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As he argued thus with himself, ntâ€" tering the thought alond in the evening alience, he raised his hat and for a (ow aminutes carried it in his hand as he walked on up the neglected gras« grown avenue, ~The evening breeze rustled ‘he greem brunches overhcad, and with Inzy enjoyrient he lifted his face to meet :t It was & dark, grave face, full of deter Imined purpose, yet most striking at that moment with its look of intense paticnc. «â€"Bot the spurious pationce born of list Jesentta ‘or indifference, but a stondfast, r; born it slight hare bee w ance, or Jt might hv; stop me here at the very spot? ‘Not toâ€"night.‘ it says. Why not to night? It is but the first link of a chain 1 bhave to follow link by link to its end. "It almost seems." this visitor whis pered to himself, as he passod up th« sgilent avenue, "as if the mist of giwili upon the place, and this heavy lethirgy of isolation and disuse. had . wrappc. themseives about me, sitce I pissed Ahose gates. ‘The horrible parniys.s tiini stayed al} life and motion in this sys Bas touched me, too; or why do I no: élearly follow out this plan, is I baye followed others in my life? What is this féeling upon me which seems t« LIMT 2 Tewin foo sgoon‘? This inexplicâ€" able feeling isâ€"at any rate unworthy of a thought." "Then all you know of that time is from hearsay only ?" "From hearsay ofly, sit. Who would wish to know it any other way?" "Who, indeed?" ‘The dusk was decpening in the park. and the shadows lay a little weirlly about the waters of the Inke. The old man looked with curiosity after the strange gentleman as he sauntered up the avenue, quite slowly, m« it seemed. yet with a step that was for from pnrâ€" poseless or listles«. "Tt‘s a queer hour to come andt view the piace Mostly people choose hrea« gaylight when they come to see the esnt where old Meddelton was ininfered," Bo the old man muttered. while the efganger went slowly om toward tn great ~demolate houge, over whose is tory a véil of gloom and mystery hunx "The woman who k's%)i‘vt‘h;-.l‘r-vvr.{;'z:-:.hm| wir. dicd not long after the murder." The question was asked coolly. and the quest‘oner‘s eyes did not come back from their gaze among the shadows. "Who Iived here at murder? "Not I, sitâ€"thank Providence for that! I was in Germany at that time, with my own old master. It was only after my cyes and limbs failed me that Mt. Haughtonâ€"the family solicitor, and & family connection; sitâ€"put me here to keep the keys. It wasn‘t a post many eared to fillâ€"eren halfâ€"blind cripples like myseltâ€"now that such a dark name rest« vpon The place," "‘Ten years?" the stranger was pausâ€" ing wihin the gates, and â€" looking thoughtfully on among the shadows of the hervy trees; "only ten years? ‘Then you were not bere at the time of old Mr. Myddelton‘s death?" "Who, indeed?" questioned the old man, surlily» "No. sir; it is only habit. Buch habit clings to a man after ten years of it." "My e@ars are sharp to hear the difâ€" ference in voices," <the . lodgeâ€"keeper said, eyeing his visitor with keenest inâ€" terestâ€"as he entered the park; "but my eves won‘t recugnize faces now. Your voice has a hoimeâ€"like tone to me, sir. so I know it‘s English, though there‘s & richness in it that reminds me of the fore‘gn countries I used to visit with my old master. And yetâ€"I ought to know the tongue of the Far West, when my own father was an American." "‘Burely," the visitor said. "you have mo need to lock the gate behind us. Who would enter here in the dusk?" ors at aby time, but they never come after #unsetâ€"and no wonder." As the stranger spoke, he put one hand through the bars, and turned the key with ease; then he laughed a little at the old man‘s surprise. "Fou‘ve opened this x.nen thousand times, I dare say, but I fancy I can do it better. Let me tryâ€"" _ "It‘s late for that," the old man mut tered, with a feeble effort to turn th« key in the lock; "we get but few visitâ€" "A stranger and a traveller," the gonâ€" tleman apewered from without the gates, as the old man fumbled with h rusty keys, "and anxious, on his way past Abbotsmoor, to see the house." "I heard the cjm, sir â€" I‘m sharp enough to hear, but my sight fails me, so I can‘t tell who it is" He stood for a few moments looking around in the dusk, and then whistled a eall ‘The summons was answered at ence. An old man came limping from the lodge, and scrutinized the visitor susâ€" piciously, as shrewd oid men will do when their gight grows dimâ€" Be gave his order to the servant stoud in the shadow as he paused for a moâ€" ment to watch the retreating