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JANUARY, 1905
THE
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HURON EXPOSITORs
clematis, and the limiting black
mitts?"
"Our visitors are Mr. Stephen
Leigh and his son."
"I have never heard of there be-
fore. Did you'? Tf hope they have not
come about niolicy. Every one; now
seems to corns About money."
"They are vri=y rich, and we owe
them nothing. Mr. l: c=igh is a loom -
lord. He lives to snake w aolen cloth,
But that is neither here nor there.
The younger plan is extremely hand-
some, and, and—I am sur`, Frances,
you will be careful I mean dear—
you will not let him make any im-
pression—you know what I mean,"
"Indeed, Aunt Loida, I do not
know what you mean.,,
'Young people sometimes fancy
they have fallen in love, when, they
have not."
"Why should you warn me about
falling in love? Have I ever done
such a thing? Is it a common trans-
gression of thine? How many op-
portunities- have i had to be so
imprudent? Is 'imprudent' the
word? - Or /Should I use a stronger
one?"
"I see that I have been unwise in
speaking to ytou, Francesca."
"You should not. ha'be spoken on
this subject. I am i early nineteen
years old, Mint Loida."
"It is such an important subject!
o Francesca, such a fateful subject!
It makes or mars human lives in a
few moments. I - am 'one of those
who know,' my dear." . -
Miss Vyner's still face flushed, and'
she dropped her eyes upon her gray
dress and• smoothed out a fanciful
crease.
'It was the first approach to confi-
dence ever given, and Francesca went
to. her aunt's side and ' took her
hand. Some vague • tradition of
Loida Vyner's disappointment 'in
love had floated into her conscious-
ness almost imperceptibly, but the
idea had always been pale, remote,
and without much meaning, At this
moment she had a revelation that
troubled and restrained her, and a
spell of sadness fell between the two
women.
It lingered in the room after Miss
Vyner had left it, and Francesca, was
a little impatie t of the feeling. She
-began to, sing softly, • but era she -
was aware hey Voice had slipped into
a, monotonous She full of old world
Sadness. Then she broke it off sud-
denly, and, in a quiet hurry, finish --
HAD TO GIVE UP
ALTOGI T1-UER AND GO
TO BED.
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the time �i3s. L. L. Hansen,
Waterside}'. B.. had taken
Thr 1.10Xe.S of Iff.ILIIII4IPS •
HE //AT AiP r ;.R VI3 PILLS
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frt .,e Milburn' I Eart awl Nervo Pills.
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z t failure. e. 't. 1i-•st I would have to
stop working, ,,,='t lie down for awhile.
1 then got so - 7L that I had to give up
altogether uytd .to to bed. I had several
i.ot•tors to at ' %(I rue, but they did mo
no good. S gc t.1:? relief until urged by
a friend lea t• i iilhurn's Heart and.
Nerve Pil.s. t € t• to the store for a
box and by tics i.an I iittd taken three -
(martens ofi t I :,t-;;a:i to ret relief. and
be -the t;me had t:t\en three boxes
I -was coxa. etely eured. I feel'very
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0IIAP'rER I.
Do you. remember the little things that
gave us so much pleasure when we were
young? With what zest did we sit down to
the table after our play was over and eat the
mush and milk our mother put before us.
But as we . get older it 'takes more to give
us pleasure. Mush and milk no longer -
tastes good to ns and our digestion may be
impaired. The !lest advice we: can give to
each a person is to tone ups the stomach with
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
is nature's most valuable and health -giving
agent made without the use of alcohol. It
contains roots, herbs and barks, and is the
concentration of nature's vitality as found
in the fields and woods. This remedy has
1 a history which speaks well for it because
) it waa4 - given to the public by Dr. R: V.
Pierce, founder of the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., nearly
forty years ago, and has since been sold by
druggists in ever increasing quantities.
Some medicines, tonics or compoundsen-
joy a large sale for a few. years, then disap-
pear from the publicattention, bat Dr.
I Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has
proved such a reliable blood remedy ands
tonic that it often enjoys the confidence of
several generations in a family, and its in-
creased sales year by year com infrom. the
recommendations of those whoave tried
it, prove its lasting merit, so that every
bottle bears the stamp of public approval.
