HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-6-13, Page 3THE GHOST'S. WAY.
CHATT/It I,
I am leader of the orohestra in the Bigou
Theatre at Pittsburg. I am nothing but e
plain musician, yet I was onee ,considered a
very great one. That was when I lived on
Third . street, in a suite of rooms so small
that my pianoand bird oagee left hardly
room for me to turn around. ''hey called
my rooms " The Aviary" then. Now I am
well-to-do, rioh, in fact, fora bachelor—and
I owe ' my riches to the strangest circum•
stance that ever befell a man of my .`prosaic
nature.
I am a diffident, shy man—have very few
friends. Ivans, the drummer in the orohes-
tre (Tommy, as heis usually called), and
kab, the manager of the theatre, are my
only intimate friends. How they oame to be
this little story will tell you. r '
I had been leading the orchestra for two
years, and it was on the night of October
21,188 -, that I experienged a somatic. n
Which gives exiabence to this narrative. I
did not often use the open piano before me,
but thla particular night, we were one or
two men short and needed noise. The piano
and I supplied that lack in that
puede
io ular.
We were playing a sitz in the interval
between the fourth and fitth mots of a lurid
melodrama, and r was banging away in
tempo di vain steadily as you please,
playing almost mechanically, as one is apt
to play fashionable waltz male. .
All of a sudden something -it waa some.
thing, and yet I cannot Bay what h was-
took hold of my hands and dashed them
violently down on the keys.. It watt just as
it some one had reached long arms around
me, and seized my hands and banged them
on the keyboard. My hands felt numb and
chill, and I verily believe I should have
thought myself paralyzed but for the actual
sense of strong panes grasping my own,
overpowering them and casting them down
with a great crash of sound upon the piano.
I fel) a cold chill start at my toes, run up
my body and go out of the tips of my hair,
which bristled as if electrified. I was terri-
bly frightened, `1 oan tell you, and my fright
grew no less as 1 felt oold fingers -or what
seemed like cold fingers—plane themselves
over my fingers, a cold thumb place itself
over eaoh of my thumbs,'and then my hands
began to move without any volition of my
own. The entire orchestra of course atopped
and stared at me. The hum of the audience
hushed, and then, without will or with of my
own, guided ;bythese colc finger tips resting,
on my own, my hands began to play a waltz
of Glnok's—an exquisite bit of mueic I never
could execute, but which I loved even as you
love, Sir or Madame, the perfume of the first
violet you find in the early spring.
Amid the profoundest silence, my hands,
guided by this unseen agency, played this
waltz with a perfeotion'of time, an exquisite-
it nese of touch, a thorough appreciation of its
beauty, and brought out in the mosb subtle
way meanings I never dreamed lay hidden
in the scene. It was as beautiful as it was
awful, and even in my . torror-which was
something to feel, not to describe—I felt
that the music was rendered by something
which had once been a master's soul,
CPAPTER II.
Tho bell tinkled for the customary slow
music for the curtain, but the curtain wa3
rip and the villain of the piece on the stage
are my hands ceased playing: The last two
bars were indeed soft and sweet and low
dying away lika the ghost of music, and as
the last note erased 1 fell from the stool
bathed in a cold and clammy sweat too in-
sensible to heed ;the wild and tumultuous
applause that came from pit, boxes and gal-
lery, the loud shouts of encore and: the sharp
clapping of the hands of my own musicians.
The villain triedipvaln;to speak hie lines;
the distressed heroine. p • eepedfrom the side
scene ; the manager , shook ' his 'fist at me
from the prompter's window ; but'the'audi-
ence roared for me, and at Iast1:,:was com,
yelled to arouse myself, and in earns form
of words beg to be- excused, before eider'
was restored and the play allowed to go on.
Tommy Ivans took me down under the
.stage, made mo swallow a draught of 'villain-
ous gin from tbo bottle he always carried,
and restored me to some sense. Every
nerve in .me was quivering. I was as hyster-
ical as a woman ;' I laughed and cried all at
one and the same tithe. I verily believe I
should have lost my senses had not Skab—
our manager—hurried down to where I was.
and aroused me by his 'Ornate and lurid
profanity. •
" What, in the blankety blankblank,
possessed yen, Elstermann," said he. "Yon
don't drink, blank yon, and yet by the blank;
blank you`played' wellenough tohave been
possessed byy the devil. Blank me iYI knew
you could do it Only, for the sake of
blankety blank, pick a better time for your
blank solos." .
