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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-12-14, Page 6for Quality and Flavor CEYLON NATURAL GREEN TEA is far superior to any other green tea, Sold only in Sealed Lead Packets. • lilalnEST AWARD 40, 30 and 60c per lb. By all grocers, ST. LOUIS, 1904.. 7 4.V404.stiL'.tw,;.>✓owwWtwwYwt4t ;,ll. LOVA AND A TITLE SoliYMY: "Yes, my lady," answereit \carie, with alacrity. "I will. What business has that George to carry messages and in- terfere? He is clever—oh, oh, very clever, but he shall not hoodwink me." Lady Lucelfe Iaughed again. 'So," she murmured, "Master Hal has his little love affair, and the devoted sis- ter is plotting with him. It will amuse me, at least to balk thein." "Yes, Marie," she added, aloud, "you must find out •this mysterious affair and let me know." Quite unconscious of the condescending interest which Lady Lucelle was taking in this affair, Hal waited the approach of six o'clock with that bitter impatience which distinguishes love in his predica- ment. ?fie wandered about the grounds, puff- ing at his pipe, and carefully avoiding any human being; then he betook him- self to the interior of the castle, and sauntered from room to room, settling nowhere and to nothing, If he could have found Jeanne to unburden his mind to, it would have been some comfort, but Jeanne ,1aad gone out with the Laxebtons and Clarence. Then he ran against Vane on his way to the studio, and if he had been a very little less in love than he was, he would have noticed the haggard look on his old friend's ha'naeome dace; but as it was, it passed unnoticed, and to Vane's good- nateireea inquiry if he would come and smoke a cigar with him, Hal muttered some excuse, and hastened on. Vane looked after him with a vague curiosity, and sighed as he turned into his quiet, sect ed room. " fmethleg wrong with the box," he murmured; "has he been getting into debt?" At the thought, he stepped out again into the corridor and called after Hal turned back, and Vane put his hand on his shoulder. "Comte and smoke a cigar with me, Hal," he said, in his old affectionate manner, and they turned in together. "Let me see, you like these Cubinas— here you are. Now tell us what's the _ matter.". Hal cooked tap and colored. "Nothing," he said., of course. "You mean nothing I can help you in," said Vane, and he put his white dlnnds on Hal's broad shoulders and looked at him wistfully. "Don't say that unless 'you are quite sure, Hal. Is it money— any little or bio debt?" "No—no," said IIaL "Are you sure?" said Vane, with kind- ly scrutiny; "don't hesitate .with mc, Hal—don't let a question of money trou- ble you. Honestly, dear boy, there is more than I know what to do with—a great deal more. Out with it, lIcel—or stay," he said, seating himself at. lois writing -table, "suppose I write a. cheque for athousand—a couple of thousand— without asking any questions" Hal jumped up end put his hand on Vane's arm, and his eyes grew suddenly moist. "What a. dear, generous old man you are, Vane!" he said, huskily. "I'm not in debt—I don't want money—I wish I was, oof lust for the pleasure taking it from you, though :heaven Imows you are lib- eral enough; sometimes I'm ashamed at the cheques when I cash them." "Why should you bet" said Vane, qui- etly. `All I have 23 Jeanne's"—how he lingered on the beloved name!—"and yours. I would give all the world, if I had it, to make yen two happy!" "Don't I know—don't Jeanne know it?" said Hal, gratefully. "There never was such a kind-hearted fellow as you are, Van. You deserve to be happy, for you try to make everybody else so." "There is nothing, my dear Hale" said Vane, smiling, ut very, very wistfully; "there is nothing you can do. If I am not happy, it is my own fault; remember that, Hal," for Hal diad jumped up. "That's the 5 o'clock bell going, isn't it?" he said. " Imust go." And with a, confused excuse, he hur- ried out. Vane looked after him, and raised his hand to his forehead, with a troubled ex- pression on his face. "What ails the boy`!" he -said; "what is it that seems to hang about us all like some dark cloud?" Then he went to the window and leaned out for air. "Some- thing seems to press down npon.the place like a nightmare. I am not supersti- tious, or I should think something was going to happen." With a. shake of his broad shoulders and a smile, he threw off the feeling