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BYBERTHAM. CLAY,
.anther or "Thrown 011 (611 Wa$1J,'
".1 (3nnu(e(t II,ta;" use.
1(11 wire waa buri
ceptod the handsome in0om0 that the
cart sottlod upon him, width oylablud
lion to give up his profession and devote
himself to tho studios ho lovod, Ho
would not learn his honed, although tho
earl urged him to do so. Agatha was
rather pinasud ; silo love(] the littlo par-
lvlrer°
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`Cho wiudor -I rogrot to say that tho
wiudm' wont up with a violent crash,
and a form robed in spatloss white ex.
claimed, 'Cunt into the house, you old
fool, To Morton you'll bo goiu' round
uoinplaiuiu' about your liver 1' 1 sot up
a !.pull by tho kitchen fire marine'
Lewis Napoleon's 'Life of Julius Cesar,'
What tt reckless 01(1 ours he was 1 Yit
Lowis Meters Idol in glowin' cullers,
Camas made it lively for the boys in
Gaul, didn't he ? Ile slowed one million
of citivous, male and female—Gauls and
Gaulussos—and then ho sold another
Million of 'em into slavery. Ile con.
tinnerod this cheerful stile of trying for
sum time, when ono day he was 'sassi-
nated in Romo by some high-toned
ltoulan genl'mon, led ou by Mr. Brutus,
When old Iiraty inserted his kuifo into
him, Otosar admitted that he was gone
up. His funeral was a groat success,
the !muse bolo' Crowded t0 its utmost
capacity. Ton minutes after the doors
were opened tho ushers bad to put up
cards on whioh was printed 'Standin'
Room Only.' I went to bed et last,
'And so,'I said, 'thou ]rant no oar for
sweet melody I' A silvery snoro was
DIV only .answer. Betsy slept,"
t 1,
paiu lroni lint boort, andle• , had pro-
inised all she aslaal. 1, or Lho prat Limo
for many long Mouths her heart was at
rust, and sho fell into a ,ioup, (lroamless
sloop. %Viten she wok., seewas better,
and a flutter of hops wont through the '
whole household, The doctors said
thorn was a chance.
"Inetoad of killing hor," said Lord
Penrithto leis wife, "1 believe tho visit
of that man has dont her good."
They took such caro of this cow germ
of life that sho recovorocl—uover to be
the same bright, happy girl again,.
novor to )now unclouded happiness,but to save tiro man whom she loved so
much from the devout pain lift could
hold for him.It was a long, lingering, illness, but it
killed the passionate love, as pain and
weariness of life often do. While it
lastod Agatha was a most loving and
constant nnnrso; sho spent ovary spare
moment with 1Ioatr'ice—she soothed,
calmed, and eonumoiod her ; to the end
of horlifo Beatrico Penrith remembered
tho lessons sho learned during that
time of convalescence. Wham sho came
back to life and I alth sho urns no
longer a bright, careless girl—she was a
Mr, and Rho loved the garden gate
jean had neon hqr talking to Sir
Perhaps the moot suyproiedwas
Anna Rutlivon. Lord Kelso too
win) to moo her, and her surprise
almost ludicrous, She was bol
pleased. It lead turned out so 1
bettor than sho had over dared to
Agatha, Cometosa of Kelso, ha
truer friends than Doctor Ito thee
his wife Lady Anno.
What wondors tho earl did in
Vil logo—ovary 111an, woman,, aria
was the bettor for his cooling into it
built model cottages at low rental
built new schools, a pretty little
pita!, a library, and evorythiug
eallod after his wife. The Agatha t
houses aro considered the best in
land,
]'hen he took his \vile 10 501 Mad
"lc 'Piernay, who was deligl.ted to
come bor. The count raved for a
drum in the Most month tic l'a1bion,
•teelarod flint the Lord Kelso was
finest: man ho hail over met, and s
et"rnal t'rieadship with him.
fu Paris they heard that Mrs. Nor
was (load ; and that fato hie, av .
fur, for bar husband had warm un
Itis second wife was a beautiful yo
girl, one of the groatost flirts fu P
tvho delighted in driving ]lira to
thoueht,ul woman, with a heart full of
1 for all who have to sulfur,
When sho was able to traeol she
nt with her parents to Italy; she
t„ts always like one given back from
-oath; tho had beau so sure of dying,
.51 every ono else had boon so sure;
lie had never thought it possible she
o gild
roams ; sho had been convinced
111(1 hor heart was broken, but the
young can sutler much, and it takes
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She was novor quite the same; she
had lost elle bright spirits and light
heart—the fled lost the sunshine from
her eyes and from her laugh ; but some
of the noblest souls have passed
through the furnace of pain.