Every other blood -maker and tonic for the
stoach that we know of contains alcohol,
but Dr. Pierce guarantees that no alcohol
is contained in kis "Medical Discoveryy#
Between the leaves" of an old ro-
mance I found one day the shadow
of a lily and a song. The lily grew
forty years ago,: the song was sung
as it was gathered. The flower is
-neeriy. duet, the wade have- aearly
faded away, bUt the stery they kgep
is unforgotten. For in beconaing
e"Life" it made itself! eternal.
Before the flower blooraed, before
the "sdng had foUnd a voice, Fran-
cesca, Atherton had dreamed of love,
siints dream of heaven—woiader-
4u1, mystical, far off—an object bath
of feryeiat desire and of :wistful fear
and /uncertainty. For her young life
had been peopled from noble books,
ana it was in th,eir pages she had
met her friends and companions --
men; romantically honorable sand
loyal; women, faithful. in love, even
unto death—both alike doing nobly
with this- life, bectese they held it as
the gage for:life eternal.
And Francesca believed these shad-
owy forms to .be portraits- of the
..people whom would one day
'inset in the :worlds No one told her
Efferently: Her aunt—the still beau--
Loida Vyner—held the same
opinion; for she had only made lit-
tle holiday visits into the world,
and she was quite ignorant of all
,that was mean or selgsh in the
pemps -and vanities she took part in.
Gentle and romantic, carrying in her
heart.the "hush" of a great sorrow,
Miss Vyner had brought up her mo-
therless niece in that sweet, pious
simplicity which makes a woman not
only 'charming in good fortune but
patient and strong in the days of -
In this exquisite schooling of a
young soul :Squire Atherton had lit-
tle part. He distrusted himself ene
tirely where Francesca was concerned.
fie would have taken a Son to the
kennels and the ferret hutches, made
him wise in stable lore, and taught
him all the mysteries of woodcraft,
The little 'maid, even at nine years
old, puzzled him. Her eyes, full of
80/eran wonder, 'gave: hire an uncom-
fortable sense of,. incompetency. Her
hand had but to clasp his finger;
and he felt under an irresistible au-
thority. And when her small /face
lay against his largo, sunbrowned
cheek, he had neither wish nor will
of his own to spaa,k of.
"She is just a little lady! God love
her!, he said to his sister-in-law,
"and she must -have a lady to guide
her. As for me, Loida, thou knows,
vvotild lay my hande under het
feet." And Loida, looking up at the
man standing firm as an oak before.
her—massive, tall, tough, fearless—
felt all the wonderful surrender in
this free expression of loVe, and of,
love's service—"I would lay my
hands under her feet."
If this was the squire's feeling
when. Francesca. was nine years 'old,
when she was nineteen it was ten
.years stronger. For he had then be-
gun to realize that his child bad be-
come a woman, and that the high
park walls of Atherton. Court would
not much longer ,keep away feom hes
'whatever Fate was w,alting.
"And I'll tell thee what, leoida,'4
.be said one day, as they sat talking.
! 'if anything goes wrong with Fran -
;wee, the world will be Just four
bare walls to me."
As he spoke he rose and went to
'the window, The leaded sashes were
on an ivy branch, was almost in the
room:- The squire chirruped to the
bird, but kept his eyes upon his
daughter. She was coming eyslowly
up the stone steps of the terrace,
lifting slightly her long white drum
with one hand, and scattering wheat
with the other to the many colored
pigeons, who pa.ced an.d plumed and
bridled their opal necks, and, "coo,
coo, coo'd" around her feet.
Re called to her, becenee he wish-
ed to hear her voice; and she let the
wheat fall from her hand and lifted
her hat with. a joyous upward move-
-Where have you been, Francesca?"
he askiel.
sauth
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
quiets tickling throats, hack-
ing coughs, pain in the lungs.
k relieves congestion, sub -
Cherry
Pectoral
dues inflammation. It heals,
strengthens. Your doctor will
explain thistoyou He knows
ail about this cough medicine.
"Ivo letvo used Areez Cherry Pectoral in
our farntly for y.•ars throat and nun:
troubles. end me1h.. )ni•Nileins equals It."
Bins. A. Poe emete Applecen, Minn.
Weak Thr
,-,....,Qr4mattroetemos,rossokraval.4,
the apricots if they were ripe. And
one—like noses and amber—told .me
"It Was like sunshine and wine,'
.4and musk-reses and -acme of your
kisses, dear 'father." ' She was by
this time at the open windoW, arid
she sent thee6Omplienent straight to
his h'eart, with. a 1mile as ravishing
as love -and beauty could make it.
