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The old things went on again, as if there had been no break in their placid flow, and only she herself knew that between her present and her former life there lay a wide gulf of separation, part- ing that present from the past as clearly as a river parts its- two shores. With a sense of painful self-reâ€" proach, gradually Dorcas began to try to give her heart once more to the work that, during those weeks .while Frank had been with her, she had performed only mechanically. Perhaps it was diflicult to sit for hours now in that quiet study, with a mind devoted to something that was not Frank ; but a remorseful tenderness for her father made her. at least struggle bravely to do it, the consciousness that someone had' come between them, to make him no longer first to her, rising within her a thousand times with often an almost passionate pain and pity. lff Frank came back how should she ever be able to tell her father ? she used to think. If he came ! But he Would not come, she always Said. It was scarcely so much fear of what might happen in the future that pained“ and troubled her as a selfâ€" reproachful consciousness of what had happened alreadyâ€"of the fact that Frank had become dearer to her than her fatherâ€"the three weeks’ lover dearer than the father who had lived in her life for nineteen years. This was the bittercst pain she car- ried with her,, the thought that haunted her when she put her arms about her father’s neckâ€"that set a flavor of remorse into every kiss she gave him, and every tender word that passed her lips. She was deceiving him, she thought. It might be all inevitable, but none the less for that did her heart accuse her “Ought I to tell him ‘2" she thought to herself again and again ; but when she saw his undisturbed content she could not do it. So, in her penitence and pity, though she told her father nothing, she grew to devote herself to him more even than she had done in the days before Frank came. She could only in this way show her selfâ€"reâ€" proach and her tenderness, and he. as was natural, saw nothing but the tenderness, and never suspected any other feeling. Sometimes, perhaps, he thought she was a little graver than she used to be ; but she was growing to be a Woman now, he pro- bably argued, and, as was only right, was putting away childish things; and, if she was grave, so much the more was she [it to be his companiOn. As these months, that were so full of quiet happiness to him, passed on, he came to associate her more and more in every thing he did. every day together ; he talked her of every thing that was neares to hisheart ; he made her of service to him in his Work in a hundred trivial and yet to him delightful \vays. "What my Dorcas to help me ‘.”’ he said to her ness that stabbed her like a knife. Sometimes during these months Letty would talk to Dorcas of Ifi'an'k, and bring a brief satisfac- tion to the hunger that the girl al- ways felt to hear his name. The two women would sit together. and talk of the things that he had said and done, and Letty would praise him. In these days Dorcas knew that she often loved her mother better than she had better from our learning to l i They spent the larger part of l to get your money back if not cured. 60c a box. at t all dealers or EDMANSON,BATES 8x Co.,Toronto, -she used to go geeeeeeeseeeeeeeeesseeeeeéeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg :3 - (9 . r g 3% CQN FUSEGN Gentility g c . e vs it «a . 4 _ ' #9 3g OF CASTE' g Nobility of Soul. {E 3 - W$$$$W$$$$¢$$Â¥vfi$$$$633336i53$$$$$$33$33363 of sympathy between themâ€"the strongest bond (though Letty did not know it) that ever had drawn them to each other. . “I ought not to let her talk of him,” the girl said often to herself ; "it only makes me think and hope." And yet, again and again, she would devise schemes to 'make Letty talk of him ; and the kind, simple soul would dwell upon his goodness and his pleasantness, and, with happy pride, would recall the fact a hun- dred times of his faithful reme1n~ brance of them through all these yearsâ€"till Dorcas’ heart would throb and burn. Yesâ€"he had come back to them unchanged after so many years: could she forgot that, or help thanking God for it ? And the days were passing onâ€"summer com- ing, and autumn coming, and must he not still at heart be true to her, since he had given no sign, nor sent her letter back ? She used to look daily at the ring that he had