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So said an Amatiuan ofsar the ethor day when tow of us were talking about the mystery of life in the knoon bady. Yet lots of people un derstand the principle. What do they mean when they say, "I could starosly crawl,” “ I had to fairly lag myself along." So Way, simply that the body had lest ita marplus power: it had become a burdin, urtead of entry hardens

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none of them appeared to do me any good.

Pawa donter and took various medicines, but I continued in this westched state for sever years-1876 to 1883. The same the help I hall waited for so long and a hopelessly. Is my house telling of a medioing called. Mater December of that year a little book was left at eigel's Syrup, ut my husband road of a cos ike mine having baeu enred by it; and Ffelt a strong desire to try the medicine, but we could not spare the money.

To find out all about Azizado's hast days, Colt bent up a poor old bank slave of hers name

"However, when my husband returned from Cadidgs, who is lying is a humble garrot. Har ingsun Azigade's grave, he rears to Cadiga's Bangay on Christmas Ere be pulled out of his garrot to bear the story Then begins for me parol u bottle of Saigal Syrup and said. * 800. I the most erol hour of all my pilgrimagenre brought yon a Christmas-box, and it pree- the hour of pauishment and of oxpiation. Iod to by the most valuable one I over hal in sy long silence. I have to fores agzalf to ask, and found grast relief. It seemed to lift a weight to arrive at the whole story. I have to draw from my bady. My spastita ratazned sad I from this old, black brain which is pasang gradually gained strength, and by the time I away, which is at one time exhausted-na-utad takon six battles I was a new woman. I another Liceu seined with buruaz dolirium-could go about any Ioandey work with ass and have to drag out by itt! lanceret cares, or pleasure. I still take au occasional dose, end louitements, the details which at once frein and asp in good health, for which I have to thank barn me. I have to stop every minato in pity at Mother Seigel's Syrup. I know of many in this wooing her so exhausted. with remorse of having district who hava received great benefit from tired her by having made her take this long the Byrup, one or two of the neighboars stating. soursion in the morning. I fear botoen har that bat for it ther would not now be alive. I and me to increase the bickness of the cloud, desire others to know of wint dit me so much the diloulti s of a language which neither of us good, and to this and won have my consent to understand perfectly; and at a time I have ablish this letter, should you think it last to to keep saying to reynslf that I have to avail

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be all over with Adlyndé: her eyes will bo dosd, saking whether I wmambek her!--How should I - Now do what thon wilt. Lou who knows. Those aver forget her P. DAROVAN who knowest-untranslatable phrase: whlatt was Then there fa a cartain silence, during which I' This new volume of Piacre Loti,the Franch meant to express something like this As for her a snoersion of little blows struck.wilarly zaval officer who, from the quarter deck, as in me, I am a pony little ans, who aspaol under on my tangles, the prosaare of beating arterios, Academy, wad who was known the Past as then." He swears he will return in a year, and little, I put the preme question. She is dead, is Seeratanats Admiral Court dudog the Franco-be contrives, with Asheet, as scheme for coryma- the not Chinuan war-has created an extraordinary sen- poading wita Aziyndé, and here the first volume to speak, she looks et. and her oyas, oll Bankan, osevica an air of series: that is almost sation in Europe. It is the sombra and melan-eads

inuattlogond after a few moments "angyonge, obaly equal to a volume by the same author, published a few years age, entitled “Aziyadé Leti goes away and travels all over the world, little by little E understand tast the answer is, Stamboul 1876-7 and it is impossible to and becomes a great and risk anthor, inetsad of You I had already understood it beyond the derstand one without know the other, for poor young antal officer. Ten years bare elapsed possibility of mistake, when she made up her the Citonasian tomaz. Aziyade is the baroipe before be resolves to clit Costantinople again, mind to say in a tons of bitter inquiry. Indeed of both, and bath form so episode in the life and it is the story of this visit which fills the and did you not know tip and I had whispered of the author. In 1978. Lali, then a young gent volume Fautone d'Orient Here is the lis, Yes, I know it, I know it? Then I

A woman writes in this way. I had constant. ustal officer, was with the French ett in how lo desaribas ki entorprias" Far tan sad, still lower, and like a child who tip