And thus he went on, now blaming and
nursing me, and then swearing that there
was not apianist `in, America who could have
played as'I did.,
When I became somewhat composed I
tried to excuse myself, though I found I
could not possibly tell him what was the
matter, . Something "seemed to hold my
tongue as I tried to speak, and finally I put
a bold face on the matter, told him'I saw the
audience was tired of the worn waltz we
were playing and I -thought T would give
them a surprise. '
t Blanhlmeif you didn't succeed," said he,
and went off grumbling at what he.oailed an
Infernal "ivory knocker's whim.
CHAPTER III
' Ivans got me back to mylame and the
audience again interrupted the play roar
at me, :Extreme heat succeeded my chili.
I sat in, my place fingering my baton, my
pulse leaping in the nineties and my head
throbbing. •I managed to gob through the
rest of my work without any other disturb-
ance—only I did nob touch the piano again.
All thegold in ohristendom could not have
induced me to tough a key.
After the play was over and e
w had finish-
ed our final piece, the audience having dis-
persed, my orchestra gathered around me,
while loud in praise seemed solicitous about
m apparent fint
y pp in fib. I passed the whole
g
affair off as a joke,' told them I played only
to tease them, and pretended to faint mere-
ly to get a drink from Tommy.
They laughingly took it all in good part,
tut I saw second violin and cornetist put
their heady together as the olarionet looked
at them, and winking, tapped his pate with
a very dirt finger in a veryknowingway.
" Tommy Ivns ".said 1, s he anI left
the stage door, "where oou sleepto-
night Y" y
Ile.
w
" In myhu i al quarters at the Bell," said 1 i
et y "
"You must come and Stay with mod' I tel
replied, pro
" What, in the Aviary? Your infernal
molting birds and canaries will wake me
too early.
11 Never mind that," I ams red, "I bog
you to stay. I ask it as a f i rtd..
" All right, dolman Me ter," was .his
answer. "I've no doubt you arid ,Ican bunk
nicely together ; bub you show bad taste in
bedfellowii, myheart .."
Doubtiass 1- did,;but tobe thoroughly
honest I was wild with fright. I' believe
I w ith:11avo lost my mind had I been alone
that night.
My grand piano—a magnificent Weber—
stood in a rogiq I• called my parlor. I. had
to close the door between that room and my
bedroom 1 The piano looked to me in the
shadow like a great rosewood coffin, and
the air seemed to have thab terrible irides•
cribable odor there is ever about a room in
which a corpse lies. A basket of out flowers
in my window sill I hurled into the street.
Their scent but added to the terror I felt.
't CHAP PER IV.
I never closed my eyes during the entire
night. Tossing from side to side I woke up. poor
Tommy half adozen 'times with' the inane
query, "Are you asleep ?" until finally he
sat up in bed and stared at me in a sleepy,
angry way. '
"Look here, Johann, is your noddle in ex,
'
aotly correct time? It 'Strikes, me you are
getting base and treble jatnbled in your
music' bot, and if you don't go to sleep you'll
soon be ' an
las
1 g out of tune. Y believe there'e
something' wrongabout you anyhow.
What's te matter?? Piny ouloud and then
et me go to sleep."
"Tommy," said I, and, I aald it in deep
earnestness, "I. didn't play that wet' z to
night, but th ;.sail did." And then in as
few words as possible I told him exactly
what had happened to me.. Ae.I went on
with my story Tommy's eyes actually bulged
g
from hie head, and his -sleep'swollen face,
his startled expression partook se mnoh of
the ludiorone that I broke outdate a hearty
laugh --which "'wan ie‘ Wonderful "Panacea ' to
my ;nerves.
"Blank me," he said under hie breath, "I
believe you've been drinking on the sly and
have gob 'em at last," and then he shook hie
head in the moat solemn way.
Presently he leaped from the bad, turned
on a full head of gas, threw open my parlor
door, lit the burners—every one of them—
and came bank to my bedside.
Gib up," eaid he' and there was a note
of oommand in his voice. "Here's your
dressing gown. Blank me"—his oath was
almost like a prayer—"you've got to play
that waltz right now for me or—or—or—I'll
go home and look the door behind me.
I pleaded and begged in the most abject
way, but he was inexorable and I followed
bite into the parlor and sat down ab the
piano.
