The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-19, Page 7C0.MIN' 'THR ' THE RYE.
Alf BMW B, BATHERS,
Jack enters, bearing the eider. "Seek !"
I cry, rushing at him, "they have Dome,
they are here, demons of them I"
"Beatles ?" asks Jack, abstractedly,
his thoughts plainly running on the
crab who is ,waiting to have his body
dissected.
',Lovers !" I say, shaking him by the
arm ; "oh ! what shall we do ?"
Jack goes to the window. Below we
hear the sera ping of chairs, the rattle of
plates; the lamplight streams across the
road ; evidently Alice Is in full view of
the enamored host, for there is a sudden
movement in their ranks, and they in-
crease their capers tenfold.
"If they would only keep quiet," I say,
in despair, "perhaps he would not see
them, Do "you think they know what a
dreadful man he is?" Jack vanishes. s
thought strikes me. Seizing my nightcap,
I lean out of the windowand wave it ener-
getically, pointing first at the room be-
low, then at thetort'n yoneer, Surely,
surely, my nightcap says, as plain as it
can speak, "Go away!" Alas! to them
such is evidently not its meaning, for
at sight of my modest signal, and the dim
vision of my white -robed form, the be-
sieging army seems inspired with' fresh
vigor, and even begins to clamber over
the hedge. My flag of danger is eon-
strued as an amatory signal pointing to
indefinite favors, perhaps a love -letter.
In another moment 1 hear a chair pushed
sharply back below ; the next I see the
governor tearing across the road. He is
up the hedge and over it before you could
say Jack Robinson ; but, quick as he is,
Miss Alice's admirers are quieker, and he
shortly interns furi-'us and empty -band-
ed. I am so petrified at the catastrophe
my well-meaning efforts have brqught
about that I am utterly incapable of mov-
ing away ; so when the governor returns,
and casts his eye over the house in search
of the waiting -maul, to whom he attri-
butes the ovation, he beholds me—night-
gown, nightcap, open mouth and all.
He shakes his fist wildly at me, and the
gesture breaks the spell. I try to hide
myself in bed, but before I can reach it
the governor is before me. I receive a
box on the ear that makes me see two en-
rage i parents, two crabs, two jugs of cider,
two nightcaps; then with a thunderstorm
of abuse and wrath bellowing about me,
I am hustled out of the room, down into
Jack's—a narrow slip of a place overlook-
ing the back garden, and which is only—
oh, horror !—partitioned off the gover-
nor's chamber. 'There I am left crabless,
supperless, tearless to reflect on the
extreme folly of ever meddling in other
people's affairs ; no matter what one's in-
tentions may be, since the better they
are the worse the results seem to be.
Alice comes by and by, bringing nae sup-
per and asmfort, as well she may, since,
her sins have brought down upon me the
,.
tin
i risonmen
' three days' s
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sentence cf a y P
the house. Finally, for I shall have
plenty of time for reflecting on my woes,
I fall asleep. I scarcely seem to have
reached the land of Nod, when I wake
suddenly and open my eyes widely on—
what ? At first I am divided between
a doubt whether it is papa come to finish
me off, or that I am face to face with a
ghost; it is so difficult to make oat any-
thing in this half dight (for the green
wallow blinds are very thick and dark)
and it cannot yet be more than very
early morning. Do ghosts seize you by
the arm and shake you till your teeth
rattle in your head, and the breath is
nearly out of your body ? Do ghosts—
"It's four o'clo:k," says a voice in a
• harsh whisper, "wake up, Master Jack,
Mother 1 We have otie of our extra
double -distilled, most virulent rows. It
is not worth writing down ; no one would
believe it if I did, Let it suffice that, out
of all the windy talk and abuse, one abide
ing resolve remains.. Miss Alice will go
to scho •i immediately, and a stronger,
firmer hand than Amberley s shall be
paid to crush the naughtiness out of her.
