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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFOBOEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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MIFF! JNTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1895.
NO. 31.
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CHAPTEK VIII. (Continued.)
I really thought Mr. Winton woulJ
have been killed." said the oldest of thi
rector's daughters. "How wonderfully hi
rides! My brother says he is a grenl
shekary,' in fact, he cares for nothing
else but sport. You were frightened, too
Miss IEstrange."
-I have not been used to horses foi
fears." stammered Xora.
"You ought to ride now. I remembet
you managing your little sheltie capital,
ly, ago. 'Won't you come back tfl
liitichcon at the rectory? Mother would
be charmed to see you and Mrs. IEs
trance. Mrs. (iarduer and her friendi
ire coming."
Mrs. L'Estrange preferred returninj
rith her little daughter, but Nora wal
glad to divert her thoughts by accepting
the invitation, and was one of the woh(
miniated of the party. She could not,
however, be persuaded to stay till th
pldcst son of the house, an oflieer on leav
from his regiment, iu India, returned wit)
l report of the run.
"I suppose Mrs. Ruthven has hear
nothing of her Jewels?" said Mrs. GarJ
ler. as Xora was saying good-bye.
"Nothing whatever. She seems to de
pair of recovering them."
"It was a frightful business altogether T
-laiuied Mary Damer, the rector's see
end daughter. "Do you remember a Cap
tain Shirley who was at the ball. Yof
danced with him several times, lie danc
ed very well."
Nora did remember.
"tieorge says there were queer reports)
Aluuit hitn in India. He was in snme regi
ment as Mr. and Major Ruthven. People
taid, too, that Mrs. Ruthven was well,
t too particular.'' ,
"I only know she Is particularly nice,"
.-eturned Nora. "Do not believe half th
Jl-natured things you hear."
"I wish," said Miss JJamcr, "that Mr,
Marsden had not been frightened away
."y the worry of this unlucky robbery,
IIow nice it would be to have Evesleigh
open once more."
"Do tell me. Miss I. Estrange, cried
the younger sister, "is the squire engaged
to Mrs. Ruthven?"
"Indeed, I do not know; but I am sur
he would make a very pleasant mistress
f"T the manor house. Now I must not
stay, it will be dusk before I get back.
"I think you are quite heartless, not to
jtay and hear if poor Mr. Winton came
alive out of the hunt, and he is such a
great friend of yours."
"Oh, he can take care of himself," said
Nora, and with a few more words she
escaped, her heart beating with annoy
ance at the tone of Miss Darner's last
remark. She would certainly persuade
Helen to como lip to town next week, ot
as soon as possible, and then she would
take singing lessors, and amuse herself,
and forget the folly and weakness into
which she had fallen. "IIow ill-natured
people are," she thought, "and ready to
spread ill-natured stories. She did not
believe that Captain Shirley ever did any-
thing disgraceful, though she had not
been favorably impressed by him, and
was disposed, in an instinctive and un
reasoning way, to dislike and distrust him.
Large drops of rain made her hurry on
to gain shelter before the threatened
storm burst; but as she crossed the car
riage drive of Evesleigh Manor, on her
homeward way, she noticed fresh traces
of wheels and horses' feet. The steward
had no doubt been up at the house. She
caught a glimpse of it before she passed
through the gate leading Into the wood
opposite her own home. IIow mournful
It looked with its closed shutters, and
the one thin thread of smoke rising from
It wide stack of chimneys! She was
quite glad to be safe at home, in her own
rotnfortnble bedroom, changing her dress
b.r her indoor garments. She had grown
tupidly nervous of late. One folly
brings on another, she thought.
In the drawing room Bea was dressing
her doll, while her mother read aloud
some of Grimm's fairy tales.
"IIow late you are, Nora; did you ref
net?"
"No; at least veFy little."
"Had George Darner come back? How
did the hunt go off? I should be glad te
know if Mark Winton is safe."
"I did not wait. I think the fox mnst
have headed for Anehester downs. Da
Wt me have a cup of tea! I feel so tired."
No more was said; but when the time
came for shutting up the house, Mrs.
l.'Kstrange sent to nsk if Roberts had
heard of any accident at the hunt. Rob
erts reported that young Mr. Gardner
had been thrown, and had broken his col
lar bone, and that as he (Roberts) had
been leaving Oldbridge that evening,
where he had gone to fetch oats, he had
Diet Mr. Winton and the rector's son, rid
ing back, all covered with mud and "tired
Ike."
"I am really qufte relieved," snid Mrs
L'Estrange. "I was rather uneasy."
Nora did not reply and the rest of tht
evening was spent in making their plana
for a visit to London, and writing to an
x-eook and housekeeper, who had taken i
a lodging house in one of the streets on
the Tybumlan side of Hyde Park, and to
whom all Kvesh-igh folk applied whea
they needed temporary quarters in th
rreat city.
The next morning broke bright and
irlsp after a night of rain, and after their
midday meal, Mrs. L'Estrange drove
away in the pony carriage, with her little
girl, to do various errands in the town.
Nora, relieved by the absence of Winton,
whose presence was of late always a re
straint, put on thick boots and set forth
to visit the blind woman whom she had
rather neglected of late. She accused
herself of selfishness, and many minor
crimes and misdemeanors, as she douned(
her walking attire, and bullied herself con
siderably on the score of being better oft
than Bhe deserved, and leading a self-indulgent
life. Still, she did not see hov
he could do otherwise. At any rate, shi
would never sink into a weak, sentiment
alist, a faded flower, pining under the
weight of an unrequited attachment. No,
In a month or two she would have thrown
off this dead, aching, steady pain in her
heart, and be able to smllejit it.
witn this brave determination's start
ed on her walk to the blind woman's cofc
tage, seeing as she went. In spite of a
her resolutions, the picture) of Winton
contending with his horse, as It wae
tamped on her mental retina the day be
fore.
Walking across the bridge which cot
neeted her own little domain with Eves
leigh, she turned sharply into the path
leading to the moorland higher up, and
uearly ran against the lord of the manol
coming la an opposite direction,
TWs is luck Scried Marsden. "In an
ftther moment you would have passed, and
I should have only found Mrs. L'Es
trange." "Not Mrs. L'Estrange either," salt
Ifora. returning his cordial greeting.
"She is gone into Oldbridge for the after
noon." "Then, If yon will allow me, I'll be you
escort."
