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TRE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY SEPT. 28, 1888.
Nciahhu�' try.(1l's Dog.
$ L. T. Teptrsence L
1M Two auArr'M.--4:R•PTI!• I.
T. old folks had quos off oma three
days' visit te ties it varied dawgbter,
leaving the younger children, Marion
and Hubert, to keep bowie in their ab -
mince, "and look atter things," to quote
good Mrs. Warner's parting words,
"Oh y. s ! we'll look after things !"
said Hubert, merrily, as the old family
buggy rsltledaway up the street. "Won't
it be jolly 1 Will have company this
evening, and 'take as much racket and
.cit up as late as we like. What are we
going to have for dinner 1"
"I knew it wouldn't be bong before
you would ask that question," replier
Marion, standing in the doorway and
gazing after the hugyy. "I never saw s
fellow who se,tsaed to think so 'notch of
his dinner s. you do. I thought perhaps
I shouldn't have tecget any dinner, t.uw
the folks are away."
"Oh !" cried cut Hubert, like a boy
-whose tenderest feelings had been «at•
raged. But seeing a laughiag light in
A's sister's eyes. he added, "No nonsense,
Marion ! What is life without a dinner?
ryou should say, when the prevision -
man coulee, "A nice piece of your juici-
est ramp steak," I don't think I should
find any fault with your choice."
"Very well ; ruulp steak it shall be,"
said Marion. "There comes the cart
It was • canvas -covered wagon, driven
by a rAy-f•eed luau in a white apron.
He stopped at the Rate, and Ma
brought out s platter which she held
while he cut slice of &trek, of medium
thickness, under Hubert's careful direct-
ions.
"We'll have dinner early to -day," said
the boy, as they returned with their prize
to the house. "It seems to me as if I
couldn't wait till noon, any way in the
world ! What do 'you say to half -past
-eleven !"
"I've nu objection," said Marion.
"Or eleven," he added, after a little
hungti reflection. "I don't think that
will be any too noon." •
"Or hof -past ten—or now," she sug-
ye.ted, with playful sarcasm. "Then
you would be ready for another dinner
at the usual hour."
"That would suit me exactly," said
Ruber:. "There's only one arrangement
I should like better ; and that would
allow a margin for three dinners. But •
fellow must draw a line somewhere. So
say half -past eleven, and then a n early
supper."
"With a pie before going to bed," slid_
h's sister.
"Of coupe !" ho replied. "Now I am
going down town to see sono boys ; sol
you needn't be at all surprised if I bring
hotne something ..ice for dessert."
"A watermelon, for instance."
Marion was fond of watermelons. But
rice knew he detested there, and -she
would have thought the happy millennial
dawn about to break,if she had seen any
such unmistakable sign of it as his coolly
deliberately, voluntarily sacrificing his
ow .1 taste and appetite to hen.
Not that II uh ^-t Wal nor was any more
selrah than most brothers. But he was
the youngest of the family, and the pet.
id is it not usually the sister, in such
cases, who is ti-aintx..o make small sacri-
fices, and the brother who grows up im-
perious and tyrannic.l, especially in the
vastly impel tent n -atc, of what he shall
eat and drink 1 What do you t'-'nk,
boys
Hubert laughed gorn1-patuoldh- ea he
went off with a ' .sl Ile ''n• ct
well that:alto was jo! \tit y i.o
felt in a peculiarly generous snood to-
wards her that day ; partly, perhaps, be-
cause he e>,peeod la in- minion twin's.
er of favors from her during the' • b.:ef
joint sovereignty of the household. So,
he resolved to surprise her.
To this end he selected for h kr a iand-
1 one oat( ae...n ; a er tint however,
picking out a 1' ie, .arge c •.ntaloupo for
A mself.
"Won't she clap her hands and ea'l
me a lovely brother though !" the alt.
he, enioyieg .•t anticipation (Oita as
much, I fear, 1, • si''afaction i him as
her joy over the melon. Hubert liked
particularly to give pleasure to people
who would redact back a largo; pa.. of it
upon himself. Net irei -cont yon th'-•k
e0
He place.l the purcl .et,
and caned for it on his way home. aftc,
seeing the boys he was '1 soarrh of ; in
good time tor dinner, for d finer, you
may bo tolerably sure.