The governor, as T have more than once
remarked, is a man of action, and in an
incredibly short space of time he hats
found a school and schoolmistress after
his own heart and pattern, All pre-
liminaries are, arranged, the day for her
departure fixed, and to us all there, is
nothing left to do but to lament, All too
soon the day and hour come around, and
we crowd about her with. aur kisses and
farewells': weeping in every degree, deep-
ly and bitterly, loudly and effusively,
silently and painfully, according to our
several natures; every one, loan to the
babies, furnishing his or her quota to the
stream. (food -by, lovely sister, good -
by 1" For how many weary, long
months shall we see your sweet face no
more?
CHAPTER IX.
It was a year ago that I wavedmy
nightcap oat of the window at Alice's
lovers; she, has left school altogether
now, and is home 'for good. Strictly
speaking, we are not at home ;„we are at
St. Swithins, whither papa, having no
very pleasant memory of Periwinkle, has
brought us for the holidays, and for the
setting up of mother's health, which of
late has been indifferent,
St. Swithins is a long, long way from
Silverbridge, and, the governor's) doughty
reputation not having spread so far, the
residents of the place actually call upon
us (oh 1 it makes me smile to think of it)
quite comfortably, and, as a •matter of
course, without the slightest notion of
the danger they are running;' and he, in
the most baffling and unaccountable man-
ner, not only forbears to shoat "Not at
home 1" in their faces, or hold the door
wide open for them to walk out, but per-
mits mother t i return these visits ; and,
though he never goes out himself, does
not forbid her partaking of the very mild.
and temperate amusements offered--
croquet,
ffered-croquet, 4 o'clock tea and the like. With
mother goes Alice, who has, I think, high
finks. Whether papa is tired of living
like Diogenes in his tub, or whetber he
finds it a new sensation to be treated just
like any other man, I know not at any
rate a change has come "o'er the spirit of
his dream " and it is positively refreshing
so see him sinking the misanthrope in tbe
moderately ill-tempered, retiring English
gentleman.
St. Swithins is a dull little place, but
none the less does that pretty young wo-
man, Miss Alice, in all the pomp of her
seventeen - year old pink - and- white
beauty, quickly gather about her as fine
an army as she did at Periwinkle. She
was only a bit of a girl then ; she is grown
up now, so there are no more unseemly
scrimmages of admirers behind hed ges, . or
flying columns on the beach; things a e
conducted respectfully, and it is no long-
er a kiss of the hand re a love letter, but
of love and marriage. Yes, love and
marriage ; and it we d look very sharp
A
after our Alice she will be carried off by
somebody or other, to a dead certainty.
Over and above half a dozen indiscrimin-
ate lovers, she has a shadow, a tail,
bronzed, dark -faced, handsome shadow,
that every young woman in St. Swithins
has vainly tried to make her own. Cap-
tain . Lovelace, however, has his own
ideas about female beauty, and until his
eyes lit on our sister's fresh, saucy,
charming face he has never felt inclined
to lose his own identity; but now—one,
two, three. and away !—head over heels
into love he falls, and Alice follows at a
respectful distance. There have been
some half-dozen public meetings, one
stolen one, a rose given and exchanged,
a kiss or two. (who knows?), and Alice,
with a promptitude that does her credit,
has made up her mind she loves him; that
she will marry him ; and that, if papa
does not see things in the same light as
she does, he must be brought to reason.
Young people are very intolerant, very
daring ; they defy circumstance, and
would rule the world in their own way,
and in return receive many a hard knock
before learning the inevitable lesson of
giving in. So, one fine morning, when
the governor is nnsuspiciously swearing
over his weekly bills in the library, Cap-
tain'Lovelace is announced, and, with a
pluck that does him infinite credit, re-
quests the honor of Miss Alice Adair's
hand in marriage. (We are ail listening
at the door, Alice in the post of honor at
the keyhole, the rest of us spread out be
hind, her, anxiously looking forward to
the excitement of seeing the bold wooer
shoot out through the open door with con-
siderable assistance from behind.) We
can almost hear papa's gasp of amaze-
ment, as he sits in the midst of his disor-
dered papers (he usually dances on bills)
and stares at the young man; then he
pulls himself together, and refuses the
proposed honor with a clearness and
brevity that admit of no mistake. He
has, however, met his match for once.
wake up."
