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CRAFTER able time, he began to wander about Softly,
wondering from what oorner the queen of
The journey to Paris seemed long and 1 thie eutprodug place would appear tel
*Um do Gerald, who. toe torn by auxiety and whet reraarkable attributes elle would
pollees to distinguish her es much from the
Women he had met as her home wac &Win-
viebed, from the abodes of meaner mortals.
Re had UPS to go from end to end of the
room, and. topeep through the hanging our -
tains into the next apartment, which was
Smaller and decorated and furnished like an
Adrreaaban Nights' vision seen in a Parielen's
_ "Not the realthing at all, I should say,
but mush more comfortable," thought Ger-
aid, deteoting a European neatness about the
fringe of the carpets, and observing that the
'entente which were suspended overhead
were, fitted up for the electric light.
He was advancing two steps into the
second room to admire the ingenuity of this
arrangement, when the sound of a tanning
handle made him retreat hastily into the
room into which he had been ushered. As he
did 'so,however, he was in time to ace a
rather arge-gloved hand and wrist spark-
ling with bracelets thrust from behind a
portiere that screened the door through
which the lady was coming.
Gerald listened to the rustle of heavy silk,
to the rattle of many beads, and to a die-
tinctly heavy step on the finer of the inter-
vening room, with curiosity and some sur-
prise. A quiet life had made him observant,
and, long before he caught another glimpse
os the lady, he knew that her refinement
was not equal to her splendor. As she
drew near the curtails which divided the
rooms,
Gerald atepped forward with a low
bow ; then he raised his head, meb her eyes,
and fell back with an irrepressible exclama-
tion of astonishment, of horror. For the
beautiful creature, before him, in low-cut,
trained gown of rose -and coffee -colored satin,
bevy with pearl embroidery, which imped.
ed her clumsy movements and yet showed
off the animal beauty of her Amazonian BA -
Ute, childailce blue eyes and silky fair
hair, ' was the gamekeeper's, daughter,
Behette. Her arms vete encased
in long, pale gloves that reached to
the shoulder ; on the fair white skin of her
nook hung a double string of pearls; her
soft hair, piled high on her head in (metes
and coils, held a tuft of rose-and-collencol-
°red feathere and more pearls; the, sunny -
brown skin of her face was artificially
whitened. But it was a triumph of millin-
ery, not of mind, and, at the firat straight-
forward glance of sorrow and disgust from
Gerald's honest eyes, the ignorant creature's
peacock dignity gave way,and she fined
there before him stupidly picking out' the
feathers of her satin fan, with her frizzed
and fluffy head hung bashfully down, just
as, the summer before, she had pulled out
the petals of a daisy with her red -brown
fingers, while he thought the soft fringe of
hair that escaped from under her cap on to
her sunburnt neck the prettiest thing in the
world.
"0 Babette 1" said he, in heartfelt sor-
row,aneareproach.
"'1 ana - pretty like that, am I not '
said. she, raising her head hardly, and.
betraying to the young fellow' shocked
eyes that the confusion she ' felt under
his glance was the old false shame with but
faint trace of any nobler feeling. He had
overrated the eapecity for goodin this blunt,
coarse nature in the old days when
bashfulness under a cotton cap looked
so like sweet modesty. Perhaps it WAS the
fact that his heart was filled by another wo-
man that helped him to be keen -sighted
now. At any rate, this speech betrayed
her
"o, Babette, I shall never think you
pretty again until I see you back in your
blue frock and your sabots," said he simply.
"You don't admire handsome things,
then " said she ecornfully, walking past him
sotthet he might be impressed by the length
of her train and the height it gave to her
figure. She had already discovered that.
Yes," he answered quietly, " I like
handsome things on people who are used to
theni."
" Well, I shall. be used to them soon,"
said she, turning round upon him quickly
and awkwardly, but showing instantly to
more advantage as anger made het natural
U I hope not," said he as gravely as a
preacher. "I hope that before the person
who was wicked enough to dress you up bi
these thingsgets tired of seeing you in Huila,
you will find out yourself how silly you
have been, and go back of your own accord
to the old cottage and the cows that you
used to be so 1 ond of, and your poor grand-
mother and er—and your—er your father."
