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J, sHEWELL of Hair. n 1858 â€"Mr The _ Oren ,â€"NO. 9. i<tom Pamsing through the Long Hall, as it has been called from timansxmmemorhl. he encounters Simon Gale, the old butlâ€" er, and stops to speak to him, kindly, as is his wont, though in truth his heart is sore. "Ah! Simon! How warm the weathâ€" er growsf" he says, genjally, brushing his short hair back from his forehead. The atterapt is praiseworthy, as really there is no hair to speak of, his barber having provided against that.â€" He himself, and ioes on more quietly: "I shall always feel regret in that you found it so easy a matter to believe me guilty of so monstrous a deed.. I think we can have nothing further to say to each other, either now or in the future. I wish, you gooq-evemni." Sartoris .standing with his back alâ€" most turned to his nephew, takes no heed of this angry farewell: and Dorian, going out, closes the door calmly beâ€" Snd him "That is just as you please to think," says Branscombe, turning upon him with flashing eyes. He frowns heavily, and, with a little gesture common ‘to him, raises his hand and pushes the end of his fair mustache between his tee{. Then, with a sudden effort, he controls **You dare not!" says Sartoris, in a «stifled tome, confronting him fully for the first time. + *‘Yes, I have. I wear it incessantly: I have taken rather a fancy to it," reâ€" plies Branscombe, in an unmmpromisin% tone. ‘"My persistent admiration for i has driven my tailor to despair. I very seldom (except, perhaps at midnight reâ€" ‘vels or afternoon bores) appear in pubâ€" lic without it." ‘ ‘‘Then you deny nothing ?" *‘Nothing !""â€" contemptuously, making a movement as though to depart. ‘"Why should I? If, after all these years that you have known me, you can imagine me capable of evil such as you describe so graphically, it world give me no pleasure to vindicate myself in your eyes. Think of me as you will; I shall take no steps to justify myself.". _« "A light overcoat. Such was the deâ€" scription. But‘" (with a longing that is terribly pathetic) "many overcoats are alike. Andâ€"I dare say you have not worn that one for months." __‘"A coat like this do you say?" asks »Branscombe, with a nervous atterapt at ulnconcern, laying jhis hand upon his sleeve. "It is needless lying," he says slowly. "‘The very coat you woreâ€"z light overâ€" coat,â€"probably‘‘ (pointing to it) ‘"the one you are now wearingâ€"was accurately described." Dorian starts visibly. "Do you still hope to brave it out ?" _ _ One can l:'n.rdly Erov?é the f)'gesen;e'g( any one at a gathering ether of the clans, such a.wg there wo‘;%K at "her â€" "at home.‘ I wouldn‘t believe T was there if I were you." He laughs again. _ Sartoris flushed hotly all over his lean earnest face. *‘Well really, it would take me all my time to remember. Probably dining; Â¥ot to my fish by that time, no doubt. ater on I was at Lady Chetwoode‘s erush; but that"â€"with a sarcastic laugh â€""is a very safe thing to say, is it not? Do you demy it?" There is someâ€" thing that is almost hope in his tone "If not there last Tuesday, at that hour, where were you {" "He must be rather a clever fellow I congratulate you on your ‘man.‘" **Your suspicions make you un just, my lord," says the young man, haughtily. ‘"They overrule your better judgment. Are such paltry evidences as you have just put forward sufficient to condemn me, or have you further proofs ?" "I have,â€"a still stronger one than any other I have mentioned. The last place in which Ruth Annersley was seen in this neighborhood was in Â¥{urston Wood at eight o‘clock on the evening of her departure, andâ€"you were with her |" "I was ?" _ "‘The man who saw you will swear to this of her presence there; and then, a little later, ffi.nd a handkerchief (which you {oursel{ acknowledge having given her) ying on your library floor; about that, too, you were dumb; no excuse was rmdÂ¥ to your lips. By your own actions judge you." _ 7 i goes on Sartoris, unmoved, nay, rather confirmed in his