Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 September 1888 — Page 7

DREAM, DARUNG, DREAM,

•Sleep, dew one, sleep das totters to the west, "The bridegroom, wootn* bar to rwt Draun. lor«cl one, d«*m tbeday beyond these* breams of the night so. darting. dream of me.

Dn^rdamng.dnwmrfmel

Sleep, deer one. steep day reeu with «Q her cbinsii And eager night enfolds her In Ms anns*. Dream, toted one, dream as dayof ntgiht to sleep, 80 dream of me whose towe is wide and deep.

hIc'h

Dream, darling, lore to deepl —W. WUaer MartM.

[Archie Fairbalrn in Belgravia.]

In the Nick of Time.

Xjp and down the Leos at Folkestone walked Mrs. Jack Booth, quite tbe *weetest, daintiest little woman among all the crowd of idlers,

holiday-making

Lon

doners, traveler* on their way home ''from tbe continent, Jews and Gentiles, "cheap trippers," soldiers and sailors, with all their sisters, cousins and aunt* and Captain Lester sat and watched her.

The band of his regiment played its cheeriest manic ana the autumn sun shone its brightest. The little man who owns, or owned, the chairs on the L®®* then a much less prosperous and wealthy individual than now, tearing to and fro collecting hie coppers, panting and perspiring, had to ask Captain Lester twice or tiirue times before he got a shilling thrown to him, and, as he handed oack the change he was rather startled by the language he heard muttered from behind the captain's long moustache. But it was not he who was being cursed at. it was the tali, slight, dark man, with black curly hair and black eyes, who accompanied Mrs. Booth In her walk up and down. The little lady

wore

a whiu

drCH» and & whit© uailor bat all covered with pale blue ribbons and looked very dainty and sweet, as has been said be-

"Not quite so young as she was." said a voice by Lester's side. pn®

subaitrens of his regiment had nodded and sat down beside him a minute or two before obtaining tbeslightest notice.

Captain Lester now looked at him rather sharply and queried: ••Whom do you moan?" •'Little Mrs. Booth, yonder, walking with Roberts, of tbe 30th Hussars. You knew her at Nouthsea, did you not? Then

l^ester reddened: "Oh, I beg

pardon, of course you did I mean you

*»7fyou mean that I proposed to Miss Drummond and was refused you are right,"said Lester,adding,sternly: "As everyone in the regiment got hold 0/ tbe story, 1 may as well speak of it, I suppose." "And you still—" .« •'The Hon. Dick Barnard paused in his question. He was certainly the most etiet'k and most Inquisitive of subaltern*/ but, at the samo time, he had a nulet way of worming himself into peo-

confuloneo and making t-hoin tell him things without ever otlcndlug them, and though bo often looked knowing and tnysterous on matters on which he was privately informed were spoken of in his presence, he was never known to break confidence or "blab." Girls always told him who had proposed to them, and when and where, out it never went any further and now his varied knowledge of the life and ways or men and women might be very useful to the captain of his company so the latter, instead of being angry at a question, which, If incomplete, was certainly point-blank, only bent forward In his '•hair and blew a whiff of cigar- smokeiat an intrusive dog that was sniffing at his leg*, and then turned and said iu a low voice almost as if to himself: •»i was verv much in love with Maggie Drummond. and I suppose I am now,

I should bo but I am also an old friend of Jack Booth's. I saved Jacks life once In Africa, and I look on him as my property in a way so what I want to know, Dicky, is whether that long legged hussar is going too far with her."

Well," said tho Honorable Richard, in his leisurely drawling way, "a woman with a husband at Suakun can do a good deal, without (oiks knowiug, and Kid Roberts i« a blackguard."

