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Ii•viy, ti herefore One ;memorable night
' ' ' - ' in the nietnorable Year Of the 01'14104n
• .1.1....11.... war, found Philip esalting pale 11 Dr.
...., Matille's surgery, with a listless all' and
, .P,'r eseaerVISS,K, Oltelar. , dispirited face.
# Ile had been apprenticed for More
. eseseses.
tireit a year end a half, and Mt bine,
. 01-1A,PT,EF, III. pelf little wiser than he had. been at the
PUMP'S MOND TITBNING.
$o the child's will prevailed. Philip
knew nething' of the controversy be-
tween. the Medways and the MeadeS ae
to winch house be should 'belong, Sir
Arthur bad weekly consented to refer
the epestion to the boy, Wit/10a drea,m-
lug that is lad a that age would hesi-
tate for a moment in_ preferring such a
home as be had to offer to the gray so-
litude of Stillbrooke Mill.
"Very good, sir," waa Meade's last
words. "If you take§ the bwoy, I goes
'to law,"
Thie clinched the matter; the Med-
, • ways dreaded the publicity of a legal
process beyond everything. As Mat-
thew had represented, Philip was prac-
ically at Sir Arthur's gates, he could
watch him and make sure of his wel-
fare. His adopted father pledgedhim-
self to give him the best education, to
be had in Cleeve and start him after-
wards in a profession; when he failed
in (lose conditions. Sir Arthur could
step in. So the visit to Maxwell Court
soon faded toa dim golden memory ip
Philip's mind; he forgot Claude and
Hugh's dekription of their school and
sports,, and the glowing pictdre of the
Eton life now to be Claude's, and the
lad's congenial companionship. Every-
thing .connected with them elept out of
sight m his mind while the quiet years
slipped by like a peacefpl dream, and
Philip grew a tall, lanky lad, a sore
puzzle to the miller now that the time
was come for choosing a profession.
As petrel the wishes of the youth did
not chime with the counsels of riper
age. The navy alone had charms for
Philip; theahurch for his parents. A
vision of the boy's merry face rising
above a,black gown and white bands,
in the oaken pulpit of Cleeve Church,
haunted Mrs. Meade's mind with beati-
fic persistence, while Mr. Meade felt it
would be a grand thing to hear Philip
read the burial service over him and
perhaps preach his funeral sermon.
Philip's only alternative proposition
was the army.. The question was seri-
duals, debated at a Christmas gather-
ing at Stillbrooke Mill by a small lot of
siders grouped, churchwarden in hand,
round the fire in the common parlor
labile the young people played games
in the best parlor.
"You may depend %mon it, Meade,"
observed cousin Jahe, an uninvited
presence in the smoking parliament,
you'll hey to pay for brInging the boy
up above plain folk."
"I've paid already, ma'am. for this
year," replied Meade, "and got school-
anester's receipt upon the file."
Cousin Jane's husband's mouth went
upwards at this observation.
"You've a right to mock at your
wife's relations at your own fireside,
Mr Meade," she returned mournfully,
"but mocking woe% undo the wrong
you done my poor sister's child for the
sake of a foundling and a castaway. -
But it's none of my business. 'Y ou may
raake the boy prime minister to -mor-
row or all I should meddle. And let
Jessie go}.barefoot. Not that she'll ever
canto gssod, spoiled and muddled up
ate she is.
"Make eland agent of him, Meade,"
interposed Mr Plummer, Cousin Jane's
husbandawith some 'baste, "Sir Ar -
*hues agent's fine gentleman enough -
air anybody, so's his wife."
"A lawyer," observed Mr Cheeseman,
the corn -dealer' and town councillor,
a' is a gentleman by act of parliament.
I'll warrant law's a flne business. It
takes brains and it makes money."
"Lawyers," added Mr Spires, the
elockmaker, "have a finger in every-
body's pie. Mr Westley has the town
under his thumb."
"You may say what you like," added
Mr Plummer, whatever business a
lawyer's in, the money sticks to en. -
Whether it's drawing of a lease, or ran
-sing of a morgige ; the sovereigns
cleave to his fingers. Give a lawyer
inoney to lay out and you're a lucky
inan if you lives to see the half of it
agen. Whoever fails, a lawyer's never
broke. There's money in law, Meade."
