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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1881-01-28, Page 2r. N SIGNAL, N, UDA Y, JANUARY 's. 188. ups sir Ike pedal mite,. urn soI was hal teat, wt out the white 's sti4k phw lease tieftet bemire t,4' as l UAW {tel I should wake, .' hour'. ret, wilt; ter reek • lth/t.t 'broilhews.ai blow- ing OR me, m tbe outside gallery of 8outeri Hospital, start up, take um lamp, sod go ruqud my wards. BIS minutes' wars predcloous. 1 tang aU don n eise-sdait untiesti ' y a slams: • I might -nal `cw till i it flash and blood, tett for the of its little cold hand. 'Aft ! it's you at hist; I was sure ) ou would coma Certainly." Perhaps she thought nee cold, "pruteus- iond," as if she had looked for a friend and foiled only the doctor. Perhaps— nay it must be so—she never thought of me at all except as "the dolor." "Where is your ferbam' "Up stairs; we carried him at once to his room. Will you bonier So 1 followed --I seemed to have noth- ing to do but to follow that light figure, with the vuiee so low, the manner so quite --goiter than I ever expected to see heel, or any woman's under such en emergency. I? what did lever know of woman, except that a woman bore me? It is an add fancy, but I have never thought so u:u,h about my mother as within the last few months. And some. times, turning over the sole relics, I have of hen, a ribbon or two and a cud of hair, .and calling to mind the few things Dallas rumembared about her, I bare imagined my mother, in ber must have t"+ve boon some t 'p ' "�' 8' lila �� this 0 y ea- She Shehe watered the bedroom fins. "Yoe may oome in nom You will not ;- r` startle himthink he knows nobody.' I sat down beciail my patient. Ha lay just as he t. ea beau "brought in from the road, with a blanket and counterpane thrown over him, breathing heavily, but quite unconscious. "The light, please. Can you hold it for ate ! I. your hand steady ?" And I held it s moment to judge. That weak- ness Dost me too much; I took care not to rink it again. • When I finished my examination and looked up, Mies Theodora was still stand- ing by me. Her eyes only asked the question—which, thank God, I could answer as I did. "Ye.—it is a more hopeful case than I expected." At this shadow of hope --for it was only a shadow—the deadly quiet in which she had kept herself was stirred. She began to tremble exceeingly. I took the candle from her, and gave her a chair. "Never mind me. It is only for s 'inmate," she mice One or two deep, hard sighs came, and then she recovered herself. "Now, what is to be done?' I told her I would do all that was ne- cessary, if she would bring me various things I mentioned. "Oen I help you! There is no one else. Penelope has hurt her foot, and cannot move, and the servants are mere girls. Shall I stay? If there is any operation, I am not afraid." For I had unguardedly taken out of my pocket the case of instruments which, after all, would not be needed. 1 told her so, adding that I had rather she left me alone with my patient.. "Very well. You will take care of him', You will not hart him ---poor papa! Not very likely. If he and I could halve changed places—he assuming toy strength and life, I lying on the bed, with death before me, under such a look as his child left him with -1 think I should at that moment have done it. When I had laid the old man comfort- ably in his bed. I sat with his wrist un- der my fingers, counting, beat by beat, the slow pulse, which was one of my slender hopes for his reoovery. As the hand dropped over my knee, powerless almost, as a dead hand; it recalled, I know not how or why, the helpless drop of that, the first dead hand I ever saw. Happily the fancy lasted only a moment ; in seasons like this, when 1 ani deeply occupied in the practice of my profession, all such phantasms are laid. And the present case was urgent enough to con- centrate all my thoughts and faculties. I had just made np my mind concern- ing it when a gentle knock dune to the deer, and on my answering, she walked in; glided rather, for she had taken off her silk gown, and put on something soft and dark, which did not rustle. in her face, white as it was, there was a quiet preparedness, more touching