and went to work. On 'the" easel was an un- fin}ghed historical picture of ,the time of Cedes the First; the lay figure was draped with a cavalier costume, and ar- tisthe properties of the same period were scattered about the room. Vane took up the brush, bet -only to fling..it down again, and absently turn over the fsdad. velvet tunics, lace hate, rapiers and swords which layin o. heap on a. chair. But nothing would interest him, and at last he wont up to his room to dress, hie hands thrust into his pock- ets, and his head drooping moodily. Jnst as he put his fingers on the handle of the door he heard a voice that always roue through lain; it was Jeanne; she was robing slowly up the stairs, talking, to someone in a low voice. The someone s'eplked in a, still lower voice, and Vane bit his lip. afechatimally, unthinkingly, he looked raver the balustrade, 'There stood Jean - /.e and, of course, Clarence, the former with an anxious :a (+ 0 look on her fat, LLe lat- ter t ter with that anxious, concentrated glaze with which hie eyes o.hvays fought Jean - nets face. Vane could not hear a word; would not have palmed a moment if he could have heard: had he done so, how much jealous pain would have been spared to Viiia ! "And yon will do this for me ?" said .T anne, her elorraent face upturned to his questioningly. 'If the prineeee coreea, you will keep the count away from her, and leave poor Iial a chance of Speaking to beta -eel you ?" {here is nothing I would not do for ole" replied Clarence, his handsome ter flushed. "Thank yon ---thank you l" said Jean. Ala "I feel like A stofstlpirator." And she held out her hand with a lit- tle flush. Then it was that Vane stepped back, but too late to blare himself the sightht of Clarence's eager flush, and the long, passionate kiss which he impressed on the little hand. Jeanne started and turned pale, then, without a word, hur- ried up the stairs, just as Vane closed his dressing -room door, and stood, pale and stern, with an anguish on his face beyond description. Had Hal been a Frenchman, there is no doubt that he would have found some vent for his impatience and excite- ment by arraying his handsome person in the most becoming toilet he possess- ed; but his personal adornment at any time received but scant attention at his hands, it was certainly not likely it would absorb him now. Dashing into his room, he fills the basin with cold•wa- ter and plunges his head into it, rubs himself dry with a towel as if he meant to scour off his short curls, and, after a, vigorous application of two brushes, hard enough to scrub a floor with, con- siders tbat he has done sufficient. The peaceful tinkle of the vesper bells floats softly through the valley, singing a re- quiem for the dying sun, as Hal strides through the park which surrounds the castle. Not a human being is in sight, saving a herdsman slowly driving his cows to the farm on the side of the hill, and he scarcely bestows a glance on the young Englishman as he strides across the valley. `.Chinking it best to give the villa gar- dens a wide berth, Hal makes a detour, and as the clock strikes six, comes upon the great cedar. It is a soft, delicious evening, which valleys alone know of; wafted gently by the wind is the sweet, precious odor of the ferns; at a little distance is the tinkle of a sheep -bell and the lowing of the cows on their home- ward way, through it all comes the rip- ple and splash of the little bubbling stream—the stream which Hal will see while memory holds her seat. Hal is warm, for, though there was no occasion—seeing that he had all the af- ternoon before him—for walking fast, he has done his mile in a very few min- utes, and, as he throws himself down up- on the grass, for ho does not k noW whe- ther the companion may not be watch- ing the grounds with a field -glass, ho takes off his hat and wipes his brow, and tries to possesshis soul in patience. Five, ten minutes—ten years, seemi gly, pass, and he is about to groan aloud, when suddenly he hears the rustle of a dress, and springing to his feet, sees • Verona close beside him. For a moment he is speechless; she has come, for alt his expectancy, so like a vision, in her wonderful beauty, that he can do nothing else than stare, with his honest, boyish love beaming from his dark eyes. As he does so, he notices unconsciously, and with a pang, that she is changed somehow; by the stream•there