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The Blyth Standard, 1903-05-14, Page 3There are several ways of adulterating teas -an inferior brand mixed in is the usual way, Blue cer, ori j rr n isa uniform tea off , s5)ecial age growth. We value your continued orders too much to athsteeYN,':: tri :;tl-ly Way. 131,tclt, Sli.o,l f0 1 r;,, r')I.TY CE'(f':':i-StitOq LI) ?lt FIFTY' elev nsrurrat essensawevemee [GIPSY'S MARRIAGE CHAPTER XXX VII. 11 ,1, tau same day ; and Lad; ev net acts written o1I to order he m .ur$tug; and a shall alive! of black news.eogoil nes. will announce to th world t1(-murrow that 1113 baby 1110 .11,11. Upstairs a little form by les ver still wear a white sheet.. The freta Malts that tes0ed and tumbled s1( ellen ale 1(t rout note. Tao Uihidr are all down In th house, and people move about softly Ito if their lootetepe could break th iet:unt slumber upelnirs. Lady Di0' sot, having !Whiled her 1101,,; and taken u cup of efternouu tea under protest, us 11 were, pro- orois to look for dlr Maurice, and him In n Hunte room called by cvurtesx the llbr4ry, but, used by her hely/edit .h asur own private sanctum. Witha face to slit taw (weasioi , Lady Dermot rasters softly, but Is not prcluartl to land he: sou sobbing like a 'semen, its betide over hie face. She produces a morsel of lace Menotti- ntel v and follows suit, laying her cool (hand on his bowed head. "My dear Maurice, 1 had no .idea you were so fond of the poor little child I" Ho raises his fade, all wet with tears—tears it would have broken tepee's heart to see. I uta not grieving for the child," he (lays, brokenly. "tut, oh, mother, when he looked up at me with her 23 uyett-11wife, my wife 1' This is a grief past Lady Dermot's comprehension; su, with a murmur of sympathy, she leaves him, entde- cides evert before her foot crosses the threshold that her sou must get a divorce Immediately and marry Flora Blake. It Is quite a nice little cadre In tho air, and i11 the mean- time she hue a half -formed plan of returning to Drunianecn Castle to look after her sou 111 person. "Como and see him ; he looks like an angel;' Gladys Blake, says to the grief-strickou father some hours later. Very reluctantly Sir Mnurke suf- fers Gladys to lead him upstairs to look once more op his cltild'e race.. Night and day the rtrange, brief look from tho dying eyes haunts him—the look that seemed ono of yeal'ting reproach, the Iobk that Gipsy's eyes used to. have if ever for a momt'nt ho was vexed with her, The poor little face to no marble now, white and tiny, the pillful mouth blotted and the Silky Melte" resting placidly on the white cheeks. Hew sweet he lies, with fhe shadow of that last smile still lingering on ' the doter tips So white, so unnat- urally white, in hie draped cot he lies, with btrowdrops in his folded bands, the rosy fingers that Gipsy mo passionately, lova, white and wax -like now! clledyr' tears fell feet. Sir 'Mau- rice look's on lir 'Benne, with a ret face. He watches Gladys as she *only cute two, or three rings of lair from the marble brow—tate soft lit- tle curie so like Gipsy's. She meets his Byer and whieperr: "1 will keep them for 1110 mother." And then, the husband's mouth qui- vers. He tarne to go; but Gladys comes forward and takes Mr hand. "You haven't kissed h1�" "1 cannot," he anewore, In a euro- thered voice, "I linve leveed no 'liv- ing thing since site left." 'He 1s not living,' urged Gladys, wig; "and ho Is your eon —and alpwy Moved him." Alt the Weeper of les wife's nnme he trembled all over, and then,stooping suddenly, puts hitt quivering a — — tl 444 11tH+ 10 the little one's icy face. t._ Pham Gladys (tears him go away ; r and where the Itlther'm kles rested hes one brig+itt tear. She does not ' wipe it away, but lets it rest on thv+ ileac cheek. Perhaps lutm0 day she will meet Gipsy Hud toll iter how the baby died, 001 that 11e wail buried with his futher'e kiss upon his ilps, e • • • • The cold, gray dawn of a Marcia morniug is breaklcg; softly the pale light Meals Over the land, tender and stud. "It passed the churchyard with n sigh, And wild not yet it quiet lir," In the ectad vault of the Aermote sleeps the poor little babe. It is wolf w•Ith the Neild, and he dors not milts tho loving touch of mother - nettle, the ooreeslug whisper of the 700ng mother -voice. And the dawn he pointed le of the old rolt'tebues otthat hooks au a symbol to thorn below, pointing heavenward; and far, far away morning is !Reek- ing over the sea. Oa the wild west