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" .Splish -- splash,' went that
wretched chig through the mud, his
ears hanging down: andhis Cale -be-
tween his leabs: 1
"Oh !, the ugly, dog !" •-ctied two
young girls who were ' carrying
home clothes from the wash.
,
Oh! the ugly • brute I'' .shouted
a carter; and he gaveshrie whip a
loud creek: to, frighten hien. ',Brit
the dog took no heed ef them, - He
ran patiently on, only stopping at
the crossings when there were •too
many carriages for him tcr-pass, hut
net seeming to busy himself at all
as to what people said, or what they
thought about him. .i
He ran on eo for a on way.
No doubt of it, he was an ugly
dog. He • was lean and scraggy.
.His coat Was of a -dirty gray color,
and in many places the hair was
worn off in retches. - Neither were
there any tokens -that he had ever
been a hanasoine dog, and that his
piesent state of wretoliedness was-
- owing merely to sudden niisfortune.
He looked, on the contrary, as
though he had ialWitys been an
fed dog, dog, having desultory habits, no
home to go to, and seldom anything
better to eat than a chanee bone or
' a crust picked up- in the gutter.
Yes, he was certainly a miserable
dog.
Bat I wondetecl to see'_him run so
obstinately in the middle or the
road, when there was room in
plenty, fol. htrn -.on the -pavement.
He was a small dog, and by trotting
close ender the shopefronts he could
leave slipped ;unnoticed 'through the,
crowd, and not 'eltaye exposed him-
self to be run over oy- the ca.os and
whipped by the oarteis. But no;
he preferred the-, toad where the
mud was, and he ian'straight before
him,, without looking right or left,
just exactly as if lie)Lnew his way.
I might have paid no. more attention to this dog, fol.' there are
enough of,. whom I tale lio notice;
• but I observed, that he had a collar
round his neek, and , that.- to this col-
lar was attached a basket This &It
nee thinking ; for a dog who ?.arries .h
•a basket is either a dog sent out on e
an errand, or a runatvey dog who' ab
has left his mestere:and does not n
know where , to 'go. Now,' which re
could this one be?" If he was a dog
that ran. bu erre:1de, why di- not
his ownerfeed him better, s that
his'ribs should look less spare. But
• 1
a
if he wee a dog who 'lied left his
Master, and rtin away into the. World
to face care and trouble alone, what
hardships and what cruelties had he
had to suffer, that he shOeld have
taken sueh a step in deipair 7 I felt I
= should like to have these questions
answered, for 'there was Something
of mystery in thew; ,I 1 therefore
followed the dog. '. e
We were iu Oxford street, in that
• part of it whieh lihs between the
Marble Arch and Duke street, and
6
the dog was running in the direc-
tion, of the Regent Circus. It was
a dull, wet clay in *inter ;'the rain
•had been falling. A •gray fog -was
spreading its etapors -along the road,
and every one looked cold and un-
cotrifortable. A few shops were he. _
-ing lighted up here and there, for
evening was setting in. \But the
contrast between the glare of the
n,
aas and the oecasional glow. of the
red coal fires burning' cheerily in
the grates of ,grouni floor par-
lors, only served to make the stre-ets
'seem more dirk and dreaey. And
yet the dog went pattering on, going
at a 'sort of quick jog -trot pace,
keepirig-his ears always down, and
paying no attention either t� the
omnibuses that rolled by him, the
costermongers that swore at him, or
the other dogs whostopped at times
with a puzzled air, and gazed at
him with silent wonder. • I had to
step out fast to keep up with hina.
It is hstonishing , how that squalid
dog could trot. I was affaid more
than once that he would distance
me; but, thanks to the knack he had
of always keeping the middle of the
toad, I was prevented from losing
• sight of hira, We passed -NOrth
-Andley street, after that Duke
street; and we then came opposite
• a email street; which forms a -very
narrow and ditty thoroughfare at
the end which is nearest Oxford
street. _Here the dog paused for a
moment incl appeared to hesitate rte
to what he should do. He made a
few steps forward, then receded, but
finally, seemed to make up his mind
and entered the steeet, still trotting.
