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CHAPTER I.
"Things in this world are mostly awful
or speak wi' any o' 'em whileyou live, or go'
so' never eome 'back,"
Mary had: never seet her father loole se
angry before. • She stood watehinghim with
her fece pale as .the bonnet she held in her
hand, Anti her eyes wide with fear,
"I'm sorry I've augerea ye se, father,"she
hard au contrary, Jack, seaa Mery Leot-i gasped, slowly ; "au'1 promise I'll speak zio
sou, dolefully, as she shaded her eyes with more wi' Jack Scott till ye give me love."
the sun -bonnet in her hend, and looked away "If ve send faithful to that," Answered her
father—e grim smile relaxing his features—
"hint all' you'll waste no more breath tolk-
to each other. 111 forgive what you've
from the troubled faee of the broaa-shouldem
ecl, sunbrowned pew fellow beside her to
the little farin-liouse on the other side of the
posture lend. done ou amenuat that you -re young an fool.
They were sta.-siding iust within the strip ish ; au' slow the matter's settled all' done
wi', let's get closed we for the uig,ht. We're
goin! to begin an' start right early in the
mornin', for the sun's thee bakint at noon
undera's unbearable.
pretty picture—for Mary was pretty. The Mary laid aside her bounet and inechaut- .There not the faintest breath of wind "•Aint yotefoksmean' to supper r oohed
. work which had roughened and broailened eoely set th work, and MM. Beateen sat rock- to -fen the sultry air, and it was with a, sigh Mrs. Seott, opening the door awl looking be;
her hands had not impetrea the naturat. grace
ing and nureingher swenolea hand—her eyes of positive telief that shefinished her task wonderingly.
" ealledye twice as it is, an' Jack's
come from theCreek to see about fencethils
for the West meadow, Jack's wonderful
Oenthm month' upthis while, and smart at
supplyne reasons for it, as dauy fool couldn't
on her hair wile:athe sunlight touched L weeping sorely. indulging in tears was a On one oecaeion, when o mere child, Mary see what he comes for. Not that Mary Beat -
one looking at her would have found it very unusiad proccediug on her pare Her liaa witnessed a forest fire, and the terror son eiser has a word to say to hien ; there's
difficult to understand the adoring love ex- haray upbringing on the rough Canadian with whitaz it had inspired herlutdcomeback eeins 111 the township wouldn't be so stand -
pressed in the gray eyes of her companion. fariu had:wide her too strong and self-reliant to her many times. since, both in hersleeping ofilehas she ; but that's jest how 'tis ; its
"But they oodles tisi. contrary lei this , for that ; but these meetings with aaek had and waking moments. the thine we can't hey were always set oil
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case Mary --unless you want that they ; been like glinte of sonatine athwart the anti. Was this the oat haunting borrow or was -gettina"
shoal," he began, diseeratinglai. tionmothey of her life, and the thought that it o reality? She paeeed her hand over her Its only fair I should tell ye, Mis
"Welke may say what they like; father they were .oveit—very likely for ever—was-1 eyes and looked again; and sure enough Seott," said. Wattle, uueoily," that Mary
bas no thought o' foreelosin" the mortgage, too emelt to bear unmove& there were the cruel, red tongues leaping aint Retrain' aaelt ; it was tuy .cloina eons&
ma' as to lettin' your father's dislike to our She sat for long, leaniuo her head on. her towards the cleer sky, mot front the bush, %wean them"
folks sten between us, its unreasonalile to • folded arms and weepingilolefulay; but the but from the harn and fano-holism °Oh," .ejaeulated Mrs. Seo•tt, sharply.
think oL 1 oath- understana i
anY Nvay Yr hopefulness. which s mono in all e'oung "Dear Lora "she ejaculated, iiveringy, • "Well, 1 aint surptised to hear it. Some
hole he's got to have mil a feeliW agaioet loans assortea ite1f, awl ;he found con- "oaf -father out, en' Mothernot able to stir . • folks would ehop off their nWn Atese to spite
of tall pines whicli eeparetea the farm
from the conees.sion iioati, and the trunk of
the stately tree against which Mary leaned
tna.de a soft, groy baekgronna to o very
it was all over about that. I'm sure ni be Years, and years I've been thinkin' an' talk -
glad to get away from, here; it's bad for h vil c
theurnatis bent' near the Lake, an' we'll " Wheestit, man, wheesht," interrupted
be out of the heaths' o' them folk's moues." James, reverting iusensibly to his almost
git, then, never fear,» said her forgotten Done, We'll do as we did when
husband, bitterly. "The boys were seyin'
at the store last night that Scott's mean&
to raise a uew eawimil at the creek, au' that
he counts on fellin' some o' the pines up at
the pastur' there, dile wiuter, he'llbeeloin' it,
I reckon. No, 1 aint fur no more—this talk's
spited the taste o' ens; supper." He rose as he
spoke, and walked heavily out of the house,
iota away towards the bush, Mrs. Bcatsou
sat sniffing and ono -ening feebly, and Mary
set :silently to the work of elearing the Wile.
