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aiseri had told his troops as
knt te 'leave thefr mark ort
FroMi thls time the whole in-
knd power of the Government
any has been used to disor-
ne Chinese Erapire, and the
krd o4 the policy of an, auto -
over, lways oppoeing the de -
at of, free institutions, has
pro4f within a month that
animtetd restoration of the •
was'rdnerkced from Berlin, he
melte pest Asia unsafe for
cy.---*Ione "How the Ger-
mire Has Menaced Demo -
by Illeott Williaree,, in Tlee
n Rekiew of Reviews.,
rrnie 'Use New Slang.,
e I ar someone will have '
ile—fer the benefit a real-
ine
t
t. periened. enovelists—a.de o the slang of the, New
It ould hardly be thine
a b ed deal cif that slang
gateidf Rux. Phrases like,
LP" Le., frightened), or to
es w4nd up" anyone (Lea
xe, litened), have remaite-
y conStaflc during i the lese
ret Bat words like "wiah-
oun and verb) lave develOP-
serts rif srarying applications.
and Originally a "wash our
tTe. 11 the state of as
had been d
*sit by tone**
It aiisy extension it be-
-oft of any partieulatre
tease situation—a water --
Wench very etatalifelly indeed
fterward s anything at all,
-heave/ artillery strafe by tber
Z to a po ideal- or an tin --
officer.— anchester Guard -
rhe kitindeaburg Lines,
s bo k, "Behind the German
De , _auforts the, dashing
faun:411st who bearded tho
edersOurg• in hie dee, sileintet oe
aph 4f the- kaiser taken by &
i phodegraoleer and-Pdinielti *
but promptly ,sappreget4. --bY
ty. It is an atiretouclar ad
mph, by no means insulting,*
kesty.but revea,ling the fedi
is A [Much thinner and Motile
i, caee-worn kaiser than
eictufes. It is a study in
re -
:d dife,
at andelef Willielris be
i-
Le like it smali wonder that
. .
e. erten on nubile exhibitiont
ince at 1,,u,:h a face would put
' late the heart of all Ger-
, treble Flower.
iou ireny, the dahlia
rear at the flower ehowse
kirs he able origin. It has bee2
eft; team the .,),iexicati taper.s.
-etude and a half ago this
ireroduced into Europe by
4:st Lotanist. Dr. Dahl, for
!' L'ormnrcial purposes of
rsSag or rupplementing the po-
der they did not prove po-P-
td. tse dahlia dish soon disap-
; fame° the dinner tables of
e but the gardeners saw the
f c, -)s at the flower,
which they have evolved the -
dahlia and other Popular
einkete.
phestriut Trees.
hem sift tree in all Stvitz
ee cut down without a.
it, and such permits are
ebtained, reports Pb
The Federal Council
tie, -oder, effective on March.
- -inflection with its campaign
mewieement of every pos-
me iv, source of food supply in
st: the desperate situation due
mime as• of imports by the
ses atm rerfare and other
erd sc ' he world war.
of
thalt bilk:abort Una
3110,4111 tbC gelkliktit
packet, and oes
at Unicitle !layout air
reiPaored,aa4 packed'
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• LaRAYS.
Banister, saliettorxanytiyancer aud
Notary Public. Solieitorlor the Do -
inion Bank. 011ice hi reer of the
minion Bank, $ teethe Money to
loan.
S. M. BT
Beerristma Solicitor,. Conveys str
and Notary Publie. Office ups, SA%
over Walker's Punitive Store, Patin
Street, Setiforth.
PROUDFOOT, iltr-LORAN.AND
COOKE.
Banisters, Solicitors, NotarieS Pah
-
lie, eta. Money to lend, In Beaforth
en Monday of each week. Office in
Kidd Block W. Proudfoot, K.C., J.
L. Tchleran, H. J. D. Cooke.
VFFERTNA.RY.
e F. HARBURN, V .8 .
