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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-05-21, Page 3tf4t}1.t0}olars,tt"Tofiaav,Q,0111'0158st9®.t 9'^®at0 PAUL VANE'S WIFE�y }•ollaset}'olliaa1.t}oliltes$01 r tr\assOP"Oe.t}"G11►t}'i.t0 CHAPTER I. 1.nraiu0 Lisle {caned forward PS the carriage Hage rolled up the broad village street that Sunday morning, and looked with languid interest at the graceful, '.Lith -0010d figure going in through the door of the ivy -draped oriel -windowed 0111 .tone chre,, "A village beauty:" eh( exclaimed. "Who is she, granhu(rc?" The handsome yilver1'haired old lady au the appo _010 seat, who had just bow- ed to "the village beauty," answered, with a smile: ,.Site is• Vivian Vane, the young wife of stir- nine 'rector, Paul Vane, She is la'eutiful, as you say, and also very oharrniag. 1 inn very fond of heti, and h, a. .ler. bait, Ic'nd d (bol, gu'y ov(s,. 1,r^Ina". and a 'ilio' brown ma n..lal u, that. 11111111.. Hate 10011 his pot (entity from the tender (08)' he often '1uo.Se4 it with a shapely white 11nud, 11e w']`o 1hir0 }ears old, and hadbr'ouglh lovely 111,-iah to (.isle a bride ,lust one year ago. ('11AP'TEF 11. Pan i1) spite of his aniesement at her fears, l,voly Vivian was nervous that day Winn they started rel their walk to :Arcady to call on the heiress of whom eudl rumors were afloat that' hikers were were quite dazed over her arrival. She Was as rrrou(1 as a queen, and utter- ly '.heartless, they said. Whispers hod mime minims the sea of her conquests and 1 hope 5011 will be, too 1 001110 " her coquetry. 'She hail refused a hue, The bean ifnl dark Mee of Mies {.isle rind lovers, it ons said, and out of them looked a littlecomfit' at those words, (here 0500 elle who had gone mad and slain himself for love of her hiring beauty. Vivian had thought of this that peeve. surprise. fel summer morning, when 111 1100 low Seo you have. a new rector hero.. tory to the heat lady of the. neighbor. Where, thou, is 1)oetor' Goodwin. sheIeced, lyes. lllIe, she luted vaus!ht the glare of tlwse passionath dark ryes fixed on her happy peaceful face. She Lad .shivered, although she was out cold, end whispered to herself: "Is there then no dishonor In the smile of a woman, when Wren, gazing on her, Can shudder and soy: '3v am' ample is a grave?'" The nest moment she hod stepped across the tt1reseoki into tie, dim-oisled charm, and found, to her dismay, that site w11 late, She had let Paul go of 1(011e she, had stopped to see 11 sick child, and now her stately husband, in his flowing white gown, was reading the litany over the bowed heads of the, you- gee:ration, and :the proud black eyes faded from her mind 011, stoning softly to her pew. she stunk to her lances and joined in the decoct responses: "Oh, (loci, the Pother of beacon: have mette5 upon us as miserable sinners]" It was almost a week since 11001, and one '1(1)111 put off a duty call no longer. Vivian hand pondered amxeorsly in her mind one• Hae nlonml1ous question of what she sh0ahl wear to Aveady, Mrs, I h0lr's 1),111 1f 10 place. leer bridal finery (11,(5 a little passe, lips, and her new blatl, .1110 was rather too With her warm hair wound through my 1.11111 for midsummer. finger-tips, "Anything1 00110w W111 leek dowdy be- 1)rnininr her soul at one deep -drawn side her Worth gowns; so 1 shall wean' kis,' 1sinea Ile white ass"usual," she decided at last; ,11x1 site did not know bow licuu• ,e is the most benuliful creature ,L,11x1 and pe01i0 she looked in the laser' )11011( saw," the. reetor's with toll hien 11Lite '0101 drapcl les 11114 the 001)1 - afterwht'd when they were discussing b)irnmcd OUite 1st, 11111) its droophag, the now01rival, I1, palel0' 111111(011, Taut V'aIle put his arm aa,0ut She fastened some heavy -headed pint: 1)015,w'aist and drew her before a air- roae.i at her holt, aid set ort 10isuely roc. with her husband on (heir long walk, "Perhaps ,you have never seen your - for Anon), weis quite u. mile and 11 half self, my darling," Ile said, fondly; and fro11,s001,),°,1 