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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
By ODESSA 8. PAYEE.
CHAPTER XIII.
One, two, five years bad aKjPped
quietly as *bipa upon a “T®* “
leaving Beryl Heights and i»a tomatea ap
parently little changed aith
1a DD e Hey wood vh a tall yoana aonaan
now, with the aame wonderful,
•yea and aide, eiquieite moolh,_ *®d )*
you aould scarcely have rfoojnnMd he r -
Her featuree aere dear cut with a certain
finish and transparency
geated carved cameo; mdeed. aU iho sensi
tive charm of the face seemed to have settled
into high-bndsedateneas. Ooe could noi
read Miss Hey wood’s erpresaicn DOW so
easily ; the poet aoul so readily ekotnfled in
the old days, that came so quietly to the
surface in eye and lip waa be^r disoipliner)
now. She had grown into a rare and lovely
wrman but by a miracle, for it waa the
D a true lily of a dead girlhood, buried silent
ly and bitterly like the first dreams of lov
and tiuih of all the proud of her sex. The
remimbrance of ibe pest wasi a fcoorge to
her for years, leader, weighted and terrible
She was now beyond the reach or power of
it forever. She was sweeter and truer foi
eufferii g endured and stronger beside in
her self rei uciBtive wisdom, and she knew
it. But she did not know that ehe looked
very lovely this April afternoon as she sal
reading on the terrace steps at Bci-y I Heights
and there was nobody near to **}* 1 *? tr ’
udd weot down behind the great bill and the
iDBDBion Mood defined in all its old time
besnty against the soft homos when the
girl at last remembered herself and arose
8 e looked at the picture with tie terraced
green and marble foundation for a moment,
then laid her book down on on* of the ivy
bong vases near the walk and stepped out ol
the gate. Straight ahead the road wound
away invitingly, through the lengthening
shadows, on and on to an evergreen depres
sion between the hills, where a rustle bridge
spanned a small creek, overhung vijli wa
ter oaks, slender young maples and brosd
branching dogwood. It was spring and as
Lynne lent on the post at the and of the
bridge and looked down the creek, the very
silence seemed to bud with leaves and break
into blof pomfl before h*r t while the after-
glow transfigured the waters and the heav
ens. Why, or wherefore she could not tell,
but as she leaned there she began to think
over her life. How full it hBd been of dia-
eipline and suffering; how mnah she hsd
dreamed and how little realiud; and yet
the proud oonsoiousresa was bars that
tbroogh it all she had tried to b* true and
good ; always bad she dung lo the best
ideals and the holiest hopes of her youth
Aa she stood Ihos re flee ing, by the broken
railing f the bridge, a piomre of slender
grace with her black dresa trailing behind
her, her picture* qua hat shading her race;
and the gilded waters at her feat, a horse
man dween ing the hill saw her. Hishorses
hoof mi g upon thaplanks before she turned
her head andtl en the str nger lifted bia hat
and courteously Baid, "Good evening.’
She bowed but as her gl, i oe followed the
handsome, well-knit figure and lingered on
the profile of his lace, she leaned more
heavily on the frail snpiort whioh snapped
and gave way—.hen the water closed above
her. Shedid not Bcream, but the gentle man
tuned at the noise snd was surprised to see
the place vacant, whioh bnt a moment be
fore hi d been occupied t y a dreaming girl.
He saw her hat floating on the water, then
without a me ment’s hesitation, he pulled
off his coat 8t d plunged into the wa'er.
Once, twice, thrice he dived in vain. The
creek waa muddy, full of link holes and
awoollen by the receDt rains. Ae he came
Driojjfc dtis oi*‘ir
white face whioh appeared only to vanish.
He swarn coder the aich and dived again,
thia time he rose heavily burdened with the
dripping form of the insensible girl. He
grasped a willow bough and landed af er
much t Sort, exhausted. He locked at the
fair unknown, then his face . landed while
h knelt down and wiped the water < ff her
face with the hat, kei chief which he hRd
taken dry from his coat pocket. “Well.”
