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"Yes, Mr. Mauwte, no offence to you, but you‘re a man yourself, you know." ‘"You won‘t have to make a pulp of anybody â€" while your daughter Hvea at Ballater, Mr. Elimer. I have watched her grow from a child into â€"into what she is now, something «â€"to us who love herâ€"between a fairy and an ange!l; and no father coukl take deeper interest in his own child than I do in her." "* Look here," he said, and for once hiz dull ezyes m=t mine with the straightâ€"lorwardiness of an honest sonviction. " Fuliâ€"grown women are the devil. Either they‘re good _ or they‘re bad, 1i they‘re badâ€"well, we nee«l say :o more about them ; if they‘re goout, whyâ€"the less said a bout thelr goodness the better. But a young girl, before she‘s learnt a woman‘s tricksâ€"and especially if she‘s your own ilesh and bloodâ€"wlhy tnat‘s di‘fforont : Aad my little girl, for all she shows none too much affection for her father (but that‘s her mother‘s doing), she‘s a little picâ€" ture, and I‘m proud of her. And if any infernal cad of a dâ€"â€"d gentleâ€" man was to b> up to any nonsense with her, and so much as to put his â€"â€"hadd on ber nretty little head â€"look here, Mr. \\'hat«l‘ye-cnll'-'em.‘ T4 make a dâ€"â€"d palp of iim !" ‘ And Mr. Elimer gripped my coat with a fierceness and looked into my | face with a resolution which, in spite | of the coarseness which has disfigâ€" | ured his speech, warmed my heart| towards him. For instead of the ‘ contemptible _ sodden â€" cur of a fow minutes _ ago, it was _ a . macâ€"degraded by his course of life,. | but still a man, with a spark of : the right fire in his beartâ€"who stood blinking sieadily at me with a persistency â€" which demanded an answer. f I freed my coat from but without _ any show ance, and answered him once. £ willit 9 t dith ts ctloy dninticat ds lc 2 2s "Well !" _ and _ teaned against the chimney piee». With this encourageâ€" ment he stepped back to the hearthâ€" trug again, and while Toâ€"to halfâ€" strangled himsel! in futile attempts to get at i# trousers, he addressed to me the followilug discourse. with the forelinger of his right hand upâ€" raised, and the dusty point of his cane planted deeply in a satin cushâ€" lon which Babiote hbad embroidered for my favorite chair. CSrCcelvitg some skhow of reason in his words, and some touch of more genuine feeling if his manner. I said, "Well !" _ and _ teaned against the chimney piesc». With this encourageâ€" ment he steopped back to the hearthâ€" Poercetving some sip his words, and some Here he looked up at i with a slow nod, to en little lesson in breeding example afforded. Parceiving some shoaw . fixed upon hits bat., :1 podgy land â€" still are not takinx m wa y You dowt | see. Well, One bound to fiy into th other gemftleman â€"fi at all ; 1 don‘t expedc you, and ( may not donw‘t fly at your thr bad cames by way of well. even though 1 f daughter hhling awa; fow of your wit‘g, as their own husband * Look §t00d in for som 1 was still at dignation, lt on this stog; eon would ha without tha t TCy "0r_ f@urorefm the face." * XOH .oâ€"â€"(a ssoundrel! Get up and get out of the house," I hissed out, In a ‘lash of uncontrollable rage. He got up, and even made one slow step towards tho door ; but he did noi go out, nor did he seem afraid of me. H+ turned deliberately when he was clos» to the sereen, and began to swing his walkingâ€"stick in the old way I remembered, regardless of the tonsequences in a room crowded with furnitare and ornaments. _ Then he looked into his hat, and passed his hrand thougntiully round the lining PR y T sucer you‘re after. I saw cher sneak out of here jJust as Icame in by the back way, as if ashamed to fcok her fath>e in the face." get out of In a ‘lash o He got um chaf1f mar.tal quiries 3 ed at th * Don‘t H ISHp CE EUIUEY He wert on w and louder, Luski " And, look here this great tatk of gentieman, I do 1 sbhouldn‘t feel it to accBunt," 1 rose to my 1 Still. but at once alraid lowt ( mig resist the advarta ition afforded for collar, and remoyi; @râ€"beds antsia~ i ut _ astonishing thing, then, that a woman should leave her bhusâ€" bard just to come and live like an old almslyse woman in a tumbleâ€" down cottage fifty miles farther than no where share hi giter § dn st not taking You ow Well, _ one 1 to My into â€"gemleman ; 1 dor‘t ex WCB EB ©wevasies c _ : _ 4. once sat down again, 1 last