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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1910-02-10, Page 7TUE WINOL14.41, TIMES, 1!B URUART 10 191V ...00.00.'©.0A4000t00 m•.4P9.ROP111.4l0ll.. Olive's sCourtship 0 BY LAURA JEAN LIB. .EE Author of `i 4 Cruel Revenge," " A Forbidden Mar-- i t .S riage," "A Beautiful. Coquette," "The 4 Heiress of Cameron Hall." * ** 00****4'&44***4+014.49.40.0.44.0 0 .00400044"4 t 'through him, 13.oger took the wholo • affair on his own shoulders and • would have been sent to prison with closed lips had he not escaped, or .had he been found since. Such con- duct simply amazes me, I have never before known su chat ase of wonder- ful sacrifice. It fairly appalls me when I•tbink of it. My mission to • the 'Argus' otiice is to send des- } td(5 fa!' and ticata field Roger Glendenning, if he is in the land of the living, anti bring him back and restore him to public trust and cott- ficlence, 1 declare, it is certainly more wonderful than the general • run of •novels. " Ho was utterly shocked at the scene which followed. Olive throw herself in his arms, clinging to him and weeping hyster- • ically, though he could not begin to interpret the unintelligible words she was endeavoring to utter between her choking sobs and strange laugh- ter. ' "Olive!" he cried, "what are you trying to say? You remind me of a child of ten instead of a young wo- man of twenty." She never knew in what words she told him, making him understand; .at length, that it was Roger Glen- denning whom he had seen at the •cabin window. The judge ordered the horses turn- ed at once, and they drove back .with all spend to the steamer; • but they were too late. Roger Glendon- zing had already gone ashore. Their search for him proved all in 'vain. If the earth had suddenly op- enod and swallowed him, he could not have been more completely hid- den from them. Then they proceeded to advertise for him. • Roger Glendenning saw the adver- tisements, and smiled bitterly to himself, wondering if they thought :him mad enough to walk with open eyes into the trap they had spread ;For him. Again and again he read the t(•se advertisement which con- tained but these few words: ' "If Roger Glendenning will call at INo. •-- Block Avenue, ho will learn of something greatly to his advan- • .'tago." "Some one has recognized me, and they are on my track," ho muttered. Y.r"Tho only thing for me to do is to ;leave Albany with as little delay as !possible." This he was just about doing when . ,a later "personal" caught his eye, and held him spellbound' with emo- tion. It read as follows: "Will Roger Glendenning grant Olive IC— an interview, at her earn - ..est request, at No. — B— Avenue, -Tuesday afternoon?" Those words seemed to• fire his brain, seemed to make his heart throb a thousand times faster than was its wont, and to make the blood course madly through his veins. Olitre had sent for him; she wished to see him. That ono thought was ,sweeter than the breath of heaven • to, his dry, scorched soul. Once the wonder vaguely stole we- er him that it was all a ruse. But no; they would not darn use her name in that way. in such a case. , She would ;fever permit it And last- ly Fame the chill thought, had they prevailed upon Olive to betray him?. Ah, no! Perish the miserable idea that had .found lodgment for even an ;instant in his brain, He might as well :mistrust ono of God's white _'angels, he told himself. IIe made up his niind to go to her. Had a Bad Cough FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. WAS Arnim) IT WOULD TURN INTO Consumption. Too mueh stress cannot be laid on the -fact that when a person catches cold it must be Attended to immediately or ,.serious results may follow. Thousands have filled a consumptive h neglect. thr u rave o g Never Neglect a Cough or Cold, it can have but one result. It Ieaves the throat or lungs, or both, affected. +4- }♦} Mrs. A,E.Brown, + Ottawa, Ont., Afraid + writes.—PI have of had a very bad Consumption. cough every winter for a number of '4'('+ years which I was afraid would turn into eonsamption. I tried a great many remedies but only received temporary re- lief •until I got a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and after taking' two bottles. ma cough was cured. I am never without a bottle of Norway fine Syrup." Dr, Wood's Norway Pine Syrupkis the medicine you need. It strikes at the foundation of all throat and lung coin - 'plaints, relieving or curing all Coughs, ;Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup, Sore Threat, etc., and preventing pneumonia ;And Consumption. 