He could not find au attractive adjective
for Meunier, so the end of his speech was
rather abrupt. Babette tossed beak her
head 'Amply, and a little curl fastened to a
hairpin fell down to the ground.
0 yes, and feed the pigs, I suppose, and
wash the Leon, and get scolded."
"Why, Babette," said Gerald, who had
detected nervous glances which she oast
from time to time at the demi," "you get
scolded now. She started and stared at
him. He went on: "And now, you know,
you don't dare to say a word. back. You
geed to work hard, and, when an One
grumbled at you, you knew you were in the
right, and you could antiwar saucily. But
new you are nothing but a poor dressed -up
doll, and you scarcely dare to walk lest you
should, show that yell miss your eabots, or
to turn round for fear ef tumbling over your
train, and offending—"
He stopped shortt'heaeing grown in a Ino.
meat quite White and cold. in the atitonigia
remit, gtief, and disgust he had felt at the
eight of the transfigured Babette, he had
forgotten for the time his Mispiaion that it
Was the murderer of Mr. Shaw who had
tun away with her.
"What is it ? What le the matter.
Monsieur Gerald 1" she asked with real
solicitude.
" Ilabettel 04ict he huskily, telzIng one
of het gloved arms and speaking with
earnestness, which made hint shake from
head te foot, "who is We M. de Breteuil?
Wall it he that need to COMO about the place
after you at 'Les Dulles= '2 Tell me, for
God's sake, tell iriti 1"
But the woman was tremblitig. He taw
at once that he had frightened her too
mnab for her to be frank with him, She
Only muttered, "Let me go, let Me go," and
fought herself free from him, with troubled
m
c, like a teased and timitfehild.
"14, no," *he Wet at last, very peevish.
se to the treatment Peggy would receive at
the hands of the citentng, untrustworthy
Smith, the orthodox Min MiLeod, end the
obstinate Mr. 13arer4ord. He wondered
whether the autocrat of "Lee I3ouleaux" bad
some reason granger than a freak for wish-
ing hie daughter to return. Gerald believed
that he must -have Riven up. the project of
marrying her to Vidor,MOO the young
Frenchman, at, well as his parents, would
certainly decline to ratify au engagement
made, with moh. an erratic young 1 edy as
this last escapade proved Pegg to be. The
young thusbend tormented himself by im-
agining .010 it was with some thought of
punishment for his daughter's disobedience
that Mr. Beresford had sent for her, and
be wact in such a fever of fear about her by
the. time he reached Paris that he would
have taken the next train beck to °elate if
he had not found, waiting for him at the
telegrapkofffee, a telegram from Peggy, the
contents of wbich. remained him. This was
the message
"Father really ill. Shots himself up.
Won't see anybody. Delphine takes this to
Lova."
With hie mind relieved of a great weight,
Gerald jumped into. a Alen to fulfil his
promise to Smith that he would go to X. de
Breteuirs house fiaat Ile did not suppose
That he should' find this errand very
difficult: from what ho had heard of the
arrogant millionaire, he imagined that he
should have to waste a couple of hours in a
big,,, bare, coldly handsome anteroom, with
a dozen more people in the same predica-
ment, and that he should then besnubbed
by the great man for a couple of minutes,
and seat about his business without having
accomplished anything in pal-di:solar. So he
'turned over his letter of introduction idly
in hie band, and let his thoughts settle on
the more interesting subject of hiavisit to
Madame de Lancry and the 'possible die
ooverlee to which the signet -stone he was
marrying might lead, when once it, was plac;
ed in her clever hands.
He had worked himself into gob a state
of paseionate excitement over the thought
that he was perhaps carrying, at that very
moment, the means of bringing bit father's
murderer to justice at last, that when the
Acre stopped' at the imposing porte-coehen
of one of the handsomest mansions in the
Avenue Friedland, Gerald had forgotten
for the moment his immediate errand; and
it was not until he had paid the driver, arid
walked mechanically through the massive
iron gates into the courtyard, that he re-
membered where he was. He had jest been
told, In answer to his inquiry, that M. do
Bretenil was out, and was recrossing the
courtyard, impatient to start for the aotel
where Madame de Lancry yen - staying,
when he had to step aside quickly, for
a victoria, drawn by a pair of chest-
nut bargee, which rattled in over the
ta' tasplialtea and was drawn up sharply at
• the entrance, with a skill and neatness whiee
made Gerald certain that the coachman
must be an Englishman.
