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ammo, treated, Calle promptly ttended to and
charges- Moderate. Veterinary Dentetry a epeolelty.
Office and reeidenoe on Godarioh street, one door
East of Dr. Soott's office, Seaforth. 111241
LEGAL
JAMES L. KILLORAN,
Barrister, Solioitor, Conveyancer and Notary
Public). Money to loan. Office over Piokard's Store,
formerly Mechanics' Inetitute, Main Street, Seaforth.
1628
T ti. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer,
e) • 'Notary Public. Offices up stairs, over 0. W.
Papet's boohetore, Main Streat, Seaforth, Ontario.
1627
M G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt is
,01„. Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Ooderlob,
'Ontario. Office --Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
146$
'D S. HATS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
xt, Notary Public. Solicitor tor the Dominion
Sank, Office—Oardno's block, Main Skeet, Seaforth.
*Spey to loan, 1210
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• Office—Rooms, five doom north ofOommercia
IK.
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sate—Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1416
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block, lilac street. Hayfield Oilloe, open every
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Money to loam. James Scott it E. H. MoKen.ele. •
1698
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adieu Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm
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R. BELDEN, Dental Surgeon ; Crown and Bridge
Work one all kinds of Dental Work performed
with care. Otlioe over Johnson's hardware store,
Seaforth, Ontario. 1660
TikR. F# A. SELLERY, Dentist, graduate of the
JJ Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, also
honor graduate of Department'of Dentistry, Toronto
'university. Office in the Petty block, Mensall.
Will visit Zttrioh every Monday, commencing Mora
day, June 1st. 1687
TIE.E. R. ROSS, Dentist (successor to F, W.
Tweddle), graduate of Royal College of Dental
Surgeone of Ontario ; dret class honor graduete of
Toronto Univers:ty ; crown and bridge work, also
gold work in all its forme. All the most modern
methods for pilinlese filling and psinlese extraotion of
teeth. All operetione carefully performed. Office :
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Dr. John McGinnis,
*on. Graduate London Western Univenity, member
si Ontario College of Phyeiolans and Surgeons.
Office and Residence—Formerly ()coupled by Mr. Wm.
Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catbolio Church
•arNight calls attended promptly. 1458:12
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tario. Office torn -ally occupied by Dr.Cooper. 1660
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IJ Victoria, hi. 0. P. S, Ontario, suoceesor to Dr.
alliott, office lately °coupled by Dr. Zliott, Bruce.
s I d ,Ontario.
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ct College 'of Physidans and Surgeons, Kingeton.
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oral Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University,
member of the College of Physicians And Surgeons
el Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron.
Offleff and Itesidence—Goderich Street, Etat of the
elethodist Church. Telephone 46.
1886
DRS. SCOTT & MaCKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
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member Ontario College of F'hyelciane and
Surgeons. Coroner for County of Muron.
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gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member
College of Physician', and Surgeons Ontario.
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AUCTIONEERS,
WM. MICLOYg
Auctioneer for the Counties of Hurob and Perth,
%.nd Agent at Meneall for the Massey -Mauls Menu -
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lirders by mail addreesed to Mansell Boat Offioe, or
ett at his residence, Lot 2, Conoes iOn 11, Tuck.
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Highest cash price paid for black ash, white ash,
rod and white oak,hard and soft mple, hemlock, soft
arid rock elm. Either stumpage 6r delivered in yard.
For further particulam apply to
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This hook contains ono hundred aid
ten (,f tho best humorous recitations,
embracing, the Negro, Yankee. Irish and
but,h, thalects, borli In prose and verso,
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November,1899
Anotha.. Ten Daya' Sale to 'commence
this Friday at
THE
SEAFORTH
TEA STORt
As I have received a large stoe t of new
Teaa in green, black, Japan and tea dlist.
Theae taas I have imported direct ,from the
growera, aud are all first crop May Lpiaings,
and as 1 have got a very large stock on
hand, I will give great bargains to bash bny-
ers--pricea right clown.. Istewselecit raisins,
new currants all cleaned and ready for us.e,
new candid peels. My ten days sale of
China, Crockery and Glassware hall been a
grand success, and I will still give another
ten daye' pale in connection with, my ten
dap? tea sale. A cordial inviatio-n ex-
tended to all to call and get some of the
good bargains that are now to be had.
Wanted—all kinds of poultry, bUtter and
eggs.
Rooria4 to let over my store.
A. G. MILT
SEAFORTII.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Money to loan at 41 and 6 per cent, per anzitun,
Any amount on firet-class farm land eeourity.
ply to R 8 HAYS, Dominion Bank Building, Sea.
forth.
1607
NEIL MACLEOD.
A Tale pf Literary Life in Lon -
BY DAVID LYALL.
(Pablished by the Cupp, Clark Company,
Toronto.)
CHAPTER L
TH VILLAGE SOILOOLMASTER.