"Aye, hut think of the rascality,
Plummer," sighed Mr Meade. ,
"To be sure," was the chorussed re-
ply, "whoever heard of a honest law-
yer r'
"Miller's haven't always been reck-
oned straight men," observed a hither-
to silent smoker, Mr Reade, grocera,nd
ehurch-warden. "What's that about
the miller's thumb, Meade, eh ?"
"Mr Reade must hey his joke," com-
mented Martha, coming forward to see
if people's glasses were properly filled,
amid a chorus of chuckles over the
jest.
"I've beard say 'ts a fine thing to be
a barrister," Mr Meade continued, "but
meself, I can't see it. Before ever they
earn so much money as a penny piece
diey'ye got to eat dinners for year or
two in a sort of church. And when
they get a job 't is most a dirty one so
far as I can make out. A barrister that
gets a scoundrel off banging is a made
man, they tell me, and run after by
every villain in the land. Philip can
est dinners at home, and the fewer
scoundrels get let off the better. Doc -
tering I've laid awake over many a
night. But I shouldn't like the boy to
live off other folk's ills. As for a cler-
gyman, be won't so much as look at it,"
It does seem hard work to be a
hottest man and a gentleman to be
sure," commented Mrs Meade. "Many
a time I've said to Meade, let, the child
be plain and honest.' "
"You may warrant," added her hus-
band, "gentle or simple, 'tis a heavy
thing to be honest and rich, whatever
trade you take."
A chorus of denials followed, for
nearly all present were men of sub-
atance and eaeh convinced of his own
integrity, thoright doubtful of that of
others.
The end of this and many such con-
ferences was that Philip found himself
one fine morning perched upon a high
stool in Mr Westley's office, an articled
clerk. He came home at night. pale
and silent; at the end of a month, a
doctor had to be consulted. The doctor
recommended air and exercise; which
being taken speedily restored the pa-
tient. Six weeks more in the office re-
, duced Philip to the same low level. His
release came; Mr Meade's purse was
lightened, and there was Philip fres,
and a standing problem once more.
A period of 'idling followed, then
Philip, ba,ving neatly set his dog's bro-
ken login sphnts, suddenly took Wet o
Isis head to be is doctor, remembering
Children Cry tor
beion1.1:115. As for Old Maule, as he
called him, he soon found out that all
his skill was built upon experience, and
that he was as incapaple as he was un-
willing to teach kiln.
Many a headache did the po'or lad ket
over Mr 'Maule's medical book, his
bones and his instruments, the names
of different bones and muscles refused
to remain in hie head. the books were
is hopeless flume without a clue, he be-
ganto think that he had no' aptitude for
the profession, and to crown all he had
to be interrogated so perpetually in re-
ceiving patients, taking their messages
and mixing them medicines thatn�
sooner had he succeeded in making
himself acquainted with the carotid ar-
tery or the thyroid cartilage than it re-
port upon old MrRobinson's gout drove
both cartilage and artery out of his
mind.
"Teach 1" the old doctor would say
with a hearty oath, "how the devil am
I to flpd time to cram your thick head?
Nobody ever taught me; I picked up
what I could in old Pestle's surgery,
with the assistant and the other ap-
prentice swearing at me and boxing my
ears from morning till night, but ol—
me I took care to pull through the ex-
aminations. I wasn't cockered like
you. Learn, you lazy dog, learn!"
He was a kind old fellow, with it sort
of bluff cordiality, and did not swear
with his patients more than enough to
give his discourse a pungent emphasis;
he took care not to be the worse but ra-
ther the better for his }powerful pota-
tions when on duty, he was shrewed
too and knew men, thus he was popu-
lar, and when his patients died people
said it was the will of God, and when
they recovered (as they sometimes did)
the skill of Dr. Maule.
Suddenly, while Philip was musing
over his pills, the surgery door opened
violently and in stormed the old doc-
tor, pouring out a broadside of oaths.
Philip knew that he had been dining
out and had not expected him to return
for another hour or two. Having con-
signed Philip 'piecemeal to perdition in
company with his own soul, he sudden-
ls, thrust a bottle into his face and ask-
ed what he meant by that.
"Mean, sir?" returned Philip," I sup-
pose I meant it for cough mixture."
Alas! it was a poisonous compound
ihtended for outward use and clearly
marked for inward .in Philip's hand-
writing.
"You murderous young dog!" shout-
ed the doctor.
" I'm not a dog," retorted Philip. "I
have not made a beast of myself," he
added with sarcasm.