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary meinher of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
all domestic animals by the most mod-
ern piinciples. Dentistry and Milk Fev-
\or a specialty. -Office oppooite Dick's
Rotel, Main Street, SeaforthA1 er-
a= left at the hotel will ra tve
prompt attention. Night calls re :(
ed at at the office.
AO,
JOHN GRIEVE, VS.
Honor graduate of Ontario Vetashi-
fry College. All diseases ol domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at -
teased to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
end residence on Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
forth.
- MEDICAL.
DR. W.J. GLANFMLD, M.A. M.B.,
Phythkcian, Etc. Honor Graduate
at University of Toronto, six years'
experience. Brucefield, Ontario.
DR. GEORGE' HEIGRIMANN.
Osteopathic Physician of Goderi
Specialist in women's and childrears
diaease, rheumatism, acute, chrome
and nervous disorders; eye ear, mule
and throat. Consultation free. Office
in the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, Tues-
days and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m.
C. J. W. HARN, M.D.C.M.
425 Richmond Street, London, 0
Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Ur
ary liseases of men and women.
Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR
Physician and Surgeon
Office and Residence, Main Str t,
Pone 70 • Henn
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medic._ 1,
McGill University, Montreal; Member
of College of, Physicians andSurgeons
of Ontario;Licentiate of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of illesident MediciirStair. of General
EsEpital, Montreal, 191445; Office, 2
adirs east of Post Office. Phone 56,
Hensall, Ontario.
DR. F. 3. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
▪ jtel the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County pi
Huron.
DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY
J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of
Ontario.
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario.
DR. H.ellUGH ROSS. '
Graduate of Villversity of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, meinber of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses, in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
\ England, University Hospital, London,
'England. Office—Back- of Dominion
Bank, Seaforth. .Plione No. 5, Night
Calls answered from residence, Vie -
torte street, Seaforth.
..AUCITONEERS...
THOMAS BROWN.
Licensed auctioneer for the caul %,
et Huron and Perth. Correspond n,,,e
• ngements for sale dates can NI
so& by elating up Phone 9; Seat '
4111, Tito Expositor Office. Charges 1
mate and satisfaction guarantoed.
4.-.11111111
R. T. LUKER
Idieessed Auctioneer for tiroCouiti
et RUM Sew attended to is 111
p:Zis a the CoustY. Sr,. 12_7aara' ex -
wimps in Mazdtoba and Easkatobe-
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Ralph Connor
Wonthed from- Last Week)
Mamie looked at him, surprise, in-
dignation and fear struggling for
the mastery. Was this the awkward
boy that -had. blushed and stammered
before her a week ago?
"It's very dangdwous," he. explained
to Mrs. Murray, the wind blows out
the flames." - -
As he spoke he handed Maimie' his
toasting stick and retired to the other
sideact the fire, and began to attend
to the boiling , sap.
He needn't be such a bear," pout-
ed Maimie.
• •"-MY,dear," replied her aunt, "what
Ranald says is quite true. You can-
not be -to careful in moving about the
fire."
-"Well, he needn't be so cross about
it," said Maimie., She had never
been ordered about before in her life
and she did not enjoy the experience
and all the more at the hands of an
uncouth country boy. She 'watched
Ranald attending to the fire and the
kettles, however, With a new respect.
He certainly had no fear of the fire,
but moved about and handled it with
the utmost • sang-froid. He had a
certain grace, too, in his movements
that caught her eye, and she wished
he would eome nearer so that she
raieht speak to him. She had con-
siderable confidence. in .her powers of
attraction. As if to answer her
wish, %Mild camestraight to wlsere
her aunt and she Were standing.
"I think it will be time for tea 'lbw,"
he said, with a sudden return of his
awkward manner, that inade. Maimie
wonder why she had ever been afraid
of him. "I will tell Don," he added,
striding off towards the group of
boys and girls, still busy with their
games under the trees. ,
Soon Don's shout was heard: "Tea
ladies and .gentlemen; take your seats
at the tables." And speedily there
was a rush and scramble, lead in a
few moments the great heaps of
green balsam boughs arranged a-
round the fire were full of boys and
girls pulling pinching and tumbling
over one smother in wild glee.
