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Through elaso ng cars Nave Toronto ds,ly at 1015 p.n.. For full information apply to JO?. KIDD, D.S.R. Ticket Agent. Ood.r,ch GRAND TRUNKSYS EM Toronto and Return $3.90 from Goderich With twenty -fire cents added for Admission to ONTARIO HORSE BREEDERS' EXHIBITION. (:rod'gntng Jan. limit lan. 16, 1909• 'I'IIP; SPINAL: fol 1»rl1!CN: "NT Rio .1... 4 BrookBrood 4 BY MRS MARY J.HOLMES of "Ttmpcst and Sunshtnc," "Lcna I21vcn," "The English Orphans." Meadow Author 445 • 1 • • 1 ('itAPTEK X 111. All my Lee -temper. which is consid- erable, wee roused, 'end turning he One bright morning about the raid- wards the tidy. i exclaimed. "My she file of January. Harbert announced ter. Miss Montrose, is ae good as you, his intention of Rohit' to Wort'ester aye, or se Herbert Langley either, with Anna. who. he said, wished to and the news of her hnarriage with visit the Lunatic Asylum. sod es a hint' will carry sorrow to our home young phyahnen .d his acquaintance at Meadow Brook, where they will had just oommenc'ed practising there: any she hie literally thrown herself 1t would be a great opportunity for away. them to go over the building. To this ' "Very like 'LL returned \ds, sat -- my aunt made in, objection. merely " ehaticahy. "'this' quite prob>fble that proposing that Ada„ t,,, should go. ; a poor laborer' will object to his Ifterwards 1 remembered the peculiar • daughter's marrying into one "1 the Intik in Herbert's eve. as he replied! first 'auntie* in Roston.' "Oh fle mother, Ada's nerves are not "He Isn't a pore laborer," I re - strong enough to endure it. She can plied.' 'and evenll he were. he would ¢o with me some other time." object to hie daughter's marrying a "->tg w$fiel •.--yrhen irrrtdtdast-'- wow -$tmrkerrh: fnr_seeir--Herbert Langley Over, Anna wept up to her room to hos been and anch he will he again." -make the necessary preparations he . deep groan came from the white her ride, w ibf' 1 stood by and gave lips of my aunt. and for the fired time whatever riewieteneh she needed since Ada's outbreak. I remembered .observed that every rthicle whichthat-she was there She did not re- tlortged to her was put in itts proper prove me angrily, 'but in trembling pl rho she h but 1 cave it no further heed, toner she said. "Rath Herbert ie my 15 I did wonder why she kissed child, my boy. and it becomes not a me often, turning i,awk even after 1 girl of your age te speak time of .'m another good.: .t'. 11"w•I ' the day I T was humbled, and winding my passed a cold. ;''snap; Tea which nem toned to the d rear: d the ,loor to bid me ' In the prerenee oT h ai—rfioth thin usual, f :darted long and daily walks have always been to me a luxury, and so, though i had been ' but a few months in Boston, 1 was _YeJL aouuainted with mostof its lora sties, and had nu trouble in finding the once stylish, but now teth- er ateser dilapidated and gloomy -looking block, in one part of which Dr. Clay- ton wee keeping bowie. Since the night when 1 met him at the thea- tre, I had never seen him, end all that 1 knew of him war that he had left the Tremont. Sube.quenUy,how- ever, 1 heard the whole history of their proceedings - • partly from the doctor. partly from Dell, end pertly from other 'sources. and ed • recital of it may not be wholly unintnredt'ing to my readers, I will give it before proceeding with a r seertptim of my call. It seems that boarding at the Tre- mont was rattierexpender. fou peuve ,or a phymieiwl. whose patients were not so numerous as to be taotabb®e, and several times hart the doctor pro poeert returning to hie old place in Sturbridge. where everything was cheaper: but to this dell objected, for she well knew it would be MD ad- mission that they could not seemed in Boston, and against this her pride revolted. "People at home,' she rea- soned, "would never know hos mat- ters really were. ',and as Icing as abs multi keep up an appearance of gen- tility and upper-tendum with her for- mer friends. she should do ao." pre- ferring, like many others. almost ab- solute want iu the city, to plenty in the countvl.. Fro, t this, the reader is not to infer that the doctor was extremely poor; for when hetirst went to Boston he was worth about fifteen hundred dollars, which, in a country village, with a prudent wife, would