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S5 I v U I TO Happy Thought Ranges y in actual use Canada ft Is without doubt the most perfect Range built ranges but the is there time Hardware Ranges Heaters Furnaces Paints Oils Glass AGENCY FOR CLYDESDALE STOCK Gives Best results for Poultry Hogs Horses Cattle v A INNS NEWMARKET and 1 A Piece of Gossip were about John Aikjn You had noli gone to China- had when his came Inheriting his uncles property do you mean was just before I left What a pompous old jackass he was to be sure but his daughter was iriirig You are right in both statements Take another cigar But if you thought John Aikin pompous when be was schoolmaster at you should have seen him after he came into possession of ten thousand a year and his uncles splendid home Ive heard of people you cant touch with a forty foot pole and he was surely one of them Airs To see him riding about in his open barouche and bowing to his neighbors was a of condescension for an emper or And poor little Folly had a hard time of it When didnt she have a hard time of it There wasnt a boy in the school who didnt pity Polly she was the schoolmasters daughter When wc were all out shouting and playing we could see her juried in a big che apron resting from Latin grammar and by beating eggs or her lathers puddings or listing herself- oyer a hot fixe cooking chops- Why he actually let that mite of a girl black his shoes J have seen her do it You never would have imagined it however if you had met Miss for the first time Place Place te ex-school- master his uncles house as soon as it own And poor little Polly never had a harder time cooking his chops and blacking bis boots than had in- acquiring the dignity he considered proper in his daughters- position To see his frown when she nodded to an old friend instead of sitting stiffly erect and Inclining an inch was to know sometnfigof the childs daily martyrdom She must never walk in the roads and fanes Miss kin s carriage was always at her command She must never wear a dress in which she could or Miss Aikins wardrobe contain- advance- lasted serexal months and Mr Ai pushed I forward the claims of other suitors with great energy and perseverance Rut Polly was as resolute- as he was and one morning obtain any employment I fear they came- very near the starvation of which Pollys father spoke and that it was tic want of proper nour ishment broke Will down took the train to New York met with typhoid Will at the depot and was it By noon a telegram announc ing fact with the request to Please tell There was aliveiy scene then I imagine Ft was awful I have seen men in rage plenty of them but I never saw such fury as John Aikins in my life He was fairly livid I hate rage It means mischief John cursed Polly in terms that made me shiver old as I he swore not ope cent of his should go to Will Marshall if they both starv ed That was not likely Will Mar shall was not a roan to depend upon a rich fatherinlaw were he ever so amiable No but still I will tell you that afterwards I did not send back the telegram John wrote out because I am not brute but I sent one of my own telling Polly that her father was very angry and there was no hope of present forgiveness I know she wrote several times and her letters were tossed into the fire covered blind But this was after years of struggle and when he youngest of the children was nearly a year old Brave little Polly never tost heart Will spoke of her as he might have done of an as he told me of her cheerfulness her cour age her hopeful never broke under all the laid upon it She had taken in sewing had tended in a store had forty times turned every penny earned before spending it She had never let an Opportunity to work pass by when little hands could accomplish the task When I at last found her she had established a school for little children and managed live on what she earned but it was well Will was blind Could he seen the pale little Polly who came in while he talked face gray hair and hollow eyes I think his heart would have broken Only the cheery ring to her voice was left of the Polly of oh and mat I am sure was cultivated to Wills ear Shabby in dress weariness printed on every line of her face with three pate thin children as Toronto Letter i TWO FOR HOUSE CULTURE BROUGHTONS DRUG STORE J I w Chinese Sacred Lilies 8c or for lc each Narcissus each BROUGHTONS DRUG STORE f AGENTS FOR Parkers Dye Works and Canadian Express to with J fry iw it Haute the richest silks and velvets She must never run out to see an old friend or invite one to tea Miss Ai kin made formal calls and gave state ly entertainments Poor little Polly I It must have been amusing to sec the wee bright child trying to be a grand lady John allowed the business of the estate to remain in my hands and I was a frequent visitor at the house Hut never did he come down off his stilts for me or allow Polly to forget one of her new ties Sometimes if she chanced to alone I found the bright unaffect ed Polly we loved but as soon as father entered the room she froze She Was always afraid of him And yet she did defy him at last You remember Will Marshall Well And bless me he Pollys lover when she conquered the alphabet And remained her lover ever after That was the trouble But what was the matter Up was as fine a fellow as ever breathed and old Marshall was rich Was rich you say As long as Mr Marshall was one of the richest men in the state Pollys affajrs ran on smoothly Wills horse was fastened to the gate at Place every day and many an hour Polly and he spent riding through the shad- lanes about Not one word of opposition made to their engagement and If Polly ever did have and natural free enjoyment it was when she was with and away from her father Her wedding cards were out and Mr Alkln was preparing to astonish the country by the magnificence of the marriage fes tivities when old Marshall suddenly became bankrupt and committed sui cide At first It was supposed the wedding was postponed out of re spect to the memory of the bride- father but that idea very speedily Mr- strutted about the village swell ing with