"What do you mean ?" cried the
doctor with a thick utterance.
"7 mean," cried Philip, suddenly and
passionately, "that I am here to study
medicine, and not, to be bullied and
sworn at and made to do all your work."
"Take that," roared thkdoctor, with
i
elnbellishmente,boxing hi ars, where-
upon Philip seized him byt he collar
and laid him flpt on the floor, in which
position Dr. Maule's grown-up son en-
tering, discovered them.
"This is nice manly behaviour, Ran-
dal," said young Maule, picking up his
irate parent and placing him in it chair:
and after much blustering on the old
man's part, and vain attempts at peace-
enalsieg onthestrianeee' Ja"hilip found him-
self in the street, with the neforniation
that his indentures would have to be
cancelled and he need not return.
So ended Philip's second professional
career. n What's the good of a fellow
like me?" he thought, marching defi-
antly down the street and whistling
savagely.
He finished the evening with some
fellows of his own age.not a very stea-
dy set, and tried with loud merriment,
jovial Bova and deep potations, to
bury his chagrin.
It was late when he bent his waver-
ing steps homeward, wondering Why
in the world the houses kept knocking
up against him, and who was that vil-
lain continually pushing him off the
pavement,. To solve these problems,
he leant against is lamp -post, mourn-
fully wailing :
" Why did my master sell rue
Upon my wedding day ?"
with his hat tipped over hiseye. Just
at this moment who should come a-
round the corner but his bete noire, the
vicar, returning from Mrs. Carlyon's
dinner party.
"Come, Randal," said Mr. Bryan
roughly, "what are you doing here?
You are drunk. Get home directly"
"Get home 'self," retorted Philip,
thickly; " 'sgraceful time of night for
parson."
Waxy Bryan, as the street -boys call-
ed their hot-tempered Irish pastor, in-
stead of leaving the luckless boy to
grow sober before going home, angrily
pushed dim away from the laanp-post.
Philip, to save himself, caught at him,
the streets were slippery, with rain, and
after a brief struggle the two fell full
lengt h in each other's arms on the pave-
ment, just as a policeman sauntered
around the corner.
Mr Bryan was soon on his feet and
promptly gave Philip into custody for
knocking him down, and the unhappy
boy finished the night at the police sta-
tion.
What a waking was his next morn-
ing! Racking headache, sickness, bod-
ily depression, and heavy shame.
The brawl had not been without wit-
nesses, and when Mr Bryan woke in
the _morning with a cool head and re-
membered that he had in sober truth
committed the assault, vindictive as he
was, he considered it better not to pro-
secute Philip. He therefore repaired
to the station early and withdrew his
charge.
Philip, haggard and dishevelled, with
the disreputable air that always clings
to people who have passed the night in
their clothes, took refuge in a small
public -house, feeling that he cauld not
go home yet, and sat down to write
home. His dizzy throbbing head weigh-
ed upon his hands as he sat with el-
bows on the table and tried to find
words fit for his narrative. An hour
went by and he had not got beyond
" dear father," he heard loungers at the
bar discussing "this here Rodshian
job ;"the smart, qii ick music of fife and
drum called all to doors, and windows,
and street corners. Even Philip raised
his heavy head and looked up to see a
reel uiting-party with streaming rib-
bons step briskly past to the tune of
"Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory
we steer I"
The whole thing was hispiriting to
Pitcher's Ongtorim.
Inton
Om AP deneaceet t8 PIiiltp, LLfld effered
fitelden Ina bin% problem ;
War Weti celeliOla Men Were wanted,
yolunteera Were ogering, promotion
would be quick;'Ifl a Nery snort tittle.
Pbilip w1 the'richer by ti, eilVer ehil,
ling in hie ,POOket And Sinarterfor
beneh of ribbene in hie Ilea.
bathe Metnitisne there had been sor-
row at the Mill. and 41frNeede had hur-
ried early' in the morning to rhquae's
to see if he could, all VW Jul. light upon
'the boy.,'s disappearance,
Dr. =Atkin was sober end Melancholy
at this hour of the day. Theugh aliard
drinker heaves seldom as overcome as
on thesorecedingnighta he greatly re-
gretted the affair with Philip in the
surgery, which be related to Mr Meade
with Impartial accuracy.
"He worst do for physic, Meade," he
said; "be's lazy and won't bear the
curb. Put, him to hard out -door work."