suspicions by Bransâ€" combe‘s sneer; "but then came the night of the Hunt ball, when I met you alone with her, in the most secluded part of the grounds, and when you were unable to give me any reasonable explanation of all the words may convey to "What do you mean?" d Branscombe, throwing up his h flushing darkly. His eyes flash, trils dilate. "Am I to infer fro last remark that â€" you suspect having something to do with } «ppearance i‘ N 4 x "‘That is eyactly what except she herself, of c other." Then, turning face his nephew, "I tho have told me where sh without giving himself **‘Ruth‘s disappearance ?* I have heard nothing. Why, where pan she have gone?" _ nepig f "It is,"* says Sartoris, rising from his chair, ano moving a few steps nearer to him. "It is slowly murdering poor John Annersley !"* "I am still hopelessly in the dark," says Dorian, shrugging his shoulders. ‘"What has suspense got to do with old Annersley $" ‘"Are you really ignorant of all that has occurred $ Have you not héard of Ruth‘s mysterious disappearance ?" _ "My business was with you ?" "Anything wrong?" says the young man, impatiently, tapping a table light~ ly with his fingers, and frowning someâ€" what heavily. ‘* Your tone implies as nuch. Has anything bappened in my absence to cause you annoyance. If so let me know it at once, and spare me any beating about the bush. Suspense is unpleasant." "You going to trust yourself alone in our great Babylon?" be says raising his brows. ‘"Why the world must be comâ€" ing to an end. What business had you there that I could not have managed for you that plan." There is a meaning in his puzzles Dorian. Long before the night has set in he comes; and as he enters the room where his uncle sits awaiting him, Lord Sartoris tells himself that never before has he seen him so handsome, so tall, se good to look at. ! *Your telegram made me uneasy," he says, abruptly, "so I came back sooner than I had intended. Had you mine ?" ‘Yes; some hours ago." "Did you want me Arthur?" "Yes; but not your return here. I sent my telegram principally to learn your aadress, as I had made up my mind to go up to town. You have frustrated | CHAPTER XXIL __*""When there is a great deal of smoke, and no clear flame, it argues much moisâ€" ture in the matter, yet it witnesseth. certainly, that there is fire there."â€" Leighton. THE VICARS GOVERNESS #1 having given her) floor; about that, )excuse was ready no on e knows andâ€"one reast rath Bran 40 He grows bewildered and heartâ€"sicl Reaching home, he orders his ‘dogâ€" to be blsmht round,â€"and. by a good out of his good gray mar manages to catch the evening train t town. . k ul w Cl en . aeoae m aopts ’fi To ‘ Dorian . the. tender. solemnity of | you by his the scene brings no balm. To go again flduobu'g]?‘. to tuwn by the night mailâ€"to confront | may be dep Horace and learn from him the worst urably~ir ® â€"is his one settled thought, among the more; clever multitude of disordered ones; and upon way. : in> /) it. he ‘determines to act. o the law, the _ But what if he sball prove innocent. | tage.; ‘He! it or den{ all knowledge of the affair ? | ting f What then .can clear Dorian . in his t uncle‘s eyes? And even should be acâ€"| higher knowledge the fact that ‘he had enticâ€" | more ar ed the girl from her _ home, bhow ‘can it | He can get benefit TJoricnv He is scarcely the one | boreâ€"in Co to defend himself at another‘s ,em .es, may mal and to betray Horace to clear mm&l would be impossible to him.