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PA UL VANE'S WIFE)
'
"You must not laugh at me, Pad," she
said, putting hor head on one side with
pretty archness, "for my dream was
stralge and startling. You will say so
yourself when you have heard 0"; ,ul,
in a low, deep voioo, that was solemn is
spiteof her kneed attempts at gayety,
she began to relate her dream:
"I saw you, fool, lying asleep on a
(green, mussy bank beside a rippling
freaIn that wandered ill devious ways
?through t t beautiful grounds of Ascary,
,You turned. rostlesyly in your sleep,
Yum' face was pale, and you n100)1ed
aloud, while your lure writhed in rain, I
hent tires you to catch your words, and
this was what you said: 'No, Vivian; I
shall never love, het better than L. love
you: '1'1100 for a moment the golden
, 00111ight stoned to die away, and
through tine bushes a beautiful, glitter,
ing serpent with emerald eyes carne gliil•
ing toward you, Vnscinated, I cold only
gaze at it, weir beauty as the return,.
ing sunlight sparkled on its scales of
geocn and gold, while its evil, glittering
eyes changed from green to black, stril:-
ieg a chill of mortal terror to my soul,
and freezing 1110 to tiie spot so that 1
could make no attempt to save you from
Bo' fangs of the monster."
Pausing a moment, the girl shuddered,
and, looking up into the face of her hus-
band, sbe saw that he too had poled at
the terrible realism of the picture she
was drawing, though, when she looked
so earnestly at him, he tried to smile
faintly, and, stooping, kissed the sweet,
pale face.
"Do not tell me any more, my, little
love, if it makes you nervous," he said,
tenderly.
"Yes, but I want you to hear about
the rescue,' she replied; and stroking
the hand that held hers with loving lit
tle touches, site continued, "The deadly
serpent glided past me wink 1 stood
motionless with horror, and raising it-
self in shining coils, looked into your
foe with vindictive eyes. Again you
moaned: and stirred in your sleep es
though a subtle sense of danger had
penetrated year dreams, Your slight
movement aroused its fury, and darting
forward, it inclosed your form in its
dread coils, raising its head to strike;
Ind just 'then you awoke, and, as if its
charm held you captive, you fay passive
Imekin1 no effort to escape your fate.
Oh, what a 0'011 look there was in the
•serpent's gleaming eyes! And your aw-
ful danger seemed to burst the bonds of
fear that held me, for I suddenly scream-
ed aload, and from a tree near by ap-
pe0red the form of a man -that hand-
some solder up at Arcady, Colonel Fair-
lie -and raisin„ a pistol that he ear,
ricd, he took deadly aim; but before the
bullet, sped on its way his hand fell par-
nlyz0d to his side, for the venomous se,
pent had changed into beautiful Loraine
Lisle, who, w'it11 a wild, bitter laugh and
r
n terrible look on her dark face stood
before (bei, Then 1 awoke, and, oh! 1
was so frightened, Paul in the darkness
I reit for you to see if you were them
safe beside me. and—" •
:1 stifled sob burst from her, her voice
broke, and sync nestled nearer to the
fond 1(0111 of her husband, Very ten-
derly he kissed her again, and as the
violet eyes met his iu fond affection, he
read in their wistful gaze how utterly
this - first pure love of here evas-part of
tier life, and murmured, with, deep elno-
"�,tthin) 1
• "Have no fears, Inydarling; no deadly
serpent can ever''enter our Garden of
Eden."
And as'be gazed with adoring eyes at
hie wife's loveliness, he recalled these
lines of a favorite poetess of his own
loved Virginia:
"!las the red rose borrowed her scarlet
bloom
From thy bright lip, my sweet?
And the lily stolen thy brow's pale 11110,
Her feirr0ss to complete?
