The Wingham Times, 1905-08-17, Page 7Wicked Girl.
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BY MIRY CECIL HAY
Author of "Rightcd At Last," "Carried Away,"
Back to the Old Home," Etc., Etc.
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had returned to breakfast by tlLe
hour she had ordered it, but forget-
tigs all about the meal, she stood
before the tire, thinking how little
:she had accomplished by that morn-
ing investigation. "Yet," site paid,
•in .leer thoughts, as she threw do'nti
her muff and gloves, holding her
palms to the blaze though she was in
-a glow, "I surely couldn't have ex-
pected to find people standing thickly
about these forsaken roads, on pur-
pose to deal out information to me,
which others have sought in vain.
Well, I've seen how tine Tower lies
front here, and I've had two little
•conversations, and I must be con-
tent -- so far."
The morning air had given her an
appetite, yet, standing on the rug,
she began lazily to wonder why Mfrs.
Frayd should, even in her lodger's
-absence, have changed, for a certain
oblong anireor, with a green gauze
veil shrouding the frame, which last
night had 'creiwned the mantel -piece,
• an illustration of various admirals
-on board ship, all obviously dying
through the rigidity of their shirt -
frills. Had she, Derry, been so bar-
barous as to utter aloud any of the
melancholy thoughts winch had pos-
sessed her, when she had caught her
face in that looking -glass, and seen
it aged into three times her twenty-
two years, and as green as the veil
•over the frame? Assuredly she had
never intended to hurt Mrs, Frayd'!:
feelings by suggesting any alteration
in the room, yet the glass had dis-
appeared and in its stead hung this
cluster of dying officers. Then she
began to realize thatthe chimney or-
naments had been changed too, for
her glance fell upon ono which she
was certatn she could not have over=
•looked on the precious evening —a
photograph of Mrs. Frayd, smiling
blandly out of a cheap and showy
:frame. Derry amused herself by pram -
tieing an hnitation of this eandil
grin, until her thoughts had wander-
-ed front it down so many little side-
ways, that she had forgotten all
about it, when she became suddenly
and startlingly aware of another new
•ornament on the mantel -shelf, e. short
brown pipe. Eve* before her first
• alarm ltad shaped itself to her, she
turned and scrutinized the roost. The
truth was clear in a moment: This
:was not her roost at all.
Zoo much shocked to see the humor
of the position, or to be as !pita
-grateful as she presently Would be
that she had left the door ajar, she
crept noiselessly away; and that
blush the morning air had
given her was almost pallor
.compared with the rad that scorched
her cheeks as, on her way to a similar,
door a few yards higher up, she be-
-came aware of a figure strolling With
most suspicious unconszciousness-•-
.quite too conspicuous to be natural
—in a direction markedly away from
the adjoining door, Entering the
haven of her own room, she eat
.down before the old looking -glass in
its veiled frame, with a fearing Of
'gratitude 'too profound even to allow
;Iter • to smile. During breakfast her
'mind was deeply exercised' between,
two desires --not to betray her faux
pas to Mrs. Frayd, if that lady were
not already awaro of it—and not to
attempt to concealment if she werei
When the meal was over, and her
landlady was taking away the
things, Derry looked at her again
and again trying to read the truth,
but the woman's countenance was a
blank- -it had even no memory of
the photograph's smile! --and her
monologue, .though blandly cottiYtu.,
bus, betrayed. no knowledge or any
abnormal step .her lodger had tat:en.
When it Caine to the'last minute; and
1 rrs. Frayd, still talking. fluently,
was replacing with mathematical
precision, on the rotund table, two
hair mats which might have been
Indian scalps, Derry's patience could
hold out no longer, and she told of
:her mistake.
"Yes, miss, I know," observed
Mrs. Frayd, equably.
"How?" gasped Derry, her (Weird
to laugh battling with ber desire to
-turn out her landlady. •
"1 seeer'Mr.'%kisget walk in there
..arid come out again like a shot, and
-so quiet, and he told me not to go
in; I knew by that, miss."
