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The Huron Expositor, 1898-03-18, Page 6- tee 4 41 eaea-- THE HURON T.; EXPOSITOR MARCH 185 1898, VETERINARY - • TOHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario el Veterinary Collate All di:settees ot Domestic .animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and sesames moderate. Vetesinaiy Dentistry a specialty Office and residence on Goderich street, one door Fast of Dr. Seott,'s office, Seaforth. 1112d G. H. GEBBe Veterinsey Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of veterinary dents* Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet. winery College. Honor member of Ontario Veterin. ary Medical Society. All disunite! domedio animals skilfully treated. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Dentistry and Surgery et sPeeleltY- Office and Dispensary -Dr. OamphelV old office, Main streeteleaforth. Night calls/:awefrom the office, 1406-52 LEGAL JAMES L KILLORAN, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Pickardts Store, formerly Mechanics Institute, -Main Street, Seaforth. . 1528 ler G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & ILL Carneron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich, Ontario. Office -Hamilton street, opposite Colborne 1452 TAMES SCOTT, Barrister &o. llolloitoror Mel. el eon's Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliotlock, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 D IL HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. 'Solicitor for the Dominion k. Office-Cardne's bleak, Main Street, Seaforth. stoney to loan. 1285 . - L•itm. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor Notary, &o. Oleos -Rooms, eve doors nort% ofOommeroia ground floor, next door to C. L. Paps! s swelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderioh enes-f ameron, Holt and 00.1n0t011. 1315 ri ARROW & PROITDFOOT, Banking, sesenen, ur bee, (kiderich, Oniario. J. T. GUAM. Q. 0.; WL PSOUDY907. • 585 CAMMON, HOLT & HOLM, Barrisien Bo. Halton in Chancery, ko.,Goderich, Oat M. 0. CA81101, Q. 0., Pamir How, Dummy Rowan HOIMESTED, truccessor to the late firm of • McCaughey & Holmested, Barrister, Solicitor ,Oonveyan_cer, and Rotel y Solicitor for the Can adianBank cif Commerce. Money to lend. FS= for vale. Cifloe in Scott's Block, Main Street lisallorth. DENTISTRY. W. TWEDDLE, Dentlet. Office -Over Richard- son & Ilelnnite shoe store, corner Main and John Weds. Seaforth. D lt. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge „work and gold plate work. Special aktention given bq the preservation of the natural teeth. All work carefully, performed. Oce -over Johnson -Bros.' nardware store, 8eaford:1. :1461z TAR.11. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, 'Ontario, D. D.13 of To- ronto University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell, Ontario. 1402' TIE. A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. S., D. D. S. ..e./ Honor graduate of t oronto University, Deti- tisk will practice dentistryat his father's rooms in Exeter, and at hie room at 2dre. Studer's restaurant, Heinen, every Wednesday. H. Kinsman, L. D. S., at Zurich the last Thurdsday of each month. 1545-13 MEDICAL. •-Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Gradtuite London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. • Once and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. inokard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church 31IrNight calls attended promptly. 1468x12 1-Vt. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, if. D. 0. M., 1./ Victoria, IL 0. r. 8., Ontario, suweseor to Dr: =iota oo Istely wouphki by Dz. Slott, Bruce- eldleatadO. .R E. COOPICR, M. D., M. B. L. F. P. and 8. . Glasgow, &o., Physician, *MOS and Ao. tioncher, Consiiince, Ont. 1117 &DI: B r to Dr. Md. Moe lately 000npied 0011ege M. D., Fellow of the Royal of Ph dans and Surgeons, Kingston. ny Dr. Maokid, Male Street Seaforth. Reddenoe --Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately mewled by L. Z. Dancey_ 1121 DR. F. J. BURROWS, Late reeldentPh4sician and Surgeon, Toronto* Gen- eral Hoepital. Honor graduate Trinity University, member pi the College of Physicians and Surgeons sf Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. AINOFFICE.-Ssme as formerly °coupled 'ay Dr: Smith, oppodte public School, &Worth. Telephone No. 46. N. B --Night calls answered frcm office. s1885 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY; PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Goderich street, opposite Methodist ohurch,Seaforth J. G. scow, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and =ember Ontario College of Physicians snd Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. C. MeeKAY, honor graduate Trinity Univ.ersity, gold medalist Trinity tiedicad College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. WM. WOLOY. Anotioneer ler the Counties of Huron and Perth, end Agent at Ilensall for the Mayto nard. Mann- 2sduring Company. Sales prom y attended , charges moderate and add on guaranteed. Orden by mall addressed to Hensall Pod Oflice, or left at his residence, Let It Commotion 11, Tuck- eremith, will twelve prompt attention. 