There weeps) one there. The dim
drizeling ram, ff
nwhich had begun to
fall again, the cold, and the fog had
all scared away the habitual fre-
quenters of the one or two sordid
cookshops that line both sides of
the way. There was only a rag and
bone man sorting broken bottles at
his door and coughing wheezily from
old age and misery, . The dog went
on. The street grows wider as one
proceeds, and the houses also be-
come better and cleaner. I asked my-
self whether the dog could possibly
have his home a„bout here, and wheth-
er he would not suddenly disappear
down an area, -in which case the ro,
mance of the thing would hate been
'ended, and I Should have had my
walk for nothing. I:Satinet, he turn-
ed abruptly off at a mews, and after
a few seconds of the same apparent
hesitatiore as before, slackened. his
pace Hied stopped opposite, a public
house.
A niews is never quite empty:
There are always groomefloafing
about in doorways; or stable -boys
going n and out of wilahduses. At
the nit ment when the dog land I'tits-
-peered a coachmen was harnessing
two h rses to a brougham, and a
• couple of men were helping him.
()epos te, and exchanging: rernarles
With hem from the, threshold of
the .p blic house, utood a ser-
vant in breeches, smoking a long
clay pipe; the dog was standing
still ; „IAA all at' once, before I had
time to suspedt what was going to
happen, he rose up on his hind' legs
and cotnntenced walking gravelyround 'In circles.
The man 'with the breeches and
clay p pe uttered a cry of,. stirprise.
Thet o others and the coachman
taised heir heads, and, upon seeing
this st ange sight,' left their work
and,cle stered up to look. A few
more people, attracted by the noise, -
came aild joined us. We soon form- _
ed a rieg.'•
It s hmed to please the dog tousee
Ili all routed him, for be gravely
waggec his tail once to and fro, and
tried tc put more spirit into his ex-
ercise. He walked five timearound
on his iinder legs, lookheg fixedly
before, im like a soldier on duty,
and dopigt his beat, poor dbg !—I
could See that—to make- us laugh.
For iny part, seeing the others remain
speechl ss in their astonishmeet. I
laughe aloud to encourage hien ;
but s•ha' 1 I say •the truth? I felt
more Vi eady to 'cry. There Was
sonieth'ng inexpressibly sad in the
serious xpression of this lonely dog,
perfors ing 'by himself & few tricks
that so e e absent master bed taught
him, a d doing s6 of his own ac-
cord, with seine secret end in view
that he himself only cold know ot.
After t tn
kinga moefit's rest he set
to work again, but this tinte orehis
fore-feei, pretending to stand on his
head. nd What a poor,-intelligentead it was, as almost shaving the
round, it looked appealingly at us
11, and seemed to say Please- do
ot` pia any pranks with me, for
ally I am not doingthis for fun."
When he had walked- round until
he was weary, he lay'clown in the
midst o the rig and made believe
to be de d. Ile went through all
thd con ulsiOns of a dying dog,
• breathin heavily, panting. suffer-
ing his 1 wer jaw to fall, and then
turning. over ruotionlees. And he
•tlid this o well that a stout, honest -
faced w man, who had been look-
ing on w thout laughing, exclaimed,
"Poor beast !" and drew herhand
across h r -eyes. •
The in. zontinued td but
riot one lof us thought of .rnoving,
only. the dog, when he had lain dead
a minut ,egot up and shook him-
self, to 44ow -us all that the perform-
ance waei ended. • He had displayed
the extent of what he knew, and
ndtv cam 4 forward to teceiv-e his fee.
He stood i up on his hind -legs again,
walking to each of us separately, as-
sumed the -posture that is popularly,
known eke "begging." I was the
first to- whom he- came. He gazed
at me inquiringly- with his soft eyes
wide opened, and followed my hand
patiently to my waistcoat pocket.
The basket round his neck was a
round one with a lid to it tied down'.
with a string, and a little slit in the
lid through which to put in nioney.,
I dropped in a shilling and stooped
down to read a bit of crumpled pa-
per I saw hangiag loosely from the
collar. It bore these words, written
in a shaky hand "This is the dog
of a poor man who/is bed -stricken ;
he earns the bread/ of his master.
