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“ Ah 3” he whispers. Then his eyes rove elsewhere ; \Vill’a do likewise. A curious faintness comes over him ; for one instant \Vill doubts his own sanity ; the next he knows he is under no delusion. By Silas Thornton’s bed is Judith. She does not move towards him, but her eyes meet his. \Vill says softlyâ€" “ You here ‘2” “ Yes ; I am a. nurse. I was here when they brought him in. I have not left him. I am his Wife.” The dying man he;er and understands. She (lees not Weep ; her face is very calm; only the trembling of her lips indicates pain. The Doctor glances away. He is “Bell to scenes 0f anguish, but in this one there is an entirely new feaitiirerâ€"â€"»huslmnd and wife meeting after long separation, only to part finally. it matters not that on neither side does love exist; they are one. Judith realises the truth as she kneels beside him. A great regret (listresses her. She cannot do alight for this inzm for whom she should do so much. \Vill watches her. He too kneels down. “ Let us pray," he says. \Vlien he rises the fierce light has faded from Silas 'l‘hurnten’s eyes. \Vill funeies timit he wishes to speak to him, and he draws nearer. “Judith,” he cries; and she bends over him. “ Forgch !" She puts her fingers to his brow. “ Ay,” she answers, “I forgive and you!” “ If I could undo it I would. I did not know “'liun outside, \Vill hesitates. What has hefallcn him ? He is as one in (L trance. Judith is found ; and, in Spite of all the sad- ness, the gloom of the finding, he is glada glad with a. joy no words can convey. Will hastens to the tclcgi‘zipli-oflice. He must send thc tiding: to those whose hmth are bound to the woman he has left. Two messugcs are sent, one to Sir Martin, the other to hi. ‘ ‘tcr Dchm'ah. up?” His Voice is weak ; \Vill’s promise reaches him, and then Will goes to Judith. “ I will leave you {L while,” he says. “ I will come again soon. I shall find yuu here ‘2” “ Yes. \\'ill it heA” ' She shrinks. Doctor Merrimle interposes. “ It will not be long. You must have some nourishment.” Then he returns to the hospital, to wait untii Doctor Men'i 11.10 Comes to him. \\'ill will not intrude on Judith. The Doctor’s countenance is grave. \Vill cmnprehends before he says, “ It is all over ; he is dead!” “ Silas 'l‘hornton is dying fast. Judith is with him.” Judith, in her black dress, is cloge to her father, and he Clasps her hmuls lovingly. A feverish iluwh is on her cheek, and her eyes are gleaming with great joy. She 11st heard the story of hcrmothcr’s death»~heard what drove her father into exile, how he refuted the charge brought against him of being guilty of his father’s murder ; and, as her last question is answered, she casts herself on Sir Martin’s breast, her tears raining down. “ Oh, my father, you proved yourself stainless l” she cries. “ Yes.” He presses her to him ; and for a time they are silent, Judith thinking what might have been, he absorbed in studying her sweet oval face. Presently he muses him- self and kiss ' her. “ My dear,” he says ; “ What have you been doing since you left Ellerslie ‘3” His arm is about her, and he feels the tremor that runs through her. She replies concisely~i “ I came to London, to my foster-mother, Dallas. She welemned me kindly. I haul notheen with her many days when she sick- ened with fever, and I nursed her. The doctor who attended her told me I had all the qualifications of a geud nurse. I inquired if he could get me employment, and he reconi< mended me to the hospital. \Vllen Dallas was well I went there, and there remained until you took me away. My holidays have been spent with Dallas.” “ Ay, yum were very near while we search- ing fm' you I 011, my child, how I longed to behold you 1 [ had grown to fear that you were not living.” “ I did not know,” she says contritoly. “ “'hy did you not write ‘3 You had friennlstebomh and Mr. Carey.” WITHOUT A STAIN. é? A blush dyes her cheek, and the white lids. droop over the glistening eyes. “ It was host to be forgotten.” “ Forgotten I Judith, Judith, who once loving you could forget you ‘2” The reproaehful words sting her. She caresses him. “ Father, did I do very wrong in leaving Silas ? I did not mean to do so ; hut, when he taunted me with my stained birth, when he avowed that he rued our marriage, how could I help fleeing from him? Should I have stayed in spite of all ‘2” Sir Martin sorutinises her steadily. Her secret is his. “You did not love him 1’” he murmurs.