And where the 8alnlnre• violets hide
Within some Leafy dell,
Thine orbs have caught their tender blue
By some sweet, subtle spell;"
paid' nest weelel" Loraine said pressen
Iv, with h f purify patronizing a ',Inst
the air proper from the heiress of Lisle
to the rector's pretty, simple wife. "Yon
will bring your wife, will you not, 11r•
foes? It will please her, 1 know, for
she looks romantic; and it will be lovely
out of doors that night-nloodigllt, and
roses, nod -everything!" vaguely; then
a slight shiver ran over heir as site 00-
caled last, Sunday night, and her terrible
experience out in the night and the
storm, although she had almost got
over her terror now,
CHAPTER IN,
Arcady is one blaze of Light. The beau -
Dial grounds are lighted up with colored
lanterns; statues and fountains gleam
in the garden lights that fall upon thou,
and the harvest moon floats 0 0(1emd0na
in the Bile heavens, Tonight is Miss
kink's
lawn party, and all Arcady is en
tete. The gentlemen vee sauntering
about, or waiting in the huge wid0 hall
b 6,
for the ladies to appear. Gpstatirs in my
lady's boudoir all is confusion Dresses
nc sire,;;: ;b0111 ,a disorder, silks, sa,-
ias, laves, jewels glitter in the light; lie'
Loraine Lisle 10 very had to please, and
she means to look her best to -night. '1'lu.
spectre has not appeared to lin again,
and all rear of it luta passed frofir.her
alhnd 05 she clasps the splendid 'jewels
on her throat and arses, and, gazing
proudly' in the nmror,'thinks' of the
name by which Colonel 1'airlie had called
her -"Queen of'
Her superb krill is draped in a close•
fitting gown of white brocade flowered
with great trim on roses, and great,
Om'ing rubies etas') 110' throat and
ruins -a splendid foil for her dark, Ori•
ental beauty,
Annie, the little maid who had assist-
ed -at the deciting of this goddess of
beauty, clasped her hands in delight.
.Olt, Miss Linable! 1 pity all Liao mon
who wilt SCa'eu to -:light. Son take fay
breath nay!" she cried; and the proud
coquette smiled. Even the adiniratior
of this humble girl 005 baht: 10 her van-
ity,
-No 0110 will rival lne't0-niglit; no one
call" she thought, exultantly, as she
turned to �o down to receive her guests,
who were beginning to arrive.
1n the hall she was joined by the
nests of the house, a"1 ,t new nuc \\11a
had arrived that moraiO3 from Chicago
I'ssJosephine T 1 wittue, t plu.i•p
trunettt. with lovely blue -grey eyes. 'Il e
young widow, firs Aubrey, had already
descended, awl was engaged in 0 desper-
ate flirtation with Colonel Fairlie. who
looked up with a sigh of intense relief as
the bevy of beauties descended the !vide
oak staircase,
Grand:neve I isie.w'•is at the 01101 11.001
deer waiting, ill her `printy, pi0t:d rani•
ion, for her guests and her del131t knee'
no bund, when the rector and wife wore.
seen annnng the first arrivals, Vivian
sus 111 white,as 1101101 --simple creamy
white Landsdowne falling in Soft,grime.
fill folds about h_n poetically' perfect
form. She wore no ornaments int flow-
ers wreaths of starry white jasmine,
beloved of the poets, trailing fr0tn her
shining hair and her white rolea; flllieg
the ria elmilt� her (01111 th' , subtly
sweet l00 Mme, The Miler guests 0000
arriving, the house and grounds were
speedily filled, and an orchestra dis0ours-
ed sweat music front the .western piazza
lull Vale'cduld never reinenrlmr of
temeu•d Inst how it happened that be
found himself ,wandering with Loraine
upon his arm through a sec:laded put of
the grounds where the lights were fever,
andthe 00aind0 of gay voices and intoxi•
eating 1110810 came to them mellowed by
distance. • He was looking into the dark,
luring face that had put on a subtle.