"What a splendid turn -out 1" he thought
admiringly; and last as he got to the gates
he glanced back for one more look, and saw
that in noticing the setting he had. over.
looked the gem, Standing up in the little
carriage, with her hand upon the back, was
a tell lady who gave him, tn the glimpse -he
caught of her, a vivid impression of brocade
and feathers. Aa she was looking straight
at him, he withdrew his eyes at once and.
walked on. He was on the pavement out.
side the gates when a tall servant, in a
livery which to his eyes appeared rather toe
gorgeous to be in good taste, ran after him,
and respectfully asked in French, whether
monsieur would be good enough to come
hack, as madame wished to have the honor of
speaking to him.
Madame 1" echoed Gerald, overcome
with shyness at the thought of having to
confront the magnificent feminine oregano,
the pomp and circumstance of whoa Bur.
rounclings had somewhat overawed his sim-
ple mind. Madame de Breteuil 1"
"Mais old monsieur," answered the men
in a tone ofirespectful insolence which
Gerald interpreted to mean that the lady
was not Miller among her servants.
The young fellow turned hack reluctant-
ly, followed his conductor up a wide, shal-
low -stepped marble staircase, with a bal-
ustrade of elaborate iron -work on the one
side,
and a painted wall on the other, to the
flratftoor, where be was led along a corri-
dor, the whole length of one side of which
was one long window, darkened by stained
glass, by high tropical plants in a coneerve.
tory on the other side, and by tapestry dra-
peries which, hung in festoons from the
ceiling, The opposite wall was of carved
dark oak, picked out with gold. The car-
pet which war laid down in the middle of
the polished floor was so thick as to deaden
the heaviest tread ; and Gerald thought, as
he followed the servant to the door at the
end, that a good comfortable workhouse
would. be more t� his taste than this silent
and gloomy magnificence,
Be was mitered into it very large and
very lofty room, which altered his opinion.
Per, little as Gerald knew of anythbig but
the outside of greet homes, he was struck
at once by the tact that in this apartment
exceptional judgment had been used in
Making the most both of height and space.
The tapestries which hung on the
Wells were wide, and reached from the
painted oohing to the polished floor,
While the looking -glasses between which
they fell were of the same height, The
ohaire and omelet, in the room were
all high.backed and large, legs ambitious
Mettle being provided in ()Millions of psettdo.
Oriental pattern, Which were strewn in
pies of two and three in rugs about the
polished floor. The room war neither bete
nor overerowded, but everything in it was
en stfoll a Seale tet not to be dwarfed by the
surroundings. Palms in huge porcelain
bowls filled the corners, aft embroidered
sarean nine feet high stood by the fireplace,
wish& wart of old-imhioned Baglieh pattern,
lofty, oaken, heavily-earved ; and the cur.
tains whioh draped the ern -Nome to another
room r.it One end were eaught up by What
Gerald afterwards artlessly deseribed as
(tropes of gold"
"We ten 14 for falthing human to live
In," otrinmented he oritioally, ite, finding
that he was laft to latilmelf for a oonsider.
•
•••
"1 Met M. 46 Breteuil in Petite and I wash
he would, come in now, and Wive you turned
out for frightening Me. Don't you know I
eau a great lady now, end Toe initeat't treat
me as it I, Were pat petulant -girl, like 1 used
to be:"
Ste was the peamant-girl stifl1 if elle had,
only known it, ea she wriggled about tot -
comfortably in her beautifut dreg% and sud-
denly kicked off her tight shoes ab elle used
to do her old sabots, As aeon ae ehe
saw what she had done she threw herself
down on a eofa, and burst into tears of mor -
Gerald looked at her for It few moments,
and then, seeing that in this new and ma
°Wag situation he should get no help from
Iter, he Went quickly and softly toward the
door by which he had come in,
But before he had reached it she looked
up, sprang to her feet with a loud cry, and
rushed helter-skelteraiong the room to him,
tumbling over her gown at every step, her
arms stretched outt her leak falling down,
a, miserable and ridiculous oajeot.
