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hot September afternoon the VIGHT, tk on the mill was push- | in spite of the usual Hount of unforeseen delays it ready for Luginess by the of Septemilier. The official wus set for the 27th, was invited to a picnic to at the will ia honor of the oc- | t 1s ncedless to say that the | Strawboard Manufacturing | #1 the thing up In shape. | loaded 'with straw aud drawn | orse teaws went thie rounds | it} i; villago collecting the guests. doubtful if Fairtield was ever more sgrprised than at the realization of much (here was of her, using the un out of respect to the majority, n she was bunched," as Red said. have om that | could discov- town's resources to pi a meal for 300 people, it was necessarily a basket party, which gtruck Mr. Saunders as being grievous- ly like a Swede treat He made up {for it in a measure by having barrels of lemonade and elder on tap at the grounds, stron red, and by hifiug a quartet of strings "clear from town." At balf past 2 on a resplendent but caravan gtarted for the mill grounds, the wom- en dressed in the most unpienicky cos- fumes fmagina®e, and the men osten- tatiously at ease in their store clothes Every one was in the best of spirits, keen for the excitement and pleasure that was sure to mark the occasion Red rode old Buckskin, who bud succnmbed to the Inevitable and only jumped around a little," as Red pnt it, on being miounted. It was prefty Hvely "jumping around," but Mr. Sanuders found some ® in sitting perfectly at his ease Ing his cigarette, while Buck jumped and Fairfield admired. And, rate, Buck Lad legs of iron wind of a locomotive, carry! day and willing to kick at which bothered him when nig He was 2 splendid beast thre and through, from forelock to tall tip, but ns in tl smok at any and the g Red all be had learned who was hls master and obeyed him accordingly Tt was a five mile ride, mos the shade of fine old frees. wound around th a break in the real border showed views of rolling country, swell shaped and pleasing, winding up grassy slopes in groves of verdure, Of course most ©f the freshness of leaf was pas 3 the modest gray green gave a § wheen to the landscape that bir toto unity. One member of the party felt that 'his heart was very full as he looked at It. That was Leftis. "Blast the old stly under The road hills; here and there "Blast its six dingy windows and the lock at the end! Doesn't this. look good, and doesn't it smell good, dust and all?' and then h howl at the horses in sheer exnberance of feeling, making the mild old put a better foot of it to the Red eantered up beside 1 "xVell, Letts," he sa "here go for the opening overture with the full strength of the company ¢'re great people this day, ain't we And the big man smiled like a pleased "Oh, what a bully old fellow are!" thought Lettls as he look him. Tettis was thinking qualities than flesh, but the phy Red Saunders on horseback was de serving of a glance from anybody massive figure so well poised; the clear cut, proud profile;- the shapely head with its crown of red gold hair; the ensy grace of him by virtue of his strength--# would be a remarkable crowd in which Chanta Seechee Red couldn't pass for a4 man. Fe was ey ery ineh of that from the ground up. Lettis had come to bow down to him in adoration, with all an affectionate boy's worship. Yo those Red was just right in every particular; likewise fo Miss Mattle, who even now was filling ber eyes with him from behind the vantage of a broad brimmed straw hat, At last the whole party disembarked att the flat before the mill and made ready for the official starting of the machinery. The big doors were thrown .open, go that the company could see svithin while resting outside iu the shade, and under the cooling influence of what breeze ibere was. The mill was officially started Red climbed good brutes we you 1g he eyes the bapk to the flume and raised the | gate. The crowd cheered as the im- | isoned waters ith a hollow roar, raising in pitch as the penstock filled aud the wheels be- to go round. BSpecch was called and the vigorously protesting Red the front by his former gentlemen, fellow citi- Te, in mill is now open q We hope to make this 'a success. We hope to sec every "handed, hump backed farmer in sy rosiu the soles of bis moc- 'shove his plow through ich h gronud as he ever dig 1802, BY MeCLURE, Miss | birthday, and the village of | beverages being bar-| leaped to freedom | A the subject. PHILLIP & COMPANY amusement, dud the feut roceived three encores. The last time he missed his cast through overconfidence, where at the old cow tossed her head and tall in the alr and tore off at an elephan | tine gallop, with a bawl that sounded to Red mightily like derision "Durned if she ain't laughing at me!" he cried. But as a matter of fact it was a hornet and Hs unmistak sting that injected this activity ber system. It was all very pleasant to Miss Mat: tie, as one's first picnie in many years should be. She enjoyed the crisp green sod, the great trees standing parkiike, with the sunlight falling be tween their shade HEe brilliang tat ters of cloth of gold, while from the near distance came the tiny shouting I of cooliwaters, They bad a camp fire { at night, making the maonlight still wore mysterious gnd remote by con- | trast. The tuartet of strings played around, { for the ears of those who cared to | who | { listen and for thé legs of those { chose to take chances on tripping thelr light fantastic toes over tree roots in the g Red joved musle, he loved the night The poetle sid f bis memo fries of watching ti npper around Polaris {0 p came back the vas saw the I white swing while In ie roll on to 8 stand out ising from a heard dian whistle im LW ness Agal 1 the hrillix ng of lowh creek of "dis 6?" he she at insteadily asion is the stand les. Misy sured ia took = SO 8) it night her mouth rners alte ness with «a undefin ng, pos ritical tem an, when ver make {atiie's eye that de He only 1 ed to sit rather un necessarily close beside her, and that would be sorry when it came time to go home, And he was very silent -Prietig the drive baek to-the- house he spoke In monosyliables; he went straight to the barn with Lettis after wird, and made no attempt to take the usual frar and beartygood night kiss hie g an oyster" said reached thel rttery old st; 1 feel L something go Wrong kind. of Btiliness, g 'of the ttack "1£-4L was you 'were in lov 11 the barn was dark cen A change w e over the ex-p 1 bas hit it" stonishment scorufu for. an unne Miss Matti 1d noticed the 1d immediately upon herself She coulc we remembered £ about the way his | the moon shining bad taken offense was entirely complin etiines people are SUL. that Consin Will. § lone something What cou t be? Oh, wh memory that conld not reco jury done to one's best fric tossed and wondered over {long tine before at length agleen. of stillness' fasten the b had 1 ume oked with Perhaps he that ent uchy The ary remark hut sc about such as not the least like have sai it she ited also took looked up at the roof and account of stock. His face was radiant in the dark, #If 1 could only pull that off!" he thought "1 must | seem an awful rough cuss to her, J though. All right for a cousin, Jiminy! ll : ing snd find ont, anyhow!" Y eased in mind by the decision of action, be too shook hands with Morpheus and was presently dreaming. It had never occurred to Red Saun- {ders that he was afraid of anybody. { He even chuckled when he got Lettis out of the way with a plausible ex- cuse the next morning. Then he strode briskly Into fhe house, his ques: tion ou his lips fo a plump out and out form. Miss Mattie looked ut slow smile« "What is | Red swallowed his "1-1 wanted a iittle pot water to shave with" suid he. Them a fury took hold of Lim. "What tie devll aw 1 lying like this ror? be thought. {le exhorted hiimsel! to go ou sad say what he bpd to say like a mau, but the other Red Saunders roiuses to do anything of the sort. [Ie took the cup of hot water nist abjectly and fed from the hou He had to shave then, and in hie Lorry and indignation he turped the uperation into & elimic. "Ob, Jiminy, look at that!" be cried a the razor opened up another part of "There's a slit an inch ee on a Sis fat 1 other proposition. Ay | take a ¢ him with ber '* ghe asked. jupstion whole. ever built?' M gods, I'lt house und say my 'ag these cuts stop psrebs stopped the ved Red Sg 1g the cows | his | but | it's gifferent when you come to the | or the Chanla Seechee ranch, 'Z50 pounds of the very finest bone and ! muscle. Aud the cobwebs held him, | foaming afid boiling with rage and | Qisgust, calling himself all the yaller | pups he could think of, but staying | strictly within the safe limits of the barn. It was a revelation to the big | man, and not a pleasaut one. How | was he to know that the most salient ! point of his apparent cowardice was | nothing less worthy than respect for | the woman's eecurity? That if he | s¢guld stop swearing long enough to {get at the springs of his action he | would fiud that he hesitated because the new light on the matter made huge shadows of the slips in the career of a strong, lawless, untrained but sorely teropted man? the sort, and the funniest of comedies | took place 1o the barn. He would reach the sensible stage. "Pah! All foolishness! Go? Of course