shade of melancholy -mel Mu1oly that
suddenly merged into fear and dread, for,
turning her eyes one moment from his
face, Loraine suddenly espied among the
thick shrubberies before them a ghastly
object '- Hie same co'pse•like, blood-
stained fare that had driven her out of
her senses o'few.nights before. Again its
gloomy, menacing' eyes 0001110(1 to scorch
her very soul,'uald'in uncontrollable ter-
ror she shrieked intent:
"fi
h Heaven! n n the hs '
I c u tl
A sweet, mucking Hugh startled them "hiss Lisle!" the rector e0cminfed, in
from their absorption in each other, and, 1101111; and the righteeed" girl 'tinned
starting apart, they saw Loraine Lisle woos about bis neck, forgetttng'`every-
a1d her friends advancing through the thing but her unreasoning .terror, and
quaint, old-fashioned garden, with its stillshriekingso wildly flirt it' brought
If"' whatiug walks and trees whose green others resbiug to t1fe, seeae-Colonel
• houghs interlaced overhead, while the Pnirlie nein Vivian Vane, rvho, as seta
dancing sunshine sifting through made a saw Loraine clinging with passionate ab-
Iviingpmosaic of light and shade on the endue to ger husband, thought, with a
graveled paths. thrill of despair, of last night's dream.
"Oh, pray, do not let us disturb the
CHAPTER X.
pretty tableaux!" cried the heiress, gay-
ly, and looked archly -at Paul Vane, as It wile a strange and thrilling tableau
he' advanced with a conscious flush on on which Colonel Fairlie and bfs lovely,
his white brow and welcomed them, in companion gazed. There in the flood of
hearty Virginian fashion, with a warm silvery moonlight 1)410 the scene of Vi-
hard•claep, followed by Vivian, who had vian's dream; the green, mossy bank the
grown pale ;gain, for at icy' land seem- rippling water wandering like; a silver
ed suddenly to clutch her heat as if thread in devious 1011310 through Arcady,
that dream ha dbeen a dim warning to here and there the rich green shrubbery
her of the, bitter woe bilis woman was to and tall trees; and to complete the re
bion into ger life. She tried to walk stuur'.�a cc here war.; Paul Vane halos -
steadily to greet Loraine, but her head ee 10 Lono,110 Lisle's 00nts, just as the
swam. and she almost reeled as she wort serpent had coiled about hinr--the ser -
forward to great the imperious heiress. pent that had suddenly changed into
"how pale you are looking this 1110011- haughty heires1, lice, too, were Colonel
ing, Mrs, !'ane!" Loraine's voice had so Fairlie and herself, just as in that start -
strange 0 tote that Colonel Fairlie,who ling thenar. hi the distance 30:'18 the
was walking by her side, looked quteklY sound of ]mesio and here against the
nt the rector's fair young wife, and saw dark shrubberies the glitter of fire -flies
that the heiress had spoken the "la1rciug in the gloom, while over all a
truth, The blue eyes that land been so flood of silvery' moonlight poured its
'Wield and arch when they least mot wee radiance upon the striking scene,
l:lr']c and Grave With 50010 in0xplieable Colonel Fairlie aetld beautiful Vivian
grin, and her smile, as she met thin,, stood for a moment in dumb, horrified
was sad rostra tlof joyous. What wits it? silence, then all the woman awoke in
he wondered; for had he not seen her the 1ouug' wife's breast, and with a
n moment ago with her husband's arm thrilling cry- that at once made her pre-
nbout her, and her bend upon his breast? pre-
sence known, she sprung forward and
Surely, she could not be unhappy, she caught her husband's arm.
who loved and was beloved so ten; sly. "Paull" she exclaimed, in necents of
"Yon received cards for our lawn- reproach rimy entreaty combined, for he
seemed to reset passive in Leraine's'fr01'
tic em101100, just as lie had done in the
serpent's coils.
Colonel Faftlie had followed het Even
as Hutt anguished 00y left het lips he
put out strong, authoritative hams anal
drew, 1.01 uttc rvay 11.0131 this rector,
taking her icy -cold Lands into the firm
rasp of his.
"What hr frightened you, Miss Lisle,'
lie demanded, ie a stern voice that re-
velled some of the girl's wandering sen-
ses.
She shuddered violently, aired tit
hhn with dilated eyes, filet 0131110 ()lose
to him as if for protection.