About non on a bright October day, the
post -gig fr m Blairdoun came rumbling leis-
urely up Kilravock, the product of the first
School Board that had eiercised its prerogi
atives in the Glen, stood 'Upon the road /
about a quarter of a miI
e from the village.,
A cutting had been ma e in the steep hill-
side to make a shelt r for the building,
whipb was of cold, blea whinatone, which
no sun can warm, nor age beautify. And ,
yet it seemed to have a certain fitness with
its surroundings ; the
rowans, the tender flan
birches, the rich purple
were luxuriant on the o
showed exquisitely agai
of the whin.
The school, with ite
adjoining, was simple a
sign, and thus, amid s
jestio and soulostirrin
note.
As the post -gig appeared on the nearest
brae face, INeil Maoleot, the schoolmaster,
stepped to the door t await its coming.
The children were shout ng in the roadway,
exulting in their midday "leave," joying,
as all young things do, n the glorious sun-
shine, which fell upon tl4em with a subdued
and tender radiance, euci as tve-see only at
the "hint o' hairst." I shone in a mellow
flood npon the shimme ing waters of Loch
Dorliok, and seemed t give the fading
heather on the hills a touoh of the glory
that had gone. Ati he stepped into the
open air that sunny noon, Neil Macleod was
struck anew by the surpassing -and majestic
beauty by which he was surrounded, The
spell of Highland hill and Highland loch—
who can find its equal ? He who has passed
his youth among suph magio scenes, if his
eyes be not holdenrhas a heritage of which
to man can rob him.
The schoolmaster was a young man, car-
rying hie six-and•twenty years lightly. His
olean-sheven face was one which would at-
tract notice anywhere by, reason of its fine
featuring and suggestion of • intellectual
power. But there was something more, a
certain high -bred curve, a noble grace of
carriage, a distinction of manner which was
yet always simple and sincere, which seemed
to prove that Neil Macleod was no product
of the Highland Glen. The multi observer
might well have paused to enquire how it
was that one bearing in his personality the
impress of great gifts should be filling a pool-
ition so humble and secure. .
° We, who shall follow through these pages
the experiences of Neil Macelod, will learn
to think with him that these years spent in
Kilravock Glen were the most useful of his
life.
"Fine mottling, sir," observed Johnny
Cameron, the postman, as he jerked his fat
white pony up in the roadway before the
school -house door. "We'll be pOying for
this yet, I'm thinking, between Martinmas
and Handsel Monday."
"1. that a law of the Medea and Persians,
Johnny ?" asked the schoolmaster, 1eaningly,
even while he kept his eye with a c rtain ex-
pectant nervoueness upon the bag, in which
Johnny fumbled mysteriously.
"You'll not be calling it setuionable, Mr.
Macleod, to have summer weather after har-
vest. We'll have to pay for it. I've never
seen it fail. There you are, sir. I'll be
looking for a big handed by-and-by for all
I've carried for you since you came to this
school." s .
"I'll not forget you,
Johnny," said the
schoelmaster, with a nodand a smile, as he
4
stepped back to the sohool-honse, beth hands
full. He carried his packages up to his
desk and set down to open them, heedless
of the fact that the "lave" was up, and
that he ought to be taking thencholars in
for another hour.
Neil Maoelod was his own master in Kil-
ravock. All the members of the School
Board were known to him intimately, and as
,they had the most boundless faith in him,
they allowed him to conduct the school pre-
cisely on big own lines. That they were
good lines they knew, because the grant in-
creased year by year, and that was the
chief concern of the thrifty ratepayers in
the Glen.
. The whole of the schoolmaster's communi-
cations bore the London postmark. One
was a bulky package of printed proofs, at
which he glanced with the tender interest:of
one to whom the reading of his own printed
words was still a fresh and joyous experit,
rich cluster of the ,
e of the yellowing I
of the bramble, all
erhanging hill, and
et the harsher hue
little sohool•house
d inoffensive in de-
enery the most ma-
, struck no false
Oi
:
anger
Do you take cold with
every change in the
weather? Does your throat
feel raw?•And do sharp
pains dart through • your
chest?
'Don't you know these are
danger signals which point
to pneumonia, bronchitis, or
consumption itself?
If you are ailing and have
lost flesh lately, they are
certainly danger signals. The
question for you to decide is,
“Have I the vitality to throw
off these diseases?"
, Don't wait to try SCOTT'S
EMULSION as a lasti re-
sort." There Is no remedy
equal to it for fortifyinglthe
system. Prevention is easy.
Scott's
m ulsion
prey nts consumption and
fiesta of other diseases which
attack the weak and those
with poor blood.
SC T.T'S EMULSION Is
the one standard remedy for
inflaMed throats and lungs,
for colds, bronchitis and con-
sumplrion. It is a fOod medi-
cine o remarkable power. A
food, because it nourishes the
body; and a medicine, be-
cause it corrects diseased
conditions.
50c. and $1.00, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, Toronto,
THE
ailminmeminesnommemv
BRAIN
FA
Is the result of Overwork and an
Exhausted .Nervous System.