rectory at flu; upper cud of though a wave of crimson rose up over '11))' main street the white brow, Vivian looked as he "1 thiel: you will be'quite sorry that bade her, and she saw a ffee and form 'o1) gint off your call so tomg,' Paull that, though of a different type from f01) Vane said, after a glance of keen 1,oruine Lisle's, was no less lovely.111101'111 1)t her tasteful 111111111100 cos• firs. Vara was of medium height, with ume., "L hoard to -day -that --Miss Lisle 11 100111 as slender and delicately mould- intended to 1111 Arcady with summer 515 - ed as ever haunted an artist's dreams' 1tore, and that a hatch arrived y(ster. Dud her 0100elnenta embodied the 'cry rya pn•h'y of motion. Added to 1110',,)' ,1)t she dill not say whether or not she would be fond of the new rectors wife. She arched her slender dark brows in ascus Ile is dead, Have 500 forgotten, Loraine? T wrote you of his death more than a year ego,'' g0.1ndnrere answered, with a glance of mild reproach, "1 had quite forgotten," Miss Lisle an- swered, as if it were a matter of no moment.. She had been abroad- With :English relatives four years, and had ahnos.t lost interest in the affairs of ler oil home in the village she- had quitted 1111 immature girl of seventeen, already giving promise of that rare beauty wilier) at twenty-one had developed into the perfeetiou of 11 dazzling tropical flower. Yes, Loraine ':isle was gloriously b(.au1i101 as she leaned indifferently bail; in the enttiage, with the summer sun -Lice of her Virginia hone full on her eream•tinted, oval face, with its low, broad brow shaded by silky wares of blue-hlack hair, an0 lighted by large, intensely dark eyes 11111 of slumbering fire and passion, while full, dewy -red lips, half parted in a smile, made one t-himk of kisses that might, be lingering there for some fortunate lover. "I would I were laid o1) her queenly breast, at her chimes was an enchanting face, sweet and piquant in the sane breath. ]l1) easily as those proud bitted. ' eyes 010 complexion was exquisitely talo ail looked ate over so keenly on Sunday,' flushed with a sea -shell glow on cheeks was the mulling reply; 1114 he thought, 11111 111''''1100e Small, sWutglit nose is he gazed in the iron's, cullid1t4 face, "So natter, deur. I. thinie l could face a whole regiment of guests 110 W115 null in spite of its rogularr ty, the large eyes had the '0l(, purplish blue of rummer violets, 01111 drop within them lurked a mirthful gleans tint matched the roguish dimples in cheeks and 01in. She had dainty ptoloos Vivian for his onon, hands and feet, and the graceful head "Call all your courage to your aid; was covered with short rings of hair here we are at tele gate, he said laugh - that, in the smilight was "1100e golden ingly; and it was strange that 110010n gold," and lent to the piquant face, with should grow pale a moment 1)t those its innocent white: brow, an expression I words --piquant \'reran, who had 110011' of extreme youth, though she 100 quit0 Iaok,d before for the most graceful self. old. She was clothed 1)l- 1 possession that he Ind trine Y'nirst Hilt, in the world. No 0710 could approach her in beauty', 004 her 11,,111 was as jure and fair 110 leer fate. 5)101)', he had been fortunate above ail encu ill winning twenty ye'a's ,. , most; always in pure, simple white, and ire 11X115 hand 111,11)1111 as arc 11)1)1 it made le, so lovely that surely Paul t it pleadingly on Ids arm, Vane was excisable for his incredulity lou will have to toll h: to " ,e1. she Paul, e , over another woman's superior loveliness. 1 and let me talk to 11011.. 