-"th! but thy words are like music..
-I don't wonder the very birds love to
hear them. Robin was eine;ing till
you came; now, like a wWebird, he
is listening to thee."
"I have pet been. listening to the
starlings. They' have -been holding a,
large public meeting. Do you think,
father, that the3r are - addicted to
politics? No, it must have been a re-
ligious meeting. It was extremely or-
derly. There --is a starling; who lives
in the east -gable; he is quite ae re-
ligious bird. I have often seen him
on the topmost stone of the- highest
chimney gaze on the gree-n.•earth and
up at the' sky, and then clap his
wings softly, to the neost . joyful
song yoie can ineagine.'He wee sing-
ing to God, I am eure he was.'
"I wouldn't wonder, dearie.".
"Father; I walked through the
park to the greae gates. And I saw •
two gentlemen go past them. . One
was old, and one was young; that
is, one was much older than the oth-
er; and -they looked so happy-, . out
there in the world. I wished I was a
man—if I could only go Tiding up
and down, as my fancy 'led me."
• "I'll warrant it was their busi- .
nesse and not their fancy, that led
them into this bit of country, Fran-
cesca. Why -a! They be coining here,
my little .lady. Go tell 'you/ Aunt
Loida. They will need a _bite and
sup, whoever they be."
And she heard, as she went away,
the -trample of homes' feet, and the
sound of men's voices, and that lit-
tle- flurry / of formal welcome that
marks the unexpeeted yet not en -
welcome visitor, For visitors were -
rare at •Ath'erton Court, • and the
squire was glad to talk to those
-who brought t o him for awhile the
atinosphere of the busy world:
To Francesca their coming was al -
So a little event. She felt a kind of
personal interest. ia these strangers,
ehe.hed .seen them before any one in
the .house; and she was pleased when
the ostler took away their horses.
"They are going to Stay to din-
ner," she mentally commented, "and
I wonder what I shall put on!" It
was a delightful uncertainty to her;
she ,openc-d first one and then anoth-
er of the wide clra.wors in her amiery;
and stood looking down at their
contents. The scent of lavender stole
softly out of them, and mirigled with
the sweet air of the room. And the
stinehine fell on several pale -colored
gowns, pink and amber, and blue
and white. She could not tell which
one was the prettiest, but, it' was
quite an. important question to set- I
tie; because a stranger was such a f
rarity. One of these might be a lord
or a lover; .11110at be the prince of
-all her:fairylike lave -dreams..
In the twinkling of an eye a girl's
bright 'glepce cal.! See a great deal;
and Francesca in a moment's space, e
from out of the green shadows in -
which she ',stood, had-. noticed the
tall, graceful man. who ,held his
bridle so lightly', and -who turned a
handsome, dark face toward the dim
beech alley, through which he must
have seen her sauntering.
The dreeses, crisp and fresh, with
the clear starching now gone out- of
use, lay. across the counterpane. She
considered their claims with a *divid-
ed heart; none pleased her above all
others.. "I shall have to shut my
eyes aad take what fortune .setaltea
me," she said, with a low latigh ,
satisfaction. "We have to do that
about . many other thin.gs, I am
Then she lifted her watch, and *taw
that it was only a little after elev-
en. 1.0 ; niter will not be served
' lit have to make a
ewe- 'thinks visit-
;r
ed her toilet. For once.she forgot to
take a little pleagure in her own
beauty—:to watCh in the two long
mirrors ehe -graeeful sweep of pink
muslin across the dark oak floor; to
notice the gleana of her white arms
and throat; the .heavy braids of her
nut -brown hair; the rose tints of her
face, and the sparkling lights of her-
darge gray eyese But it was only
one &Clock,. and she could go to the
garden and get flowers, and :do all
thesiethitigs in that final five minu-
tes td.6re Wm).
As she paised threugh the hall, she
heard her father talking'. His voice
had an arginnentative ring; it was
clear and pesitive.
'''/Ntow I know what these 'people
have come for," she said to herself;
"politics. I dare say this Stephen
Leigh is a Radicasl for fathei' never
talks that way but when somebody
is saying something against the
ag She had settled the Visit upon' a
political basis, her spirits rose; the
decision put awaY some unacknow-
ledged money care.
