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The Unlinown
Bridegroom.
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"That ts more thee oen tell you,
Old man, for he wits closely euvelop-
ed to his reaclantosh, with the wear
up to his ears; besides, tee place
tette ea elinly lighted, it gowned like
it tomb, and I could get only n. very
iniperfect Idea, of hie features. BelieV-
Mg bim to be you, of course, I was
not suspicious. I would never have
discovered ray' mistake if he bad not
reseeted I said about tbe g•Irl, and
abut we up with a clap oo tbe shoul-
der that was like a. blow from a
eledge-hammer. Then, for a moment,
you might have knocked me clown
with a strew. I had thought, from
tee bridegroom's first appearance
upon tbe aeons, that you did not aet
like yourself ; but I laid it to the
excitement or the moment, beoeutie
You were late, and eager to get the
matter over," the young Man ex-
plained,
"Didn't he speak? Couldn't you de -
tool the eillexenee in voices- ?" quer-
led Leighton, sullenly.
'Tee; I opoire to lien as he came
into sight. and he Answered me; 'but
the rata and wind and thunder made
ewes a noley reeked 1 couldn't have
reeognized my own father's voice.
demos 1 hurried into the alive!, and
straight tie the altar, for those girls
Iwere nearly frightened out of their
senses, and just ready -to back out
and go boom, and" -here the fellow.
shot a sly smite at his companion-
ed had no notion of losing the snug
little amo'unt you bed pledged me.
Seer' e „
"Xes-I see," bitterly retorted
Leighton; "but, I must coneese, I
think you were very short-sighted
to allow an utter stna.nger to play
such an abominable trick upon You."
'Well, if you badn't been so attreid
to have light enough to see by. I
might have detected the Sra.ucl; but
the eexton said you had given orders
to bare only one light, because the
marriage was to be private, and you
did not wise to excite the curiosity
of .the vIllagere ; and, as 1 said' before,
the place was like a tomb. The feliew
was about your height, too, though,
perhaps-no'w 1 think of it -a. trifle
broader across the shoulders, and a
prouder way of carreing himself."
"elTho in thunder would he have
been?" Impatiently -exclaimed tbe
?disappointed bridegroom. "Where
`did he come from ? How did he know
what ivais going on. and what could
bare beea his object In pereonating
me ?"
• ent is all a mystery," replied his
friend; "and, what may strike you
as stranger still, lie doesn't even
knowto whom he was married—'s
"Pshaw I Thee was no marriage !"
Interrupted Leighton, angrily; "such
a farce would never stand, Ted."
, perhaps not," was the mus-
ing. response.
, "Of course, it won't stand 1" reit-
erated the other; "the very idea le
too absurd to be considered for a,
moment ; all the sem% it is a develish
plight to be in."
"That is a faot, Miss Richardson
'doubtless finds it so," Tee dryly re-
plied: ,
"What maims Om tlenk tbat fellow
dkl no% knave her name?" Leighton
Lnquired, after a moment eri shenee.
"Because he asked me who she ware
10 course, I refused to enlighten him;
coneequentlee he le as ?touch in ebe
dark regarding be identity as sve
are of Ms."
"Good for you, Ted I but I'd give a
good deal to ferret him out."
"He demanded tbe certificate of
me, pageliblie with the intention of
learning wetorn be had married. He
would have hael it, too, if I hadtee
elodged hen, for I tell woe he had a.
grip like Iran," observed the "beat
man," as be recaaled tbe clutch of
tbat strong band upon his shoulder.
Mee the way," he added, drawling an
envelope from a. pocket, and toss-
ing It upon the bed, "here is 'that
document now. It is all properly: sign -
- pole:ere, wLthP, grean of oalle •
"They aro not going to 844 toe
day," Bald Ills /timid, "1 utet Seaver
Just at the head of the fstreet--'
"You don't mean it I CAP anything
have ba,ppeued ?" breatiecesle quese
tioned (E,eighton.
"Yes. I stopped lam, anti express -
ca 31y surprlee to find lam ln tow.n,
when be intormed me that their trip
had 'been indefinitetyl postponed, owe
tee to the Seeltieu illnees of Thies
Riciatzelson." •
"Ab 1 That affair of last ,niglit
was 'toe much for her I Did he specie
of ber as beteg very ill ?"
"U e says she lute taken a sudden
and severe cold, has a bilge fever, anti
is iletirione--"
"Delirious t" intereosed Leighton, in
Marra. "Zoandfil Zed, I hope she
won't Ale; myidish would be dough
11 ehe should.'
An Involuntary sneer curled Ms
companion's lips at the; eupremely
selfish speech, which containecl not
one •vrord or regret for the metering
of the lowly girl for whose condition
be alone was responsible.