f might not be able to the .)dvam:ng» a standing posâ€" alforded for taking him by the 6 SEWWAW mss Lo cls a L noching ; indeed I s astonishment. Ut on with risi er, Lluskier voice. look there, if L ha lis unsatisfac noments, _ Hi htx hbat. rom 154 Â¥ %t ioered, regardless of the in a room crowded with _ ornaments. Then he id nsatisfactory manner ents. His eyes were bat,. round which his still wandered. "You "# me in the right ir‘i like me, | can ne _ gentleman isn‘t ito the arms of anâ€" in first goâ€"off. Not expect it. I may like 4 not like you ; but I ir throat and call you were, if 1 hadn‘t heard I& of your being such a don‘t know whether el it my duty to call you my feet, unable to sit _hbat, and passed his illy round the lining. a white heat of inâ€" to lay vioilent hands and unresisting perâ€" e _ been like footbal: @ up at me sideways x1, to emphasize the ay ol introduoing myâ€" i 1 find my wife and away under the shaâ€" ‘5g, as it were, from and and father." )nt e said, when we had his grasp, of annoyâ€" simply at kn rising bluster, Lt which his ) W was only it‘s my saw her could not Ty £ come so reduced in flesh that I }wpiglu(i only 138 pounds. As I was Pot able to work 1 returned to my Ihumt- at Bond Head. Here I placed { myself under the care of a local docâ€" , ‘or whe said tha tronble was neuralâ€" | gia, whichk bhad laken a thorougzh 'hnh: upon my entire system. Misforâ€" l ture seemed to follow me for the docâ€" | tor‘s treatment did not help me, and | 1 think my neighbors at least did rot | believe I was going to get better. I | bad otten read and heard of Dr. Wilâ€" | ilamsa‘ Pink Pills and in this emore igercy 1 determined to try them. I ! had z0t used more than three boxes before I felt that the pilis were helpâ€" . Ing me. From that on I gained day I by day, and after I had used some ten or twelve boxes, 1 had fully reâ€" covered my old time strength, and Iha\'p since been able to work at my | trade as a carpenter without any ftrouble. I have no pains or aches, ‘and I now weigh 156 pounds. _ 1 ,lhink Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills an inâ€" valuable medicine and shall always kave a good word to say for them." I When the nervesare unstruug, when the blood is poor and watery, or when the system is out of order, Dr. Wilâ€" liamse‘ Pink Pills is the moedicine to take. ‘They cutre all troubles arising from these causes, and make wenk, despondent men and women bright, active and strong. Protect yourself against imitations by sceing that the full name, "Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills for Pale People" is on the wrapper around every box. Sold by all mediâ€" cine dealers or mailed post paid at Te 0 (HedicPw® 120C 50c per box or six boxes for ®2.50 by writing to the Dr. Wililams Mediâ€" cine Co., Prockville, Ont. 1005¢ plIs make new, rich, red blood with every dose, and impart new life and sew vigor to the person using them. Mr. John Mcbermott, â€" Bond Head, Ont., o.fer:strong proof of the certair resuits obtained from the use of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pils in cases ol this kind. He says : "A â€" few years ago while working asacarâ€" penter in Buffalo 1 got wet. I did not think it worth while changing my clothes at the time, but 1 soon began to sulfer for my neglect. I awoke next morning w ith cramps and paing@ throughout my body. 1 was urable to go to work and called ‘n & . doctor, who left me some medicine. 1 used it faith{ully for some time, but it dic not help me. In iact I was growing steadiiy worse and bad beâ€" Dr. Willlams‘® Pink Pilts Make Rich, Bod Blood and Drive These Pains From the Systemâ€"ttead the Proof A high medical aulthority has doâ€" fined newvraigia as "a ery of the nerves for better blood," and to efâ€" fectually drive it from the system the blood must be made rich, red and pure. For this purpose there is no other medicine so prompt and sure in result as Dr. Williams‘® Pink Pilis. These pills make new, rich, red blood with every dose, and impart new life and sew vigor to the person using. them. Mr. John Mcbermott, Bond‘ Head, Unt.. o.fersstrang@ nmnit af tha Are a Cry of the Nerves for Better Blood. _ , ne does iike me, as a ‘beauâ€" tiful girl may like a grandfather, battered and scarred in war, or a homeless cur which she has picked up and which has grown attached to her. To be frank with you, Mr. Elimer, nothing but my ugly face prevents