"Oh, Eugene, I have seen a ghost,"
she cried with a wild, hysterical laugh.
Nie tumid her bead and Save lnil Vane
bending meet his wife, whispering to her.
"Mr. line, you must have seen it too,"
slie cried; in a shrill, distressed voice,
"It Was there., between those trees yon-
der, and it seemed to start up from
the ground toward us -a Wren with a
ghostly white .face old blood -stained --
Ohl" She shuddered violently agaifn, and
her dark eyes were dim, hor face ashy.
"I saw nothing," said Paul Vane, coin-
ing neater, with his wife's little hired,
In lois Own. "It was 80111e ikusiol 'of the
moonlight and the shadows believe 100,
Miss Lisle, anxiously.
"I saw it clearly','' Loraine repeated,
in high excitement, her voice trembling
with fear, and her black eyes roving
uneasily from one side to the other. "1
--1-1008 so frightened I did :lot 1no,v
what to do, 1 think I ohttched you, diad
roc you will e',-
nganr, but wildly,
leaned closer tri the
Fairlie; whom but
had called paths,
something like 0
his lips as !1c sow
It faded in an iu-
ee'ingly:
fiyet tan strong
,frightened by alut-
1 be nothing here
and the leaf shad-
ows, ca'ums that
the idea of bland
Believe me, there
s ghosts however
to the prestige of
nervous am fanciful,
down here 011 this
voursclf. I will
:11r. Veale La's been
d:'
almost fm•gottel
you," Vivian said,
name to curd] you
Mrs. Grey, who
g kora with hiss
v me the nay."
nt once," said the
r alone for •t mo-
ment, side. it
her, be said:
have had so se
Lisle, but 1' 001 cow,
cd you 0 trick. I
ghosts. No sane,
do so, nail T thiel:
clear sunlight of
moonlight illusion,
u aro quite, shaken
ehad,andif yen
] send. your plaid
She lead sunk down. upon the, rustic
seat, and Colonel Fairjie stood over her,
tall, stern, stately, like a soldier of
guard. She looked up with a wan smile
and returning self-possession at the
handsome, elisions rector.
"Thank you very much, but I do not
think I shall need Annie Seasholtz," she
said, lmsl ily. "I -I feel -better now,
:nd :1fter 1 rest here a few moments,
Colonel Fairlie will see that I -get safely
back to my guests."
"Hurry, Itlu], or Mrs. Croy may dee
before yon get there!" Vivian called out,
anxiously, and he held out his shapely
white hand to Miss Lisle. •
"Good -night, for 1 may not return,"
lee said, and pressed warmly fora oto•
meat the cold fingers she placed in ifs,
dropped them, and turned away to give
his arm to his wife, •
"Good -night, bliss Lisle; good -night,
Colonel Fairlie," said Vivian's slyer -
sweet voce, with a jangling note of rre-
pressible pain in it. She moved away
through the moonlight by her husband's
side, a tall, white, graceful. shape which
the soldier's eyes followed with einlier ad-
miration, urea was lost to sight in the
wiulin path. Only then d1d lie turn to-
ward Loraine.
"Yon are betters" he asked, sinking
into a seat by her side, and gazing with
cold, ettrn eyes into her pale face,'
"So y000 recall my eyistenee at last?"
she. flashed, bitterly, film() you, Colo-
nel Fairlie, that Nr. `'ane would have
relished seeing you follow with a lover's
gaze his wife's fair form until it faded
from sight'!" •
"As 1)111011 as his wife relished the en•
brave in which your arm hold her hus-
band when we came suddenly on you
,just now, Miss Lisle"
She writhed under the keen, cutting
raillery of his tone, and cried:
''lint that was explained by my fright,
Really I was not ceneeicua of what d
did, in my horror of the spectre that
Win of
appeared to ore yonder in the opening
the trees."
then, you really olid see ti ghost,
Miss Lisle'"
"Did I not say' so repeatedly?" she
cried, indignantly.