As I did so 1 glanced at the clock ; it
was half -past three. Nerving myself by a
violent effort, and calling up all the manhood
I possessed, I atrnok a chord] boldly. The
sound echoed through the room. I put out
my right arm to oommence the waltz, when
again, though hie time without any force,
bub with a grip like steel, I felt both hands
seiz 3d, and again the cold fingers lay on
mine and the cold chill passed over me. I
felt my hair bristling, and looking ab Ivens
I saw he, too, had noticed and was partak-
ing of my terror.
CHAPTER V.
He stood motionless before me, and I sat
like a block of marble, only my hands, guid-
ed by the touch of those awful fingers, glid-
ed over the keyboard. ' This time ib was not
the waltz my hands played, but a selection
from Gluck's "Orfeo ed Enridlce"—that por-
tion of the act where Eurydice has vanished
and Orpheus wails for her in music that
might indeed have stirred the heart of Hell.
I never hear the music played nowwithouta
shudder, although I have never:heard it real-
ly played but once since that night. Weird
and heart -thrilling, • tubbing with an'. utter
liopelessnees, entreating, calling, pleading,
ho
seething, atretohing out the hands of
musio to the vabiehing soul ; begging it by
memory of happy bygone hours to turn and
look'npon' him onoo again ere Eternity
swallowed it up. All, all all this and 'a
thousand things more.I heard as the relent
less possessing fingers swept my hands over
the keys. -
Nor was this the end. When the last
note had died away"the fingers again forced
my hands to play this. time another selec•
tion from the same mneician, but from a
different 'opera "Le Buena Figlinola," a
sparkling little =result, that danced and
chirruped and sparkled until my birds woke
up, and in a' moment the room was alive
with their notes,_ aad glancing at the
window that opened to the east I caw the
gray dawn begin to steal above the horizon
But the spirit which possessed my hands
seemed not to fear the dawn. When the
finale of the last air was reached it dashed
my 'hands rapidly down the treble and in a
moment the room was full of the sounds of
some of the exquisite melodies Playford has
preserved for us -melodies than which noth-
ing can bo more nnghostlike. Ib was broad
lay ere the musio ceased, and then as 1 felt
a slight shiver creep over me my hands
dropped almost lifeless in my lap, but I my
self was calm - and composed. Not so my
friend. I never saw a face in which awe
and admiration and ludicrous terror were so
mingled. He shuddered as I stopped, then
ran hurriedly to the chair on which his
clothes lay, drew from some hidden source
the bottle of gin and took a long long pull at
it.
Returningto the piano he tared at me a
P s
minute and broke out :—
"It is a ghost, by G—, for you couldn't do
it yourself. Keep him, Johann. It's a haunt
that's worth at least a hundred thousand
dollars."
CHAPTER VL
I did nob then take in exactly what my
friend meant, bub after a oold bath, a good
breakfast and a stroll over to Careen with
Ivans, thah matter of fact pounder of sheep-
skin—as he called himself—put a notion into
my head which never would have evolved ib -
self out of my own coneaionsneae,
To express in a few words what it took
him an hour or more to explain to me, he
convinced me that
this strange poaeossion,
be ib what it mi hb had made ma a me a magnifi
cent planiat. His idea was thab I should
test this power a week or more, see if it re
mined with me, and then launoh out on the
sea of public life and give concerts.
It is needles that to say I flinty refused
to do anything of the sort, and that I parted
with Ivans about dinner time, neither of ua
in a very good humor.
After dinner, as I was smoking a cigar in
my room, to my surprise I was honored by a
visit from Skab, a favor never before vouch -
Wed me, Who in his blunt way told me that
he had been wonderfully struck by my play.
ing the night before, and he wanted to know,
to use leis own language, " Why in the black
ad kept it all to myself ?"
am nob going to repeat much of Ska b's
k, only I must say that in spite of his
faulty and roughneas he was about the
shrewdest manager X ever knew, and a man
who underatoed when andhow to take the
b ortun t —
pp i y the theatrical opportunity I
mean—by the forelock, and, in his own
words, again "work it for all it was worbh."
A good deal al of - tall!: wound up by Skalds
ineler, ng' an trig playing for him, and 1
startled him not a little by the vehemence
of my refnaaL '
' It ended, however, just at I feared- it
would; and in spite of my horror and re-
luctance I found myself at the piano.