have surrounded him with all the -fife, teenier ieavirg-bent-, something for that "rainy day, ' about . which everybody blea"ed with a care- ful grandmother ,bat heard more cr -teas. • In the c.; j', til tiourse, it needed a great, deal of ninny to keep up the kind qt style upon which Dell insist ed, and which, after all, wail far from satisfying her—it was ao much infer- ior to the elegance she yaw attounel her; and ss cheek after check of the doctor's Iitt[e hoard was drawn from the bank to meet their ex peewee white but few\Would get sick. or br- ing so wnuld.send for hin+, his Mart sank wit,hitt him; end without really meaning to do so, he began to won- der "when that old grandmother would die'" Finding thio he enuld lint much longer pay the enormnn bills. whish were presented to hen weekly- at the Trerennt, he derided : • last upon housekeeping, and exereh itears' ng in this CRAP INC o$1 judgment, + i spite of the tea. sulks, and reme afraures of his wife, he hired shoo in an obscure street, where the ren e -acme nweir cower--Non-.to the mere fashionable part of the city Very- -neatly he fittedhit up. -going rather beyond hie means. it is true. bet de- pending a great deal upon the tart failing health of Grandmother Barton, to set all things right. Everything was at last err and with that comfortable tee which other men have experier.oed in similar circumstances, he took his seat for the first time at his own ta- ble, forgetting in his happiness that the smiling. handsome face of the lady oppoeite, in blue merino morn- ing gown and clean white linen col- lar. had ever worn any look save that which now at upon it Break- fast was hardly over; - erten the door- bell rang violently and a man appear- ed ppeared telling- the ,bettor that his eer- vices were required immediately by the wealthy Mr.. Archer, who lived in an adjoining street. and who own- ed the entire block in which he lived. Mrs. Archer belonged to that class of people who are always dying, first with one fancied disease and then with another, in the end, however, living much longer than those whoee business it is to minister to their wante. Being freakish and whimsical, she seldom employed the same phy- sician Ranger than a year, but dur- ing that time • .wan with limited want. was sure of a livelihood• for hie service( were required every day, and the rer'iuneratioh for the same was so prompt and liberal as to make her patronage mach sought after, par- ticularly by new practitionersHav- ing taken a violent fancy to Dr. (lay- ton_when he bargained with her for the house, she had decided henceforth to employ him, if on trial he proved be all she wished. doctor was well aware of her liaritiee. and for several days ad indulged a fust hope that t favor him with a roll. This ay.ar 1 night eam° on, (lark.- arms shot her neck. 1 asked 'forgive- 'stomp•:. Even. n. now. as 1 1 Bess for the harsh words I had apok- teMa•TTn ntnd till gh+om , en; and she forgave me, for she meant eel my ,spirits. as 1 lie- t, do right, and if sometimes she er- oupo rd of the r et and re,l, it hits owing more to a weak, io hail- which • - past the windows, 1"f the flee,' than an•unwillingneas d %%here 1 had w .has se long for their 1 the spirit. In the midst rot our excite - return. Seven, e ht. nine, and ten . ment Tom Wilson sea ushered- in. He had rum from mo than nnp church had returned in4he same train which .lame, and then w gave them up, brought the letter, and had come t» for the shrill whistle 1 t last train I give us any further information which ooh. which they wield be .likely to , we might be desirous -of knowing. roma, had long since nded in our , was , my aunt's first question, her "They must hhave tayeol ewhere; ' whole manner indicating how Much d»net you think" maid y aunt.: interest she tett m the answer. .a addretttg -. her huabaud- wIt . span- i "pot very send," returned Tont. like. ;vas not in the least ala 1, but ; „ he is tired of the Pity, he say, and tit .Donna. hr. evening, roAper, Rides 'thaT7h(i lrtirttes to avoid the a .•-p than awake. . unpieanwnt remarka•his elopement will 11 rx+ursP they have." said be, necessarily ooeaaintt." look 1 ap at his .wifr'F' lrlqulry. \\i More iike he .wisher.to ecoid in- a. •'t enm. in this storm, d 1 weM,1 trndueing his bride into society. which in thei places." he knows has no wish to receive her. " That n ht 1 watered my pillow Ada. - tears, .,.ea ly knowing why 1 wept. Twp paid nee attention to th1PPp1k. ...rive. That Telt- fippre$M4 •Irlth... t' fol ,hpeeeh. bat r•nntinued, "He has rewse�of-Ilei lation.