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The Wingham Advance, 1909-02-11, Page 6•••••,1,. —"rare errer. ner, '-101%110 HIS 1.0 DSHIP'S ROMANCE "What am to dot" asked Agatha) hopelesely. "1 wish we were back again Lynnewolde." "You can do nothing," said Lady Lynne, "but gradually shun him. Do not talk to itim more than you can help. Do not enille and look interested When he speaks; avoid taking hie arm as much as you ran; but mind, this must be done gradually; it would be dangeroue to arouse suddenly the anger or jealousy of such num," "e never uant to see him again," seta Agatha, half impatiently. "What have 1 to do with him, or he with me, that I should fear hinit" "'What, indeed?" sighed Lady Ileanue to herself; then. ehe changed the subject to that of her sieter's dress. She felt an indescribable relief. After all, if Rinaldo saw that Agatha did not like him, anti amulet never love him, he could not blame her for that. He would simply turn his attention to some one else, One part of her task was accomplished. Lady Lynne went to look for her hus- band. He was in the library, wearing what for him was a grave if not sorrow- ful expression, and she passed her arm caressingleeround his neck, "What is the matter, Philitir she said, gently. "Why are you looking so sad?" "I am vexed with myself, Inez," he replied, kissing the beautiful face, al. ways so bright end loving for him. "Life has been so brilliant and pleasant for me lately, that I hove been neglectful where I ought to have been kind." "Tell me all about it," she said. "That will," he replied, 'There is nothing like owning com's /emits coedial- ly. Some years ago I knew the Earl of 'Wyverne. I met thim abroad', and he took a geeat fancy to- me. I went to visit him. at Severnoke Castle. You re- member you sent a telegram to me there?" ."I remember," she fold, gently. "He had only one -child," continued Lord Lynne, "a, beautiful girl of seven- teen; and he was passionately fond of bele He confided aR his affairs to nte. His one great grief was, that at his death tbis idolized child would be left penniless. I said nothing to him, but in my own mind I resolved that my mother should befriend. Lady Florence, I never heard of the earl's death, which took place last year; and I ani told that his idolized daughter is out in the world, gaining her livelihood as best the can." "But had she no relations who could have adopted her -no friends who could have helped her?" asked Inez. !i). "None, it appears," replied her hits - band. "She had spent all her life at Severnoke Castle; and the poor, ruined, prodigal earl had few friends. The man who succeeded him -a distant relative, whom. he detested -was so enraged at the cendition in which lie found the es- tates, that even in the presence of Lady Florence he spoke most unkindly of her father. This so aroused her pride, that when he reluctantly offered. her a small annuity from the „estates, she praudly refueed it. "I like her for that," interrupted Inez. "The only relative she had was a dit- tant cousin, Lady Blake, who offered her a borne. Not knowing what else to do, she accepted the offer; but Lady Blake never ceased harping upon her fa- ther's fatilts; and, in %beer disgust, the poor girl looked out for and found a sit- uation as travelling companion, fled left England some months ago." "Who told you all this?" asked his wife. • "The lawyer who managed the poor old earl's affairs; and, by the way," continued Lord Lynne, "I ;hall note that man. He had team in his eyes when he . spoke of Lady Florence; and I should imagine such a thing as a 'lawyer's tears to be a wonderful rarity. She has dropped her title, and? has gone abroad with some merchant family, think he said." "Poor girl!" said Lady Lyenne. "It is a sad story, Philip." "A story that I, who called myself her father's friend, ought to be ashamed of telling," he said. "I cannot pardon myself. Poor, friendless child! she walla think I had deserted her in her hour of bitter need. I shall ..ever rest until we have some trace of her; and then, Inez, my dear wife, you must atone to her for my neglect." "That I will," replied Lady Lynne, cor- dially. "I will help you by every means in my power, Philip. .And now, dear, if you have a few minutes' leisure, I want to speak to you." "I am all attention," said Lord Lynne. For half a Moment his wife laid her face upon his shoulder, while a look Of unutterable weariness stole over her. How she loathed and. hated this necessity for manoeuvring! "You must not think