given her, daily, and almost hourly some- times». She did not, of course, beâ€" lieve that when he forgot her it would change its color, and yet each day, when she saw its hue unchang- ed, she almost knew that she Was comforted, with an utterly irrational and childish comfort. "In another year I shall almost know," she said to herself on her twentieth birthday. How these win- ter days recalled the time of Fran‘k’s brief stayâ€"the winter days, the leaf- less trees, the frozen roads over which she had, first heard his step. She lived again through each remem- bered ‘meeting with himâ€"forgetting the anniversary of no day or hour. It was in the middle of January that he had come, and in little more than three weeks he had gone away. One afternoon Letty found her stooping over the open drawingâ€" room window, and gathering violets, and the girl started and colored when her mother came suddenly and spoke to her. "He said he would keep the violets I gave him, and look at them toâ€"day. Has he reâ€" membered, I wonder 1” she had been thinking to herself. ' “Seven months i” she said, when July came. “Seven months from toâ€"day,” she thought one morning when she woke. ' It was a pleasant summer day, and the summer and the sunshine had been giving her new heart of late. She was rambling about the garden this morning, after breakfast, singâ€" ing a little to herself. Often, as Frank had [rophesied she would do, to the gardenâ€"gate, and Wait for the postman there to take the letters from him, lest {er- haps there might be that one for her that should decide her .fate. Toâ€"day she went and waited for him, and when he came he brought a letter to herâ€"but it was not a letter from Frank. The writing of the address was strange to her. She took it, and looked at it for a moment or twoâ€"I uzzledâ€"a little startled. “Who can it be from ?” she thought. She opened the envelopegshe hard- ly knew whyâ€"with a certain sense of expectation and alarm. The note To prone. to you that Dr. Chase's Ointment 15 curtain and absolute cure for each and every form or itching, bleedingand protrudln piles. tho mauufecturom have guaranteed it. cc tes- timonials in the daily press and ask your neigh- bors what they think oFit. You can use it and En. Qhaee’s Ointment - should I do without that she found inside was only a short in a woman’s one, written .- with a pride and tenderâ€" hand that seemed to have trembled a little as it wrote. . “Dorcas Trelawney.” -it began abruptly, “I have been very ill, and I have no daughter to take care of me. My son will have me believe that, if I ask you, you will come and stay with me for a little while. Is he right, and will you come ? If you consent I shall be glad, as the future will, at any rate, settle itself know ever done before, because her moth- each other. Frank leaves me in two er loved Frank; they had this bond And Now Clalms That the Best Thing The doctors are wrong. the only cure for piles. that Dr. Chase’s Ointment not this dreadful ailment. has positively and thoroughly could procure had failed. will certainly cure.” Mr. F. Mann, machinist, with the Canadian Locomotive Works, Kingston, Ont., stateszâ€"“Dr. to be obtained. crs f.on1 piles can understand what I went through. I don’t believe I could endure the same torture again. We can prove by or three days, and should you come Dr. c hase's Ointment. you will find me alone. Let me have an answer. If you write that I may expect you, you shall hear from me again.” And then there was added merely the bare signatureâ€"“Frances Harcourt.” Dorcas felt as if she was in a dream for a little while, as she stood with this strange letter in her hand. She was not glad, she was not. sorry ; she only, for the first few minutes, stood looking at the words with no other feeling but be- wilderment. And then, suddenly, the arrested flood of life rushed back upon her, and she flushed crimson, and began to tremble, body and spirit, with an irresistible, passion. ate mingling of joy and pain.