than any wildness of grief --s qu hty which few women possess, but which heaven never seems a give exoept to women, cowrpel- ling us men, as it were, to our knees, in tion of something diviner than an ing we have or are, or were ever meant to be. 1 mention this, lest it might be thought of me, as is often thought of doctors, that I did not feel. She asked rite no questions, but stood silently beside me, with her eyes fixed on her father. His just opened, as they had done several time before, wandered vacantly over the bed -curtains, and dosed sigma witk a ratan. She looked at me. frightened ---the poor child. I explained to her that this meaning was no additional muse of alarm, rather the easlmry; that her father night lie it h upaem t state for hours- -days. Aimless you do nothing for him 1" -.H idtsiti--..t any oras which mortal man «,telt pay ta the farthest cc elle I tiers, as is sly dale valiant .Millets mad mosusyopisses _ ser -u.* L'sisalistalttst the to aidelp, assfitly ramose far list neem Is Ws case, of s8 t sot k issue the re- lative, e alter - wood het they might am for Obi twilling;aRer- int)r1�n, M tin ed: *sly r Wel w rivaintals dreg ft meed leaveb Sates 40 to her ears wsl►-.-IiMM,e, abed He Imps moo Byes, the mere ora trouts is .s 060 only CHA?TRH, .—OorTznolrA.r AM erose. Why should ase be ahwid f truth right out, when a w re often save so mutt of misundenlandinee doubt, and 'brink from being the` Why my t6gt word when there is nu wrung in it thea in�sill aemelt bean item to ifisett* ter 15 Z ail liiaiii "d1(e84; o4,`1 l opp., I determined to speak out. beers. i Ceg ia t, weld bawl you never hfr_pieved paw poo tbe wedding t It J!y idle nest have surprised •bias. 1 felt him .teal. When beak* i, was in Mat ptedie' newest'tMiMole so well, which alw*yr scowl to blue my nervemanesa, and rinses as4eet for the moment I ant the sirediguelot two. " I ant very curry. I would net any account grieve your pap...'.' " Will you come, then,•scene day this Neck ' Thunk you, but I cannot promise." A possibility struck me. " Papa i rather peculiar. He vexes people *omet?inies, when they are not thoroughly aeg4sinted with hire. Has he vexed you is any way r" "I Weare you, no." After a little hesitation, determined to get at the truth, 1 asked " Have I vexed youl" You! What an idea !" It did seem et this moment p►repoeter- us, almost absurd. I could havel•nghed et it. I believe I did laugh. Oh, when one has beenor 'iovd with ?Plena and all a sudden lib .load clears off—one hardly lumere boiw dr why but it certainly is one wheel nether existed bot m enaginetton—what In in- osite relief it is ! How obeeetul one feels, and yet humbled; ashamed,- yet inexpressibly content. So glad, so satis- fied to have only one's self to blame. - I asked Dr. Urquhart what he had been doing all this while 1 that I under- stood he had been a good deal engaged; was it about the barrack business and. his memorial? ' Partly,' he said, expreesing sotne titueirme at my remembering it. Perhaps I ought not to have referred to it. And yet that is not a fair oode of friendship. When a friend tells you his algin, he makes them yours, and you have a right to ask about them after- ward. I longed to ask -longed to know all and everything; fee by every carriage lamp we passed I saw that his face was not as it used to be—that there was on t a settled shadow of pain, anxiety, al- most anguish. I have only known Dr. Urquhart three months, yet in those three months I have seen him every week, often twiee and thrice a week, and, owing to the pre- occupation of the rest of the family, al- most all his society has devolved un me. He and I have often and often sat talking, or, in "playing decorum," to Augustus and Lissbel, walked up and down the garden together for hours at a time. Also, from my brother-in-law, always most open and enthusiastic on the subject, I have heard about Dr. Ur- •fuhart nearly everything that could be 1.4411. All this will account for niy feeling to- ward him after so abort un intimacy, as people usually feel, I suppose, after a friendship of years. As I have said, something nust have happened to make such a change in him. It touched me to the quick. Why not at least ask the question, which