The toast stood in brown heaps on
birclabetrit plates beside the fire, and
baskets- were carried out of the shanty 1 r
ry 'to the srictivbank mid mon everyone
had a Snow Plate ready. Then Ran -
aid and Don. slid down the 'little ket-
tle along a pole off the fire, and With
tin dippue began - to pour the hot
syrup upon the snow plates, where
innnediately hardernal into taffy.
Then the .pulling -began. What fun
there ewlo, -What lar4, what shrieks,
what romping and tumbling, till all
were -heartily tired, both of the taffy
and the fun.
Tb.en followed the sugar, Illwalding•
The 'little kettle Was set °back on the
fire and kept carefully stirred, while
tin dishes.of ali scats, shapes, and
gizei--Milk-pans, nettle pans, mugs,
and cups—well greased with pork
rind, were set out in order, imbedded
in snow. '
The last- apt a all was the making
of "hens' nests." A dozen or so
hens' eggs, blown empty, and three
goose eggs for the grow -ups, were
set in snow nests, and carefully filled
from the little kettle. - in a'.few
minutes the nests were filled with
sugar eggs, and the Sugaring -off was
over
proThviedrede asgbillahistresnanainy edmislimp. goose -egg
"who wants' the goose egg?" cried
Don, holding it up. •
"Me! "me!" me!" coaxed the girls
on every side.
"Will you give it to me, DOD, for
the minister?" said Mrs. MurraY•
"Oh, yes!" cried Maimie, "and let
me fill it."
As she spoke, she seized the dinner,
and ran for the kettle.
"Look out for that fire," cried Don
dropping the egg into its snowbed.
He Was to late. A little tongue of
flame leaped out from under the ket-
tle, nipped hold of her frock, and in a
moment she was in a blaze. With a
wild screarn she sprang batk and
turned to fly, but before she. had gone
more than a single step, Ronald, dash-
ing the crowd right and left, had seiz-
ed and flung" her, headlOng into the
snow, beating out/the flames with his
bare hands. - In a moment all danger
eves over, and Ranald lifted her up.
Still screaming, - she clung to him,
while the women all ran to her. Her
aunt reached her first. ,
"Hush, Maimie; hush; dear. You
are quite safe now. Let me see your
face. There now, be quiet child. The
danger is all over." •
Still Maimie kept screaming. She
was thoroughly terrified.
"Listen to me," her aunt said, in an
even; firm voice. "Do not be foolish.
Let me look at you."
The quiet,- firm voice doothed her,
and Maimie's screams ceased. Her
aunt examined her face, neck, and
arms for any signs of fire, but could
find none. She was hardly touched,
so swift had been her rescue. Then
Murray, suddenly putting her
arms around her niece, and holding
her tight, cried:'"Thank God, my dar-
ling, for his great kindness to you
and to us all., Thank God! thank God!'
Her wee -broke, but in a moment
bulging with cakes; the tea was
bubbling in the big tea -pail and ev-
erything was ready for -the feast. But
Ranald had caught Mrs. Murrey's
eye, and at a sign from her, stood
waiting with the teapalI in his hand. -
"Come eon -with the tea, Ranald,"
cried Don, seizing a plate 01 toast
- "Wait, 0. minute Don; Taid-Rtinald,'
in a low 'tone. .
"What's the matter?"
. But Ranald stood still; looking
sil-
ently at the ininister's wife.- Then as
all eyes turned toward her, she said,
in a gentle, sweet voice, "I think we
ought to give thanks to our Father in
heaven for all this beauty about us
and for all our joy."
