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THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933
arefentS
THE
HAVEN
Johnson.
(Continued from last week.)
tOH!APTE4R XXX'IR.
gat Which We Are the Guests of an
Entiperor
0 had 'b'efore this spent days among
th'e (Indians, on voyages of discovery,
as conqueror, as negotiator for food,
exchanging blue beads for corn and
turkeys. Other 'En'glish'men had been
with me. Klnowirag those with whom
we dealt 'for sly an'd fierce 'hea'then,
friends today, tomorrow 'deadly foes,
we kept our muskets ready and our
eyes and ears open, and, What with
the danger and the novelty and the
(bold wild ei,fe, :managed to extract
some merriment 'as well as prdfit
from these visits. It was different
now.
fDay after day II ate my heart out in
that 'cursed village. The feasltrnig and
the huiting and the trium'ph, the wild
songs and wilder dances, the 'fantastic
mummeries, the sudden rages, the
sudden laughter, the greatt-(fires with
their rings of ,painted warriors, the
sleepless 'sentinels, the wide ma'rsh'es
that could not be crossed by night,
the ,leaves that rustled so loudly be-
neath the :lightest footfall, ,the monot-
onous days, the endless nights when
I thought of her •grief, o'f 'her peril,.
maybe,—it was an evil dream, and for
my own pleasure I could not wake
too soon,
Should, we ever wake? !Should we
not sink from that dream without
into a deeper sleep whence there
would be no waking? It was a ques-
tion that :I asked myself each morning
a'dm'iring glances of the 'women Who
knelt about the 'fire prep'arin'g our
breakfast. 'When he saw us he rose
and came to meet us, and a ,i;mbraced
him, 'I was so glad to see him. "The
tRalppehannocks feas'te'd .me long," Ihe
said. "I :was .afraid 'that 'Captain Per-
cy would be gone to James own be-
fore I was back uP'on the P'anuunkey"
"Shall I ever see Jamestown again,
Nantau'quas?" lI (de'manded. 9 (have
my doubts."
He looked me full in the eyes, and
there was no d'oub'ting the candor •of
his•own. "You go With the newt sun-
rise," he ans'wered., ""Opechan:eanou:gh
hes given me his won'd."
"I am ,glad to hear it," I said. "Why
'have we been ,kepi at all? 'Why did he
not free tis five days .agone?"
He shook his head.11 11 dio not know.
Olpech'ancanough has many tho'ugh'ts
W'h'ich he shares +with no man. 'B'ut
now he will send you with ,presents
for the 'Govennor, and with messages
of 'love to the white men. lThere will,
be .a great 'feast to -day, and to -night
the young men and maidens will
dance before you. Then in the morn-
ing you will go."
'Will you not 'come •with us?" I
asked. ""You are ever wel'co'me among-
st us, Nantauqu'as, both for your s'is-
ter's sake and 'for your own. Rolfe
will rejoice to have you with him;
he ever grud:geth you to the forest."
Re shook :his head again. "Nanttau-
qua's, the s'on of Pow'hat'an, hath had
much 'tack with himself lately," he
said simply. "The white men's ways
have seemed very good to him, and
the God .of the'white men he knows
half looking to 'find another hollow to be greater than Okee, and good
between the hills before the night land tender; not like 'Okee, who sucks
should fall, The night fell, and 'there the blood of the children. 1 -le .remem-
w.as no change In the dream.
i1 will allow that the dark 'Emperor
to whom we were so 'much 'beholden
gave us courteous keeping, The best
of the hunt was ours. the noblest fish,
the most delicate roots. The skins 'be-
neath which we slept were fine and
soft; t'h'e 'women waited upon us, and
the old men and 'warriors held with
us much 'stately converse, sitting be-
neath the budding trees with the blue
tobacco smoke curling above our
heads: We were alive and sound of
.limb, well treated and with the ,prom-
ise of release; we might have •waited,
seeing that wait we must, in some
measure of content, We did not do so,
There was a horror in the air. From
the (m'ars'hes that were growing green,
tiny leaves and cool black earth and
naked •forest, it rose like an exhala-
tion. We knew not what it was, but
we breathed it in, and it went to the
marrow of our 'bones.