He said 110 more on thesubjeet, but from the way he spoke, Lester could see that, in his sulmltreii's opinion at least, his eld love was seriously comprising herself. He gavo a grefct sigh. He was a big, strong, actlvo man, with all that reiMliness or the brain and quickness of decision which man

acquires

who

spends his life in sport and in danger, lie silently resolved that he would baulk Captain Roberts of his prey. How he was to do it he did not quite know punch his head, knock him down and tell him that

he did not leave Folke

stone at once, he would repeat

the

opera

tion every time they met, was the first not very feasible plan which flashed through his mind. "Roberts Is a blackguard, Is he? he said interrogatively. "You know him?" ••Yes, and his wife." '•Married. Is he?" "Why, certainly, though 1 think he *keepsltdark and she lives abroad-at

Coult^Kue, I fancy, with her two chil-

Agaiu they smoked In silence, till Bar aunt said abruptly: "Have vou spoken to her? "No, she does not know I am here.1 "Come and do so. I'll take him off for a bit." captain Lester hesitated. "How can 1?" he said, "I have not met her for Ave years: she was just out then, and now!

He looked bitterly at the small, trim, fair-haired woman who walked up and c'ovn talking In such an animated, excited way to the languid, evil-looking man who rarely looked her In the face, but who, when she turned her head, seem^i to devour her with his large dark eve*. oatne a thought of how he had propo- 1 to her at tbe JSou theea ball. It was given, Lester remembered, by the Marines at Rasthev, and they wer* walking up and down In the moon light outside the barracks. How radiant and happy she had looked before be had asked her the question, and then how sad! He could see now the tears standing In her eyes as she tried to soothe his Pain. Only then he had learnt from her own lips that sne had liked him

always,

never dreaming that

his attachment to her was so serious. ami that She had Just two days before a.vcpted Jack Booth, of the 15 -old

150th, his Sandhurst

*,„• schoolfellow and old friend, and was going to marry him soon, some time that year or next~ahe was rather vague about that thought—an go to India. He left the I eoon after, and never set eyes on her again till he came to be quartered at Dov^r and found she was staying at Folkestone white her her husband was on active •"SSrtSETia w*, all the afternoon. mnount of failing he had left tocher, and trying to pf*«»de himself that the hcartftche he felt was for hatred to hi* idol soiled by a «a» like whom he knew w*il by«*!*£******** than anv survival of hla old affection.

That surely had been lettered out of him long airr. and wa* not a 1 to love another n»»n^ man hi* friend. ... ..

To speak h«r now

was

but to do so with the object he had In view was not, and would that object be forwarded by his trying to compass it at once? Captain Lester, however, was not a man to hesitate long. He turned a shade paler through the taa of his akin, jerked his subalrern's elbow, and said, "Come lad!" and then strolled up the Lees to meet Mr. Booth and her swain, "Who is this tall man coming with Mr. Barnard?" she was saying. "I know his face, and he has been staring at me all the afternoon. '. "I believe his name is Lester," said her companion in the chilly tone a man assumes when he thinks that someone besides himself is coming in for notice from a lady whose attention he wishes to absorb alone. "Lester!" She reddened as she repeated the name. "I used to know him cannot you introduce him to me?" "I dont know him, and if you do, why don't you bow to him?" •Why, are you angry with me, Captain Roberts? 1 can speak to whom I like." "Certainly yon can," he answered, "but he is going to save you the trouble by speaking to you."

Curious the rude tone some men will assume when they feel they have gained a hold on a woman, and still more so the treatment she will submit to when she begins to be a little

epri&e.

As Captain Roberts spoke, Lester walked up, raising his hat and looking rather stiff and uncomfortable, but Mrs. Booth had quite recovered her self-pos-

do you do Mr. Lester?" she said

then quickly, "Are you Mr. Lester though, or Captain,or perhaps Major?" "Not quite in five years," he answered, and then Mr. Dick Barnard accosted Captain Roberta with calm

aplome,

noring that worthv's evident disgust and engaged him in"a conversation concerning a polo pony aboutwhich he said he wanted information, while the other two walked on.

They were both silent for a few* minutes. The band was playing "Fedora, then a new and fashionable waltz, and Mr*. Booth bummed the sir. Presently she looked up: "Do you still dance?" she Mid.

Captain Lester shook bis head, ".Not ofteu."

t4You

uneU to be so fond of it, sb6

continued "this is the best waltz now. 80011 it will be old and stale, sent to tbe barrel-organs, tbe limbo of popular music, torn and murdered for a while, and then forgotten."