I should have asked in a minute of anybody else, so simple and natural was it : "Hare you been quite well since we SAW you 1" "Yes--- No, sot exactly. Why do you ask t" "Because I thought you looked as if you had been ill." "Thank you, no; but I have had a great deal of anxious business on hand." More than that he did not ay, nor had I right to ask. No right 1 What was I, to be wanting rights—to feel that in surae sense I deserved them—that if I had them I should know how to use them; far it ia next to impossible to be so sorry about one's friends without hav- ing also some little power to do then► good if they would only give you leave. An ibis while Colin and his mother were ruining hither and thither in search ed the carriage, which bad disappeared again. As we sto.xl a blast of moorland wind almost took my breath away. Dr. Urquhart turned and wrapped me up closer. "What must be done ! You will get your dead of cold, and I cannot shelter you. Oh, if I could !" Then I took courage. There was only a minute more, perhaps, and the news of threatened war darted through my mem- ory , lik an arrow perhaps the last rnlnuto we Haight ever he together in all .•ur lives. My life 1 did not recollect it just then; int his, busy indeed, yet so wandering, solitary, and homeless --he once told me that mute ens the only family hearth be had been familiar at for twenty years. No, •T am sere it was not wrong either t, think what I thought or tesay it. 1». T'rquhert, l wish you would core t.• Roekmemnt. it would do you good, .nd papa good, and all of us: for we are ather .Lill, now Lisahel is gone. Do .me. 1 waited for an answer, but some wee given. N" excuse, or apology, or even polite acknowledgment. Politeness! that would have been the sharpest unkind- ness of all. Then they ei vet' k us, and the dares see over. Colin advanced tai toy side, bet Dr. Urquhart/id me in the c rief hrmeeflf, and as Cohn was res ' IM t. plasm, said, rather irritably: "No, no; let her wrap hermit is going 1•. nits' Not another word used between as. except that, as 1 reamenbw•d anew ward,est before they come up, be tats said '-ley,' hastily adding to (t, (sod Mess you. Meme people's words I,etslifts *ho yak muss r lists. - rest in Moe* rites else rely Why({� shoul.I he say 'Oe bias ern, Whv .let he ow ori. TIMIS tick hi. plaid tktlin naris totyh.sa shed., 1 at they are true and and true toward everybody • ii siedietii v :batbtar w• deserve or not. It is not our deserts which in question; it is their goodness, which 4 Loi r follows •s a mat oreotn s. ttmy wows be entre. t thalami". if Mpg were intinnoere or true to ue I have half a damn friend t�it!#tn b,ujf *down mile., whore er ort boat Uwe I should fro '.Dsquilyart if he lived at the Ant pod Me neve ti,q words bghtly. H would have skid "God bless you! if he had not especially wished God bits, 10*•--pomet a foolish, ignorant 1 ck k% -+sot a -bit wiser than child; full of AI ,jtixiM -of thil • iieieeiM, p1telsasee, doub if I was . Yt tide mina i ,iw.gut Aamtar„ cenfd run do bttitial ima, tell him all the T_ testi* of o Wee twitk.i b'iestd to me, and help in leu t17sw inter R better woman than .var.likely to beotme—what an 'natter able comfort it wooed be! A word oa two more about my plea sant morning at the Cedars, and then must close my desk and see that th study -fire is all right; papa likes a goo fire when he Domes home. There they arte rust a lQUd ring! i made me jump from my a e. must be finished to -morrow, when -- o un - 5, 1 m Anti a oilsb is is sen hard f W e am I e d t e i HAPTER XIV. HIS STORY. I ended the last page 'with "1 &hal write no more here," It used to be m pride never to have broken a promise nor clanged a resolution. Pride! What have I got to do with pride? And resolutions, forsooth! What. ar we omniipMent and onlniseient, tea, against 1 changes of circumstances feeling, or events, we should set up our paltry resolutions, urge them and hold t them, in spite EA reason and conviction with a tenacity that we suppose heroic god -like, yet which may be merely the blind obetinancy of a brute? I will never make a resolution agates I will never again say to myself, "You Max Urquhart, in order to keep up that character for virtue, honor, and