• For -wee moment the girlie cheek*
burned again, seeing in this a proof
•of Consideration for her feelings; in
the next her' landlady ruthlessly tett
,plained: "It's ' such a pity he 'ate*
Wont—ladies, isn't it'?"
"1 think," renia.rked Derry, Bier
..cheeks quite cool again, "I saw your
photograph there; Mrs, Frayd,"
"Yes,' mfss. Mr. Ilassot prizes it,
t $avb it td hist •calls age When lie
was at 'Arraek's $ret."
"Then he has been here before?"
"Oli, has often -here, - t;leherally
-busy 'writing, blit "this time he'. do-
ing nothing, se It teens tet ute. i'trt
grad ' thetiglt, for he 'hate a look of
overdoing, er overgdinge I don't
' know' ishich, and he doesn't' telt tic
much, - It's a pity, for "it's gdtht fey
us •to hear eef.ch. other talk, as 1 tell
+Ihint often, though I'tn not a talker
trtyseif. Ito's-too much 'by' himself,
too, I tell him. It isn't Well tor a`
man to be always lonely. X. hasn't
any lettere, it seems tag ntri, **tot
liusinesselooking ones, and Attlee
nettle anything oft his inti•
tial earche."
"Perhaps," suggested Derry, with -
(nit alt • rwtiiile for thief cfti£did'>reetuitek
• so anxiously %qua .falx liehoiilit;A fedi' ",
voice to sound calm en Lite rubleetE
*he longed to start, '41r. • IlrtfleBalr' is
hero for the purpose Of dtucoverIng
Ka truth theta lilt "WW1 uiatlk'••
der'f"
"P'r'app so, miss, but somehow 2
don't, believe he troubles about thitt.
I'm afraid I've even heard him laugh
about the detective old Mfrs. Basset
erttpioys. Ile never liked Mr. Miiles,'t
Re never liked Mr, Milest
The words echoed painfully in
Derry's ears. True, he had told her
this himself last night, but it
sounded differently from this wo-
man's lips.
"This efr, Basset was not here
on the night of the murder, was be,
Mrs. Frayd?"
"No, miss. I think he said he Wes
in Thawton, though there are some
that say he was in Dewring. In-
deed, there are those that say he
was at the mines that night -=nest
evening he was, any way. There
was to have been a dinner -party
there, but of course no one went,
knowing about Mr. Miles. Whether
Mir, Basset dined there or not I can't
say, but I know he came from there
here,"
"He must have been to condole
with or inquire after Miss Hope,"
explained Derry, musingly. "Yon
do not hear hien speak of the mw' -
der, I suppose," she continued, hat-
ing herself for meanness -Mille she
asked the question, which she still
felt it right to ask.
"No, miss, I"ve scarcely heard hint:
mention it, except once he said he
wondered Mr. Oliver didn't come to
the Tower, but he only said it in a
lazy way. and not a bit as he cared."
"Poor old Mrs. Basset!" Said
•Derry, from her heart, "She, at
least, is trying to solve the mys-
teiy."
"Tire man who did it's safe to
be found out, amiss." (There was no
farther excuse for delay, and Mrs.
Fraycl's hand was on the door, but
she had a little more to say.) "It's
always done fair. Didn't my own
brother keep a rattlesnake quite
against nature, and it was its bite
that killed him? And wasn't there
that wicked Corney, over Black
Down way, determined to poison his
wife and two innocent children? So
he bought a leg of lamb as a treat
for . them, ho said, and he first
rubbed arsenic into it, and just be-
fore dinner -time he came in all in a
hurry, and said he was called away
on business and- couldn't wait for
their dinner -time, so his wife must
fry him the sole he brought. His
appetite seemed good and he eat ft
all up, and went cheerfully off. Ilis
wife, being a frugal young woman,
had thought it a pity to waste n
leg of lamb on her and the children,
so she put it away for next day,
and they had eggs. Well, you see,
miss, how it was? She had fried her
husband's solo in the dripping, and,
so he died, not over comfortably, in
the street. Olt, it always does come
home to the sinner, doesn't it,
miss?"