‘ Her Frank lâ€"her Frank ! who had not forgotten her lâ€"that Was her wild great cry of gladness ; but another cry almost as great came with it. How was she to show this letter to her father, and tell him the thing that would take the joy out of his life ? ' It was a long time afterwardsâ€"- several hours afterwardsâ€"before she told him. She passed those hours alone in her own room, without courage. to go to the study where she knew he was waiting,for her. He would call ’her presently, she knew, and in her cowardice and anguish s-he waited until he called .her ; but 'it was a long timeâ€"it was past twelve o’clock before she heard his voice at the foot of the stairs at last. She answered to his summons then, and went down to him, white, and with her knees trembling. “I thought you had gone out, my dear,” he quietly said, as she en- tered the room. "Can you come to me for a little while now ?, Lookâ€"I want you to copy these passagesfl’ And he would have begun to show them to her, but suddenly, with a strange, passionate movement, she put her arm close about his neck. "Yesâ€"presentlyâ€"I will do it preâ€" sentlyâ€"but I have been wanting to come to youâ€"I have been waiting all the morning to tell you someâ€" thing," she saidâ€"“and I don't know how to do it l Oh, my dear, you must forgive me i” she cried all at once, and dropped down on her knees beside him, and laid her head, sobbing, upon his breast. “Dorcasâ€"what is it ?3’ he asked, in a startled voice. He tried to lift up her face and look at her. "My darling, tell me. How could you be afraid to tell me anything ? Speak quietly, and let me know What is troubling you,” he said, in a sooth- ing voice. She tried to tell him, but in her lsorrow for him she was crying too bitterly for a time for the words to come. Only by degrees, in broken, almost unintelligible sen- tences did they come at lastâ€"till the story was told, and his blank, un- sus-picious mind slowly took in the truth. She was going from him; he had lost herâ€"the one love of all his life. As some drowuing creature see- ing death before him might look back for the last time on the world passing suddenly beyond his reach, so, when comprehension came, did it seem to her that he looked into her eyes. She remembered that pathetic gazeâ€"despair, reproach, the agony of a great loneliness all mingled in itâ€" for years after her own pain in all the rest had passed away. The greatest things come too swiftly sometimes; we rise and begin calmly to go about our daily busiâ€" ness, while perhaps the angel of death or separation has his sword already drawn to smite us. To Mr. Trelawney the blow that took the best thing from his life came truly as a thief comes in the night, stealâ€" ing from him, without warning, at one stroke, the hope and gladness of twenty years. She Was kneeling still beside him ; they had not said much to one an- other. He had read her letter ; she had told her story to him ; he had only asked her one or two questions. There had' been that one look of hopeless anguish ; but after that not any great sign of emotion. As she knelt sobbing, presently he put his hand upon her hair, and began to stroke it. “Hus-h, hush, my dear l” he said to her, as if she had been a child. “You see, we have been a great deal to one another. It has come sharply,” he said, after a little while, in a low voice. “I think that possibly, if you had warned me, Dorcasâ€"but perhaps not, my dearâ€" perhaps not,” he added, quickly. "And so you want to go to him?” he said, wistfully, after another silence. “Dorcas, are you sure ? 4 es. in the Valerie! for Files is and and who Chase’s Ointment is, I believe, the most effective treatment for piles that is I have used it and it cured me of bleeding piles of a. most aggravated form. The misery caused by them \vas’something awful, and At nights especially I They usually claim that an operation, with all its risk, pain, and expense, is the statements of thousands of good, only promptly relieves the suffering from piles, but It frequently cures after the knife has failed. Mr. J. F. Miller, who is employed as cooper by the Kennedy a‘nd Davis statesâ€""I believe that Dr. Chase's Ointment is the best thing in the world for piles. cured me of itching, bleeding piles, I can recommend this ointment to anyone Suffering from piles, knowing that it men and women also positively cures h onest Milling (30., Lindsay, Ont., I say this because it this after all other remedies I lives at 24 Dufl‘erln street. Only suffer- suffered dreadfully, and could not get rest or sleep. I found a positive cure in- Dr. Chase’s Ointment, and gladly recommend it to others.’ ' There is no disputing the merit of Dr‘. Chase’s Ointment and its effectiveness as In nearly every community are to be found people It is for sale by nearly all and 00., Toronto, bleeding,‘ and protruding piles. of this wretched disease by Dr. Chase’s Ointment. or will he :3an post paid on receipt of price by Bdmanson. Bates a. cure for itching, who have been cured dealers, at 60 cents a. box, He seemed You scarcely know him. to meâ€"well, a boyish kind of fellow; no.harm in him, perhaps, but.”