~ > ~*~*~ 1 too kKeen fo % plains . * Lie slumbering in the close embrace of night. All nature seems sinking into one grand repose, wherein strife and misery and death appear to have no part. © _ _ The farâ€"off grating sound of the cornâ€" crake can be heard; the cuckoo‘s tuneless note, incessant and unmusical, tires the early night. The faint sweet chirrups of many insects come from far and near, and break upon the sense with a soft and lulling harmony: ‘‘There is no stir, nor breath of air; the ’ The evening is passing fair, yet it brings no comfort io his soul; the trees towering upward lie heavily against the sky; the breath of many flowers make rich the air. Already the faint moon, arising, throws "her silver light oc‘er half the world," and makes more blue the azure depths above: "Star follows star, though yet day‘s golden light & Upon the hills andâ€" headlands faintly streams." that _ In the dusk of the eveni.nfi any one might casily mistake one brother for the other. They are the same height; the likeness between them is remarkable. He almost hates himself for the readiâ€" ness with which he pieces his story toâ€" gether, making doubt merge with such entirety into conviction. ’ The next morning he had called again, and found the coat in the very selfâ€" same place where he had thrown. it. But in the mean time; during all the hours that intervened between the aftâ€" ernoon of one day and the forencon of another,> where had it been ? ‘"The very coat you wore was minuteâ€" ly described.‘"â€"The words come back upâ€" on him with a sudden rush, causing him & keener {;mg than any he has over yet known. Must he indeed bring himself to believe that his own brother had made use of the coat with the deliberâ€" ate _ intention . (should chance fling any intruder in the way) of casting susâ€" picion upon himâ€"Dorian ? On Tuesday night the girl had left her home. On Tuesday morning he had been to Horace‘s rooms, had found him there, had sat and conversed with him for upward of an hour on different subâ€" jects,â€"chiefly, . he now â€" remembers, of Clarissa Pemn. f The day been warm, and he had taken off his coat (the light overcoat he had effected for the past month), and bad thrown it on a chair, andâ€"left it thgx:s wheP going ! Soke Ww Pm 4 Can Horace have committed this base deed? This fear usurps all other conâ€" siderations. Going back upon what he has just heard he examines in his mind each little detail of the wretched history imparted to him by his uncle. All the suspicionsâ€"lulled to rest through lack of matter wherewith to feed themâ€"now come to life again, and grow in size and importance, in spite of his intense deâ€" sire to suppress them. elin : Sm onl We isheii us m tnWd ronb tm en flooring to the glass door that lies a the further end of the room, and that opens to m graveled path outside, or which lilacs are flinging broadcast thei: rich purple bloom. As he moves, wit} a pale face and set lips (for the bitter smile has faded), he tramples ruthless [ly, and without thought for their beauâ€" , "Pah!" he says, almost loud, as he strides onward ° beneath the budding elms. ‘‘To think after all these years, they should so readily condemn! Even that old man, who has known me from my infancy, believes me guilty." Then a chanfe sweeps over him. Inâ€" sults to himself are forgotten, and his thoughts travel onward to a fear that for many days has been growing and gaining strength. h iy, and without though ty, upon the deep soft j ing that are strewn uy from the stainedâ€"glass Throwing open the do gladly the cool evening to rush to meet him. He smiles againâ€"a jarring sort of smile, that hardly accords with the beauty of the dying day,â€"and, moving away from the old man, crosses the oakâ€" en flooring to the glass door that lies at _ ‘"The whole world seems dyspeptic toâ€" day," he says, ironically. Then, . "It would be such a horrid bore to make any one miserable that I dare say 1 sha‘n‘t try it. If, however, I do commit the mysterious serious offense at which you broadly hint, and of which you plainly believe me fully capable, I‘ll let you know about it." [ Dorian, laying his hand upon the old servant‘s shoulders, pushes him gently | backward, so that he may look the more readily into his face. ' *"Why, Simon! How â€" absolutely in earnest you are!" ; be says, lightly. "‘\\'h&t. crime have I committed, that I \should spend the rest of my days in sackeloth and ashes ?" ' "I know nothing," says old Gale, sadâ€" ly. "How should I be wiser than my ’master"f All I feel is that youth is careless and headstrong, and things once done are difficult of undoing. If you would Fo to your grave happy, keep yourself from causing misery to those who love you andâ€"trust in you." His voice sinks, and grows tremulous. Dorian, taking his iumds from . his shoulders, moves back from the old man, and regards him meditatively, stroking his fair mustache slowly, in a rnLh«r{ mechanical fashion, as he does so. DURHAM, CO. GREY, THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1896 careless a done are would go Een tael ""Well! Oh, that doesn‘t describe him," says Branscombe, with ushrlg. and a somewhat ironical laugh. . "He struck me as being unusually livelx.