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A TALE OF THE SEA,
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A I*ht weblerly wind had orowded
the spacious waters of the Downs with
utehored vessels, The colour, the aP__
parel, the qus4ut bravery of the ships
and mariners of the last century, made
a noble and sparkling show of the ma-
rine pageant. The hour was a little
before sundown, and the gush of warm,
red glory past the giant headland went
1n a tincture of dark gold to the zenith,
sad thence pale as amber to the east-
ern sea --Live, with a hot eximson head
of cloud here and there vaguely defin-
ed upon the delicate radiance. whilst
the horizon ran with a lane as dear as
though scored with the sweep of the
leg of a pair of compadoes.
It wad an evening in the month of
September, There were scarce fewer
than three hundred sail of vessels gent-
ly straining at their hemp cables to
the easterly set of the water. They had
come together as if by magic, for that
morning the histosrie tract of waters
had steeped bare to the white terraces
of the Forelands; whilst now the mul-
titudinous shipping showed like a for-
est upon the sea, gay with a fluttering
pennons, delicate as a bit of penciling
with the wondrous intricacies of the
rigging, brilliant with the red sheen of
the warning luminary upon glass and
brass; upon the writhing of gilt -work
upon quarter -galleries and castellated
sterns; upon innumerable figure -heads
of fantastic device; upon yellow spars
where the expiring flames in the west
trembled in veins of burnished brass.
An old-world scene of this kind is not
to be matched nowada,yaa The iron
craft has entered the soul of the ma-
rine, and all is dull, flat, prasaio. Ships
-of fifty fashions filled the Downs that
evening. There was the towering
three -decker, grand as a palace abaft,
with handsome galleries and spacious
windows trembling to the lustre that
rose to them from off the running wat-
er, the red costs of marines dotting the
white limes that crow -need her adaman-
tine defences, shrouds as thick as cables
soaring to huge round tops, from which,
higher and higher yet, rose topmast and
topgallemt-mast and royal -mast into
miracles of airy delicacy, from whose
cemtral spire languidly floated the pen-
non of the ship of the state. There was
the East Indiaman outward bound,new-
ly brought up, scarcely less regal im
her way than the first-rate, with John
Company's house flag at the main un-
der the dog -vane that glanced like a
streak of fire to the raining of the
splendour beyond the Line of coast, the
red flag at her peak, the grinning Lips
of cannon along her sides, the glitter
of uniforms upon her quarter-deektand
rows of lively hearties aloft upon her
topsail yards snugging the spaces of
white cloths Into Lines of snow., There
were the little bilander bound to the
Mediterranean, rigged with a long la-
teen yard upon her mainmast; the hrgh-
sterned pink; the round -bowed sturdy
snow; the galley of one hundred and
fifty tons, whose long low hull, with
ports for sweeps, gave her a most pir-
atical Look, with a malignant fancy to
follow on of a breathless calm and a
stagnated vessel, towards which this
same galriey is iml'belled by her huge
oars, as though she were some vast
deadly marine insect subtly thougib
swiftly stirring to the impulse of its
antennae.
The scene was full of light and life.
Standing on Deal beach, so quiet was
everything ashore, so still this boar of
sundown,you would have heard a
blending of innumerable sounds soften-
ed into music by distance—the strains
of fiddles in the nearer craft, the voices
of men singing, the pleasant noise of
bells, the clank and rattle of winches
and capstans and windlasses, the ebor-
usings of lungs of leather stowing the
canvas, the shrill chirpings of boat-
swains' whistles. Then on a sudden
broke the sudden harsh thunder of a
gun from the line -of -battle ship. It
was instantly followed by the graceful
drooping of the many -coloured Bunting
to right and left, denoting the boar of
sunset; and now masthead and gaff -end
showed bare of the bunting that had
but a little before made the mass of
shipping appear like a floating city of
banners; and Mlgb above the congrega-
tion of masts the towering fabric of
the three -decker loomed grim and for-
bidding upon the darkness of the even-
ing stealthily creeping like some dark
curl of breeze out of the east.
11.
Whilst the sullen explosion of the
gun was echoing along the Sandwich
)Tains, a large, exceedingly handsome
brig, that had been quietly pushing
Ler way into the heart of the shipping,
heLped rather by the tide than by the
faint tanning aloft, hauled by her
courses and let go on balliards ; and
a minute after, her anchor fell from
the cathead and she swung quietly to
the drag of her cable. She was from
down Channel, a homeward -hounder:
but those were the ambling days of
trade; no fuss was made over what we
now call prompt despatch. It was
merely a question of how the wind sat;
and a six weeks' detention in the
Downs was accepted as a commonplace
Incident in a voyage from the Tbames
to foreign parts.
