The Brussels Post, 1892-8-5, Page 3Ata,usTS, 18N2
TEE BilUSSELS POST,
TOBEY'S JANE.
;fault Toney had driven the stage between
the mountable of Pahl/lay and Blue CMle
her twoney yore.
No serious 0001(1001 had ever befallen bie
stage although he had had to many hair -
breath escapes as any driver In the ;noun-
teins, ife had barl expellent:es with high.
waymen and in fearful mid -winter Kornis,
the reeitrd of which quickened the pubes of
the posengers to whom Jack told tales of
these encounter&
In the beginning of his career es anlage
driver Jitter Tohey had married a bright
energetic little WOInan mentally his superior,
but with much love in her heart for her
practical, honest husband.
They had gone to hoesekeeping in a little
log house ehat Jeek himself had built in a
sheltered nook of the mountein road half-
way between 3/airplay and Blue Cliffs, and
here Jack still lived at the time of wide])
evrtte.
His wife had been dead two years, and
the presen t mistress of the cabb I was Tobey's
daughter emelt, a small, slender girl of eigh-
teen], with the quiet reserved ways of most
girls who are deprived of the companionship
of other children.
Exeepting her brother, eight years yowng-
er than herself, Jane Dever had any young
associates,
Tobey was foncl and very proud of his
children.
When the stage wont whirling aroune
sharp emir jutting out of the granite side
of old le egle mountain, and bre:milt into
view the clump of pines doLvn in the gulch
that sheltered his little cabin, Tobey would
say to the passengers verde(' upon the
high seat by his tido:
'That's my vine an' fig tree down thar
vitae: ye see the smoke curate' 'mongst
the pines. elect's who yell see one o'
the smartest, )(tem (Amps that ever cut teeth
in this eountry. I bee ye he's seen us a'
ready an' we'll meet 'lin, mighty soon,
eotning up the treil to ride down with his
dad. IT have to /ask ye to sot over a nttle
so he can serouge down 'tweet) us here ou
this seat. Ile's jest a Jim -dandy boy, my
little Joey is, an' hie sister Jane, named
for both her 111 000' her e ran' matemy, 18 08
smart es over they make 'am."
.And when, a moment or two later, Joey's
little figere could be seem hurrying up the
mountain road. 11e.oby's stentorian voice
would roar out,
" Hello, thar, ye iit,tle rascal 1 I see 1° I
Goin' ter stop the stage, hey, like the
regear little highwayman that ye air t I
geese sbe'll have ter stop if you eay so.
er poweefol as EL whole peek o' hcld-ups
when it comes to stopple' this Imre stage,
Git up here, then ; climt right up over the
wheel, ye little inoekey I How's siS ?"
" She's nel right," jooy would say, as he
"snuggled down" by his father's side.
" 01E, 111 bet she's all right," Teeny
would say ; " She always is all right. 1
inn smell her hot coffee clean up here. She'll
give you a cup o' hot coffee, gentlemen, as
is melee. Tne travellers on this route never
fergit the coffee the, git at Tobey's.
There had been little travel over this;
stage line for a year or two beforo the time
our story opens. .impossible as ita constru0.
tion had seemed, a railroad lied come creep.
ing into tho gulches and over the mountain
summits and clown into Fairpley, while
another road was slowly working its way
toward Blue Cliffs, to the detriment of
various stage lino.
" Travel ain't nothin' to what it used to
be 'fore them snettkm' railroads come
orawlin' into the mountains," Tobey :said, a
little bitterly. " My cabin used Ws test be
packed ev'ry night, and things was lively on
this route. Now I often make the trip 3.311 11
only ono or Wm passengers. But then, my
Jane couldn't pervide for such a hungry
lot as her ma toed to have to cook far,"
As it was Jane provided very well for
the wants of the greatly reduced number
of paseengers. They were there for stip-
per and breakfast only, and she had the
whole day in which to prepare for them.
Without this work and, lier much.loved
books' time would have hong heavily on her
hands. Her library consisted of some half
O dozen booke bronghe by her mother to the
little home, to which had been added, from
time to time, a book or magazine from a
grateful or sympathizing passenger.
Joey broughb all the water, peeled the
potatoes'set the table, wiped the dishes,
and washelpful in so many ways that his
fathee told the truth when he said thatJoey
was "litele, but mighty willin'."
In the winter months there was almost
no travel over Tobey's Wage mete, bet the
mail must be carried every day, and Tebey
had not missed a trip for ten years, al-
though it was a hard road to travel in the
winter time.
Jane and Joey often climbed up by his
side, snuggling down one on either side of
him under the robee and blankets, ancl rode
over to Fairplay, which was e mountain
town of perhaps a thousand inhabitants,
but it was a large town to Jane and Joey,
and there they saw the cars for the first
tirne.