"However," Leighton continued,
"She fe young. has a naturally strong
coentitution, end ties enforced post-.
ponement of her trip may result In
my favor. Your IlerWIS has doue ue
more good than medicine, Zed,
though I have mime painful bruises
that make nie equirneet week I was
sure that horse has not come to
grief. 'Would you mind etePPIng
around to Coxe',s stable, tell lam the
;serape I got into last night, and get
lam to send eomeone In quest of the
animal and buggy? Of courses I'll
,nueloe it all x*414 with hire, whatever
has happened," ,
"Certainly, old man • anything I
een for you. I'll be glad to•do,"
ireturned his friend, good-na.turedly,
and at once eterted out on his mue
slot.
Eortunately, tbe horse and buggy,
had already been returned to the
owner -the man's name having been
stamped upon the carriage robe -and
no serious danage had been done,
afdde ;from a few. scratches to the
vehicle. Upon shearing this. Leighton
declared that his sitar was again in
.the ascendant. • I
Every day Letter that he managed
to get a report from Florence..
•tbrougn flee maid, Anna; and, an
soon ait he was able to get out, he
called 18 person, and interviewed Mr.
Seaver regarding h-er condition.
The following two weeks proved an
anxious mason Tor iiim, for the
young girl was very ill, and be lived
18 oonerta.nt fear that she would die,
and ber fortune, upon enlace he bad
eet his beagt. slip tbrough his fin-
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ever, and he wee una.ble to gain any
eerie .• '
As the wea,ry, days were on, how..
clew to the mysterious stranger who
had personated hen at the altar, a
new idea took form In .his fertile
brain, and he began to concoct &via
leinous :scheme.' t • r
Ile bad In Ilia possession the mar-
riage certificate wildoh seemed to -
prove him the husband of the beauti-
ful heiress. It ' WAS properly signed
by the clergyman who hail performed
tbe ceremony, and wino would doubt-
less attest to the fact. No one save
his friend Zed, .a.nd, possibly. Anna,
euseseted the truth; and tbey would
strea,r to anything if well snide con-
sequently, if Florence ehould die, he
behoved he could safely produce the
document, elaim the fortuue, and no
one could prevent hts getting it.
But tbis vile plot was not destined
to to carried out; for, at the end of
three weeks, Flerence was pronounc-
ed out of danger, and from that time
began to convalesce rapidly.
Leighton now- became more atten-
tive tan ever, sending her daily of-
ferings of fruit a,nd flowers, and
many other tokens of his abiding af-
fection ; also writing ler tender
effusions, begging her to respond to
ed,and mon; may as well take ears of, him, as soon as she sliould be strong
it -it we prove useful to you, some enoughto guide a pen.,
time in the future." , To Ing-weehed-for missive eame
. The epung man drew the paper to bina at last, but, instead of being
teeth, aid &studied it intently; for the fond and eubmiseive response he
a few Minates. , • hart lensed and expected, it caused
'Was there ever stab a devilish him the deepest chagrin and disap-
piece of lecke" be demanded, 'rat- hhintment.
t '
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ably. "Ila,d!" he added, with a vie-, MAXTOR.
lent start, "do you imagine it pos- Tele letter whicb Florence Richard -
foible that old Seaver could bare diss. non wrote to her lover had been pen -
covered our secret, and followed ur, fled d-rter mudd careful thought an
to stop the marriage, and when I e:meicteration, and read 0.8 follows :
failed to pat 4 an appearanc,e, per- "Dear Walter,-Iiiiis is the first
;Donated me to prevent a scene be- deer I bare felt able to vr,rite, and I
fore the rector and a scoadal about melte it my first duty to answer
dlorencee"
your many notes to me, and to ,
."N�, Seaver is a little shorter than you for your numerous attentions
erine and ie a thick -�t Man; he nel.- and kind remembrances during my
er could have fooled us all like that," illness. You have begged me to allow
you to come to me as soon as I am
' 1 onlY hoPe be le still in
Iwean film to -4.3', 11 you too to_ 1 I i 1 1
come to me, gu a trlowily =IV, I 'ba li s. loll . 11 i I
be glad to see yea: but please do
not renew. flee eubleine her Me des
eibltin le lerevOcable. , TUIns
"Seicerely your frieud.
"Florenee K. Illeharibon." igmek onairio
It 4011 ee
l PIles
Walter Leighton's twee was al -
Moet tonvuleed with wrath atter
retielIng title letter. Its time Was
elm dark, far Florence's sake, as well sufficiently convalescent to r( wive
carry, my point and marry ber yet. am goitre to telt you frankly that
You say she seemed fully recovered during sickness, my feelings bove'
when you left her last eight?" in- undergone a radical eliange, and I
(eared Leighton, with smile arix- know now that I never loved you
isitet well enough to become your wife.