A few minutes' after the brig's an-
chor had been let go, a signal was made'
to the shore for a boat. The twilight
was yet abroad ; the line of the land
dark against the rusty crimson of the
west;the flag was to be readily de-
scried, and there was a fluttering of
air still to make a conspicuous thin
gq
of the bunting amid the congregat ion of
colourless spars and masts, amid which,
Gere and there, you already saw the
twinkling of a cabin -lamp or of a lan-
tern swinging pendulum -like from the
forests.,*y,
A M1 young fellow of some three or
four andt wenty years of age stood in
the gangway of the brig, impatiently
gazing shorewards. He was distinctlyy
handnome Bpite of a certain haggard-
ness and ilo, owneiss that seemed to be-
token a considerable spell of illness.
His eyes were dark, and lustrous, full
of Intelligence, and, as one should gay,
of softness a19o. He stood a vitt is above
six feet, but with the stoop of a man
who bad not yet been able to stiffen
bimself out of a long term of Pros-
trating sicknese. His hair was tong
and abundatlt pnrrd curled plentifully
upon his abouldlrer's and back: an oddity
in him, to enKg%gee at least a shore -go-
ing eye, amusUtmred to the perukes and
bags and 'tyes' of the streets. Hg
was Nabi+sed 17;- in a coat with vast
.
:4;r,, r ,..:.,• o . a ,
cuffs autj pockets and metal buttons,
crimson breeches, oogee gray stockings,
and shovel -shaped shoes Leavy with
large plate buckles. His hat was a
three-oornered affair, and from time to
time he fanned his face with it, whilst
he continued to watch steadfastly and
anxiously the approach of a boat from
Deal belch. -
Here comes something that looks
like a punt, at last, Mr, York," ex-
claimed the skipper of the brig, gp-
pproaA ping him—a broad -beamed, bull -
let -headed bit of a man, standing on
oval shanks and carrying a fare as red
as the flag he sailed under. "Hole
You'll pick up ashore, I do. itemember
MY w°rds—if you'll feel able to abip
along with me by the time 1 am ready
to sail, and that's giving you from now
to December, why, all that I oa❑ say
is, there's a berth ready for you."
"1 am heartily Obliged to you, sir,
for the offer," said the other ;and
I thank you from the depths of my
soul for the kindnessyou've dune me.—
Indeed, Captain Settle, I shall never
forget you, and if I am equal to go-
ing a-oaliloring again byy December, you
may reckon me wire 3y' , sir, as upon
the ship's articles,"
They continued exchanging compli-
ments after this pattern whilst the
bOAt approached; presently it was
alongside, and the tall young fellow
au- the captain had addressed as Mr.
York prepared to descend.
I 'shall endeavour to be in London
the week after next," he exclaimed as
he swung a moment by the man -ropes;
"and 1 trust, captain, you'll not for-
get to put in a good word for mewith
the onwem of the Coelia. It will be a
matter of twenty-eight pounds to me,
who am now in a condition to view even
a sixpence as a very serious thing."
"Trust me, trust me, Mr. York,"
the captain exclaimed with a cheery
wave of his hand.
The tall young fellow, named Jeremy
York, lowered himself into the boat;
a small bundle—apparenntly all the
luggage he had—wad handed down tc
him by the skipper; he flourished hie
hat ; the crew of the brig, some of whom
Ware at work upon the forecastle and
some aloft, gave him a cheer; and in
a moment or two he was being swept
shorewards by the vigorous arms of a
brace of Deal boatmen.
It was now dark; the western hectic
was gone, the stars floated in a show-
ering of brilliant points to the liquid
dusk, that hung glimmerless above the
horizon, with here and there a round.
browed cloud with a sHeen upon it like
the space of a snow -clad rise to obscure
a narrow space of the sparkling dome
The Foreland soared wan and massive
from the white wash of the water at
its base, then swept darkly to the flat
land upon which were grouped the
houses of the town of Deal, whose fore-
shore at this moment winked with its
row of oil lamps, or a dim illumination
Lplaces, In pla, of ;mall lozenge -paved win-
dows, and a brighter streak of light
striking through an open door. High
and dry upon the shingle rested groups
of boats; and at intervals, as York ap-
proached the beach, he would catch a
noise like to a rush of water upon
shingle, and mark some little fabric
newly launched, swiftly making off on
a small buccaneering cruise of its
own amongst the shipping or maybe
to interceppt some sbadow hovering
Past the Goodwins with her hold full
of silks, tobacco, tea., and spirits, to
be "run" before the morning, and un-
der the noses, too, of the lookout
aboard the first-rate, and the revenue
People, ?rudgtng, solitary and austere,
I
long the tall cliffs' edge or the long
gow line of beach.