â€". in fact, ‘strong as Boreas on the main.‘ I thought him very well indeed." . ""Ay, he is so!l A godly youth hrm?s_ a peaceful age; and his was that. H® has lived a good life, and now is reap~ ing his reward." ‘ "Is he?" says Dorian, with a badly= suppressed yawn. "Of course I was mi taken, but really it occurred to me that he was in the abominable temper. Is & ‘ desire to insult every one part of the reward $" 8 _ ‘"You make light of what I say," res turns Simon, reproachfully, "yet it in the very truth I speak. He has no s ial sin to repent, no lasting misdeed haunt him, as years creep on. It we well to think of it," says Simon, with & _trembling voice, "while youth is still with us. To you it yet belongs. If you have done aught amiss, I entreat you to confess, and make amends for it, whilst there is yet time." Je ie PME ts i uin allie ut‘o uie ..vg_,,{p.{,mzfi%; aiwsg ao o arynn ;EF« <8 Hudoidionactr Momicretatiial ‘,;‘::.”,‘: **Not toâ€"night. Some other time,when my uncleâ€"â€"" He pauses. ‘*You think him looking well ?" asks the old man, anxiously, mistaking his crime imputed to him. With an effort h--”mnl?érl; himself, aad asks, h's.mul'y. though almost without purpose, "Have you seen my lord ?" _ ce ‘"Yes; I have only just left him." . "You will stay to dinner, ,\Ir Doriâ€" an ?" He has been "Mr. Dorian‘ to him for so many years that now the more formal Mr. Branscombs is impossible. "Very warm, sir,‘ returnas the old man, regarding him wistfully. He is not thinking of the weather, either of its heat or cold. He is only wondering, with a foreboding sadness, whether the man before himâ€"who has been to him the apple of his eyeâ€"is guilty or not of the wearily. His puises are throbbing, and his beart beating hotly with passionate indignation and disappointment. _ sitation "Well 1 wfi; bly~in sdvance of aâ€"civalwhoris 1. inoreoerernmienaptatg= o ‘ne ns same way. in the "consultative.! ches. of the law, the plodder~lins a‘great:advanâ€" his own,trt in such prc law : the Ptl spacious st you by his siduously | a | more the disadvantages of his position appear to recede into the distance. . fi:dding industry is specially suited for ‘certain occupations. . There are kinds of work in which brillizncy has nc:)dplaoo. and in such instances the plodder has the field to himself.. It is io?thmny !omngtntdltnde At{‘ ention, emfiy. and keen judgmen are the chief qualifications "required. and these are all in the line of the plodâ€" ding worker. ‘Many of the ordinary mfia do not specially tax ingenuity; and the isteady conscientions artificer can do the work as well as a cleverer and more erratic man, and he has all "Be a plodder. Persevere, and you will a plodder. Persevere, and you> will succeed." We describe the plodder as we all know himâ€"one who keeps his head bent steadily over life‘s grindâ€" stone, who is unflagging in work, who may always be expected to do his best, who does not sink into a calm after s. tempestuous. burst. of energy, but may be counted on as keeping up the steady regularity of a tradeâ€"wird. When he is at school the plodder will never miss the early morning study. : He will conâ€" scientiously distribute his energy over the whole course of studies. The only two things that will prevent his being bookâ€"perfect at the finish are a want of time or a want of capacity. When he leaves school, and begins his business life, he will settle down to the exact fulfillment of all the