Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 November 1888 — Page 2

CHAPTER XIV. AT HAXOVEB BQCAEH.

Eustace could never quite remember how he pot through the evening of that eventful day. Everything connected with it seemed hazy to him. As, however, fortunately for the reader of this history, we are not altogether dependent on the memory of a young man in love, which is always a treacherous thing to deal with, having other r.nd cxclnsivo sources of information, we may as well fill the gap. First of all he went to his club and seized a red book, in which be discovered that Lord Holmhurst's, or rather. Lady Holmhurst's London house was in Hanover square. Then bo walked to his rooms in one of the little side streets opening out of the Strand, and went through the form of eating some dinner after which a terrible fit of restlessness got possession of him, and ho started out walking. For three solid hours did that young man walk, which was, no c'oubt, a good thing for Itiin, for one never gets enough exercise in London and at the find of that time, having already been to Hammersmith and back, ho found himself gravitating toward Hanover square. Once there he had little difficulty in finding the number. There v/ao a light in the drav. ing room floor, and, the night being warm, ono of tho windows was open, so that the lamp light stone softly through tho lace curtains. Eu~taeo ciossed over to the other sido of the street, and, leaning again«t the iron railings of tho square, looked up. Ho was rewardod for his pains, for through tho filmy curtkin ho could make out tho forms of two ladies seated sido by side upon an ottoman with their faces toward the window, and in one of these ho had no difficulty in recognizing Augusta. Her head was leaning on her hand and she was talking earnestly to her companion. Ho wondered what she w.'.s talking of and had half a mind to go an ring and ask to see her. Why should he wait till to-morrow morning? Presently, however, better counsels prevailed, and. though sorely against his will, he stopped where he was till a policeman, thinking his rapt gar-e suspicious, gruffly requested him to roovo on.

To gaze at ono's only love through an opon window is, no doubt, a delightful occupation, If a somewhat tantalizing one but if Eustace's oars had been as good as his yos, and ho could have hoard tho conversation that was proceeding in the drawing room, ho would have been still mere interested.

Augusta had just been unfolding that part of lior story which dealt with tho important document tattooed upon her hht'Uiders, to which Lady Ilolmhurst had listened "ore rotunda." "And so tho young man Is coming here to-morrow morning," said Lady Holmliurot "how delightful! I am sure ho looked a very nlco young man, and ho had vorv line eyes. It is the most romantic tiling that

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"It may be delightful for you, Bessio," said Augusta, rather tartly, "but I call it disgusting. It ball very well to bo tattooed upon a desort island—not that that was vorv nice, I can tell you but it is ouito nnolher thing to have to show your noil* rablo wounds in a London drawing room. Of course, Mr. Meeson will want i: no tl.l.s will, whatever It may be worth and I should like to ask you, Dossle, how am I to show it to him? It is on my back." "I havo not observed." said Ladv Holmhurst, dryly, "that ladies, as a rule, havo an insuperable objoetion to show their backs or their fronts either. If you have any doubt on tho point I recommend you to got on invitation to a London ball. All you will have to do will bo to wear a low lre»s Tho fact of being tattc sd doos not make It anv moro Improper lor you to fchow your shoulders than it would bo if they were not tattooed, especially," she added, "as they are such very pretty ones." "I havo nevor worn a low dross," said Augusta, "and 1 do not want to show Mr. Meeson my shoulders." "Ah,woil,"sald Lady Holmhttrst, darkly, "I dare sav that that feeling will soon wear off. Hut, of course, if you won't, you won't and, under those drcum* stance#, you had better sav nothing about the will," though," she added, learnedly, "of course that freuld be compounding a felonv." "\tould it? I don't quite see whore the felonv comes In." "Well, of course, it is this way you steal tho will—that's felony and if you don't show it to him I suppose you compound it it is a doublooffense—compound felony." "Nonsense!" answered Augusta to this exposition of tho law, which was. it will bo admit ted, almost as lucid and convincing as that of an avcragn Q. C. "How cau steal my own shoulders? It Is impossible," "On. no not at all. Yon don't know what funny things you can do. I onoo had a cousin whom I coached for his examination for the Bar, and I learned a great deal about it then. Poor fellow! he was plucked eight times." "I am sure I don't wonder at it," said Augusta, rudely. "Well, I suppose 1 must put