Good people, do not keep him from
returning to his .1-rome." The dog
thanked me for my offering by wag-
ging his tail, and then. passeel.on to
my neighbor. Human nature.must
be kinder'than people think, for
there wasi not, one of the spectators
—not ev n he with the breeches
and the clay 'pipe, whose face had
impressed me unfavorably but
6aave. the dog something. As. -for
him, when he had gone his round, he
barked two or three times to. say
good-bye, and then pattered con-
tentedly away at the same jog -trot
pace he ha1 come.
He wert up the street, and I fol-
lowed hint but when we had reach's
ed Oxford street he quiekened sud-
denly, anc. began to run hard, as if
his day' w s ended and he wanted to
get horne. Evening had quite fal-
len by thi time, and I felt it would
be useless 6 go after my fourlegged
mystery 0s foot, so I called a cab,
and said:: 'Follow that dog," very
much to th driver's amazement.
it is a I ng way from the part of
• Oxford str et •in wbich we were to
Tottenham Court Read, where the
small dog I d me. But I should
haveunder tood the journey had it
not been m de at such a furious pace.
The dog n ver once looked round.
Twenty times I thought he would
he crushed by passing vans or car-
riagesbut somehow he got through
it. He had an extraordinary tact
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for=finding a passage between horses
hoof, and like a true London dog as
he was, he showed intimate? famili-
arity with all the intrieacies1 of
cvossings. Still, it was some relief
to me, both- on his own- account and
on inine, when I saw him bran.ch off
at lase I- was, beginning to fpar
that he would never stop, that hp
had something of the wandering
Jew in hint. It seemed impossible
that, without taking any rest, with-
out even pausing for an instant to
• 'thew breath, such a very lean dog
should keep on going so long. Tot-
tenham Court Road .(this was abDut
eighteen months ago) used to be a
sort of fair at night time. It is a
lengthy high way - running amidst' a
tangled network of sorry streets, the
population of which, from dusk un-
tilehe hour when the 'public -houses
close, used to spread hungry and idle
aneonget the countless booths which
had then not been swept' away, and
where Shell -fish, sourfruit • and indi-
gestible -looking meat were sold by
yelling coster mongers. On the
night in gee -dime when I went there
in pursuit Of the dog, I foresaw that
should be led to one of those sick-
ly nests of fever, where poverty, dis-
ease and misery. have their abodes
`set eV in permanence ; •and I was
not wrong. -
The'dog, running faster than ever -
now, as if he felt more afraid for his
basket amonget these ravenous
crowds than he had done at the
West ati bolted suddenly up a
narrow side street, where there was
no room foia cab to pass. I paid
the driver, and jumped out. It
was a filthy street, but that was a•
secondary matter. Whet() the dog
went I would go; and thus T dodg-
ed after hien., first Clown a crooked
alley, then through a foul court, and =
lastly up a .passage *here it was
pitch dark. Here t'groped my Way
along a, da6p wall, and: •.stumbled
upon the. first step •of a staircase.
Being a • smoker, however,- I had
some vesuvians about me. I struck
-one, lit a piece of twisted paper with
it, and by 'the moment's flame I
thus obteined descried the dog mak-
ing his way up e cieaky flight of
wooden steps, tottered in • places
and rotting.frorn mold. • He barked
when he saw the light, and growled
uneasily. But I softened my voice,
and cried out, "Good dog! good
clog !" • trying thereby • to appease
him. • I spppose his instinct told
him that I3WaS not an enemy, for he
turned rotind to sniff my trousers,
and when I struc)e. a second vesuvi-
an he consented to my accompany-
ing him without doing anything
t lse but continue his sniffing. We
went up- three stories in this, way,
until we reached the garret floor.
There were two doors lace to face,
and one of them had a latch with ti
piece of sering, tied to it.The string
dangled with sa loop at its end to
within a few inches of the ground.
The dog raised one of his fore paws,
pressed it on the loop, and by this
means opened the door. We both
walked in together.
There was,a rushlight burning in
the neck, of a gingerj-beer bottle..