selfâ€"claimed virâ€" tues which the merchiint puts into his circular when he "solicits a continuâ€" ance of your patronage;" he will be atâ€" tentive, prompt assiduous. If his work should admit of advancement through study,. his evenings will be planned out for classâ€"work and reading, with the strictest view to ‘the examinations whiil_x may !gl]ow‘.u bS°lmm.ld he b:a] a worki e w more regular than cg sometimes deceitful sun. As time goes on, the plodder becomes _ a trustworthy cog in the world‘s mechanâ€" isam,. an impersonation ofâ€"duty, ‘insusâ€" oegubla to impulse or fluctuations of will. The more we describe him thej 1d Me Will Succeed Nine Times in Ten Where a More Cifted and Erratic Man Wil Fait, It â€"has often been observed that the man of average ability, who is attentive and diligent, in fact, a plodderâ€"succeeds in life when more brilliant but erratic men fail. Hence the force of the axiom, amused. "If you mean thai I have had anything to do with her vamoose, I beg to say your imagination has run wild. You can search the place if you like. The old lady who attends to my wants will probably express some faint disapâ€" probation when you invade the sanctity of her chamber, but beyond that no unâ€" pleasantness need be anticipated. This is her favorite hour for imbiLing brandy â€"my brandy, you will understand (she takes it merely as a tonic, being afflictâ€" edâ€"as she tells meâ€"with what she is pleased to term ‘nightly trimbles‘); so if, in the course of your wanderings, you chance to meet her, and she openly moâ€" lests you, don‘t blame me." ites imagine so much evilt Perh finding life in that stagnant hole ut durable, Ruth threw up the whole « cern, and is now seeking a subsiste honorably. Perhaps, too, she has it ried. _ Perhapsâ€"â€"* village "Why been hea fear she t and hong _ "Ruth Annersley ¢" reiterates Hors the most perfect amazement in his :o If purposely done, the surprise is ve excellent indeed. "Why? What 1 hap}ptmod to hert" "Have you heard nothing f" "My dear fellow, how coul4 I? I ha not been near Pullingham for &fi month; and its small gossips fail to i terest our big city. What has happe ‘*"Where is Ruth Annersley ?" he asks awkwardly, as though getting rid of the question at any price and without preâ€" amble. He has still his hand upon his Ir»mthcr‘s arm, and his eyes upon his ace. f *My dear fellow, how you have flung way undoubted talent! Your tone outâ€" flryings Irving; it is ultraâ€"tragic. Posâ€" ritlvely you make my blood run cold. Don‘t stand staring at me in that awâ€" ful attitude, but tell me, as briefly as you can, what I have done." ) He laughs lightly. énorix.n regards him fixedly. Has he I ns ;érod bim? Has instinct played him alse **You Dorian?" Horace, raising ‘his eyes, flmjlleq.upun him bis usual slow imâ€" penetrable smile. *‘‘Working? Yes; we others, the moneyless ones, must work or die; and death is unpopular nowadays. Still, law is dry work when all is conâ€" fessed." He presses his hand to his foreâ€" head with affected languor, and for an instant conceals his face. ‘"By the bye, it is rather good of you to break in so unexpectedly upon my monotony. Anyâ€" thing I can do for you ?" : I_ "Let me speak to you," says Dorian impulsively, laying his hand upon his arm. "If I am wronging you in my thoughts I shall never forgive myself, and you, in all probability, will never forgive me either; yet I must get it off my mind." ‘Why do you not suppose her dead ?" s Dorian, tapping the table with his efinger, his eyes fixed moodily on the tern of the maroonâ€"colored cloth 11 such speculations are equally abâ€" d. I hardly came to London to listâ€" to such vain imaginings." Thenâ€"I think 1 barely understand ," says Horace, amiably; "you came to Horace‘s rooms, hoping against hope that he may find him at home. To his surprise he does so find him,.