Opechancan ugh we, rarely saw,
thrush we were bestowed .-so near to
him that his sentinels served for ours.
{Like some god, he kept within his
lodge with the winding . passage,. and
the hanging mats between 'himand
the world without. At other times. le -
ening from that retirement, Ile would
Stride away into the forest. Picked
men went with him. and they were
gone for hours; but when they return-
ed they bore no trophies, brute nor
human, What they didwecould not
guess, We .might 'have, had much
comfort in Nantauquas,•'but the mor-
ning after our arrival •in. this village
the :Emperor sent him upon an em-
bassy to the 'Ra'ppahannocks, and
When for the 'fourth time the forest
stood 'black against the•sunset he had
not returned. Iff escape had been pos-
sible, we would not have 'waited the
cletrbtful 'fullfi,lment ref • ').;hat promise
made to u'e 'below 'the `Ulttamu'sac tem-
ples. But the vigilance ,of the Indian's
never slept; they watched us' like.
'haw'ks night and day, 'And the dry
leaves uatd:erfaot would not :hold their
peace, and there were the marshes to
crass and the river.
Thus four days ,ilralgged themselves
fiy, and in the early morning of the'
fifth, when we came from our wig-
wam, it was to find ,N'antatiquas sit-
ting 'by the fire, 'magnificent in the
bers Matoax, too, and how s'h'e loved
and eared for the white ).nen and
'would weep when danger threatened.
them. And Rolle is his brother and
'his ,teacher. But Opechanc'anough is
his king, and the red men are This
people, and the 'forest is his'h'orne. 1'1.
because he loved Rolfe, •ancl 'because
the 'ways of the white men seemed
'better than his own ways, ',he !forgot
these things, 'he did wrong, and the
One over :All ,fro'wn's upon him. Now
he has come back to his hanle again
to the 'forest and tate hunting and the
'warpath, to his king and his people.
He will be again the panther crouch-
ing upon '•the hough"—
"Above 'the white •men?"
II -le ;gazed at mein silence,'). s'h'adow
upon his face "tA'bove the mon'acans,"
he answered slowly, "Why did 'Cap
tain •Percy say above the 'white men?'
O'pechancanough and 'the :English
',nee buried the hatchet 'forever, and
the sms'ke of the peace pipe will never
fade 'from the air, Nan:tau>nuas `mea'n't
'above thelfonacans or the 'Long
'H -,r -e dogs.'
7' n'rt my haaad upon his shoulder.
-I kn,,w you did, :h'rnther.of 'Rolfe by
nature if not 'hy blood! {Forget what
I said; it was without thought or
meaning, If we go indeed 'to -morrow
1 shall he loath to lea.ve you behind;'
and yet, were 1 in your place , I
should do as you are doing."
The shadow 'left his fate and the
drew .himself up. e'Is it what you call
faith and loyalty and like a knight?"
he demanded, with a 'touch of eager-
mess breaking 'through The 'slowness
and gravity with. w'hic'h an. Indaian
speaks.