'Lisle" ,t- "Vl ' dolling, she could not be more 1 claimed, lightly, hut. with Latent carne., beautiful than you are," lie said. taking trees hr her mueicll tones. her in his arms and kissing the Lair, CHAPTER 11I. frank face so array tunes tint its lovely, Arcady was one of the most beautifil delicate blushes deepened to a 0(1101on country homes fu alt Virginia—a hu'g', glow. She flung her white 011100 about rambling, old stone mansion, with bay - his neck and clung to him in an ecstasy windows and piazzas jutting,lbe•e and of love, although presently she returned 1 there, and half embovvoged - in pict.ur- to the subject by saying: esque ivy the some as the old stet c "Yes, l know I am pretty. Paul, in a church, for both were built at the "tun 0: babyish kind of way; but Miss Lisle is t time, a period dating a little after the different, She is like her portrait up at Revolutionary War. At first the too Arcady, only older and more beautiful. houses—:Arcady and Forest Church •. She Inas a warm, southern type of beauty the latter of which was beep by u .—la se (—large black eyes, rich, dark hair, a Lisle for his family u.- was surmunt- all red mmath, like a flower, n. face � ed by the Lowest primeval," but novo Roll of scorn and passion. I luno' I shall a pretty, thriving village had gtow'n0L be afraid of her, nod I am almost sorry quite, to the park gates. The nunniificeut promised her grandmother that we estate, however. covered ground ex- rvonld 1011 dais week." te11011'0 enough aur a city in itself, o rn "'Vonstnse!" laughthe t o rr,ct o1,•. y1,•1 no Ire rural churn 1(n, at oat )n bh,0 0:1104, 0l :-!hurt 111:V0110111e at the girl's levity. The e, heiress want- bac,) to iter soldierly' looking norther. Colonel 1'111110, and re - land wit11 great glee her cruel words, "I have shocked ley der, simple grnmlmer' by some new whim Peer day since 1 conte hone," 011e laughed. "She is dreadfully old-fashioned and goody. goody'. 1)0 you 1no0, 1 have a mind to Flirt with he saintly Paul Vane, just to see her dismay."Colonel Fairlie smiled; lint he loweredhis ('0i", 011(1 replies{: 'limy are not going 11p to the house. 11 n Lisle is bringing them. this way." 1,1),ane 0nal:eh11 her racquet and flew after the ball. She pretendedvo1 -to see tli, guests until they hod been seated several minutes in garden chairs under the trees. They lh had ample time to observe , th1. 115 she flew lie' and thither with ane nos gr100. f'nui Vaine saki the 1101)1.111 LOT, tae 111(1')) 1111111, tie S(•,rt111111 Oil)10 'y tee cu1'ced real lips that nis 11)10 had compared to a flower. 1_e 00)4) not gainsay hiss Lisle's sensuous, luring beauty. "'Loy' will soon finish the game, then 1 will Intruduee you to them all,"' said gentle old ]lis, Lisle; and she pointed out rte menthe's of the part. ''he pretty brunette 111 green rad shite is Miss Freda Xaoyz, of 1'hihr- dalphia. ''the one in pink is Beryl .Area - cows of New tort:, '1110 tall ire in 1111 O .h- ti 1111 n 1) 10 'dr al e), at gone' 1,14.11), Ilya 11 .A'1,( '101 1.. 0,11 i1.. Mel) /lee. Colonel Fairlie, AV-illie'genitors, 0 poet, Gordon 11a11, and the other o e, Frank nl. Barre tt, is from Philadelphia." V'1011111 4ured with interest at tin 11011001000 players, hut ho thought that olonel 1agh,e and Loam Lisle were the handsomest (amnia on the grounds. .Cho colonel was -tall and broad -shoulder - id, 11th a soldierly' face and forst, and grave brown eyesthat avem r here this :manila)) .000 had a look as if they lad gazed o1) sadden scenes 4. well shnpld 1,001, Willi brown halt closely cut, 5)111)' did features, at a drooping brown 01omstaehe shading, a half stern mouth, made up a most attractive ensemble, and \' pian decided that he must be as old, if not older, than her husband. She wondered if Colonel Fairlie, 51)111 Loraine Lisle's love, and if she 0001)1 10tnen his devotion or raring his heath Lis she had done so many' others..A sigh br1ith'd over her lips at the thou tilt, impair d 1,1 his way leas 011110 00 handsome 00 by N10 t')i'011hrl5 habitations im ter the war 1etwceo the Status that had treed they shares, the 1,1sle5 were re- •mrd0d as nunteycd pe.oplt 13ut the 1anIilrhaddeitindded'diaw1sA,u.w 101 e n\ i 1 r 11;1111 her Lcnntdu ) I. , Ir 11114 ) i 1h 11 . h 01 old .1....00!. a ea c..1) tit dl tet rm)itx'd t t pt 1110 ac ❑0410 had ,(1,l 1111,' 1)l 011 death of Loraie's lathe who had 1 .0 111=ode(,,, abroad, 01', 1,1the, she taikel a lonely wanderer over the face of the • 1., 110 