At once Ranald took off his hat, and
as the boys followed his example,
Mrs. Murray bowed her head and in
a few, simple words, lifted up the
hearts of all with her own thanksgiv-
ing for the beauty of the woods and
the sky above them, and all the many
gifts that came to fill their lives with
ieY•
It was not the first time that Ran-
ald had hedrd her -voice in prayer,
but somehow it sounded different -hi
the open air under the trees and iia the
midst of the jollity of the sugaring -
off.' With all other people that Ran-
ald knew religion seemed to be some-
thing apart from common. days, com-
mon people apt] collation things, and;
seemed, besides,' a Solemn and terrible
eeprience; but with the minister's,
wife, religion was a part of her every -1
dav thders, and seemed to be as easily
associated with her pleasure as with
anything else about her. It was so
• easy, to simple, so natural, that Ran-
ald emild not help wondering if, after
all, it was the right kind. It was so
unlike the religion the elders /and all
the good people in the congregation.
It was a great puzzle to Ranald, as to
many others, both before and since
his ihne.
After tea was over the great busi-
ness of the evening came on. Ranald
announced that the taffy was ready,
and Don, as master of ceremonies im-
mediately cried out: "The gentlemen
will provide the ladies with plates."
"Plates!" echoed the boys, with a
laugh of derision.
."Plates.," repeated Don, stepping
back to a great snowbank, near a bal-
sa.m'elump, and returning with a piece;
of dcrust." At once there was a sc-ur-
ecov6ing herself, she went on, "And
aitald, tool -noble fellow!"
Ranald was standing back of the
crowd; lookAng pale, disturbed, and
awkward, -Mrs. Murray, 'knowing
how hateful to him would be ally dem-
onstrations of feeling, went .to him
andquietly : held out her hands and
Saying 1 canoativerthank-Yensidongh:"
"It was bravely done, Ranald. From
my heart, I thank you.
For a moment or two she looked
steadily into his face with tears
streamin down her cheeks. Then put-
ting her ijands upon his shoulders, she
said softl : "For her dear, dead mo-
ther's sake, I thank you."
- Then Mainde, who had been stand-
ing in a kind of stupor all this while,
seemed seddenly to awake, and run-
ning swiftly todraed Ranald, she • put
out both hands, crying: "Oh, Repaid,
I ran never thank you eneugh.,
He took her hands in an agony of
ernbarassment, not knowing. what to
do or say. Then Maimie suddenly
dropped his hands, and throwing her
arrns aliout his neck, kissed him and
ran back to her aunt's side.
° "I thought you didn't play forfeits,'
Maimie," said Don, in a grieved voice.
And everyone was glad to laugh. •
Then the minister's wife, lo,oking
round upon thefts all, said: "Dear
children, God has ben very good to
us, and I think we ought to give him
thanks."
And standihg there by the fire, they
bowed their heads in a new thanksgiv-
ing to Him whose keeping never fails
by day or night. And then, with
hearts and Voices subdued, and with
quiet good nights, they went their
ways bone.
But as the Cameron sleigh drove
off with its load, Maimie looked back,
and seeing Ranald standing by the
fire, she whispered to her aunt: "Oh,
auntie! Isn't he just splendid?"
But her aunt made no reply, see-
ing a new danger for them both,
greater than they had escaped.
CHAPTER IX.
A Sabbath Day's Work
The Sabbath that followed the sug-
aring -off was to Maimie the most
reinarkable Sabbath of her life up to
that day. It was totally anlike the
Sabbath of her home, which, after the
• When you p.ayihe price of first quality sugar, why r
be sure that you get it ? There is one brand hi Cana
which has no second quality—that's the old reliable Redp;
"Let Redpath Swett= it."
laimilecarrik. Made in ,tret mar embh.the
. 11111/2 andhavinge.hisfin:;41.15ras as eager to let
S But when
i and the buggy began. to leap from
.
ii EALTly log to log of the corduroy. Black he -
Bally , 1•an to chafe in impatience of the rein
which commanded caution. Indeed.
the 'passage of the swatrip was always I
more or less an 'adventure, the re- 1
sult of which no one could foretell, '
and it took all Mrs. Murray's steadi-
ness of nerve to repress an exclama-
Has Not Had An Hour's Sickness Shan
T$kjn"PRUIT-A-TIVES".
tatt., Mamsiorr
• 79 Lees ANTS., Ottawa,
August 9th, 1915.