"Master Jack !" James ! I disappear
under the bedclothes like a, shot ; but if I
think I am going to be left there in peace,
I am much mistaken. To leave Master
Jaek snoring in bed when (1 now remem-
ber) James h as received particular injunc-
tions overnight to eject the same, how-
ever unwilling, is no part of his duty ; so
he punches and prods my prostrate body
wibh a most laudible vigor, making vio-
lent efforts to dispossess me of the clothes.
To these, however, I cling like grim
death, wrapping them about me as
tightly as a hedgehog in his skin, and
fora space there is a desperate' tussle, in-
tensely ludicrous byreason of its silence,
for neither of us dares to make a sound
for fear of the governor's hearing; finally,
altogether worsted .and confounded, he
goes, aud.'I am left to sit up in bed like
Marius among the ruins of Carthage.
Presently Jack'shead is popped gingerly
in at the door, and he stares a good deal
at the sight of the to reed bed, my tangled
locks, end flushed. indignant counte-
nanee,
"Has the governor been taking a turn
at you ?" he asks in a whisper.
"No," I ane wer, solemnly,"Jeames, I
am black and blue, He thought it was
you, you know,"
"Oh. li did., didhe 4" asks Jack, sitting
down on a chair. and going off into a
noiseless explosion. "I quite forgot to
tell him--"
He rooks himself to and fro in agony.
of mirth. "I know what his awakings
are „
"And so do I," I put in, with conic-
tion. "I'm sure they are nothing to
laugh at,"
"I must go," says Jack, indistinctly,
"or I shall burst;" and ho goes away on
some unlawful excursion or another that
I should have loved, leaving dine to moist-
en my sheets with .unavailing tears.
Row slowly the hours creep by ! how
shall I ever get through three whole
days? For once in my life I enjoy the
honor of lying in my bed while the others
are all scurrying downy to prayers.
I eat my breakfast in a slatternly
way, with a book before me,
Somehow the days drag away, and I
am released, free to go dawn the stairs or
tip as spirit wills, Below I find things
very erooked'indeed ; he is in a state of
chronic. ill -temper. Alice looks alarmed;
she is rccl one moment, pale Ilio next; and
the very day of ;my re adinibtance to the
family beam disaster marks us :tor her
own. We are waalin the announcement
of dinner, and the governor is lookin
oats, of the 'l indow, prepared . to quarrel
with anything., from the thrusb..singing
yonder to the baker's boy with the bread,
when a amart dog car , +invite slowly past,
in which aro Boated two graceless, hand-
some, wide-awake Oxonians, who stare
delibetatoly in at every window ih search
of Alice'a blooming' fnce. Pape,. turns
round, and I think. he is black; he an
pint two acid two together as well as any
other matt, and he knows'.
"our room miss!" ho says �!o to , , y
.rt.lieo"$o this is the care you take of
,
my dee ehtere ?" he asks A.mberly.
Poor Alice ! poor Amberly ! poor
There is a pause, and Alice makes.
significant face to convey to us that t,;
governor's oou>tttenanee is the Memo o
angelic, The fact is, he is in a dilemma
Re hashad some fie perienee of
daughter's admirers alined
knows perfectly we
in love with
it ' wit
t
and. that
sent to th
will be fifty oth
asking the sem
He also knows
spice of his own.
per in her (as, indeed,
she had not; I often won
all demons), and that she is no
ly toprove a meek little foal. who w
all her lovers rapped on the head and sen
about their business without knowing
the reason ;; and, altogether, for once in
in his life, he is compelled to think in-
stead of to act.
