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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-5-21, Page 4fluVeterans of '06. Do you forget CM rebbor baud "Ricat made the blood of patriots boil, When Fenian feet were oe our land, And rebel shoos had euresd our soil ? Do you forget how women wept, How o'er our homes there fell a pall, But oomrades still our oath we kept. And ail ftheyed our country's call!, Do you forget his dying face, And ho he ranks with fury thrili'd When someone staggered. in his place, Ad our first volonteer was kiUol ? We rested his poor fallen head, We wiped Ws lies of froth and foatn, The first young patriot, boys wis dead ; r4e died tor comrades, flag and home. And ethers died,—.10 round the stone `.Chat marks the heroes of that fray, Theis cora 'sties living yet make MOSU For those who felt that fatal day; Their patriot blood. baptized the land, They gamed a grave and WOu a crown; other hut the loyal head Ottu put the Mutate rebel down. —The Khan in Toronto Weida. 'the Death or May. When rosy dawxi is all aglow, WI h thee, mylove V1 sail away, Where limpid waters dart and flow, Andopening leaves ot lilae leap. I go because I love thee so, Thou peerless one, 0, month of Mayl With thee across the seas I'll go, Thou blow, ye winds of anrning, blow. Se when the beams of morning throw beix gold upon theday. Well wait the ebb and take the flow, And thou and I will sail away. For in thy bosom flowers grow Azad bluebir Is build, sweet month ot may, Together thou aud I will go, Then blow, ye winds of morning, bow, —Tan linAN in the Toronto World THE hOOTOR. " And yoa are eta! in the oid home?" he ed. " Yes," It replicel ; eatill livine in the ES,1338 hoose; hut it is iitsleht e. homo tome now." She spoke galetly, wifely even, bat , there was with in-brae:ming pein in the tone that the dootor'a heart ethed as he listened. He lunged to tire her bite his arms then, and hole her there, seie from every sorrow, ae far as harnan ehdier could make lier eo ; but the orate. bead Wes OR him still, so he thought, and he did not dare to do it. "Ob, Pauliee Pauline I" was his in. ward cry, wrung oat by a sharp peon a eharp eriel," could you not have epered 030 that last horrible, venomous sting ?" Then he turned q nietly to poor, trembling, oonscions Letty, and spoke calmly and kindly to her, as he might have spoken to the girl Leity who walked and talked with his dead wife, when that fair young wife was the only earthly object his heart bad room for. And Letty listening to him, forgot the dearer woree that might have been spokea, that oue clay she had hoped would lenve been sp3kan by him to her, and Wee almost hem. The doctor walked with Linty as far as the gate of her own house, end there left /ter with a few parting words thee would be his lest, iu cese he got through the business that had brought him so Fenmore, se soon as he hoped to de that day. It poesible, he would thee be leaving Fenmora thew night ; if not, on the following one, so he told her; eind if he etemed so long, he would 0811 and bid her good, by again. Letter heard him like one in a dream, gave leer hand passively into hie, and bent her head when he raised bis het and turned ?worn her, and then, still pale and trem• bling, the went in.doors, and in the quiee of bar own room broke the spell that wee upon her be a stormy buret of team "Oh I it is too ueh, too mnah 1" she cried out, sharply, in her stinging psin ; "and I cannot beer it, I cannot bear it 1" All the old pessionme deo:is:ion had risen up at the sight of Dr. Lennard—all the vein longings and hopeless hopes that had ee racked her heart in the first months of hes ebsenee. They were racking it now with tenfold power, and if ever she had de. holed herself with the though' that she had forgotten him, the delusion fell away from her then, as, with burning blushes and bitter tears, she had to own how much she Loved him, and muet elvvisys love him till the life that was so dark wae ended, and the sore pain stilled. "It was hard enough before," she thought, ea she looked on the little gate by which he bad stood, mod up the lonely lane theca& whittle be was even then passing; "but oh ! it is ten times herder now; and how shall I bear jt1" Meanwhile Dr. Lennard, sitting in the rectory parlor, was hearing from Mrs. Wilson the story of limey's life, from the New Yee,r'e Eve ou which he had last quitted Fenmore, and without seeing her, too, and that eves troubling him not a little now, as he sat there. It was, taken all in a esd story, and there were tears in the kind lady's eyes as she told it, and in her Eastman, who eat listening though he had herd it all before. Not so her other lis- tener's; tbey were bright and clear, with altogether a new light in them, as though he was rather pleased to hoar of poor Letey's misfortunes. Mrs. Wilson was not nenally a gossip ; todeer she rather surprised her husband by entering into the most minute detaile of Lettere history — some that would have better been left untold, he thought. All the little world of Feremore had known of Letty's engagement to Ernest .0everaux, and had agreed in calling him a seoundeel for breakieg the engagement en the change came. Mrs. Wilson alone eeir that the break had no* come from but froze Letty herself, and so she told Dr. Lennard, confidentially. "Letter toed him," she said, "truthfully and honestly, as not many girls in her position would have ventured or oared to 19, that she did not love him as she would lees to love her huebend, and that she would rather not be hie wife. Ile was not very much cut up about it, as far as I men understand, for though there's no doubt he was marrying her for her money, there is quite es little but he liked her well; how- ever, he took her at her word, and lett here for the Continent, I think. And then the very next :spring after that Mr. Leigh died, and the peer child was left quite alone in the world; and how the has borne her dreary led since is almost more than I can understand." Mr. Wilson had coughed and fidgeted more 11I813 once daring this recital, but his wife took no nettles ol him, and Dr. Len. nerd learned fully as eager to Beton to, as clie Wail to tell, every partionlar relating to Letty and her affairs. When he had heard all there was to hear, he mee to go, declining to sten to 'antheo:. on ishe plea of bneiness. "1 have to call ad Attorney Sharp's, and then rotted by Mr. lieeclhands ; 1 shell have Ito work very hard indeed to pull up for *hie hOurei gossiping," he amid, smiling. "If I oan possibly mike time, Mre. Wilson, I will cell in again this evening to see you." Ho gave that lady's hand a warm clasp, and hie See wore a pleaeed smile as he asid it. Apparentlai he did not despair of being able to call again. As he (deemed down the gsrdon pathway, hie step elaetio, hie head tip, Mrs, Wham looked atter hire, well wieesed. " Fle ie snother man, Gorge," asid Mrs. Wilson to her husband," lai what he wee when he mime an thin morning," "Very likely, lay deari be Was tired then," replied Mr. Wilson. " Bult don't you think you *eke a little *oo freely about ellisis Leigh ? She might not like it, Wm efraid." Me tone wee hesitating, the speaker's nand bine eyes deprecated any idea of re - promote; but Wire. Waal turned ethad on him, almost sharply. "1 Week nothing of the kind, George," mid dui; "you men are alweys for keeping *hinge quiet that are all the better for being known, and nice misteees eoraa lives are he otheequence." "Perhaps you axe pattly right, Alice," add he; 'but 1 don't ' gee thee any rais• taken life Call be readied by Dr. Lennerd'a knowing all poor Letty'a little eecrete." "You cannot see it," said Mrs. Wileon, " beecoeme you know nothing whatever aboet the matter, and would not, iny blind love, if it '01 118 iCt happen over again under your very eyed" Mr. Wiisen looked et his fair -faced, oil. ing spouse, and thought her humor rather stomp that morning, but, being meek and gentle in sprit, be let the :natter nes there, and wene out ehrough the French window to look tit his pet plente, while his wilt, atilt smiling„ went up 4,1 the nureery to overlook mutters there. • Dr. Lennerd walked briskly el:rough Fenmore, etopping to return the eindly greetiogs of the few he met, until he retioleed Mr. Needhem'e. He wati two or three leours closeted with that emeilemen, and from thence he went etre:get to Attorney Sheep's. By the time his busineue with him was completed, it WM his dinner hour, and he went beck to the Needhern'e to par- take of it with them. Mr. Needhein had been a friend- of old Mr, Lennard's when Paul was a dark -eyed, thrlybeaded boy, who thought it moat be the grendeet thing ia life to be a doctor, if only to have a thence of tasting all the meet syrups thea went out from hie father's little ronin, that wee study and surgery and coneuldiug-roone, all in one. This friendship eeeeended to Paul as soon ac he beee,me of a fie age to inherit, arid to- day Mr. Neerlhain and he were aa firm friends as ever that gentleman and his father had been. With alre.Needbam, too, he wee a favorite; aad as for the three Misses Need hem , they freirly worshipped ithe grcuud be trod on. To -day they were deoked out in honor of hie coming, mod - dental as it Was. The elder sisters wore their beet pale -blue glace silk, wish the newest and most elegant lace berthas, and she youngest, being of ti senvimentel tarn, and holding as e firm tenet of faith that men of the doctor's age were most ettranted by simplicity, wore a plain white neueiin arm and hair a /a Greque. Three prettier, sweeter meidene it would lee hard to find in all England; and when the dootor sue talking to their father in the einingwoom, ineteed of going into the drawingwoora after them, hie great want of taste was evident, not their lack of beauty. When he did coma up, he only stayed to driele one cup of coffee, whiele he did so hastily that it seelded, anti went near choking