"I think it my duty to tell you what
"Fruit-a-tives" has done for me.
Three years ago, I began to feel run-
down and tired, end suffered very much
from Liver and Kidney Trouble.
Having read of "Fruittives", I
thought I would try them. The result
was surprising. During the 8r years
past, I have taken them regularly and
,would not change far anything. I have
sot hal an hour's sic,kness. sines I com-
menced using "Proiteetives ", and 1
know now what I haven't known for
a good many years—that is, the blessing
of a lies.lthy body and clear thinking'
brain".
. WALTER J. MARIVOTT,
50c: a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 2.5c.
At dealers or sent postpaid on receipt
of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited,
Ottawa,.
1
: .
formal "church parade," as Hasty
called it, in themorning, her father
spent in lounging with his magazine
and pipe,' her auntin sleeping or in
social gossip with such friends as
might drop in, and, Harry and Maiiiiie
as best they could.
The Sabbath in the minister's. house
as in the homes of his people, was ,e
day so set apart from other days that
it had to be approached. The Sat-
urday afternoon and evening caught
something of its atmosphere. No
frivolity, indeed no light amusement,
was proper on the evening that put a
period to the worldly occupations and
engagements of the week. That ev-
ening was one of preparation. The
house, and espcially the kitchen, was
thoroughly "redd•up." Wood, water,
and kindling Was brought in, clothes
were brusheksbents greased or pol-
ished, dinner prepared, and in every
way possible •the- wliole house its
dwellers, and its ;belongings, Made
;reedy for the mottilrw. -So, when the
-ffilihath-eriorninertied; people—at
• woke with o,feelink 'that old things
had passed awe:sr-and that the whole
World, Was,,newl The lain shone with
a radiance, not knehvita on Other days.
Ile was shining upon holy't1ings, and
3,
lighting men and women ooly dut-
les. Through all the farms he fields
1f
lay bathed in his genial glow, at rest,
and the very trees stood in silent wor-
ship of the bending heavens :\ Up
from the stable and from kitchen
came no sound § of work. The horses
knew that no wheel would turn that
day* in labor, and the dogs lay sleep-
ing in sunny nooks, knowing as well
hass any that there:would be no hunt-
ing or roaming for them that day,.
unless they chose to go on a free
hunt; which none- but light-headed
puppies or dissipated and reprobate
dogs would care to do.
Over 'all things 'rest brooded, and
out of the rest grew holy thoughts
and hopes. It' was a day of begin-
nings. For the past, broken and
stained, there was a new offer of Ob-
livion and healing, and the heart was
summoned to look forward to new life
and to hope for better things, and to
drink in all these soothing, healing in-
fluences that memory and faith com-
bine to give; so that when the day
was done, wealry and discouraged men
and Women began to feel that, per-
haps after all they might be able to
endure and even to hope for victory.
The minister rose earlier on Pah-
bath than on other days, the redpon-
sibility of his office pressing hard up-
on him. Breakfast Was more silent
than usual, ordinary subjects of con-
versation were discouraged. The
minister was preoccupied and impat-
ient ofan interim. tion of his
thoughts. But his we came to the
table with a sweeter serenity than
usual, and a calm .upon her face that
told of hidden strength. Even Maimie
could notice the difference, but she
could only , wonder. The secret of it
was hidden from her. Her aunt was
like no other woman that she knew,
and there were amny things about her
too deep for Maimie's understanding.
After worship, which Watl brief and.
solemn and intense, Lambert hurried
to bring round to the front the big
black horse, hitched up en the carryall
and they all made speed to pack
themselves in, Maimie and her aunt
in front, and Hughie on the floor be-
hind with his legs under the seat; for
-When once the minister was himself
quite ready, and had got his great
meerschaum pipe going, it was unsafe
for anyone to delay him a single in-
stant.