me a match- maker, Philip," she said; "and you must please promise to keep my secret faith- fully if I tell you I have observed some- thing." "I will be all discretion and wisdom," he replied, gayly. "X think," she eontinued, "nay, I am sure, that the Marquis of Hortington ad. mires Agatha very much. It would be eteellent match for her." -- "I should think it would," interrupted Lord Lynne. "Ile is ono of the beet young fellows I know, and he will be im- mensely rich. Do you really think there is anything in it, Inez?" "I am sure that if he SAW Marc Of her, he Would, soon propose to her," she replied; "that is what I wanted to ;speak to you about, Philip. You must melte him here. We always have a house full of visitors; but I do not think we consider Agatha enough. She does not care about those foreigners and eld- erly people whom we find useful. Let from every word or look that iould dis- us give a dinner party and invite Lord Ilortington." "I Will do anything you: wish, darling," said Lord Lynne, admiringly. ' "What a wise woman of the world you are." "Another thing thought of," said his wife; "those formal dinners are very *ell but for real intimacy there is nothing like those petits soupers you like so much." iiThea, is true," said Lord Lynne, with eir of profound wisdom. "Yon are sure to see Lord Ifortington some time to -day," she continued; "ask him to join our party and go to the concert with us. You will find hoW cap erly he accepts the invitation. Then casually, as it 'were, ask him to return with us when the concert is over. Ite eau have a seat in our carriage." 60f couree he ean," replied her hue. Ian& "But forgot, though -your friend, Count Rinaldo. is to go with tie." "To be sure he is," said Inez. "I re- member now, yon atled him. Well, he must not be selfish, and let Agatha be always saterifired to our friends. They Must both go. I nee notitihg againet it." "Nor do 1," mid trial Lynne. "But I Itettily blitene Myatt thet I hate not - *thought of these thinge before I will drop in at the elub thie morning; 1 am eltre to meet lfortington there.' "eio far, well," seld Lady Lynne, os weteltea tier huebana leave the house. "You will find your upponent worthy of you, Count Itimildo, and in the end I shall win. Melt / ever fail ?" Agatha felt that all the troubles in the world were heaped upon her when Lord Lyone announeed that the Itterquie of Hortington waa going with them to Lifford Meuse. 'They will positively both be there," tithe sela to herself, with a deep sigh. "What shall I do? I wish I were like iriee, Nothing troublee her." CHAPTER XXVI, The concert at Lifford House was a sticeees, for the elite Of fashionable world were present, und the music was the best, One group in that large and'sumptu- ously appointed room ettracted more at- tentioo than any other. It consieted of the "beautiful Andalusian," �fs Lady Lynne was called, and her graceful sis- ter. They were attended by the "hand- some Itelian"-the name by which Count Rinaldo was generally known -and the best parti of th"64 swam, the "observed of all:observers," the young and wealthy Margate of-Hortington. Something like a flutter of distress went through the ranks of dowagers and daughters when they noted his attention to the grace- ful, elegant Miss Lynne.. To be sure, elm was im heiress, and a very wealthy one, if rumor spoke truly. She was of good family, teen no Oue eoula deny that. There was also something of the prestige of fashion about her, thanks to the beauty and magnificence of her sla- ter, Lady Lynne. But, as the Countess Dowager of Straithon whispered to Lady Olonallon, "Ile might do so much bet - tee. Ile could marry the daughter of the first peer in England, if he would. What can he seo thut blonde, shy beauty, Miss Lynne?" 1t was evident the marquis SAW some- thing in her which attracted hint very forcibly; his attentions to her were so marked and deferential that a dark frown gradually overspread the face of the Italian. If Lady Lynne had not been so thor- oughly wretched, she would have felt amused at hee sister's evident, desire to freed from both admirers. There was nothing of the coquette in Agatha; since her sister's warning, she had had rather a dread of the count; and. she cared no more for the marquis, with his title, his wealth, and hie estate% than she did for any other of the young Men Who sighed and made sentigionIali speeches to her. Lady EVersleigh was ahnost lp des- pair as she watehed.this trio. "Could any one imagine," oho said to hereelf, "any creature so entirely with- out tact. With one kind look and a few kind words, Agatha Lynne might be Marchioness of Hortington, and ehe neither gives one nor the othea Did ever a girl throw away such a. thence?" All tmeonscious of the interest, the envy, and the jealousy' she was causing, Agatha was wiehing that the concert was over. She had something approach- ing fear for the count. None of the terrible things that Inez had prophesied should come true if she could help it. She would show him deeidedly that his attentions were all thrown away. 