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rid—perfectly horrid! You will have to lend me one. that is all." •Mv dear," answered Lady Holmhnrst. with a glance at Ivor widow's weeds, "I havo no low dresses though, perhaps, I can find some among the things I put before we

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Ith a wgh Au^r.sta uncovered her ^boulders, and her ftktnd ran around tb© table to look at thecn. Tfcw, OQ her ack, vrr.« the will. The wttfe ink had prvved rn excellent medium, and the tisltixHrm* as fresh as the day on which St lisd Iwn done, and would, no doubt. rem&H till ho last hour of her life.

Well.' *&kd l*4y Holmbutst, "I hope that the v^ung

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MR. MEESOM'S WILL.

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a ring at tho KIT "Hare be is," said Lady Holmhurst, dapping her hands. "Well, if this isn't the very funniest thing that I ever heard of! I told Jones to show him in here."

Hardly were the words out of her month when the butler, who looked as solemn as a mute in his deep mourning, opened the door, and announced, "Mr. Eustace Meeson," in those deep and commanding tones which flunkies, and flunkies clone, havo ct their command. There was a moment's pause. Augusta half rcso from hear chair, and then sat down again and, noticing her embarrassment, Lady Holmhurst smiled maliciously. Then in came Eustaco hinself, looking rather handsome, exceedingly nervous, and beautifully got up—in a frock cor.t, with a flower tn it. "Oh! how do you do?" ho said to Augusta, holding out his hand, which sho took rather coldly. "How do you do, Mr. Meeson?" she answered. "Let mo introduce you to Lady Holmhurst Mr. Meeson, Lcdy Holmhurst." Eustace bowed, and put his hat down on tho butter dish, for ho was very much ovcreotr.0. "I hope that I havo not como too early," ho said in great confusion, as he perceived Ids mistake. "I thought that you would havo done breakfast." "Oh. uot at all, Mr. Meeson," said Lady Holmhurst. "Won't you have a cup of tea? Augusta, give Mr. Meeson a cup of tea."

He took the tea, which he did not want in tho least, and then there came an awkward silence. Nobody seemed to know how to begin tho convocation. "How did you find the house, Mr. Meeon?" said Lady Holmhurst at last. 'Miss bmithcr* gavo you no address, and thero aro two T^dy Holmhursts—my mother-in-law and myself," "Oh. I looked it out, and then I walked hero last night and saw you both sitting at tho window." "Indeed!" said Lady Ilolmhurst. "And why did you not como in? You might have helped to protect Miss Smithers from tho reporters," "I don't know," ho answered, confusedly. "I did not like to and, besides, a policeman thought I was a suspicious character and tola mo to move on.'

Dear mo, Mr. Meeson yon must havo been having a good look at us." Hero Augusta interposed, fearing lest her admirer—for, with an unerring instinct, elio now guessed how matters stood —should say something foolish. A young man who is capablo of standing to staro at a houso in Hanover square is, she thought, ovidently capablo of anything. "I was so surprised to see you yesterday," sho said. "How did you know that wo were coming?"

Eustace told her that he had seen it in The Globe. "I am stire you cannot havo been so surprised as I was," ho went on "I had mado sure that you were drowned. I wont up to Birmingham to call on you after you had gono and found that you had vanished nud loft no address, fho maid servant declared that you had sailed in a ship called tho Conger Eel—which I afterward found out was the Kangaroo. And then sho went down and after along time thoy published a full list of tho passengers, and your namo was not among them, and I thought that after all you might have got off tho snip or something. Then, some days afterward, camo a telegraph from Albany, in Australia, giving tho names of Lady Holmhurst and tho othors who were saved, and specially mentioning 'Miss Smithers, tho novelist,' and Lord Holmhurst as being among the drowned, and that is how tho dreadful suspense camo to an end. It was awful, I can tell you."