"'Cru let i tedieved you in jest. I
11oegllt you invented the, sne100 to 00 -
count to Mrs. Vane for the situation in
which she found her husband:"
Her doth 031's blazed with wrath.
'Trow dare you?' she cried,. angrily.
"What true you mean?"
"You threnteeed' to flirt with the
godly rector -I believed you were carry-
ing out your threat," he replied, coolly.
Pon were wrong. We were talking
of serious matter --my soul, perhaps,"
she said, maliciously, "Then she paled
again. "I did see something," she whis•
peretlp feafully. "It was a dead man,
There was a dead stare in his fixed blue
eyes; on his fair, white brow was a
bloody stain, Oh, God! can I be going
mad, that I an haunted thus7" wailed
Loraine, suddenly dropping her ghastly
face in her jeweled halide,
t not, 11 Cabe? 1 ht
01150 ole;' oho' laughed
hyntericnlly, and lean
tall form of Colonel
now ib ler terror she
ticnny,'Eugenre," and
uuehiug smile curled 1
0:1(00sing' motion,
slant, and he said), sn
"Miss Lisle, 1 though
01111. self -poised to be
sha-
dows. And there could
But the moonlight as
and the great se
!nights have suggested
`a ,your nervous fancy.
are no such things •t
much one would adrl
Arcady, You are ne•w
aloft is all. Coyne, sit
rustic seat and 0.1hn
remain with you, for
sent for to a death -be
"Yes, Paul, I had
why 1 was seeking
Wetly, "A un 00011 res
to the 1100tb•bed of old
had seen you coming
Lisle, offered to shay
"Then I most go
rector; bat he left he
and went to Lo
ing coutte0usl, town'
'I regret that you•
,ere a night, .hiss Li
tun, yarn fancy play
do not believe in
healthy person should
you will laugh in the
Ireino •roll' at this
But T 000 nmv that yo
by the shock you has
will permit toe, I win
to you."
Olathe eteru,'handsoule face looking et
her there :vas no faintest trace of pity
--only bitter exultation, He smiled sac•
c nslx1lly as lin said:
"Yoe must be going marl, indeed, for
there are no'snehgthugs as ghosts; and
if there were who of thorn would choose
t,rr Launt glorious Miss Lisle, the Queen
of Hearts?"
He saw her ehriuk and shiver, but
went on, pitilessly: "Who, maeed, unless
some poor wretch, who had gore nod
for love of her fatal charms and died?
Are there any such on your lists, ]hiss
Lmle, and runs the face you saw a
familiar one?"
She noodled in her seat without an-
swering a word, and presently she heard
him repeat, 1 eaniugly:
"'Tilos from the throne of her high dis-
dain,
• MY lady looks on her suitors below,
While each one craves her favor in vain,'
And passes away in bitter pain,
She says with a laugh th01 is sweet and
yew,
"L'auronr est mort, hails 11ve
1'a'moorIa'
Loraine sprang U., bee feet, pale, furi-
ous,
"Take me hack to nay guests!" she
Cried, 1+•iding13'.
But ,just then a gay pity of young
people aleuost visited upon the scene,
headed by the yeang widow, Mrs. Au -
key', who cried, gushingly:
6]y:
"Oh, you poor, dear darling! 1100.
Vane ins• just told ups of your terrible
fright. And did you reality see a. ghost?
1 would give anything to see one. Where
is it, Colonel Fairlie? Hata it got away
yet ?"
While ,Josephine Thornton, the Chi,
ergo beauty, added,. joyously:
i shall carry my kodak camera faith
ore constantly hereafter, in hopes of:
getting a ]roof of the ghost, W00.111'1
that he splendid, .lir. Betimes?" to'ti,e
poet, who wee walling by her side,
CliAP"LER '-il,
Loraine was bitterly aing0y at tinah'g
that innocent Vivian had related the
story of her fright to the guests, and
she hastily deteaui l to 101101 the
whole :natter off by deohtring that Col,,
01101 liairlie 11)0! convinced her it' was
an optical delusion.
"l can laught at it now," she said.
