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etaparIlla. The reason is that tide
reparation contains only the purest
and most powerful alteratives aud.
tonics. To thousands yearly it roves
-veritable elixir of lite.
Mrs, Jos. Lake, Brockway Centre.
Itch., writes: "Liver complaint and
indigestion made my life a burden
and came user militia my existence.
a'or more than four years I suffered un-
told agony. I was reduced alraost to
a skeleton, and hardly had stren tb. to
dre a myselt about. Ali kinds oL food
distressed in, and. only the most deli-
cate could be digested at all. Within
the time mentioned several physicians
treated mewithout giving reliefs a:Toth--
lag that I took seemed to do any per -
=anent good until I began the use of
..Ayer's sarsaparilla, which has pro -
(laced 'wonderful results. Soon alter
cominencina to take the Sarsaparilla I
could see am
Improvement
In any eendition, ray appetite began to
return and utile it came tbe ability to
digest all the food taken, my strength
Improved each dasr, aud after a few
autiatIts of faithful attention to* your
directions. I found myself a well
woman, able to attend to ell bousebold ,
duties. The medicine lies given me a.
sew lease of life, aud I cannot thruk
,z'ou too much."
"We, tile undersigned, citizens of
larockway Centre, Mich., hereby certify
lbat the above statement, made by
lira. Lake, is true in every particular
sad entitlet1 to full credence."— 0, Pe
Chamberlain G. W. Waring, O. A.
Wells, Drugibit.
"aty brother. in Bngland, was, for
]ongtune, unable to attend to hie °wo-
rt on, by reaSOrt Of sores on his foot,
▪ sent hint Ayer% Almanac and the tes-
timoniale it contained !Latticed WM to
try
Ayer"s Sarsaparilla. After using it
a little while, he was cured. and is now
a well man, working in a sugar tuill
at Brisbane, Queensland, Austrainao
Attewell, Sharbot Lake, ()Maxim
Ayers Sarsaparilla?
rur.r,ansu
D. J. O. Ayer & Co Lowell, resasa,
Itice at; six bettloaes. w4.:1,L1 V.+
ONE NIGHT IN THE EWE
•
There could be no doubt about it any
loager—I had lost my way in the bush. The
faint wheel marks, whieli for the last two•
miles had served. nae for s. treckthad eudden-
ly vanished altogether, They had been
dcultbenough to follow lathe failing light
but once lost, it was impossible to find them
again. I hunted diligently, but I hunted in
.vain. or did I quite abandon the searela
until the darkuess was complete, and Ity
that time my mare was so obviously knock-
ed up that 1 dismounted and led her.
It was an unpleasant predicament, of
course. There was, however, no real danger
in the situation. I was in no uninhabited
mete i I was within 10 nule,s, 311 a north-
easterly direction, of Melbourne—the Mel-
bouroe of to -day. The district abounded in
small holdings and free selections. Supper
and a blanket, in some small homestead,
were Merely a question of tinte. All I hati
to do was to bear steadily in one direction
anti I shoula most certainly strike some
t fence within a mile or two. By following
' the first fence I came to, sooner or later 1
i must reaeli a gate. There I should find a
: track of some sort, and thetraek would lead
me to a b.ouse, and I should be all right. A
, little patience was all that was required ;
i nothing more. I liaa been riding all day,
I so that it was rather an agreeable change,
than otherwise to get off and walk for a
while. In any ease, 1 1311Shed on eacerfully
1 enorgh to begin with.
It was a (via WO t in lete Anaemia The
white stars frozein aclear, slaty, sky. Rain
' had fallen heavily early in the week, autl
wore thin, side-earing boots, of 0, patteru
roach in vogue iii the hush; they are Mee
1 light boots to ride in, but if you walk in
them through wet grass, they let itt the mois-
two at owe; so, of veurse, my feet became
wet aud cold. This naturally interferea
with my good spirits. But it was not meta
1 descended from the broken, sparsely.
timbered, airy Country, in which I had dis.
momited, into a. low-lying and dismal forest
of dead gum -trees, that 1 became positively
dtsuirite . .