Just heto, for onoo and all, let me say
that from the drab time I felt this strange
poaeossion, p•wer, or whatever you choose
to mall it, until it departed from me, I never
approached a piano without' a terror and
shrinking fear that I cannot explain..I grew
hot and cold, shuddered, trembled, even felt
sick, and, although I played over two hund-
red times before' immense audiences, my
acne of fear nover left me from the time I
approached the plain until I knew from the
Lalling of my hands that I could play no
longer.
And in order to save time I may as well
here tell yon exactly how the thing felt.
If it were possible to introduce into the veins
of eaoh foot at the toes about ten pounds' of
the emallest aim shot frozen, to let the cold
pellets run, rapidly up the veins to the heart
and hunt along the arteries until the whole
body was tingling with cold and motion; and
then to let every one of these shot run to:
gether in the throat, and rash up through
the head and out ab the tips of eaoh briebe
I.
ling hair
when , •ththen it might be possible to feel as
# 1s awful Thing overshadowed
one. First I -felt my arms grow molder than
my body was, at xt they grew hoc, and upon
eaoh hand I' felt the pressure of an icy hand ;
the fiegers crepe' along my fingers, the
thumb pressed my thumb, and with a grip
of steel h felt these' hands close down on
mine, then'I surrendered, arms and hands,
entirely to their possession and played what
they played.
How.l pedalledI don't know; I can only
say that it Was purely mechanical and ws
done unconsciously. As far as my indivi:d=
uality was concerned I'was a blook of marble,
with hands rand fingers moved by machin-
ery.
After I had played, say an hour or so, the
hands lifted from mine, sometimes quickly,
sometimes rather slowly, giving my nande a
sort of caress—if I may so ' call it -which
frightened me more than a blow would have
done.
I felt all of these-eenaations when I sat
down at the piano to play for Skab, and I
played, or rather my hands played for an
hour or so.
The music executed this time was of var
led character. An arrangement of Sehu
herb's serenade first, then a potpourri o
popular airs, then one of Mendelssohn'
" Lieder ohne Worter," and lastly a 'merr
little bit from Galnppi'a " Il' Monde dell
Lana."
Skab's amazement was very great, an
his praises would have put me to blush ha
I been the actual performer of the music
played. •
He then made the same suggestion Ivan
had made me in the morning, only puttin
it in a business shape, and offering to "man
age" me. He proposed that I should com
mence by giving a concert at his theatr
then try some of the smaller towns an
eventually Philadelphia. If I made a an
cess there then New York, Boston, th
South and West, 'ani even Europe. H
took my breath away with the auguries o
future greatness, and a very Pactolus nolle
inhis rapid speech.
1 was carried away with dreams of arab
tion, of wealth, of fame, and ere he left m
I hail promised to consider the matter an
give him an answer in a week's time.
CHS PIER ViI.
That week was the moat feverish of my ex
istence. I could not—of coarse -tell ;,ho
long my ghost given powers would last.
feared they might leave me the middle per
formanee ; and I kne iv 1 could not finish a
the audience had heard me begin.
The prospect of beinghooted off the stag
was not agreeable, and that of being compel'
edasvery night to go through the eensatio
I have deacribed was almost as bad. "I sen
for ToninyIvens, :I domesticated him' i
Mn room; 'andl played every night. Sunda.
by invitation, -I played at mase in St. Pet
rink's Cathedral Church,, and found that o
the organ my fingers were controlled eve
as on: the piano.
-Monday I signed a contract with Ska
for a six months' engagement he to bear al
expenses and to receive half profits. Timm
Ivans, I etipulsted,'was to be employed 'i
sumo capacity so as to be with me, and my
first concert was fixed for the 12.h day o
November.
Skab's willingness to risk • money on me
and my desire to prevent his losing any
thing reconciled ma more than anything els
to the ordeal I hadtoundergo, bub I suffered
tortures in the interval between the day
eigned the contract and the night of the 12th
of November. • •-
I will not attempt to leacribe that night .
My success was phenomenal. Encore after
encore, wild applause and unbounded
enthusiasm greeted the performance and I
woke up next morning to find myself famous
and the possessor of $650 net proceeds of my
ghost's handiwork.
Just here I will explain a want the papers
complained of—namely, that I gave out no
programme of my performance and the
audience had to guess ab what I played.