he said, “thia is unformnate. 1 shall never
bring her to life without assistance, I won
der if I could not make them hear at Beryl
Heights.” He had j ist opened Ilia month,
to try the experiment, when a pretty one-
horst p aeton appeared around the cuive
of the hill. It was driven by a man who
wore a straw hat and a gold mounted
crotch on the onocoupied sent by him. A
moment later he reached the plaoa and, get
ting ont, said with great ooncera, “I hope,
sir, the lady is not drowned. My house is not
half a mile away; I shall be pleased to offer—
ob, Lynne t is it yon?” be cried hoarsely, as
he it cognized the figure. He knelt beside
her and began to rnb her hands. The
stranger picked np his hat ar d pulled it low
over his eyes, then saio: ' My dear sir, the
lady lain no danger; she breathed aayou
baind me; she has merely received scold
bath of vtX'tious duration. Come, we can
do nothing more for her here, and grave con
st quences might follow by keeping her in
this condition too long.” Schiller did not
seem to hear and the stranger put bim gent
ly aside, took the girl in his arms and
stepped into the low carriage. The cripple
tested himeeit be aide him, look op the Hoes
with an imperious iuteirogation in biseyer:
“1 beg perdi r, fir, it vas a necessity,” oour-
teonsiy explai, ea the strange):
“I did not u.t an to be ruue,” Sobiller re
plied with easy dignity;’’ but the young lady
is my ward, and very dear 'o art—aren’t
you holJn g her head to low? *
“No, fir; I am a physician, and that is an
other neciarity.” The gentleman smiled as
Schiller pui whip to his horre, and muttered
ui dt r his bieaih “This is a go, and no mia-
tati ; old Jacob, in a gallop!'’ Without a
woru of ii qmry or thanks as to the acoideni,
Schiller drove on in at parent unmiudfnl-
nere of Ly nnc, or her rercuer. At the front
gale the stranger got out with his fair hur.
den i nd walked t p the terrace steps. Schil
ler tlnew the lit es over li e oat-h hoard aLd
folk wed i s well as he could, but it w> squite
ten minuter before he mtide ihe ascent.
“Wniie has that iu puoent fellow carried
her? ’ he -aid, as he opened the library door
BLd fi und it vacant. A voice frtm the eii-
tii g roe in not only gave him a reply, but
also advertised h>m of another fact.
“Way, Paul, my son, is it really yon? 1
can't bf litve ii ; yr ur beard is such a won
derful disguise Crying! Why, of course 1
am—who wouldn’t, with Lynne just rescued
in m a watery grave, and you at home at
last ?’’
Schiller stood s'ill. He shared so fully in
hi- moil er’e j -y Hud thankfu'nesa that not
yet could he nust himself «nvng them all
He had mustered himselt si fficiently whtn
Panl re entered the hall and closed the door
bi hu d him, to meet him witu a smile as
8DI ny and lender aa his own.
“Do forgive me.” Dr. Gordon said, peni
tently, “but the tempiaiiou was irreeisiible.
Y a e- uldn't see there was anybody in the
world b it M ss Hey wood. ”
“Ai d you rescued her of oourse—do tell
me how it all happened.”
“She was leaning on the bridge railing, it
broke, and t* ei —‘Jou’t sqne ze my hand sc
rnon /rare — I j meed iu and rescued her
mo t unrotnantienlly.”
“As theae wet clothes attest, coma to my
room and change ■ hem.”
“Thanks. I’ll accept your r ffer an my bag
gage i- no nearer than the village depot.
After I compute my toilet I will, wi h your
permis-ioo. relate a< me of the thoughts and
feelir gs < f the |ia*t fi/e yearn.”
‘ I shHli be a hni p, listener,” said Schil
ler, g<-nt'y an a woman.
B it “the be-t raid plans o’ mire and
men gong oft light' Miss Gordon had heard
that me wanderer hmi returned and sent a
servant to a <y that abe was wailing to aee
him in the library.
CHAP I ER XIV.
The day that followed waa gloomy and
dark, the rain fell with that ceaseless monot
ony of sound, which is so soothing in some
moods, and so depressing in others. Dr.
Gordon waa ont of sympathy with nature,
BDd he felt the cheerless air inaugurated by
the weather inside at Beryl Height’s, as
something cf a personal grievance. He
threw away the paper ha bad been trying to
read for half an hoar, end, putting an no
lighted cigar in his mouth, turned toward
the one place in the house, which, in his
worst moods in by-gone days, waa not en
tirely without attraction for him—the crip
ple’s study. He bad already had a long talk
with hia mother, and be waa conscious of
wondering just a little painfully, why John
had not sought him for the promised chat;
it certainly savored of neglect after so long
an abeenoe. Opening the s> udy door he dis
covered, at a glance, the eause; the oripple
lay pale and suffering on his oouch by the
window. Paul crossed the room, and, bend
ing down to him, said:
“W bat is it, old fellow? our ancient foe Is
bleu diable sometimes yclept dyspepsia?’’
“No. it a severe pain in my left lung.”
Dr. Gordon had always been afraid of
pulmonary developments in his brother’s
osse, and this oonf. seion taken in cot j mo
tion with the bright, peculiar heotic
flush on either oheek, was not calculated to
lesseD his anxiety.
