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FORGOT, He.: Was a fine handsome boy, tall, straight and manly, and with an lion de@t leek,Pnto your eyes, He was so > lght and Promising, too, and there aft larch a, future before, if only— ',4tld just et that point people al- WarS sighed and shook their heads, 4hr that • troublesome "If!" How 33304Y young man might have made t;!ontethiIIg for himself but for an "if' that bung about his neck like a mill- stone and dragged him down. Yon could not' have been with Roy Peitoii very long without finding out Just. What the trouble was. He was always' genial and friendly. It was no legit of temper you may be sure. Sometimes his friends thought his temper was too easy, and in his care- less gaiety their warnings and remon- `• strances made no impression on him, and were forgotten as they were ut- tered. You see that was Roy's trouble —he forgot, f'Going fishing, Roy?" hie father said to him one morning. "Well, be sure ii,nd shut the pasture gate as you o through. -You left it open the last Arne, you remember." :'All right, sir," he called back, with the frank smile that made his mother think him the handsomest boy in the world; and presently his merry whistle was making the woods and valley ring. -Re came home that evening with a basket of fish, and cried enthusiastical- ly"Oh, I've had the jolliest day) I ne v- et did have so much fun!" "I am glad you enjoyed it," said his father, grimly. "My day has not been quite so pleasant. I have worn myself out trying•_to, -remedy the results of ,your carelessness. You left the pas ture gate open this morning, and all the cattle got out. Dick and I had to ,quit work and spend the entire day getting them back." "Oh, I'm really sorry!" exclaimed Roy with a dismayed look. "I fully 'intended to shut the gate, but I must have forgotten it." "Roy, did you fasten the door of the :'corn crib?" asked his father one even- . -_ling, when he had come in from his work. ' "Yes, sir—that is, I think I did," was the ready answer. "You had better go out and see," urged Mr Delton, but Roy replied in his careless confident fashion: "Oh, I'm pretty sure I closed it. However, I'll go out and see before bedtime." w:> ` But the next morning, there was the crib wide open, and there was one of the best horses in the agonies of death because it had helped itself to the corn, and had eaten too much. "I d,in't,see why father should be so r t ngry with me," Roy said to his moth- j'He ought to know. that I didn't o r on purpose. I simply forgot." - Mr Delton came in at that moment and heard the last words. .He was very angry, and it must be acknow- ledged that he had sufficient reason. "That is always your excuse,"he said. "You forget. Does that remedy the evil or keep you from repeating it? You are always doing some mischief by your carelessness, and then you say 'I forgot,' as though that settled the whole matter. I can't help think- ing that such conduct is the result of pure selfishness and utter disregard of others." Roy stared at his father with widen- ing eyes. Never before in his life had such things been said to him, and he was deeply mortified, and considered himself agrieyed and humiliated. For two or three days afterwards he went around with a cloud on his face, and at last he told his mother: "I suppose father thinks I am not fit to stay on the farm, where my mis- takes do so much mischief. The best thing I can do is to acccept Captain Sinclair's offer and go into the tele- graph office. And though the subjectwas discuss ed with great earnestness for two o three weeks Roy finally bad his way - and went. His father was. very gray through it all, and just as Roy wa startipg he took the boy aside and said, more seriously than he had spok- en in hie life: "Your mistakes have hurt me a great deal, in time and work as well as in pocket. They have caused me a great deal of anxiety and, annoyance. Never mind about that now. I shall never mention it again. But there are vocations in which mistakes cost more than money. They cost human life. The railroad business is one of them." fulness should be fraught with such - consequences! If he had trained him - r self to remember before forgetfulness became a crime! e ! He had been sitting there how long s he knew not, when the shrieking of whistles, and the rumbling of car wheels aroused him. Were more trains passing to rush in- to that awful scene up the road? He arose, weak as an old mau, end totter- ed out upon the platform. And there backing slowly into the station, came the excursion train with the special foollowing it. Not a car; splintered, not a wheel was broken. The excur- sionist looked (curiously from the win- dow, and a golden haired baby leaned outland threw a kiss at him with her di Janes E'. Ptohalicm Almost Passes Belief Mr. Jas. E. Nicholson, Elorenoeville, N. B., Straggles for Seven Long Years with CANCER ON THE LIP, AND IB CURED BY AVERS= Mr. Nicholson says: "I consulted doc- tors w,. , peesc,ibod for me, but to no purpose; the cancer began to -Eat in' t!.c Flesh, s rend to my chin. and I suffered in s.s. f lo:s years. Finally I 1 egi,r. '101“4• S•.'saparilla. to vim . ...c .