He did not answer. Mrs. Booth was evidently nervous and was talking for effect, but she touched a chord with her uext speech. "Do you remember 'Distant Shore, and how I used to sing it to you as we danced five years ago? I heard it the other day on a very old barrel-organ. I gave the man a shilling for old sakes sake*** ••J have never forgotten it, or you," replied Lester,, rathor huskily. What more be might have said then is unknown,for they had reached Mrs. Booths

*°"Won't you all come in to tea?" she said, looking round hospitalbly. "I cannot, said Roberts at once. "Why not? You told me just now you would.'' "I have just recollected an engagement," and before shecould sav more he had turned on his heel and walked rapidly away.

The other two went in and had'afternocn tea with Mrs. Booth,

and

before

verv long Mr. Barnard felt himself rather fiv trap, and, being a discreet young man, he retired.

When ('apt. Lester returned to barracks after having tea with Mrs. Jack Booth be was silent and preoccupied. He was also not in the best of tempers, and Dick Barnard, who gently tried him on the subject, found he was not to be drawn from all of which that astute young gentleman was inclined to conclude that his captain had tried the effect of giving a few words of good advice to the frivolous little "grass-wid-ow,'" and that the result had not been an unqualified success. Neither of them however, alluded directly to the subject for some time, and in the wintor Barnard was transfered to the Depot. One afternoon, however, in tbe following spring, when he had taken advantage of a fine March day to run up to town for a night or two, he was pleasantly surprised to find Captain Lester in the smokingroom of tho Junior Army and Navy, looking rather worried and gloomy, lister was 110 less pleased than he. "Dick, lad," he called out, "come and sit by me. Here, have a drink, and cheer me up a bit I have not seen a soul to-day 1 cared to speak to!"

So they smoked together and talked about tlie regiment. Barnard was sick of the Depot and wanted to get back then at last, after a pause, he remarked suddenly, looking at Lester from under his eyebrows to see if what ho said was news.: "Jack Booth's wife is In town."

Capiatn Lester showed no surprise at the new topic probably it bad been ocenpving his mind already. "f have seen her," he answered, "but don't know where she Is staying." "She Is with the Bruce-Carrs in Wilton Place I forgot the number. Shall you call? You will probably find Roberts there he knows the Bruce-Carrs and goes there a good deal just now." "Are you sure of all this, .Dicky? "Well, look here," answered Mr. Barnard, and he leant toward his friend aud whispered for a minute or two, for the smoking room was now full. Whatever it was he said (it was not much, for Captain Roberts kept his proceedings fairly dark), it was sufficient for Captain Lester to button up his frock coat soon afterwards and walking up St. James* street was a tlrm step, stride westward, his face toward tl sunset and his brain full of such bew ..Jering thoughts that an omnibus in Piccadilly nearly ran over and he cut two of his dearest friends duu.

He reached Wilton Place, however, in due time. "Was Mr*. Brace-Carr at home?" "No." "Was Mrs. Booth staying there?*1 "Yea, she was in the drawing room." He went in. Mrs. Booth was evidently expecting someone for she came forward smiling and Iding her band, *b*n stopped, and 1x1 not Ic exactiv de~ !ated. "Captain leeter!**«»!- in a tone of chill surprise. He ered something about having called on the Brace* Can£ and tinding her there had come in. "I thought you have to read me another lec ^n my lei --, ior. Captain Lester." n. looked deprecattngly at the car N bnt V.» 1 overspread his fuuare* had hit the mark.

She had tt beck to the se

a amall tklnf,

nine

-*»r

It and looking at him: then she' sout, talking fast and fluently, aa women, and—may It b* *a4d?-~«K women often do *wn furious aod In wrong, and when they do not wish ill person they are speaking to to have time to at»wer. -Look here. Captain Lester, I am not going to haveyoa following me and dictating to me what my conduct fstobe. You loved me ems, you said, and I laved yon—yea, 1 did'* he had eyebrows in mute surprise*,

I found you loved me I loved yon all the more. I accepted Jack, I know, but I was only eighteen, and my people urged me into it, and when I was pleased to be engaged, and when you returned directly you found you had a rival I was piqued, so I went on with what I had begun. I have a good husband who loves and trusts me, and whom I respect, and you, tbe man who professed once to love me ahd then gave me up, come here with your suspicions and your officious advice because another man and I are friends."