But the doctor could not tell where
the boy Was, and Mr Meade returned
disconsolately homeward, on his way
meeting 1VIr Bryan, whose sccount of
the preceding night's adventure was
acrid and disquieting.
" I always said that boy would come
to no good,' the vicar added, consoling-
ly, " he is one of the wildest young fel-
lows in the parish. You give him too
much liberty, Mr Meade."
'As well hang a dog at once as give
him a bad name," cried the miller, in-
dignantly, "you was always hard on
my poor boy, sir. I'd sooner be a poor
black heathen than your sort of Chris-
tian."
Then he met Mr Ingleby, the curate,
a good-hearted young fellow, who had
often done the lad a kind turn, and to
whom Philip had just gone with his
confession, desiring him to communi-
cate all to his father.
It was a heavy blow to Matthew and
Martha, whose first thought was to buy
Philip out at once; but Matthew Meade
was not a man to do anything in a hur-
ry. He considered the subject well
first, and finally Mr. Ingleby's advice,
coupled with Philip's own earnest sup-
plications and urgent reasonings, toge-
ther with Mr Maule's report upon the
lad's capacities, induced Mr Mead 4 to
yield a reluctant consent to his prodi-
gal's remaining in the ranks. Mr Ingle-
by had taken an interest in the boy for
years, and his verdict was that he suf-
fered from being educated above his
surroundings, and would infinitely pro-
fit from the discipline in the ranks. He
also undertook to interest his brother,
a captain in the same regiment, in the
new recruit.
So it came to pass shortly after that
Philip, looking, as littleJessie thought,
very smart and handsome in his infan-
try uniform, and feeling very gay and
hopeful, marched with his regiment on
board a troop -ship bound for the East,
amid the thunder of a vast crowd's
cheers, the weeping of women and
children, and a thousand piteous little
farewell scenes.
Matthew Meade, with Martha and
Jessie, now a pretty playful girl of
twelve, with deep blue eyes and hair
of woven sunbeams, stood amid the
crowd to watch the embarkation and
wave Philip a last farewell, with deep-
ly moved hearts.
It was indeed a moving scene, calling
a complexity of -the deepest feelings in-
to play, one which few Englishmen
copal(' wit ness without strong thrills of
patriotic pride and fear and hope, and
few human beings without the stirring
of tenderest sympathies. The greet
ships lay like giants at rest on the blue
waters, the beautiful winged wooden
warships looking like living creatures,
and_ thesgreet, troop -ships; the shore
was lined and -covered'at, every coign
of vantage with human beings all mo-
ved by one. vast cominon interest, all
more or less sorrowful ; for as regiment
after regiment marched by with firm,
even step the spectators could not but
remember the certainty that many of
those fine men would return again no
more. On that late winter day the jus-
tice or injustice of the impending, but
as yet undeclared war with Russia was
forgotten; for as cheer after cheer
thundered along the shore and echoed
back from wall, bastion and church
tower, and was taken up and repeated
from ship to ship, and from rank to
rank of that moving mass of armed
men and broken by the gay defiance of
the martial music, those present could
only rememberthat they were English-
men, animated by one hope, stimulated
to one common duty, citizens of a great
nation with centuries of honor and a-
chievement behind her, and the dim
splendor of a great future before her,
and that the honor of England would
perhaps soon be at stake.
And so the war passion took them ;
for the English are, as every truly
great nation must be, a martiaispeople;
they do not rush into war with a light
heart, or, knowingly, for an unjust
cause; the waste, the agony, the pity
of it appals them; for they are too
brave not to be humane ; but once con-
vinced that it is their duty to fight,
they fight heroically, silently, patient-
ly, with an unquestioning discipline
unknown to other nations.
And after all is not that magnificent
terror, war, the school of heroism and
self-sacrifice, the purge of covetousness
the cementer of friendship and patriot-
isra, the curb of cruelty and nurse rf
pity, and does it not foster kindness
and mutual adtuiration between na-
tions even as the sea unites the land it
seems to divide?
At least, so thought Philip Randal.
As for little Jessie Meade, she cried to
her heart's content, not so much be-
cause Philip was going away, a,s be-
cause the vast enthusiasm of -the crowd
and the stir and color of the scene up-
set her nerves and woke dim and inex-
plicable feelings of grandeur and glory
within her.
