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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-03-10, Page 7se• wit.ftwom.wraewswftwowx*KmmE.Nemsonmsttmoo I A LOST WIFE O 0 0 A NOVEL e e BY MRS. H. LOVETT CAMERON, Author of " Worth Winning." Etc. • iii•K*1:0•W4',443*3143*IMI: *IN)1411%3WAINIWIECEOWIWA ;drawing -room At SWIM; 1heard AIM plash QC the waves up against the garden -wall without: 1 saws as in a vision, the tall, handsome form of my lover—whoin even then. I be- lieved I Was beginning to love— bending over me as I sang: and I felt my own foolish., girlish heart •swell again with pique and silly mortified vanity as it had done then —oh, how long ago!—how long ego it was! As 1 sang the last note of that 1 arch, pert little song niy voice was choked and husky, and as I rose hastily from the music stool, foolish, 'blinding tears came welling up into .any eyes, Surely no one ever wept over thut song before. "Not much. use singinga merry •song if one cries over it, is it, EIli- •nor?" I said, half ashamed of my lolly. ' • But there was no answer. A death- like stillness was in the little room, I crept softly to the back' of her couch She She was fast ashler) in a. deep Sound slumber. It. would do her igood, poor child, I thought thank- fully, und drive away those ghosts •Of the past that seemed all too ready to persecute. her this evening. • Very gently walking on tip -toe 1: stole round to the other side of her sofa, making for my scattered fancy- work. 1 picked it up and sat down again in my plica by the little table with the reading -lamp. 1 I had not set three Stitches into my work, before all at once, by some intuition of soul, I Become aware that there was a change in the con- ditions of life around inc. 1 felt, that I Was no longer alone. Some -one was looking at me. I raised my head sharply towards Ellinor. Her 1,,•1:3 were shut, she was Still last asleep. I looked quiekly back towards the Window; yes, surely since 1 had sat down t lie curt a i ns had been nioved! 01 e• was slightly drawn back as though Is. tt hand from without. Siek with tterror 1 stood up, plac- ing myself, by a sort of instinct, so as lo shelter the slumbeeing form of my Leleless charge. Rapidly it "rush - through my mind that 1 must not wake her, that if 1 called out l'shoald f ighten her. 1 pressed both my hands firmly upon lay throat. . The Curtains moved quickly aside, *.and a. man steppe(l into the room. .1 it was Mark Thistleby! CHAPTliat. XXIX. 1- _ "My Freda!" Ile stretched out his -arms to me joyfully, gladly. , To say that I was surprised is hardly the word to use. I was liter- ally paralyzed with amazement. My .heart beat wildly, my brain seemed -on lire. I could not. have spoken above a. whisper to save nty life. But -even in this first moment it did strike me t bat t here was no ast on- ishment in his betuning face, only a great gladness. "How have you found Inc here?" I asked. t rumbling. "My child. I found you long ago! It is weeks. nay months, since 1 'traced you to this place. 1 have been here often." "You! Then why____,, "Why have. 1 waited so /ones you would ask? 1 have waited for such an opportunity as this, darling, to find you. alone. to speak to you un- heard. .it seemed sometimes as if it sieves would come; but now at last 1 have found you! V!eda, have you nothing to say to tie. after all this ;whiles , But still 1 (wild not be glad yet; 1 . could only be halt terrified, and al- togrt her puzzled. "Rut what do you mean?" I asked. wondering vaguely if it was really true that hlark Thistleby and I stood thus Cave to face, speaking to each ot her. "You have'been here be- fore. you say?" "Yes: for nights together, close to you, my love. You. liftle thought who was so hear you whilst you • slept.' 