where he had nearly fallen over her, it was a child's face, a child's frank smile that had been upturned to Trim; now— was it because she was paler and her eyes seemed darker and deeper that she seemed older ? Hal is no analyst, no philosopher, only a love -smitten boy, and didn't know that, with his passionate kisses—the first that had ever fallen on her lips from man— he had slain the child in Verona, and had created the woman, loving, passionate, and shy. She was shy—sweetly shy, and when she held out her hand, Hal could not have plucked up courage to kiss it to save his life. But he holds it tightly, though it struggles faintly for freedom, and so he stands looking at her. At last she lifts her eyes—with one swift flash from their dept?' 3 that goes straight into Hal's heart—and says : "Did you want to see me, Mr. Bert- ram ?" CHAPTER XXXV. Did he wish to see her ? Had he ever wished for anything as much since his life began -- "Verona," he says, "his voice all a- quiver,' as Shakespeare says, "Verona, are you angry with me because of—be- cause of last night ?" "Angry?" and she lifts her long lashes and Looks at him. "You have been i11, are still ill," he goes on to say. "Jeanne called to -day." "I know," says Verona, softly, turn- ing away her head and revealing a pro- file like one of those canieos one finds in ancient jewels. "And they told her yon were ill." Verona looks at his flushed, eager face with a gentle sadness. "I was not i11," she says. "I knew it!" he rejoins, drawing a long breath of relief, combined with indigna- tion. "I knew it was a —not true. Prin- cess—Verona—who told them to tell Jeanne that, and put her off?" Verona looks down ,silent. Hal groans almost audibly, and, drop. ping her hand, leans against the tree to control himself, "Now you are angry with me!" she sighs. Ital turns to her eagerly, and takes her hand again. "How can you bay that?" he says. "Don't you know that I am almost out of my mind?" --and, indeed, he looks like it ---"how would you feel if you loved inc as I love you, if I were shut up away front you, and not allowed to see you, and that in a beastly foreign place, where one doesn't know the la ngia g e- and ihe people, instead. of standing up like then to fight it out, smile and look on as if nothing was the batter?" `:erona fixes her dark eyes with a frightened, pleading look upon his hand- some, flushed face. ( "Verona," he goes on= -!`I may 'call yon 1 Verona, mayn't I? Tell ole all, do tell ole everything! I feel like a man tied hand yeti foot, helpless. Are they really keeping you a prisoner in—in this beast- ly l e? y ala ."I don't know." secs says, hesitatingly, end with a little quick shudder. "In- deed, I do not know—but I am afraid they do not like me to go out, or to see any otic." "And and I the eauen?" says outspoken! Hal. "Who fa it, tits &rine, your father?" • Verona shakes her head, "The count, then?" zl. c'AlzlSilee"eeand IIa1 draws a long breath; "so I thought! And what does he do that for, and are you going to submit to it? Think, Verona, a prisoner!" She turns pale, and her lips/ quiver. "I know; but whet can I do? I ant only a girl --a helpless woman, and-- and, --•-t, ".And the count has some right!" says Hal, fiercely; "andif he treats you like this before, what would he do after, when lie has you entirely in his peavey?" Verona shrinks, and the slight shudder ' runs through her again. Hal sees it; there is not an expression of her face, her eyes, her lips, that he does not note; and his face flames. "Where is he now?" lie asks. "Dressing to go to the castle," says Verona. "Do you not know?" "Azzd are you not coming?" says Hal, eagerly. She shakes her head, "No." IIe takes -two or three impetuous strides, and comes back to her, his face working, and lits eyes alight. "Verona," he says, and he takes her hand, and looks at her hungrily --there is no other word for it—"listen to me. Don't turn your head away; I can't see your eyes." - Verona, with a faint blush, raises her eyes, and lets them droop again. "Verona, I am only a boy; I don't know anything about the world; I'm as ignorant as a black crow, and I'm as poor as a church mouse! But, oh, Verona, I love you—I love you as well as any man could do—better, a thousand times bet- ter; and if you do not love me, if we are to part, I would rather die than live; I feel that I never could bare to live without you!" And poor, brave Hal gives something that sounds like a sob. "Verona, 'my beautiful Verona, I love you!" And, as he speaks, he draws her to- ward him. Verona's face flushes, then suddenly grows pale; her lips open, her bosom ,eaves beneath the muslin, and, with a little cry, she droops upon his broad breast. White-hot, not red, Hal presses her closely to him, and touches her soft brow with his lips, as reverently, al- though passionately, as if she were a saint. "My darling, my Verona!' Are you really mine?