â€"in the midst of papers, and apparently up to his eyes in business. * 9 *"Working so late?" says Dorian inâ€" voluntarily, being accustomed to think of Horace, at this hour, as one of a chosâ€" en band brought together to discuss the lighter topics of the day over soup and fish and {l&m. In truth, now be is on the spot and face to face with his brothâ€". er, the enormity of his errand makes itâ€" self felt, and he hardly knows what to say to him. _ Lord Sartoris, sitting brooding over miserable. thoughts in the libra.r(y at Hythe, has tidings brought him of his nephew‘s speedy return to London, and endures one stab the more, as he feels {lfwm than ever convinced of his duplicâ€" ity. W hat The girl has left her home; has : n heard of since last Tuesday. TH ie ols exei h ame t cnes »Bionntn s onl e s se ae it o in ho oo Arrived in town, Branscombe drives (To Be Continued.) THE PLODDER as willfully flung up b c to gainâ€"misery." a charitable place is says Horace, with a uld the estimable Pull ill th 1 I had here the best bout her," interrupts sing patience a litâ€" to boot. â€"?‘{%; edicine and the ind â€" firm and +and :matonish it ight blunde e calr is run wild. if you like. o my wants faint disapâ€" the sanctity that no unâ€" pated. This ily be Beview. all 1 have been toid all h monds in the rough looked PICKED OUT BY HAND. This is the most interesting process of all, for you can stand at the sorter‘s elbow and see him pick up the diamonds with _ as much unconcern as if ~ they were bits of iron. KA I have been told all my life that diaâ€" *The puisstorwhere, the "pay airt e ic wi "pay " is tmt«ip and where the diamonds are found is about a quarter of a mile away from the mine itsolf, and the work here is done by convict Kaffirs and a few white men. The pulsator is a contrivâ€" ance that by a constant oscillating moâ€" tion sifts out the heavy diamonds from the gravel and sand and rotten 3::11:. As a matter of course, a great deal of worthless chaff, bits of gravel, pyrites, toas t feans oo and e wi ( on eimaga uies fls a process ing, where the diamonds have to be | the two places having been constructed for this special purpose. He is allowâ€" ed_to use only "compound money" brass tickets, each good for & shilling‘s worth of provisions, clothes, tobacco, "ginger pop," &c., at the compound store. The overhead wire netting gnevenu; him. tosâ€" sing diamonds over the walls of the pound, to be picked up by a confederâ€" ate or by ‘the nefarious "I.D.B." (illicit diamond buyer.) During the time he is in dt.he h;emceuotut}.ehe company he is ted‘ and ¢ company‘s expense. If he falls sick he is cared for at the hospital ‘(and an admirable hospital it is), and if he is hurt in the mine his ‘m:dd.s ax;e bmthe and his weltare’ after by company‘s surgeon, At the end of his month he has the | oguon. of. renewing his contract or, throwing it u‘t) If he throws it up he goes into what is called the ‘‘detention ‘ ouse." Here he is stripped tothe skin and remains in that condition under | constant surveillance for a week. Everyl act of his daily life is performed unâ€" | der the eye of the guards. Stealing diamonds by w'almhem is the | most difficult and haz method: a ’ STEAL DIAMONDS if tub;:y_can %et. ‘the chance. Th:homil';e- .re tions, however, gov borers would eeor0, to have reduced the opgortumt'ws for theft to a minimum. he Kaffir who is taken on as a miner at the De Beers ufim & contract whereby he allows.himself to be kept practically a prisoner for the period covered by his contractâ€"s month. Durâ€" ing this time he is not allowed to pass beyond the limits of the mine, or to hold communication with any outsider. He is restricted rigidly to the precinets of the mine itself, and to the compound, an underground passage connecting ‘"Ab, but you know," he answered, "the Zulus are & very superior race; they are much more intelligent than theâ€"Dutch Boers you find in Jobhanâ€" nesburg. Cleanly? I should say so. Here‘s something you can _ tell your paper. You‘ll never see a Zulu finish a meal without washing his teeth very carefully afterward." I answered that the detail would be duly reported, but that I would not answer for its as truth. But the Eaffins of the De Beers are human, sometimes, like Arthâ€" ur