rec1o0, for Vlvi,n 5)1111 but hart. earth 100 mminy cents; hu{ since no ;:h' lei; 1')' husband tall, to S\rias 1 isle, tidings came tit hhn, n ta10 b illeved Le a , she bad threatened she would, and must, be dead, hew ✓n rcmu'm ,ed 1'.1oireV fu sunhng silence to the „tea, lino noir bat his motile ul015 ti 1.1, i1 111.0„ 1110 which •no0 he'nnm loair Ir d turned to sihvl n!ta.e is like+' ,,,,1111011 11114 social, and almost before ruhl bargin;;i fo• the ubsdatec,.mid Uunh� 'he. i'.ul 1c.tlized line it carne about, Vic. on quietly act _lrcady, a gentle, Christian i,rn flaamul herself en111ag0d in playing lady, respected by all and loved i}' 1110011 icnnis with the stately Colonel Wooly—a tcplenl 1 ngmnr geut1evvmm�• ,,. i. , 1 • • husband hid 1G's 1',..111 111110 let Paul Vane 11.114 itis Inn• young o ie ] ; ter 1 , ,tat Lir es 1000110 violets.' Sunni neii• whim had emu' over beauli• fel Loraine, She laid aside her air' of I:aute1 Bad elc,Ittcd brightly and plca- r 1 "village and with rut Vane n h I tri 1 v e She mil 1)t as 111,11 called Mrs Vane. :111;cd to them of her travels and her 1(ni,t,d o1) up bile ',1indut { i0(1 114 0)115 .,Old 111s. Liche looked on, well pleased 11101 led through a 1101,µh50 of !00111 is ' con,le etnsior, 11,,11) cun'lnd- gfn 1,1010 and flowers, 10111 presenthy' a n1., ( s 0(1 tll,ht her. :.u0Ob„0lghter had 1)1)15 they heard noises unit laughter coining 1loon Ler 11. • hi'' nivel words from the tennis court. When th(�y 011111111 ,01."1 1. 1 d J in sight of it they saw some ladles 1114 1 ret"item 1,,r be feeuls," syn ,rill 4)1111emen playing a game, and lets, err eels ,1miht) 1, and certainly it Lisle sitting on al garden chair serenely to r serf : h0 vroi ld ,aye yin wish. soy - watching them. She came contract wily 11,0101111 .r - sighing tlrougL the a cordial welcome for the 1iait011i rhe snit bra 5111011 11 lou w aIle ing, gently: tell pines urn0 ly,, .house (i'itli you 11 )11min'. spoke 1.11 her ears in a foreign I. will go into 101 while they. finish their game, ]'het be- tongue \vbrnat yvhispered that tills gold - 00111)1 11:01 exons' herself mid come to 1111 1)h' dray' w )s the hes+ruin„ of a h,)!_• you" 1)h :1 thrur lira- —the bees 0t 110111101, w Lisle 1leaae let 08 stay rind w'Rlh)1 Lurniue,. Paul Von' and 100111, „Oh, :Ors. 1 y 00te{t Aitem. It looks so pleasant out Viv{n::, here under the trees!" enied V'Irian; erg- No ma, hoard that (101rd whisper i n crit'; and the old iadv a0rentett ,10)11'), the pinta that sighed: "Woe, woe. wool" o' she had been hart b' 1:01,11100 refu- 'Clu'it oav 5'0040, (bete 1)01101 18llehte , f n .lel 1 sale to cone at once to the call,re, div std rho sound. Viv uurwas food of "You attest excuse 1)o to them, altd trnnis; 1\1'1(1.111'y til4 Cuhou] lhaitfl' could m0k� 1 will come 1'[1011 1 have finished 1115' 1)105elf 0rh'n la,cinethag 110)11 h? those. game,' she hail said, when 1e• 11110)11 on 11' chose now, Inc certainly it 1v1(5 001 HI 1(110 10(0)1'), to their canting. while exerting iiniseli for so fair a part. "But, Lacune, it will seem rude." nor. And how quickly the dolor cane "Nonsense! net if 1 'could neglect iny' and went on her cheeks, h:i'.. Ahoy guests for then), Why, in drug: 'sparkled with pleasure and keen 0p'1(r0- land we did not consider the clergy' as (dation of the 100100)0 0nd 11(0 plea -:cit. ranking very ,igb. fly 0011811), 1,ady ihings he know so well how' to say! Ili _'age, used not to invite Belem to her said to himself that he hind neve' i 011 v11 grandest affairs --Duly to small parties." betoe {row bright and arch blue eyes "l1, is quite different here in Virginia, mem he. A9'hilr 0he looked at Lim, he Loraine, The. clergymen rank with the recalled t 11) m tat lo'1n best. 'their patent of nobility {a 11,.m ^lwetc;t eyes! -law' '((101 i❑ 1.10\1'1102 1 Clod 1hlh0elf. 1,or0inc Lt •le toss)] her proud, dark land in derision. 