112841 TORN H. MeDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for e) the County of Huron. Sales attended in all part* of the County. Terme reasonable. From Mr. MCDougall's long experience as a dealer in fann stock of all kinds, he is specially qualified to Judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at Tan Earo8iToa office, or it his residence, Lot 25, Huron Road. Tuckersmith, near Alma, will be promptlyattended to. 1486 ir4115 Easy. to Say. 0, A "glair 14) Easy to digest-" Flake Bar- ley" is an ideal breakfast food for 11 children and those of weak dis- gestion. Served with, cream or sugar as porridge it literally "melts in the mouth." Unlike the ordinary Breakfast foods, it is sold by TILLSON'S the pound like tea FLAKE p• and sugara ' - BARLEY. , It is clean and. -wholesome, and will do you good. - THE TILLSON CO., Limited, Tilsonburg, Ont. 1527-62 4:444zcatz:.9 SEAPORT% PACKING H USE. To HOG BREEDERS. T. et? If a woman walked hare. -footed Off the shafp edge of a sword) • she would not undergo one- tenth of the agony daily borne by thou- sands of women without complaint. They suffer greater misery and pain than could be in- flicted by all the pro- fessional torturers ! that the world ever knew. Day and night they suffer from headaches, dragging down and burning ,sensations, pains in the sides and hack, hot and cold flushes, nervous and trem- bling sen- sations and physical lassitude and Mental despondency. The whole body is tortured with pain and the entire nervous system is racked. If they consult the average ob- scure physician, he will attribute their bad feelings to stomach, liver, kidney, heart or nervous trouble. If, by accident,he hits upon the right cause, he will insist upon the disgusting examinations and local treat- ment so embarrassing to a sensitive, mod- est woman. The real trouble is weakness or disease of the delicate and important organs that bear the burdens of maternity. There is no necessity for examinations or local treat- ment. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures all disorders of this nature in the privacy of the home. It acts directly on the sensitive organs concerned, making them strong and well. It allays inflamma- tion, heals ulceration, soothes pain and tones and _builds up the nerves. It stops exhausting drains. It banishes the discom- 'forts of the expectant months, and makes baby's coming easy and almost painless. It restores the beauty and vivacity lost through long months or years of pain and suffering. Thousands of women have tes- Aified to its marvelous merits. At all med- icine stores. Avoid substitutes. • -, To cover customs and mailing only, send 3i one -cent stamps for paper -covered copy, or eo for cloth -bound copy, of Dr. Pierce's Common Sere Medical Adviser. Address, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. R. F. CASE St CO: Of the Seaforth Pecking House are pre- pared to handle any quantity of Hogs, Live or Dress, for which they will pay the highest market price. Will have man call on any parties having live Hogs to dispose of, if notified. For par- ticulars call at Retail Store, Carmichael's Block, Seaforth. T. R. F. CASE & CO. 1518-t.f. THE ONE GOOD GUEST. BY L. B. WALFORD. CHAPTER XVIII. BREAKFAST AT A CLUB. •The change ot accent was slight, but per- ceptible. I got yours on Saturday night, General Thistleblow," said Tom, sitting down, and trying to take as long over the operation as his companion did. "1 have been away from home this last week; but I returned on Saturday." " Been away from home," in evident sur- prise; "why, I -I ---oh, then perbaps I need not have written ? _ Somebody has been telling me a cock and -bull story, per- haps. I took it up too hastily, perhaps. William, William," to the waiter. "This toast is too hard; take it away; and. get me some softer. I have said so before. Hard toast is detestable." The long-suffering William whipped off the rack; he had long ceased. to wonder why he was always being told the toast was too hard. He Understood and sympathised. "1 -ah -the fact is, I got uneasy about you and youre, Tom; you will excuse it from your father's old Mead. Of count I take a fatherly interest in the girls; and if anything happened to Ida--?' he paused, and waited for rejoinder. A quiet smile passed over Tom's face. "Thanks, awfully." Not another word did he say. "Iia is such a charming girl," the old general proceeded, feeling more at ease since he had got fairly started 'on the topic in hand, "such a fine-looking girl, and so full of spirit and