These weird woodlanati a e only too
/ common in Victoria; These trees retnaiu
i stamtling after death ; the smaller brenebee
t
fL11 away with the leaves, but the_principal
4 limits are left, to .grow white and smooth
1 as dead mmas bones, to overhang you
threateningly as you ride, or to point sky-
, ward in silent impreeation. Slime and the
scent of slow decay are in their midst. The
. winds of heaven draw but hoarse groans from
. the swaying skeletons—they knew not the
softer tones of living trees. The impression
. upon the imagination is that of a vast chain-
! ber of gigantie spectres—akind of grotesspie
. sylvan Valhalla. The effect upon the mind
is depressing in broad daylight; but atnight,
0 you are at all nervous, it is little short of
, terrifying. I am not exactly nervous, but 1
. confess to more than one inward shudder as
. I dragged niy tired mare through the lima.
ble place. I own that 1 was thankful to get
out of it.
1 was still more thankful, however, when
at last 1 actually struek the fence winch 1
, had made sure of finding sooner or later.
But my good fortune was only beginning.
' 1 had followed the fence barely a 100 yards
I when 1 descried a light, dim and far away,
g through the trees on the other side of the
1 fence ; but an unmistukable light.
The fence was of brusliwooa. I succeed-
' ed in finding a low place, which I did not
Scruple to make lower still, and then I eon-
trived to get the mare across, Then I re-
mounted, seeing that the end was near, and
pressed on toward the light as eagerly as
you please. Ten minutes ago I had been
full of misgiving, which, no doubt, was
liable to return any moment; but now, at
any rate, I thought only of the light, and
of the Omer that awaited me beyond the
light.
I did not know at all where I was. Very
possibly that light was withitt no great dis-
tance of the township which was my proper
destination. In that case I should, of
course, push on without delay. But unless
it was a really short distance, I knew that
it would be beyond the present powers of
my exhausted hack. There would thea be
nothing tor it but to spend the night at the
homestead that showed this kindly light.
Nor would there be anythingont of the way
in that; for, in the bush, hospitality is sought
and dispensed pretty much as a matter of
course, and, for my part, I was not in the
mood to refuse anybody's hospitality the,
night. In anticipation I accepted it grate-
fully, watching the light. That light, I
dared swear, sprang from a grand log fire
roaring up a great, square, wooden chimney.
I enjoyed. the cheerful scene in advance. I
-warmed myself at the fire and listened to
the welcome hissing of boiling water in the
"billy" 1 am a young man. still—I was a
very young man then, and proportionately
sanguine—but if there was one thing of
which I had right a to be eocksare, it was a
traveller's welcome in the bush.
When, however, I came close enough to
my guiding light to frame it in ,the square
outline of a window, either the fire within
had burnt low or I had overestimated its
quality in my first elation on beholding it.
The light was dim, but steady. No, doubt
then that I had misjudged its quality, it
was probably mere lampligbt after all. •
I now struck a picket fence,which I fol-
lowed until I came to the gate. As I open-
ed the gate, the inevitable chorus of barking
dogs burst forth. I merle out the dark catt-
line of a lona, low roof against the star -lit
sky. I rode up to the veranda. A man's
voice was quieting the dogs. I could not
distinguish the man himself; he did not
come directly between me and the dim
square of the window, or the flood of faint
light that proceeded from a door newly op-
ened ; and the rest of the veranda was in
deep darkness. I rode up quite close to the'
veranda before speaking: ,
"Am I far from the township ?" ' 1 then
asked.
There was a somewhat chilling silence
and no movement in the veranda, though I
knew there was someone there. At length
a hard, metallic voice answered me. ,
"What township ?" • • .
I gave the toy:whip its naine. The -same
unaccomitable pause preceded the reply.
"You are seven miles from there." -
The tones were monotones as well as
metallic. beeing that the talking was to be
tion.
lonone siae, a hastened to eataant Ina Peel:
"I have been off the track since sundown.
About sundown I was shewn a short cut by
a drover, and this is the testa of taking. it.