With a, light step she went down
the terrace into the pleasan stretch
flowers. Here there were all kinds
of shady alleys; rose hedges shut in
some, and the laburnums'. rain 'of
gold and the climbing honeysuckle
others; and lower doivn toward the
steps of the second, terrace there was
a thick screen. of white clematis. It
covered also a little summer -house
overlooking the steps and the hilly
sward in which" they were Set; and
lower down, -the place of summer
fruits. The desire to enter the sum-
mer -house was irresistible. It was
so cool, and then the light was so
green there, and leer pink dress made
such a charming glow in its dim
shadow. She spread it out with an
obvious childlike pride in the con-
trast.
Oh, the stillness! Oh, the sweet
smell of growing wood; of the soil;
of the eowers; of the ripening fruit!
Youth has a sensuous hunger for
such alluring odors, -and Francesca,
sat and cleeed her eyes, the better
to enjoy them. The chair was her
fathee's chair; it was large and
sofe; the air was the noontide air,
it was warm and sleepy; her soul
was in the mood of a truant, and
it slipped away Into the land of
dreams.
She awakened suddenly, as if she
had- been sharply called. All the
ower space of the fruit garden was
"I hdarielamm.,,t that I dwelt in marble
That was very like what she e had
been dreaming. She rose quickly to
her feet, a warm crimson wave rush -
the clematis vines and looked
through them.
A young man was slowly walking
between the plum and the apricot
standrads, and singing as he walked.
His voice had magic in it. The ten-
der, ringing tonas, nave sharp and
clear, then soft and lingering, came
fleatifig up the terrace and went
straight to her heart. She had
heard the first verse of the song in
her sleep—never before --and the se-
cond 'Verse had an insinuating famil-
iarity she could not resist,
The singer came slowly onward,
taking the. terrace -steps with a
charming deliberation. He held an
apricot, and he threw it lightly from
one hand to the other, making the
act as rhythmical .and graceful as
the melody he sang to the move-
ment. He was hare -headed, slender
and tall, and carried himself with a
royal air. As he came closer, she
saw that he was very handsome;
that his mouth was sweet and smil-
ing% Ilea his clothes had the gloss
He stood a m.oment .on
Rol); stood in the sun-
$.erenely..glad, and
or a man who had
su ie st places
eave fled, but
give the Wit, at heist, of indiffer-
nee. Put t ing together the parted
vines, she:stood very upright, lac- .
ng the t leafy entrance. lier left`i
hand was dropped, her right. hand
grasped the bank of the large chair.
Pit'lres then .her muslin gbwn was
tering ht, 1700111 -
lemma, and met
"I would we•
and feller'
time
of
pink muslin,
'It is sheerer
ou can go to the
garden ..11 are dressed and get
some .• ate es a.nd white demo, -
tis, . ee lace mitts, my dear.
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of hie.
Frana
t he. black lace mitts/ They f
ir of modesty to a' young
'1 key say to a gentleman; 'TM e
Prancesca looked, with a smile, at j:
the tips of her fingers, and said: .
"If you please, aunt, for whom an
II to wear ink muslin and obits
nd ra Ra
Does its We- Iwhile You do Yours
You do not have to ()nstantly watch the Pandora range when
cooking or baking. Arrange the fire, put on your pots and set the
damper—the range does the txest.
While dinner is cooking you can do your other work, just the same
as the woman in the picture and know positively that your cooking is
being done right.
The andora range is eittirely new and has inany new Teatures and
idevices for regulating the ft* extractiAg all the heat possible from the fuel
Consumed and using it to the ',best advantage. -
Special flue "construction lorces ail the heat around the oven twice and
directly under every pot-hOlonly the smoke goes up the chimney,
Oven iS roomy, ventilate.4, fitted with thermometer, lined with sheet
steel, and is a perfect baker end a perfect cooker at the same time.
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her' face; ber eyes ehone like stars;
her manner expressed -forcibly the
confusion of 'a soul surprised in its
very citadel.
For a moment•the singer end the
listener looked straight into each
other's eyes. Semething impelled
them to this retognizance. Then
Francesca, said;
"I am Miss Atherton."