Thew taking the mill -slug calm, she started
for the meadow where the cows were wait-
ing to be milked.
we fell out as bathos, Wattle, teak' up
withoot onything." Ho held out his
.hand as he spoke, and Wattle took it in both
his and Nereus% it fervently.
" That's settled then," ectid Jaiuie, dis
missing the matter with a laugh. "The
fire's burned up the amid grudge along wia
the auld barn, so vrell start afresh, and we'l
bee a raisin' bee one o' these days anaraise a
new bens an" house, an' who knows but
may be Pine Grovel" hey some luk yet"
1 don't deserve tbat it should," said
Wattle, humbly, " but if it leas, it'll hey
come tanner' you."
of her teenage, and the tinge of brown. followingher daughter with a look of dumb
which much out -door life had given to her pity in thew.
clear skin in no way aetraeted from its The girl betrayed no sigu of emotion till
beauty. Her eyes were dark and soft, and sbe was safely shut into her own room ; then
bad a gleam in their depths like the gleam her self-eontrol desertea her, and she fell to
at last, and turned her steps homeward. On
coming within view of the house she set
down the Calla to rest herself for it moment,
and, as she did. we an awful buena crept
over ben
sta
"No more can L jack,"Raia Muy, with a,
suspieitme quiver of her red lips. We's got
it anyhow, awfully strong. Why, if he
knew 1 was meetin' you here, 1 don't know
what he'd dm I've known all the time I was
doiria wrong condo"; bet. somehow 1. jefir
touldn't helw"
"Its fate, Mary, that's what it is," assert -
el Jule, positively. "There's scores
Huron County good enough, an' pret-
o ,
ty enough, maybe, but I couldn't love any
one of 'ens lint you. Seems to me I've al-
ways loved you, even when we played at
eeleiol together, afore there was any thought
0' this hatin' atween our folks. 'the thing
we've got to do is not to think about it," be
addea, ebanging his time elmerfully. 41111
have is house ready at the Creek its the Fail,
so we'd better tot settle to marry eaeli other
then,"
Jeole islaspea ber hande in his and looked
eagerly into her therk eyes t but she mimed
them away from his earnest gaze, and, draw-
ang hook. said, hurriedly,—
"No, ute Week, we mustn't eettle to do
them •for hater would never bear tell ona.
All' 1 COMA turn Ony bade on the old folks
whastever -it costs inc not to. If you'd be
to wait tlainge might .iihange some
day, an' then maybe I'll eome to the Creek;
if not, we num soy gittitalwe."
" Wait 1111thit all my life, Maro, rather
than say geotahme 1 imulan't do it. so let's
quit talitise about it, aria eeme ea' me ti
the end u" the pines, You' ; see theta how
'fest the new barna nein' at the -Creek.
" I dorstua to-night,"ansstered Mary, re-
gretfully. Its aamost sontlewu, so fatherli
Ig home an' hell be where I am. Aix'.
Jack, 1 tuna go any other night; at least
not till things grow dare:era."
;* Yon alin't uwan you re never comin' to
meet ine again S" eeeleimea davit, in agony.
o Not till I time omit. honest and open -
like." answered Mary, firmly.
" Well, of y0110111, I'm bottlid to f 011ie no
See you, whatever your Whet. may ile ; fw
I can't live an' not two you any more'a thi•
corn ean help growin' when the emu sithwe
on't. I della wont you should get in trou-
ble on ute"count to -night, so I'll let you go ;
but there's fate ista, as afore, an a we
ean't be partea."
Mary shook herhead doubtfully, and fear-
ful of being late, she cut short her lover's
rapturous good -by end hurriea home aeross
the pasture.
She found the house &he wending with
open a na her mother sitting in that sbadowy
kitclion, rocking nervously to ana fro in the
old rocking chair near the window—her thin,
knotted lianas folded idly on the top of her
knitting, and her faded, anxious eyes watch-
ing the disappenring sun.