"Yea," I made reply. "II think yo:u
good •knight and true, 'Nantau'quas,
and 'my friend', ,moreover, Who saved
my fife,"
His 'smile was. like h.is sister's, quick
and "very bright, and' leaving b'ehin'dit
a naos't entire gravity. 'Together vie
eat . down 'by •the fire. andate of :the
sylvan breakfast, with shy b,ro'wn
maidens to serve us and With, :the' sun,
shine streaming ,dolwm: upon us
through the trees that were 'gro'wing
faintly green. It was a;th'ing,'to •snu'iia
at. to see how the Indian girlsm'ao-
oeuvred to give 'the choicest meat, ,the
most deli.,,te maize cakes, to the
paint and trappings of the .am'bass'a- y,oiuit,g war •chief, and to see llo'w
dor, mtotiolilless as a piece of bronze,
quietlyhe turned asst's 'their .benev-
and alpp'arenit=mindfully quite of the
olence.' The meal 'over, be went to
'd'iv:eslt h'iin:sellf ,elf Ih"pi's red. and white
paint, of the stuffed hawk .and s'tr'ings
that :formed his theadd,ress, of bas,,gor-
geous'blit and 'quiver and his mantle
of racoon skins, while 'Diccon an(d I
st't stilt ibelore row wigwam, s'm'oking,
and re'ckon'ing the distance to: 'James-
town and the shb'ntes!t time in which
we could cover i't,
When we !had sat'there for an 'hour
,the old men and the 'Warriors came to',
visit. us, and the smoking tn'u's't com-
mence allover again. The, women
laid meats in a• "great 'ha'l'f .circle; and
each 'sav'age itook 'his 'seat•'wi'th 'perfect
'breed'in'g; ,than 'i's in absolute silence
and with a face like a stone. The ,peace
paint was upon them all,—red, 'or wed
land white; they 'suit ,and looked at :the
monad •ten'till II bad 'made t'h'e ,speech
of welcome. 'Soon the .air was dense
with 'fragrant- smoke; in the thick
bkr'e haze Ith'e sweep 'df ,painted figures
'hald ;the. 'seeming of 'some 'fan'tasltd'c
d'ream, An (o'ld men arose and made
a long 'and touching 'sp•eecle With,
much ,relfe•renice ` 'to, •ic'alunnete and
buried 'hatchets: When ,hie had fin-
ished a chief tanked of C!pechan'can-
ough's 'l'o've for the 'Eingliele '"high as
the star's) deep as IP:opo,guss'o, wide as
from the 'sunrise to The sunset," add
ing that the death Of 'N'em'atta:aow
last year and. the eroulbles over ,the
hu'ntin'g :gratun'dis 'had kindled"in .the
breasts of 'th'e Indians no .desire for
revenge. 'With which 'highly pro'bab'le
statement he made an end, and all sat
in silence looking at me Panel evaiti'ng
for my contribution of honeyed
words. 'These 'Penvun'keys, living: at
a distance from the settlements, 'had
but little English to -Their credit, end
the 'learning •of .the 'Paslpa'hegh's Was
not much greater. 'I sat and repeat-
ed to -them th'e better, park of the
seventh' dente o'f the second 'bo'o'k of
Master Spenser's "Peery Queen)." And
I told them the story of the Moor of
Venice, and ended by relating 'S'mith's
tale df the three Turks' heads. 'It all
answered the purp'o'se to admiration.
'When at ;length they 'went away to
change their paint for the coming
feast 'Dimon and T laughed, at that
foolery as though there were none
'beside us 'ttlho could' juggle with
word's, We were as light-hearted as
children 'God forgive usl
The day wore on, 'with relay after
relay of food which we must taste
at least, with endless smoking o'f pipes
and speeches that must -be listened to
and answered, When evening came
and our entertainers drew off to pre-
pare for the dance, they left -us AS
wearied as by a long da'y's march,
:The wind had been 'high during the
day, but with the sunset it sank to a
desolate murmur. The sky wore the
strange crimson Of the past year at
Weyanoke. Against that sea Of color
the pines were •drawn in ink, and be-
neath it the winding, 'threadlike 'creeks
that •pierced the marshes had the l'o'ok
of spilt 'blood moving slowly and
heavily to join the river -that was
black where Ide'pines shadowed it red
where the light touched it, -From the
marsh arose the 'cry of same great
bird that made his home there; it had
a lonely and a boding sound, like a
trumpet blown above the. dead. The
color died into an ashen gray and the
air grew cold, with a heaviness beside
that dragged at the very soul. Diccon
shivered violently, turned restlessly
upon •tile log that served hint as a sett-
le, :and 'began to mutiter to himself.