â€" “ N0.” She Clings to him and he kisses her again. Shetwincs herm‘ms around his neck despair- ingly, fl‘nuticallywzms though fearful that he would cast her otf. She is not capable of deceit or disguise. H0 consoles 1101' with a mother’s solicitude. “ It was altogether a, mistake,” he says thoughtfully. “ My daughter, his fault was of a darker shade than yours, and you for- gave him.” She sobs less brokenly ; and he goes on, healing her wounds skillfully, brave- ly. “ To err is human ; and you, my darl- ing, are but mortal. You have atoned as far as lay in your power; you must leave the past and its shadows, and be liappy%be happy.” He smooths her glossy hair. “Judith, I have not tasted happiness for many years. But, amid all my troubles, in all my wanderings, I have loved my motherless girl. (Jan you give men. little love?” “ That is well,” he says quaintly. “ You might love me less had you a divided heart ; and now I must go. I have an appointment with Mr. Carey.”~ If he imagin'es that the color will surge to her face he is disappointed. She bows her head and he quits her. Quiescent she re- “ My dear father”â€"she kisses him pas- sionatelyâ€"“we will be all in all to eqch otheg I have_1_19_ 9118 but you fio Jove.” TOLD BY AN ONLOOKER. sun going were very near while we search- Oh, my child, how I longed to I 11ml grown to fear that you (CONTINUED). Bu kind to her#makc mains, dreaming a strange involved drawn in which her father and VVilliuzn Carey principally figure. I was cross, dissatisfied, vexed. Just when I imagined all was to be cheery and comfortable, everything had gone contrary, awry. Judith is with us, looking brighter younger, more soneie than ever. Sir Martin is happy, almost gay, and Napine is crowded with visitors. Judith reigns in queenly style, mistress of the grand old place. She and her father returned, after a lung alrsenee, to celebrate Uhristnmu with us. rl‘heir journeying: hzwc (lone them good. It is pleasant to observe them together, for they are indeed all a father and daughter should be. \Vhenever Sir Martin’s eyes full on his child, his whole face lights up with a blissv ful radizmee, While her beauty is never so bewitehing as when she is near him. 1‘ ' xry one talks of their wonderful devotion \Vise folk Wonder how Sir Martin will like the separation that must come some day. That Judith will nntrr again, and marry well, nobody deuhts. VVevm‘e at Nupinc, Dale, baby and I. Judith ins'sts on our coming to her for the New Your ; and, as I hu-d no desire to I'cfusc her, We have left the court for a» scusnn. It is New Year’s Day. Snow is every- where. rl‘he landscape is shmmhxl in white, and the clouds are gray and sullen. The gentlemen warn us against walking fur. {I‘hm‘c will be more snow, they say "a. hezwy full presently. Jil‘uilkflmf: is cleared. The men have vanished, some to play-billiards, some to the stables, some to the library. The ladies in the cedar drawing-roomgossip idly, study the weather,read, work, and muse Dull- ness prevails. They miss their Cavaliers, and find time hard to kill. 1 escape to the room Judith has leloted to baby \Vill. It is a charming apartment, large, lofty and prettily furnished. I take my boy from nurseund dismiss her. He looks so hand- some in his Velvet frock and smart ribbons. I toss him up, and he laughs and crews de- lightedly. 1 wish Dale could see him; but Dale has gone with Sir Martini to the ken- nels. There is no one but “mother” to feast her eyes on the tiny face, the fut chubby hands, and sturdy figure. I sing merrily, and whisper blundishments and nonsense stories. Presently the door is pushed open gently, and Judith appears. l In her blaclz dress, relieved by tiliniy lace, she is superb, beautiful as a. poet's Vision. She guch at me, and I fancy that there is a. longing in her eyes. Superlatively dowei‘ed though she is, she yet lacks that; which crowns and blesses my life. I kiss her and putlmby into her arms. Her pale face is hidden by the rosy one. \thn she macs her head “'ill’s cheeks are wet, and she Wipes away the tear drops nervously. I leave my seat and lam over her. “ No, no I” Then, before I