me from becoming a suitor for your daughter ; but that obâ€" stacle is one which, without any undue selfâ€"depreciation, 1 know to be one which makes happy marriagze impossible for me," "I don‘t know," said Mr. Elimer, n a tone of generous encourageâ€" ment; ‘"good looks don‘t always carry it off with the women. Look at my wife, now ; well, to be supre, . she was proud enough of getting‘| me; but, do you think the feeling ; sue was proud enough me; but, do you think I ETT E2 CCC ATITUEYT ETT CE futile passion. Of course, the man llm!uro me put the worst construcâ€" it’lon upon my evident confusion ; he repeated in a louder and more blusâ€" tering tone: " Why don‘t you marry her ?" "In the first place," said I, quietâ€" 1y, "she is searcely more than a child, Mr. Ellimer." "That‘s not much of a fault, for she won‘t improve as she loses it. Besides, you needn‘t marry her at once." ol your heart brought suddeniy face lto face with you is a startling and confounding experience. I think no , con victed ruffian can ever have looked more guiltily ashamed oi himself than ll. as Ifelt the hot blood mount to my head, and my brain swim with 'the first full consciousness of a you "In the second place, I am quite sure she wouldn‘t have me." *‘ Why not? She seems to like "she does like me tiful girl may like battered and searred homeless cur which :i up and which has «« ioilidinns n cout i8 80 e td c 2 t a d c 114A c io had treated me, the admission seemed quite _ a _ compliment. I made no attempt to deny it, and this reticâ€" ence emboldened him. * Now, why don‘t you marry â€" her yourself ?" To have the wish which has been secretly gnawing at the foundations o l ol d t . ' NEURALGIC PAINS vyorsk i1 returned to my 1 Head. Hoere I placed the care of a local docâ€" tha tronble was neuralâ€" 1 4 Dee and crossed it again by Ballater Bridge into the village, without a glimpse of her. The sun was getting low behind the hills when I reached the westâ€" ern foot of Craigendarroch, anmd without a pause, began to climb beâ€" loflg draught of the fresh saweet airâ€"but no ; I passed through it and out into the open country, over the g\tone bridge of Muick, skirted the "Say no more, sir ; between gentleâ€" men that is quite sufficient. And I should like to add, sir, that if everyâ€" thing should turn out as we both deâ€" sire, you need have no fear of being put upon by your wife‘s relations, whatever Babiole‘s mother may say. The votaries of art, sir, are used to poverty and need not blush for it. But I should be glad to think that my devotion to it had brought only Its dignity and not its penalties upon my daughter." P & T Bestcccss 420 * 1 00f n EOIAREOJCGCL is one I know she has never dreamed of, and it will surprise, and may even startle her very mich. So that I may ask so mah of you, and beg you to‘rely on my discretion." Mr. Ellmer seemed pleased with the success of his diplomacy, and he ofâ€" fered me a fat, pink, lazy hbhand to shake. "Will you give ; morning to think speak to â€" Babiol asked, after a few thought. "In the ; do our best to m able, either here or course, I cannot pr what you please 1 but I hope you will let me plead my ow ©7"IC, eltner here or at the coltage. Of course, I cannot prevent your saying what you please to your daughter, but I hope you will, in fairness to me, let me plead my own cause unbiassed by one word from you. The subject is one I know she has never dreamed mP : se B CC L ies 1 t nee 1. _ _[ilN8 to be good to her, 0@ I leave with my daughter herself, and I put her in the way of earning her own living on the stage, which is a more honorable position than playing lodgekeeper to any gentleâ€" man in the land. ‘"And you would take.her mother with her, of course »" Iisaid as easâ€" ly as I could, with a sudden gloomy misgivingz that Babiole, â€"happy as she was among the hill«s, would snatch at the chance of rushing into the conâ€" flicts of the busier life in which she took such an ominous interest. "Oh, she can do as she likes," anâ€" swered Mr. Elimer, with a â€" sudden return, at mention of his wife, to sulâ€" len and brutai ferocity of look and tone. o } 20 CC 0gr POwEver, being, indeed, too much involved in a whiripool of doubts and lonfilings and miserable certainties to ave any neatlyâ€"turned phrases ready with whigh to carry on the conversation ’he presently cleared his throat and went on again. ‘"You see,‘" he said, with an odd