“My brothei! ’ he said, sfterapause, lean
ing his elbow against ute pillow, with his
dark f> ce in tender p-oximity to his broth
er’s* “you oould never guess how I have
missed j no, or what a sore trial this long
nbsence has been to me. I have lugged this
old study and its saintly master around the
world with me, and if I had thought not to
have seen either of you again I ooul 1 not
have borne it.” And the stateliest of all
stately men, as he was toyed with the lighl
hsir above the blue-veined forehead, while
he spoke asjoaressingly as a woman :
“You know what it is to me,” John replied
not unmoved, “to have vou home again
without my telling you. Strength and j -y
are in your very presence, and you and
Lynne together give my life a completeness
which rendets intimate friendship with oth
ers unnecessary.” “In fact,” he added,
with a smile, “the o rumination is nothing
less than a total sBtiety .”
“Always her!” he said gently, but with
evident dislike to the classification, then he
wenton. “I did hope that girl would be mar
ritd and out of my way. I am sure I gave
her ample time. I do not like lo ooufess it.
but I suppose I have always been jealous of
her, she has worn my rightful purple for so
many years, and 1 do not know how to for
give her for having made herself dearer to
you than anybody else.” John ignored his
words with a simple statement in answer:
“She does not belong to the class ot
women who marry early.”
“Why?”
“Because she is ultra, ae you will some
time fiDd out, «b ut everything.”
“I shtu'd not have supposed so,” he said,
indtfferemly, and abrnptly changed the aub-
jrd to family finanoes.
At the supper table that night, however,
as John was not present, Dr. Gordon founo
himself looking, with s« melbing like inter
est, across at Mifs Hey wood. He was trying
to solve the mystery, if there was one, aud
have it over. Lynne felt hisoold,analytical
glance, and her sensitive soul ri coiled out of
sight. She would rather, it was trne, that he
did not misunderstand her, but she disliked
him too thoroughly to aid him in his trans
lation. Once or twice she tried to talk
sbont current events to the lady mother, but
there was an unsteadiness in her voice that
betrayed self cousoii osuess, snd a brief ex
periment satisfied her. Dr. Gordon’s men
tal verdiot is his old one revised; as he leaves
the table he murmured, goto voce.
“A white, spiriilers face, an insipid man
ner 1 How in the name of wonder did she
pver charm away John’s common sense.
U'tra, yes, in a most uninteresting degree.
1 should say so.”
Ly tine’s room at Beryl Height’s was fur-
oi»h»*d.'»ii*> « se* that hsd he*n bought for
ner mother in tne ney-aey ot jnmwooa
splendor, const qnently it was old fashioned
but it was also very handsome. The great
high posted bedstead, with its bine silk can
opy, the tall and elaborately carved bnreau,
whioh boastod of an ebony-framed mirror,
with a half life sized picure of the haoon-
na on poicelsin, inserted in the oval top;
the square tr ble, inlaid with mosaios, all
made quite rd airsy of antebellum elegance,
and the girl, in spite of the broadness of
her cultivation, and const quern liberal mind,
had enough of the Bom bon It ft in her to ap-
preo'nte even snoh di mb memorials as
these, b*cauBe rf their association with the
past, h ue silk curtsins, with bread bands
of golden—Lynne had a horror of shades—
and a few paintings well arranged, gave the
finishing of brightness to the apartment.
Lynne spent much of her time here, for she
liked the quiet of the up-stairs, anu unless
she studieu with Sohiller she rarely remained
down stairs until after dinner. This morn
ing she sat by one of the front windows wri
ting. Her life had in it bnt one purpose—a
purpose that sternly battled all things else
and pointed upward, with an iron hand. A
fix* d determination that left no glad room
tor enjoyment; that robbed the days of rest
and the nights of slumber. A something
tJ at at times torched her with the sublime
ersiacy of victory, and at others left her Lnr-
dened with the weary weight of a great de
spair. Alifewotk which absorbed all the
energies* Ian aidtnt, aspiring mind; that
called for much study as well as heroic en
durance, and almost tireless patience. But
she was subject to intiu-ion, even in her
own room, tor there was a light tap on the
dt or, and Fioyd, dressed very becomingly,
entered and took possession of bn ottoman,
then Dskt d abruptly:
“in the name if common sense, Lynne,
do yon sever tiie of siuuy ? ’
“Yes, occasionally,” Lynne answered,
plst s mtly, but without lit.rug her eyea from
the paper.
“Then why do yon nr* rest sometimes?”
“Be. an<e—well, I do.’*
“Haven’t you i-..t op every night this week
until two o'olock?”