Both tho young women looked at Eustace's faco and saw that there was no mistaking tho real nature of tho trial through which ho had passed. So real was it, that it never seemed to occur to him that thero was anything unusual in his expressing such intense interest in tho affairs of a young lady with whom ho was outwardly, at any rate, on tho terms of merest acquaintance. "It was very kind of you to think so much about mo," said Augusta, gently. "I had no idea that you would call again, or I would havo loft word whoro I was

tell, thank God you aro safe and sound, at any rate," answered Eustace and then, with a sudden burst of anxiety: "You are not going back to New Zealand just yet, aro yon?" "I don't know. I am rather sick of the now." indeed, sho Is not," said Lady Holmhurst "she is going to stop with mo and Dick. Miss Smithers saved Dick's

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Hed with tears. Next morning Augusta appeared at t*roakfast dressed in exceedingly becoming low drww. which Lady Ilolmhurst sent up to her with hot water. She had never worn one before, and it certainly is trying to put on a low dress for the first tlmo in full daylight—indeed, she foil guilty as does a ponton of temperate habits when he is persuade*! to drink a brandy and soda before getting up. However, tbeare was no help for it so, throwing a shawl ever her shoulders, she descended. "My dear, do let n» see," said L*dy Holmnurst. as mxm as the servant had Jeft the roe-m

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you will." •"Hie will. What will?" asked Eustace. "Listen, and you will hear."

And Eustaco did listen with open eyes and ears while Augusta, getting over ner shyness as best sho might, told the whole story of his uncle's death, and of the wayUn which he had communicated his testamentary wishes. "And do you mean to tell me," said Eustace, astounded, "that you allowed him to havo his confounded will tattooed upon your shoulders?" "Yea," answered Augusta, "I did and what is more, Mr. Meeson. I think that you ought to be venr much obliged to me for I daro say that I shall often be sorry for It." "I am very much obliged." answered Eustace "I llad no right to expect such a thing, and. in short, Ido not rr. «w what to say* 1 should never have tl ght thai any woman was capable of such a sacrifice for—for a oomt "v*e «*~r-CTr.w

Then camo a :l__r a« pause. "Well, Mr. Meeson,** said Augusta, at last rising ely from I chair, "the document b-^i to you, i_-i I sappose that you had better see it. Not that 1 think that it wUlbeofi use to you, however, as I see that V——* been allowed to issue,* whatever that may mean, of Mr, Mees 'Is o1 sr will." "1 do not know t.~a will matter," said Eustace* "as 1 heard a fasand of mine, Mr. Short, who la a Tister, talk i.* at some case the other in which pn was revoked on the production of a & quent trill." "Indeed!" answered Au"*nts, "I very glad to hear that. «, perhaps, after all have been tmtooed tosc :r portx»* Weil, I suppose you had gr aee Sir and with a gesture that was 1 shy sad half defiant

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stared ct the beautiful shoulders on which the words were indelibly impressed. "Thank you,"he said at last, and, taking op the lace shawl, he threw it over her again. "If von will cxcuse me for a few minutes. "Mr. Meeson," interrupted Lady Eolohurst at this point ""I have to go to see about the dinner," and before Augusta could interfere sho had left tho room.

Eustace closed the door behind her, and turned, feeling instinctively that a great crisis in his fortune had come. Thero are some men who rise to an emergency and some who shrink from it, and tho difference is, that difference between him who succeeds and him who fails in life, and in nil that makes life worth living.

Eustace belonged to tho class that rices and not to that which shrinks.

CHAPTER XV.

EUSTACE COX8CLT8 A LAWYER. Augusta was iaaning against the marble ntntel piece—indeed, ono of her arms was resting upon it, for she was a tall woman. Perhaps she, too, felt that there was something in the rir at any rate, sho turned away her head and began to play with a bronze Japanese lobster which adorned the mantel piece. "Now for it," said Eustace to himself, drawing along breath, to try and steady tho violent pulsation of his heart. "I don't know what to say to you, Miss Smithers." ho began. "Best say nothing moro about it," she put in quickly. "I did it, and I am glad that I did it. What do a few marlis matter if a great wrong is prevented thereby? I am not ever likely to have to go to court. Besides, Mr. Meeson, thero is another thing it was through mo that yon lost your inheritance it is only right that I should try to be tho moans of bringing it back to you."

