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The case was hard, and the Colonels spirits sa.nk as he dwelt upon his d'\ughter's dark fate. He was not a man t o add to his affliction by taking to himself blame in the matter, He felt that Providence bd dealt Author of "LADY AUDLEY's SECRET," "WYLLA:&o's WEIRD," Ero., ETO. hardly with his daughter, that wai; all. The Abbey was beautiful in itself and its CHAPTER XXXlll.-LIKE A ROMAN, him resume the old lite. She did not see the surroundings, and life went 1111 smoothly a.a Lady Belfield went back to the Abbey sleepless Rights-the awtul hours when the upon velvet, administered by an admirable after havinq spent nearly a week in London, house was wrapped in darkness, and the cook and irreproachable servants in every without having obtained any tidings of sinner paced hie room alone with the memory department, presided over by a woman who Valentine. He had not appeared a.t Wilkie of his sin. was still handsome and whom he had once Mansions. he had not written either to his Between Valentine and hie brother the,.e adored, whom he mip;ht atill adore had he mother or' to his wife. h~d not be?n one word abou.t tha.t fatal been Ill his usual spirits. But the Colonel That anxious mother had looked through mght , . Adrian had felt that ~ilence-co.m· was weighed down by gloomy thoughts, and the newspapers every morning and evening, plete slle;ice-was alone poseible. To hve even those picturesque gardens had a. funerfearing to read of eome accident to her son, together m peace, to be even e;x:ternally ~s eal air, a.nd the cypress walk suggested a but the papers had told her nothing. She 1other brothers, they mne.t stud1~uely avoid place of tombs. Even the cheerful babble hai questioned Phrebe who assured her every reference to that hidden ~rime ; they of the river ha.d lost its e'.lothing power. that there was nothing unusual in Mr. Bel- must both appear to fo;get,alb"it both_ kn<1w The Colonel fluug his half smoked ci~a.r into field's prolonged absence, He would tell t~at forgtfulness on elthe r side was 1ropos- the stream with a groan, and stood idly them that he was going away for a. week ; s1ble. watchmg the movements of a heron on the and he would stop for a fo1tnight, without --opposite bank, until it spread its wide gray . .f f h h . h" wings, stretched its long neck, and skimmed 1 wr1tmgto h is wi eo t ec angem is pans. CHAPrEJ:t XXXIV,-WnAT HE:& · d in away sea.war d . H e was no t mtereste S ometimes h e wonld .send a te1egram, but FATHEn THOUGHT. the b" ·ta movement s in · a ~ Ird , b u t watche d i l h I not a ways. twas 1s way. d 111 · d 0f · d d b d His mother knew very few of his friends, Nea.rly six weeks had passed beforethere u aseitu e mm a.n y, .11. H e h ad He ma.deb np mind hto atartt tor London a.nd t h ese tew were away f rom L ond on at was any sui;n f rom C o1 onel .Deven t d t hie lief b"d this season. She had no means of obtain- left Scotland before the telegram reached nex_ . a.y, u dorhe. e wenk, La dmorB 1 · th<!I field'll cur10eity prompte im to as 11. Y e1 · f ormat" Ing m ion as t 0 h" is w h ereab out s, yet Glasgow, H e h a.d b een yac ht"iug 111 permission :o see his daughter's rooms she was intensP,ly anxious to see him, to be Medicerra.nea.n, and the message had been -the rooms from which she ha.d stolen a.way the first to tell him of Helene flight, She delivered to him finally, after many vicia unseen by anyone, like a thief in the went back to her country home deeply situdes, at Ajaccio. Alter t!ia.t he had lost night, despondent, dreading to re-enter the house no time in crossing to Nice, and making his " I suppose they have not been much upon which so dark a. shadow had fa.lien. She way l!O England and Belfield Abbey. altered since she !eh," he ea.id. had b~en away only a week, yet the sense There was not much that he had to say "No, there ha.a been no .hing changed. of trouble and apprehension ha.d hung so when he arrived, and very little that could No one ha.a occupied that wing since that heavily