Tho CHRONICLE covers this notable events Turkish waters. Whou the story opens he vente, during which the chances of my trade as That is not what I came to a hero want to lie down on the cool and rest. I and Soules, just after the massacre of that a mails hare brenght is to all the ends of dwutad to beg yen to tell me where they barely strength to crawl stool. This was in the vour, sed there be first mot Asiyade under theas the earth, I have never been able to turn buried her And then came the siloupa eree summer of 1652. The irondo test came upon of the last half consary in the Fee East, together circumstances. Ca a lovely day in spring there-us ver. One can imagine that a darting again, we deep than over 1 told this lis

Before that I had always besa strong and concluded with the Conutries of Eastern Asia, Salonica, Magudenin, n life after the assure, away. I dever have been able to keep that and to have bum able to survive for your hadthy. Than, however, I began to fan tired, the rarione Customs Tariffs, Trado Bagulations, ne of the first wore allowed to airanlate in relentless punishment, had always kept me because I was ashamed before her hat to know, in 1876, when I was forty-two years old. with the Torts of all the mat important Treaties throw days after the bauging. About four solemn oach to retire, whish I had sword in this ignorunes. But I saw wall that sho

At Brat I Consular and Court Fees, Fortal Gaido, Chi- sider myself a weak, sickly woman. o'clock in the floraonu it happened that Is I partsd from a poor Circassian child, did est bellese we, atud that bar look Ban weary, and luuraid, and gradually I had to oon- stopped in front of the atrast door of an old barid in despair's toreat depths, and I Luas tiused to he fired upon me with the curiosity and a bad taste in the mouth, and a sinking sense Festivals and Observancos. Tables of Money. mosque, to look at two storks fighting. The mathing mors of her who had been my well-but ones of repulsion and of lama. My station at the pit of the stena, My apatito Weights and Mossares, and other Conswiercial

The poor, and what til sigare me pain in seon tank place is a street of the old levad to whom I had surrendered myself, to titude als is incomprensible wher Musulman quarter. Derayed hours lined my very eal, for time and for the infinita ba ang froid, and our silence and afføring, uzs the ardall, crocked streets, which ware half yond. Since I left her I have bean desatently incaprolible to Orientals, who always utter the great and sides My foet seemed to esate hidden by the projecting shakisire (mysterious pursued by a vision hfo is always tho sawa. lond cries. This face booms more leg. Oned, which allod att var me. I got no ind -places of observation, large, shot and barred bal My ship zonkee a cist of Stamben) neapsied might almost imagine itat frozen coals of that night after aight I was able to sleep. I Won liged to work I would haq taken to my conies, from which the passers-by oan be pooped vapid, furtive. This Stambon! we again in air were uting between, and in-this-how at times in grest, wody, and if I had und at through overal small invisibie holes). Woods dreams is to me fortigt, enlargensd, deformed, with its barrei windows in this rosin bir an beds As it was, I steneglad on as hast I could: grep between the pavement of the black gravel, sinister; in kasts I jump on nad with the fever sirango, the twilight. darbus. Through the and blades of grook greas on the roofs; the sky to arrive to hor and a thousand thinga teep me think framework of the wond which marks the spen by bits, was clear and bins, you breathed back, and my uzristy gras en increasing in pro-windows, then enters a vague and colourless every where the dalloons balmy uir and beantifn! portion as the time this. Then immediately light. Night Rame to me to fall very quickly, scent of May. The Salonica population still prys comes the moment fus telghing anchor and aud by fits and starts on though they were Haryad Lowards us the same atti:ndo of constraint waiting away; and I have not seen her agafu. Crawing from above us, en hy one, veil of and hostility; for that reason the authorities ob and I have found no trace of her lost steps craps. And so, then. It was into tais miserabla fired as to drag a sword after us in the streets, and then I am tera with grief, and awake. The Level, and at this bear of gloom, that I was to and a whole lot of implements of war. Hero sad fow, lttle letters which had ranched me at first, come to learn the final decrio." thare passit for eminent permages in turbans, in spite of the savags serveillance and of a thou and no female head was to be so babied the dis sand difficulties, haré consed for simast seven front grillsof the hamlikes, you might have years to bring to me the stifled pain. The lot. thought it a dead city. I imagined myself stora of Achiet have led to come, ed First, cutioly alcun that I had an anonby sensation ceased in a manner that disquiets mo whn I di vivered near me, behind theiron bars, they have become poealiar, improbable, with the top of a humna hol, and two large green eyes confusion of names azil of parsons who never ized out mine The Gyebrows, dark and slightly could have occurred to him, and with an chatinate a conversation, fatersapte by griss and by it, I bagan taking the medicine at once, and frowning almost est; the expression of their look omsion of all allusion to her; so that I no was a mixture of energy, coupled with naiv-te, it longer dared to ask any questions, or even to might have beat the look of s child, so yang sud anger, so fear that es had been laid freeh was the orpression. Theyoung woman, the for us, and strange bands intercept one and owler of the eyes, stand up, slowing down to the reta Nowelbst these little objects, the waial ber figars developed in a Turkish hood of most miunto stoging to her, which I carry long and rigid folds. The hood was of green it, shant ma-two or three letters, come amulets, adorned with silver embrul 'eries. A white veil and a certain ring which she bad given me carfalle anveloping the band allowed only the 'hea with an effort at self-control I opra the forebeal and eyes to be shows. The papila of the mysterious drawer bidden under old Dreertal oye were of a very dark green, the kind of sea-embroidery; it is the call in which sleep greco the Eastern poets sing about. This goangthesand little things which I bare benght woce was Asiyada, Aziyade Brod hor gast with roe frota Byoub leaves of paper on which on me. In the presence of a Turkish man she some Turkish words nes sprawlingly writion in would bars hidden herself, bat Giaour" a childish bandwriting, little bits of staff ont is zal on; at the lost, he is only a thing to from our divan at Brouges, and phantoms of poor myself at every cost of this last moment, besanse to be looked at and admiral at leisure She flowers which bad formerly blussomed, in the I must go away the next day, and she is Looked surprised that one of those strange spring, in the gardena of Stamaton. Is the lowest going to die. It is the last living bond of u who had cane to thresten her country depth of this hiding place, sndor all this debris,naioa between my dear Attle friend sad wo in one of those terrible looking fronblads I koked for su address in Arıb oicats. When they have baried her in the earth all vory young man, whose which on the morning of my departure had been ties' will be cat for ever. All that I cannot cank by each a appearance affected hor with neither rapal-dictated by Achmen, to the pablis scriba in the bring forth today, at this very hour, from sion var fear. Suddauly, a crowd gathered Place of Jrei Diami. Acurding to him this this granty half decomposed. will be lost for around to; they were a gang of man who live would serve sa a last resort for finding him, in ever. To all that permans the death, Cadilgo in the oppe sit on the quays of Salenies, Sastes I did not rotaru for suy gears, and I had agrees with the sister of Acket. It is, indeed the very rest of most disasses, for the reason serve as perfect and sourate Guides for the wet and carriers, who wished to know why I already exhausted all the other suvelopes in her she said seven pars ago and in the spring that it arises in the etsmvb, upon the normal Tourist, giving as they do every datail in con-