He expected to sr T the
b o " tg str k • too approached the
Litcben. And he had ; r .sipped in
brow,t paper in h - bat., - , tlw b
polished, mottled,onlor", rotund vegeta-
ble w•'h w`"-`1 ie Was • • t, su. ,ri'e
and d ;!. 1 c sis.er, it wax a m :•-int
f joyous ant .jos, to L :;b_ . Ws
er.
An` hew i th.o'wIIsi t►1lttp' el --
not v cry pleaannfly, c't!iet. •
Marion wee not in the kites ten. 1 ee
door was open, and there we o the un
• ,vered ready ovale in the stove ; en
there, km, was the empty gridiron on
Ilse table, sad • btukeo plate um the
door. Bat no steak anywhere, broiled
ur raw.
Alarmed a4 the •.pact of things, par
tiawlarly at sight cot the shatters 1 cruck-
ery, Hebert put •way his basket and
ran out, in tin. to see his Miter ooming
wooed the trellis, from the little gsrlen
behind the house. Sae was pale and
beeathlew, ouustern•tion was in her face
end • brume in her head.
"What is the 'tatter 1" mid Hebert.
She ouuld only *etiolate, "Nero."
'What has he done now r he detnand-
ed, with kindling fury.
"The steak 1" gasped Marion.
"Oh !" was the boy's anery exulala-
tion—ennethmg between a groan of
•
anguish and a roar of rage. "My din-
ner!"
She now found breath to make a harri-
ezplauti"n.
"He came is just as 1 was going to
plass it on the broiler. I tried to fright -
n him away. He growled and snapped
t ins—thou made a dash—broke the
plate, and ran out with the 'tat. 1 fel-
owed him with the broom. But be
came at me again, an -I drnve me again,
and drove me back ' '
"He w.,n't drive me back !" said Hu-
bert, desperately. "I've bad euuugh of
hoc brute's mischief. Where's the
es I"
"Oh, don't, Hubert !' she pleaded.
"I will "' he cried, impetuoesiy. "I'11
oiluw him, if I have to walk right into
ripsey's h,iuse and take vengeance on
im there."
"Oh ! you know what sort of a man
Mr. Cripesy is; and what father has
!ways said," she exposulated, while he
was looking for the deadly weapon.
"I know all about it. But father is
way from home now. I'm man of the
ouse ; and I take the responsibility.
Now !" Hubert grasped the axe -handle
with both hands, and then was • blazing
*rectums in his looks. "Let him try to
rive me back !.
"He'll bite you, surely ! she warned
"Oh, will he I" he laughed, excitedly,
as he marched to the attack. "Has he
one back over the fence 1"
"No," said Marion ; "I wish he had !
He's in the garden them now, eating the
mat."
It is time to explain ihat Nero was a
og belonzing to -their nearest neighbor,
teamster, named Crip.cy. He was $
;eat, haggy, gruff, ill-natured fellow—I
meal the dog, not the owner ; although
he description would apply to one about
as well as to the other. You will seldom
nd, in a quiet inland town, a more un'-'
omfortable man and his doe to live next„
.or to than the man Cripsey and his
og Nero.
The Cripseys, husband and wife, had
o children, and they made a pet of the
uadruped. A strange sort of a pet you
would have thought. He coul 1 not
have weighed less than one hundred and
fty pounds. He was black ; you could
scarcely see his eyes, for the long, coarse
hair tangled over them ; he was always
huwiug his fangs and greeting and
napping at strangers. And by strang-
n I mran eve - Lody except his master
nd mistress.