Tobey had long been talking about get-
ting a ley -off " that he might give Jane
and Joey' EL ride on the oars, and ehow them
something of the great outside world about
which they had •Iiicer and vague ideas.
One evening in November he wadi very
late reaching hie little cabin. The roads
were bad, he said, and one of his horses was
lento. It was quite dark when Joey end
Jane, listeniug eagerly, heard him call as be
always did after night to apprise Gwen of
his coming.
"Hi, there 1 Here we come 1"
Joey had the hetet% lighted in a 7110.
mane, and was standing on the cabin door-
step swinging the light, while Jane stood
behind him in the open door, when the
stage came up.
"Any priseengere, father ?" asked Jane.
" Yes ; 0 lady and little girl inside,"
replied Tobey ; 'got a good slipper for
them ?"
Joey stopped forward and opened the
stage door, end held up Ids lantern that
the lady might see to alight She put
her bead out and seed to Tobey, anx-
iously, "I'd give any price to go rei to-
night."
I'd take you if I dared try it," replied
Tobey, " but I've been over thee pass too
many times to yeomen with feur playee-
out horses and coma 'em lame, 111 dootor
U p the lame one, and we'll got, all at day-
light in the mornieg."
Jane noticed that her father was hoarse
and his voice eeemed to have a note of
w.eaknese in it. Before following the lacly
and the little girl into the hoese slie raid
"You've retught oold, haven't yet,
father?"
"1 geese so," he replied, " int b I'll bo all
right after a good night/el sheep. Yon run
in Mid look after the lecly and the
dam) fond the laey taking off het wrape
With 0 sorrowful look on her fame while her
oyes; were NI of tears.
" It will be a long alight; to met" 8110
me Ilene began taking off the little giree
cloalc, " I received 0 telegram, this morn.
big, telling me that my Intelemel was den-
goottsly 11 ab Blue Cliffs, and thet 1:nest
oome et once. 1 would have gone by rail,
but they told me at) the railined Oleo that
there had been it enowelidu on the Blue Cliff
reed, sweep Mg %ways° inuch 01 1110 track that
it might, be two days before treins could run,
and 1 was advised to 0011100(16.3 to Fairplay
and lake the stage, I (lir] /lope I'd be able
to nutke some arrengement by which I could
go right on to -night, Arr 1 said before,
would pay any price to go on."
" 31 Isn't a (motion of money,"eaid Jane,
quickly, "Father wouldn't want a on t
but the smolar fare, if be carried you. It's
only thee: he eater go on with those worn 0.311
and that it's so dangerous to go over
that pass at night. I am very sorry, but
father will take you as soon ae ever he ean.
I think you'd better eat some slipper now.
You're hungty,aitet you, little met ?"
The little gee, a very pretty ehl/41 of about
six years, needed her head, ana Jane soon
had supper on the table.
Toboy always ate very heartily, but Jane
noticed tomight that he pushed hie plate
away without touching the food ,uf ter sipping
a little coffee She noticed then that his face
Ives flushed mid his eyes heavy
"Aro you sick, tether?' ,asked Jane
anxiously.
" I don't jestefeel 'eacely like myself," he
said, leaning back in his chair. "My throat's
kine o' sure, an' .1 ache se all over, 1 guess I
won't try to eat any supper, an' go to
bed eon as I go true an' put 800)0 030.30 lini-
ment on that home's foot,"
"Go right to bed, now, father," said
Jane, firmly •, "Joey and I will put the
liniment on old Charley's foot. You must be
well by morning or you can't take that poor
lady on to Blue Cliffs,"
The lacly:and her little girl heel already
th
gone to eir little room tis the rear of the
cabin, and Tobey said:
" I've just got to do I t in the morning. Her
husband is one o' the owners o' the Blue
13e1 I mine, an' one o' thc very whitest mon
over to the Cliffs. He's mighty sick, I'm
frail, an' lel get his wife to him if any body
kin."
"Then go right to bed," tirgedJane, and
Tobey obeyed her.
He dropped wearily into his bunk and
'1900 87380 sleeping. But he was restlees, and
his sleep was fitful. His breathing was labor-
ed, and he stared vacantly, at ;lane once or
twice when she spoke to him. His fever
increazed, and he steadily grew woree in.
stela of better.
Jane lay down on (1 cot by his side, but
she slept little, and at three o'clock she got
up and dressed herself. An hour later, the
lady in the next room called 01,1,—
"Need we wait until daylight before
itarting ?"
" Yes, I guess you'll have to."
"You'll get me off as soon as possible,
won't you ?"
" Yes, indeed," said Jane, arid then she
eat down on a low stool by her father's side,
her etbows en her knees, and her face be-
tween her hands, while she looked et her
&thee in silence for a few minutes. Then
elm slowly 811001.3 her head while a resolute
look Lami
e nto her face.