It was an old, feint, disused track, andem-
aossible to follow after dark. If I 'hadn't
been fool enough totake his advice, but had
only stuck to the main road, I should have
been in the township before now. As it is,
aere I am, with my mare dead beat She
isn't mine either, I am taking her down to
Melbourne for a man. We have come from
close to Berea to -day, and she's just off the
grass, and a bit soft She cannot possibly
travel seven more miles; while, as for me,
I'm famishing."
I spoke impulsively ;but 1 was really very
hungry, as well as chilled to the bone.
There should have been but one answer
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the grass undo: foc:t was still very wet. 1
possible and that a ready one. To my sur-
prise and vexation, there was no answer at
all, but an even longer pause than before.
1 broke the silence myself this time, and
asked abruptly :
"Will you kindly tell me where I can get
won= ation i•
le)orroztly, by comparison, I received the at once Plata that the new -comer aud the sitting in his old. attitude upon the settle,
ob
informatio, that there ,,,e no girl were brother and sister. They had the within a yard of my door, 1 could still (lis -
place but thatAnd there not the
some dark eyes and hair ; they had also tinguish the motiouless outline of the mei-
. was
modest accent of invitation in the strange, the same pallor, and it common sadness of aneholy madman; araeby the bend of his
coldeven tonesexpression. The brother •appeoaed to be gray head, which was turned from me, I ,
, .
"Then," said I, with excusable warmth, the younger of the two. I could:not help see knew that he was still staring vaeantly at 1
eonsidering the customary treatment of iugglances pass between them, and theyonug the dying glow. And he was alone in the
, man nod in answer to some understooa ques- room. e
etraugers in the bush, "I see that 1 am to
camp out under some fotat tree. Perhaps, tiou. A few brief undertones also passed, Very gently I closed the door; but 1 I
at any rate, you re open to berg
aw for and he and I exchauged nods. The old man,
aa
gat into bed with a thoroughly uneasy i however, took no notice of his son ; still sit- feeling. 1
something to eat and drink ?"
his hands. queer people. My host was mad. For all
e I ting on the home hair settle, To state it mildly, I was among
"Let me thinew
k ; you want eoeommoap
for man and hors," said the oice, ceer5
resting upon his knees, his bead somewhat 1 knew, Ins -children were tainted with in -
v
sloitly, as though the man were tryinglit bent, and his eyes fastened steadfastly upon oipient madness. It vas a harmless. amnia,
te realize the inconceivable. "You wnant,
the glowing logs, he dal not even turn hiraperhapa ; but there eould be i.
ere eremi-
accommodation—in my house." head, or give any indieatiou that he was plete security in lying. down in the house of
"Not necessarily in your house," 1 took aware of it. new arrival,. I had no need to a lunatic, however harmless. I lay down
him up, shortly. 'I want nothing that is watch the sad expressive glances of his without a proper feeling of gratitude in my
not willingly given, and, nothing that I can-
children to become more and more fully breast for having it bed to lie upon at all,
not pay for." persuaded that the old man was a lunatic. and not the damp grass among the gum
"But—let me think ; you might notwant The young man sat down near the fire, trees. This was the least that was due from
dejectedly enough, and immediately pulled :me, yet I felt utterly ungrateful. Cold and
to go away arst thing in thernoruing ; and,
0 you did not go away first thing--" of his boots. He had the appearance of a dispirited, and not it little nervous, 1 closed
"Thanks " theta mute sufficient," I said. mom 1110 h.t P. Okra; far. asked ann if my eyes, louguig for nothing so much as to
Ill trouble you no further. III go away .1
this WAS the me, and he told me that he open them and rued daylight ereeping into
"
had walkea from tbe township, seven miles the room,
now, this moment, if I have to walk. every
Melt of the seven miles," oft He spoke in a hushed, mysterious tone ; I do not know bow long I slept without
A abort, square figure stepped down from but this did not puzzle me. akaa mew pecu- dreaming. I have no ales how long I dreamt
'
Rarity of tide unfortunate family could eetore weitata,
the dark veralalas a head grasped: ma puzzle me now. Presently, he inquired bow They say that our meet
Mi(lie. "You will do nothing of the kind!'
