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The Signal, 1899-5-4, Page 6JEALOUSY AND-MYSTERY*1 An Attempt to Unveil Eternity. a, 411444114* 4 4114 414441441414• • 4 4 4 04 idaleeld 4 • 4 4 4 g CHAPTER Xl. Cover thy throat. take my handker- mtraaaa as may imam to -alma chief and stanch the bleeding. There it is a pool of blood at thy feet, rising. and the great sea behind thee le red, gates of death, and stooge as it too. Who are these that walk upon memos to me now ate I look back on it and what are they singing? thet far-off tirae. I had never until "What daea he say ye aged the that instant of utter desolation f elt chaplaia, turning to Redbrook. so certain of the presence ol souse- " He is raving."' was the reply. _ ahlog-ewhien-the,egniell• Ie ealle4 " 111011LOrs*--iit israti. as 1 God. Kneeitagamere w1311 those others. 1 looked around me, weeping. Butsuddenly, with a wild, parti- san...I saw the dreary waste. and tim ling sob. Modena, clutched at the stars blown across tive empty bee- chaplain, anal looked up into ids face. the sands trauspearect with water, dead, or living ?" he cried, -With -emir ; „and inadagaireith-naletete iskiriatak......,'.'-Maelteirm -AS . PIM la ..ant an &byes filled with a shining. Slyer tears streaming down his face. radian/so, as of 1110011/410 In the world. " You live. Modena." eiald Redbrook. lint It was rather Within me. thee "Live! live live " echoed the 11*) without me that the presence Of Ian, with a shudder that ram through somethieg beyond MO seemed stirring his frame. '1. this life? Is this like the faint filet glimmer of dawn the world? Why have you brought on the sea waves. And now. me back? Where am I -where?" though my tears fell fast. " You are in Fordmouth prison." they grew peaceful, and my being answered Redbrook. grew calm and light as ale: when "Not dead! not dead!" eobbed the looking weetwaol, 1 slaw again the man. " Was it a dream. them? 1 gate of gold glimmering far awaythought-I thought -ah, God In and, as I turned my eyes thither, heavenhave mercy !" lie coutinued, Catherine and the other gazed thither raising his voice to a shriek. end roll. also, and we oiled together- Ong over upon the bed, where he lay "Yonder ! Yonder 1" for a long time shuddering and moan And lo! emo are we stake, we throe Mg, in it paroxysm of horror and were rattled like straws ou water, pain. and upheld as if by hands, and drifted CHAPTER XII. thither -the same way that the tales The record ended here. When it of earth and heaven seemed moving - had been completed. the unlortunate so that the gate each moment grew mau had given It to the chaplain. brightee and nearer, till we came who, being unacquainted with Italian, close unto it, anti were cast down before it like weeds on the shore: nod had handed it to Dr. Redbrook. Red - brook took It home, and on the evert - where they were cast dowu Catherine and the other fell, and lay as dead, Ing when our etory opened. deciphered while 1 stood erect and saw, attend- 1$ with some diffkulty. After he hae Ina ei the vile, clothed in white, tee neighed ite perusal he was rOmmoned Man who was crucified on the cross. ag'ain. In the manner already die And He cried my name three times, scribed. to the condemned oell. saying, "Hasten. Maurizio! They arse He found Modena pacing to and fro waiting to ledge thee, ate' tbou liken wild beast. and uttering hortert- haat tarried too long." cal cries. He already looked years I looked at Him, and know the older, and his cheeka and eyes were faoe I had seen in tbe plethres: a sunken as Lf by fanatic. Tbe moment young man's facie, sad and gentle, Redbrook enteredhe turned wildly, with great eyes that seemed to suf- a.ed uttered an exclamation of disep- fer from the light they -shed upon we. pointeneet. And lie said again, though He had It is not you I want." be oriel. named me- "It is the other." -*Wise is thy wessai.,... And 'I answered- -7-77- "Maurizio Modena." And He said - "What le that In thy band. Stair - 1s.10?" I looked and was afraid, fer tight hand was bloody, and I held within it the knife with which I had slain Catherine and the other, wbo lay at my 4e•et as dead: - Then Ile battened to me, crying. "Come!" and 1 rani to ilia and fell lust without the gate upon my knees. with all my old life heavy within me and bands of lead upon me holding me • patitta vise; and He came out of the gate and atexxi looking down upon '2 MIL "They did not lie," I cried. ' Lord, I am quick. who was dead. ea -Wheat la Thy will?