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The boy was faint with weariness, j ind thobe six. miles seemed | 8. 90n, jountaine 'llmgfl'dwwy ‘.,. C ‘that. he / oe CA qs I the river looked â€" , but w hes 1‘&:«»‘ d sharply ~from‘t} ‘,3“ 1 0‘:;151‘:‘ bluff, ind the boy started up a groan. P ?!‘ ’, the summit : beâ€" Ao ¢'fi opp hrmu in sheer a';;.'l', @ dozen : paces from MfiA cce e ~dO€â€" ) I _ The top was warm, but a chill was ‘¥ising from the fastâ€"darkening shadâ€" ©ws below him. The rim of the sun ‘ was ut to brush the green‘tip of & / mountain across the. river, â€" ‘and. the Boy rose in a minute, dragged himâ€" s 208 © n to the point where,‘ rounding ; big rock, he dropped againâ€"with a imping/beart and . & â€"peeling brain. ere it wasâ€"old Joel‘s cabin in the rett: Wwâ€"dfl Joel‘s cabinâ€" pme! â€" S ~was rising : from ~the imney, and Abat far away it seemâ€" |\ that" Chad could _ smell _ frying ‘ bacon. There was the. old harn,â€"â€" and â€" Rhe could make out one of ‘the boys «l feeding stock and another â€" â€" chopping ;.« wo was that the schoolâ€"master? _ There was the huge dorm of old Joel ;;gm tence talking with a neighbor. . . ie was gesticulating | as though â€"_ angry, and the old mother came _ to ‘(;""» e door as the ncighbor moved aWay o with a "shuffling ‘gait that the boy _ knew belonged to the Dilion breed. _ Where was Jack! Jack! Chad sprang " "to his feet and went down the hill on ‘ ‘ a ren. He climbed the orchard fence, ‘ breaking the topâ€"rail in his _ eagerâ€" | mess, and as he neared the house, he \ gave a shrill yell. A scarlet figure â€"fashed like a flame out of the door, Cowit an answering cry, and;the Turnâ€" “" c ub'e'" d & as » 9 *\ . Melissa : i agked for |! â€"_. thoking of ip" .bA % do p.6." c as fl'&@ corner ?!“5". ©Temnin es “2{!‘ 4 boy," roared . old Joel. \ Mammy, hit‘s Chad!" . ‘\ _Doiph dropped an armful of feed. . The fil with the axe left it stuck in a ,"ud each mian shouted: o > ‘‘Chad ® "=The â€" mountaincers are an undemonâ€" str iÂ¥e race, but Mother Turner took : boy in her arms and theâ€" rest pwied around, slapping him on the k and all asking questions at once oiph and Rube and : Tom: Yes, ind there was the schoolâ€"master â€"â€" iry lace was, almost tender~ with ib for the boy. . But where. was i “mmo"wâ€"fld ’n‘&’thmvlhabâ€"mfl & try Mboney‘s Perfection Cream EA leotle the rise o‘ six miles, 1 . Meliss Anside, heard. . He had â€" not asked for her, and with a sudden thoking of a nameless fear she sprang m.. Memot by the olâ€"master, who had gone around lke eorner to 100%, 197 BC aw.,, \t‘Temnic.go," she Said, . V breaking Ins hold away, but stopping, :"«_" “s:.nhth doorway, Séokint a shy smile. fi.fl changed m #4+ face â€" look| in &' feat,‘ â€" â€" 9 Sack‘s all right.". aid Chad, but | thi 1ean 18 wias stotk dBrse wiole:! ourth day that, tramping up River, he came upon a even of smooth water, ~the upper ead of which . two bowlders were thrust out. of ce 1c k realized that he 4 ‘recalled seeing ithose . rocks . as raft swopt down the river, and _ old Squire said that they â€" were o every grocer in \, ADWGE M <.m-& Yours will get _ I them if you «sk. In 1 & 3 Ib. pkgs: d after oxen â€"‘‘Billy and Buck." ;dri.he rocks he met a â€" mounâ€" packige brings them to you fresh, F92 ter is it to Unole â€" Joel as. © ‘They mvch-: tight, â€" moisture â€" proof . he stayed in a mounta‘nâ€" while the contrast of the the crowding childres, e new .â€" ghock ail this meant where‘s â€" [Jack?" â€" said «4 Sping«~ By FoX, J1. M ad the ‘schoo} n# for . W®, he â€" looked the < «Howdye, MeolisSa!"