There is some more conversation and
pretty sharp practice between the two
men, too ; and more than once it seems
probable that our expectations will be
fulfilled, and the parting guest sped over
our listening ranks, but in the end—oh,
wonder!--- the lover prevails. and wrings
a most reluctant permission from the
governor to pay his addresses to our
meter for six months, and if, at the end
of that time, nee specks axe discovered
upon his character, or viee in his ways
or words, he shalt be consider d engaged
to Alice for an indefinite period, matri-
mony appearing dimly in the far hori-
zon.
For many a day papa's face is black as
ink, and he surveys Alice with a won-
derfully equal mixture of scorn, impa•
Bonce, and wrath, as though he found
her a most indelicate and unpleasant
spectacle:
For the first time in my life I am in a
position to critically study the ways,
looks, and words of a real young hand-
some pair of lovers. I should not have
so much opportunity, but that, after pa-
tient and dispassionate trial of all her
elder brothers and sisters as gooseberries,
she has fixed her choice upon me, as be
ing the sharpest, most unseeing, and
most unhearing of the lot, and fully one-
half my time is spent in boudoir, garden,
or summer -house, craning my neck round
corners in anxious watch against the
govern` r.
LIKE A MIRA.CL.Ala:,
Charles' Lovelace is supposed -to pay
two or three decorous visits a week, and
sit in tbe drawing -room cpposite Alice,
with mother for dragon, talking of the
weather. In reality he is here every day,
and twice a day ; but he is not proud of
being towed in and out, and on occasion
bidden fn the shrubbery or a cupboard.
Once or twice it has been a very close
shave, and nothing but a special Proii-
dence and good luck has saved him from
ignominious discovery.
When Charles is paying lawful visits,
he brings with him a little book, called
"The Bundle of Sticks "; where he pick
ed it up it would be hard to say ; and
this he reads diligently, if papa ever
comes into the room where they are sit-
ting. The sarcastic to itch of the gov-
ernor'slooks
from the
lipsas he
or nose and
ern s
the ether
is something
to be
nue lover to hg
wondered at.
n up;
about ;
let we are
el sit down un -
at each other,
I say, smiling,
tamest."
le Miss Adair," he
w that ?"
"My at o e i owe your father; besides
I sit opposite you in church."
"Do you?"I ask, with Eome dismay.
Can he have marked any of Jack's and
my ungodly tricks during sermon -time ?
For at. St, Swithins' we sit behind papa,
not beside him,
"Is that your eldest brother who sits
beside you ?"
"Yes," I say proudly, "that is Jack.
There is nobody like hips."
"Is he here ?" asks the young mar.,
looking round,
"No, he would not come, You see, he
is fifteen, and he likes boys, He used to
be satisfied with me, but now—" A tear
trickles down my nose, and I turn my
head away. It is a very, very sore sub
feet with me. "It is all such a mistake,"
I say, rubbing my nose and eyes hard;
"that I was not a boy, you know. He
and I would have been together always,
whereas now—it is very hard i"
"Very," says the young man, and in-
deed he seems to understand. "Who is
that pretty' little nirl yonder ? She looks
like a crumpled pink rose."
"Does she not?" I asked eagerly, "that
is Dolly, my sitter."
"You are not a bit alike!" -
"I know we are not; my sisters are all
pretty, every one ; I am the only unpre-
sentable one out of tbe whole lot. Now,
if you were to see Alice you—"
"1 have seen her," he says ; "she is
quitely lovely. But you are every bit as
good as Dolly, or—nicer."
"Oh, no !" I say, laughing; "you need
not bother about saying anything like
that to me, please; I am quite usi d to be-
ing plain. Nurse sometimes comforts me
by saying that theugliest children some-
times grow into the best looking folk, but
I know better."
"George," says Mrs. Ford, bearing
down upon us with all sails spread, "you
promised to help me give the children
their tea ; are you coming ?"