W. Chase's NeNe Food creates
ew Brain and Nerve Tissue.
/'
tB sinessicprofessionalne:accountants,
stenographers, teachers, students andabrain
workers
know only too well what it means to
have the brain so tired out that concentration
of thought is almost impossible.
One-fifth of all the blood in the human body
is found in the brain, and unless the blood is
pure and rich the brain becomes exhausted for
.want of prope nourishment,
Dr, A. W. base's Blood Food creates new
brain and nerte tissue, and produces rich red
blood, "the vtal fluid" of the body.
All brain Wes kers quickly recognize the merits
of this great rood cure, and after a few doses
enter on their work with new energy and ambi-
tion.
Brain fag is unknown to persons whose brain
and nerve have been invigorated by the use of
Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Food, which is for
sale by all dealers at toe. a box.
Dr. Chase's New Book, "The Es of Life
and How To cure Them," sent free to your
address. Falrnanson, Bates & Co., Toronto.
once. A letter from the publishers asked
that he would lose no time in returning the
corrected proOfs, as the volume must be
issued within the next few weeks,
The last letter which Neil Macleod opened
was not bulky; a simple square business
envelope, bearing on the back the name and
address of a firm of solicitors in New Square,
Lincoln's Inn. Both were unfamiliar to tho
schoolmaster, and he tore it open with a
hasty hand. These lines met his view, fill-
ing him for the moment with the utmost be-
wilderment, se that he could not for a time
grasp their fuli meaning :-
2, NEW SQJARD, LINCOLN INN, OcL 18.
DEAR SIR,—,We have the pleasure to in-
form you that a distinguished client of ours
has instructed us to place to your credit in
whatever bank you my specify a considerable
sum of money, tile interest of which we are
instructed to pay to you quarterly. The
desire and intention of our client is that
the money be used for the furtherance of
your literary ambitions, which our client ie
watching with interest. Should you think
it necessary to pay a short visit to London,
we shall be happy to give you any further
partionlare. But our client has expressly
stipulated that his identity shall on no Ac-
count be revealed. Awaiting your esteemed
instructions. •
We are, youre faithfully,
• CLEMENTS, BOLTON & CLEMENTS.
So on that fair October morning the wheel
of fortune turned strongly In favor of Neil
Macleod; for real or woe' who could tell?
He became conscious atlength that the
children werej peeping through the open
door, wondering why the " maister " had
grown so candles of the flight of time. - He
pulled himself I together by a strong effort,
called to one t� ling the bell, and when they
clattered to their seats, tried to remember
what was the task for the next hour. For.
timately, it was a writing lesson requiring
no effort on hie part to collect his scattered
wits. And this was well, for Neil Macleod
was dazed m ith astonishment over the for-
tune which had befallen them. An hour
ago he had been filled with a thousand long,
ings ; tormented by a goading ambition
which bade hiun be up and away to London,
the great centre and heart of things. He
had even that morning, • over his eolitary
breakfast, taken counsel with himielf as tot
how far a man imight be justified in leaving
a certainty for an uncertainty, and won-
dered what his' friends in Kilravock would
say were he to leave them to seek fame and
fortune aerosol the border. And now,
through no seeking of his own, wealth had
come to him, pot as some I would count
wealth, perhaps, but a competelncy such as
would lift him above sordid anxiety, and
give him time for the pursuits 'which were
dear, tcp his heart. Whence had it come?
Who was this unknown friend who took so
great an interest in his career ? .,
There were strange doings that afternoon
in Kilravock school; the bairns did what
seemed right in their own eyes and no man
said them nay. By three o'cl ek they were
dismissed from school, and ¥eil Macleod
was on the road to the village. '
Kilravock lieso bonnily u der the great
buttress of Ben Portia, the s Ming waters
of Dorlick Loch before its ver I doors, that
it is a wonder to me that it has not long
since become the prey ot the travelling pub-
lic. Its sweet privacy, undisttirbed to this
day, is mainly due to the fact that no rail-
road comes within a dozen miles of it, and
the travelling public, though eager after
new sensations, likes to obtain them in a
leisurely fashion, and without iindue expen-
diture of energy or means. So Kilravock,
with no available conveyance, eikeept Johnny
Cameron's post -gig or a hire foam the Kil-
ravock Arms, which is only 'within the
means of the well-to-do, remains undiscov-
ered to this day.
Now, though the Laird of the qlen, whose
grim castle stood on the sunn st slope of
Ben Dorlick, was a perpetual a entee, the
place in no wise uffered, becaush the factor
,upon whose sho lders 'Lord Kil .avock had
rolled the whole burden of his res onsib lity
was a wise and good man, who Iook an in.
telligent interest in the affairs the Glen
and held the zeins With a skilful hand.