"Yes ; bnt how did yen know?’’ Gonsin
Paul saw the light f i m ytur window and
tead me a muial lecture about physical
sin.”
“Verily, but yon know I haven’t been fol
lowing my ostial mle.”
“Ob. indeed 1“ 1 thought it was a Mede
and Peraian regulation it seema to me
you never do anything but study, everlast
ingly.”
“Then you are not very observant,
Fioyd. My rule is to s’udy until two o’clock
Hi the afternoon, and efier that, to practice,
sew and do anything lik«- other girls.”
“CnmpIimeiilHry 1 Hut yon break your
rule as ufteu as you ktep i' ; and, sccordii e
to Cunrin Paul, no woman oi delicate mou.d
cao stand it.”
“Auothi r Daniel cimet* judgment. Has
he been kid enough to ci-ioer the hope
less iess of my case alu a y ? ’
“No, lie does not ki.ow anything
abou' your bookish propensities, but he
thought I was keeping one h< u r s aid har
angued me nun crcifi I y. Apropos of our
Sir Galahad, will you please enlighten me
in regard to the nniii.aihy whioh exists be
tween y u and him ? ’
“I do not understand y< u.”
“Oh, how innocent *s are ! what in the
world is the reason you never talk with
C« u* n Paul? - ’
“Breai.se,” and how cold the lone, “he
never adrire. se- himself p ,r>i< ularly to me,
aud i have yet lo learn tl e art of arrogating
myself,”
“Did you never cor verse with him ?”
“Yes, once when 1 was q.ii'e a child.”
“And yon think him »'tr.- and unapproach
able. without doub ; he h a -mm dignified
manners that anyone »i'h only a supeificial
knowledge of his character would bet bilged
to misunderstand bim. it is so funny ilutt
you aud he abou d so thotonghly dislike
each other, when you butt, pieteuo to belong
t • the intellectual order, and yon might
have such a nice lime. Well, I’m glad yon
do not fraternise, for I like my exclusive
Cousin Paul too well to w -nt to share him
with anybody. Dear in* 1 if the hall clock
is not striking no e, am I promised to be
ready to ride with Paul. An rev.>tr.”
Lynne looked up as Foyd reached the
door: “Are you going o the Tillage7**
“No, we will ride oat to the faotory to see
John, near Sunday-school Chapel. Paul
thinks I will be obarmed with the gothic
style of the building, and I am expected to
go off into raptures over the stained glass
window above the pnlpit, I, who have seen
the cathedrals in Canada and Mtxtoo.’
“I did not know that window was any
handsomer than any other in the house;
they are all of Btained glass.”
‘Impossible!”
■Oi, they were not ooe'ly, they are made
of sorap-glaes from the manufactories.”
“Then they are not worth looking at.”
“On the contrary, Schiller assures me that
they are exceedingly pretty."
“1 don’t believe it, though, of course, I
admit hia infallibility about anything else
under the *un.”
Aud with a slight smile and, aware of her
jeweled hand, MiBS Gordon disappeared.
Lynne laid her manuscript d jwn upon the
table with a quick impulse that told of
aroused feeling and began to walk the floor
witu looked bauds. “Floyd evidently enjoys
ianttl’zing me about Dr. Gordon and it is
growing to be a daily raquisition. She
minks she is safe, because she sees how
proud I am and how iDsarmonntable are the
barriers whioh divide us.” With a flish in
t»r warm blue eyes, she went on, “B it, if
ever the day comes when 1 can remove this
bar of s leuoe from my lip-, if my intellec.
and he rt only once shall dud at erauoe be
fore nim so that he shall see my true Belt,
hen you might pile Alps on AIp.i betwteu
us, b.it his friendship would be mine.” Al
ter this ooudittuDal pr phtc>, ehe locked
the door on the outside upon her ui.fi Dished
labors and went down stairs. She encoun
tered the ol jrot of her thoughts in the lower
hill; he bowed with s o cal readiness, but
r ie p issed on without so much as lifliog her
eyes. Sue found his mother in the old-
fsshioued sitting room, where it was her
ous'om to spend the morniug.
“O t, mother 1” she said, aa she threw her
self down in a rocking chair opposite th*
placid woman, “I am oorne to ask an im-
po-sible favor.”
“Well, my dear, is not that rather a para
doxioal statement.”
* No, if you would only let me
Mrs. G irdon smiled—
“I am so lestless! iudeed 1 am iu such
an alarmingly < xuberau mood that I do no*
feel like any thing would satis y ine but a
ide on Wild foot. Please m ithe:;’’
“My ohild 1 am afraid tor you, the las'
time y i rode her yoa reme nber, I told you
1 u.ought I won d Lever allow it again.”