coast, where the silent, solemn sea ehinee 011 silver In the morning light, the dawn fiushah up over the sky noel awakes a world of sea and land and mite- tery. By and by the mists will fly away; but now It is all eluulow and wonderment, with a Raining sea and a soft west wind blowing. Tho light strykoe on Undo Ben's White hedge and on ono ulrehuttored window, the window of the parlor whore Gipsy first met her hwstbana She to here now, In the lame room Where she has been all night, And at tell moment she site la the yeti() daft, her arms spread out on a newspaper upon the table, her head Iakl upon her arms, speechless, sil- ent, with a grief beyond words or teere. D1o1—Maturlce, the infant son of Bir Maurice Derm.rt, Bart,, Druwan- een Castle. 8110 enw these words yesterday. Dead, dead l Her little baby, her darllurg; and ho died in other arms thou hens! All night elm has not cried, never wept one tear. And now It Is morning; and, with utter woe !n her lvldlo face, elle looks out at the light spreading aux! brightening. Her baby dead --her utile, soft, smil- ing, curly-haired baby ! 'And elle, 1413 mother, not even to know lie was Oh, the empty, hungry young mother heart, . Yearning and yearning* to press even her child's stead faoe to her breast! Wllh eyes full of misery, she watches the rising suo and sera the sliver sea fluhieg crimson, She aces the day wake up with a Joyous smile, and she cannot even pray, even think, can realize nothing. She only knows that what she longed for stn never come to pass. In nil tato years to come she will never feel molt, warnelittle hands stealing round her neck, never fool the rosy cheek against her own, never love and pet her little child any more, lie fs dead—he 11 dead!" She eaye the words aloud, and yet no tears acme into her eyes, no quiver disturbs Iter mouth. the elt rreand andyshe lookmvat�kthedown sentoned thinks, and thinks, and mile to mind every feature of the dearly loved little face, and. yet oito cannot weep. Beside her a boltt Is _being run '^wn tae Haack, and the fisherman, One, stalwart young fellow, is eng out for the day, lend over re 0lingle ('4)1)100 1114 111(0 10 e him off. Her baby 10 In er arms, and Gipsy lvatchrs the they take tho child and hold hien nd kloo him, and elle ems how roud and fold the young wife ooke, Then the boat to shovel oft, el goes dancing out to eon; and 111 mother holds up the child and ogees 11114 high up to see "dadelle'r at" 'Surely Maurice will 001110 to net lady beside Icor with a face wild th grief. , Let mo leek at your baby,' s}ao ye "Let mo look at him, for ne le dead 1" Minot has a long look into the 1141 have touched a chord in her le hands gently, and then turns ay and mite down tor before, her lids over ber face; but the un- nmdoue fiegere of the flmhorman'o We face, touches the sunburnt rt, and the tears have came at et. Though the death of her child well-nigh robbed her of nil hope e still believes that her husband I one day Dome for her, ren Suddenly the woman turns to see now!" Gipsy gays to herself, day drif BABY'S B1.S'1' IIt11.NU. Re Tile pest Mend baby can have le a fa elmple medicine that will relleve and a euro the. minor ailments that make p his little life often very miserable. 1 Such a friend is Baby's Owe 'Lala- el lett They cure Indigestion, sour 11 stomach, constipation, simple fevers, t diarrhoea, and allay the irritation le accompanying the cutting of teeth. All mothers who have used theme n. Tablets praise them. lire le L. wd Bourgeois, Eastern Harbor, N. 8., imp ; "I have used Deby'a Own Tab- m lets and look upon them as baby's nil beet friend. I .have found theta an excellent remedy dor colic, and they oh have done our baby much goo.( In lltt many wept." Little ones take these ea law '11abicte as readily as candy, and the oe mother has a grmrantee that they o0 oopteln no opiate or other harmful hen drug. Onoo used always used where la there are little ones In the home. has Sold by druggist' or sent by stall at eh 25 mete a bo; by, writing direct to wit the Dr, William' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE P(tolt DYSPEPTIC la the M,at Mioertbieof Mortals --Only iI Sinular 8(ifcrerw ten Understand Il lm 11,11110 1(l lgunv. There i, no mortal more miserable than tic 101141• dyspeptic l3( is never 11el,itIt , never happy—always ailing, .al,vn�•s out of sorts. Every mouth- ful of food brings hours of 11RtrORs- 1cry moneut of the day is wpolled and soured. It you tare a dyvfsplic, you know the teens ; the coated tongue, the