I had :some tliere, and I told him, elaborate dreams are the creation or little
"What do you mean?" I seal, angrily. , , more than a moment—the moment before
i' 11 hat 1 Riae: yea wal do nothing et the Ile Pat al) Tear horse far Yea ?I leata- waking. If that be so, it moment is enough
I.- i , t' 1 t 'th the Wred the Young man: nodding toward Ids to force perspiration front the forehead, to
..nu ; you willstop, am put up m 1rather.
best 1 can give you. It is not much; but You 4q, ** 1 • 1 •a . , shake the bones at their sockets, to set the
,
shall have it. Viet off. Ill take your horse e t •
But I san' ltim guile; inteutly et his lather's' to ttsteteeneerisgeslinanT's Ilea(/' 7" 1 woke
, .
to the stable.
fuse, while compasmon filled his owu.
Hospitality at last—in the mere wards. 1 had been out in the
Wit8 unaltered. nightspectral
There was mine in the voice. The V0100 I looked: also, Anil tam old man's position forest, where ea tee trees were elute tate,
charge as this I But, to be sure, she cennot man leaving 0110 so abruptly et the mere
be entirely alone with him; there must, be" mention of it dead parent? He had not even
'some one who looks after theaselection." shut the door. 14 shutting it myself, I
And so there was. I was finishing a could not resist peering once mare into the
hearty and orthodox meal of mutton and outer room. The lamps were growing very
damper, when it heavy tread sounded in the dim; the room was again beginning to lose
veranda, and it youngman entered. It was warmth, for the fire was akuost out • but
stare aught perhaps have been mietalten for gluietly and glittering in the starlight with
As 1 dismounted, the man turned from
profound reverie ; hut not for long; to wateh .t...49 dew of death. They raised their lean
toe. erossed the veranda,. entered ther dimly.
rim for any length of time was to rest assure('
, arms high into the starry sky, and ranged
outlineil door, and returned with it kerosene 1 groups around me,
titat behind those pale. vacent, passionlessapoitain
themselves in fearful
..loOr Were now both invisible. The lamp
lamp ia his hands. The whitlow and the
e)OS aie rational faculty bail ceased to though resenting the presence of a living
at me with skeleton fingers, as
then, had been the only light after all—there e'3',5,1.
IA e sat smoking' in gloomy ereature in their dead world. And all was
man exehm,ge words woe some eue when , the son and I ; the daughter, I imagined,
was no tire Yet I had distinctly heard the silence, still—still as death; and silent—silent as
the tomb, But no; a night wind springing
• he went to tetch the lamp. That person, . rul retireil i" the ItifOlt*—,when she Prellt" up suddenly kolas the dread silence. I
whoever it was, was flaw left in fete' tiarh„ y reappeatud. She had peen preparing a heard it sighing emir, the live trees afar
ness. This see.me.d odd—but not more_ me.
1 1 ma f
op::: (I etolc..!: ; iltit
(e'll; I : 1. ofsniztVt(lt Togo 1 111.
it 1 au th t 1 keno s Feu me
than two people shout( be sitting up:tvitheat , , e 1 t 1 (al irrCi 1 : firi; (114471anion.'leh usl
;me a . S 1 a 0 t e era
e
i, fire on such an exeeeithigly sada night, 1 • °Petieil alien the veranda, she saht toat MY The sighing Mille nearer; the the horse•leur settle ust filling the space of my g1roaning grew
followed my host to the stable, still more . room m*as ready. There was another door louder. I awoke. And, waking, heard
puzzled ,
on the same side of the roem —the back of i
jears,
mum siohs and human groans net far from
In the stable. he Idil me hold the lamp,. ;
wall between the two—which probably led
observing that, he would soon make all snug .
