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John Uri Lloyd
(Continued from last week.)
"Jedge," said Mr. Hardman, at last,
"I have got the best of the devil and
the law too, and you -ail can go home
artd'7 sleep. The village' ain't mine, law
or no law; and ,I ain't a -going to help
the law steal. I .gets drunk with my
own money, which ain't no harm to
the "mikes of me and don't hurt no
other 'feller nor the Lord either, but 1
never intends to buy nothing for my-
self with the money I'v'e squeezed out
of widders and orphans, and li-don't
intend to let the law make me a thief
first and a wretch second. Folks, I
have d'owned the devil, and the law,
which taken together are mighty hard
for a man to do. I don't intend to
have Ito family disgrace, and I don't
intend to steal nothing. Fellers, old
man Nordman don't have to shoot
the sheriff."
opened the the stove door and
thrust the dry document into the
blaze. A fla'sh as of tinder, a puff, a
twisting, blackening paper, and then
—ashes. Those about drew back in
amazement.
"You can go home and sleep, folks."
said the Corn Bug turning from the
stove, "there .ain't no copy to disturb
you -all, and there ain't no taverns,
sardines, eggnog and julips for the
likes of me. Come, Cupe, come, we,
don't live in the hotel no more; it •are
gettin' late, and it are raining, and
the mud are deep betwixt hereand.
the cabin."
The Corn Bug opened the door,
and together with old Cupe stalked
out into the darkness,
CHATTIER VIII.
The Story of the Colonel.
New Year's Eve, 1863, had been set
apart by the Village Circle as .a spe-
cial holiday, the intention of the
members being "to see the old year
out" and listen to the reading of 'a
special paper by the 'pastor, Mr. Jones,
which was to be replied to by Colon-
el Lurids'on. The"Conn Bug had "tak-
en sick," as the doctor expressed it,
the morning after the meeting men-
tioned in the preceding chapter, and
his illness proved to be serious. Too
obstinate to care for himself, the ec-
centric fellow neglected medical aid,
and acute pneumonia, a common fa-
tality in many parts, of Kentucky, had
followed, quickly succeeding an ord-
inary cold.
Thursday, December 31, 1863,
dawned waren and sultry. The ther-
mometer registered: seventy that
morning, and about noon a heavy mist
'settled -Iver hill and valley. This was
` :followed in the afternoon by a drizzl-
ing rain that sifted down in fine par-
ticles, .which sopped ' the grass and
stuck together 'the pendent dead
leaves always clinging, during the
soft weather in mid -winter, to the
lower beech 'limbs.
In the evening the members of the
Stringtown. Circle met according to
expectation, but owing to the storm
many of them were detained and
straggled to their place's. The Corn
Bug alone was finally absent: as has
been said, he lay dangerously ill in
his hum'b'le cabin. The grocer's boxy
sat, as usual, be'hind the counter,
ready to take notes in shotrhand on a
quire of white paper such as is used.
for wrapping tea, and I sat on a stool
beneath the hanging lamp, just, back
of the favored members of the Circle.
Silence fell upon the persons who
first presented themselves: a shadow
seemed to hang •over the Circle.
The reserve was .finally broken by
Chimney Bill Smith, .a bearded man,
who vowed when Fort Sumter was
bombarded, never to silt his hair or
whiskers until the South ' waa free,
This man regaled the Circle by relat-
ing the story of 'the."mother of Sam
Hill's wife's sister," the story 'teller
being typicalof more thanone pert
son well known and :popular in the
commonwealth of Kentucky. This
story was a monstrous exaggeration,
quite humorous and yet threaded with
satire and• irony.'Although a welcome
diversion in its place the author be-
lieves it better to exclude it fro'tn this
narrative.
From the . humorous sketch of
Chimney Bill it was. apparently a
long step to the dissertation 'which
followed, an essay on storms, deliv-
ered by Prof, Dtalce. Yet it was char-
acteristic of the Circ'l'e t'hatit could
pass with relish from one extreme to
the other.
At the conclusion of Professor
Drake's essay,the evening being not
far advanced, Judge Elford' address-
ed Mr. Jones.