hull headache,:, the heartburn, the biliousness, the persistent torment Iter' 111e111(3, the hopeless despond - envy. Any one of theme signs points to Indigestion. The one sure cure for indigestion Is Dr. Williams' Plnk Pills, They make new blood—that's the whole secret, Through the blood they will brace up your strength, waken your liver :and set your stom- ach right. If you ask your neigh- bors You will firth proof of this right ILL y cur Own h0m0. Mr. Charles Wood, Mars, Ont., one of the Clou- se rids 1 (f dye;prepthrs coned by the use of these pills, says: "For upwards of twelve years I was a great suf- ferer from Indigestion and nervous- ness. Everything I ate tortured me. I (teetered almost continuously, and used niniest everything recommended for this trouble, but never got inoro than temporary relief until I began the, tete of Or. Williams' Plnk Pills. Words cannot exercise the good these pills have dono•nue I am to better health then I have enjoyed In years before, and I have proved that Dr. Williams' fink e'111s cure when other "Yes,' 1,0 answers, curtly. "1 never utedleines fail:' go anywhere, you know. (low are you diseaabloodses, and De Williams' mother flfty Pink purl ell tof home isr peech(Iqui quickly, as 11 Zoording the - Dille will euro them all, because they tut ,tf 1203 etanment o11 rho first. convert bad blood into good, rids "011, quite well—Just as usual— enteroleo nee. bedneither health unot rstrength. Don't N1there can 011 In Lonadys don, iiklallby Mr. Ker, and bo persuaded to try something else— Algy (Icing totldng! M11urie0, do you take nothing but the genuine Dr. know yen tiro looking very 111?" Wllllams' Pink fills. Hold by .all "Am 1 ?" he /eke, enreiesely, push - medicine dealers or sent post paid at hug bis hand through the short brown Oe. a box or mix boxes for $2,50, looks that 11040 slivered en the tem - by addressing the Dr. Williams Medi- plea dulu•ing the Met year. "f am get - eine. Co., Brockville, Ont. ling okd, Flora,' with an attempt at a smile that roue to further than Ids lips. 811- h,u1s at him. steadily. "No. It be not 'oat, itlam'lan1" sud- denly, while her face turns crimson. "Tile life is killing you—the awful loneliness. Listen—not a stir 1" There is not. The Gild house 1s 1111 01111'11 11411117 grave, save for the pat- tering r111n (»Amide. 811 ALna•ice walks to the window end looks out. Bow ellen and often has Ito listened to the stlllneeo till he 'Ihuost fancied he heard Gipsy's light footfall, Ler sweet, soft voice calling him! Bow often has 110 110(00ee1 till the silence bucam'c well-nigh unbeer- nble l flu knows the utter lonelfnese and desolation of Ida life well, and marry it time ho thinks that Ito sere her face as he sate 1t last-rwl(ea he oure(xl her; often Ire seems to see the awful look of home() and woutuled grief In the' eyes that looked into his for the last time sweet time of "ye merrle month yt May," 81r Maurice sits In the library , window. at:01 locks with gloomy eyes at the storm. The lightning flambee In Ihw ,yrs and therein dashes te. leniently ngni1st the windows. Ile watches it all Ifstlessly, with his grave, stern fuer, that never 14111 11011 2(01v nm It IMP(' to do In the (Nye when (tipsy was 11114 wife. A clatter of hoofs under the arch way anal the eight of a figure sheep lug past the window rouse hhn. in another moment tate door ops(1e, and Flora Blake's voice exclaims, gayly: ' !. beolghted traveller seeking Muller 1" She does not, explain that when the seem broke site was nearer Rivers than irrurnancen Caxllr, llu1 the ex - cue, for bearding Alaurlee 111 his cam- Toronto's expt'nditure this year tlo wits too goal to bo resisted, ebe will ire 1$15.81 for every resident stands. with her taco flushed and wet man, woman and child, and of thin with rale, torr tong, yellow hair un- soul :$11.78 will be relies] In taxes. bound 111111 (ranging down her baclq, 11(141 her eyes smiling up Into hie 1111100Y Loo. Once nearly half the Immigration 110 woman bas crossed les thresh- coming Ito thio United Stett war old except 111s mother, since he lust from Ireland. Lnst year of the 8IS, l npsy ; 4111 he !lushes now 1as he ex- tends his haul 1.1 a tardy welcome. Ila Imrnigrtook only "0,1341 were "1t is n ((ltrtul storm, bull 1 1110k trite). That looks hopeful for Ireland, It meet hist," he says, with a glance blacker and tate rale, comes down fac- tor than ever. "lb be Continued) iiNbeeefffi44 CURRENT COMMENT 444444444444444444 'Phe cost or taking tor. U. 8. census n 1900 (3113 15Lj