1
into another in:drown; but it was shut, A lay. for seine minutes unable to breathe
he stripe
for the mare. He was as seed as his word; fourth cloor communicated with a passage. or to dank; but only to listen—to the form -
d her of everthing, gave her the
bete stall, hrmeght her water in a, bucket. 1 protested iht a blanket in any old corner less utterances of a mana aneuish.
and it first-ratfeed of chaff and oats, alt of would have been sufficient for my 11QC1bla 1511(11511(1In terror I turned my face to the well ; it
e
which he dal with his own hands, with it apologized for the evideut trouble I had. was from that direction the sounds proceed.
slow deliberation, more like mechanical tven
thbut the girl did not hear 1110. ed. The wall was merely a wooden, parti-
g„1
sction an mere "pottering," and without "AwIllug aver the old Man sae hail thrown
one arm tenderly around hie INTL:, and ed it in MOM places than one ; but six inches
tion. Dim streaks of yellow lightpenetret-
speaking it word. Meanwhile, I held the
as whieperin to him, in soft 'traced -
from my face, there was a bright, conspicu.
lamp in several posttions, cads of winch was
facilitated, a separate scrutiny of my host's ling tones, 58( 15 as one might use with am spot of the size of a shilling. With the
a sick and self-willed child, Her words rapid perception of extreme terror, I saw
from several (llama points of view. / did not reaeli me. ..Neither (181 the (Adman
face. I examined my strange, silent host
directly that this spot of light must arise
had seen outside that he was short anil
seem to hear them, for be did not even from there being a bole in the partition—
coin
paetly built ; but bis Volee, Lard and .
raise his era; ; and the son, looking up, said. probably from the removal of it knot—and
ears like the voice of middle age, whereas I 'Toth, • that the sounds I heard came from the twat
grange, though it W418, hall sounded to mv 0 „ . • .
Leave him he, Molly. It's no use. He rc tam. To realize this was to place my eye
now perceived that the mau was an old m in will g0 when he's tired mit ; no; bolero."
Clearly, thee- wauted the old man to go to Never shall. I forget what I then saw.
to the hole , without an aistant's thought.
--.00, or thereabouts. His lbeard was gray
aud flowing, and the furrows upon his sal-
bed, and be would not. I stew tears in the First I saw a lamp—the kerosene lamp
low face were worn deep by His
dark eyes of the girl as she turned. away anti
time. lea -
slowly left the room, that had guided me to this horrible place:
tures streek mom thin and sharp—unnatur. and, in the full light of the lamp was the
elly so, for he was by no means a thin man, Again we sat without speaking. Fire and leo of my host, the silent, motionless Thad -
but rather thick -set. Hie eyes however, liana burned low together. The aggressive man of the evening. There WAS no madness
(remember best. Indeed I shall mina forget tickmg of it noisy Male American clock alone in his looks now; only grief. There was no
broke the silence of the room : it seemed longer any vacancy in the pale, blue eyes •,
them. Timm was a most strange expression
in bis pale blue eyes. It was it wild, far- noisy and aggressive now, though I Ilea not
they were soft Ana sorrowfianow, anamoist
noticed it before ; so I suppose. this silence
away, distractea expression, like the eyes with tears, caul they were gazing tenderly at
of madness ; it was a still and. stony ex. was the longest and most profound of all. something—something immediately between
pression, like the eyes of the dead. There For the first time I glanced up to the chimney- ma
c
eyes and his, if I but lowered my
was nothing positively disagreeable in the piece and read the face of the lock. I ghtuee-
cold, hard, eye ; there had: teen nothing could scarcely believe my eyes 1 I would I did lower my glance, aud the thing' saw
ebsolittely unpleasant in the hard, cold have guessea the time was between 10 and
I shall remember to nay own dying day. It
tones ; but there was something that I did 11; it was between Nand 11 I must have was the rigid profile of it corpse!
not like in the combination of the two. been much longer at fault among the gain How long I gazed in horrid fascination I
We returned to the front of the house. trees than Iliad supposed; it musthave been know not. I was very young. I had nate-
Front and back the house was now in com- nearly 11 when I saw the light. Then how 0.1137 never before beheld death. Why 1 did
plete darkness. Apart from the darkness, strange that there should have been it light not shriek aloud, why no cry of any kind
it seemed to me that a palpable gloom en- to see at that hour 1 How strange that, in rose to my lips from my parched throat, is
veloped the premises. 1Ve crossed the the bush, where people are commonly abed to me inexplicable. I only know that I did
veranda, end then the threshold of a long by 10 at latest, I should have found these gaze until I gradually becsane calm, and tlmt
and lofty room, in which the light of the people sitting up at 11, in the cold, without at length I fell heavily back upon my pia
lamp we carried, after striking upward upon a fire! And how strange that the son should
lows.