â€" with . his lip quiveringâ€"“too slight and immature. I should have thought. My child, will he satisfy you ?” he broke out, almost with a cry. "I cannot think it 1 think it l” He made her lift her face, and put his hand upon her forehead to hold it back, that he might look at her. “Only a boyâ€"no student ; think of thatâ€"a mere light-hearted, sha1~ low boy l” he reiterated, bitterly. “He is not shallow,” she answered, in a, low, quick voice. “Well, at any rate, a mere boyâ€"a boy in mindâ€"and you have been used to men.” "You are not just to him; he is a man too,” shesaid. “I cannot 'see it ; I think you are I cannot under- piteously. I cannot under a delusion. stand it," he said, "Proud, worldly people, too, will look down upon you. Dorcas, how can you bear to go to them when they do not want you ?” ' “Frank wants me," she said, with a half break in her voice, and yet in a tone that was like a little cry of 0 . J {Veg this Was the whole; a strang- er wanted ‘her, and where he called her she must go. With a strange anguish, as of ice gathering about his heart, he began to feel how he had built up the gladness of his life like a house without foundations, grounding it on the sand when he thought it had been grounded on a rock. How long had he been living believing that he was first with her when. he was not first ? An un- speakable bitterness and sadness took pOSScssion of him. It seemed to him that he had trusted her, and she had deceived him. In the agony of his sudden loneliness he could not judge her justly, nor believe that he was still dear to her, beCause she had let a stranger’s love outweigh his passionate love of twenty years. There was the open book upon his desk on which half an hour ago he had been marking those passages for her to copy, and suddenly he closed it and threw it on one side. She would never do Work again for him, he said. Already it felt to him as if the life of all these previous years â€"the life even of yesterdayâ€"had be- come an old thing far away. As he sat silent in his chair it seemed to him like a dream, once more a lonely, fade back from and leave him childless man. (To Be Continued.) -â€"â€"+ BABY’S OWN TABLETS. Keep Little Ones Well During the Hot Weather Months. If you want to keep your little- ones hearty, rosy and full of life dur- ing the hot weather give them Baby's Own Tablets the moment they show signs of being out of or- der in any way. . Tris medicine 'cures all forms of stomach and bowel troubles, which carry off so many little ones during the summer months, and is the best thing in the world for sleeplessmess, irritation when teeth‘ It is just the medicine for hot weather troubles; first, because it always does good; and, .second, because it can never do any harmâ€"- guaranteed free from opiates. Mrs. W. E. Bass'am, Kingston, Ont., says: â€"“I began using Llaby’s Own Tab- lets when my little girl was about three months old. Atthat time she had indigestion badly; she was vomiting and had diarrhoea con- stantly and although she had an ap- parently ravenous appetite her food did her no good and she was very thin. Nothing helped her until we began giving her Baby’s Own Tabs lets, but after giving her these the vomiting and diarrhoea ceased and she began to improve almost at once. I have since used the Tablets for other troubles and have found them all that can be desiredâ€"they are the best medicine I have used for a child." These Tablets are readily taken by all children, and can 'be given to the nervousness, ing, etc. ever smallest, weakest infant by crushing- - them to a powder. Sold at drug stores or you can get them post paid at 25 cents a box by writing direct to the Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00. Brockville, N.Y. I Ont. , or Schenectady, _.4._..\__ "But how, do you know they have a new servant in the house ?” “By the mixed expression of awe and humility that is on the faces of all the family." - punâ€"g...- Wifeâ€"“That last set of china is the best we ever had.” H‘uslbandâ€" "Um; it’s all gone, isn’t it ?” Wifeâ€" “Yes; but just think, dear ! It last- ed four girls and a half.” Bridegroom (handing his bride a brooch with her 'name set in mondsâ€"“Here dear Ida.” (aside)â€""Oh, dear, why didn’t l have some good long name, like Marguerite '2” Aliceâ€"“What a gallant person Mr. Dunkley is. He never addresses, me without beginning ‘Fair miss.