Asaction of whieh rood health necessarily depends. remined on shore, and waited in hope of my own name, which were dictated the night before tin, that Alyadé died. *

If we const cigest our food every blatos, of neotion with the place their History and Topa. quiring their servicos. In this group of Mccedo by Asiyadi. and so had lost all means of corres the cause of her death nisas, I notiond me, mas he wore a fanns ponding with them" Here is this address, it malo half suspcken between us. With a de course, goes wrong. Fer therain is the source graphy, &c., &

The Informativa afforded in those Descriptions beari separated in small arts; tha fhios at has five or six lines and ibere i noen ta it; lichoy which I did not expect, she avoided speak of all power, trangtk. and vitality. From most ancient status of this country. He was it gives the name and quarter of no olding of them to me, but ase asepa me by a koak of indigestion and dyspepsia proceed those poisons alone would safe to fit on ordinary volume seated on the ground in front of me, and was ex Armerin woman. Avaktar Chiraz, was lives astonislament, sad of and reproach, when I which, entering the bloc, disorder every organ consisting of river Bats highly interesting amining as most attentively, my costume-in the faubourg of Kussim Pacha, in a low peer to insist on asking. In spite of her after and process of the system. Ragunaticn. gout, taoce septially my boots-seamed to ongross bis house on the Place of Haji-Ali; at its sile nations.af sanile geoad childosd, she hus bra bronchitis, zearalziz, arross prostration, most articles, packed with facts-oncisely eat out, aml the most.