"Don't go away, don't go away! You
ere right, Monsieur Gerald, I am foolish, 1
am unhappy. Don't go away yet. Perhaps
yea can tell me something ; and I want to
ka new so much. Lok, look, if you will stay,
I will take off all these things, and • you
shall treat me jot as you please."
And the excited :creature pulled oub the
ornaments from her hair, the pearls from
her nok, and tore her gloves to strips un,
der the frantic efforts of her mueoular
fingers to get them off. Gerald stopped and
watched her in perfect silence and stillnese,
exactly as he would have watched a large
mastiff hurting itself with its chain in its
attempts to detain its master. The tears
came into his eyee.
"Of course I will stay and hear whateVer
You want to say," he said gently. "And if
can, only help you to be happy again, I
Will. But you must let me go soon, as I
have soine very important business to at.
tend to."1
The poor fellow was indeed on fire with
impatience to be by himeelf, and with
anxiety not to risk meeting M. de Breteuil
until he had eon Madame de Lanory. He
led the panting (neatere to one df the colon
sal couches he had admired so much; but
she pushed him down upon it and stood be-
fore huin, leaning against the Oaken mantel.
piece in shamefaced excitement, whioh
moved and melted. him,
"1 don't like this place, I am unhappy
and frightened," said she, incoherently.
" AlOady he is changed in these last two
weeka. When he is cold, he is like ioe, se
hard, so stern ; and when he is gay, he is
like fire—like fire. 0, he frigetens mel I
do not like him, I hate him 1'
• "Well, why don't you run away from
him, and go back to your father's cottage,
you silly girl? If he isn't verygood-tem-
pered, and if your grandmother is tiresome,
why, at least, you can do as you please, and
you . need not be afraid of anybody," said
Gerald, who saw it was a mistake to take
high moral ground as a stand -point in deal-
ing with her.,
" 0, but it was my lather who sent me
away, and now that there seems to be a
sort of suspicion that he was mixed tip with
the wolf -soak he is afraid he is no longer
in favor with Mr. Beresford, and it is the
more necessary forhim to keep well withwith—
—
"Well, well, with whom ?" ‘Th'
But she did not answer. Her large, round,
blue eyes were turned in terror toward the
nearest of the high windows, her mouth was
open, her limbs were shaking. Before Ger-
ald could understandwhat new trouble had
seized her, she shrank back like an over.
grown, frightened child against the corner
of the carved fireplao.
"What is the matter, Babette?"
"Don't you hear the carriage in the court-
yard 7" she askedin a hoarse whisper.
He has come back, and when he finds how
I have been behaving he will scold me."
She shook out the folds of her beautiful
gown, looked at herself in one of the Ing
glasses with an exclamation of despair at
the havoc which the excited movements
of the last ten minutes had wroughe in her
appearance, and began hurriedly to try to
pull on one of the torn gloves. Suddenly a
red flush overspread her face, from which
her hot hands had during the last few min-
utee removed the thick coating of rice -
powder.
"He mustn't find you here 1"' she said in
a tremulous veto. " He would kill me if
he were jealous, in the humor he has been
in for the last few days. Come here."
She seized his hand in a muscular grip
whidh was physically irresistible, half led,
half dragged him the whole length of the
two vooms, pulled aside the portiere, open.
ed the door behind it by which she had iter -
tell entered, thrust him into a little over -
furnished boudoir, and, before he could
protest, turned the key m the lock and left
him a prisoner.
A moment later Gerald heard a man's
step and a entoe's voice 111 the room he had
just left.
CHAPTER XXV.
Gerald was still staggering from the het
push of Babetteti strong hands when the
heavy man's tread in the next room stopped,
and for a few seconds there was dead silence.
The young fellow came back to the. door,
and turned the handle, madly Anxious to
meet this ram. Bet it was leaked. Then
through the heavy curtain on the other side
came the muffled sounds of Babette's voice
in abject apology and entreaty for forgive.
nem.
" I have been to sleet.," she faltered, "on
the sofa there, and the ottellions have
tumbled my hair."