all that sort of thing, that she is the very girl to run her head against • the rocks if one doesn't look out. Pon my 'word, she ought to have a woman to take care of her, as Lady Sophia Clarke says. Deuced interfering woman, Lady Sophia, - but she is iu the right sometimes. A girl can't be expected to steer her own craft, and you are all young together down at Duck - hill '• so-so- " We can't help being young, Ceneral ; we'll grow older presently.' "Quito so, my dear fellow, quite so; and you have done uncommonly well, young as you are, already. Got your property well in hand, your farms all let • no reductions; no bother -but about this Maurice Stafford, Tom. No one blames you; you were not likely to hear' things, living out of the world as you do, you are out of the reach of civil- ised beings, ha ! ha! ha' Stafford" is a pleasant scapegrace, I must own. Would win his way anywhere, and, of course, with such very young people -e--" "1 think he won it with some of the older ones, too," obeerved Tom, drily. "To be sure he did; not with some, but with all. Myeelf, and Wortlebury, the Jes- sops, the Clarkes -we were all taken with him. Naturally Ida-" " Ida ? Who said anything &emit Ida ?" demanded Tom, looking up in well -feigned astonishment. "You say 'naturally Ida,' why ‘raturallY ;' and what do you infer that Ida did ? The move- was decidedly artful. • General Thistleblow was thrown back a full pace. My dear fellow, you read my letter ?" "1 read your letter, certainly ; but that does not help me at all now." "Why, my dear Tom, not help you? Why, what should I bave written about if it were not to help you? I wrote because from what I heard, you were harbouring this young blackguard -of comae in all in- nocence -at your own quiet plaee, where he was taking the opportunity,of making up to Ida. It was to save Ida I meddled in the affair at alt; though I must say, -Tom, as your old friend and late -ahem ! guardian, that I think a little more caution in choos- ing your own associates would not have been amiss, even if there had been no sister in the question. A very few enquiries would have put you in possession of the truth about Stafford, and you would not then have made a mess of it by asking him to mike one of a party at your house, either. Women like Lady Sophia Clarke don't like being obliged to be on intimate terms with disreputablefehataaters and I am told her ladyship is liery cross about it." Oh, sheis,' said Tom; "we know she is." "You do, by Jove ?" "She wrote to Ida. I have another let- ter on the subject also." " Have you ?" "From Colonel Jessop. And here he comes, in good time," as the door swung back. "How do you do, Colonel Jessop. I daresay you are surprised that you did not hear from me before, but the fact is, I have been away from home, attending the funeral of a relation, and did not get back till Satur- day. I thought I should. see you here. I am up on business, and looked in to see General Thistleblow." "You did not come up on purpose then ?" General Thistleblow pronounced aloud the thought which arose in both his inind and Jeasop's at the moment. " Oh, dear no," said Tom, with almost a drawl. "It wasn't worth that," he added, with a derisive smile. Had Ida beheld him, she would have been proud of her brother. Eh ? Oh? I'm glad, of course," mut- CIALIIESTOILIatha. Ile-fae• eigratare et Is ea worzrier. tered Thistleblow. "'I Was afraid -perhaps from your haste-" inquiringly, "My haste bad quite another object," replied Tom„ -still preserving nonchalance. "1 thought I might as well look in as I was here, and considering you had both taken the trouble to write to me. I tim sure it was awfully kind and well meant, and all that. It happens to be all rot-" both the elder gentlemen started, and General Thistleblow dropped his toast. " Yon couldn't know. it was rot, of course " con- tinued Tom, with the same air of patronis- ing indifference,„ "and, of course, if there had been anything in it -anything what- ever- smiling in each face by turns " it would have been a great thing to have been warned in time. As it is, I ani sorry you had the bother of it. It was my tault for not letting you know all about Stafford." "But, good heavens ! my dear fellow,you knew nothing yourself -you know nothing now- " Excuse me, General, I know everything now. I have, seen a great deal of Stafford since you lefe Duckbill. He was with us till last, Sunday." - " Hum I Nearly a month," observed Colonel Jessop. Hitherto he had held his tongue. Nearly a month -yes," said Tom, cheerfully. . "We like him. He paid us 'a , very pleasant visit." And your sisters, sir -your sisters ?" demanded General Thistleblow, now grow- ing angry. "What about them sir? They like him too, 1 suppose? Ida likes him, I suppose; and yet you took me up short just now=" "You have no right to suppose anything about my sister Ida. I won't have my