"Yes ;she and -the maid bustled if pain you but truth
quite lively in getting back to kite aF:drgehrristliowr are ('tertainly you,
under
the circumstances. I tremble When 1
holies atter leaving the carriagest
saki the ytnrn gman, laughing. look beets and roalizo wlia.t narrow'
"1 -wonder what she thinldi of met tiseape we both have had. But for
your necident and detention on that
If I were able to more. I would
take the el ext trate for New York, wen lrrev.ueably
memorable flight, we should have
bound to eaeh
and see her on the stone:der. SO- other, and doomed to pay the
pose thee will salt in about three penelty tee greatest mietake
bourse' steel the disappointed lover, of our lives, Yes, Walter, I am
with a sigle as be glanced at the here it weetla have been a fetal
eteek, which was just upon the tetint mietake and I hopc you vrill 'look
of striking nine, upon the matter in thi fame light
; "See, Ted," Ito continued, with tied- that I db. 1 can never be your wife,
deo enemy, "vvhy can't you go for Waiter, and I wonder how I could
me '1 scribble a bote for eioir to have been so long blind to the true
band to her, and you ean explain state of my feelinge, and, more than
what eaven't timo to write." all, hew rould ever have toneented
"Ail right; I'll go," was the oblige to a elendeetine marriage. It eeerns
Ing reeler; "only you will liege to to nu. raw, each a weak and foolish
hustle, for there isn't such a great Wier for nay girl to If a *Woman
deal of time before the train will be truly levee a man well enough to
twee beranne his wife, and in assured that
ellend tbrit writing pad, then," lie le worthy of that love, she should
lead Leighton, pointing „to one upon lei etrong enough. to &tend bolily
the table ; and, a nionient later, lee . up, in the face of all opeoeition, and
ert It”r plf.tioa ; sly, al.° al never
pen was flying over a sheet of paper,
burden legrolf with hir.th scoret or
tee he briefly' itecoanted for his non- consent to !Ivo a lie. t am greatly
APPearanee at Rosedale the previous
perplexed and troubled over that
night. wreteleel farcr in the Church or Old;
He entreated lethreiree to preserie over the lettintity of that myeteri-
their tetra, be brava arid loyal to on.4 etranger, ar.d whether thlt 0' re*
bine/end he would tollow ber etrond mony eould, by any ottibility, be
SS nu; awn, for I may 'be able to you. Before gra.uting your request, I
very 'different from the 'usually • Spittoons,
light-hearted, ear' -.free riorecce
Whom he Ilan hitherto lolown.
There wale a cater eeriousnese,11
eignified tholsion, apparent in Ite -
every line, wItich plainly told lam -•
teat tbe girl was iudeed ebaugetee
that ehe had suddeillY developed
Iron), the thoughtless maiden tutu a
gravely reasoning woman.
Bat he raved and wore and vowee
taat she ishouel not eeeera him like
thre; that he .would never allow the
fortuae, for which be heel to long
&chewed, to &lip terough hie fingers
without making a desperate effort
to secure It, and he had a bold Plan
in
nOnds
At tee end or the stipulated two
weeks Ito made lite nppearaeoe "the
tome et tee Seavere and melted to
eta Florence. ge woo courteously, al-
though sorno'what coL11,r) rep lived,
It was elder usual a,ttltatle to-
ward hon. however, and be pale no
speolal heed to it. It proved to WM
that they had not a suspicion of
the incident white) bad resulted In
the illnese of their ward; for, had
they, learxted or it, they surely svouid
have refused him aerials:eon to their
house.
After ,ohneting a ew moments
wittt tbem• be wakf conducted to the
private sitting room of Florence.
Ile found her charmingly arrayed
in the daintiest of ilainty wiato
wrapper, and, in spite of her un-
esual. welter and lois of !legit, he
thought he hag never goon her look
more ,beautieul.
She fie,ehed as she enose to greet
him, but frankly extended her ehnd
to Min, meetiog hie glance o- eulin-
ly
aad =fling so serenly that hie
heart yank within
Had she been shy sad sele-con-
pecrieosuser. or confused, he would have
felt more confident of winning the
suit which be bad prepared to
"Are you fully recovered?" he in-
ouirod, retaining her lioad in &lin-
gering clasp and looking „fondly down
upon (her. .
"Yes, 1 ilbesiet I may, eaei I nan
although 1 hue° not wholly re-
gained my strength. I took rny ilrst
drive to -day lied reit like a new crea-
ture afterward," she replied, se she
released her heed and motioned him
to a chair neer her"And you ?"
tete added, resuming her own suet.
"I sincerely hope you are not still
suffering from your accident."
• Again th,e teases heart sank, Cor
surely, he reasoned, elle never could
have so callney referred to the event
of 'the night of their contemplated
marriage unless all sentiment con-
nected with It had been entirely
eradicated from her heart.