The southern shore of Loch Dorlick,-which
owned the Kilravock sway, was gmmed by
well -tilled crofts, each with its neat thatclhed
house, never out of repair; and each fith
its right, never disputed, of pas uragej on
Ben Dorlick. It was a peaceful and 4on.
tented community that spoke well ind
thought gratefully of the absent Laird, Who
had never set foot in his own gle4 since the
year after he came of age. Froti 'time to
time reports of he ill -doing in L ndon and
elsewhere came to the Glen but
ere only
half believed. The Kilravocks had always
been spendthrift nd ne'er-dcaweeli j he only
upheld theAradi 'one of his race.
who has a full purse and an open hand flads
The Man
,
indulgence for his misdeeds; and becanse
there was neithen poverty nor di co tent in
Kilravock Glen, they cherished a rateful
regard for the Laird, to whom th y owled
the happy conditions of their liv fa
The village was not less pros e us aid
well -kept than the outlaying por icl of t e
estate. It was btit a handful f ous s,
scattered about the church and he manse,
which were substantial and @let resque
buildings, serving as a model t , any a
pariah. -They had been built by, Lord Kil-
ravock's instructions, and unde ouglas
Ilume's supervision, within the 1 at ( ecade.
Tbe new church occupied the site .f ts pre-
decessor, but the old manse still s oo under
the kindly shado* of the church ar yews,
though it was no longer the reside ce of the
minister of the parish.
Towards this grey and weat r.beaten
family house, about which many m mories
tenderly clung, Neil Macleod hasti bent
itis steps that October afternoon. It was
occupied by Malcolm Forbes, the ol 1 par-
ochial schoolmaster, who had taug t the
bairns in Kilravook school for half a inntury
before the School Board had come to ex-
istence.
AsNeil
Macleod meshed open the white
gate at the Old Manse, a face at the window
regarded him with startled surprise • nd by
the time he reached the door it was wide
open, and a woman etood on the thr shold
to .vveloome him. She was in years but a
girl, but her sweet face wore the quie , set.
tled look of one who had to fill a w onian'a
HURON' EXPOSITOR
place. For twelve years Katie Forbes had
been the head of a motherlens household,
and had filled to the best of her ability the
empty place in'her father's heart. She had
elight figure ad a somewhat fragile look.
• There w nnerlieculiar delicacy in her color
w sometunee, %weed a pang to thou,
who loved her, and these were many. But
her eyes were very brave and steadfast, and
spoke of powers of endurance her frail looks
belied. Neil Macleod and Katie Forbes
were lovers, though there had been as ' yet
no serious talk of marriage between them.
But everybody knew in the Glen what was
likely to be and everybody was pleased,
Malcolm Forbes most of all. For he loved
Neil Macleod as his own son, and his pride
In him knew no bounds.
"What brings you here, Neil, at four in
an afternoon ?' Katie asked, and perhaps
her voice was the most wonderful and the
sweetest thing about her. It was rotind
and full and very ,bear, though never sited
above the gentlest tone.
"A wonde ful thing, Katie," anewred
Neil, breathle sly taken up with his wn
concerns. " your father in ?"
we are just going to have tea.
How pleasan to have you sit down With
us." • ,
"1 have h d my tea thin day and my
supper, Katie" answered Neil, as he step-
ped -within th door. "The moat wonder-
ful thing in the world has happened to me."
With that they came together into 'the
pleasant sitting -room, and the old man rose
from his chair' Malcolm Forbes was in his
eightieth year, but his tall figure was scar -
(say bent, his face was still ruddy with the
hue of health, his piercing eye had never
need an.artificial-aid.
"What brings you, lad ?" he also asked,
as be extended his hand, noting the exeite-
ment visible on Neil Macleod's face. '
"This," answered Neil, as he took the
letter from his pocket and read aloud its
contents. "There, what do you think of
that ?" he asked, with a note of nervous
triumph in his voice. "Isn't it just like a
fairInd
italeeell", and it is, lad," answered the
old man, heartily enough, but there wee a
queer look in his eye'as if the matter did
not altogether pleasehim. "1 suppose this
was what Johnny Cameron brought you:to-
day, and you have been good for nothing
since, and go the bairns have had an idle af-
ter,n, oporn.
ec'i'sely,,,
answered Neil. "But seri-
ously, Mr. Forbes, what do you think Can
be the meaning of it ?"
The old man shooklis head.
"That I canna tell ye, lad; but it is be-
yond a doubt that some one wishes you well.
Now tell us what mad projects it has railed
in that head of yieure, for I see by your eyes
that it has set you all in motion like an ex-
press engine."
"Well, perhapa it has," answered Neil,
with the same short, nervous laugh. "You
know, both you and Katie what my ambiton
has been; how I have longed to go to Lon-
don'and have felt that I must get there if I
am to achieve anything. It wee only this
very morning I was wondering 'what you
would say if I were to throw up Kilravock
school and take my chance."