'For the Marquis she had a quiet kintle-of- liking and some little pity. He was so kind and ingenuous, so .simple and =af- fected, she could not help liking him; at the same time she wondered why he had. not had the seese to choose some brilliant beautiful girh'who would have returned his love, instead of herself. She could never eare for him. She did not know that that very fact constituted her great' charm. in the eyes of the young man oho was sought after by ev- ery manoeuvrieg mother he London. When the concert. was over and Lady Lynne's carriage was anaionneed, the mar- quis, by an adroit movement, was 'the first to rise and offer his escort to Ag- atha, She accepted it, and. Count Billet - do followed with a. lowering face. He fancied the young girl was cooler than usual to him. Unen they reaehed the house_ he was the first to &steed and offer his arm to Miss Lynne, She refus- ed. with a graceful gesture, and pawing before him, tripped lightly up the steps, yet he would not believe that she had purposely slighted hirn, When they leached. ehe drawing room Agatha took possession of a pretty lounging ohair, nor favorite seat. 'the coune tollowed her, and bending over her, began some slight eemonstrance upon what be Was pleased to call her cluelty. She. made him some slight, laughing reply, and, ris- ing immediately, crossed OVar to where Inez was talking to Lord Lynne and the marquis. Then the face of Count Rinal- do was not pleasant to see. lie saw Lady Lynne intently watching him ,and it struck him that she had perhaps been warning' her sister egainet him. "She would not dare me so far," he said to himself. "She would never be so blind to her own interests, or so raeh;" But the conviction grew upon him. Agatha was neither uncivil. nor poiutedly cool to him; she- did not attract attention either by her indifference or any ex- hibition of her real feelings, still, there was something, an indefinable some- thing in her manner which clearly ploy - ed to the Count that she Was &Ware of his tiling for her, aud wished to show hint quietly that it wan all in vain. Once Lady Lynne caught his eye fixed upon her with a glance that, brave and fear- less as she was, seemed to freeze the blood in her veins. As he was lea,vine Count Itnialdo drew near her. "You must see me to -morrow alone," itaid. "It will be impossible," she replied, drawing Wok proudly. "lf you are wise, Lady Lynne," &aid the taunt, "you will not trifle with desperate man, rnless see you to -mor- -1 will not be later." row alone, I shall seek an interview with your husbalid. Be at; home at three She looked at him, and in that Mom- ent Lady Lynne would have given the whole world to dare and defy him. He read it hi. her haughty glanee, and =Re- ed. contemptuously upon her, it -was an easy matter to Arent.° 4 tete-a-tete, but Inez revolted against the potation for her interview with the man Ike detested. Punttually at the time appointed he was ehown into the drawing -room, where she reeelved. him with the diguity of queen. This time Lady Lynne made no, pre- neteasity. Lord Lynne was front home, and would not return until dinner time; Agatha ,only too pleased to enjoy a few hours' quiet, had gone to ihe lib- rary with one of her favorite books. "bet there be no waste of words be - (Ween us." he Paid: "I am here to warn you. I love aour eieter; her fortune is jest what 1 tequila, aud intend to marry her. I can tee plainly Ott you have tried to prejudice her ugailat Now, beveare Itt time; yen must este your inflame for me aud in my favor." She made no. reply, and he continued. "If you thwart me an this, atilt lenow the consequences; Agatha love*. you, she ie young, eaaily inflneueed, gentle foul yielding -it yon add your entreatiee to_ mine. ,yonr influence to mitle, I know aim will eonsent and evil' he :my wife. Then all will be well; if you -refuse to help me, yon lose all that you value most.' "Rinaldo," she said, gently, »have you no nierey for met" "I have 'learned to act and Care for myself," he replied, wonaering et the new and stra»ge softuese in her manner. "Have you no ;egret, no pity for the blight and rain yon have brought upon my life?" she said, "1 was a child when. you lured The on to love and marry asitil Iiii•Ve you no pity for the Borrow you brought upon me, the fever •of grief elm made me suffer, and still more for the bitter shame aud weer 1 passed through when I read your letter aud found. time wail but the foolish dupe of n clever, wily man? Have you no regret or re- morse for the youth, the. trust ana falth you blighted and slew when you killed my love?" 