"It was nothing," he eald, making
bruises, from whieli I bave wholly
rligecoletveoriedi.IL; "I escaped with a few
"I am very glaid," site quietly re-,
turned, and then abruptly changed
the subject, talking of everytaing
save the one object of his visit. •
He bore It long as he could, and
then suddenly and passionately
broke forth: f
"Florence, I must speak. I cannot
endure this state or things an-
erther -moment-I cannot have the
past so ignored. I love you stin-
t emit love you aiwaye-in spite of
what you have written to 'nue,-and
I eannots-I will not give you up. I
will not believe it posable that all
your affection for me has vanished.
tell mei-etell me if you -would not
drive me wild, that I may hope in
time to win beet: your alienated af-
fections.' 1
Florence had grown very pale and
grave while he wee speaking; but
when he pauaed, iie ubserved with
strange composure:
"I hoped, Walter, that you would
accept wives I wrote eroe as my ul-
timatum: I apreire you I did not
take such a stand without earnest
and deliberate th,ougbt. But. Per -
hope now that you liaise broached
the eubjeet. we may as well settle the
matter, !nee to face, once for all,
AA 1 told you in my letter, ro Itell
you again now -I can never bo
your wit e."
The young man assumed 0.8 ex-
pression of astonishment. .
"You can never ba my wife. What
on earth do you mean, Florence ?.
Your letter was full of lust sitch in-
comprehensible ramblings - about
my non-appearanoe at Rosedale -
the Identity of nlybterxona
etrangsr, etc.. etc. Why, yem are
already my wife, Florenee, and noth-
ing but death can ever part us --
at leaet frem a legal standpoint."
This was the bold scheme he bad
had in mind. Plorenee Fihot a start-
led look at litre, ape fluehed a vivid
crimson.
, "What call you mean?" the won-
t deringly inquired, "you knows Val -
tor, that I am not your wife -that
you did not meet nee at Rosedale
chapel, as you proposed, bn that
June evening—"
"I did not meet you?" lie Inter -
papal with a. myetified expression
that was very cleverly assumed.
"Why, nO; you must know that
you did not," returned the young
girl with a note of impatienee In
her tones; "you have already in-
formed Inc that you met with en
accident and were detained. We
waited long past the hour for you,
and finally the most mysterious
thing happened -a etranger ap-
peared and pereonated you, and I
only duicoverel the inareel 1 in after
the ceremony Warr over, when I
fainted.--"
ertiy, for Ileaven'e mica whet are
you talking About ?" demanded her
companion worelerinely, n I regard -
Mg her with an remearanee of wed-
zty. ' I-X-rcary eel afraid that your
Illness hail not lett your mind quite
right. Listen," he went on authori-
tatively, 'I own I was late -I was
detained by an accident to a train,
and -on reanhing home had to harry
to meet you; then my horse was
frightened by the sitcom, aria balked
and that kept me still longer; but
I arrived ite iste, When my friend,
angry at the delay, dragged me to
the altar without even giving nie
time to remove my me: kintosh, and
then the elergyman Iturfloi through
lie ceremony, an IT int( asely poser
to hese It over. It 'woo a terribly
bungled affair, from first 'to Met,
and tvhen you faintea I laid it to
the excitement nal. fear proileced
the storm. My Jeccelent occurred on
nee tvay home from itoodele."
Fierence had sat wnteleng him
with tvele °Yee arel psenre ebeetke,
during the atbeve ONplanntion, her
heart burileriel with a tetrible Tea,a
Could it bl poesible, She askol tier-
" evit, that alto Wel really leen de-
ceived, after all ?-tha,t the excite -
went, the tonfnelon rind filApeilSee
together tvith tiet frightful etorm,
in WIOnght 1.1pOn her that etre
had been nee -taken, one imagined
tluit t tr, p
p•reonated Walter durine thee; tele.
many?
could it be that In WO of the
riatent revidelon In her leering% aim
wan really life tvife and thouml to him
lerevocalay?-ethat the would liaise
to live out her life with rani, oven
though ite Intel Ix e•onet eosItieely re -
pi li.i VO to Jim.?
fTle be continaorp
byi the next eteamer, when lie waled regerirel as legal. I devoutly hope
be would eee to et that nothing hope not, tor my whele Onl, revelte
sbeeld interrupt ii, riereind attempt against the thoughtof bsing biro,
to make lier hie wife. •vocality Weigel to a man whom 1
Beattie' tolding rod addressing, 1118 hese never wan, rine whi I 8f402.1 to
letter, be palsied it to his friend,
1AV slItirippoaroam l myetegoitly us
and charged him todeliver it into no rhe (came. I truet, Welter, {lett we
hands but Floreneers, may be good frtendo itlwaye, rind
The young men hastened from the tluit you wilt iierte with me that
house, while the disappointed rover It iw b: tier we fhould live (Imre. I
sank wearilybuck upon hin pillows, arn burr, thnt pip t, were he 1111112
for the interview bad sadly, taxi -('%'i thou Of he 'pp met to rotate
las strength. estly derire teat I chould marry the
11 -watt Pat Upri,11 the point of fail- lo t ni he. le re friene-waill, know-
ing into a dote, when his door open.. nig my prettitt ref Ittirs, tiphel I me
ed again, end leu necempnce rear- 29 thie ROT1 ahl not Farmer f Doug]
peered. • to ses you yet, �i 1 prefer to write
"Weli,Nviint: now," be cxeltuilly de- rather than veiledly dimlosa my
witatided. nrid starting to It flitting thengen ontimentie in a couple o
Palls,
Milk Pans)
Etc.