"Many people in Deal just now ?"
York inquired of one of the boatmen.
"Town choke full of allow," was the
answer. "Take them there ships,"
with a nod in the starlight towards
the phantasmal huddle over the stern
Of the boat: "One person from each
craft 'ud be more'n enough to over-
flow us, and you'd say that one-third
of every ship's company out yonder had
come ashore."
"A bother I" cried the young fellow,
a little petulantly; "small prospect of
my hiring a bed, if it be as you say.—
D'ye think there's a chance of my get-
tii g a night's rest in your town?"
"Whey not?" answered the other
boatmenruffly. "Ye're a seafaring
man beloiie, and there ought to be
more'n soft pplank proper for sailor's
boners to lie Cound vacant at Deal."
"No planking it for rue, not if there's
a mattress to be hired I" cried York.
"Suffer such a fever as has kept me
wasting for six months in VaLpanaiso,
and you'll wish your Skeleton marrow -
less, that it might give over acbing."
"There are inns enough, anyway,"sai.d
one of the mem, "'Troy Mother Pud-
dell's first. She ke,epe the aigm of the
Cat o' Nine Tails, Sandown way. There
should be a chance there; and oi'll tell
ye whoy: her liquor's oust bad, She's
beknown for tbat, 'soides high taxms.
'Tain't that I name her 'cause I love
her; but when a sink gent wants abed,
he ain't going to be, hindered by a shil-
ling too much, let alone a quality o'
liquor there's no call for him to drink."
As the man spoke, the boat's keel
grounded on the shingle, and the little
craft swept broadside to the beach.
York picking up his bundle, stepped out,
and inquired the fare. The boatmen de-
manded six shillings.
"See here," said he, )bulling out a
haido1 ulna piece, "t -lits, is all the
manes I possess, and 1 shall have no
more until i can beg, borrow, or steal
it. If I deduct six shillings frown this,
what does 1t leave me ?"
"Give us faive," said the. men.
"Three," be answered; "for God's
sake, don't, take advantage of a sick
sailor i"
An altercation followed; York was re-
solved, the boatmen imlrortunate and
clamorous, and prrsent.ly offensive.
Other (boatmen were attracted by the
noise, and soon there was a crowd of
Deal keen listening to the shouts of
their two brethren and the old deter-
mined remonstrances of Mr. Jeremy
York.
At last the tall young fellow cried out,
"Make it four shillings, then, and you
shall be paid." The others agreed; the
half -guinea was changed into silver; and
Yor kwalked away, followed curiously
by the eyes of the group of mem who
had assembled.
"Tall enough for a Maypole," said one
of t heem.
"What's his sent?" exclaimed anoth-
er, "Looks as if his bair growed from
a woman's head,"
"Smite me," cried one of the two
boatmen who had pulled the young fel-
low ashore, "if ever I takes a ,job
again withrmt first agreeing with the
part as to terms. A dirty four ahillim't
But what's a man to dew? He outs
with his balf-gins piece, and says 'tis
all the money he's got in the world;
and whq'a to know that it ain't a forg-
ed bit. tow? But that's Bialy Tucker's
consarn, wino* got the coin." He Kpat
with disgust and lurched Off, on which
the greebroke up, and made in sever-
al detachments for the various public -
houses or inns in Beach Street,
(To De Continued.)
0
Fate'slustrumen.ts
The Marquis, after taking tea
with Neaera and satisfying himself that
the lady was not planning immediate
flight, strolled back to his hotel In e'
thoughtful mood. He enjoyed a little
triumph over Mr. .Bdodwell and Bid -
mouth Vane at dinner; but thin did
not satisfy him. For almost the
first time in his life, he felt the
need of an adviser and con-
fident; he was afraid that he was go -
Lug to make a fool of himself. Mr,
Blodwell withdrew -after dinner, to
grapple with sono papers which had
pursued him, and the Marquis sat
smoking a cigar on a seat with Vane,
struggling against the impulse to trust;
that young man with his thoughts.