"Litt Milted it seemed very read Pa
the moment, • and in my terror 1 clung
to the recto' like a child. Iluw silly it
"
seems !tow . ht is the first time irtat
1 ever gale way to nerves, and I tun
gait;) sm'e that 1 never will again."
No 000 thought of doubting her as-
sertion, but Willie Beiuters looked
gave Ile bad not 10rgotten a. Sunday
night 0 few weeks ago, alhhou lr newer
by word. or sign had he reunhrde.d Miss
Lisle of the fact; and on her side elle
seemed utterly t111001naeiens,
He watched her with ;olive interest
11ow', for there had been a time with the
poet when, as had -happened to ahoy
other men,. his Leapt had beat qui fker
at the siren's glance, and the 1100d
leaped faster through his vein" ,tt tine
torch of her slim, jeweled hand --,u ly
for a little time; for the inherent no-
bility of the poetic n.ttlin! had ori:
shrunk fretll the gross vanity and art
d100000ed in the flattered beauty and
heiress. She was false, and she was
cruel, this fair favorite of fortune, 'and
with some bitter po.ngs he drew back in
time, ere his wound pierced, too deep
•-drew back to wakh fn amazement mai
disgust the triumphal career of heart -
lees Loraine, of whom he had written
bitterly in the first shock of. his pain:
"You fold o'er your boson the rich bra'
code -
Do you ever dream that it cove's 0
heart?
Shall I shock you by belling you it i8
made'
Of groesest vanity, falsehood nod
art?"
They -carried Loraine bac!: to Grand -
mere Lisle, 10116 had become quite ner-
vous on h00111g of he}• fright.
(T� oe continued.)
Another - Modern Miracle
Par dp 1I sin PermaneHl tl'
The Sufferer 'Paralysed. From Waist to Feet..—Encased i^ Plaster of
Faris for Niae 1i/oilths---Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure After For
,Doctors had Failed—The &.•e Vouched for by a Well Known
Clergyman.
Paralysis, hot matter how' slight;
is a terrible affliction, but to be para-
lyzed from Waist to feet,' to be a help-
less cripple, totally dependent upon
what others do for you, is a condition
as )rretched as man could possibly
bear. Snell was the state of Mr. Al-
lan J. McDonald, of nice Point, P.
E.I. For over a year he was ahelp-
less invalid, He was paralyzed from.
his waist to his feet 0111 for nine
rndntlns lay in bed encased in a plas-
ter 01 Otis net. Fein of the best
doctors in Prince Edward Islimd
were unable to help him and he seem,
ed, doomed do a life of misery and
despair: but hope came to 11:11
when he read, of what Dr. V2illinin's
Pink Pills had done for other suffer-
ers from paralysis, He procured e
supply: of the Pills and began taking iter 111r. McDonald :many tfines dor-
them. Gradually they broke the ing his 1101030. 'He was attended by
chains of disease that bound him, and three or tore doctors and put in
filled hi whole body with rtes blood, piaster paris, and everything inrfa in -
life and vigor. Mr, McDonald say's:-- able which might be of benefit was
"I am a farmer and in consequence done for him without success. Ile
have a greatdeal of hard work to do. had lost all power of his body from his
One day saki!() about my weir]; I in, waist down and 1 think he was nearly
hued my hack, but et the tiirie I paid a year under treatment before he be-
little attention to the injury and cot- gen to use Dr. William's. Pink fills.
tinned my work. As time went one I was with, him the day he first
though, thepain becamemore severe moved his big toe and from that time
and 1 soon fouind myself unable to on he gradually improved and for the
lift anything no matter how light. It last few years he has bee:. perfectly
was not long before I had to stop well. I can vouch for the cure Dr.