"Sakes alive Mary," she said, wearily.
turning at the sound of thegirl's light font-
- fall. "Where have you bin gone all this
while, an' the door stanata wide? Them
spring winds is sharp i the eveuin's yet. an
nty theumetis is bad. Mist Afarr was advisin'
me, when she was twilit'', to see city doctor
that's great at curin"em. Stich nonsense
—talkin' like that to me. If it'll bin Mist
Scott, nowt there'd bin sense in her Oak.
The luck them folks hew There's notliin*
they can't get. MisMarr was up to Sena's
seein" Jessie's weilain' elothes, an' she says
they're too fine, an' for all, Jessie aint fit to
show alongside o' you, Mary. But what's it
matter bow pretty a girl is when her folks
mint lucky? She's jest to ao rough chores,
an's no time for philanclerin' round an'
dressin' herself flue.'
Mary stood absently rolling and unrolling
her bonnet strings while her mother was
speaking. She was thinking, miserably,
what a barrier of bitterness stood between
,Taek'sfolks and hers, and it was only after
the even monotone had ceesed for some time
that she became conscious that she was ex-
pected to say something.
"Well, mother," she remarked, quietly.
"I don't see as the Scotts' luck takes any-
thing frcni Off, nmybe they deserve it."
"La' sakes," interrupted her mother,
breathlessly, "I jest don't know what fathead
say if he was to hear you say it. Here hea,"
she added, sinking her voice to a whis er,
as her husband flung open the door with a
jerk and strode in. There was a cross
wrinkle on his brow, au angry look in his
eyes; But he stood silently till he had finish-
ed drawing down his sleeves over his brawny
terms, and then he demanded, in a curium,
suppressed tone, "What's this father'd better
not hear said ?"
Mrs. Beatson kept rookie:1g feebly, and
looked helplessly at Mary, who plucked up
courage and answered, bravely—
"Nothing much, father. Mother was
sayin' the Scotts were lucky, an' I said may-
be they deserved to be."
"Considerin' what I seen up at the pines
this evenin', 1 aint surprised to bear you
said that," said her father, glaring at her,
and bringing his hand down on the table
with a force which set all the dell on the
rack rattling, and caused poor Mts. Beetson
to rook so violently that she ran the knitting,
needles into her hand. "No; I ain't surpris-
ed at all. But I was surprised when I saw
it child o' mine naakin' up so frienly wi' the
son o' the man that's been doin" his best for
years to bring ruin on me an' mine. Maybe
ye don't. know he's near o' gainin' his end.
Maybe ye don't know Van Haegen's sold
hies the mortgage, an' that he's bidin' his
time to foreclose, an' tuna us out."
"I don't believe it, father," interrupted
Mary, hotly.
"Maybe ye don't," said her father scorn-
fully. "Their lyits' tongite's drawed ye away
from your own folks; but it's . so a,n' I tell
ye, you've got to choose this night aween
them an' us Bide an' promise never to see
solatiou in tluntang ot her lover's assort:awe
thet fate haa to ao with the matter, so that
Ohms were bouutl to come round right some
:lay.
CHAPTER II.
When Jack SZOtt Rata to Mary Watson
iat eould is make out how her father
a come to feel so bitter against ids, he
peeseol
an opauon held by nusey it peison
in Arrol towitehip.
Time was whim the two haa been friends.
As boys they hail fought and played to-
gether in the seme vUlage ni old Seottand.
Together they had spelled their way through
the same lesson-bools, and felt the weight
ef the same 'twee, long before eaters,
, we me smell of eharrea wood and sumulai
dreauted 0,1 bowd, ing his native lauaa" , ering straw. Now and then the falling of it
together they had left it, bolting to win heavy beam sent a brilliant iti ower of spark
fortuue mere easily in the less erowthel
CHAPTER III.
"Turn ont, boys, the barn's Afire up to
onr alaem r exclaimed Reilesoit'e hired, Man,
tearing exeitedly into the store at Anna
where it reeled had collected as usual in the
evening.
"Beetson's barn on fire 1" eimpea James
Seott, who witsamong the crowd. "tea got
to go down, then, for there ain't seater • at
Janet:thee to &WO it lairnill" SttlrOIL Let's
run, boys, for all, au' held wbat we can
In a marvellously brief space of time the
loungersin the store were at the fann, and it
weird and pitithispeetaeletheir eyes beheld.
The air was murky with smoke and later
estern land.