yehicleâ€" and was in the shadow still as be walk ed up to the gates of Abbotsmoor and tried them. Locked. Four gatws there were in ail, a high pair in the centre, end a aingle narrow gate on either side, but all locked. A gentleman descenced leismely ti0m the chaise, turned and addressed a few Iow words to some one within. aud then @losed the carriagye door agiin quicly. The geuileman stood in the shadow is â€" Within a few yards of the iron gates the ho ses were pulled up The post..ion aiting square upou his saddle, looking straight along the road, a# & well trained postâ€"boy should; the manâ€"servu>t gcated with folded arms upon the bow, hsd his eyes fixed upou the rouds. J« tavern half a mile ahead; and ne.ther Of the men turned his head one inch when the carriage door behind them was ©pened from within. No change upon their fuces sbowed that they even un derstcod why the horses had stopped. before it was brokeu by tie iron gates #hrough which a view was gaived of the lodges and the sombre avenue; and unâ€" der this wall in the September iwi light, a travellingâ€"carriage rolled up the wide, white road. & stretch of highway lay white anu level in the dusk of the September @evening, and on its margin stood a low red tavern, whose glory departed with the last stageâ€"coach, and which crumbl ed to ruin as slowly, but as surely as alid its grand old neighbor there behind the ivyâ€"weighted walls of Abbotsimoor For a wholie mile this wall extended RIGHTED AT LAST EV We oi i alh + Lme nc a aost wrong, 1t was a BY MARY CECIL HAY. Author of "The Aradel Motto,* ©Nora‘s Love Test," "Back he passod fip the the mist of giuilt is heavy lethirgs the ttime of the "This is the sccond time I have c inght you watching me, and I have n fancy for its being the last. A spy can exâ€" :r:tonbonotmmout.ndnmk His left hand was fast on the man‘s collar; with his right he broke a branch above his feand, and the next thing of which the listenor was aware was a perticular sensation of amarting and "Are you here on your own account. or nre yon sent by your employer?" ‘The man he addressed did not an awor. Perhaps the stifled congh was stcpping him; but perhaps that quick &®*p of his breath was sndden fear. "There is a rookery overhead." said the stranger. as he Kg/®). " and it is impossible but thit sometimes the sin shine finds its way here. and the birds sing. It was an English home ones, and yeare hence it may be io again, alâ€" though old Myddeltow‘s heirâ€"â€"" A sound again, subdued and hushed almost in a moment, yet the keen ear had detected it, and the swift, sportsâ€" manl.ke glance had discovered a fig re watching stealthily, from _ smong | th« trees. A few steps on the tong tangled | grnms, and he was beside the figure, | looking down upon it with coot, tronf @nl curiosity. 1 The long, thoughifnl minutes . were spent at lost, and the lonely visitor turned to leave Abbotsmoor. One last glince before he entered the â€" avente. and the scene was photogtranhed on his mind indel blyâ€" â€" The wide, h‘gsh frout nge of the honse; the rows of windows Leavy owit\ dust ind cobwebs, their shutters closely barr d, Â¥oet eracked in many places; the wide door seratched pnd sonrrel, while n rank. unmanage able branch of ivy had fallen neross it. as if to form another heary bolt; grass growing in the cracks of the stone step< jJust as it grew between the embrasure of the windows, wild flowers and gar den flowers tangled together among the we«‘s and grasses; nncut and unnailed erecpers, perishing h: Ipdossly upon the ground, where they sceemed shingts foug to escape the illâ€"tuted house. All the ravages of wind and weathor, all ih beavy footprin(s of time and devasta ton, all the raak fruit of negivet. If any eyes could have been watâ€"h ing from among the overzrown laurele oppesite, this was a pictrre not to be ensily forgotten or understoodâ€"â€"go loneâ€" Iy and so still the scens, so eany yet so full of prrnose this solitary fignre. But why shonld any watchtul eye have been hidden there among the darkening linâ€" re} leaves, > Then he suntered on. The rank griss over which he stepned was heuvy with dew, yet often he stopped where it was longest, and stooped to gather a blow som from the wild flowers which over ran the mneglected lawnâ€" So he pass 1 from the great front enirance round to the sonth end of the howse, turned and ll(«.'tend past the servants‘ premises at the buck, | then trned anotber sormer !.n.) rontinned his walk, @ little mare slowly, bes‘de ihe shittered | nciufe«@s on the north side. At one, the lost in the row. he made a panse, not as if in uncertainty and donbt, but with a