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18 M 18 LMD TANKL IETY. > DIANS troke X a i map tourna tohd B9 shoek cec bad forg keep us Ned a se Site i i dd i -.Th thert« with str spoken _ 1 but _ nos herself relate, in all that sent inter tou. "I am very glad you have opened vyour heart to me so freely, Miriam," Mr. Lawson responded, in a tone of unusual kindness, when she concluded, and addressing her by her Christian name for the first time."I am glad also that you are determined never to Y es led!y ta tâ€" on‘s now lecdge ’ who coul< God wili avenge the heartâ€" and oppressed." was deeply moved, and had _ rapidly and _ passionately ; now _ she suddeniy _ checked ’ and proceeded 1to in a more composed manner, it had occurred during her reâ€" terview with Richard Heatherâ€" it al re l ten. th ssert it ire his »mship to SMUTLAI ind had spoken hisâ€"Riczlard â€" Heaâ€" Miriam â€" faltered, embarrassment. the old man admitâ€" as been telling you a t ‘ nature, and be forâ€" tated whenever it or convenience to )r be received with by the next one upâ€" » fit to bestow their is the world _ goes ightiest wrongs are n against my _ sex es of thousands _ of nt girls are ruthâ€" itherton _ himself i > unscathed. But : must surely come ivenge the heart e of the sudden the telegram, be be intonded to + to Miriam and n it mt i ind still H un ward his parents, his reckless indifferâ€" ence to my â€" longâ€"continued kindness, and, worse than all else, his villainy toward his gentle wife and noble boy. I have long suspected that you were the girl whom my nephew wronged ; â€"the name you bore and something about Ned#‘s looks and ways suggested the possibility of it. Of course I knew the truth after you â€" received your marriage certificate and letter from Dr. Harris, and confided your history to me. But for various reasons I have refrained from revealinz my relationâ€" ship to you. T1 will be frank, and tell you that having had my confidence and kindness so betrayed by my evil at ner neart. Afterward she sat a long time readâ€" Ing, or trying to read, for she found it impossible to fix her thoughts upon any subject, until finally the clock chimed the hour of one, when she put aside her book and reluctantly retired to rest. { She slept but fitfully, waking almost every hour and hearing two or three times the dismal howl of that tetherâ€" ed dog repeated. "Oh !" she cried out once, in sudden terror, when, just at daybreak, she heard it for the last time, "I am not superstitious, but it seems as if someâ€" thing dreadful is about to happen to me. If Ned fails to come by the first bouat this morning I believe 1 shall go distracted." Not being able to go aslieep again. she arose, early as it was, and went down to the beach for & bath, hoping thus to quiet her unsettled nerves. She felt both refreshed and invigâ€" orated by it, and considerably cheerâ€" ed as well, as the sun came rolling up in unclouded splendor over the wide expanse of water. i R s On her reiurn to the cottage, she busied berself in various ways, â€" arâ€" ranging â€" some â€" wild flowers _ and grasses which she bad gathered, atâ€" lending personally to the breakfast table, seeing that it was daintily spread with what was choicest _ and most onvetizing in the house, for she walked Ne W HAPTE 8t 1J had resolved not to eat until the boat arrived, whenshe fondly hoped that Ned would come to share the masal with her. The steamer came at nine. She watched it from the veranda as it moved up to the per, where it dMscharged its passengers, reloaded, and sailed away again ; but Ned came not. Miriam: Heatherton was a woman not much given to tears; she had wept their fountain dry during those wretched days of her youth, and it took a great deal to move her from the almost stoical calm she had acâ€" quired by continual â€" suppression of emotion ; but as the steamboat‘s penâ€" non disappeared around the bend of the river, she left her post on the veranda went to her room with a sinking beart, and, throwing berself upon her bed, gave expression to her grief and fear, by a fit of passionate weeping. " No, but he> said he was going on the 2 o‘clock boat," Mr. Cummings returned, adding with a stern comâ€" pression 0/ his lips :" " However, we mugt not stand here doing nothing ; we must manage some way to get inside the bank, and make sure that ull is safe within.s Ah! here comes Mr. Johnson, and he has a duplicate key," he concladed, jas another emâ€" nlovee of the bank at that moment tasket all is safe Mr. Johnson key," he co ployer of tI joined them. The situal whereupon _ locked and jJoined them. \ The situation was explained to him, whereupon the door was #peedily unâ€" locked and the four anxious men hurâ€" ried inside the bank, only to find their worst fears confirmed. The