The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

,_ ._. ____._._________.___.___._.______4 SKIN DISEASES. INVARIABLY DUE TO POOR ANN T . c WM¢ S’WIO- He found it a little old-faSh- amongst them. This same spirit set ioned, but most ‘CllcCtiV'e- Harry the gladiators to kill for the public Trevor, he saw, could hit hard and amusement at the Colosseum, and 010311 to every part of the field. and that made professional pugilism so his defence was impregnable as a popular in Merrie England in tho to .~ ‘h‘fi W W CHAPTER X.â€"-Cont. “A few days more at the outside,” the doctor murmured to John Tre- vor, as he bade him “goodâ€"bye” at the door. Then another cause of grief arose. Harry Trevor was found to be slowâ€" ly pining away. His face grew pale and pinched, and he moped in cornâ€" ers, silent and smileless. ate or slept at all. Even the child’s mind seemed affected. Twice at mid- night he had stolen into the sick- .room, startling Eva, who was on guard at the bedside, by his white face and wide-open, earnest eyes. Compelled by the doctors, Eva had consented to rest. during the day. The night nursing; she still reserved as her share. One evening it chanced that Harry suddenly claimed the privilege of filling with Water the little silver kettle from which her coffee was made. ' On that- same night she had a very curious experience. She had felt quite fresh and Wakeful when she began her vigil, having slept well during the day. But no sooner had she sipped her coffee than a sudden drowsinees, soft, Warming, overpowering, fell upon her. Before she could resist, sleep came and con- quered absolutely soul and body. The winter sunshine was bright in the room when she awoke, alert and refreshed, from a long sleep. Her eyes as they opened fell on Lucy. She was sleeping placidly as a three-year-old child: sleeping as she had not slept since the fell dis- ease caught her. . Softly she slipped from the room to where her husband slept. At once he started up wide awake and» frightened at the name. “No, John,” she answered to his frightened look, “it’s not that, thank God! it’s not that. I have good news. Come with me quicklyâ€" come!” Lucy still slept on placidly, and as they stood together at the bedâ€" side each read hope in the other’s eyes. “I was not mistaken?” she quesâ€" tioned eagerly. "It is wonderful,” he answered. “I cannot understand it. H‘oWâ€"” The next moment Eva’s action had answered his unfinished question. One of Lucy’s arms lay upon the quilt, with the white robe open at the sleeve. With deft fingers Eva Whisper of his ‘ rolled the loose sleeve back to the shoulder. Yes! there was a little red dot where the sharp needle point of the gold syringe had pricked the white satin of her skin. Lucy was safe. She had been saved by the same miracle as Eva and her child! By whom wrought? They never knew for certain. The girl herself could not help them to an answer. She had puzzled over it. for a while, half awake. But presently a pleasant drowsiness stole. over her, and she dropped off into a dreamless sleep, in which there was rest and no pain. So they never knew for certain what mystery had happened in the night. Certain it was, however, that the morning found him as childâ€" ish as ever, and the mysterious mediâ€" cine case had disappeared again. So the cloud lightened over the once happy house of Lavella, though it never wholly passed away. Legal means were taken to secure the property of Dr. Ardel, which proved than was currently believed. to be even more enormous He had A RANSOMED .LlFE l-Ie hardly I my Ailments of the Most Painful and Fatal QQQ$Q no relatives, and the custody, and guardianship, and the management of his vast. estate under the Court was entrusted to John Trevor, (1.0., by the Lord Chancellor, who was a .friend of both men, and knew the intimate trust and friendship be- twoen them. ‘In the teeth of the confident pro- phecies of the amental scientists, Dr. ,Ardel improved from day to day and {from Week to Week. His memory never returned. He never showed the faintest recognition of his own identity. But his was superb, his gay spirits never flagged, and slowly, but surely, hlS intellect brightened. Harry Trevor, as dull boys Some- times will, had suddenly developed a marvellous precocity. He, who used to hate books, now loved them. Dr. Ardelâ€"the wonderful Dr. Ar- delâ€"whose intellect and accomplish- ments had been the wonder and ad- miration of Europe, was now the halting pupil of a clever child. So the years went by till Harry’s time came for a public school. At home the boy’s education had gone at so tremendous a rate that his mother, and sometimes even his fa: ther, was a little afraid of him. It was not that he was what is called a bumptious boy. Indeed, he seem- ed always anxious rather to hide his knowledge than to display it. But his quickness was marvellous. With