There was an empty saucepan in a
grate without., a fire. Some tatter-
ed clothes were hanging on the back
Of a broken chair, and some bits of
plaster, fallen from a cracked ceiling
were encumbering the floor. On
the splintered deal table was a plate
with a -solitary bone on it, and next
to it a cup with the handle gone. I
feinted from. the sight of • these
things to a mattress laid in a corner
of the room. The light was render-
ed so flickering by the gust § of wind
that swept through the window—to
'which bits of -nhwspapers had. been
pasted for .want of glass—that I
could not at first distinguish very
clearly where I -was and .what I
saw. reould• only hear the affec-
tionate whinings of the dog, and
vaguely see him leaping upon some
one aga,inst Whom he was tubbing
his head, and whose face Ire was
licking with an exuberance of love.
I heard a voice, too, but a ;_ofce so
hiiiiky and broken, that it resembled
a whisper --repeat feebly, "Good
dog, good Jim !" and then I saw a
hand untie the -basket, and heard
the sound of money poured out on
the couch.. •
"Good ! goed Jim .!" went
on the cracked h-ofee, and it begatl
counting, "One, two. Oh, good
Jim! here's a shilling. One-and-
threepenie, one-andhiinepence, two
shillings. Oh, good dog! three -
and -a -penny, -three and
But here followed a terrified
shriek.
" Who's that ?" cried the man,
covering up the money with his
sheet, and he looked at me, livid
and haggard with the ague of fever.
-"Don't be frightened," I said;
"1 am coine to do you no harm. I
am a friend: • I have followed your I th
dog home, and I desiie to -help you
if you are in need."
He seemed to be a man about fif- tt%
ty, fot his hair was not all gray •,• ti
but the ghastly hollowness of his ti
cheeks, the emaciated condition of ID
his body, and, above all, the gleam st
of disease in his bruiting eyes, made
him older looking than a man of
ninety, for they told more plainly
than words could have told that he
had already One foot within: his
grave. ,
- My tone and my appearance
seemed to reassure him; but -he
continued to hide his money. • .
"1 am • a poor man, sir," he
gasped—" a very • poor man.
have nothing but what my dog earns
me, and that kr nothing. He goes
out to iale ; and if he picks up a
few pence'—(here the man* had a
fit of hectic coughing)—" if he picks
up a few pence. sir, ite; all he do
pick -up."
• I felt my heart ache, for I guess-
ed the truth.
" He's an idle dog,' I said.
"Has he not earned,you more than
three shillings to -day "
"Oh, no, sir, no, sir, it's three
pence," protested the miser, trembl-
ing. " It's • threepence -- three-
pence, sir. Look ad see."
And he held up three copper
coins from out of his covering. .
"You are ill, my nian,"i I said,
apploaching his mattress. You
must letme send you a doctor."
" Oh, sir! no, no; Is—I've no
money to give them. Let me alone,
please. TIM not ill; • I shall be
-well tosmorrow. It's nothing but a
cold—a—a oold."
His dog was. continuing to lick
hie face. I reniembered that the
poolebrute had not eaten:
"Your dog muet be hungry," I
observed, snall I give him this
bone? He has earned it well."
"Oh, 'God I—oh, God ! Let thet
bone alone," faltered the unhappy
wretch, trying to rise, "it's my
supper for to -night. Jim 'doesn't
want anything, he `picks up plenty
in the. 'streets. Oh !—oh ! I shall
starve if you give him that bone."
• I will •buy you something to
eat," I answered, taking up the
bone, td whieh there was no parti-
cle • of flesh lett. "Alere, Jim,"
Said I, holding it out ':'But the dog,
bastead of accepting the bone, look -
k1 wistfully at his master to ask for
ve.
No ! no ! Jim," panted the mis-
er fearfully, and the dog ;turned
away his head, refusing to be en-
• ticed:
"How long have you been laid
up like this 1" was my next ques-
• tion. I was geowing sick at heart.