Vane was placidly happy; the distant,
hypothetical relations between himself
and Neaera, the Like of wllioh his busy
idle brain constructed around every at-
tractive marriageable woman he met,
had no power to disturb either his
soul or his digestion. if it so fell out,
It would be well; but he was conscious li
that the object would wring from him
no very active exertions,
"Mrs. Witt expected to find George
here, I suppose ?" he asked, flicking the
ash from his cigar,
"Yes, I think so,"
"Anything on there i"
"Nothing at all, my dear fellow," re-
plied the Marquis, with more ooafi-
dence than he would have shown
twelve hours before. "She knows he's
mad about little Laura Pocklington."
"I'll call on her to -morrow," said
Vane, with his usual air of gracious
concleseenslon.
"She's living very quietly," remark-
ed the Marquis.
Vane turned toward him with a smile
aad almost a wink, "Oho l" he said.
"Be respeotful to your elders, you
Young dog," said the Marquis.
"You make us forget your claims In
that respect. You must be mare ven-
erable," answered Vane.
After a moment's silent smoking,
"Why don't you marry?" asked the
Marquis. It is a question which often
means that the questioner's own
thoughts are trending in that direction.
"I'm waiting for that heiress." Then
he added, perhaps out of good nature,
"If it to that, why don't Y1.1111.1;_
ou ?"
"I'm not anxious to have people point-
ing at me for an old fool."
Oh, hang people I Besides, you're
not old." ;
Fifty-six."
"That's nothing nowadays."
"You're laughing I" said the Marquis,
auspiciously.
The Marquis laughed too, and put
his cigar back in his mouth. He took
it out again almost at once. "It
wouldn't be had to have a son," he said.
"I mean an heir, you know."
"Tho first step is a wife then, no
doubt."
Most women are so tedious. Still,
you understand my feeling?"
"I might in your position. For my-
self, I hate brats."
Ah, you will feel it some day."
Vane thought this rather barefaced.
"When did rt attack you?" be asked
with a smile.
This afternoon," answered the Mar-
quis, gravely.
Vane's cynical humor was tickled by
the denoument this admission sug-
gested. "Gad I I should like to see
Geraid Neston's facet" he chuckled,
forgetting his own design in his grati-
fication. ;
"Of course she's—well, the deuce of
a flirt," said the Marquis.
Vane risked a philosophical general-
isation. "All nice women are flirts,"
he said. "That's what you mean when
you call them nice."
"Very pretty and attractive, though."
"And the shoes?"
"Damn the shoes I" said the Mar-
quis.
The next morning, Mr. Blodwell and
Sidmouth Van went to London; but
the society ppaalpteers recorded that the
Marquis of MapLedurham prolonged his
stay at Brighton.
CHAPTER XX.
Summer and autumn came and went,
The season died lingeringly and suffer-
ed its slow resurrection. Grouse and
partridges, autumn scares and vacation'
Is*chcs, the yield of the crops and
the beginning of the season each bad
their turn of public favour, and the;
great Neston sensation died away, gal-
vanised now and again into a fitful
spasm of life by Mr. F.spion's pe
xsever-
rngg battery. Itis efforts were in vain.
All the cake were out of all the ba
and the, interest of the public was sati-
ated. The actors in the drama, re-
turning to town, as most of them did'
In the winter: found tbemselves restor-
ed to obscurity ; their story, once so
eagerly dished un as the latest gossipo
was now the stale, stock of bores, use-
ful only to regale the very young on
the very provincial palate.
All at once there was a revival. A
rumour, a piquant rumour, began to
lie whispered at the clubs. Men again
looked at Gerald Neston, wondering it
he had heard It, and at George, aakin
haw he would take it. Mr. Blodwell
had to protest ignorance twenty times a
day, and Sidmouth Vane intrenched
himself in the safe seclusion of his
official apartment, If It were true, it
was magnificent. Who knew?
Mr. Pocklington hoard the rumor,
but, communing with his own heart,
held his tongue. He would not dis-
turb theper►;+ that seemed again to
have set It ed on his house, Laura,
having asserted her ind ndence, had
alloweul the subject to drop; she had
been bright, cheerful, and docile, had
seen sights, and gone to entertainments,
and made herself agreeable ; and Mrs.
Pocklington hoped, against a secret con-
viction, that the rebellion was not only
sleeping but dead. She could not ban-
ish herself from London; so, with out-
ward confidence and inward fear, she
brought Lex daughter home. in Novem-
ber, praying that George Nmton might
not crosses her path, praying too, in her
kind heart, that time might remove the
silent barrier between her and her
-daughter, against which she fretted in
vain.