—do yon really love me?" With an effort she raises her head, and looks up at him, her eyes moist, and beaming with that look of ineffable passion which all women may feel, but only Italians can show. "I love you," she whispers, her head closing softly on his arm—"I love you!" "Wonderful!" murmurs Hal, raptur- ously. "How can you, who are so beau- tiful, so—so far above any other woman in the world—love such a fellow as I am?" Verona lays the tips of her fingers tim- idly on his lips. "Naha" she says. "You must not say this to me and of yourself. It is not true; it is you who are so much better than I—a poor, miserable girl. Ah!" —and as if she had suddenly remembered, she adds—"and we must part!" "Part!" says Hal, between his - teeth, and turning white. What can he say to prevent such a calamity? "Part!" he echoes, wildly. "Yes," she sighs, and her lips twitch, "we must part; they will not let me see you again—never again!" "Hush, for God's sake!" says Hal, trembling. "Don't say that! There must be some way—there must—of —of pre- venting that!" She looks up, large tears forming slow- ly in her dark eyes, and shakes her head. "No," she says, "I am unfortunate. I —I—do not belong to myself, I wish," and she sobs—"I wish that we had never met." Driven almost wild by the sight of tears in her eyes—eyes to which tears should have been such utter strangers, Hal still manages to control himself, and with a true Englishman's coolness faces the situation. "My darling," he says, "for Heaven's sake don't cry! Every tear of yours goes to my heart lige a knift—feel!" and he presses her hand to his side. "Come, I'm only a boy; but I love you like a man; let me act like one! Listen to me, darling! You were about to marry the count—" 'Were!" murmurs Verona, sadly, de- spairingly. "Yes, were," says Hal, hotly. "You are not going to now! I'd kill him first, I'd —I'd rather kill you!" "Ah!"—and she clings to him passion- ately—"if you would! If I could die here now," and she lays her head on his Heart. Hal gasps, breathless for a moment, overwhelmned by such love, and, when he. speaks again, his voice is stirred and broken. "Listen, my sweet angel; you were to marry the count. How long have you known him?" Verona is silent for a moment. "Ever since I can remember." "What made you—what brought it abotxt—I mean how came he to have the impudence, confound him—to think of such a thing?" Verona thinks. "I do not know. He is a great friend of papa's." "Ah, I see," says Hal. "Your father is indebted to him, perhays?" Verona looks up proudly. "No I" "Knows bis secrets," says Hal. "Perhaps." "But that can't matter," says Hal. "He can't injure the prince here in Germany! Does the prince want you to marry the count?" "I do not know; he has never said so," says Verona. "Can't he see that the count is old enough to bo your grandfather? If he doesn't want it, why doesn't he stop it?" Verona sighs sadly. "Papa does not think of me—of any- thing but Italy," she whispers. "Confound Italy!" exclaims Hal, under his breath. "And because the count is an old friend, and had a hand in some of these conspiracies, the prince quetly hands him the greatest treasure the world possesses!" ".Napa docs not think. And—and in Italy girls marry when their fathers wish them, and I—I have been promised to the count aver since I could talk." IIal groans. `This is too awful. too wicked to be But i shall believed. t not be. Ill balk ;.lister Count of his prey. There must be some way--chance---time will give me some opportunity, and I nutat think -- think!" and he thrusts his hands through his short curls desperately. "Chance= -time!" echoes Verona, tad. ly, "Alas! there is no chance can help us, and for time—" She pauses and bides her head. "What—'what do yott mean?" says Hal, She doss not look up, and her voiee drops sa Iow that it is almost inaudible, "I am afraid!" she says, trembling. "Afraid! of what?" says IIttI, fiercely. "I am afraid--" and she clings eleeer to him, and hides her white face, ehud- dotingly, "that they are going to take Me away -tenon!" (To ba cnntirniedj' �- GNVt r g watts& PAID or - LCVtit enuYHCRsLIMITCD. TOROMTO.ottr TOAHY PENeoH WHOCAH PAOVtTNAt TNI» SOAPCQrRTAIH6AHY PORN., AlaV1.Tirtra10M. WNAT106VEri Olt, CONTAIN! AMY 11/JNN10 V O CHCM,CAL. G ularANTfili PERFECTLY PURE,GCKUMF.,8e FREE Hata ADtlt1'Cn,t;IOrt ALt.oa.ates. _, AUTticeuzeo 10ntrbkt4 PustcHASC hrp,ItY TOAnYORS r,Np:no GAUSr roe tit`s;etaa',. 