'A strange, wistful light came into ltia dark eyee, "It seems to me," she optioned. mournfully, "that my fate, my story would. moat) the heart of a stone. What have I done that I am so sorely tried? Rinaldo,. be just, be merciful, and leave me in peace, Yeti heve wrought me evil enough," She might have pleaded two rock with as much sueeess ne to man wheel(' heart had for years been hardened and coo. rupted by selfishness and wOrtilinees. listened to her in gloomy silence. "It is too late fur this sort of thing, my lady," be replied, moodily. "I must have your sister s fertune, and, as she goes with it, I must have her." "But," said Lady Lynne, "she does not love you, Count Rinaldo. Belieae me, if you knelt to her to -day, and prayed to her to become your wife, she would re- fuse. I know her ito Velfl she gentlet but she is firin-she does noe care for you." "That is what I fear," he replied, "and why I ask your help. You have noire influence over her than aayone, anti you must persuade her. In three weeks from this day. I ahall ask her to be my wife, if she refuses you know the consequence; Do your best for me, and remember, I never fail in keeping my promise," He did not wait to say more, but left her with those last words ringing in her ears. When Lord, Lynne returned he hast - fated first to hie lady's boudoir; she Was not there. Ho ran the bell, and naked her maid ethere her mistress was, "My lady was in the drawing room an hour or two ago," eeplied the girl. "1 have not seen her since." "Inez," cried Lord Lynne, as he opened the drawing min door, "are you here?" There was no reply; but, looking intu the apaa:tmente on a couch at the far end there lay my lady, with agpale, still face and rigid lips. She hail lain there sense- less for hours. "My darliog!" cried the bestildered husband, "what is it?" Ms passionate caresses and loving words brought back some color to the pale faoe. A staetled, 'frightened ex- pression was in her eyes as she opened them. "Oh, Philip!" she cried, "is it you, dear? I have had such a frightful dream; it was so dreadful that I fainted in my sleep." All that evening he sat by her, every kind word, every proof of his love and devotion stabbing her to the heart. - Agatha was seriously alarmed at what she considered a re.turn of her sister's illness. Many were the dismayed looks excluenged between the husband and sis- ter as they bent over the pale, stricken __girl, so unlike the radiant and beautiful Lady Lynne. Late in the evening, when Inez Was alone with her husband, she threw her arms around him and drew his face near her own. "Philip," she said, "my husband, I have eloved. you very much, and I have never asked one favor • from you. Will you grant me one now, at any. risk, at any trouble, at any sacrifice?" He looked with wonder at the wild agitation shown in her face. "I will do anything and everything you ask Me," my dear wile," he said. "I am wretched 'theta' you." "Take me abroad, Phiiip," she whisper- ed. "1 am ill and unnerved. All this excitement has been to much for me. I am craving for rest. Take me awny where no one- knows us. I shall die if I remain here." "You shall go, my darling," he said. "I should have been more careful of you. You were used to such a quiet life, I blame myeelf bitterly; but win do all ean to atone for it, . You shall go as soon ai you- like." e "Let us start to -morrow," she cried, eagerly. He smiled as one humoring ihe cap- rices of a sick ehild, That would be :too soon," he said. "Yott would not have time to prepare. If you like, we will. go alone as far as Paris on Thursday, and the seiyants can follow us with the luggage." "That will do," she replied. "And, Philip, promise me you evill not tell one single creature 'where we are going, or that we are going, or anything about it -will you?" "Not against your wish, certainly," he said; "but tell me why." "If you talk about it,' 'she said, "peo- ple veil! try to.persuade you not to go, and you will grve in to thein. Promise me, Philip, that you evil' not ten a single creature; it is just the end of the season, and every one is going somewhere." To please aad console his wife, Lord Lynne gave the promise. "What about Agatha and Ilortingtont" lie said. "Ottr going will interfere with that arriutgement." 