Lucy he grew almost at once from a pet to a companion. He was shy with her, as has been said, and she Was so infected by his shyness that she left off kissing and fondling him at once. Now and again she caught by chance, as it were, a IglimpSe of his knowledge of science and literature, which frightened her. Very quickly the relation of teacher and taught were reversed between them, and she found herself constant- ly forgetting his age. On the ques- tion of religion alone the boy never willingly spoke. In the innocence of her maiden heart, Lucy unknowingly laid bare to the keen eyes of this precocious child the love she had ever cherished for Dr. Ardel, till he too found the se- cret that Eva had easily. To all this Harry Trevor would listen moodily, answering in monoâ€" syllables only. There was a keen, strange sting of jealousy in his heart; that grew keener as years ad- vanced and once found so his own intimacy with Lucy increased. But he strovehard to hide the pain the subject gave him, and Was kinder than ever to Dr. Ardel after Lucy’s confidence. Still she, somehow, divined at last that the subject hurt him, and half- guessed the cause, and thenceforward it was mentioned thenn no more between CHAPTER XI. Eva was loth to part with her only son. He was nearly fifteen years .before John Trevor-»who was now Judge Trevorâ€"coaxed consent from her for school. Harry did well at Eton from the first. He was lik- ed by masters and by boys, for he was, as the phrase went, "good all round,” at books and games. Once only was bullying tried with him, just after he came, and the experiâ€" ment was not repeated. He had the unique distinction of being chosen on the shool cricket eleven only ,a few months after his arrival. It so chanced that the cap- tain, who had a quick eye for prom- ising material, was attracted by his “.4 asses N star: Prevented and Cured by ER. ddfiSE’fi hid fiEf-LEEVER Pittg. When you think of the pain and sr..‘i'ering which accompany backache, rheumatism, lumbago, stone in the kidneys and bladder; when you think of the dreadful fatality of Bright‘s disease, dropsy’ diabetes and apop_lliver active, and hence purify the ling. Samson he - ' went on. "I earned what I got. I ' . H, 1 t j I J 1 v r i 11 - d . .h . _lsystem and remove the cause of dis- fight. I'm ready amy “me 3’0“ had no call to make an ass of my- 3&35- 1 “MO “Std 3211“ S Own 0x3, yo.1 may we “on 01 w y IJLO. ,, _ T b1 t f .1 ..-1 t. .. . . ’ we neglect to keep the kidnevs in lease. please. . self because yo’u can play cricket and a ,9 s] 0‘ mm} “1 “Kill 5 l’cufhm .' perfect order, for all these ailments This medicine has long since prov- So the challenge was given and I can’t. Shake hands, old chap. You '00 babl’100d: well 35 f8‘015- illdllf-lOS- ‘ fave are the direct result of deranged kidâ€" neys. Once the. kidneys fail to filter from the blood the impure and pois- onous waste matter there is trouble of a painful and dangerous nature. Among the first symptoms are back- ache, weak, lame back, pains in the legs and sides, deposits in the urine, impaired digestion, loss of flesh, energy and ambition, stiffness and soreness in the joints and feelings of weariness and lassitude. Prevention is always better than cure, and hence the advisability ‘of using Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liven Pills on the very first indication of such lcure, Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills [are the most effective treatment you 'can obtain, for besides their direct and specific action on the kidneys, they keep the bowels regular and the en. its right to first place as a cure ‘lOl' the complicated and serious de- rangements of the filtering and exâ€" cretory organs. It has the largest sale and is endorsed by more people than any similar treatment. You can depend on it absolutely to bring prompt relief and lasting cure. In view of these facts it is a waste of time and money and a risk“ to life itâ€" Iself' to trifle with new and untried lremedies‘whcn Dr. Chase’s Kidney- iLiver'I’ills are at hand; One pill a ;dose, 250. a box,'at all dealers, or ngdmanson, Bates - & Co., Toronto. i’l"o protect. you against imitations W. Chase, the famous receipt book ilhe portrait and signature of Dr. A.~ : l derangement. Whether to prevent or lauthor, are on every box. physical health’ stone Wall. Further experiments proved that he could bowl as good old days. There is no proâ€" Well fessional pugilism, of course, in the as but, and his judgment and temperlhumane and enlightened England of Were always to be relied upon. So he quickly climbed up to the second eleven, his reputation growing daily. It was still the beginning of the cricket season, and practice was hard and competition keen amongst the young cricketers, for there was last year’s defeat by Harrow to be wiped out. A fortnight before this great event a test match was played. 