They had had trouble, on his account
with nearly all their neighbors. They
kept 1 - n pretty well fed, yet his appitite
was insatiable, and lie was an ezasper-
ting thief. Nut a swill -tub in all the
uburbs which he did not visit and upset,
f tt was not protected against his depre-
dations ; not a pantij or larder which
he would not boldly invade, 'f a neglect-
ed latch gave him opportunity
Many were the remonstrances and
Os tittered by indignant citizens ;
and once 'n a while, rather to protect
Col dog, ,I fancy, than to oblige the
neighborhood, Cripsey had trade a pre-
ter- • oe keeping him chained. But the
r_.nedy was more intolerably than the
evil itself. Tho ulu'ations of that direful
beast, whon confined in the hacL-ysrd—
the wh;n:ng, the bark''ig, the incessant
running of the shrill canine gamut of
howls ami yelp. -were the rause of
horrible days and still more .hideous
nights to every -body in the vicinity—
ex ceptira, per! -ps, )fir. and bi-s. Crip-
sc,, .
Cripsey, especially, looked as if he
..:her enjoyed that so.. of thing. Be
would go out in the mo ;p, after Nero
had been pea. -icularly noisy, and pat a1(1
caress him, and say approvingly- loud
.nor :h for any attentive near neighbor
to :ivei•hrMr,—
"Ve• t, yo n tde it lively for 'em, las
t. 'ht, didn't ye, of feller f Don't blame
ye. rd let 'em heat ...env me, if I was
you. 'they might 'tend to their bulkiness,
an' ler an hon ,t a sin's dawg 'tend to
him. Good fe'ls ! good feller, Neto '"
Then the exenr ".a q' idrupe•l would
get his egos, .1 ' i ..nnire Loose for • day
two
Ho 1 dmore than ones helped himself
to m t - i I' •. Wa. net's house ; .113
—in Me Weimer's own garden where lie I
was discovered.
Mother sad daughter had hot all
patience with the brute, If, indeed, they
had any remaining at the time ; and Hu-
bert was but fur haviug him shot, or
otherwise put out of the way of doing
further mischief. But Mr Warner was
• ooncilliatory sort of man ; and he re-
peated the old, stale formula. -
"No, iso, hoy ! I don't want t. kill
the dog ; and I don't want to Rare trou-
ble with $ neighbor, particularly, with
such • neighbor as Cripeey. I'll go and
have a talk with him."
The result of which talk bad hews that
Cripeey laughed at first with prodigious
merriment at the joke of Nero's ste•liug
a whole ham and burying It in the owner's
garden ; and them mid, more sober -
b,—
"1 in sorry fur your folks, Mr. Warn-
er ; I in sorry they left the mat expos-
ed. Nere will take what's left in his
way ! they ought to know that, oy this
time."
"In his way !" eaulaimed the other,
with difficulty keeping down his right-
eous wrath. "Do you Ball it laving
things in his way,wh.n we set ouc • ham
to cool in our own wood -sited 1"
"No, nut without he makes it in hia
way," replied Cripeey,with a grin. "But,
hnnestly,neighb.r, I don't go for to have
my dawg do sich things, and if you ketch
him at it, I wish you'd give him • good
box ou the ear."
"Catch him at it !" Mr. Warner re-
ported, ready to boil over with anger,
but restraining himself. "I'oan't catch
him at it. He keeps shy of me. But
he'll march right up to the women -folks,
and snarl if they attempt to drive him
away.''
"Haw ! haw !' guffawed Cripeey.
"You don't say so ! Wel, Nero's a sassy
dawg, that's a fact ! Haw ! haw ! haw!"
"It's no Laughing matter to our side,"
sail the neighbor, sternly.
"Wal, I .'pose not," said Cripsey ;
"and I'll try to keep him to hum in fu-
tur'."
"I wish you would," said Mr. Warn-
er, "or else open your locket -Lok and
pay for the damage he does. That ham
east me two dollars, Mr. Cripsey "
"Yes, no doubt ; hams is awful high,
and I hope ye won't let Nero git hold of
another,' was Cripsey's not very satis-
factory comment. "Come here, Nero !
here, you fellow !"
Nero got the chain again for a couple
of days and nights, which he took care
to male remarkably unhappy for his
enemies ; and that was all the satisfac-
tion Mr. Warner obtained by his remon-
strance.