“But you did not know,” said the girl
going up to her aud putting her arms arouud
her, “that this lovely day would come, au
that your Bohemiaudaughter would set her
heart on a ride through its bret ze and suu
shine.”
Mis Gordon regarded her aff-otionately.
these rare words of Lynne’s intox.cuted her,
as they did every one else.
“My pale, student daughter, you had bet
ter say, aud now not beoau-e you have be
witched me, but because I Bee you need
it— es.”
Lynne gave the order for the horse to be
saddled and theu went trippingly down the
ball singing, “Oh bella, liberty bells.” Dr.
Gordon who had witnessed the tablean ii.
t e sitting room from the back verandah,
heard the musioal oliok of her boot heels as
she soended the stairway and murmured
“When 1 see her and she does not know is
she looks so different, aud even when I hear
her voice, and she is unaware, it sounds
like that of another person. Wiery, i she
a mystery ?*'
As Dr. Gordon and his cousin were return
ing from their ride, a slender figure in navy
blue, with silvery veil fl mtiug Irom her ha'
and a bunch of an to on Ihe taddlo bow,
q iietly galloped by withont sign of ncogm
uou to either. The ccoupants of the well
appointed | tt'uon might have been
-traogera for all the Lotice thev receiveu
from the young iqnestrieuns. * D » solve a
hair formed doubt about that girl, ’ the gen
thmfiu said hi- tha piciureni'ie vision distip-
'ii-HnJd down the'iimfiotn wtfiTB off-imfy"* «
“tor the first time since 1 have known her.
it oeeuired to me this morning that sh»
might be more than I had given her oredit
for, nothing like John says of course but
not so far below tha medium standard ot
the sex as I nad plaoed her.” Floyd trai eo
a feathery fern, whioh he had gnhered for
her at the last branch, a ross the back of her
hand, then looked up with an arch smile,
from under the shadeof her rolled-brim hat,
“Didn’t you k ow it was malicious for young
ladies to judge one another?’’ “It oouiu
not be ao construed in this instance. I am
yonr cousin and 1 have expressed a desiie
for your opia on.” “Well then, she has
nev. r impressed me as bemgany hingmore
nor less than a very ordinary, quiet girl,”
she said wit a serious air.
“Exactly,” and her cousin emphasized the
word, with a seif satisfied smile, as he lean
ed back and contemplated leisure!, the
rarely gottonup pieoe of blond loveliness at
his side.
'‘Look! oh look!*' Floy] shrieked a m>
ment ater as an elevation in the load
brought them in view oi Lynne Hey wood.
1'be horse waa rearing auu plunging v o-
lently, and the quiet girl as bringing her
whip down with a v hemenoe that exhibited
both her bravery and her figure to splendid
advantage. “O i Paul, she ill certainly be
killed do run and help her; what would
John say if he oonld ae her ?”
“I do not know, but I hszird the assertion
that she will ooiqaer the brute—wait.” And
she did, though tne animal diversified the
pawiDg performance with oertatn lightning
like wheels of his body that would have un
seats i any common rider.
‘•Well,” Fioyd i j.colated, ss Lynne pwept
out of in tnnmph. I never saw any better
display of horsemanship at Birnum’s Hi .
podrome 1 She anu Wild foot should upply
to the men fur a place.”
“A magnificent feat, without doubt, and
th ugh I bhve ridden with English laoies iu
the hunt. 1 have yet to Fee >t equalled."
Floyd thought she detected a fl.vor o. re
buke iu the words.
“The i I have erred in my i stimate of
Mi->R Hey wood, and she isn’t ordinary at
all ?”
He looked at h'r onrionsly end replied,
“Physical force and fine horse ansl.ip re
not luconpitibla uiui common p aceoe-s
in ohara. ter.” Lynne’s concealment u her
gifts and gn oes from Dr. Gordon was cer
tiiuly neither premeditated nor intentional
Ii had originated in the shynesB o child
hood, Bud whs kept np n w by b womun’-i
pride, around by coldness and neglect
Her, mind and heart woul i never blo-som
into laugotge before hi, ; it nquind the
FunshiLeuf his faith and that he nad never
giVi-n her. Aud thus the daya we. tat Beryl
Heights until six mouths had pas-ed, and
Dr. Gordon’sacqiiain'BUce with h,s brothel’s
Maul had progressed no farther than a court
ly how morning and eveoing.
One afternoon in the early antomn, when
the woods were full of t e glory, which al
ways comes to the dying year, as well is of
the dreamy sunshine, which iu its spintuelle
nature is ao unlike that of aoy other season.