Leaving out of view the fact that the vast
majority of audiences do not know any more
about what you play with a programme
than they do without it I will say that I
could nob help it.
I never knew myself, what was going to
come until after a bar or so waa played, and
to: be perfectly boneab once or twice I play-
ed pieooa the name of which I did nob and
never did know.
After one or two concerts I mended mat-
ters the beat,'I could by stationing Ivans
on the stage and telling him the name of
the piece after I gob well into it. He there-
npon sang ib out in a stentorian voice. If
ib happened—as it did more than once—
thatl myself did not know the name of the
piece, I whispered, " A fugue of Tartini's"
or ",sonata of Scarlettl's" or " A staccata of
Gouiimel's,•' and Ivans roared it out and
the audiences were perfectly satisfied.
They did not like the method—I mean
proclaiming g the names of
mY
pieces—in Bas -
ton. bate'
th y had to put up with ib.
Now, I am not going to attempt to des
cribs mysix
months' roar normy wonderful
suacesa. If I mentioned the : name under
which I played yon could yourself write
out the history
ofmYgg
en a emene
t . Suffice
ib to say that the morning after my first con-
cert in New York Grant White pronounced
me the finest 'pianist America had ever
heard, and I do believe ho was right, only
he ought to have written "my hands" instead
of my name,
I played steadily along—starring, as they
call it, through half a dozen States, and by
he end of the next May had invested $10,-
000 in United Statee bonds aud had $10,000
more in the bank. Tommy Ivans was ger:
gene on a salary of $100 a week and had es-
chewed gin, never Milking any other tip•
pie loss expensive than Roedener.
(To BE doNTiNuED, )
Physician : "You see year son is feverish,
Madam, Notice the coating en his tongue'?"
Mrs, Anx1OnE1 : " I don't see any coating on
his tongue ; but I see an ulster in his throat
and his pants are dreadful s1iort,'r
THE EITORT 01' TSE je0ALLtQ1)E.
The Escape Irors APIs Described by One of
the Ceew.
A letter bas been received at Portsmouth
from ono of the crew of 1I; M. S. Calliope,
Captain Henry C. Kane describing the
escape of that vessel from the 'harbour of
Apia, in Samoa, during a cyclone which
wrecked the German and American squad.
roue, The writer tells how preparations
ware made to ride out the threatening gale
by getting top hamper on deck, striking
topmasts, and making everything snug
O;1 the night • of Friday, Maroh 15, it began.
to blow, and the w'ied increased in force
until at daybreak the Calliope, with three
anchors out and steaming full apeed, was
just able to -keep her position. The Veto
della, American warship
DRAGGING ACROSS HER BOWS
and carry ing away a cable, the E oglish cruiser
dropped astern; till the dreaded reef was
within a fathom of her. At last the captain
gave orders to ship the remaining cable, and,
steaming at 88 revolutions per minute ;and
rolling nettings under, the gallant oraiear.
struggled out of :he harbour and made the
open sea. On the following Tuesday, the
gale having eubsided,'the 'vessel 'returd to
port and coaled, The writer' continiies :--
"I must mention the way in : which our
skipper behaved. He was exposed to the
whoie of the weather, and in a 'most un-
sheltered position too. I don't believe he
left the poop for five minutes ° during the 24
hours the gale was ab its heighb. ' When ws
regained the harbour, on the Tuesday morn-
ing, we were all called aft, and
THE CAPTAIN MADE A SPEECH.'
I never before saw anyone so affected as he
was at the time. He made several attempts
to speak, but could not master his feelings.
When at last he found his voice, this is what
he said:—"I take the earliest opportunity of
thanking yon all, my men, for the way in
which you have behaved during the terrible
weather we have just experienced. I shall
always look back with pride at the • way in
which my orderswhre carried out on Satur-
day. What, I did myself was very little,
being only able to stand here and give orders.
These orders were carried out more smartly
and'-'exaotly than I had a right to expect,
considering our situation. In conclusion, I
mush say we must not only congratulate our-
selves on our eaoape, but we must thank
Almighty God.' Here the brave old man
broke down, and, with tears running down
his faoe, motioned as to leave the quarter
deck, which we did, and yon could have
hoard a pin drop, so great wasthe silence, all
hands being too full of emotion and gratitude
to speak for some time."
--msswe
Punishing an Elephant.