She lighted the lantern and went out to
(bo stable and fed the four horses. Then
she put more liniment on the leg of the
lame horse rtnd re -bandaged it, saying as
she did so,—
" Better, old fellow, isn't it? You11
need all four of your lege 'fore you get over
Thamer's Peso, toole.y. There'll be plenty
of snow up there, and yoer master won't be
holding the ribbon!, to•dey."
Tobey was awake when Jane went into
the cabin.
" Is it thee for me to get up, Jane 3" he
mid, !coldly, with his hand et his throet,
and his eyes half.closed.
"No, father," replied Jane, "you're not
to get up todlay."
Ho opened his eyes and stared at her.
"1 must, Jane," he said, with pain -fed
effort; "I've gof to take the mail and Lam-
bertes wife over to the Cliffs."
"You couldn't, father, you couldn't sit
on the seat or hold the lines. I'm going to
take the stage over."
"Yon, Jane, you ? 1Vell, that's a good
one 1 You're a smart little girl, Jane, smart
as ever they make 'em but, but"—he closed
his eyes wearily, clasped his hands over his
brow and slept heavily.
At four o'clock Jane went out and harness-
ed Ille horses. Then she came in and began
to prepare breakfast, end at five o'clock
Mee. Lambert came into the kitchen fully
drowsed,
"How soou clan we go ?" she asked.
" At six o'clock."
Joey was up before that time, and Jane
took him amble and said to hien :
"Joey, tether is very sick, ancl Mrs. Lam-
bert mot go to her husband, who may be
dying. 1001 goiug to take the stage on,
and you muse stay with father aud do all
you eau for him until I gee back with medi-
cine or the doctor. And don't lee Mrs.
Lambert know that it is I who is going
to take tho stage over. It would only add
to her worry."
After breakfast, Jane and Joey went out
and hitched the horses to the step, It was
snowing a little, and the wind was blowing,
oia Charley, the lame horse, clicl not eeem
to limp cit all, now, joy led the horses up
to the °abbe door, Mrs. Lambert and her
little girl came out, 0.3.31 ,10110 said :
"(idt right into the stage and bring
you out some hot bricks for your feet."
"Is your father ready?" asked Afes,
Lambert.
Jene evaded this question by saying to
j°17can out to the stable and bring Home
more hay for the bottoin of elle stage"
Then sho went into the cabin and into
her father's room, Me was eloping soundly.
Jane took his grette 'Wale -akin coat from
tbo wall and his big, fur driving -gloves from
O little stand by his bunk. She tied a ;shawl
over ho head, put on her own warrn jaeket
and the hufealmskin coat over that It; wee
so long that it trailed on the cabin floor.
"111 the better for that" said Jame, to
herself ; "I'll wrap my, feet up in it.''
,Tocy came into the obis at thab moment,
and Jane said ;
Tell father, when he wakes up, that
liarl to do it, joy, vehl toll him not to worry
a bit, I khow every foot of the way, tied I
know how to drive. And watch tether eare-
fully. You run oub and mill down the firm
on this aide of the melt, so Mrs. Lambert,
can't see me when I come out,"
A moment tette Jane climbed up to the
&leer's sot, stook' the lines over the backs
of the horses, Imre the stage started,
It was not yet daylight, but the roads
wore good in the guleb, and the hems
needed little guiding,
Witliont atiy delay, Jane would reaoli
010 highest poiht of Thayee's Pass et
Above eleven &dock, and feem there it
would be ti gradeal cleeeenb to Blue
three over Thayer's Pao, she wonld 10.30 110
fears for the rest of the journey, She had
been over the mos many Gino, but 110V01'
it day 111.30 tibia
As Jane ascended the peo, the demo
reeked in the wind , the horsos lowered their
heads before the fleece blest, the enow be'
00330 finer mut harder, end 00 thick thet
Jane 09,111111a 800 0., dozen foot beyond the
100,1,33 9' licerle,
Bet elm eat upright and gasped the ohm
more tightly wall hands elme wore faret
growing numb.
Savona titnes the horses came Co a Mend-
etill, but Jane urged them on. Rho Icept in
mind the siok father behind, and tbe man
who might be dying in Blue Cliffs.
When the leaders stopped foe the third
time, near the atimmit of the 'paws, Jena
-climbed down from her oat patted and
enctouraged the horses, and then (started
forward again. The win11 seemed to in-
crease in violence as the jaded hones strug-
gled onward through the blindieg elm%
The hereto girl never faltered, but kept
firm bold of the reins lest the horses an
their andeevors to find an easier path
ahould tumble the yelnele over the plot-
piee, At last, after whet !teemed an age,
tnomentary cessation of the storm revealed
the scattered houses of the settlement of
Blue Cline, and in a few moments the gage
milled up at the hotel, much to the astom
ithment of the hotel -keeper, who never ex-
pected to see it come through in such an
awful storm. bane alighted laboriously,
and then people who had gathered about dis-
covered that the driver was 0 elight girl,
and that the terrible journey over the Pass
had been made by her. Mrs. Lambert was
amazed when she discovered 'o ho it WM
that had brought the stage over and said :
"Surely that yonng girl didn't bring
nie and my child through all the perils of
that dreadful paws ?"