"Oh, mother," she cried, "look I The
big soldier and the white kitten!" And
there, distinct against the soldier's red
tunic and undisturbed by the music
and martial tumult, a tiny white kitten
rode gravely to the war on her master's
shoulder. n front of the kitten march-
ed a little boy -soldier, crying bitterly
at leaymg his mother, but beating his
drum manfully all the time.
"If Philip were only it horse -soldier
like Mr Medway 1" said Jessie, her
quick eye singling Claude out from
some picturesque hussars. This fine
young officer was one of the immortal
Six Hundred who were destined to eo-
ver themselves so soon with glory.
"1 wear I'd bought the lad a come
mission 1" Mr Meade said, turning away
to go homeward.
"-If only the dear child comes back
safe and sound! That's all I care about!"
sighed Mrs Meade.
pit
'41/ir RA,
D'It essle's 1Magina1ien was donai-
, nated by the pleturestine brilliance of
the hussars.
1JTZ.
Theli s not to make reply,
Theirs not to reatioe why,
Theirs but to do and die."
(.111A1)-fER I.
P7440S4
The war cloud had buret in tempest
and raged itself to stilbaess ; England
breathed freely once more, For two
weary years voices of humiliation and
exultatiou, of indignation and mourn-
ing, of sorrow and pride filled the land.
There were vacant places at many a
pleasant hearth, desolate booms, fath-
erless children, age bereaved and strong
youth hopelessly crippled, but there
was peace at last. The sword of Eng-
land, the army, had been tested and
found wanting; the material was excel-
lent, but the organization vile, and
what avails a sword of finest temper
without a skilled hand to wield it? Yet
this splendid sword reaped laurels.
When the daffodils of 1850 shot up
in graceful battalions by warbling
streams in low-lying meadows, wer-
come rumors of peace floated through
the land and mingled with the breath
of opening violet and the sweet prom-
ise of the young primroses; gi adually
they grew to certainty, and the MUSIC
of joy -bells pealing from countless
steeples, and the roar of cannon pro-
claiming the peace blended 'with the
innumerable wild bird -songs of the
springing year.
'rhe first swallows came about Still-
brooke Mill bearing this gentle mes-
sage on their wings. Mrs Meade shed
tears of joyon hearing the news one
bright morning,. then instantly began
to make grand household preparations
for Philip's reception. Mr Meade went
out into the garden, where everything
seemed to be putting forth its strength
and beauty to welcome the returning
exile. He went to stick a row of young
peas with a slow smile deepening the
numerous wrinkles about his mouth,
while Jessie flitted about the sunny
garden, tangling the sunbeams in her
flowing hair, gathering spring flowers
and singing patriotic songs in her
bird -like voice.
"Phil 'II never know the little maid,
she's shot up that tall and slim," be
thought.
Looking back on those two years of
wearing anxiety, the Meades wonder-
ed bow they had ever lived through
them, much less gone about their daily
occupations as usual,
News did not travel so rapidly then
as now; war correspondeats then only
began to be; papers were fewer, dear-
er, and less accurate and wen -informed
than now, rumors from private sources
circulated vaguely and inaccurately.
It was terrible to the Meades to hear of
Alma, and then wait in long suspense
ignorant of Philip's fate, the more so
as Mr Inglebv's brother fell in that ac-
tion, and his name was duly reported
with so many nameless rank and file of
his and of Philip's regiment among the
killed.Balaclava and Inkernaanbrought
the same sickening doubt, and the
Meades wrote letters which ghastly in
the light of that uncertaihty to one who
might be lying dead on those battle-
fields.
The wound which Philip received at
Inkerruan, and his subsequent hospital
troubles left them longer in doubt ; but
once satisfied that he was recovering,
the winter hardships did not cause
them so much anxiety, especially as
the accounts of those hardships were
to a certain extent discredited in Eng-
-land, and Philip. made light of them,
in his letters, so that by the time the
summer came his parents were suffi-
ciently case-hardened to think of other
things than the war, and were dispos-
ed rather to under -rate the perils and
privations of the long siege of Sebasto-
pol.
When the oaks were exchanging
their tints of dull crimson, russet, and
warm gold for the pure, fresh, pale
green of full leafage at the meeting of
May and June, the whole people re-
joiced in the peace, the country echoed
with clashing bells and booming guns;
the larger towns blazed at night with
such illuminations as the limited re-
sources of those bygone days permitted
and even the sober burgesses of Cleeve
filled their windows with candles, lit
bonfires and otherwise recklessly com-
ported themselves.