Who tho six mouths had ended the
earl wrote, and Agatha answered "Yes.”
It was a duty he owed her, sho said,
and she would accept the only repara-
tion he could make her.
"Not yet," sho told 11]10. She should
wait uutil the roturn of the Ponritll(
before sho made any change in hor life.
She had boon left in charge of the
children, and she must fulfil hor trust.
He grew jealous and fearful. It
seemed to him that she thought more
of reparation than of love. Sho spoke
and wrote only of tho atonement he
owed to her, and whioh he was bound
to make; but in those days she said
nothing to him of love.
To Agatha the baro idea of having to
tell her story to Lady Penrith was most
painful, but she had to do it. She
waited until that lady returned with
hor husband and Boatrico—Beatrice
well, but not strong.
Lady Pourith's wonder and pain woro
groat. Agatha left her to toll as much
of the story as she liked to Beatrice,
but Lady Penrith said she should not
mention it yet, and she could only hope
that for some years, at least, they would
not meet. It was soma days before
Lady Penrith could forgot her surprise.
There was groat dismay at the castle
when it was known that Miss Brooke
was leaving, she was so beloved by the
whole household; but silo uotiood ono
thiug, that Lord Ponrith never smiled
upon her lifter he know hor story.
They woro Married in London, very
tis,
N
es • of madness by jealousy—thou
aughiug in his face,
'The trails or Ow gods grind slowly,
rhong1l they grind exceeding small."
Tlyoro also they hoard of the brilliant
marriage of 'Mademoiselle, ll'Envors to
the Duo dAlba. True, ho was past
eighty; lye had lost all his hair and all
his teeth, he was crippled and doorepit;
but he was ono of the wealthiest peers
in France, and madly in love with
Valerie's beautiful fact,
"That oxplaino why she did not in-
terrupt our wedding, Agatha," said the
earl. "Every moment I expeetad to
see her."
Bob Agatha, looking in his dark, hand -
um face, so full of love, only murmurs
few words of pity—nothing more.
he knows that Madame la Duchess°
Albe will work out her own punish-
ent in time.
It was not tl,e least of Lord Kelso's
ensures to go to the hospital of St.
lye and make thorn a munilicont re-
rn of all the charity that had been
own to her. And then the earl and
unt°ss returned home.
Lady Kelso mayor became a queen of
shion ; she was never presented at
urt, and sho novor was queen of a
oudou season ; but no woman in Eng-
nd was more beloved and admired.
o was famous for her charities ; for
r pions, gentle life ; for hor devotion
hor husband and children; for her
odeoss to the poor. Every ono knew
at tiler° had been some story in her
o; but no ono over suspected the
Three years after their marriage, Choy
and goods news of Beatrice Penrith.
o had married Gerald Leigh, who was
w at the head of his profossiou,
When Lord Kelso road the mows 11e
hoed, then turned to his wife and
sod her sweet face. She held her
to son in leer arms, and he kissed the
MI softly.
Long years aftorward he mot Lady
igh, a grave, beautiful woman, with a
ry in her fano that he had writtou
re. They woro very silent when they
t, each remembering (helmet parting.
ey said but little when they did
ak, and Lady Leigh avoided mooting
whenever it was possible, although
was now It happy wife and a happy
they.
o the story Duds; but thero is a
ral. Do not believe, you who read
1 a man can do wrong with impunity
hat ho eau lead au evil life, and filen
oy this life as though he had led a
d one.
pant had not sinned—she had been
ishly cro(ulous, but she had not clone
ng wilfully. The innocent must
ffor with the guilty. She was happy,
sho could have been happier. She
hor beet to forgot, but there were
os when all those memories rushed
r her, and thou llappior women could
tend than tho Countess of Kelso.
ho earl has everything that this
Id tau give—a beautiful, devoted
, beautiful, loving children, humid -
wealth, perfect health, honor, fame,
every good gift ; yobbo loops sad at
s. He hears that Lady G—'s
ghters, find, handsome girls though
aro, aro going all wrong because
have no mother to train, or guard,
lis care of them. It atmos home
im then, and keeps his sills before
yea. That is the inner life; out-
-13r they aro happy, prosperous, and
ovod, and the world lays the fairest
ers at the foot of one who had trod.
on sharp thorns before she reached
and of roses.
quietly, and without any display ; only
two witnesses woro present, distant
relatives of tho earl's, and no moution
was made of the lnarriago, except in
ono or two papers. If (Ivor man made
ample ro1laration, it was Vane, Lord
Kelso. Tho first thing 110 did was to
talcs his boaubiful wifo home to White-
croft.