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We had a fairly good cab, but the time seemed endless. The big bazaars— Hotel de Ville, rue d`Amsterdam, etc.— were the most (musing. Really, one could get anything from a five -son doll to a menagere (the little cooking -stove all the peasant women use in their cot- tages.) When we finally became almost distracted with the confusion and the crowd and our list, we asked the boy what, he had. liked when be was eleven years old at scll•ool, and he assured us all boys liked knives and guns. — From Christmas in the Valis, by Mary King Waddington, in the Ohristmas (Decem- ber) Scribner's. • And novas to Diamonds ! I is not without reason = that Canada's largest Jewelry house should be 1 known as Diamond Hall. All over the Conti- nent this store is famous as giving unequalled diamond values. A permanent iu in gs taif at Amsterdam ensures advantageous purchase i ing, and our customers receive the price benefht A Diamond Hall oar- antee means an absolutely • perfect stone. 1211ZI E 13I OS. LIM1`! EI 134.13a YONbU ".r'`i'. TOOOIaITO se OM •i, Love on Earth and in Heaven. The difference between love on earth and love in heaven is not to be convey- ed in words; but in tranquil and pure moods it may, even on earth, be appre- hended by the sight of the spirit. Love in heaven has realized all that earthly love aspires to; and from that goal its progress begins, never to cease. The sky toward which it yearned in the world has became the ground on which at stands here; but now another sky •is above it. We forecast heaven as re- pose and peace, the fulfilling of the heart's desire, the immoral presence with us of beauty and happiness. But man is not so poorly content. We leave behind us on earth the obstacles of the body, and in )leaven we labor not for bread, raiment, or shelter; hearts are not parted by space and time; we de- ceive not, strive not one against the other, scheme not to outdo others for the gain of our own name or fame, Vet in heaven are labor, emulation, ambition love's holy fear, and humility deeper than hell is deep below the heavens. Tears we have also, and awe of that want which only the divine fullness can supply.—From Julian Iiawthorne's "Lov- ers in Heaven" in the December Cent- ury. Shopping. Like armies on invasion bent They march, and surge, and sway. Descending on department stores In bold and fierce array— The shoppers who lay in their ware* Before the Christmas day. They surge around the busy clerks, And pull and jam and haul, And lead themselves with heavy weight! And let their bundles fall, And push and punt and kick and squirm And slam against the wall. • The fait, the lean, the short, tho tall, — The big and little, too, They mingle in the mighty fray,. A frantic, fighting crew, And all desire to talk at once, And that is what they do. At early morn the rush begins, The clerks begin to wrap, The women come with firm -sot jaws All ready for the scrap; They fill the stores, and then, of course, The trouble is on tap. They Jab each other in the ribs, And gouge each other's eyes, And pound each other black and blue, Nor stop to sympathize; They riot through the stores In droves To bluff and tyrannize. They struggle madly to and fro And mingle in the fight, And every woman in the bunch Is soon a perfect fright, And many have some 3 -cent toys When they; get home at night. t•e A Self -Acting Telephone Directory. The newest idea for telephone users is based upon the automatic annunciat- or idea. 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If we ourselves loved a truthful, quiet way of living better than any other way, how would we feel to see our friends pre- paring to celebrate our birthday with strain, anxiety and confusion? 