"Oh, yes, do comer' returned Nora
vl uls company. -t nen did
you arrive, and where did you com
from?"
"I came last night, that is to say, las.
arternoon, and I came from Paris."
"Mrs. Ruthven, when she wrote, did no.
seem to know what had become of you."
Marsden turned, and walked beside her.
"Oh, yes, to be sure. I woaraaar to a
' place near Kontainebleau, fo see an old
chum of mine, De Meudon, who has been
very ill, and so a letter or two of here
miscarried; but I saw her the day before
yesterday In town. She is in a fidget to
complete the purchase of a damp Tilln at
Twickenham, which she could not do
without me; but I have settled everything
to ner satisfaction.
"And are you going to stay here?"
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yea, repiica -Mnrsaen. witn t
Quick sigh, and he looked earnestly into
her eyes, a curious wistful, strained ex
pression in his own. "I am a rolling
stone, you see, Nora I presume youi
high mightiness will permit me to use
your baptismal appellation and I am
rather at a loss what to do with myself.
I shall be hard tip for another year 01
two; but then the property will be pretty
clear then I will settle in the halls of mj
latners, and live cleanly and like a gen
tlcman."
. "I hope you will, squire," said Nora,
kindly and seriously.
"WnatI Do you think I hare been sucl
a scamp?" asked Marsden, laughing.
"You know I df'i not mean that," eh.
returned, the color rising in her cheek
"I hope you will live at Evesleigh."
"And be your neighbor? Thank you
sweet cousin."
"Yes, it would be very nice to have yot.
it the manor house. It looks ghostly
hen shut up."
. "Your kindness is killing. Do you an
derstand why?"
"No; there is something not quits likt
yourself about you to-day. You are look
ing white and thin. Have you been ill,
Clifford?"
"You darling. How graciously yo
have granted my prayer, and brought out
the name I want you to call me with Just
the sweetest little hesitation iu th'
world."
He laughed as he spoke, carrying off th
ardor of his words with a mocking air.
"Nonsense"' returned Nora, a link
piqued. "I did not hesitate at all. You
seem to forget that I am not a child."
"I am deeply conscious yon are a worn
n; a " lie pulled himself up short,
and added: "A most serious young worn
n." "And I suppose there is no chance 01
finding the lost Jewels?" said Nora, to
change the subject, for there was an in
definable something in Marsden's tout
which she neither liked nor understood.
"I fear not. I thought I might hare
tracked them to the den of an old Dutch
receiver of stolen goods, and went myself
to Amsterdam, to see what I could do
nil in vain. Don't talk of them; you don't
know what an infernal blow that unfor
tunate business has been to me. That my
guest should have been robbed almost un
der my eyest It's a sort of blot on me and
my house."
"That Is quite a morbid Idea. Hon
could any reasonable being blame you? I
m sure Mrs. Rnthven "
"Mrs. RuthTsn has behaved very well,
tint she is desperately cut up, and I do
not wonder at It," Interrupted Marsden.
"She is Tery nice, and so pretty at
tractive looking, rather."
Marsden glanced sharply at her before
ae answered.
"Yes, she Is a piquant little devil, bu;
she ought not to be so heavy with bet
paint brush about the lips; that sort of art
may be overdone."
"Squire!" in a shocked tone, "how cat
you be such a traitor? I thought you were
fond of Mrs. Ruthven that you were he
best friend."
Marsden laughed.
"So I am, but I am not, therefore, blind.
All the world (except you) can see she
paints her lips."
I did not, and It Is not nice or loyal ol
yon to tall me."
"I am rebuked. Y ou are an awful piece
of perfection, Nora."
Do not be sarcastic. I know my own
shortcomings well enough; but I am not
false to my friends. I shall not confide
my weakness to you.
"Do you fancy I would betray you?
You understand me. Why, you are my
own he hesitated my own Kins
woman.
Nora shook her head, and they walked
on silently for a few moments. Then
she said:
"Helen and I are thinking of going uj
to town for a couple of months. It is
rather melancholy and uncomfortable to
be so far from one in the winter. Hclea
bas been so nervous since that robbery."
"You are quite right it is an excellent
Idea," cried Marsden. with hearty appro
bation. "Where do you think of staying
-at the Langham?"
"The Langham!" laughing. "Why. the
Langham would swallow up all our money
in ten days. No, no; we think of going to
Mrs. May, if she can take us in. LV
Ton remember Mrs. May?"
"Well, yes, I seem to have heard the
lime."
"She was cook at Evesleigh when you
were a boy, I believe. Oh! years ago."
"Exactly; before I grew old and de
crepit." "She has a house near Hyde Tark, and
we shall take rooms there."
"You'll be awfully uncomfortable,
you'll get nothing to eat but scorched
unit ton and watery rice-pudding, a-.d
you'll never move without carrying off a
knitted chair cover on your back, or hung
to a button."
"You are quite wrong! We stayed a
week there, on our way back from Ger
many, and it was Tery comfortable. I da
not think there is a knitted antimacassar,
if that is what you mean, in the house."
Talking lightly, with occasional silence
on Marsden's part, they reached the blind
woman's cottage.
"IIow long shall yon stay here?" 1
"I do cot know, but yon need not trou
ble about me."
"I f I choose to trouble, you cannot pre
vent me. I am going to look for one of
the gamekeepers about a mile further on,
and I shall wait for you outside, when I
vet urn."
uo! prar danot mind, I" .1 2
"Do I bore you?" very jrravely.
"IIow can you say so, Clifford?"
"Would you rather not walk with me?'
"Nonsense T
"Very well, I will wait for you, and if
you give me the slip, deep will be my
wrath."
"I have no such intention," and she
vanished Into the cottage.
Marsden walked on in deep thought,
his brows knit, his handsome face firmly
set, all the smiling softness of his ordi
nary aspect gone and replaced by a stern
haggard look, that made him seem year
older.
When Nora had read the better part of
a newspaper to her old protege, and dis
cussed some of its contents, she perceived
the odor of tobacco wafted through the
open window, and guessing that the squire
wua waiting, she bade the blind womnr
good-bye and went to join him.