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1. TO TETA. BOSSE r LEST'.
In Honor of a Stepney Amazon.
Margaret street, Stepney, says the
Tests that 1Vfay Prove Mindy During
Westminster Gazette, is houceforth to
I) Beef Tema Strike, be called Hemel street, The change is
being ino.de by way of commemorating
An expert on meats gives Dome facts Pinola Hassel, the famous Stepney
about horseflesh, lest any of it ehould amazon. Born in Stepney in the Nigh. -
mike its appearance here during the teen% Cautery, she fell in lova et the age
of le with a poldier Kire's Lamle,
eourse of the struggle between the Beef
Trust and its einploysees. This expert now the "Fighting Fifth." She enlisted
as a private m the corps and followed
nas studied the question in lads, weere ber lover to the West Indies, where she.
horse meat is an established commodity. served for five 'yeara without her see
The tlesh of the 1101130 is brownish red beiug discovered. Site simply ,fought in
in color, while law beef is all red with the battle of Fontenoy, and, returning
to brown in it at all. If you touch horse to England, lived tIll she had maned
flan the finger sinter in, and when you 108 years,
withdraw it the tissues of the flesh have
a tendency to rise with it and cling to
the finger. This is not the case with beef.
When cooked. the fleeh is denser and
C. O. MCHARDS & CO.
heavier than beef, and Mut a' sweetish
Dear Sirs, --For some years I have Lad
taste. Horse fat' melts to a clear fluid only partial use of my arm, caused by a
a a lew temperature -something like sudden, strain. , I have used.every rem-
elt degrees -while for beef fat the tem- edy without effect, until I got a sample
perature must be 112 ilegrees. bottle of MINARD'S LINIMENT. • The
This is • perhaps the best and ehrest benefit I received from it caused me to
test. Raw horse flesh has a curious me- continue US usaane now I am happy to
Ulla oder that is not noticed in beef,say my anni is owe:telt, restored. • ,
Horse flesh has been used. to some ex-
tent for food in this country; but whe- R. W. HARRISON.
ther there is much of it now is a gees -
Glare's, Ontario.
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tion that is hard to. deternatie.
ANOTHER VOICE
Tells of ,Diabetes•Cured by-Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
W. Gs Bartieraau could get no Reiter
till Re Tried the Groat Canadian
, Kidney Remedy.
Wapelle, Assa., N. W. T., Aug. 22.-
(Speeia1)-This thriving town furnishes
one of the most remarkable curteof Kid-
ney Disease that has ever been reported
on the praides. Mr. Wrn. B. Bartleman,
a well-known farmer, is the man cured
and he makes the fellowing statement:
"I bad Kidney Trouble, and it develop-
ed into Diabetes, I went to the doctor,
but his treatment was of no use what-
ever to me. I began to take Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills in December, 1902. I took
them all winter and summer while I was
unable to work my farm. I took 12
boxes in all, and in August -1 was able
to work.
"Now I am quite strong. I *worked all
winter tvitbout pains in my back or any
part of my body. Dodd's Kidney Pills
cured me."
If the Kidney Disease is of long stand-
ing it may take time to cure it. But
Dodd's Kidney Pills will deft.
Whipping Horses Probibited.
Among the curious things that arrest
the attention on arriving in Moscow is
the .entire absence of whips among driv-
'ers of cabs, carriages and all sorts of
vehicles, There is a law prohibiting
their use. There is not a single whip
in toe in Moscow. The excellent condi-
am. of the horses attests the benefit of
this humane law. Nothing can exceed the
beauty of the sleek and well groomed
horses used in the carriages of Moscow.
Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc.
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Titled Rulers.
• The Sultan of Turkey has seventy-
one titleand eft the. parchment con -
Mining them aro the words "as many
more as may.be desirecl can be added
to this number." Among the tales are
"Abdul Haled, the Eternally Victori-
ous," "the Eteraally Smiling," "the Eter-
nally Invincible," "Distributor of
Crowns to the Heroes Seated on the
Thrones" and "Shadow of God on
Earth."
The Shah of Persia, has also many
pompous titles, among them being "Lu-
minous Star of the. Firmament," "the
One Star That Gives Light te, the Ter-
restrial Planet," "Pivot of the Universe" -
and "the Itfagnetic,Centre of the Glebe."
The funniest titleehoweveros borne by
the rudir of Ave, a small kingdom on
the borders of Afghanistan. This mon-
arch signs all his decrees as follows :-
"Signed and sealed by the King of Kings,
whole all the world should obey because
he regulates the seasons, because he is
the father of the sun, and because he
is the King of the twenty-four umbra -
tee"
Vse Levees Dry Soap (1, powder') to
wash woolens and flannelsg-you'll like
it. 32
BLONDES BECOMING' EXTINCT.
"The blonde:), are e disappearing human
type," says Anthropologist , Otis T.
Mason, of the Smithsonian Institution.