â€"greatest vonhmlpn prevailed everyvwhore. g Drawers and desks had n examinâ€" ed and ransacked, and the\safe stood open, with its moneyâ€"drawers empâ€" tied of their contents. . The door to theâ€"vault was swung aside, while every p;u'kflgo‘. of bills, every roll of coin, besides all available checks had disappeared. A most gigantic and wholesale robâ€" bery had been committed, for the usual quarterly payments had come in on the previous Saturday, nd a larger amount than usual had been retained in â€"the bank, conseqtently the robbers had made a rich Haul. Instead of the order and nicety in which everything had l&;n left less than fortyâ€"eight hours previous, paâ€" pers and books were streTn in every direction. k the robbers had made a rich HMaul. But the discovery was a tetrible shock to the four men, and, as ,they realized the astounding truth, \they stood looking into each other‘s ghastâ€" ly faces, speechless and benunibed with terror. p Of course the mind of every ne turned with suspicion to misging Ned. " We must get on the track of tifat boy at once," Mr. Butler remarked, with white lips and in a shaking voide, as soon as he could control hi { sufficiently to speak. "Sond for an officer or a detecti without a moment‘s delay," supp mented Mr.~Cummings, with consider able excitement. An officer wars accordingly sent for ; messengers were also despatched to summon the other officials of the bank, and a telegram inquiring for bad look, and insta verted to the terrible hich had attended h ntiemen, at this of apprehension { Mr. Cummings. nt at that hour s§esS1ON f this ? one to me up from saw nothâ€" hurried up, . Cranston for his vaâ€" o leave the Heatherton ippearance, Cumm‘ngs ng exceedâ€" gentlemar oment and rlenced, at rks standâ€" s and the his quire t] n it ?" Butler Perhaps can exâ€" nan was ad comâ€" â€" coverâ€" ed himâ€" of the it again mity ? it al| ?" 1¢ to unâ€" for of he had râ€"had him [ h ouneâ€" turn th M r his he m been _ suddenly _ ca that he would New â€" York that while she seemed so tressed about Ned‘s | pearance, that a f¢ Ned was forwarded to Mr. Lawson‘s cottage at Nantasket. _ _ A reply from Mrs. Heatherton was recceived somewhat later, stating that Mr. Lawson was in New York and that Ned had not beep at Nantasket at all. ‘This message â€" created the utmost consternation among the employees of the bank. C "You are pot charitable enough, Mr. Butler," he said. "If it was your own boy whose good name was at stake, I imagine that you would look at the matter in a different light." But of course everything pointed to Ned as the one mainly re«ponsible, for, since the keys had been delivered to him, it was evident that the _ robâ€" bery could not have been committed if they had not, by some meins been obtained from him. him, it was evident that the rob« bery could not have been committed if they had not, by some meins been obtained from him. Noon â€" brought Mrs. Heatherton, pale and trembling, to make inquirâ€" ies regarding her dear boy, and anxâ€" ious to learn the meaning of the mesâ€" sage which she had received _ and answered earlier in the day. It was apparent to every one that ghe had not the remotest idea where Ned was, nor what had prevented his going to Nantasket on saturday, as he had promised to do. She answered all quvsk’lunu put to her frankly and withowt hesitation; explained _ how Mr. Lawson had been â€" suddenly _ called away, and was not a man present w shrink from telling her the which rested upon him. Mr. Cummings was finallj explain that Ned had had 1 the vault and safes, besid opening the bank, and thi robbery had been committ Toor Miriam sank almos upon 4 ligence *Oh wrong," she gasped, with ashen jips. "He would not touch a penny that did not belong to him ; for, ever since he was a little child, he has said that he would become a man of whom 1 should be proud. Oh !" starting wildly to ber feet, as a terrible fear Nlashed upon her, ‘"whyâ€"why did you give him the keys to all that treasure? Romeâ€" one must have learned the fact, andâ€" great Heaven!â€"I believe they â€" have murdered my boy for the sake of your gold !" ummit procuring a carriage, they drove diâ€" rectly to their city home. But upon arriving at the house, their consternation and grief were augmented a hundredâ€"fold by the disâ€" covery that the dwelling had also been entered and robbed. All the silver of any value had been taken away, besides many costly arâ€" ticles of bricâ€"aâ€"brac, while the safe In the library had been blown open and rifled of everything of value it contained. Here some | sunimne shore 1 some umbrellas: A lady who keeps a summer boarding hoase at the seaâ€" shore near Boston went down the other day to look the house over and find out what must be renewed. She found numerous