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TIM WINO:Of TIMES. DECEMBER 24 003
A LAST WIFE
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BY MRS. 1-1: LOVETT CAMERON, -
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Ihis straying from his lawful allegi- less I had been able to. succeed. In
once., I can see that she is straining vain, by a praiseworthy course of
t.evcry nerve to listen to what ?dr. subtle arguments, I had endeavored,
Macdonald is saying to me. Poor with difficulty, to reconcile myself to
•!woman! I feel quite sorry for her; the unalterable verdict of Fate.
it must be so distressing to be per- I .forced myself to contemplate
•petually striving to keep two men at calmly the perplexities of my situ -
•once under ono's eye. Why was Rho anon, and I called my reason and
so foolish as to provide herself with my commonsense to my aid, and to
:a couple? She reminds me of a hen assist in banishing my foolish and
.trying to keep two ducklings under
:her wing at once. Futile attempt!
As fast as one is safely secured, high
,a40d dry out of danger, the other has
addled off into the pond; and
hilst she is trying to lure him,
again to her side, number one will
be back into the water.
Seeing this, I laugh; and, out of
sheer feminine malice, determine up-
on not being more disagreeable to
my attendant knight than I can
help. Mrs. Featherstone has chosen
to make it war between us; let us
unprofitable dreams.
On the one hand, I said to My-
self, there is this Captain Thistloby
—a cavalry officer, therefore, ex of-
ficio, a flirt—whose attentions during'
one day, however pointed, could have
had no possible depth oi' signifi-
cance; whose income, as I had al-
ways understood from Bolla, was ex-
ceedingly limited, and who, more-
over, to quote his own words, was
"in no want of a wife," and whb,
moreover, had sworn never to see me
see if I cannot fight her with her again.
own weapons. X have good looks, On the other hand, there was my
and twenty years the advantage of betrothed, dispensing riches to ray-
her; it will go hard with me if I soli and papa, and entire satisfac-
tion. to everybody concerned—except-
ing myself. To exchange the one
lover for the other was, to begin
with, an utter impossibility; there-
fore, to reconcile myself to what was
absolutely inevitable, and to got
over my little fancy for Bella's hand-
some brother-in-law as quickly as
might be, was not only my wisest,
but my only course of action.
All these reflections were very
sensible and very true; but, alas! I
found them strangely ineffectual.
Two clays passed at Eddington
quietly, and, for mc, not altogether
pleasantly. I should not have en-
joyed myself at all had it not been
for the prospect of the dance, or
rather the ball—for the entertain-
ment kept on growing in size and
cannot discomfit her.
! X turn to Mr. Macdonald with a
pleasant smile: "Shall I sing you
• something?" If I sing, he must per-
force hold his tongue, I reflect.
- "'Yes, do; you have a beautiful
voice, I am sure. I can see it by
, your eyes."
"How remarkably clover you must
bel" And then I begin without fur-
ther preamble:
'Near Woodstock town I chanced to
stray
When birds were blithe and fields
were gay,
Till, by the glassy river side,
Ill A weeping maiden I espied,
'Alas!' she said, 'my love's untrue
Another damsel he doth woo;
Forgetting all the vows that he im ortance—which was to take i
To love's last hour would faithful p place
be , „ at the end of the week. I was pas-
t 1 Every ono listened in silence; , and sionately fond of dancing, and look -
when I had finished there was a ed forward with eagerness to this
pleasant break in the dullness of my
visit to Eddington.
For dull it was; the gentlemen
were out shooting all day, and every
day; and I was very glad of it, for
though I rather liked Mr. Flower,
and always hoped to be seated near
him at dinner, I found Major Hey-
wood intolerably dull, and I per-
fectly detested Dlr. Macdonald. Papa
and Mr, Curtis did not, of course,
join the shooting party; but they
spent most of the day in the lib-
rary, poring over their beloved
books. Thence they emerged only
at meal -tunes with abstracted, ab-
sent faces, and had to be asked sev-
eral times what they would eat be-
fore they could be sufficiently roused
to the vulgar necessities of life to
appreciate the difference between
roast mutton and cold chicken, until
papa would soften somewhat under
the influence of Mrs. Featherstone's
blandishments; Tor, failing the pre-
sence of any better specimen of the
male species, that. lady exerted her-
self to the utmbst to be civil and
pleasant to him.