1 So great hie beech the success >yf this wonderful remedy, it is only natural that numerous persons have tried to imitate lit. Don't be imposed u'."b taking anything but "Dr. Wood u'" Put tip in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price 25 cents. 1 Manufatetured o+ayy by� The T. Milburn wVo,, Lilliited, T'oroutO, Oat" Sho would never call to hire in. Vain. Why, he would have laid down life itself, and thought it no sacrifice, for her sweet sake. He would trust II blindly to Heaven. and to Olive, Sho shad called hien, He would go, come what plight. He would not go to her in disguise.. No, he could never do that; and, utterly regardless es of Pos- sible consequences, Roger Glenden- ning presented himself at the hour and place appointed. He was ushered into a cool, dim Parlor, odorous with the perfume of great vases heaped with great crim- son roses and white hyacinths. A moment later he heard a well known step in the corridor without. It was not Olive's step, but her fa - Glees. I10 sprung to his feet, white as deata, and the only words his lips could utter were, "Trapped" and "Ah, God! be pitiful* -trapped by tho girl I love!" Ere ho' could re- cover himself, and in almost the next instant of thno, the portieres were swept aside, • and Judge Kneeland stood on the threshold. It he had suddenly pointed a Pis- tol at his heart, Glendenning's sur- prise could not have been more •in- tense than to see hint limp forward with outstretched hand, exclaiming, '"Welcome; Roger, to our home!" Glendenning quite believed that he was in a dream.. He was too dumb- founded for utterance. "Sit clown," said the judge, kind- ly, as he noted the young man's great agitation. "I nave much to say to you, Roger." The interview lasted over an hour,. and during that time the judge had fully explained to Glendenning all the knowledge concerning the forgery and Oscar's confession and tragic depth Which he had but so recently conte into possession of, a>id which completely exonerated Roger. "And there is another matter which and Olive in their happiness, reader we might as well settle here and mine, and return to Neva, the fair now," continued the judge, "and young Southern girl who had been that is the 'question concerning Olive's future, -which we were dis- cussing on that never -to -be -forgotten covered by alai prettiest .and sweat-. eat blushes in the world, that she had cared for trim more than for any 1 from t m t one eke the very Ars m,o en they had net, and through all his troubles she bad cared for hire still. Judge Kneeland, who was sitting in an adjoining room, apparently en- gaged in his newspaper, but in real, ity listening keenly to what wasgo- ing on out on the balcony, etinalud- ed that that was a very proper mo ment for him to put in an appeare once on tho scene. He put this thought }oto execution at once, nluclf to the discomfiture of the lovers. Well, it was cruel just at thatpar- ticular epoch of their love -making. Of course, the Whole matter was re- ferred . to the judge, ' who gave a. very gracious consent, but declared, when Roger pleaded for an immediate mars. r•iego, that .that was not to be. thought of, that if he succeeded in laiming• Olive's hand in six months from that time he must consider Kinn-, self verysafortunate. There was nothing for it but to submit to the stern decree, 'There. was but ono drawback to Roger's happiness, and that was ho had lost all trace of his friend Jack Murray, who had been his guardian angel al- most during .those long, weary weeks of camping out down in Louisiana, when his trouble seemed greater than ho could bear, and if it had not been for Jack he would have ended his wretched existence then and there.. Jack had lost his situation,, no one knew how, and had drifted away, no one knew 'whither. Roger Glenden- ning felt sorry. He would have liked to have found him and held out a helping hand to him now when he mended a. friend the most. Roger was glad to take up his hone in Albany. Aside front the money advantages, ho rather liln'd it better than NovtYork, for the reason that each day that passed he was r d olike growing to look more and rn r o his hapless brother • Oscar. Even Olive often spoke of this: "Yes,.". he often said to himself, as he looked thoughtfully in his mirror, "my re- semblance to Oscar grows more strik- ing every day. Pear Oscar! he was. his own worst enemy.. He night have had a brittle/ea ills f it, but he got on the wrong. IOWA Aad would not turn back.'t Time flew by on Walden, happy wings, The six months dwindled away at last, and it wanted but