"Tumbled ,your hair 1" echoed a man's
hard, grating voice, "and torn your gloves,
and disarranged your dress, and Made you
cry 1 It is a great deal for a cushion to do!'
Thee, after a moment's pause, in a voice of
tenfold greater harshness " Ybn have been
romping with one of the servants 1"
uNo, I haven't, no, I haven't. 0, mon.
deur, 0, Louis, nobody hes been neat me,
indeed. You are very unkind. For the last
fortnight you have been always irritable,
always hard. And X have done nothing—
nothing to make you so, I've been it lady
every day until just now, and InOt buret my
dresser torn anything or knocked anything
over for three days."
"You seem to have been making up for
your abstinence now."
She went on mumbling muses without
getting any further answer, unit by an im-
patient exclamation her master signified
that he had had enough of them, full Get -
ata guested, by the little Ner6Mn she utter-
ed at her train nestled toward the door by
which he was stansling, that she was bang
Ptithed toward it. The next sound lee
heard was the hard voice) speaking 01040 to
the other side of the door.
" Go hack to your melds and let them
dress yen and Make you Ea to be non
again. I dine at the British, Ernbaesy this
evening. But if you are good I willtake
you for a drive afterward, if the night
warm encantla."
The woman Mumbled an abjeot meat
and coached by the door, quite still, while
the heavy tread of the man grew fainter in
the distance as he crossed the two rooms.
Gerald, in intense exeitemeat, drew from
his poolcet the letter entrusted to him by
Mr. Smith, and knocked, softly at the door
whioh shut him in,
"Lot me gut, Behette, let me out," he
whaoiered. "1 roust see M. de Breteuil
befoie he leaves the home. He need not
know I have been in here, Let me out,
there' e e good girl; it's very important."
But all the auswer he gob was e frighteta
ed " Sheiti 1" and for fully ten minutes he,
enteeeted and oho listened without answer-
ing, until the sound of wheels in the gotta
yard attracted his atteution.
Re looked out of the window of .the
botatoir, and saw a small, dark coupe, drawn
by horses quite as handsome as those he had
admired in the victoria, drive rapidly out at
the gate. Then Babette unlocked the door
and he dashed peat her impatiently, with
Smith's letter in his hand.
"You ain't catch him now, he's gone too
far," she cried nerYously, "What's that in
your hand ? 'What do you want of him'!'
"What time will lie be back ?" asked
Gerald, stopping suddenly and speaking
with some irritation, " I have to see him
most pertioularlY, on business. I have a
letter of introduction to him, and these only
fears and fanoiee of yours have put me to
great inconvenience."
She came slowly and ponderously toward
him as he spoke, with an anxious and ay
look in her eyes whioh he was too mull
preoccupied to Emilie. As soon as she was
near enough, she snatched the letter out of
his band, drew back a couple of steps, biro -
ed sharply round, and pulled off the envelope
so clumsily that she tore the letter,
"filminess, business 1 What is it ? More
secrets, I suppoae," she said viciously, as
she turned the short note about in herhot
halide without reading it. ".And be thinks
he'll gebahe better of me by forbidding me
to learn to oad. But be even with him.
I can make out a lot of words already, when
they're wrote oiear—not like this," with a
contemptuous slap on the letter she held.
" Ana if he tries any triolcs with me I'll just
make off With his precious papers 1 I know
where they're lEept, simple as I ani."
Gerald watched this new change with as-
tonishment and disgust. Then he stepped
toward her and held out hie hand saying, very
quietly "Now give me back that letter.
You have done enough mischief for one day
to satisfy even you: I should think."
She yielded to his tone of authority, and
put the torn note awkwardly into his hand,
putting up one shoulder into her ear With
shy petulance as she did so.
Thank you. Good evening," said Ger-
ald shortly, and without another Word he
turned away from her and crossed the two
handsome rooms in wbich the dusk of the
evening was already casting grim shadows.
He shuddered as he cast a last look at the for-
lorn, half -tamed animal who stood, miser-
able and slownoast, by ono of the windows
of the Mat 'room, \ hercoarse beauty re-
fined and idealised by the dim half-light,
longing to call batik again the one honest
friend who was leaving her, restrained from
doing so by the respect which his simple
gravity had imposed upon her.