sister's name enter into this discussion.' ,On a sudden Tom took the bit between his teeth. "Because I ask a friend to stop with me, and shoot with me, and because I happen to have sisters living at home, are they to be insulted by the presumption that as a natural and inevitable sequence, they -or one of them -is in love with him? That is .what I mean shoat Ida, General Thistle - blow. Understand that she has nothing to do with the matter in hand.' You accuse Stafford of not being a proper friend for me, or suitor for her. My friend he is. Stick to that faot, and make good your ac- cusation againstehim. It is worth so little," laughing scornfully, "that I -don't advie yoil to press it too closely. But in the light of a suitor Mr. Stafford has not yet shown himself, so we may dismiss that charge." He felded his arms and lounged back in his chair, and the two old aoldiers glanced at eaoh other. Amazement took away their powers of speech. All of this is mightyafine, Tom," said General Thistleblow at and you are uite right to bluster it °Eft' if you can; but warn you bluff won't pay unless it is backed up by solid tease in this ivistance. Your friend Stafford, whom you have been admitting to your family circle in the most intimate manner, is a disreputable scound- rel, a fellow who was kicked out of his regi- ment, and who has brokenhis father's heart. He preys upon anybody he comes across, and you being his latest and simplest vie tim, he has gulled you completely. It may not be -true that he is after Ida -he may be only flirting with her--" I told you to let her name alone. Understand that I mean it." "You talk in a very unbecoming manner, very unbecoming, and -and disrespectful ; yes, by Jove, disrespectful. You are morti- fied at being found guilty of a piece of folly, and vent your spleen on me. I tell you, air, you OUght to know better." "1 am not mortified," said Tom, boldly. "1 have no cause to be mortified, as I shall very soon show you. But I am determined 'not to have my sister's name dragged into thiseaffair, and if yea will persist in refer- ing to her, I shall simply take up my hat, and leave you to find out from other sources what a ridiculous blunder has been made among you. Lady Sophia Clarke may as well learn the truth too." " Gad ! I wish I had let it alone !" mut- tered Jessop, under his breath. For after all, neither he nor Thistleblow had a proof to offer, nor a person to fall back upon. They could not even, • when confronted by Tom's scornful eyes, be posi- tive as to what each had heard, or from whom they had heard it. Jessop thought it came from one quarter ;, Thistleblow from another. Thistleblow grew angry with Jessop at last. "It was I who told you, you slipshod fellow. You did not hear anything; I told you everything." "So I thought," was lwritten on Tom's face opposite. "And who told Lady Saphia Clarke ?" exclaimed he, suddenly. • The other two looked at each other. "Not I," said Jessop. Then "Not I," echoed Thistleblow, somewhat faintly. But anon he paused. ; I might have men- tioned it to Sir Robert;" he murmured. "It comes then to this," said Tom Bar- net, throwing back his head and breathing disdain. "That General Thistleblow hears casually in a public place a Stafford talked of-" "They said Maurice.' I could swear they said Maurice." "Maurice, if you like. Anyhow you hear a Maurice Stafford spoken of as a drinking, gambling, betting scoundrel; you find him at my house neither drinking, gambling nor betting, but you choose to believe he is the scoundrel." "1 know that he left the service, and I heard it said that he was turned out of it What is more, I believe the last," main- tained Thistleblow . defiantly. "A man does not throw up his commission for nothing." "Have we got to the bottom of the whole? Have I anything more tehear ?" tt It is enough as it is, one would think." Jessop recovering, tried a weak sneer. ° "Well, then," said Tom, putting his hand in his breast pocket, "as I have got other things to attend to, we may as well cut this short. I am glad I looked in, however. This slander "-looking round with an eye beneath which those of the other men sank, " is of more consequence than Ithought. You, at any rate, General Thistleblow' as you have been at the pains to spreadabout a false, malicious, damnable report, are bound to contradict it. I say, sir; you are bound to do this. It is a lie from beginning to end. Stafford's brother has been mistaken for him, and Stafford has had to bear the brunt. 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For sale by Lumeden & Wilson, Seaforth. 