But certain other people had no
idea of leaving the matter to the slow
and uncertain hand of time. There
was a plot afoot. George was In It and
Sidmouth VanA, and Mr. Blodwell; oro
was the Marquis, and another, whose
present name it would ruin our deep
mystery to discless—if it be guessed,
there Is no help for it. And just. when
Laura was growing sad, and a little
hurt and angry at Learing nothing
from George. she chanced to have a
conversation with Sidmouth Vane, and
emerged therefrom, laughing, bluab-
____ —
Ing, and riotonldlyha WNy, though the
only visible outoome of the k was
an ittvitatlon for her mother and her-
self to join in the mild eatertainw-wt
Of afternoon tea at Vane's rooms the
next gay. Now, Sidmouth Vane wan
Very deceitful ; he, so to say, appropriat-
eld to eh � own use sad credit Laura'a
and Laura's laughter, and,
when the invitation came, innocent Mrs.
Pocklington, without committing her-
sol'f to an approval of Mr. Vane, re-
jeiced to think it pleased Laura to take
tea with any young man other than
George Neston, and walked into the
trap with gracious urbanity.
Vane received hisguests, Mr. Blod-
well supporting Ilim• D![ra. Pocklington
and her daughter were the first ar-
rivals, and Vane apologised for the
lateness of the others.
"Lord Mapledurham is coming," he
said, "and he's leen very busy lately."
"I thought he was out of town," said
W -M Pocklington.
He only c:ain a backyyesterday."
The door opened, and Vane's servant
announced with much pomp, "The
Marquis and Marchioness of Maple-
durham."
The Marquis► advanced straight to
Mrs. Pocklington; then he took Nea-
era'e hand, and said, "You have al-
ways beengood to me, Mrs. Pockling-
ton. I hole you'll bg as good to my�
wife.'
It wets hushed up as fax as possible,
but still it leai.ked out that, On this sole
occasion, Mrs. Pocklington was at a
loss --was, in fact, if the word be al-
lowable, flabbergasted. Vane malici-
ously hinted at burnt feathers and other
extreme remedies, and there was really
no doubt at all that Laura untied her
mother's borulet-strings.
Neaera stood looking on, half proud,
half frightened, till Laura ran to her
and kissers her, and called her the best
friend she had, with much other emoti-
onal language.
Then Mrs, Pocklington came round,
amd took a cup of tea, and, still un-
consciously doing just as she was meant
to do, drifted into the balcony with
the Marquis, and had a long oonver-
sation with him. When she came back
she found Vane ordering a fresh pot
°f tea. ,
"But we must really be gain sg 'she
said. "Mustn't we, Laura V And as
she spoke she took her daughter's hand
and patted it.
Do you expect nay one else, Vane?"
asked Mr. 13.1odwell.
"Well, I did, but he's veryy late."
"Where can he have got to?" asked
Neaera, smiling.
"Oh, I know where he is," said Vane.
"He's—he's Only In the next room."
Everybody looked at Mrs. Pockling-
ton and smiled, She looked at them
all, and last at her daughter. Laura
waa smiling too, but her eyes were
eager and imploring.
If he wants any tea, he had better
come in," said Mrs. Pocklington.
So tills pair of shoes wrought out tbeir
work, giving society yet another sen-
sation, making Neaera Witt a great
lady, and Laura Pocklington a happy
woman, and confirming all MTO. Bort's
darkest views on the immorality of the
aristocracy. And the Marquis and
George Nekton put their heads to-
gether, and caused to be fashioned two
dainty little shoes in gold and dia-
monds, and gave them to their wives,
as a sip and remembrance of the ways
of destiny. And Neaera wears the shoe,
and will talk to you quite freely about
Peckton Gaol.
The whole affair, bowever, shocked
Lord Tottlebury very deeply, and
Gerald Neston is still a bachelor.
Whether this fate be a reward for the
merits he displayed, or a pimishrnent
for the faults he fell Into, let each,
according to his prejudices or his ex-
periences, decide. Non nostrum est tan-
tas componere liter.
(The End.)
LOOKED LIKE TALLOW.
Threw Away Nluety-!:our Pounds or Am-
bergris, \Which Was 'Worth $56,0M.