•
"1 have been expecting , that, Neil," mild
Katie, and though her voice was Very low it
did not falter. "But this will make it easier
tier you." -
"Yea, it seems' to me," said the youpg
man, with a. somewhat serious look in his
frank blue eyes, "it seems to me that God
must approve of my ambition, or He would
not have opened up the way for me like
this. What do you say, Mr. Forbea ? Ypu
are stying very little, now I come to think
of it,' he added suddenly. '
"It has taken our breath away, lad,'t
said the old man good-ternperedly. " Sup-
pose you draw in your chair and have a cup
of tea; then we can discuss the matter
quietly. I'm not eying but that it will he
right for you to go away to London, Neil,
since there is that in you that cannot be
be satisfied here; but there's many a heart
will be heavy the day you turn your baelt
on the Glen." - -- '
"Huh, Mr. Forbes I am not away from
the Glen yet," answered Neilquisikly. "Nor
have I said positively that I im going. But
do you think I would be justified in taking
this money without knowing its source or
why it is given ?" I
I
"Why not ?" asked the old man. "As I
_said before, it is the deed of one that wishes
you well. I would take the inoney,'oertain-
ly, and make the best use of it that the
grace of God directs you." 1
They lingered long over the pleasant tea -
table, discussing the strange event of the
day from every possible point of view.
Then euddenly the old man pushed 'melt
his chair, and rising from the table, said he
would take a turn along the Loch side,
leaving Meil and Katie to their own talk.
His face as he walked leisurely along the
quiet road, in the sombre October dusk ' ore
a singularly preplexed and even trou led
look. As he got beyond the precincts o the
village and COMO within a stone's throw of
the school -house, he saw a horseman riding
leisurely up the grassy bridle path from i the
Crofts. Recognizing Douglas Hume, Lord
Kilravock's factor, he paused at the co ' ner
dry
nd
of the path, and sitting down Ott the
stone dyke, took a pinch of snuff
awaited his coming.
," Good evening, Mr. Forbes," cried the
factor cheerily. "Isn't thkgrand weather?
I don't think we have seen a harvest like it
in the Glen for twenty years. I never heve
in my time."
Bub it is a good thing to see, Mr.
Hume, if but once in a lifetime."
" That's so," said the facter. "How is
Miss Forbes, I hope a little stronger ?"
"She's not complaining just now, tha k
you'," answered the schoolmaster, and t en
suddenly he flashed his piercing eyes on the
factor's face and put a straight question to
him. 7.
"Mr. Hume, would you think it imper-
tinent or out of the way if I was to ask you
a question ?"
The factor laughed.
" Well, of course, that would entirely de-
pend on the question," he answered.
Wouldn't it? But I am not thinking
that anything you asked would be an im-
pertinence."
" Will you tell me, and not seek my
_reasons for the question, who are Lord Kil-
11111PRIIIIIIIIMENNOWNsimi
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sw
But the Notary, Mr. Lemire, was
cured of Kidney Disease in two
months by Dr. Chase's Kidney.
Liver Pills. .
It is only when thoroughly convinced of the
superior merit of a remedy that public me.n
will give their sanction,
Mr. E. ,Lemire, Notary Public, 1692
Notre Dame t;treet, Montreal., tells of his re-
markable recovery from a. severe attrielc of kid-
ney disease. When doctors had failed, 1).-.
Chases Kidney -Liver Pills mved his life. ne.
:writes : " I give this statement, fir.,..t bet:at:re it
is only just that the merit ot Dr. Chase's Kid-
ney --Liver Pills should be inade known, and
again in order that other's may profit 1-y . my
experience. For years 1 Suffered NS MI y
disease which doctors pronounced
Thanks to Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills,
which I have used for two nionths, I am coin.,
pletely cured. Th 1, helped me from the first,
and the cure is no - perfect.
Dr. Chase's Ki ney-Liver Pills act directly
on the kidneys, al d through their combined
influence on the kid eys and liver, cure the most
complicated diseas s of these delicate organs.
One pill a dose.- 25 cents a box at all dealt:Ts,
or Edmanson, Bats 8c Co., Torouto:
rsvock's inen of business in London ?"
" Certainly, nothing easier
,
" answered.
the factor4 net even expressing the lilightest
surprise at the question. " Messrs,. Clem-
ents, Boltton & Clemente, New Square, Lin- _
coin's Inn i Shall I write it down for you 1"
"No, thank you, it's of no consequence ;
I don't went to make any use of it," saiil
the old mohool•master. Good evening to
you, and thank you very much."
• The factor nodded and passed on, nor did
he ever give the matter another thought.
The old man turned down by the Crofts to
the ebblshore of Loch Dorlick, whose
placid waters the late October sunset seem-
ed to have set in flame, and the look' upon
his faoe Was the look of one who dwells
upon the past.
"It may be that the word of the Lord
hath smitten him like a two-edged sword,"
e said, half aloud; then, as his eye follow-
ed the trail of the sunset acmes the plaoid
waters, he added under his breath, 44 Poor
Moira 1" '
CHAPTER11.
GOOD-BYE.