The drive to the church was an ex-
perience hardly in keeping with the
spirit of the day. It was more ex-
citing than restful. Black was a
horse with a single aim, which was to
, deyour the space that stretched out
I before him with a fine disregard of
consequence. The first part of the
road up to the -church hill and down
again to the swamp was to Black, as
to the others, an unmixed joy, for he
was fresh from his oats and eager to
•
Children Ory
FOR FLOOSER'S
„CAS-T.01U A
tion of terror at critical moments.
The corduroy was Black's abomina-
tion. He gonged to dash through
and he don id with it; but, however,
much the minister ,synipathized with I
Black's desire, prudence forbade that
his metlishould be adopted. So
from lc to' log and from hole to
hole, Black -olunged and stepped with
all the care he ;could be persuaded
to exerciseegyery lurch of the casiyali
bringing a scream from Mairaie in
front and a, delighted chuckle from
Hughie behind. His delight in the
adventure was materially increased
by his cousin's terror.
But once the swamp was crossed,
and Black foimd himself on the firm,
road that wound over the sandhilis
and through the open pine,. woods,
he tossed his great mane back from
his 'eyes, and getting his head set off
at a pace that forlioded disaster to
anything trying to keep before him,
bout whose door a group of men were
standing.
"Huh -huh, that's it," said Hughie;
we. will soon be done with that ugly
eTlehtehminog;
recovered her breath sufficiently to
pointed to a huge wooden building a-
boutchest white with foam,
speak, "is that the church?" She
church gates, Ids flanks steaming and
and in a short time drew up at the
"My!" said Maiheie, when she had
enthusiastic member of the'
congregation could scarcely call the
old church beautiful and to Mahnie's
eyes it was positively hideous. No
steeple' or tower gave any hint of its
sacred. character. Its weather-beaten
clapboard exterior, spotted with black
knots, as if stricken with some dis-
dguring disease, had nothing but ite
row of uncertained windows to .dis-
tinguished it from an. ordinary barn.
They entered by the door at the
end of the church and Proceeded down.
the long aisle that ran the full length
of the building, till they came to a
cross aisle that led them to the minis-
ter's pew at the left side of the Vol -
pit, and commanding a view of -thd
whole congregation. The main body
of the ch-ureh was seated with long
box pews with hinged doors. But the
gallery that ran around three sides
was fitted with ,simple benches. Im-
mediately in front of the pulpit was
a square pew which was set apart for
the use of. thee elders, and close up to
the pulpit, and incleeseas part of this
structure, was a precentor's desk.
The pulpit was, to Maimie' s eyes, a
wonder. It was an octagonal box
placed high on one side of the church
on a levet with the gallery, and
reached by a spiral staircase. Above
it hung the highly ornate and alto-
gether extraordinary sounding -board
and canopi. There was no sign of
paint Anywhere, but the yellow pine,
of which seats, gallery, and pulpit
*ere al. made, had deepened,Svith.age
into a rich brown, not unpleasantgo
the eye.
The church was full, for the Indian
Lands people believed in going to
dhurcheand there was not a house for
many miles around but was represent-
ed in the church that day. There
they sat, row upon row a men,
brown and brawny with wind and sun,
a notable company, worthy of their being taught the young people, by
ancestry and worthy of their heritage. John "Alec" Fraser in the weekly
Beside them sat their wives, brown, singing -school in the Nineteenth, and
too, and weather-beaten, but strong which were sung at Mrs. Murray's
Sebbath evening Bible Class in the
Little Church. Straight Rory had
been educated for a teacher in Scot-
land, and was something of a scholar.
He loved school examMations, where
he was the terror of pupils and teach-
ers alike. His acute mind reveled in
the metaphysics of theology, which
raade him the dread of all candidates
who appeared before the session, des-
iring 'to come forward." It was
to many an impressive sight to see
Straight Rory rise in the precentor's
box, feel round, witle much facial con-
tortion, for the pitch—he despised a
tuning fork—and then straightenin.g
himself up till he bent over back-
wards, raise the chant that introduced
the tune to the congregation. But to
the young men under the gallery he
was more humorous than impressive,
and it to be feared that they waited
for the precentor's weekly perform-
ance with a delighted expectation that
never flagged and that was never
disappointed. It was only . the flash
of the minister's blue eye that held
their faces rigid in preternatural sol-
emnity, and forced them to Content
themselves with winks and nudges for
the expression of their delight.