"Pastor, it is your turn now. Let us
have your promised essay on Death,
to be answered by Co'lo'nel Luri.dson,"
The pastor arose, threw his long
hair back from his forehead : and
mildly remarked: "Before beginning
to read I will say that the title does
not always clearly define the contents
of a hook; and while my paper deals
with the subject of death, its caption,
is 'The Life Line. " Then. in a slow,
deliberate on; quite fn contrast to
that of bald, spectacled Prof. Drake,
the essayist read on untinterrupted
and without pause until he reached
the closing sentence:—
"Let
entence:"Let us think, then of the end point
of this drama. Since sons can foresee
'jtist when the tread on the life line
will falter, let us accept, that it mat-
ters little wheher in the morning or
the evening it be that we take the
awful plunge. To -day, never, to-
morrow, . loosens our holds of earth-
ly problems."
Then raising his eyes ' from the
paper, he glanced first at Judge El-
ford, who, immovable, made no re-
sponse, then at Prof. Make, who,
leaning his head on his hands, gazed
intently on :the floor. Tiien h'fs ques-
tioning look passed without response
successively around the circle, from
one to the other, and finally rested a-
gain on the face of the colonel, whose
part it was to answer the essay.
Standing alone, gazing intently at the
upright 'colonel, the parson . folded
his arms across his chelstan'd deliber-
ately said, looking directly into Lur-
idson's eyes: "Do you know, my
friend, you who are to reply to this
essay, do you know when you ' or I
will loosen our hold on the. life -line?
Are you, prepared for the end of the
game of life
(What play of thought sped from
man to 'than as the eyes of these two
met cannot be told in words, but
could be felt by those who caught the
meeting of badse eyes. Tis not when
steel meets steel, nor .when flint meets
flint that the fire flies, but when steel
Meets flint. Perhaps none present
realized that such opposites were ,face
to face.
For a second neither mdve'd. 'T'he
parson held theunfinished essay in
his hand, while the colonel stoically
chewed hiis quid of'tabaoco,,apparent-
ly indifferent to surroundings. Sud-
denly the latter, looking the tranquil
parson in the ,eye replied as if impell-
ed by a mental question exacted from
him hyeleis oppotlent1
"You can put your paper away, Mr*
Jones," he said, "I have 'heand enough
end alt ready to say : my • speec'h.
Pahson, no preacher ever. told the
truth .betel' than you have told it. I
look force,: they tell me, Mr. Jones,
but I am very tendale hearted. 'I
wouldn't, cause a shivah of pain to
man, woinan or child, and I. wouldn't
hahfn even a snail. You use ,words too
big het me; I can't anwer you after.
the seine style, "buto as old General
Haydon, ,of Virginia, used to 'say:
'It don't' mattalhi much about the
grommet' so' we get the ,sense.' I reck-
on, i1'Ir. Jones, that I. can tell a story
about as well as you can, but I can't
talk in a general way as you do about
unseen things. I must relate some-
thing about what myeyes have look-
ed at; I can't sling in• high-toned
words either: but if any man under-
takes .to beat me in stating' plain farcts
about what' ' he knows, you can bet,
soh, hehas got -to speak straight.
Folks 'can understand Richard Lurid-
son without a dictionary.
"I agree with you, Reverend, when
you say that noefellcw knows just
vehen he is going to hand in his tick-
ets, ,an'd to all of us that the thoughYt
5r
of Heath is dlnnnaiily unpleasant ',h4y
heart is tondah, I'1'1 swear to it gentle-
men; I ain't fo blame if lily beard is
stiff. Tlie• heart of a hard -shelled tur-
tle is as soft to t'h'e touch•` as that of,
a ntouse,-sun. Once when I:shot
wild" pigeon, an innocent little bird,
and picked the creattere up, it turned
its little head to'wards me and 1'oolse;i
me int the eye. What, cause : had 1 to
take that small life? a life; saeidfced
for a mout'h'ful! or -black meat? Pal=
son, you may believe me or not, but
that was a cruelty my tendon heart
t'hrobs over yet. But I ain't a cow-
ard, lir. Julies; there is a "dictinetion
between brut'ality :and 'bravery, : and
when it comes to a figlvt I ant always
on hand. I halve seen pious -like men
of the church, more cruel than I am.