• "Pen weeks, sir, oh, ten weeks,"
• groaned' the man—who had caught
the bone out of my hand and thrust
it Under his pillow—" ten .weeks,
• and when I fell ill the dog went
out one morning -andbrought me
-back a penny in his mouth. Since
then, I bought him_ a basket, and
he goes out every day; but he'll—
he's idle, sir --he's idle, he brings
me nothing to what he used to do
when we went out together. Yes,
oh, yes, he's an idle dog," -
• *-1. ,. *
But why prolcrig such a dialogue?
Is there anything more depressing
than the sight of moral infirmity
occupied with bodily disease 7 This
palsied miser was a rich man; at
least rich comparatively to his ste-
am. He had htade hint -self a small
fortune by the intelligence of his
dog, and his sudden • illness, instead
,of redoing him to poverty, had, on
the contrary, only added to his
means. The dog earned more alone,
than he had ever earned with his'
master.- .Each morning, at the
break of day, he went out with his
• empty basket, and' every night at
sunset he returned with itihalf full.
I learned this from the miser's
neighbors, honest people, though
poor, who pretended to believe in
the revered wretch's tales of want,
in order that he might not have
cerise to dread them, and so refuse
their necessary seivices.
There is a.great deal of this in-
nate, unsuspected delicacy in the
hearts of the working poor. These
rough and uncouth, but kindly na-
tures tended the graceless miser in
his sickness. • They bought his food
for him, they washed hislinen, and
they asked for no payment for any-
thing they did. As for the unhap-
py man's gold, it. • was at their
mercy ; but the thought of touching
it never seemed to cross their
minds.
"Only." said one with a naive
accent, "I think sir, 't -will be bet-
• ter when be's laia in the ground.
His -money might be good then to
some as would make use of it."
"And the dog?" I murmured,
reflectively.
h. The dog's 'his friend, sir." was
the neighbor's -answer; "and he
won't live long when his master's
gone.
And these words were prophecy.
I sent for a doctor, for a nurse and
for nourishing food) to battle
against -death; but our efforts were
useless. The miser lived a week,
and' upon each. of the seven days
e dog went out according to his
a it, with his basket round his
eck, and renrained out for ten or
7e1ve hours, till dusk. Some-
mes I followed him from morning
11 evening, seeing which, and re-
embering my face as that which
ood daily by his master's bedside,
he wagged his tail at my approach,
and consented to walk at my heels.
One night the miser died, and on
a
the morrow Jim did not„ --go out.
He had missed his master the night
before, and guessed that they had
put him in the long blaek box that
stood in the middle of the room.
When the men *came to carry away
this long . black box, the dog went
after Chem and cried. He followed
the coffin to the cemetery, where be
and 1 were the only spectators be-
sides the Curate, thesexton, and the
undertaker's men. When the earth
was thrown in, he looked at me
plaintively to know what it meant,
and when the burial was over, he
wished to remain, near the open
tomb, waiting till his master should
rise. • I took -hien home with me,
but he woulnot eat, and next
niorning at sunrise he howled for
his basket. It -was nO use keeping
him, so I tied the basket round his
neck, and sent him out.
• That evening, foreseeing what
• would happen, I went to the ceme
tery. The dog arrived -at nightfall,
with his basket full of pence, and
turned them all out upon the grave.
"Come home, Jim," 1. said, with the
tears tieing to my eyes; but he
whined mouenfully, and tried to
scratch up the earth. Twice more
he went out like this all day, and
brought back money for his master;
but on the thiird evening, finding
that the pence on the grave remain-
ed untouched, he suffered me, with-
out resistance, to take off his collar,
and lay down at his full length
near the miser's last sleeping place.
The next morning he did not go
on his rounds, for he ` was- dead !—
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during the first -three months of Pregnaey, as they
are sure to bring on Miscarriage, but at any other
• time they are safe. ,
In all cases of Nervous and Spinal 'Affections,
pains in the back and limbs, fatigue on slight ex-
ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and
whites, these pills will effeet a cure when all other
means -have failed; and although a powerful
remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimony, or
anything hurtful to the constitution.
Full directions in the pamphlet around each
package, which should be carefully preserved.
job Moses, New York, Sole Proprietor. .$1.00 and
12i cents for postage, enclosed toNorthop &Lyman,
Newcastle, Ont., general agents for the Dominion,
will insure a bottle, containing over 50 pills by
return mail.
Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson & Co., and
R. Lumsden. l97 -
JOHN• SEATTERI
CHEMIST A.ATD DR&O-GIST,
TTas now on hand a hill as-
sortment of all the lea ding
niedicinea of the day, compris-
ing Dr. Wheekx's Compound
Elixir of Phosphates, Drs.
a, Ayer's, Radway's Depew's and
Eingyard's medicines, Thomas'
Ecleetric Oil. Kennedy's Medi-
cal Discovery.Extract of
Bodin, Horse and Cattle Medi-
cines, Superior Dye Stuffs, Perfumery.Combs and
Brushes, Hai-'- Oils and Pomades, School Books and
Stationery.
EXCHANGE OFFICE.
In connection, where all parties going to the
United States can be supplied with American cur-
rency. Money to lena on easy terms. Tickets is-
suedto all parts of Europe and the Western States.
Partied wishing to bring out their friends from
Europe can be supplied with tickets here to send
to them.:
267
JOHN SEATTER.
-
MARCH 14,1873
GAIL;
M. TATET, Solicitor, Wingymn,Ints been ay.
u • pointed Agent for the Colonial Securities Cora
pony of England, he IS also Agent for severalpra
vate Capitaliste of Toronto, who loan Money
very reasonable rates, Interest payable yearly
Charges moderate.
Wingham, Dec 15, 1871. 218
tf3rn_h°Nesii°C°11BYetne:_nrafiedst3YaioLor,i0I0e0Astosuralenn4ceaCtorn8 ppaenry,cent., 44331R.,
M:LCtC°ArItljeGY11448 Nat ht.roetijann8pri:vencol,°336171joit:linklEblii:SiasoTle.:1:11:::idni_:::ahlioniltnivnigoelyee2;tseers.*
-1-'11(Yaaste8Lannwd,-IiSooltiseiftct:r.s8alin7Chancery and Inaol:en3cy,'
PENSON 4 ltrfilYER, Barr• istera and Attorneys
Conveyancers, Notarie0 Public, etc, Offices -a -8w
forth and N'Vroxeter. $28,000 of Private Funds ta
•invest at once, at Eight per cont. Interest, payable
yearly.
• JAS. H. BENSON. H. W. 0. -31EtER.
• 53
•xxT R. SQUIER, Banister, Attorney In Chem.
• ery,'Goderieh, Ont. Offiee—over 3, 0,
DeLlor & Co.'s Emporium, Market Square. •20,4
• PARRISTE , Attorneys, Soht
o ors nt Chancery
&c., Brussels, Ont 11cll
01.ffiee:iltwilao ildlth,
liors noL
Wth!IIP!sStQOUffilEcen, -ANIEL 3IcD0NALD,
271 ; Goderich. • Brussel%
MEDICAL,
n4tVID MITCHELL, M. D., Graduate of Vide.
ria College Physician, Surgeon etc., ate.. '
E.LNDURN, asaal-'
Coroner of the Connty of Huron',
Office and residence, at Thompson & Stanley's:.
TAMES STEWART, M. D., C.- M., Graduate of
u Me0111,-University, Montreal, Physiciail, Sur-
geon, etc. Office sad Residence--Brucefield.
yT L. VERCOE, M. D., C. M., Phyildian, Sat.
geon, etc. Office and Residence, corner, of
Market and High streets, next to the Planing MIL
DB-ao,IPBELL, Coroner for the County. Ofilea
wadi Residence, over Corby'S comer Store, Main.
street, Seafortb. Office hours, from 11 to 4, eaan
- day, and all day Saturday. •
159
• J. G. BULL, LaS,,
1-1 URGEON, Dentist, &e., -Seaforth, Ontario
Plateklate ti a.
wor, t s s a es, nen y execute JaK
surgical operations performed With care an
promptitude. Fees SS low as tan be obtained else.
where. Office hours from 8 A.M. to -5 P. M. Booms
over MT. A. G. MeDongall'e Store, Main-st. 270
VETERINARY SURGEON.—V. McNA1JGHT1
.y. S., begs to announce to the inhabitants of
Seaforth and surrounding country that he laa
been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Ve
,.ary College, and is now prepared to treat diaearas
of Horses and Cattle anal all domestic animahn Be
has opened an office in -connection with his horse -
shoeing shop, where heavill be found ready to at-
tend to calls. Diseases of the feet specially at.
tended to. 'Residence, office and shop in the rear
of E Moran 4 Ryan's new "store. All kinds of Vet.
erintuy Medicines kept constantly on hand.