"I' don't l.now--yet," said Derry,
heavily; and then as she gave Mfrs,
Frayd no further opportunity of
speaking, that silent woman disap-
peared.
An hour later Derry's room had a
changed aspect, almost a pretty
home look. She had brought in her
books, and work, and photographs,
and had put out of sight carious
articles highly prized by Mrs. Fray i
(such as tate scalps upon the table,
and aa wale doll dressed as a bride
under a glass case), and had given
everything a beautifying touch; yet
as she looked round she gave a little
sigh of longing for the home studio.
As it Was still too early to expect
her sister she decided -to explore the
surroundings of the still, but not to
go out of sight lest there might be
a chance of missing even a minette of
Ella's society'. She went thro'zgh
the creaking half -glass door, and in
order to avoid the twin door lower
down, she strolled upward, not paus-
ing until she was on the highest
spot. Standing in the broad daffy •
light, looking down upon the house
and noticing. its sheer ugliness, Derry
smiled ever the legend she bad been
told,' and the notion of any family
ghost hatinting such a building as
this. Yet the, instant she turned back
from her contemplation and entered
a magnificent clump of spruce firs,
she caught herself starting at only a
The Nurse's
Testimony
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THE WINGIIAM „TIMMM. AUGUST 171 905
ca YOU KNOW
THAT BACKACHE
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SYMPTOM OF
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It is Y and you cannot be too
Careful about it.
A little backache let run will
Smelly. cause serious kidney
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TAKE
DOAN'S-
KIDNEY
PILLS:
They cure where all others
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and Kidney 'Troubles they have
no equal. Here is what
MR. GiEO. H. SOMERYILLE,
of Stewarton, N.B., writest "I was so
troubled with a sore back I could not get
out of bed in the morninggs� for over a year.
I got a box of Doan's iiwidney Pills and
before I had them half taken I could see
I was deriving some benefit from them,
and before I had taken them all my back
was O.E. and I halve net been troubled
tdac0."
email figure in the midst, silently
and busily engaged in picking a bone
evidently taken from an open parcel
on her knees. Derry stopped oppo-
site to watch this process for some
little time, then spoke in what her
father. called the brotherly way she
had with children of all grades.
"Oh, indeed! You are dining quite
early, aren't you?"
"It saves carrying it," returned the
very small woman, with round rais-
ed eyes, and a suspicious shine on
her protruding chin.
"I see. It is your dinner packed
to take to school, and you save
carriage by eating it on your way.
It is a bright idea, but you had bet-
ter put up what is left. And then
you may open your mouth and shut
your eyes." •,,,
Derry took out a box of sweets,
the purchase of iwhich had been her
excuse that morning for a little talk
with the vilIago shop -mistress, but
when the child expanded her lips dan-
gerously and screwed together her
eyelids, Derry could not resist ,,pop-
ping her finger only into the yawn-
ing chasm. It was a test the weird -
looking child bore so philosophically
that Derry immediately took her to
her heart and liberally rewarded her.
"Whitt will they do to you for be -
Ing late at school?" she inquired pre-
sently, with that warns air of sym-
pathy and friendship which children
love.
"Keep me in. Teacher always
does."
"Poor teacher! And these are your
'Waal hours, are they? How old are
"Iagltt."
"Indeed!" (The little thing looked
at most five.) "Quite old enough to
carry your dinner when. mother packs
it so nicely for yoa."
"Mother's dead ten years ago."
"Oh!" gasped Merry, foundering
over a new aritiuueticul problem, as
she thought of the child's age. "What
is your name?"
"Denims."
"Penkus?" with an anmsed gleam
of memory. "Then you are one of the
adjuncts of IIarrack's Deacon?"
"I live at Harraek's with ma."
"Then Mrs. Frayd is ma. Who 3s
pa?"
"There's no pa."
"1 see. Who is your father?"
"Athos."
'"NoW run off to school. Do you
go down?"
"Yes."
"Then you only climbed to obtain
privacy over your dinner? You may
well be called 'a child with a most
knowing eye' as Wordsworth said.
Bun."