setâ€" tled purpose. â€" First he examined it critienlly, messuring with his eye the height and width, and its depth _ from the gronnd; then he tarm«] h‘s baek o nip on it, and took in. with a keen. fill glance. the scone before itâ€"the stret h of lawn, the bordcring of shrnhhary teyond, and the crowd of grand ol elms towering above it and still furthor on. _ For at feast ten minutes he stood so. his eyosâ€"dark gray eyes. hollisg the rare benuty of deep, clear thousht â€"â€"enrnostly seanning the diusky scene, and an utter sileunge and vigilance ir the easy attitude. "A cough," he said, with lozy sar ensm, ‘stringled and stifled. but a cough unmistakably; and, more than that, a man‘s cough, and still more than that, a conch T‘ve heard hetore." I m d t Mos en ERS T OETEW The visitor trod, more alowly now, P»ssing through the door which the fand moress the liwn, up to the wide oak lidy he‘d open: "anything you have. I deorway (locked securely against his exâ€" @Am sure it will be nice, as yQu say." aminng hicod), thin slowly on jast the â€" "Only for one. ma‘am?" long row of windows belongisg to the _ The frct W®as selfâ€"evident, and the use grounit floor, the shutters of wh ch were dess picce of enumeration on the part so heavily harred. He counted thom as Of the lundlady only the effect of habit, be sanntered past the frout of the house but she looked surprised when with the â€"eight between the door and the cor £D#Wer came & vivid blash. ner.. Involmntarily be stepped hock a Ton wns served in the shadowyr, lowâ€" few prtces and counted the cight upon Cciled ]):Il'l'nl'. where a newly lighted fire the other sideâ€" As he did so a somnd 8M!192)ed Pntocexistence, and ailded con indefinite and hardly andibte, reached #id0=t!dy to the shadows, but n thing to him from the shrubbery â€" becond the the light or cheeriness. when there eain« liwnâ€"a sound so faint that it might the henviest blow which the landiady of well bave been laid to imaxination the "Muidelton Arms" had . felt fou only, but & sound about which the lisâ€" P#DFY & dry. The cold boiled hamâ€" tener, after a minute‘s pause felt mno @D»Bitically the picce de resistance of doubt at all. the inn Inrdeâ€"was @grocing that long "A cough," he said, with lnzy sar ttble in the pnr!:rr, and she had displayâ€" ensm, ‘stringled and â€" stifled. but a ®4 there everything edible or ornamental cough unmistakably; and, more than which the inn conld _ furnish | forth, that, a man‘s cough, and still more than WhS® 8 gontleman arrived, walked epolâ€" that, a conuch I‘ve heard hefore," ly into the inn nnd‘ onderedâ€"strange to Then he suntered on. The rink griss s*yâ€"tea for one. .A\n nced for the la'n-i- over which he stepped was heury with ]aflv to forestall hnfx with tbe. suggv.s:fmn. dew, yet often he stopved whera it «ie â€"WHTher or mot it was his habit to ‘The scene which lay before him was grand even in its nfter desolation, .. picturesque even in its heavy, hin] gloom: for on nsither the empty buildâ€" Ing nor the unirodden graws lay any trace of that deed which had nade th spot a shunned and isolated one. "In the weird light, and at this lonely hour," the stranger whispered to him: self, "I shall see it just as it should be seen." There were no steps to monnt. no terâ€" races to tre: d. ‘The mansion stood low on the wide, level pirk, but it was non« the iess a grand ind an imp ising strme ture, viewed from that last point in the jrregular avenue. "In spite of the changes," he said tc himseif, his full gaze on the house, "I sludl remember it all more cleirly on th‘s spot." n e t otece it. He made no stop in his thoughtful, umhurried walk; but there grew a look ef keen intentness in his eyes. and there sturted into sudden life a line of deep ind harassed â€" thought between his brows. waniea couid wear other expressions, 111 | AYeRU i: different fromâ€"if not warring againstâ€" The as the quict, manly power of enduring and reached : forbearing, so plainly wriiten there; but | keeper he at that moment raised among the dusky â€" while be t sbadows. this was its ouly loo«. "Goodâ€"n The avenue of Abbotsmicor was nearly "Lock th two miles in length, for though, as the may lock erow flies. it would have been scarcely | ‘The old a mile from the lodge to the great front | rusty key entraunce, yet the appronch was so curyâ€"| _ ‘"There‘ ed and twisted that it doubled the dis And the tanceâ€" In old times neighboring squires ton Slimp used to urge on old Mr.