The little town of Digby, N, S., is
vary much excited at present over the
finding of some ambergris by Mr. Isa-
iah Kingborn, a fisherman who lives
in Granville, a small village across the
river from Digby. Mr. Kinghorn was
In conversation with a St. John Tele-
graph reporter and told the story of
his f Ind. He had been rowing along
the bay shore at Granville in his boat.
one day last week, and noticed some
"stuff" floating on the water. It
Looked to him like tallow. He took it
into his boat and rowed to his home
at Granville, where he tried to boil it
down to make soft soap. Failing to
do so he threw the remainder of the
supposed tallow away. He had about
100 pounds of the material in all, he
estimates, and had only kept six pounds
Of It after the rest had been destroyed.
He was told that it was a very valuable
article, and in consequence he brought
a sample to St. John, where it was
shown to a druggist, who offered for
it a price which by no means approach-
ed its value.
Mr. Kinghorn went back to Dighy
by the steamer Prince Rupert and took
the ambergris to a 1 coal druggist, who
after close examination, identified it.,
and an looking up the price list, found
that it was worth $3 per ounce. The
fisherman Ia feelings can be Imagined
when he learned that be bad wasted
about 94 pounds of the ambergris,
which, bad he kept it., would
have
brought him for the lot $68,000. As
it is, he only hes left about six pounds,
which will bring him when sold the
sum of $3,000.
Mr. Kinghorn left a small piece with
the druggist, which weighs about one
and one half ounces, and the latter will
conduct the sale of the cis pounds. Tbe,
same which was shown to the Telegraph
reporter at the dnigstore was broken
from a lump weighing 42 pounds. It.
resembles a piece of tallow very much.
Ambergris is a solid fatty substance,
of a dull gray color, the, shades being
variegated like marble, and possesses a
peculiar sweet earthy odor. It is a
morbid secretion formed In the intes-
tines of the spermsoeti whale, and is
generally found floating on the sea-
shore and in lumps weighing from one
half an Ounce to 100 pounds. The sam-
ple is still in the hands of the Digby
drugggist, and will probably be sent to
the 13tates, where a deal will be made
for the whole. It is needless to gay
that Mr. Kingliarn, who was so lucky
In making the find, Is being congratu-
lated from all quarters upon his rapid
rise on the road to wealth.
A LIFE-SAVF,R.
Puffy—Just saved a man's life?
Guffy—How was that?
Puffy—Met a fellow on the st.roet..
Said he'd blow my brains out If I did-
n't give him my watch. Gave him the
watcls
CLINTON SASH, DOOR
AND BLIND FACTORY
0
S -8 - COOPER, As
= PROPRIETOR
General Builder
and Contractor:
This factory has been under the personal
supervision and one owner for sigh
years We carry an extensive and reliable stock and prepare plans and givt
estimates for and build all classes of buildings
on short notice and on the olosee4
prices. All work is aupervised in
a mechanical way and astinfaetioo
guaranteed. We sell all kinds of interior and exterior material.
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Lime, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Eta
Agent for we CELEBRATED GRAY13ILL
SCHOOL DESK, manufactured
at Waterloo. Call and get prices and estimates before placing your orders,
Leslie's Carriage Factory,
BUGGIES, PHAETONS, CARTS AND
WAGONS—all of the beet work,*
manship and material. 11WAll the latest styles and most modern improve-
ments. All work warrented. Repairing
and repainting promptiy,gttended
to. Prleas to
suit the times, Tw
SWFAOTORY—corner Huron and Orange Streets, Clinton.
FALL FON.
SMALLPDX KILLS !
Willie—"Mamma they ss. history
itself, don't Mother
repeats they?' —
"Yee. dear." Willie—"Well,
DOES TOBACCO
whydon't
it ropeat.itself when I'm trying to
learn it ?"
Her father—"You have been calling
Read the etrong endorsement glum
ou my, daughter three times a week."
The rising young politician— "Yes,
sir ; but—a—my visits are without spec-
sm,
ial significance."
"Do you 4mow that your confounded
dog barks all the night ?" "Yes, I
suppose he does. But don't worry
about him. He makes up for it by
sleeping all day."
"Life is full of ups and downs." "Yes,
T
Cof
I know a young fellow who was in
I
business and went under," "Well?"
"And immediately his friends threw
a
him over."