"Will you tell me," he said, throwing
away his cigar, when they had gone a
few paces, "what is the pleasure of going
Into a stuffy cottage to read to a stupid
old woman, who would probably prcier
being left to sleep t
"It is not a Tery great pleasure, cer
tainly, but I assure you I like reading to
old Uetsy. She is Tery shrewd, and,
thongh I don't profess to be an angel, we
ought to help each other sometimes. It
is not much to do for a poor soul; think
how lonely she must be. We should be
rather worthless, if we did only what we
like.
"Hum! That has been the only rule I
have ever followed.
I "I do not believe yon. People would not
'like you so well, if you cared for nothing
but self; you must have some heart.
, "I begin to fear I have," said Marsden,
as if to himself. "I assure you," he went
on, "it is impossoble to me to do what I
do not like, and equally impossible to re
Jsist snatching at what I desire, ay! and
'getting It, too, by some means or other.
"What a bad characterl" cried Nora.
"If any one else spoke of you in that way.
I should have been quite angry."
"And would you have defended me?"
"Yes, of course! you are my kinsman.
and good friend."
"And you are a Tery pearl of a cousin."
They were silent till they reached
(turn in the path, from which the dull red
lowers of Oldbridge were visible; the sight
of them perhaps prompted the abrupt
question:
"What has become of Winton? Is he
here still?"
"No; he Is gone to Devonshire, I think.'
"Ha! and how hts he been prospering?'
"Prospering? How? In what pray?"
"With your step-mother. I exacted to
Jienr that their engagement had been an
nounced when I came back. hy has he
let the grass grow under his feet
Nora was too amazed to reply at once;
but memory swiftly unrolled her picture
of the past few months, and showed a
hundred important nothings which cor-
toborated Marsden s startling assertion.
"I suppose I am Tery stupid," she ex-
rlaimed, as soon as she could spenk, "but
I never suspected this. Helen, too, is so
frank, she would surely have told me.
"I am not so sure of thnt! Pray, what
do you think kept a man like Winton in
such a dull hole as Oldbridge, and brought
him day after day to Brookdale? Your
self, eh? A very natural supposition
Y'ou are sufficiently magnetic, sweet cou
sin." "Indeed indeed." began Nora, eager
ly, but Marsden went on smiling, and
shaking bis finger at her.
"It is soothiliu 10 so imperfect a fello
n.f.utf t. find nut n little weakness I
tingo of vanitv in such nn admirable 'hi
. ...... 1 don't doubt thai
liinii ua j rM - - ,
Winton, like many another, would have
fallen to voiir spear; but, you see, he waj
Mrs. L'Estrnnge's lover in bygone agei
when they were boy ami girl, and aftel
I know all aUiiit it. I fancy Wlntol
when he first came home from Infin. wal
not too anxious to take Helen Lnndell
V.-..1. ,..;.!. I,;,,, I rompmlier her. a sad
timid crenture. under the thum
I should say thumb-screw of old Mis
Webster. She -was a soft, taking inn
tfrViintr then ! is a verv charming woma
now und Winton is well off. It would b
a comfortable settlement for her and hel
little girl, for they are, I think, quite ae
nmlint on vou."
At the end of this long speech, during
which M-ursden watched his companion's
face, Nora wns quite prepared to reply, i
"If they are foud of each other, I shalj
be very pleased. Helen has been a real
mother to me. and I like Mr. Winton im
mensely. You don't know what a hard
life Helen has bad. If Mr. Winton will
be kind and make her happy and note
you have opened my eyes, I think he il
fond of her I shall be glad. But, as t
her dependence on me, if I die before I
am twenty-one, of course all I possess will
go to Beatrice, and as soon as ever l an
of age I will settle half my fortune ol
f-l..n tn an tn lt-H after her."
"But. Norn! you must not be quixoticj
mnke some provision for your father"!
widow, but not half of your fortune,"
cried Marsden, looking at her with sur
prise.
"Oh! if Helen is murried, well, I shall
make the settlement on Bea only. I have
always considered it an oversight on my
father s part not providing tor ner, as
oversight I am bound to mnke good."
Her tone was perfectly easy and nat
ural; nor did it express the slightest con
sciousness of doing more than a simple act
of justice.
Marsden walked on in silence for a few
paces.
"Y'ou sre right, I think." said he. "It
is a horrid nuisance to know that people
belonging to you want for anything: but.
at the snme time, you are acting with un
usual liberality. When shall you be of
age? if I dare ask such a question."
"The fifteenth of February next, I
lhall be twenty-one."
"And suppose you marry some sting;
fellow before that date?"
Nora laughed merrily.
"I do not fancy I shall run away witi
any one between this and February, and
if I marry soberly, conventionally, the
lawyers can devise the means of carrying
out my wishes, or, if the suitor likes my
poor little money better than myself, why,
he may go," she waved her hand with ar
ozpressive gesture.
I wonder what sort of a woman yon
will develop into, Nora?" said Marsden,
his eyes fixed upon hers as if brooding
over some somber thought.
"Am I not developed already, squire?"
"You have heaps to learn! for one
thing, your own power! but why do you
go back to the patriarchal spallation)
Promise to call me Clifford, always Clif
ford." "I will try," returned Norn, smiling.
"Now, Clifford, here we are at the bridge,
and before we part, promise me first to
consider all I have said a profound secret
between us two; next not to tease Helen
about Mr. Winton; she is a shy creature,
and I do not think he has absolutely pro
posed for her yet. so it would annoy her
dreadfully if you said anything on the
ssbject."
"Trust me, I shall be most discreet! But,
Nora, suppose this marriage takes place
and tney win go to India. What shaU
you do?"
"Stay behind and educate Bea, or mar
ry that stingy msn you seem to have
found for ma." .
Will you promise to marry the man
I shall find for your cried Marsden eager-
ly.
"Yes! If he is pleasant and handsome,
and rich, and accomplished, and ready to
love, honor and obey me," returned Nora
with mock solemnity. "It will take you
a long time to find such a rara vls un
dertake nothing rashly, so good-bye."
"Are you going to dismiss me? What
have I done?"
"Helen is out and I I am going to be
busy; but If yon will dine with us at
seven, we will not oblige yon to eat scorch
ed mutton."
"Thanks, many thanks. It is," looking
at his watch, "three-twenty. May I pre
sent myself at half past six?"
"Yes, certainly: Helen will be delighted
to see yon." She bent her head with an
arch smile and, turning away, walkec
quickly toward the cottage.