Some elephants resemble men in their lia-
bility to sudden outbursts of psesion, and In
their exhibition of remorse when, the passion
having subsided, they see the results of their
violent temper. An illustration of an ele-
phant's violence and contrition is given by
Gen. George Ball, in his "Rough Notes of an
Old Soldier," written while he was serving
in India.
While the party was in camp, a Mahout
went with his elephant to cut forage. As he
was binding it in bundles, the elephant be-
gan to help himself and knocked about the
bundles already tied up.
The Mahout punished the beast for his dis-
obedience by a blow on the shins, which to
enraged the ele1hatt that he di z 3 the man
with. his trunk, dashed) him to the ground
and trampled him to death.
No sooner heed he killed his keeper than
ho repented, reared, and bolted for the jun-
gle to
un-gle.to hide himself. Six other elephants,
guided by their Mahouts, followed him.'
On being driven into a corner 1"e "eurren
dered, and was led into camp a prisoner, and
chains were placed on his lege.
Then dame his punishment. An elephant
was ` placed on 'either side, each hoping
heavyiron chain. ' As the dead"body of the
Mahout wen laid on the grass before him,
the elephant roared loudly; being perfectly
aware of what he had done.
A Mahout ordered the two . elephants: to
punish the . murderer. Lifting -the two
heavy chains ,high in the.air,' with' their
trunks 'they wripped' him with these iron
whips until he made the camp echo with his
roars of pain. Hs was then picketed by
himself, and an iron chain attached to his
hind leg, which he dragged after him on the
march.
An Alaskan GIacier.
The moat aconrateinformation yet obtained
concerning these glaciers is that gathered by
Mr. William P. Blake in 1836. According
to him, " there are four large glaciers and
several smaller lines visible within a distance
of sixty or seventy miles from the mouth " of
the river. The second of these larger ones
bas attracted most attention. This "sweeps
grandly out into the valley from an opening
between high mountains from a sourcethat
is not visible. It ends at the level of a river
in an irregular bluff of ice, a mile and a hal,
or two miles in length, and about one
hundred and fifty feet high. Two or more
terminal moraines protect it from the direct
action of the stream. What at first appear-
ed as a range of ordinary hills along the riv-
er, proved on landing to be an ancient ter-
minal moraine, crescent shaped and covered
with a forest. Ib extends the full length of
the glacier,"
This glacier bee never been fully explored.
A number of years since, a party of Russian
cffi;ers attempted its exploration, and were
never heard from again. Mr Blake reports
that as usual with receding glaciers, a con-
siderable portion of the front as it epreads
out in the valley is so covered with bowldora,
gravel, and mud that it is difficult to tell
where the glaoier really ends. But from
the valley to the higher land it rises in pre
oipitous, irregular, stair -like blocks, with
amooth sides, and so large thee ib was im
poesible to surmount them with the
ordin-
ary -
ar a ui menh or explorers. The glacier is
estimated to be about forty miles .—
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[1'o alar Science Monthly.
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One Bed for Five.
Fiveerformers belonging to a travelling
P g g
g
company were stopping at a certain town
when ono of the party was bent out to pro.
cure lodgings. He happened to be an ex•
bremely slender person, and when he irgnir-
ed for sleeping accommodation, the waiter
Considered a little, and, at length, said,
Yes, 1 think there Will be room. When
the party name to the hotel they found there
was but one bed for them, The waiter ex-
plained that he " had never met theatrical
gentlemen afore, and thought they would
d 1a.
all d t oneof
e the size thecribwho mallod
g .
The wild oats of youth change into the
brags of manhood,—rJohn E, Norton.
No loasan authority that Sir Winkle' Gall
says that the benefit derived from a universe-
iby education, such as girls get abNownham
and Girton, makes them and their children
healthier. Ibe percentage of ohildena tuar-
rlagesis also loss with the educated women.