1f we valued a loving consideration for others more than am -ebbing else in the world, how would 11 affect us to see our friends prepang for the festival with a foreel sense of the conventional necessity for giving? "Who gives himee:f with his gift feeds tbree• — Himself, his hit igra i,cighbor and MC." That spirit shiu1 bo in every Christ- mas gift throughout f thristendoni. The most thoughtless malt or woman would recognize the truth, if they could look at = it quietly, with duo regard for tyle real meaning of the clay. But after Laving heard and asse'i=ce to the truth, the thoughtless peceee would, from force of habit, go on with th'i sante rush and strain. -Annie Payeou Cail, in Leslie's Monthly Magazire for December, Deep Sea Sounding, Deep sea sounding by sound has be. come the fad of a Norwegian inventor, who has brought his invention to a practical form. In his device strong soundwaves ar wet• . e sent er l n 1" s e c ucularl 'n - P 1 yi to the and water n l R thet rc uxn sound. is caught by a microphone. It being known definitely how rapidly sound tra- verses -the water, the problem becomes simply one of multiplication and divi- sion, The sound' wave travels to the bottom of the sea before being reflected, arid, the time in seconds and fraction's being determined, it is reduced to feet and this divided by two. As even tlio best of the deep sea sounds have failed to determine the depth of certain parts of the ocean, it will be seen that this method 18 par- tieularly useful where the great depth of the ocean bottom would prevent the usual piano wire deviee being used. A flgnre�of speech sometimes/doesn't cut much of a figure. - IS A WEDDING DIRECTOR, Woman Discovers New Way by Which Her Sex Can Earn ]Money. A wade -awake woman in P,00ton has found a new outlet for woman's activity by taklgg charge of weddings. On the day of the Mar - leap ceremony the bride mut the bride's mo- ther eine goneraily too busy and too tired ,to give much attention to the management of details. As a helper in this household etner- gency the wedding director fille a long -felt want. The name of this pioneer Is hire. Nel- lie iillffins, and she lives with her husband anti daughter on Poston's aristocratic dea- eon street. Mrs. Illiftins' method is to get to the house early and to give her first uttentaoa to the trousseau. She sees to it that the drone, glovos and slippers are just right. She then takes charge of the ,packing. The bride eats her luncheon lu comfort, knowing that every- thing she needs will bo in ber bags and trunks, carefnly inventoried in a little book as t0 itts preciao location. Mrs. Blifflns is at the church door before the marriage ceremony to give the last touches to the bride's gown before the bride. 0otere the church. The girl's mother is even saved from having to so0 that the rooms aro put in order after .the newly wedded wife has gone on her wedding tour. Mrs, Bllffhls attends to all that. The value of the work of the wedding di- rector is best attested by the popularity it has attained. Mast of ber business, Mrs. Bliffins says, comes inu.reotly. It has grown on the principle of the advertisement of a certata merchant some years ago; "It you don't like it, tell me; of you do like it, tell others." At first many peoplo were inclined to pooh- pooh the Idea of a wedding director. To -day, however, they have learned that even to run a wedding properly takes some expert knowl- edge. Mrs. Bliftlns 1s a student of design and decorative art as well as of the changing. fashions• I0requent visits to New York and occasional onos to Paris enable hor to bring back ideas of how they manage these things 1n other places. But more valuable yet are the many suggestions her woman's wit and her woman's taste enable her to told to the conveniencePhiladelphia or theTelegrabeph, auty of the wedding.— t:t $9—NEW YORK EXCURSION—$9 Via Lehigh Valley Railroad, Friday, Dee. 15th. Tickets good 10 days, and only $0 from Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls, to New York City and return. Tickets good on all regular express trains except Black Diamond Express. For further particulars, call on or address Robert S. Lewis, Canadian Passenger Agent, 10 King street east, Toronto. Doubling the Demand. By advertising her public lands Minne- sota has secured $15 an acre for ground appraised at $0 and $8., This does not mean that buyers have paid double the value of the land to foot the advertising bills. It means a doubling of the demand for farms and a consequent increase of their