Marsden leaned his arms on the para
pet of the bridge and looked after her so
long as she was in sight, then he pursued
his way home in profound thought.
Nora went quietly to her own room, tc
cogitate the wonderful information im
parted by Marsden.
She was glad, Tery glad, not only foi
Helen, but for herself. This kuowledge
would fortify her to resist her own folly,
to uproot the ridiculous fancy which had
mastered her. The man who was to be
Helen's husband ought to be, could be,'
nothing to her. Her enre was certain.
But, oh! what a weak conceited fool she
had been, to take for granted that she
herself, and she only, was the attraction
that drew Winton so constantly to Brook
dale, to be so blind to the gentle charm
of her step-mother's looks and voiis and
manner. She saw it all How
quietly tender winton ainys was in
speaking to Helen, and how much more
notice be took of her than of her step
laughter. Y'et across this conviction
would shoot puzzling gleams of memory,
recalling significant looks and words
which might have been interpreted as in
dicative of a strong liking for herself;
this no doubt was but the exaggeration of
her own vain unhealthy Imagination. IIow
she thanked heaven that none could rend
ber thoughts. She was tolerably safe, no
ne ae Airs. Kiitliven had ever nlnteO
at any possible tenderness between hersell
and Winton, ami that suspicion would
soon be dispelled by the announcement
f his engagement to Mrs. L'Estrange.
At any rate, for the moment, Nora
thought herself oulte cured. She made
some changes In her dress and rearranged
her hair so as to be ready for the evening.
Then she descended to the drawing room,
and set herself diligently to answer some
long-negleetcd letters.
Before she had finished Mrs. L'Kstranirt
returned, and there were parcels to bj
open id, purchases to be looked at and
put away, and Bea's report of nil she
nail seen and heard to be listened to.
Mrs. L'Estrange was surprised an6
pleased to hear that Marsden was to be
their guest. Ho was a great favorite with
ner, and showed her much kindly consid
eration. On this evening he conversed chiefli
with her, but she was too observant, toe
warmly interested in her step-daughter,
not to perceive that he was aware ol
Nora's every movement, even her slight
est gesture. She had already suspected
that the lord of Evesleigh had lost hie
heart to bis young kinswoman, and she
was not a little pnzzled by Nora's evi
dent unconsciousness. She had very lit
tle idea, however, of the overpowering
Intensity of the passion Nora had inspired.
From motives, which need not now be
revealed, Marsden masked his batteries
cleverly; until the right moment came to
open bre, he was merely a pleasant, play
ful, admiring relative. To-night, how
ever, she was struck by some alight
tnougn distinct Indications which escapee
bis resolute self-control.
Marsden had never denied himself any
thing, nor thought any price too high for
the pleasure of the moment. He had had
endless love affairs, but none of any depth,
and wneu be met his young cousin, he wae
unaccountably fascinnted by her. Her
delicate freshness, her simplicity and
shrewdness, her quick spirit and keen
self-respect, her moments of softness,
suggestive of delicious possibilities, of re
sponsive tenderness, which was not to be
lightly won, made, to-him, an irresistible
combination.
Clifford Marsden was a man of Infinite
:aste; taste so true, that it all but made
him enamored of goodness, if only for Its
harmony. Alas! what a chasm that "but"
covered! He could be generous, too,
though be was quite capable of sacrificing
all and t .-erything to gratification of self,
yet, at times, that self took an amiable
form. At present he was determined
Nora L'Estrange should be his wife. She
was the first woman he had ever wished
to marry, and nothing should stand be
tween him and the accomplishment of his
wishes.
In such a passion there is a tinge ol
jruelty. Marsden would rather kill her
with his own hand, than give her up to
another.
Meantime, the wild animal within him
(lumbered in the sunshine of its own
lopes. Marsden talked well, Nora, who
had more color than usual, was charming
ly bright. inton was never mentioned.
and all went merrily.
CHAPTER IX.
The' last week of October saw nearly
all the personages in this true history as
sembled in town.
Nora L'Estrange was almost ashamed
it the eager pleasure with which she hail
ed their removal to London. The change
of scene, the various objects of interest,
the different occupations of town, con
trasted with those of the country, roused
nd diverted her.
Beatrice and her attendant frauleix
were left with Winton's aunt. Mrs. Ath-
erley, who had Invited them to stay with
her in Oldbridge, in order that the young
lady might have music lessons from the
organist of the cathedral, and be preserv
ed from the disorganization of life in a
London lodging, where she was to join
her mother before Christmas.
inton, as was expected, soon made hii
appearance, and then Marsden: both be
stowing a good deal of their spare time on
tne ladies ot rfrookdale. So the days went
speedily and pleasantly.with the help of
galleries and concerts by day, and thea
ters in the evening. Nora flattered herself
that by the careful cultivation of more
frank friendliness of manner toward Win
ton, she was killing out warmer feelings
in her heart, and at any rate successfully
masking the true state of affairs in that
weak citadel.
Mrs. Ruthven, however, put in a claim
or a good deal of her trustee's time and
attention. She also found it expedient to
take np her abode In the capital The
police gave her little hope of recovering
her lost property, but the preliminaries
of ber new purchases made her presence
requisite.
"Have you seen Miss L'Estrange?" ask
ed Mrs. Ruthven, one morning when Shir
ley had been admitted before luncheon.
"No, I thought of calling, but did not
see what business I had to do so."
"I wish yon would. Why should yon
not?"
"I do not know. Mrs. L'Estrange i
rather stand off."
"Pooh!" she returned with an expres
sion of. cqntempL. ."Mrs. L.'Estrange is
nojodyl They called here yesterday, but
I was out. Shirley. I wish yon would
make love to Nora! It would not be a
bad marriage for yon, and yoa need not
marry her if you do not like."
"What is the real reason of your re
gard for my interests?"
"I want to see yon cut ont Winton."
"I do not think there Is anything to In
(erfere with in that direction. The run
ning at present Is all on Marsden's side."
Mrs. Ruthven stooped to pick np her
pocket handkerchief before she replied
"Well, cut Marsden out. Why should yoa
not? Y'ou have been something of a fav
orite with women, more experienced wom
en than Nora L'Estrange, before this."