Hertel himself, with the is a frait shop, and opposite az old wan who sells served some sparks of carious intelligence,

headache, pale and weakness in the muzole try sud Port, wheedling airs of aa Angora nat, and in yawning wolmeats and now, aftor sil; he has hat and bor poor old heart, hay mayer censed to be forms of disssss poculiar to women, bronie ocntaining statistics of the TRADE of each Coun

Reisfy his work in the Directory fr showed two rows of tiny teeth as whito as pearls, Lurne days in Constantionplo, and in this brief sound as bottom. More sad, nor my respect mental dates, and loss of ambition-all thene Moreover, he had a very handsome bed, a soft spase be las te fut the whereabouts of a narangos for her, anderea my pipity that I and other affecilens are nothing more or less

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dyspepsin This person was Sammual."

stant disappointments, bis final que, are told did she hope for, poor child P, Some fantastic and real disease being indigestion and In its ability to euro this Boi the snorst of Sanel is one of a marvellous gallery of oom with rapidity, fervour, and vividnom. Leli's first return, with perhape sa elopement one of thes

prople among the Tark. The impression wish is to find Adlnost, for Act wet had loved dangering dillealtios which I might, in oase of the amocess of Seigel's Syrop over what weams toti gives of the race is extremely pleassat Ariyade and hot, and we fatelligent und alert geity, attempt to do now with eunoy and inde to be but is not a nullita of different [4-861 Samus, among other occupatione, not a tha must, bowser, at fivt Ansiktar Chiras. paadiones, but which formerly were ao fepoalbla interpreter between Luti aul Aziyade and so After infinite trouble there comes the same, to me. And it was not qatil the end of this time maladies. It simply dislodgar tus kayybine, and of-the conversations are delightful pictors of the thus dooritad At last the Greak atarond, that she began to rapidly deolite and to lose its the arch falls to the ground. iaorance, the childishness, and the womneliness followed by an old woman, dressed in blank, colour of her healthy youth, and to give up hope, of the Cramisu Where were you barn f with her features subarat. I recognised her believing herself forgotian and abudened for BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

I had so har-but ones in all my over Bat my letters-did my letters not renok Asiyadé is asking Lati quistions thrung's immediatel Saul-Where are you lived? How old life. but assuredly it was the Hair was fright be? Oh, as for your letters, replies CadidTERED COMPANY'S EXTRACK OK. MEAT.

Wait, IL POR IMPROVED AND ROOMCMIC COOKERK. agons you another Do yon based, beggard, he had grown terribly.old, oh, ga, I sent them to her lis in God? Have you been in the cou if she would only razom bar. Evidently as was out all up to the sixth." And why not the try of the black men? Have you bas often afraid of some unknown personages, and of thest others? The others." she said

ira! Are you a great lost in yunrieterrogatorias to which she was subjected in an in the Sre. I throw thom in the fea. When waterutry? She herself was Bittle Cir isplated spot. With a ceremonia obalanse she floor turned me away, you see, I could no longer ssian girl, who had come to Constantinoplet hermelt before me, so the edge of a stool sad them to her, and as to kaoping them, I was with another child of the sime age; a merchant and looked at me. Oh, yea! it is indeed she. 1 efraid." From the macar in which ako pro- hu sold her to an old Turk.who had haught her and just recognized, above all, that half smile nounced the words in the fire, I understood

git for bis sou. She was then seventeen, and which for a moot has lit up her wrinkled parch that she ccosidered them in the end as things Socpo, Mads Dishes, and Sazes. extremely beautiful. Than she had been taken ment face. A knobofher hair which has remained, that were lying and malevolent, and the indirect by this other wao, who hail remarkedhet att black as ebony, surrounda a silk harikorobiof, also spes of her own misfortunes. As to the let-Signataro iz Blue Jak porous Labol. bool and he took her to his house at Saloaies.black, by which her head is enveloped as with aters of Asiyadé, Cadidga is sure of having sent Aziyade larvas Salonica sud again meats Losi in fillet. Her drem wara but cloan, is cat after the wo foar sad not one more. And so I was European type, but is of an aniquo fashion, and right; the first four, those which rysambled her; Constantinople. In another portrait be anys. kor that she lalislittle; abe often stilos balnover is trimmed with black vokrat. The site ati e thase in which I found again her dear little India

her stool and the site. Then I began to quen thought with their exquisiteness and fre laughs. Her footstep irever makes any noise, all her movements are supple andalatier.quist, and tin her softly in the Turkish language, dead phrases of a savage child-thou are hers. As raper. she is never heard. She is be small, wysterione og her era. Achmet, Aobmot, she to the other letters, commonplace, or staprobable, little parson that fares in the daylight, and whom pants, brer syes still apprehensive; mo, the cannot such as the last one sent from Achmet, from night brings bak with its djinsand shosts. She remember it. The story I told her referred to whom dit they age? What intriguler Land 9, PaucamGS AVENTE, LONDON, ENGLAND. 1775 ENGAGED IN THE COASTING TRADE