Charges -reasonable. ••- 229
T J. CHURCHILL, Veterinary Surgeon, (mem-
-a- • be of the Ontario Veterinary -College,) kegs
to intimate that he has returned to the practice of
his profession in Seaforth, and may at all timesla
consulted on the diseases of Horses, Cattle, he,
Veterinary medicines constantly on hand. • Alt
calls promptly attended. to. Office, at Mansion
House; Seaforth. 278
HOTEL&
Ta GYM/ HOTEI;,1 Seaforth, Ontario. SIMON
-a-v POWELL, Proprietor. The subscriber has
thoroughly avnovated eti newly furnished the
above house, so that it now affords good IletOMMO•
dation for the travelling pulilie. Choice liqteorn
and cigars in thObar. The table is supplied -with
the delicacies in session Oysters in season. •
Large stabling and an attentive hostler in con-
nection. 251-ly
ceeetteateeem HOTEL, Ainleyville, Ont.,WN.
ANN,ETT, Proprietor. This Hotel is under
entirely new management and has been thorougly .
renovated. The Bar is supplied with the hest
Liquors and Cigars. •Good Stabling and attentive
}loaners. A First-class Livery in connection. 228
PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL, Clinton, Ont.,
C. J. McCUTCHEON, Proprietor. Fhst-class -
accommodation for 'travellers. The Bar is sup-
plied with the very best liquors and cigars. Good
stabling attached. The stage leaves this House
every day for WinghaM. 204-4t
I. 1 VE RV.
rp A. SHARS . fVERY AND SALE STABITES.
Office—At 1 Murray's Hotel, •Seaforth. nood
Horses and first-olass Conveyances always =hand,.
. THOMSON'S LIVERY, CLINTON.
OFFICE,—AT oomwralitoiAx, HOTEL. GOod
'quiet Horses and First -Class Fel:rides always
on hand. Conveyanees furnished to .Coraraercial
Travellers on reasonable rates.
• 221 THOMSON.
le Bea's LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont.
---'Good Horses and Comfortatle Vehicles, always ;
on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with
Commercial Travellers. All orders left at Ktrox's- '
HOTEL, will be promptly attended to. •
k!OFFICE AND STABLES:—Thira door North - of
Knox's Hotel, Main Street.
221 .THOMIS BELL, Proprietor.
THE HOLIDAYS OVER,
BUT THE TIME FOR
• CHEAP JEWELRY
Is not yet ended at
M. R. COUNTER'S.
JD ST RECEIVED,
•, TWO CASES OF THOSE
-Celebrated • Watches,
MannfactUred expressly for
M. R. COUNTER,
BY
THOMAS RUSSELL cb SONS,
LONDON -AND LiyERPOOL.
REPAIRING DONE AS USUAL.
Personal atteniisn paid to repairing and regulat-
ng watches.
TERMS—STRICTLY °este.
Also, agent for Lazarus, Morris & Co.'s Perfected
8pectaeles.
M. IL COUN..T.ER.
INSURE YOUR. PROPERTY
AND YOUR LIVES.
A. Strong„ Seaforth.
AGENT FOR
The Scottish Provincial Insuranee Company—
Fire and Life.
The Western Insurance Company: of Toronto—
Fire and Life.
The Isolated Ifisk Insurance Company, of
Canada.
Terms as reasonable as offered by any other
agent doing business for reliable Coninanies.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Also, Agent for the Agricultural investment
Society, London. This Company offers better in-
ducements to borrowers than any others doing
bus•mess in this Pativince. Call and get circulars
giving hill particulars before purchasing elsewhere
OFFICE—over Strong & Fairley's Grocery
Store, Main Street, Seaforth. 252
7_
GielgrireS.