Within Week the rumor of Neil Mac-
leod's rest ation sent consternation through
the Glen. T Acting upon the advice of his
friend, the old schoolmaster, Neil kept his
own couniel regarding the fortune which
had befallen him ; and many shook their
heads in disapproval over the folly which
was ready to , risk so much. For, as they
said, he had An assured position in the Glen,
and a fixed income, which, though small,
sufficed fot his simple needs. There was a
little. natiirall soreness in the hearts of the
people because they had made much of
Neil ifacleod in their own undemonstrative
fashion, and had been inordinately proud of
him, both as a man and a teacher. It dis-
appointed them to discover how little he
had given them in return, and how ready he
was to leave them on the faintest pretext.
It was vaguely known that Neil Macleod had
literary ambitions ; some of his printed
pieces from is London paper had even found
their way to the Glen, and been duly criti-
cised; but when it was,said that he expect-
ed to make his living by his pen, many a
pitying head was shaken. It was a precar-
ions prospect, and, in the eyes of some,
hardly .quite respectable. So Neil had to;
run the gauntlet Of -a good deal of criticism
and cross-examination during the last weeks
of his sojourn in the Glen; and if it had
been possible to disheaten him and make
him repent his ohoiee, it would have been
done ten times over. He was unheld, of
course, by the interest and affectionate sym-
pathy of his friends at the Old Manse, but
he was not slow to observe that as the time
drew nearer a shadow, light indeed, and
only perceptible to the eye which love had
sharpened, was cast across the faces dear to
him.
One evening he found Katie alone ; in
three days he was to leave the Glen,
and for the first time hie heart failed him.
"Father is dining at the Manse, Neil. I
think I told you Professor Ramsay is there,
and you know they are old schoolfellows.
Mrs. Fraser asked me too, but I begged to
be excused."
"You are not looking well, Katie," he
said, not noticing her words, but only the
extreme paleness of her face. "Each time
I see you, or think of you, and that is al-
ways, I want to throw the whole thing up,
even yet."
She smiled faintly and shook her head.
"You will not do that, Neil. It i your
life -work you are going to take up. Don't
forget, that."
"I wish I could be as certain of it as you
are, Katie," hot answered gloomily. "After
all, the life -work I aim at might have been
done very wel in Kilravock Glen."
• Kati sat sit nt a moment. She ;Was a
women ho Pondered much on the deep
things f life, and who had a grasp of them
far be •ond the dream of those who knew
her.
"It ould h ve had too many 'imitative,
Neil," be sat at length. "To understand
the ful • eas of ife, one must share it. I do
not gruo go yo to London; only, for some
things, I fear t."
He d ew h' chair a little nearer to here,
and be • t tows de her his young, eager fece,
very so t and istful in its look. Hers was
very e eet ; ut there dwelt upon it an in-
describ hie pa hos, which never after that
night w olly 1 ft the face of Katie Forbes.
"Wil you t 11 me, Katie, what it is you
fear ? " e said. "It might be a help 60 me
one day when most need help."
"I ca not p t it into very wise or fit ing
words, ell, b t 1 feel it more than I oan
tell. You are o ardent and unsuspect ng,
so guileless of vil. You might be dr wn
into it bjefore y u recognized it to be
Promise me yo will be on your guard."
" I oan pro Ise you that easily, Kate,"
he said more Iihtly, because he had al-
most feared th t she was going to point out
some grave fau t in him. 'Besides, I am
not going to plttnge into any wild vortex.
Living with Argus Fraser, a deuce Preshy.
terian minister I shall be as circumspect as
in Kilravock • i self. Don't you think so,
Katie ?"
Her smile bri htened too,
" If you hadi not been going
with Angus," se angsvered, with the faint-
est touch of rail ry, "1 am afraid I should
have witheld my consent at the eleventh
hour."
" If you withnld it yet, Katie," he ans-
miered, with all a lover's promptness, "1
shall stay." .
" I would notl be so foolish or 1st) silly,"
she answered quickly. "Besides if I can-
not trust you, where am 1? May I whisper
something in your ear, Neil, though I fear
it is nothing short of treason ? I am filled
with distrust of your friend Merrick, of
whom you think so much."
His face slightly clouded.
"01 Merrick 1 Why, Katie, I assure you
he is the beat of I good fellows, and I am
trusting almost evetything to him. Have
you forgotten his kindness to me, an ob-
scure country school -master, bothering
round him with unasked contributions in
prose and verse, his endless patience and
ubanity with me? Katie, I wonder at you.
What have you against him ? You will not
deny that he is a genius." I
"Oh, he is very clever—his letters are
wonderful, and I have enjoyed reading
them. But do you notice bow he laughs at
everything—how cynical he is, and how un-
charitable in his judgment? • He will sac-
rifice his best friend to make a clever epi.
gram • that is my opinion of Claud Mer-
rick Neil, founded on what I have read
that he has written, and what you have told
meN'e%1 regarded the girl before him in com-
plete astonishment. A new side of her
character, keen, caustic, critioal, was re-
vealed to him for the first tittle.