uimbrellas. left by â€" former boarders, and, tying them together, she took the bundle to Boston to have them â€"repaired. _ She stopped in at Hovey‘s and laid the bundle on the floor at her feet at the counter. When she had made her purchases she forâ€" got her umbrellas, and absentâ€"mindedly picked up an umbrella lying on the counter, thinking it was hers, or not thinking at all, and started off. Ther the owner of the umbrella, a woman standing next her, seized her and said very sharply, " You have taken my umbrella !" Of course she apologized, feeling very much cut up about it, and went on, forgetting in her fluster her own bundle of umâ€" brellas. The next day, on her way to Cambridge, she went to Hovey‘s and readily recovered her lost package of umbrellas, which had been kept for her. On the car from (,‘ambrl.dfe she noticed a lady »yeing her very closely. Presently this lady leaned forward and eaid to her with elegant emplu,la f w.I.i“;V‘aswti;“hidy whose umbrelia she bad taken the day before.â€"Boston Trangcript. e " You seem to have been more for tunate toâ€"day !" & fuch The Chinese residents of the re cently quarantined quarters of San Francisco are preparing to demant $2,000,000 compensation for . losses alleged to have been sustained owâ€" ing to the action of the health of ficials. Ees se < s o tae ul on H t Another Umbrella Story but Ne she g (To be Continued.) ind safes, besides > bank, and that d been committed am sank almost iir at this dreadf hy en ied 18 iilt]e# with i pent ess _ O h ashe nny t ver #Ai _ _of whom 1 irting wildly fear Nashed you give him that he the keys, with him f them * as the irâ€" faintit Iful inte TACTIGS OF THE BOERS. DISGUSTING FILTHY â€" HABITS. How They Looted and Desâ€" troyed Property in Natal. Writing from â€" Newcastle, Natal, Mr. Dunn, of the Central News, says: When 1 left Dundee, after the Britâ€" ish retreat, last October, Dundee was a clean, flourishing town. Toâ€" day every store, with one exception, is completely gutted; every house left unoccupied has been ransacked, the furniture being either smashed to pieces or carted away. Some of the once prim, British _ dwelling houses which 1 entered were in «in indescribably filthy condition. Square holes had been cut in the flooring of the rooms. and these were ‘used as latrines. In one ho putrilying remains . of skinned ox. Other hou used as stables. The in a state of chaos. in &A stavt Church was its draperies bare, _ woods ing. ‘The he coal mine w the dwelling the dwellings oi workmen ali pilla Belore leaviag turned on all the public bydrants a houses, inâ€"sorder th run to waste Th water eupply outs Boer women were the looters desmed to b tioles. Every disappeared, plate at the « sUICIDE A I1 M angry : 1 torily prc the toxic (On the 0 way of inscrupulous and most t« The . oftâ€"t« will sting it by a circle there is no venomoius 81 point where it is emall, Examinaton nnm::r uP ds Jack cuased NinF of the member will show that nature | whene®he got out.â€"Atlanta Journal. has provided for such amputation in Wiegure s Nervesimpnecmiilns . .+ a very curious way ; a little cut, like "And when will you Ggall again, Mr. the scratch a boy makes aross a stick I{ugg? ?" she asked. ; of candy to break it, is distinctly | "Well," replied he, whd had had his observable at the point mentioned. | arm argund her all evening, "this one When Mr. Crab wants to get rid of | was suck a close call, it was â€" really a claw ho throws his arm backward | exciting.l. and 1 love excitement so with a jerk, and it snaps off.â€"Biturâ€" â€" much, 1‘H call again tomorrow, if I day Evening Post. may." 1 « t 1t is imposs1Dl live in confine nvariably stary Here are reported three cases in which Dr. Chase‘s family remedies proved a â€" blessing . of incalculable worth. There are thousands of othâ€" ers just as remarkable, for Dr. Chase, through his recipe book and home medicines, is the consulting physiclan in the majority of homes in Canada and the United States. Mr. Joseph Geroux, 22 Metcall St., Ottawa, Ont., writeg: "I was nerâ€" vous, had headache and brain fag. I was restless at night and could not gleep. _ My ay)etite was poor, and I suffeéred from"nervous dyspepsla. Litâ€" tic business cares worried and irriâ€" tated me. After having used Dr, Chase‘s Nerve Food for about two months, Ican frankly say that I feel liko® a new man. Great Cures | Brought About "My appotite is good, I rest and sleep well, and this treatment has etrengthened me wonderfelly. . Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food Pills are certainly thg best I pver used, and I say so beâ€" caul4 I Avant to give full credit whore it is due. a )Oté Mr. James Simpson, Newcomb Mills, Northumberland County, Oat,., y{ri@t There any of the stroy then tionsâ€"such ment, whi shorrence C rj\ t that the means â€" (( ré in thore rrefully NERVOUS DYVSPEPSIA. ise, it is apt to throw out + digestive system or else itsel{! into pleces. told tale that a scorpion itself to ceath if surreunded le of, fire is a fable. And o truth in the notion that snakes bite themeelves when deed, as has been satisfacâ€" ved, they are proof against effsct of their own poison. KIDNEY DISEASE. RESORT OF entiré and n ad 173 the our By the Di, A. reveme n cmercatnde have of the altar gear ( badly °o othe vhese were ‘used : house lay *the of half an unâ€" houses had been Phe convent was os. The Catholic y stripped of all furnishings, _ the ar alone remainâ€" Uvie %fh:';:. Famous Prestiption of the Venerable A NIMALS o the starâ€" very small iliâ€"temper, handling throw out Sketch of the British Commander Now in China, Sir Edward Seymour was born . on April 30th, 1840, and so is just past his @ixtieth birthday, says the Louâ€" don Express. _ A He entered the service in 1852, beâ€" came subâ€"lieutenant in 1859, and Iicutenant less than a year later, He was promoted Communder in 1866, a Captain in 1873, and obtained flag rank as Rear Admi{ral in 1889. He has been â€" Viceâ€"Admiral since November - l lington Go _1 my du ) | Chase‘s $ O | bad c 1 had #fied | any J hour 90th, 189 Seymour‘s first war service was in the Black Sea, and he wae preâ€" sent at the bombardment ol Odessa, at Rebastopol, at the capoure _ of Kirtch, and the bombardment of Kinâ€" burn. Going out to China, he joined his uncle‘s Tlagship, and was midâ€" shinman In chirg> 0( her launch whem it was sunk in the action at Fatâ€" shau, the Admiral himse!! being in the lauach. In 1860, being promoted, he served as Licutenant in the Chesapeake, and in 1862, when in the Impericuse, commanded a emaill arm party at the relief of Sing Poo and the capture of Kahâ€"Ding in 1862. His experience of war in China has been, therefore, of a vory extensive character. When promoted Commander he was in the Growler, on the west coast of Africa, and effectel a daring rescue of an English vessel from pirates in the Congo River, in January, 1870. On this occasion, when he was se verely wounded, he received the specâ€" ia! approval of the Admiralty. He saw no further service until 188". when he commanded the Iris 1882, when he commanded the through the Egyptian campaign that vear, and for his services which there c i man‘s wort} lack Baldwin a minitâ€"whoa, Ballâ€"whoa, Ball !~ Neal kicked in little dirt on Jack‘s head and Jack began to pray : "Oh, Lord, have mercy onâ€"whoa, Ballâ€"a poor sinner; I‘m goune now â€"whoa, Ballâ€"Our Father; who art inâ€"whoa, Ball!~â€"Hallowed be Thyâ€" gee, Ball! gee! what‘ll 1 do ?â€"nem. Mow I lay me down to slâ€"gee, Ball ! (Just then in fell more dirt.) Oh, Lord, If you ever intend to do anything for meâ€"back, Ball! whoa! â€" thy kingdom comeâ€"gee, Ball! Gh, Lord, you kyow I was baptized in Smith‘s mllldu‘â€"wlum. Ban! hbo‘! up! murâ€" * 4 "This is in bed the j years wi several ¢ â€"and a ‘ pateont agiédid ander t doctorg@# duri to | i L A € Â¥â€"Liver :'Thifi is certify that I was sgick in bed the fnost of the time for three years wi kidney disease. 1 took several es of pillsâ€"different kinds â€"and a t many other kinds of patont i cines ; besides that I was ander tment by four _ different doctor@# during the time and not able to | . 1 began to take Dr. Chase‘s Â¥â€"Liver Pills, and since that me have been working every day altWhugh a man nearly 70 years of age. \Dr. Chase‘s Kidnoyâ€"Liver Pills Mrs. j(A. McKknunight, Kirkwall, Wel lington Gounty, Ont., writes; "I feel it my du to 16t you know what Dr; Chasge‘sfOintment ‘has done in a very bad c of ecztema on our baby, We had »#fled any number of cures withâ€" ‘any permanent relief, but from hour we commenced using Dr. Chase‘s Ointment there was great reâ€" lief and the improvement continued untill there was complete cure.. We think it the greatest of {amily ointâ€" have cured me Dr. A. W. Chase‘s portrait and s@igâ€" nature are on every box of his gepuâ€" ine remedies. Sold everywhere, EAâ€" manson, Bates & Co., Toronta . . , OO 7, when h turion. r Edward ist the «i nine Socie ADMIRAL SEYMOUR uld hold in no longer and | laugh which might have igard â€" two imiles, which was far as Jack chased him e got out.â€"Atlanta Journal. \ ECZEMA ON BABY. Sttuation Lt dward Seymour. _ His ment, one of the most imanus in the service, ince â€" December 12th, hoisted his flag on the tAYER OF HIS LUFE of G 0 wore medal eairned no higher test of )PR iA , ia named Jack ris hat in an hitched a rop« gallant vho had in a Tight his right the Roval y meai of er, both p. He e _ COmeâ€" i1 manâ€" ind w . and en, and \|â€"earnâ€" e RBath service, v. than second 1O W Nn h« blin U 4 re ()3 the mÂ¥ ch it in tm a#