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his son Danny, or "Curly," now in sion.
the ,shanty with Macdonald . Bhain, "Whisht, Ilfughie, said his mother
used to say, m affectionate rid . "y.
Then there was Farquhar Me augh- "There's ,Ranald, mother," said the
ton, big, kindly, and good-natured, a diplomatic Hughie, Inaowing well that
mighty man with the ax in his them. his mother would rejoice to hear that
"Kirsty Farquhar,' 'they called him bit of news. "See, imother, just in.
for obvious reasons. And a eood front of Don, there."
thing for Farquhar it was that he had Again Hughie's terrible finger point --
had Kirsty at his side 'during these ed straight into the face of the Raz -
years to make his bargains for hien ing congregation.
and to keep him and all the others to "Hush, Hughie," said hie mother,
thermelse he would never have become severely.
the substantial man he was. - Maimie knew a hunch -ed eyes were
Next to Farquhar was Peter McRae looking straight at the minister's pew
te chief of e large clan of respectable but for the life of her she -could not
and none too respectable families, prevent her eye following that point -
whom all alike held in• fear, for Peter ing fingeas till it found the steady
ruled with a rod of iron, and his word gaze of Ranald faetened upon her.
was law throughout the elau. Then It was only for a moment, but in that
there was Ian More Macgregor, or moment she felt her heart jump and
"Mg John Macgregor," as the young- her face grow hot, and it did not help
er generation called bine almost as her that she knew the people were
big as Donald ROSS and quite as kind- all wondering at her furious blushes.
ly, but 'with a darker, sadder face. Of course the story of- the sugaring-
Someh.ting from his wilder youth had off had gone the length of the land
cast its shadow over his life. No one and had formed the subelet of con -
but his minietertnd two otheea knew versation at the church „door' that
that story, but old man knew it morning, where Repaid had to hear
himself, and that was enough. One a good deal of chaff about the young
of those who shared his secret was • lady, and her dislike of forfeits, till he
his neighbor and Crony, Donald ROSS was ready to fight if a chance should
and it was worth a journey of some but offer. With Unspeakable rage
length to see these two great old men, and confueion, he aoticed Huglaie's
one with the sad and the other with pointing finger. He caught, too..
the gunny face, stride off together, Mairnie's 'quick Wok, -with the vivid
staff in. hand, aittheclose of the Gaelic blush - that folloWed. Unterianiately
service, to Donald's home where the others besides himself had uotked it,
afternoon would be spe'nt in ells- and Don and Peter -Rough, irf. the seat
course fitting the Lord's Day and in behind him, made' it the- subject of
prayer. congratulatory reakarks to Ainaid.
The only other elder was Roderick (To- be continued next Week.)
McCuiag, who sat, not in the elder's
pew, but in the precentor's bo, for he
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before they have werketifive-months.
a ronamd. He was devoted to- his
office,jealous of its dignity, and stren-
ered thUt she has been ineeallY mar -
Mrs. Mary D. Erwin has j t discov-
After being married for48 years.
uous in. his opposition to all innova-
ried all this time.
fangle,d ranting' tunes which were an
of Praise. He was especially oppos-
ed to the introduction of th,ose "new -
tions in connection with the service
more.sensational swimmer, dived 48 feet in
Miss Olgo Dorfner, Philaatelphia's
exhibition held recently in -Haiti-
' Mrs. Beatrice Castleton, recently
admitted to practice law in Atlanta,
is the first woman to be allowed to
practice law in Georgia,
Miss Martha Bell, a high school
girl, is working as a freight clerk in
the Glassboro, (N. 2.) office of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Three WOrnen recently swam across
Storm lake, Iowa. This is the first
time in history that a woman has
accomplished this feat.