And ,the etranger said:
And she dave him just the tips of
her lingers, and they went thrdugh
the garden together. And the white
Clematis were never gathered, which
was a fortunate thing, for tbe• free
flowers of the gadding vine hold no ,
love -spell in their wide-open cups. '
There was one hour before dinner,
and love for' an hour is love forever
--if it .be true love. These tw o
souls had juet found each other, and
they had sR much tie say, and seem-
ed to choose such unmeaning words
that any, one not of the faculty of
love would have been puzzled at
their satisfaction. •A few syllables
—ono step at a time, and the touch
. of their hands—these simple vehicles
elf understanding held a measureless
contentment, And when they took
the terraced steps together, the tips
of their fingers had a language all
their own-emysterically sweet as the
influences of the Pleiades, mystically
binding as th.e virtues of Orlon.
They were talking of names at the
time, and he said, softly:
"I am called Lancelot." -
She a,nswered:
He repeated the word lowly—
"Prameescal" and -every Tett r W0,11
vivid as light, and the name went
to his braln like wine.
What did it matter to them that
they were late to dixinen, and that
the squire, with a slow dignity that
was almost a reproof, told them so?
What did it matter that he loaked
annoyed, and Aunt Loida anxious,
and that the conversation. was con- -.
fined to the elder gentlemen, and
was painfully political. The great
point was that dinner would so soon
be over, and that they must then
learn, for the first time how hard it
is to spell the word "parting."
Francesca could make no attempt to
do it. She turned white, and re-
mained dumb, Lancelot touched her
fingers again, and said, "Good-
night" and, if his eyes lied not, said
many sweeter words. .
Francesca, did not doubt them, All
of love, and of love's confession that
sprung from their beautiful depths,
she iraplicitly believed. And, though
it was yet a secret between their
happy souls, she was certain the
hour for its tranelation into mortal
language. would come-ewonld surely
As soon as his visitors were out of
sight, the squire gave way to his
_natural temper. He turned sharply
efzreund, went into his parlor, and fill -
0
ed a fresh "yard of clay" with his‘.
strongest tobacco, Miss Vyner let
him puff some of his annoyance into
smoke ire she asked the irritating
"What is the matter with you,
Rashleigh? You act an if you were
vexed at something,"
im vexed at something. What -
over does thou think of a cotton -mill
near Atherton?"
"That is what brought Stephen
Leigh to my house. He was s.ure he
could buy me over; he thought I
would sell him Atherton Dingle; ke
talked about `water -power' as if
er with; An afer of inquiry:
"WhatOrer dost thou think brought
, "Polirs, 1 suppose."
"My ,T..yi Thou aft wrong this -
tat: ttshh,eaet.I had, better hold my peace
_ feeling tran to speak in such as way
ptio,so,tpi..0.,0,S,Iliii only looked with curiosity
waited Oir further information%
coul.d s cely have been more angry
and soitee oaf our people, are very
and in 'S st in his fare, and so
"Yese eby! They wanted to build
"If tV. host no -more sense and
e.
:and to fl L! ear her passionately -pro-
zi:ot they!. Thou sh-ould
se. the' went, murmuring poverty
ef a mile village. The poor ilt our
farm ' , ages . are decent, They
d let li . in cellars and alleys. They,
have t141. cottages on -the fell -side,
and a ikeirdeneplet, and a hive of
bees, aril a few sheep, and they go
to chureq, and' serve God, _And. do
their deley. Iliit if thou, Francesca
—a ladkilof the land—art going to
aide wit*: mill -men and such like, 1
may as ; 'etell slip into my eoffin and
be done , 1+Ith everything/ "e
StephOiii Leigh was the owner of
the gr mill at Iiittle Garsby, &
Fe:11s, oKe4 the borders of hat was
once the.; oneliest and le eliest por-
tion of t,'•••••'•.: e Wept Riding. But steam
- had fouid out its abundance of
water ant* ready facilities, and grad-
nally itS,tleills and valleys had been.
blotchedi with mills and all its
sparkling,; waters ma.de to toil autt
The 1.4.0hs were eons and daught.
ers of • the Soil; Strong, individual,
elemental men and women, whose
prejudioel were convittion.e, and
whose Oenions, likes, and dislikes,
being selitevolSred, were in reality a
part of eilach existence, .and not ts
be surrOdered except with the life
of whicliethey were the expression.