Sho dropped her head again, and once more began to play with the bronzo lobsteV, holding her arm in such a fashion that Eustaco could not see her face. But if ho could not see her face she could see his in the glass, and narrowly observed its ovcry change, which, on the whole, though natural, was rather mean of her.

Poor Eustaco grow pale and paler yet, till his handsome countenance became positively ghastly. It is wonderful how frightened young men are the first time that they propose. It wears off afterward—with practice ono gets accustomed to any thing. "Miss Smithers—Augusta," ho gasped, "I want to say something to you!" ana ho stopped dead. "Yes, Mr. Meeson," sho answered, cheerfully, "what is it?" "I wont to tell you"— and again he hesitated. "What you aro going to do about tho will?" suggested Augusta. "No—no nothing about the will— pleaso don't laugh at me and put me off!"

Shd looked up innocently—as much as to say that sho never dreamed of doing either of these things. She had a lovely face, and the glanco of tho gray eyes quite broke down the barrier of liis fears. "Oil, Augusta, Augusta," he said, "don't you understand? I love you! I love you! No woman was over loved before as I lovo you. I foil in love with you tho very first time I saw you in tho office at Meeson's, when I had the row with my undo about you and over since then I have got deepor and deeper in lovo with you. When I thought that you were drowned it nearly broke my heart, and often and often I wished that I were dead, too!"

It was Augusta's turn to bo disturbed now, for, though a lady's composure will stand her In good stead up to tho very verge of an affair of this sort, it generally breaks down in medias res. Anyhow, sho certainly dropped her eyes and colored to her lmlr, while her breast began to heavo tumultously. "Do you know, Mr. Meeson," sho said at last, without daring to look up at his imploring face, "that this is only the fourth time that wo havo seen each other, including yesterday." "Yes, 1 know," ho said, "but don't refuso moon that account you can seo mo as often as von liko"—this was generous of Master Eustaco—"and really I know you hotter than you think. I should think that I have read oach of your books twenty times."

This was a happy stroko, for, however free from vanity a person may bo, it is not in tho nature of a young woman to hear that somebody has road her book twenty times ithout feeling pleased. "I am not my books," saia Augusta. "No, but your books are part of you," he answered, "and I havo learned more about your real self through them than I should havo done if I had seen you a hundred times instead of four."

Augusta slowly raised her gray eyes till they met Ids own, and looked at him as though sho were searching out his soul, and the memory of that long, sweet look is with him yet.

He said no more, nor had she any words but, somehow, nearer and nearer they drew one to the other, till his arms were around her and his lips were pressed upon her lips. Happy man and ha$py girl! They will live to find that life has Joys (for those who aro good and well off), but that it has no joy so holy and so complete as that which they were now experiencing—the first kiss of true and honest love.

A little while afterward the butler came in in a horribly sudden manner id found Augusta and Eustace, the one very red ana the other very pale, standing suspiciously close to each other. But be was a very well trained butler and a man of experience, who had serai much and guessed more, and he looked as innocent as a babe unborn.

Just th too. Lady Holmhurst came in again looked at the pair of them with an amusing twinkle in her eye. La Holmhuwt^uke bear butler, was also a »n of experience. "Wont you como Into tho drawing ro •.: ?*»said. And they did, looking rat.. sLccjrfsh.

And there Eustace made a clean breast of It, r"og that they were engaged lobe And although this was somewhat of an assumption, sees thai .1 wwtf 4 twtl: *iad passed beista si 1 there, new contratlon. 1 Lady Holm_e the tackiest

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dine with us, Mr. Meeson, and if you liko to come a littio early, say half past 0, I daresay that Augusta will arrange to be in, to hear what you have found out about this will, yoi know. And now—au re voir."

And she departed and left Augusta to her reflections, which were—well, not unpleasant ones.