'It was a perfect cricket day. The sun shone unclouded from a blue sky on a green earth. The crease was level as a. billiard table and elastic as its cushions when Harry Trevor went in first to face the bowling of his chief rival. Jack Samson owed his place on the eleven to his reputation as a lightning bowler. Somewhat erratic, it is true, but undeniable when “on the spot” and especially deadly to nervous players. Tall, loan, and wiry, with arms of abnormal length, he made the ball fly from his hand as from a sling. The air swung round it as it flew, the wickets it struck leaped yards from the ground or shivered to pieces. Glove or pad were quite pOWerless to save a luckless batsman from that numbing shock. To-day Samson meant to do more than his .best. Some instinct told him it was a duel to the death with the cool, flaxen-pated boy, who, rest- ing lightly on his bat, waited im- perturbably for the flying ball. For a boy to drop from his place on the eleven to the common ruck was like Adam expelled from Paradiseâ€"like Lucifer driven headlong from Heaven. No wonder Jack Samson nerved him- self for- the struggle. “Play!” cried the umpire. ' The bowler took three quick strides to the wicket and swung his long arm like a pendulum. The ball flashed down the crease, straight _ for the centre stump. But the batsman was ready, eyes and judgment, nerves and muscle acting together in that min- ute fraction of a second. The push of a straight bat met the furious ball as it rose from the sward, and tam- ed by the touch it rolled back softly lguard, planted a heavy blow to the bowler’s hands. “Played, sir!” rang out over the ground from a hundred shrill voices. The next ball went past the wick- et, fast and low, a foot to the off. It just glanced from the wicketâ€" keeper’s glove as it went, and a "legâ€"bye” for four was the result. The third was to leg, pitched a shade too far. With a quick swing the bat caught it on the "half volâ€" ley” as it rose. The muscles of arms, back and legs, every ounce of strength in young Trevor’s body, was in the stroke. The sound was clean and sharp as a rifle shot. Hard and low the ball flew at right angles to the Wicket, clear of the fielders. crash in amongst a group of spectaâ€" tors that sat far out on the field, and broke and scattered like a flock of fluttered wild duck as it came. "Well hit! Well hit! A sixer! Run it out!” clamoured the crowd of boys, and the triumph of the tumult thrilled young Trevor with the unâ€" reasonin-g delight of youth. With the bowler’s temper his skill went. The cool young batsman punâ€" ished the wild bowling without mercy. Now a sharp cut, now a clean drive, kept the figures conâ€" stantly changing on the telegraph board. Poor Jack was put off bowl- ing in disgrace. When Trevor ovenâ€" tually carried out his bat for one hundred and seventeen, scored withâ€" out a fault, his place on the eleven was assured. His triumph filled him full of the pure, exhilirating joy of boyhood, which no triumph of after life can rival. Yet all‘ the time he was con- scious of a second self, that smiled with goodâ€"humourcd amusement at his transports. Passing with the throng of boys into the schoolroom, he was roughly jostled and almost thrown, and, turning sharply round, found Sam- son close to him, his face blazing with passion. Boys can hate with a good. honest, meaningless hatred. Harry Trevor by some quick inâ€" stinct knew at once What that shove meant. A man’s duel is full of forâ€" mality, but a boy needs no preliminâ€" aries or explanation for his fighting. It comes natural to him. He fights lbecausc he wants toâ€"with reason or ‘without it. Samson’s jostle was a challenge. For just a second Trevor seemed to hesitate, half annoyed, half amused at the incident. "It’s a nuisance,” he muttered to himself. “but ‘ I suppose it must be gone through with.” Then to the scowâ€" whispered, "All accepted. Like 'wildfire the news went about that there was to be a fight between Jack Samson and the new boy,â€"“the chap that hit Jack‘s bowling all over the field, you know, and got his place on the eleven.” At school the news of a fight is always good news, whatever be the casus belli, and whoever the combatants. Some few cricket devotees there Were Who thought the school eleven 3. thing too sacred to be the theme of fist cuffs, but they were a miserable” minorityfrom the first, and their scruples were speedily absorbed and, lost' in the general enthusiasm}: ‘ ' Call it by what; name you will, the innate human savagery which rejoic- es in hurt or danger was at work our time. Men wear “two ounce” boxing-gloves, according to law, and beat each other to a jelly, and “put each other to sleep” as the pretty phrase isâ€"a sleep from which it is often hard to waken them, and from which sometimes they never waken at all. But this is “sport” and of all sports’the most exciting and the most popular in enlightened Eng- Let us get back to the only fight this story has to do with. The two boys met the next day in a secluded corner of the play-ground stripped to the waist and eager for battle. For a ring there was a closely packed circle of young bodies and eager yOung faces. Amongst the knowing ones Jack Samson was the favorite. He was a year older and Wm inches taller than his opponent, and his strong arms had made him victor in many a similar encounter. But young Trevor, clean-limbed and Square-shouldered, full of vigorâ€" ous vitality, was hard to beat. As he quietly faced his opponent, young r3xperts of the ring noticed the per- fect guard that covered face and body. _ ' Samson was angry and eager to begin and end the battle. Trevor was very cool and quiet. There was a half smile on his lips, as a man in a frolic smiles at his own folly; but his keen blue eyes never left the face of his opponent. Samson forced the fight from the first, striking fiercely with right and left at his opponent’s face. But the quick, moving face was never where he struck. He beat the empty air, and the force of his own blows wrencth his muscles till they ached again. , The indifference with which Trevor began the fight was changing to keen enjoyment as blow after blow Went by him harmlessly and his opponent gasped, and panted, and smote in vain. Now and again Trevor struck back, but lightly and without malice. He grew careless in his enjoyment, and at last Samson, evading his upon his chest. A look of pain and anger flashed across his face at the blow. In a second he changed from play to earnest. Samson, encouraged by his first success, rushed upon him furiously. Trevor’s right fist on his forehead stopped the rush. Before the other could 'get back the. left hand shot out viciously from the shoulder and caught him under the jaw, and sent him down like a log. The back of his head struck the ground, and he lay motionless. At once the frightened boys broke up the ring, and fluttered and clamored round the still unconscious body. Then fear crept into their eyes, and their white lips Whispered faltering- ly, “He‘s dead.” But Harry Trevorâ€"cool as everâ€"- walked briskly to where his coat lay. He took a small bottle of green glass with green glass stopper from his pocket. "I thought it might be wanted,” he muttered, letting a few drops fall upon his handkerchief, while he came back to where his opponent lay with a group '. of frightened, pale-faced boys about him. _...__.____...-_ .____â€"__...a I To prov _ to you that m j. ' Chase's mtme’nt is a cartai and absolut cure for cc and every mm of itching, bleedingand protruding piles, the manufacturersjmve guaranteed it. See tea tlmonials in the do.in press and ask your height born what they think ofit. You can use it and got your mane bacl: if not cured. o a box. at all dealers or DMANSONJBATEB 6:. 0.. Toronto. DriGhase’s @intment He put the boys aside with a curi- ous air of authorigy that 'made him seem older than he was. They yieldâ€" ed without protest, for fear is sub- missive, and they were horribly frightened. Alone amongst the .group he did not, seem in the least degree fluttered at the sight of his own handiwork. “It will be all right,”.. he. said cheerily; and he clapped the handkerchief, from which a pleasant, pungent smell came, to the mouth and nostrils of the prosâ€" trate boy. Like a charm it acted. The color came back to the boy’s face, his eyes opened, and he leaped to his feet like one awakened from sound sleep. For a moment he stood .beâ€" Wildered, gazing round with comic perplexity at the circle of wondering faces. I “Where am I? What has happen- ed? Oh! I remember now. Well, you've licked me fairly, Trevor,” he can lick me all round, sport or earn- est.” The boys shook hands heartily, and moved away together, getting their coats on as they Walked. Thencefor- ward they wore chums. Trevor put a new ambition into his friend. He helped him with his tasks as no master had ever helped him. When Samson, at the end of the term, got a school scholarship, he stoutly averred it was Trevor earned it. Trevor'gave him tips in cricket, too, and got him. back his place in the eleven in good time for the Harâ€" row' match, .mwhenâ€"crowning triumph of allâ€"he took seven wickets for twenty-five runs in the first innings, and was the hero of the day. Igree of translucenm desired. WATERY BLOOD. ' ._._._ Pi1np1es, Blotches, 30113 and Ugly Rashes Easily Cleared From the Blood. From the Advocate, Exeter, Out. All diseases of the skin and com- plexion are caused by bad blood. Paleness and pimples, blotches and boils, ugly rashes and open sores, itching eczema and burning erysipc‘ lasâ€"all these blemishes come from bad blood. A bad skin is a sura sign, of bad bloodâ€"thin blood, wat< cry blood, blood poisoned with Linn purities. You can't have a healthy, - clear skin-till you make your blood pure and rich with Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills. These pills are a surd and speedy cure for all skin diseases, for agonizing eczema or bothersome little pimplesâ€"for a bad complexion or ueg open ulcers. No claim is ever made for Dr. .Williams’ Pi - Pills not backed by the most posi< tive proof, and in this connection wd offer the testimonial of Mrs. Nicholas McAvoy, a life-long, much-esteemed resident of Exeter, Ont. To a. re- porter of the Advocate Mrs. 