I have known deacons who kneel in
the `Amen', corner, hunt all day „Sat-.
urdlay'wbth-a gun, seeking a covey of
harmless quail, and shoot them down
like flies,—take the lives of thele •help-
less creatures that never insulted any
man; .and the next Sabbath these same
pious feltaws sit in church.' trying to
look like angels while the preacher
reads out of the Good Book, 'Thou
shalt not kill!" I ani a consistent man
Judge," con't'inued the colonel, "1
don't perten,d to be religious, but : I
do claim that I am consistent; and
while my heart is very' tend'ah, as I
have admitted, yet no man dare insult
rte."
"While you'were reading your sob-
er. rigmarole, P'ah'stn, I was thinkiag
off and on o'f a case in which I was
con'stru'ed itt ole V'r'ginia, and just
when you stopped end looked up I
had reached the uo;nt where I seized
the gullet of the .critter; and as you
lowered the paper and looked me in
the eye, it seemed as though that.
same young fellow's' face rose,up ael
fore roe. - B'u't ,pshaml what's the use
of thinking about things that have
passed away?, That fellow brought
his pun'ishment on nils own head."
The colonel lapsed into silence and
stared at the stove.
"Tell us all about it, or let lir:
Jones finish his essay," requested, the
clerk. "Go. on with your story," urg-
ed a chorus of voices. "I relinquish
the field and beg you to oblige us,"
added t'heparson, in a slightly ironical
tone.
"Well, since 'that day I 'haven't talk-
ed about the episode, for, as I have
already told you, there ain't no use
in worrying over the troubles of an-
other fellow, ,especially if the other
fellow is d'ea'd,' and it don't do : no
good, either, to think about the mis-
takes that other p'eop'le have made,
and that there feilow made the mis-
take of his life then and there. The
blunders of dead people should be
forgotten."
Again the 'sipeaker. paused, The'eyes
of the, judge and the teacher were
fastened inquiringly upon the parson,
who now seemed out of place, yet
preternatura'l'ly calm. "Con'tin'ue your
narrative, Colonel 1Luridson," he said
coldly; "you havesaid that you are
not a coward."
"I have kindah gloomy feelings to-
night and can't tell a story quite as
well as I should," resumed Lurdson,
casting a b'Iack look at the parson.
"'Once, over 111 pie Virginia, I• .was
walking. along a meadow path sinok-
ing a cigar thinkingnothin,g, as most
people do when they are smak:ng,
when suddenly I stopped just. as I was
about to step on a great black snake
stretched in the walk. I raised my
heel and stamped the head of that
sarpen't into the earth. I.am such a
soft hearted fool, that I can't look
back at that display of bru'tai'1'ty with-
out shuddering. Not for the snake;
no, I heave .killed hundreds of such.
varmints, but for a little baby snake
that I then saw stretched beside the
mother—a little innocent snake not
longer than a peed'. That a night there
was a rain -storm, and I'll swear, gen-
tlemen, .that I lay awake an hour
thinking of the poor critter perishing.
I ant a very tender-hearted man and
am not to blame if my cheek.. is
rough."
.Evidently the vain braggart was
loth to describe the event of "honour".
that he had unwittingly introduced.
"The story, please," quietly insisted
the parson,
"Wald, it is not meth of a story af-
ter all, and I can give it in a few
words. I suppose you admit, P'a11'son,
that back in ole Virginia there is more
honah among gen'tle'men than 'there
is it other places, and begging, pardon
of the persons present, more gentle-
men to the acre. Lt don't require
book learning itt ole Virginia to make
a ,gentleman, neither does book learT-
ing make a, gentleman anywhere,
though as a rule, it does no haran;,hut
as you know, ole Virginia turns out
gentlemen of both kin'd's,; gentlemen
born ;and gentlemen learned. I be-
long to the fist class of gents, which,
begging pardon of some of the 'per-
sons present, I coiis'id'ah the higher
"The, nader class," remarked the
parson drily, "know something about
your type of gen'tlemen., Bet we are all
impat'ien't to hear., your episode, as you
call it, 'We 'knowyou are a gentle -
'man, but are waiting for the story:"
suh,'a gentlem'an of old Vir-
glrlia,''cf thefirst. class can't be list
stilted. If a fellow attempts to insult
Mill, either the )fellow dies or the -,gen-
tletnandies. In either case no dirt
sticks' to the gentleman, for hiphoots
are on. You see, pahsou, there is an-
other -phase of the matter when it
comes to ,the :question of honah, a
phase that common people, low -horn
peo'ple1 cannot raise theinselve's into.