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RESTOREE. fact, when the light falls on certain little hairs she adds as if to expose heresif. I lost ono sadderly opened the egos of old Abidden, -impalpable, and rebellious to wary attomat after the other, my husband, my sors. Sines And than came the tattle from the woman

FOR CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD at arrangement, which surround deliciously aer that time my poor head has gone wrong act of the barom, who wore either bullied or

manded. chooks and har forekend. She considers as my armory lost. Mos Disa! how shall I bribed into confession. Azivadé, however, bad from ALL PURITIES it toot be too highly recom very unbecoming the abort litis curls round pierce through the night which has cot been seat away by her minster or ill-troated: For Scrafals, Sorry, Skin and Blood Diseases, an Kazema, and Sores of all kinds, it is a never-failing her head, and spends while hour every morning over this intelligorice? How shall I make my she had only been placed apart s i trying without any suess to month them if waderstood and then she is terribly afraid anclean thing. buried in the silence of her own and porasnent care. dova. This work, and the one of cot aring ber of being interrogated-afraid of. I know what room, into which entered only hostile servante nails araugs pink, ato her two principal ocupa pot. Fear nothing from a good women, I At the end of a year. C didga berself -WBs er tions. She is illa, sa all women are who are say to her. I look for this Achmet hearine Ieladed from the gate at this sombre dwelling, on brought up in Turkey nevertheless she knows loved him tenderly, and that is my only reason.snapicion of having relations with the public how to embroider, and make roen water, aud Do try and recall. I would so much likes to sensoribe and with the French past offiue at Pars. It him again; help me. You see, I am beseeching was then that the slow agony really commenced write her auma. She writes be: na so every- where the walla, and with such serious on. Come then, think-Acbmet, hran--with the end of all hope. I do not believe that creature still young, and with the fresh young nos if it wors un oporation of great im Achmet Ista sexs that when I came with him porne, and she was out oti's pencils into speak to you about ten years ago, yen lived blood which no contagion has touched, an die this work. Arigadé comicates her thagats in this quarter, and I even wrote to him to of despair. if she be only left the sun, sir, sud wore with box eyes than for month, her opera- your bouso during the first three years that liberty. But to be aloetered and abandoned. alos is astonishingly dangesbls and mobile, followed my departure. You took care of You know," says Gadilya, her room looked on Shinobu misfrest of the pantomime of looks him, don't you remember, when he was wound the side of the star (to the north) and it was that she need speak bat rarely, or dispense with ed and was ill. A light eceed to orose through very weld there. Yes, rowember well the

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The greatest of all friends whom Loti in dubioses; her eyes open, dato, plunge into the wing of the houss which the sun never reached. among the Tarks was Antimet, and he plays very depths of mizo. What is thy game she Secretly I had watched them, passing throngh

Leti the streets, oppressive with mystery, in which each, and in cases, containing six times the quantity: considerable part in the drama. My friend asked suddenly. Lot Achmet is twenty years old, according to his Lot Ab, Achmat! Ab, Mihran the rod rays rouched only late in the afternoon, suulloient by effect a permanent enre in the CHEMTS and PATENT MBULOINE VENDORS ok father. Ibrabina; twenty two according to Acimet. Do I remember la indeed! Do I mud with the chilled hourt of the setting sunt majority of long standing oak, ET ALL the counting of his okl mother, Fatima reaanber Miran-Anket? A silense for a for And I can imagine to myself so well what kind throughout the world. Propeloton, TA LUNOOL The Turka uver really kobe their age seconds, during whish her fan muddenly grows of room this must have bear which to-day AND MIDLAND COUNTER DAGO COMPANT invel, Physically, he is a fumy little fellow, built sombre. Then who contfanes in a bard tone of has been annihilated by a fire, and to which England. Trada Mark" ELeon MIXTURE." Like Hereas in iaituro. To ous whe voles, Enlu, enla! yedi seneb dan, tobok dan Death came to ask har orasi and with glow

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