'Mc« Avoy said :â€"â€"“Some years ago I was taken with a slight itching under one of my arms. I gave it little at« tention at first thinking it would pass away, but in this I was mis< taken for as time went on it became worse and soon developed into an aggravated case of eczema, causing a great deal of pain, irritation and suffering. In fact I was compelled to endure tortures. I consulted a doctor and took medicine for several months, but the trouble did not leave, neither did it get any better. In fact it took a, turn'for the worse and developed into scrof'ula. As the doctor's medicine did not help me I tried several advertised medicines, but with no better results. Finally. a lady friend strongly urged me to try Dr. .Willianis’ Pink Pills. The effect was almost magical. In a few Weeks there was a decided change for the better, and as time went on the trouble gradually left and toâ€"day 1 am entirely free from it. I owe my complete recoveryâ€"if not my lifeâ€" to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, a fact I wish to put on record that others may benefit as I have done.” There is absolutely no disease due torpoor bloodâ€"and most diseases are due to this troubleâ€"that Dr. W’illiams’ Pink Pills will not cure. You can get these pills from any druggist or they will be sent post paid at 50c a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Re- member that substitutes cannot post sibly cure. It was, as has been said, Trevor’s first and last fight. Liked by all, lending a helping hand here and there as it was needed, he led a pleasant, easy life at school. 'In sports he ‘had the keen enjoyment of youth; in books the discriminating delight of age. At study or play he was equâ€" ally contented. His masters could make nothing 'of him. He had abilâ€" ity enoughâ€"“too much,” one master petulantly complained. He was in- dustrious too in his own way, but of emulation or ambition he had not a trace. He shied at the regular, hard-beaten, dry .track of school rou- tine. He lovcd to read on his OWn account the old books in literature and the new books in science. As the school phrase goes, he never “did himself justice” at the examinations, and was cheerfully content to see the prizes all go to his friends. (To be Continued.) ..+._â€"-,... ARTIFICIAL MARBLE. A new process for making imita- tions cf statuary marble, 01in and other multicolored stones has been devised in Europe. About 1,000 parts of alum to fro-m 10 to 100 parts of heavy spar (barium sul- phate) and 100 parts of water are mixed with the requisite pigments, and the liquid mass is boiled down and cast in a mold. The amount of heavy spar used varies with the dc. After being ' molded and dried. the artifi- cial stone thus produced can be pol" ished and finished as desired. we r,â€" SLEEPLESS BABIES. When a little one is sleepless and cross it is the surest sign in the world that it is suffering from some derangement of the. stomach and bowelsâ€"the seat of nineâ€"tenths of all baby ailments. In cases of this kind Baby’s Own Tablets act like magic. They sweeten the sour litâ€" tle stomach, relax the distended lit~ tle bmvels, cool the parched, fevered mouth, and bring natural, healthâ€" giving sleep. An experienced moth- er, Mrs. Ed. Godin, Griffith, Ont., tion, diarrhoea, etc., and I found them the most effective mediâ€" cine I have ever tried. I can only1 add I would not be without themI in the house, so much do I think of“ them.” i Other mothers who wish health for their little ones cannot- do betterI than follow Mrs. Godin's example. You can get the Tablets from all! medicine dealers or they will be sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writ-l ing direct to The Dr. .William's’ Med-l icine Co., Brockville, Ont. , ._...._._+_____. lirace: “_l\"'hy, Ethel, how could'l you tell all the news in Mary's let-i ter so soon? You haven't even: read it.” Ethel: “Well, you seen} dear, I read the postscript first," A ,Zw-sv xiii. 3,...‘16-4'1‘9fwyw": W v -y xâ€"EVQ‘V‘ R s; cécfir'i‘ .u... w' yVV-rw‘vnâ€" ‘. ‘ J â€" _. ~.-‘-~_ ‘vv-'â€" _-« ,»-.. . -.-, ,. â€" ‘ c/-.rw--‘~\V\sv , \4-\,'\_/\.‘â€"I~’ .. - . . . - .. Mar-V \-« w ~. ‘1“ “.’\‘/'~.-‘ V' [a . ._ .y :1" ’-/ A -AA 5 -_--.s A--JA_._..‘_‘ . n. "~:‘J‘y"‘ - '0‘ \.g .rv‘... J'flb.._..t V .“fl Vi