stead fastness, which heaven only knows whether or nu you deserve, ought to d so and so; and oome what will you must do it." Out upon me and my doings Was I singled out to be the scapegoat u the world': It is my intention here regularly to se down, for certain reasons which I may o may not afterward allude to, certai events wheel have happened without an act of mine, 'without any volition, if man can be so led on by force of circum stances, that there seems only one course of conduct open to him to pursue Whither these circumstances may lead I am at this moment as utterly ignoran as on the day I was born, and almost as powerless. I make no determinations attempt no provisions, follow no set lin of conduct; doing only from day to da what.1* expected of me, and leaving all the rest to—is it? it must be—to God. The sole thing in which I may be sai to exercise any absolute volition is in writing down what I mean to write here the onlyrecord that will exist of th veritable me—Max TTrquhalt—as h might have been known, nut to poeple i gen-oral, but to --any one who looked into his deepest heart, and was hi friend, his beloved, his very own. The form of Imaginary Correspondeu I henceforward throw aside. I am per fectly aware to whom and for whom write, yet whom, in all human probsbili ty, will never read a single line. Once, an officer in the Crimea, believ ing himself dying, gave me a packet o letters to burn. He had written them year by year, under every change o fortune he had, tr whom he occasional) wrote other letters, not like these; which were never sent, nor meant to be sent during his lifetime, though sometimes fancy he dreamed of meting them, and o their being read, smiling, by two togeth er. He was mistaken. Circumstsaces which happen rarely to dreamers lit him, made it unneoesary, nay, impossi bio for them to be delivered at all. He bade ere burn them— at once -in case he died. In doing so there started out of the embers, clear and plain, the name. Burt the fire and 1 told no tales; I took the poker and buried it. Poor fellow He did nt t die, and I meet hent still, we have never referred to those burned let tens. These letters of mine I also n.ay ,,no day hurn. In the meantime, there shall be no name or superscription en them, no beginning nor ending, nor, if I can avoid it, anything %Aioh could parties- lan.s the person to whom them are writ- ten. For all Mears they will take the form d a mere stateanent, nothing mon. To begin. 1 was &imaag about eleven at night over the Sew in m hut, I had been buoy all dory, arid h had little rest the night before It wee not say intention to attend one ass" .seers, bot I was in • aesstner Mello set Ill news from bees* Mer yam f Aside!' .4 own, line hie.eiesml sent tea break it t.• him 1 tioen had to want about, m order t. see the good colones ss b. .ams out of the awaslb*Ausn It woe, tlbMdors, pa>lsty hby aswbn t that 1 set sheen Mueslis i wears 1 alt rweed did use bowirfer •ew• mrd m sa s& Tllm tams .f thin day is tlhsirtow- iiny sky M .lob. it ant a. albeit nit t1N ) W Ifs Sesiflntlt sir ,r Anal" *WIN I bid too see vidiltg though the Welk n et two waste die- Aant wow ate` Eat t _' J mi d e It . ea. en ewer, koec'tieil t denial g, I ' bed - faowd the grjin, fear exactly is *15 ! l _ le toofeee. 1'1 me tai of m}s fol 1 Sem 1 diel not go near (Manton the follow, ing day, but received from his a woo - ante and leplaid she --tem lady to warm 1 ha� lint it wan 'qd1. ".11 .d drawn over -yet with a soft light suet a trembling sweetness about the month ! She must be • very happy-tpitided armoire. 1 hardly ever aw her, er was with her any lentgth of lyase, that she did riot book ,4M .picture; of content and �repose She alwayys puts D me ea mind -of •Ilas's pet, .one alien we were boys- "Jessie, the Mower o' Dun- -She modest as tiny, and blithe as she s bon - And taflela'dmplieit marks her its aim, And tar be the villain divested u' feelin', Who'd blight In Its, dad the sweet Flower of Dunblane," I say amen to that. It was --to return for the third time to the narrative—somewhere about eleven o'clock when a man on horseback stop - at my hut door. I thought it might be a summons to the Andell's, but it was not. It was the groom from Rock - mount bringing me a letter. Her letter --her little letter! I ought to burn it, but, as yet, I cannot, and where it is kept it will be quite safe. For reasons I shall copy it here. 