P
q� cct*• :...:1;t
forfants and Children,
ww
"Caat°4aissoweUadevtedtdahi1i1M1that Oast
1 recommend it as`eupertor to an e� cures Celle, Com 1patfon,
!stows n mo' Tprescription sour Stomach, I>larrhma, 1 ruOtit tion,
' IL•A. tx.ia i Lf.D,, xilla,Worms, gives sleep, aril promoted db.
to11180. Osfor l 8t,,: Brooklya, .R, �esoon,
itaout iojurloiu lnedicatiom
',Cmc CENTAUR COMPANY', 77ttfurray Street, N. Y.
encesteinetee
Le
'Oben I say CLAiE I do not mean merely to
stop them for a time, and then have them ro-
tten again. I'aou'ner A RADICAL CUR>£,
I have made- the disease of
rITs, EpnEptIr or
PALIGnirs%SIOICNESS,
AQ��ltfe long study. 3i WARRANT mprewadytct
Wed the worst cases. Because others have
ailedlsno reason torn ot.nowreceiving a care.
fiend at once for a treatise andll,FuEsporrrn
-01 my INFAL'ii ILLI gnxsDp. , Give
and Fast Mice. It costa you nothing'1o' 8,
trial, and it will Cure you.-Addreaa
Dr. H. G. ROOT. 37 Toile St., Toronto, Ont.
PtiitErtr,' STilatiCEST0
CONT.SINS NO
ALUM, AMMONIA, LIME, PHOSPHATES,
or any injurious materials.
E. W. GI LLETT, TORONTO, ONT.
4HICAGO, ILL.
t{an'i'e of the CELE&RATED F.OYBL. TF?aST n zp9.
PRD-CTIDMSTT ZSF'E
—AND—
Live Stock Association
(Incorporated•)
Home Office -Room D, Arcade, Toronto.
Tn the life department this Association pro-
vides indemnity for sickness and aoeident,and
Substantial assistance to the relatives of de-
ceased members at terms available to all.
In tho live stook department two- thirds in-
demnity for loss of Live Stock of its members.
Applications for Agencies. invited. Send for
ros cclut:ee, claims paid, &c.
WILLIAM JONES,
itlanuains Director
THE EXETER TIMES.
Esublla
p ned every Thursday ulada ern ng,at
Y
m g,
TI MIS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE
Vain-street,nearlyopposite Fitton'e Jewelers,
ItOte, Exeter, Ont.,byJohn White ex 8one,Pro-
prietors.
RATES OF 1DTrilTriaiW l
first tnserticn,per line.,..... ..•.IO contr.
:ash subsequeutinaerbion,per line 9cente.
'To ins -are insertion, advertisements should.
,e lent in notiaterthan Wednesday morning
OurJOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT is ono
f the largest and best equipped in the County
f Huron, A11 work entrusted to ua will reeekr
•l0 prompt attention:
Decisions Regarding News-
papers.
Any person whotakesa paperregularlyfroin
hr post-o®so,whether directed in his name or
tsiobher's, or whether he has subscribed or not
It responsible for payment.
S- If aperson orders his paper discontinued
no anlistpay all arrears or the publisher may
Continue to send it until the payment is made,
6sld then collect the whole amount, whether
she paper is token from the office or not.
S In snits for subscriptions, the snit may be -
instituted in the place where the paper is pub-
ished, although the subscriber may reside
hundreds of miles away.
4 The courts have decided that refusing to
'eke newspapers or pet iodicale from the poet-
odice, or removing and leaving them 'uncalled
oris Prima facieevidence of intentionalfraud
Exeter Butcher Shop.
R. DAVIS,
Butcher & General Dealer
—IN aLL KINDS Or—
MEATS
Oustomorssupplied TUESDAYS, THURS-
DAYS Axe SATURDAYS at their /esidenee
ORDERS LEFT AT THE SHOP WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
Everest's Cough Syrup
CANNOT BE BEATEN.
Try it and be oonvinaed of its wonderful
curative properties. Price 25 eta.
(Trade Mork.)
Try Everest's LIVER REOULA)OR,
For Diseases of the Livor, I{idneys .4:0,
purifying of the Blood. Price SI. P,ts
bottles, 05, For sale by all drug-
gists. Manufactured ninny
M. P VPRFSTC`bcmis,'
KENDALL'S
SPAVIN CURE
-
MARVELOUS
DISCOVERY.
Only Genuine System ef Memory Training.
Four Books ?Learned in one reading. •,
Mind wandering cured.
Every cbitd and adult greatly benefitted.
Great inducements to (lorroapondenco Classes.
Prospectus, with Opinions. of. Dr. Wm. A. Ram.
montl, the world•fauled Specialist in Mind Diseases
Daniel GreenleafThompson, the great Ps7oho!
oriet, J. III. Buckley, D.D. editor of the CTlrtetfeee
AAdvocate N. Y., Richard Proctor, the Scientist,
Hons.W. W. Astor, Judge Gibson, Judah P.
uenitin3n, and others Bent .poet fres by •
Prot, A. LOISE,y ,'Lit .737 Fifth Ave., N. Y.:
$SG Solid field watch.