upon her, that it seemed a long be said to him. Valentine was gloomy and sa.d day. I'll show you her room myself, if time since she h'ld crossed that familiar reticent. lik ,, 1ied L a d Y B elfie l:l. · f ee1mg f or threshold, She looked a.t the landsc11.pe with " Talk cannot do ehher you or me any him yon deeply e, rep in his afiliction. a vague wonder as the train drew near good," he said, when the Colonel gra.eped Mrs. Marr1>ble brought tho key of t he home, astonished to find the foliage un- his hand and threatened to become effusive. outer room, the door of which had been kept ch -i.aged, the light and colouring almost ex- "I am very sorry for you, and I have no locked, and La.dy Belfield and the Colonel "ctly the same. doubt you a.re sorry for me. That is about we t i· t th 1 o togeth r There had She sat in the libr11.ry with Adrian after all that can be said." n no n changes e om v · been ma.de, except the usual dinner, and asked him to play to her. He " But-but- I should like to know all · ·t d p · g up f 0f f chose the organ 1ather than the piano to- that there is to be known about this devilish covermg urm ure an mn·n draperies, which mark the careful house night, and played the greater part of one business. Poor deluded girl ! Surely you keeper. On one side of the room stood two of Mczut's masses. Those solemn and path- must have seen her d1;1nger, you must have large baeket trunks, covered with black leather, on which Helen's initials were pa.mt· etic strains had a soothing influence upon had some cause for suspicion." them both, and seemel to lift them above "I had none, or I should have looked a.f· ed lU large white letters; a smaller box for the region of their own troubles. ter her better. I trusted her implicitly, and bonnets; I\ travelling desk, &nd a travelling He was stlll playing when Lady Belfield thought she was sa.fe with her elder sister." b &tarted up at another sound from without, "Leo ia a. noble creii.ture, ' said t he Colonel, a.¥,· Strange that she should not have ta.ken the sound of carriage wheels in the avenue. "but she is frivolous. She ha.a been spoilt, soma means to iret these things sent after "It must be Valentine," she said, as Ad· .Mr. Belfield. All beautiful .vomen a.re her," eu.id the Colonel, contemplating the ria.n left the organ and went towards the spoilt, nowadays. '!'here is an open homa.ge luggage. door. paid to beauty which tnust deteriorate "8he has been afr:i.id to ask for them, "Dont be too sure of that, mother. It charactc.r. I don't think you quite realized perhaps." may be Colonel lJeverill, or somebody from wha.t a lovely woman you had married, and " yes, that is it, no doubt. But it was him. He has taken no notice of my tele- how inevitable it was she should have rather 11 feeble proceedmg to pack everything gum so far." admirers." 80 carefully, and then to make no effort to They went to the hall together, and the "I thought my honour was safe in her get the things away. Poor Helen 1 It is 80 bell rl\ng just as A<lr1an opened the door. keeping, Colonel Deverill. Tha.t was my hke her." The carnage was a fly horn the station, and only mistu.ke." He took up the travelling bag, whiJh Wlls the arrival was Valentine. "Have you heard of her since she left la.rge and hea.vy, made of crocodile leather, He khsed hie mother, and shook ha.nde here?" clamped with brass, and provided with all with Adrian, aR easily as if a.ll things were "Not a word." the latest improvements, He had reason to gdng well with him. "I telegraphed L eo to meet me at W a.ter- know the bag, for i t wa.s his own, and only, " f[ere I am at last," he said " and very loo this morning, and we have had ha.If-an- wedding gift to his daughter, and it was not tired." 