Jane tochled her head again and managed
to say,—
"Father was too sick to come, and"—she
closed her eyes and would have fallen to
the ground had net one of the men caught
her in his arms,
"Give her the best of care," said Mrs.
Lambert, "I don't see how she ever lived
through it Can "any of you tell me how
and whMi
ere
r. Lambert s?"
" He's right here in the hotel, ma'am,
and he's some bolter," said one of the men.
Li half an hour a doctor and two of To-
bey's old-titne friends were on their way to
his cabin, which they reached in the night,
to find him bettor, but still so ill that he
would be compelled to take the "lay-off"
he had been plannine, to take for so long.
The dulness left gis eyes and his cheeks
flushed with pride as hie friends told him of
Jane's "grit," as they called it, and he
"A'a' Her dad'll be ;weeder than ever of her,
when she gits home,"
She aerie home two days later, and after
Wine her father and Joey aboutler exper-
ienees on the pass, she aaid :
" The fo ks over at Blue Cliffs made so
Irma fuss over ree that I was glad to get
away. They wanted to raise a purse of
money for me, but I wouldn't let them.
Being paid for it was the last thing I
thought of when I started out that morning.
I knew you wouldn't, take pay for it, father,
and I wouldn't either. But that Mrs. Lam.
bertbeegerl and teased me to let hergive me
something.
" Mr. Lembert is going to get well, and
he's ono of the owners of the railroad Oates
coming to the Cliffs, and he's going to fix it
50 wo Can all ride over the road any time
NVC 'Wan to,. and promised Mrs. Lambert
that we'd tosit her down in Denver, whe11
you get welt.
" him planned ell sorts of niee times for
us then, and you'll go, now, won't you,
father ?"
" Of course we'll go," said Tobey.
The delight of that visit to Jack, Jane
and Joey, and the happy results that came
from it, would make another story by it-
self. J. L. H.
The Dorset and How to Wear It.
The question of the corset reappears year
after 3303 .3. Its opponents are land and out-
spoken, ;End cite medical ?pinions and eom•
momarnse in favor of their theorio, ell of
which apply to the abuse of the corset o.nd
not to its legitimate use. Since the days of
ancient Greco women have worn some
cincture or support at the waist, and it is
!mite probable they will continue to do so,
iu epite of theorists. It is perfeetly true
that, a great many women on do without
the stiff corset, and use instead the whale-
bone waist which is nothing 100re or less
then a modified corset. There are few, 0
any, elegantly dressed women who do not
wear a corset or a substitute for it in the
heavily -boned corsage of their dress. Too
moch cannot be mid in condemnation of the
long, stiffly boned ; orsets of cheap make,
whieh reduce the fizure to the ‚1.30.3 100 am-
peIrance of a puppet. A well -made corset
which is modelled to the proportions of the
figure and gives seppore where support is
needed is a, vary different thing. It cannot
be limed to undue, proportions without de -
straying the symmetry of the figure. As
a meter ot fact the chief einners
in the abuse of the corset are
maid -servants who try to lace clown
their buxom waiets to the sylph -like pro.
portiotts of the young ladies of the parlor.
Almost all growing girls wear a corded
weise and as they emerge into young lady -
hood adopt 0 modifeation of the oorset.
Care must bo taken at such a titne to select
O corset thee will be thoroughly comfort-
able, and that will give a sense of sepport,
and will be loose enough so that it will not
rest -alit the growth. The age cf fifteen or
sixteen is early enougli to put 00 110011 0011"
eet. If the figure is plump, a corset with a
few whalebones, beak and front and ehustio
on the hips, so arranged that it moulds it-
self to the figere, is one of the best that can
be chosen. A girl with slighter figure may
get along very wall with a corded corset, or
0118 10 which 00.315 0.3.3 substituted for bone,
Whatever you do, do not make the blunder
of selecting a long oorsee for EL young girl.
No girl rimier eighteen should wear a corset
mere than ten Inches long, and the nine
iuoh length is better fruited to the majority
of young figures. Only exceptionally tall
women should wear long corsets, The
French, who aro admitted to be the best.
1.305501 women in the world, wear only
abort corsets. The stiff appearance, note-
worthy in the dress of so many Enlistment -
en, is due largely to the elongated oorset
‚191310h 18 made by the English coreet maker,
and whiell pushes up the bust in an unna.
thral and ungeinly manner, neceseitating
the high dart seams whieh are en abet:nue
tion ie any corsage where grace of contoer
is sought for,
AN OAKVILLE MIRACLE.