,
"I say, do you think that Wiggins
In the interest of the manses, for whom these ra
Ls a man to be trusted?" "Trusted?
ports are compiled, the IINITRD STATS" 99"TR 1tX1
Yee; rather. Why, I'd trust him with
PORTS have examined Sad investigated many prepare
my life I" "Yee; but with anything of
Clone having for their object the cure of the tobacco
value, I mean I"
habit, but among them ail we have no hesitancy in
Clerk—"Excuse me, six, but guests
without baggage must pay Ln advanoe."
giving the editorial and official endorsement of they
"UNCLFI
The guest—"All right. I'll be back in
REPORTS to the remedy known as
a moment." "Where are you going?"
SAM'S TOBACCO CURE," manufactured
"I am going to buy a trunk."
by the Keystone Remedy Company, at 218 r. San
Author—"Mary, I've made a mis
street, Chicago. We have demonstrated by persons
take in my calling; I'm not an author,
tests that this antidote positively destroys the East
and desire for tobacco In ten day e, fearing the system
but a Born chemist." Author's Wife—
"What makes you think that, Horace?"
in a perfectly healthy condition, and the personas
the came forever free from the habit,
Author—"Well, every book I writeIn
the light of our examinations and testa d
becomes a drug on the market."
"UNCLE SAM'S TOBACCO CURE," we ax6
"Oh, ah—pardon me, Miss Minnie;
but performing a duty we owe the public when we on
but at what age do you think women
dorae the Same, and stamp it ore the crowning aehlevw
should—ah—marry ? You know the
are discussing the
'Rent of the nineteeth century, 1n the way' of dextror
'n a habit ore di sting as is is common (FOS
newspapers tluestion."
"At about my age, I think, Mr. Tim-
i pante wS earnestly adviSa yon q
ONLY gfor
id," she replied sweet!
P y•
"Mrs.
fu
write them for roti particulars.olonly
Sold only by
Smit lit ht said the new board-
er, "you ougto build a house."
"Where I build it?"
shall asked the
CLINTON.
unwary landlady. "On the grounds in
your coffee, Mrs. Smithers," was the re-
sponse. "There's a half -acre in my
cup."
Why do you wear that suit? You
don't ride a bicycle, do you?" "No:
IF
t oun� orold) who sofal
m Ne
f orvous Debility
Serval Weakness slf-
but
but the bicyclists naturally think I
the results of Self -
eta„ will write
Play golf," "Why, you don't know a
us confidentially a plain
golf link from a vacant lot." "Of course
statemernt of their case, and promise to use ons
not; but the golf players all think I
Ree ed1 ac ordia6 to directions, we will send
ride a wheel."
P P 7 mnil or express, a wrefull
The month of the Lily, the month of
the row,
pprepared course of Two Months' treatmenZ
for which we will make no charge if It !nils
Are charming enough, just as senti-
to cure. Avoid Yankee frauds and Canadian
gquuaacrkss. Write us at once for a Remedy which In
meat aces ;
Address N. a. K. COMPANY. Lock Banteed to cur* or cost oa n&,
But for most solid rapture, as time
passesby,bnth
Pirf
Pin, Oatao, Canada.
I bank on mowhich brings in
pumpkin pie.
"I
FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS
wish you would tell me," said the
agent, who had long been on Mr.
Snagg's trail, "what is your insuperable
DUNN'S
objection to insuring your life ?" - "I
don't mind telling you," replied S
"The idea of being more valuable af-
ter I am dead than while I am aliveive is
is
BAKINC
distasteful to one."
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
POW'DER
The underslgeed having been regtored to health
by dimple means, after on, and tar several sears
with a severe lung affection, and that dread dietsee
THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND
Conxumption, is anxious to make known to hie fellow
ectrerera the means of cure, To those who desire It,
1L.ARGEGY SALE 1N CANADA.
he will eheerfnlly send (tree of charge) a copy of the
preacriptlon used, which they will find a eurecure for
Conrimption, Asthma, Catarrh, Brotenehilin An
BIG SPRINGS.
all throat %nd Lung Maiadia. He hopes
- --
all sufferers will try his remedy, ss It in invalu-
able. Those desiring the prescription, whichwill cost
IrennsylvnnilC Qns One Whose Flow U
them nothing, Ara may prove a blessing, will please
280,000 Gallons a Minute.
,ddreee,
Pennsylvania possesses a number of
Itev. EDWARD A. WILSON,Brooklyu,New
remarkable springy The big spring of
York. —
Bellefonte, the "Beautiful Fount," frons
A CONTENTED CHILD.
which the town derives its name, and
Fond Mother—How do you like your
which pours Torth 280,000 gallons per
new governess, Johnny?
minute, has had its story repeatedly
Johnny—Oh, I like her ever so
told. But almost within the limits of
much.