0 hour's talk before my train started, S'ie yet paid for ; he received dunning letters "Where have you come from, V alentine?' thinks St. Austell is the man." abom it every three months, and he felt asked his mother, looking at him anxiously "I don't suppose anybody has any doubt that there muat eventuu.lly be a settlemem, m the lamplight. about that." somehow. And to thmk that she had left He was smiling a.t her, evidently ignora.nt "You will apply for a divorce, I suppose!" it behind her , not valuing it any more for "I suppose so, e\·enturuly." all the trouble it ha.d cost, and was hkely to of the trouble that had fa.lien upon him; yet th1re was a change in him, his mother He answered with a gloomy indifference cost him. He felt more iBJured at the thought, a change which 11he could not define. which raised him in his father-in 111.w's esti- thought of this ingrat itude than if he had Every feature seemed to have hardened and mation. He was evidently in no eager haste paid for the otJecn with solid sovereigns. sharpened in outline, He had grown thin- to sha.ke off that dishonoured tie, to free He opened t he bag, and looked dreamily a ncr, perhaps, and was worn with travelling himself for second nuptials, H e was not a the silver gilt stoppers, the ivory brushes and ex citement of some kind. pleasant young man, hut in this ma.tter he and g love stretchers, and shining cutlery. "I have come from Paris. I went over acted generously. All her llttle luxuries of the toilet had been there after the York summer. I was in a. He showed Colonel Deverill Helen's un p!icked in this great silk-lined receptacle. furious temper, and I felt that nothing less finished letter, telling him how the house White rose and eau de-cologne, Lavender than a week's rest on the other side of the ma.id had found it on the morning of her Ambree, attar of roses, A cloud of perfuine ' disappearance. came out of the bag as he opened it. water would quiet my nerves." ··Things have gone wrong with you at York "Wretched girl, it was like her to leave "There may be letters or papers of some 9 then " ea.id his mother. an unfinished letter," sa.id the Colonel, "and kind that may help us to find out a. little "D~,m!!t~ble wrong. The horse I h~d ba.ok half an explanE>.tion. God help her, with more about her plans, · he said. ed proved a duffer. Where's my wife?" such a protector. If I had been more among " D~n't," pleaded Lady Belfield, stretchHis mother laid her hand upon his shoul- beaten tracks on the Continent, I might ing out her hand entreatingly, as if to stay der caressmgly, and answered in a.voice bro- have met them- or heard of them; but I the violation of a secret. "What good C:\D ken by tears : was not much upon terra firma after I left it do to know any delaiie, She is gone - we " Uome to my room with me, Valentine. Maraeilles." cannot hope to get her back yet a. while." I have something very sad t-0 tell you." L\dy B~lfield begged the Colonel to re "My de.u friend, it is my duty to know "Put it into as few words aa you can," he ma.in at the Abbey as long as he liked, and a.11 I ca.n " replied the Colonel aterely anJ said, "Perhaps I can guess it. She has he accepted her hospitality for three days, thereup~n he proceeded to ra~sa.ck th; bag. run away from me, I suppose." during which time he tried to discover some H d ll h h f h" d h , fl h e turne out a t e treasures, t e . h , f H f . "Yes, V a.lentme, S e has .e t you. ow urther pa.rttcn1ars o lB a.ug ter s 1g t, bottels and oa.skets and thimble cases and ~a.me you to guess-- " but could hea.r very little, although he had house ;ifee nnd br~oches and bracelets in ·Oh, only because the kind of thing is several conversations wit~ MrP. Ma.ruble. their moroc~o boxes, treasures of ivory, [acb1onable-aud she liked to be always in and more than one chat with the woman at crystal, and gold, of agate and silver. the fashion, Don't look a.t me like that, the Lodge, whose husband was employed m These he fiung out ruthlessly upon the mother, for God's sake. Whatever I may the garde~. empty dressingt<1.ble, o.nd then with cruel have to bear, I can bear it be~t by myselt. No one nad heard her leave the house- of hand he searched the ~ilke"' pockets until Nobod} can lighten my burden for me. th11.t Mrs. Marrable was certain he found whal he wa.nted a - lebter the last C!lme