'Dain Sia.—My father has met with s severe aooident, Dr. Black is from homeand there is no other doctor in the neighborhood upon whom we can de- pend. Will you pardon the liberty I ant taking and Dome to us at once' Yours truly, Ters000aa Jos Doi ' There it hue brief and plain; a firm heart guided the shakin have. mew !'..;_fee. ...use citaaacter in a woman more than her handwriting; this, when steady, must be remarkably neat, delicate, and dear. I did well to put it by; I may never get another line. In speaking to Jack, 1 learned that his master and one of the young ladies had been out to dinner; that master had inaiated on driving; hone himself, pro- bably from Jack's incompetence, but he wag sober enough now, poor lad! that, coming through the fir wood, one of the wheels got feed in a deep rut, and the phaeton was overturned. I asked was any one hurt besides Mr. Johnston? "Miss Johnston was, a little, "Which Mies Johnston?" "Miss Penelope, sir." "No one elate' "No, sir." I had evidence enough of all this be- fore, but just then, at that instant, it went out of, myjnind in a sudden oppres- ion 'of free. The facts of the cases gain - d, I called Jack in to the fire, and went into my bodroum to settle with myself what was best to be done. Indecision as to the matter of going or not going was, of course, impossible; but it wares sudden and startling posi- tion' to be placed in. True, I could avoid it by pleading hospital business, and sending the assistant surgeon of our regiment, who is an exceedingly clever young man, hut not a young man whom women would like in a sick -house, in the in the midst of great diatress or danger. And in that distress and danger she had called upon me, trusted rase. I determined to go. The cart, what- ever it might be, would be purely per- sonal, and in that brief minute 1 counted it all. I state this, because I wish to make clear that no secondary motive, dream, or desire prompted pie to act as I have done. On questioning Jack mere closely, I found that Mr. Johnston had fallen, they believed, on a stone; that he had been ptcked lip senseless, and had never spoken since. This indicated at once on what a thread of chance the case hung. The case—simply that, and no more; as to treat it at all I must so consider it. I have saved lives, by God's blessing— this, then, must be regarded merely as one other lifo to be saved if, through His mercy, it were granted me to do it. I unlocked my desk and put her letter in the secret drawer; wrote a line to our assistant -surgeon, with hospital unlers, in case i should be absent ppaarttt • of the next day; took , out any insirnments I might want; then, with a glance around my room, and an involuntary wondering as to how and when I might return to it, I mounted Jack's horse and rode off to Rockmount. The whole had not occupied fifteen minutes, for I remember looking at my watch. which stood st a quarter past eleven. Hard riding !Cakes thinking impossible: and, indeed, my whole mind was bent upon not missing my road in the dark - nese,. A deer of a mile or two, one lost half-hour, might, humanly speaking, have cost tho old man's life; for in simi- lar oases i! is generally a question of time. It is said ,.ur profession is that which, of all other, moat incline► a mar, to materialism. 1 never fnund it so. The first time 1 ever vers temeg1R dose to death—but that tI.Jn of thought must be stoped. $ince death and I have walked so long together that the mere vital principle Common to x11 beeothittt creature., "the lite of s beast whip[ goeth downward" ss the Bibb has it, I never think "1 confounding with "tie soul of a man whia greet upward.,. Quite dtetinet from the life, dwelling in e blood to biwath, re at that "vital sot" which has been lately discovered. 