'Art 'cold?" I asked.
111e shook 'his head. '"Something
walked over any grave," he said. ''I
would give ale the Pohi kc
ry that was
ever brewed by heathen for' a toss of
aqua vitae1' '
In the centre •of the village rose a
great heap of, logs and dry branches.
built during the day by the women
and children. :V1°'hen the twilight fell,
and the o'wl's• began to hoot this pile
wan fired, and lit the place from cad
to enc.. The scattered 'wigwamis, the
'scaffolding where the 'fish were .driecl.,
,he tall pines and wide -branching m:uh
berries, the trodden grass] -all flashe-
ed • into sight as the flame roared up
to the topmost 'withered 'bough, The
village ,glowed like a lamp set in the.
dea'1i blackness of marsh and forest.
Opechancanough Banc from the for-
est with a score of warriors behind
hinn, and etoppad,beside ,ire. I rose to
greet hint, as was decent; for he . was
an Emperor, albeit a savage and a
pagan. "Tell 'th•e English that Ope-
chancanough grows old," he said
"The years that once were, as light
upon, 'him as the dew upon 'the maize
are now hailstones to beat him back
to the earth whence 'he dame, His
arm is not swift to strike and strong
as it once was. He is old; the war-
path and the scalp dance please him'.
no longer, He would die at pes'ce
with • all men. Tell she English this;
tell them also that IO'p'e'c'hlanIca'nough
'
kn'o!ws that they. are good and just,
that they do not treat men wh'o'se
co•lor is not their own 'bike babes, fool-
ing theta with toys, thrusting theme
out •of their path w'he'n they grow
'troufs'l•esomte. The land is wide and
the 'hunting .grounds are many. Let
the red men who were here as .many'
moans ago as there are leaves in sum-
mer and the White men who came
yes!tenday dwellside by side in ,p•eace.
sharing the .maize 'fields and the: weirs
and the. hunting grounds . together."
.He waited not for inry 'answer, but
passed an, and there was no signof
age in his stately figure and le'i's slow,
firm step. 1I 'eratc'lted 'hike with a
fro'wnr until the •darlcnes's of his'. lodge
had. ewad'lolwed tep him and his war-
riors, 'and m'is'trusted him' for a solid
and (subtle devil.
(S'ud'denly, as we 'sat staring at the
fire we were 'beset'b'y 'a band oif nna'd!d-
ens; conning one of the woods, painted,
Wli'tlh antlers .u'pontheir heads and ,pone
branches in their 'hands. They d'an'ced
about 'us, stow adivaincing until :fhe
green nee!dle!s met albov:e our (heads,
now retreating =ail .there was a ispace
of turf between ns. ,'Their slender
limlbs •glea'meld in ,the'fireuighlt; they
moved )worth grace, keepi'agi time to.
a ,p'l!ainntive song, nlolw r'a'i's'ed ;by the
whole choir, lnolw 'fallle'n to a 's'in'gle
vo'ic'e. )Poic'a'hontlta's land daed. thus
before the Englisch' (danced
many a 'bine. T
th'ough't elf the little maid, 'of •':heir
great won'd'ering eyes and her piteous,
un'ti'mely death, o'f hoiw loving 'she w'as
fo Rollfe and 'how 'happy they h'a'd'
'been in their. brief •wedd'ed life, It
had !bioouneid lice a rose, as fair and
as early fa'll'en, with 'only a m•em'ory
of. past ' s'weetn'ess, Death w'as a
cdward, p'a'ssing by man .Wh'os'e trade
it was to outb'rlave him, and str'i'king'
at iheeyoun'g and 'lovely and innocent:
lWe w'ere -tired with all the enu'm-
mery of the dray; moreover, event'
.fibre of our •soul's 'had ,been strained
to meet the -hours th'a't "had passed
since wnl left the gaol .at Jamestown..