"Matt Meade's doing it handsome,"
said a portly citizen at shut of eve, on
the feast day, as he passed the mill with
conmanion. "And he came down
smartly for the town decorations. He's
reckoned a warm man, is Matt, though
they do say he's dipped pretty heavy
in mines and other speculations."
"Not he. You may warrant Matt
Meade know's what he's about," re-
turned Mr Cheeseman, now an alder-
man. "You'll have to get up early to
catch him asleep. He's warmer than
anybody knows. Scrapes and hordes
for young scapegrace. 'Ter rough on
the girl, but she'll be a catch by and
by after all, trust me if she isn't."
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The Times Tea Warehouse
IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADING HOUSE FOR
CHOICE CHRISTMAS and HOLIDAY GOODS
,—
A hill assortment extra selected Valencia Raisins, London Layers, Royal Clusters, Black
Baskets; choicest and finest Filiatras, Patna and Vottizzo Currants; New Figs and
Fresh Dates. Finest Shelled ALMONDS, WALNUTS and FILBERTS, New CAN-
DIED LEMON, ORANGE and CITRON PEELS, all of which will be sold at very low
prices. We have the largest and best selected stook of
FANCY CHINA, CROCKERY Sz GLASSWARE
In town. Dinner Setts, Tea Setts, Toilet Setts, at greatly reduced prices.
J.W.IRWIN,CLINTON
,Sole Agent for the noted Ram Lars Pure Indian Tea, ontl:St Leon Water.
A' Real Genuine Clear
Out Sale.
Do you believe what is said in the columns of is news paper? If not, the
quicker you prove it the easier for your pocket. We are going in for
clearing out the Wane of our Fall and Winter Goods. Just look, a
S00'11011 MINNTHIM31) SUIT
Which W 3 formerly sold for 523 is now reduced to $18. Blacks that were
$25 are now cut down sp 522.25.
A GOOD OVERCOAT for $13, was $15
si4G
erma A Good Singer Sewing D'Iaehine for Sale Cheap.
Come now, for two weeks is all we will cut prima.
99 Walton : & ; Morrison,
ROM= the SMITH'S BLOCK C LI N TONOpposite Cooper'e
Bookirtore
Syrup
Here is an incident .irot.he South
—Mississippi, written in April, 1F -9o,
just after the Grippe had visited that
country. ." I am a farmer, one of
those who have to rise early and
work late. At the beginning of last
Winter I was on a trip to the City
of Vicksburg, Miss. ,where I got well
drenched in a shower of rain. I
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until I had
to seek relief, I consulted Dr. Dixon
who has since died, and he told me
to get a bottle of Boschee's German
Syrup. Meantime my cough grew
worse and worse and then the Grippe
came along and I caught that also
very severely. My condition then
compelled me to do something. I
got two bottlesof German Syrup. I
began using them, and before taking
much of the second bottle, I was
entirely clear of the Cough that had
hung to me so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. I felt tip-top and
Clint! rert cry far have felt that way ever since."
Pantit J.IIRIAts, Jr. , Cayuga, Hines
Ir' t; ot"Statias Co,. MisS.
1-10117 DO VDU'
ENOW
the great value of onr goods un-
less yon can see them. We have
a line of MEN'S SUITS at
07.50, 510 and $12. Also MEN'S OVERUOATS at 68.50, $9
and 510. YOUTH'S S UITS from 53 up that can't be duplicated
in value within $3 to $6 of these prices, and no where else can you
get the faultless fit which characterize our clothing. Examine and
judge for yourself. Remember that we keep instockisbiia wwell eot
andHat--en and Cap Department, Our Sealette Goods are band-
-
some and away down in price.
GI GLASGOW
•
Searle's Block, next to J. W
Irwin's, Clinton.
APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES
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Toronto, ravening ranerrar:LA.caCtit.AS.
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a row applleollont not only thoroughly ronnwor7,,
6ittelDIVO dandniff ntounodatIon but etim104,
falling et the Mir, made it matt andpliabloind
On:Imola a Vialtilo growth.
GUARANTEED
Restores Fading bait foils
original color.
• Stops falling of bah%
' Keeps She Geato clean.
%uses haft soft and Pliable
theorem:Growth.