actual worth. There aro other things than public land the value of which may be materially enhanced by stimulating demand through adequate publicity. Advertise in the Tames. Dear Mother Your little ones are a constant care in Fall and Winter weather. They will catch cold. Do you know about Shiloh's Consumption Cure, the Lung Tonic, and what it has done for so many? It is said to be the only reliable remedy for all diseases of the air passages in children°. It is absolutely harmless and pleasant to take. Itisguaranteedto cure or your money is returned. The price is 25c. per bottle, sncc all dealers in medicine sell 3i4 SHILOH This remedy should be in every household. Getting Up a Reputation. (Cleveland Leader.) "I wish." said Titewodd to tho lawyer who was drawing up his will, "to leave $20,000 to each of my employees who hat com- pleted twenty years in 10y service," "But that is too generous," stammered the astonished lawyer. "Not at all; I'm going to tire all the bid ones to -morrow and I can't live twenty years longer. It'll be a good ad." 250 .., .-.,.....„,.�.,..-,ri ISSUE N C , 49, 1905. LIFE ON TUE RAIL ISA. HARD ONE. C, P. R. Engineer's • ixper1enw4""2) with Dodd's Kidney Pills. TheyBrouglitIiacic 1 tis 8trnngrhWItelot he Could NoitlleM 'Lest not. Steep. Winnipeg, Man., Dec, 'L.— (Spec -tap --- Mr, lien. Rafferty, tbo weal -!,mown C, P. R. engineer, whose hoine is at 175 Maple street, is one 'Winnipeg umn who swears by Dodd's laiducv Piller "Long hours on the engine and the• mental strain broke down my constitu- tion,” Moir. Rafferty says. " My lack gave out entirely. Terrible, shah-&, cut- ting pains followed one another, till felt 1 was being sliced away piecemeal. I would come in tired to death from a stn, My sole desire would be to get rest and sleep, and they were the very things I could not get. Finally I had to lay off work. "Then I started to take Dodd's Kid» ney Pills, and elle first night tater using, them I slept soundly. in three days I threw away the belt I have worn for. years. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me." 1-1 Mrs. Kendal on Kissing. • Mrs. Kendall, the London actress, h favored a Leeds audience with an amus si ing disquisition on kissing. Some of her dicta ou the subject run: To steal a kiss—Natural. To buy a kiss—Stupid. To kiss one's sister—Proper. To kiss one's wife—An obligation. To hiss ugly people—An act of gala lantry. To kiss an ugly widow—Shows de, votedness. To kiss a blushing young widow --c Quito another thing. To kiss your mother-in-law—A saeris fico. To kiss three girls the same day Est travegance. Sunlight Soap is better then other soaps, but is best when used in the Sunlight way. Buy Sunlight Soap and fallow directions, How Miles Were Lost. One of the most useful instruments las use by surveyors is the odomete>s for measuring distances by .tate combiniCt bU of a single wheel and a cyclometer. This is trundled along the ground in a, straight lineand the readings of the in- dicator show exactly the the distance the indicator show exactly the distance measurements are obtained with exaet- ness even when the ground is so rolling as to be difficult of meararement in any other fashion, but the surveying party for determining the boundary between the English and French. chums in the Sierra Leone soon found that the mea- surements were absurdly ahort of that probable distances. The perambulator was trundled by one of the natives attached to the party, . and after some observation it was found that they could not comprehend the' rea- son for trundling the odometer along the ground. They were willing to maks concession to the white man to the ex- tent of pushing the wheel before thent so long as they were in sight, but con. sidering the order but a (foolish prejw dice against the native custom of"tot- ing" everything upon the head, they were no sooner out of sight than they adopted the more comfortable mode. It was finally found necessary to sand a white man with the native to insuge proper measurements. That Cou ith which ordinary remedies have not reached,. will quickly yield to f • RAY'S SYRP OF ED SFRIJCE GIJ It cares those heavy, deep-seated coughs—takes away the soreness—hear the throat—strengthens the lungs. None the less effective because it is pleasant to take. Just try one bottle and sec how quickly you get rid of that cough. 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