But the 'child preferred her own
unbiased gait, and Derry stood
watching her, leaning against one of
the firs, as she cooked about her, and
rejoicing that that troublesdme man
was nowhere about. But presently a
tall egure came toward her among
the trees, and she knew it had been
too late to congratulate herself on
the troublesome man not being
about.
Derry, in her 1 • ttttifully fitting
bronze dress, bra' . 1 by herself, as
no Otte but t .; artist could have
braided it, might perhaps excused
for Iooking with a Iittle contempt
on the sage -greet hue o1 his shabby
coat, but her keen glance detected
that for all its shabbiness its fit was
perfect. The brim of a soft felt hat
was pulled down over his ears, but
even that weak equipment of the
head did not rob it of its look of
power. Ile did not offer a hand to
Derry,only lifted his Itat and put his
pipe straight into his pocket. She had
made up her mind to anticipate any-
thing he might say or think of her
ntornfng;'s ntfstake, by plunging at
once into the subject when she should
see hint, and she had distinctly
dreaded it; but now that she w>ls
face to fade with hint, she sound she
had no feeling of dread at all, and
knew it would be, quite easy to speak
of iter escapade•, even though she did
not plunge into it.
"Is it quite safe?" she asked, her
eyes following hie pipe, "You. see I
ani not the typically silent English.
traveller who outdid the typically
silent German one."
"How?" Steven Basset htquired,
showing an 'idle willingness to be A-.
tertairied, And it is oto dbubt tot.
given hint that he knew quite well
before he asked.
"Tire silent Cierntan, after travel-
ling' silently •opposite the silent Eng-
lishmen for many hours, was at last
impelled, to tell hint briefly that he
had cropped a spark on his waist-
coat. 'Let me alone,' growled the
sllent Englishman. 'Your coat-tail
has been on fire for ten minutes and
I haven't bothered you about it."
Do you know, Mr. Basset," she had
made no pause, and he felt it it little
uncomfortable to be thus hurried by
his entertainer—"I made a mistake
this morning between those two
glass -doors at Ll'arraek's. I opened
the first and found anyself In your
room,"'
"I'm very glad- I've so often
• mistaken those two doors," he said,
fibbing. tranquilly, "that I have been
hoping you would do it sooner or
later,"
""I eauldn't have done it much
sooner," interpolated Deere'.
"But perhaps you are mistaken.
The doors and rooms are so exactly
alike --Pike our days and yesterdays,
in these parts --that I dare say yon
only fancied you went into the
wrong one.",
"You knew," asserted Merry, re,
lentleesly,
'"What made you think you had?"
he continued, coolly ignoring this.
assertion; and she guessed he was
laughing at the remembrance of how
he bad seen her standing placidly es-
tablished before his fire,
"1 knew I had left no pipe on any
own mantel -piece last night."
But pernaps. it was I who had
made a mistake, and left it this
morning iri' your room."
"And I have no photograph of Mrs.
Frayd in an orange -colored frame."
"You evidently rejoice in that
fact,"
'"Nell, it seems rather an unneces-
sary possession when the original
is on view, You prize it, though,"
mischievously, as she recalled Mrs.
Prayers statement.
"Yes, it is the only photograph
that was ever given to me." Though
ho answered so composedly, some-
thing in his tone made her look at
him, and she felt no surprise at what,
he had said. It would have been
hard for her to imagine he had over
praised a woman sufficiently to en-
courage her to offer her repre-
sentation.
"A different frame might be a slight
alleviation," she suggested, looking
away to the dismal stretch of sand
binding the dim January sea.
"1 shall keep it just as she gave
it," he answered, too simply for the
words to sound like a contradic-
tion. "S should see no fitness in
transporting the original -front Har -
rack's to—marble hails, say: shout,i
you? le the flesh or the phot.o-
grapl, 1 like her best in the sur-
roundings of her choice. And—"
"And it signifies nothing to oth-
ers, you media" added the girl, with-
out any doubt that she rightly in-
terpreted his thought, though she
did ant
"1'ou could not understand,,, he
explained, without correcting leer,
"whtta, it is to spend one's life in
lodgings. I have, and my nearest
friends are of course my landladies.