assumption of paternal dignity which coverel some genuine feeling as well as some genuine humbug, "it isn‘t often that I can spare the time to‘ take a journey as long as this. Thereâ€" fore, when I W>, I like to see someâ€" thing for my trouble. Well, and what I mean to see this time is one of two things, either I leave with the knowledge that my daughter is enâ€" gaged to be mnrried to an honorable gentleman who is able to support her, and willing to be good to her, 0# I leave with my daughter herself, and I put her in the way of earning 'h:er own living on the stage. which _ 7; â€" _ 1 Ne_ more than a week toâ€" getnerâ€"barring a miracle." And Mr. Ellimer looked at me. with _ his _ head â€" a little _ on one side, as if expecting that the Ti WWe Hlhoum Coon ucss lasted ? No, I might have oneâ€"eyed _ hunchback, _ sir we‘d been man and wile months! There‘s no knowi those creatures will like, 1 the fact that they never same thing more than a | was less t you give me till toâ€"morrow &5 to think about it, and to to â€" Babiole, Mr. Elimer ?" 1 after a few moments‘ rapid . ‘"In the meantime we will IbesL to make you comfortâ€" Mc 34 . caue 1 horrqr-struck at course ?" Iisaid as easâ€" I, with a sudden gloomy it Babiole, â€"happy as she he hills, would snatch at lect my views on matâ€" said nothing, however, too much involved in his experience would __and wife three s no knowing what _ will like, let alone they never like the re than a week toâ€" might have been the possiâ€" before _ Mr. Alex. McLean, Tarbot Vale, N. 8., writes: "For two years I worked as sectionman on the Dominion Coal Company‘s Railroad between Sydney aod Glace Bay, N. 8., and during that time wmwas exposed to all sorts of weather. Gradually my health failed, and I became a victiin of protruding pllgs. At first Idid not know what my allment twas, but consulted a doctor, and though he treated me for pMes, they only grew worse. " I was forced to give up work and returs to my home.. My suffering . could scarcely be described. I could| not walk or lie down, but while the rest of the family was sleeping T would be groacing and aching from the exeruciating pains. "Why, you stupidi! Don‘t you supâ€" pose they read the papers, the same as anybody else?" Information Open to All. (Meitere Welt.) "Say, pa, how do the astronomers ulws_ayu know when there is going to be an eclipse ?" DREADFUL CASE OF ITCHING PILES Doctor Wanted to Burn the She answered by a look only ; a look that was timid, mournful, afâ€" fectionate, and that had yet anâ€" other element; for behind ail this tenderness _ and _ softness, there danced the restless yearning of an eager young spirit. No answer. "Was it something your father said ?" She looked up with a flash of inâ€" quiry in her eyes. ‘"Was it something about your goâ€" ing awag from here ?" ishe began to laugh in the shyest, sweetest, _ prettiest way ; and, putting her hand on the stout stick 1 carried she twisted it round and round in the earth and looked up in my face affectionately. " Yes, yes, I know. That is the way you always teach me. You told me _ was intelligent and industrious until I began to be both ; and I dareâ€" say, if you were to tell me long enoughâ€"â€"in your own kind way, helpâ€" ing me on by your ow n strong wishâ€" that I was brave, why I should beâ€" come so, But I‘m not now." "Tel!l me how you know that ?" "Well, toâ€"day 1 only heard som»â€" thing thatâ€"that would be very bard to bear, aud 1 broke down nl-‘ together." "Conrage Is a thirg you can‘t meaâ€" sure until you have to use it. What makes you think you have none. Baâ€" biole? I feel sure you have a great deal." Iy, ‘"You look like Helen McGregor," said I, smiling. + She smiled back brightly, but shook her head. "I haven‘t courage enough for myâ€" self, much less enough to inspire anyâ€" body else with," she said rather sadâ€" She was winding about her the thick plaid she always carried whon the weather _ was cold ; and this, when _ adjusted Highland _ fashion across the shoulder, made her, in conjunction with the knitâ€" ted Tam o‘Shanter _ cap she wore, a most picturesque and apâ€" propriate figure among the dead heather and the firâ€"trees. "What was that ?" Ee m La‘d Fibud a 8 451 "Yes,. I had forgotten it was so late," she said humbly, with a senâ€" sitive blush â€" at my mild reproof. "Poor mamma wanted to be quiet, and told me to go out ; so I came here." The spell was broken ; she was in a moment, the sweet smiling Babiole of every day. But I could not so soon get over the shock of the first sight of her face; I had seemed to read vague prophecies in her wide sad eyes, 1 smiled and held out my hand, but I Jleft it to her to open the conversation. "It‘s very nice up here, isn‘t it, Mr. Maude?" Babiole said, after a few seconds‘ search for â€" an openâ€" Ing remark. "But it‘s much too late for you to be out here by yourself." lor her stiil features. The wild sweet sadness of her expression, like that ’0( & gentle animail who has â€" been @tricken, and does not know why brought a lump to my throat, â€" and caused me to halt at some distance from her with a feeling of shy (reâ€" spect, Taâ€"ta who sat by. her side, with & sensitivelyâ€"dilating nose on the young girl‘s knee, saw me at once, but merely wagged her tail as an apologetic intimation that I must excuse her from attendance on me, as she had weightier business on hand than mere idle frisking about my heels. But the movement in her companâ€" ion attracted Babiole‘s attontion ; she turned her head, saw me, and started up. l were lying dense, cloudâ€"like mists, against the blackness of the darkenâ€" ing hillâ€"sides. The last rays of the sinking sun threw upon her face & weird unnatural glow, and caused her moist eyes _ to glisten _ like «s&range gems in the sunâ€"lit marble I pulled myself together, not withâ€" out some consternation at the phenâ€" omenon. "I came up the hill too fast," I said to myself, and crep: up the slabs of rocks that now formed a wet and slippery footway among the firs, with a sensation ofi horror at the thought of Babiole‘s trusting her litâ€" tle feet on such a treacherous path. At the top, a little way beyond the cairn, 1 came up>u her suddenly. She was sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree, looking out to the westâ€" ern hills, across the slopes of w hich : to rush to my head, and my beart to continue its action by unwonted, tuâ€" multuous leans. coming so far, and the faint bark of my own dog, which reached my cars as I was ascending the bare agd rocky space which separates the oakâ€"grown lower slope from the firâ€" crowid gummit of the hill, caused me to stop suddenly in surprise and exâ€" citement so sharp and so sudden that all the blood in my body seemed tween the glistening branches of the budding oakâ€"trees up to the “‘29 I had' no distinct purpose in (To be Continued.) CHAPTER XII It falled to cure "I was in a desperate condition and had given up hope of ever being freed from .this dreadful suffering, when a friend told me about Dr. Chase‘s Ointment. He said he had geen so many cases that it had cured th‘t_hq would pay for it himself if _ * Again Edecided to consult a docâ€" !tor. This ooe stripped me, and said the plies would have to bo burned with a red hot iron. T shivered at the thought of burning the filesh, and told him Icould not think of underâ€" going such an operation, so he gave me some salve, for which he charged me two dollars% but it did not do me any good. f "At the trial Constables Gelhonâ€" #kim the sen and Allen gave evidence that until it they were conceamled outside, and over the bhearing the clinking of the money are to be | _ "Constable Clarke, of Morant Bay," | says the story, "went to the house of 4 Hamlet Richards on the 15th inst., in civilian _ dress, and representing himsel{ as being a headman on an estate, asked the latter to remove some ghosts which three men whom he had sent to prison put on him. Richards informed him that the ghosts were on him very badly, and told him to return on the 19th inst., and bring a pint of rum, a cock, two eggs, a yard of calico, nine pebbles ant 20 shillings in money. He reâ€" turned on the 19th bringing these arâ€" ticles with him. He met â€" Richards about a mile outside the town and they proceeded to his house together. Richards lives about six miles from Morant Bay. When they got to the _ house Richards gave him some hogs‘ tusks to hide in the thatch of his house, a vial containing mercury _ to bury in front of his door, some hair to sleep on and a box of grayish powder to put under his pillow for nine nights. He also "Mogged" him on | the shoulders _ with â€" some weeds. | Having frightened _ away _ the ‘ghosts‘ Richards â€" asked for pay â€" ment, and the constable in bhandâ€" ing the money to him rattled loudâ€" ly, an arrangement which brought in two constables in plain cloth»s, â€" who were concealed outside. Richâ€" ards was then arrested. His house was searched and a large number â€" or. ‘obeah‘ inlstruments were found. â€" 66 tlle / Hhoe | Seuebmnd . es LEA L 0C n w oo a side light upou”the means ad(;pt- ed by the police to land him in the toils. 