11 . For twelve years a dreadful sufferer, but - now entirely cured by Dr. Chase's Skin was on Fire with Emma • at • desperation you could tear the skin to pieces. • fire with the burning, stinging humor ,• I times it becomes almost unbearable, and in Eczemas itch is torture, the skin seems on Ointment. You dare not exercise for leaf of aggravating the itching, neither can you sleep, for no sooner does the body become warm than the trouble begins, and instead ofrestful refreshing e sleep, it is scratch, scratch, scratch all night ' i long. MR. Au'.X. McDOtICALL, postmaster. Broad Cove Marsh, N.S., writes :—"For twelve years / was a great sufferer from eczema on the itride of the leg.There was a ea* patch of flesh about thi reeinches square, and the itching was something fearful, Dr. Chase's Ointment completely cured me, took suety the itching and haled up the sore. I j have no hesitation in recommending it as a, Wonderful cure for itching skin disease." . Dr. Chase's Ointment, Go cents a box, at .,1 all dealer;, or Edriumson, Ilates and Co., Toronto. To protect you against imitations ; the portrait and signature of Dr. A . 'W. Chase, : the flumes receipt book author, are on elotey "Yu were in the lumber -room." He nodded, laughing. "The same. A friendly housemaid, amenable to the mighty influence of £ S. de admitted me. I had known her -before she came here in the inn at the railway. Without her 1, should have had hard Work in seal- ing your prison walls, sweet cal,- tive." "And. the sleeve -link?" "Was mine. 1 smashed them all to bits clambering over the wall. How horror-struck you look, Fre- da!" ''But what object had you?'1 gasped. "As to object—n-ell, losers in all. generations have always been wanted to be near yoll, 1 Sup- pose; and then I had a design for carrying you off by force at one tithe. But 1 abandoned the idea: and you were so well wntched by Uwe dragons of women you live with, that 1 have never been able to get twar you before this ever -blessed night; ' and then he laughed again out of sheer gladness of heart. And 1 stood before him trembling, wondering, piecing out the riddle bit by bit, as he unsolved it for me. And yet—the truth being now so very nenr—yet I never guessed it! "Freda, have you nothing to say to me?" he asked for the second time. "Will you not come to me?" And then—i forgot all that had parted us in the past—all that alas to part us in the future! I remem- bered only that T. loved him above all living men; and I had been so long starved of his love, of the sight of his face, of the sound of his dear voita—was it very wonderful that when he called me 1 should go to 111 01! I went, 1 laid my head upon his breast, and his arms closed around inc. and his lips, hungry and eager, met mine ()nee again in t hat delir- ium of joy than which earth can give us no serener happiness. Ah! is there anything like it in the world? It may be old and hack- neyed, it may be worn out and de- graded, it natty be dragged through the hireof irreverent jestings and scoffings, every poet may have rhym- ed it every novelist may have con- ventionalized it, but still love comes to us all, old and young, man and woman alike, with the same ever- lasting frealu•eess, the one God-given thing in this sordid earth, the ono thing worth living for, the one thing worth dying for, the one thing we can never look back to with regret, even though it should cost us in the after-dnys a whole cycle of pain and a whole ocean of tears. Thus forgetting the past and the future, and remembering only the entrancing present that rendered us unconscious of all save that divine enehantment of the passing mo-. merits. Mark And 1 remained clasps/4 close in each other's arms. And all 1 he while Ellinor, on her sofa, lay soundly sleeping behind us. "Oh, Mark!" 1 said, at last, with- drawing myself a little from his em- brace, for such momenta of bliss do not last long, recollection and sober reality soon break in upon the glam- our of love's dreauts. "Oh! why have you come? . What good can it do you to have found me? Ales! ure We out. as far off as ever from hasipiness?" "hly darling," he answered, pas- sionately, "it is no use, 1 cannot lite without you. I have tried so hard to forget you, to remember the chasm t hot divides us. but 1 cannot-, I.reda—I cannot live away trout you. Will you not risk the infinitesimal danger that t Ins.ettens us? Will you not come with me abroad. and mar- ry me there? Do you not love me well enough to chance it?" 