"A boot on the ear !" said Hubert,
when he heard the conversation repeated
"A sight of rood that will do ! Unless
I give him the biz with something be-
sides the flat of my hand, As I will
sometime, if 1 get a chau:e !"
And now he had got the chance. •
Nero was growling and tearing his
viand under a pear -tree, when the boy
with brandished axe walked up to him.
He thereupon set his paw on so much of
the 'teat as was not yet reduced to a
swallowing condition and turned up at
his assailant so fierce a look under his
banged foretop, accompanied by a savage
snarl and a formidable show of fangs,
that something happened which I am al-
most ashamed to relate.
on ono o • :a•ion he hail ca
1 a w' .: I been l..
• - . the wool 'AM. i
f N .11 ng r.itrane* ; who'
a;eeration : th, ;, n
,utl off a whits
cal and it.:L moo: -
a -n not mlI1111.
'
1 no e'•
' , iaf•:t
fie ate what he wan'' -e.1 it, and w -
h 'r the ret n•i;^ro i o you seppteee
Ct.•rrtta rt.
Hube .'s hes - failed him ; he lowered
the axe and drew back. Pe had come
to scare the beast, and the beast had
seared him.
"If I shouldn't 1'11 Linc at the F-st
blow," he prudently reflected, " ho
would toar me as he 'a tearing that
meat."
But he was careful net to make any
such observation aloud, mind you.
"Well, if yon say w," he replied to
hia sister's continued entre sties-- even
trying .ti convince h' 'self that he was
desisting in deference to her—"if you
think I'd better not --I'd lite to cot his
Lead open. but—:e there any of that
steak left's'
"I had cut offs little for your br de-
feat," said Marion :1 Vie bac' -rowel.
"It is in the refrigerator."
"Then I won't atril e 1 ''n," said Ho-
be...
Frightened as she was, she couldn't
foruar a laugh.
"Luc: y `"r h n he left something for
your dinner ! r` l o hadn't, ho wot•ld
have had to die."
you Ili •k that, why, I'll t,o in and
rani e nrnce-,,•eat of l••in!" cried Pubs. ,
w•itl, the ;rcatcst courage, ,,•.w that lie
wan at a i,.•od dista:ce :tool the do`. "I
nieam t s.on..h-•ig d Tercet. 111 show
y"u.'
3
"Then if the animal—I weal 'Nation
may acmes—for I dual wish to be per-
sonal—but I my. if the animal worse
than rata goes house and dies iu about
halt an hour, who will know where he
gut his physio 1"
Or, even if it is known," said Manton
eat •ng into the grim humor of the idea,
"can't we just say, 'It is just possible
Nero' —
"You don't mean Nero; for we aro aot
going to call any names," he interrupted
her. "We can say, 'It's just possible he
got hold of some of our rat-o.dicias.' "
"As hiking an unknown quantity," she
rejoined, "like the z in algebra"
"Exactly. Now, if we make no Deis
take in working the equation' --he ear --
fully wrapped up the "rat -medicine" in
the slice --".maybe we shall find out the
unknown quantity before many hour..
Give us • needle and thread-"
Du not infer from thea rather jocuse
remarks that Hubert and Mario. Warn-
er were at that moment in a cool and
sellable state of mind. The is a levity
which coma 1rum nervous agitation ;
like Hamlet's strange jesting over the
subterranean ghost of his father.
cONCLUDID
Nazi. wmuE.
To ease rata.
The means which may be readily and
successfully employed to relieve pain is
important and should be known by all.
We give you the name of the beet reme-
dy in the world for pain, and the infor-
mation that • 10 cent sample bottle may
be purchased at Wilson's drug store.
Poison's Norville*, ' the new cad sure
pop pain cure," wi 1 never fail you in
time of need. Norville° is a sate and
prompt cure for all kinds of pain,' neu-
ralgia, cramps, toothache, headache.
Sure always. Ten and 16 cent bottles
at Wilson's drug store.
a'.ea.eies Aseeeedea4.