- " He amwered: "Where la Catherine, thy wife?" And I was silent. And He said: " Viharre is the other whom tium 'Mgt slay ?" I was silent again; but. looking back over my shoulder, I Naw the two had &rime aa if from asleep, and Were gazing this way and that. as in a dream, and j cried aloud, " Catherine ! Catherine 1" , ,4.And she came unto us slowly, fol- lowed by the other. and when they saw Him. who stood above me, they paused, and were afraid. Then I cried: "Lord, where are we 7" And He_answered: "Thi. is death. Maurizlo."" But I laughed, and cried: "Lord, there Is no death. Eterni- ties hale passed away, and I lire." And it seemed that the two who Mood by me echoed the thought within me, saying: " Lord, there is 110 death! Eternities have pass- ed away, and we live." Then. though I gazed downward, I felt the light of His eyes upon me. ea He cried: "There is death, and there IN Judgment! What le that blood upon thee, Maurizio?' I answered: "It la the blood of those° whom I have slain." Then I felt tile light touch of Ills hand upon my hair, and I heard His vole... saying: "Dolt thou repent. Maurizio?" And when I hid my face and wept. He Mopped and breathed upon me, and my old life fell from me like a garment, ad I arose naked before and I saw Ills face bright and beautiful as an angels; and beside me, naked, too. stood Catherine and the other, trembling. full of wonder. And suddenly out of the gate there came a great music as of innumerable voice, cry- ing. "Come, comer But even then, as I moved thither, the se.ride rose up around me. like waves of the sea, and we three were struggling and 'linking therein. rand He weans we had men at the gate was walking away' over the waves, leaving as there to perish; and I ertempried fighting for breath. but my feet were like lead. sinking me down. and I sunk deeper deeper. with 110brine In my thaoat and darknese on my eve,. MI my OPIUM Wan blotted away atul I knew no more; and when awakened I was lying here In my cell, dead, but living -I. Meurialo ?in- dent'. who for my ertina had been rimulemned by man to die. Tale doctor bent over him, and moistened bis Ilpa with brandy. He ortrergied. pulled away the doctor's hand, and .at upright In bed, with a face white and woe-begouo and large dilated eyes. Then he looked round the roll again. anal from face to face. Stirred to the depths, the clicTralt lath by the bead. and prayed lfedsaa seemed to hear. Raising the flareflager of his right hand. he lisksind. Again that faint bright- est* fell upon his haggard face. The cheplaila still praying. reached up and took his left hand, which cloired eagerly upon his own trembling fla- il:re' 'God have mercy upon him! Christ have mercy upon html Lord of quick and dead, In thIne infinite compassion, look down upon him a Miser I" Thee* could be no deubt now that the prisoner heard-tadeed, be wasi ilatealog latently. but be kept his eyes Moodily fixed on vricasey,- as If the wend he hearel name from some form he maw In the far &stance. • " Catherine!" he cried again. The ehaplain rose to hts feet, pale mid trembling, awl tent over the bed. " 110deeta I" be moreturicl. gently. Roden* looked up into his fate, but without any Oen of recognition. Who caller' by anew -mei fatale,. ks Italian. '1. it them. Delbert's? WII0 le that standing behind 1 am dead„ woman. yet 1 - Ito priest did wit lie to Mao who have meteor palmed Lilo -nigh the dime or lathebrae 17.&I IMMO faint k Of bet ta to - rel. not mandate to MUM death. Meantime. tbe unoxygenized blood mountto the brain and producer • eerier of horrible impremiono oU cooditioned by his former dread of death. his fear 01 purilsbnient, and his knowledge of popular eaperatitica. The imagery. my dear fibadwell, le that of ib. Re- ligious Tract Society -a starry mace. a robleu gata a human figure in the likes:ems of the pictures of Jeeue-and. combined with all that. inutunerable horror's\ blood, the 'tune. shrouds, and plinotonse. Murcia, you can't accept touch 'Muff an a veritable revelation of U.e Unreen." "1 eall1111.1t tell," Marne' the chap- lain. "I am lost in eillitelder. What im- t1 prams@ me root arty la not s the aetual record, the chanv ila Modena hineaelf. Yon w how absol- utely he waa ouneigesd of annihila- thao. Yet iii-eal leatupor 40 Itowlitare be Th clanged, Urns now Craver to die, it 1. esa .beeause he thinks to escape punkageslat. but to meet it, and to triu5stialt.ally over it." f.xbe aCCOalttlItVellilirrXnAjiltatrittn". "Pardon me, there we differ alto- gether. I am certain that God, In some miraculous manner has revealed to hoe a glimpse of a great tnyntery:' "What, thee, would you do with him?" faked Redbrook grimly. "Hang him again ?" " (do not think it would be so cruel as to keep him alive." hat: Surely you are not serious! Think of the pity -mica' torment the poor wretch has suffered already." ' The phyeical torment is nothing;, returned Shadwell, riaing to his feet. "It la by our 'souls we suffer, after all. See how eagerly the man would DOW face the ordeal front which he &rank. knowing that death le only the dark bridge to another life!" . "At any rate, I bope the reprieve will maw. I lama' be worry to be 'again all actor in that horrible farce of hanging." "1 share your hope for the sake of our common humanity. lor Mo- dena's wake, I should like to grant het wbeh, and kill him as speedily and eusichilesely as possible." two aeparated, Sbadwell re- pairing at once to the prison cell. Redbrook watched him depart, and, shrugging his shouiders, muttered, - 'Arcades ambo! One Irt as mad as. the other.'' Nevertheless, he took out the Ital- ian menuircript and read it again, with more engernes and Interest. and a great deal more emotion. tn Ile would have liked to confess • Meantime. the chaplain had joined Modena. who welcomed him eagerly. Over bla ministrations to the miser- able man. I draw a yell, but his lure inialtioneel earneitherio- -and- 'towbar, nem. his entire sympathy with the strange moods of the, prisouer: did not fall of thelr effect. Their posi- tions seemed uow reversed. Modena was the man whose certainty and falai were absolute. who Lade al it were, been face to face with (Tod, and knew the terror and the won- der of His ways. Shadwell was the man alio knew nothing, had seen nothing, who only guessed and be- lieved. But the clergyman's sweet humanity went far to complete the miracle of the murderer's soul. "Do rm, too. think I am mad, signor?" asked the Italian suddenly. as they were parting. "Indeed, no,' was the reply. "You believe that 1 have been dead, and that there le no death, as I have said?" " Certainly. That. as you know, Is our thing faith." " Yon are a good man." mid Mo- dena. bending and kissing him hand. 'You are the only creature who has never lied to me. You will be with me, when I die again to -morrow." Val w1:1 be with you whenever it le possible. But eruppose, after all, that It Is God's will that you should opt die ?a . ' That cannot be God's will. "But suppose it were. God might, in His infinite mercy, wish you to remain upon the earth completing your probation and your punishment here.' - A- look ef strange dread and agony passed over the Italian's face. Tears filled his eyes, his mouth twitched convuleively, as he replied: "I am Rare, Signor. God Is not so cruel He knows bow many years I have suffered, how lafieltely I have endured since I offended against His law. Last nlght, too. I had a dream, and Catherine herself came to me and said i 'Why did you go heck? Vie arra leaning Tor you at the gate,and then she erupt. I have to go In there tool be Judged. We shall go In aand In hand-C.atherine and I ; but until I go she must welt yolther, bleeding and In pain, and that will not be well." That tors evening the reprieve came. Late at night the governor aPnt for both Dr. Redbrook and the chaplain,- and communicated ita ar- t -twat th them. - "I think the poor fellow Ahould knOW as on as posalble," he Nati. A warder, on being sent to the cell. reported that the petitioner was sleep- ing quite peacefully, and so it was deelaied nos to communicate the fact to him until the next morning. But at break of day, when the war- ders were changed, and a new ono took up his position In the oell, the attention of the new -corner was at- tracted by the position of the pris- oner, who lay hnek upon ills pillow. Inn feuoe towards the light, which streamed In through the win- dow. les eyes, staring wide open, and his arms outstretched upon the cov- erlet. The warder beet over him, anal RAW that he was quite dead. "Thes shock was too great," sale Redbrook, an he bent over the corpwi apme hours afteewards, and *41- 1 10 clutplain, who also Ntood lookineg acidly down ape's It. "H• newer recovered, and If he heal