'Bit your Witt'?“ 1 falterea, tremb- ling with a sudden eanneess terror whkh "mu) to oppress me again for t he secolid tilne to -night. wife," he answered. intim- t•S ntly, "cannot be alive flour. she Must have died beer, ago." "But you cannot be certain of I int prposmi, gently, "Why did she lease nw? 1grlsted for her vites rely. 1 sought her dili- gently , I weaeird out my soul for yeais in cudeavoring to trace her. Whet more do 1 owe her? Why am I to waste my manhood in vain en- deavors to find a, 1101)1111) Who iS thing to me now -who. in all /initi- al doss • has long been dead, and who. even if alive, has never Cared 10 etntle to 1111'. and for 1111001, los- ing yon, tny. darling, With all the strength of my life, 1 could never experit.nce any other feeling than dislike and tiverston. Stood (1021!"- suddetily pushing inc aside almost 11 h 1') 2)101)00, tial looking beyond Int --Good (Ind! who is that?" 1 101•2114). Ellinor, WWI) itUnke, Bolt upright noon her sofa. ller Mee pale as death. her eyes wild 011(1 horror-stricken, her dark hair all. loosened about her Watt eheeks and thin. white neck, and her hands do- spaieingly Melted together like one who pray 11)0 IrIVITY "( ellt het) t is 'SUMP V0 fax!" gasped Merl: Thistivity. in a ebolted solve, literally revoiling front before lier. And iltun Minor rose suddenly from her 1 Ince and made two paces into tlw roeun towneds ii. There Ian St 1,11in her i one wild ry thief rams like the salt of IL man- ia(' 1 111.01101 the sileut house. "hly, dream iny dream!" the slemted, mid fell like a stoo(• en her !nee 1 Maven DS. the :t4'I1t8 that 1 nutiv My* to lite, 1 do mit think that I shall THE WINGLIAII TIMES MARCH ) 0 1904 "Pure soap !" You've heard the words. In Sunlight S o alai7-571 have the fat. o EXPENSE Mk ter the Oclosoa. Bor. .f!34 ,1414444441•44140, or fofget the horror of that mo- ment, nor of those that followed. -She is dead !" 1 said, wihlly, looking across her prostrate form to- wards Mark. "For heaven's sake help me to lift her!" IletWeen us we rnised. her 011 to the sofa, and us We did 80, n thin, dark rtreant came trickling out from her Pule parted lips. At that awful mo- ment 3 believed. her to is. actually de't'lhdittv Clod forgiveIne!'` Whispered 7%181'4 TiliStleby, With a 80)) in his voice. "I 1.1111e killed her!" rie bent down and kissed the thin, rale hand that hung by her side, and in that moment 11)1' truth At last was revealed to me. Ellinor was his long -lust wife! "Vett shall out lintel( her:" 1 said, ikrcely, pushing hitn back: "you are not lit to -Windt her! You have ' Lasely deceived heroand deserted her, and she has spent her life in loving you. 1 will not let you come neat' ber!'4 And then Vickers and Fiume of the servants, alarmed by that cry with which she had fallen, came rushing into the room. Insensible still, even dead, as far as .[ knew, we bore her up to her own room, tip the wide oaken stair- case and along the low -roofed pas-• tinges into her own little chamber which Miss Barbara's loving fingers had made into so fresh and pretty a maiden's bower, and there We laid her on her own bed with its white muslin curtains and pink satin rib- bons, on that bed front which she was never to rise again. And there, yielding to the restora- tives which Vickers and I promptly applied, her poor little soul, with a long quivering sigh, fluttered back once znore for a brief space to its place. Thank heaven she was still alive! She had not died thus suddenly in her horror arid her fright in her sis- ter's absence. • "Y t g for sus." whispered Vickers to Inc. when it was certain to ws both that life was not extinct. I crept noiselessly from the room. Outside, leaning against the passage wall, I found Mark Thistleby, In all' the confusion and the dismay no one appeared to have noticed him. Be started cagerly forward to meet me es I came out of the room. "You did not mean what was said just now?" he said, entreating- ly. "You could not believe. it, that I had wi.lingly deceived and desert- ed that poor soul?" Ilis anxiety evenlnow isas less for her than r fo ile '41 don't know; it is all so bewild- ering!" I salt!, wearily, passing my hand over my aching lorohead. "Miss Barbara has /always said you delud- ed hrr into a :them marriage." 