RR S i��} soldror$100.untnlatoly.
/' +yJ
Beet 'Perfect
timekeeper.
World. 11'1
w
_ EorCeat timekeopor. War- dJ.!
Ca1lI.
$ ar till d1 Santil ni Cane Botk•Tadlds
and gents' aizea,witl works
'arid 'eases of equal value.
Ono Person in nohlo-
- oaltly can secure one free,
together with our large :nivel.
mole line .of )household
Samples. These lam los, as
.well as the wotoh, w end
!Free, and after you have kept
them' in yo,lr bomedfer 2 months rind shown thorn to those
who may have called, (boy baoornayear own property,Those
who write et once, earl be sure of receiving thee'Pateh
end Samples. Ws_pay an saprose, height, ate Address
Stinsondx Co., Itox Si2',Portland,*aine.
The Most Sncceeefnl Remedy ever disoor;
erod, as It is certain in it6' elrecte and does
not blister. Rend proof below.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN . UUREI
Osier or CsenLae,A. stemma
Beaman or
CLavaxAsn BAY AND TBorTnta Dam DOOM.
ELtiwoon, Ti r., NOT. 80,1880.
Da. B. J. Bashers co.
Dear Sirs :I Bove always purchased yourICen-
dali'e Spa
yin thohale
doze think
Y8 bottles
would 1 '
,I
Ike niece 1n la or a-
P rg e r tl.y. I eUs it d it
ono y the bestlinimentsknee y as earth I have Used it
en My Stables for three P ears. '
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Yours truly, Coes. A. sanrbsa.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE
Buooimv e, N. t, November*, 1888.
Da. B. J. ICStcb,wi, CO,
Dear Sirs :I desire to give you teetlmonlal of my
good opinion of your Kendal s S avin Care. I have
used it for Lamen.oss, Stir" Joints stud
SUnvins, and I have found it a surd cure, I cordi-
ally rccommond it to allhorsemen.
Yours truly, A. R. Otrnsnv,
Manager Troy Laundry stables.
D
H
KE ALL■■ S SPAVIN CURE.
seta, Winton CoMIv, Onto, Dec. 10, 1862.
De. B. J. Murmur, Co.
Gents: I feel it my duty to Shy what I have dont
with your Kendall's Spavin Cure. I have cured
twontyttvo horses that had Bpayind, ton or
itiug Bono, nine arrueted with Bighead end
doyen of Mg Jaw. Since I have haOne of your
books and renewed the directions, I have never
lest a case of any kind.
Yours truly, ANnnitw'INB
horseUUDocStor.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Prlee $1 per bottle, or nit bottled for $li. All brag.
Mots itavelt or can get it for Yeti, Or it will '
bo .. be sent
to arty i refs on, rocoiptof Drlco by this 1�roD :
aore, �t,i•l�ye�..� B,yyd�,•�i,i�icri/n3A•t1 L CO.,, yT,lnnbetbirryg1a aa1114, Vb.
$OLD 3B�dGi di7ltd41.4•,Me.6,t f[631'itrrc
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OUO GILDED PILL Ne. l CUREEC.
NERVOUS DEBILITY
inn ato(rhaia, Ynr1 000ldnand sl1 dIsen,edrrree. ,
(ointi* from the .Slr Errors x o of Eolith, Inagua,
eo
tions, Yceee, Ovarperlr of Expoeare.nzo.
Priob 61.00 porboo,pb,tago ne coats axtre
,ix hozoa iu 61.0), poatnao l8 minis crud,
$8
whywhepaynmon eo osllesarid os
epebtacuredUfostrfroP
m :$10.10
i0 ,
r• til
No. 2 Cligs5 �•gMALE IA/C� KNLrtiB'
Goners' nobility lYcrvcue nescaono, Ota.
Price 61.00 per h 6t, po,tage a cents extra;
Six boxes for $6,00:. postage 18 dente txtra+
Sia bozos cures the word oa,,S.
1Eonrrergio0st,; ;Oe6 xtldo8, N leE ibo4Uyo'ertiTa1
b6en,00yor0aroxoaltPbllzteIPrice 6100praglogeacnts
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