'There's nothing in it," replied his wife, Wearily. "Agatha does not care for hint; and, oh, Philip," she eontinued, earnestly, "mind, Agatha muat go With us. I would not stir without her." Owing to Lord Lynnfa's good manage- ment, ali irreparations for the jottrney were soon made. Ms going • abroad emoted Ito surprise; the fteason Wan draw- ing to a close and people Were all leaving town. No one ---not even his wife's con- fidential maid, nor Agellia herself -a knew their destination. • As though one could fly fent trouble, or from the eontequences of wrong. doing! We may croas WS and rivers, pass endentnins and hills, but travel. as we may, coneeienee and memory go with us. 00 coPtinited.1 . • " Goats the .Pashion NOW, The keeping of show goate is now very fashionable ift tingland, and no wonder, for the' ituiniala ate both useful and or - 'temente. They are pleattant pets if well kept, and a big billygoat is tis strong ete a pony end can, .drtne conflict. *table weight. Showing theta at dairy tied agrieultural ehotvs is a profitable business. A. greet 9nany knowa lad - ice go in for this fancy, sorne being- also known in the tioggy World. -Prom the Lady's Pictorial. 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Combine tim tonnage of New ,York, Loudon, Liverpool, Hamburg and Ants werp, the world's greatest ports, and still Pittsburg is in the lead, The banking capitalized strength of the banks of the Pittsburg distrid is calculated to be $5,000,000, more than the Qoinbincti capitul of the Bank of England, all the organized banks of Scothied and Ireland, the• Imperial Bank of Germany and the ImperM1 Bank of Russia, and $18,000,000 greater than the cepital and surplue of the banks of Chicago and Baltimore come bined, Our banking seapital and sur- plus are 4$ per cent, of out deposit% and our bank resources $1,308 per capita. • • * Oak Lake, Mau., Deo, ard, 1008, Dr. MeTaggarte Toronto. Ont.; Dear Sir,-Leame enclosing $10 for as many tobacco oures as you will send me. I saw the effects of your eure on my man last spring, widell freed Ithe. of the hablia In one week. 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Mrs. Grimshaw (while the visitor is removing his wraps) -What did you bring that man out here to dinner for, when the house is all torn up and full of the smell of paint? Beside% you've told me a thousand times that he's a bore and you don't like him! Mr. Grunshav-I know it, my dear, That's why I brought him, -Chicago Tri- bune. 4 • A, Golden Age. Ethel -Didn't it seem an age froM the time you were eugaged till you were married ? Maud -Yes, but Jack and. I managed to squeeze through it.-13oston Trans- cript, Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. A Query. Mita Was a 'merry, mocking maid, And be a *he Young meal Beneath a high unebanging wreath Of mistletoe she ran, Crying the wbile with roguish etnile "Pretend that I'm your sister!" The problem stands like this, I wis- Should he have kiesed her? Now York Sun. RAW and • Write fo; Weekly Prtoo Lista, JOHN HALLAM , Shipments Solicited. TORONTO. 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Tito telephone bell riegs, and you he your friend up the line saying: "Say, when you come up 'bring alon a couple of your jigsaws, will you? An we'll lend you a couple of ours." You do up a couple of yours an take them along; and before you've g foirly sat down your friends are at wet. on one of the puzzles you have carrie up; such is the fascination of the sawe up pictures When you come away yo bring back the two that they have le you, whiclt you fall upon straightway a Won as you get home. The commonest thing in the world no for people to do is to borrow and len jigsaw puzzles; and so, with occasion or more frequent additions to the stoe is the agony prolonged; so does the ma cram sweep on and on. Gold Laid Waft Cuaranteedfor 20 year FREE f or selling I dozen 0 halt Gold Inkless Pens at each, These pens write beautiful color by simplydi ping in water. NC ink re quired. Write to -day., W trust you with the pens, sel them and return the mono and win this little beaut Gold Finished Watch an also a lovely Tea Set Fre 00..BALT