can deny her assertion, she exelaims vehemently, “ I love ; him I \Veuld that I (lid not I” 1 She places baby “'ill in my arms, and flies away. I smile as I repeat her confes- sion to myself, and then shake off abstracted musings. I will see “H11, will go to the . Vicarage at once. Here are two people, loving each other, but assuming indifference. ' It is an unwise pastime. I will open \Vill’s eyes to his folly. The clouds are almost angry enough to daunt me ; but I am not to be deterred. My maid wraps me up warmly, and I start, ' glowing with zeal. If I am quick I shall be at the Vicarage by lunch- eon time : and while I eat and drink I can scold \Vill as he deserves I walk brisklyâ€"- it is stingingly coldâ€"â€"and arrive at the , Vicarage sooner than I anticipated, only however to find my walk has been in vain. flVill is out, is not expected in till night; ' therefore it is useless my waiting to see him. Already it is snowing slightly. I wend my lway back with less spirit, not dreaming that while“ away that has come to pass 1 which I hoped to forward. Judith tells me all when it is quite an old story, her bonnie ‘ face blushing with a supreme content. “ \Vl‘vat is it, Judith Y” I ask. “ Is any- thing amiss? You seem joyous, merry. Is your mirth feigned?” She looks at me vacantly. “ Why should I not he happy ‘3’ she says. Why indeed ! She 11 us her father, wealth, health, and beauty. I sigh uneasily, and am still. She muses, the coals hum redly and the flames flickerâ€"muses and says abruptlyâ€" “Deborah, have we done anything to offend your brother! He never comes to Napine. " Ah, that is it! I am slow to reply, not knowing what answer to make. \Vith pain I have watched \Vill and Judith lutely. They have persistently avoided each other. “'ill who thinks it right thth Judith, heiress 0f Nzlpine and Ellerslie, shall not be driven by old recollections into an engagement with him, is positively cold and haughty to her. She, deeming that his manner implies that he has ceased to cure for her, is careful not to seek him. They are drifting apart, scarcely knowing wherefore. In it little while the breach, new narrow, will have widened considerably. Judith toys with my curls. “ He is proud, is he not 7” she murmurs. “ Does he despise me for what I did 1’” “ “'11sz was that 3” I cry bewildered. “ I left my home and my husband,” she stummers. “ I was rush, foolish.” “ 0h, Judith, Judith, you silly child 3 \\'ill will never despise you. Does he not love you 7” “Ashamed of the avowal to you of my ‘love for “Vill I ran from the nursery to my room, where I gave way to tears, until I remembered that I must speedily face my iguests. I dried my eyes, and thought that i I would go for a. stroll, for my head uched, ; and I thought that the wind would drive it away. I stole from the house, not wishing ,to be seen. I wanted solitude, and if I were gobserved I should loose all chance of it. Taking the high road, I wandered heedlessly ialong. By-and-by I found myself by the -,brook where \Vill once saved my life. It ’was summer-time then, Winter now. Then gthe fields were in bloom, and the skies were ‘blue and sunny; now sunshine was but a ‘memory. The very brook, then ripplin and flowing, was still, covered with ice. I thought of many things as I walked up and down the bank ; the piercing cold did not reach me, for glad and sorrowful images I warmed my heart. W'ill had cared for meâ€" (he had loved me when he drew me from lthe water. ‘ Oh, that which might have 'been, but might not be!’ My life, which should be a glad round of days, was dreary, empty, sad. I wrung my hands, I was TOLD B Y DEBORA H 0RD. 2 aloneY and no prying eyes could behold me. i At Napine I must be jocund, blithe; here I could wnil forth my woe. Stern Nature ‘ would neither rebuke nor cheer me, and was free to say and do as I chose. It eased my heart to rid it of the perilous stuff weighing on it. So to the wintry winds, to I, the leaden-gmy sky, I told my miseryH told how I loved VVillâ€"etold how, when it was unlawful for me to love him, I had re- frained from thinking of him, but that now there was no reason why he should not utter A» the words he had once perforce withheld. I I was powerless to resist the torrent of love ' i I whispered it all in ‘ sweeping over me. my abandon. I cared not that I owned my overpowering love for Will ; but I asked not that his might reawaken. I crouched in agony, thanking Heaven when the throes were strongest, that he was not unworthy of my love. Gradually my emotion spent itself. and I grew calm. Itried to brace myself with the asaumnee that not always ‘ would my wound thus torment me. Some day I should be able to think of my anguish without intense pain ; some day I should recall this day and wonder whether my sor- row was so overwhelming. But such con- solation was ineffectual. \tht did the ‘some day that might or might not come mutter nov.