The farms they settled on lay sale by side
ou the shore of Lake Mom, and wereappa-
-
rooky atelom as to quality; but Jende Seat
prosperea in his. anti Wattitlieatson did
not, auaniets eti al; itisi eropsetweys turned
out well, mad fetehea 000d priees, so it was
seattering round, and Just bee Qua melt in
them lay Mary iititoson, her worie, image
etious Owe twillowed on her mother's hp.
The mother's taw was almost as (water-
less as the daughter's was, and her eyes
looked wild and warm).
"Dear solo," she moaned, nimbi o them
their face. Itsone any way, but if it
should come about. Mary's it smart girl, an'
can bear to thief: o' Jack's hevili her at
the Creek."
It WaS Spring vain, and at Pine (hove it
fillO DPW fi01030 Intru had risen on the
all mine, but it yet remained to he see
1d:ether the days to tonna were to be !wen-
er oud mons prasperone OlteS for "Watson's
folks."
If Jaeli Feett'shelp and advice was worth
anything, they were not like to fail tor vetot
of it,
He never failed to appeal to Mary, on each
occasion, to fix the time of her removal to
the Creek ; but alary Imola not eye how she
was to leave the Grove.
"I'd come quiet., deck," she said, auxiouto
y, olitit I don't Fe0 how Ian to leave them."
"There's help to be got, aint there r ixe
questioned, in rather an injured manner.
:ei,iTlille:.pei'sacitIciiter Jones would be glad o' just
Hester said " Yes," iota Mary was on her
way home, her awe rialiout with eensfet•
Won, when right in &out of Aerol Pest-offiee
elm met Javii.
helplessly on the new moners. 'stir hat s the ireatwai oao, (voting mewei
net loug before he was. ohle to clear otf the
inertgeee and to relditee Inc but it's the Abuighta's doina. an" 1 duretta meusthat the aostudetrese wait watebingt hein
et Sid"' Ye lairel awful disPeosati" ; her it irk eyes demurely, for she was eons -
on his a
Ora little lir! 110114. With it frame elle' rebel. 11 Heal ouly thought to take me
with eager ecrutioy, Jaele was aware of the
two gitoreyetc, oat 0 fine wide veran, afore% coined to this. He ti ankteduti.sorr. te• i• took hir in Inc
workea betel, but to no purpose,
seemingly ; for let swan:slid harvest crown
-
el his laleture. He was never able to clear
his farin, ana was Lau to content himself
with the tirst log-bouse for want if time and
money 0 rem hitt s if A finer dwi -EY so
au our enemy here to rejoice at our nnstow ' '
tunes," she added, as she recognized James argigguil her.,
took my moat o EtWa3., it did," ronark•
Scott.
ono no meow, ails, watt„„,,, he said, e i ea the geol lady, When mhe was deseribing
pitifully. •'Wherea 'Wattle?" then no te the 114%t caller. ''For theugh
i'D„ad, likely," was tho sobbing reply. "1 i Mall". Ileatstin's W1'31" alW4tY8 l'in Shift.
; '7 1 ' . 1 1 • ' ‘ , .,. leSS, au' gotel-for-little, I aid Mina she was
e carried me out o' the burnin' house, an" agest 1 it steady.. sensible eon. Von utiver Cott reok-
in mummy the hone rule (Ottumwa he.
tweets the two. Jamie 'married -elle of the Ilet Mee Otti sinee. 01, Pm left alone, help- ' l', who MitsIllieltalT theirselv" when they
smartest, eleverest girls in the ItmnshiP t less critter; fur 1 ' i t I
S le it gone, on,, eau we - g". 0 Chanel.. 1 bete S the 11'.fats011"S POW 1
:old by end hy it mop of sturdy boys came she's never moved shim; she fell therm" a aftwethe Inman' they wisuldu t hey walked
to till the new Ionise. As they grew their „Nag am she isaah, atid Jamie, nmeitag ! 00 the .same side ti" the Felice as the Ocotte,
father's prosperity grew with them i for, in as he beat mai welted et the ma„Leagat . an' now tints. us thiek es thiels."
it cenuary where labourers are Scarce allil figure, eSlitall eome round right in it minit. j2‘1.-- •
higloprieea, etam
lwert sone are a source of eiemee ,a," 1
ee-seid to the ntau miarest bine
wealth. Wiatietc wife, -on them
contaary, eu ag to ear lama timegg aed hitch aft
was what the neigigbours deseribeit as the buggy i awl whim you're there bid NW
"piney and betakes, and there was no ticott get beds fixea for strangers."