'T'he Vanes are great friends of mite, and t 'Lnuld 111 e them toba nom do :u' ae,a',''' this cede yid (1..l': vent: red, almost pleadingly. The proud beautc, who teres lonlfng incomparably drizzling in a temps suit of eca lot and ee,n1) color, made a moue of disdain. Goody-goody people are the Lust ones 1 should. choose for my friends,'' she declared. They 'near}' ono with) their saintly airs; and after all, 1 as- sure yon, grandnwre, 11))5 1011 e0))erdlly' ho hence 011011 Other people. 0101 Dat find 11,01 out. AVhv, 1 0old. iliat with your helar, 1f i hold out Illy little lin- ger to high " she Jangler, roc 1)r ly, :1:1;1' her grandmother, other, turned away n it11• mns of m:) 1. for it se'11111d 511011 a fay for so no le 1 i. ,cif:, tall, finely formed, and graces The 1,0)110.',) 1 pelt had 1)101 ys boon I'1) 1„ .t man to suffer 1)t the hands of fel. with a lead of thickly clustered, a'iStoeratic and wealthy; and even n - u heartless coquette. des. Lisle went on to tell ('1001 that these friends of Loraine were rich fash- wiable people whose aequaintance she had made when they traveled in Europe the preceding summer, She:nid they troudd •spend a month at \r rly, and then— .lint here her (onfi- d1uces were broken 1)p, for Loraine ap- proached with a queenly air, and the next home t the rate• and his lovely wife had received an introduction to 210 heiress. Der guests followed in her Woke. and many "lances of admiration fell on Vivian, w -ho certainly looked 00 fair as the realization of a poet's dream. 1fr. Brewers, the dark -eyed young poet, who alored blondes, gazed of her with rapture, and whispered to pretty- hiss 'VOrdyz that -hes. Voile's eyes were "blue TOR 5YEARS' EACH SPRING FACEANDSCALP ERUPTIONS TROUBLED THiS LADY TILL ZAM.BUIt CURED, Miss Mary Levesque, 303 Stadacina St, Hochelaga, Mon- treal writes : "I have found Zam' Buk an excellent remedy for skin eruptions. Up to this Spring I was bothered for almost five years with a red rash, small pimples and sores on my imam! on the scalp tiro' the hair, Nothing 1 used would clear this rash from the skin until I began using Zam-Buk, This salve has effectually and 1 believe permanently taken al those unsightly pimples and 5010511001 both scrip and face. I shall recommend Zam•Buk mall my friends." For healing eczem+ud attskin disease Zam• rfuk is without equal: ;It is good for eh$5nu0tism when well rubbed in. Piles also yield to Lam -link All stores sad druggists, s.c. or Zam-Buk Co., Toronto. • it reuainedi 111 1.r 1ln0 to day the one bit- ter deep in her full c0111 01 ,joy. the 0110 thorn among her roses, that she would not, with all hey 111110015, dominate tri-: one, unimpressionable 'meat, She could not . r �atahtl withthe issuer's lovely wife, and it ceat•d to la r I.., en ir chg., it trifling w0 lwss pronounced til.r,1 n-:1111: His glance log'reo ,,Ie0i1.1ogly 1111 111i fait'filet) wiry its rxtlm llc cru-ll11! tinting, aid in• lion) 00',:'01•; to ii -len to 11-1. (—et"( Loathers lips (0(1(d In aa1410' 1011101). Slid he really ,,; 1.,1111( -'her, this village hi -11111y? The suspicion ranted it spasm of 10,11- ous 1111111 10 0011,1 the bean1)''s heat, and 0 tinily of dielip, for AIrian Valle made iteelf keenly 1(It at the till 1101 moment, Hitherto she lied telt a darn ming ad- miration for the '1)10:0 u'tfe's (V011400 - fill beauty, so different 1)t 1:ype front her own 11101:, glc 1 ung stype, hat now 11, evoked secret anger, .1 moment of fierce parr, 11ten came the reassuring tlloeght1 ",.h1) c is married. , Admire herall he Inas, it ('01 0,me to ilothing. Besides, l dare :sue he is only pretending mn tid- e -Oration he doe not feel, hoping to vex arc'. 11'u14 Cuuc, .uu;e't01' goer(' 0f tennis went on, ivondi 15 l why 1m11 wife lad faneud 0I11'y 15'00111 find the heiress ''131. find t. ' ';she is nothing (t the Itind. She is bright, re,relq 11.114 1.11)0: .11,'! 1111 '47 .00 1itth' 101111 of arrogance lit comes her lovely," be decided, ander the glean of the 0111101011119 black 1,11s she 8entlt1006 111i101 to, i111 thee, True he. sometimes detected`a sombre gleam in them that ,thew older she trieleed to grew'wai. excited iris 100111er: hut it passed quieli she was always pile and listless, suffer. ly', nod 101'0(11: immediately becane ed front headaches, dizziness and 1iaflita- ;;aycr than rndore, seemingly 'interested tion of the heart. She 114 not nest est in nothing hot the game and he' part. night, and would often toss and menu 111;).. 