Luncheon swallowed rapidly, and
as though every moment was of un-
told value, the two old men would
retire again to their studios, and we
women were alone together again
CITAPTER IX. until dinner -tune.
They were not pleasant to me,
those two women; they tacitly but
determinedly ignored Yue—talking of
mutual friends and united interests
so persistently that I had no chance
of joining in their conversations.
Theydiscussed persons utterly un-
known to me; they spoke of scandals
well aired in the world of fashion,
but of which I was perfectly ignor-
ant; they avoided generalities with
a perseverance which I must believe
to have been intentional; and, in
short, they made me painfully con-
scious of being perpetually in their
way.
Onc morning, the day before the
hall to which I looked forward so
much, Mrs. Leith carne flying into
the room with an open letter in her
hand.
"Who do you suppose is staying at
Chadley?" she exclaimed, excitedly.
"The dearest darling in the world 1
Such a friend of yours, Clara! Guess
who, You will be so pleased,"
Mrs. Featherstone thus adjured,
mentioned half a dozen persons, all
of them men, whom, I imagine, she
considered in the light of "dearest
darlings;" but none of her surmises
were apparently correct.
"What de you say to Pet?" cried
'Skin was on Fire Mrs. Leith, triumphantly.
"What, dear old Pet? How charm-
ing! Why, he will be coming over
with the Bolt party to -morrow
night. How delightful!"
"Yes; X had no idea he know them
at all. Mrs. Lowndes mentioned it
in her letter quite at the end, where
Ointment. ,it's all crossed. I did not read it
till just noW."
"But, my dear Anna, we must
positively get him away from there.
He will be falling in love with Lady
You dare not exercise for fear of aggravating Margaret, or some such horror; be-
. the
o-.the itching, neither can you sleep, for no sides, he would bo much jollier with
us."
"Can't you write and ask him to
Stop when ho comes to -morrow night?
Send over a lean with a letter,"
"Yes; of course X can. Cottle, and
let us write a note to him,"
'110 two f
ri ends sat downf3
together
The e
at a distant writing -table, with their
heads together; and, to judgo front
the laughter which went on, I should
imagine the note of invitation con-
cocted between them must have been
a highly humorous production.
Presently the bell *as run and
order% given that a groot rung,
• chorus of applause from everybody
but Mrs. Featherstone, who, turning
round to Major Heywood, said, in a
distinct voice:
"I never care for theatrical ballad -
singing in a drawing -room; it is very
seldom well done, except by profes-
sionals.''
1 This remark, falling as it did upon
!the moment of silence which sue-
' ceoded to the burst of applause from
i my audience,made everybody look
very uncomfortable. It was so evi-
deetly meant for me; and yet it was
so impossible for anybody to take
up jlhe cudgels for me without mak-
, ing the rudeness of it more appar-
' ent; that no one answered. Then it
4 was that Mr. Curtis, who had left
papa over the manuscripts alone,
came up behind me, and laid kind
• hands on each of my shoulders.
"No one, not even a professional,
could sing ballads better than Freda
.does, to my mind," he said.
, There was a murmur of assent; and
Dre, Featherstone reddened, f
eelin
g,
:probably, •that she had gone a little
i too far.
t I looked up gratefully at him.
Never, possibly, had I been nearer to
loving George Curtis than at that
I moment.
1 Let it not be supposed that I had
forgotten Mark Thistloby all this
time. Nob all the delights of Ed-
-dington—not all the fascination
i which the prospect of being the min-
t tress. of so charming a house could
e not fail to have over mo, nor the
I sense of position and power so dear
;instinctively to any woman who
knows herself to be young and good-
looking, and which my position in
1 -the county as George Curtis' wife
I would give me—not • any of these
1 things could make me forget the face
1. of the man who had exercised sb
I sudden and so complete a mastership
.,over my imagination.
I It began to occur to me, in a
manner more forcible than pleasant,
not .so much that I was not ata• all
, in love with Mr. Curtis, but that I
i was very much in love with some-
body else. Ever since my return
from Seaeliff, sleeping or waking, 1
had been unable to banish Mark
1'Thistleby's image from before my
eyes, and the tone of his caressing
1 words from my too retentive mens
I•ory. The more I had striven the
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with the l(tter,
Now, 1 could not help feeling ex-
ceedingly curious as, to this unknown
being, whose vicinity aroused such
rapturous expressions on the part
of the two friends, and who rejoiced
in tho so endearing a cognomen as
that of "Pet."