+Linger of at erwrowaing in the little log- 1 'Tease ran off, aud inhere. went in seareh
house, Inc Mary was their only child. 101 the farmer of Pine tirove, nets found
'Co be sure, Jamie WM not accountable for
his old friend's ill -luck. He helped him tittleiltlitufswaltalltsratasetet::ttlilieti:,,Irn'
well anti willingly Inc a while ; but a seed of ,,
' He's bin stunned WI' the ' that
etivia hat'en to gd'iw In " attte a heart/ ami beam there," observed one ;r'; men.
ee took to refusing all assietance, and then tiowia it bane, mow"
to feeling angry (tad roeutful bectsusejamie 4‘ lap to our place,' shouted Jamie Sett,
eeased to ofl'er it, "take him there, sin' I'll fetch alis' Ileattion
The intimacy between them lessened, and eta -Mary when, the baggy mutest,
finally ended altogether I ha Witttie went
Mary had regaitted tioneciousnow long be-
en nursing the envy in bis heart, till Ws fore the buggy arrived ; but slie entail give
vision grew distorted, Ina he misconstruet. no amount of how the tire had broken ont.
ea his neighbor's every melon. Neither could Mrs. Beateon. She only re -
When the Detainee, Van Haegen, mule inombereil her terror when elm dieeovered
up his mind to move West, Scott bought his that the place was on fire, auil thin elm was
farm et Arrol Creek for his eldest son Jack, alone in the houee, and too crippleel to move
ina as Vita Haegen held the mortgage on out of it.
Pine Grove, it obassaed hands at the same When the darkness fell the -men who had
time. lingered, watching the flames die down to it
The transaction was simple and ordinary; mass of red cieders, left and went home to
hut Wattle chose to believe, as he declared conjecture and. talk about the oceurrence
to Mary, thot it was managed designedly on
oat. there.
ac
Mrs. Scott was in no way put out when ott's part, because he wantea them turned
the party arrived at her house. She was a
Mary had never shared the feeling which woman so energetic; and managing that ehe
so strongly influenced her father and mother. would rather have enjoyed it had the whole
She had played with Mr. Scott's hays and townehip been brought sick to her doors; it
their sister, Jessie, when they were child- would havegiven her skill and energy a
ren, and though, as they grew older, a kind chance of being called into fall play. She
of constraint had arisen between them, settled Mrs. Beatson and Mary, as if they
they were frienclIy enough on the few oe- had alwass lived there, and was deaf to the
easions when they met. latter's entreaties thot sbe should be allow -
Between Jack and her there grew in- ed to take charge of her father.
eensiblv it stronger feeling than friendliness. " Ye tend a sick man, Mary Beatson," she
end as he dared not vdnture to visit her at said, scornfully • "011' your han's shakin'
Pine Grove, they fell into the habit of meet- 'ye couldn't 'hold a pin steady. (10 to
ing elsewhere, ond finding the meeting,
bed, both o' ye, an' we'll see what's to be
dangerously sweet, as stolen things are said settled to -morrow."
to be. "But it ain't right nor just that our folks
Poor Mary had a miserable time of it
should betroulffin' on our account," stammer -
during that summer after the rupture with ed glary, aerreegy.
her father. It 1-airt her to see that he did "When our folks Mak of the troublin' it'll
uot seem to have faith that she would kee-p
be time for you to worry 'bout it," said Mrs.
the promise he had exacted from her. He Scott, emphatically. "Your father'll hey to
watched her incessantly even at the meet-
ing -house on Sundays ; and so, thmigh she
knew intuitively that Jack was looking at
her there, she was afraid even to steal a
lance in kis direction lest her tether should
fancy they had some secret understanding
between them.
The season throughout was extremely hot
and dry, and when the last sheaf was carried
into the barn at. Pine Grove, it was only
poorly filled. •
"Our days are numbered here, now," re-
marked Wattle, in a tone of settled convic-
tion, as he flung aside bis hat, and seated
himself at the supper table on the evening
after the carrying was ended. "The barn
aint moreti hall full, -an', as far as I can see,
prices is goin' to be low. We won't be able
to live, let alone payin' a cent this fall. I've
kind o' growed to the place, though we aint
had much luck in it, an.' 111 take it hard
to turn out, au' 'specially to turn out
at the biddin' o' them as might hey' felt
called to act difarent."