â€"Myddeiton the Bad been ©dvisalility of forming a new approuch, bokt. and, stimight us an arrow, from the lodge ; creeping ; to the house; but their advice was , man, they laughed at grimly, and the old avrenne f ing knowr kept its winuing way. | o it happered that the visitor was within a hundred yards of the bouse Itâ€" self whon he caught I!i} !rpt ;Iimpse of Tated house. All th and weathor, all ib of time and devasta fruit of negivet, okery overhead." sitic ed. with a movement of the shoulders which he intended for a gesture of deâ€" preeation, but which had the mppearâ€" ance of an experiment to test their muscles, "bot tired a little. The old man has kept me very hard at it toâ€"day."* _ *"The old man, indeed," emiled. the "You aren‘t looking well Mr. Slimp," remarked the landiady, gazing critically Into his face. ‘"‘Well, Mrs. Murray, no need to ask you how you Are; you look as blooming as usual TI‘ve snatched a few minntes to call im yon see. Ah, if your sung hostelry was but a little nearer to Kinâ€" bury, what constant visits you would have from yours truly." "The lady sends her compliments, sir. and will be very happy if you will join her. T‘il tuke frosh plates and a ecup in at onee. I‘m very glad it‘s arranged so, a# you‘re in a hurry." The door was hardly closed upon her guest whon another oustomer arrived at the "Myddeltor Arms," but this tim the landlady folt no nervousness in the prospect of the entertainment, for the frce of Mr. Bickerton Slimp was well known in the tavern bar and the voice of Mr. Slimp had a familiar, even con fidentinl tore when it addressed minc hostess. ‘ Terhaps the stranger thought she had been asked, and that be bad been anâ€" swered, for without further words he turned away and walked to and fro within the cireumscribed limits of th bat, until mine hostese reappeared witt An expression of intensé relief on hei ce I"’I'l‘nflll\". "‘On second thonghts, I will not send a card; it can make no difference. Bay a atranger asks this favor of her." > As hbe put Lack the card a sudden euizzicul smile cnme into his eyes. "What sort of a lady is she?" "Well, sir," began the landlady. mediâ€" titively, "I should say, if I was asked. that she‘s an invalidâ€" She looks white enough to have just come from a sick bed, and she‘s hardly strength and en ©rgy to move about; she doesu‘t look chcerfnl either, T «hould say il in minâ€"‘ and body; that‘s what I should say, xir. it 1 was asked." Perhaps the stranger thought she had "If the lady will allow me to join her at toa, it will save tranble, will it?" Bo he asked, opening the while one of the pockets of the purse, and drawing a card from it. "Yes, air. if, as yon say, she will." Mine hoatess made this observation rather absently, gizing at the miny . pockets of the purse. and trring to read the name which was stumped in gold upen the leather insida the flap, tle bar, he took a erimson leather purse from his pocket. and held | it in â€" his hand. | Her exes fell on it as she spoke, and she noticed that it was old and raâ€" ther shabby. but that it was a peculiar purse, and handsomer thin she had ever scen before. "Perhaps your room is engaged,‘ That mnde it easy. The landlady‘s lips were unsealed, and ahe did tell hi exnetlyâ€"and _ rather cironmstontiallyâ€" how she was situated: As he slood listening agninst the window of the litâ€" e fit. Be took n erimgin leather nwss, her t _ The low red tavyernâ€"over the door of which, through rnth and revelry. the sign of the "Myddelton Arms" bad hung for fifty years*felt that evening just a shade of the importance which accordng to its own popular legends, belouged to it in the old comching days. The arrival of a private travellingâ€"rr ringe, with emblazoned panels and white silk lining, was not by any means of dally occurtence â€" and made the lazy Icstler put down his pipe with such impetus that it broke into half a dozen pieces. "The entertiinment of a lady traveller was still less & cireumstance of du‘lly cecurrence. and made the id goy hostess nervously and potulimily remark to herself. as she threw her soil f ed apron behind the door, "Sure as ever ; there‘s nothing in the house, somebody‘s safe to come." "You‘ll be wishing for tea, ma‘am,‘ . she shggested, coming blandly forwarc a minute afterwirl. to forestall :mg'? lwea of dinuer which might have lurk | ed in the traveller‘s mind. "a whole some knifeandâ€"fork tea, as we call 'n'.