"Pet" was, X gathered from the
above conversation, undoubtedly a
male being, and presumably a full-
grown man, although, had I not
known thea tastes and peculiarities of
my friends, I might easily have ima-
gined, from so caressing a name.
that the possessor of it was some
well-bred pug or Skye terrier, or, at
the most, some captivating child.
But front 'the allusions to "Lady
Margaret," whose incipient rivalry
was to be thus timely crushed, it ap-
peared to me that, beyond all doubt,
"Pet" had obtained the years of dis-
cretion. Probably he was one of
those little duo decimo editions of
manhood whom women are so uni-
versally fond of, who, by their di-
minutiveness and their saucy speech-
es, win their way to greater privi-
leges and freedoms than are generally
accorded to their larger brethren;
who sit at ladies' feet holding their
skeins of silk, or playing with the
charms on their chatelaines, enjoying
the good things 'thus freely granted
to theca wonderfully, and exciting
the envy of bigger and less -favored
rnen,
"Pet" was evidently a man after
this fashion, his soubriquet spoke for
itself. Ile was, I supposed, small,
dandy, and curly-haired, with tiny,
patent leather encased feet, and
hands that took "ladies' size" in
gloves. As such he would have, be-
yond being a physiological study, no
sort of attraction for myself.
Nevertheless, I had a certain
amount of feminine curiosity about
him. '
I gathered later on in the day when
the messenger had returned from his
errand to Chadley Castle, that
"Pet," w1 )(aver he was, had accept-
ed Mrs. Featherstone's invitation;
that ho was to conte over with Lord
Bolt's party to the ball, stay that
night at Eddington, and go out
shooting with the gentlemen of our
party the next day.
The eventful day arrived at length.
My dress—simple as it was, and re-
lieved only from its dead whiteness
by bunches of delicate ferns and rich -
colored exotic blossoms which I be-
lieve Charley Flower had ransacked
all the hot -houses and tortured the
minds of all the gardeners to pro-
cure for me—was nevertheless, I
felt, a success. I looked my best.
Nevertheless, as the hour approach-
ed for the arrival of the guests, I
felt unaccountably nervous, and
creeping down into the big, empty
ball -room, I ensconced myself shyly
in the deep recess of ono of the win-
dows whence I could see and hardly
bo seen myself.
From my sheltered corner I watch-
ed the country squires and dames
with their bevies of awkward or
graceful daughters, and their, for the
most part, ungainly hobbydehoy
sons as they faced into the room.
Some of them I knew slightly, but
most of them were strangers; for
although we had lived for years at
the S'lopperton Cottage, that humble
abode and its inhabitants had not
been much given either to dispense
or to receive hospitality, and wo
were as little known to most of the
county magnates as though wo had
dwelt in Whitechapel.
• Tho room was filling rapidly, when,
with a little flutter of expectation at
the doorway suitable to the import-
ance of the guests, the party from
Chadley Castle was announced.
I bent forward eagerly in niy cor-
ner to watch their entrance as Mrs.
Featherstone, resplendent in ruby
satin and diamonds, swept forward
to receive them with gracious ear
pressement; and oven Mr. Curtis left
off an interesting mineralogical dis-
cussion with an ancient scientist,
whom ho had buttonholed into a
corner, to attend to his duties as
host.
First comes Lord Holt himself, a
mild -faced little reran, with a depre-
cating, apologetic air, as though he
would perpetually bo saying: "Don't
be alarmed, good folk; although I
am the biggest man in the county, I
really don't want to frighten you. I
assort, you X am most gentle in my
habits., and not even a child among
you need stand in fear of me."
Not so his wife. Lady Holt is
clad in importance and a Parisian
gown, of both of which she is equal-
ly conscious, and which strike envy
into the heart of every female be-
holder,
Even Mrs. Featherstonetherstono ap-
pears
to be subdued, and to tremble
before her. To the world at large,
Lady Holt appears to be saying,
"Fall down and worship, oh, ye his-
ser mortals! and Consider yourselves
lucky that you are not blinded by
the dazzling glory that surrounds so
great a personage as myself."