cents per capita. Britain iv 10 spend 011 the navy thio year $1711,18-1,eete, and an the army $170,000,000. It's a wetly business, 1(t the sky. Tits is cut a very promising be- gianing,d 1111101. Miss uo(eptxuthe is nclu at ensile she pushes towards her, 11(1d Beate herself with a amiss. "It }lieges since we have 110011 you„ Ma urine " niter day. "Surely, note that our little ('11:111 1e deed, he will come to ane and take me 'to his heart again." Th�tgh ell the grief she Is Always watching, watching and walking on 1110 road by which Maurice will come; but her eyes glow More piteous day after day, her look becomes more hopeless. The days lengthen, and the even - Inge are long and light, but 111\ never comes; rind her heart aches with weary longing no day after day she Aims and tells herself, "Perhaps/ he will come to -day" ; and, when even - Ing comes she whimpers, "Perhaps he will come to -morrow," Poor, patient, loving, little Gipsy ! Ono night she does not go out to watch on the long, white, dusty road, nor tho next, nor the next ; end titan one evening old Ann goes flying for tho doctor. Gipsy is very 111, weary and broken down at last, " When lam dead, tell him—tell my husband—I loved Itiln always, and I have gone to baba;,' she say's, and then elm turns her Paco to the wall. She will dt" to -night, the doctor says. Batt alto ,morning breaks chill and gray, and tete lives. Day after day, while the summer glory creeps over the world and the waves are deep blue be- neath the midday sun, Gipsy Iles' a mere mooted shadow.; and, when the corn le ruetli:ng yellow in the fields, a Red -eyed little Indy nits upon the eltore, looking, looking out to Rea. But on the long, white rood oho never walks, for Some. thing hail told her t)tat Maurice Will never come for her now, It Is during one of talose walks to the shore that she notices a email crowd round the fishorman'e cottage, and a child's Agonized scre';taus sound from within. Through the crowd comes Gipsy, and goes into the cottage. Tho child has been scalded badly, and his dime traoted mother eau do nothing but cry. It is the same mother and the same little child she watched on tho. shore, "Give him to me!" elm nye, and tikes the ecreannhug, writhing lit- tle creature, in her cool, firm clamp, "Give me 1t pair of echelon'', and get some flour—quick!" Swiftly elle cute off 1t little garments, and flours the scalds well with soft, tender 11111111(, and the loud cries 103(100 and die away to Moaning. Tho mother watches while the sad-faeo(1 little lady eootltrtl land tends the ehlid, and, when the elector cones, there is trot much to be done, "I had Ido cotton wool," Gipsy ex plains. "But I have done my best. hoe -tire poor Tittle fellow is going to sleep.'' The doctor looks well pleased. It is the first time 110 has aeon her take 11.11 hl!tm•e11t in anything, the first time he lee heard her volce change hem its tone of !Wiese indifference, Suddenly a es from Gipsy's eyes; she tremblesof tears under the child's weight, and hands him gently to 1110 mother, while the tears roll down her cheeks. "He le the same age as my own," she whispers, and Kobe away to break her Iteart crying for her own baby. Yet after mee and nurses the flet ermau a child back to health, and the simple Didier folk re- gard her an an angel. CHAPTER XXXVIII. It Is nearly a year and a half since Gipsy went away, and the world 111 green again; and, most un springlike, a thunderstorm acmes cud denly crashing through the tender !eaves, a perfect royal salute from heaven's artlJlely, rolling and eche ing down the rooky glen of Drum aneen Castle. Sheets of rain fall, seething and Meting, and lay the spring flowers low In the long, green grass. The stream Is a roaring tor t, and in the orchard the pink and Within three2 miles in the city of Glasgow there are 00 statloum for passenger traffic. There are circum- stances 111 which that might not be regarded an advantageous. Gilbert Parker Is pushing a Deceas- ed Wife's Sister bill in Britain. The old girl has it good champion, Let 1114 weep. Cod liver oil has Jumped from $,5 to $130 a barrel. Anil they Nay there le iio combine In it, either. It turns out that there was no volcanic exploslon and probably no seismic shock to 00115(3 the disaster at Frank. It seems to have been a ease of simple laudelide o11 a great scale. The consequences, however, have been terrible, the death-t•all totalling between 80 and 00. whits the property lose Is very large. The United States have seine queer Judges. Tito other day la Chicago a man accused of theft \vas brought before Judge Neely, and the case is thee reported: "What is your business ?"' 