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Your mother came first to this house when she was almost a childâ€"when she was only fifteen; She had been left an orphan, ’and she Was far from strong, and by my leave Mrs. Markham brought her here that she might have a home and be of what use in the house she could Mrs. Markham was my ousekeeper then. From the firstâ€"- 'om my first acquaintance with her, meanâ€"your mother had tastes 3b0ve her class. She was fond of .‘Cading, and after a time the idea (was started that she should qualify herself to become a school teacher, and for a year or soâ€"I forgot for “10w long~she studied with a view to that. This was when she was about seventeen." Mr. Trelawney paused here for a few moments. The part of his story that had to come next was the part. that was the hardest to tell. “I never had a thought of marry- ing her, Dorcasl’.’ he went on after lhat silence, abruptly, and almost )assionately. “How it came about .Was by no fault either of hers or mine. It all came out of that mis- erable village gossip. I had taken an interest in her, and they began to blame her for itâ€"and I could not let her suffer. That was whole, Dor- cas. 'I could only keep them from speaking ill of her by making her my wife; She was not to blame, nor was Mrs. Markham to blame. I acted against Mrs. Markham’s adâ€" }‘ice. No purer-minded or more in- nocentâ€"hearted woman than' your mother ever lived. I have no right -â€"I have no right even now (when it )s a terrible thing to me to have to 5it here and try to justify myself to 'ou) to utter one regret for the step hat I thought myself obliged to take. Poor as she was, and unedu- rated as she is, in all the years that we have lived together I have never had one moment’s true cause to be ishamed of her. Nor haveyou, Dorcasâ€"nor have you!” he added tlmost fiercely;and then suddenly zlosed his lips. The silence lasted for a little while, ind then it was broken suddenly by lhe girl’s low voice. , “Papa!” she said beseechingly. The little hand of its own accord had stolen again-to his;- all at once, with a tremor and a sob, she laid her cheek down on his shoulder. “Papa, forgive me! I will never 'mind it any more,” she began to say. “Oh, I might have knovvn â€" I might have known you would never do anything but what was right! It was only that I could not see it â€"-'- I could not understand it; that was 1111.. Oh, you were good and right; you Were my OWn fatherlâ€"you could not have done anything else,” she cried, and thrilled and sobbed in her sudden revulsion of feeling, and kissed his lips,'his cheeks, his hands, in a generous passion of remorse. He drew her to him and returned her kisses, and blessed her. What would his’ life have been worth if this girl had turned her heart away from him? - And, meantime, while they were so happy with one another, Letty was sittingby herself, anxious and ex- pectant; but I am afraid for a good while they neither of them thought of that, and even when Mr. Trelawâ€" ney remembered it at last, and told the girl: to go to her mother, Dorcas lingered, and did not want to go. . ' "Need I say anything to mamma?’ she asked, reluctantly. “Oh, sure-_ ___â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"__._â€"â€"â€"_â€"â€" Leg and Foot 3. Mass of Sores that Sectors Could Not Heal-“A Thorough - *9 if 3: 0r _ . gig. Gentility g 3 Vs. ‘ $9 9 Nobility of Soul. g 1y I need not. I don’t know TWhat to say." And it was only when he 'pressed her that she obeyed him. “It would not do to say nothing to her. She has been very unhappy about you," he told her. And !so then, at lastâ€"but still unwillinglyâ€" she went. She found her mother sitting at her work. It had got dark, and Letty had lighted her candles. She looked up when Dorcas came into the room with eyes wpose long wait- ing had made rather hopeless and weary, and only smiled a little faint- ly when the girl came to her side and kissed her cheek. “Mother, I have been very cross this week, andâ€"I have been vexing you, I know," Dorcas said, rather suddenly and quickly. "I have been very badâ€"but I want you to for- give me, please. I have been talk- ing it all over with.papa, andâ€"and â€"â€"he has made everything right," she ended, shortly and hastily. She bent down over the gentle face, and kissed it again; andâ€"what could Letty say? Perhaps as she sat alone she had been trying to re- hearse some words to speak to her daughter, but they-died on her lips as Dorcas made her rapid little speech, and gave her swift caress. Between these two, you see, there had always been so little confidence, and they were shy of one another. Dorcas has made it all right with her father; that, it seemed, was all she had to say to Letty, and the mother’s timid heart shrank as the few cold words came. "My dear, I thought that I should like to speak to you. 1â€"1 have been very unhappy," was all she was able to say. , “Yes, I know; but don’t mind it now, mother," the girl said again, quickly. “I know it is all right, and I had no business to be troubled. I understand it all nowâ€"quite,” she said, and took her mother’s hand for a moment, and pressed it, and then turned away. As she went she felt that she ought to have said some- thing more, and yet she did not know what she could have said. There was some inborn, invincible stubbornness in her; the very con- sciousness that she sought to have been tenderer kept her tenderness