Meanwhilo Eustace was marching up toward the Temple. As it happened, in the samo lodging house where ho nad been living for tho last few months, two brothers of tho name of Short lied rooas, and with these young gentlemc.i had become very friendly. Tho t*...i Uhorts were twins, and so like one another that it was more than a month before Eustace could be sure which of them he was speaking to. When they were both at college their father died, leaving his property equally between them and as this property on realization was not found to amount to moro than four hundred a year, tho twins very rightly concluded that they had better do something to supplement their moderate income. Accordingly, byo stroke of genius they determined that one of them should become a solicitor and tho other a barrister, and then tossed up as to which should take to which trado. Tho idea, of course, was that in this manner they would be able to afford oach other mutual comfort and sup-

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Accordingly they passed their respective examinations, and John took rooms with another budding solicitor in the city, while James hired chambers in Pump court. But there tho matter Etopped, for as John did not £et any work of course ho did not givo any to James. And so it came to pass that for the past three years neither

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Now, Eustaco had often, when in the Shorts' sitting room in tho lodging houso in the Strand, heard tho barrister James hold forth learnedly on tho matter of wills, and, therefore, he naturally enough turned toward him in his ixscont dilemma. Knowing the address of his chambers in Pump court ho hurried thither, and was in due courso admitted.

Mr. James Short was a short, stout young man, with black eyes, a hooked nose, and a prematurely bald head. Indeed. this baldness of the head was tho only distinguishing mark between James ana John, and therefore a thing to bo thankful for, though, of courso, useless to tho perplexed acquaintance who mot them in tho street when their hats wcro on. At tho moment of Eustace's entry Mr. Short had boen engaged In studying that intensely legal print, Tho Sporting Times, which, however, from some unexplained bashfuluess, ho had hastily thrown under tho table, filling its space with a law book snatched at hazard from tho shelf. "All right, old fellow," said Eustace, whose quit eyes had caught tho quick flutter of the vanishing paper "don't bo alarmed, it's only me." "Ah!" said Mr. James Short, when ho had shaken hands with him, "you seo I thought it might havo been a client—a client is always possible, howover improbable, and one has to be ready to moet tho possibility." "(^uito so, old fellow," said Eustace "but do you know, as it happons, I am a client—and a big one, too it is a matter of two millions of money—my uncle's fortuuo. Thero was another will, and I want to take your advice."

Mr. Short fairly bounded out of his chair in exultation, and then, struck by another thought, sunk back into it again. "My dear Meeson," ho said, "I amsorry I cannot hear you." "Eh!" said Eustaco, "what do you mean?" "I mean that you are not accompanied by a solicitor and it is not tho etiquette of tho profession to which I belong to seo a client unaccompanied by a solicitor." "Oh, hang tho etiquette of the profession!" "My dear Meeson, If you came to me as a friend I should be happy to give you any legal Information in my power, and I flatter myself that I know something of matters connected with probate. But you yourself havo said that you como as a client, and in that case the personal relationship sinks into tho background and is superseded by the official relationship. Under these circumstances it is evidont that the etiquette of tho professon intervenes, which overmastering force compels me to point out to you how improper and contrary to precedent it would bo for me to listen to you without tho presence of a properly qualified solicitor." "Oh, Lord!" gasped Eustace, "I had no Idea that you were so particular I thought that perhaps you would be glad of the job." "Certainly—certainly! In tho present State of my practice," as he glanced at the solitary brier, "I should be the last to wish to turn away work. Let me suggest that

on go and consult my brother in the Poultry. I believe business is rather slack with him just now, so I think it probable that you will find him disengaged. Indeed, I daro say that I may go so far as to make an appointment for him here let us say in an hour's time. Stop! I will consult my clerk!" "Dick!"

The infant appeared. "I believo that I have no appointment for this mcmbi ^r "No, rir," ua Dick, with A twinlrV in his era. moment, sir I will ar Jt tho ix'k*** and he var hed, to return pr ntiy wVh the information "that Mr. 81. ",'s ti__ as not under any contributor- that day.

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Mr. John Short was within, and Eustace was ushered into his presence. To all appearances he was consulting a volumiuous mass of correspondence written on largo sheets of brief paper but when ho looked at it closely it seemed to Eustace that tho edges of tlie paper were very yellow and that tho ink was much faded. This, however, was not to be wondered at, seeing that Mr. John Short had taken them over with tho other fixtures of the office.

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licneflts of a Merry Mind.