now, I'll make a compact with you, No one a.t the Lodge had. seen her go out that Lord St. Austell ha.d written' to her. Don't you ever speak to me about Helen, of the ga.te: but there was a ga.te in the fence It had been written after their long talk and I'll never plague you about my troubles. about ha.If a mile from the Lodge, a. gate by the river It r ecapitulated his inst ruc If you- a.nd Adrian- -like to have me here, which was sometimes locked and sometimes tions as to her flight, explained t he trick of I'll come and go as I used when I was a not, and she mip;hn ha.ve gone out that way, the telegram which was t o summon her to bachelor, and let the p11.St three years be No such thing as a. carriage ha.d been seen London in her husband's name, told her how wiped off the slate. Forget that I have ever waiting a.bonn upon the road nea.r the park he should be waiting for hflr on t he up-plat· been anything but what I used to be before gate, either late iu the evening or in'theea.r· form-South Western- at Exeter, advised Colonel Deverill took Morcomb." ly morning her to take her luggu.ge with her, and then "Of C(mrse we shall like to have you Tnie fact did not surprise the ,Colonel, as after bein~ strictly practical, the man of here, Valentine. This is your natural home, he ha.d been shown the telegram purporting business vanished, and the passion ~te lover and her e you are always welcome. " to be sent by Mr. Belfield, and no doubt repeated his allsurance of an undying love, a "Thank you, mother. I shall sell the despatched)y some agent of St. Austell's. devotion which should know no changefurniture, and get rid of my Kensington If Helen had known that such a summons urged her for his sake t o be bold and firm, rooms as soon as I can." was to arrive in order to facilitate h er flight, to fe·r nothing, t hink of no danger, remEm He ha.d taken the matter so coolly, had she had loet her head at the crisis, a.nd had bering tha.t in a few hours she would be safe dismissed the subject so briefly, tha.t his anticipated the intended hour of departure. in his arms. mother wocdered at tht ease with whioh the She must hu.ve wu.lked all the wa.y to the " For G od's sake, do not fa.Itel'," he wrote. bad news had been broken, a.nd when she station in the early morning, before any one " I t hink I h ave proved myself wort hy of went ho.ck to the library 'v1th her two sons, wae a bout to notice her . Colonel Deverill your trusting love, by a devotion which has she felt a.s if the burden of g rief had been was tempted to make further enqmries a.t survive<i all rebuffs, and has stood firm considerably lightened. Yet, no doubt it the sta.tioni where a young and beautiful age.inst every discouragement. You ha.ve was w1eest t o try to forget ; to forbid tbe woman starting alone by an early train, given me your promise, my darling, the utterauce of 11. fatal nam3. Let life slip back would most likely have attr1>eted somebody's sacred pledge of u~onsive love. It would into the old ohannel, if possible. Valent ine notice, even if she were :JOt recognized as be as dishonorable as it would be cruel to would have his old occupations, hisoldamuse- Mrs. Belfield of the Abbe~r; but h e shrank hrea.k that promise and to break my heart ments, horses, dogs, guns, country race meet- from an investigation which would lay at the same time. I cannot live without ings, occasional holidays in London with old strtss upon his daughter's disgrace. What you." college ohums. His life need not be empty or good would it be to him to learn the detaih " I may as well keep that letter, " said purposeless, evenafterthisgreai;sorrow. She of her flight ! The evil wa.s done; she was Colonel Deverill, wlien he had read it and did not contemplate the leg11.l consequences a. disgraced and ruineil woman ; ehe had given it to L!i.dy B elfield to read o.fter him. of a wife's infidelity ; the poes1bilit1es of a , eloped with anotoriouo profl1gate,andja.mar- "There would be no good in showing it to divorce and r elease for the injured