>~now that I was so utterly down- cust ‘.’ ‘ FOREIGN NEWS. I i In Shanghai a. movement is on foot for an E international exhibition in 1888. l Extraordinary discoveries of gold are re- l ported from the Cape and Tasmania. Three hundred houses have been destroyed by a fire at Kaluw, in Gelicia. A Cherbourg paper announces the arrest ‘z of several German spies disguised us priests. Chine intends to issue a. loan of $50,000,â€" for the construction of railways in the Empire. A dynmnite cartridge has been exploded v under the principal gateway of the docks at ‘ Marseilles and caused some considerable da- 3 mage. The outrage is believed to be due to l private malevolence. The Salvation Army have just held an “ intercolonial council of war” in Melbourne. This body claims to have in Australia. 200 recognized stations. 400 “ officers,” and be- tween 11,000 and 12,000 soldiers. The President of Uruguay has recovered from the bullet wound inilccted upon him a month ago, Mid has requested that no on« deavor shall be made to discover and punish the intending assassin. The present subject of gossip in Paris is “ I opened the locket I were at my neck, and looked at the likeness it containedâ€"â€" \Vill’s ! A noble a; princely face hisâ€"a face that no wonmn need four to revere. Though my love for him had cost me dear, I dared nut wish 1 heul not loved him. Better to have lost than never to have known him. Oh that he had loved me with a love equal to mine 1 Neither time nor fault should have eil'aued it. ] looked at the photograph with tearful eyes, and then suddenly started, electrified. A voice behind me saith “ ‘ \Vhat are you looking at, Judith?’ ” “ It was \Vill. I was speechless. Ho ezune to me, took the locket from my unre- sisting hand, and gazed on his portrait. “ ‘vVVheré did yvou get this 2" he cried in a mug!) tpne. “VI glanced from him. All around was weird and chill ; the blast numbed me, and I trembled. He repeated his words, this time in a kinder tone. “ ‘ Deborah gave it to me,’ I muttered. “ ‘ \thn ‘3’â€"«‘ Before I left Ellerslie.’ “ ‘Ah, and you have kept it for old ac- quaintamee sake ?’ A “ I did not respond. I could not. He was cx'uel-~â€"very cruel to torture me. He walked on a. few yards, and then came back ; perhaps my white face touched him. “ 150 yoil recollect what happened here ?’ he said ; and I cried, in the very fulness of my trijgulationv “ ‘ Yes, you saved my life. You would have done me a greater service had you let um die.’ “ Judith 1’ H , . . . I was reckless‘; my spu'lt was stlrred to its very depths. “ ‘Ay,’ I aflirmed, ‘if I had only died it would have been Well ! 111 for me was it that you rescued me, ill for me is it that I live ! What is life that we esteem it so ‘3’ “ ‘ J udit11-~your father. ’ “ ‘He loves me ! For his sake I must hide my heart and smile ; butr~’ “ \Vill can ht my hands. “ ‘ Judith, llush ! You have all that makes existence bright ; you should be satisfied.’ “ ‘1 mn.’ . “ ‘ Aml yet you talk thus wildly, rebel- “ He stared at me, and bowed assentingly. I turned towards Nszine, and he walked with me. Very subdued and humiliated was I. I almost forgot his presence ; but he reminded me of it. liously.’ V "’ My face tinglcd. “ ‘ Be gnod enough to forget my words,’ I said. ‘ Imn not very well; looking at the past distracted me.’ “ ‘Judith,’ he commenced difiidently, and then ganged abruptly.‘ _ _ A V “ ‘ Right or wrong, I must speak. Do you know that I love you? I love you, Judith ; but who am I that I should sue you to listen to my presumptuous tale? Has my behaviour caused you to think my friendship dead ? Friendship I It was never friendship I had for you. I always loved you. I love you still. “'ill you therefore think of me kind» ly, and not he hurt that I avoid you ‘3 To be where you are is so terrible ! I cannot hear it. Judith, say you pardon me, and I will go away. Do not grieve about me. Mine is a common fate. “ Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break.’ ” “ Of what WasAhe' thinking? Ere I could glless,__]}na_hurried on. “ ‘ Will !’ “ One word I uttered, his name. \Vhat more was needed ‘3 He looked at me incred- ulously. I laid my hand on his shoulder, he clasped me closely. “ ‘ Is it real i” he said. ‘ Do you love me, “ ‘ Oh, yes ! You must not leave me, or not one heart, but two will break 2’ ” There is a joy with which no tongue must meddle. Judith never told his answer to living mortal. It sufficed for her ! Judith One more picture, and I have done. A May morning, with just sufficient keenness in the air to make the wood-fire acceptable. Judith sits by it, holding a golden-haired little one. I watch her admiringly, and think the matronly dignity in her face leaves nothing to be desired. She looks ineflhbly beautiful. W'ill, approaching, is struck anew with her tender 1m eliness. He kisses her with courtly Obeisance, and then she gazes at him with a. tender smile. _“ ls elm not exquisite,” she saysâ€"J‘ little He'nods. But he is thinking his wife is far more lovely than his daughter. Judith COQfiiIlUEBSi not perceiving'tzhis‘. Ciggly ? “ ‘It all come to me 8.51 look at her. ‘Vill, I prayed once that I might be the last of my line ; and now I have here another Cicely Napine, and I am glad.” His hand is on her head. I echo softlyâ€"â€" “ Cicely Napine.” Will has added, by Sir Martin’s wish, the name of Napine to his. J udith’s voice is as soft as the sighing of a. summer breeze. “ If my motherâ€"her grandmotherâ€"knew how proud we are to call her so ! Will, that is the sting. There is no wrong that works not some evil. I understand Why my mother died. I should have died had I given my babe a, tarnished name. Poor mother I" I steal off. My heart is blithe. Storm and tempest are over, for themâ€"even as for me, upon Whom no storm has beatenâ€"there are sunshine and joyâ€"sunshine and joy that shall never be darkened, let time bring What it will. Loving and loved, we can trust and not be afraid, each rejoicing. “ ’Tis enough for me and my darling That we live and love to day." [ms mum] 9n 9a A dynamite cartridge has been exploded under the principal gateway of the docks at Marseilles and caused some considerable da- mage. The outrage is believed to be due to private malevolence. The Salvation Army have just held an “ intercolonial council of war” in Melbourne. This body claims to have in Australia. 200 recognized nations. 400 “ officers,” and be- tween 11,000 and 12,000 soldiers. The President of Uruguay has recovered from the bullet wound inflected upon him a month ago, and has requested that 110 my doavor shall be made to disc'ch ' and punish the intending assassin. The present subject of gossip in Paris is hiine. Eudnxic Hendouin. She is apatient at the Salpetriere Hospital and the physi- cians are puzzled over her. She is subject to what is known in medical parlance us “ sleeping spells” and she has "1151; wuka up after enjoying an eighteen days’ sleep. This is not the first “ nap” she has taken, as (1111'- ing J anuary and Febnmry she slept 50 days. The doctors cannot say whether it is a case of sleep 01' t ‘ance. A plan is on foot to place Brussels in (li- reut water communication with the sea. The canal to the Scheldt is to be deepened ; the quuys are to be sufficiently spacious to admit twenty ships of 2,500 tons each to lie alongside; the docks and quays are to be furnished with every modern appliance for loading and unloading Vessels, and with warehouses and sheds, undzu'e to be con~ nected with the great lines of railway. The substitution of glass flooring for boards continues to increase in Paris, especially in those business structures in which the cel- lars are used as offices. At the Bank of the Credit Lyonnais the whole of the ground in front is paved with large squares or blocks of roughened glass imbedded in a strong iron frame, and in the cellars beneath there is sufficient light, even on (lull days, to enable clerks to carry on their accustomed work without resort to gas. Truth says that Lord Haldon has sold the harbor of Torquay for£85,000, and