"I am flattered," said Shirley with a
elf-satlsfied smile. "Still I Imagine"
. "Oh! I would give anything to see yot
safely married to Nora L'Estrange," she
interrupted, clasping her hands together
with a fervent air. "What a denouement
the whole thing would ber and she laugh
ed a cruel, mocking laugh.
"What whole thing?" Lsked Shirley,
with an angry look.
"My good friend, I am thinking of com
plications which do not enter your mind."
"I do not see how they can when 1 am
In Ignorance."
Here Mrs. Ruthven s courier enterec
erlth a note, which she took and glanced
at
"Let him came up," she said, and snt i
moment in silence, twisting it with her
small pointed finger.
"Am I in the way?' asked Shirley, with
some stiffness.
"No! no! you can stay," said Mrs.
Ruthven, carelessly, and as she spoke the
detective, Waite, was shown in.
'"(! you are back again?" she said.
"Have you anythig fresh?"
"Something, I " he hesitated and
glanced at Shirley.
"Oh, you may speak. This gentleman.
Captain Shirley," with a slight emphasis
on the name, "was, you remember, at the
ball when I was robbed, and knows all
about it."
Walte bowed gravely.
"I have just come from Brussels," h
nid. "A report I heard at. no matter
where, induced me to visit a merchant
there, who, it was said, had some fins
rubies for" sale. They were -certainly
Tery fine, and were, I find, bought from
a respectable looking young man, of small
stature and Tery dark complexion, who
said he was a native of India. He spoke
French very Imperfectly. He had, he
said, inherited the stones frdm an uncle.
He stated he was a native of Pondl
cherry and had offered the gems in Paris,
but could not get his price. This sur
prised the Jeweler, as he asked less than
their value, which the purchaser. Van
dersluys. Rue de la Montague, gave him.
After much trouble, I tracod this man
back to Ostend, and ascertained that a
passenger answering to his description
embarked on board the Dover steamboat
about three weeks ago, and there 1 lost
all trace!"
"But you must find It again," exclaimed
Mrs. Ruthven, who had listened intently.
"Y'ou know the reward I offered for the
Jewels themselves. I will double It If
yon enable me to pnnlsh the robber! Do
yoa not think I am right?" she added with
sudden startling vehemence to Shirley,
who hesitated aa Instant and then re
plied: "Certainly, Mrs. Ruthven, certainly.
Such a miscreant deserves no mercy."
"From Pondicherry, did be say? Did
he give any name?"
"Not I fancy the jeweler was too glai
to get such a bargain, to make many in
quiries." "Yon do not Intend to give up?" cried
Mrs. Ruthven, eagery.
"Certainly not, madame. These are the
first tracks." He paused and gave a
quick, questioning glance at Mrs. Ruth
ven, who slightly bent ber head. "Yes,"
be went on, "the first tracks I have hit on,
and I am determined not to give up till I
have done all man can do to find the ras
cal and his accomplices, if he has any."
"I should imagine he had," said Shir
ley, who had risen, and going over to the
fire, stirred It into a blaze. "A man
would hardly attempt so bold a stroke
single-handed."
"It would be a good deal safer alone."
"Then what do you propose to do next ?"
"I have not yet quite decided, sir," re
plied the detective dryly. "Moreover, I
never spenk of my plans. As there is no
time to be lost in trying to find the trail.
I shall wish you good morning, madanie.
and keep you informed of my move
ments.
"A shrewd fellow," said Shirley, "but i
fear bis chances are but scanty of truck
ing this darky."
"He will do it yet," returned Mrs. Ruth
ven, with gloomy conviction, and fell into
such persistent silence that, finding it
Impossible to rouse her, Shirley, himself
irritated and uneasy, bid her good morn
"us-
The next afternoon Marsden, who had
been gratifying his lawyer by detailing
the particulars of a successful speculation
he had made on the Paris Bourse through
the guidance of a friend, drove away to
SouthWick street, having sent some flow
ers to keep Mrs. Ruthven quiet.
Somewhat to his discomfiture for he
always suspected that Shirley was more
or less a spy that gentleman wns iu the
act of leaving his card as he went up the
steps.
The ladies were "out driving with Mr.
Winton," said the highly respectable ex-
butler, who opened the door.
"When do you expect them in?" asked
Marsden.
"Can't say. sir. Not till Inte, anyway.'
Marsden then left his card, and, turn
ing, walked a few pares with Shirley.
(To be continued.)
A Novel Way to Collect a Bill.
Quite il novel suseestinn In thh
ar of blll-collec.f.lno- wa: m.-irlA t.hn
other day through the mistaice of a
mail ma lin? two letters in Mi is rit.v
lie had bad considerable difficulty in
persuading a young woman that his
goods had not been sold to her for
the mere treasure nf splfinrr nnrl
dually she bad dismissed his mes.
sender with the statement that she
did not Want t.n h:ir from him airain.
Nothing was left for the merchant to
o nut to resort to the United Mates
mails. He accordingly sat down and
Wrote to the Vfiiinir wninan a let.tor
which was chara teiized rather by
terseness and vigor than by any
terms of affection. Fortunatelr for
bim, he had a social acquaintance
with another vounir ladv in the sniua
house, and while be had bis pen be
thought he would write to her. too.
personal letter. When he came to
direct b's envelopes, though, be sent
the dunning letter to bis personal
friend and h's personal letter to bis
debtor. It is needless to say that
the mistake was corrected within a
few moments after the rereint. nf t he
letters, but tbe debtor's chagrin at
the reveiat ou of ber position to an
ather was so great that she paid her
till immediately. WashingtouNew
The man Wjo is alwava mid
follow advireu is anra tn fnllnw et
poorest kind that offers
p. DR. tulpel
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: 'Business Troubles."
Tsit: "These were thy merchants In aU
Sorts ot things." Ezekiel xxviL, 2t
We are at the onening door of returning
National prosperity. The coming crops, tha
nMtuinmont oi puDiio commence ana,
above all, the blessing of God will turn iu,
upon all sections ot America the widest,
greatest prosperity this country has ever
seen. But that door of success is not yet
fully open, and thousands of business men
are yet suffering from the distressing times
through which we have been passing.
Home ot the best men In the land have
faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted In
everv irood work and whose hands have
blessed every great charity. The church of
God can afford to extend to them her sym-
patnies ana pieaa Deiore nnavnn witn all
availing prayer. The schools such men have
established, the ehurches they have built,
the asylums and beneficent institutions they
nave iosterea win De tneir eulogy long alter
their banking institutions are forgotten.