But who gains through any ono's grieving and crying for months over anything I Is it pleasant to visit the friend who is always doing the doleful and pumping from lachrymal fount and treating you to tears? The same strength that pumps up tears can pump up smiles. If the boiler bursts and 1 am blown up sky high and come down in small pieces, and you can stick mo together again and put mo on a bed, don't stand around it crying and sobbing and wringing your bands as if yoar hearts would break. 1 dont want your hearts to break. But call in a fiddler and set him to work on the "Arkansas Traveler," "Yankee Doodle" and "The Girl I Left Behind Me," or the girl who left me behind in the cold. That'll do me some good.

merry heart," saith the Scripture, "doeth good like a medicine." Why! Because a cheerful, merry mind sends from it to you a current of life, health giving oloment—thought as different from a thought current of gloom as champagne differs from tar. It's a current as real as a current of water—as real as tho current of invisible water that in warm weather runs just above tho visiblo water and along with it is drawn from it by tho heat of the sun.—Prentico Hulford in Now York Star.

Tho Literary Work of Today. I saw Edward Eggleston, the other day, and ventured to ask him this question: "What do you think of New York and its yearly crop of literary vonturesf "New periodicals, particularly literary ones, aro an evidenco of 'good times.' I am of opinion tUat more money has been sunk iu literary papers in Now York alone than has ever been made in that way in tho entire country. There are always plonty of rich men who aro fond of putting their ducats in a venture of that kind. Thoy aro weak on the subject of boing considered 'literary.'"

In referring to his days of literary hack work he said he considered it good discipline iu some respects, but that too long a siege of it was death to spontaneity. Like the majority of workers, Dr. Eggleston has a fondness for doin^ other work than that which ban brought him the most Came and mon?y. Iiis preference is for historical writing. Ilia sketches of early colonial history havo consumed mor» v'aan doublo the ti:ne iu which ho wrote hw nrovels. Yet if bo had i:ot acquired fame through his fiction lie would bo comparatively unknown.—Now York letter.

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you get Swift's Spedfio sad ianuiteeacure,e&4tritf~~~

sot the medicine ehaU cost you nothing.'' I at once secured the 8.1.

8.,

walk about the room, a&d after usbw six —o to truslneee. ir at my poet of dnty, and stand oa my feet from nlae to

bottle* I was oat and able to to to I bar* been regular free tram mptefacg

tea hours a day, and am eotf pain. These are tbe plaln an la BIT oase. aol I will Uiserft».Y answsr Inquiries roUUve thereto, either in person or BY matt.

TROMAS XANUA

11 W. IStfa street. Sew Tor* City.

Xuarnxa, Tr»* w*-*-1 •ereattack oft -..n reeor* to *«"ft'e Bp*—.

T^*r?C7 $

"lapsr-

retief la wa- :,eeom»

me Itself for a that t*

5T D.D.

W. P.

jr*w Ton. r: (300 to be rSto any beoeSt, a worked a parte' •mnu, Oi.boy. jNted EPiSS ,u

A**.—After spending Toj»on withom wtft'sspectto

LAWr lAO. •raw & i*

teWakkkmiMh

C. fcim.

Tlx h.

Oouas. A v«w a a

Tax**, K«| I, VM. reeWS uretn

ft. 8. On., Atta*

rt Sracmc Co* tAiUstt Oa.

Snr Tom,m Broadway.»

•••«jVs*Sg

If You Are Sick

With Headache, Neuralgia, RhtumaUsm Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Blood Humors, Kidney Disease, Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague, Sleeplessness, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Prostration, use Paine'8 Celery Compound and be cored. In each of these the cause is mental or physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria, the efifect of which is to weaken the nervous system, resulting in one of these diseases. Remove the

CAUSE

M&TLT

with that great Nerve Tonic, and the

will disappear.

Paine's Celery Compound

AS.

L. BOWEK, Springfield, Mass., writes:— Paine's Celery Compound cannot be excelled as a Nerve Tonic. In my case a single bottle wrought a great change. My nervousness entirely disappeared, and with it the resulting uttection of the stomach, heart and liven and the whole tone of the system was wonderfully Invigorated. I tell mv fHeuds, if sick as 1 hare been, Paine's Celery Compound

Will Cure You!

Sold by druggists. $1 six lor Prei»ared only by WKLIS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, Yt. For the Aged, Nervous, Debilitated.