hnsba.ncl. \ ried roan into t he b1'rgain, a man who would Valentine." Her tender nature took only the womau's lnot.hefreeto make her reparation, were "No, there would be no good. P ray view of the circumstances, and to her, such her own bonds broken to-moirw. A divorce keel> it from him. There is nothing I dread a loss and such a sorrow were enough to would give world-wide publicity to her dis· so much as a meeting between him and darken a life time. Her younger son, there- grace, and would not help her to reha.bili- Lo~d St. Austell." fore, had a new claim to her love and dovo- ta.te herself. "Oh, thedaysof duelling are past . There tion. She gave him Helen's unfinished letter, The Colonel shrugged his shoulders and is nothing to b a feared nowadays, except when they parted that night, without a gave up hie daughter to perdition. He the divorce court and the newspapers. word, and he was Equally silent about it would have helped her if he could ; he would P ublicity is the fiery dragon that lies in next do.y. have taken her back t o his heart as t enderly wait for the sinner." He never re entered the rooms he ha.d oc- as the Vioa.r of W akefield received his d e· "With a man of my son's temperament, cupied with his wife, but resumed possession ludcd daughter, could he have found her in there is alwa.ys reason forfea.r," said Lady Belof his old quarters over the billiard room ; remorse and a.ba.ndonment, He had been field, gravely. "Hehas takenhistr oublevery the rooms th!lot had been bis from the time very fond of his childreu, alter his own pa.r quietly, too quietly, perhaps. I should he loft the nursery, a bedroom and dressing ticular fashion of fondnese- as beautiful fear the very worst consequences if he were room adjoininu, with windows looking into creatures flittin~ a.bout his house and bright- to meet Lord St. Austell." the stable yard, windows from which he ening it--hut he could not move mountains. The Colonel shrugged his shoulders. could watch his horses being washed of a 1If his daughter had gone wrong, it was not "I fancy you measure your eons teelings re ornine;, or ta.ken out for exercise, and from within his power to bring her right again, by a.n old fashioned standard," he ea.id. which he could give his orders to the grooms. H e shed a few fatherly tears over her fall ; "The young men of the present day take These rooms were remote from the library but he was inclined to resent the p erversity all t :iings lightly. A man gets rid of one wing, had a.netller aspoot, and belonged t!l a of P rovidence which had turned all things wife and marries another within two or different period of architecture. to evil in his younger child's deatiny. three seasons. The change is made so In a week, Valentine had se.tled down to " She mip;ht have been mistress of this easily that one half of eociety knot>Vs nothing hill old life, i.nd was going out club hunting fine old place," he told himself, as he amok- about it, and the other half takes no notice. every other morning. He wee dull a.nd ed hie after.breakfast cig&r in the cypreBB If your son meant mischief he wouldn't he silent of an evening, tired after nis early walk, "but she must needs throw herself at ' here llunting and shooting. He would be morninp; with the hounds, and he seemed to the head of the younger brother; and then I half way to Ceylon in pursuit of his wife have lost a good deal of the elasticity of hie ahe cannot keep her silly little li.ead in the 1 and her seducer. He would be hunting youth ; bub upon the whole, his mother felt whirlpool of a London eea.1on, and elopes 1them, Lady Belfi.eld, lnllte·d of Dal'onshire very well content that things were no worse j with the very worst man she could have foxe1. with him. It was an unspeakable comfort oho11eu. She miB,ht have gone off with a Colonel !