—a*- it Anne was , ,Ire his money from the--. Bank tone from In forever. The next day ands 'th it the intends purchasing a 44111w- .1114 wen but it brought nn farm 1 the we'tern part of ?pew ti,lint= nt the nit -sing parr. aryl half N -,irk.•• ••• inn -emus o1 w 1 she was doing, ; ''..An admirable plan," again inter- aitnF-wfttt fr r"1"_,to Tnwm, I ruspt ri Ada:;"That Lee girl is poet eal- nnmss-weeping a agn ihnght- enlisted for a farmer's wife." n,¢ tip, as'she rooms ted the many , Taken alone there was nothing par- • 1:gs which u �ht ha uresvented - tieularly disagreeable in the three +r relent. At • venting,.. -tda Pame words "that Lee girl;" but spoken by aril my a'tr't homed- y Iron T Tds Montrone the' .pounded insulting- oeng her to spend the ni ht. This . lv. and every timey+he uttered them. he did willintly, eeen•ir:• very .1 felt m- blood bl.`\Mr I ton, WAS a :11111011A,Herbert, eons. n, .g the abs of Lee girl,' and I was ghee she included Herbert, and fe •ling. 1 was sa a rho, in the same eontemptuous rate - little suspicious that t might kn. •w• „try. Its Herbert had 'aitf, 1 dtd not more of hili whereabouts than I ch chink the disappointment *out(' break sheten. for nfee, when we were alone, ', her heart, She w•ae too ant's} for that, she hissed ed. if f me and yrry "- el l believe now. as 1 did n. that haurhnly hiked. "1 had any idea 1 -tit h'eh-teettMr- arose -it r1 the eIten they ore • •cin ifsenttnn el trews -mg that a poor 1. and she sotto • y girl-" ahshe relied Annahwae you that Prefer. d to her -elf. I'or half an him, .I altogether nr more Tom anti my aunt eonvensed together. he asking him at least a . n•nr•• A,r a gentle- ; ,.oxen him "if h. did not think he induced to return." ivering lips and flush - •it met her pride a ,aid, "Of curse 1 'Cone. abate: Lr. rnntinued "ibis it never thin Anna G'.' In. told, marked a pre roan whom she new to he enraged?' Herbert eou "The preference was mutual." I 1 At lest. with replier.. "Herber* liked • -Alma and ' ;.if cheelia, sae . Anne liked Herbert " (great effort, she ".And they have gone off to conium- meati .1nuu, too. mate that liking by a marriage," in ` Herbert's return. Sh terrupted Ada. say and though 1 " "1 .lo not know that they have," I i• h it tlrenrjr i 1'ettrrrtPrft- "bat -gush a termination d i helped, Inti it h.• affair' would not surprise me." •back to nha, t ,boob She was very pale: and there were ylke." tears in her eyes. but 1 thought they 1 Ill my heart 1 bleeeed her ios more from s sense of mortifies- .lords, and mentally resolved non than from any reel love which ,et arturue se inallymitried, which h,. Isere for Herbert Langley. and so ) the fugitives back. But -f-ribio nat-ylity her air i- sfrould-oter- i'nulti sort ler Nr n.eath ie •hen 1 speak of in his wife, you ight. perhaps. t snot now b• my ould corn.' 1 love r for his friss have dun. The next morning at. 1 r. tanner and live :n the country: brenkfeet both she and my aunt (par- , .,,Iditig what he knew w,ndd silence tirularly the latter) !mike.) weary and 1 1.ts mother sooner than aught else he '%ors, as if neither had slept at all ."nildssy. "that temptation.. for him ring the night. My uncle, on the 10 drink were far greater in the city '•,cot seemed emed to bre unmoved. lie ' than in the 'sectary,am ait was for he Int probably had ail opines of his own this reason partly that he preferred I she h out whatever It was he kept it to him• 'skiing in the litter place " now done, and very eager- : If. merely saying that if the eastern'. Ind so my wide.' iwided the point; ly heprepared to visit her As be 1 brought no letter he wouhd go in I reached hia gate he WAS met by a "1 thew htmsett. 