The elation we had felt earlier in the
day was all gone. (New, the pl'ain'tive
so'nlg, ,the swaying figure's, the red
light b'ea'ting against the 'trees, the
'biacknesls 'elf the ,en's'h'roaildling 'forest,
the low, melan'cho'ly wiled,—all things
seemed strange, and yet deadly old,
as though we h'ad seen and 'heard
theta since the beginning of the world'.
All dlt o'nce a 'fear Bell upon me,. cause-
less and u'nreason'able, but weighing
upon my heart• like a stone. ,She was
in a palisaded town, under the %Ganeer-
n•or's protection, 'with my friend's
about her and nay enemy lying sick,
unable to harm her. II't was '1, not
she, th'a't was in danger. if laughed
at 'myself, but my heart was heavy,
and I was 'in a fever to be gone,
The Indian girls danced more and
mare swiftly, and their sang changed,
becoming gay and shrill and sweet.
Higher ag'd higher ,rang the nates,
faster and faster moved the dark
limbs; 'then, quite su'd'denly, song and
'motion 5e'ased together. They who
'had danced with the a'band,onnent o'f
Kidd priestesses to some wild -god
were -again , but shy brown Indian
maid's who went and set them meekly,
down upon the grass beneath the
trees: From 'the darkness now .came
a burst of savage cries only less a'p-
,padling'th'an the war whoop -itself; In
a moment the men of the vili'age had
rushed from the s'hado'w df the trees
into 'she •broad, firelit space before -us.
:Now they circled around its, now a-
round the fire; now each man danced
and stamped: an•d unuttered to 'himself.
For th'e most part ,ehey were painted
sed, but some were white from head
to heel,—statues _come to life,—while
others h'ad :first oiled their bodies.
then plastered them over with small
hrigiht-colored feathers. ' The tall
'he'ad:dresses ma -de giants of them all;
as they leaped and danced in the glare
of the .fire they .had a fiendish look.
They sang, too, but the air was rude,
and broken by -dreadful cries. Out of
a 'hut behindu ur • two three
burst wo or t res
conjurers, •and a score or more of old
men. 'They had Indian drums up i
which they beat furiously, and 'long
.pipes made of reeds which gave forth
no uncertain sound. Fi*etl u'p'on a
pole and borne high above them was
the :image of their Okee, a hideous
thinld of stuffed skin's and tattling
chains'. of copper. When they 'had
ioiee,rl themselves to the throng in the
firelight the clamor became dea'fen-
ing. • Some one . piled on more logs,
and the place grevi light as day.. Ope-
chancanough wee not there, nor 'Nan-
tatequas.�
IDiccon and Iwatched that uncouth
spectacle, that 'Virginian masque, as
we 'had watched many another one,
w'it'h disgust and weariness, It would
last, we knew, for the (better (part of
she ght, It was in our honor, ands
fo•r a 'while 'we must s'ta'y and testify
our pleasnre;''but after a time, when
they hlad sung and' danced themselves
into oblivion of our presence we
might retire, and leave the very old
]non; the women, and. the children sole1
sip'ectatons: We waited for that relief
iwith imp'atien'ce, though we s'ho'wed
-' t not 'to those who pressed about us..
' (Tune p'asse'd, and the noise deepen-
cd and the dancing became more fran-
tic. The ,dancers s'tru'ck at one another
las they leiap.ed and whirled, the sweat
rolled -front their bodies, and from.
it lip's' came hoarse, ,animal -like
cries. 'The fire, 'ever freshly fed, roar-
ed and craicicled, nno'oking:the silent
;stars. The 'pin'e!s were bronze-red,`'!the
woo-ds'beyon'd a 1e'ad,'black. AM, noises
,Of marsh e'n'd forest were 'loslt in the
sere= o!f the p'i'pes, 'the wild' yelling,
and the'bea'tin'g of the deems.