Lady Margaret follows in the wake
of her parents, and is a paler and
plainer edition of her mother, whom
she much resembles. After her fol-
low two couples whose names X have
net caught, attd whose appearance
does not interest me.
"And 'Pet!' 11
Ito
for
nowsay
myself, bending forward.
The doorway darkens with a tall,.
broad -shouldered figure. 1 catch a
glimpse of rt close -cropped bead, a
long, tawny moustache, and deep
hazel eyes that are not looking my • n
way, and in another moment Mark I
Thistleby and Mrs. Featherstone are and res
shaking hands heartily like old gaged
friends who are rejoiced to meet don't
each other again.rlltfdtly
CIIAI"l'EIt X.
Alt! my tell-tale heart, will it
never stop beating.
I shrink hack into my corner and
hope that no one will see rue.
; So this is their "Pet," of whom
they talked with such familiar lnti-
mut-yl What evil chance of tate has
thrown Lint again across my Omit'
]s it chance? or has h,' come to fi.rad
me out? Alt! no; if he is here by (h-
ien it is not for int -•I (lave not
flatter myself that it can be for nae:
t is to horst i;a at 111x. Fectthel••
;tone's shrine ---it is for be r that 1.,
s here! Already he is bending down
inwards her tvitlt that c•urtezie
scanner which I remember all too
well, and gazing with eager eyes in-
to the bolsi, handsome face that does
not shrink from his ardent looks.
And she is handsome!—horriely,
terribly handsome! I never recogniz-
ed it so plainly before. It is for
her lie is here; tae does not even
know that I am in the room; he has
not even seen xne, nor even once
looked round to• seek nto: he is ut-
terly and wholly absorbed in his
delight at meeting Clara Feather-
stone.
Suddenl;, a Rash of memory carries.
me back to a stormy evening not a
month ago. I hear the splash of
the waves around me; I feel the gen-
tle pressure of a sheltering arm that
is round me,and the warm graso of a
hand in which mine is clasped; and
then, oh! crowning humiliation! I
seem to feel again the swift touch of
his moustache upon my cheek. Re-
membering it, I shrink still further
into my corner, crimsoning hotly
with angor and with shame.
And then the music of the first
quadrille strikes up, the people
standing in front of me make way,
and I hear George Curtis saying.
"Where is she?" and he leads up
Lord' Holt, and introduces 1110 to
him.
"I hope you will not mind danc-
ing a square dance with an old man
for once, nay dear young lady," he
says, graciously, and conveys are oil
on his arm, amid the wondering
gaze of the bystanders, towards the
top of the room.
On the way ho pauses for a min-
ute, and introduces aro to his wife
and daughter, who both shake
hands with me, and several other
people speak to me kindly. I begin
to perceive that as the future mis-
tress of Eddington I am ai person of
some importance, and that most of
the county people are curious to in-
spect me.
As I move onwards, upon Lord
Holt's arm, the skirts of my dress
brush across Mark rrhisticby's feet,
but I hold my head very high, and
look straight in front of me, as if I
dict not see him.
Oh! those dreadful Lancers. Would
they never, I wondered, come to an
end? I talked excitedly to my au-
gust partner, had I not talked I
must have cried; of what we con-
versed I have not now the faintest i
recollection. I, do not think that I
heard or understood one word that
he said to me, and yet I chatted ex-
citedly—merrily. even—whilst my
eyes were incessantly drawn, as by a
magnet, to a broad back and a
brown head in a neighboring set,
not a dozen yards off, dancing with
Clara Featherstone.
The Lancers cone to an end, and
Lord Holt proceeds to walk me
away down the room. I think he is
telling me some anecdote of adven-
tures in his younger days at a
masked ball in Florence. He laughs
a good deal, and I laugh too—out
of sympathy I imagine, for I do not
quite realize the point of the story.
As we go, our royal progress is fre-
quently impeded by dancing men
clamoring for my curd,
"The first waltz is ours, Miss
Clifford," says Charley Flower;
Wand a friend of mine is most anx-
ious to be introduced to you."