lived, hn WOUld haTn 110On A Madalf/0 till the end." An ha mote thus, he glanced at ithadwell, who, without seeming to bear, Mopped nearer to the bed, and, putting out hie thin hand, drew it lightly, allt if In benediction, over the. marble brow of the dead man. "God be with him!" he murmured. "Mad or sane, I believe he la now at peace!" And penmen) indeed be Remelt In the petle mainerty and aolemnity of death. Ilia mes had been classed, his arms drawn down gently by his elan. hie wild hair menthes' over hie high but narrow brow, but ermine Ills throat, which was partly barn there Mill lay the 1111/1 Ortillias of the hear - note's mope "After ,sall," mid Reetbrook. "the man was et murderer, and one of the most dangerous kind -the more dan- 'woos, indeed, betaame be had plenty or brains A rid hrel received a good edorwation." "Yee, yea." ontirmitred the chaplain, a little impatieotly, hie eyes still fixed upon the onetime. TOM he added, eg, if to htmeet, "The moment liter T II* moment after !" "That Is Inert the point," maid the fleeter, In the IMMO lOw tom. "AS If a whole life'. one/hoe the entire am - building of a nature, noted be chang- ed In a moment. Why, it would take sem of evoIntion to make a eriminal like thi• worthy of perpetuation." Tho eleorymem tensed and looked at.alm...bla smale. faca-tall of deep , emotion his ere tenderly Indignant "Rem yeerr phikenghy tafight yeti pla .1StAiss.t.tast wee de not eneterstand that' Mem is a mete ablitreact term, Miblied by finite man to Interpret Wallop anadasi Greatest Seed House "Du. 7‘si..WWW1.4. ed Redbrook quietly. "I thougot that he ware here.' -A warder explained that, Mr. Sand- well had quitted the cell only about half an hour previcetualy, leaving the prisoner to all appearance quite calm; bist that shortie ,after hie de- partore Modena had been Belled with a sort. of borterlcal paroxysm, which had seemed every moment to be grow- ing more violent. "Calm yourself. M.021441/1 !" isaid Redbrook. " Everythlng pomible• 13 being done on your behalf. In all pore ability you will be reeplted." Modena leashed strangely, almort savegely. "Can you not understand?" Ise cried. "I have asked for nd mercy. 1 wUl accept none. I have died once. anal I wish to die again. Why do you keep me here? Way do you torture me here in hell ? I demand juittloto- juatiee I" "You have "Ab. signor, you are laughing at me. la it Notice to keep me here. to punish me still so cruelly. when God hos forgiven me? I tell you that I am tying hare in my grave, and that I wash to azise. and that you will not suffer me. Last night a voice came to me La oeli, laying, 'There le no death! Kill thyself. dee& I' bat I knew that it was the nodevtilourftempt... Ing MP, and that I dared "What do you wish to be done?" "I_ wish for juntice, **nor. I have been condemned to dle. Ti TvieW my lodge? I am to bel taken from this place& to the place of ear:cotton. and the Tope ia to be placed round my neck, and I an to to hanged by the neck till I am dead!" "You know very well what hae oc- curred. By a horribie accident"- • But Modena interrupted him with a wUd cry, waving his arms in the air and gesticularting like a madman. " I tell you, signor, that you ere tortaring me, you are killing me: but le le too long, too long. Where. Is the an 9 I onn for him -I demand tirglinToi the. bell! Pray for me! It ie time. and I am maty! co.noot Unger here! How long did I hang? Two mitrutee?" It kw /alto Imperialist° to onovey the primmer% tones of wild protort anal paneoritate entreaty. More than ever wan Redbrook convinced that the man was raving mad. With further' bends be had torn =tam shirt roller, showing the at atilt livid with the hangman's mark. ane there, with flashIng 0700. he stood gaunt end pale, like what he wee Indeed -a creatme risen from the grave. "Very well,"' the do -tor, quiet- ly, "it shalt berm you wleh, Mceionn." " When ? when V' "Peril/tot tomorrow." "Tomorrow! It. a an eternity. Why carotot It be now? I have flied. and I &In tel die areal's. That is Gone puniehment upon Inc. and ticeeapt it -11 lir Nat. But let it be qnick- quick I" "Very wed. Promise me to resit quietly WW1 I Will do MY beat." Modosna bowed his head. " I will try to be patient," he re- " But, signor, if yoo knew how I euffee, you wotad not keep me In Dada." And with sob he sank Rating upon his bee hiding his face In his hands. After few words whispered to the WardnOn, whom