four 'days Poore matt'" to the dawn of his wedding day. Roger Glendenning was inexpressibly happy, yet through it all there were moments of vague un- rest, a dark foreboding as of some uncooked -for event which would 'come and shatter his cup of happiness just as it was within his grasp. . While the proparations are going on for the wedding, and 'the feast is being made ready, we must take this occasion to leave Roger Glendenning mado such a cruel plaything of by 'capricious fate. - The train which she had boarded morning when this trouble occurred, that midnight carried her swiftly and I have only to say, my dear boy, that I wish to take you once more into my employ,, and if you are of the same mind concerning Olive that ,you were then, why, I simply away from the scene/of her childhood, and as the tall hills and smiling val- leys, lying so peacefully in the moon- light, faded from her view, she bowed • her head and wept like a withdraw my objections, and you child, and thus sobbing, tired nature are at liberty to win the little. and overstrained nervesasserted witch's love, providing you. can." CHAPTER XVII. themselves, and she fell into the deep sleep of exhaustion. The. noises of the early morning To say that Roger Glendenning was awakened her .quite as soon as the dumbfounded at the turn affairs had. sun was up the following day. For a taken, but faintly expresses the true moment she felt stunned and bewild- situation Ho had walked in the eced et finding herself on a train and gloom and shadow so long, fully be- in the midst of the noise and con - hoeing his sun had set ; in eternal fusion which surrounded her. Then night, that he could not become ac- came the swift thought that she dtstomed to the dazzling sunshine was journeying toward the place that illumined his path so suddenlywhere she was to meet her- young —it almost blinded him. I husband, that each. moment and each Roger mourned truly for the un - revolution of those great iron wheels - timely fate of his handsome, way- brought them nearer and nearer each ward younger brother. But now that,other, he was no more, he.felt relieved that 1 The 'gild pressed he street young the dark shadow had been lifted from face against the window -pane and his own head by Oscars hand, and that. it had been proven to OliVe that he was innocent. His surprise to learn from the judge that there was no truth in the story that Olive and Oscar had ever been betrothed knew no bounds, and he,was fairly bewildered when the judge added, "I knew that it was you whom the lit- tle witch cared for, not your broth- er." Antl it Seemed to the poor fel- low that he was transporte(traight to heaven at once when he was in- vited to stay to dinner, and Olive . joined them. It • was the happiest day of Roger Glendenning's life, and when he bade them good -night at last, and found himself walking slowly down the street alone, he wondered 0 it was not all a dream froin which he should soon awake and find himself still enveloped by the same old dark clouds which made the world so chill and gray and life not worth the liv- ing. Then he remembered that he had made arrangements to go driving with Olive the next afternoon. Sure- ly tho gods, were kind to hini, after all, Judge tnee land wa s very ry anxious to atone for the past by doing ev- erything in his pewer to advs./bee Glendennittg's interest, but Roger Would hot allow any money advances to be made. "I prefer to carve My own road," he said, though ho was deeply grate- ful for his kindly thoughtfulness. htfulne ss. Throttgh the judge's influence, how- ever, he obtained an excellent posi- tion with a large mercantile firm, and at the end of tho first quarter of the year he was• liked so well and. had proved hiniselt se valuable to thong that ho Was taken im. tis junior parties. . roseate with His sky dowv looked happiness. tto.s a oottstant visit- or at Judge Kneeland's hot.e, and one lovely summer evening, net long since, while they Were standing On the balcony, he had summoned up 'sufficient courage to ask Olive to marry hiin, begging her to tell hint then and. there 0•she could ever ears for, him that touch. He never forgot ho* hho drew' 'back from hint, looking up at ,hint shyly front beneath those long, curl -ii. 1st.12:60.1Y.,,,, , titled, with.,... ItL lace' ing lashes, and after ion ; g coaitingl gave herself up to beautiful reveries which aro so dear to ntaidenhoc,d. She watched the sun climb tb the zenith, cross it and sink slowly+ to- ward the western sky, with a smile 'on her lips, the deep yearning grow- ing in, her lovely dark eyes. Only