‘ . " yMA The girl stared at him mildly and OUf 2 :.rum.m.nna;mm oommn ver the | his thour! ma‘%lfltt'fl'fl girl inâ€"a black cap and on (a~ black | . "Fr pny, and he stood reddening _ and cine 4 helpless. There was a halloo at the |juices gate. 1t was old Squire Middleton and the circuitâ€"rider, and old Joel went‘ toward them withâ€"a darkening : "Why hollo, Chad,‘the Squire said. ‘"You back againt"‘ He turned to Joel. 4 "Look hych, Joel. Thar hain‘t no use o‘ your buckin‘ agin yo‘ bore andâ€" harborin‘. . & f dog." Chad started and trom one lace to another=slowly but sureâ€" lyâ€"making out"the truth. JAa> **You never seed the dawg before last spring. You don‘t knowâ€" that he hain‘t a sheepâ€"kifer." ~ <â€" >.0 â€" "It‘s a Heâ€"a lie," ~Chad _ cried, hotly, but the school master stoppéd him. ‘‘HMush, Chad,"‘ he said, and he took the boy inside and Jfi‘m- Jack was in trouble. A Dilion sheep had© been: found dead on a hillâ€"side. Daws Dilâ€" lon had come upon Jack leaping out of the pasture, and Jack had come home with his muzzle bloody.. Even with this overwbelming evidence, old Joel stanchly refused to believe the dog was guilty and ordered old man Dillon off the place. A neighbor had come over, then another, and another until old Joel got livid with rage. ‘‘That dawg mought eat a _ dead sheep but he never would kill a live one, and if (you kill him‘ by â€"â€", you‘ve got to kill me fust." . _ . _ Now there is no more unneighborly of unchristian act for a farmer than to harbor a sheepâ€"killing dog. So grievous error of his selfish, obstinatée course, and, so far, old Joel had reâ€" lused to be shown.. All of chis : sons sturdily upheld him andâ€"Httle Melissa fiercely â€" the oldâ€"mother and . tha schoolâ€"master alone remaining quict and taking no part in the dissénsion. "Have they got Jack?" ‘"No, ‘Chad,‘"". said the schoolâ€"masâ€" ter. ‘"He‘s sateâ€" tied up in â€" the stable.j‘ Chad started out, andâ€" no one followed but Melissa. A . joyous bark that was almost human came. from the stable a§ Chad approached, for the dog must have known the: sound of his master‘s footsteps, and when Chad threw open the door, Jack sprang the length of his tether to meet him and was jferked to his back. ‘Again and again he sprang, as though beside hlngfi, vhlm stood at the door, looking sorrowfulâ€" ly at him. T "Down, Jack!" he said, _ steraly, and Jack dropped obediently, looking straight at his master ‘with honest eyes and whimpering like a child. "Jack,"â€"said Chad, "did you loll that sheep?" This was all strango conduct fot his littlé ‘master, . and Jack looked wonderingâ€" afid dazed, but his eyes never wumq or b{ink- ed. Chad could not long.stand those honest eyes. ‘No,"" he said fiercelyâ€"‘"mo, little doggie, ooâ€"no!" And Chad dropped on his knees and took Jack in _ his arme and hugged him to his breast. CHAPTER XH. On Trial for His Life. | ‘‘Whar‘s Whizzer?" he askcd SHaP~ ly. ‘‘Who‘s seen Whizzer?" 1 i â€" Then it had developed that no ono‘ had seen the Dillon dogâ€" since the day before the sheep was found dead neat a ravine at the foot of _ the mountain in a back. pasture, Late \ that afternoon . Melissa had . found Whizzer in that very â€"pasture when | she was driving old Betsy, the Brinâ€" die, home at nmm Since im, no one of the s had seen the Dilton dog. That, however, did ‘not prove that Whizzer was not at home. And yet, + "I‘d like to know what Whizzer: is now!" said COhad, and, after, at old oel‘s command, he had tk‘i_‘Jqu By degrees the whole story . was told Chad that night. Now and then the Turners would ask him about his stay in the Bluegrass, but the boy would answer as briefly as possible, and come back to Jack. Before goâ€" ing to bed, Chad said he would bring Jack into the house: _ _ . _ _ . "Somebody might pizen him;‘" . he explained, and when he came back he startled the citcle about the fire ‘‘Whar‘s Whizzer?" he asked sharp to a bedpostâ€"= an outrage that puzâ€" zled the dog sorelyâ€"the boy;lresd his bed for an hourâ€"trying to think out a defence for Jack and wouderâ€" ing it Whizzer mm.m have _ been concerned in the ol the sheep. lcumflx‘;oflbmtvfl» pened, next day, could happen _ any vbnemptm&:i-plb'"h of x:ulh. Briefly, old Squire and The rireuitâ€"rider had brought . old Jool to the point of saying, the â€"might before, that he would give Jack w\oboul')d, Hheodl::tonl ‘Illty“ But the old hunter with an oath:. ~. 