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“ \Vell, if you can‘t get your own consent, 9711331 Dgcx'y, I suppose you can’t,” said Mr. Pcrrin, his 1‘81)I'0:Ll:3hf\11 “gaze fixed upon the fly pmmcnznding the widow's plump wrist. “ I had hoped on reflection you'd come to conshlcl' my proposal favorably, but it seems you think you (:nuhln’t be happy with 1110.” - . . . . . . , “ n “ I couldn't be happy WitleRoxzumn,” re» spomlud tlmt lady, impetuously ; then check. ing hcl'aulf, 5110 flushed like the woodbine at the window, and in her turn gazed down on the, iLinuItsting fly. 9 “ Oh, if yOlOI réfuse me on account of Bi:- ter, Mrs. Decry, Imale can't take ‘ No, for an answer,” cried her suitor, looking up with an encouraged air. w:- n : . O J he wulow's gaze never swerved from the mse t, now chafing its stiffened little legs upon her thumb. L “You’d have no trouble in getting on with sister, I’ll Wager,” resumed the eager WOOL-1‘. “ You rarely see an evener temper- ed woman.” The \Vidow ' Decry common clay, indeed ! Mr. l’errin would have divined the contiary unaided by the Officiants sunbeam which darted in that instant to point her manifold attractions. ieing deeply in love, he took advantage of his opportunity to pay at hand- some compliment and to renew his suit. For one intoxicating moment the listener wavered, but the moment passed. “ Hush, please, Mr. l’errin ! Don’t say any more about it I" cried she, with it willful toss of her liewitehing ln'own curls. “ I might cure for you’lrwthe tremor in her \‘niee “st Very nearly his undoingi 7.“ I might care for you, but I couldn’t breathe with Roxanna. Thin]; how my little lmy wunld worry her 1 She wouldn’t speak :m unkind word, but every time he left sticky fingerprints on the door 1 should feel thth she “2L8 wishing thth he and his mother had stayed :1“ my." “ Yos, that’s just it, Mr. Perrin ; Roxan- nn’s too perfect," broke forth the lady, brushing away the fly with startling energy. “It would fiilgct me to death to live with her. She's a chosen vessel and I’m only com» nmn clay.” “ I might 7’ Mr. l’errin paused, shoeked at his base impulse. Had he actually been ahout to remark that he might provide sis» ter with another home ‘5 rsister, who, but for devotion to his interests, might now he inatrouixingjr a household of her own ‘3 Dear, faithful Roxanna I Could he ever requite her for those weary years of watching beside the eouoh of his helpless, dying wife '3 The full measure of her self~seeriiiee he had not known at the time, hut he now had no (louht that but for Uliinena’s sake and his she had disearded .loel Kirby. No, no ; sis- ter should never he requested to vaeate the dwelling over which she had ruled so long and so well I And to Mr. l’errii ’5 credit be it stated, that in the ardor of his passion for the little widow, he closed his lips upon the disloyal words that perehanee might have won her and strode from her cottage a re- jected lover. “ ,lf liirhy should want Roxanna now as mueh as, aeeording to aeeounts, he wanted her before he went to Manitoba, why, it might straighten out things," mused he, plodding despondently along the path through the iields ; “ but they say he has his eye on his cousin M artha. Naturally he would be looking for somehody younger than sister ; she has faded. There‘s an odds in women." And the lovers thoughts re» \‘erted to the huxem widow, little younger than Roxanna, yet no more faded than a morning glory at sunrise. Mr. l’errin’s feet had traversed the mead» m' and ascended the slope of the pasture ad- joining the highway ere his mind caught up with them. Then he murmured half audi- bly, “ I wonder whether Kirby did call this afternoon ‘3 \Vhen 1 saw his team coming over the ridge, it struck me I might as well steal oil'through the orehard. Considering he‘s in the neighborhood looking up the old friends, he can’t civilly pass by Roxanna ; and l wouldn‘t he a hindrance in case 3’ His solilorluy merged in a low whistle of Sittinfflliidoli. lie had reached thehars oppo- site his own gate, and at the gate, his fore- feet deep in a hollow pawed by their impa- tieir- stood Mr. Kirby’s gray sorre an].an At thc spectacle Mr. l’m‘rin's heart hound- ed within him, and he clutched the top- most mil for support Should he lead the forgame home away to the stuhlc, or should hchy duing so appear to take too ,1: mnuu” ' 0 v I 2 i mm-h fm granted? llcdesircd to hospitable, he ticsircd to he exceedingly hospitable, but he must not convey the impression that he in an unprecedented excitement the habitually easy-going man debated within