a few hours more and she would be with him, never more to part until one' of them died, and she prayed that God in heaven would take her first. . • She watched the dusk of night creep up, and the gloaming settle into deep- er night; watched the bright stars and the full, bright tnoon that al- most seemed to leap pace with the flying train, She smiled up lovingly at the moon, saying to herself that its bright beams shone over ltiut, w herever he might bo at that Self - Mond moment,but quite as soon as bei- dark head touched the pillow in her sleeper, site stink into the deep oblivion of sleep, It Was noon the nett • dity When the Southern express stennicd- into the -rand Central Depot in New Fork, Neva's heart beat high with'"" ex- pectancy, .and every moment that the great crowd hold ler beet: seemed 11:r endless year's to her, .St la) 1. sae in turn reached the dove, Was hurried d own the steps of the car by the conductor, and stood on tlu' plat- foru); but no one it:sher; up to her. • Quickly her eyes traveled vi tv'1y over the denXe throng lad her min hilsband WAS not. there. 1:%er; one had some one to greet t; t' •., \ hive was he? A steepen it ave of d r s.f!:t• that unci tet Por Sri err oter hrt', :! great sol, torr to her lily; ant s.•c:n• rd to stick in her throat and e'i•ct' it her; great tram I, . opine nu •'• It r- eyixliels rot 1 t. Pira' rel down on ht r little trotidtt rig lands. • All tbe,gteot tvow`d-rusl•e l 11'u'rio,:1•• ly tltronlrh the •rate„ ntt'I :trite 'tttS left -1 'one on the. platform. 'I`hrY ia, our, five niilt,ttos rIt Cl: t'l their :aloes lengths by; still she stun(: there, with her white, hr.";ty , +.ata: fare turned despairingly toward tai. gates. the tears now falling like rain from i•er ea.es. At the for end of the platform a policeman *'toed. wwntelting her cur. iousl,l'. At Itnn, tit he al Pro^•ched HER DEATH NS HOURLY EXPECTED H i:ECT EQ ltinterprise, Ont., Oct. lst, f9o8. "'For seven years I suffered with what physicians called a "Water Pinner." X vapid neither sit, stand, nor lie down. Hypodermicsof morphia had to be given me to ease the pain. MRS, JAMES FENWICK My cure seemed hopeless, and my friends hourly expected my death. I was so bad that I wanted to die, and it was during one of these very bad spells that a family friend brought a box of "Fruit -a -rives" to the house, After much persuation I commenced to take them, but I was so bad that it was only when I had taken nearly two boxes that I commenced to experience relief, I kept up the treatment, however, and after taking five boxes I was cured, and when I appeared en tb.e street my friends said. 'The dead has come to life,' and this seemed .literally true, because I certainly was at death's door." (Signed) MRS.. JAMES FENWICK. "Fruit-a-tives" are sold by all dealers at got a box -6 for $2.5o, or trial box, z50, or sent post-paid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, "Are you looking for any one, miss?" he inquired, kindly. "Yes, sit, sobbeci 1\eve, chokir•g- ly. "I—I was to meet my—my hus- band hero, and 'f—I must have emit<s- ed hiia somehow, and I do not lutow what to do. ' I I ant so frightened." The. policeman looked hard at her, saying to himself that the girl, with her frank• young face and beautiful, innocent .oyes looked more like a child who should have been playing with her dolls, than a wife. "How long have you been mar- ried?" he asked, suddenly. "Only two days," murmured Neva, blushing as red• as a rose, 1"and he, my husband, was called sucl ct l Y away, and ho left money for • me to come to hint; and now I atm here, but I can not find hint." "It is the old, old story," thought tho policeman—"a too trusting maid and a scoundrel who has tired of her and flung nor off." "Have you a home and a mother, little girl?" he queried, earnestly, and to his great relief she nodded: ,.les. " "I would advise you to go right back by the next train, and wait for him there, Tell your mother just how you happened to miss hit, here, and she can advise you what to clo." Neva looked at hili indignantly. "My husband will soon conic to inc here," she said. "I shall wait for him here until `ie comes. Is there no waiting -room?" "Yes," answered the man, pitying- ly; "conte this Way, please." He -opened.. tho door and motioned her to enter. "If there is anything I can do for •you," he saki, "do not hesitate to call on rue- 1 shall be just ,nttsiue; and while you wait, think over what I have said about going back to your home—do, miss." "There was something siiSpiciously like a tear in the policeman's honest eyes. He had a young