GOLD PEN CO .uept 3.30 Toronto, Out. •••••••••••100••••••••• Alex. Rose's Fate. (Toronto Globe,) Let young men think well of the seen Judge Winchester's court. It was th culmination of the life of one whom th love of pleasure and the antipathy t holiest employment had destroyed. Ho much of the pleasure which he even shipped was his? Hunted like a. wil beast, and at length like a wild beets confined, there is more real pleasure h a day's work well and. honestly don than was granted to this unfortuna youth during the whole of the days tha succeeded his first criminal net. It aNatta ending, and surely speak trumpet -tongued to. young men every where to get true ideas of what rea enjoyment is and from what sources i spring's. Miliard's Liniment CO., Limited: Some time ago I had a bad attack of Quinsy,' whieh laid me up for two weeks and cost a lot of money. Finaing the lump again forming in my throat, I bathed. freely Nvith MIN - AIM'S LINIMENT, and, satarating a cloth with the liniment, left it on all night. Next morning the swelling was gone and I attributed the warding off of an attack of Quinsy to the free use of MINARD'S LINIMENT. G. F. WORDEN. St. John. In ray Paree. 'What kind of an eating house do you call this?" asked the man from Chi- cago as lie entered a queer -looking es- tablishment in Paris. 'This is a one-horse restaurant, mon- sieur," explained gareon. "You can have ze horseflesh M. any style, How would you like yours?" "Horse in any style, eh? Well, sup- pose you have mine curried," Some people change their minds so often that they eventually wear them out. • • Minaret's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. 40 • r INOUMBERED. LatifVer---You are willing to go bail for Solin jonea and. offer your farm se seeurityP Irave you any blown- branee on it? Smith -014 yes -my old woman. • A•vi..7 v xi 41 V. C.*1 iiillt* .,___..- Unr WAITED. •04Weve.w.".11.X., their Perfumes. etc. ant CO.. AMINTS NVA.NTED TO WORK UP TEA . roufe. Alfred Tyler, Loudon, One . . — W B WANT RELIABLE WOMEN, ALT., over Citutels to 'work for na during seam hours, selling our Web trade Toilet, Retatisitee. Teall,_OeiPeilf No references neeeseares Wora Peg"' and remunerative. The Rome Sep.:matte TranbY Menne, Tenant% Uanacia. — -- VA-kW TO RENT. iaeoeees.......e.e.....,., St TOOK PAM( TO RENT -A Fin frrocK '', farm ot lee acres, five utiles north ot London. nn Proof Lino road; grand opportune itv for right petty Uneture w, a. .Tohue taut Arm P. O., Ont. . . . _____-.... ee.._ ..__. FOR EXCHANGE. PARx IN MANITOBA POR PROPEIRTY 41-e, in Ontario. 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OUTLINED The just National held le opens and other as: the Efficiency," Besides be from "You tlie you? earned "I know In old Smart Settings. must be pleasant, so many have that it is short. man who condones a neighbor's often prepaeing his own repent - in advance. man who is satisfied Nvith himself low estimate of other people. that money is the root of an of us are trying to dig it' up. woman who protests is half won. have all the time there is, but the takes care to supply a few of us time to burn.-Yebruary Smart 4 # • .PROGRAMME. Laymen's Misionary Movement announced the programme for Missionary Congress, to in Toronto, Match 31st to Aipril with a, meeting for clergy- theological students to be ad- • by Robert Sheer, of ierew York, leaders, and the regular sea- of the Congress begin with an meeting, Nvith an address on "The Debt to the Missionary." The for the different sessions are "The Victorious Progrees of "The Place of the Church In Making of the Nation," "Ilow to Church to its Highest Mission - "Canada's National MIs Polley." prominent missionary leaders Canada and the United States and returned misslonaries, there addresses by a commission of lay- Great Britain. ............—se 1 5 7 water e' ed - doesn't ; will i all r ' essing t k ilea , that an ' His Helpmate. are always trying to throw cold on 813r literary ambitions," growl - aspiring author. "You say it pay. Look at Charles Dickens, He left a fortune of $400,000, with his pen." it, dear," said his wife, car- him; "but don't you. remetolser Aladdin could make More than five minutes by simply rubbing lamp? I'd so much rather yeted 'Will!" do something of that kind, THE "CHANIPION" a 3 3 , - 'i 4 GAS and GASOLINE letii 04-1— '1' ENGINES "1 r - 1 t t i : '; Is before i Pion" i satisfied . price 1 Wm. I the you 'will is Gillesplo, T. It must give sails - 1.