Her voice faltered as she spoke these last words. Were they quite or sincere or was a gnilty conscience pricking her? She was silent for a minute, which gave Lester a chance to speak. "Your husband is my friend," he said. "He is fighting for his country now his regiment must be in action to-day I have seen the last telegrams. Surely, while he is in danger

He paused. Was she listening him? She was silent indeed, but a cab had driven up to the door they could hear some one alight and ring the bell. Then the door slammed ana the cab drove away. No one was announced. Mrs. Booth had been listening with strained ears to hear the voice of the caller. It struck Lester afterwards that she must have told the servant to admit one gentleman to call on her and then no one else: forsheseemed so intensely annoyed with him. working herself up Into still greater fury as she went on. "Mv husband, is in Egypt, and my husband is fighting and I have done him no wrung, and shall do him none.

Was she tiling the truth? She was very pale, and her voice had a hollow

He tried stgain. "Captain Robert's wife •'1 But alie broke in, turning paler still, "It's untrue, he i* not

Captain liolcts likes me and you are jealous of u). That is all! You say you would s. vo me from him, perhaps you would li'^e to take his place!

Captain ster started as if stung by this last spe« eh. He had no excuse for staving after that. "I would ave you from yourself, was all he Si^d as bo turned and went out in

leaving

was no direction, and inside was written: "My things are at Victoria. I will be there directly after this nonsen.se is over. Meet me there. "This may be for you. young fellow, said

Lester,"bandingthe

TEHEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAILl

married

you hnd

Wilton Place, Captain Les

ter walked 10 his hotel, dressed and went on to the the club, where he found Barnard also preparing to dine. They sat down together, and Captain Lester contided a certain amount of what had passed to his companion, having great respect for his acuteness where women are concerned and great confidence in his discretion. He did not get much consolation from tbe Honorable Dick, and no advice except to let Mrs. Booth alone, and hoped that the war In Lgvpt would soon be over, and her husband back in time to stop serious scandal. To wlifcn he replied that he was as fond of her as ever, though in a different way, and believed her the victim of a strange foolish infatuation, from which he might save her, and thereby earn her gratitude in the future. At all events he should earn his friend Booths gratitude, and have done his duty. How to proceed at that moment he did not see perhaps he must admit he had made a false step.

Later on, Barnard, seeing his comrade so "glum and down on his luck, as he expressed it, insisted on their going to the theater, and they were soon in the stalls of the Gaiety. They came in late and got seats at the extreme end, aud rather at the back.

Captain Lester was not much absorbed In wnat was going on upon the stage, indeed it may be doubted whether he saw anything of it. He sat with his brows knit, thinking of other things, and Mr. Barnard's somewhat frivolous comments were being poured into unheeding ears, when a box-keeper who' was passing dropped up a screwed-up piece of paper upon his knees. He paid no heed to it, but Barnard did. ,, "Mv noble captain," he said, there is a billet-doux for you or me, both of us. believe it is from the third girl in the front row, in response to my evident admiration."

Captain Lester picked up tho paper mechanically and opened it. It was a slip from the

edge

of a program there

note to Barnard

"it certainly is not for me." Mr. Barnard glanced at It, with the comment, "From a woman of no value to any one but the owner, I fancy. ou had better give it back to the person who brought it nere." lister did so, and I saw her disappear

Presently she returned and handed it to a man sitting in one of the front rows. "Happy man," whispered Barnard to Lester, "he will go to ictoria and console her for this ^nonsense,' as she rightly calls it, By Jove?" as the recipient of the note turned his head to look up and nod acknowledgement to a box "It is Roberts!" "It Is Maggie!" added Lester, who had followed the direction of the man's eyes.