daughter of his own at home whom he. loved as the apple of his eye. What would become of this young girl?' he thought. How would .life end for her?' Would she grieve for awhile, then go the same road he had known of so many traversing? He clinched his great, strong hands, and his mighty bosom heaved, and he breathed out a terrible imprecation against the young elan in the case, whoever he might be, and tried to forget, the girl sitting .waiting inside, but fn vain. CHAPTER XVIII. Ii'rom noon until the shadow of night gathered, Neva sat in the depot and, waited, and as the hours drag- ged on her face grew. whiter and whiter. This the policeman noted With deep concern as he glanced in at the window every now and then as he paced up and down theplatform. tfoo rm. At last he could endure it •no long- er, and calling the woman to hint who had Charge of the ladies' waiting room, he explained the situation in a few words. "Poor child!" exclaimed the wen man, pityingly. "I will have a little talk with her, and make hC r under- stand the situation Of affairs, if I can,'" So saying,. she turned and an Neva, taking a seat by her side. "You are having a very long wait, iniss," glee , gen. "pine girt turtiedsaidhertlygreat, dark eyes upon her, and her lips quivered. It was like the dew of heaven to a thirsty, withering rose to hear one kindly voice speaking, to her ie. a land of strangers. "I was expecting my husband to meet me here, and somehow I have missed him,"• she repeated, piteous ly, "and./ don't know what to do.,, '-the +rotten took her little Cold hand cls hors. "rhe same thing ltappons to many and many a young girl," she said, in a low voice, "1 see then- every day, welting and waiting, until my heart bleeds with pity fax the poor, pretty young things—for the one for whose they watch and wait never Conies. It has been said many a time that the only. way nanny a, own can shako off a love that has become irksome to him is to bring the girl to the city of New York and there desert her, And, bless you, my boor dear- it is done every hour in the day, and no one sees more of It than I. I do not want to seem u;ikind, but I must tell you the truth: The young man will never conte for you; yon may as well try to realize that. Tae has intentionally, deserted you—left you to your fate, My Advice to you, miss, le to lose no time .getting barb, to your Be. She> ornnever forgot the look that swept over the girl's face as the full force of the words she was listening to dawned upon her, "Of course, I am not say anything about your staying here as long as you like to remain, but I can as- sure you that you might wait many a day, and many a long week, or a Year, and it would be the same," ' "I must wait!" cried Neva, wring- ing her white hands. "If all men in the world were false, I• should still believe hien true," sho sobbed. • The rose to her feet,and wo t n n q with n few gentle words, left her, thinking that the greatest kindness she could do her. The long hours of the evening slow- ly came find as slowly went, and midnight tolled from an adioining belfry. o the w r r Al aroman approached her. "They will not like to have you' remain here much longer," she said, laying a kindly, toll -hardened hand on the girl's arm. "I live only around • the corner; 'will, you come -tonne with nie? 1 do not like to leave you here alone, and I must go. I would feel easier in my heart to have you come with me, and to -mor- row I would put you on the train which would- take you back to your own good 'mother, if you have ono. I lost a daughter • of about your age not long since," she went on, •softly, "attel I love. all young girls for her dear sake. Something in the very air around us seems whispering, 'Mother, 'tare her home with you take her home with you.' My home is a very humble one, child, but you're wef- noire to Its shelter until to -morrow. You ECU, he has not come. He knows you must be here, but he does not care what becomes of you. You roust learn to behr what many a young girl has had to face before you, and live it down, The world will be cold and gray for a little while for you, but you aro' young, and the young can live and learn to forget." She took the girl's cold, unresist- ing hair- in hers and led her from the waiting -room. It was a very humble home to which the woman led her—a few lit- tle rooms up under the eaves—but they were scrupulously tidy. She tried to draw from the girl's lipss h., r history, as she poured a cup of good,, warm, fragrant tea for her, remem- bering that to her certain knowledge no food .had passed her chilled lips