Such men can never fail. They have their
treasures in banks that never break and will
be millionaires forever. But I thought it
would be appropriate to-day and useful for
me to talk about the trials and temptations
of our business men and try to offer some
curative prescriptions.
In the first place, I have to remark that a
great many of our business men feel ruinous
trials and temptations coming to them from
small and limited capital in business. It is
everywhere understood that it now takes
three or four timns as much to do business
well than it once did. Once a few hundred
dollars were turned into goods. The mer
chant would be his own storekeeper, his own
salesman, his own bookkee(ier. He would
manage all the affairs himself, ami every
thing would be net profit. Wonderful
changes have come. Costly apparatus, ex
tensive advertising, exorbitant store rents,
heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only
parts of tne demand made upon our com
mercial men, and when they have found
themselves in such circumstances with small
capital they have sometimes been tempted to
run against tbe rocks ol moral and financial
destruction. This temptation of limited
capital has ruined men in two ways. Some
times they have shrunk down under the
temptation. They have yielded the battle
before the first shot was fired. At the first
hard dun they surrendered. Their knees
knocked together at the fall of the auction
eer's hammer. They blanched at the finan
cial peril. They did not understand that
there is such a thing as heroism in merchan
dise and that there ate Waterloos of the
counter and that a man can fight no braver
battle with the sword than he can with the
yardstick. Their souls melted In them be
cause sugars were up when they wanted to
buy and down when they wanted to sell, and
unsalable goods were on the shelf and
bad debts in their ledger. The gloom ot
their countenances overshadowed even their
dry goods and groceries. Despondency,
coming' from limited capital, blasted them.
Others have felt It in a different way. They
have said: "Here I have been trudging
along. I have been trying to be honest all
these years. I find it Is of no use. Now it
is make or break." The small craft that
could have stood the stream is put out be
yond the lighthouse on the great sea of spec
ulation. He borrows a few thousand dollars
from friends who dare not refuse him, and he
goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons
In this way: Perhaps I may succeed, and It
I don't I will be no worse off than I am now,
for 1 100.000 taken from nothing, nothing re
mains." Stocks are the dice with which he gam
bles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts
of Western land. Some man at the East, liv
ing on a fat homestead, meets this gambler
of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his
estate for lots in a Western city, with larg
avenues, and costly palaces, and lake steam ers
smoking at the wharves, and rail trail, s
coming down with lightning speed fro u
every direction. There it is all on paper!
The city has never been built nor the rail
roads constructed, but everything points that
way. and the thing will be done as sure a?
you live. Well, the man goes on, stopping
at no fraud or outrage. In his SDlendid
equipage he dashes past, while the honest
laborer looks up and wipes tne sweat from
his brow and says. "I wonder where that
man got all his money?" After a while the
bubble bursts. Creditors rush iu. The law
clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. The
men who were swindled say, '4 don't know
how I eould have ever been deeeived by that
man." and the pictorials, in handsome wood
cuts, set forth the hero who in ten years hod
genius enougn to tail lor lau.ouu:
And that is the process by which many
have been tempted through limitation of
capital to rush into labyrinths from which,
they could not be extricated. I would not
want to chain honest enterprise. I would
not want to block up any of the avenues for
honest accumulation that open before young
men. On the contrary. I would like to cheer
them on and rejoice when they reach the
goal, but when there are such multitudes of
men going to ruin for this life and the life
that is to come through wrong notions of
wnat are lawful spheres ot enterprise it is
the duty of tbe Church of God, and the minis
ters of religion, and the friends of all young
nen, to utter a plain, emphatic, unmis
zakable protest. These are the influences
:hat drown men in destruction and pcr-
ution.
Again, a great many of our business men
Sre tempted to overanxiety and care. You
know that nearly all commercial businesses
ire overdone in this day. Smitten with the
love ot quick gain, our cities are crowded
with men resolved to be rich at aU hazards.
They do not care how money comes it it
jnly comes. Our best merchants are thrown
into competition with men of more means
nd less conscience, and if an opportunity
if accumulation be neglected one hour
some one else picks it up. From
January to December the struggle goes
an. Night gives no quiet to limbs toss
ing in restlessness nor to a brain that
Will not stop thinking. Tbe drea-ns are
harrowed by Imaginary loss and flashed
with imaginary gains. fcven the Sab
bath cannot dam back the tide of anxiety,
for this wave of worldliness dashes clear
ver the churches and leaves its foam, on
Bibles and prayer books. Men who are
living on salaries or by the cultivation of the
loil cannot understand the wear and tear of
;he body and mind to which our merchants
ire subjected when they do not know but
mat their livelihood and their business
lonor are dependent upon the uauertainties
f the next hour. This excitement ot the
irain, this corroding care ot the heart, this
itrain ot effort that exhausts the spirit,
ends a great many of our best men in mid
dle life into the grave, their life dashed out
tgainst money safes. They go with their
store on their backs. They trudge like cam
els, sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus.
They make their life a crucifixion. Stand
ing behind desks and counters, banished
from tbe fresh air. weighed down by cark-
Ing cares, they are so many suicides. Oh. I
wish I could to-day rub ont some of these
lines of care; that I could lift some ot the
burdens from the heart; that I oould give
relaxation to some ot these worn muscles.
It is time for you to begin to take it a little
easier. Do your best and then trust God
for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all
the affairs of your life, and He manages
them for the best. Consider the lilies. They
always have robes.
Behold the fowls ot tbe air! They always
have nests. Take a long breath. Bethink
betimes that God did not make you for a
pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among
the hogsheads and the shelves, and In the
ligntottne nolysaobatn aay resolve that
you will give to the winds your fears, and
your iretluloess, an I your distresses. Xou
brought nothing-into the world, and It is
very certain you can carry nothing out
Having food and raiment be therewith con
tent, o ne merchant came home irom tne
store. There had been a great disaster there.
He opene I the front door and said in the
midst of his family circle: "I am ruined.