• :b Decided Improvement. Enconr;,ged :,y t;:la result, I perse- vered, uutil in a month or so the sore under my chin began to heal. In three months my lip began to heal and, after using the Sarlararilta for six months tl- : last trace of the cancer disappeared." r'S Sarsaparilla Aarslttbd at'tne Llt'.1ti71 i ]"TZZAI xtegutate !Ma Boucle J Roy went away, but that little speech went with him. He thought of it all the way to town, and it was with him many a day afterwards, as he sat in the telegraph .office at the station learning to manipulate the key. For once in his Life he remembered a warning, and it gave him a sense of his own responsibility that he found very irksome. And yet strange to 1 say, he felt quite triumphant because he made no mistakes now. • "Father was very impatient and never done me justice," he said to him- self. "I suppose he sees by this time that I am not so bad a fellow after all." He was so bright and so full of ener- I gy that learning was like play and he soon had the business mastered, and, as he wrote to his mother, , was 'only waiting for an opening.' In a short time the opening came. A station agent was wanted for a little town up the road, and Captain Sinclair recom- mended Roy for the position. "He is very young,he said to the superintendent, "but he is a bright fellow, and understands his business. I think you may trust him." And so Roy found himself in charge of an c.fflce where he shipped and re- ceived freight, sold tickets, and was express agent, telegraph operator and everything. That is what he wrote his mother. The letter that came back was very kind and encouraging, bet through it all ran an undertone of anxiety. The position was a great honor for a boy like him, but so much depended on be- ing careful. and now he must not for- get. "They must think I am a child," Roy muttered impatiently. The dignity of the position had made hirn more confident of himself and more restless under advice. He was not the first young man that became arrogant over his own success. Such arrogance sometimes needs a severe lesson, Roy's lesson was coming. An excursihn train went down the road one morning to a town forty miles below, where there was to be a great picnic. - -Half of the towns- people at Roy's station joined, all in holiday attire, and with a tum- ult of happy talk and laughter. While the young station agent stood on the platform and looked up at the coach window regretfully—for he was young and he loved fun and holidays—some one leaned out and slapped him on the shoulder. "Roy Delton, as I'm living!" cried a familiar voice, and Roy recognised one of his old time chums at school, who had ^gone out west with his family. years ago. Almost before they had clasped hands the train began moving, but the friend shouted back: "Say, Roy! I'll stop off when we corse back this evening, and spend to- morrow with you!" And then the train rounded the curve and was out of sight. All that day Roy thought of nothing else but the pleasure of meeting his old friend, and the many things he would have to say to him when he carne back. Old Percy King! What times they had had together! He grew impatient as the time ap- proached for the train to return, and was so preoccupied that he scarcely comprehended a message that came clicking over the wires: "Side track 48, excursion train, and wait for northbound special." He answered with the usual 'O.K.', and hurried out to meet the train and Percy King. Such handshaking and rejoicing as there was. While they walked about with their arms over one anothers shoulders. the train moved out and Roy went on talking of what he had done. He talking about his father then and he said: "I used to think father was hard on me, but I was rather careless, I sup- pose. However I am well over that now. t/ Then he remembered. Percy was amafed to see him fall back into a chair. Almost instantly, however, Roy sprang to the key and called up the next town in feverish haste. "Forty-eight passed here by mis- take. Detain special," was the mes- sage he rattled off. The next moment came the answer, sounding like a thunderbolt in the quiet office: "Special passed here fifteen minutes ago. Without a word the young telegraph- er turned and went into the inner office and locked himself in. He would not listen to a ,human voice or look into a human face. He had dropped into the first chair, and he sat there, pale to the lips, and chilled as though he were turning into stone. His friend was outside knocking on the door and imploring to let him in, but he did not hear him. He beard instead, over and over again: There are