"They are going fast. Bloncle -women are
becoming scarcer every day, and to-
day there are not nearly se many fair-
haired and blue-eyed beauties as there
were 50 years ago. Already such a thing
as a teal blonde, purely such, is so
rarely seen hi this country as to exeite
remark, and golden tresses rue so frequcnt titab vritab1eones are usual],
suspected to be dyed.In short, it has
become evident that before long this
type of feminine lowlince will have
practically vanished from the earth,
"You may judge how rapidly the
blondes are gohae when you consider
the fact that wherever a brunette man
marries a blonde wonnue or vice versa,
00 per rent, of the children born have
dark hair and eyes. At net rate not
many centuries will be requirea to wipe
out the fair type altogether."
Minard's Whited for sale everywhete.
A Sant irt Addition.
Mts. y steppcd off 118
in the back rom of the grocery store as
soon its She had stepped on.
"Sure, these Bode is 110 gud f'r me,"
elle laid, in a tette of deep diagust.
"Tliey only weigh up to wan hundred
an' 1 weigh wan hundred an' noluoty
pounds,
'It's easily discouraged ye am° said
Tier companion, Mrs. lboupsey, elmect.
"J---ust step on to thine tiviet,Ine
steer, and let Jamsey, bere, do MI Imei
t'r ye -Youth's Companion.
' Sunlight Soap will not injure
your blanitofS Or harden them. It
will make them soft, white and
fleecy. ,
rrs .
"Ivo Aetri."-sIGFEVAX-DEATICan:".
Former Slave Trader Meets it Miserable
End in a Hovel.
4 Than who had been notorious for ]iia
creclties while engaged in the slave trade
lay dying in a squalid nut in Edinburgh.
According to the Seetch custom the fam-
ily, opened the door to let the spirit pass.
To their infinite horror the bloody bead
of a bleck man sudeenly raid leto the
room. The family shrieked with fright,
the num on the bed gave a yell of terror.
They turned to his bedside; but he ex-
pired as they waned,
When they looked towerd the door
:train the head ead. disappeared, There
was a splash of fresh blood ton the
floor to mark the spot where it had been,
but nothing else to certify that tile 'hor-
rid sight had not been a creation of
'morbid imagination.
This appearance of a negro's head in
the room of a, nian dying after he lied
committed inmunerahle barbayities upon
black slaves was a strange- coincidence,
and nething more, Bret Owen, theefeen-
ous anatomist, had been attending an
anatomical lecture, where the body of a
-negro had been dissected. Ile was taking
the head home with him to examine it
more .earefully. Theestreets were wet
and slippery.
Just as he was passing the open door
he tripped, and the head, slipping froin
the cloth in which he lied it, edited into
the little room. The ery df tee dying
' ,man diverted the attention of those who
Student Stumped the Professor.
The clever Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh,
met with his match while examining a
student.
Ho said: "And you attended the class
for mathemeties s -• ••
arm..
"Ilevr, any sides has a circle?"
"Two," said the student.
"What are they 7"
'What aT laugh in the class tee stu-
dent's answer produced when he Auld;
"An inside and an outage,"
Bet this was nothing compared with
what followed. The doctor said to the
student: "And you attend the moral phi!,
osopliy class also 7"
'Tee"
"Well, you would hear lectures on va-
rious subjects. Did you ever hear' one
on cause and effect?" -
"Does an effect go before a cause?"
/Tao
"Give me an instance." '
"A men wheeling a barrow."
The dotter then sat down and propos-
ed no more questions.
Intense Grammar.
Teacher -The sentence, "My father ho.d
money," is in the past tense. Now,
"Mary, what tense would be speaking in
If you said, "My father has money Ye
Little Mary -Oh, that would be a pre-
tense.
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ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT.
Removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps
and blemishes from .borspe, blood spavin,
ourbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney, stifles,
sprains;. mires sore and woolen throat
. coughs, etc. Save 00 by the use of -one set-
tle. Waranted the most woudisrful Blemish
Cute ever hnown.
•
• Stirred His Fervor, _
(Philadelphia Press. • .1
"Goodness!" exclaimed Mrs. Subbubs,
arriving home fermi church, "the minis-
ter gave us nothing but fire and brim-
stone to -day." • •
"I thought he would. I saw the ser-
,vant girl going down to the station with
her trunk gheit after you started for
church," said her husband.
Minard's Liniment Relives Neuralgia.
Reckless Valor of Bandit Raisuli.
"At Tangier," said a Chicagoan, -"I
once saw Balsa. He looked,ae magnifi-
cent as an. Indian rajah, and it French-
man told inc that lia bed a foolhardy
and reckless valor.
"This Frenchman said that Raisin had
enteeed the nooting gallery of Tangier
one day tylele a Tunisian was trying a
little pistol practice. • •
"The Tunisian was. an excellent shoe
Ile broke glass balls, rang bells, split
pipe steins and petetreted bull's eyes
without number. At each shot a polite
murmur �f applause arose. The inaii
was all puffed up with triumph.