he is get- ting rid of as much of his property in that town as the leaseholders can be induced to buy. Lord Holden's afl‘airsare embarrassed, and he is about to leave England. Haldon House, the family place in Devonshire, is to he let, a desecration which is enough to cause the late peer to arise from his grave ; and Lord Haldun has resigned the master- ship of the local foxhounds, The question of the public pageants which are to mark the Queen’s Jubilee are already greatly exercising the minds of the officials on whom the responsibility for their carrying out will devolve. The Queen herself takes a. strong personal interest in the discussion of the various projects which are under eon- siderafin, but nothing is settled, Says the World. except a gor eons state procession from Buckingham Peace to \Vestminster. Another extensive subsidence of land has taken place at Cleator Moor, West Cumberâ€" land, at Jucktl‘ees farm, in the neighborhood of which the Canon Company are carrying on mining operations. In one of the fields a, quantity of grain went down, and could be seen growing in the cavity caused by the subsidence, The pipes which carry water from Ennerdale Lake to \Vhitchm‘en cross the same groundY and the men have been at work to secure safety. The Empress Charlotte, widow of Maximi- lian, is dying from the efi'eets ofan acute re- newal 0f the mania which alllieted her for so many years after her husband’s t ‘agie death, but which of late seemed to be leaving her. The return of the mental anguish was the re- sult of her reading the new drama “ Juarez,” which treats of the events in which Maxiini» lian and his friends were concerned during the Mexican expedition. After being eare- leaely allowed by her attendants to read the plot, “ Poor Carlotta” was overcome by pain- ful delusions. She imagined that she heard Maximilian calling for help against the trait- ors, Juarez and Bazaine, and insisted that she must go to his aid. To humor her, the attendants peeked her luggage and pretend- ed that a special train had been ordered for her. They then induced her to drink some tea before starting on the journey. An opi- ate was placed in the tea, which give her temporary relief from her mental excitement but exhaustion soon resulted, from which the unhappy lady has not rallied, and her death is believed to be imminent. The mountain meteorological stations of Europe are said to somewhat excel in their equipments and appliances anything to be found in the \Vestern world. Among these appliances is a superior kind of arrangement, or apparatus, for the automatic registration of sunshine, the results of which are tabu- lated with reference to the period of possible sunshine for each day, the record being so much per cent. of this total. 011 the moun- tain top on which the highest Austrian weather observatory is located, is another in. teresting arrangement, namely, a telephone wire extendin from the very summit down to the village elow, this Wire in the summer being suspended on poles, While in winter, on account of the fierce winds, it is laid upon the snow, the latter proving a good insulator, as the apparatus works satisfactorily under these conditions. The French, it appears, have the highest meteorological station in Europe, and their two largest observatories are, it is claimed, the best appointed in the World. Much is expected of the recently established station on Ben Nevis, Scotland. This mountain is the highest in Great Britain and is close upon the seacoast, as well as in the track of the great southwesterly storms which have such an important influence on the weather in the British Islesâ€"a situation therefore, peculiarly favorable. Endured the severe marching of the North- west campaign with admirable fortitude. The Government should have supplied them with a quantity of the celebrated Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor. It never fails to remove coms painlessly, and the volun~ teers and everybody else should have it. Beware oflsubstitutes. Gethutnam’s Ex- tractor and take no other. Our Brave Volunteers The nearest approach to perpetme motion may be found in a, shoe factory. Ask the foreman to show you the lasting machine. The Buddists claim that if a woman he- haves herself she will become a 1mm ; but there is no record of the male