1hit whole night hi)alh' she had to When he walked hone with F10ion discontinue going to school, and os'shu in the cool of the twilight horn-, after 'tv11s ernitinnnlly taking doctors' !nedieban (le ira:n. Airs, 1.isle's cordial invitatimt without benefit 1 41100' di courngeil, 11114 o •try 101' t''1, the 111)1)' cetyl. 08 Nov feared 1ve (1 ''14 lose her. Friends 1)10011 1'11e repeated cuhae0 11111 41,011100d it, 1)0am0 ono also of inte0st; was to rive hacDr. AWilliams Pint: Polis, 'lough yon snug a hundred peen'' 1 and pleasure, viewed i1) the. clear 116l1t and 1 finally decided to do so 115 the Stell w the hest one wound be be this, 11111 Both bail enjoyed it time she had taken three bora'•, there 1 can liver it, of 0,0411 , F 1 ' ,- r, thoroughly, vats 1,m improuuu'nt, 111111 n all: 'Twist my spirit -Veer 11111011 were all i,1i , \hiss l:1'11' he was whir to return 111, school. f`",:1.a And Ilia earth anise intervene --re 1)t ' eteeee' did Might ght ( 1101 ort I1 • 1.au 00y1r had •1.1 1 i 'BLOOD MAKiNG A Cure far Allaernia '1 .,:1,.5 ;.: , ing f:et:,ark;.f.Ee 1x11111)1 to In Stltbi-mt:1 r i1 Yl, \\Lela the hely 1,,ef/1 PS sial: ruin 01111 lova, 111101 hear '1)1.1100!', 110.0,) err N'rere illne-, , 00 100011lmtion of tile.', blood 'could slots' it to lie veal: told veatery, 7'11is c004itton is called 01010- 10111, which is the medical term for "1,100111t ,naso." The common 0511'11 toms are paleness of the lips, gaits 110,4'. cheeks, shortness of breath tind piipita- tion 01 the heart after the slaghteet (with», 41111 eyes and loss of appetite. Anaemia itself is a dangerous disease and runty gradually 11000 Into consump- tion. 1t can filly be cored by treating Its entree -5111111 111 the poor condition of the blood, The blood I1)119t be made richt, 1001 red, 1100reby enabling it to ea 0- 'y the neeesanry nourish,ne,nt to ('very part of the body. Dr. \\'illraa.IS' Pihh lily 1)e the great. est ntedhrtne 1)t the world fm making new, (toll blood and they hove been 'et 1'• ing alatmta aced cher blood 1(1sytsee for (0((015 n generation, 011(1 are now reeog- mieod the world 0 1.110 1111 invaluable household remedy. Alts. 1), l:otabroolo, 13roo1-lyn lluad,,1c. L., sits "My daughter Gertrude, who is now in 1 e1. sixteenth year, %vas s`c115 from early childhood, Ice wore- constantly doctoring fat• ho•, 'but it did not 1,1V) to help her i1) the least. la fact, as she Streetr (yes 1000 1)l inn 5°"111 a Yes, they vole beautiful )'V'05 1,01.ghl, ,toed s you foreboded," the handsome !lent appmUte, slept well at n g15, ,nod i, 111.1, 1011, 1)) nr;11'1 011 11 1)1011/001111 now' us 1rer:111', 0 ':1)I r•- you 011' Bund trunk, and untroubled, with the ane- ranee m;' 1'10+4 uv receive su.11e.t 11;11011 into A f hriieve tliat Dr. AVillia shine of youth, i(l eecece amu ImCo1,00's ' "ere'500' saved Ler life, and as. a mother 1 '1m ,1 shining i1) {heir 1111011 deaths, Colonel hri,rLt 1 ' -o• she. was more. cotdtscealdlllg 001111 00cnum11011d 'bene 'irk to ,v 0y t,a.;:: , ai ',Arlie, as he looked into them, felt that,1ieb there etc yo,;ng (5101, All mediehte d,,lees sell these pill • o1,• you con get then by marl at 50'"'n.', at when I looked at her 1 saw that she tins nuc n sir; bore for 02.511 from h' ;ll.. One of the mast v atiou.s ,end yet not 1 ,11110' 11111!) i' t ,,,, I n. I: (1110. cot.agnnsibF cxperl.nces that eve' comes 001.01111; me, 0101 I felt ars if Ale die to a belle 11101 homy is to become in- iihe lee," ferest,01 in some men who aign.s,.n' b' A 1 L Turn About. t f Id lila ren(t1 to 11(.1 01111111th. 100 ,001 0101 (1 fair as her Inc,,. 