"Raisuli looked. on With a sneer, and
finally he said in a loud voice:
"In a duel this gentleman wouldn't
shoot so wale
"We'll see about tbate yelled the Tun-
isian, and he challenged lieisula and
ten minutes later they were on the field.
"They werc to fight -at 12 paces,each
each to fire one ,shot. Lots were drawn
as to who should shootfirst, and Rai-
suli lost. Ile took his stand before the
Tunisian calmly and the latter lifted
his weapon, took careful aim, and -
missed.
eltaisuli smiled. 'What dm 1 tell you?'
he Said,
Abo thrust his pistol in his' belt
and strode away, humming a French
song." -Philadelphia Ledger.
MITA; LIttlaient Cures Dandruff
Opium Smoking in China.
/1 is generaliy understood elute a itiege
pereentagteof the Ching ere felhated
to theuse of opium. line is a miscon-
ception. The belief that the Chinese of
rank and culture use i ha drug ts due to
tho prominence given to do cultivetion
of the plant and the manufacture of
opium in the Ceiential Empire. As
matter of fact, a native who uses opimn
is looked upon by his superiors as we
discuss and elessify our drunkards.
The idea that a pill will produce
exhilarating ffeet on the beginner is
also erroneous. One must be atcustomed
to the Use of the drug to get the pleas.
ant effect. The first pipe to an Ameri-
can produesa eausea. ihro-or three will
make him sick. If he can stand eight
to -nine of these pills lie a apt to dream,
but the awakening is always an tut.
. P •reality.
Arsenic Eaters,
Tito practiee of eating arsenic is very
prevalent among the peasantry of the
ineuntainoua distriete of .Austro-Hutigtrq
and France. They dolga% that this pop
hen enables them to aseene With .ease
heights which they eould only otherwise
climb with/treat distress to the Chest,
were in the room,so that 'Owen Wee able
to secure his treasure add depart ,
un-
notieed.
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Clever Needlewoman.
It tvoula seem that the use of the
hands would be a necessity to a seam-
' '
stress yet there is an expert in needle-
craft living in Sag Harbin., L. I., who,
has no use of either hands or feet. -She
does the Most exquisite work holding
the needle itt her mouth. When she
wants to thread a needle she sticks it
into the soft wood of her work table with
her emetb, and- then biting off the cot-
ton the right length, passes it through
the -eye with her lips with more quick-
ness and dexterity than most nimble -fin-
gered women show. She can tie knots in
her thread with her tongue and works
quite rapidly. One of the spechnens of
her skill is a crazy quilt which contains
over three hundred different •fancy
'stitches. She is iIso an artist of some
skillin the use of brush and crayons.
"Thought it meant death'
sure .1 --Mrs. James McKim, of Dunn-
ville, Ont., says of )xer almost miraculous
cure from heart (lima° by Dr. Agnew's Cure
for the Heart: "Until 1 began taking this re—
medy I despaired of in' life. I had heart
failure and extreme prostration. Ono dose
gave me quick relief and one bottle cured
me. The sufferings of years were dispelled
like 11iazie."-3.
ffhick and Thin Steak.
A masi who hies envettigated is pre-
pared to .explain why the houzekeepor of
modest means is never able to serve
steak as it is found in the beet restaur-
ants, at least an inch in thickness, and
filled wibh juices in proportion. It is
,simply because when a. portion .of eleak
.33 (Miffed from the family buteher the
icuts (it from the whew piece And if the
weight desired be very small the cut is
!extremely thin, but quite wide. In this
condition it is impossible for the most
'expert cook to broil it so it will retaie
all its toothsome qualities. The restaur-
ant, on the other band, buys in snob
hege quantities .that the meat can be eut
thick, end for eingle•portions it may be
cooked and served very thick and liar -
1701V.
Summer
Whooping Cough
The thildreh seem to catch whooping
co u Rh easily in the summer time when it
is always so /ouch harder to got rid of,
Shiloh's
Consumption
CureThe Lung
Tonic
will cure them quickly. There Is no
Injurious drug in it and it is pleasant -
(8 take.
At all druggists; 26e., 00e, And $1.00 bottle. :
401
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Att Echo in Two Langtiagefi,
• An ordinary echo is a curious thing,
but, says, the Youth's Companion, nei
'cording to the statements of a French-
man at a watering place in the Pyrenees
ono echo on the Franco -Spanish frontier
is so far from ordinary that it must
have started in .America.
"As ,soon as you have spoken," said
tee Freedman, Who bad sectiree an
audience of wild-eyed tourists, "you
lietir distinctly the voice leap "from rook
to -rook, from precipice to precipice, and
as soon as it has passed the frontier
it assumes the Spirnish tongue! But, yes,
have Iicard it often,"
Catarrh for twenty yearo
and cured In a few bays.—
Hon. George James, of Scranton, Fa., nays:
"I have been a martyr to Cfirtarrh for twenty
years, constant hawking, dropping in the
throat and pain lit the head, very offensive
breath. I tried Dr. Agnewe Catarrhal row -
der. The firGt apei)ratiou ;rave Infant Tie
Iter. And using a few bottles / was cured.