him ; and then, with a few polite words, he left, and the pale bine robes gave a little angry rustle, end the white one a half •timid sweep as he peosed, each and ell expressive of reproach, it he oonld have known it ; bets be did not, he• cause he was not heeding. There was a zoft, glad song in hie heart that drowned, with Its low monotone, all outer sounds— a bright and tender light shining about hira, that blinded his eyes to all eater eights. Going out, he met Ur. Grimehsw, 6he young medical man who was at:tending to moat of his old patiente, and living a bachelor lite in leis old house on the hill. Tbe two men bowed and mailed, but they did not stop; they were both too eager altar other things to acme to stay just then. The doctor took the path to the Aare, and Mr. Grinuthaw went into the bream end up to Mr. Needham's drawing -room. He had not been long there before he found a seat on the low conch by the tviedove, over which Mise Amy's muslin thirts were spread—the poor white skirts that she had hoped would have fluttered inter Dr. Lemeard's heart. But they were not quite useless, after all, for Mr. Griceeleaw evidently admired her in white, he was eo unusually attentive. She had thought it was her eister Laura he admieed, and Laura heti thought so too, and still at by her mother, feeling net a little aggrieved, while Amy, leigbly pleased, talked and smiled, and flushed, and wondered es the young dootor did hie best to be pedant. Silly little head to be so eadly turned 1 Poor little heart, with its inner chambers empty yet, and giving mole a eounding echo to every paining tread I The head may grow full with the garnering of years, but the heart is in clanger of eohoing each stranger step so freely, that: when the true step comes it will let it pass out like 6be rest, and co remain empey for ever after. Dr. Lennard did not go on to the shore, though he went towerd it; he turned into the lane that led to Letty Leigh's cottage, and walked slowly np it, thoughtfully smoothing hie thick beard, and switching tbe hedges with hie stick es he sneaked by them. As he walked his head was leen*, and hie fetal, at first cslin and bright, grew more and more troubled with every step he took. A thousand hopes and fears were stirring in his hear*; a thou:mud stinging memories; a thew:and halt timid aneici- petions of whet might yet be, The night was dark, dull, and misty; a hazy mantle was folded over the earth through width the sea eoanded fitfully and sonorcuely, as it mighe sound in the ear of a deeper. The aubtle, faint perfume of the fresh grass and the new born fiowers was in the air, and the trees rustled and ehook their branches mysteriously. There was a boding calm all about—a stillness as of nomething yet to come—that struck a chill to Dr. Lennerd's heart, etrong man though he was, and little given to dreaming. It seemed as if the Mill even. ing, with its drowsy sounds and hslf-vailed, hazy lights, was a piature of hie own life, dim and misty, and uudefined, going on in derkneee, ending in darknese and the piti- len sky over all. It was with an effort of will $hat he meet such fandee from him and opening the gate of the cottege, walked boldly up to the door and knooked. "Miss Leigh have gone on*, dr, se she often do of en evening, but she will be in soon for certain; she eeldora stays out as late as this 'erei" said the servant. The simple country girl who spoke held the door open with one hand, while with the other she ehaded her eyes, the better do peer oat through the rining mid at this etranger inquiring SO abruptly for her yonng mistress. "She often goes out, does she? " re. peated Dr. Lennard, under his breath, as it were, and pulling away at that thick bleak beard of his more fiercely than ever, as thortgb, in florae way, it angered him. "Yee, sir, Singe master died she have been lonesome and restlese.like ; and ehe often goes on to the shore, happen, or up the lene toward the church. Morey on as, Mies, you fright me 1" °Idea out the OH in the same breath, flinging the door wide upon with el jerk ese she spoke. The dootor turned q aiokly, and eaw Letty within a yard of him, her face demehly white aleit deemed in the ligh* of the Imp, her eyes height es with fever, and one nn. gloved hend reating rul the porch for Rapport, Inetinotorely he put out Ins hand te help her, but she Would hew) toad of his help. She drew tieredt he to her fall height, and fronted him, °elm sepia; the Late, he bad parted from in the morniug, to all apposraneee, but that the eould not at will 'Danish that deathly pallor frotn her fece. But for the eervent.girl, etending openenouthcil in the hall bolded them, he would have gathered that white fete to his beer*, and we:me:alit into life and light' with his Moses. As it was, he merely raieed hio hat, and uttered the few oommonly polite pleraedi usual on such occasiona. He hoped he was not intruding, but he found he had more time on his hande than he expected to have. He