Miss Florenee Wardwell af New
York City, has begun a campaign to
educate the servants of the wealthy
at Newport in the art of saying food.
Miss Edith Miller, of Wakefield.
_Mass., will entskr Simmons College
this fall at the age cf 15, being the
youngeet freshman ever admitted to
the institution.
Miss Ida G. Bracher, of Columbia
university, a recognized authority on
cataloguing, has been named to sys-
temize records of American Red Cross
work in France.
Countess Sophie Panni, Doter ni
Russia for her various philanthr pie
activities, has been tendered the 4t
of assistant minister of social tutel-
age, one of the Russian departments
of state,
deep -bosomed, arid with faces of calm
content, worthy to be mothers of
their husbands' sons. The girls and
younger children sat with their par-
ents, modest, shy, and, reverent, but
the young men, for the most part, fill-
ed the back seats under the gallery.
And a hardy lot they were, as brown
and brawny as their fathers, but
tingling with life to their finger-tips,
ready for anything, and impossible to
control except by one whem they fear-
ed as well idd reverenced. And such a
,man was Alexander Murray, for they
knew well that, lithe and brawny as
they were ,there was not a man of
them but he could fling out of the door
and over the fence if he so wished and
they knew too, that he would be
prompt to do it if ocacsion arose.
Hence they waited for the word of
of God with all due reverence and
fear. '
In, the square Dew ill front of the
pulpit sat the elders, hoary, massive,
and venerable. The Indian Lands
Session were worth seeing. Great
men they were, everyone of them, ex-
cepting , per hope, Kenneth Camp-
bell. "Kenny Crugach," as he was
caned from his halting step. Kenny
was neither slivery, nor massive, nor
venerable. He was a short grizzled
man, with snapping black eyes and a
tongue for clever, biting speech; and
while he bore a stainless eharacter,
no one thought of him as an eminently
godly man. In public prayer, he nev-
er attained any great length, nor did
he employ that tone of unction deem-
ed suitable in this sacred exercise.
He seldom "spoke to the question,"
but when he did,people leaned forward
to listen, and more .especially the
rows of the careless and ungodly un-
der the gallery. Kenny had not the
look of an elder; indeed, many won-
dered how he had ever come to be
chosen for the office. But the others
all had the look of elders, and car-
ried with them the full respect and
affection of the congregation. Even
the youat. men under the gallery ret
garded them with reverence for their
godly eharaeter, but for other things
as well; for these old men had beelT
famous in their day, and tales were
still told about the firesides of the
people of their prowness in the woods
and on the river.
There was, for instance, Finlay Mc-
Ewen, or McKeowen, as they all pro-
nounced it in that country, who, for
a wager, had carried a four hundred
pdiffed barrel upon each hip across
the long bridge over the Sea& river.
And next him eat Donald Rods, whose
very face, with its halo -of white hair,
bore benediction with it whereier rho
went, 'What es Than he insist have
hem in, -his day/ Six feet four inches
he stood in his stockAng soles, and
with ."aback like a bort door," as
As Maimie's eyes went wandering
shyly over the rows of brown faces
that turned in solemn mid steadfast
regard to the minister's pew, Hughie
nudged her and whispered:- "There's
Don. See, in the back seat by the
-window, next to Peter Raugh yonder;
the red-headed fellow."
He pointed to Peter McRae, grand-
son of "Peter the Elder." There was
no mistaking that landraark.
"Look" cried Hughie, eakerly,
pointing with terrible directness
straight at Don, to Maimie's confu-
—Mr. Jas. A. Watson of Manitowe
ening, but a fornser resident of Mit-
cheel, died at his home on Monday
evening at the age of seventy-fiVe
years. 'While in Mitchell le was in
the sewing 'machine business, but he
left there more than twenty years
ago. He leaves a widow, ore son
and si xdaughters to Mourn his loss.
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