The higher 'strung the gentleman, the
etasier;it is to affect his bona , and to
a high-strung man the smnaller'the-re-
flection the greater is the insult. Only
persons of the higher ordercan. com-
prehend this fact. Now, tip North,"
'and Ltnrid'son turned :directly upon
01r, Jones, "where the finer qualities
do not alppeai, where a'gentle'man is
never horn a genttesnlan, insults are
taken that• in ole Virginia would be
remembered to the *ied generation.
Colonel Clough of trey county lined
the granldson of the .man who insulted,
his grai)dfathe'r. Not that the col-
onel's grandlflather did not kill his man
.('for he did), not that the col'onel's
father did not kill the Man's son, (for
he did), not that the son of diet anon
the colonel's father killed had:, done
anything pe'rs'onally to injure the col-
onel (for he had not), but because
every `killing of that family done by
his, descendants raised the honah of
the ole colonel. There ]have • been
twelve men shot with their boots: on
by the descen'dan'ts ofColonel Clough,,
and I saw four of thein bite the lush.
You bet that family proposes to keep
untarnished the honah of the great
colonel."
I IOn'oe more the equivocating speak-
er faditered, anal once more Mr. Jones,
as though determined to co'm'pel' the
delivery of the promised narrative,
Said in a.loiw, insistent voice:
"Your awn story, colonel, yowl• own
story."
"Well, it ain't a long story, and it
ain't the only episode of the kind I
have eanperienced. I c'an't see why I
think of this one just now, either, for
I have' been engaged in others more'
exciting, but you ,seem to drive me to
it. There was, for example, just After
I becameof age, a disturbing charac-
ter in our ,parts who 'went around in-
sulting persons generally by ask'ng
questions about their affairs, but he
knew well enough ''who not to insult.
IHe never but once touched one of t'he
born gentlemen of our county, and
never again did his tongue- wag about
any one. This, is ho'w it was; one day
he met one of our niggers, and in an
impudent sort of way asked a ques-
tion: concerning our family. Now Pah-
son, our .fancily affairs are not the pub-
lic's property, and when that nigger
told me of the impudence of the in-
quisitive person, it meant pistols,: and
it was pistol's. It wasn't my fault
that he wouldn't shoot, and stood like
a crummy with his pistol in his hand
looking at me Wen ole 'Tim Warman
counted three; and I guess as he felt
the sting of the btillet.that' let out his
heart's 'blood that he wished he !hadn't
asked the nigger of a born gentlemlan
whether his young master had reach-
ed ihome
eached'home ,safely 'the night he drank too
much .nicker and raised hell in the vil-
lage. It ain't safe to question' nig-
gers about their ma'ster's affairs,
!The Virginian here turned' his eyes
away from the parson, who now stood
as if 'he were an antagonist, determin-
ed not to let hien .escape.
"Why do you evade your duty?" he
asked lowering his voice, "Are you a
cowcard Mr. Luridson, Your last epi-
sode,' not your first."
'Fire flashed from the colonel's eye;
he cast a quick, glance at the parson,
who with folded arms stood facing
him, and then, as if resperti g the
cloth of the man of God, or subdued
by thlat placid_ gaze, he turned his eyes
toward the ceiling,
"The last affair to this date you
mean, Pahison, pot ,necessarily .the :last
one. 'Neo man knows'' when he may
strike a quarrel, any more than he
knows jest when he may stip off the
tight -rope y'ou were preaching df," he
replied, leering in a sinister way at
the parson. "You want my episode
and you seem to want it bad. Now
yon s'h'all have it, and I .call • these
gentlemen to witness that you forced
me to relate it. II'm not ashamed of
my record, nor afr'a'id to ,make a clean
breast of it, but. I hey done all a
gentleman can d10 to save trouble, and
if trouble cone's it ain't my fault.