• V faction or you don't eg pay for it. oree-eesee_ ..... ' • SOLD ON TRIAL only Gasolles.Englae that you can try buy. I know what the "Miam- do, and I want you to be fully with it before you pay for it. The low. Pull particulars free. 98 Front St. E.,TORONTO . Welcome Change. ' Chicago of goods," "That's man, who for his kindly give the I'll be A we4orn "linerse Wanted. of fitting Wanted, horses of Lose a and Adonie 10 o'clock A Woman's Az; you bill ft heaVy a heavy these mean been discouraged, cure myself, dens. Why docter'S Will if you All 3rou box or the in my hands this one for °theta. you will postage dentially. mem, lertS. locSko.crates "There's anyhow," my dose than to her of a But lelato, worked story of .........e—, News -Now, here Is a piece said the voluble saleslady, all right," rejoined the mere was doing a shopping stunt better half. "Now, if you will keep quiet for a few minutee and goods an opportunity to speak, ever so much obliged." ---easee-- Peculiar Advertisements. paper publishes the following a female who has a knowledge boots ot a good moral charaoter. a young man to take charge of a religious mind. Cameo brooch, representing Venus on the Drumeondra Road about on Tuesday evening. 4 • • Sympathy discouraged? Is your doctor's financial load? Is your pain physical burden? I knew what , to delicate women -I have too; but learned how to I want to reliev.., yogr bur- not end the pain and stop the , bill? I tan do this for you and Will assist me. , need do is to Write for a free 1 remedy whieh has been placed , to be given away. Perhaps boX will cure you -it has done so If so I shall be happy and , be Mired' for 2o (the cost of a Stamp). Your letters held colifi- . Write to -day_ for tnv free treat- I le. El CURRAII, Windsor, Ont. ..-.......--e.......0.. • Historical Footnote. 1 had just swallowed the hem. 1 no benzoate of eola in it, I he said, "and I'd rather take ( all at •onee and hese it over 't. linger along for years as a mem- ; poison squad." ' who Wag paid by the lino, ' up this simp'e incidnit into a I severel thousand worda ' i —.........._—. l • -... 'a% 'ever s _,,e-C'es. • ' 4.17- , 1 • • • s t 'terfiDODD ii ...,,:. , I., N .. t e l'i . LIS -.,. —,,,,- ' 1, c ;.,... ,1 , .....", A \\,1\‘‘.-.- li . ' f• 1.1 KIDN EY rl f CO. : I) ' .44 FITZUR,6,11505141" . it 1,i ,..... LGIiiitie ref.w 44 n. it '' ES ° r 1 ' ' A : kb. .14 tT - ''!.. . `.' il u fau mi is im-thileis°,141t1 01%19 in .•--4.1r—enrr. -Moo at., • • wPerarypier.„ lOur Father, oi t 'at amid all the changes of the centuries Thou arG the same. We bless- Thee that Christ, la the same rks..,i,p.,..thp.,$lays of Ins bile upon the eart41,-and.,:titiatIte is as near Hie children to -day as in those great days when mep felt tho uplifting thrill of Ills presenve, .11:ty the ltisen and Ex- alted One reign in our hearts, and may Ifis great love cleanse us from every unworthy lore and every unholy desire. Grant that we leo catch the spirit men shall see a reflection of the Christ. of our beloved Master that in our livee Amen, The Transforming Touch of Faith, (Wilfred Greaten.) Simple faith in Christ aa the Son of God seems to me to have been the fath- er of action, and that in the right di- rection alweys, Its results have been obscured by the dilution of the simpli- city .of it.. But the experienee of the passtng year; clinches in my nand ever more firmly the conviction that nothing succeeds in traneforming the indiVidilal like it. Nothing is so practical and potent a power as this faith for nutkieg had men into good ones, and good men into more .useful ones. ."Tlie life which 1 liVe," Paul said -"I live by faith in the Son of Clod," and I consider Peel liyed a more wieful life than any roan of hie time in inducing righteousness, joy and peace into a moribund world, a tritunplo ant life, a life I would consider a suc- cess, a life I should be only too glad to look hack on or to take a record of with me wherever I go, I do not forget, however, that not all men gauge success in tho same way. • Though if they stopped and thought. more I believe they Nvould be much more unanimous on that point, and that their dollars would not loom quite so large. Therefore, I consider my faith a practi- cal thing, not a foolish one. Nay, inore, I own to considering it a desirable thing, and I presume I must thereby be content to write myself down a prejudiced witness henceforth. Yet I do not consider this a stultifying statement. I want to believe in Jesus Christ because I want to attain the ends. I know such a faith insures. I consider faith, Peter did, "A