" Why, Katie, you take my breath
away. I had no idea you could think such
things. Why have you been silent about
Meirvveil,icksolong'because't
so long as you were in
Kilravock you were safe. I don't want to
be uncharitable or unjust—only don't be-
come too intimate with Merrick. He has
no belief in God or in the goodness of his
fellow -man ; to lose that faith, Neil, is to
lose the balance of all power."
She spoke with len impassioned eagerness
which transfigured her, and made a pro-
found impression, en Neil's mind.
"You amaze me more and more Katie;
you speak as if you knew Merrick intimate-
ly, instead of onlyhaving seen him once,"
"1 was not 'mistaken in him • believe
nae, Neil, there ere, things in whicb a wo-
man's intuition does not err."
"But I must be -intimate with him,
Katie, He has done everything for nae,even
to reading the proofs of my book."
1 She made a quick gesture of dissent.
"What has he done 7—accepted your
to lodge
nameless,
sold to w
he "
DECEMBER 1 189t,
Destiny Changed.
The 'Slater Shoe" is closely watched dur-
ing the process of manufacture. Every shoe
Undergoes a careful examination after leav-
ing the hands of each operator.
The slightest flaw in the leather or work-
manship—a stitch missed—a slip of the knife,
only discernible to an expert condemns the
shoe that started toward the " Slater" goal
to the ordinary,
unwarranted army of footwear
ioever will buy them.
later Shoe" islinade in twelve
slipes, alit leathers, colors, widths, sizes
aid style Every pair Goodyear Welt-
edi name nd price stamped on the soles.
$3.80 AND $8.00.
Fo
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and
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R. W LLIS, SOLE LOCAL 'AGENT FOR SEAFO
things,' not out
because they w
he could get fo
it, and he kne
could have eo
Neil; ,and it is
Merrick had n
put into it the
cause the men
of any.oharitable feeling, but
re better than anything else
his paper. They 'dignified
it. And your book—you
eoted Cthe proofs yourself,
a book that will live though •
ver seen iv, becatuie you have
est that is in you, and be-
nd women who read it will
be the better and happier for it."
Neil rose to is feet. It was high praise,
witheld from him by the Woman who loved
him until she could make it a spur and in-
centive to nobler effort. -
"I Only be true to yourself, Neil, and to
the !gift God has given you," she said, with
a sob in her voice, "and you will do a great
work in the world, and many will bless you
—I most Of all."
"I am ashamed, list4ning to you, Katie,"
he cried, and his voice thrilled her. "I
have never been worthy of you. I shall
never forget what you have said. But you
will promise me now that you will not leave
me too long alone in London. If my book
is a success, as they predict, you will be my
wife in an other year."
She rose to her feet, hesitating too. She
loved him as her own soul; and she did not
knosv whether she should utter the thought
in liler mind, wbich had seldom been absent
from it since t e day he had first decided to
leave the Glen
"What are you thinking, Katie—some
me, 1 could swear by that
look in you eyes ? '' he ask -
arm around her with a grip
say he would never let her
tre
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ed,
whi
go.
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-remorsefu
and put hi
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will say
int e my heart
London, you
could like bet
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Slie got no f
" f !should
Katie may G
You are the w
t, Neil; it has been eating
or days.. If, after you go to
should meet some one you
er, and -who would be more
• mpanio4 to you—"
rther ; his lips stopped hers.
be guilty of such treachery,
d punish me as 1 deserve.
fe I want. I will have none
other, so help me God! Promise me you
will never darci to utter again such words as
these."
She allowed him to hold her to his breast
again, and there was an unspeakable sweet-
ness in her look. She had suffered many
things, dwelling upon one morbid thought,
and for the moment the relief was almost
greater than she could bear,
• The refit of their talk was lover's talk,
with which we have no great concern. And
that was their real parting, for in the short.
time that remained to Neil Macleod in Kil-
ravock, he found abundance to do. He Ieft
the‘ Glen in the afternoon, intending to stay
the night.in Glasgow and proceed to Lon-
don the following day. As he stepped out
from the school -house door to enter the dog-
cart which waited to convey him to Blair-
doun Station, and saw all the scholars gath-
ered in the roadway, he . felt the lump rise
in his throat, and the mist dim his eyes. It
was a dull day, threatening rain, and the
crest of Ben Dorlick. was hid in a November
mist. He hesitated a moment, standingbe-
fore the children, trying to command his
voice, but fhe effort was beyond him. For
it was evident from their downcast faces
that they mourned his going; and when a
man , wins that regard from the bairns he
has had through his hands in school, he
is worthy of it, and there is good stuff in
=
him.
"Good-bye, bairns," he managed to say
.•
at last. "Treat Mr, Colciuhoun as you have
treated me, and he'll be as happy in Kilra-
vock as 1 have been. It never forget you.