Yes. indeed, it was too true. There sat Mrs. Booth in a box. very "fetching," to use an expressive slang term, in black lace, with a diamond star in her hair, looking anxiously to see if her note had faliet: into the right hands, but apparently unconscious, whose eyes had already scanned Its contents. For she did not look at the two friends, and they, directly the act was over, hurried out into the lobby. "What does this mean?" said Lester. "Means she Is going to bolt with him to-night. I suppose," answered Barnard. What else could he say! Lester had really understood plainly enough, but now the critical moment was really come, could hardly believe his own senses. "Who to with her?" he asked. "I do not know not the Bruce-Carrs." "I shall stop her." "If you can," put in Barnard, doubt* fully. "Come the curtain is rising are you coming back." "No do you mind staying out? I do not want her to see either of us. Wait a bit, though, you can ro in on the other aide there were s? :is empty there al) the time, and she wiit not able tm see von. We will both go C. re Roberts did not see ns his I was turned."

So In they went a&*in and sat fhmngh the last act, occasionally hing glimpse* of Mrs. I» tlTa fr.:. bar over eder* of het —•. CL^iain Rt

oat and 1 not ret urned.

erta A »l.j,i^ into the strand. r-at tr-' IfiuUdav doorway, war® ff-*

r-\ -t 9.'

•ihi vwmen. "Here ate

al!«

:--l

{on:

all aorta and conditions of men

mmmV

a tall, fair man. H«»

*i, mm 00 a

A-

*lvt

wfcinpered Bar

nard. Mn. Bootla was teanitur on tbe una of

he turned back to fetch his own wife, and Mrs. Booth lifted the little trap in the roof and spake through it to the driver as he moved off. "Telling him to diive to Victoria and lose no time," whispered Barnard, who was rather en

joying the whole affair in a quiet, malicious, cynical way. Be turned to Lester, w! answered, and found he had gone he caught glimpses of a tall figure in an opera-hat and Inverness cloak dashing through the crowd and among the wheels of the cabs and carrages, and then, not seeing what he could do to help, lit a cigarette and drove west in a hansom himself.

ne then

Captain Lester had followed Mrs. Bootii's cab,

did not have to run

far. The Ly&um was emptying, and the strand at that particular point was in that appalling state of turmoil and confusion in which only London streets can get without serious loss of live or limb (or indeed any serious danger) to anyone. Mrs. Booth's cab was blocked. Captain Lester touched the driver on the sleeve, and the man looked down. Motioning to him to be quiet, he swung himself on to the step and clung to the rail of cabman's seat. "Cabby," he said breathlessly, "keep still, it's all right. I want to drive your cab- You have a lady Inside." The cabman not very politely consigned his interlocutor to realms below. "She told you through the trap to drive her to Victoria I am a frieud of hers and want to drive her there myself for a practical joke. I'll give you a sovereign, two sovereigns, a fiver, if you will let me drive instead of you!"

The man hesitated. "How about my cab?" "I'll meet you with it ^t Hyde Park Corner at twelve. My naihe's Lester, Junior Army and Navy Club," whispered the Captain, still on the step and holding the rail with one hand while he fumbled in his pockets. "Look! here Is the fiver?" and he "crackled" the crisp note under the man's eyes.

Poor fellow! he had a wife and family, and was "on the hook" for £2 10s. at his yard, and a fiver was a fiver to him (and a joke a joke, too) he thought. "Right you are, governor," he said, pocketing it with a wink. "Don't forget the Corner at 12, and keep a tight hand on the mare."

The iblock was now practicallv over and the cab was moving at a foot's pace along tbe crowded strand. The driver squeezed himself back on his soat, and Captain Lester, taking the reins from his hands, squeezed in front of him. The driver slipped down and Captain Lester was alone. Ho looked round to see if anyone had noticed his maneuver, and considered it suspicious or fit for police interference. But everyone in that crowd was too occupied with his own affairs. Captain Lester had driven most things, but never a hansom cab, and it took him all ho knew for a few minutes to steer it. At first he did not like seeing so little of the horse, and he stood up. Then his hand was too light on the reins and the horse tried to bolt, bringing him down on the seat with a jerk that must have nearly pulled the poor brute's head off. He satstill and got up a little better after that, holding a rein in each hand and peering through the fog and drizzle with his bat rammed over his eyes. Along Pall Mall tho way was clearer, but the wood pavement was very Slippery. Which way should he go? Mrs. Booth possibly knew littie of London, but he hardly dared drive her up St. Jamo's street, so he went past Marlborough House and St. James Palace. Then along Buckingham Palace road. So far this route is right for Victoria station, and nothing has gone wrong, except that an okl gentleman crossing opposite Buckingham Palace was nearly knocked down by the cab swinging

with unexpected spe side of the curve of the roadway. He swore and cried out that he had got the cab'a number, but he had not, so he went home and wrote to the Times instead, and a refuge was put there In the middle of the road in consequence of his letter.