'that in a the sire of • fin's tido the pie et otovtaht7— tinny distinct, i , hauls this srmtetbmg, which perishes or vanishes so mysterious- ty from the dead *hares websry, the copse w asstnegMe, Morns en is. the spirit, the-�i�ori. whit*, being able to ewcei^"r Owl deputy to, wires etst sise- a1Yy rMaatMI +a.. b a. • mese, w ewe S firY� in Anse mane it »ell► psi .t twee stream., _-I sa lar, r' and yaws - jet sibl�ie•w nwnight if thiedhtlsetiamteet nes lit IIIc as* elite en14 /mew .lesseetie men as s ever be. � to Al iot had hop. b %O'aortal whiii'' was sed% s-b/esllrld Ile Not l illetrt they ars, ibe i ,1t •en to e' sat req M ghost, harmlessly. ray. pitifully. T 'Aide( a Woe uwrtortal u itself p lidMtio1 Weed ' ,r. , . ■ jeer• 8ba11 1 order a rams to be pfepeef,d tar yoo T' " Thank you, but I prefer sitting up. "You are very kind. You will be a gnat comfort.' I, " a gnat ootafort !' { I kind !" Ily thoughts must need return into their right channel. I believe the next Being she said was something about tidy g see " Penelope:" at lot I found mmto see with my bend on the door, all but touching hen, as she was showing we how to open it. There; eke second room to the left. $hall Igo with you 1 Ito ' I will stay here, then, till you return." So, after she had chased the door, I re- mained alone in the din passage for a few momenta. It was well. No uian mu be his own piaster at all times. Mies Johnston was a good deal more hurt than she had conformed. As she lay on the bed, still in her gay dress, with artificial flowers in her hair her tae., p.lid and drawn with lain, looked almost like that of an old wonian. She seemed annoyed at my cooling --she dis- likes me, I know; but anxiety about her father, and her own suffering kept her aversion within bound& She listened to my medical report from the next room, and submitted to my orders con- cerning herself, until she learned that at least a week's confinenient, to rest he, foot, would b.. necessary. Then. rine re- belled. "That is imp 1biP. 1 must lie up an emelt. There is nulso•dy to do auv- !hing but me.., "Your sister;" "I,isabel is tnarried. 011, you meant Dora. We never expect any useful thing from Dora." This speech did not surprise me. It merely continued a g.i d deal which 1 had already noticed in this family. Alm, it might in degree be true. 1 think, so far from being blind to them, I see clearer than motet people knew every fault she has. Neither contradicting nor arguing, I repeated to Miss Johnston the impera- tive necessity for attending to my orders; adding that I had known more than one case of a person being made a cripple for life by neglecting such an injury as hers. "A cripple for life!" She started— her color came and went—her eye wandered to the chair beside her, on which was her little writing cane; I con- clude that in the intervals of her pain she had been trying to send these ill news, or to apply to some uner, "You will be lame for life," I repeated, "unless you take care." "Shs11 I, now?" "No; with reasonable caution, I trust you will do well." "That is enough. 'Du not trouble yourself auy more about me. Pray go back to my father." She turned from me and closed her eyes. There was nothing .more to be done with Mies Penelope. Calling a servant who stood by, I gave my last orders concerning her, and departed. A strange person-- this elder sister. What differences ..f character exist in families! There was no change in my other patient. As 1 stood looking st him, his daughter glided round to my side. We exchanged a glance only --she seemed quite to understand that talking was in- admiseable. Than she stood by me silent- ly 'fgmio•Nng• "Youne." are? ' sure there is 00 change "Liss—ought she not to know! 'I never sent a telegraph message; will you tell me how to do it!" Her quiet assureption of duty—her thoughtful, methodical arrangements; sure y the sister was wrong --that is, as I knew well, any great necessity would soon prove her to be wrong -shout Miss Theodora. I said there was no need to telegraph until morning, when, as l rode back to the camp, I would do it myself. "Thank' you." No objection or apology --only that soft "thank you" --taking all things calmly anti naturally, as a man would like to see a woman take the gift of hie life, if necessary. No, not life: that is owed-- but any or all of its few pleasures would be cheerfully laid down for such another "thank you." While I was considering what 'should be done for the night, there mule a rustling and chattering outside in the passage, Mies Johnston had sent a servant to sit up with her father. She mane—knocking at the doorhandle, rattling the candlestick, and tramping across the floor like a riigiinent of sol- diers- -so that auy patient moaned, and put up his hand to his head. I mid ---sharply enough, no doubt -- that I must have quiet. A loud voice, a door slammed to, even a heavy step across the floor, and I would not answer for the am.equences. if Mr. Johnston were meant to recover there must be no one in his room but the doctor and the nurse. 