"Nobody's ever acted hard to us, father,"
said Mary, pausing in the middle of cutting
up pie, and looking at him with a red color
burning in her cheeks; "it aint right to be
hintin again' folks asneverate wouldn't harm
us."
Walter Beason Isticl down his knife and
fork, and met his daughter's indignant dark
eyes steadily, while it kind of spasm crossed
his rugged face.
" couldn't happen no other way," he
sold, in a slow, measured fashion. "Every-
thing they're bound to get, even my child's
heart en' love from me; but theeell be a
reckonini—there's got to be a reckonint "
"Don't you talk like that, father " pleeded
1VIrs. 1),,,4,,,,,tremulously; "an' cl'on't Mary
an' you be fan& out again, when I counted
bear to oide here a, spell, I can see."
Mrs. Scott was right, for to -morrow had
come, and many to -morrows before Walter
Beatson was able to rise from his bed.
When he was at length well enough to sit
at the Westward window the beentifel
Indiau summer had come, and. be could see
tte woods up at Pine Grove wearing their
gbrionsauturrmal dress.
Doubtless be spent sono unhappy hours
looking at them, and thinking over the gen-
erous and considerate treatment he and his
family had received from the people he had
hated and judged so hardly.
"Mary," he said, one afternoon, when
they were alone together, "you'll remember
me sayin' the nigh t o' the band& that there'd
got to be a reekonintaween me an' Mr. Scott
some day ?"
"Yes, father," said Mary, faintly.
"Well; so there lies; but it'll be a differ-
ent one nor what I thought o'. You'll re-
member, likewise, o' my maltini ye promise
never to speak -tea Jack Scott?" .
"?les, father," she said, more faintly still,
but looking at him bravely, "an' I've kept
my promise, though Jack's been here often
en often:"
"I said Id give ye lease when- ye could,
an' ye heve it now," be went on, n-orkieg
his maimed hands painfully, and speaking
with laboured deliberation. "James is in
the orchard yonder, if yeal ;test run an' ask
him to talk wi' me, veill ye ?'
Mary went off, and Jamie speedily came
in answer to the summons.
"Ye want to talk wi' me, Mary says," he
said, ' cheerily, as he drew it seat near to
Wattie's, and sat down.
"I do," said Watty, with awkward
shame-faceclness. "Yon see there wants to
be a kind e reckonin' betsveen us like
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by experienced pharmacists. aod
still carefully prepared under their per-
sonal supervision.
It is clean, clear and beautiful in
appeerance, pleasant to take, and
always of equal strength.
sag It has proven itself to be positively
the best remedy for scrofula and all
blood disorders, and the best tonic for
that tired feeling, loss of appetite and
general debility.
8Itis unequalled for curing dyspepsia,
is
headache, biliousness, catarrh,
rheumatism and all diseases of the kid-
neys and liver,
eie It has a good name at home, there
being more of Hood's Sarsaparilla
sold in Lowell, Mass., -where it is made,
than of all other sarsaparillas and blood
purifiers combined.
I
Its advertising is unique, original,
• ‘,/ honest, and thoroughly backed 'up
by the medicine itself.
A Point for You.
If you want a blood purifier or
strengthening medicine, you should get-
-
the
the best. Ask for Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and insist upon having it. Do not let
any argument or persuasion influence
you to buy what you do not want. Be
sure to get the ideal medicine,
ood's
Sarsap Bina
Sold by all druggists. $1; six forge Prepared only
by 0.1.1100D & 00, Apothecaries, Lowell, wase.
100 Oases One Dollar
The Great Blood Minors
-
'Truth is Nighty, and will
A Word to the People. prevail."
meassamscowinoweloarainalests
irtitersreme= groencstsit:Al
I RIOrret: Soartis.rfaaeatearLrozo.eosu,ltwshiin
o h eavreerexperienced i
and made manifest from day to day, by thosewho haare takenNORTHROP
& LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY, for complaints which 'were pro.
nounced incurable, are surpeisiog to ell- In maey of these Pastas the persona say
their pain and sufferings cannot be expresseti, as in ow of Serofula, where
apparently the whole body was (me moss of eorruption.
This- celebrated medicine will relieve pain, cleanse end purify the blood, and
cure suck disease, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying many
remedies, and having suffered for years Is it not conclusive proof that if you are
a sufferer you can be cured? Why is this medicine pet forming smith great Cubes?