00 11 IWO/ • \\\\ % COM CHASE'S • ARTHUR P. THOME, CHARLOTTE- TOWN, P.E.I., says: "1 have used Dr. Chase's Catarrh Cure, snd it not only gave relief but made a permanent cure." Dr. Chase's Catarrh Cure NEVER PAILS CURE • Cold in the Head, tay Fever, Rose Cold, Catarrhat Deafness, Foul Breath, Loss ofj Tasteoand Smelt, and Catarrh in 41 its forms. Oontalee o Coonine Fria, 25 MI% comp1ete.with blower. tee Co. Toronto, Oat. 8431.4 by sElluntleitormucoBra neighbor, and the other from the colonel of Maurice Stafford's regiment I had inquired of the colonel into the cense of Stafford's resigning. I am not quite ouch a booby as to make friends with a man and know abso- lutely nothing about him, General Thistle - blow. I can't show these letters because they are marked 'Private,' but this is Mr. Mellor's addresse, and Colonel Wallace is in town. I am going to see him this afternoon, and -and --you can ask him any questions you like about Maurice Sta ord, that's all." "1 know Colonel • Wall ce," mid little Jessop, looking rather f ightened. "Of course we take your word, Barnet. 'Pon my word, I'm very sorry, but I do assure you I only wrote out of--' "Friendship ?" said Tom, melting his eye at him. "Friendship !" echoed Qeneral Thistle - blow, scornfully. He wa glad to have some one to scorn. "Not e ! Dash it all, Jessop, don't stand cringi g there. You know as well as I do who it was set you on. It was to oblige that old tarridan, Lady Sophia Clarke, that you - "She almost made me de it, she did in- deed, Barnet. I did not waat to meddle ; I have no wish to make myself disagreeable." "Nor any need to try," growled Thistle - blow. . "But Lady Sophia was so concerned about your sister.' "Confound you! My sister! If you re- peat my sister's name again-- • Tom sprang to his feet. Then he gulped down something in his throat and pat his hands on the back of the chair in front of him. "You have got to go with me to Lady 4 Sophia Clarke's now,' he Rai, quietly. For once in his life Jimiop would have given the world not to have gone near the corner house in Chesterfield Gardens, but it was no avail te struggle. "You have got tb go, and it is the least you can do," said Tom; "and General Thistieblow, when - ah -will you see, Sir Robert?' • General Thistleblow turned slowly round, and looked the young man in the face. • "Within the hour," hesaid, emphatically, "and Tom Barnet, hark ye, I have more re- speot for you this day than I ever thought W have -in my life. Demme! you have Not- ed like your father's eon. • You have been rude to me, dashed rude, and I like you for it. We'll be better friends in future. I feel I have made a thundering old fool of myself, and I'm not ashamed to own as much. Give me your -hand, my boy, and if I have done my best to take away the character of your friend, you will see that I shall do all I can to put it back- again. YOU go at Lady Sophia with half the pluck you went at me, and she'll wither before yen. And good speed toiyou, my lad -God bless ye! God bless ye !' " Poor old fellow !" said Tom to himself, and the very next person who had woodcock sent up from Duckhill Manor was General Thistleblow. scene which followed, and which, as we have said, the treaeherous Jessop enjoyed. Every now and then he eel° a glance at hie .,noble patroness and every glance refreshed . his soul. Lady 1Sophia's colour mounted higher and higher, • and her discomfiture grew more and mere unconcealed as the moments passed. At length, hoe/ever, she put forth an effort on her own behalf. • "As a, near relative I might he supposed to have some interest in the case. You blame me for opening the eyes of our dear Ida, when I did bat. follow the promptings of my own conscieace" towards a .motherless girl. If Ida had been my child, do you sup- pose I would have wished her to place her affections on a; 'Worthless wretch? My affection for Ida would not permit me to stand by idly." • Her voice was beginning to regain ite own hard, , unwavering tones,- but for once Lady Sophia had met her match. She had mistaken Tom Barnet . when she thought she could treat him and his with contempt, "1 think, Lady Siephia, .the less said about your affection fOr Ida, of for any one of my sisters, the better," Bain Tom, in ac- cents as hard as her own, and having in them moreover a ring of profound derision. " It was net a particularly kind thing to do to a 'motherless girl' to tell her slap out. that the man you thought she cared for was all that Was bad ; and if your conscience promptedyouto do that, it ought to prompt you now to make the only reparation .you can for being so cruel." , ("So cruel ! By Jove ! " whispered Jae - sop, (*etching his breath.) You forget yourself altogether to -to speak to me like this," fumbled Lady Sophia, all unused to being thus bearded in her own den. "I -I -must say I never heard a -a young man forget himself as you are doing." • " very likely," reglied Tom, •calmly.- " But whatever I May forget, I know what I have got to remember'and it is this. As you have blaokened M.aurice Stafford's re- putation to us, I dathsay you have done it .to other people. Oh, you have !"