precious thing." I believe it can make me master of my- self and of the world as John did. I do not expect it to be based on the wis- dom of to -day altogether. I believe with Paul that it is well based, "not on the Nvisdom of men, but on the power of God," which I see it exemplify. Where would it have been if based on the wis- dom of Paul's day? As he most wisely said, "Our knowledge is incomplete, it will be cast aside." -_LA Man's Faith." Sabbath Rest. There is evidence that the demand for Sabbath rest is increasing. The closing of saloons helps the movement. The consclotteness of the need of rest is an active force. The fact of better results in those who rest on the Sabbath Nveighs with employers. The love of home ie a strong allotment, with thousands. `rho. American Federation of Labor has de- clared in favor of a dny of rest. Tho National Druggishe Association not long ago adopted a resolution requenting al. druggists to lessen their silica on the Sabbath, confining their trade to works of necessity and mercy. In the govern - pent offices work is restricted to that, vhiell yegarded as of an emergency 'tarn -der. The same tendency and ao- .40hoovement is seen in many quarters. This, of courSe, is from the point of view of perdonal and public benefit, We need the Sabbath, and are esking for it. But we are called on by the higher in- terste of man to kep the Sabbath holy to the Lord. It is the Lord's day; it is also man's day. given to him for holy rest and communion with God, a day for the higher thingo, for soul rest and up- lift. The danger to the Sabbath now is in a tendeucy among Christians to re- gard it simply as a rest day, •rather than a day holy to the Lord. It is in the right olotervanee of the Sabbath and le.soill's day with God that we find its benefit. Thus. observed, God's blessing will rest upon us and on our children. - Pittsburg, Pa., 'United Presbyterian. A Reverie:of the Shore. (By a Banker.) With the exception of climbing the stioW-clad steeps and plateaux of the Alps, or roaming over the glorious Jud- aean hills, so rich, not only in stirring associations of the great past, but also so replete with sublimity aaul natural grandeur, perhape, to tee' ardent pedes- trian, few enore attractive reereations could le• found than a long walk in the early mcnning along the hard sand of an nnfrequented shore, from whit+ the sea has iccentlegreceded. The low deem sun, not. long men ebove the horizon, gems the mole!: sand in a sparkling gilt- te and illumines the rippling ocean in a sheen of flashing glory; while the morn- ing leeeze, charged with ozone, from the sea. animates and reinvigorates. crInngafS 9 -123Gt rh (marl? turiwS Soon the pedestrian was left behind the haunts of men, and is in the midst of the solitude of eature. But there is repairer there is a. thrilling zest, there an exultant fascination in the loneli- less of the wave -girt, rock-bound shore; here is coinpanionehip in the joyous ery f the sea birds, in the rythmical music. f the waves, in the roulade of the horelark or the melodions 'chuffing of he roek pipit. And as with buoyant tep, now over the piled up rocks of a utting promontory, now along the lower -adorned fringe beneath the lofty liff, and now again on the dry hard and, lie eontinuee hie long walk, he at emelt) finite that hie are mit the only ootprinte in these reeording Rands. Here pgints evidently of a -brisk walker ike himself, who now and then in the •xuberance of his epirits apparehtly -milts over a slight obetruetion; here a neer of nature who has froot time to line mooted to examine Rome lovelY oekepoted. a very garden of the eiest in hieh a number of tiny eruetiteeans aro ieporti t It muselvee amonget. i lany-lined bentrtiee, or has elimbet he fallen chalk beneath the eliff pallet for ernmenitee end -other reliee of iie far off peat. And here ere the footprints •evideptiv f all affionced poir, there in the die. nee seated on a rocks who perhopti 00 de very walk have plighted their troth, telt t (Atte other, find roes DOW tioyoue- looking .forward to the time When And in hand together they wilt Mere 10 snit:thine awl enjoy the eladneee and leer of life. Aye, and if triey together ve the life of the righteous, serving mit. GNI, end. throttle' the mediation their Redeemer. whose sufferinge and eth .atoned for their miedetide, 'theiv meg are mitten in the Book of 'Life, ey will enutinue that happy •friendshio end eeneord in that Eternal Realm where all is FelliTellleet jly anti IleVer• ending content. < hit"