since noon, though she felt sure she had money in her purse. But Neva was not communicative; she would say nothing of herself, only that she must go back to the depot as soon as the morrow dawned, and wait, and wait until he for whom she watched came for her. But it was many a morrow ere she left that room. When the day dawn- ed a raging fever held her in its grasp, and it was a fortnight ere she could be removed to an adjacent hospital, where for two long and weary months she hovered between life and death. But site was young, and youth gain, many a battle over grim death; and at the end of the second month, slowly, tby degrees, consciousness re- turned to her. The nurses were very kind to the poor, pretty, hapless young creature; they had heard her story from the waiting -woman of the depot, who called every day to look at the patient, and hers was the first face Neva saw as she.. returned to consciousness. She attempted to rise from her couch, exclaiming: "I trust hasten hack to the depot. Ile must be there by this time. Per- haps he has been waiting all the long ,night through since we canto away,,, SIowly they informed her where site was; that long mouths had passed since that never -to -he -forgotten night when she had allowedthe goon- Wo- man at the depot to take her to her house; that bet husband had never come-; that the summer, with its sweet flowers and balmy breezes, was gone, and that the sobbing noise she heard outside was the autumn wind whistling among the .maples and sending the red and gold withered leaves int little showers tapping against the window -panes, like shiv- ering, wandering souls begging for admittance again into the brightness and cheer of this world. Another fortnight, and the girl was able to leave the place. She wept whenshe left her kind atten- dents, but she Would not tell theta who she was nor whence she came. When they asked her if She were going home again, she said, "Yes," and they • felt greatly relieved to learn that, Two days and two nights of inces- sant travel, and once more the hills and Valleys of Louisiana -rove in sight. It was sundown When She reached the station from Which she had started so joyously three short months before. Three months- it seemed like a life -tine, lfioty touch had taken place since then! She had been wedded end dt'aerted. When Nova had left that little Village so short a time ago, she Was a blootn- ing, hap ->Y, rosy -checked, bright-eyed girl. Few Would have recognized her in the pale, emaciated little, creature that crept from the train, drawing her long cloak and veil telosely about her, and hurried down.the long, dusty road. She had walked long miles ere she saw a wagon in which she might ride. 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This Neva gladly consented to do. She had not realized, until site took that long journey, how weak she was: twice or thrice she had almost Tainted by the way -side. They passed within beyond. How h she made her th]n half a mile of her home, and here Neva ,left them. They were goin g on to the village 11' heart leaped as way across lots toward the little red fa • rail -house whose out- line she Gould dimly see over the tops of the trees. The grass in the meadow was lung and rank, and the clover -fields needed mowing. Sho saw about her strange neglect; the fence was crown at one lot, end of the o and the cows had • tit ,strayed in and were tt a 1slit q down o t to the corn. A great chill crept over her heart. 'Had anything happened to her dt'ar old father or her mother? The ' ve.y thought .rade her almost swoon with terror. She knew that it was late, that it must be nearly mid -night. They al- ways - retired at, sundown on the farm. Why was 'that candle burning in her mother's window? Was there anything the matter? With a heart that beat violently, despite all her efforts to control it, the girl crept noiselessly up to the latticed. window, drew back the tangled vines to which a few dead • roses clung, and peered breathlessly within. Nothing was changed. She saw, in one quick glance, the table with the red stamped danmask cloth upon it; the Holy Bible in the cen- tre, with the stack of graduated books upon it; the china, vases on the mantel, filled with long grasses, aha the old eight-day clock, with. the painted "Bo-peep and the Shepherd- ess" sitting under the tree, midway: between the vases; the high -post bed, with the snow-white -bed valance drawn closely about it. Then, as her dim eyes •es becamo more accustomed to the darkness beyond the circle of light formed by that rays of tb-. candle, she saw