The Remarkable Case of Mr,
John W. Condor.
A no 00, cripple few Fears—Treated by
She Scoff or the 'reignite ii,ca era] Itospi cal
as leaciiical Recovery as invehir
and Discharged 88 Filen ro ete—The story
gated by an Veneto iteliarier.
Toronto Empire.
For more than EL year: page the routers of
the Bemire have been «teen the particulars
of some of the muse remarkable wets of the
I Oth century, all, or nearly all ef them, in
eases hitherto held by the ;not adveneed
medical 'scientists to be incurable. The
partiolars of Oleo rime were vonclicel
for by such leading newspapers as the
Hainfiton Specnotor and Tinto, The Halifax
Herold, Toronto Glol.e, Le Monde, Mon-
treal; Detroit News, Albany, N.Y., Jour.
nal ; Albany Express and others:, whose
reputation placed beyond question the
statements made.
Reeently rumors have been afloat of a re-
mathable case in the pretty little town of
Oakville, of a young man recovering after
years of helpleasnees and aptly. The lege
pire determined to subject the case to the
meet rigid investigation, and accordingly
detailed one of our best reporters to make a
thorough and impartial investigation into
the ease. Acting upon these Inseructions
our reporter went to Oahville, and called
upon Mr. John W. Condor (who it was had
so miraculously recovered) and had not long
been in conversakon with him when he was
convinced that the statements made were
uot only true, bet that " the half had not
been told." The reporter found Mr, Condor
at work in one of the heaviest departments
of the Oakville Basket Factory, and Was
surprised, in the face of what he know of
the caset to be confront ed by a strapping
young meow of good physique, ruddy
ountenance and buoyant bearing. This
now rugged young man was he who had
spent a great part of his days upon a sick.
bed, suffering almost nntold agony. When
the Empire representative announced the
purpose of Ills visit Mr. Condor cheer.
fully volunteered a statement of his case
for the benefit of other sufferers. "
am," said elr. Condor, "011 Englishman
by birth, and came to this country with
my parents when nine years of age, and at
thee time 11350 as rugged and healthy as any
boy of my age. I am now 29 years of age,
and 1( 3(88 when about 14 years old that the
first twinges of inflammatory rheumatism
came upon me, and during the fitteen years
that intervened between that time and my
reeovery it few months ago, tongue eau
hardly tellhow much 1. suffered. My
trouble was brought on by 1.00 frequent
bathing in the cold lake Water. The Joints
of my beefy began to swell, the cords of my
legs to tighten, and the muster; of my einths
to convect. I became a helpless cripple,
eoefined to bed, and for three months did
ot leave my pone The doctor who was
called in aelministerecl preparations oi iodide
of potassium and other remedies without
any material beneficial effect After some
months of suffering I became strong enough
to leave the bed but my limbs were stiffened
and 13(08 unfitted for any active vocation,
I was then hampered more or less for the
following nine years, 3911011 1 was again
forced to take to my bed. This attack was
1(1 1889, and was a great deal more severe
thau the first. My feet, ankles, knees,
legs, arms, shoulders, and in fact all :parts
of my frame were affected. My joints
and muscles became badly swollen, end
the disease even reached my head. My
face swelled to a great 0.08. I was unable
to open my mouth, my jaws being fitted to -
gather. 1, of course, could eat nothing.
ere teeth were pried apart and liquid food
poured down my throat. I lost my voice,
and could speak only in husky whisper&
Really, I em unable to describe the state I
was in during those long weary menthe.
With my ;swollen limbs drawn by the tight-
ening cords up to my emaciated body, and
my whole frame twisted and contorted into
indescribable shapes, I was nothiug more
than a deformed skeleton. For three long
weary months I was confined to bed, after
which I was able to get up, but was a eum-
1:lete physical wreak, bobbling around on
rutchos a helplees cripple. My sufferings
were continually intense, and frequently
when I would be hobbling along the street
I would be seized with a paroxysm of pain
and would fall unconscious to tlie ground,
During all this dine I had the constant atten.
danoo of medical men bub their remedies
were unavailing. Alt could clo was to
try to build up my syttem by the use of
tonios. In the fall of 1880 and spring of
1800 I again suffered intensely severe at-
tacks, and at lase my medical attendant, as
a last resort, ordered me to the Toronto
General Hospital. I entered the Hospital
on Juno 20th, 1800, and remained there
until September 20t1 of the same year. But,
notwithstanding all the care and attention
bestowed upon me while in this institution,
no improvement was noticeable in my con-
dition. After using almost every availltble
remedy the hospital doctors—of whom
there waa about a dozen—came to the con-
clusion that my case was incurable, end I
was sent away, with the understanding Gott
I might remain rut outside patient Amcor.