was going iu the morning, and be had cora° to bid her good. by again, as he had odd he ahould. Letty Widened gravely, elaankieg him, es iu duty bound, and even &eked him if he would come in and rest a liege. Yee, he would Setae in, he eaid, and the giele eyee, dropped hitherto, reified anim- ate ves gaickly, and flashed a halfmeertled elince into him But he never heeded. He tellowed her through the hall, and into the tiny drawineeroom, where a bright fire was burning in the grate, for the eerie ellleee nights were chilly. Laying her bat and cloak on 8 side -table, she motioned the &niter to a seat, and went to turn up the moderator lamp. Sten:ling in the f cal light, her face turned to it, her arm bare to the elbow, where the white eleeves fell esevey from it, Dr. Len. nerd sew her closeig foe the firet time that day, and the terrible chimp ia her ehooked hien To roost men she would have seemed simply plain at that moment; the heavy readies of her thick hair braided.awey from her facie tightly, with the heedlesenees of one who did not care how she looked—the eombre folds of her bleak dress failing heesvily and dully round her, showing in powerful °entreat the peeler of her sunken cheeks and the feverish brightuese of her large oyes; her arm, too, en wan and ehrunken, with no ornament, either el gold or jet to relieve ite psinhal whiteness. But in his eyes she never could be plain, She was dearer to him in her pain and sop row than any other woman he had ever keown, not exempting the brilliant Pauline, and his haste stirred with unspeakable ten- dernees zee he new how changed aud worn she was, how weary—stirred, too, with a eharper pain than pity—a terrible fear thee racked him, making his eyes burn and hie tam whiten, sending the blood with a rush to his heart, *ill lie poises throbbed madly, and the breath seemed to stop in his throitt. "What if the chain had worn in too long I What if tbe delicate frame could not bear the inward fever, and that be had come too late to save her from tne gulf his own arm, strong in its pride, had pushed her iuto " He knew she loved him. He sew it than, il he bad never Deen it before. He had known, though he had not Enid it, the true reaeon why the had refused to there her altered lot with Ernest Deverenx. It had pierced the aloud of hie doubts and fears like a flash of light, while Mrs. Wilson was telling him her pitiful etory ; now that gletun was swallowed up in thick hi:schwas again. " Whet if he had come too late 1" The passionate pain in hie eyes frightened Letty, se she turned and saw it, and the esrnest gaze thet went from the trailing folds of her dreea up to the bands of her hair, devoid of ornament, harsh, and unbe. coming ea ehe knew them to be, brought the hot blood stinging to her fees. "He is wonderlog how plain and ohengea I am," she thought. "He could not care for me now." "Parham for she has spirit, she will scorn me for my tardinees," he was think. ing. "1 was terribly selfish in my pride." Lekty, eeating herself in &low chair oppo. eite to him, across the hearth, as men% 111 the ehecie aa possible, leet the rising glocv of the fire should show how cheinged'shef evas, clasped her hands fast together, and tried to Wilk ealenly and neWurally to him, as she would hove talked to any other gentleman. She tried, but she failed. How could the help it, with her hearts isnrobbing stormily, and her breath coining thick and fast under his glancee All oreetion may say what it likes, but men are selfish. A oat playing with a moose, sure and safe under its paw, would be no bad emblem for their ehielde, if they would only be true enough to wear ib. Dr. Lennard loved Latty with all his heart; he had come to tell her es; and yet there he ea*, watehiog her changing face, her quickening breathing, her restless hands, and drinking in deep draughts of subtlest pleasure from these evidence of his power. Nothing but the inherent selfishness of man could have enabled him to torture that poor trembling little heart so cruelly. His strenge silence oppressed her; he would not talk, she oonld not very muole longer, she felt, and the terror or the cam. beg pause made her ewkward and nervous. He eeaw it all. He reed her love in her mikes fingers, and the flushing pulses of red tend white that came into her face under his glance. It was plain in the unwonted dropping of her frank gray eyes, and in the low, broken tones of her voice, that tried to ring bravely for pride's sake, but could not, simply because love is stronger than pride; and she, poor child, wae loving him met then with all her soul. For a few moments he eat still in big their, end drank the sweet picture in greedily; then he' beret forward, and took the tiny hot hands into his, and told the tale he had come to tell, and sued humbly for pardon in that he had not told it be- fore, and saved her all the psin of doubt- ing him, the pain and aorrow that had so changed her. "It was for my father," Letty began; bowing her