vocations in which mis- takes cost more than money. They cost human life. The railroad busi- ness is one of them." A horrible picture was before him—a picture of toppling engines and crush- ed cars full of mangled human bodies, He could hear the shrieks and groans as plainly as he could hear his own name ringing around the world in ac- cents of execration. He could see his own ruined life, and his father's bow- ed head, and mother dying broken hearted. And, he had only repeated the offence, that had Spoiled his youth. He had intended to do right, but he for- got. Strange that a moment's forget- _ mplen nand. One of the trainmen was explaining hastily, but the young station agent was dazed, and hardly understood. He heard something about a "hot box" which had stopped the special, and so the excursion train had time to work the air brakes, though there was not a distance of six feet to spare between the noses of the two engines. "Somebody has made an awful blunder; it will be all day with him when it comes out who he is," the man added significantly. The next day a young roan, with his face so haggard that he looked ten years older than his age, walked into the office of the superintendent. "My name is Roy Delten," he said. "I am agent at Groveton. I made a mistake yesterday that might have cost two or three scoreoflives. I have come to resign my place, and'you may do what you please by way of pun- ishment." And then his overwrought nerves gave way, and he fell at the superin- tendent's feet. An illness of several weeks followed, and two or three weeks passed before Roy knew he was in the company's hos- pital, with his mother always near. During the days of convalescence he did a great deal of thinking, and once he said somewhat sadly: "I never realized it before, mother, , but now I know its no excuse to say 'I .forgot.' People have no right to for- get, whether it's a case of shutting gates or of stopping trains. And the worst of it is that the little things grow into big things with human life involved in them, and the fellow who forgets finds himself ruined." Perhaps it was a good thing after all, that the superintendent happened to be visiting the hospital that he was standing near the door of the ward and heard the little speech. At any rate he came in, and said very kindly for him: "Young man you may report at my office as soon as you are able. Your lesson has been a severe one, but I think you have learned it. At any rate, I'll try you again." LINCOLN'S HESITANCY TO f:,ARRY APprehenslvoThat the Pathway Was Not One of Flowers and senllsht. Letters from Lincoln to his closest friend, Joshua Fry Speed, subsequent to the latter's marriage, betray an anxious and impatient desire to learn if marriage is a pathway of roses and sunlight, and not of darkness and pain, the two had morbidly feared it to bo. John Gilmer Speed presents those hitherto unpublished lettere bearing upon "Llnooln'e Hesitancy to Marry," in the October Ladies' Home Journal. In one Lincoln says: "It oannot be told how It thrills me with joy to hear you say you are 'far hap- pier than you ever oxpeoted to be.' That muoh I know Is enough. I know you too well to suppose your expectations wore not, at least sometimes, extravagant, and if the reality exceeds them all, I say, enongh, dear Lord. I am not going beyond the truth when I tell you that the short spade it took mo to read your last letter gave mo more pleasure than the sum total of all I have enjoyed sinoe tho fatal first of January, 1841. Slnoo then, it seems to me, I should have been entirely happy but for the never -absent idea that there is one (referring to Miss Mary Todd) who le still unhappy, whom I have contributed to make so. That still kills my soul. I can- not but reproach myself for even wishing to be happy while she is otherwise. She accompanied a large party In the railroad oars to Jacksonville last Monday', and on Per return spoke so that I heard of it, of having enjoyed the trip exceedingly. God be praised for that. One thing I can full you which I know yon will be glad to hear, and that is that I have seen Mary and scrutinized her feelings as well as I could, and am fully convinced she is far happier now than she has been for the last fifteen months past." Eight months after Speed had married Mr. Lincoln wrote him: "Bat I want to ask a olose question: 'Are yon now to feeling as well as judg- ment glad that yon are married as you are?' From anybody but me this would bo an impudent question not to bo tolerated; bat I know yon will pardon it in me. Please anwser it quickly, as I am impa- tient to know." Mr. Lincoln's object in asking this "close question" is manifest. Mr. Speed made the anawor quickly and satlsfaotor- ily,and on the fourth of November (1842), one month exactly after the question had been submitted, Mr. Lincoln was married. FORT WILLIAM, ONT. Mr William Day, of Fort William, Ont,, says:—Two years ago my wife was very ill with Dyspepsia. No remedy that she could find gave any relief. Finally she tried Burdock Blood Bitters, and after tak- ing six bottles was entirely cured. 