LONDON, Sept. 19.—The Time, says
O'Donnell, the avenger, is 46 years old
and a native 'of Meraacisddy, county
Donegal, Ireland. He has been to
America several times, and served in the
American war. He lived in Philadel-
phia at one time and kept a public) house.
He invested in silver mines and Fenian
bonds, lust all his, money, returned to
Ireland last May. He frequented the
company of Irish -Americans iso London-
derry, carried revolvers, and was con-
sidered • string Nationalist, but oppos-
ed the Invincible'. When Carey turned
informer O'Donnell declared he would
"burn him by inches." He went to the
Cape Li work because he considered
America "played out.' He had never
seen Carey before taking passage, and
had no idea that the informer was on
board. His defence will probably be
that Carey tried to shoot him.
A Rau a a Drys were
Never was such a rush made f .r any
Drug Store as is now at J. Wilson's fur a
Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discov-
ery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
All persons affected with Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Hoaseness, Severe Coughs or cosy
affection of the Trost or Lungs, can get
a Trial Bottle of this great remedy free,
by calling at above Drug Store. Rega-
in. size $1. (5 :
A Torturer Gime.
Mr. D. C. Dunn, Silver Creek, Ont.,
writes, " I sent for a bottle of Dr. Dow's
Sturgeon Oil Liniment and had it ap-
plied for lumbago, with which I had been
troubled for some months. A few ap-
plications cured me and I hi ve nut felt
the slightest return ,it the disease which
tortured me so long." Dr. Dow's Stur-
geon Oil Liniment has power to banish
Lumbago and all kindred complaints out
of robe system It is very powerful, be-
ing too strong for internal use.
Card Were.
Any reader troubled with Dyspepw,
Costiveness, Headache, Liver Complaint
etc., should call at Geo. Rhyme drug
store and secure a free trial bottle of
McGregor's Speedy Cure at once which
will convince you of the merits of the
medicine, It cures permanently where
all other medicines have failed. As a
blood purifier it has no equal. Hemem-
oer, it costs nothing to try it. Regular
sine, tifcy cents and one dollar. a
Returning to the house. lie n le her
bring out the ri served steak, from which
he sl at od off the thinnest p- sable alts
Then lie tok down a bin from a cup
bot -d - shelf.
"Thai's for ..ts '" cried It" •ri,nt.
"Don't i know it !" he replied, pro
seeding to empty the em --e contents of
the box uj m the prepared slice. "i.
f" • to ea e pe.' cent. "1 lave
this ezpss.d for rats, and some thieving
api:nal Wu..a than 1 r',nild some alone
and t ,• it sip, whose 'emit will it he
Wove pot a r' ''it ' . • fats nn ,•nr
own praties& I hope
CIGARS. CIGARS.
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC
THE BEST ASSORTMENT IN TOWN
A full line of all the Leading Patent Medie:nae always kept on hand
(Physicians Prescriptions a1Soecialty.)
GRORGE ° ..
BLAKE'S r- g 4
370 WBCt.Gq.L1ap
Beg t. announce to the Public that they have opened business in the abuve Store
in the store Welly occupied by Horace Newton. Hawing purchased alarge
and
Summerwell assorted stook of Spring and Suer Hoods at stow deb
ermined
we are dermined
to give the Public the.benefit,
QUICK S1 ES & HILL PROFITS TILL BB OUR MOTTO.
Js1'Please call and examine our puede before purchasing elsewhere.
AS -Remember the Placa, next door to J. Wilson's Drug Store.
.0111P -Custom work will tuss'iv�e` ' our � special attention.
. Non. bat the beat of mnetttrial used and lint -class workmen employed.
flier -Repairing neatly done on a Movies* notion
God.rich, March 9. 1882. DOWNING & W EDDY,! P
A World of Goad.
I hue of the most popular medicines now
:Adore the American public, is Hop Bit-
ters. You see it everywhere. People
take it with good effect. It builds them
up. it is not as pleasant to the taste as
some other Bitten, as it isnot a whiskey
drink. It is more liku the old fashion-
ed bone -set tea, th..t has done a world of
good. If you don't feel just right, try
Hop Bitters—[Nunda News..