‘l I‘ve as nice a cold ham as ever wus boiled; and with some egg;â€";â€"â€":; *"Thank you," the lady _ answered. possing through the door which the fand "There‘s only myself, sir, to lock in." And the words were true, for Bickerâ€" ton Slimp‘s modes of ingress and egreus had been nobly independent of lock and bolt, and, though they necessitated creeping progress nsuited to an upright mun, they had their advantage im beâ€" ing known ouly to himiself. ‘"Goodâ€"night," he said then, geniailyâ€" "Lock the gate after me, so that you may lock in all other marsuders." Buch was the magnanimous concinâ€" sion arrived st by Mr. Slimp, before he dragged his injured person: down the avenue in the wake of his assauiter. The sesauiter had, in the meantime, reached the gates, and the old lodge keeper held one of them open for him while be took a crown from his purse. An sphoriem few would deny at vny time, but one which certainly could not be denied by those who boasted the u& quaintance of Bickerton Slimp, confiâ€" dential clerk in the office of Lawrence Haughton, attorncyâ€"atâ€"law in the town Gripding his teeth with rage and| wharse, he rose from the spot to which he had ignominiously been hburied, and looked after his chastiser with un ugly scow! upon his emooth, sleek fuce. ‘This sort of thing," he muttered‘beâ€" tween his teeth, "a man nexer forgets" yes, yes.quite well," he answer "I shall be even with him yet!" THIS OR IGINAL DOCUMENT to wait? He looks kind, and M," was the next | nervous will it do to tell him how man.chuckied as he turned the Chronicleâ€"Telegraph, Thursday M";‘”-M 7 purse whe had last seen in & when he took is card from it, his hat and took the purse; the gentloâ€" man stepped back. and the carriage went on Its way. Bat Mre Murray had not regained her breath yet. In her ofmâ€" cloumness at something having been left behind, she had gone close up to the I-mndnm.v&mthonm be handed to the lady‘s servant was the COCETCC! 20 her Tor his accomm fellow 4 her leisurely. J1 wa» of ecurse, thit he shonld see her catri. «e, She bade good »evening t fardiady, ow rapped herâ€" cloak tightly ahbout her, drew a soft wool veil down over ler face, nnd took her seat One of hor hands wi« full of flowers nnd of enltivated bl ssmog run to seel; the other sho ofered to the genth man; and he sivadng at the carriace=loor, took H#, aud cyietl\ wish«1 ber goodâ€"night. After m momeut‘s pause, he wept bhark into the inn parior, Mrs. Murray bad porformed her last courtesy, and the horsés had made a few steps forward. when he came out again and spake up to the servant on the boxrâ€"seat, while the postilion drew in his eager horses ‘Your lady left this purse behind her in the tavern." Tlf. servant stooped with a touch of The carrisge Jamps were lighted, the horses frosh and restive. The breath of the near borse actually fanned the cheek of Mrâ€" Slimp when he leaned ngainst the house locking on. The lady for whom the beantiful exrriage k ed cane slowly and timidiy f parlor, â€" while the gentlcms n, w indebteJ to hber for his a comm fellow «4 her leisurely. J1 was of ecurse, thit he shonld see her catii. se, She bade good »vening t Iandady, wriapped berâ€"cloak tightly atout her, drew a soft wool veil down over ler face, nnd took her seat One of ber hands wi« full of Bowers nnd trok his seat, and the gentleman‘s gen tloman who stood quietly by until the horses moved ,and then followed them to the front door of the inn. exhibited a little more si rprise at t1:â€" effort he made to enter ioto eonyâ€"rsition with them, and « sconroged thoso efforts with eool civilits It was almost dark in the yard now and, although it impeded his examinaâ€" tion, it certainly afforded Mrâ€" Slimp the opportnnity of conducting it unâ€" perceived. _ ‘The hostler of the "Mydâ€" delion Arms" was glad to se M Slim; and to converse with him:; but the peâ€" stilion, when he came briskly out and The next moment she had left the bar, for the parlor bell had rung, and she «l ways likedâ€"as ahe expressed itâ€"to an swer her own bells. "It‘s for the carriage, Mn Slimp," sh whispered, looking in at the bar on her return. "I must go and tell the servâ€" inis; they rre having supper in the kitâ€" chen. I left the girl to see to them." "Wait, Mrs, Murray," called Slimp. in a subdued, cager voice; "I will go round to the yard myself, and ord‘r the horses to be put ont." "Notâ€"exactly," Mr. Slimp answered again. ag doliberately+as before. "In fuct they were standing there in utter wilence, which is the suspicions part of it all. Do you think that if they were strangers to each other they would stand so, withont spenking? No, my good friend; they would have _ been seated at table, and talking amiablv." Mine hostess put on ar air of world ly wisdom equal to Mr, Slimp‘s, and not to be behifithind in other qual ties, remarked with more vivacity than veraciiy, that she had "suspected so al aloug." Mrs. Murray stepped within the bar, and left the Iawyer‘s clerk still stind | Ing beside the parlor door. The mixing | of the punch, even with all its requl sites, would not tike more than two minutes, so he had no time to spare. With a loud, demonstrative . careles> ness, he opened the parlor door snd enâ€" | tered the room. stood a moment trans | fixed with astonishment when he found ;it oceupied, uttered a meek and very Ieh'bornte apology to the lady for ‘havâ€" ing assumed the room to be empty, and “’mrkod from it with slowâ€"very slowâ€" / deference. "But"â€"Mrs. Murray‘s breath was trkâ€" en away by the covert insinuationâ€" "but you say they . were standing toâ€" gother on the rugâ€" Were they talkâ€" ing, or shaking hands, or anything?