Of these, Mrs. I'rayd is the only one
who has proffered me her photo-
graph, so I mean it to have an hon-
ored place. You find" (there had
been Ito pause, but the tone was
lighter now) "that she has a fuss
words to say and says them? I
thought you would think so." Derry
had not answered and ire had only
looked into h.ei' eyes. "You will be
more favored with them than 1, for
your face will give her more en-
couregement-. 1 wonder how far
your thoughts will generally stray
while she holds on."
,"The• went into Cheshire this
morning," replied Derry, "for I re-
member reading there, on a wo-
man's grave -stone, a line her hus-
band had put there after the date
of her death—`And there was a great
calm.' But," (with sudden frank
compunction) "that's despicable of
me, for I have myself been leading
Mrs. Traytt on. to talk, and I mean
to lure her further and further—
and further. For I've a purpose in
being here."
"I feared so," he said, and Derry
thought he made an odd withdraw-
ing movement, but the only thing
she was surb of %vas that he frown-
ed in a rather ugly manner. She
was cogitating over this, and doubt-
ing the possibility of his having
winced at her words, when he broke
the silence.
"I owe you an apology, Miss Hope,
for Laving intruded upon you yester-
day iti your drive. I should have
walked certainly if I had understood
clow it was, but Amos merely said
he had come to meet me, and left me
to make me own discoveries."
"1 thin the intrusion was mine."
amended Derry, "for, ,as you said,
you explained an to me while I was
not listening. You had engaged Cite
cart, and besides" (demurely)
was worse for you because I've not
ahty particular objection to your sex,
while I understand you have a par-
ticular objection to mine."
He had thrown his head back as if
to laugh, bet after ail he only took
the opportunity of looking beneath:
the brim of his hat intently into her
debonair face. "NoW I think we
tray try quits, Mise hope," he said
then, coolly, 'for though you have
no particular objection to my sex„
you have a general disregard for • ft, '.
which is better for you, and safer.
than my ---particular objection."
It was such 'a ridiculous pause
that occurred then. the girl thought,
that - occurred then, the girl
thought, that she broke it
with the exaggerated cool-
ness a woman so often assumes when
site is not at ease. `'i tee' the silence
here wonderfully, 1 actually hear it."
"You prefer the saunas of London.
of course. No doubt you would ra-
ther halve the planes upon the
Thames Bmbanktnent titan such trees
as these, growing unnoticed, and in
such silence here."
"Of course," she assented, as if
there Were no doubt about it, simply
because his tone cut ironically, "'t1'ho
Could" (cooking up among the spley-
did firs) "comjtarai one of these With
a real London deodar ---• or sumach?
Why, the very nines lift thelnhigher.
23esides, our life's bliss does not cte-
pt'nts.,, aerie,d upon trees aerie, we have pillar
hos
"That serves Inc right," he said,
good-humoredly, "and it was mean
of me. 11'ity, some of the fittest trees
I know are close to your London
Monte. No, you could not, of course,
live out of London, and if I can 'Us
all the worse for tae, as showing
what a very old roan I ata."
"But, of course," she suggested,
graciously willing to allow an ame-
liaration of his condition, "YOu keep
•`ourself up in everything that goes.
on in the wvot'ld?"
"'Che world? Olt, that is too far
away," with a sort of smile in his
voice "We try to be awaro when
Parliament is sitting by listening for
the prayer in church, but sometimes
there is a mistake even among par-
sons, and that puts us all wrong,
"You have your papers?"
"Of course, They arrive at aur
station somewhere about the tinte
when the next day's news is prepar-
ing for the press, and first the sta-
tion -master, and the postman, and
the porters—sometimes with a select
audience --have to glean their con-
tents, 'rlten the postman, who for a
weekly consideration undertakes to
deliver trine, starts off -with it, ];
usually meet him and find out front
him what it contains, to save myself
the trouble he has passed through."
"I suppose," began Derry, present-
ly, her voice a little unsteady, as she
brought the subject round to her one •
absorbing desire, "the people have
been very anxious to see the papers
since that murder at the Tower."