4 arch. According to their simple arâ€" ticles of faith his enimity _ means death. Consequently they _ endeavor to propitiate him and please him. Conmsequently, ailso, he waxes rich. The case of an obeah man recentiy tried at Morant Bay, a small town on the west coast. was a typical one. The official account of it iHMusâ€" trates very well the wiitch doctor‘s method of working and also throws use Of it. His methods are the methods of the "hooâ€"doo man" of southern Maryland, the "yooâ€"doo" man of Georgia and the "snake doctor" of the back woods of Mississippi. He efâ€" fects a queer garb and uses queer words. In his house are piles of dried herbs, old bones and bits of junk, broken glass of many colors. scraps of gaudy calico, cracked pebbles, egg shells and battered coins are â€" his talsman. With their aid he can force nineâ€"tenths of King Edward‘s Jamâ€" aican subjects to do anything or everything he may desire. He is their absolute master, their lawyer, phyâ€" sician, protector, advisor and monâ€" Skin With a Red Hot Iromnâ€"Patient Was Cured Dr. Chase‘s OQintment u0c runems OEOORe w Obeah Like Hoodoo Man. Except in Kingston and a few other larger towns the obeah man is a greater personage than the reâ€" sident administrator. ‘The latter may send a man to prison and may even order him to be flogged, but he has no grasp upon his immortal soul. The obeah man hasâ€"and he makes ooe en omie . Sn‘ EEE 0 1 From the west coast of Africa the first obeah man came with the first shipload of slaves brought to Jamâ€" aica by the Spamsh pirates who wrested the island from the Indians. In each ship thereaiter on» of his brethren was a passenger. . Toâ€"day their descendants lord it over 714,â€" 000 blacks and black and tans, who make up 99 per cent. of the island‘s population. _ The laws against them are usceless and the oefforts of the 14,000 white Jamaicans to destroy their powoer by showing that it is not power at all are worse than futile. | According to the books the govâ€" ernment of Jamaica is vested in offiâ€" cers of the Rritish crown, but as a matter of fact the meanest obsah man up>on the island is more respect~â€" ed and feared than the most digâ€" nified dignitary that ever exhibitad bis gold lace before the dusky popuâ€" lation. _ Desperately and vigorously for 200 yearsthe powers that be have plotted and planned to overthrow the science of witcheraft, and yet toâ€"day the obeah man is as numerâ€" ous and as powoerful as ho was beâ€" fore the first Briton landed upon the shores of the island. Laws have been made to batter his influence to pieces and schools have been esâ€" tablished to undermine it, but, though his clients are taught the futility of his art and he himsel{ is sent to the stone pile, ho continues to flourish like the green bay tree. : Every one of the West India isâ€" lands has been described, more or less accurately and sarcastically, as a paradise of some sort. Hayti has been christened as the Eden of the professional revolutionists, Cuba as the Eden of the hungry expatriot, Trinidad as the paradiso of the Amâ€" erican "promoter" and Jamaica, the fairylike, as the earthisy heaven of the obeah man. itside, and over the plums in the jar where the money are to be kept. Cover the jar tig CE uty Hemy o mrek DJ & box to me. You are free to use my | testimonlal for the benefit of others, \as I feel 1t my duty to make kpown this great ointment." t |\ _ Dr. Clmsr'u Ointment, 60 cents a | box, at ali dealers, or EM* }Batec & Co., Toronto. TORONTO |_"My experience with Dr. Chaso‘s Ointment is that the first applionâ€" ‘tion did me more good than did the two doctors, and it has made me as well and as free from plies as any ‘ man. BSince being cured { worked |during the winter in the lumber l’woodo and exp>rienced no return f my cid trouble. I am not put ting it too strong when I say that Or. Chase‘s Ointmeont was worth $100 a hok hm mam s Wl l CC s 8 Aliow pound for pound of augar and plums. To every three pound of sugar add one and threeâ€"quarter cupfuls of vinegar and a teaspoonâ€" ful each of clove, mace, allspice and cinnamon. Wash and