* "Notâ€"exactly." Mr. Slimp answered the question with unction, but whether this was the effect of the whiskey, or of what he had seen, was not evident. "Notâ€"exactly; they were standing toâ€" gether on the heart\. Mrs. â€" Murray, looking very intt‘r(\stiqg. indeed." "Why. they are strangers!" "Ahcm! So we are given to under stand, if we choose." "I jnst opened the dror to see wha: time it was." he explained, as he enterâ€" ed the bar and took up the glnss with a beaming smile upon his face; "I knew my watch was wrong.but did know hew muchâ€" T cannot depend npon your kitchen clock: but that time piece upeon the parlor chimncy 1 depend upon implicitly, and »lways did." "Wore they at tea?" inquired the host ess, her curiosity stronger than her pride "Just mix it so, Mrs Murrs please; and do it yourself, t« its proper fiavor. You are a you have Apgostura â€" bitters house?" Ufc smiled sgain; howz&ml. storvotyped smile, which h& considered & mishty weupon with the fair sex. _ "Just so; and you ehall rebuke my clorks ns steruly as you please, om conâ€" divon that you always mmile upon me. r I=â€"dear me, what was I going to sayâ€" \ch, is the parlor vacant this evening* Mrs. Murray was a little surprised at the queastion, and a little surprised that M:. Slimp still stood om the chilly bricks in the little ball, and did not take his own seat in the bar, and light his p‘peâ€" But she was pot sotry for an €xcuse to tell him about those two guests who were drinking tea together mow from her best china, and she &‘d so at large. The lawyer‘s clerk listened smilingly, nor did he attempt to speik hiniself until the narration was over Then be asked ber coaxingly to mit him & glass of whiskey punch, and enâ€" umerated the different ingredients be required with a eultivated tuste wtficl:1 would have done no discredit to a Yanâ€" ‘ kee. of you as an old man, though you can scarcely beâ€"let me seeâ€"more than Mr. Haughton‘s age" This mine hostess said with n sly relish, for Bickerton Slimp affected a youthful air and youthful garments and few ventured to remind him of his age. Even she could not have done so without that dainty allusion to his "set ting up for hims<lf," the centre of the lsbyrinth ip which he _;‘â€"dded; the bourne to which ‘he w and cuoning were his surest j v6 these degenerate days, Mra. Murray, our employers get dubbed old -"-m'“fi', out reference to the year in which they chanced to be born." sime year as me, that was in ‘29, and he‘s younger by two years at the very :t:-vl:'l.itl.:mbonh'n.u-l arep‘t we fortytwo? And eas you call him an old man?‘ "When you set up for yourseif, then your clerks will be at liberty to speak ear. Haughton cannot be more than forty â€"If he‘s that. His sister was born the "Ladies are never old," emiled the lawyer‘s clerk, insingatingly;*" but in LN VER Y POOR CONDITION Mrs. Murray, if you yourself, to give it You are quite sure in â€" the tz ho takers and Em'ulfhr Calis anewered d 1y and night . â€" Klippert Undertaking Co. Alini thon. Winnipeg, Jan. 18. â€"â€" The Dominâ€" fon â€" bycâ€"clection â€" nominations take place toâ€"day. _ E. 1. Martin, _ Inde pendent Liberal, and Puttee, labor, are the only canitisates in the fiold. alwnf; in st:n‘k, fresh l;ndg;'nu'mv . 8. Snyder, Druggist, .,; s3 Waterloo, Ont. eAmAmmnnepn® @RORemTe TTEaTCmte, PaWNC® Celery,Compound, the kind that cures, Dominton Byeâ€" El ol iN CAE eap namiintt divit h tatiiint n adbibmaint 6 > 1 3 dard makes. Our closest attention and | Officeâ€"At his best care given when filling your doeâ€"| _ _ tots prescriptions. contimgent to South Africa by the exâ€" cetlent cable news service â€" of the "Family fferald and Weekly Star," of Montreal. ft will be interesting to know that the "Family Herala" have completed arrangements to have an ather special correspondent . to rebort ¢}(,‘ ddings of the second contingent. he war news service of the "Family Herald and Weekly Star" is superior to any paper on the American continâ€" ent, and seems to be appreciated as