Warranted to color more goods than any other dyes ever made, and to give moro brilliant and durable colors. Ask tor the Diamond, and taki* no other.

IEXJIT'S CREAM BALM

FOR

A Dress Dyed A Coat Colored Garments Renewed CENTS.

A Child can use them

Unequalled for nil Fancy and Art Work, At druggists and Merchants. Dye llook free. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO,, Props., Burlington, Vt.

CATARRH

CleaiiMMt the Niuutl I'KMHHgen, Allays I'aln and liillamulioii, 11ml* Hie Sores, Kent ores (In Senses of Tuataatul Smell,

Try the Cure.

and sapplic* a vsnt

FAMB^

HAYFEVER

HAY-FEVER

A particle Is an pile 1 Into e.M'i nostril and isagreeable, Price 5) cent* nt I TIKKISUJ by mail, registered, 0() »n*. KIAl!l« »H., 50 Warrnu Ht„, New York.

Tiilfs Pills

SAVES _MONEY.

One box of tlienc plIlN will aove many dollarN In (loetor'N bills. Tliey ur« npcrially prvfturcil ai a

Family Medioine,

I«IIK

folt. Tliey r«-

movc i»nlic»ltliy urriimiilatlon* from (lie b»«ly, wltlnmt «r irrlpliiK* Alupte«l to young ami «»l«l. I'rlee. Mfl.

BOLJJ JIVKU^WHELLK.

DTLINDSEYS

BLOOD

SEARCHER.

Makes a I^orely Complexion, ft Splendid Tonic, and cures Boils, Pim les, Borofula, Mercurial and all Bio

I a^^ tnym-

Diseases. Bold by your Druggist. Sellers Medicine Co., Pittsburgh,

ooa

SELLERS'LIYER-PILLS

IOO ffnMasold bj oo» drunlat. ,htT«noeqaftl for curing DWMM. UMMIMII*,Tb«y 'CMttTSMM, Malaria, Ll*ar Complalat, Kavcr

V()T«T |0( ^Kh»T« DO ^•cottiTasu •u4 Acs •Uf« sad mvmil. Si k»»p«r»

Bsckaeb*, aed all,

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tronblM. They Never

Fail. Bold b* all dragftts aad toonirj flora kwperi S*U*n A CfcTlW^, THUtmrgk, h,

O':aae

ana after

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II. GAGG, DEAL Kit 1H ARTISTS'

SUPPLIES

Picture Frame*. Mouldings Picture Frames to Order.

McKeen'a Block, M8 Main st. 0th and 7tb.

The BUYBBB'OUIDJJfa Issued March and Bspt., each year. It is an oncy« clopadia of useful information for all who purthe luxuries or ihe necessities cf II!e. We

clothe

you and furnish you with

til tbo neoassarjr «nrl unnecesury applfi e* to iido, tvalk, dance, siewp, out.

hurst, work, flto to

church,

or stay at home, and tn various niien. style* and QuantHio*. Joat fi«ure out what is required to do all the»o things CO^rnnTflBLt. aad you can oa* of the value of the BUYKH8 OUIDE, which will be *»nt upon receipt of 10 cents to pay postage, MONTGOMERY WARD A CO. 111-114 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, III.

ORATKFt1!—COMFOBTIWO.

Epps's Cocoa

It BEAK FART.

"By a thorc '1i k- of the ne'-TiI lawxwhich -••-.•rn o|- ttions of s-a-ttott and notrmon,i careful aptiica« tlon of tb«» fine pi r'm of we!!-selected (VMma, Mr. Eppmi im -1 oar t- kfaet table* with a tly fOfed eraf# whleb may •••••e vr Mil*, IIis9 P•''•••• of 'h ar. t''•- 1.1 nrtior »y ually I u-,)t •.« •, 4 «.'• •»:». to I'- si i'-. Mi.'I'!."!,r«- .M.t r- »'h lO wick -»h' rttM-f Ha W« rn.-iir M.iiiTn •-•,tal «hi.r' By »pios 'ww led ••**.!

I" 'i? uausiiii'-'J -.is# -je, rty with bollin* water or milk iv iu balf pound tins by groom, la UM -m-a: mxks *m CO-

Bouaspalliie Chewlsta. Leadra, Kag