work altogether and consult a doe- Williams' Pink Pills effected in his
tor, He treated 1130 but his treatment case,"
did not help me and 1 rapidly grew If you oro sick and the treatment
worse. I had to take to ray bed, you are neer, taking does not lielp
tied in tine hope that my spine !night you, 'give Dr. William's Pink Pills 'a
receive strength I wa0 messed in a, fair:trial. They have cured thou -ands
plaster of park cost. This, did not after doctors and other medicaaitreat-
help me aml 1 could feel the it alysin me0t had hopelessly holed. cheese
-lowly creeping. over •one till I Wits Pills actually make new, riot, red
totally paralyzed from my • waist to blood, feed the starved nerves end
my feet, 1 lest all control over my bring health and strength toeven'
bowels and bladder and my legs had part of the body. This 1s why Dr.
no more feoling than if they were William's Pink Pills tura socio 0p -
made of wood. Three other doctors 1'parently hopelesse80e0 as Mr: i-.o-
etrioed to cure nye, but their treatment 1)onnld s, and it is . 101(7 they have
also was a failure, and for over eleven cured thousands and thousands of
months I lay in bed unable to move. sick, discouraged people in every pert.
Dr, Williams Pink Pills were than ad- (31 the world. Sold by all medicine
visaed and I was shown testimonials of I (t0,riers or by mail at 50 cents a box -
others who had been eared of nerdy- !eie six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr.
els through them. I bun1ht a supple , Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
and in Less than three months the)' tint
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Disease atta4+les the little ones through
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lotely safe. If 00(1'rssery the tablets,
can be crushed to a powder or dissolved
in water. Mrs. Wm. F. Gay, St. F.lcar•
ois, P. L. I„ says: "1 know of nothing
to equal Baby's Own Tablets for tine cure
of stomach and bowel troubles. I can-
not seek too highly of this medicine
1111(1 do not feel safe without a box of
Tablets in the (louse." Sold by medicine
dealers or by mail at 20 cents a box
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
What Is Life to You?
To the preacher Ilte's a sermon,
To the joker it's a jest;
To the misee 1110 10 money,
To the loaferlife is rest.
To the lawyer life's a trial
To the poet life's a song;
To the doctor life's apatient
That needs treatment right along.
To the soldier life's a battle,
To the teacher life's a school;
Life's a good thing to the grafter,
It's a failure to tLe fool.
To the man upon the eeglne
Life's a long and Leavy orate;
it'sa parable to the gambler,
To the merchant Ilfe's a trade.
Life's a picture to the artist,
To the rascal life's a fraud:
Life perhaps is but a burden
To the man beneath the hod.
made a remarkable change in nt, 1
was able to get out of bed and crawl
along the 'floor on my hands and
knees. Gradually may limbs became
stronger: Soon I could walk with the
Ilid of a came and inside of nine
months after 1 incl begun the use of
the Pills was totally cured, and once
more able -to do light work. Now I
nm ns strong as ever I was and can
do my work about the farm without
the least trouble, T think Dr, Wil-
liams' Pink Pills are without an equal,
for, besides my. own 01:se, I know of
two other cases of paralysis cured by
them. T,vo young girls who had been
cripples and whom I advised to tr$'
the Pills.
1n corroboration 01 what Mr. Mc-
Donald says, the Rev. D, 1-IocLen of
Charlottetown, P.C.!.,writes:--"I vis -
Life is lovely to We lover,
To the player llle's a play:
Life may. be a lead of troublr
To tam 010(1 epos the dray.
Life 10 but a long 'vacation
To the man sheloves his work;
Life's en everlasting effort.
To shah duty to the shirk.
To Ste heaven's blest romancer
Life's a .story ever new;
Life le what we try to make It -
Brother, what is life to you?
-Anonymous.
LABOR UESTION.
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR BRING-
ING MECHANICS TO CANADA.
No Change Here far Artizan;'-Tho
Canadian Trades Union Delegate
Delivers an Address
in Edin•
burgh.
(Edinburgh Evening Dispatch.)