For nieSny centuries the lAeighs had
ling, gra& stone house, covered with
trainede Iruit trees. 'The branches
framed Oe loW, Wide windows of
lozenge-;e4aped glass;„ and the.house
a p easant Or en, and wan
'led by raeadews and corn-
fields, tephen I,eigh bad Mad.
some AO additions to it, but the
ola IlInglish character of tile house
bad been preserved; and even the in-
terior *lecorations, though hand,
some and costly, sustained in a sat-
isfactori: manner the ancient &arse -
ter whion belonged to the place.
Until' the middle of the present
century, • the Leighs ,had been forme
ers; and -were known far and wide as
great leo,esemen—
"Shrew4 Yorkshire tykes,
Whe, dealing horseflesh,
Had never their likes."
Stepher father ha.d ;begun weaving
heart. a:4'tephen thaw:, all his facul-
ties initie the .husiness, and he had
made himself a rich and influential
man. tinfortunately, tr. possession
of inorei Money than his business rep
water -power was God Almighty." quireci iieveloped in him a passion,
l'You would not sell the Dingle?" for inveStMent and speculation that
"Not for gold. And nobody shall kept hiet more legitimate gains'? in.
make gold eut of its silver water constant danger and his wife Martha
and nodding bluebells if I can stop in perpptual fear and irritation.
them. Why -al there isn't a tree in "We 41.re rich people living rdgiet
Atherton would not whisper and daY on :the varry edge of, retin,,11
`Shame!' to me if I sold Atherton was her frequent statement ofethefir
Dingle for a mill village.," : position •
"He must kave been a little try-
ing to you."
"Ere was very trying. But thou
may be sure I gave him Rime words
that had more strength than- grace
in them."
"I• should not wonder if you did."'"
At this moment Frapcasca came
int* the room, and -thel squire, hav-
ing -had a taste of sympathy, longed
for more, Hp turned to his daughtet
This c nviction made her go about
and angry heart, _for Iseigh Faris
. was the ',pry apple of her eye. She
WaS a e,t) sin of -Stephen's., her moth-
er had u. elanghter •of, the lions's.
and her, -own life had never, con- •
Prom gelhet to cellar it *LI CZOWt
ed with tile belong,inge and the ant
- T:yest 'they were out -of this world
'did not wea,ken their iniluente- over
her.: She spoke of thi rooms Sett
Leigh had . built Sal 4ueen A.Tallell
-reign just -as she spolee if those- bor,
husband had 'built - in Queen Vice
toria's reign;l and Cicely Leigh, who
- one hundred years before had shot ie
man discov-ered in the ant of setting
lire to her hay -ricks, was aa real le
person to Martha as was ter owtt
husband or son. She often went
about her work talking to the
sof the Valiant Cicely as• If She V/4101
present; disCL1SSilig with her the cir-
eumstances which led to the erlres,,,
and fully exonerating her for tehins
so fatal a reprisal.
Th. rooms that had aeon Cicely,'
Leigh* were now Martha* and tleo
handsome resolute, fano of her ancesee
tress' followed her from them, and
went with her about her daily dute
les, and was a familiar -to Martha
Leigh's. imagination; though imagi-
nation was the qualfty which, above
all. others, she _despised, being eon-
sciouely the most 'practical and ma-
ly. highly- imaginative, and disposed'
to let her imagination -Work -upon
seased.
(To be continued.)
—Lieut -Col. Wm. Young hes .1.a
his farm, in Colborne, to Mr. Samuel
Lautenslayer, formerly of Hullett.
The farm contains 100 aeres, and. the
f' tire at which it awned hands WAS
$5 000. Col. Young hes' bought ie,,,
p perty in Clinton.
POHL
fertilizer. A chemist by analyz-
mg the soil ean 101 you what
If your blood °writhed
your doctor will you what
you nefid to fertilize it and give
it. -the rich, red corpuseks that
are lacking in it, it ma:4,7 be you
need a ionic, but more VOU
need a concentrated fat food,
lEr
and fat. is- the element 11 ekino.
so„ easily digested ,and nssimi-
late& as
Scott's niu on
iver
It win nonri,h str
fail to do it. ficott's I:m.111:4m
alwayS the same; ,always
palatable. and always bent -41681
where the body is -wasting from
or adults. ithildren
We will se.nd yo sample rec.,
label is on .1 be ler:leper
of every INA tle of Elwell -
&OTT & NNE
emousiw
Toronto* 011ie
All Dru,,rgis-ts.