he inetrocted to keep close watch upon the prisoner end me that he did not lay violent hands upon Mamie Redbrook left the pris- oner. Ai he roamed the etreet to Ida own house% he met Mr. abadwell, 10 whool he rapidly related what had taken place. "It le atrange," said the clergyman. "I left hen quite nelm. 11 mutt be SOMA few words I dropped nbent the bape of a reprieve." tionbt,"- returned Redhrook. •vRy the way. have rend that paper you eaves to me. It le a very curlews docu- ment. If you will omelet I !will read it to yoe." The two patine into the doctor's home together, and entered the Meter or eurgery. when Reethrook, prodecing the Inanueeript. read It off repielly in lengtkoh. only Famine now end then to decipher ri dIffletet word or to find e nsue imitable English equtvalent. When he had (teethed, the chaphtin drew ea tong breath and coeered hie meet with his hoods. as If thinking " Wel. what eln you think of It'?" asked iteetroinic aWM yire net admit DOW Met the mon kr raving mad, and nttedy Irma/mondial,. for his own seam& ?" " Ro far flown bellerrIng him mad. If believe him Os he at left eompletely MM." The doctor meted. " you aetnelly believe this will annissree to be the moral of an aatual experlesee ? 11 memo tito,a0 VW Mar -VISSIWNW" Illariatied re-44ra skin. esalted by a horriblealicenr to him nervous system. lte very Imagery, TW isifietwengy, le that otT Ur* °rents.. 677 religious sentiment. 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If you like to call it by that nams-and what imam to us a mira- ch. was, In reality, the slow working or the natural and irrevocable law. But leave me. I beseech you! I wish th pray here alone, by his bedside." "Very well. I will g0." returned Itedbrook, moving from tbei cell. "I an Tory glad; in any mass. that the poor fellow la dead." The clergymail placed hie liana on Modena's beeast, bat turned his eyes Sicily on Redbrook, saying - "Dead ! You believe, thenthat he han died indeed, and that all is over with him forever, and 'that all re- maining of him lies here, a heap of !duet ?" "Certainly." "The3n I tell you that he Is not dead but living. and that there la l40 such thing as Death. and that what we men call by that name is but the shadow of eternal life." And he fell upon his knee', by the corpse, end prayed. (THE END.) IR, BARBER'S ESCAPE A Montreal Citizen Baffles a Dangerous Enemy. 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All illOrdhlat0,appetite, uwasursd from (Air dieter, Mondpolat, throat i and oleaginous fish, agairust Whale 1 1 the stomach a a denizen of the I ' warmer tones waved revolt. But the I ' tract' fat of the animals of the far north is ter oveot and palatable to a resident of that region aa is the vim or the fruit of the pleuitain to an in- habitant cif the tropics. Both kinds of food perform the required function in their respective climatic woes. One -fersealase-late-inaximuse degosswel bsa to tee body w hem it le needed, the other the minimum ckwree of animal heat to isurtaiu life wider itsspeci01 clime -Mc conditiona The popular notion preraUs• *bat the climate and fro& of the tropism are conducive to indolence and human d generacy. It ts quite as much of a popular error ns Le the other popular theory that flail ler food for the braln and 'thee conducive to a greater men- tal &velem:tient and activity. If the letter were true of fell diet the fe- w -ashes and other aboriginal tribes of the northern comet of Oda continent roved he the neat Intellectual repo.- er.ntatives of the human race in exist- enee. Os it le they constitute orte of the loweel types of the race, the black of the Anstrallam bush and the Digwer Maui ofenlIfornla only being Inferior to them In the wale cf human devel- opment As a rnatter of font, the activity a men Ire deatermInol try other lectors In his exletence than either food or cli- mate. All aboriginal tribes are con - tenet() extort. The energise of mind arid body am not exed by them be- yond the actural neometles ot an ex- it/tome. Tile Erepilmaux of the frigid north and the Indira -re of the temper- ate zoneinre quite an indolent it the aboraands of the tropics, basins no dtgirts or Ambition to /101111111.0 MOT* than the bare necessarlee of life or to ear above the normal condition of th01r environment. -Ran Franaciseo Chronicle. Keep Simard s Liniment in the House. Getting liven. "Why don't you diesaharge your pres- ent doctor