Jones‘s Cabinet Ministers, very huâ€" man, and they will were furnished with an overbanging roof to keep off the sun, and cut up into inâ€" numerable little rooms. In the centre is a huge bathing tunk, while overhead from side to side and from end to end of the compound, is a network of wires, the meshes being not more than an: inch in width. j The Ds Beers compound is a vast triâ€" ungu!n.r space, enclosed on each side by a long, mudâ€"built shed of one story. a gold or a diamond mine, is the place where the miners live, the miners being the Kaffirs of the native tribes. Precautions Agzninst Theffâ€"Cleanliness in Spite of Obstaclesâ€"It Is No Trouble to Tell the Diamonds from Pebbles, C There can be no doubt that the most interesting sight in the great De Beers mine at Kimberley is the compound, says a Johannesbury letter. The comâ€" pound of a South African mine, be it AMONG DIANMOND DIGGERS SCENES IN THE COMPOUND IN WHICH THEY DWELL. de, "they don‘t like it." rther on, where the Basutas red (for the tribes affect ners of the compound, and r mingle with each other), rame was going on. "They ited over this game," said er. ‘"aud gamble over it, e man bas ever been able It looked very much like { checkers. They bad cut it makes th timekeeper, 1 Another away wh ‘Roman Church in 1752, and Easter is | always the first Sunday after the full moon which h.ngpens upon or next after | March 21, which date is the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. . Therefore the earliest date upon < which Easter may occur is March 22. If the full moon should fallâ€"on March 21 Easter is the follo\r‘ii.x Sunday. The latest date upâ€" on w the festival may fall is April 25. In 1761 and 1818 Easter fell on ‘March 22, but that will not occur again in this or the mnext century. In 1886 it E%l.l.ou April 25 and will do so again â€" * _. Meved Within Six Hours,.. _ _ I take much pleasure in stating that I have ba: uigz South American Kidâ€" ney Cure, and found relief within six kiek in 1893, when I exmployod an o w several of the ick and was Peveral of the loal Ehyacianar and mas Inintâ€"You Can bo Re With Kidnay Compiniol 200 Can A Family Suffers for Want of a Mother‘ Attention. Mr. Neil Morrison, St. John, N. B.: *‘ My daughter, Mrs. Gregory, has had rheumatism so bad during the last year that she was unsble to help her chilâ€" dren, or attend toâ€"her housebold duties. Everything imaginable was tried, but to no purpose. I was at last recomâ€" mandeJ to get South American Rheuâ€" matic Cure. One bottle cured my ds:&hur within four days, and I take Mleu”un in giving this recomâ€" jon. en spirits,. And, in a w:gv this is right To give up would benefit neither them nor anybody else, and would be a misâ€" fortune to them and their families. To keep up, whatever comes along, is alâ€" flther the best way. To refuse to yield to physical pain and depression is often to combat it successfully, and has in many instances, driven it out and allowed the sufferer to regain the normal condition. \ | Brave Hearts. f It seems a hard and beartless thing ’m say that one should not yield to weariness or to the milder forms of illâ€" ness; but the world is a stern taskâ€" master, and really seems to care little what the condition of the worker is so long as the labor is faithfully performâ€" le'd.r.l Be this a: it may, tbex;c is txl;er_v ittle thy expressed for ose who fafl' to meet ge requirements of their position; indeed it would be imâ€" possible to allow any business to be at the caprice of halfâ€"sick people who give upfit:';helr' u:buot and pains every time a spasm of misery sweeps across their tired bodies. The ranks of busiâ€" ness are full of le who work on day after dsmmot aching heads and bearts, tired feet, and almost brokâ€" Sometimes a sublle odor recall joy or pain, sometlimes the puls quicker with a familiar strain. times a faded flower will bring shed tears, sometimes a book, or ; will speak of other years.