dingly from September 1800 to the end of
January 1891, I wet to the hospital once a
week for exeminetion and treatment. At
this stage I boome suddenly worse, and
once more gained admission to the hospital,
where I lay in a miserable suffering eondi-
tion for two months 01 830.35, In the spring
of 18911 rstllrlisdto Oitkville, and made an
attempt to do something toward my own
support. I Wag given light work hi the
baseet factory, but had to be conveyed to
and from my place of labor 113 a buggy and
carried from elle rig to a table; in the works
oe which I sat and performed my
work. In August, 1891, I was
Ogildn Sthieken doWn, and remained in
an utterly helpless condition until bit'
nary 1802. At this time Mr, James, a local
deuggist, strongly urged me to try Or.
Williams' Pink. Pills for Pale People.
I was prejniicad against proprietary medi.
ohms as 1 had spone nearly all I possessed
on nutnerous highly recommended so -celled
°medics. had taken into my systands,rga
=Attlee of family medicines, I had ex•
rotated the list of linitneuts, 'retail 1, 931171,
nd 3 Wes therefore reluctant to take Mr.
amine adVieo. 1, lieWeVer, several
trong testimoniels es to tho value of Dr.
Pielt Pills as 0 blood builder and
awe tonic:, and thinking that if I could
ily get my blood in bettor condition my
onoral state of health might be improved
resolved to give Pink Pills a trial, With
'Nan]. Household Suggestiona. h
31W11 thiCklICSSOS of a newspaper make a,
good lining for apple barrels.
To polish knoll= Itieves nicely, IniX a s
little bicarbonate of soda with the brick- e
doe and rub thorn thoroughly. 1.3
If feather pbllowo bare an unpleasant el
smell, place them before n good fire, and
lob them lutve a good, thorough drying.
Slate floors ahould be polished, rehiring el
first with a smooth, flat pleoe at pumitto
steno, and finally pefiell with rotten stone. a
Booke kept in ordinary hook shelves, mid
thus exposed to the air, will keep molt bet- I
tor than these in booltmases with eland li
doors
11
it
ict oomage born of despair I bought a, box,
ut there 3(08 1111 11(410093)10 IMINVOV081014,
IA I thouglit tine was tete the other rem -
les 3 had used. Bet, urged on by friends
continued taking Pink PilIs and after us.
ig seven boxes 1 was rewarded by noticing
deckled change foe the bettor. My eppe-
118 reterned, my spirits begau to tIM and
lied a little feeer Roe of my Museles and
inbs, the old troublesome sWellingssubsid-
lg. 1 tiontentied the remedy until I had
Tea leaves aro good to sprinkle on all
hot vcry delicate (minas, before sweepinei
3811prevente dose from Esitig, and also
heightens the colors,
this time I had taken on ewe:Womble li LATE °ABLE NEWS .
twee 1335123'. bit's bexes when I loft Me ]by
flesh and weighed as much as 1110 pounds. I
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1
The King of Servia—The New Rolla of -
000I030118—.11.0(310855113 Operation. ,
. The young leing of Servia is $00 enjoy', '
. ing at, Eels the geestionable tram/0am) ole
a his fatber'e se -eery. Aecording to the well»
c' infolmo 1 correspodent or the. P00'1,0'),,t
Tbis wee a gator of 60 pounds in a fe
weeksMy mints assumed their norma
mete my muselee become tamer, aed in fuct
wee DM men, By .Apri/ 1 WrIS able to
go to work in the eastern factory, met now
1 cern work ten hours a da' wit any man
I often stay on duty overtime withont ice]
ing trey bad effects, I play hattehall hi th
evenings and= 1,1808 WW1 033.3t/l• th
boy,, Why I feel like dancing for very jo
et, the relief from abject misery I sufferet
so long. Many 5 tittle f prayed for deice]
to release ma from my eufferiugs, Lue AOW
11101 10 0)1 31000 and I enjoy health as only
be can who suffered agony for years, I
have given you a brief outline of my suffer
Inge, but from what I have told you- earl
goo the depth of my gratitude for th
groat remedy whic,h lin restored me to
health and strength.
Wieling to substantiate the truth of Mr.
Comior's remarkable dory the Empire rep
reeentetive called epee Mr. F. W. James,
Ole Oakville druggist referred to above.
Mr. James fully corroborated the state.
mote of Mr. Conder, When the latter had
first taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills he was a
mere Oreleton—a wreck of hug anity. The
people of the town had long given him
op .for as good as dead, and would hard.
ly believe the man's recovery el t.1
they caw him themselves. The fame of thia
cure is now spread throughout the section
and the route is an enormous rale of Pink
"1 tell adiezeumud-e-balf boxer, of
Pink Pills every day," said Mr. James,
" and this is remarka'ole in a town the size
of Oakville, And better still they give
perfect satisfaction. Mr. James recalled
rinmerous iustances of remarkable oures
after other remedies failed. Mr. John
Robertson, who lives midwily between Oak'
elite and Miltun, 1.320 had been troubled
with asthma and bronchitis for about 15
years, has beeo cured by the use of Pink
Pills, and this after phyeicians had told hint
there Was 11.0 use cloturing further. Mr.