011/105410 10. expected; yet, sonehov, 1 010 afraid of her still," confessed she. "I did nett i talk- to her 0111(1 but 1ye•lal t 1 0S 13t1{liaut .110 1. ,10, in spite of lie 111- 10)11 115 n 11en!M al.er, had Lad a taste mi this 1110ahnting experience, and t1: nun 11110 had so piqued her w'a: colonel Pall ll'. _l. - 110)1 known ]aim a year, 1)0114 had men lint time unuaierabl.. ale admired Loraine its eve(yo!0 else dial.; 110 lust 1111 her subtle overtures toward a flirtation with tiro ready response of a luau of the world. Ile 1) 11 looked into her eyes with the Most thrilling gaze; ,e had held I,e' bund 111 0 clasp that suggested tdema- tion: Le. lad adjusted her wraps with a lingolong_ entpresemmrt that suggested u. ,'area 1. But Loraine 1(110 novel' (hundred by this by' -play, whatever othe'5 might be, • :sbe keen, the signs of love. loo well to be deceived by colonel 1 11iilie's 10001.1110 61101 king' ilnit 11011.110 01114' 10)01110(; (1111 his pulse never bent the faster for Iior coming: that he was perhaps ,amused when lie. sac' in her some slight sign of pique at his c 110l00 nes 1 lingered her (levity sometimes when she fancied that 1111 was repeatiut to me some 01111111 0 nto)swg ganm in. his magnetic brown flat h0 raid quit, described her. '.They' eyes betrayed a suspicion. of her (eine ran ,something like this," and she re - fully guarded secret. Theo she would luntrd 1110 5110:11 expressively: throw' herself with wild abandon into the Pursuit of some more n00101404.1111111- I .,shO 1110 0 Loud as soft. and white— tion, But if she dreamed of mak1n; him jealous by this last ]manoeuvre, Loraine 'always found herself mistaken. U0luual 1+'girlie mould turn calmly to sone other beauty, content with her tln'oll, until Lo) wte was ready to pick him up attain like i glove II. had 1) c untari 1,$) aside. het, strangely eiottgll, it seemed to Loraine, in hen angry consciousness 1)l 1's secret amusement and hidiffeeuce, he always managed to be sonewherc neo her, and he had at'epted with nag• e 110_. the 0111)11on to _Arcady. (el- tanly, it lie did not love la bells 100.1110, he had in her some )mysterious interest. \rebut is it? 'Why does Eugene Hage• near me so constantly, giving everyone else ,the impression that he )rimes 000, yet 11,1101 sp0nkmg 0110 Aword of love, whit, in his fleeting, elusive glance:, I sometimes rood a mockery that is almost contempt? Chen the angry color flies !lata 111' cheer 004 1 almost hate llm for the muster, of his mind over Wine." Loraine rine 5'0)1111 matte' this to herself' sometimes in 0 futile rage, ladle her splendid dark eyes would flash and her smooth cheers burn tvith humiliation ever' her (1000) iterl passion. But, try as she would, she could not conquer it, :nod \h, an ideal•" cried Paul V41111. 11'' Linked with ;ender pride into the foil' fact, "Silo 1)10100,1 1110 you fel' the s011111 00115011 that yon looked at her. Doti] :11.1. beautiful." "I told you so!" \1yIFlll cried, With pretty triumph She is 411.101)1115 b'nu- tiinl, is she 11011. 1 aul'r" "1 Lane 1(110(1 seen 0110011111 0111101)) Whom I thought as lovely as my'•lvifc;' the 0eeto' said, gently. "But next to you, wry darling, she is. certainly very attractive." '1)1,1 you see me after the game was nee Paul, sitting under the, cedar tree with the handsome, (lark -eyed young potty Ile 0a9 telling 100 about Hiss Lisle's ta'ipinglis abroad, of her maple!. ries alet- ries and her enmities." "D1i1 you thin]: it quite kind to dis- "1olu1, you've bean drinking cin." "What of it, Algia 7" "You 5110'0 Ill for good has; y;eW, Y'ear's day," "But that was four months ager. 1 r 111 C a. glass of writer, won't you. lee, S fully thirsty this morning." "I shan't 4o it1" "Yoe' won't Didn't ,you pcotnis1. `.!.'r - in, that you n'onld love, 1001101' - 0)1)1 obey mel" "Yes, but that was tet yea's ago." '►.e From Its Point of View. The fly was crawling over the but ter. "Fought" exclaimed the insect, !,.1.;t. ply flying down on the tablecloth ..'d trying to (dean its leos by wiping them on its wings, ",that. staff's butt PI hi., (')(O'( your lost me'? euquhed 'lie 1,'1'- , It's got so nowadays that pm can'' he. 110e, 1110i 4(0(11' rebuke n his kindly ..sure of 1101' 011114 you eat. it'') .111 ndul