that there was soin( 7ne lying on the bed. It,1 was her m:: other; and in the high- r backed rocker sat her father, his face buried in his hands, Sudderay the clock on the mantel pealed the half hour; it seemed to startle the. woman on the bed. 1To ne be C14Rt'lTl...d)i YOUNG SHORTHORN BULLS FOR SALE. We have 11• Young Bulls and 13u Calves for sale; some from imparted sire and dam Among these are some high - elites animals, and not an inferior one is the lot. The dame of a number of thenz are heavy milkers. Owing to the feet that we are not of- fering any Heifers, we are not having our annual sale this year; consequently' we are offering these Young Halls for private sale at reasonable priors ; terms to suit anyone. Come and Pee them, or wri'e for what yon want. Visitors met at Ripley. R H. REID do SONS, Pine River, Ont. Make Each Animal Worth 25% Over Its Cost OnhofaCent, a Day Nobody ever heard of "stock food" curing the bots or colic, making hens lay in winter, increasing the yield of milk five pounds per cow a day,. or restoring run-down animals to plumpness and vigor. When you feed "stock food " to your cow, horse, Swine or poultry, you are merely feeding them what you are growing on your own farm. "THE t;_ oil Your animals do need not mere feed, but something to help their EEL-" bodies get all the good out of the feed you give them so they can get fat 2:02i and stay fat all year round; also to preventdisease, cure disease and keep Zrsr;gesQ Ti'iuifer of them up to the best possible conditioNo 'stock food" can do tell these a i r ti a ee r etc things. ROYAL PURPLE STOCKSPECIFIC can and does. It is Grand Circus?, '08 Not a "Stock Food" But a "Conditioner" ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPaCIFICcontains no grain, nor farm products. ltincreasei yield of milk from three to five pounds per cow per day before the Specific has been used two weeks. It makes the milk richer and adds flesh faster than any other 'preparation known. Young calves fed with ROYAL PURPLE are as large at six weeks old as they would be when fed with ordinarymaterials at ten weeks. ROYAL PUPLE STOCK SPECIFIC builds up rundown animals and restores them to plumpness almost magically. Cures hots! colic, worms, skin diseases and debility_ permanently. Dan McEwan, the horseman, says) I have used ROYAL. PURPLE STOCK SPECIFIC persistently in the feeding of 'The Eel, 2.02k, largest winner of any pacer on Grand Circuit in 1908, and 'Henry Winters; 2.091, brother of Allen Winters; winner of $36,000 in trotting stakes in 1908. These horses have Never been off their feed since I commenced using Royal Purple Specific almost a year ago, and I will always have It in my stables." o al Purple STOCK AND POULTRY SPECIFICS One 50c. package of ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECII+IC will last one animal seventy days, which 'is a little over two.thirds of a cent a day, Most stock foods in flit cent packages last but fifty days and are given three times a daY. ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECIFIC is given but once a day, and lasts half again as long, A $1:50 pail contain ing four times t he amount of the flitv centpackagerilllAst28oda s. ROYAL PURPLE will increase the value of yourstock25r. Itis an astonlshingiY quick fattener, stimulating th0 ttppetite and the relish for food, assisting nature to digest and turn feed into flesh. Asa hog fattener it is a leader. Itwill save many times its costinveterinary bills. ROYAL PURPLE POULTRY SPECI- FIC is our other Specific for poultry. not for stock. One 50 rent package will last twenty-five hent 70 days, or a pail costing $1.80 will last twenty-five hens 280 days, which is four times more material for only three' times the cost, It makes a laying machine"Out of acne hens summer and winter revents fowls losing flesh et moulting time, an aures poultry diseases. Every package of ROYAL ROYAL STOCK SPECIFIC or POULTRY SPECIFIC is guaranteed. Just use ROYAL PURPLE on rate ofyour Animals and any other ora arat,on on another, Anlmat in the sante condition t after compare toxins you will sa ROYAL PURPLE has the". alt beat to death, orelse backcomesyourmoney. FREE--Asky your Merchant or write us for our valuable 32.page booklet on cattle and poultry diseases. containing also nein revelpea and full particulara taloa RO AL PURPLE STOCK and POULA TRY SPECIFICS. If yeaesnnot get Royal Purple Specifics from merchants or agents, we will supply you direct, express prepaid, on receipt of $1.50 a pail for either Poultry be Stock Speciflot. 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