^ (catching • an expression which flitted across her face) "1 thought it was Very likely. NdW look here. Lady Sophia, It is a very awkward thing to take awayla man's character. You must oblige me by ordering your, carriage and going round among your acquaintances this afternoon, and telling them all in every house you go to that you have been under a mistake as regards my friend. I am sure you will," keeping his eye upon her as she made a restive movement, '• because it will save -you understand, Lady Sophia -it will save me from doing it myself." • (" Gad ! I never saw a woman so caught in her own trap ! inwardly ejaculated Jessop.) A happy thought, however, occured to her ladyship. "It le impossible for me to do what you ask, Tom," she observed blank-, ly. (" Knuckling uadr, by Jove ! " chuck- led Jessop.) "Having heard what I heard from Sir Robert, his, lips only can unsay it. If he &satires me I have been mistaken, can you -doubt my readiness to make the amends honorable ?" ("He does not doubt your making it, madam, he does not doubt that in the slight- est," sneered Jessop, silently. "But if my eyes don't play me false Blaster Tom doubts ,your readiness as much as I do. You're regularly nailed this time my lady -nailed -that's what you are.") :ea " When will Sir Robert be in?" demand- ed Tom, abrubtly. I "I really don't knew., He usually is out till luncheon." "Will he be found at his club?" "Oh, yes -to a certainty." "General Thistleblow has found him there then," said Tom, "and you will be able to decide on your line of action when he comes in. You will hear from him the truth of what I have told you." "You will not stay to see him yourself?" murmured Lady Sophia feebly; luncheon will be up almost immediately." Not that she wanted him to stay, but she was fright- ened into a desperate 'civility. "1 am afraid I cannot stay, Lady Sophia, nor can Colonel Jeesop. He has promised to go with me to meet another gentleman who is also concerned an this affair. I par- ticularly wish Colonel Jessop to hear what Stafford's brother officers think of him, and we are going now to the iNavarand Mili- tary, where I learned this morning that Colonel Wallace was expected in the course of the day -probably ate u; two o'clock," Lady Sophia glanced at Jessop. She was longing for him to stay and for Tom to go; dying to pour forth her indignation, her in- credulity and her. resentment behind the avenging baek of her tormentor; but she did not dare to make the suggestion -nor did Jessop, Tom had cowed them both th their inmost fibres. "We may as well be going, I think," said the boy, raising. At another time he would have waited for his companion to rise, or for his hostess to give the signal of dis- missal. As it was he took the lead; he was the only honest person present, and he scorned the other two. And they saw he did, and accepted the contempt, . (To be Continued.) • VERDICT FOR DODD'S CHAPTER XIX. COLONEL WALLACE'S TESTIMONY. After all,Colonelllessop did not have a bad Lime of it in Chesterfield Gerdens. lt was something to be in a scrape along with a woman of Lady Sophia Clarke'e standing, and. it was something yet More to see her ladyship struggling to get out of it. He could never have hoped te behold the color come and go on a brow usually so imperious; nor to hear confusion in the I voice to whew behests all around were wont to bow. Having had his own share of the whip- ping, be almost enjoyed seeing his noble accomplice under castigation. She had been worse than h�; he had mere- ly cackled over the humour lot a piece of ill- natured gossip, whereae Lady Sophia had taken pleasure in its sting. I Well did he re- collect how resolute she hid been that he should bear his part in the ttansaotion. She was to write to [da; he be Tom. Neither of them had consulted General Thistleblow who, truth to tell, did not ltnow that any- one else had been before Min in the field ; and although dessop's sole teason for silence had been his desire to keeP dark his grow- ing intimacy with the Clarke', respecting whioh Thistleblow was already caustic and jealous, Lady Sophia's retieence was less in- nocent. She feared lest ianything should transpire to mar her triumph; lest Sir Robert or General Thistleblow should either of them qualify the accusation which had served her purpose so well. Men, she averred, would tell you a thing one day, and the next would. eat their own words. She had known Sir Robert do as mucti be- fore. And though Sir Rebert was as posi- tive in the present instance as she had ever known him to be about aeything, it was as likely as not that he would turn round if spok- en to on the subject again, and vow that Thistleblow was a mer wind -bag, as all Liberal -Unionists were. Accordingly she had teken measures not to be baulked of her revenge. While she could honestly present Stafford in Odious colors she would make haste to do so; and if anything came out in palliation of leis of- fences afterwards, she would in justice also let it be known. But write she must; and she had, as we know, seen to it that Jessop should write in the same train by the same post. Lady Sophia had then straightened her back, and felt that she had done her duty. Having thought of the task as her" duty," both before and after it was accomplished, at the end of a week the 'duty" had come to look so positive and imperative in the re- trospect, that it was without the slightest qualm of conscience or tremor of expecta- tion that she beheld her piling cousin enter her morning room, even at an hour so early as to betoken something unusual in the visit. 