‘ ” Dorothyâ€""Oh, that’s force of habit. He used to be a ’bus conductor.",_ A lawyer went to bathe, and en- countered a huge shank. Their eyes met for an instant, then the shark blushed, and swam away. Mr. Billusâ€"“Johnny, is there any hot water in the house ? I’ve manâ€" aged to upset a jar of fruit on the tablecloth.” Johnny Billusâ€"“No. but ' there’ll be plenty of it mamma comes back." w hen who. I diaâ€" , . , , . .. . . 1deFopt to the other, a peiambulato. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Some men become sadder without becoming any wiser.’ If a miser leaves a. will it’s mere- ly a dead give-away. Experience makes a man wiser and poorer simultaneously. The way of the transgressor is fre- quently paved with gold bricks. A successful business man is one who induces other people to buy what he doesn’t want. The wise small boy throws his mo- ther’s slippers after his big sister when she starts on her wedding tour. The wise man formerly built his house on a rock, but now he builds it on the sand, and calls it a sea‘ side hotel. It is probably called the “almigh- ty dollar” because it prevents some girls from breaking into the spinstei class. The average Woman doesn't care any more for the privilege of voting than. the average man does for the privilege of putting a. baby to sled). .â€"...._.¢._. SIGNALLING UNDER WATER. An interesting experiment in con- nection with submarine fogâ€"signal- ling has been carried out by hang- ing a bell 50 feet below a buoy moored in fifteen fathoms of water, which was struck electrically from a. neighboring lighthouse. B5 means of such submarine signalling it is stated that a person placing a: car against a rod held in contacl with the hull of a vessel is able tt hear the bell from three to five mile! away; in fact, it is believed that tht ringing of the bell may be heard al a distance of even ten or twelv miles. 4 CORNET ETIQUETTE. The coronet of a duke consists o alternate crosses and leaves, th leaves being a. representation of tin leaves of the parsley plant. Tht Princes of the Royal blood als¢ wear a similar crown. The Stat- headgear of a marquis consists of : 'diadem surrounded by flowers am pearls placed alternately. An earl however, has neither flowers no: leaves surmounting his circlet, bul only points rising each with a pear. on the, top“ A Viscount. has neithei flowers nor points, but only tin plain circlet adorned with pearls which, regardless of number, an placed on the crown itself. A bar on has only six pearls on the gold on border, not raised, to distinguisl him from an earl, and the number 0 pearls renders the diade distinc from that of a Viscount. v INTOXICATING BEANS. Among the peasants of Southeri Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia a curiou: malady has been noticed by physi cians, which is caused by eating beans. One of the most remarkablc effects of the malady is a species 0 intoxication resembling that pro- duced by alcoholic drink. In somx cases persons predisposed to the mal. ady are seized with the symptom: of intoxication if they pass a llelc’ where the bean plant is in [lower the odor alone sufiicing to all‘eci them. MARVELLOUS CENTENARIAN. According to the Tribune de Gen- eve, therehas recently died in A1- bania one Ismail IIudgo, who was born in 1741, having reached, at the time of his death, the extraordinary age of 160 years. The old man up to the last was in full possession of all his senses; in fact, his vigor was so great that at the age of 158 he has been known to walk eleven miles without being tired. He had a splendid set of teeth at the time of his death, his general appearance be‘ ing that of a healthy, middleâ€"aged man. TAUGIIT FOR 1,000 YEARS. A singular illustration of the per- sistence with which the Japanese adhere to the family vocations is seen in an announcement in a J ap- ianese newspaper that a celebrated dancing master was to hold a ser- vice in honor of the one thousandth anniversary of the death of his an- |cestor, who was the first of the fam ily to take up the profession. A “'0 ()DEN C H-l M NEY. A wooden chimney stack 160 feel high is in operation at Mapimi, if the Province of Durango, Mexico IThe interior is lined with corrugat ed iron, and there are platforms 0;- intervals to throw water on th: wood if<it catches fire. FAMILY GLOBE-TROTTING. 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