Indignation at the village that would have made his daughter the wife of a pauper Bless me How long was after he ceased to be but a few re moves from a pauper himself About three years Miss he boasted could marry anybody- the in the land But Polly did not want to marry anybody tut one Her ideas on that subject were positive and she wanted to marry Will Marshall There were terrible scenes was confidential friend of all the parties and I was amazed to see what courage and spirit shy heart tough as It was It took dome argument to make her return but she came at last as my guest To my relief and amazement Mr Aikin received them as distinguished guests from abroad The best in the house was not too good for them and I could supply money for all needs Our first care was to put Will under the treatment of an occulist who gave but little hope at first hut after a year of building up of the whole system undertook an operation that was successful By that time there was no question of Mr in sanity and the necessary legal meas ures to give his soninlaw control of his property was easily managed three years after Polly came never once recognising her but sometimes insisting he was enter taining one royal visitor sometimes They were very kind to him humored all his whims and I think little Polly mourned sincerely when he died But if you call at the house now I am sure you will have cordial greeting from your old schoolmates Will Marshall and Pol- I will certainly call Midnight How time flics There are a lot of people I want to ask about but if there is as long a story for each one as you have- just told me we must postpone our gossip until tomor row Goodnight then But beware Dont tell my clients that I gossip or the results will be unopened Then I lost sight of as herself Polly wrung my for several years Id that time it became a sort of grim joke to me to draw up John will two or three times a year and destroy it to make a new one I think I drew up at least a dozen not one of which was ever signed Sometimes he left his property split up into portions for fifty charities some times he divided it amongst his rel atives sometimes he it in- Sulk to a to a hospi tal but never one dollar was left to Polly or her husband Bus why did he never sign them Superstitious He believed that signing a will always preceded speedy death Why there are wills in this my father drew up forty ago and testatorsUHbc are alive yet But I never told John that I told him every yarn I ever heard about men who mopped dead going home from the lawyers after they had signed their wiSi all the cases of heart disease apo plexy that followed their testamen tary I knew that if tic died without a will Polly must inherit his property and I wasnt going to stand in Pollys light if I could help it I see Did he die then It was long after we lost sight of Polly that people began to shrug their shoulders and talk in low tones of John Nobody liked him Such airs of superiority arc hard to swallow in a free country and there was not a man in quite ready to eat humble pieto John Ai So when he began to show signs of mental weakness there were plenty to nod and wink and laugh be hind his back The first inkling I had was in the wild I got about his business affairs and when one day I had Ave directly contradic tory orders In one note went to Dr Hay- After seeing his patient he sent for a New York physician and they both decided that he was as mad as a March hare We intro duced a keeper into the as an old friend come to make a visit and undertook to find Polly Little I knew task it would he Letters were returned visits to New York were unavailing and advertisements the most urgent kind were unheed ed I was breaking down with the responsibility for Mr was in full bodily health and cunning as a I was in terror all the time lest he should do some mischief and yet I had no authority for shutting him up in an asylum I should have taken the authori ty And perhaps he would have re covered in a month and sued you for false sec he was not a raving lunatic and there were times when he was as Mine as anybody Just when I was getting desperate I received a letter from Philadelphia It was written by the superintendent of an Institution for the blind and stated that having wen my advertisement he wrote to that ho had had a man named William Marshall under his care and thought he might he found If so di rected He was quite sure this Wil liam Marshall had a son named John and thought it Wight ho man seeking Blind Poor little Polly I took next train for Phila delphia and three days later I found Polly and their three children You well nay poor little Polly then Will had Injured his eyesight by writing lute Wo the night earning mere pittance as a clerk He had never had trif new Island to cost is now being talked of Appli cation has been made to the- City Controllers for the necessary land Three years in the penitentiary was the sentence meted out to William Yates who pleaded guilty to high way robbery from Martin Murphy AM while in at tendance at the Fair was relieved of by a pickpocket Several farmers also lost their wal lets elections before Thanks giving Day to be followed before by Provincial elections this is current thought about political Club- rooms here John Wilson a guest at the Albion Hotel was attached by in a lane off Berkeley St one night last week and robbed of A police man bund a hill in the lane which the thieves dropped while run ning away Miss Jessie and her Scottish concert party open their On tario tour in Halt on the inst The City Parks Committee are con- the question of removal of the Zoo to High Park Mr has for a new outpatient depart ment for the General Hospital On Friday last in the Police Court the case of William as the President of the Ontario Jockey Club charged with having kept a disorder ly house to wit a common betting house at the race course was remanded for a week Mr appeared for the Hon J Davis Commissioner of Crown Lands has instructed his connscl to enter an appeal from the judgment of the election court void ing the North York election The resignation of Dr Cham- SENATORS ENDORSE Win