IFron the ,ranks o'f the women be-
neath the 'redld'ene'd pines' rose shrill
laughter 'an'd applause as they sat or
'knelt, bent (forward, watching The
!dancers. One girl Monne watched -noel
;them, b'u't us, Site s'to'od somew'h'at
back of 'her companions,' -one slim
brown 'hand Mulching the trunk of . a
tree, one 'birolvere foot :advanced, "her, at-
titude that :of one who waits but for
a 'signal 'to b'e gon'e..Ntiw.'anid '-then
she glan'ced impatiently at the wait-
ing figures',
waitin'g'figu'res', or at the old meat and 't'h'e
few wa'rrio'rs 'w!ho' took no part in the
nnaslq'ue, but .her eyes always came
black to us. She had been, among the
maidens Who .d'a'nced 'before ;us earlier
the,night, when they rested beneath
the tree's ,slh•e 'h'a'd gone away, and th.e
night was much older when I' (narked
-her again,'.cornin.g oue of the firel'it
distance back to the fire and :her dlusky
nates. It was soon after this that I
;became aware that sh-e must have.
some reason for 'her anxious scrutiny
or some mes'sa'ge 'to d'elive'r, :waning
to .give. Once 'I m'ad'e 'a sligh't motion
es if to go to 'her, she shook her ,head
and Paid 'her 'finger upon her lips.
A d'a'nc'er fell from sheer exh'au`stion,
(another and another, and warriors
from the dozen or more seated at our
right began to ''ba'ke the ,places of :the
fal'len. The priests •siuo!ok t'h'eir rattles,
and made the'nrselves dizzy with bend-
ing- and
end-ing-and whirling about their Okee;
the old men, too, 'th'ou'gh they sat like
:statues, thought only of the dance and
how they themselves had excelled,
long ago when ithey were young.
T rase, and making m'y way to the
wero'wannce o'f the village where he
sat with his eyes fixed upon a- young
IIndian, his sen, who bade fair to out-
last all others in that wild contest,
told hint that I was wearied and w otrid.
go to my hut and ,my serv'an't, to- rest
for ehe'few hours that yet remained of
the night. He listened dreamily, 'his
eyes upon the dancing Indian, but
remade offer to escort me thither, I
pointed out 'to him that my quarters
were nut fifty yards away in the broad
firelight, in sight of ahem a'ld, and ,.that
it were 'a p'i'ty' to take him or any oth-
ers from the contemplation o'f -that
whirling Indian, so strong, so brave
•that' he would surely one day lead tlhe
war Parties,
After a moment .he acquiesced, and:
Diccon and 'I, quietly and yet with
some ostentation, so as to avoid all
'ap(pearance of stealing away, left the
press of ,sla.vages and began, to cross
the firel:it turf be't'ween them and our
lodge. When we had gone fifty panes
i glanced over my shoulder and saw
)that the Indian maid no 'longer stood
where we had last seen her, beneath
the .pines. A little farther on we caught
a glimpse o -f her winding in and out
among a row of trees t0 our left. The
trees ran past our lodge. When we
reached its entrance we paused and
looked back to the throng we had left..
Every ,back seemed turned to us, ev-
ery eye intent upon the leaping figures
around the great 'fire. Swiftly' and
quietly we walked 'across the bit of
even ground to the friendly trees, and
found aterse'lves in a thin• strip of sha-
d'ow'hetween the dight of the great fire
we had left and that of. a lesser one
burning redly "before the Emperor's
-lodge, 'Beneath the trees, 'waiting for
us, was the Indian maid, with her
1•igh;t form, and lenge, shy eyes, and
finger upon her lips: She would not
speak or tasty, but flitted "before .as
as dusk and noiseless as' a moth, and
we ,followed her into The darkness be-
yond the fireiig+ht, weld-nig'h to ,the
(line o'f sentinels, A wigwam, :larger.
titan co-mmon and shadowed (by trees,
rose inour path; the girl, gliding in
•fr'li't of :us, held aside the mats that
curtained the entrance. We hesitated
a nyoment, °then stooped and wintered
the place.