the rafters, seemed to bee itself in a starless return from such a. lone walk only et mid- Not that I lost consciousness ; on the
sky. And to inc the room seemed colder night, when, no doubachis morning's work contrary, my brain became desperately
Shan the open air- Before the hearth knelt began before daybreak ! This, indeed, was busy. All that had mystified me was plain
it woman. I saw at once that the miserable the strangest part of the business, for the now, and plain in its true lighamot in the
task that engaged her MILS an attempt to re- madman was not concerned in it; and' had light of my false theory of madness; the
suseitate a fire which had scarcely it Spark of no reason as yet to suppose Nutt the son was hesitation to take me in ; the cold and dis.
life remaining. She tarried her head as we less sane than I Was. Mystified, in spite of comfort within ; the silence end sad looks
entered, and then I saw that her face was my determination to be mystified GO longer of.the young woman ; the late hours ; the
. white and wan. Then she bent forward on discovering that there was insanity in son's errand to the township and his strange
again to her forlorn task. the house, I rose, saying that I would turn emotion at the mere mention of his mother
Nothing was said. The man placed the in- —his mother, who lay newly dead in tbe
lamp wpm a barewooden table in the centre My companion knocked the ashes from next room. 'All these things I understood
and sat down without'a word upon an old his pipe and rose, too. now. And I had mistaken the first stupor
horse hair settle on the farther side of the "I will do the same—after one more try of grief for complete insanity! Well, there.
table. to get lain to go." . was nothing to marvel at now—nothing but
The silence was intolerable. I, et least, He stood before the old man as he spoke, the self-effacing charity which would not
found it so. I went aver to the woman and and laid his two hands upon the others deny me entrance even though death and
offered to make up the fire for her. Imme. shoulders, and cried in a tone so loud, com- desolation had. entered just before me;
paratively--though, in fact, not loud at all nothing but the self -command and the ex-
-that to my ears it sounded a,s out of place traotchnary consideration for :Mother that
in that room as in an empty chancel: had kept the secret which would. have driv-
"Father ! father 1"
The old man slowly raised his eyes. '
"Do go to bed, father." since.
ed. These things I have marvelled at ever
en me from the shelter of this roof it divulg-
The old man shook his head slowly and.
dropped bis eyas, only to raise theta again . As I lay, turning the matter over and
with it gleam of interest sudden and surprid- over in my mind, it seemed to me that I
ing. ' , could only repay the hospitality of these
"Say ! did. you see to that?" Sorrow -stricken people in one way—by get -
"Yes, father."
ting up .quietly and stealing away from
"And they're coming in the morning ?"
the homestead without their knowing
"Yesfather."
it. Gray dawn was already creeping
"First, thing"
into the room. The little circle of light
?
' "First thing hi the morning." . Wei no longer visible in the partition.
"Ah,"ssaid the old man, looking toward At last, then, the old man had considered
me, "he' goifirst thing. Good " the prayers of his children, and sought rest
ng !
"Then, you'll go to bed ?" persisted the and sleep. ',rose and dressed, and went
softly oet. I had no difficultwin Oncling
'
No: It was cleat he would do no emir the stable or in saddling the 'mare. I had
-
thing. The young man gave in with a heavy Mounted,: and was ridiug round by the front
s of the house—the way I had come -a -when
sigh:
in g' his
'It's of no earthly use. He must ,just be a bowed figure stepped down from the
left: Whhe's, tired Out he will o of
- '
veranda and laid a hand upon my bridle,
air the secend time, for it was my host him-
ou your room"own o,ccord and Sleep., Come, and I'll shoW self. At a 'glance, he was shrunken, bowed,
y.. .
oken, and in his right Mind. •
I followed him through the •open dombr
e " You have anted it °liar he said, sadly i
The room was small, but better furnished and his voice Was Soft enough now.