8 “Yofl"e ‘0‘ (0 prove M-..#l‘y-" ‘ And therenpon the Squire he Mldve.)mmehnmtb would give a marâ€"hbe would try him; gach side could bring in witnesses, oAd Joot. could have a lawyer M he wichâ€" ed, and Jack‘s caso would go beforo a jary. 1t pronovn~ed innocent, â€" Jack should go free: if guilty, then the w~“ gver to the : * to be shot at sundown. Joel anb was a strange the gate ol the 64. § must be as ordorly in . nd of i â€"B.| the s matter of their $ 21%: you find that: Abe is go two or three days with= y and out action of the bowels, don‘s rus to hame caélor oll. senna tea, calomel cascara oy ir harsh "MHver pills." . Those simply mfi:pnmmmuâ€"mhmm. black | ~ "Pruitâ€"aâ€"tives" are the }deal mediâ€" and "cine for . children. . They are frull t the | juices and tomics in Ahe form of a on | pleasant tasting .. tal el | tives" stimulate the ng ! more bile to flow.. . _ | given up by the live & | the: bowels. > "Pruitâ€"s the liver and bowels, that pleasant tasting . fabiOL _‘ tives" stimulate the nnc..'z: more bile to flow.. It is the hile, given up by the liver, which mover the: bowels. > "Pruitâ€"aâ€"tives" reguintc the liver and bowels, and thus comâ€" pietely . cure constipation. â€" ‘They sweeten the stomach, and are the fnâ€" est tonic in the world to bulld up th: system and make children plump anc rosy. 60c a boxâ€"atx for: $2.50. sen‘ on receipt of price If your dealer does not â€" handle . them. â€"< "Fruitâ€"aâ€"tives" Limited, Ottawa, Ont. left shoulder, and leading Jack by t‘ string with his right hand. _ Bchind them slouched . Tallâ€" Tom with his rifie ‘and Dolph and Rube, each with a ‘huge: oldfashioned . horse.pistoâ€" awinging from his right hip. . Lasi strode the schoolâ€"master. ‘The cabis was lelt desertedâ€"the hospitable doo: held closed by a deerâ€"skin . latch caught to a wooden pin outside. It was a strange humiliation . ts Jacl thus to be led along the highâ€" way, like a criminal going to the {alâ€" lows. ‘There was no power on. carth that could have mtz= ” from Chad‘s side, other the boy‘s own commandâ€" but old. Joel .h d sworn ‘that he would keep <the: doj tied and the old hunter always kep: his word. , He had sworn, . too, that Jack should have a fair trial. There Tore, the gunsâ€"and the schoolâ€"mastoi walked with his hands behind him anc his eyes on the ground .. he feared ttouble. / Half a mile up the river and ~A« one side of the road, a space.s u! some thirty feet square had been cut into a patch of rhododendron and filled with rude benches of slabsâ€" in front of which was a tough platiorm on which sat" a homeâ€"made, cansâ€"botâ€" tomcd Chair. . Except for the opening from the road, the space was wallod with a circle of living green through which the sun dappled the benchss with quivering disks of yellow lightâ€" and, highâ€" above, great poplars and oaks arched their mighty heads.. 1t was an. openâ€"air ‘"meeting â€" house‘ where the cireuitâ€"rider‘ preached durâ€" ing his. summer ciroult and there the trmal was to take place.. _ o Already a crowd wasâ€"idling, whitâ€" tling, gossiping in the road,â€"when the Turner cavalcade came in sightâ€" and for ten miles up and down the river people were comilig in for the trial. â€"**Mornin‘, gentliemen,"" said old Joel, gravely. 