1 . • Doubtless he had come th inquire, to beg advice, to express gratitude. Seeing Tom in the company of Colonel jeesop confirmed all three suppoeitions. • Had she noted Jessop's eXpression of coun- tenance, she might_ there 1 have read how widely different was the state of the case ; but Lady Sophia was not, a person to ob- serve any one's expression. , She was thus entirely unprepared for the cususerc:mtrx.a.. Tee ha simile signature at 1.761 - ft ea every wrapper. makers elsewhere will join. The cabinet- I maker's of Hamburg and Altonastruck for nine, hours per day, and at resden 8,000 cigarette Makers have gone I4out on strike. There i are similar repor 0 from Charlottenburg, Stettin, Koenigsberg and .Soru. -Engineeringhipbuilding and shipfit- ting industries in England have never be- fore been so busy as now. They are making up for the last half-year of the great lock -out with a vengeance, night shifts be- ing almost universal and deliveries hard to secure under two years. The immense bulk ot the men who were out are at work again. . -Reports reach Odessa from Persia to the effect that the weather in that country is the severest experienced in a century. The road from Resht to Teheran has been rendered impassable by huge snow -drifts. More I than Igo persons have been frozen to death; and ina,ny are missing. These latter are stipposed, to have been lost in the snow. -The remains of George W. Ferris, known throughout the world for his con- struCtion of the great Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair, are still held at the crematory in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for the ampaid funeral expenses, contracted over a year ago. Mr. Ferris was practi- cally penniless at his death, bat carried in- surance to the amount of $25,000, which, it is said, was eaten up by the numerous claims left. -Mr. John Ormiston, late celleetor of customs at Gananoque, Who disappeared last fall, has returned. He was at Provi- • dence, Rodhe Island, with friends. His ac- counts were short to quite a considerable amount. The Reporter, of that village, eve the mistake made was abandoning his position without sufficient cause. If he had consulted his -friends his difficulties, real and imaginary, would have been ar- rwaged, and saved much anxiety and unhap- piness. -Friends of Mr. Alexander Sutherland, son of the late A. S. Sutherland, shoe mer- chant, Kingston, have been able to establish his death after considerable trouble. It was ascertained he had died at sea in June, 1890, while en route from Liverpool to New York as a deck passenger. He was buried j at sea. This information was obtained from the log of the ship on which he sailed. Court Frontenac, Independent Order of Foresters, has passed the death claim and forwarded it to the Supreme Court. The Foresters had a $3,000 policy en hie life. Mrs. Hooper Cured of Female Weakness by Dodd's Kidney Pills. • NORWICH, March 14th. -The evidence of J. Stanley Hooper, farmer, living near Nor- wich, in the case Of Dodd's V8. Disease, was as follows :- " My wife suffered, for twelve years with "Female weakness. 'Ile best doctors attend- ed her. She used many remedies, but neither doctors nor, remedies did her the least good." "Finally I tried Dodd's 'Kidney Pills. One box worked Wonders. Four boxes cured her. She is as well now as she ever was. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her." The judge Charged in favor of Dodd's. Verdict was unanimous, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only known cure for diseases of women." This accords fully With popular feeling. News Notes. -One of the men Who attempted the life of the King of Greece, has been arrested. His name is Karditza, and he is a minor em- ployee in the Mayor's office at Athens. - The strike at the Pepperell and Laconia England, has been declared off, and the operatives will resume work under the premise that the mills will not be the last to restore the old rate of wages. -There is an appalling scarcity ot food in many Provinces of Spain. The price of wheat is high, and bread riots are of daily occurrence at Salamanca, where it is feared that martial law willbe proclaimed. - Mrs. Johnson, wife of the