"'This is the way it happened:
I hain't much schooling, but :I hey
enough to ansah ail the use a bon.i'
gentleman has fer hook lean iing,, ,I
went to school' until I could read the
news'papah and:, write a fair leiter, and
then I found'it'uselessto spend more
time with books. II didn't -intend to
write a novel or edit a dictionary, end
I didn't prolp'ose to fool away my time
on matters that were .of no particular
value to a -gen't'leman of, leisure, so I
dropped school and turned my atten-
tion to foxes and dogs.
"Wall, that ole schoolhlou'se s
until this .war came,lt'oneralble asoa
schoolhouse' should s'tan'd'bt
our forces retired and It d the Yankee
a
lines were advanced, beyond us, the
house web disgraced by this Freed-
man's .Bureaus You wo•uldii't: believe
it if a gentleman. like 'myself didn't
certilfy to the fact, but a Yankee wah
THURSDAY, JANUARY ,:28, 1932,
sent to oursection and' Ie'iggalt school
wah started in the very house where
I had carred toy name on the bench..
Gelptlelnen, a' iiiggah' school."
'"Well," said a bit. Janes, "te'Ii es
about the 'niggalli school," •
"'There aiu'•t much , to tell, fer it
didn''t las'' long, A meeting 91 neigli-
bnairltood gen 'tlemen followed, and I
wah delegated to direct that-Ysnkee
to. close the doors and' leave the
co.unitry."
"Wel]?"
"I laid the case befoalt the yotulg
man who taught the school, .and one
Word led to anolhalc,nntil, finding that
he wean determined to persist in Itis
offensive course, I ,told hint that he
most either close that school or fight."
"Aced be fought you?„.
'"No, The long-haired varmint
hadn't sputilk enough to fight; be
turne'd his . bade, said, insolently:
"Scene me, please, but I hew this duty
to perform,' ,acrd shat_ the doah in my
face:"
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
' Medical
DR. H. ouipI3 BIOSIS, Physician,
and Surgeon, Late of London, Hos-
pital,
ospital, London, England. Special
attention to diseases of the -eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office and nevi
-
deuce behind Dominion Bank: Office
Phone No, 5; Residence Phone; 184. `
DR. F. J. BURROWS, -Seaforth.
Office and residence,' Goderich street,•,,
east of the United Church.' Coroner
for the County of Huron. Telephone'
No. 46.
'DIR.. C: • - MIAIOI(IA'Y.—C. 'Mackay.
honor graduate'. of ,Trinity University
and gold medallist of Trinity Medical
College; member of the College of
Physicians; and Surgeons, of Ontario.
"And you-”
"Kiclked, the doalt dawn, sized the
striplin'g by the throat and `squeezed
Nis rlilfe' otit,.. II didn't intend to Icill the
boy, fer he wahn't moh'n half grovtnt;
but, aftah I' got my- clutches on his
throat and :thought Of the insult he
had given me and saw a nigga'In's face.
'beh'ind my ole de,ak, I grew desperate,
and vehen I threw him onto the floor
his face was, as black as the slein olf:
the n'iggahs around him,"
"And then—"
"Njothfn." •I wiped myhands•I
o t my,
kerc'hief, galled my clogs and left the
fool n'i,ggahs and their cowardly teach -
ah,, fahad ' done my duty, 'I had given
the Yankee and the niggahs a lesson;
and I doti''t hey no s'quea'ni's now' over
the episode. 111 he had 'been a -bohn
gentleman I would hey shot hint in
his tracks; but as k wan, I choked
him as I would' a varmint. Nothin'
but a coward is ever ohoked to death.
Perish rte, if any long-haired Yankee
sh'all insult Colone'l Lurisdon,"
"What was the loan's name?"
'J'ones, sash, Jones, Same name as
youhself, Babson, .a very cenrnion
name," he said with a ,sneer, "anda
very ordinary moo, sun,"
Mr, Tones stood for a incitement as
if unconcerned: no change ` of facial
expnession, no. movement bespeaking
unusual' in'terest in the subject so
pbrulptly .ended. Then he spoke in a
soft, low' tone, so sweet and meld that
it is strange his voice could be 'heard
through the roaring of the storm that
eso:w suddenly flared up -as if the clos-
ing of the story head been the signal
'for its tumultuous onslaugh't.