'Chat is nc os more than two years ago and she has had no return o: the malady. I also bevelled occasion to nee B. B. B. se 1 I cannot speak too highly in its favor. I al ways recommend it to my friends arid in every case with g000d results. Yours very truly, WM. DAY. Mrs Switcher, of Streetsville, was killed in a runaway accident at Win- ona on Thursday. Mgr. O'Bryen, who has been ailing for some time, dropped dead at Mon- treal. PASTURING Hous. While there hi no doubt but that the practice of pasturing hogs is becoming IBM popular every day, still there i8 room for a great deal more to be done in this way, When we speak of pasturing hogs, we do not refer to the old-fashioned method pursued by some farmers of turning a number of hogs loose on the roadside, or in a lane, as the case may be, to fight for a living with the inevit- able roadside cow, or possibly with two or three colts, and half a dozen head of young cattle, or else in a pas- ture fleld that has been eaten bare and dried up by the sun till it becomes a genuine case of "Root, hog, or die"; we'refer to the intelligent use of clov- ers and certain grasses as a large pro- portion of the summer feed for a herd of pigs that are looked upon not sim- ply as scavengers, but as one of the most valuable and remunerative pos- sessions a farmer can have. Our own experience in this direction has been almost entirely confined to brood sows, and young stock pigs that were being raised for breeding pur- poses, and we are free to say that the result of that experience has been such that we would no more attempt to raise hogs on any scale without a suffi- ciency of good clover pasture than we would to raise sheep successfully with- out a proper amount of suitable pas- ture land—Bristles, in Farming for November. YOU DON'T HAVE To SWEAR OFF says the St. Louis Journal of Agriculture in an editorial about No -To -Bac, the fam- ous toba000 habit cure. "We know of many cases cured by No -To -Bao, one, a promi• nent St. Louis architect, smoked and chew- ed for twenty years; two boxes oared him so that even the smell of tobacco makes him sick." No -To -Bao sold and guaran- teed no cure no pay. Book free. Sterling Remedy Co., 374 St. Pani St., Montreal. Sold by Allen & Wilson. LIONS AND BICYCLE. —tea It was an odd and startling adven- ture that befell the Rev R. P. Ashe, a missionary in Africa, while touring on a bicycle. He had got far in advance of his porters and was spinning along at a pretty good speed, with his eye on the path, when suddenly he heard a noise as of animals galloping beside him. True enough, on glancing to the right he discovered three magnificent lions keeping him company. They were twenty or thirty yards to one side, and kept along with him per- haps a hundred yards. Then they stopped, looked at him for a moment —a strange being he must have looked 'n their eyes—and bounded away at right angles, still stopping now and then to look hack, till they disappeared in the long grass. Many a boy starts ut in life with the determination f conquering the world He sheens to achieve success and wealth and fame. Itis inten- tions are good, and his will is Qtrong. If he has the bodily strength to carry hips through, his efforts will be crowned with achievement. Bod- ily strength and health are his great - e t capital. Without them he can hope for nothing. iiow many young men and young women are cut off just when the future seem, brightest and fullest of promise ! They are taken away bya disease which causes over one - sixth of all the deaths In the world—the disease which doctors call con- isumption. Consumption has been consid- ered incurable, and the medical profession aa never made a greater mistake than this. here is absolutely no reason in the world by consumption should be fatal—why it bould be even serious. It i8 a disease of e blood, and can be cured absolute) and Iwaysby purifyipg and enrichin the food. The only else tion to this a the ase where the disease has been neg ected nd improperly treated until it is stronger ban the body—until the body has become o weak as to have lost the ability to recu- erate. Dr. Piercqe's Golden Medical Dis- overy will euro 98 per cent. of all cases of on ,um tion if used according to direc- tors. it'alto eures'all lingering coughs, ronchial and throat affections. There s no reason whythe child of consump- lve parents ped ever have consump- ion if its blood and lungs are strength- ned by the proper use of the " Discov- ry." All who have any reason to fear onsumption, should read the chapters on li hat disease in Dr. Pierce's Common Sense edical Adviser. This great medical work of i0°8 pages, profusely illustrated, has eached a sale of over 68o,000 copies. It 'will he sent free of charge on receipt of 37 one -cent stamps to coverost of duet:ome (and mailing only. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. 111:01kt OF CRING, SCIATIGA,4NEUMATISM •NEURALGIA • AINS IN BACK O SIDE •Oil, ANY MUSCULAR FAIN � LES IN USING ,/NENI`HOL • .. PLASTER. M *10, . WI 6°1" ba 'wn2 S1 IT PAYS TO Here ie what Mr D. W. PCarn, Piano and Organ manufacturer, of Woodstock, says of The Canada riusiness College CHAT!dAM, ONT. Woodstock, Ont„ Maroh 13, 18115. D. MOLAcirr,AN, %St eq., Chatham, Ont. Dear dlr —I r Qn recommend y g man desirous o1` tr•;yin!ngr in. a bnsinoseancollagyoune, with the utmost c/pnfidonce to your institution. I do so the morsy readily from my experience with one of ysear former graduates, Mr E 0 Thorn- ton,whr, has been engaged in my office for tho past fin p years. Wis'ning you every success in the continued training of young men and women for the ac- tive; duties of life, I am, Yours trulyy D W RAR'N. rgl1ed Mr Karn with was assistant boohave eeppe or his office in tho person of nit Albert Wal- , lace, another graduate. Children Cry far,. IT PAYS TO ATTEND THE Bli",sT, Pitcher's Casten* For oatalogeo of either department address Ni l• D: )ler.A.CHLAN', Chatham foie "I f tuts and OTHERS, Do You Know that P:, Bateman's Drops, Oodfrey'e Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syr'c. most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine? Do Yon Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotto poisons ? Do Yon Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell mice without labeling them poisons ? Do Yon Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your chinl unless you or your physlcian know of what it Is composed ? Do Yon Know that Castorla is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of Its Ingredients is published with every bottle t Da Yon Know that Caetoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castor's is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined ? Do Yon Know that the Patent Office Department of the lJnited States, and of Other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and ids ensigns to use the word u eastoria" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense Do Yon Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protection wai lecause Castoria'had been proven to bo absolutely harmless? Do Yon Know that 35 average doses of Caatoria are furnished for Sit stents, or one cent a dose ? Do Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children's *kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest 1 Well, these things are worth knowing. They are facts. The fYre-ninrile signature of is on every „1„,?Fid wrapper. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. r.,,f, ' fY..+.u�..w n,R'a.A . a,4"hrrs•,v,s 7w•n,,y,. Ar f ti .4.v .."-, ` x•'. ane . Ola' pm and Choirs I[orbus, Dlarrhoea, Inti♦ eatery end Bummer Caw plaints, Cute, Burns. ant Bruises, Bites, Stings, and System can all bo prompt. , ly relined by lista Deis' Pain Killer. 1; a • Denn-.One teaspoontgl ia. salt elate er sarik (warm U eenveaimt)" DIRECT IMPORTATIONS M Co ° We have just received an irnport order of New sea- 1.�a son's Teas, direct from the place of growth. The following are a few of the leading lines, viz: The Mazawatte pure Ceylon, the finest packet Tea in the market, 3 qualities: Honing Congow; Choice Sifted; Hyson and fresh uncolored Japans May pickings. All have been most care- fully selected and guaranteed to satisty. To the most fastidious taste—try our Popular Blend 25c; Russian Blend 45c; Crown Blend 50c. FIR"CTI'2'S I New Raisins, Arguimbans Select; New 1 Currants in cases; New Figs, New Orange, Lemon and Citron Peel, New Evaporated Phinis and Apricots. Pure Spices, whole andground. In Vinegar we sell Cider, White Wine, Crystal, Pickling and Cross & Blackwell's Malt Vinegar in bottles. Extra values in stylish Din- ner, Tea and Toilet Sets, the latest designs of decoration with new colors and tints. Cash for Butter and Eggs. N. RO BSO N, Clinton Not (i-iving up Business But continuing with full lines of seasonable goods. New Flannels. and Flannelettes New Cotton and Woollen Blankets New Tweeds, Trouserings, etc. New Ladies' Underclothing New Readymade Clothing New shirts and Drawers New Dress Goods ROW'''. COATS & SON CLINTON NUB GROCERY As regular as the seasons; as steady as the Polar star, as constant as th compass. The quality of our goods do not change; we buy the best in au market. We have a big stock of WOODEN WARE. If you need a Washtub, a Pail, a Broom, a Mop or Scrub brush, it will pay you to call, We have Ben Hur, 13ee Brand, Monsoon, Maravilla the finest of TEAS—"'Ceylons, Japans, the best that can be had in the market. (1OFF1l1E—Fresh Ground, leads them all, Take a look at our window for a Bedroom tet. • GI -ECO i "1iP &L L(.) Mr, - Cli ntrOilt- r