himself regarding the course of conduct he- fittting this exceptional occasion, and lin- ally judged best to interfere with the pro- bable we )ing in no particular. Accordingly he crept around to the porch door quietly, with a surreptitious glance at the sittingâ€" room window in passing. A brisk fire of chips revealed to him his rather prim blonde sister seated in a low rocker before the hearth, and Joel Kirby leaning against the mantel near her, \‘oluhly diseoursing. “ They’ve opened the ball without me, I guess,” mused the milking host, facetious- 1y, as he hitched his chair along to the kitehen stove to warm his feet in the oven. “ Seeing that it is the first Visit, I must say Joel stays it out well. Unquestionably he means business. \Vhat‘s to prevent? He’s a firstrate fellow, and'll make a kind hus band. if lwasn’t sure of the I wouldn’t consent to his having Roxanna. I should hate to have him take her out to Manitoba. I hope it’s true that he has bought back the old homestead. \Vell, well, wouldn’t I like to he a little mouse in the sittingroom v ~ 7 v . a overzealous for a brothelxin-Iaw, and thus annoy Ruxunna. Sister was so le Lidiuuts. A Story of Diflisultles Made Smooth. on are the most morbidly conciontious person, Roxy, that I know of,” Mr. Kirby was saying, with u frown that scored his forehead with horizontal wrinkles like the stuff of written music. “If I could only convince you that it was your duty to be my wife, I should stand some Chance of getting you; but unlucky for me, you’ve cherished this notion that you ought to keep house for your brother till you!” “Brother needs me,” murmured Miss Roxanna, tours swelling in her eyes of “hu- l)y hluo ” ‘ n1» 1 , 0 1r.” ._7LT .» if , . H “ And don’t I need you ‘3 Haven’t I some rights? During your strlckcn Slater’s Illness wall about this time 1” ," Could he have haul his wish, a most as- toumlod little mouse would the worthy man have imporsmmtcd. GROSSâ€"PURPOSES. i “ Brothel marry ! Oh, no, indeed, he‘ll ~' never 1n:u~1‘y~â€"never I” cried Miss Roxanna, l rooted and grounded in the belief that her i brother’s heart was entomhed with the dead { Climena. “ No, he could not take another I wife, J cal, and you see he has only me. I ; couldn’t be so cruel as to leave him.” § To all Mr. Kirby’s subsequent pleadings g she made this reply, but it soothed his almi- t ing spirit not a little that she parted from i himselfwith team‘s. I consented to Waive those, but now she is gone, and I want you.” “ Don’t, Joel, don‘t I” “ I tell you I (lid, and I can’t help it,’ cried Mr, Kirby, with grim humor. “ \Vhen I couldn‘t move you by letter I resolved I‘d come and speak for myself. You used to say you loved me, Roxy. Can‘t y011â€"-” -- . ‘ . r n I. 1;. TA“! w U VW ,, , V v “ You know plenty of other ladies, Joel, younger and more pleasing,” filtered Miss Roxanna, nervously snmobliing the pale gild- ing of hair that funnel lici‘ temples in a l-otliic M‘ch. “They are nothing to me,” replied the gentleman, curtly, almost as; if he esteemed the fact; as a. matter 0f regret. Assured of the favor of more than one pretty girl of his acquaintance, was it not a little hard that the full current of his being niustnoods sub toward this unresponsive woman of forty? It had been evur thus with Joel Kirby from his perverse child- hood; when he wanted cake no human power could induce him to nibble ginger- bread. “ N0, Roxy, there’s only one woman in the world for me,” he continued in soft- er tones. “ Your brother is of a diiTorent temperament. Has it never occurred to you that he may marry a second time T" ‘ 1‘11‘ As the sound of his rapid wheels died away in the distzmcc She hastily dried her eyes and hurried into the kitchen to see about the beâ€" lated supper. Mr. l’crriu, still gloating over castles in Spain, looked up with the roguish purpose of greeting her as “ Mrs. Kirby," hut dismayed at her trouhlcd cnuntcnmn-c, rcnmrkod instead that “ the days were get- ting sl1()1'tcr"â€"â€"2L fact that she had ohsurvod before. He felt as if he had received ablowi For him there was, there could be but one inter pretation of his sister‘s unwonted emotion. She loved Kirby and Kirby no longer wired for her. l’om‘girl, she htul dreamed that u nuLn's infections were like granite boulder , incapable of change, and sue was awakened with an shock. ,llwpless Roxanna I She, too, hml her trials. Keonly sympathetic, the magnemimous brother concealed his own disappointment as best he could and lavish- ed upon his sorrowful sister an exeess of tenderness. “ You have the knack of spoiling me for other