• e's
than are the roans' In Many MOM. preten•
pious 'homesteads: The bed—which did not c' Yes,"1 said, gravely: "Heaven foilive,
. . :
stand out 'into the room (a narrow item) but meforhavhig addedto your load this
, a No, nos no 1" said the old man, simply.
anal? 1"
bagged the inner wall—looked 'downright
luxurious g Iiii hand.
prepared for no such luxurac
thrilling in its snowy purity. I had been a
"Don't say that. I never thought you would
genet:sad I bluntly said. SO" though it was to
and it out . I don't know how you. did find
the son of the house. He smiled. and seemed'
it out. But I wasn't up to thinking at, all.
pleased, as though a had expressed ap-,
precietion of a family trait of which the Somehow, I' wasn't myself last night: I
family were. justly proud. • . don't quite know • what • passed, and that's
the truth:" ' . . • '
'' When--whee did it happen ?".
." My mother—," he began, bet the
stalk .faded from his face, end he stood clis.'
tressed and silent.' ' , , "Not long before you came. 1. can't say
. " Your mother -4" '1 thoughtlessly took to an hour, for, you seeei was dazed. That's
him up.
jest aboat what I was."
. - •
, "Yet'ycie. took.me in C'
" Is dead 1" he said, hastily; and before I
"That was nothing. I only wish—you
could starrimee an apology he was gone.
Well, of all sad homes' had ever entered, had one as you came, Without knowing 1"
thie was the saddest—one parentedead, one
the children "'Good by, '1 said;
of unsound mint11 No wonder .
I could say nothing better for the life of
•
Were silent, and sme. I wrung his hand again.
Ansi
and morbid. • .
• And the son, at any rate, was morbid. "So long," said. my host.
How else could one adeeent for a grown Aud so—,1 rock away.'
diately slie rose, with a slow, languid move-
• ment, and I knelt down. The ashes were
cold as well as white, and beyond resurrec-
tion; so I asked for fresh wood, and when
She young woman fetched it I quickly kin-
dled the fire. The fire was blazing famously,
and roaring up the great square wooden
chimney, when I got up from my knees.
Already I discovered a slight change iu the
melancholy countenances of my entertainers.
They were watchine the fire, the woman
standing, the man from his seat on the. set-
tle. There was, though small, indeed, yet a
perceptible increment of intelligence in the
maras dull gaze, and the wretchedness in his
companion's pale face was less starkly con-
spicuous. Whatever might be the reason of
their profound gloom, the fire was evidently
warming their hearts. This tinpression was
confirmed when the woman suddenly turned
her back upon it and went siviftly—even
hastily—to a cupboard, from which she pro-
duced tea -things; a,nd when the old man
opened his lips and exclaimed, "Tea 1" there
was in that commonplace monosyllable it
airman ring 'Which I, welcomed even more
than the material blessing which the word
promised.. I hadalmost forgotten my hunger
during the few minutes I had spent in that
cold, sepulchral room. But now the room
was gralually warming,' and so, it seemed,'
were the people. I even conversed with the
woman while she made the tea.
Shawas young, evidently the old man's
daughter, though her eyes were dark. But
for the extreme pallor of her face, and its
haggard contour, she might have been hand
some. • And she talked to me amiably, mak-
ing a. desperate effort to seem cheerful,
though griefwas always in her voice. 'tried
also to draw the old man into the conver-
sation; but all to no purpose. He took the
tAiLb thatwas handed to him and drank it
eagerly, but after that he relapsed into his
former condition. The firelight somewhat
eofteried his. hard, fixed glance; but that
was all. Indeed, it became more awl more
a vacant stare, until it decided me as to what
the old man's condition really was „
"Masi !" I said to Myself. " Melancholy
Mad, perhaps. Harmless in any case ; „ bat
mad 1 No wonder the girl looks sad and
wan ,and old beyond her years, with stick a
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