115kd the judge of tee prisoner. " 1 drive a laundry tvagan, your horror,' meekly answered t'he de- fendant: No wonder you steal," sold the court sharply, "Any mon who would go around 10111 gather up the soil- ed gnrmente of other persons would be liable to steal a suit of cloth- ing; it would come natural to hlw, Miss Blake, lying back in the deep Why don't you get a 'expectable chair, leaves him alone for the s -ace position ? If you will change your of half a minute, and then exclaims, work, I will release you," with a laugh: Is it any w'0n(1rr that when Judges "\leerier, you Inhospitable crea- ture, don't you knew it le ,3 o'clock, lout) 1 yearn for tea?" He turns hastily and rings the bell. "I bog your pardon." Then she talks to hint end 11Ilo bin all the news sue can think of, land lets him fool her (4tweet sympathy, ant goes back to the old, old days before Gipsy lord ever cone to Brit temente Castle, end lends him on to talk, tow, 11110 (01'14 sine, is laying a fun1sl(1flon, 118 it were, for further eff0'tx, � Old Peters brings In the tea, and looks rather surly at the young Indy making herself NO ((111411 at home, "Shall I?" 1111014 Blake safe, sweet- ly, laying her hand on the old Queen Anne teapot. "Yon know men never c:u1 11011 l' out tet." Ile takes a cute from her bands; and she does not know that all the time he 1s thinking with an agony of recollection, of another face and form presiding with childlike grime at tato tea table. Ile puts thieve the cut untaste(l, and once more tnkes refuge In no deep old window. Mem Blake sips Iver tea In Beene°, 01(11 partake'& with a smile of the thin bread and butter. The very ele- ments are favoring ,her ; the sky gets talk like that the bench losee lire respect of the masses? The work of collecting clothes for a laun- dry le honest work, land whether the collector is to be respeetel or not depends 011 (tow 1111 he does lt, lint what Hort of Justice 1s to be looked for from. a judge who entertalus such /lotions? Montreal is too poor to maintain a public library, even when Carnegie offered $1 30,000 for a building, lichee it will return his benefaction, wh1ch it last year ngre(vf t0 accept. We. are not very proud of Montreal. The courts having held that "Can- non" as used in the B. N. A. Act menus 1111 Canada, It would be well for Canadians to stand up for giving to the phreso "Catnada for the Cana- dillns" 1111 to m/Illy broad meanlug. The self-seeking coteries should not be al- lowed to make tem of ft for tho pur- pose of getting tariff laws to enable them to tax their 1(11ow cilizrns. Iood is Watery in. the Spring It is Lacking the Essential Life -Caving Principle which is Best Obtained by the Use of DR. CHASE'S NERVE FOOD The bred, languid and depreesett feelings w ldch come with spring are the outeard beneath -in of the weak - Piled rendition of the blood 11011 the low sttele of vIt:tlity. When the bloml gets titin land 1vat- ery the waste of the Minute body- is more rapid than the proaws cg ro- (onstruelion. Gradually the action of the heart grows weaker and weaker, the hag4 do not work to their filll cap:lolly,'the eloameh and other digestive orgasm fall to per- form lhelr ,duties, 1010 1110 result is all sorts of bodily derlungementg. Aching lead, ddzty apclls, hldigee- tlo1, rerllugo of weakness end de- ependeney, hack of energy to per- form the duties Of the (derv, loss of you, lead all can be avoided by the use of Ur. t'hese's \scan Font. There is no per par:lti0n to be C0014 pared to 11r. Chase's \cryo Feed ns et spring restorative, 1t does not stimulate 41M1 so whip the organs of the body to over-exertion, but by enriching the blood, insulae new vigor into the nerves 1,131 buhds up the whole system. Iiy' noting your increase 111 weight while using (111s greet total cure you (711(1 prove that new, 1.11'111 (I(s0h 111111 tissue IR being' :aided to the body. To awaken Ilio liver, invigorate the kiduteys and regulate the Lowrie, 100 Dr. Cuts(' R Kidney -Liver ('ills. All dealers. or Eilm(nsou, BntPR a a pulite, fxiling memory and it onto. To protect you of concentrating the mind, lrrti power Armature !inflations! Dr. the portraitCaoe, and white apple blossoms ile like (17,nervousnessand slerplessnreeare famouerrecline book lar. A. author, Cane, the is of Sodden anew, a wreck of the anto1g Lite ey'mplanfs which diRtr:ss every box of Ms remedies.are on