folks‘ cooking, little woman, that’s the truth," said he at ten time, ostensibly heaping his plate with crcmu toast. “ How should I 0 'er get along without you '3” “ That’ll umko her feel that I appreciate her if Joel doesn’t,” he mused benevolcntly, while she on her side of the table was think- ing : “ It’s just as I suspected ; it would kill brother to lose me.” “ Oh, you’d manage somehow. Maybe you’d marry," she ventured, timi‘lly, almost hearng the fluttering of the lost Climcn‘a’S wings. ,, 0,, “ l’oh ! pnh I sister, nothing seems less likely,” answered her brother, in a. voice so szul that, Miss Roxanna. chided herself for having upeneil his ohl wound afresh. But she had done it for Joel’s saliei She owed it to Joel to make sure that there could be no misunders’camlingr. The October dais, with their noonday patches of sunshine and their heavy borders of twilight, came and went. In a spasm of hope that the charming widow might yet consent to share the domestic seeptre with his sister, M 1'. l’ei‘i'in made a second propos- ul only to reeeive a second decided though fluttering refusal. Mr. Kirby repeated his call upon Miss Roxanna and departed curs- ing fate and by no means loving Mr. l’em‘in, whom he supposed perfectly acquainted with the relations between himself and Rox- mmu. Ovcrmking My. l’crrin walking home one day fmmthe postofiice, Mi". Kirby, with in- ward reluctance, asked him to ride. \Yith equal rcluctzmcc Mr. I’m‘rin accepted the in- vitation, reflecting, “ If I‘ ain’t civil he’ll take it that I’m mud because he doesn’t rc- ncw his offer to Paulina, and I won't hu- mm' him.” “ Very,“ :Ltsm'tcd the other, conscinus of an inward chill. “\Vintcz' is upon us. Shall you :Speud it in Ontario '3” “ My plums are uncertain,” snarled Mr. Kirby, adding mentally, “ Thanks to you, ~ 1, 511'. “ Of course you can choose your own cli- mate. There’s the advantage of. having plenty of mmwy and no family ties.’ .n. -..V . “ How: Kirby. “ N0 family ties 2 Whose fault 'us it that he haul 110 family ties ‘3” mused the irate bachelor, making rapid passes over his long heard as if he would mesmerize the pain in his breast. “ Might not Roxanna havclicen his wife years ago but for the necessities of this selfish brother?” “ Though I’ve lately heard it hinted, Joel, that you were thinking of marrying,” Mr. Perrin blundered on, in his embarrassment, saying the very thing he had resolved not to say. .7.. ... .. 1 31f. Kirby snapped his whip, and trans- fixed his companion with a. glance so frigid that: poor Mr. l’errin sliivcred as if he were impaled on an icicle. ‘1‘ Your cousin is a. fine girl, Joelâ€"â€"un un- commonly fine girl. I#I congratulate you,” he stammered, wishing it would do to get out and walk. “ You are too kind, Perrin ; too kind by half,” émeerod Mr. Kirby, letting go the reins in his anger. “ You’ve robbed me of one bride, Sir, and now you want to make amends, do ym, by choosing me another?” “ \Vhy, Kirby, whth are you raving about? \Vhen have I interfered with ymu' concerns, matrimonial or otherwise ‘1” cried Mr. Perrin in a tone of injured innocence. “ You are laboring “why some doluszinn. ‘ “ Do you pretend it‘s a (11211131 '11 of mine that but for you Roxanna WLI‘JLI be my wife ‘3" “ 0h, he’s twitting me on old scores,” mused Mr. Perrin, aggrieved. “ He blames me for letting sister give up her prospects in life for Ulimena’s sake. Sister would do it, and she never told me there was anything between her and Joel.” “ \Vhen a man is in a tight place, Joel, he‘s apt to realize his own needs better than the needs of his brethren, I suppose,” he said aloud, after a, moment’s pause. “ But I’m sorry if you hear me a. grudge.” “ Tight Racé’! Do you call yourself in a. tight place, l’errinfia strong hearty fellow y frost last night,“ growled )Ir‘ and iet Roxanna. gov.” like you: You ougllt to hire a housekeeper “ Let Roxannan ! Where ?” interrogat- ed the befogged Mr. Perri“. “ Wherever she prefers to live. I should let her decide that after we were married,” replied Mr. Kirby, impatiently. ” The main point is to get, her away from you. She says you say you could not live without her.” Y‘n‘ LY ’ “Yes, I (lidsay itwl did say it; but 1 take it all back,” cried l’errin, fairly blink- ing in' the light that suddenly illuminated his darkened mind. “ I see things clearer than I did, Joel. IWOn‘t stand any longer between you and Roxanna.” “ Your hand on it.” “ My hand on it, Joel, I shall hu glad# proud, that isi~tn give sister to you, and if you are going up to the house you can tell her I said so.” “ Thank you, Perrin, thank