back. She took up a book, and sat beâ€" side her mother reading it almost in silence for an hour, and then her faâ€" ther joined them, and they talked for a little,» and \presently the clock struck eleven and she went to bed. She was tired, and not quite satis- fied with herself. She had been so happy for part of the evening, but the young face was rather sad now, and she sighed, she scarcely knew why, as she laid her head upon her pillow. ' ' ~ ' Sometimes, when she was half or quite asleep, it was still Letty’s haâ€" bit, as it had 'been when she was a little child, to come into Dorcas’s room and look at her, and to-night she came before the girl's eyes were almost closed. She opened the door Softly and came to the bedside, and stood still for a moment or two, and then Went down on her knees. “My dear, I want another kiss from you,” she said, with wistful tenderness. “Oh, Dorcas,” she cried suddenly, “one kind kiss to help me to go to sleep!" She put her arms about the girl, and bent down over her, and thenâ€" though she had asked for the kiss, she did not put her lips to Dorcas’s, but all at onceâ€" "Oh! my darling, can you not for- give me?” she began to cry out bitâ€" terly. "You wouldn’t speak to me down stairsâ€"but, oh, speak to me now. Do not think I did so wrong? I was So ,young, Dorcas, and I didn’t knowâ€"and he was all the world to me. Dorcas, I didn’t know!” she repeated piteously. “When I found out that I had done harm to him it almost broke my heart. Won’t you believe me, my dear? Won’t you be- lieve me, and forgive‘me for what I did?” “I do believe you, mammaâ€"of course I do believe,” Dorcas cried in distress. "It is such a long time ago, and I have suffered so. I would have died upon his- loyalty, to her had roused something more than loyalty, in his breast. ‘ for him, you know, and instead of that I did harm to him, and when it was once done I could never undo it. I used to wish that 1 could die, Dor~ cas: that Would have been the only thingâ€"but I couldn't die. And then you came, my dearâ€"and, oh, Dorcas, from the time you were a little baby in my arms I have been thinking of this day, and of how they would tell you what I had beenâ€"and you Would be ashamed.” , “Mother, I am not ashamed!” the girl cried in great agitation. She raised herself in .bed, and put her arms about poor Letty's neck. It was not love for her that she felt like the love she had for her father, but a great wave of remorse and tenderness and pity had risen in her heart, and overwhelmed and conâ€" quered her. , _ ‘ , “Mother, I have been very hard to you. Forgive me for it. I will never be ashamed of youâ€"I will nevâ€" cr be ashamed of you!" she began to murmur, and kissed the poor weary face with many a kiss. “You have been the kindnest mother to me â€"â€" 'the kindest, gentlest mother," she said; and then her voice broke, and she began to sob. _ . The hour began in pain, and yet. it was a blessed hour to Letty, as she sat, after a little while, by Dorcas’s side, holding her hand in hers. They talked a little more; in the quiet and the darkness Letty found courage to say some things that had been for a long time in her heart. ' She told the girl, who had hitherto known or guessed so little, something of what her life had beenâ€"of its brief joy and its long sadnessâ€"or its hopes that had died in disappointment. 'More than once Dorcas drew down her mother’s face to hers; she was touched unspeakany as she listened to her gentle, uncomplaining words. How little had she ever deserved this patient devotion! How little had she ever returned or cared for it! She said a few words, but there were stronger words in her heart than any that she spoke. So it turned out in the end that, instead of evil, it was only good that came of this discovery which Dorcas had made, and that these two were drawn closer together by the thing that Letty had feared so long would separate them. Nay, were they not even all three drawn more together? Mr. Trelawncy, too, had been touched with pity for Letty; the call that had been made On this night, after she had been with Dorcas, he spoke a few strong grateful words to her. “I often seem to be forgetful .of you, Lettyâ€"I often seem to neglect you,” he said, “but, if you could see my heart, you would know that I do you justice. If you have ever thought that I regret our marriage you have been wholly wrong. I do not regret it; instead of that, I thank God for it, for never did any man in this world have a kinder, or more devoted, wife." And then he took her in his arms with a close and warm embrace â€"â€" need I say that she was a happy wo- man? It seemed to her this night that the burden of years, had fallen away from her, and left her young again. Nor did her joy pass wholly from her even as time went on. It is true that in her husband’s manner towards her there came little visible change; a few more sentences Spoken to her now and then, perhapsâ€"some trifle of additional kindness shown her occasionallyâ€"these were the only signs he gave of any increased con- sideration for her; but when she had the remembrance of those words of his to live on, might she not well be content? she often asked herself. They seemed such sweet and blessed or more unselfish r. man Vâ€" B To prove. to ymyjfihat Dr. Chase’s Ointment 18 a. certain and absolute cure for each . -- and every form of itching, ' bleedmgand protrudin piles, nie manufacturershave guaranteed it. ee tes- ‘.1mon1als m the daily press and ask your neign tors what they think ofit. You can use it and get your money back if not cured. 