he'd go, and this very minute, and have the thing done with, good or bad." He was quite amused at his former con- | B and feeling a thousand alii duct until be reached the door; then he'd skip nlmbly back again, with a hot feeling that somebody was watch- {ing hl, although a carefnl inspection through the crack of the door revealed | no one Red discovered another thing that afternoon, which was that the more nervous yon are the more nervous you get. He groaned in perfect misery: "Ohoho! That 1 should have meen day when I was aftald anything! What's come Fi ns any. | how? It's this darn country, 1 be leve, - "Talu't me" Then Le stopped ghort.. "What you saying, Red?" be fed. "Why don't you own up like | ?' The fact that it had a fuony | struck him, and he laughed half sruly and half in thorough enjoy: t He suddenly sobered down. 's worth it anyway," said he. She's the best there ig, and I ought te feel kind of leery of the outcome. Ww now 1 ga 1 won't say any: thing t there's a downright good ch I see 1 didn't savyy this kind business like 1 thought 1 did. | "Twouldn't be no kind of manners to | step up to a lady and shout, T'd Hke | to have you marry me ir you feel you've | got the time! That don't go no more than Chinaman of roller skates, Your work is good, Red, bot it's & lit] Them two left feet You're good in your place, | but you'd better build a fence around the, place, d= the hick! tion! » I think she lkes me, but when it comes oh, blast It, I'll just have to wait for | a real good chance! Now. come, old} 2, get four feet on the ground and | | { fort orl ell 1 ce of a tle lmmpy in spots. bother yon Smothera- | t | all 'right, | to more'n that | m mt roll your eyes. Take It easy tii | the chance comes." | Little hé knew {be chanca was.com ing tip the street al that moment He only saw Miss Mattie step o the € of her face lo and youth and start to 1 She glanced around search of some one, and | fontoitively that the one was | flowers, usually pretiy big straw hat, weeds to order as though in Red felt himself. ed Here's wi bi to act as if 1 iid he. "Now, | from going ont | d get a-alking?' And then own more disgusted ever, and the "air. with | t. #¥ou'd think the nicest, quiet-| woman that ever lived was & wha | beast way 1 aet; gir, "you woutar T time me hastily smote the yes, nearer. | ant looking oppor i full of 'dread. and | 1 out from beueath &1 | the chance drew { of ml | from t She glanced around af though in search of some one brush of matted hale foam bung from its mouth. {| put as much of that foain as would go on fhe polnt of a pin in gn open cut, you would have ap end that your worst enemy would shudder at, for | this was the most horrifying of dan- | gerous auimals-a mad dog! Poor | brute! As te came shambling down | the road he was the grisly mask of | tragedy. It was pear noon, intensely hot, and the street of Fairfield was deserted. No ove saw the dog. ped if his occa- sional rasiling.. 1 ed any ears, they 1 He was lurched through thé gate which Let- tis had left n, as usual, and, spin- plng around a circle, gave volce to his cry. It brought Miss Mattie to her feet in an unknown terror; it bronght Red from the barn in a full cognizance-- he had heard that sound before when a mad coyote ianded in a cibin full of fairly strong nerved cowmen and set them screeching like hysterical wom- en before a chance shot ended him. Red saw the brute jump toward Miss Mattie. Instinctively his hand flew to his hip, and instantly he re- membered there wns nothing there. Then with great, npeven leaps be sprang forward "Keep your hands up, Alnttie, ark don't move!" he screamed. "Let him chicw the dress! For God's sake, don't more! She turned her white face toward his, and through the dlmness of sight from his straining efforts, "yur her try to smile as she 1 to the letter, afd without a A tough, ropy if you coded until He knew nothing of --~Miss AMELIA JA QUILLARD, 8 | houpitoulas St., New Oglesra alarmed because 1 was troub suppression end had pains in my | | and side, and severe headach pimples on my face, my eo sallow, my sleep was disturbed 'mervous spells, was very tired Boahiion: Lydia ina mill : id a : I girls and have recommended your medi-: | cine to'many of them."