So we go in and eat cake and drink cof-
fee, and by and by, having washed our
hot faces and hands, and smoothed our
tumbled Inks, we assemble in a large
room, forty souls odd, for the purpose ,of
dancing, The Floyds' governess sits
down to the piano; but alas, whether it
is the painful consciousness of their ex-
treme neatness, or whether they are real-
ly unequal to the duties of "footing" a
polka, all the little boys present hang to-
gether in groups, and look askance at the
row of shiny -checked, smooth headed
damsels who are waiting to be fetched
out. ,
This uncomfortable state of things hay
ing lasted for some time, the female wit
(as is usual when things are at a dead-
lock) c -tees to the rescue, and Madge
Weston, a black•browed miss of twelve,
rises from her seat end walks aeross the
room to the halting army. ''I shall
dance with you, Clem," see says, decid-
edly; and taking the biggest boy by the
arm she leads him away. The spell once
broken, each little girl walks boldly up
to the boy that is goodliest in her eyes,
and beare him off triumphantly, though
some pf them utter feeble protests, and
show a tendency to hang back. And
now they are off, giggling, ambling,
floundering, and young George Tempest,
entering hurriedly, looks about the room,
and then comes up to me.
"I can't dance," I say, eonfidentially,
as he sits down beside me ; "it is like a
donkey gamboling in a drawing room.
Can you?"
"Pretty well; but I should have
thought you knew how; you are quite
the nimblest runner I ever saw."
"One does not want to be nimble in
dancing," I say gravely, "or it must be
reduced to a method to answer. Jack
says my head always hits the ceiling
when I try to waltz."
"Miss Dolly seems to be laboringunder
difficulties," says -,my companion, glanc-
ing toward my little sister, who is ambi-
tiously trying to reach the shoulder of a
tall, lanky boy she bas selected as part-
ner; "he has lost her altogether two or
three times, Suppose you and I see what
we can do ?''
"It would be worse than Dolly," I say,
laughing. "No, no ! let us sit still and
look on. I want to ask you something, if
you don't mind. Is Mr. Tempest your
real father ?"
"Yes. Why?"
"You are not a bit like him," I say.
"He looks so dried up ; so—so brown, Do
you know, it is very rude, but Jack and I
always call him the Mummy !"
Young George Tempest laughs, and re-
assures me as to a doubt that has just
crossed my mind, as to whetber that was
a suitable remark to make to a young
man about his father.
"Don't you think that, on the whole,.
papas are a great mistake; and that we
should get on much better without
them?"
"I don't knew," says the young man,
smiling; "but you surely would not say
that of mothers ?"
"Never 1" I answer, Energetically; "but
tell me, what does your father d,. ? Does
he expect you to talk? .Does he insist on
your going out walking with him, all the
lot of you, except your mother?
"I have no mother," he says, s-,berly,
"and no brothers and sisters. No, he
does not make me walk' unless I please ;
but I am his walking stick, his pop er int
of medieine, his lackey (rather bitterly)
who wanders all over the world with him,
learning no good."
:Learning no good ?" I repeat. "Have
you not a profession ? Do you not d,
anything ? You are old enough !"
"Ay 1" he says. "I was to have gone
into the army, and even had my co aiteis-
sion in the guards, but at the last =not
meat my father refused to let me loin.
He said I was his rally son, that he could
not live teeny years, and so on. I am
knocking about, with nothing on earth
to do. If only Providence had sent pie
one ter two of your b tothors !"
"I have six," I say, proudly; "there
are five ranting after Dolly, but I could
not spare One of them to you,"
"I suppose not," he says, with a smile.
"De you ever amaek their heads as you
did tiny eheek this afternoon?
(TO a3>t efeerr rltlltin.l
The chemist's best girl is analyser,
OFIAPTER B.
ENT f'I1011 A WELL-
X` RERUN ).ilfl VII? T..