â€"Anon. catarrhatbwâ€"rémedy, simple, casy i)leasgnt to take, and quick in a « It will [ilVl'. relief within ten mir in Hay Fever. Sold by all Drugy Sample bottle and Blower sent or ceipt of two 8â€"cent stamps. S Detchon, 44 Church street, Toron this medicine has done the same .story has come from prominent clergymen in Tor elsewhere. _ It is unlike a tell this Rev. Mungo Fraser, D.D., John Scott, D.D., by Episco with the Rev. W. H. Wade, Chas. E. Whitcombe ; by the w Baptist Rev. G. Anderson ; b ent members of the Methodi: and by the Rev. Father Hin many of his parishioners. Are of One Mind Touching the Remedial Character of Dr. Agnew‘s Catarrhal Powder. PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN. Easter This Year on April 5 laws vith This is a Sure Precursor of Apoplexy, and Dr. Agnews Cure for the Heart at once to be Taken. No one can read the daily papers without being seriously impressed with the fact that a large number of peoâ€" ple in the present age have within tfigir system t%enoe of apoplexy. This is seen an often in a "trembling: and uncertainty of the limbs, and freâ€" quently in an unpleasant dizziness_ and lightness of the héad. He is a very unwise man who, knowing these symâ€" toms to‘exist, does not promptly take measures to have them removed. We know of no remedy that has been so remarkably successful in this particuâ€" lar as Dr Agnew‘s Cure for the Heart. Primarily it is a hearp Cure, but it is equally effective in what is to some extent a parallel d&,ase, apoplectic symptoms. In a season when unusual E mt D TT UHD -rul_v;uule | I could note between them an lrihr;mhed stons was in the .bluxxflgv t edges and in an occasional ir larity of shape. That same afternoon I went dow to the mine itself. ‘The entrance t Ie:f_m(t_ is half way down‘the tremer the same quéerâ€"ta same old smell o the pneumatic dri vepObad Alhmet ruw it z. ts 2 B 2 like cut diamonds, but they certainâ€" ly do not resemble the brown pebbles |that you bave been told you must exâ€" ( rect to see. They are brilliant enough. | I don‘t think any debutante would take ' them for glass, and the only difference. |I could note between them and the iripping rocks DO NOT sUFFEER. of them. and in a rmn:;:‘x‘i: any one bhem. and in a little pick out diamonds as well as the best. A child could do the same. The diaâ€" monds of the Ds Beers may not look like cut diamonds | hnt thaw | axapate" th would undertake DIZZINESS IN THE HEAD WHOLE NO. 917 to change places with and in a TitHla whita the walls an ing atmosphe condensed ai the tremendous ! #B4 Eneland palians. as andRev. ell known y prominâ€" church Tt *\ Handâ€"made Waggons . maoecls bmpiphcnd in un Bs 4 mrewers. : 1 i % se oo Oeniad in aoak piteave *â€" s all _ We are commonly taught our duty byturorshn.x;:.buthowan@flg upon a man who bears nothing Tham m a gifk imave ‘biow. There is a gift that is almost s and there is a kind word that is munk_ To the thinker, the most trifling exâ€" miich cextent . fipes aiicr fock, Tokg w exten ter 1i earth to heaven.â€"Bulwer. _ When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man 1 take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.â€"Pope. There is this good in real evilsâ€"they deliver us, .\.rbife they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imâ€" aginary.â€"Colton. _ Many bistorians take pleasure in putâ€" ting into the mouths of princes what they have neither said nor ought to have said.â€"Voltaire. There can be no excess to love, to knowledge, to beauty, when these atâ€" tributes are considered in the purest sense.â€"Emerson. The gain of lying is nothing else but not to‘f:s trusted of any, nor to be beâ€" lieved when we say the truth.â€"Sir W. N us has t greatness Vo man come to true who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race.â€"Phillipe There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form.â€"Novalis. Irresolution is a heavy stone rolled up & hill by a weak child, and moved & little up just to fall back again â€"W. If your grocer d sclect rackages o for sale cheap. _ . Jobbing of all kinds promptly attanded to. 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