'Is that likely, Freda, when you know only too well how glad I :Mould have been of late had I only be.: -)1 able to believe such a thing myself? YOU Who know that this fatal marriage Llone has stood be- t.tovocedi?1,,me and Iny .heart's greatest s "Yes, that is true." 3assented ; "but, then, why could you not lied her as you havc. found me; if she was your.. wife it was your dery to have traced her: and surely sinee you have been to this house you must nays known who it was who liVed here." "thew was 1 to know?" he burst forth. Impetuously; "how was 1 to recognize in the two miss Fairbanks, whom 1 heard you were Irvieg with, the Nelly Fairfax and her sister whom I had known years ago? Tie - member, 1 never saw her till to- night—and they have changed their name!" "Yes, I forgot. But surely that night you were standmg at. the con- servatory door, for of COUrSt. IL was you—and Poor Ellinor siom You then and screamed out --did you no1 see her then?" "No; my back wits turned. I heard the rustle of a dress and her screams; but, of course. I 51788 afraid of being found out myself. and got away as quickly as T could. T. give 3'O)( Illy WOIA of honor, t hat un ti I I saw her suddenly sitting there on the sofa f had no( the faintest idea who it was whom g•ott were 11% ing 51714 )0 and to think that of 011 the women in the world it should le• "I ant sots's'," 1 said. "if I have been unjust to you: but iih; I am ery , ory misc 00)1,,'' And that suddenly ell 11,3 rtitude go 11 waY. and 1 burst into 1)')) 11'. "I`o think:" 1 cried, wringing :ay hands in despair ---"to think Ono I ha Iv 1114.1, 5511 1) .11,1' 11 1 I1t+0 dugs III1(1 IV. o: 8, list)'ning to her poor, pitiful story, in which her sister 111'5- er would believe, whilst 1, at the beltom of no: hesart., hove always known it to le. true ---to t I should hate been 1)1 l's' ns her friend- • h.netting t„ 1054' lass and gaining ins. love daily mere and mere: whilst all the tine. it wtif4 I alio stood between Ler and ;con- 1 who have robbed )'i' our 1014-7 who Itul nettle her life the 1 ittir Mint. it must be 1n her if elle lives! o1l! is it 1101 P11 - ()ugh to break my Iteurt with Doer- tlYing renterse?" 'Mark did unt smell,: etond with folded mem., Inoking gleeedie dowel, "I11etteettIter1" 1 said, .15 311181 all the horroes of lity 8111121111111 burst . Wien the a fr4.811--' haw 0.15. fill wars 1114. moment. te her eteigni- tiou of you. 1 was. in 3001' firtu$.- 1111t1 on your lips et ere wore!" of bete red and repulsion lo her—to bete and she 'spur NOW. 0111 urn 1 not laud to bring misery to all those whom have ever hayed!" and my tears - burst forth again. And then any lover—mine, Indeed, no longer—took both My hands with- in his and COnliOrted Inc in thia 517180: "Bo not -Wattle yourself or me. my child. We have all of Its been IIIIS of 44er18.1 triek or our fate. Do not let us WAStP either tears er regrets over the past. which cans not be ititerPd: 12,1: us rather think of the present and. the future, Which is still our oWn. Freda, 1, for any part, swear before. lustre)), that hav- ing found my wife 1 will do my duty by her, as thoroughly, as entirely, as if my marriage vows had been, sroken but yesterday; although you know but too Well at what Post they will be kept; till death us two do part, I Will not fail in one 01 1110 lightest of my duties t owards her." "Alas!" I said, and my love for toy lulpless charge was strong en- ough to make me thoroughly in ear - Pest in the rogret—"nlas! 1 fear it I not be for long: love and duty come too late to save her." "Can I do nothing for her now?'' he asked, and his brave, notate face seemed to comfort tired strengthen • I said, "You can take the telegram for her sister into Kane ton; and, *heft Tote have done thet. come