An address 011 emigration to Canada
from the Canadian trade unionist's
point of 11100 vvas delivered to :nem-
bers of Edihbilrgh and District Trade,+
Cciuneil last night in the Canongafe
Institute by Mr. 0'. R. Trotter, to
whorl the Trades and Labor Con,
00000 of Canada has delegated the
task of showing to the people in the
Motherland the view taken 0y organ-
ized labor in Canada of wholesale emi-
gration to the Dominion. Bir. Walter
Bell presided,
Mr. Trotter assured his audience at
the outset thatthe trades unionists'
were=.fairly well organized in Canada,
and' nletntiollecl that the Union to
which he belonged operated over an
area reaching from Edmonton in Can-
ada ..down to the Gulf of Mexico, and
it had branches in the Philippines..
Tho';~ did not have half a dozen unions
of the same craft bickering with each
other as there was in this country.
The Canadian Government, he said,
hada big territory to fill up, and in
seeking for population they asked for
three classes of people -formers and
farm workers, railway navvies, and
domestic servants. These classes had
been netted for right along the line.
The Government had never asked for
anything else; but certain people were
interested in having other classes
brought into the country. They would
like to have four men for each job in
the mechanical crafts; and they had
produced such a state of affairs that
every municipality in Canada had a
large unemployment problem on its
hands, and the' associated charities
were doling out relief week by week.
So fur as the mechanical trades
were concerned, Canada was no batter
off than this country. •
He declared emphatically that the
Canadian Government stated that it
had not• authorized emigration socie-
ties .113 persuade skilled ma henies to
br to Canada. and he quoted a Gov-
ernment pamphlet on the subject in
support of his assertion,
The Government of Canada 'was not
to blame he said. An • artisan going
to Canada just now hada very bad
chance of getting a footing. The Cn-
aditln Government agents would de-
clare, if asked, that the skilled arti-
san's chances of employment in Can-
ada were small indeed. He laid mucic
of the responsibility for the ,position
in charitable and semi -religious bodies
engaged in emigration work,
Pointing out that Canada was yet
a young country, lie said industrial
centres the}, were few and far be.
twee. Consequently, it was ridicu-
lous to suggest that there was work
for all artisans. Proceeding, he 're-,
',jested the work cl the Canadian
ufacturers A-ooeiati n, the mo;nbc.r
of which, he Said, were business men
who believed that there ought. to he :
at least .l9111' 1ren for every job_ in the
country. He asserted that the man
whowould ;hip people from one ride
of the
e earth to the other "wiid lear0
them sliding were criminals: (,tip.
as.
] ,'
pu.e1
The Board of Trade in Canada'cor-1
responded to our Chambers of Com-
merce, He had seen more of the pan-_
phlets issued by these Bohrd, in thief '
country than he, had ever seen -101'
Canada. The Boards would not dare
to have published these pamphlets
in their own districts. Pamphlets
recently issued by , Canadian Govern-
ment Departments might be regarded.
as generally 0orrect, but when reading
pamphlets by the Board of Trade; they
ought to take a peer-; of salt for c;cry
line they rend.
1 -Te described the operations of the
various emigration societies rn - thins
country , as "simply abominable,
These charitable and religious swig -
tics hat put up the stiffest fight
against the Government's legtekttien
on the subject,
1
He severely critict_ed the emigration
ration•
scheme of General :Booth, whose or-
ganization he described as the llini-'
"ration Army. Salvation; he said, be-
ing now a side issue. The Salvation
Army were busy 0001(1ng emigrations
lrbm the mother country, and on the
other sire of the water the :1rmy'a
representatives were breaking -their
necks trying to get places ho those,
already sent out by the Army. The
methods of the Army, he said, were:
not always fair and square.
Cruel,,,
"There," said Rimer in Conclusion, "cle-
ver idea, wasn't it? I thought I'd work
it up into a ballad" "Why not qua-
trains" suggested Critiek, "011, that's
too short," "1 .don't believe any editor
would thin!: so." -Philadelphia 1 reds, •
0 fully equipped daily n aper'
plant, with a special tel'gral' f price
and 10 ciuige of a cgnrpetenl newspaper '
mai, is theplan of the :Baud of Cura-
tors of itu' 'Missouri State l'10(:'01:1 nt
Columbia. Mr., for the new department
of journalism, The duly paper will be
known as The University Alissounon.