Lynne sat alone in the forest stretch at the
hack of the house. She held a book in her
hand and some rich hoed wild- flowers show
ed conspicuously in the lap of her dress
Her face was white from over study, the
eyes lull of protouud roenitBtion, whioh the
half stern set of the month i no,lily oorr< b-
orated. The brilliant maple leaves quivered
in the sunshine over hud, and toe uiwi
stirted Ihe vine between hei • ngeis, bnt si e
did not move. This waa an E .star t>oor for
her artist son), ao impressively alive to all
beauty, and through every flue fibre of her
sensitive being she was drinking i> in while
the under current of her thoughts flowed to
ward the Itific.i e.
Dr. Gordon, when refnrning from a visit
to a patient by a bridle path throngh the
woods, stumbled upo the scene unaware
and saw what had never before met his eye
—Lynne Hey wood’s soul in her face. He
•as finding the phenomenon interesting,
when Lyt ne recalled by some el otrto thrill
of oousriuosneaa looked op, and the light
went out of her fare instantly. He lifted
his hat with a gleam in the brooding bloc
eyea that waa pleasant and then lie rode on
swiftly into the sunshine aud atade of the
engulfing woods.
That tught when loading tha work of a
lata scientist he wished to institute a com
parison between the author and a fellow
worker and turned to the philosophical de
partment for the purpose. In reaching for
the book he desired,he accidentally displaced
a large volume that fell heavily to the floor,
as he lifted it a cardinal vine slipped from
between the leaves, he tnrned to the title
page half curious, “Hsmilton’s Metsphys
ios,” he read alond, “quite an eoceutiio
fancy for M tdamo sel e Commonplace.”
“It is a good book to press flowers in," a
meek voice said, and Paul Gordon tnrned to
see Miss Hey wo d,black robed Bnd reticent
faoed, as oeoal standing at his elbow. He
gave her a glance, merciless bs a swor
throat, and Lynne deliberately mounted the
steps and took down a yellow baok. d novel
from a shelf, marked “Sensational.” gh*
evidently intended to help the cause of mi--
interpretation, and she succeeded so well
that when Dr. Gordon returned to the fire
there w as snoh an expression of diBdain oi,
his faoe, that she half regretted the en
ooanter.
[to bb continued ]
Words of Warning and Comfort
“If you are suffering irom poor health or
•languishing mi a lied of sickness, take cheer
if you are simply ailing, or if you feel
•weak and dispirited,
‘without clearly kriow-
‘ing why. Hop Hitters
•will surely cure you.
“U vou area minister, and
have overtaxed yourself w it It yonr
pastoral duties, or a mother, worn out
with care and work, or a man of business or
labor, weakened by the strain of your everyday
duties,or a man of letters toiling over your mid
night work. Ilop Hitters will most surely
strengthen you.
If you are suffering from over eating or drink
ing. any indiscretion or dissipation, or an
young and growing too fast, as is often the case.
“Or if you are in the workshop, on the
•farm, at the desk, anywhere, and feel
•that your system needs cleansing, toll
ing. or stimulating, without intoxicat-
•ing. if you are old,
‘blood thin and impure, pulse
•feeble, nerves unsteady, faculties
‘waning. Hop Bitters is what you need to
•give you new life, health and vigor.”
If you are costive, or dyspeptic or suffer
ing from any oilier of the numerous dis
eases of the stomach or bowels, it is your
own fault if yon remain ill. If
you are wasting away with any form
of Kidney disease, stop tempting death this
moment, and turn for a—cure to Hop Hitters.
If you are sick with that terrible sickness.
Nervousness, you will find a “Balm in Gilead’ -
iu Hop Bitters.
—If you are a frequenter, or a resident of,
—a miasmic district, banicade your sys-
—tern against Hie scourge of ail countries
—Malaria Epidemic, Bilious and Inler-
—milteut fevers by the use of Hop Bitters.
If you have rough, pimply, or sallow skin,
bad breath. Hop Hitters will give you fail
skin, rich blood.the sweetest breath and liealtn.
$500 will be paid for a case they will not cure oi
help.
A Lady’s Wish.
Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clear and
‘soft as yours.’’ said a lady to her friend.
“You can easily make it so,” auswered the
friend.
How?’’ inquired the first lady.
By using Hop Bitters that makes pure, rich
blood and blooming health, ft did for me as
you observe.”
tg’-None genuine without a bnnch of green
Hops oil the white label. Shun all the vile, poi
sonous stuff with “Hop” or "flops” iu their
name.