In Buckingham Palace Road, Lester had time to rolled. Shall he drive past X'ictoria Station, and thence on? Suroly she will notice it if I10 does.- Ah! he has forgotten that street on the right. A quick pull at tbe off rein and the horse comes round, almost slipping up as it does so, and recovering with equal suddenness, breads into a canter. They are in Ebury street and arc prossing Grosvenor place.

He peeps down through the trap at her. She sits huddled up in the corner, looking very pale and pretty. There is a lamp in tho cab over her head. Is that why she closes here es so tightly, or is that a tear at the end of the long, soft lashes? Is she thinking of the life she is leaving? Will she relent In her resolve to ruin herself? "Whoa' there, whoa!" He has nearly driven into a cab standing al the door of a public-house. He must null himself together and take care. Odd she could not see ho was driving her across Eaton square, and along the side of Belgrave square. However, she does not, and after a few more anxious moments, the cab is pulled up with a jerk opposite the Bruce-Carrs house in Wilton place.

Then Mrs. Booth opened the trap herself and called up to him. "I told you Victoria, drivor, and not Wilton place," but he had jumped off and was furiously ringing the bell.

She sprang from the cab and caught him by the sleeve. "Captain Ijester!" she exclaimed.

Before she could say more the door was opened, ablaze of light fell on them and the footmsn was waiting for her to come 1c.

For a minute she stood transfixed and speechless. Was it with rage and mortification Would she cry out to bim, and revile him before the servants? He could not hurry off and leave the cab to take care of itself, or perhaps to convict her. Would ahe speak? "Speahull, spesbull! Great battle In Hegvpt, paper!" cried the newsboy, hurrying down the street with a bundle of late ''Evening Standards. Great victory of the British! paper I Horrible slaughter! paper!" "Hi, boy, let us have one!" Mr. BruceCarr bad come out of tbe smoking room, a big cigar In his mouth, and lounged np to the door. "Hullo, Lester!" ho said. "Have yon driven home with Mrs. Bor thf Come In and have a anioke. How much boy? Mxpence! You young thief! Any rial 1 now*?" W "Yes, sir." and tbe ragged urchin pointed to tbe column containing the latest intelllgt «. "A'f right, httm are," Mr.

Bruc»--(fcrr and he t» the pap'-r tnrnTik- 11t to tbe light and running his •vat w,»r telegrams.

Mra. t* still standing ta king at 1.-Niter. He— r",'T.' tr 07" "aoked aiu:n*ta* in bet hair and Ij'iW f.nrtty the was! St, «.h» didn. .t

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At that moment Mr. Bruce-Carr^gave a startled exclamation: "My &od! and threw the paper down as if he had dropped it accluently under the table. Mrs. Booth's ear, and I ester, through the door held open by the footman who had heard him invited in, saw her throw herself upon it like a hawk, keeping Mr. Bruce-Carr off as he tried to tear It from her, and reading It amidst his hurried remonstrances: "Not now, not now wait till we hear more!"

Then there was along agonized shriek of'pent-up agony and bitter grief and shwnw, and Mrs, Booth lay swooning on the marble flags.

For on the hot Egyption sand, outside the wrecked and broken aereba, honest Jack Booth was lying on a heap of blacH cor -ses with three lances through his breast, and a Remington bullet in his brain.

Then the door closed, and Captain Lester walked off to his cab. He had seen enough, and understood what had happened besides that, he had heard her murmured thanks and felt that he had had his reward# So he took the hansom back to Hvde Park Corner, where he met the rightful driver of it, and by him was driven to his club. There be gave bim another sovereign, which sent him on his way rejoicing, and went in himself to have a drink and a cigar,

and

to read

the telegrams, and think sorrowfully of poor Jack Booth, and then he felt he had earned his night's rest and he took it.