>everill left the Abbey in " very · to her to have him under her roof, to see Duke, by Jove, If she had liked-a Duke deepondent state of mind. KIGRTS LALL ltfi:SllRVED.] l LIKE AND UNLJ~KE. I By M. E. BRADDON, I I I · ° ° 0 ° "I am a. broken ma.n, La.dy Belfield," he said. "I have been tottering for a good many years; weak in health, weak fina.ncially, and in low spirits; but this last blow has annihilated me. Leonora is a splendid creature ; but she is the essence of telfish· ness. She Jives her own lifo, and cares about as murh for her old father as she does for the gatekeeper in the l:'iuk. Helen wu always fond of me. Her disgrace will bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. I don't feel a.a if I could ever hold my head up again among my old pa.ls. I hav<> boasted of that girl-I have been so proud of her. I shall go and hide myself at Kilrush. The cottagers and equireens will point the finger of scorn a.t me-but tha.t won't count " "You might almost as well stay in Devonshire as bury yourself at Kilrush." sa.id Lady Belfield, pitying bim in his de~olation, feeling tha.t she would like to oomfort him if it were possible. "Oh, but I have ties in Kilrueh- ties of some kind, I have a stake m the country. The soil is mine, and though it pays me no rent it belongs to me. There is something in the sense of possession. Ooherwiee, for choice, I should infinitely prefer Cha.dford. There is a furnished cottage a qm·rter of a mile from your gates, which would suit me admirably." "You mean the white cottage with a thatchtd roof and a verandah all round'·" "Yes, this is the place. Has it been long to let?" "Only since June, It belongs to two maiden sisters. One of them was ordered to Germany for a rheumatic affection, and she and her sister went off last .NI:i.isummer, leaving their cottage in thd hands of our local a.gent, who never had bEen known to find a tenant for anybody. The house is to be 1et f or a twelvemonth, and for very little money. You ha.d better take it, Colonel Deverill." "My dear Lady Belfield, there is not hing I should like so much as to b near you, bu ~ you must consider that thisv neighborhood would be full of painful as·ociotions for me, ~ and th'\t my presence in this neighborhood would be full of pa.inful associations for your son Valentine. Therefore my beat course is to bid you good bye, and ta.ke my poor old bones off to Irela.nd," ( TO DE CONTINUED.) 0 1 ------ ~----~ "Did n't Know 'twas Loaded" Hay do for a stupid boy's excuse ; hu t what can be said for the pa.rent who sees his child languishmg daily and fails to recogmze the want of a tome and blood-purifier? Formerly, a course oi bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the rule m well-regulated fannhes ; but now all rntelhgent householil~ keep Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which is at once pleasant to the taste, and the most searching and effective blood m edicine ever discovered Nathan S Cleveland, 27 E. Canton st, Boston, writes : "My d aughter , now 21 years old, was in perfect health until a year ago when sh e began to compla.rn of fatigue, h eadache, debility, d 1zz111css , rnd1gest10n, and loss of appetite I conclmlect that all her complaints origmated m 1mpure blood, and mduccd her to t ake Ayer 's Sarsaparilla This mechcme s oon r estored her 1.Jlood-makmg orgaus to healt hy action. and m due time r eilstabh slt cd h er former l1ealtb. I find Aycr 's Sarsaparilla a m ost valuable remedy for the lassitude and deb1h tJi mmdent to spung time " J. Castr1ght , Brooklyn P ower Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., says "As a Spnug Medicine, I find a splendid substitute for t he old-time compounds rn Ayer's Sa1sapar11la, with a few doses of Aycr's P ills. After their use, T foe! freshor and stronger to go through tho summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Dr. J. l'REU'A:&ED BY fJt,yer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price e;1, six bottles, $ 5. Worth $5 a boUlo. c. -- :. · ICURE j I When I s:i.y Gu ;m I do not mean merely co stoo t l1em f o1· n t l mo, aud t hen liave t1 1mn roThere is some of it left on the continent, ;.ui n a;:,im. I l\TICAN A RADICAL C Ull.E. though not much m the domain of the I ha ve made the diseaso of United States. A committee of the Dominion senate, '.it'Jl/K'£l9 EPXLEPSY oll" which has been accumulatin~ evidences a8 t o lrALLING SXOKNESS, the material resources of the basin of the Mackenzie river, has just reported that the !