census being increased in that way, and the inference is plain. “ I cannot live without thee 1" He sang, and truly, too; For («he had all the money, And he had not a sou. Patientâ€"“ \thn can I be sure to see the doctor alone '3” Housemmi<k“You haul better come during his consultation hours, from two to three ; he is always quite alo‘ne at that time.” Scrihlous says he has received many thanks from leading publisher: for his writings. We believe him, because we have often sent him letters reading, “Declined with many thanks." Nothing exasperates & woman who has been shading her eyes from the gas light with her lnunls all the evening, so much as to llml that, after all, she had left her best diamond ring on the washstund. De Gannon“ And how do you stand on evolution, Miscs Brewster? 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Address, \Vorld’s Dispensary Medical Association, Bufl'alo, N. Y. In a description of the rhinoceros it is stated that he is a powerful beast, Wi'il‘ a mouth ranging from an open valise to a can- didate’s smile. Dr. Pierce’s “ Favorite Presciption” is not extolled us EL “ cureâ€"all," but admirably fulfils a. singleness of purpose, being a most potent specific in those chronic weaknesses peculiar to women. The boy who quails at sight of a mustard plaster is the same lzul that goes fearlessly forth to tackle a bcc’s nest with a handful of willow switches. The wreteh has been arrested who, at a social party, said that a young lady playing the piunofm‘te was an ape because her fingers were ’mong keys. The great rigmtetion of Briggs Electric Oil is such that it 11:16 in need unpriuuipled persons to adopt other names as nem- like it as possible. The proprie- tors of Briggb" Elect-rim 011 have the name and style 0! the Electric Uil registered both in Cunuda and the United States, and no one can use it but themselves. Others hearing of the success of Briggs Electric Oil have adopted other names similar, such as “ Eclectric Oil," “ Electron Oil," Ann, and are striving to induce the public to buy them instead of the genuine Electric oil. In fact so determined were they that they brought suit at Law, in the High Court of Canada, to deprive Briggs 3; Sons of their right to contra] the same; but tho Court/s and the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa fully sustained their registered trade mark. Briggs’ Eicvtric Oilcures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains and Bruises, complaints arising 1mm Colds such as Sore Throat, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis and difficult breathing. A tale of youth, maiden and father.â€"- Scene firstâ€"gate. Scene secondâ€"â€"gaiter. Scene thirdwgait! Don’t use any more nauseous purgatives such as Pills, Salts, etc., when you can get in Dr. Carson’s Stomach Biiters, a medicine that moves the Bowels gently, clemming‘ all impurities from the system and rendering the Blood pure and 0001. Great Spring Medicine, 50 cents. No trouble to swallow Dr. ,l’ierce’s Pel- lets. It is said that the lady who wrote “ In the Gloaming” made $3,000 out of it. There are a. good many young ladies who sing it and who do not seem to make much out of it. * Australian Indian Asthma (tunaâ€"We have the Skins discovered by the Australian Indianava sure 0mm for Asthnm, or we will refund the price of $8.00. Full directions given how to use. Address AUSTRALIAN CURE 00., ALTON, 0N1, Box 166. An authority on the subject says that the whole secret of political success is to know how to “ treat men properly.” In that case the prohibitionists can never hope to succeed. opium, morphine, chloral, tobacco, and kindred habim. The medicine may be given in tea. or coffee Without the knowledge of the person taking it éf so desired. Sand 60 in stamps, for book and testimonials gram those who have been cured. Address M. V. Lubon, 47 Wellington St. East, Toronto Ont. Cut this our for future reference. When writing mention this paper. The latest census returns of New Zealand show the total population of the colony to be 619,715, inclusive of 41,432 Maoris. The Empress Eugenie has been recom- mended to try the Italian climate during the Winter, and Pisa. is the spot which will proâ€" bably be selected. A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS, POPULAR SCIENCE. SMILE AGAIN. A Free Fight.