"1 can't do anything for her," thought
Gerald, perhaps Madame de Lancry
can."
He pulsed from the drawing -room to the
dark corridor, where little globes of electric
light suddenly flashecl into brightnese on the
walls as he entered. ' At the other end a
servant wasstanding, who opened the doors
on to the staircase, • and accompanied him
down into the hall; and it was with a feel-
ing of relief and exultation Gerald found
himself outside the hoick) and on his way to
the Rotel du Louvre.
Madame de Laney was at home, so Gerald
went up-staire and knocked at the door ef
the sitting -room.
" Come in," said the General's voice.
No sooner did the young man's face ap-
pear in the doorway, than with a lbud ex-
clamation of satisfaction General de Lancry,
who was alone in the room, jumped up from
his chair with surprising nimbleness, and
Carnet forward to lead him into the.roont
‘`. Welcome, welcome 1" said he eager-
ly. "Madame expects you, 1 know. She
has been crazy for the last half hot= because
you are late. Yon telegraphed thatyou
would be here this evening, and the Calais
train has been in for some time. You wait-
ed to dine somewhere, puppet° ?
It was half -Oast eight. The geslight.
showed the still untouched dessert on the
glistening white tablecloth, bright with all -
ver, and glass, and Rowena The sight
re-
mindrd Gerald that he was ravenously hun-
gry.
-"I had a bueinest call to make for the
firm," said he,
"Ah I And," dropping his voice to a
mysterious whisper, and glancing at the
door of his wife's room, "Did the little lady
find you ? Net a breath about that to ma
dame, you understand ! I've tried to put in
a word now and then for you both, but it's
of to use—no use," and he shook his head
gloomily, She is very determined ontiome
points, you know ; and she went as far, obit
day, as to say that marriage with that little
girl would be your ruin; she did indeed. So
wouldn't preen Lb, if I were you ; I'd look
out for a chance of taking her unawares
with the announcement of your attaohrnene,
as 1 mean to do with the information 'that
I'm no longer an invalid. Do you see? Sh.
eh 1 she's coming in.'s
The General did down in to his chair &gain
hastily as his wife came into the room. She
looked rather thin and worn, and would have
looked pale if that had not been a calamity
which she knew howItei avoid. Her great eyes
seemed to burn with some fierce fire, and
the sttctIg melf-control, through which her
words and tnanter appeared cold and tiat-
Teo, told Gerald, who noticed her keenly,
and who knew something of het state of
mind, that the sport was growing exciting.
The glaneo she cut at her husband, as she
came in, showed plainly that she wished that
weli-meaning gentleman anywhere but in
her presence. She gave Gerald a long,
straight look from her 'shining eyee, eh if to
read without delay the tidings .he brought
het, gave a long 'sigh of impatience as she
shook his hand, gently pushed him into a
char, and poured out a glass of wide.
"You have had no dinner, poor boy, /
know," she said.
And while her husband broke out ante eX.
clam/Mons of pity and. istonislnent, she
rang the bell, and ordered that dinner
4001 be served gatn at once, ' Then elle
threw herself beck In a low, deep chew, and
effaced herself, leaving Gerald to the meroice
of the General, who chatteredon placidly to
him, delighted to hew etch a congenial come
paten, until the young fellow had satisfied
his hunger and was able to give h irnnore
attention, As he leaned back in his ohair
for the first time, Madame de Lanory sprang'
up from here like a tigress on oho watch,
(To Be ootryNnun.)
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An Omnibus Pass.
The following is a copy of the pees upon
which a peaty of etateamen, travelled to the
wedding of a fellowonember of the State
Legislature receutly
CINcatteteetFeb, 1L, 1888.
Conductors of C. &0, hi, Railway :—
Pass lion. E. L. Lampson, Speaker of the
House of Representatives of the great State
of Ohio (the third State in the Union in
the point of population, and first in all
other respects), and twenty.three (23) other
people from Columbus to Blanchester and
return, on account of the marriage of Ron.
W. C. Hudson, the honorable member from
Clinton. Conductors are instructed to leeae
their valuables in the train box while tibia
party is on board.—[Cleveland Leader.