1 lens l could ( loon. there wail in her a perceptible dispatch fro cheap, only itbo. Site knew he sirsaid buy them !'' , Twa in vain for hint to say that he had not fifty dollorn, for she re- 1fiied, that "he could take it 'from the inn ck-atid replace it when she got her fortune"; adding, "I'll give you a hundred in place of it. so grittily me this onoe, that's a dear. good matt." Of course, the dear good mut was persuaded as many another dear gtiod man has been; and will be again hy at coaxing woman. The calne.es were bought, and in the bast of humor the young couple took their seata in the cars which were soon bearing then. swiftly towards the house of death. Very pleasant ware the ductor's re fieetiuna as the train aped %at over valley and plain; be was a fortunate, happy man, and if when they paused at the Meadow Brook stattori he thought for an ins cit of the girl Rosa bun tike an Lee, her memory wits w idle dream, wiaseh had parsed away in the golden beaus of day Arrived at Wilbraham depot, they took a car- riage for the villa Me, whweh is about two mUee ur more from the railroad. The old brown al•dtere of the large wooden.buildtog, wheee Mrs. Barton had lived and diad we clamed, and about the hoose there was no spun tit life. But this was hardly different from what it bad been during the old lady's lite, for she am. one who lived mostly within herself, seldom seeing company, though shear sure to go whenever ahs was invited F.seeed- ingly penurious. she *tinted her household to the het degree of en- duranoe, and denied herself even the comforto of lite, while her last re- quest had been that her heady rntght be suffered to remain in her sleeping - room, so a net to litter the parser, or wear the carpet' At the head of the faintly was Ma- bel Warwaer, a peousoung ger[. who for the three years bad lived with Mrs. Barton in the .capacity of half waiting -maid, halt companion. sod to her the nsigbbon now looked for di- reetions. Anxious to pay ell doe de- ference" to the wishes of her late mistrees, Mabel at first said, "Let the body remain where it is"; but when she reflected that "the ta(sbioon- able Mrs. Clayton from Boston," with her proud husband (tor ee were they considered). would probably be there, she changed her mind. and the dem ceased wee earned into the dark, damp parlor. where • fire had not been kindled for more than a year The same was also tree of the cham- ber abrwe, which was designed for the doctor and hie lady, the latter "t whom shivered as she entered .t, rather haughtily bidding Mabel, who a onmpaniwd her. to make a fire there an soon as possible. for abs was not ac'enetoew+d leo cold roma, Sod .hoer freeze to death." _ _ (To OK C,)N'r1Nt'K17) • bolt ;reel the day .,f her son's defter- - r wt{o h u, -y inmy present excitement, hnngP. Far oftener wee- she found in that Grand I 1 a':p'd permission to remain ,1, , boons of prayer, nrld less frequent - the old lady was one, and Dell was brought a esterase. to Wilbraham. saying rton was dead. Yea, Mune. Stationing myself at the wisp- 1% wn• she seen in Issas of amuse - w. f watehe1 anxiouslyIns the re- -been-sent e 1 P undoubtedly the h 'rens of ten thou- ment, while more than once i heard sand (jousts at le and rohably amuse - torn n1 Herr,l, who, an usual. had ' I,er m •resat a,ktrlg that her wayward taq•t1 snn'I • ai tblm riffles-. HP came at ; more. for her grog .her rr the bat, bringing his pocket full of letters. tc might be t..! for from the great reputation of being mi sty, and ra- ttan of whirli were for me, one pint- lett .1!ss.Inn thee, poor Her- toy er- mor said that twice thousand -marked Meadow Brook, and the other Mtf l angley, sleeping in sou early was nearer the actual sum of her-pm- eetnMint YAnA } nave. There were r ra encugh, me- 'slain the .gut,' cis ,amu p vie'. 44 -eeaatts . i ,cog. llrinliii in Pave lam: frrr st soon ns tble was t}te rTnitt+rrs ¢rr is re sirs the litter, which was in my Mendor Brook home, that Wertry asst ▪ ter handwriting. Glancing at the Inenrllrrool in the early morn, and not 'ant hire my tenor were confirmed. forgotten when tidesire, and as the next train bound t eve, my father knelt fyyrr the east started in about two "••r Rinse mmol the o 01 - 'tong flours, he decided to go at once, I.en¢le;" in Herbertname 's bold dashing hnnd' -she hod reposed to writ.' it thus," be .nal. in a, past.rript, "nod so hp i.o 1 ,lour ii for her." 