Goed-bye, good-bye." ,
With that he jumped1 into the dog -Cart
and waved big hand, which was the signal
for rather a tremuloui and uncertain pheer
to break from the little crowd. So Neil
Maeleod left Kilravock,, and in the*bole
Glen no man, woman,- cir child wished him
ill. At the Wisdom ot the Old Mamie a
sweet face looktd out, watching the dogeert
as it followed t e windings of the road ffor
nearly a mile. When le,came to the curve
which,once paseed, Kilravock end
of theGlen front eight, &tie saw Neil rise in
hiasrdsesaitt.anci • keep his fOsce steadfastly
w
Then she turned away, and her
tips moved in silent prayhr.
• 1(To be Continued.)
Re
NOTES. —Mr. Donald Burna has been ap.
pointed of agent of the Frost & Wood Har-
vesting Machinery Company for this villsge
and district, Mr, Wm. Bider, the former
agent, having engaged with the said firm as
their agent in Barrie—Mr. Henry, of
Blanchard, was in Rennin this week visit-
ing his sisters, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Hum-
eston.—Mr. Henry Welch, through his,
agent G. J. Sutherland, haiesold his neal
dwelling house property on Richmond
street south, to Mr. William Chapman, of
the township of Hay.—Mr. and Mrs.
Nairn, of St. Marys, spent Sabbath at Mr.
William Moore's.—The Misses Murdoch, of
Hensall, were in Lucan this week.
A TRYING EXPERIENCE.
A Nova Scotia Farmer Suffered
• for Fifteen Years.
•
Consulted Four Doctor, Bat the Only Re-
lief They Gave Him Was Through In-
jectione of Morphine—Dr.
Pink Pills Restored Him to Health and
Activity.
From the News, 'Iruro, N. S.
. Mr. Robert Wright, of Alton, Colohester
county, N. S., is now one of the hardiest
and hardest working farmers in this sec-
tion. But Mr; Wright was not always
blessed with perfect health; as a instter of
fact for some fifteen year he was a
to what appeared to be an incurable troub e.
In conversation lately with a News report-
er, Mr. Wright said: "1 am indeed grate-
ful that the trouble which bothered me for
so manyyears is gone, and I am' quite will-
ing to give you the particulars for publica-
tion. It is a good many years since my
trouble first began, slight at first, but later
intensely severe pains in the back. 'Usually
the pains attseked me when worbing or
lifting, but often when not at work at all.
With every attack the pains seemed to
grow worse, until finally I was confined to
the liaise, and there for five long months
was bedridden, and much of this time eould
not move without help. /Vly wife required
to stay with me conatantly, and became -
nearly exhausted.
During the time I was suffering thus /
was attended by four different doctors.
Some of them pronounced my trouble lum-
bago, others sciatica, but they did not me'
me, nor did they give me any relief, save by
the injection of morphine. For year I suf-
fered thus, sometimes confined to bed, at
other times able to go about and work, but
always suffering from the pain, until' about
three years ago, when 1 received anew
lease of life, and a freedom from the pains
that had BO long tortured me. It was at
flair, time that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People were brought to my attention„
and I got two boxes. The effect seemed
marvellous and I got six boxes more, and
• before they were an listed I 'was again is
healthy man and free from pain. It is
about three years since I was cured, and
during that time I have never had an at-
tack of the old trouble, and I can therefore
strongly testify tO the sterling quality of
Dr. Williams" Pink Pills. Since they did
such good work for me I have reoommended
them to several people for various ailments,
and the pills have always been sucoessful."
• Dr. William' Pink Pills cure by going to
the root of the disease. They renew and
build up the blood, and strengthen the
nerves, thus driving disease from the sys-
tem. Avoid Imitations by insisting that
every box you ptirchase is enclosed in a
wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr..
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
Neatly Said.
Two sisters, while visiting in Ireland last
Rummer, got into conversation one day with
a tenant of their hostess. One of the girls,
who is quite stout, had talked with this,
same tenant before, and this time she asked
the old Irishwomanif she would have known,
them for sisters.
was the answer, with a smile,
that would have put the blarney stone itself
to blush, ye look alike; but yer aister's
slender, while you Misa—well, you favor
the Queen." sa -
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• RELIEF likil 10 MINUTES!
Every sufferer from catarrh Who eads these lines will find in them a message
• of hope. No matter how severely he may be afflicted, no matter how many so-
called remedies he rtiay have tried, no matter how many physicians have experi-
mented upon him in vain, no matter i how completely he may have despaired of
ever ridding himself of his disgusting and distressing malady—he can be cured 1
Hundreds upon hnndreds of cases as, bad as his have been ',fully and permanently
cured by DR. AGNEW'S lATARRHAL POWDER,
This wonderfnl remedy never fai s if taken before catarrh has developed into
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the Rev. James Mutdock, of Harrisburg, Pa. :
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Catarrhal Powder for the last two months
and atn now completely cured of oatarr of five years standing., It is certainly magical
in its effect. The firist application benefited me within five minutes. 1 would not be
1
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•almost intantly." At all druggists. ,
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