Out of the Javs of Death.
The gentleman who ontiines his case below
Is a man considerably advanced In life, and
Is noted for bis Stirling Integrity. Hls poel-
otfioe is Yatesvllle, Upson county, Ga. The
following is.
Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
In the sp ring of I8s2 1 was atb-ck ed with a
very bsu cough which con.inued to grow
worse until rail, when 1 got so weak that 1
could not get a<out. I tried a great many
kinds of medicine but. coutinned to grow
worse. I was notified (ball hsdc insumption
m d would probsbly di*. D . Holiowsy final
ly old me to try Brewer’s Lang ReHt rer.
i hey sent to Ward’s store and got a bottle.
*nd 1 co'i menced la lug it right away. After
u kiog two or three donee, 1 . egan to im-
rove,and by the time 1 had used upon*
ott le I was able to get up on mj feet again
I am now in excellent hpalih* I am conn'ient
n»t the Lung Restorer saved m> life and
my neighbors are ol the same opinion. It If
lie best Lung Remedy e'er made in my
•pinion. Ur. H.promised me 'hal lie would
write io Ihe manufacturers and tell them ot
he wondtrlul cure it made Id my case.
Statement of Mr. fienj F Hearndon:
Karlv In November. ISkl, while aew-ng on
■he machii e. my wife w^s taken with - se
-ere pain in her side, which waskoon followed
„y be-.orrhages Irom her lungs an.l ■ seven
aiugh. Hevor commenced, sb- couia neilhei
■nt or slee.>, a dim, lew wms she was r»
I need to a livi g skcl ton. Tbeaite>d!n
idiy sicia ii told rn.- that be thooeL t one of tier
lings » as entirety gone. She could i ol re
nin the m* st delicate n- uri-hment on hei
omacli. I theu agreed with Ur Su llvan
oy family physician, to call Dr Holloway in
-onsuHalion. Tney made a flna. examine
i ion of the pat lent and pronounced the can.
mpeless. Iir Hollow y then suggested ihi
viewer's Lung Restorer as a last resort. 1
ent lor a bottle and gave bar a dose. I found
hat site could reiain it on tier stomach, anil
Her about the th rd dose, I began to nolle.
..me Improv« ment in bei condition. 1 con-
inued the medicine regularly, ai d by 1h>
ime she had two bottles, see was able to walk
.bout Hie tiouse. Klie la U"W in bet >er heal I,
han she haa enjoyed lor aeveral years. I be-
ieve the Lung Restore saved her life W.
■javen family of six children, some ol then)
rov n ’•
Mr Hearndon’s post-office is Yalesvilie. Up
*ou county, Ua. He is a thoroughly reliatm
nan in every particular.
“See What Cuticura Does for Me!”
I NK* VI II.* and Birth Humors, Milk Crust.
Scald Head, E zo.nas, and every form of
Itching,Scaly, Pimply, Scrofulous and Inherited
Diseases of ihe Blu<'d. Skin a. d Scalp, wi h L< b-
..f Hair,card by the CUTICLBA Kfmedieh. Aih
lo'utdjj pure and ft. Cuticura. the great Skin
Cure, 5U cts.: Cnticura Hosp, an exquisite Skin
Beautiher ann only Medical Haby S. ai , 25cts.
a. d Cuticura Re# Ivent, the New Blood Purifier,
fl, are Bold by druggists. Potter Drug and them
icai Co.. Boston. Send for "How to Cure
Skin Diseases.”
44? ly
BOLES’ SOBE CORE MOUTH WISE
Aud DENTIFRICE.
Northern people have oeen iu theT.atnioV
ookiug upon the South as an agricultural
rountry. as a producer, not as a mauufao
rnrer. B it the people of the North will have
to change their opinions of the industries
•f the Scuth. It is rap'dly becoming a
manufacturing section. Whereas, iu form
er limes, the 6 .uthern producer had uo
thonghtexotpt to ship the raw materials on>
of the oouutry to be manufactured into mer
chandise elsewhere; now the order i-
ohanged, aud the raw material is mannfsc
lured into merchandise at h< me. Great
cotton factories are beiDg established and
iron mills put in blast. Iu other words, the
Sonth has at last secured the needed home
industries.—Age of SteeL.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla wonderfully improves the
complex ion, and brings to old and young Hie
biooiu of health. As a purifier of the blood it
has uo equal.
.otusiBw*
A Goose Farm.—Philadelphia capital has al
ready established a "goose farm” at Walloy's
Neck, Accomac county, Va. About two acres
of land, inclosed by ; firmly built plank fence,
and contains nineteen hundred white geese.