Robertson says hie appetite had failed com-
pletely, but after taking seven boxes of
Pink Pills he Was ready and waiting for
each meal. He regards his ease ail a re
markable one, In fact Dr. 'Williams' Pink
Pills are reenguised as oue of the greatest
modern medicines—a perfect blood builder
and nerve restorer—curing such dioceses ae
rheumatism, neuralgia, partial r aralysis lo-
comotor ataxia, St. Vitus claneenervous head.
ache, nervous prortration and the Gred feel-
ing re.eulteng therefrom, diseases depending
upon humors in the blood, 51101 00 scrofula,
chronic erysipelas, ate. Pink Pills restore
pale and sallow complexions to the glow of
health, and are a specific for all the troubles
peculiar to the female sex, while in the case
of men they effect a radical cure in all eases
arising from mental worry, overwork or ex-
cesses of whatever nature.
Ihe Empire reporter also caned upon Mr.
J. C. Ford, proprieter of the Oakville Basket
eactory, in which Mr. Condor is exployed,
Mee Ford said he knew of the pitieble con-
dition Condo had been in for years, and he
had thought he would never recover. The
00.30 3(08 evidently a. thorough one for Con-
dor worked steadily at heavy labor in the
mills ttecl apparently stood it as well as the
rest of the employees. Mr. Ford mid he
thoughtegreat deal of theyoung man anti was
pleased et his wondrous deliverance from
the «lave and his restoration to vigorous
heIanIt'oh.rder to still farther verify the state-
ments made by Mr, 000110.3 111 the above in-
terview, the .30(183.30.3 011 Ins return to Toron•
to examined the General Hospital records
and found therein the entries fully
bearing out ell Mr. Condor had
seicl, thus leaving no doubt that his
case is one of the most remarkable on roe-
ord, and all the more remarkable because
it had baled the skill of the beat physi-
cians in Toronto.
These pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medmine Company, Brookville,
Ont, and Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold
in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen
or hendred, and the public are cautioned
against mumerous imitations sold in this
shape) at 00 cents a bo'
x or eix boxes for
82. 50, end maybe had of allaruggiets or direct
by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Com-
pany from either athirst& The prim at
which these pills are sold make a course of
treatment comparatively inexpensive as
compared wit?, other remedies or medical
treatmen 1.
ex -King efilan is saiel te have forbidden the
1 i ?bit of Queen Natalie, the boy's mother,
acting cm the paternal rights guaranteed to
him by the Servion constitution. The news '
. has exalted greet interest et Belgrade,
where the Progreseists, under AL Ciiirilii»
e hanin, eide with Queen Natalie, and nearly
every respectable man has lost whatever
sympathy be ono felt for the ex.leing,
. The new Brinell House of leommous eon. ,
tains twenty-one hankers end eueutrierre 144 1
. bueristere in and out of practice, eighteen /
brewers and distillers, two builders and 1
architects, fifteen coHlery prop/ irg Ore, eight •
1 diplomatiets, nine civil alld marine engine.. ,
ere, ten farmers and agrlealtarists, eighty.
three land owners. ten fronmesters and
mecal merchants, fifteen. filler representa-
lives, fifty-seven manufaeturei s ten dootore,
fifty•five general tnerehante, me ex -clergy-
man, thirty-five newspaper proprietore and
journmests, thirtmieta 311010' sons and
brothers, eighteen retired 1a1s11e88 mon, ,
nineteen ship owners, tweuty•oneeolicitoret I
foer stock brokers, nine miles:shy proles- 'I
sees, fifty-three naval sod military officers,
-and thirteen members unclassed.
A most successful and unique operation
has been performed upon art infant. The ,
ohild, whose age was only twenty-one '
months, was brought to the London hospi-
tal by ita parent& who said that two days
previously the little o ie had swallowed a
large button. The symptoms on admission
were those of obstruction of the ;esophagus,
and examination of this tube eilei dy reveal-
ed the presence of a foreign body. All the
ordinary mesas were employed to extra,*
the button but without email. Consequently ;
there was nothing left but to proceed to
operate. An antestbetie having been admin-
istered, the surgeon performed, what' le
technically known a; the operation of
me mhogotomy, a m oa :dere which implies
reaching the source of obetruction clitectly
by means of an incision through the Ain
of the neck. The operation Was perfeetly
successful, even in so young a subject. The
foreicn body was readdy extracted and the
child madeeperfect recovery.