lower still, and hiding her hot face against the tanglee of black beard that bent over her. One of the rare sweet amilea that so seldotn lighted up the doctor's grave face fleithed berm it now, as, loosening hie arms, as though to put her from him, he asked, softly "Ansi was none of it for me ? " • There was a moment's silence, end then the old frank spirit fleshed out. "A little, little bit of it was becenee of you," she Raid ; "only a little bit, though." "1 thought so, my darling," said ho, and the strong arms closed around her again tightly, lovingly; and tbe grave, pale face bent lower and lower till it rested on the girl'a fit:died one, es, with one long Ries on the tremulous ecarlet lips so near his heart, Peed Leonard dialed his troth -plight. Amy Needham, pretty little traitress the* ehe was, did nob win poor Laura's eweetheart from her. Mr. Grimehaw ad. mired her very ranch, end smell blame to him, for the wee a sweet little areetnre ; but he loved with a strong love her deter Laura; and when three months after, he went and settled in London, it was Laura, he &eked to go with hirn and share hie fortune. Amy felt a little indined to pont. Poor child 1 Fate was ueing her hardly. At eighteen and a half she had set her cap at two, one after the other, and lost both. But (Sheer up, Amy—take heart of hope, little meld 1 There is a young lieutenant in leer raajeety's navy, now cruising about: in the Mediterranean, who is bent on coming all the way home when his leave -time comes, for the expos purpose of Fielding his oitp—. the jaunty true blue one it is—at you, though you do not know it. Just a little while—only s. little while—and you will be telling sympathizing young lady friend that "en officer in the navy bs a gezitlei man, you know, dear; and there is some• thing nicer in a sailor than a dootor; he has nth ilaeiy things to do sometimes," meaning that the doctor hese, of course. 14 Lear& deee not mind that in the least. But she was always odd, you know; and for me I like sallow: best, by a great deal." When Ur. Grineshaw left leenmore, the old brown bowie on the hill did not remain empty long, not did the pica and ailing continue to supply overwork for any great lelegth ot time for Dr. Green. For the second time Dr. Lennard brought home a bride, and tie the dime queint neat of a home, perched on the hill, and looking over the omen ; not a pampered beauty, but te grave, sweet.faced women, beautiful only in her purity aud gentleness, arta her exceeding slirorg love. In Dr. Leonard's eyee she was perfection, end on her love hie tired heart rested safely. When he held her in hie armee it was no beautitul mulling vision that he olaepee, racking hien with famawey glimpses ot what might have been, bat &slender, loving woman, all his own, to the core of her waren heart, teed donbly precione in hie eight be. cerise of ithe past sharp pain, wrestise with in silence so long and so bravely. Leety Leigh was no more, and with the maiden time was buried the maiden troublee on the day that a new life opened before her, GB Mrs. Lennard, of the hill. The dootor, too, WAS changed on that day The upright, handeorne men, with the reedy smile snd the quids, firm tread, ie not much like the grave, sornewleae etern gentle. man we have known hitherto, and his friends and neighbore did not fedi to notice it. It wee a thing so marked and unlooked for that they could in no way amount for it; but as wo who are wiser know," Love works wonders," and "Lave is stilliithe lord of all." As years flew by and little feet pattered up and down, end shrill baby voices rang through the old house, it MRSIOr maned to grow youeger end handeomer than ever. And when friende, looking at the kindly, intelleothel face, and hearkening to the ride tones of the genial voice, complimented Dr. lannard on his improved looks, a softer light would come into his eyea, a faint tinge of color to his pale cheeks, and he would tell them, half proudly, half laughingly, that they ram* thank his wife for the change. Letty, glad and happy in her prosperous matronhood, never forgo6 the past. Safe among the treasures in the pearl and ebony workbox, thee used to hold Ernest Dave. reu's scented missives, lay a tiny drab eatin shoe. Looking at it, she often recalled the time when that little shoe, all stained and torn, hsd dragged the veil from her eyes, and burned hoe blushes of shame into her face by the tale it told. She thought ot that time now, not with bitterness, not eadly even, but just a little wistfully, for she felt and knew that but for it the would have been a more thoroughly light-hearted woman now that her time of joy and peace had cone. The chain had worn in deeper than ever the doctor, looking at her placid face, could know; and a little of its galling smart rankled in her hears even yet, whenever he thought of it. But, withal, there was no bitterness. Safe and unepeakably content as Pani Lennard' s wife, lam only true wife in heart and