Thorn aro things that will hardly bear
tho tolling—this was ono—what Lady�
Kelso felt when sho saw the old church
again—when she looped once more on
the grand eastern window hos mother
had Iovod—when sho saw tho fair fact
of the saint shining on hor—when she
hoard once morn the grand roll of the
organ—whoa she looked o(oo more at
the grave whore her young mother
slept, and the pretty village that had
boon her home.
It was a sight to sod the people cling-
ing and weeping around her, so pleased
once morn to neo the kindly beautiful
Saco that bad been to thein as the face
of an angel, No words could tell the
joy of old Joau. To think that her
beautiful mistress was a countess,
"higher than my Lady B,uthvon 1"
"You told us you were married," sho
said; "brat, oh, Miss Agatha, you should
have told us to whom I Wo have
'wearied sort ai'tor you."
David Brooho, absent as evor, did not
oxpress much surprise,
"I thought that yon would torn° back
some day, my dear," he said. ' "I know
that your mother's daughter could not
go far wrong ; but I am astonished that
you have married an earl 1"
Lord Kelso tondo himself evorything
that was most amiable.
On Joan he sottlod an annuity that
made her in the eyes of the village a
rich woman, He ado friends with the
doctor,.
"Will ,you forgive me," he said, "fox
running away with your daughter? 1
Iovod her so much—and thorn were cir-
cumstances I cannot explain. Wo have
been selfish to romain away so long;
but you sod nave brought her aafoly
back,"
Tho doctor was ma(io happy for life.
Ho would not baso Whitecroft becauso
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[THE 17ND.3
Artemlts Ward (;loos Homo.
"It was late when I got home, Tho
children and my wifo was all abed.
But a candle—a cendlo made from taller
of our Own raisin'—gleamed in Betsy's
room ; it gleamed for I I A11 was still,
The swept silvery moon was a-shinbn'
bright, and the beautiful stars was up to
their usual Joins I 1 felt a sentymental
mood so gontly ore mo stoalin',1 pawned
beforo Betsy's winder, and snug in a
kind of oli'raticvois, as follers, improm-
too, to wit
Wake, Bossy, Wako(
My swocb galoot 1
Mise up, fair lady,
-NAT BLAS.IIILL,
3'v T ntttobar, thanking 1,)s
s1 i ,nuuy enstomars for their lil,er-
.. al support for tine past s' years
Wil10111 tun
Ing burned aut oflitho uldlsitau,irLIIt`has Steed up
vlioiou(0 ha es to sou l all do` old' customers
and its many new "mesas see tit to give hie; ,t
kinds of Poultry nothing
bloats Deli 111
to all parts of tho Town lore°, (Mali paid for
I+at Stool(,
141A11M FOR SALE A1' A BAR
rue andiisw within sight of ains trlvtiugu town in
Grey Co, Good la arket, school,uhurohes, ko
'rho Toronto, Grey ,e Jiruoe railroad runs
acrosstbo roar of the lot. Low price 00 1)10
Luau paying the cash, Busy Leaner( on time.
This is a splandld opportunity for a poor man
or a Li an itexoh nge fort a smallerlynt
far`t oln lliuronoCo,
For further purticulm s apt l3' to
W.11. ICL11(13,
Brussels, r, 0.
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Oftho bestquallty always c1hsnd and dello
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013113,15 Vory Favorable.
FAT CATTLE WANTED,
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ANDREW 031)51(3)
ALL ALIVE !
The undersigned begs leave to announce to
the Public generally that he haspnrchasocl
111e Entire Stock of D. Train, harness
maker, and basin brought n Largo Stock
of his Own 1lfakc ,ho is prepared to Com -
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for Cash r\ Complete Stock of
LIGIII AND IIEAVY HARNESS,
COLLARS, WHIPS, IOIRi1OIIES C'OMBS
TRUNKS, HORSE IILANEiETS AND
VALIL115,
•
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1 Repairing Promptly Attended to.
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50 CORDS
SHORT, .H.11.0 WOOD
Wanted at Once
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Outfit worth a Large Sum of Mon-
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Great Chance for Lady
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Address,
FINS] ART PUIILISHING CO.
St. Catlleritles, Ontario,
TO Mhz FRONT AGAIN.
The undersigned 1u returning thanks to the Pio plc 31' Craw brook
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38 BROADWAY HOUSE. 38
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