late Chief Johnson and mother of the poetess and elo- cutionist, E. Pauline Johnson, died in Brant- ford it short time ago. Her daughter was snow -bound on her wey from Winnipeg, and was unable to reach Ihome. Mrs. Johnson was a cousin of the novelist, W.D. Howells. -A message was received in Montreal on March 6th announcing the death of Mr. Harry Abbott, Q. C., which took place at St. Augustine, Florida. The deeeased gen- tleman, who was one of the most promi- nent lawyers of Montreal, was a son of Sir John Abbott, Prime' _Minister of Canada, and was born in Montreal in 1857. -There have been large strikes in a' number of German cities: In Berlin 12,000 shoemakers have struck for a uniform scale of weges, and it _it) thought that the shee- ns fue simile dr:attire of is on every wrappez -The Daily Telegraph of London, Eng- land, in an article recording the enormous increase in the number of • women smokers, says: "The great middle-class is smoking as unconstrainedly as the aristocracy, and the working woman is fast following. One well-known lady of title is sometimes seen driving in the Ripley .road with a briar - wood pipe in her mouth. • Enquiries made among doctors,tebeeconists and others show that the bicycle is responsibe for much, as, with wheel -parties, has arisen a freedom of manner unknown in the presence of chap er- -Mrs, Teller, Craigie Le Galt, pulsed peoancast -uy away, a short time ago, after having been ill for several months, surrounded by the members of her family. Her maiden name was Miss Deans and she was the widow of the late_ Mr. John Telfer, who died Wine thirteen yeare ago. She was in her 49th year. Three daughters, Misses Jessie, Nellie and Mary survive, and will have the sincere sympathy of the community in the sad affliction through which they are called up, on to pass. -Mr. W. H. Storey, the founder and head of the Canada Glove works,' Aoton, died March , 6th. , For the past six weeks Mr. Storey had been in poor health. About two • weeks before his death his medical s adviser • found it necessary to operate for an internal growth. The operation was only partially successful, but Mr. Storey continued to progress favor- ably until the dey before his death, when he grew rapidly worse. Mr. Storey came to Acton about 4.0 years ago, and in 1868 estab- lished- the Canada Glove works, which under his skilful management has become the largest of it kind in the Dominion, mak- ing hie name almost a household word from the Atlantic to the Pacific. -At a series of Methodist meetings in London, England, lately, th raise money to maintain John Wesley's old house in City road as a museUnt and home for the work- ers connected with Wesley's chapel. Canon Farrar, Dr. Monroe Gibson a Presbyterian; Dr. Clifford, a Baptist, and othere of other sects, , spoke for the cause, at what old- fashioned Methodists would call a regular love feast, The Dean of Cantetbary said what Christianity needed was unity, not uniformity. He came to give his humble admiration W the great and glorious ;work done by John Wesley, to whom the Church of England owed a lasting- debt of grati- tude. It is said that last summer an American tourist offered $10,000 for a cracked teapot left in a house because it was once used by Wesley, but though Methe diets are enxious for money, they refused to sell their founder's teapot. -Now that time and opportunity for re- flection have been allowed by a temporary cessation of the startling statements which, since the wreck of the Maine, have been the chief features of the special cable dispatches • from the United States, Englishmen are beginning to realize the depth of the pro - Cuban feeling in the United States. With this the thoughtful element there cordially sympathize, althciugh they still believe the. Mein enquiry will absolve Spain from com- plicity in the disaster. An impression almost amounting to conviction prevail; • that public opinion will compel the Govern- ment of the United States to acknowledge the Cubans as belligerents and to intervene in Cuba. The Spectator believes that both Washington and Madrid expect -war, With- out desiring it, " that both are arming as rapidly as they can, "and that "both are cogi- tating upon possible alliances:" Operators on the stock exchange are inclined to leave Americansecurities alone until this crisis is settled. -A son, about two years of age, of Mr. George Shipley, Stapleton, narrowly es- caped death by carbolic acid poisoning, Fri- day last.. The little fellow had got hold of a bottle of the acid, which was suppoied to have been beyond his reach, and was in the act of lifting it to his lips when his mother noticing what he was about, snatched the bottle and none too soon. As it was some of the fluid. was ,spilled upon the child's clothing .and burnled its body, neck and arms. 1 A Dyspeptic? 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