I'm so glad my little boy has a nice
Bellefonte is another spring, never
teacher at last-
mentioned, almost unknown, because of
Oh, she's awful nice. She says she
its rival in the borough, which for pur-
don't care whether I learn anything or
ity and outpour is as large as the one In
not, so long as pop pays her salary.
the town. A pure crystal shies n of
ONE HONEST MAN.
water 2 feet deep and 10 wide
agush-
Dear Kditor:—Please inform your
es forth the yuan• round, and the tem -
readers, that if writteu to cunfidenti-
peratlrre varies but 2 degrees, being
ally I will mail in a sealed letter, par-
r
that much warmer in the winter than
h
ticulars of a genuine, honest. ome
in the summer. Then there is the
Clive, by which I was permanently re-'
spring at Axe Mann, another very large
StrbrPd to health and manly vigor,
one; but among the marvelous springs
sifter year-Rof suffering frrnn nervous
ilPllllity, sexual weakness, night lOggeg
in this section is file famous Rook
,
and weak shrunken partes. i was robbed
spring. 'I•bea•e the water gushes forth
andswindledbythequarksuntilInear•.
from a cave in the rock, fully 10 feet
ly lost faith in mankind, but thank
high and 'LO feA-L wide, with a cilearne s
heaven, I am now well, vigorous and
that rivals even the crystal, No rain
strong, and wish to rriake this certain
illsuferers' I
means of cure known totill sufferers'
has ever bex.n severe enough to even
-
have nothing to sell, and want no
make the water of a mut Icy color,
money, blit being a firm believer in
Fx(ym out of the depths of the eavecra-
the universal brotherhood of inan, I
ous rock come various specimens of the
i
"I it delirious of helping the unfortun-
P g
finest firth, a.m°ng them beim the de, -
g
ate to regain their, health and happL-'
licious mountain trout, and, though
ness, I promise you perfect secrecy and
they can he. seen coming out, no one
lig I do not wish to expose myself
either, aclrlresH, simply : P. O. Box
has ever been able to see a aislgI fish
I swim into the cave. Whether they are
:W, London, Ont,
I lmti under ground, or where they come
�...
from, is a myatery that has never
WOOD FOR LANCES.
been fathomed.
Another remarkable spring is in
It is propc*wA to substitute bamboo
Huntingdon County, near the old fur-
fur nsh-wood [or the lanes of EngLisb
ue by that, name.. There the cav-
cavalry regiments as the ash used is
ern which is the outlet of the springg
dimensions that
swirl to belbrittlp and not to be trust-
ed in actual warfare.
, is of such a team of
horses can lie driven into it for a con-
siderable distance, Ten rods from its
For over rifYy Years
source the spring gives a stream of
sufficient power to run a large grist
Mas.. WINSLew'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been need by
miiliono of mothars for thelrchildren while teethln
mill, and it was never known to be too
low for this use. Then there Is the
If diaturbod at night and broken of your rent bye ail
-hlld suffering and crying with pain of Outling Teeth
„
Blue Spring" in Bald Eagle Valley.
.end at ones and get a bottle of "Mrs. Window's
named so because when looked into the
.inothing Syrup" forOblldren Teething. Itwill relieve
water seems as Idue as indigo. This
I he ppoAr IIN•le sufferer immediately. Depend upon it,
la lt. It
is because of its great depth, a mat-
mothtre, there no mistake about sorsa Diar-
rhma, regulates the Stomach and nowels, nano wind
ter which to this day Ls an unsettlied
conn, sottene the flume, radnees InOammation and
quest ton. This spring, which in Q*-
glvea tone and energy ro the whole system. '1Mra.
p,oaranoo is likee, a well about 4 febi
%%:inalow'n Rooth ng Syrup" rot children teetAng In
In diameter, has been sounded to a .
plea.ant to 1 he taxte and In the prescription of ,)ne of
depth of several hundred feet without
theoldentand beet female phyMo'ansand nnre-stn
,hcunir.edStates. Prioetwenty five ceniaa hnttlo.
f1ti ling any IgWorn. The, water is near
fold h7 all r1mgpixts throughout the -nrld. Ro onrn t
encu h to file to oro that a mart
g p 0611
■ndaakfor"MAa.w1Ns1.Ow' 8OOTNINo8vnr,r."
lit, dawn rind drink from t.h, Wrina,r ,