it is said twentyâ€"five thousand new subâ€" scribers have been added during the past two months. Carrada has been kept well posted in the movementsof the firat Canadian contingent to South Africa by the exâ€" cetlent cable news service â€" of the OUR SOLDIER BOYS FOR AFRICA The Provi ith Winni: 100 006 2 206 €207 h R2ze of qiet amâ€" veement. _ Bnt perhaps the contemjn which Mr. Slimp road in it was not all horn of his imszinwCen only. thoush cortainly the threat he read there wore, The handsome. amnsed eyes held ora threit for such a pitiable object as the maun who had cringed and fawned under an upraised armâ€" [ "Don‘t you think thit she seems very pervous and delicate, sir‘?" _ Minc hostess made this inquiry merely out of curiosity for his repliy: but felt very little enlightened when that was given. ; "I do., indeed." For nearly an hour he staye) »t the inm, and for this bour Mr. Slimp‘s life was a burden to himâ€" The cool, h«lf quizzical eyes of this man who h] thrashed him, scemed following him everywhere, for the sole purpose of makâ€" ing him uncomfortable and i at ease. Onee or twice the embrro ~havee / cume so seriously depressed that he reâ€" solved to start at once for Kinbuzy, but he never carried out that resoinâ€" ticn. He had a plan to work out with which a sudden departure might have ivnterfered, and. bemdes that, it might almast have laoked like fear ~strange. and nnnatural byrpothesis after â€" chat scone nmobg the trres at Al} «StRHeE] 0 Drugs fresh and pureâ€"the best stanâ€" l.\'”""'\' NNYDER GUARANTEES TO PATRONS ELECTIONS [N MaXxitO®a. Myeâ€"Election Nominjations Jn Winnipez Toâ€"Days 1t you you 6x« write th Would you like a copy of our book on the Hair and Scalp? â€"It is free. It restores color to gray or white hair. It does not do this in a moment, as will a hair dye; but in a short time the gray color of age gradually disapâ€" pears and the darker color of youth takes its place. (1 Ayer‘s Hair Vigor will surely make hair grow on baid heads, provided only there is any life remainâ€" ing in the hair bubbs. it Prevents and it It makes a better circuâ€" lation in the scalp and stops the hair from coming out. It cleanses the scalp from dandruff and thus removes one of the great causes of baldness. What does it do? It causes the oil glands in the skin to become more active, making the hair soft and glossy, precisely as nature intended. be continued.) 1 _ bye elections â€" im ind Emerson, where |caling for â€" reâ€"eles 1 on Fab. 6. C not obtain 2!1 the benefity cteil from the use of the Vigor Boctar ebont it Address, Di. J..C. AYER. t oor s Inokloss roof his rom in Mase, D. Buoxrssrnoven, . _ BR Browtes oocouig ... O A Bavos. Mortgngor released at any time after years. For particulars see § yr. term,monthly prym‘t, per $100 of loan Easy Terms Easy Payment Borrowera Given a Definite Contract. Principal and interess fully paid up by monthly payments : t on Painter. | Such as l.fil Painti Kalsomining, Tiniing, etc Church Decorating a wpecia How and Where To Borrow Money §200 000 oo e m mt 21 form, an exhilimating shampoon children‘s hair ont. l IVERY AND EXCHANGE STABLES F4 George Suggitt, Proprictor. All kind« of conveyances constantly on hand. ( barges muderate, stables in rear of € ‘ommercial Hetel. [MIL E.T TV C, W. w KLLS, b. p. Waterloo, _ Will visit Elmira, D the secoud Thursday and Frida; Thursday and & riday of each mot I p.m,. to Friday 1 p. nd. ODONT painless extraction of teeth. The closed every Friday afternean As November ist \‘r R. \\ JLKINSON a Dentist, L D. S, Toronto, 82. D. D. 8. Philndfllrmn. UL Specialty Preservation of natural teeth, inâ€" cluding monnting artificial crowns on sound root and ttre insertion of gold bridges tomrply the place uf missing teeth without a plate. Officeâ€"Canadian lock, Berlin. Phone 61 is Dentist, Office Block, Waterioo. w M Insuer of Marriage Licenses fMiceâ€"Dost Oftice, St, Jacobs, Ont. 5 D comipdenyc., Doyal Col Dental Surgeons, D.3.S. Toronto Univ All branch+s of dentist ry practised. Of Janzen‘s Block, Berlin, over Smyth store. Entrance between Fehrenbach‘s lery and Stuebing‘s grocery. BUCKBERROUGH & Co Pue, Life and Accident ins. Ag OHN L. WIDEMAN 94 iib'fl;(;xénlh(c l’hfliclun, 105 Ring Street Wext. Berlin, Ont. communiciion R.C.T. XGECKER, Medalilst of| To Liacentiate of the College of geous and Acoucheursof On Mn gcens ind Ac. oucheurs of Ontario. eye and car . $ceated. . Officeâ€"New Albert Street W aterloo, a short di of the late Dr. W aAlden‘s‘ racidur.s £000, T2 1t C. P., Treland ; M. D. 4 ity University ; MJ C, P. 8. 0. Lic .