back at once. She will be ask- ing for you; and no one shell keep you front her now, my poor darling 1.11inor!" He took the telegram from my hand, and went. CHAPTItlii, XXX, Thus, for the second time, Miss Barbara was summoned away in hot haste from her brother's house to her own. by the illnesa of her sister. This time I met her at the door when she arrived late on the follow- ing afternoon, and drew her hurried- ly into her little study before I would allow her to go up stairs. ''Do not tell um I am too late!" cried the poor woman, wringing tier hands; "do not tell me my darling js dead!" • "Dear Miss Barbara! No, she is not dead; but, alas! I fear that she in very ill," 1 said, while trembling- ly 1 helped to divest her of her bon- net and travelling cloak. "011! what have you been doing to my child?" she cried, catching hold of my hands. "Why did you not take better care of her?" Her reproach stung me bitterly. it had no , te(1, 1)4511 by any au t or negligence of mine that she was so ill; and yet, indirectly. Was it not, to a certain extent, my doing? Without me. would Mark Thistleby ever have come to Kaneton Scars? "1 have something to tell you." I said to her, gravely; for I felt that his • • • in 1 . itt Once be told to her. "She saw him —her husband—suddenly; it was the shock I fear which brought on the at tack." • "Ilei' husband? ("food heavens! yon mean--" • "I mean her husband." T repeated; "he is here now in the house." • "The man Thorne!" she cried, in horror, making as though she would rush past me to the door. "Are you mad, Freda Clifford?" 1 "The man whop1 you called Thorne," 1 said. stopping her. "His name is not Thorne; it is Thistleby. oh! suss Barbara, why have you and 1 not been more open With each oth- cr long ago? I think. had we. talked it over more fully, much of this misery might have been spared; for 1, know this man \yrs' well. His brother marvied my dearest friend, and I could have told you that he is indeed Ellinor's husband- that he has sought for her for years—that he is good, and true, and loyal, and he was absolutely incapable of all the baseness and deception which yen have long ascribed to him." ''(1)1, F• ! can • • "lndeed it is," I answeretl fert•ent- Its And thrs T told her all— con- cealing l from her itihrls's loVe for myself: I wild not wound her h',' speaking of I hat. I old her that he and II, I la Thistlelw had be .01.1 suc)5 good friends to nte. that they had been belt on diseot eying me. and that it was 111.11a who had sent hiln here to 1:11(1 me, lie had Nene fel. me, not for Ellinor, I told her, but now that In' !tad found his wife, he was glad and t lia»lt or the strange chance that had broLght 1 110111 together once more. 'Miss Barbara listened to 1)15' story in wondering silence and with l'ager attention: when 1 110(1 (lone speaking she pass/ 11 her hand Nvearily and fniseelmitly o‘ er leer eyes, "So it was ell a mist al:to." she 151(1, wit 11 sweet hing like a. groan. -Aft( r all it was her old sister in her s('ltish loll' 5110) had spoilt her li le for leer " "Vent Meant it for 11))' hest , dear 1(111.14 Barbaro." 1 said, soot -Alt! if I had believed in thy eh ild a lit t le. more, and in Ilrr ottal hitigineht 0 lit ti • less!" she sighed. 1, "I 51(514 rertitat that lie• must a \•illaiti—so stir. thst no honest nate I 511)1) 11'1' 5511111)1(4 lnY I age. nod uva 14,1' in 142 2.14.1 2221212,2. 201 22.8821122, for 1 have illWuys gucus! (1 it \vets et false Why did he du new," she a8'((-). looking • iip (elic,i15 to in,. ne thotigil she r,ua oet vet a ilea in 1)17 -it was; f1oli11, le) floubt—ria, it 55)75 v11 ' 1 11111,'11erl'(L -1)111 1, • 51..1.8 11 y ogee 01 2,,. 1 kW.. and OW1 in ro1,1 (111.I111 Of his 10', 11,'r. Ond 1.19 laths). itnoun of his mar - little, Mar's '11 141 1,•ht belieVed he 55)2(41(1 )it 51' 11.11 if. 11i,4 SON.lips. and 1,41 1111,1 112.4) 11(1. 12) tilt tittle of IITY 111Iy. 11 Wit$ (1onc. won) I) good 11101 i and 5111'11, :1,11 knot\ his fatly r /lied, 1)8 I nttS !Ong on, immediately ttfter his w end all wovid bete clone 1 141(2 ier Heater. 