5 â€" ‘‘Morntn‘,"‘ answered several, among whom was the Squire, who â€". eyed Joel‘s gun and the guns coming. up thse road. & ? "Squirrelâ€"puntin‘?" he asked, and as the old huster did not _ answer, he added, sharply: °_ _ & "Air you afeesd, Joel Turner, that you ain‘t .aâ€"goin‘ to git justice from ‘‘I don‘t keer whar it comes from," said . Joet, wmlyâ€""but I‘m aâ€"goin‘ to Have it.‘ It was plain that the old man not only was making no plea for sympaâ€" thy, but was alienating the little he had: and what he had was very litâ€" tleâ€"for who but a lover of dogs can. give full sympathy to his kind? And, then, Jack was believed to be guilty. Itâ€" was curious to see how each Dilâ€" lon shrami uncousciously . as â€" the Turners gatheredâ€"all but Jetry, one of the giant, twins.. He always stood his groundâ€"feating not man, for dogâ€"nor devil. _ es t aid move must be the blood Ten minutes later, the Squire took his seat on the platform, while . th> cireuitâ€"rider ~squatted _down . .beside him. ‘The ctrowd, men and women and dmd{en. took the w benches. To one side sat and 8 the _ Dilâ€" lons, old Tad and little Tad, Daws, Nance, . ~and < othors ‘Jt the ‘tribe. Straight in front of the Squire gathâ€" ered the Turners about Melissa . and Chad and Jack as a . centre â€" with Jack squatted on his haunches foreâ€" most" of all, facing the Squire ~with grave dignity and looking .at hone else save, occasionally, the old huntâ€" er or his dittle master. To the right stood the sherif with his Ttife; and on the outskirts hung the schoolâ€"master. . Quickly the old Squire chose ‘a juryâ€"> giving . old Joel the opportunity to object as he called each man‘s name. _ Old. .Joel objected to nome, for every man callâ€" ed, he knew, was more frieadly . to LEARN DRESSMAKINC I â€" ewell, BY MAIL "He a In Your Spare Time at Home, Or Take a Personal Course at Scnool To enable all to learn, we teach or instal g:'“"“-:;:i.fi:;ré mss neaman res io mér d o o on n o onk courte. Us hare t‘ The whob have tugh over 7.000 dressmakers and guarantes ;6‘ i\'vo“:"&'i: ie dn mt proreaae gorte irs. Bewnre as we amploy no 6 Ei"%;:_%‘-&%g" n ~g‘-“. we out our rate tor a BANDERS CUTTING 8CHOOL $1 Erie Sireet, Strattord, Ont., Canada, o “‘lu u“" & 1 n 0 3 5 y F g;"% Af 5 ‘f:'fil imuh.d_ugbxhhflk d is olts & â€"this uoâ€" | _____ BJP ~ST taken a shot at Jack as he leaped in. | saqurable ad o Aree himâ€" [.. ; +; iJMA * PPR URE to the roed and loped | for fi'flm “:3“““““ mm affts Th No riknd Tmar . _‘ ho ut ie e " "*~ S0% *./ | EOMEA "Hit was a God‘s “"ll' fer YOU:| ay, West Montrose we can sately as | As G. RMHNIL W you didn‘t hit him. ieft that thrse conditionyâ€"do not preâ€" s + tss The Squire glared down at the bOY | â€",i1, Anâ€"excelleat Farmers‘ Cldb inmane abd. old Joel e kindty : ias for some time b::d u‘t::lfihfl‘vl, same thing. ‘.“‘ll‘, ad. This should be encour: wil x i ur light o himes 224 samrd them o " oj)"| Bloubtediy prove‘a gdod. Inducemen! oo Patpvay "Tn tw thok the Turners and .J.hl‘ '.‘w‘ * oward keeping the young peoPle" O" fjyjion of human history * x dok, Pik omldb:,vf Chad â€" askeq, | tho form, and will make life â€"to them | peaoher of the humen race i ?_‘.‘f' was a ***°C [ more enjoyable: se (al n * $Se great, so broad and not *‘Whar was sharply . 3 _ WYou can‘t axe that question, 3‘& the Squire. _ "Hit‘s crâ€"erâ€"drrele ‘Daws came next. When he reathâ€" ed the funce upon the hillside . he could see the sheep lying still on the ground. As he was climbing â€" over, theâ€" Turner dog jumped the fence and Daws saw blood on his muzzle. â€"> ‘"How close was you to him:" a ed the squire.. "‘Bout . twenty feet," said Daws ‘‘Humph!** .said old Joel.. ~ "What was Whizzer?