you. And if I’ve spoken sharply, I beg your pardon,” cried Mr. Kirby, smiling likea Santa Claus. i For the last six weeks or so whales have [ been coming out of the arctic ice, and have been making their 'ay south. In the \Vin- i tcr scasnn there are no whales in the Arctic I Ocean, for the good reason that they cannot live there when the water is frozen over so that there are no breathing spaces. A con- siderable number are supposed to die every t year by being caught under ice so thick that i when they come up to breathe they cannot 5 break the ice. Frequently a dozen or more E whales may be seen in small areas of open water surrounded by ice where no ship can i go, or not without greater perils than ought i to be encountered. Just where all the are- i tic whales \Vinter has long been a mooted | question. They are found all along the i coastof California- during some of the Win- ; ter months. llut their breeding,r grounds E are the lower latitudes, as at Magdalena i Kay and in the shallow bays of the Lower M exican coast. It is probable that some go down as far as the Central American er, ‘lS‘u'. All the white whales seen along the coast do not enter the Arctic, although it would seem that the greater number do. Many are found in the Summer season in the Okhetsk Sea and along the coast of Siberia. The white whale seeks out his Summer feeding grounds in high latitudes and seeks out breeding grounds in low latitudes. This animal migration and return is counted on with the greatest certainty. As many whales come out of the Arctic in Autumn as enter in the Spring. These facts govern the operations of the whaling fleet. Hence, after the Arctic whaling season is 0V Jr many ) ships discharge and refit at once and go down the coast preparatory to a later cruise in high latitudes. At several points along < the coast in California. there are a. we sta- E tions where a considerable number of whales ' are caught as they go up and down the ; coast. { .' E i i 1 “ Oh, it’s all rightf) Everything is all right,” replied Mr. l’errin, too happy to keep it to himself. “ Drop me here, Kirby, please ; I have an engagement to make. And make it to-day I shall and will, God willing," he added, beneath his breath, as he dismount- ed befcre the door of the widow Deery. In South Africa, the disaster of Isandlhâ€" wana gave the soldiers’ nerves 2). severe shak- ing, and it often happened that false alarms at night led to the rousing of whole camps, and sometimes even to a reckless discharge of firearms. In some cases friendly natives, or even comrades, were taken by the excited imagination of a sentry for enemies ; in others, unofl'ending cattle, even a brush or a. shrub, became the innocent cause of a fusilade suilieient tohavodoalt widespread destruction toahost of Zulus. An odd incident, illustrative of the slightness of the causcgpr even, per haps, of the absence of any cause at all»â€" that gives rise to a panic, occurred on the night of Tel'el-chir, amid a small corner of the force that was bivouacking on the bat tlciicld. The narrator had crawled into a marquee in which, with other commissariat stores, were the rum c: sks from which the troops had received their liquor rations af- ter the fatigues and excitement of the day’s fight and previous nightmareh. Besides one or two commissariat issuers in charge of the stores, several “ odds and ends" of other corps had found their way into the marquee, preferring to rest under its shelter amid the casks and biscuit boxes than under the open sky with the sand for a bed. Suddenly, in the middle of the night when all were sleepâ€" ing, a noise and commotion began in a bivouac outside. Before the inhabitants of the tent were suilieicntly awake to under- stand its cause the curtains were thrust asideby a red-coated soldier, who shouted to us to get up : “ The Arabs are in the camp~~ they are upon us 1” Then he disappeared as rapidly as he had come. Every one sprang to his arms, and probably experienced that respecially uncon‘ifortable sensation that is caused by a vague feeling of an unseen though imminent danger against which one is ignorant how to guard. Outside every ; one around was aroused and up, eagerly ‘ striving to discover from what quarte‘ at- x tack was to be expected. Nothing, however, 3 more unpleasant occurred than the advent i of :1 stair! fit-er asking the cause of the con- fusion. probably the truth never did reach headquarters. Afterward, however, a re- port gained groundAno other or better rea- son was ever forthcoming#that the alarm arose from the screams of a sleeping