Making Dainty Sandwiches.
Apropos of sandwiches wewill give the ola
conundrum or stow. " Why do not people
starve in the deeert of Srhara, ? Because of
the sand whieh is 1 dere traanew(oes there),
How del the sanewiches get there? The
sons of Ham were bred and mustered there
(Mem breed and mustard.)
Be that as it may sandwiches made in the
manner here described are simply delight.
fut.
There are throe essentials in making Sand.
wiches. • Very nice light bread, ),ome-cured
barn, and a veey slierp kuife. The bread
811001,1 be cut into paper slices and the 1mM
into the the thinnest shavings. After the
°rest is cut from the end of the loaf spread
the slices with nice fresh butter upon cut.
Meg. Have the ham already shamed and as
you cut thch slice of bread diride it in half,
sprinkle one-half well with ham on the but.
tered side, and place on it evenly the other
half of the slice, buttered side down; press
lightly together and lay on a plate. Cone
tinue until you hem made all thee you went
If the ham, bread, better end knife are
what they should be, you had better melte
a great many.
The slices of bread may be squared after
cutting off the crusts and then divided front
corner to corner, making triangles, or the
whole slice sprinkled with ham may be role
led tip and wed with /ittle ribbons. Thie
makes v. pretty variety in serving sends
vviches at an afternoon tea.
Uoins With Queer Stories.
Numiematists, or coin colleetors, have in-
teresting objects of searth in two coins
which belong to the transition period be-
tween the French republic and the second
empire. One of these is an extremely rare
coin Which was struck offjust at the moment
of the aesumptien of the reins of empire by
Napoleon 111, Duly the die for the obverse
or head of EL new imperial coin had been
completed, arid by sane accident, or possi-
bly by mischievous design,a eoin was struck
off which bore the head of "Napoleon III.,
Emperor," on one side, antl " roanch Re•
public" on the other.
This contradictory coin is of interest to
others than numismatists, for it eymbolizes
in a striking way the many sudden changes
whiolt hare taken place in French polities in
the past wintery.
With the other coin a singular story is
connected. While Louis Napoleon was
" priece-prosident," and just before ho inade
himself emperor, a decree W98 issued order.
tog 1 5-frano piece to be mined bearing his
image.
The diets were made, and tbo coin 3(18
struck off as a sample and sent to the prince -
president for approval. But sometime pass-
ed before he examined lb. When at last he
gave it his attention he was ennoyed to find
that he had been represented on the coiu
with a "love lock" or hooked lock of heir
on the temple, which Ile filet actually wear
at tbet period but which ho thought un-
suitable to so digeified and permanent a rep-
reeentation of himself es an effigy upon a
oin.
The prince -president, solstice the director
of the inlet and ordered him to remove the
" love look," Then 110101101 thee his silence
with regard to the plow hod been taken for
approval, and that the stamping of throoles
had commenced.
The work wee stopped and the image de-
prived of its undignified look, but the
twenty-three wins that had already men
struck (*were not destroyed, and are now
regarded as of ger:Revalue.
. The Women Not In It.
"I think it is too bad," said Mrs. Brown -
smith, " thee have to slave all day Sun-
day just the seme as any other day in the
emelt, '1(111110 33071 just sie arottml the hone
and do nothing but amok° end read."
" But You forget, my dear," replied lette
13,, in his blandest tones, that the Sab.
bath wits made forman,"
Kate Field treasures among her curlosi.
ties a lock of lerowninges haft,
Witen Lady &comet was in 'Boston she
called at the state prison to see a convict
irom her own country,
Three i'alatable Modes ot Preparing thet
Tomato.
BAKED TOMATOES.—Clincee six largo,
smooth tomatoes. Cut a glee off the stein
end and carefully scoop out the seeds.
Mix halt a cup of finely-choppedco1,1 boiled
haricots, two tablespoonfuls of !stale bread
mumbs, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley,
half it teaspoonful of salt and a dash oe
cayenne, with a tablespoonful of melted
butter. Fill the tomatoes with the mixture,
heaping into centre; sprinkle over the tops •
with bread crumbs, put the tomatoes in a
tne dish, baste with melted butter and bake
in a hot oven thirty minutes. When done
take up and serve het.
TOMATO FAIR X.—Put a layer of tone Enos
in the bottom of a pie distil, cover w ith a
layer of breed crumbs, then sprinkle with
salt and pepper, put in more tomatoes,
bread crumbs and aeasoning until the dish
is full. Put the bread on top, cover with
bite of butter and bake twenty minutes,
Tosegro Tossr.—Bub a quart of boiled
tomatoe8 through a colander, put in le stew
pen, seam with pepper and Balt. I, rty
slices of buttered toast on a hot dish and
pour tho tomatoes over,
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