50 cen1s,-1.
Be Didn't.
"Your husband'," cackled young Me-
Phoolish, "is quite. aohne. Lai -quite a
chleken, isn't IVO"
"No, I hardly think so/ replied Mrs.
Iki Caustique, refleetiveIy. "Chickens
kone limo to roost."
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SHOWS VALUE OF NOTES,
Clergyman .vays a Fitting Tribute to as
• Obituary Sermon.
A well-known minister is telling an
anecdote about a brother clergyznan who
was. required unexpectedly to officiate
at die funeral of a Man boncerning
whom he knew nothing. When lie arrived
at the town where the deceased bad lived
he had just time tomake a few in.
quirks about bis traits and achieve.
mente, the results of which he noted oe
a memorandum. Itis eulogy at the ser.
V100, as reported, was about as follows:
"Our dear brother, whom Iva MOM)
to -day, was a man of rare character and
ability. He had the mental capaeity ol
a "-referring to his notes-' Daniel
Webster, the tad of a" -again consult,
ing his reemoranda-"Itenry Clay, the
pertinacity of a "-another reference -
"Ulysses S, Grant We .can only MOUllt
him with a profound and sorrowful re
gret now that he bas gone to meet his'
-another reference to the notes -"God.'
NINE MILLION ACMES
Government Lauda for Homesteaders,
In western Nebraska near the Unioe
Pacific Railroad in section lots of 640
acres each, for almost nothing. The sal,
ubrity of these lands is something re;
makable. Distance from railroad h
three to thirt,ymiles. There will be a
grind rush of homesteaders. This is the
last distribution of free homes the Unite
ed States Government will ever make 4
Nebraska. Write for pamphlet telline
how the lands cen be acquired, when en.
try should be made, and other informa.
tion. Free on application to any Union
Pacitio agent.
• Quick to Learn.
A squire in a certain town had jug{
finished, marrying a young couple, anti
proceeded in a paternal way to give them
good, solid advice. Turning to the bride,
gmwssimnievchre ssplz
d your money extrava.
gantly1 and be saerng in every way pos.
beidegroorn .listened respectfull
ne
hen remarked:
asib1Ta:1•'e;tellojudge, we might as well begin
on you," and he proceeded to give the
spire 50 cents for VII-% the knot.
CANADIAN NATIONAL
FACTS AND FIGURES.
The Independent Order of Foresters
%eve just aimed from the press a very
neat little booklet giving a great grist
of facts and figures with regard to Can•
ale., its resourees, mineral and agricul.
tural, ole. Historical points, territor.
les and other Canadian information el
great value. This little booklet should
be in the hands of all. It will be send
on application to Dr. Oronbyatekha,
preme 'Chief Ranger, of the 1. 0. F., Tent.
ple 13uilding, Toronto, Canada.
Aninials that Will Not brink.
Naturalists hilve discovered many ani.
nulls which seem to need ho water ot
which drink outy et rare intervals.
There is a certain Mehl of gazelles that
never drink, and the llamas of Patagonia
live for years without taking water..
There is it particular dress of cattle near
Losere, in Framer that rarely touches
water, but in spite of this faet these
cattle give inilk of a rielt qualita.from
which excellent cheese is made, lifttey
naturalists lave the theory that hares.
do not drink, or that water is not 4
necessity for them, oad that the dew Oh
the grass is sufficient for their heeds.
STATIC OF Orft0, CITR OF TOL)Stf0,)•10.
LUCAS COUNTY
iraint h. Mangy makes oath that hole the
senior partner of the firm of P. J. Cariney A
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
. County and State aforeseicl,and tliateaki firm
will pay the inini of ONE IlUXDREfl nor,.
TARS for each and every case of OrtVainta
that cannot be curedby the use of 1/A1.1.1i
CA1%111111 CUR%
eltANIC .T. eiteNEY.
Sworn to before me end subscribed In my
- presence,this Oth day of December, A.D,, 1886.
AnAt A, W, OetASON,
airs, Notary hubtle.
Inale Criteria care Is talon tritentalle mer
- nets directly on the blood andmileons surfaces
of the eyetera, Seim tor tostimonitus, tree.
P, J,etietrIte & 00., Toledo, O.
Sold by all 52uggists-48e,
Take Hairs Veneer Inns tot Constipation.
World attdistics.
, At a rough calculation the population
of the wean is more then one billion
souls, These speak some 3004 leugnages
and. are worsliipers of more teen 1,100
religions, The average length of life in
331.-3 years. One-fourth of nankind dies
before the seventh and onalait before
the eeventeerith eras. Only oh -sixth
live beyond the ago 4)f sixty. Thirty -
area million die annually, 111,000 daily)
2,730 every hour, 60 every »gnat?. While
ono -fourth ato capable of bearing arnrs
only one in a Miasma is natural kw;
dined to ea AroXestsioa., •
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