--Migs ESTELLA MAGUIRE, 110 Thwing St., St. Clair, Pa. There is nothing that teaches more than experience. Therefore, such lat- ters from girls who have suffered and were restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be a lesson to others. The same remedy is within reach of all. If you want special advice write ta Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Ce. (confis dential) ) Lynn, Mass, Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and hold in strict confidence. "D1d he'bite Fon, Mattie? ne cried. Rut she had already canglit his bandd and was looking at them with a 'sav. nge eagerness one would not have be lieved to be in her. "There is no mark," she sald, "sod. denly weak. "He didn't touch you?" "Answer me when 1 speak to youl | shouted Red, beside himself. bite you?' She answered hin, with a sob, "No." And then his question asked itself and answered Itself, although, again be did not know it. He gathered hef up in his arms, kissed her like org raised from the dead and swore ang ved and thanked God all in the "id bd ns natore came back : "Here!" eald be, put ting her away for a moment. "Take off that dress--that slime on there's enough to kill a Lundred men---take if wi | right off." Miss Mattie started bliudly to obey; 'Not here, Will-1'll go in the house" she said. "You'll take it off right here and now," said Red, "and PII burn it op on the spot. T'd ruther have forty rat tiesnakes around { that staff, Od} with it! This ig tio child's play, and'! don't care 8 dn vdat the old lady xt deor thinks" Fi Mattias slipped off her outet' skelrt and stood a second, confused and | 4 the took figlit to the house, | 3 tg greyhound. a iu admiration. another woman then stopped | » hay and plied 31 | 7 the leap. ort Orange & any, Ltd, Incorporated under Ontario Laws) OFFERS THE CA INVESTOR OPPORT HARD TO DUPL REFUL UNITIES CATE. {ORANGE AND GRAPEFRUIT Grove in the very {section of Florida--a Grove which since it first came inte bearing, sone twenty odd years ago, has not know a croj ilure. © In addition to this grove the Company is als acquiring a large acreage of agricultural land immediately surrounding the grove land. This land has a : [thousand dollar to the acre production ona single crop and bear in mind that this quality of soil produces three] | CI'OpS per annum, to. bis antagonist. | lard luck, eb? he sald and gave him de But | | nt at the end of the gar | 1 his the house on pleasanter her now, Mis re wis an after effect ht which made ber trem: ble, ibrance Ww b more she heard him eem- ing she ted to fly, although BOW clothed beyond reproach, but her knees deserted her, and she yas fi sink tin her chair whist blithe He had his thie peculis shown in "Mattie," qu {ng out ther respectable house "Yes, Will tonished that subject oly, vaiuglorious man! suspicions, generated by fervor Miss Mattie had rd to hi I he, the barn. 1 want & of my own" replied Miss MatHe, 85 lie should choose such & at such & time "Yei" he continued, wife too. You often said yon'd to do something for me, Mattie. pose yon take the How much of g hands: * meing at a thing 10 one's mind as utiful impropabil: ity will 'ever make such a of less astonishing? Miss Mattie eyed | him with eyes that saw pot. was stricken from ber. = Red caught fright. Ie sp ward and took her hand. you do it, Mattie?" said he, was a world of pleading in: t tie lo tt "Ab, but 1 conid. Wit - Lettis came tip on the Boop unheas He stopped, then gingerly turned made his way back on tiptoe, holdin his arms like wings. "Well, by George!" be murmuo "I'll come baek In a little while, w I'l he more welcome." He spoke to Ried in strong reprode that night fn the barn. "You ne told me a word, youn old sinber!" be. "Tell you the Bosest truth. Let," plied: Red earnestly, looking up dra' off & boot, "I didn't know myself till you told me about it." They talked ft all over a long tim before biowing out the light, but they the Hit window shut its bright he only iife the midnight st Fairfield was Miss Mattie, he Se casement, looking the tranquil night mands carefully and | of Cousin | $0 | ( Red came iu | This is proven land. There about it by the great Bern ( ther de! independent interests in the vicinity of the Com pany's project. They kmow its orporation management. "I'm tired ofifv- | The Company will be on & dividend basis from the start. |No waiting for long drawn out development work. The (pre sent crop on he trees will take care of dividends, "and 1 wagts | Only sufficient stock to cover the immediate require ments of the Company. will be disposed of, Tanner-Gates Building, Adelaide Street, West, TORONTO, ONT or better still, see our local representative JAS. A. CARNEGIE, PORT PERRY, ONT. SHARES $100 EACH, This Company is taking over and. opéfating the finest best record of a is no guesswork | a fat igi 0 the storms and then the feed for milk making alo The cow Is a muchine that must § convert food into milk. This is one reason why she should have such a large widdle, for there 1s the pince where the food must be worked over, Milk that 1s kept clean and property cooled needs po preserv- ative. 