'the k-tt•er enntnine,l nn apningc from otther for n hat they' had done, b1,t i,r n•ly info'mrd me n1 the fact 1,1, Iii -tend o1 stopping in Wort -ester. tine: hod pone strnight on to 11bany-. they repeh."I ahnut six n'elnek, going 1., the Ihlnvnn House, where in lee- than An hnnr they were husband and ate.: flerbert'a rdel 'omrnde, Tnm 1Vil..na. 46•enmpanying them, anal lie - tot 41 witness of the eeremonc What aft.'ntsed stn• more unpleasantly than "1! the ret, •san• the derisive manner. in whirh Herbett spoke of Ida. ' "(:we her ins love " he .std, "ant tell her nnt•tn feel ton hadl,' I'd like urn rnnugh in moor, her. too, hos ender the present !nes a men can't linos tw•n wires. tittles. he joins the Mormons Meylw' I shall do that sohme- time, and then I'll remember hers" Of his rnether he wrote diflerentiy, and theme. there en. nn eringing, nn neknnw!aigmen, "1 (rrnne. he *poke of her hivelly end respeelitilly, Say- ing, iayinti, "he hoped she wrn11d love his Innn for his rake " of 'snores 1 engirt me tell Ada what r• .nil o1 her. neither WAS 41 txerv- • for trressing the truth from my (tee, .he Meme nip stifle behind me, :Dor1 1 king over my shredder, read every w until she rano 141 the men - nage Into for her. Then stamping hot lit*h.,px. *he exeldmed pasion- *telt'. "'lite v . it insult ewe thus' AP if t epruM g the hod' Mntirl in Georgia. ,would At CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, FLORIDA, Hound trip tourist tick^tit on sale to all principal W inter Resorts. Full information from F. I''. LAWMEN( r. Town Agrnt. r WINTER TIMET ABLE Effective Nov, 31 ill, 1908 NORTHBOUND NO. d a,rn 1'- M. est ' 5,1 " y.t5 .. 1.11 . • $17 nn grin hr. Toro Richmond 1011 Mteont Albertt 1I.,%er1o,, Rrnrhin Washita°me Arr. Parry and L. MondayWedne,v, Friday, dh I„i '. M. Arr. MndMhry NO, 1 WO A. lel 14,37 " 10.12 •e IIsi " 11.17 " P. M. SOUTHBOUND NO, 2 Torre un h 11 Art Ton ItMh„land 11111 .' M n, l Albert 7 •' Teton o? 1,111'. M. 1..15 • • 1.10 ” X41 " flreehln 'LM " i*n 1,•., Pliny me nom T happy' Tier aunt, Rhe said, wits net Ins the dnpnt, they fnnncl that the Liebe Rwdbery 1 weds% Thriay 3 A. M. M iweeon a r of the city, ant! As she has tie er ears wild not leave tnr half an hnnr hien down ton pray. Why. then, Bidet thou fall ere thy- inn Md reached the meridian of manhood' Was it he- though the funeral was not to take place for two nr three days. ranee in thine enrly training there Suddenly Mrs Archer's message (se- w•as an error whish no after exertion enrred to him. hut. matters were now changed --he was a rich man, and am mold repeirt We answer, Yee. The fault was there, and little know they what they do, who eel before their sans the pniennnns sup. and hid them, by their own example. drank and die. fine ninny young men from the high - walks of life, now sleeping in the drahnnnred gram' of a dninkard, might at this moment he filling some honnr- able position, had it not been for the wine nr hoer drinking habit enquired in childhood h'- their own Arrsidee, and tit their father's tahla- Look to n, then. you amend whew• heartheton.s prep -Orme .sane sons are gathered. And if in Itt --thing years yon world tempo the sleepleae nights, the bitter tears. and the broken heart m these ' whose children walk hi the Testi, which. sooner than all edher,, lerdeth down to death, teach than, hnth M' preeept and by prae- time, to "t etefi nt,l, tate heft, handle not," for therein alone Beth ,song, ('11 tl'TFR XIV. Rarlc in Marsh. se 1 wits me 8a1- nrrla% morning emoted with my met in her pleasant, rmu1 mewing -town. 1 little !Nov brought mP A neto from Den ('lnytnn in whieh she requested .rte. If pos„hle, to spend the attewneim with her Sh. was sick, she words, unable to sit tip. and what was wale than all. sM was homeaiek and ere tenth Mrs. Archer's patronage was not tit vital importance. Still it. would linrdly do to slight her, and rather unwillingly he bent his steps toward ler dwelling. When there he appear- ed so abrupt and absentsminded, tell- ing her there wag nothing whatever the matter with her as he could see, that. the gotad lady was wholly die - gutted, and the moment he wait gree, she despatched the servant for an- other physician. who. meseneine Inner tract, and not having recently erwne intra the possession tit a fortune, told her _with a grave, concerned ince*, that "be never RAW anything like her naso- it really balled his skill, though he thought he enild care here, and it would give him pleanre to try," Of entree he was em bred, and just • as Dr. Clayton and Dell were (stepping into the omnibus., which took them to the depot, a note we handed to the former. Raying his earvhes were no longer needed by Mrs. Arch- thegiving doctor meshed the note into h1, pocket, and then springing into the marriage, took his neat hy nr'll, to whom he was unrunally attentive, for she had risen in his estienation fall ten thipant► dollars' worath, enol what' man, for that sum of money, wm1W not rwrs'aaionally Podnr. a rrew. look, nr t peevish word' Not. the hater mnst ewrteinly; and when, on reach- CORRErs tot 1 t OAWAttrxw- 99-myl zfws.