Dead- London Oct Sir William court who became the Lib eral leader in the House of Commons on Mr Gladstones retirement ln held that position until February 1st when he announced his intention of retiring from Parliament died this morning Although Kir William has been in poor health for some days Ills came quite unexpectedly at Park Oxfordshire IBs son Hon Lewis VernonHar for divi sion of Lancashire who was in Lon don was informed during the night that father had been seized with a sudden Illness and left for early this morning id little Polly war nests training arid found It very hard Remarkable Babys Own Tablets have a remark able record All over you will find mothers who will tell you this medicine has saved the Uvea of their little ones When you give Ba bys Own Tablets to your children you have a guarantee that you are not stupefying them with poisonous soothing stuffs No medicine for children gives this guarantee and no other safely cures all such ills as colic indigestion consti pation diarrhoea and teething trou bles The Tablets not only cure troubles but an occasional dose given to a will child prevents them Mrs A Sawyer Que says I have used Babys Own Tablets for little girl and that thoy Very tort medicine can give Tablets will not dUap- you Bold by medicine dealers or sent by mall at cents box by writing tho Dr Medicine Co Out Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities has been accepted by the Provincial Secretarys Depart ment The jury brought in a verdict of guilty against the Toronto Railway Co in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Ward The September customs collections at Toronto were almost a fifth of the total for Canada Principal of Manning Ave School is dead James Armstrong the thirteen- yearold son of Mr James Armstrong teamster Thompson St was in- lured at Sunlight Park last Friday evening Ills arm was badly brok en Dr J Queen Street east attended him The lad alleges that he was assaulted pulled oil a bench and jumped on by an older boy whose name the police have Richard for ten years guard at the Toronto jail died Friday night at his home River Street Mr came to Toronto in from Mono township and for some years served on tho Toronto force retiring to accept the position at the jail He was an exmember of the Royal Grenadiers Tho record of Toronto people drowned during the past season ei ther on the city water front or while away at pleasure resorts foots up twentyfour Among these sad fa talities that of Nana a young girl of 15 years who while in Muokoka lost her life a vain en deavor to rescue a named Ritchie Powell four years her jun ior It Is current talk that or J Knox Leslie Liber al will oppose Mr Kemp Conserva tive In Toronto division for the Commons During the high wind that prevailed on Thursday of last week Ale was struck on the head plank blown from a pile lumber in factory yard Ills skull was injured and hit was picked up un conscious The injury Is serious and is still at the hospital The presentation of Kings ban ner to Royal- Canadian Dragoons set next Wednesday has been postponed until Nov The announcement was made on Saturday of sale now practically completed of Knox Church pro perty in Queen just west of to the Robert Com pany The sale price Is in the vicin ity and as the lot has a frontage of feet by a depth of to Richmond Street the price is above per foot Rev Weeks has resigned pastorate of the Road Bap tist Church and accepted a call to Highland Baptist Church at Springfield Mass Sixyearold ll was pro bably fatally home Hon J State Senator Co to the Nebraska Hotal Nob follows Having tried can com it to as a great too to and riy good as a remedy for catarrh SAUER J- Honorable- Patrick Kennedy Member of the Massachusetts Legislature writ he following letter from the Boston bay no hesitation itiat after having of other remedies relief low my perfect clear voioe today to our for Indigestion and Its attendant affliction debility the weeks that X was on the- through recent campaign looed regularly and although I two and three times each day my failed mo I know I a reliable core for P J Kennedy If ytra do not derive prompt and results from the use of at to oil of your and ho frill be to give you his ad Tic gratis J Umi of Tho morn ing 8 oclock she was sit ting on the back steps clad only in her nightdress when a lighted match was thrown over the fence by a neighbors The little girls clothing became ignited and before her mother could extinguish the flames she was badly about the from the shoulders to the waist There was a flurry of snow at the Island Saturday morning The first snowfall last year registered at Observatory was October A number of residents Ward Six have aejT Mr John to bo- come an candidate in Ward Six About English immigrants ar- rived in Toronto on Saturday and Sunday They were for the most part farm laborers who will find in Ontario The Weston Fair on Oct 1st not withstanding the rather Inclement weather was fairly well attended A scene was created at the Agricul tural dinner when an attempt was made to lionize Mr Camay but the President and said Mr could if he wanted to after tho was exhaust ed This ws done hut there was quite a Sir was in the city on Monday and Tuesday Most of his If me spent at the Liberal As sociation rooms attending to matters connected with the election campaign now on The Government has been asked to provide for a chair Hebrew in connection with Toronto University Notwithstanding- judgment of the Master in Chambers staying pro- citys penalty suits against Street Railway until the trial of omnibus suit another writ for penalties covering and claiming was issued by the city this week Conservative conventions for nomination of party candidates in five divisions of this city will be held as follows this Friday even ing in North division Friday night J Centre Saturday night West and South Monday night Thcro were applications for re lief at the City Relict Office during month September as compar ed last year Over 2000 people assembled I jail Monday night to hear of Nov York Physical Culture on causes ill- health was thought tot the thoughtful l