soul, though she was hie second wife, she had pity, and pity only, for the memory of the misguided woman, who, in her wilful blindness and jealousy, went eo near wreoldng both their lives. This poor, brilliant Pauline, who had fretted hermit into her grave, stinging all about her in her venomous spite, lead worked, by means of that same pitiful spite, great ill both in her life and after her death. But her evil power was ended forever, and the rim:elle:a tion of it only brought a graver shine to the clear, gray eyes, and a more °hastened light of gladness over the comely, wineorne face of Dr. Lennard's second wife. TIITI END. Business men, From deep applioation and too little ex eroise, are especially liable to constipation --dogging up natare's great eowers—pro- diming headache, biliousnees, sluggish cir- thistion and general derangement of the vital organs. 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"What were they doing " "They were betting on which lump of sugar a fly would finis light, and all the money on the blanket changed hands on the result " "What did you say to the boys?" "I said, Here, boys, come gee your cards.' "—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. Can Smoke at Work. The California Siete Board of Arbitra- tion has given e decision that Ma001211 and stonecutters can smoke while at work. The queetion was one of arithmetic. By grooming eight hours the bosses lost money. They asked the union to save as much of the loss as poseible by not wasting time by smoking. When the order against amok. ing was issued the men Article, and hence the interference of the Board of Arbitra- tion. The board evidently believed that "meat and mess," and smoking," never hindered work." Standing, with reluctant feet, Where womanhood and childhood meet. 'Tie a supreme moment! 'Tie a critical period! No maiden should attempt missing ibis boundary -line without *he aid and assurance of Dr, Pieres'a Favorite Pres- eription. Ito helpfulneee in tiding over the perils incident to young woraanhood, is universally ethnowledged I No mother otin put within the hands of her daughter, any- thing that will prove more valuable in meeting all her requirements 1 Dr. Piano's Favorite Prescription is made expreaely for alL diseaaes peculiar to woman, and is the only medicine of its kind, Bold through druggists, andguaranteed to give eatisfaction in every ease, or money refunded. —First ttetreas—V7het is the Rem of your getting a divorce? Yon are popular with your audiences. Seemed sotrese—Yee; but I intend to gait the stage end eneer sooiety. --Young man—I leave a poeuct here. Editor, after exaixtining it—Well, how does ten dollare atrikeyon? Young man --That's madly more than I expected. Editor— Well, We oen't publish atith a poem as that for ieeti than ten. TSB PRINCE 01/' WALEIS. Alien learrnthe Vketches Hia Character In a Decidedly Unconventional way. The man who rune away with the notion *hat the Prince ot Waled enjoys anything like a sinecure, makea very large error indeed, He ie one of the hardeet working men in Great Britain and the foot that he gets through hie wore without fine, and does it well, is proof thee: he has a genius for work. He rnekee more speachee every year than Cheeenchy Depew, and he never makes a speech without saying something. I've hoard him speak two or three *image and been read wow dozens of hie addreeses, and °soh time the idea is 110180 10 upon me anew, that if we had him in Aueerioa, we would run him Inc °engem, and elect him 600, over any poseible oppoeihion. He never slope over. As a speaker he is never flipperit and rarely wiety, tenths are very few in hie spew:foes, bet he is earnest, forceful, arid he bits the Nide:Amble facility of making his heimire believe that he ie thoroughly enthudeetio over the matter in hand. He glides deftly bettveen the rooke and whirlpools of Britith politics, and is loved by the Toriee es the xepresentetive of royalty ; is min& with the Liberele and Reformers on eeoeunt of his broad views, whsle oven the Radicals hews a sneaking foadnese for him. Ho is far and away the moot popular men in England today, and he never ruissee a trick. Yon will find him one night opening the %sedum tor decayed Bible recidere itt Brampton, mud to hear hie dirtiest end etraightforward speeoh, you will gather that the larger portion of his heart went out towerd the deaayeal Bible readereethet he bed alwaye felt tho greateet intereet in them, and thee, now an eaylum lead been opened for them, his fondest hopee had been realized, tend in the privi lege of opening it, his deetroot ambition had been gratified. He does not Gay these things right out, but rather leavea them to be inferred. Hie menner is singularly megnetia and his speeches are fall of sound good senee.