It works in the 131,Q0D, the Circulatiog Fluid. It can truly be called the
4311Mt=afts."V- aa=staiailiiia2t Marlar=i3laWX..7=Zaasi
The great source of disease originates in the MOOD, arid no medicine that dons
not act directly upon it, to purify and renovate, has any just eleim upon pubTie
attention. When the blood becomes lifeless and etagnant, either from change of
weather or of elimete, want of exercise, irregular diet, or from any other cause,
NORTHROP & LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY will renew this Blood,
carry off the putrid hurnore, cleanse tae stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart
a toue of vigor to the wbole body.
The conviction is, in the pnblic mind as well as the medical profession, that
the remedies seppliea by the traGETAWL,a KINGDOM are more safe mid more eftee.
tual in this cure of disease than Mineral medicines. Tim Vegetable Diseevery is
eceeposedof the juice of most remarkable roots, barks and herbs. It fa pleasent to
take, and its perfectly Eat) to give an infant. Allow us to ask you A candid ques-
tion ie—Do you need it? Do not Lesitate to try it. You svill weer regret it. All
druggists have it for sale.
Moe Jona Q. Fox, Olinda, writes :—" Northrop 4 Lyman% Vegetable Dim
COVerY is giving good Eatiaruotiou. Those who have used it aay it hes done them
more good, thau anything they lames ever taken."
IN ITS WORST FORM—MISS JULIA A. PirtswooTa, Termite, writes :e-
1 had rlYalielisia in its went ferea for ever a year, but after taking three betties
of Nord:eel) 4 Lymeat's Vegetable Diecoveryt it perfect cure followed. I take greet
pleasure in recommending it to anyone suffeneg from Dyspepsia."
Mo. W. THATP.B, Wright, P.Q ,had DYSPEPSIA FOR TWENTY YEARS. Tried
many remedies and doctors, but got no relief. His appetite was very parr, hasi a
distressing pain iu bie side and :stoma, and gradual wasting osvay of Atoll, when
he lwara of and, immediately eommeuced taking Northrop w Lygnaia's 'Vegetable
Discevery. The pain* have left, and he rejoieee in the entoyiumia a (=Cult
health; iu fact he is quite a uew luau.
Sold by all Medicine Dealers at $1,00 per Bottle.
Trfl Mr ,E It "lia Oetioneeteiosi
trees, Moro cuaranteo. 8 StlICI rata, • •mu.
scivantsges to butanes*. Block Oemplet fsairsellleg specialtlee.
TFEE ETZ.XP,s We guaruntra sant V.'4 adVeTZet. Mite ISIZOWN
remeereto. Noro,e en. Toronto, Clut..1Thls house Is reliable./
Exeter Lumber Yard
tammorapommonprimonsavaalommv.
The undersignea wislies to inform the public in get:coil that he keeps
—eminently in Moil:—
All Kinds of BUILDING MATERiAL
1/MS8 oit IncrwssED
A large stock of Hemlock always on hand at mill prices. Flooring, Salines,
dresser"— inch, inch audeoquarter, miiii-anibiehalf and two inch. Sob Doom, IniudS,
MOUldings end all Finishing Material, Lath, tate
SHINGLES, A SPECIALTY—Competition chellenged. The -best end tt?ilargeet
etock, and et lowest prices, Shingles A 1.
All our timber thoroughly seasoned aud ready for use. No shrinkage asenrea.
A e 11 will bear o-ut the above.
THE OLD ESTABLISHED.
s Willis Mai
France and Pinasia.
Until. the generation living at the time of
the Franco-Prussian war twenty years
ago filial), have passed away, 0 mewls' of
hostilities betn•een the two countries will be
regarded as one of those things liable to
happen at ally 311011101/t. This fact rouses
waiters in periodicals and newspapers to be
constantly turning their attention to the
militery resources of the great European re-
public and its neighboring monarchy. These
writers appear usually to take it for granted
that France is aching for revenge and that
Germany, full of expectancy, is always on
guard. 'Whether this view of the situation
is correct or not, it is certain that both na-
tions bave made wonderful progress in the
development of their armies and that the
campaign of the future will assuredly notbe
so one-sided as the last, In a short Wine
France will be able to put into the field an
anny, or e number of armies, having an ag-
gregate strength of 3,000,000 men, while
Germany will, at the same time, have at her
disposal an armed and trained force of more
than 2,500,000 men. The French side of the
Frame -German frontier bristles with forti-
fications of the most approved cbazacter,
that have cost the French to erect
hundreds of millions of dollars. On *the
17erman side of the border line there
aro naturalobstacles in the shape of
the river course -s, the Vosges mountains
and certain well equipped fortifications ,•
but the main reliance, both for offence and.