- A %timber of distinguished names appear among the centrihutnrs to the January num- ber of The Canadian Magazine. Prof. Goldwin Smith writes a timely and most inteiesting ennsideratien of "The ('ricin in India," end Sir Charles Tupper writes nn "An Incident of Confederation," Theme two eontrihu- tloraaalone would snake the number one of more than urdinary interest, but theta are As well important fea- tures, ioclmling "The Head-hunters of Formosli' (illustrated), hy Thurlow Fraser: "Five Famous Empty Chairs" tillustrstedi, by Fronk Yeigh; 'The tsnwelie Lady.. of Hniyrood" (illus- towted!, by Jean Hlewett ; "Plays of the Se.uuon" (illustrated), by John 1C WebMv ; "The Alodeen Olympia," by H..1. P, Good; "Bulgaria : A Stud in History" (illustrated), by J. Castell Hopkins, with short stories hy Lilian Leveridge, Hendon Hill, Carl Ahrens, and poem% hy Isabel Eccle. stone Mackay, Vireos Sheard, George Herbert Clarke, E. M. Yeoman, Jean Blewett. James P. Meyerson and Louise C. Glasgow. Bose MAC'S FOR JANUARY.—The Is- sue of Busy Man', Magazine for Janu- ary even surpasses the high standard which hits peen set in recent triol,. Itepege. are crammed with interest- ing -articles, ably illustrated. The premise position is given to "The Mil- lionaires of Cobalt," This article tells in a Might. racy style about the Ca- nadians who have made great for- tunes in the richest silver mining temp in the world, who they are, and the various callings they pursued be- fore striking it rich. Men end Events in the Public Eye is an intensely in- teresting department. it is the policy of the wagazine to reproduce the most timely and brightest articles appearing in the world's periodicals, it is carry - Ing out this policy admirably. Ever? selection In the January number is timely, and serves to show the care exercised by the oowpetlnt editorial staff in ransacking the world's peri• odicala. Articles of special interest are "The Real Owners af America," "The Kola' Re.p tiaihilitles of Em- pire," "Sending Christ nets Money Over the Seas," "Northcliffe and Mea- e ey," "The Men Who Built the St. Clair Tntinel," "Oanad,i a Non-Eng- lish Newspapers," "A Novel Organisa- tion 1 MRS. HOPE, Morpab, telt Terrible—Effect o Grippe— How many people there: are who know from iter exeerience the evils which follow In the train of La Grippe 1 The 'ole s) stem Is run down, appetite entirely fails, there is a coattnusl feeling languor and weakness, ono life seems scarcely worth lit ing. :n many cos the lungs are enacted, and the victim gradually decline', until prema ly canted oft by the dreaded "white plague-' What would net the waterer give 80 know of a E l RE remedy of some medicine that would• not only arrest the disease, aet Ruud up the wasted system, and restore permanently the lost health d strength ; In a word, give new life and hope? SUCH A TONIC IS CHINE. Mrs Hop. 'n. Cattle), of Morpeth writes: "Mv lungs were in a terrible *tate, 1 had hid La Grippe, and it had s on m% ILngs. I kept steadily getting worse, and got so low that 1 was co ned to bed, ■ nd could not even sit up. 1 consulted ;event do:tors, but ey said nothing could be done for me. Then 1 starred taking PSYCHINE d it has certainly done wonders. 1 a -h now as 'iron` ss i was e ore my ' knees, tad an truly say that PSYCHI NE saved my life." Such testimo as this 1s convincing. If you ar:Merin, i h s similar way, and h calmest despaired of ever nxove•ing the health you once enioyed, wh not send for a sample bonl r of PSYCHI NE and test it for) ourse:f ? The Is nor sore why you should not be restored PSYCHINE bas -proved'.¢ sot•er o remedy In hundreds of tithe; oases. hely na in yours? PSY HiNE Is sold by all ' druggists and dealers z' See and $1.O0 ■ bottle LITE IN EVERY DOSE. 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