"Why? We know more than the
London papers can tell us. I wonder"
(quite markedly putting aside the
topic she had with such a waste of
ingenuity introduced) "'what you
twill land here to amuse you, and to
make tip to you for London?"
"I don't want London' now," she
cried, impetuously resenting this re-
peated failure to make Mr, Basset
speak of his cousin's murder, "and
to -day my sister is coming to me."
"Then that," he observed, pointing
to a dark object advancing fleetly on
the level road below the downs,
"will be Miss Hope's pony -carriage.
I need not have given utterance to
my unwarrantable wonder, for where
Miss Hope has appeared others will
soon follow. Site Is like that Mrs.
Somebody at whose appearance 'the
horizon became dark with majors.' "
Derry's lips had been ominously
closed, for she had felt that her
companion was about to be personal,
and that it would be an iinpertinence
in him; but his manner was see ut-
terly without impertinence or pre-
sumption, and his tone so gentle in
its carelessness, that she could not
help smiling after all, smiling was $o
natural to Derry! IIe had been cool-
ly critical before, fully alive to a
pretty chin, fair as a white rose pe-
tal; to sensitive lips; white regular
teeth, and glorious Titian tints; but
now calm criticism was at an end.
This sadden warns smile broke on
him as a gleam of summer sunshine
breaks before- we know that we have
spring, and gave him the same sensa-
tion — a gladness that can not bo
described, or named, or held.
But Derry had trade now a move-
ment preparatory to going, and so
he spoke, in the old cool tones: "For
a young and delicate girl, how well
your sister .manages those ponies.
And I have seen her in the saddle,
mastering a horse with as much
strength and quiet determination as
—her late lover could have shown.
Yet how very gentle site is and—
feminine, if you will not laugh at
such a ridiculous word. It expresses
exactly what I mean."
"You know site is charming," de-
clared Derry.
"Indeed she is. Bnchangeably so.
T wonder if you have ever felt the in-
tense weariness of watching a gas -
fire; whether you have ever grown
sick to death of seeing the flame al-
ways in the same spot."
"No," site said, while she calculat-
ed
alculated how many minutes she must take
in descending the slope, so as to meet
Ella exactly at the door. "I suppose
you hurled that at me as abit of
London. I was thinking of my sis-
ter."
"So was 1," he answered, coolly.
"Fitz," to the dachshund who had
been lying at Itis feet- "go down
and welcome Mliss hope. He declines
the honor," as the hound, having ris-
en, stood close against his master's
leg, looking up with an entieaty al-
most human. "Fitz was my cousin's
dog, Mies Hope. I bought hint from
Miles, only a few days before his —
end. Is he not beautiful?"
"Beautiful? With those crooked
legs and ugly splay feet?"
"Wait," observed the young man,
as he sauntered coolly at her side
front the cluster of firs, "till you see
him dig for badgers."
"I believe I may without anxiety
consent to wait," said i)erry, laugh-
ing as she ran down the slope,
He did not laugh, but Itis eyes
closed at the corners rather comical-
ly as he watched her meet her sister;
then he turned and strolled with Fitz
away front Ilarrack'sBeacon.
CITAI'TEIl It.
"Derry, did I see surae one with
you?" asked Ella, drawing oil a
sealskin gauntlet, and laying one
first little white hand in her sister's,
"when you first carne in sight?"
"1 don't know when I Iirst carpo
in* sight," replied Derry gently, "for
you"•there in sight of 111e it mile
away.,"
"Was it Steven Basset?"
"Yes, deer, but I did not Want to
disturb yott with that 110311e the first
minute you carne to ate. I kar the
likeness distresses you."
"The likeness?" repeated the young-
er sister, with a, start. "Why, Merry,
you never saw Miles."
"Oh, no, but there's always it like-
ness
ikeness betwen brothers, and I know
Oliver Basset."
"Do you?" indiftetently, "But Miles
and Oliver were not really like, 'So
one Was like Miles,"
"Not to you, dear, of Coarse," ex
plairied berry, pitifully ltivare of•
tears gilt wing.