And Captain Roberts, what of him" He kickea his heels at X'ictoria Station for an hour, {till the last train was but he never saw or heard of

Mrs.

Jack

Booth again. Yes, he did, though. Three years after he saw her

sitting

in a car

riage beside the race-course at Unbalsolent, and he went up to her with his old iusolent, languid

smile

You can't afford to laugh, dear girls. Unless your teeth are white its pearls— Unless your mouth Is pink and sweet, And your two lips in rosebuds meet And you cannot s«PP\.yaH»ls ^a"t. But through 1 he use of 80Z0D0NT.

Laughter Lend* a New Charm. To beautv when it discloses a pretty set or teeth. "Whiteness, when nature ha* supplied this element of loveliness, may be retained through life, by using the fragrant SOZO

DONT.

Spauhso's Gmie

is like wit: a good

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Cutlcura Remedies are sold everywhere. Price, Cutlcura, SO cents Resolvent, $1.00 Hoap, 35 cents. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases." 64 pages, /SO illustrations, and 100 testimonials.

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No single disease has entailed more Huflferlr.g or hastened the breaking up of the constitution than Catarrh. The sense of smell, of taste, of sight, of hearing, the human voice, the mind,—one or more, and sometimes nil, yield to Its destructive Influence. The poison It distributes throughout the rnitcm attacks every vital force, and br» ik» up the most robust of constitutions. Ignored, because but little understood, by most physicians, Impotently assailed by quacks and charlatans, those suffering from It have llltle hope to be rei 1 ved of 11 th 1de of the grave. & time, thi n. that the 1 er treatment of this terrible ease by remedies within the roach of all «d Into hands at once competent and trustworthy. The new and hlthert«nn"l«l method adopted by Dr. Han ford In 111 I r. .ration of bis Rajhcai, (tkxHm won u* iirty approval of thousan l- It Is InMJuitan-otw in affording relief in .n head col ending, •nuffllng and ot-iructed bn MihWiifcand raj.idly removes the most oppn vp xympUm*. clearing 'he head, «weeten 1 the breath, reator tbe of im*11•. ta»* firs! hearing, *ud neuu«wl»ng thf -»nKt ial tendency of the disease towards the iungs. !Her and kidneys.

Han ford RadJ ii Cure consists of one bottle of tbe Radical Cure, one box rrhal Ho*von« *nd one Improved Inhaler, neatly wr In one package, with full directions

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Mr. X. H. Frohlichstein, of Mobile, Ala., writes: "I take great pleasure in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, having used it for a severe attack of Bronchitis and Catarrh. It gave me instant relief and entirely cured me and I have not been afflicted since. I also beg to state that I have tried other remedies with 110 good result, Have also used Electric Bitters, and Dr. King's New Life Pills, both of which I can recommend.

Dr. King's New Discovejy for Constitution, Coughs aud Colds, is sold on a positive guarrantee.

Trial bottles free at Carl Krietenstein's Drug Store, S. W. Cor. 4th and Ohio. J..

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Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, BruIaMt Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, aad all skin eruptions, and positively cures Pll« or nop perfect per box. For sale by Carl Krletenstein, S.

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Gentlemen: Your medicines are used to quite an extent by many of my frienda and they give the best of satisfaction in all cases. Yours truly,

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In the great trial before the bar of pubopinion, the Sciantiiic Remedies of R. C. Flower stand peerless and alone. They cure when physicians and all popular remedies aro powerless. They are the fruit of scion title study, exhaustive resoarch, and great experience.

Tho above letter, coming from so wellknown and reliable a source, speaks volumes yet it is but one of thousands of similar communications that are pouring upon us from all dire*' ions.

Dr. R. C. Flower's Liver and Stomach Sanative is a never-failing cure for all formB of dlsorded or torpid liver, for dyspepsia, indigestion, malasslmilation. It is the best Spring Remedy for goneral debility and lassitude over prescribed.

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