"See," he said, "the clodc poins to
twelve. The New.Y;ear is upon -us:"
and as we turned our gaze upon the
face pd the clock, one by one the
husky gong struck, each .notethe as-
thmatic cry 'quivering hoarsely until
the next' peal came: 'At the last.'stroke
the 'parson d'rop'ped upon his knees.
"Let us 'pray," ' he murmured. The
building trembled in the temlpest, the
hanging sign squeaked and cried as:it'
flapped back and forth, the wind,.
moaned and sung through the stove'
pipe, the, shutter banged to and fro,
but all were unheard ''by those who
unexpectedly were called to listen to
the sweet, solemn' prayer of the tnan
IHe,,prayed for his :suffering coun-
try, now in' the throes of civil war;
fo'r the p'edple .cif the colonel in Vir-
ginia; and .'his brave countrymen' • in
the Southern arn'ly;..he asked b.less-
ings on the community in which he,
a man of the North, then chau'ced to
dwell; also on his own peolpie at
home, and prayed for his own .:breth-
ren in the trenches. Before closing Ile
asked God to forgive the last speaker,
who, a self-confessed murderer,' stood,'
unrepen'tan't and finally he murmur-
ed a player for t'he soul of the ' un-
suspecting boy -teacher who, in cold.
blood, had lost Itis life by the hand of
the murderous colonel.
To be continued.
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IDE, F. J.,R.'FOIRISITER—Eye, Ear
Nose and. Throat. Graduate in Medi -
eine, University of Toronto 1897.
Late Als'sistant New York Ophthal-:
mic anid'Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi-
bela, Lo•nd'on, England: At Comm-
ercial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd, Monday ia,
each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.nr.
DIR. W. C, SIBROAT.—Graduate of
Faculty of Medicine, University of
Western Ontario, London. Member
of College of Physicians and Sur-
geon's of Ontario. Office in rear o€
Aberhart's_ drug store, • Se-aforth.
Phone 90, . Hours 1.30-4 p.m., 7,3®
-9 p.m. Other hours by appointment.'
Dental
DIR. J. A. MIU'NIN, Successor to
Dr. R. R. Ross, g; aduate -of North-
western University, Chicago, IIL •Li -
centiate Royal College of Dental Sur-
geons, Toronto. Office over ,'lino•
hardware, Main St., Seaforth, Phone
151.
DR. F. J. .BIEOHIELY,• graduate
Royal College of Dental- Surgeons.
Toronto, Office over W. R. Smith's.
grocery, Main St., Seaforth,' Phones,
office 185W, residence 1654.
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MAIIN ST., SiEA,i10'RTH,' ONT.
All kinds of Insurance risks effect-
ed at lowest rates in First -Class
Companies.
THE McKILLOP
Mutual. Fire Insu
Insurance C.
FARM AiNID ISOLATED'; TOWN
PiRIOPERTY, ON -1,Y, ' INISUR1 1F
Of'ficers —.Jahn 'Ben'mewies, 'Brod.
hagen, President; Jas. `Connolly,'G db-
erich, Vice -(Pres.; ID. P. 'McGrew:1r,.
Seaforth 'No. 4, Seca-Treas. -
1D'ireotors-IGeo, . M'c1Gartn'ey, Sea..
'forth` No. 3; ,Alex,, Broadfoot, Sea -
forth No. 3; "Dames Evans, ;Seafoetfi'
No, 15; IRobt. ;Ferris, Blyth INlo. 1; Jas. -
Shol'dioe, Walton No. 4; John Tepper,
jBrucefiel'd:; 'W'illiam Knox, :Landes -'
borough.
Agents -alas. Watt,;Rsyth No. 1;,W
E. 1-Iinchley., ISea'forth; J. ,'A. Murray .>
tSe'aforblt !Na. 3; W. 'J, Yeo, 'Olindonr'
No..3; R. IG.lfianmuth, Bornholm.
Auditor's — Jas. 'Kerr, lSea'forrlb;
;'Phos.' Moylan, ISeIa'forth NO. 5.
Parties d'esirous' to effect •insurance:
or transact other ` business, ' will he
promptly attended to by applications
to any ;o'f'the above named officers ad-
dressed to their respective past
offices,
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