11 is tat her's will it 11 ei.e, jib. 2nt114.11, but81)11!- 210115 111(15 1(1(1 fey to keep 0wife in 10.1'i:ht. !..00rl l‘p 1. 2550 his V. lt.nther, 1(1 hill)'), to Tit anti, it. I i to °mess bis nail; to and to lain( from 51)11 his beide, end 10(0)41 ote- ilowl.:" ,t!'qi 1 52 2' it all; oh! Vcetlit, how terribly Wino and t have been all throtigli. and what a dreadful mistake I ,litrVe 104400, life! 3. thought he 'WAS a bad mart, such AS one reads of so often—one cif those men 11711080, 01(151 object It is tei deceive and to seduce poor innocent girls who him. ea fathers end Oro - tilers to protect them; end all tilos time lee poor fellow:, must hut e sto- reyed ins Ilitirit ION She did! And „ail, lhav(' Years, when they might bare sl())eeltrit)tft):1'.pirtirtr4a34 1. whc hut for you, Prieto, they Would, ij 1111 pr0hability, tle't et• intVe• Chet again. and I. should have gone tO • r ". Wit 4) this ( o )1jus_its. against a fellow -creature upon My soul! Oh! Freda, how shall I ever be able to forgive myself?" . "Bei not let its waste vain regrete over the past, which no one .can ter," 1 said, quoting Murk'sown brave words. "There is still somes thing left for us all to do in the present. Pear Miss Burbera, will yOlt nOt calla' upstairs and see her—and him? They are both together now."' .Sho gavo In let land wit h a penitent humility tvhich touched mit strangely: and, as though she had been a child. I led her uPstairs to , LlImor s chamber, pushed open the door very softly, and we stood for a moment together nn the 1,hreshold.. (To be continued) Safety For Your Children. When n mother finds it necessary to give her little one medicine she cannot be tun reranl as to the remedy mph y - ed. Thesenctilled "soothiug" medicines always contaiti poiremous opiates, and these should never be given to a child. Strong drugs and harsh purgatives should also be voided. An ideal medi- cine for young children is Baby's CiW11 Tieblets, which euro all the minor ills of childhood, and tbe mother has the goitre ;twee of one (A the forentoet analytic!' of Cannda that this medicine contains to Opiate. Milton L. Hersey, M A. Sc., demoustrator iu Chemistry, MeGill Uni- versity says --"I hereby certify that I have //lads a carofnl analysis of Baby's Oa n Tablets which I personally tinsel:mg..' ed in a dreg store it) Montreal, and said itualyais has failed to detect the presence of any opiate or mitotic in them." An- alysis is proof, therefore =there know that in giving their little ones Baby's Own tablets they are giving them an absolutely safe medicine Sold by all druggists or mailed at 231e a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine On., roc., vi e, nt. Housekeeping Accounts, The habit of keeping a strict account. of every farthing received and spent ie ono of the most effectual cheeks to nu- uecessary nutley. If it is to be of any service, this account must be kept rea- 1 ularly and precisely. The entries, hove- ev:r trifling, should be made daily, and !at the end of the week the anti total on , either side should be added up and bal- let cei, ca e being taken to notice wheth- er the cash iu hand agrees , with to statement of acconnt. At certain fixed dates, sneh as the end of each week or end of eacl.s month, the details of par- • meat should be examined, and each item carried nut and placed under its respective head, such as meat, bread, milk, fruit, etc. By this means a aim . parison can bo easily made between the expenses of one week and those of an. o :her, aud excess or unnecessary expen- diture can be at once discovered and checked. When the ready money sys- tem is not adopted in the family, and bills are sent in for payment, a saparate book shonld be kept, ia which an entry can be made of every article supplied for household use; and this book should be compared with the tradesmen's ao counts when they are presented for pay- ment, so that any diecrepaucy between the two may be pointed out aud rectified. Saved 51121 Friend. This little story is told of two Scotch teddies who. while fishing in strictly preserved water, for which only one was provided with a permit, were sud- denly confronted by the bailiff. One of them quickly Collected his tackle and ran his might across the field, the bail- iff in quick pursuit. After covering a large tract of country the angler sat down completely exhausted and await- ed the panting and enraged pursuer. "Do you know that you should not fish in that water without permission?" asked the irate man. "Yes," said the lad, "but I have per- missioe. 