tone, aerat00!" "I did not 1(egi11h it, 1 05011re yon, Looking o'ou'd foe son(thiug 11' 111 Paull; 0111, 11800 0.1, I suppose there 1 to its liking, ht found a shoot of g11 w'ir'e 0.05 1)o harm m what "'"0 )lid. Air. sticky flypaper and soot) became ,,, :per - Bennetts knew her in England. and be otcl' stuck on that. and she rather g111011d in lie• purer. Take nue! To hold it was n pure delight- 13r0t0e1 That 111110 hand will pierce thy heart With deadlier sting than nettles' smart, Or savage wartier' poison dart - 11e ware!" Paul Vane shivered, despit0 the warmly of the snmmcr' eve11:4, 1111) words sounded 110 cruel. Were there really lvoame11 who could thus exalt in hymen pain? He lid heard of thein, but they seemed 11110.0111 0)10111000, far removed from his life.. flow could it be trot of that iretutiful 110111110 `lower ';hose dark eyes hail looked so softly into ills an host aigo? A \agar nicest stirred in hint 0t the thought of her falsity. "It is shocking, if it be true ' he said. "What 0nit\ she ever went ad'ay from her godly old rauldmnthcr into the wicked wield that can applanl anything so dreadful as trifling with human af- fcelion, Can we not -help her, Vivian, to Netter views of life and duty?" Ile spoke earnestly', but the young wife sighed 05 she answered: "I should expect her to wither me with those scornful eyes if I presumed to hunt that elm was not perfection." "Of course, m, darling, '0'e can not. lake. bar 01011!) to tank. bat 111(0 111011y (('ayes 111 w'h{111 to 001010 len ,'t'• 'ivy cal 101int her gently, to a nobler life. for 1111 own urd her grand(othet s sake 1 11111 intlresttd ice this young girl both :old I hope soon to see •bet brought bite the nlemelh, in spite of the stunning it:- Mel-mewl, t:Mel- 111.ice she shows toward it now."" "Yon are thinking of the power for good er evil that 0.110 will meld in (10' pan h when Mfrs: 1.101-e i5 dead said Vivian ,earnestly. "Yes you areright; rte must hey to bring her to 0 bettor ILLS OF BABYHOOD AND OF CHILITr4O--0. The ills of LabS'liood and childhood are many and may prove serious if not promptly mired. LI 11011100 triter. i-.,a,v's Own Tablets are kept there Is a preinot • cure at hard for such troubles as 1 (11i- gestion, sour stomach, colic, 011)101 111 '101)), diarrhoea, worms, teething troubles noel other minor ailments and the Tobruk ca) be administered as safely to .a new born baby 1)H to the well grown Child. .-its. Octave 10001111, Carnq)iet. .". 11., 00)'!: "I have used Baby's Own '1'::b - lets for hot, my little boy and gill for the various ailments of childhood and 1000 fom111 then always n splendid med- icine. No mother should be witho,', the Tablets in the Home." Sold by hnelielne dealers 00 by hail at 25 cent,, a 1,0,01 front The Dr. Williams' ,heli:ie' Pa, Brockville, Ont. view of lits She i5 rooting to-moriei"' to her you preach, she told 1)e," 10111 ,lad of that, 1 will try 1, touch h,'rvl e u a with some gently spok- e!) LamO-trutlis aid the earnest )e • tor; and 10e was as good (IS 1,is 1Oe. 1'1'1 be continued.) 4.00 --- Brides Older Than Bridegro0me. '1110 'iter statistics prepared 1', Clerk Fotwi.sle of Salem 'h 11. Pitt during 1007 there were 470 licenses issued am; age solea 'thiced in the city, which 0s eighteen fewer 111100 the previous tear. capn t 11'11- err _ ;and rite oldest bridegroom the eldest bride E0, ' 1)110 e eat bridegroom 11115 1C, and the a.,,g- est. bride 15 11 ,t1 one1, ^re 1,100 than the bridel,)l)01'' the Rnstq)t p1) h cr'111, 11- Precocity. nest MogaiimO Editor—1 1ni:"r. my.... 1)u to i erd mit for 1111 c lit00. 111111 1)l hula 1)l -A-'h, e 0 ifdit n rive' 111 1101 1 ,115 his nem:, on he tame ,j,) 1 Yee., '.lin the 1. a to n1,10101(1' lav l e n TO OIURE A 0oiq iR OhE T t 1,0XA71yr 11(111(1 Q01 oho T'a.ela. P veli t . re" 4l ro -n oy g1 It (1111ti 10 ,"j".r. 0,f 000''•,:g11,1,1,, 1- 1n 000!) b 1 rte. to be et teeeneteful Unagrlrr..1111011 111114 1, 1e' 110 ,:vei? of 11'011,"10'0,1 tile 011 rt5s1 1.m(to, . "\nd n. censor hair ,;nn; , rt n[a. , of steal. I the Ilaere Cnran.