1 understand- -Susan, aims away. •• There wee a brief conference outside; then Miss Theodora re-entered alone, bolted the door, and was again et my side. "Will that d.. fe "Yes." The clock 'truce two while we were standing there. 1 stole a glance at ,her white a,ml,sed face. "Can you sit up do you think?" "Certainly. Without more ado- fie 1 was just thee too much uc.rgtied with a panungollemie Di toy patient the matter was Wbeu 1 next iooked for her shelled 'tipped round the foot of the bill and taken her place behind the casein int the other side. There we both est, hour after hoer, in teed silence. 1 tell everyt}WqL you see, anst as min- utely so 1 remember it and shall re. member it -long after every cireerw- dame, triva} or great, has fluted out est every memory, except mine. If thew letters are ever read 1m other than my. self, saris and inctdeuts Icing foiyotten uyy revise; that when I di.2 as ie the enures of nature Neil to aur �► sig halon J s punier Pewtma. it may he arses that it s"4e est Ilea! Atyll limo* Mita' th. whole way between the cart and j 71esisi., 1 maN, " Ma t a not youth alone which can race,.•. ire- PRIMO pd p��.rs- Rockmount y p aleslAesni fIM. glossae little T d.1 ear I ptrwn..ne vividly and raisin eh.m atn•na I Alltltl� carr 1 INT/L1110/4. Druggist toakm ties of omit Ir t was l rehea some tum* jq, il„>Ituw be as'tiUnd lysin. Fans 8war.a Daniel.,ild.een, of the 7th con., ha. traded hie brut con- taining 160 acres to Mr. Wm. of the *use concession, fur is farm of 100 acres. Mr. McLehll Rets $2,500 to boot. veils �� ee Par,; u s E12, tiv'aTER Stilt= ANA ri naitcA7?Qs.. pis the evening of Jat+4ary Bge, vtrtium ber of pupils and friends of Mr Alex. Davidson, formerly of Brust6rid, Prin cipal of Porter's Hill Public School. assembled at his boarding house, the re- sidence of Mr. Samuel Cox. After en- joying the company for Aisne time the visitors were sakes] to partake of the festivities of an oyster supper, which was served up in a manner that clearly showed the ability of the fair sex of Porter's Hill. After supper Mr. David- son was surrounded by his pupils and presented with a very handsome Bible, letter box and iukstaid, accompanied b most flattering and kindly worded ad- dress, d dress, t.. which Mr. I)avidsom trade a short but feeling reply. Banking. BANK OF MONTRIAl. CAPITAL. SURPLUS. - • ii,e0llear, Goderich Branch. t', Lt UUNvFORD, . - - Maser, Aiiuws interest on deposits. Drafts, lettere of credit and cur tiler notes issued, payabl.- in alt parts of the world.' 1764. CANADIAN BANK t)F COMMERCE Paid ,ct r'ariital - 1ti,000,000. Rest, 11,400,000. President, - HON, WM. IhMASTER General Massager, - W. .N. ANDERSON'. Goderich Branch. A. M. ROSS, - - MAltAuart. Interest allowed on deposits. Drafts on all the principal Towns and Chia. in (ante. omit Brian and the United etatae, bought and sold. Advancesto Farmers on Notes, with one or more endorsers, without mortgage. 11ti W. S. Hart & Co., P1tOPRl11:T01t$ GODERICII (Late Piper's.) A LARt;E QUANTITY OF choir. 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SELLING} OUT. 1 have determined to clear off my entire steek. r meeting of FITR CAPS, oVERSHOFee, BOOTS SRS Ht )gg:. fioatliay, (1,ROC>�; 1, ant bond to clear them ase is any reason aide poen. reale to Imola os. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16th, at Agan. LOOK (11 T Pon HAMA Inn. COMIC JN1 •L'�T S. SLOANF. 170 lisaulton a,tas..t, moissse. voesesstis HORSE ad CAThI FOOD IMT BVA.e=. C$E$PEST CONDITION POWDER iN reit t>a. a.0wir, RAMI$ sur 'WIZ Merry �b T diemtustei entice the .1y hash sake an 1 N w lbw + >)ill yaw y Mat mer 1, e t . • r, c .. 'ieaowlek, Jan, 10, MILhole Agent. 1770.