(To be •Continued.).
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Medical
DR. H. HUGH ROSS, Physician
and Surgeon. Late of London Her
pital, London, England, Special
attention' to disease's of the eye, els,
nose and throat. Office and resi-
dence behind Dominion Bank, Office
Phone No, 5; Residence Phone 104.
DR.' F, J. B'UIREOIWIS, Seaforth,
Office and residence, God'eric'h street,
east of the United Church. Coelomic'
;for the County of Huron. Telep'he i»
No. 46,
DR. F. J. R. FIOIRISITIIR-Eye, Ela
Nose and Throat. Graduate in Medi-
cine, University of Toronto' 1694.
Late Assistant New York Ophthal-
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield'',
Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi-
tals, London, England. Al Coma -
ereial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd Monday M.
each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
DIR. W. C. S'PIROIAT.—Graduate of
Faculty of Medicine, University of
Western Ontario, London. Member
of College of Physicians and Sur-
geons • of Ontario. Office in rear a4
Aberhart's drug store, Seaton*
Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m., -9.30
-9 p,m. Other ,hours by appointment,
Dental
DIR J. A. MUNN, Successor to
Dr. R. R. Ross, graduate of. North-
western University, Chicago, Lll. Li-
centiate Royal College of Dental Sur-
geons, Toronto. Office over Sills'
hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone
151.
DR. ' F. J. REMEDY, • graduate.
Royal College of Dental Surgeons,
Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's
grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Plfonds,
office'/1851W, residence 1851.
Auctioneer.
GEIOIRGIE ELLIOTT, Licensed
Auctioneer for the County of Huron.
!Arrangements can bemadefor Sale
Date at The Seaforth News. Charges
'moderate, and satisfaction guranteed.
WATSON AND 'RWII3®E
REAL .ESTATE
AND INSURANCE AGENCY
(Succssors to "James 'Watson)
•MAII'N °ST, SEAHORTH, ONT.
Ail kinds. of•,Insurance risks effect-
ed at lowest rates in First -Class
Companies.
THE NicKILLOP
Mutual t al Fire insuranceCo.•F�
HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont
OFFICERS
'Geo, R. McCartney, Seaforth - Pres.
Jones Connolly, Goderic'h - Vice -'Pres..
Merton A. Reid, Seaforth-:Sec. - Treas.
AGENTS:
'li1r. E. Hinohley, Seaforth; John
Murray, R. P.. 3, 'Seaforth; E. R G.
Jarmo'ubh; Perod'hagen; James Watt,
°Blyt'h; C, F. Ilew'itt, .IKincardine,
DIRECTORS: DIRECTORS:
William Knob, Llond'esboro; George
,Leonhard t, Brodhagen; James (Con-
nally, Goderich; Alex, Broadioot, No.
3, Seaforth; Robert Ferris, Blyth;
George McCa'r'tney, No, 3, Seaforth;
Jahn Pepper, Brumfield; James Shol-
dice, Walton; Thomas Moylan, No. 5,
Seaforth,
Parties desirous to effect insuranet
or transact ot'her business,will be
promptly attended to by applications
to ,any o'f the above named officers ad-
dressed to their respective pout,
offices.
II1 Will 'Prevent 'Ulcerated Throat
At the first symptoms of sore throat,
which presages ulceration and inflam-
mation, take a spoonful of Dr.
'Thonn!as' ,Eclectric Oil, Add a .little
sugar to "•make it :palatable. It will
allay the irritation and prevent the
ulceration • and s'wellin'g that are ni
painful. Those wlo were ,periodically
subject to quinsy have thus ena.de
themselves immune bo attack,