soldier, who, overwrcnight perhaps by the horrors of the day, had been fighting his battle over again in his dreams EV Chamber's Journal. A Catskill Romance. Ten years ago a handsome man of a diggin- fied hearing and rclinerl appearance passed through Catskill and took up his abode in a, deserted log cabin two miles and a half from High Falls, (irecnc county. Here he lived like a hermit. A beautiful dog, which ae- eompanied the stranger into the woods, died about five years ago, and the fashionable clothes which the recluse wore when he made his retreat were replaced hy coarse fabrics and strong country shoes. Twice each year the hermit was visited by LL w0~ man of graceful form and easy manners, who always dressed in black and was closely veiled. No one knew who this woman was or whence she came. She remained with the hermit about an hour, and for three or four days after her departure the recluse re- mained within his cabin. \thn at last he appeared he looked much sadder and more aged than before. Tuesday morning the cabin was found in ashes, The hermit was not to he found. His mysterious visitor cal< led upon him about a week ago. He may have burned with the cabin, but there is no trace of him to be found. Habits of the W'lmlcs. A Catskill R Soldiers’ Panics. Small Things About Great Men. Part of the price which every eminent man pays for his exalted or prominent position ‘ is the loss of all privacy. His habits and customs, his preferences and aversions are all publicly discussed, and the following particm , lars show that be can not even have a favo- ‘ rite dish without the knowledge of the pub- I lie. This craving for details about the lives of great men dates back as fares the time of Charlemagne, of whom it is said that his meals consisted never of more than four ' courses, and that his favorite dishes were. eggs and roast Inest, particularly venison, : which was served on long spits by his forâ€" 1 esters. Luther preferred Torgau beer and : hock to all other beverages. As a. young man Melancthon was very fond of barley ‘ soup, and he would often exchange a diet ‘ of meat for a bowl of barley soup. Small fish, vegetables, and all kinds of farinaceous food he liked. but lar re fish and meat he dis- liked, and he hate all public meals or drinking bouts. He used to say that it would be easy for him to adopt Pythagorean diet. Torqunto Tasso was very fond of pro» served fruits and all kinds of fancy sweets. Henry IV. was often ill from eating too many oysters or melons. His favorite drink was Vin d'Ax‘bois. Peter the G reat liked nothing better than Limburg cheese (l)i Charles KIL, king of Sweden, preferred a piece of bread~mnl~butter to anything else. Voltaire, like Frederick the Great and Napoleon 1., was very fond of coffee. His favorite food ‘ was out cakes, but he preferred oranges to any other kind of food. The Dutch lady scholar A. M. Schurmann ate spiders as a; delicacy. Lessing preferred lentils, and Klopstock, who was a real gourmet-11d. fed . on salmon, mushrooms, pastry, and smoked» meat. Of vegetables he liked peas best and grapes as dessert, together with a bottle of good claret or hook. Kant retained till his old age a preference for pork, all kinds of pulse, and stewed fruit. He devoted three hours a day to his dinner. Schiller 'as in his youthful days Very fond of ham. An old note-book belongingr to a Stuttgart res~ taurant contains some items about “ Meals for Dr. Schiller in 1782,” from which it ap- pears that, besides abottlc of wine, ham was every day amongr the dishes on Schiller’s ‘ table. Matthisson confessed a preference . for peas, beans, and pork; Lord Byron for Chester cheese, with ale or porter ; Pope was “ greatly interested” in venison, Jonathan Swift in turhot, and Sir Walter Scott in roast goose. «wake..- «7 r.n.r_ k . n... ....A_ fl_‘_‘-‘Wwâ€"dâ€"M¢â€"â€" . 1 oil for drinking Atlanta has a kerosene-oil drunkard. Henry J. Burrow drinks a gallon of keroâ€" some oil, taking a half pint of the oil at one swallow. He says that he has bought the purposes and consumed about half a gallon a week in this way. \Vhen 15 years of age he and two other boys went on a camp hunt and they were lost in the woods for three weeks. Burrows became separated from his friends and had nothing to eat and could find no water. He had a small bottle of kerosene oil whieh had been brought along to kindle fires, and from time to time he would take a small mouth~ ful to alleviate his thirst. Before he was I eseued he had swallowed the entire contents oi the bottle. It had an exhilarating eil'eet upen him, and the taste was pleasant. \Yhen he returned home he sampled the kerosene oil every day or two, and in a few months was drinkingit regularly in small doses. It seems to have no injurious effect, and his parents did nothing to stop the habit. “'hile in the army he would make regular foraging excursions for his drink, and while others seeured buttermilk, collee. and whisky, he always obtained a full sup- ply of his loved kerosene. ()uee during a long march his oil gave out, and he almost went crazy, and suffered all the tortures of a druukard with the tremens. He was sent ‘ v.1 M: W“ :x‘h NAmanav’l -â€"â€"m “mm .. .e- «acuabmgdmv m.