a.nd ses if somebody aim can't hell, 704 1? Here he's heel you in hot for three weeke now. and you went to be getting worm+ all the time.' "I wonal babe a change, but this fel- low owes In.' 1000, and his bill foots elp mile tot $49 to date. I've got to Wendt out of him nornehow." • Corn Photographed by X Rays Moore a mall hard kernel, emered by !layer* of bard skin. Plate tiny corn Mame keen pain. The only etre tervine of extr•aeting it, withesit plain, in a tin , lo Pirtnanife Painless Corn az Seta? Yea Painiem? Yes. Cheap? Y. indeed! Try it. Telegrams announcing the death of Jews' Robb, former proprietor of the Stretford Herald. linee been sent to Stratford from two points. Farmer, Ky., mei Wheeling, West Valenta. Numerone eurions eircumstetnees con - motel lead the relatives th doubt the tenth of the etatemeita, scrotal* eased brillier's Compound fron Pills ISSUE No 18 113119. al"&' FREE Your Doctor Knows Your dootor knows all about foods and medicines. The next time you see him, just oak him what he thinks Of Rinalagell of Cod -Liver 011 With Hypo - phosphite& We are willing to trust in hie answer. For twenty-five years doo- tOrs have prescribed our Emulsion for paleness. weak - nese, nervous exhaiustiOn, and for all diseases that cause loss in flesh. Its creamy oolor and 110 pleasant taste make it es- pecially useful for thin and delicate children. No other preparation of cod - 'Ivor 011 Is like It. Don't lose tints and sink your health by taldng something unknown and untried. Keep In mind that scams EMULSION liftS stood the test for • quarter of a oentur7. scorn tio'avt BOYS 0.a., ;ad: now and have your Delete:Ls ma breath DAND11,1011 WIN?, tut. Only two ingredients usedto)* 14.4 .1 any grocery:lakes only Id (lays to make. Re- ceipt, with full tnstr.eUoq., Only 12 cents. Ad- dress. Q. Whittaker, Me attest, To - AGENTS WANTED ---------- of Little Wonder end Rapti realm. WS. rood tan cents fer fifty rest particulars. Agent. wanted. bele irenaller. /ironic, Ont. In every lorallty to sell uiHoke°Nin k. Look'stwee. and polarod like Ire cure te:epel^ and other 15011 by trnmge drinkingfo Nn pa hall pound package Oprenaka Terms etc. . RORCO MVO. Cat. •easa---"a'al'* Toronto, Canada. Muma street onmt. FREE PERS1ATIC SNEEP DIP and ANIMAL WASH Cures the worm cage' of all gain dlensereli In sheep and cattle. Heals wounds and bruises, cures rim worm gangrene. Oren. shear cute, scab; daftroys nito fleas, lice. fleahwOrins. Innentn and rennin- Aheolualee-pOlsenous anal has no drastic or irritating effete Cures the worst Vas your dealersor from the lecturers. Correspondence lit sated. The Plckhardt Renfrew Co., LimItel, St/m(1,111e. Ont. 1-4-' IR E., I Mr. Ike kilt 'Of hl 01to •memb MAIM, re ic which ahle11,41 P141114' so making Pew railway ciu Law, _they :mei couss.1160 wh.ch et meat. Sir Clu hLs frlena the bill. House a•I anal a Nu in this c trite? he mach n la try? Wa a hill, tan rail', In the p anal out bill prop Mr. Ito while he ltifluence ricultura' and the I them. Th that it le member% their port age. If U 14414.11POI nItogethe Mr. Me' Charles ' noticeo n at Perna Ing 10 10 There wi MOWN. 1 the Marl the coup tereolonii drew the Mr. Jot notwithail gatemen etereneed Pert the ouglit 10 herr in lam' ton I ronl rn lock's NI (lyre of 1 p lte shout Vol had do out 0 Mon for 'Iliere vra In this o MAW by nap er p, ▪ MC Co, intematt Er. Pre ler ten lave to Onvernme "41Ing 1111Prn' he d ftete RI - Thin leo, unPreeele informed nf the 17 :nowt an, nano ri VITA It. 41111etl t e tch 3 the. ion, Int to 1 rellivey ewe May eh3 Mine eel of PROM tamer lee *eel 11 1mi so We give this fine 4-filad• Pearl Handle KNIFE Ws selling 11 of lour Bright Light Chemical LAMP WICKS at 5 cents eack Simply 4.5MI.0W widowhood we will leeward wide' post -MA When sold, mud tbe 10 cesie and we will wad knife, with all charges paid. Address nem NOVELTY CO., Toronto, Ont. NLII PURL :11 wt. 05* ad no WI intootto W ape= Melfindo's latir 01 R. ate et airvoesorIS 667*.inselLared 4. FITS ea Pa.. torretlizt. age by , A. Montreal. Ow WIlereger's remely. Is est =dikpets but ssrsesui aura 13 )10 min ASK YOUR GROGER FOR •E Ens) 9 s EAGLE! " oVICd&TODIA" ddoo. Parlor notches 2006. " LITTLE COMET" do. do.; The doo No Brimstone. -Slra,71.rsit 00. Deli m101170,1141. • , J. J. VIPOND & CO Fruit and Produce Oorntrussion Merchants, Carrospondonco Soticitod. 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