A swarm of tees has located in a King-
ston confectiona;3 store and cannot be
driven out. The bees chase the custom-
ers oat of the shop. The proprietor and
his satire family have been stung.
CALISAYA, THE BEST VARIETY
of Cinchona or ioeru%inn hark, 1'-s' came
Into general net on account of a remarkable
c e pe IC -mod by it on the Cjuntees cel
Lhincoon, at Lima. who• Ott • her recovery,
dtstri►-r .eti • large gnar.lty of 11 to .he Jes-
uits.. In whose hands it acquired a k at repu-
tation, that charitable prela,e, Cardinal de
Lugo. hav:n - pa:chased 1' at,eat expense
UK, a+ hrne .t of the rill 'ons oor at 1 sine.
It Is combined with amtnetl•a in •delicious
co'r'al In lir. \1hcelc-s Compound Etl. Ir of
Pkesnh&1 . and r•1.sit- . • rented- of a --
t•scrdlast •eatcacyin.,rout ngotnstantlortal
1r To. , an,. t ep•Inlawnal
ng the lawn out oe,
macular , wet up by trental wow; ete►-
work, escrows and had hob.,.. or dsG' paled
by preatratt$Z dtsesses.
S
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-- 0Y—
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ScolcL
Irish & Calladiaii
ds
Ham" C DtTNLOOP_
TO THE FARMRS OF THE COUNTYOFIIURON
GENTLEMEN,—By request of a large number of the yeomen of the County
we have decided- to manufacture
MinlA3TX1Val- AND MOWINC3 M.A.OHIENT3E13,
in connection with our Plow business for the year 1883, which for material and
workmanship will be second to none. Do not give your olden for reapers er mow-
ers until you see those manufactured by u.. We will attend all the spring fairs in
County, which will give the farmers a good opportunity to inspect our machines.
We will warrant our machines to do as good work as any other made. We will al-
so have a number of good
LAND :tLOLLERS,
fur the Spring trade
coo$Iivc - sTovEs
always on hand, and will bo sold cheap for cash, or be exchanged for wood. Cash
paid fur old iron. SEEGMILLER & CO.
C.derich Foundry
T N w' R O T ACS --ASN
ABRAHAM S?N2Irr
CALLS ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING :
CLOTHING,
LTA FINE ASSORT
WA LARGE ASSORTMENT,
THE LATEST Dg8IG N8.11
'IIN ENDLESS VARIETY,FURNISHING GOODS
HATS, /TALI. T11E LATEST BTYtEB,•
AND EVE
TRY /817.Ewx
/TALL PATTERNS. P •ANDA FIT OUARANTk1D Olt NO PAI.E.iICLO 1 H 1J
NEW C+400DS, NE77V PRICES.
CHEAP FOR CASH.
TALK ALO'LTT =LT=
CHAS. A. NAIRN
HAS THE FINEST BRAND OF
CANNED PEACHES
IN THE MARKET. AND HIS
CANNED. TOMATOES AND CORN
ARE DELiC1uUS.
..A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE_
COURT HOUSE SQUARE OOUbat!('1(, OX9'Alt1O
Sarnia Agricultural Implement Manufacturing Company.
IL�D6 :2TE:7
MANUFACTTTRERB OF
Reapers, Mowers, We ors E Threshers.
See the Di minion Sepan.tor before you purchase. The Easiest Ruui,ing, Simplest
and most durable machine in the market.
i,iv L :t aF t N r •'4 W :A N r• l)
AWN., s. Once GFF)B 3•Z I .A. POE 3,
General Agent, (1 -ext eh
'Ari BesIll iniVall P��pers.
+he time it too wish one or two 'leo r loins . t home, to it • 1 nth ria teem parr
Ile has of er
20,000 Rollsof the Latcst Dos:ta s
Itcaut.lul o Jura, and at yr.,. a Icte Ibon very .nreh in! -inr . Ola. Call and OUR them (Iles
are tl.e boon • sine In town, and music be sold.
Tho 11(11, )►ii10l Nun�n Iiai1 a»d Fashils,