"lint this Jr,MBasset ie a. very dif-;
twat lookint ratan, though indeed 1
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The Kind Vou Kaye Always Bought, and *which has beeant
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
• and has been made under his. per..
44-44, sonal supervision since its infancy'
•AiinztFno one to deceive you in tltlltfe
AltCounterfeits, 'Imitations and "Just-as-good"are brit
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Parc.
gorlc, Drops and ,Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant, It
Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotics
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and wow*
Colic.. It relieves Teething .Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. •
The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
CENUINE C
STORM ALWAYS
Bears tihe Signature of
1 .
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The Killd You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TN[ CENTAUR Cq p,. �l Y, 77 MVII,a*7 BTN.ET. N[W YOHN CITY.
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The manufacturers of gloves say they
make a No. 6 woman's glove larger than
they did five years ago. Woman have
become more athletic, and thin hands
have grown larger, out they insist on
wearing the same number of gloves.
On trans•Atlantic liners the general
tendency has been to make travel more
expensive for the rich and less expensive
for the poor. One of the Bremen steam.
ere has a suite of rooms whichcost$2,000
a passage.
Prof. Roentgen, the discoverer of the
marvellous rays which bear his name, is
one of the least self -advertised of great
men. He has never been bangnetted
and has refused large Bums of money
offered him by American publishers for
a book on his discovery.
Ann Arbor, Mich., takes ite name
from Ann Allan, wife of the first set-
tler in that reigfon. The pioneers were
in the habit of referring to that parti-
cnlar,little hamlet as Ann's Harbor.
A banquet to twenty-four persons was
recently given in the interior of a barrel
made for a wine merchant at Schelten-
heiita, on the Rhine. The barrel has a
capacity of 43,800 gallons.
Each year the Kaiser gives a prize to
the ofl oer who does the best work at the
annual manoeuvres. The prize this year
consisted of a complete field kit; uni-
forms, moos chest and everything.
A farmer living near Marseilles who
carries off all the melon prizes at the
local agricultural shows, has discovered
that by "watering" his melons with
milk they will grow to twice their usual
size.
($d
•
LAST YEAR'S'
Silk `waists or Clothes seem like
brand new when cleaned with
SAPiREN-0
"IT EVAPORATES++
Odorless Non-poioonoua
Nondnflammabae
Werke wonders beyond belief on the
coarsest and finest of fabrics, carpets
or delicate dress goods.
Kills alt germs In carpots, ole.
Extracts all dust
!restores color* me new
Renews the sizing
All in a few moments fora few conts
and a child can do it with
SAP.O.REN1.0
-Makes old things new and removes
grease and stain from new things.
Ask your grocer for Gary-o-ren•o.
The Huffman & 'rector Co.
Toronto
in order to avoid disputes as to thee
age of children, Swiss steambot)t com-
panies have established measurement
rules. Children under two feet ha
height go free; those under foto feet ant)
dogs pay half fare.
Port Arthur is named in honor of
Lieut. Commander Arthur of tho Brit-
ish navy, who anchored his ship in the
bay, one day about fifty years ago. Hue
was the first foreign vessel that had
visited the bay.
Of the three national holidttyil is
Japan the greatest is February II, tho
anniversary of the coronation of the
first emperor. The other two aro Janu-
ary 1 and November 3rd, the birthday
of the reigning Emperor.
t rr
—.-•-• It is a fatal waste of time to trifle with snuffs, powder',
inhalers, or other dangerous nostrums, with the idea of curing
Catarrh of the Stomach. Once Catarrh has reached the
stomach it can only be eradicated by creating pure,
rich blood. Catarrh is a germ disease. The stomach and
intestines become nests for myriads of these tiny germs. Local
applications have no effect on thein. They must be driven out
—the stomach cleansed, the blood purified, the system toned
up. ra?SYCHINE" will positively cure the worst forth of
Stomach Catarrh, by purifying the blood, cleansing the
stomach, and destroying germ life. Thousands have bees
cured of the prevalent malady, through this remarkable d
covery, a` PSYCIIINE." Druggists recommend it.
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