60c a box, at ill dealers or EDMANSON,BATES 6:. Co.,Toronto, bra @haes trust words to herâ€"guerdon and reward enough for all her years of love and service. And Was not Boreas kinder to her? The girl was touched by remorse, and by something gentler and tenderer than remorse. Was it not indeed true that she had been ashamed of her mother, and was she not wicked because she had been ashamed? She creme. and Lasting Cure by Dr. Chase’s Ointment. This letter from TiEsonburg, Ont., is an uns Dr. Chase‘s Ointment. This is one more examp ' ‘ ' . 0 reel ' understand how it ‘can be so effective. . hme net “bed It can S a y ' Ont., writes 2â€"“th father has been entirely cured of a long-standing and obstinate case of eczema by the use of Dr. Chase's Ointment. His leg and foot were a mass of sores, and Mr. W. D. 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Sixty cents a box at all «.ealeis on Ldmanson, Toronto. and he will gladly ansfver any questions from other of Ways. For every irritation or eruption of the skin it affords and burns, and has never been equalled as a cure for (:0- Bates 6: 00., began to approach her with a new feelingâ€"to think of her with some- thing kinder nnd better than her former careless, half condescending regard. Some of the words Letty had spoken on that night when her poor loving heart had revealed itself for a. little while to her daughter, haunted the girl’s thoughts after- wards, and filled her with n keen and painful pity. llow little had she ever thought of her! How little had she ever understood or cured to understand her. Perhaps during the next your Dor- cas became a little more grave and thoughtful and reserved than she had been before; she drew a little more within herself; she was not quite so happy as she had been; the innocent girlish eyes had been opened to something that they had not known before. She grew a little proud, 0. little shy; the old frank manner changed a good deal for a time. Had she not eaten . of the fruit. of the tree of knowledge, and found it bitâ€" ter in her mouth? She shrank for a while from her old friends; she be- came suspicious, and thought that they looked down on her. She had to bear her little wound, and smart under it, before any wholesome heal- ing came. But, if she suffered for a time, she was too young and healthy to suffer long. The truth was soâ€"as she had learnt it; yet all the same did not the sun still shine above her head as it had done six months ago, and the breezes blow so softly on her? The young life stirred in her too joyousâ€" ly and strongly for any merely sen- timental trouble to curb it long. The world, to her, had seemed her ene- my for a little While, and she had been ready to ride full tilt against it, lance in hand; but now, if she did not quite threw her lance aside, at least she laid it in rest; she un- buckled her armor; she gradually be- gan to cease to see imaginary foes. She was a creature so much more made for happiness than for warfare that, gradually and inevitably, her nature in time righted itself .again. (To be Continued.) . _.§.__ _..__._. SEEING THE BENEFIT. How Merchants May Obtain the Confidence of the Public. Good advertising will benefit any legitimate business, but it is neces- sary that the goods should be right and the advertisements be of the right, character to get the confidence of the buying public and to insure good results to the business man. The small‘ or runâ€"down business is easiest benefited by good advertise- ments. 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I remember that man} of the women had cocoanuts iron which the ends had been removed Part of the niilzk had been poured from the fruit and replaced by rum. Cocoanuts prepared in that way are quite delicious and in great demand with travellers. _ “Few of the people of St. Pierr: were pure black. The negroes who were originally in the island, the Malays who were brought there to serve as slaves, and the French and other white people who located there intermarried so freely that most of the inhabitants showed only a trace of the negro blood. The women were quite dark, but had good features, and many of them were quite hand- some. Their clothing‘was very un- usual. On their heads they wore scarfs of bright colors and then gowns were very fantastic. All through the city there seemed to be an air of gayety and abandon. “St. Pierre was located in a small indenture in the shore line and its houses were queer affairs which seemed like a lot of fancy blccl-zs piled up against the side of the 1nou.nta'in-._..Many of the houses were whitewashed or painted some very light color. They were all short buildings of quaint French architec- ture. Nobody worked in St. Pierre any more than was necessary. There were music and dancing everywhere and the immorality of the city will - probably lead many people to .‘Sllig:" gest that judgment has been brought down upon the lll-f‘dlCd city.” â€"â€"§ . . _ fl â€" . â€" .â€" 1020in Europeans farm 1,300 004, acres of Algiers. “a - u »» < â€"- hwnm..â€"râ€"â€"-«~w fig 9 A o. 2 r .". r «s r-’ kw. ,. K . '33:;422. ‘ 2:45?!» win.” ~z-â€" ‘r-m. 5.4., k - “an {- 4: 4. 4-..", t‘23-Y39.,e 4 - as-.. . ~. . w :21 mtdzqw ..-. .zsfliskt'flt'r“ “were. r: '- .1“ <2 “Ag-.1 “r. .- 31" '- '_ ". ‘ .N arm": I .m- "_flev, z.