2 Comifort 1s essential to profita- ble milk production, and a cow cannot Le comfortable without good bedding. Don't forget the straiv, It pleases he cow to be milked § quickly and gets her in the bab- it of giving down promptly. It in often the slow milkers that make the strippers. VIVE PILI POLHOR EN McGill's Generons Friend. The total of Lord Strathcona's gifts to McGill University, Montreal, is brought up to $2,275,000 by the recent announcement of the bequest in his will. His last gift of $880,000 is the balance of a sum of one mil- lion dollars which he promised for the extension of the higher education of wometi movement, and which he donated $120,000.00 account in 1890 after the Royal Victoria College for Women affiliated to McGill had been buflt by him at a cast of $350,000. During ihe last fifteen years Lord Strathcona bad paid over rly the interest amounting to $45,000 a | year pn the promised endowment | fund $880,000, which will be now | handed to the university authorities | earmarked for the Victoria College. The check for last year's interest was fnatled to Principal Peterson only a aw days before Lord Strathcona dled. While the Royal Victoria College |B , Ja the only department of the unis to benefit by the will ) was very generously Strathcona in his Hf cal faculty Sabin $850,000, the pension fund $50,000, whilst Strath- ¢onx Hall was made 'possible by his initial gift of $25,000. oe Sade d CURES CATARRE Stomach dosing was found in- effective, and the principle of in- halation was finally perfecied. Even the Romans and Ancient Greeks used it, but not in the scientific manner that the physi- cian prescribes to-day. The | most wonderful results have been | secured with a new treatment | known as "Catarrhozone," which sends germ - destroying vapors 'he Company was formed by Ontario men, who have | directly into the air passages of 4 | the nose, throat, bronchial tubes, possibilities under | 2nd lungs. , Pure Essences are Breathed Right fo the Spots hat are Sick. Cure Follows. Catarrh proves. especially good in | those chronic cases where mucus down the throat, sickens the stomach, and pollutes the breath. When the nostrils are stuffed, only a few breaths | through the inhader are needed to clear the passages, and where there is coughing and sore bronchial tubes, the soothing, healing properties of tarrhozone act as magic. shove the stupefying thAnonos | world, the flesh and the Dey Class are drawn by the na | clination of their minds and are in a favorable com hear God's volce épeakin, them and pointing (Ce taken by those who Suite back Into harmony with God: first step is that of falth in Je thei? Redeemer. Those who Ga take ft must recognize that t sinners that Jesus' death on was sacrificial, outcome will ba the estabils of the Messjanlc Kingdom lifting mankind out of ein. conditions. ¥ Those who have sametent fod take the first step may then take tocond ~-- cofSceration. After have presenfed thelr all tn sa --time, talent, wealth, ete.--then our. Lord imputes to them ay: Jits merit, thus meking them and acceptable to ose, who tm ately Seger them of Ills Holy | forth tians have not resized what tract they have on hand. All thé recrated, he declared, must re: that their first obligalion own flesh. While any may giv able suggestions to Yea go responsibllity for the body Ty a3 with etch a9 a New Creature. tmperfést in one direction, tind another. But "there is none rig The New Creatures In Sch Then the Pastor showed that those whom Go has hegotten of His Spitit 4s New Creatures Pehodl of Christ for * char orment. There { ust grow 18, grace, knowledge "end Hoes. As gt. | Paul explains, they must be mentally" {ransiormst, oe ready for ors : ngdom ereaftef ma i ars to be decided, rot secofdin their own preferences, | to the principles of justice and 1s by rules altogether diff those that formerly regulate Everything a by ou } Once you stop taking medicine into the stomach ani get the healing 2s. and pure of Catar work, you can be sure of quick and jasting cure for nosa colds, ca weak lungs, bronchitis, and speaker's pore throat. Catarrhozone Beware of imitations. Three sizes. 25¢, 50c. and $1, the latter being guar anteed. Sold by all dealers In medi- cine, or by mail from the Catarrhe k ozone Company, Bing ont. 4 bottom. He is a big iE! stand over six feet in his stockings. years he has been a to Soers, figuring in" many has the reputation of cation second to neh real police force; he speaks English wit! accent, in fact, he for an English officer; he shorthand. Althou man, he {s fairly ol spoken evil ms tian Talis to- pay bis de less as to how he te it is because thi does not stand ot ough ak hig