An altered stete—lt
--Murmurs Of the ti
ed pe,ople greitibLing.
nerh-inefilabited
annLIVCIat.
—A prison dance—
• s—A solind instructor—
of musi.d.
—A. baby- life-preser
feeding -bottle, •
—Trying conclusions
of eermone.
—A dinner service -0
meat.
. -
-mon in France ?— event—
theBee-
nciao__—m_nETINve,T0:114.1.seeeid):::ego sIae,ni vriitt,,ein)trir., nil: •, deadidribbonit ii 0 u
would be like a blank'
per --not evert ruled. 1
—74. Miss is as good al
13.e_ttiv-, iNivelr3eentoshezobr:nnyvittil
in the- entnenea-dme----Bee
Winter -time (and Sunne
Jetdee .
—Why does the wi
scolding husband lose 11
ca, u_seBehetiosdtiteonosdte'da iwiditrhel
especially at a mock anal
— Repletion, — con
"Very sorry, miss, but
full ; in fact, we've bee
over all down the road,"
--isee
Freshest Gleanir
Hand organs aro henctl
Whited in the streets of 312
each c.ther's ears. -
per published at Homer,
ally disputing ;about the
a t f— -__ _ _n, ____Pari,TAKhseie:itefiuni ey.
itakady
ed
e ki, s y editors
1 lowe:ern z j
a n
—They have egg-euelt-
lei ixlately walked thigh
fifty-seven minutes.
—San 'Francisco giris a
ceoquet on the green -swat:
muslin dresses.
—Silvertooth is tito
ke_nt,u,veltoyileedn dRgiei.i.,,hts 0
fJ
e- .
= 0
what they sail. the vigilan .
tee in Colorado.
---The latest date fix -t1
end of the tv•oild. is in ne
bete
—.Chicago is preparing
exposition, to open on .
-°e-13-therri. eid gentleman of
was lately found ainahat
death by his wife.
----A Welsh paper call
is to De started in Pittsbn
—Knoxville, Tenn., ha
ed that $50 a 111011,t11' AS
- mum salary, for • sch.oel
enough..
—A. man 104 years -
1a.tely in Dayton. Ohio, 1
an opening to go into bus
—It takes eight mill j
one hogshead of tobacco
roads of Christkien Caunter
—At 13eirlington, row
meetings, special appeals !
on behalf of the City Corn
—A hoe in Iowa that N
in n
the sobw nearly $ix W.1
out alive, but- was redete,
from 200 pounds to 50.
lat-'-elyA-kiY1°IetlelughirselilfinhecS.:1
love accused him of writ
vile letter, which prove
been sent by some your
who considered it dfunn
do.
--Litchfield, Conn., ,ciai
its residents a, centenariee
at one time in mere in
iations with George V.
than any of the nnunerh
and body Servants who :l
dying off for the last fifty
s'ays that it has the ideal'
which slept • with the G8li
he stopped there over nig]
-
Amusing Letter from
lander to -a Coal NI13',
, 'The folio hing letter,
publish. verbatim, et iiterJ
received by a •coal •me
Glasgow a few weeks ago =
"Sun, "i wee underst
was a eole pit i was waul
what was your monish for to 1
to be deliver to turbert at the
nearust to the city of turbeA
sidei was., used to got my 1
agint at LYreenoke but he was
. a great -dale nmeh more thanj
derstan he was pae for them A
i ani always need to was a
was not have many monish t
was wish to bie as chap e a -
could get- I was take E
as wud full a smak about 20
as more every wevk to be la
dae—aud. the monish would l
you wunst every fridae by t
the bank a very dacent man
too and Was aulways pai hi
., never spoke an ill aboot an3.
. Was knew before, if you w
prise to inc the smallest you
will write you a answer wk
after will come.'
"1 was like to dale with a.
man and always did used to
more aul the .Campbell, my ih
fathers tinkle was a Camp '
eeviI lad as was a fishing soli
• made a dale of mcnish and 1
legaeie to Any wive who vii
to see you with myselfe-
you a bed if you was come a