Everything is gone. I am all ruined." His
wife said. "I am left." and the little child
threw up its hands and said, "Papa, I am
here." The aged grandmother, seated In
the room, said, "Then you have all the prom
Ises of God beside, John." And he burst in
to tears and said: "God forgive me. that I
have been so ungrateful! I find I have a
great many things left. God forgive mel"
Attain, I remark that many of our business
men are tempted to neglect their home
duties. How often It Is that the store and
home clash, but there ought not to be any
collision. It is often the ease that the father
isthe mere treasurer of the family, a sort of
agent to see that they have dry goods and
groceries. The work of family government
he does not touch. Once or twice in a year
he calls the children up on a Sabbath after
noon, when he has a half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour be disciplines the children and
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great deal of good advice, and
then wonders all the rest of the year that his
children do not do better when they have
the wonderful advantage of that semi-annual
castigation.
The family table, which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful
ness, often becomes the pla-e of perilous
expedition. If there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the
band on the carving knife. He counts on
his fingers, making estimates in the Inter
stices of the repast. The work done, the hat
goes to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family have arisen
from the table he has bound up another
bundle of goods and says to the customer,
"Anything more I can do for you to-day,
sir?" A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting com
petent instructors over his children and giv
ing them a drawing master and a musie
teacher. The physical culture of the child
will not be attended to unless the
father looks to it. He must some
times lose his dignity. He must unlim
ber his joints. He must sometimes lead
- their sports and games. Tuo
parent who cannot forget the severe duties
of life sometimes, to fly thn kite and trundle
the hoop and ehase the ball and jump the
rope with his children, ouirht never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unredeem
able solitariness. If you want to keep your
children away from places of sin you can
only do it by making your home attractive.
You may preach sermons and ndvocate re
forms ami denounce wickedness, and yet
your children will be captivated by the glit
tering saloon of sin uu less you can make
your home a brighter place than any
other place on earth to them. Oh.
gather all charms, into your house. If
you can afford it, bring books and pic
tures and cheerful entertainments to the
household. But above all teach those
children, not by half an hour twice a
year on the Sabbath day, but day after day
and every day teach them that religion is a
great gladness; that it throws chains of gold
about the neck; that it takes no spring from
the foot, no blitbeness from the heart, no
Sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laugh
ter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and all her paths are peace." I sympa
thize with the work being done in many ot
our cities by which beautiful rooms are set
apart by our Young Men's Christian Associa
tions, and I pray God to prosor them in all
things. Bi.t I tell you there is something
back of that and before that. We need more
Happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes everywhere.
Again I remark that a great many of our
business men are tempted to put the attain
ment of money above the value ot the soul.
It is a grand thing to have plenty of money.
The more you get of it the better, if it come
honesty ami go usefuliy. For the lack ot it
sickness di- without medicine, and hunger
fin-is it coffin in the empty bread tray, and
nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire.
When I r. jar a man in canting tirade against
money a Christian man as though it had
no possible use on earth and he had no in
terest in it at all, I come almost to think
(hat the heaven that would be appropriate
for him would be an everlasting poorhouse.
While, my friends, we do admit there is
such a thing as the lawful use of money
; a profitable use of money let us rec
ognize also the fact that money cannot satis
fy a man's soul; that it cannot glitter in the
dark valley; that it cannot pay our fare
across the Jordan of death; that It cannot
unlock the gate ot heaven. There are men
in all occupations who seem to act as though
they thought that a pack of bonds and mort
gages coul 1 be traded off for a title to
heaven and as though gold would be a law
ful tender in that place where it is so com
mon that they make pavemonts out of it.
Salvation by Christ is the only salvation.
Treasures in heaven are the only incorrupti
ble treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule ot
loss and gain the sum, "What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world and lose his
own soulr" However line your apparel, the
windsof death will flutter it lik6 rags. Home
spun and a threadbare coat have sometimes
been the shadow of coming robes made white
in the blood of the Lamb.; The pearl of great
Iirice is worth more than any gem you can
ring from tha ocean, than Australian or
Brazilian mines strung in one carcanet. Seek
after God, find Ilis righteousness, and all
shall be well here all shall be well here
after.
Smw of you remembar the shipwreck o'.
the Central America. That noble ship had,
i inuiK. aojut ouu pa-isengers aooard. Hud
deuly the storm came, and the surges
tmtti n'4.1 thA drt.-lra nn-l Burnnw int.-. hi.
hatches, aud there wont up a hundred voiced
aeatn siiriex. lhe loam on the jaw of the
wave. The pitching ot the steamer as though
it were leaping a mountain. The dismal
flare of the signal rockets. The long oougb
of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguished
furnaces. The walking of God on the wave!
The steamer went not down without a strug
gle. As the passentrs stationed themselves
in rows to bail out the vessel, hark to the
thump pf the buckets, as men unused to toil,
with bllstere I hamls and strained muscle,
tug for their lives. There is a sail seen
against the sky. The flash of the distress
gun is noticed; its voiea heard not, for it is
choked in the louder booming of the sea.
A few passengers escaped, but the steamer
gave one great lurch an I was gone! So
there are so.ne ranu who will oa prosperously
In life. All's well, all's well. But at last
some financial disaster comes a euroslydon.
D wn they go! The bottom of the commer
cial sm is strewn with shattered hulks. Bat
because your property goes do not let yout
out go. Though all else perish, save that,
fori have to tell you of a more stupendous
shipwreck than that which I just mentioned.
God launched this world 6009 years ago. It
has been going o:i u a ler freight of moun
tains and immort-ils, but on day it will
tagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of
rook will burn, the mountains flame
like masts, an.l the clouds like sails in the
judgment hurricane. Tliea God shall take
the passengers off tlio dsek, and from the
berths those who hav.s Ion-.; been asleep iu
Jesus, and He will sot them far beyond the
reach of storm and peril. But how many
shall go down will never ba known until it
shall be announced one day in heaven. The
shipwreck ot a world! Sj many mllliont
savedl So many millions drowned! Oh, nij
dear hearers, whatever you lose, though
your houses go, though your lands go,
though all your earthly possessions perish,
may God Almighty, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, save all your soulsl
The Grasshopper Crop.
Professor Otto Lugger. State Entomologist
of Minnesota, called at tne Governor's office
and made a report on the. grasshopper kill- i
Ing In Chicago County with the hopper ,
dozers. They have over 400 of these ma- I
chines at work and are gathering in 8000
bushels of grasshoppers daily. Thus far the
hoppers have not invaded the irrain fields I
The frequent rains have kept the grass green
and tender, and they have contented them
selves feeding on this.