defence, is the strategical railway system,
which will permit of the concentration, in it
few hours' time, of enormous masses of
troops at any threateued point along the en-
tire frontier. Defensively considered, it
does not seem possible that a German array,
however strong and well led it inay be, can
get beyond the first and second great lines
of French defence, while to besiege the city
of Paris, as it is now fortified, would require,
according to German authorities, more than
1,000,000 men. On the German side, where,
in consectuence of the scientifie frontier
adopted in 1877, the natural defences are
exceptionally great, it tams °gutsily impos-
sible 'that the French could break through
the line and invade Germany, where strate-
gical movements on it large scale are made
impossible by natural obstaoles. As at pre-
sent advised it would seem as if the two
peoples could do nothing but scowl at each
other from defensive positions ethic's are
equally impregnable, though it is possible
that the genius of some great military leader
on one side or the other—and to readily
handle an army of between 2,000,000 and
3,000,000 men will require a man of genius
—will rise superior to these difficulties end
assert itself in their successful overthrow.
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Among the instructive contrasts in the
Keathley tariff are these: Duties on wool-
ens used by the poor are advanced from 80
to 700 per cent, while fine broadcloth, used
by the nch, is increased. from 50 to 60 per
cent. The import taw on cotton *civet is
doubled,being raisedfrom 40 to 80 per eente
hnt on silk velvet the fluty remains 50 per
cent. Cotton laces and handkercaiefe are
marked up from 40 to 60 per cent., while
San laces and handkerchiefs are advanced
from 60 to 60 per cent. only, Cheap alpacas
are put up from 60 to 100 per cent. Black
silks . remain at 50 per cent. On sealskin
sampans the duty remains 50 per cent., while
sills plush, used for imitation sesames, goes
Op front 50 to 110 per cent. These thange
arewhat the author of the bill calls "equals
ing duties to reduae revenues."
Piro's nest:city torcatarrti is tho
Pest, Ilasiest to Uso and CheaRnt.
Sold by drugglas or sent by un41,C,.,..
E. T. Ila.zeltine, Warren, P,, U S. A..
CS"; Solid Mad 'Watch.
501C trit ds until latetr.
Veat 513 WAtth *0 12,8 world,
l'uttces chnekespers Wats.
11
reined. Ileavy Swot Gold
liunting Cases. Mak ladies'
and gems' 4%es:with works
and cases of equal value.
One Person In each los
ealtiy van secure one free,
together with our large and val-
uable lino of Ilieusehold
Samples. These samples, as
well as the Vralcb, we send
Pree, and after you have kept
them In your home for 2 months nud shown them to those
who may hero called, they become yen r Ono propersg,_ Thos.,
who write at once tea, ho sure of teccivIng the Watch
Bed Snosplos W, any an entsess. Welt !trot:, Address
Stinnoct TIP .ewatles:tais *Entine.
CARTER'S
iTYLE
IV r Ph
PHIS,
Sick Fiesaselle and reeve all the troubles incl.
dent to a bilious state of the system, such as
Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness. Distress after
eating, Pain in thc Sidec Whtle their most
remarkable success has been shown in curing
Headache, yet 01.1121411'S tarri.tt LtVET Plus
are equally valuable in Constipation. curing
and preaenting this so moying complaint, while
they also correct all disorders of the stomach,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels.
Even if they only cured
Ache they would be almost priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint;
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here, and those who once try them will druri
these little pills valuable in so many ways hat
they will not be willing to do without them.
But after all sick head
15 the bane of so many Eves that here is where
we nuilre our great laoast. Our pills cure it
while other do not.
CAnTsn's DM& Tavott PILLS are very men '
and very easy to take. One or two pills make
a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do
not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action
please all who use them. In vials at 28 cents;
five for $1. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail.
CASTER =MOINE 00., New York.
STIlial.•1111 Small Dose. Sm$11.1riati
, ERRORS OF YOUTH.. Nervous De.
°Day, Seminal Losses and Premature Decays
promptl and penrianently cured by
oes not In er ere ie of." wars, occupation
and fully restores lost vigor and insures perfeet
manhood. Price 01 per box. Sold by all drug.
gists. Sole Prop,netor, H. SCHOFIELD, Scher
rield'S Drug Store, nx,nt sTaau.r, ToltOterik