Bow file Daughter was '>itestored From
the tl error of St. Vitus Dance—'der
Calle One of the Worst Bver Known
—Ras Pully Itecovere4 ger Kealtn
Front the Berlin News,
The readers of the News have been
made familiar with the virtue of Dr,
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
through the articles appearing frons time
to time in these columns, and while the
druggists say that many in this vicinity
have received undoubted benefit from
their timely use, it is only recently that
are have heard of a cure in, Berlin of such
importance as to take rank among the
most remarkable yet published, There
is hardly a man or woman in the town
of ,Berlin, or the county of Waterloo,
who does not know Mr, Marcia Simpson,
issuer of marriage licenses and general
merchant, King street. Anything said
by Mr. Simpson will be implicitly relied
upon. A day or two ago we had a talk
with him in reference to his fourteen. -
year -old daughter Helen, who had for
two years been a great sufferer from St.
Vitus dance. He tells us that it was the
worst ease he over saw. She did not
sleep for whole nights and was an in-
tense sufferer. She was totally helpless
and could neither eat nor drink unless
admifiistered to her by her parents. The
best medical attendance was had, bu all
to no avail. She kept getting worse and
worse, and finally, when in the parox-
ysms, commenced to froth at the mouth,
and her parents believed she was going
out of her mind. Though unable to
walk for about eight months she would
in leer atells have fits, making her
j'imp high above her couch. While in
this condition, the worst case ever seen
in this place, Mr. Simpson, as a last re
sort, purchased some Pink Pills and gave
them to his suffering and afflicted daugh-
ter. He assures us that in thirty hours
-he found some relief. In a week the
" dance " was entirely stopped and she
was able to sleep, and was rapidly re-
gaining her former strength. Some
months after the use of the Pink Pills
was discontinued she again had touches
of disease, but a few doses of the pills
stopped it, and for the last eight months
has been entirely free from the terrible
malady from which no one who knew
the circumstances, expected she would re-
cover. and her parents, as may be ex-
pected, are ware, in. their praises of the
wonderful remedy whieh worked such
groat results. These facts are known to
all who are acq'iaiuted with the family
and further comments are wholly un-
necessary.
When such strong tributes as these can
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Pills, it is little wonder that they are the
favorite remedy with all classes. They
are an unfailing specific for locomotor
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sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headacke, the after effects of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, nervous prostra-
don, all diseases depending upon 'vitiated
humors in the blood, such as scrofula,
chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a
specific for troubles peculiar to females,
suppressions irregularities, and all forms
of female weakness. In men they effect
a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork, or excesses of
any nature.
These Pills are manufactured by the
Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, of
Brockville, Ont., and Seheneetady, N. t .,
and sold in boxes (never in loose form by
the dozen or hundred. and the public are
ciutior.ed against numerous imitations
in this shape), at 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2.50, and maybe had of all
druggists, or direct by mail. from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., at either ad-
dress.
We are at a children's party, Dolly and
I. Jack was sailed, but is too proud to
come. It is five o'clock, and the sun,
who has been standing over us all the
afternoon, frizzling our brains and mak-
ing himself obnoxious, as he Only knows
bow to do in the middle of July, is kindly
sinking somewhat in the west. We have
with the usual insanity and waste of
very young people, been playing at all
manner of energetic games, and are now
engaged in the comparatively mild crea-
tion of "Kiss in the -ring." Kissing is not
reprehensible until one is grown up, I
suppose ; at any rate these little girls
take their boisterous forfeits quite placid-
ly, occasionally return them with even
artless generosity that is not half appre-
ciated by the stolid recipients of the
same.
I am not a little girl, but a big one,
and there is no boy present old enough
or tall enough to kiss me unless I choose,
Besides, no one has caught me yet, I can
beat them all. I always was good at
runn ngi; that and jumping being the
two doubtful accomplishments Jack has
taught me to perfection.
I am laughing heartily at the dismal
fate my last pursuer has just met, his
white duck trousers being in feet one
green smudge from an involuntary ac-
quaintanee he made with Mother Barth,
when Mrs. Floyd, our hostess, comes
across the garden, and by her side is that
yellow -haired laddie, young Tempest.