The nests are laid off in sections, w ith avenues
naming through parallel with each oilier.
Eight bushels of shelled corn are given as food
daily—about a gill lo each goose.
From the Reverend Clergy.
Among the many ministers of the gospel who
have been helped by Brown's Iron Bitters, the
Hev. E. A. Spring.Corydou, Iowa, savs: "1 used
it for general ill-heallli and found it a great
help.” Hev. James McCarty, Fort Stevenson,
Dakota,says: “It cured me of severe dyspepsia
and increased my weight twenty-five pounds.”
The Rev. Mr. Offey, New Bern, N. C.. says he
lias taken it. and considers it cue of’.lie' best
medicines known. The Rev. Mr. Whitney,
Hluglialii, Wis., says: -'Alter a long sickness
Irom lung fever, I used Brown’s Iron Bitters
and gained strength.’’ So throughout the
states with hundreds and hundreds of other
clergymen.
The G'eat Vein Coal Company, o»p *al
fl fiOOOOO, has beta incorporated with • ftioe
at CatlF'ssbnrg, Ki.. to mine coal in Ken
tucky, West Virginia and Ohio. The iuoor-
nor»‘nTB«re David H Baili. of Wilmington,
O., 8 F. Black and Fiauk Smith, of Cincin
nati, aud others.
The making of large lensps is a matter of
many difficulties as may be inferred from the fact
: h:tl Jt here have been nineteen failures to cast the
36 inch gl s< for the great Lick lelescope lo be
mounted in California.
Opium, Chloral,
snd Whiskey Hr bits s' ccessfnlly treated with
out I'Bio «r detention frnti daily hesiness. No
restri'-tioi son diet. Alleoir.nun c lionsslricil)
confidential. By A.8. Wooliej. M.D.. Belma.Aia.
4.9km
HOI IV/IFQ’ SMr *’ r “ r «‘ hi •■mb tvasi.
nULIrl LO niM* Drtitifrlrr is hu infalli
ble cure for Ulcerated Bore Thionl. Bleeding
imms. Hore Month s. d Ulcers. Clears tha Teeth
at d keeps t) eGnma healthy. Prepa-edfoi. I> by
Drs. J. A W. H. Holn.es. Demists. II‘2 M nlhem
street. Ma.-on. Gs. For sale by laimsr, Rankin A
I .miner end Howard A 1 earlier At-ar-'a Ga
Make Yonr Own ('liristmas Candies.
“Margery Daw” Home Confectionery, so
recit es ?fi cts. Sent to any atldiess. 1 ost|i,-i|,.'.
by Mrs LUCY W. BOSTWlCK, Auburn. N. Y.
Mention this paper. 4s]-3t
°r
.or c loaning tko letd.
keeping the run boat
thy aad purify tog th*
breath ban cure fo
diseased fumironBoa
• ly called scurry
cure for hiee«iiit|
Sure cure for tat
breath Sure cure fo*
ba<) taste in the mouth
Sure cure tor ul* on •
•ore Mouth Sure cor*
for nursing sore mmutk
| < Sure cure for n«o rtlfil
e/ caused by goats dlttw
ed Sura core lot ladi
gestiuo. caoaed by db
eased gum* Sr* com
for sleep*, emu cm* caoaed
by di*ea*ed goat* Sam
care for beaifag aad
hardeaing tha foat a*
ter eitractioa af lard
Corot dloeaaed gam*
aad tlghtea* taaao Mid
(caoaed by tartar! tftat
Ike deatlol ha* romaaad
tartar aad cleaaad do
teeth Sore core tar aay
all dtoeaaao af Aa
pa* aad meatfi. Racemmcadad by maay laadlag ImMb
Frtca fr.aaaer hottlo Uheral dlacaaaf ta tha trade Aafcyam
4—Hat a* draggtai far h. or aaad to
Drs. J. P.fl W. R. HOMIER, Itsactat*
Drstal Dppwl, Haras, tim.
LAMAR, RANKIN * LAMAR.
WV.Isil. Agraw.
tt,
Sylvania Defends Dancing
r IRON
TONIC
•will purify tha BLOCM
Ute the LIVER and KJf
d gestlon Lack of Strength,
Bint Tired Feeling absolutely
„ cured. I tones, nniscte* *ml
L nerves receive xiowCorc®,
Enlivens tha *?*
LADlEra&Sgg
3nd InDIL BAHTKifS^ IBO hLTM^cotfiffi«i^
speedy cure. Dives a clear, gfij
Frequent attempts at counterfeiting ontymut.
to the popularity of Ihe original. Do not
ment—get the OlillUN ALAND BEST.
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