“!’edirnl Conncil. Great Britain. ; Disea=cs of Women and Surgery. C night . promiptly answered. Oftice dence, Berlin. TARLE * G. HUGHES, D. D. l)l‘l. W. L. HILLIARD. Licentiate of the Coll Surgeons and Accoucheurs o dence and office on King Woolen Mills. Phone 210. Mn e ttdailt 1 2 Physicians, Surgeons, etc. _Dr. D. S. Bowlby Coroner for the County. Dr. 6. H Bowlby treats disease= of the nose, throat and car. Jmce and Residenceâ€"John St. Berlin. 1)> ®2 Coroner C his remidence on & communicaton, Py r Han 3. _ Barrister, Solicitor, Notary i‘.':mx.' (;Lc;‘jl‘mpy to loan. . Office D Block, Waterloo, W Alex. Millar Q C. Harvey J. Sims, B. C. L. Barristers, | notari etc. . OSiceâ€" Upstairs Economical Block:’kjw BL. \west, Berlin. Monev to lana 034 °2. °°° #00 Cenveyancers, Money to lend on llon‘qfln at lowest rates. Qiliceâ€"Court House Berlin. W. H Bowisy M. A., L L H., Q C., County Crown Altarney hud Clerk of the Peace. k. P. Cramant, 7 WELLS, L. D. s. Ms Uhes uEse Otfice â€"Corner King and over old post vffice. . Moi rates of intereat M BOWLB\' & CLEM Basz: in all the ceurts, Nota w _2 ETE 1 x3 J. A. scellen, B. A., L L B. J. J. A. Weir, | Ma»ter in Chancery. Barristers, iflio(wn.lu:.‘ * Money to loan, U‘lou:t'mht-hA-, oriunu’ B‘l)wk,n&rli-. R. MeLEAN R. EV AXs C o Laue. H. WEBB, M. D Ets T M. READE ILLAR & SIms. Hi uIARD B. McBKIDE MiSCELLANEOUS D. 8. & 6. H. BoWwLBY PAT U e tE P ENC U Friday afternoon from Dentist, L.IXS LIVERIES Iswner ot Marriage Licensos ug Store, Waterloo. Decorator, House and Sign Oil Painting, Paper Hnnxlcv:lp iing, etc,, neatly execntea. k m «pecially. . Waterloo. CNC Sm db U alden‘s residence DENTAL Barrister, Solfeitor, Notary, etc. MEDICAL (‘ovu'nly Waterloo, Officeâ€"At burb St.. Waterloo Tele phone , Notaries and ~L1S, D. D. 8., Dentiste Elmira, Dunke s Bleck, and Friday .and fourth of each month (1 hursday nt. _ ODONTUNDKHR for teeth. The office will be freland ; M. D., C. M of . Torouto University and P'rfi-sl;'.fim'rm Mouey to loan at lowest 1 Ontario. Discases of Mce â€"New residence, a short distance north AS., Royal College of Toronto l'ni\*nrsit;y. practised. Office in d ; M. D., C. M. Trinâ€" 8. 0. Licentiate of Britain. â€" Specialtyâ€" l UNIs ~AWerl ters at Law, in the Oddfcliow‘s aÂ¥ o4 lege of Physicians, :f‘. Onlan'z.' Resiâ€" Street. Opposite Physicians, Sur Smyth â€" Bros, otary, Conveyâ€" Officeâ€"Devita‘s May ist to h 0 Ets Cenveyancers. Calls day or e and Resiâ€" Telephene Sadd line ndnlln C9° ECC UoHre Lo Torney 3 erect a ftting tribute of affection to the r, muuurr of the departed one. Kindly favor us with a call and we shall be es« flmed 10 show you specimens and designs in anuments, Headstoncs, etc., apd c}uou your ‘y, etc. llgure-‘rlur any style of work ei(Rer n granite a |_ or marble fi;'m First class work WUaranleed, _ It need on‘y be said of any and all conipetition that where stateâ€" ments o} agents seem so conflicting that one cannot form an opinion as to which is the best separator in the market, The De Laval separator will be placed on every farm along side of any of the competing maâ€" chires and their superiority thus personally demonstrated to any inâ€" tending buyer, This can be considâ€" ered as a challenge to any competing separator firms and can take place on any intending buyer s farm, atany time Before buying a Cream Separaâ€" tor visit I\f Devitt & Co. &Iat- terloo Ont. Agents for the Alpha De Laval Separators "best on earth." One that you‘ll appreciateâ€"is always the result when you use our choice tobaccos. _ , Musical Instruments. Of all kinds. Walking sticks and sporting goods are among our specialties, A Delightful Smoke. CIGAR STORE. Now is your time to get a bargain in a good Secondâ€"Hand Buggy, as I must sell the following rigs to make room for a large stock of New Cutters and Sleighs: Seven Secondâ€"Hand Ruggies. Uneâ€" Horse Democrat Wagon. Twoâ€" Horse Democrat Wagon. Roadcart, Cut‘er, Gang Plough. Horse shocing as usual. Am known by the leading horsemen as a practica horseshoer . King St., Kast of Sc;)bl- Undertakers and Furniture Dealers, WATERLOO, & Shoes from $2 25 and up. Skates ground and repaired. Give us a Trial. aroretts KRUECER BROS. TRY US HOCKEY SKATES, . SHOES AND STICKS, ETC Erb Street opposite WATERLOO ~â€"~ _ warkartoy Granite and Marbe See Show Windows Remember 1 pou have lost a loved Aâ€" Câ€" THOMAN, Mi SHAEFER BROS. Also Roseline, the famâ€" oud skin eure for chan and any roughness of the skin, at Snyder‘s Drug Store tion cure cures ‘; and colds and Hoofland‘s H“'.I;Tu. nature‘s n=~ edy for stomach and kidâ€" ney discases. M DOERSAM‘S NOTICE. Bea uty Perlect For cheap delenders Waterioo, Ont > _ at $3.25 + 2.25 BERLIN Market, ONT 1.50