—Philadeiphia Press. World's Fair VisitorWill Riot Mee It. The exhibit, wbiele the South American republic of Colombia well melee at the World's Fair will be a very notable end interesting one. A. communicaeion re- ceived at Expeeition headquarters describes it charaater in park as !Wows ; " Colorable's World's Fair building will be modeled after her national eapitol at Bogota. The exterior will be in imitation of eandstone, of which it is built, while the interior will be partitioned and ceilingeel throughout with the precious hardwoods of the country, comprising more than a hundred varieties, both rough and polished; an exhibision in wood alone, a parallel to which hese never been preeented by any other country in the world. Ttae ioterior will be filled with the products of the country—coffee, cocoa, rubber, ivory, nuts, wax, game, fibers, eta., while the mineral exhibit will donbtless be the richest ever ahown in the United States. "Within the building Indian women will be seen weaving the muoinappreciated Panama hat from fiber prepared on the spot, all hand work, yet stripping and weaving the fiber in threads es fine aslinen. An Alpargarteria (manufaotory of hemp ettndels) will be seen in fall operation, while the petate ' (a fine palm fiber mate will be turned out by ihe native hand loom manipulated by skillful workmen of the conntry. Harnreockonakere will braid the beautiful gressee of Colombia into artistic work, all of which cannot fail to find ap pre:dative purely/teem, thus leading to a commerce thee° useful and valuable arzioles. These latter cxhibite will be made by privet° peirtiee but will have a plan within wile Colombian building, becense they preeent an interesting and important feature of her industriee so ex- clusively Colombian that her exhibit: would not be complete without them. "Other exhibits by private parties will be made, the principal of which and probe. bly the most valuable and intereeting will be the recently diecovered antiquities in solid goid, weighing an aggregate of 48 pounds, consisting of helmete, idols, birde, animals, ornamenes, etc., valued at more then $30,000. These objects are all curi- ously and delicately hand wrought, the work of people who lived ages ago, but whose history is lost to the world. These antiquities wore discovered buried invaults or tombs deep in the ground, supposed to to have been the burial place of a king or cacique. This exhibit will be under the direotion of Lieut. Lernly, of the United States army to whom great credit is due for hie stioceesful efforts in having diverted is to the United States, where it is hoped, it may find a permanent plea° in the national museum." "Praise be to him, wbose wondrous skill Has conquered every human ill— And now alone, as victor, stands The 'Goldencompound on his hands." So spoke a man, with tribute crowned, Of Dr. Pierce's the "world-renowned," Whose "Medical Discovery " Had vanquished pain and set him free. One can but speak in praise of a remedy so effectual and unfailing ab Dr. Piero:lint Golden Medical Discovery. Acting promptly and thoroughly, it produces per- manent three. Consumption, in its early steges, scrofula, liver end kidney dieorders, and all blood diseanes, are within the field of ite unbounded emcees. A Captain Loses IS Life. A DaIuth despatch says The sehooner. rigged ecrew steamer Mayflower went down four milee from this port et 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Capt. Theodore Zeerbsi of Houghton was drowned. The crew of four men were rescued by the tue, Sheldon, which had her in tow. The eaeyflower was loaded with atone for Duluth from Portage Entry. She is owned by Leathern ife Smith of Sturgeon Bay and was valued at e3,000. The Devil's Assistant Always Around. Boston Pat: Prison Missionary—To what do you attribute your downfall; to drink? Prisoner—No, to signing the pledge. Missionary—How could that be Prisoner—No one asked me to drink until I did that. Literal and Figurative. Baden Poet: John—There goes a great man. Henry—Is that so? Who is Ise? John—That's Jones. He began life as a newsboy and ia now the owner of a big brewery. Henry—Began life as a newaboy He must have been smart. I began life as a baby. In the Suburbs. Chicago News: "Madam," said the tramp, I tem an old Union eoldier. I fought my best for the oountry. Casale you, upon this day, do a little for me ?" Oereainly, my poor MB," returned the kind hearted woman. "Go out in the garden and pick your:felt a bouquet." A. kecent survey haseseablished the num. her of glaciers in the Alpe at 1,155, of which 249 leave a length of more than four and thredquarter mucH BETTER Thank You! friIIS XS THE UNZFERSAL 27E'S22- 3101Q-of those who Actvo sufforeol Ikons , canosIO B1IONCTIZT1S, COTIG.RS, COLDS, OR 4IINY POEM OF wAsr- , 12tra DISEASES, after limy have/wed Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and ilYPQPii0SPHEIT KES —Of ILinzeo anal Soda.