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North Ontario Observer (Port Perry), 29 May 1890, p. 1

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* | science Tund" accuwula "1 feel the silent reproach 21" Dr. 4 Gi Ayer & Go. Lowell, Mass. _ Bold by all Druggiste. Price $1; six bottles, #6: A Fact {CER Amaiag i fh it a fo cure, yield to Ayer's Sarsaparilla, £2 Soo ti sii: liquidate its own Gatat edness to the private cil grown gray and decre of any particular: party or an; ular administration. » olarical. work correctly dotle: i cessfully 'q that d | which hes growni'ints an' fined policy, = pervades : ep ents. of keeping the iy oF pen fikBpong Hi possi g ipping him in 3) sait of justice, of retin actunlly su the truth, {cially 'in regard to that class of itors: which gents the floa debt of the Government. Outside the bondholder "it is Salmost as #5 a toan's reputation is worth to « private claim before the B wents or Cougress. wba QUE Blight derangements of the \{ and bowels may often be corres king only one of -Ayer's ot having the Bill Hoos. pressed her to her heart, moaning :-- '| 'My poor baby | my poor baby | O my ernition but she [instantly determined r It. n't she {she returned careless bubly that is one of the things ou imagide. Some people are supposing that others do not ér companion sottied a trifle an- am not one of that sort,' he re rather brosquely, 'Besides intimated to me that she does | = The gentleman leaned over until his face under the mask was near to hers. El I asked her to marry me.' Mrs. Blank was more startled than ever. The Lrain of her old suitors, and in her day she had had not a few, came up before her mental vision, and she wondered which one of them chance bad brought to her side to night, but in vain,' + But,' she said, slowly, 'because a I amsurd a 'woman 18 not to be supposed to dislike { every man she does mot marry. That {| That would be a most abburd sissump To be sure it would, he assented 3 God | my God That night the child died. Mounted mén 'and men on foot were sent scour- ing the forests, and towards morning they brought in a'negro. He was the oriminal. : The younger and more hot-blooded then insisted on a speedy termination of the tragedy, but other councils pre- veiled. Here was a rare opportunity for the display of devilish skill, horrible ingenuity and cruel tefiiement. 'Bob Angel goes down to-night.don't he ¥ said one. Yes--on the 93." 'At 11.457 'Yes, at 11.45. 'Send him down on Bob's engine.' The prisoner was held until the freight pulled up at the station. When Bob Angel descended fron the fire-cab he was followed by his negro fireman. The latter had evidently just finish- at knock-kneed and splay feet of enorm- ous size ; he was large and strong and could orack hickory nuts between his teeth like a hog. He was called 'Ole. Bony' becaus he disdained to eat the meat only of chickens: He ate bones and all. Tl turn him over to Bony,' said Angel ; 'not that I tind doing it my- elf, but Bony will enjoy it so touch.' Bony was called aside and the crime revealed to him. 'An' that's de nigger. dar what done it,' 'Yes, var Bony went to one side and 'studdied the situation,' pondering deeply. Angel eyed him closely, endeavoring to de- cipher every expression as an index of the thoughts that gathered under the wooly pate of the negro. Bony was sitting on the end of a cross tie, his elbows resting on his knees and his grimy fngers interlocketk. He was bare-headed and he softly tapped the round with his long feet, slowly and alternately. His head was bent and his eyes were half closed, After sitting few minutes he rose and shook ing, gine was "tunnelling the darknes| on s plowing & passaffe. through the night for the head and body to which "it bes| TC Looking backward, Bobie vision . that made his|® longed. Angel saw' heart stand still, This is. what he saw.--The fire-door had been thrown open, and the intense | os tho light therefrom streamed ' upon the black clouds of smoke and upon the dense folinge by the wayside as upon 4 screen on, which would be projected | the shadows of interposing bodies: and he did see strange shadows magnified into. gigantic propor tions--{rightful shadows they were n that surged through the forest or were suspended in the smoke. It seemed to Angel thatthe gate of hell was open and that the shadows he saw were made by demons dancing before the/ sulphurious flame and reveling in & |g Saturnalia - of blood. One demen, larger and more. frightful' than others, deemed to have returned from earth, for he boré in his arms a human soul; lashed toa borad. = It seemed from the shadows _ that he laid hig helpless viotim a the edge of the opening ued ndin $ an that he Faised his arms in wild exulta: tion! This monster, while every - S 5 muscle seemed to expand into distend« ed proportions; grasped his burden and and raised it aloft--the flames seemed to ruat and crackle hungrily and gape Jonginly for the soul they were to de vour: The brilliancy of the light was suddenly obscured. Something must have been thrown through the orifice --through the gate of hell--but the intensity was immediately resumed, displaying 'the demon bending over, his: naked arm stretched across the opening as if reaching. to close the gate ; then sdadenly the shadows be- came' cofifused--some * toppling and falling to the ground, others chasing each other into the forest--and all was darkness again. fen *.1*" Fothing to Do Boarding-house life is responsible for : great deal of idleness among women, was recently brought in contact with ome gouple whom I will call Smith. e wife spends her tima. doing fancy work, reading novels, and making calls. The husband is a clerk, on a sal himself like & dog that has been asleep. | futn After this he went to a telegraph pole and rubbed his buck against it. 'Hyars|b against the pile of wood, : : ho, ou 5 0. X her tmderclothes 4 wills a dressmaker is re to make her dresses. She lias a sewing-machine, which 'was a wed: sensible v te. 1h you aver Fale oar yes--Do you ever Hk Sheridan--Always, if we oes three of a kind. 3 There was a moment's icy stillness, and then a big, fat fruit-grower, with & Fopuish eye, unable to hold in, to snicker, and in less than a of on eyo they wore all guffawing. The president himself Inughed with: the rests ~--New York Tribune: . i Mrs. Langtry's Programmes. The theater-goer who holds the librete to of the opera in his hands, and has no time to look at the play because he must see whether all the actors and' actresses say their lines correctly, is evidently sa man after Mrs. Langtry'sown heart. \ has ais n him something more to attend to. Her programmes, after remarking that her dresses ate '"'extrnordinary, Jroceed to prove it by describing them. ey #re amit made by "M. Worth Paris." \¢ paragraphs may be in- tensely interesting to the thea of the fair sex; but what agony they : cause the gentleman already referred it was an easy matter for Tim to take his' Sheridan with bim fo the theater and watch where Lady Teazle missed Lh word; but how is he to know whether the programine speaks true when it pia Mrs. Langtry's first dress in "Peril" is a "brown plush: tes wn with front and sleeves of cream " and the second a "gray Ottoman silk'? He has no idea what a mousses line de joie is; and will he ever bo sure that the "skirt is eut in panels"? He has always had a way of tal over his discoveries and perplexities to his x bors in the ; but now he worse than ever. If he does not take a lady with him the audience ba undcne.-~Pall Mull Gazeite. of present from a | g, but she never uses he ow only the

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