‘‘â€" Again o‘@ Squire glared down at Chad. in ho. Web ty c un h L AlZ Mn onR "Don‘t you axe that question agiin. boy. Dicn‘t 1 tell you hit was itro levant?" a "«Wthat‘s irrelevant?‘"‘ the boy" askâ€" od, bluntly. e eniage t i rige wl 7 "Squire,‘‘ he said, and his. voict trembled, ‘"‘Jach‘s my dog. I lUyod with him night an‘ day â€" for ‘bout three years an‘ I want to axe some questions."" * * <«He turned to Daw®: f "I want to aze you it thar was anmy blood around that sheop." ‘Thar was a great big pool <0‘ blood,"‘â€" said Daws, indignantly. Chad looked at the Squire. C "Well, a shsepâ€"killin‘ dog. dan‘t leave no great big . pool o‘ â€" blood, Squite, with the fust one he â€" killst He suchs it!" . Several men nodded thoir heads. _ _ â€" i & 1 4 16 1c oo ltioe n t h penee 1 seed was these Dillonsâ€"an‘ © Whizâ€" »er.. They sicked Whizzer cn Jack hych 2nd. }ach whoopcd him. â€" Then Tad (har jumpedâ€"me and a whooped h‘m." (The Turner boys were nod< dng confirmation.) "Sence that time they‘ve bated Jack an‘. they‘ve hated me and th>y hate the Turners partly fer takin‘ keer o0‘ me. â€" Now youuid.omul’l ared justâ€" . now was irrelevant, but 1 tell you, Squire 1 know a sheepâ€"killin‘ dawk,. and jes‘ as 1 know Jack ain‘t, I know Ahe Dillon dawg naturally is, and 1 tell you, if the Dillons‘ dawg killed that sheep and they could put it on Jackâ€"they‘d do it. They‘d do itâ€" Squire, an‘ I tell you, yoUâ€" orten‘t â€"to letâ€"thatâ€"sherifiâ€" thar shoot myâ€"dogâ€"until the Dillons â€" answers what I axedâ€"‘" the boy‘s passionate cry rang against the green walls and out thmh(nlmmmflvnâ€" "Whar‘s Whizzer?" ‘The boy startled the crows and the old Squire himself, who turned quickly to the Dillons: S8d Fumpdinng~ Tepee id _â€"Squire! The fust time wer these mountains, the "An‘ T want to signs o‘ killin‘ on he jumped the fen« siens didn‘t . sho home." > 0 belp sci. Aillus d i htning * ~/ t "Well, what is Whizzer?" Nobody answered. "He ain‘t been seen, Sq\ the evenin‘ afore the nigh! tillin‘t" Chad‘s statemen to be true. Not a volte : Poor Chadt Here old raized his hand. * "Axe the Turners, S said, and_as the school=ff outakirts ehrank, «s thot to hs Tarners, Squrre,"â€"â€" he .as the schoolâ€"master on the shrank, as though he meant the crowd, the old . man‘s ; caught the movement and t ‘been seen, squire, sence afore the night . 0‘ . the Chad‘s statement . scemed to know if Daws seed on Jack‘s head when tence, why them same show : when he got volce contradict ime .â€"Iâ€" come the fust people Again the his voice Tad â€" Dilion askâ€" sliplich a goop wbtnay is conmetion ‘als % prove ‘:Pt benefit timulating ifl!‘“: to . and" thinks Jearly on topies of public s proâ€" fessional ~interest. ~Asi a lib ‘ary of choice books would ‘prove. & zood investment. ° 9 Prophecies concerniog an opet. winâ€" ter are not béing verified as the weeks roll cn. In this.modern age ib is not" ale to Nenture far into the field . of »orhcey. Here and thete are ardent | votaries of the theory that the : end & â€" MunjJane: affairs is ~ only: about, nall , dozen years away, and that all .emporal affairs are to terminate, all arthly kingdoms to dissolve into genâ€" al ruin. As yet there appears not ont goliâ€" {ary indication that these milénnial sredictions will be realized," until the work, of© the Churchk militant is Aac ‘omplished. ° Thatâ€" hour, who knowâ€" he eth? O the Farmers‘ c%u jolly place, Where the young s move with charming grace,>. And" songs and musi¢ and pure deâ€" light, s f While away the hours ol the winter night;, And stalwart lads assemble there, Vhile mirth and pleasure banish care. There seems to be: some discussion ‘n the Globe concetning Theology â€" There are two parties. One accepts ih> tradditional view, the other that x the Higher Critics. 