— .IIS ALMOST AS PALATABLE AS 21Uz1r. lir IS A. WONDERFUL r.r.Bsir PRODUCER, tis used antt cdorsed by Physicians. Amid odd inileatians or substitutions. Vold hy aid Druggists at C0c. and $1.00. SCOTT 4, .1I() WYE, Delieville. ter,...a......causimotacarorsaeaceaaarsveateccaetweseer. LAT TLC NM. The wita of the Wining Muni? incases Away. It was a beeatiful night—the night that little Bun died. 1 lege the shack eadly and walked out into elle ateirlight. How ioneeinue everything seemed 1 The trecomeonoris croekirig of the froge and weird thirping of the crickete floated up front the marsh in mournful topes. The iteara mime So my eyes as I thought how otten Little Ben and I had listened to therm eouncia ; au& the stare—how °nen I had pointed ont the conatellations to hireo and now, seeing me alone beneath them, how theme golcieu sorrowed with ma. and wept teera thee fell in cold drops upon my faoe teral So young, he was, to die—only five—ancl yet he feced the grim reaper with a smile and was carried in his blade :Arms out into the dim beyond. Ain :lately Little Ben WaS CB20 of the fairest flowers ever borne in offering to the meet high. When I went book into the house I found old Bill Cummings lemming over the little form that lay so cold and etill in the centre of the room. The white shroud was drawn downward and displayed the yellow earls, and lily-white Lee of the dead child. A smile still lingered about the Ike—thrum lip the: more than one rade miner had toyed to kiee, end no Man ha& ever yet kissed Little Ben without feeling nobler and better impulses stirring in hie soul. And there stood old Bill Cummings, the roughest men in all that rough place, with great mare rolling down his °beetle as he looked et Little Ben, so coldly white. Then he bens over and again, and for the lads time, preesed bis lips to the :soft mouth. leaving, as he raised from that oteress, iwo shimmering pearls upon the boy's cheek. As he turned to rae he said, lauthily "Tom, why couldn't it hey been me? e —Detroit Free Presa. Why " Banerica.” The way in which Araeriaa came to get its name is one of the features of a valua- ble old volame whiele has just been eecured for use at the world's fair. The early names of the western world were "The Land of the Holy Cease," " Atlantie," " Hesperidee," " Beaks," " Columbia," and "Now India." In 1507 a geographer of Friethrg reoeived e letter from Amerign Vespuoii, detailing the manner in which the oleiimed to have discovered thie country. The geographer wee so impreeeed with the letter that he proposed that the new world eboald be given the name of Ameriaa, in honor of Vespuoii, as Europa and Asia had been named after women. The geogewthicis were the standard ones oZ the day, and were given offiteal recognition by the Duke of Lorraine, who ease:mod the title of Ring of Siaily and of dere/Belem. From that time since the name " America " has been invariably used. Thera are baser or five copies of this ancient geography ha existence, moat of them being in the cele- brated librariea a Europe. 16 is one of the rarest of these volumes that has just been secured for ehe world's fair.. Intense Itealism. New York Judge "The curkain falls are the burglare are heard sewing the bane and Ethel, the heroine, rings the district tele- graph alma for help." "Whet happens: then 2" "Ten yeeirs elapse, and as the curtain rise.s the messenger boy arrives." Shook to the Summer Boarder. Now York Herald : Mr. Sammerboarder —I was seartled by the diehonesty of these people last night. Mr. Cit icaller —Ind tied. . Mr. Suramerboarder—Yea. I saw the= watering the cows before they milked them. Hardly Possible. Herrisburg Telegram: Pareon—Look on the sunny side of life 1 Lady—My life has no sunny tilde. My children are mil daughters 1 No Reports Received. New York Herald: Figgs—Why are yon so certain that newspaper men do not go to Heaven? Digge—Beoause we know so little about *he place. Hrs. Lizzie Brent died in Parda, Kane kicky, lest Tumidity after naming what few women hews to undergo. Lad: De- cember the numettlar contraction caused by rheamstism broke both of her thigh bonea and the has been in mortal agony ever since. STRAWBERRIES. Lady Katharine said, As she buttered her bread, " They toll me that strawberries Grow in a bed." "Ob, my 'tisn't so," Said the Princess." they grow In the ground, Inc I've seen 'eat, And I ought to know." Bombay, India, ie coneiderinig the ques- tion of introducing the electing light, but the difficulties in the way are the ex- tremes of heat and moiature, rendering proper and satisfaciory inaulation difficult and wetly. —Maud, to her vecoor--Well, I hopepsp didn't give you a cold reception ? Bertie— No ; he gave me a roasting,' hu* i* amounted all to the same thing. Good-bye, dear. Sir Henry rakes, the leading Australi.• an staiesrain and to whom ie due the heft that Australasia is now Virenally • federal repablio, began life as a farm Ittlectrer in England. A letter from Ceylon dated April 301h says that; leyde Believe is to join the conepany of RevGeorge C. Milo, who ie star - mg in Shenghtti. There are 82 ncteional coneeteriee in the United States, and fthey Imo 327,179 graves, about one-half of 'which are marked "unknown?