\ !'"'Jrn::ige1Pdy. ! WAlm.<' NT :t:1y r emedy tO t he Y;.,: . :st c ases. B ecause othm 2 l l c!.Ve district which lies north of the Saskatche- U'C'It"""' r r.\1le d i-; no 1 t·.1~011 tur not i owreceivrng: n. cure. wa.n watershed, east of t he l~ockv Moun- &0111.t ti,t onccfur a treat1 s e a nd n.F nF. .1.~0T~L:: tains, and west of Hudson's Bay, offers great of '!W INF,H,U.BLE R E MEDY. G1vo J~ .·in?~3 " HI P ost Of1c3. It costn you i1otlnng ~.:;-' u. advantages to explorers, traders u.nd settlers. · ·.-il, ai:·l 11 , ., ·ll e '°'r 0 you. .A.dd··cs:i It is said that out of a total a.rea of 1,260,· 2)..,, ~M-. (~ R00'}1, 87 Yonge St,, Toront o, Ont.. 000 aqua.re miles coming within the scope of ~ ~ the committee's inquiry, but a.bout 400,000 .)J.1~$.l~~ square miles a.re useless for the past urage of domestic animals or for cultivatbn. There are 656,000 sqnare miles fittted for the growth of pooa.toes, 407,000 suitable for barley, and 316,000 for wheat. There ia a pastoral area of 860,000 square miles, 26,000 miles of which are open prairie, with oc ca.sional groves, the remainder being more or less wooded; 274,000 square miles, in· elud ing the prairie, may be considered as ar11.ble land. This region is not going to remain long inaccessible, It must soon be tapped by YEAST ~ Is Canada's Favol'ite Brea.d-:maker. railway. Besides there are some 4.000 10 years in the marke t without a commiles of navigable coas~ line in lak~e. Then plaint of any kmd, The only yeast whic)\ t here is a river navigation of 2. 750 miles, has stood the test of time and neve r made sour, unwholeson1e broad. half of wbich is suited for light-dra.ugh~ sea.All Grocers s ·11 it. going steamers, and the remainder for stern L fi. ClLLE'l"l', M'f'r. 'l'oronto, 011t, .!I Oblcr.go, Ill. w~eel steamers. It. is J?lai~ to the co~mittee that the r egion is rich enough i_n fresh lak_e fish to supply the North Ame~!· c~n coptment: Salmon ~ave . been found If ta Q fl TORONTO STEAM LAUNDRY, four of the rivers timptymg mt o Huds~n s "\l ~ (,!;,~ 106 llork st., Toronto. !Jay, -..est sh~re, and mall those emptym~ , SHIRTS, COLLARS AND CUFFS mt? the Arc he sea except the Mack enzie, Fil · j a specmity, Out of town work which, ho'!ever, possesses the sa.lm~ Mack· UJ promptly attended to and returned enz·e, a different but valuable sea fish, lo· per matruct1ons. ca.Uy called l'nco!:mu: G. P. SHARPE, Proprietor. The recourses m timber are vast M any · . · ..,.ext dool' to Palme!' house. Handy to Union of the trees 11.re of the giant kmd, found on ~, Dei:i~..i'! our P acific coast. In minerals the com- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mittee cl~ime equal. riches, while as a. matter of fa.ct this region IS to-day the great fur preserve of the_worl?· . ·If our Canadian frieJ?-dS can.convmce maJ?-· It never was Intended, so far as I can learn, kmd that the climate is hospitable, there 1s That either men or women were mtended to no reason why this st ill unoccupied region be bald I think you will believe me, Indeed I'm sure may not yet !eem with a. great and indusyou will, tr1011s popula.tton. - [Amerwan Paper. IC at the "Par12Hair Works" you he.ve called. There is one thing Nature thinks of- let us thank her for all we canViotillllzed .Emigrants. She takes particular trouble with our race; It was a spectacll without precedent in She knows a sca.uty g1ow th of he.ir, the gray and whitea.mg locks, the history of immigration to America. W11l detract from the beauty of the face. tha.t wao witnessed in our harbour on Wed neaday, when a ship load of Ita.lia.ns, 300 in But Nature has her laws so strict the.t you m ust never err, number, who had come here this summer, F or you' d surely pay the penalty a t la.st, went back to their n11otive land d isheartened Su8taln 1t. that bounteous head of hair