1t would â€" be lificult for the laity: to follow the zcneral trend of the arguments | adâ€" ‘anced. ‘The views of the higher eriâ€" :ics are now very generally adopted in theological institutions, where yourg winisters receive their training. Proâ€" McFaddenm, of Knox College, Proâ€" tessors Gotdon and Walsh, in Monâ€" real, the late Principal Grant, are wut a few of . the many leading thinkâ€" ers who have adopted in their teachâ€" U C w2 9005 1440 Ts EPsP 29 Sm thsories from certain and . necessaty oblivicn. There need, howéver, be no anxicty about Truth. It will survive all the errors, myths and traditional _ misâ€" conceptions of~ man, and wilt shine with more potent and : glorious light‘ as century after centuty, the rising ages of the world advance. Theology is not only a revelation but is also a science, making progression with the onward match of mind. : Nature is ever admonishing mankind egarding brevity of human lifeLAt best tem or twenty or thirty . yscals more of ambition, . of struggle, . jof gains and losses, are ours.. Then folâ€" lows the awaking from this vistonaty dream of life. Looked at in this light how empbatically may we realize that the "Things which are séen are tomâ€" poral.‘" They and wo noth vanish ‘rom this insignificant star. Even in sime the very heavens waX old as doth a. garment. + ngs the reasonable maethods of interâ€" retation presented by Higher Critics. Theological ‘"Rip Van Wrinkles‘ . of he old school, cannot by any league f antiquated methods, save obsolete What then is alone permaacit, what will survive the vast fabrics «1: . all material things seen to the visual eyc of the body? Nothing is perinauent in new or his material environment but the character of the mind. This em« braces all the qualities and graces of the soul. The â€"Soul is that which wills, .. determines, andâ€" understand s. ‘The mind says professor Bain, <f Fdâ€" inburgh, â€" includes the understan ng, the will and the feelings. 1 netviore mind and soul may be regarded as id« entical terms tlbuyh; exactly <the \HEREY n like a to 63 m'r_m,*"n:_.'r,‘...«m'.w"" of Bost to give that indescribable relish and um-ud'd the W,”Md n'm"hd n ue * tells of 1 Armour‘s Solid Extract of Beef oo uo Prgprant in THE FARMERS‘ CLUB same thing. .. % % Man has but oné light on his Carkey ed pathway. In due time in yhe +o# lution of human history ‘he glocione Teacher of the humen race spprared. So great, so browd and noble were 1 is utterances ‘that the:. very alphobct eemed above amni beyond the . azipreâ€" hension of the .buman race. «"This was*" the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." e ~For many generations men sought to elaborate the oracular wisdom of the m:><Supreme Mind. They dogmatized and ‘wrangled fram age~to ago. Fach party was right. The other party was.© wrong. With a ~quite yndivine wisdom they tortured and persecuted each other. "The stronger sect oypres ted the weaker. The churches preachâ€" ed either for or against slavery. It they dwelt in the north they wete ma‘nty aboliticnists. El G e If the congregations were slaycâ€"hoidâ€" ers the pastors quoted from the Bible strcnr reasons why slavery should be upheld., . e ioR s They saw clearly and. conclusively on which side their stipendiary bread yas buttered. Progress has been made. Slavety except in cases of peony or in <feâ€" mote barbaric African wilds is largely ‘a thing of the past. ‘Tkl It is not so much the work of the shurch, but the progress of education that has made slavery in the present age an impossibility. & The conditions â€" of human society are excecdingly complex. Environment and influence act and interact on the minds of men,. forming and â€" moulding men‘s opinions as to what constitutes th> most desirable form. of creed and doctrine. Most men obtain their dogâ€" matic creed and political bias from their _ ancestors. ~Like _ migratory birds they go in great flocks this way or that. Their individual career is ‘brief. The struggle for existence . 