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The many years of our successful practice in Detroit proves that our special treahnent for men is safe and certain. You do not want to be mutilated aud maimed for life in trying to be cured of Varicocete, Stricture and kindred troubles by surgical procedures. We Guarantee a 845(013 451(8 POSITIVE CARE In the shortest possible time without injurious after-effects. Our charges will be as low as possible for conscientious, skill- ful and successful services. CONSI'LTATION Fern, SPECIAL HOME TREATMENT For Patients Who Cannot Call, Question Monk Sent Free. Consultation Freo. Cures Guaranteed. S N 10, C 1 290 Wood- ward Ave., Detroit. Mich.. Largest Established, Most Successful, Reliable Specialists in Diseases of Men. SISISDISMOIRMINIESMOD1806111.11111111•00620111201=21122211111 1 Twenty-third Psalm. (Scotch Version.) By John Moir, Bridge of Feugh, Ban - °horse Aberdeenshire. Wha is my Shepherd weel 1 ken, The Lord Himself is he; He leads me whittle the girse is greea An' burnihs quaet that be, Aft derma I fain astray wed gang, An' wann'r far awe; He flus ine not, Ile pits me richt, An' brings nie hame an' a'. Tho' /pass through the gruesome cleugh, Fin' I ken he is near; His muckle crook will me defeu', Sae I hae nocht to fear. Ilk comfort whilk a sheep could asted His thochtfif care provides. The" wolves an dogs.may prowl aboot, • An. safety M.,ite bides. , flsgiiidneleS raid His nierty haith Na doot will bide wi' me While faulded on the fields o' time Or o' etereity. Dr. Butler, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, 370 Qoeen's Avenue, Loudon, 3rd door East of St. Andrew's Church. Glasses supplied, At Queen's Hotel, Wingham on Fri- day, March 25th. ek.mmoimmeam• -~^ 1, . • •--- - • • _.• WANTED—A truetwerthIgentlentanor lady i eat con y to 1111*11112141 established house of solid financial stinting. A ttsritifelet. le).:e311114Ado=kwligaaillri'xiignSsiATItliV from headquarters. Stoney advanced Inc ex- e.n4es. Enclose addressed envelope. Manager, NO Caxton Bldg., Otneago• PILLs AND PILES. A prolific cause of Piles is the use of cathartice and pills of a drastic, violent natuora% Fwed by a reaction on account of k..) the resinous, drying properties they the cause or what the kind of Piles con- wtahlTnah.t. There are other causes, but no matterwhat. Dr. Leonliardt's Hem•Roid can be relied upon to cure—to stay cured. It's an internal remedy that removes the cause of Itching, Blind Bleeding or SuppuratingAgnaran teegoesPiles'with each package containing a month's treatment. It can be obtained for $1.00at druggists. Sold in Wingham by Walton McKib- ben, Marrying Later in Life (New York Sun. The percentage of single women is much less in this cenniry than iti Civil- ization generally. Leaving Out of eettrae thefemale population under 35 years of age and coming to the marriageable ages, we firel.that the percentage of Marriages is high. The female population of those ages in 1900 and their marital condition are indicated in this table: Married. Single. 20 to 24 years 1,72(1,20(3 1,013,552 25 to 20 years 2,209,35' 892,8n 30 to 34 years 2,07108 441,409 85 to 4t years 84451,875 4S1,66S In thumb statistics there is nothing ta indicate that matrimony has declined in popularity, but they die suggest that the ages at which 15 18 contracted have in- creased. As this circuitry grows mar- riages take plane later in life. LAWN FENCE ItIdestrnetrblef naltda6me. Perfect. Onty SO tents per running feet. Supplied by us or Total dealer. 202 tat PAGE WIRE. FENCE CO, Limited, hi *Mr OW111111004 Stf John