"'You aro going to give me a
waltz. I hope?" shouts the deaf
Major Heywood. And then several
other men are introduced to me, and
I scrawl illegible hieroglyphics upon
my dancing card, which is soon
nearly filled up.
"You are the Queen of the Ball,"
says Lord Holt, smiling gallantly,
as the music strikes up, as he re-
signs aro to young Flower; and when
he says it I am glad—glad that
Mark Thistleby should find me
courted and sought after, so that
he may not for one moment imag-
ine that his going or his coming is
of the slightest importance to me.
But as the evening wears away,
and dance after dance goes by, and
still he has made no sign, no token
that he even sees me, my flutter of
defiance dies away, and my eyes wan-
der wistfully towards him.
Not once have our eyes mot. Cap-
tain Thistleby has been dancing as
much as myself, principally with my
future sister-in-law, and the chances
and changes of the ball -room have
brought him more than once in close
proximity to me, and yet never to
my knowledge has he looked at me.
The line of action is so marked
and so unnatural that I cannot be-
lieve that it is not intentional. A
perfect stranger would, in all prob-
ability, have glanced at me occas-
onall and
as
T n certain m ce to
Yr
n that he
annot have forgotten me, it follows
hat he must he avoiding mo design-
dly. But why should he bo so
ruelly insulting as to ignore me al-
ogether? Even as Bella's friend, if
of as his own, he might have giv-
n me some, if ever so slight, a re-
ognition.
The flush of excitement fades out
t my face, and my heart turns sick
ith a nameless misery as I watch
int bending down to whisper into
frs, heatherst.one's willing ear. At
11 events he is amusing himself very
well, for he is flirting with her des -
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"Mow pale you look!" says Char-
ley i'lower, Who is dancing with Inc.
"You have been pretty Well danced
to p'ieees this evening."
"I ant tired," X acknowledge. "Is
et the next dance a polka? I think
W ga d sit in the conservatory
ittle. X believe X urn ea-
r Macdonald, but X
dance. If X get adray,
set and fusel."
Continued)
WHAT WILL 1313 NEXT?
Windlne Vp Order c+rsuted In the Cobol
abe Consolidated Doke Superior C.W.
psuy—11quldators AAppon:told.
Toronto, Dec, 15. ---The Toronto
General Trust's Corporation has been
appointed liquidator of the Consoli-
dated Lake Superior Company.
This followed an order by Mr.
Justice MacMahon declaring the Con-
solidated Lake Superior Company in.
solvent. The petitioners for the wind-
ing up order were W. W. Kurtz, Wil-
liam Rotch. Wister and Nicholas Brice
all of Philadelphia, shareholders in
the Consolidated Company. Tho pe-
tition was granted and the orders
made upon the facts stated, and up-
on hearing the admission of Spencer
Love, counsel for the Consolidated
Company, that it is insolvent.
John G. Carruth, who was duly
appointed receiver of the company,
by the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Distribt of Connecti-
cut, on Sept. 28, 1903, was joined as
a provisional liquidator with the To-
ronto General Trusts Company, the
Master -in -Ordinary to appoint per-
manent liquidators as events arise,
.Ln Appeatl.
Mr. )3icknell, IC, C„ who has acted
for Speyer & Co., characterized the
winding up as a strange proceeding,
and doubted whether the Canadian
courts could wind up the affairs of a
company formed under the laws of
Connecticut. He said the proceedings
to wind up under .Judge MacMahon's
order would be contested on this
ground.
The lawyers for the petitioners for
the order to wind up say that the
application has been made for the
purpose of protecting the sharehold-
ers and creditors generally. In the
face of this order Speyer & Co. can-
not go on or do anything without the
consent and direction of the court,
and the assets of the company will
be under the direct control and sup-
ervision of the court. Mr. Carruth,
the liquidator appointed, is a Phila-
delphian, who has always maintained
the. rights of the general creditors
and shareholders. The result of the
order, if continued, will be the oust-
ing of Mr. Fackenthal from his posi-
tion as receiver for Speyer & Co. at
the Soo.
BATHURST, N. B., FIRE SCORCHED.j
Spread With Great Rapidity. Destroying
Many Buildings.