Dr. Doren wen d's lla1r Magic's unsurpassed. and diaappomted. Thei~ experience among us had been totally different from the anti - Just try it vou atH1 cted, you never will regret cipations in which t hey indulged when they 'l'he Mau:ic wa· never yet known to fail; left Italy. They had been told. thab they And the good that 1t will do you w ill makG you soon forget could procure plenty of work at six: francs The expenditure a bottle will entail. per day, which is about three times a.s much This now famous p ·epi\ration for invig as they oould earn in Italy, and that they could get here a.n abundance of fooa they orating and stunulatmg the growth o f the had never enjoyed in their lives ; but these h a.ir is universally accepted as t he m os!; ha.ppy dreams were quickly dispelled by the valuable specific 0.1 t he market. All stern realities of hfe in the New World. diseases of the scalp are either r elieved or F ew of the passengers who ma.de up the re permanently cur ~d. A rich and rapid turnin11; ship load had ever been outoide of gr owth of h air will foll ow after j udic1ous New York during their brief stay here, and It r emams with all of America. tha.t ever became known to and reg ular treatmen t. most of them was Mulberry street ; but the user alone to secure the desire d their exp ' rienoes were suffiden~ for them , results, Dr. Dorenweud's "Hair Magic" and even the hardships which they had al is sold by all druggists at $1 per bott le, If not obt ainable ways suffered in Italy seemed less than 01· six bott les for $5. those to whioh they w ere here subjected. in your l oc.i.lity send direct to t he sole They had been t h e victims of false promises manufacturer, enclosing price. A. DORNma.de to them by u~principled speoula.tor s WEND, Paris Hair Works, 103 and 105 in la.hour who abandoned them in a foreign Yonge S t ., Toronto, For sale by .J. country, after robbing them of their little H1ggmbotham & Son, and all druggist all. Virgin Sot!, FITS! rROYAL Q$ [I ANOTHER WONDER. Humminl?' Bll'ds as Pets. A y oung lady of New York amuses her· self with humming birdH as pets. They build their nests in the lace curtains and havA rr.ised little familias in tl:e parlor. There are plants for them to B.y about in, and every day tbe florist sends a basket of flowers for them to extract the honey from. They a.re like little rainbows flying about the room, and they light on the head of their dainty mistress with perfect freedom. She ha.a an especial affinity for the feathered race, a.nd pigeons, canaries and bullfinches a.re included among her household favorites. Plax Uulture. I I I I Mr. J. A. Donaldson in reply to a letter re~a.rding the fa.nilure of the crops this season, and especially in the fall wheat, says ; " The question ariees why the farmers do x.ot turn their atte ntion to other branches of industry. None demands more favouru.ble consideration than fl.ax:. The averag'3 yield per acre obtainable from fla.x is as large as t hat usually got from wheat and the price is a.bout the same per bushel, with the weighn of flllo.X four pounds to the bushel less than that of wheat. The produce of flax fibre, when properly prepared for market, will realize even more t han seed. Persons complaining of short crops of wheat would do '!'he True Reason. well to visit the Counties of Wellington and "I see," s~id Mr. Barkins, "that ther Waterloo, where they will find in connection are a million D'ore women than men in Ger with the Doon fl.ax mills some 1,400 aoiree under flax, and a. still larger acreage in the many." . " Yes," said Mr. Sma.rty ; " they do t hat neighborhood of Baden in oonneetion with to eva.de the military requirement of the the firm of James Livmgeton & Co. Flax is a.leo grown in other portions of these counGerman government." In fact, tb.e eucce~e of this branch of C·naWhite lilao and Guelder roeee, with ivy and ms.iden-h· ir fern, "1'8 the fashionablt dian industrv is best shown in Ma.nit.ob& among the ?rhnnouities, whereit la ucertai11artUiolal flower· of the aummer BeUOD. -- ties.