-. .to a hospital, and recovered immediately, - the very best. after being allowed to s 'allow a cup of kerosene. Mr, Burrows now drinks nearly a half gallon of oil a week, and he uses only I His health is perfeetly good, .his appetite never fails, and he has not known organic troubles. He says that the ' oil gives hiln a feeling of exhilaration and burns him as it passes down his throat just about as much as whisky would ordinary 1 people. i “Seventeen hours a day! One hundred and nineteen hours a. week I That’s my time. 1 left; the yard last night at fiveâ€"and twenty minutes to 2, and I was on my bus again this mornin’ at ’alf-past 8. It’s these long hours that tell I” “ But; you get a holiday sometimes?” “ If we like to pay for it. Whenever we are off duty we don‘t get paid. \Vhoa there 2” And the Speaker, a smart “ whip” among the London omnibus-drivers, ceases his conâ€" versation concerning his long hours of labor to pull up his horses and sings out loudly the destination of his omnibus. They are quaint and anxious men, some of these London busmcn, with a rich fund of drollcry all their own. “ You see, sir, ’ said one, “I don’t much care for a holiday ; I‘ve been so long on this ’ere bus that things look quite different-like when I’m in the street below. I shouldn’t know my own children in the street.” “ Oh, come ! that’s too strong.” “ Fact, I tell ye, sir ; I‘m always away in the mornin’ afore they’re up, and not home till they’re in bed at night, and I shouldn’t know my little gal if I was to meet her out, espeeially if I was to see her oil my bus.” Truly a significant remark for a man to make in this latter half of the Wonderful nineteenth centuryâ€"a remark not Without a touch of satire and of pathos, too ; and we find ourselves; asking if it is a necessity of our advanced civilization that men must work so long and so continuously, day after (lay, that they never see their children exâ€" cept asleep ? No sweet, simple prattle about the father’s knee, no little fat, dimpl- ed arms around the father’s neek, none of the loving, softening influences which little people know so well how to exert ever even the moststony hearth of men I Surely, 0 Christian civilization, these things are not necessities of thy development I But yet the bus-driver ‘zu'cly complains 0r grumblew He does not strike 01' congre- gate in in: ss-meetings, or commit nets of 1'i(>t,l)nt he works patiently on, (lay hy day, steeringhis horses marvelously well through the cumulml London street, and surveying: philosophic calm from the altitude of his hox, exempt when a Clllhl strays in the way of his horses, and then his hingunge is, per- Imps, rougher than are his real feelings. “filth Some London Busmen. A Strange Drunkard. To Consumptlves. Reader, can you believe that the Creator utiliets one-third of mankind with a. disease for which there is no remed ‘3 Dr. R. 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Yfl-EYNG HEX snfieriug from the effects of early evil habits, the result of ignorance Mid folly, who find themseh '3 “call, nervous and exhausted ; also Mu)- Dxlm-Aum) and ()Ll) MEN who are broken down from the effects of abuse or over-work, and in advanced life {001 the consequences of youthful excess, send for and READ M. Y. Luhon’s Treatise on Diseases of Men. The book will b:- scnt, sealed to any address on receipt of two 30. stamps. Address M. V. LUBON, 47 Welling- ton St. E. Toronto, Ont. Don't. use any more nauseous purgutives such as Pills, .Sultnq, e150,, when you can get in Dr. Carson’s Stomach Biiters, a medicine that moves the Bowela gently, cleansing all impurities from the system and ' daring the Blood pure and 0001. Great Spring 21 ,000‘ Medicine: 50 ccnts‘ The population of VVimlipeghns increased 100 per cent, since 1881. It is now about Capacity $02. to 240113. With weights mm» 8 plate, - > . Every household‘ should have one. Mention this paper. 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