Bathurst Station, Dec. 15.—A fire
broke out about 11.30 yesterday
morning in H. Means' store in East
Side street. Owing to a heavy wes-
terly gale, which prevailed, the fire
spread with great rapidity, totally
destroying Mean & Co.'s store, Mc-
ICenna, Bros'. tailoring establishment
and dwelling, Mrs. Gco. A, McLean's
dwelling and barn, Doucett's barber
shop and dwelling house, R. D.
Southwood's new drygoods store, H.
M. Kent's hardware store, J. F.
O'Brien's law office, Doull Brothers
bakery, Gunning's harness store, and
the G.N.W. telegraph office.
At 2 p.an, a telegram was sent to
New Castle asking for help, which
was quickly responded to, and at 4
p.m. an engine and twenty-five men
arrived, which had the fire under
control by 5.30 p.m. The loss will
probably reach 830,000, insurance
810,000.
A JOHANNESBURG SURPRISE.
Miners in Smith Africa Declare For Ina.
portatten of Chinese,
Johannesburg, Dec. 15.—A mass
meeting called here to -night for the
purpose of urging upon the Govern-
ment the advisability of taking a
referendum before introducing legisla-
tion providing for the introducing of
unskilled labor into the Transvaal
was completely captured by the ele-
ment favorable to the importation
of Chinese. Special trains brought
in thousands of miners from the east
and west Rand, who throughout the
meeting cheered for the Chinese. Thu
chairman was tenable to put a mo-
tion for a referendum. An overflow
meeting declared for the importation
of the Chinese.
BRIEFS FROM THE WIRES,
St. Petersburg, Dec. 15.—Jewish
emigration to America is constantly
increasing in proportions, in conse-
quence of the scarcity of work.
Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. 15.—A cold
wave is sweeping over the lower
Adirondacks, the temperature having
fallen 24 degrees in the last 24
hours.
Berlin, Dec. 15.—A thousand speci-
fications of cruelty are laid against
Lieut. Schilling of the 9th Regiment
of Infantry, whose trial began at
Metz yesterday.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The Republi-
can Senators in caucus yesterday de-
rided. upon Rev. Edward nate of Bos-
ton for chaplain of the United States.
Senate, beginning g Jan. 1. Dr. ITaie
buts 'accept
Susryiiehanned.
a, Tee, 18 'To reduce
expenses the shops on the Erie Rail-
road system were last evening dosed
until Monday, Dec. 21. In the mean-
time nothing except urgent running
repairing will be done.
Italian Cat to Pisces.
Toronto, Dec. 15.—At 8.30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon S. Francisco, an
Italian section man, was run down
by G.T.R. engine No. 771 and liter-
ally cut in pieces. Ile was engaged in
cleaning out the switches near the
station when he was caught by the
engine and carried west of the bridge
before 'being discovered. The remains
were gathered up and taken to
.ITn-
ter undertaking
Cstablis
establishment,
where Coroner Pritton will hold an
inquest on the body this morning.
The sunt of 802 was found upon de-
ceased, partly in cash and partly in
G,T.I2. cheques.
Fiera 1tt!dly DartrakoJ,
Victoria, Ii. C., Dec, 15 -F:, `ii. s•
Fiera, was p;aeetlt in the dry dock yes..
{erday morning' ifor repairs, lier hull
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6rjLLS THAT 11IECAME LAWS.
lr.C. Lerisiature of e.joni•ns Till Jan. 11,
After nosy McMinn.
Victoria, I1.C., Dec. 14.—The Dri•
tish Columbia. Legislature adjourned
Saturday night until Jan. 1;4
Amongst the bills passed was rito
Assessment Act, which purposes to
x incomes:
raise the tos c err
land,
timber, licenses, prospector_~ licen-
ses. etc., which has cau: o d much
protest from businessin through-
out the rrovince. S`
vat
,ilmelyd-
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bill. ,Among
rite;
ttct
rs; to co'lo-
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to -
of railway
Coal Mines
Act and
niellts tt
other a
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Poultry WaoIoh
"'I tun none on the market to fray
kinds Of Poultry. Will pay the big!
cast price for (Mod Chickens,
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dead or alive.
57,io per pound for good fat (Thio
and 4o per pound for fat /tens
vireight,
Don't deliver Dressed Poultr
Obdit'
Oct. hit.
Parties having Fowl to dis
an well # ^ nee me eforo Belli,
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