some friends who generally accompanied him. These friends included members of the cabinet, members of parliament, lieutenant governors and other distinguished visitors to Earnscliffe. The late premier's son, Hugh Mao- ri/meld _ wen ietshone -. t. 4 hieee somewhat nervous about it, I had interviews with Sir John on the question of his personal salvation, one in the church and the other at his home. During these interviews I said : 'I are glad to see you have taken the htand you did ; you never did a more manly thing in your life.' " Sir John said he Iiad never had any doubt RH to the reality of these things, he had never been sceptical, though he had been sinful. He had never, ho said, forgotten the home training'and the godly influence of his parents. In his early days he had associated much with the Ryersons, and had often heard them preach at camp meetinga, and their sermons made a deep impres- sion on his mind, which he had never forgotten. Said Mr. Hunter, "I would like to know before leaving you, Sir John, if you have accepted Christ as your personal Savior 1" Sir John said, with tears in his eyes,"I have, Mr. Hunter." Mr. Hunter asked if he had any objection to state this at the closing meeting. Said Sir John, "I have no objec- tion, but you know there are some who will say if I do it, that it is from sinister motives, but I will think over it." "Thank God," bald Mr. Hunter. ".flay the Lord bless you You have helped us very much in our meetings in Ottawa. Doubtless for it you will have many stars in your crown of rejoicing." "The following Tueeday night," continued Mr. Hunter, "was to have been the closing emoting, but when the night arrived, we found the meetings had taken such a turn that it seemed impossible to bring them to an end Rev. Mr Carson, the pastor of the church, announced that he;had something important to say, and then moved that the evangelists be invited to stay an- other weak. In a moment Sir John was on his feet and seconded the motion, remarking that we ought to remain another week, at least, and the motion was carried by a unanimous standing vote, and we remained. Sir. John's interests continued to deepen till the close, and he was at the farewell meeting, as was also Lady Macdonald. When he came to bid us good-bye there were tears in his eyes and ours, and we felt very much drawn o him and that he felt a fatherly nterest in us. The last thing he did 'as to turn as he was going down he stairs from the vestry and kiss iis hand to tie; • which he seemed to o as tenderly as a mother would brow a kiss to her child. This vas the last time I saw him, lthough we here had letters and elegrams from him, in which he ianifested the deepest interest in nr work, and I have no doubt I ball meet Sir John at the gates of eaven." c7 .4. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. ave you humors; causing blotches? Does your blood run thick and sluggish ? Are you drowsy, dull and languid? s a bad taste in your mouth, and e your tongue all furred and coated ? Is your sleep with bud dreams broken ? Do yon feel downhearted, dismal, Dreading something, what, you know not ? Then be very sure you're bilious— 'hat you have a torpid liver. and what you need is something to rouse t and make it active encugh to throw off be impurities that clog it ; something to nvigorate the debilitated system, and elp all the organs to perform the duties rtpected of them, promptly and energet• ally. That "something" is Dr. Pierce's olden Medical Disovosry, the great lood Purifier, whioh its proprietors ave sdoh faith in that they guarantee it o cure. lilt does not, your money will et refunded. But it will. Buy it, try, nd be couvinoed of its wonderful power. f the proof of the pudding is in the eat - g, the proof cf this remedy is in the eking. —H. P. Smith, proprietor of the lhippawa house, lett the hotel for lie purpose of enjoying a walls- and 411-trdad lie' pi veinerif fir ° he door of his house. CORNS CORNS CORNS Case's Corn Cure Removes all kinds of hard and soft annoyance s, Itetc., safe, reaiand effectual remedy and here Is no corn existing it will not cure, de- stroying everyroot and gbranch.. Refuse all sustitutes. Full regretted. tions with each bottle. Price 25c. PREPARED BY_ H. SPENCER CASE, Chemist and Druggist, 50 King Street West, Hamilton. Ont. Sold by J. H. COMBE. THE MINERS LIFE. ITS STRANGE r•ASCINATION. W. W. Howard, in Harper's Bazar. "Look here," said a in,tu whose, faith I sought to test;'"if I did not feel dead open and shut sure of making my fortune here, all in good time, do you suppose I would stay My mine is worth a good million just as it stands." "Why don't you sell and so put - an end to this pork-and.beaus and hot biscuit existence of yours," I sug- gested. "Because no oue would pay that price, in the first place, and be- cause, in the second place, I shall take more that a million out of it when I get it properly developed. This developing is what costs." The mining regions of Colorado - are populous with such mon as this The pluck and patient endurance which these men show are almost beyond belief. Many of them make colossal fortunes eventually, and. many, many do not. Ah, those many, many who de not ! What broken hearts and wrecked and ruined lives lie hidden there ! Surely that is a strange and grim fatality which takes the morning and mid-day of a man's life, and in the afternoon leaves only the ashes of "Inattained ambition. The rude cabins among the inhospitable mountain -peaks have their woful stories of disappointment and des- pair to those who can read their mute language. In them the hard -work• ed miner has had his dream of wealth and power and reunited love, while in hie Eastern home his mother and. friends wondered year by year why he did not send the money to pay off the mortgage on the farm, and why a coolness eeenred to come be- tween him and that neighbor's daughter whom he had hoped to deck with the gold of the Western mines. His Eastern friends can- not understand the hardships ands chances of a miner's life, and too oftoh they forget him as one who somewhat Lacks the ability to make his way in the world. Thus, unno• ticed by fortune and neglected by those friends who should cherish him moat, he wears out his life in a. mere hole in the ground ; yet through it all, and even unto bitter old age, he has his dream of friends and home and love. LITTLE BUT LIVELY. "Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make tno mighty ocean, And the pleasant land." And dropping into prose we would say, that Dr. Pieroe'e Pieasant Pellets are mild, but prompt in relieving constipa- tion, sigh headache, bilious attacks, pain in the region of kidneys, torpid liver, and in restoring a healthy, natural action to the sto,naeh and:bowels, 25 cents a vial. One Pellet a dose. Little, but lively. Thn use of the old style, drastic pills is an outrage on the human syetem. e• —Judge Miller, of Galt, died suddenly, Thuraday, of heart failure. He was in his 81st year. a!1�grk1Ii�lligan,.a.Port.Arthun R_ ., .re-. fiskherman, fishing at Port Caldwell, was accidentally drowned Friday. c