Hardly a laddie though, for he must be
twenty if he is a day, and has the square
broad -shouldered figure of a man.
Captain Lovelace hears him out, then
quietly remarks that, having obtained
Miss Adair's promise, -he is content to
wait to time for the fulfilment of his
wishes, and is sure that, although Colonel
Adair may refuse to give his consent
now, he will do it at no very distant date.
Papa gasps again ; but I think that an
unpleasant recollection of his daughter's
wilfulness emeses his mind, and in his
next speech, although he still repudiates
the wooer's pretentions, there is more
bluster, and less determination than in
the first, and oh!—miracle of miracles! --
he has not yet tried to kick him ! After
that, the deluge ; and it would not aston-
ish us if the governor suddenly fell on
the young man's' neek and kissed him,
and, sending for Alice, wept holy tears
over them both, saying, t' Bless you, my
children!"
Captain Lovelaee is .speaking. He .is
asking what reasons Colonel Adair has
to•give for this summary refusal. Can
any exception be taken to kis character,
means,, or position ? Has Colonel Adair
other views for, his daughter ? No ; he
has sone, and he knows nothing t r the
detriment of Captain Lovelace's charisma
er, pocket, or place iii life, and
forced to say so; for this is no woman to
he stormed at, or a chtld to be whipped
but a roan who will have his answer. It.
is not easy to say no, no, no, over and
over again, because it, le no to a question
that requires a more reasonablebnswer ;
thus papa, pressed for his reasons, can
find none, save that Alice is it mere child,
far too young to think of marrying for
many years, etc.
tt I am told," says Captain Lovelace,
"that Mrs. • .Adair was no older when you
married her ; you did not then consider
her youth a drawback,"
"What Mrs, Adair did Was no affair of
yours, sir!" says papa, fiercely.
"Nose whatever," says Captain Love-
lace, " Savo that it forms a precedent."
A not particularly clean piece of cam-
bric dropped at my heels, and a vision of
a nimble youth of tender years scurry-
ing away in the distance, sets me off in
fleet pursuit. He has a good start, so I
do not catch him, but walk slowly round
until I come to Teddy Minto, who is the
spryest on h.s legs of the assembled com-
pany next to me. He is after me like a
shot ; but thoueh I take him twice round
the ring, his fingers do not once. touch
my gown. and I dive in between Dolly
and Lily Floyd victorious. All at once
young Tempest joins the ring; and pres-
ently, on receiving a dropped token from
Lily, rushes after, catches and kisses her
to her huge delight, for is he not the big-
gest person present? I wish Jack was
here ! He would not care about it though,
he would think it beneath him, while I--
it only shows what an insignificant crea-
ture I am—love it. I am enjoying my-
self down to the ground.
"Look, Nell !" cries Dolly, unloosing
my hand and turning my head I see be-
hind me the symbol that invites mI a
pursuit. Off I set with a will, but
not c me up with the hare, who is young
Tempest ; on the contrary, his long legs
bear him away with a fieetness that
moves me to grudging envy. I walk
I wonder,"I say to myself, as
round swinging the poeket-handkerchief,
"whether he could catch me ? We will
see."
Lightly I drop it behind him, swiftly I
fly along; but I am not a dozen yards
away when he is up with tae, and I am
caught, without his ever giving me a
chance.
"Now for the forfeit," he gays, as he
lifts me from the ground and stoops his
head to mine. I meet his saucy, bent
fate with a_ vigorous Slap that turns it
scarlet, but hit never moves or blushes,
only looks at me with frank, amused
blue eyes, before which my sudden angor
melte like snow before the sun.
"Pat me down, I say, and he puts me
down. "I hope I—I didn't hurt much ?"
(looking up at him rather anxiously). I
did not mean to do it quite so hard, only
you should not be rude, you know."
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Based on a Wrong Diagnosis.
The St. Catharins School B lard has a
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