A Tremendous Sensation
would have been created one hundred years
ago by the sight of one of our modern ex-
press treble whizzling along at the rate of
sixty miles an hour. just think how our
grandfathers would, hey° Oared at , such
epectaole 1 It takes a wood deal to astonish
peoplenow.a. days, but some of the marvel-
ous cures of consumption' wrought by Dr.
Pieraele Golden MedicalDiscovery, have
created wide -spread. amazement. Coneump-
tion is at last acknowledged curable. The
"Golden Medical Discovery" is the only
known remedy for it If taken at the right
time—which, bear in mind, is not whenalte
lunge are nearly gone—it will go right to
the Beet of the disease and accomplish its
work as nothing else in the world can.
Alleged Dutch hall clocks no longer com-
mand the high prices of a few years ago.
"Give Him $2, and Let Him
Guess."
We once heard a man complain of feeling
badly, and Wondered what ailed him, A
humorous friend said, "Give a doctor $2,
and let him g„tiese." It was a cutting satire
on some • (lectors, who clen't always guess
right. You need not guess what ails you
when your food don't digest, when your
bowels and stomaoh are inactive, and when
your head aches every day, and you are
languid and easily fatigued. You are bili.
out, and, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets will bring you out all right. Small,
auger coated, easy to talce. Of druggists.
" Knickerbooker buff" is given as the
name of a color to be fashionable in Spring
goods.
" Had. Been Worried Eighteen
Years."
It should have read "married," but tae
proof-reader observed that it amounted to
about the same thing, and so did not draw
his blue pencil through the error. Unfor-
tunately there was considerable truth in his
abgervetion. Thousands of husbands are
worriei almost to despair btethe ill health
that afflicts their wine, and often robs life
of comfort and happiness. There is bat one
sefe and sure ay to change all this for the
better' The ladies should use Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
. Silver ornaments for the person of all
kinds are more fashionable now than ever
before.
A. Cure foil'Itrunkenneas.
The opium habit, depsomania, the morphine habit,
nervous prostration caused by the use of tobacoo,
wakefulness, mental depression, softening of the
brain, de., premature old age, loss of vitality caused
by over-exertion of the 'brain, and loss of natural
strength, from any cause whatever. Men—young,
old or middle•aged—Who are broken down from any
of the aboN e causes, or any cause netmentionect above,
send your address and 10 cents in stamps for Lubon's
Treatise, in book form, of Diemen of Man. Books
sent sealed and seoura from observation. Address M.
V Lunn 47 Wellinvton street Bask Toronto Ont.
Spring bonnets ara to have wide strings if
the latest fashionnews from Paris is reliable.
Coff No More.
Watson's cough drops are the beet in tit
world for the throat ancicheskfor the Voice
unequalled. See that the lettere R. & T.W.
are stamped on each drop.
Corduroy will hold its' own through the
Spring and is to come inall the newest
colors.
•
Ooean Steamship faellengera
Pia New York should take the Erie rail-
way, as it is not only the shortest .and best
line, but lands people close to the piers of
the teading steamship companies. In buy-
ing tickets, ask for the Erie.
Jewelers say there is an unusual demand
for black pearls and that they bring fancy
Prtea
People who are subjeta to bad breath, loul colond
tongue, or any disorder of the Stomach, ban once
be relieved by defog Dr. DersOn't. Stomach Meares
the old and bled ramedv. sink your Drusaiel
Some of the handeomest of the India
wraps are trimmed with black marabout
feather trimming.
ofseArass nem asesvnie restores grey and faded
heir to its natural cOlo r and prevents falling out.
Braid in almost Bloomingdale profusion is
to trim the tailor-made and other kinds of
Spring ;mite.
I/milt/own aims cures in one minnte.
Half teaspoonful of common salt dissolved
in a little cold water and drunk evill in-
stintly relieve heartburn.
whenever your Stomach or Dowell get out of or-
det, banging emouseees,'Drepopsia, or Indigestion,
and their attendant evils, take at Once a dose of De.
vitrunrs Stonutoh Bitters. test family medicine,
All Druggists, SO debts.
Cold snaps continue to delight the hearts
of women 'who have sealskin sacquea or a
Russian wrap.
A. P. 890.
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