dry the plums, and prick them. Make a syrup of the sugar and vinegar and turn it, boil ing, with the spices, over the fruit. Let them stand three days. Thes ekim them out, boil down the syrup until it Is. thi(-_k. and pour it hot | Gambling at Baratoga. | â€"â€"I, who am familiar with what passes as fashionable dissipation in nearly every corner of the world, have never before seen such publicity and promiscuousness in these lollies, have nowhere else known gambling to begin close upon breakfast and be carried on, in varied lields of chance, until after midnight; have in no other place found young maidens, new brides and family domestics riskâ€" ing bets side by side with the heads of families. And â€" never before or elsewhere have 1 seen fathers and mothers teaching the tricks of gamâ€" ing to callow children or fathers lookâ€" Ing with smiling faces at their some beside the faro tables in a gambling regort.â€"Julian Raiph. h Giiy vedl 1148 on Pusin ced 6 P c‘ Tsc 3 his yam crop is a failure, it is the obeah man whom he employs to set things to rights. There is no task that the Inky "doctor‘ will not unâ€" dertake: no s o mive t‘ratâ€"for a conâ€" siderationâ€"he is not willing to parâ€" form. _ At the readyâ€"made British lawse of the lands he laughs, for he knows very well that the will of the prople is greater than any daw ever written upon the statute books. There are 714,000 black Jamaican®# who would break into open revolt if a plan were devised to exterminate them.â€"Chicago Chronicie. In matters of lJove â€" and business and religion and war the black Jamaican rcocoives the advice of the "doctor"‘ as he would the words of an inspired prophet. If he has & quarrel with a neighbor he enlist® the services of the obeah man to "put a speli" in his enemy. If he covets the smile of a dusky belie it is to the obeah man that he goes to obtain them. 1( he would em ba rik in a _ commercial undertaking _ the obeah man must first advise him ; if his wife is a shrew or his donkey is foundered or his hens do not lay or his yam crop is a failure, it is the obeah man whom he employs to set things to rights. Thore is no task LV W er s c CS t "the epirits were too s't'r:::ng." If he gets wellâ€"great, indeed, is the obealr man ! â€"and Â¥ery often before he has tried themâ€"he seeks out an obeah man and applies for treatment. First of all the lattor takes a shiliing fee. Then he delves ipto his stock of misâ€" cellaneous rubbish _ and concoclis a vial of tou!l smeliing liquid. ‘This ho carties to the sick man‘s house and smears its contents ovar the walls. Then he repeats a feow unintelligible words, rolis his cyes, walks around the house three times and hangs a bottle containing a pebble and a bit of cloth over the door. ‘Then â€" he pockets his feeâ€"which is as large as the pattent can affordâ€"and departs. If the .la.tter dies it was because ‘The British Government has staâ€" tioned district medical officers in every parish in the island, but when the average black is ill he no more thinks of consulting a regular phygiâ€" clan than he would of taking advice from a constable. If he finds that his home remedies do not cure him __"~"Accused was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months‘ impriâ€" sonment with hard labor." Not an Isolated Case. This case should not be considerâ€" ed an isolated one by any meanse. Almost daily the Jamaicano newsâ€" papers dontain reports of the capâ€" ture of obeah men. The general penitentiary at Kingston and the various district prisons are full of them. And it must be rememboered that not more than 5 per cent. are ever enmeshed by the officers of the law. Their viectims had rather Jjump before a moving train than give ‘evidence agzainst them. This in why ‘the police find it necessary ta employ meanrns such as those des» cribead above to catch them. Whon they are captured the iaw deals severely with them, but they are perfecily willing to take the riek. And It is no wonder that they are, for in this country of little money where the wages of â€" an ordinary laborer are from 25 to 50 cents a day, the obeah man may obtain a fee of $25 for pronounciug a few meaningless words ovrer a _ sick baby. â€"A signal previously arrangedâ€"enâ€" tered and arrestpd Richards. Richâ€" ards had a gun in his hand, which he was in the act of firing over Constable Clark‘s head as a fiaishâ€" ing touch. Slitced Plurms. d eKach tightiy.