0¢â€" cupies their. time.. They accept. in most cases a ready: made solution to the great question of humian destiny. They have. noâ€"time to solve the proâ€" iblem on the merits of the case, il such were possible. Mcanwhile the eternal verities reâ€" main, â€" oxpanding, . enlarging and . perâ€" fecting the onward prozress of the human race. The dogmas of yestcrday are effectcd to<ay.â€" The myths of ancient. ages is relegated to the sphere ol tradition Good is positive. Evilâ€"is negative. Good is life and progression. â€" Evil.is directly ‘or _ inâ€" ditectly death or nonentity. From the days of: the Philosophic Plato to the days ol tha wondrous dreamâ€" it Swedenborg generation after genâ€" ‘eraticn has passed down the mighty stream of Time, each.Catrying with it a little attempted solution of the unriddled ‘rede, the sphinx problem of man‘s destiny. ' The winter with its joys ard pasâ€" times, with its seasons of storm and irost, is slowly and steadily. passing. The winter hours when in the long, clear, ~frosty nights â€" the fire burn§ brightly, may in a special manner be devoted to thought and study.. . The reading mind can fairly revel in the mighty works of the gteat and wise. ‘The lover of books has many favorites he prizes beyoud all others. _ i Rusldn with his deep and. inspiring thilosophy concerning art and literâ€" ature, Carlyle: with his sage inflecâ€" Aons and heant Ratred of shams, Emâ€" erson with his lofty . poctic proze wherein he proves into the mysteries of nature, Macaulay with the clear and miajesti¢ sweep ol his pictorial treatment of historic tho‘flws, these are a fow . of many illustrious naâ€" mes that yk"‘n'iv’i'mm;do light to the reading mind during the ‘happy . hours : of winter. ; The fields of classic poetry are also open and their ever varying charms thrill the mind and elevate the introâ€" spective workings ol the soul. Milton like a musical seraph, Tennyson with his immortal and enchanting song, Shikespearc, the seer and interpreter of all â€" phases of human life, Words« worth, the great bigh priest of _ naâ€" ture and Longfellow, with his soothâ€" ing melodies that gain the car of all classes, these all yreld an ever inâ€" i:nulu pleasure and solace to the hinker and scholar. These are stars of the first magnitude on the literary hotizon. ‘They constantly inspire, enâ€" noble and teach They give men coutâ€" age and hopeâ€" They are the intellecâ€" ‘tual galt of the earth. Our view . of iature is ~decpened and enlarged by such knowledgo. The works of a great post such as Tonnyson or Wordsworth eae unan os by familiarity. This is post such as Tennyson of Wordaswor t grow upon us by familiarity, This is the final test of any great writer er y works viewed through a% &n M'e grow in vastness and beauty with the expanding powâ€" eTs Hard Times in of the intellect Reading in Winter t _ of hundreds of men, Town# and Citics omar C King and Fous m< |l- a Commiiwh £ u. W-"' READE :' Jz esd Barr‘s M Convey ancer, etc. Office 14 Mc z%u‘fifi w.-.vâ€"-.. & Dfld.lm.% AND F G,. HUGHES, .. e Pprtmnaiment Pnd ds#3 0000E 1 p.m. to Friday i p. m. ODO| of palniees extraction of â€" seoth,. Dental Surgeons: D.i.9â€" Fevonto " $11 Senuchon of dentistry practised. she seoc Yanieany . o0 ies 2nd Prider aysbleeccet .‘ _ Office Open Daily _ For â€" mutual eonvclliemi":‘"‘ ““&.d“‘m-v_.mfi quested toâ€" make appointmients. % -"“ t U..0.. â€" Gr J ouu 22 10 "Of'lk.t‘l Aâ€" mo‘g:m Dental ot Vinte 5¢ oer araly e the MHM f W. R.Wilkinson, L. 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