The oi.ly dyes imrcrvions to Hie
bleaching power of tbe sun's rays are
Prussian bine and cbrome vellow.
Tbe Turkish government intends
to establish an earthquake observatory
at Constantinople.
The Albatross has been known to
follow a ship for two months witnout
ever being seen to alight in th water :
or take a moment's rest. It is believed
to sleep oi tbe wing. '
A new rorgue for tbe reception
ot bodies Ibat trust be kept for some '
time for purpose of identification is to
be built in Paris during tbe coming '
year. i
Experiment bas demonstrated that
plants thrive much better under white
glass than green.
' OPIUM A VALUABLE DRUG.
Cos
salsa I on Has Decided that Zt X
Jeae Harmful titan Aleebol.
Tbe opium commission, appointed tk.
England to report on the use and effects
f opium In India, has rendered Its de
cision. It bad to determine whether opi
um, when taken in moderation, was an
Injurious article of diet; whether In
lian opinion was opposed to Its use,
ind whether prohibition wss a practi
t&I policy. All three questions are an
swered by a vote of 8 to 1 In the nega
tive. Opium Is found to be an excel
lent remedy in moderation all throngh
life with practically no ill effect tipou
the healthy constitution, and Its habit
ual votaries, like the Sikhs and tbe Kuj
poots, display exceptionally fine phys
ique. Doctors know that the effect of
opium differs with every constitution,
and it is proved that the Indian con
stitution tolerates It better than even
that of the Chinese, who are not ptiro
vegetarians. It no more lujures thmn
than wine Injures Italians or beer the
Bavarian peasantry. Ia India every
body looks upon opium as allowable,
dnd the practice of opium eatlDg Is al
most universal. In fact, Its prohibition
would be everywhere regarded as an
unjustifiable Interference with a purely
domestic comfort, just as In this coun
try on cffectlre attempt to prevent a
man taking a glass of beer with bis
home dinner would be considered.
There Is a disposition among thought
Ml natives to look upon the use of tin
Sniff as the alternative to the use oi
eheap alcohol and to dread the resort to
the latter. Religious feeling account
Cor this I some measure, but It Is well
known that, whilo Asiatics cau be
moderato in the use of sedatives, they
lose all restraint when they take to
alcohol. So the commission b:is deeld
id that opium is a reputable dru?, that
It does Infinitely less barm In the world
than alcohol and that Its effects In a
large proportion of cases where It is
ised are beneficent and desirable. This
Jecislon would, of course, greatly sim
plify the question of prohibition, but
the commission frankly confesses that
prohibition is simply impossible. There
Is no means of preventing the manu
facture of opium In the native states
and throughout India, and no amount
tf seal or expenditure or severity enn
prevent the smuggling of a drug which
ran be carried In a quill, w-hieli will
prow anywhere on the continent of
India, and which national opinion, even
imong tbe officials and the police, en
tirely approves. The commission nays:
"We can, and do, restrict the use of opl
im by taxing It enormously, but the
prohibition of It Is entirely beyond our
power. The moderate use of opium
s, therefore, at last pronounced respec
table. There are people on this side of
ie world who have always looked upon
t as a shining virtue compared with the
loathsome habit, still tolerated by some
cultured nations, of tobacco chewing in
public places. St. Louis Globe-Demo.
erat
IIow Appetite BUI Won a Trlze.
A jolly crowd of jokers were swap
ping stories at Frank Sell's the other
night when the conversation turned on
appetites. Everv one bad something
to tell about feats of gourmandizing.
" Did you fellows ever hear how Ap
petite Bill won a big pot of money ia
a pie-eating contest?" spoke up Walter
Davis.
No one ever had.
"Well, you all know that Bill is w
sower when it comes to feed. When
John Usher used to serve a boiled din
ner on Mondays Bill thought nothing
of assimilating three heads of cabbag9
and the appropriate accompaniment oi
Ealt meat, while he helped digestion
along with a peck of potatoes and a
couple of loaves ot bread, Bill was
great on boiled dinners, but when it
tame to pie he was a marvel.
"He wasn't so strong on the quantity
of pies he could eat as ha was on tin
number he could bite through when
they were placed one on top of the
other. He had a record of making his
teeth meet through a layer of six pies,
and sweet potato pies at thnt, but he
wouldn't bet on more than five.
"Of course a man who can hit
through three pies oan make a fortune
if ha only has a stake, so you can im
agine how Bill would clean up the gilt
of a new town when he would begin on
three and then play progression.
"Well, sirs, when Bill first struoL
Ru.m Row and began pie biting he kept
the boys broke, so it was concluded
that a job should be put np on him.
One day a fellow wanted to bot him
that he couldn't bite through four
lemon pies. Bill looked at him mourn
fully and pulled out his roll.
" 'Bring on your pies,' he said, n
ae put up his stuff. The fellow went
ont and pretty soon back he came with
tbe pies. He had had 'em baked to
order, and in one of 'em he had made
the baker put a pie plate. Every
body on the row knew ot the joke ex
cept Bill and Usher's place was tilled.
Men burned themselves with their
cigars to keep from laughing as Bill
picked np the pies. Ho opened his
mouth aud inserted the edges of the
pies. Then he bit.
"When his teeth met against thepi
plate the mott surprised look you ever
saw in life spread over his face. Then
he grew red behind the ears and he
drew himself together. Ho jutt gave
one mighty bite and then put down
the pies while he spat out a lot of eras!
and filling and took a semioiroulai
piece jf tin plate out of his mouth.
"The crowd nearly fainted as Bill
gathered in the stakes and remarkod:
"Boys, yoa orter hed put in a stove
lid ; tin don't phase me.', Washington
Nenm.
The Pood Cnre"
To cue many who abhor the taking ot
jitter drags, the food cure opens an al
luring prospect This Is positively the
latest Idea, Introduced Into England by
physicians of advanced Ideas. They
claim that certain foods contain all the
elements necessary to effect cures; that
they have made up a list which em
braces tonics, febrifuges, diuretics, and.
In fact; every medicinal agent that is
Acflned In the pbnrinacopla. These,
foods are of the simplest character, but
the English doctors do not disclose
them, except to their patients. They
say that In the course of ten y:irs there
will not be one-third the medicine ua4
tfexUuaed to-dax.
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