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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1873-04-04, Page 2A A YOUNG HERO. "Ay, ay, sir, they're :art sea- men enough, no doubt, Wein Dal- matiens, and reason good,. toe, Keg& they man half the Austrian navy ; bet they aiatt got the aeasonin' of an Xeittislinian, put it kow yer Will l" ram standing on the upper -deck of the Austrian Lloyd steamer, looking my last upon pyramidal Jaffa, ret it rises npipi terrace after terrace of stern grey Masonry against . the lustrous evening sky, with the foateetipped Ineakers at its feet itedside me, with his elbow on the handrail, and his pit e between his, ._ teeth, lemiges the stalwart chief, engineer, as thorough_ an English-, man as if he had_ not spent two- thirds of his lite abroad, ancV de- lighted to get hold Of a listenet who (as he phrases it has been about a bit." " No ; they ain't got an -English- man's seasonint" he continues, per- suing his criticism of the Dalmatian seamen, • " A - and what's more, 4 EI ain't got an nglishman's it 'mkt neither, not when it comes toattetil scrape." _ "Can nO one but an English tan have any pluck, then" ask I, I ugh - hag. "Welt, I won't just go for to say that, e' course a man as is a man . Jun have pluck in him all the world over. I've seen a Frencher tackle a shark to save his messmate : and I've seed a Rooshau stand to gun atter every man- in the battety, barrin' himself, had been blowed all to smash. But, if yer come to that, the pluckiest feller as ever I seed warn't a Man at all !? "What was he, then l—a wo- man?" "No, tor that neither ; though mark ye, I don't go for to say *t.s how women ain't got pluck too ----1; some on 'em at _Toast: My old •, 'omen, now, saved me once front a lubber of ePortigee as was just a- goin' to stick a knife into me, when she -cracked his nat with - a hand- spike. (You. can hear her spin the yarn yourself, if you liken to pay as a -visit when we get to Conttanti- nople.) But this un as I'm a-talkini. on was a little lad not much bigger'n Tom Thumb, (July with a sperrit of his own _as tel ha' blowed up a man -- o' -war a'most. Would yer like to hear &tout itt" • I eagerly assented ; and the nar- rator, -knocking the ashes out of his pipe, folds his brawny arms upon the top of the rail, and Commences as follows,: , " 'Bout threeyears ago, afore I got' this berth as J'm in now, I was second -engineer aboard a Liverpool steamer boned, for New York. There'd been a lot of extra cargo aent down at the last minute, and we'd had no end of a job_stowin' it away, and that ran us late o' start - in'; so that, altogether, as you may think, the. cap'n warn't altogether in the sweetest temper in the world, nor- the mate neither; as for the chief -engineer, he was an easy -gone' sort o' chap, as nothin' on earth could put out. But on the rimming of the third day out from. Liverpool, hecum down to mein a precious hur- ry, lookin' as if somethin' had Put. him out pretty censiderably. "Tom," says he, " whet; d'ye think I Blest if we ain't found a thr 0 that Way o' thinking mysel • for 1 never yet seed a coinmC Il street-Tierab (as they calls „"ten now) carry it'd( like him. You might heerd.a pin drop, as ,the mate ke. , , •- . ' Well, you young whelp," atm in his grimmest voice, "what' richt you here" ' le teete " It was my stepfather as dem) ' hid the boy in a weak little [bet as steady as could be. ther's dead, and mother's mar- ried again, and my new father says as bow he won't have no brats about eittin' tip his wages ; and he stow- ed tne away when nobody ' warn't lookin', and guv mesome(nub to: e , , keep niegoin' for a day or two till III got to. sea. He says I'm to go to Aunt Jane at, Halifax; and heie's her address." 1 , ; "' And -with that, he slips his hand into the breast of his shirt, and out with a scrap o' paper, awful dirty and crumpled tep, but with the ad- d ess on it, right enough. "We all believed every word ou't, en without the paper ; for his br it C IC 1 name) but I'll be bound God heard iteeve'ey word. —Then he ups on , letitilattOgain, and puts lite thatethe bilifietitttn, and says to t,heanate, quite Ottttly, " I'm readY,7" • " iAnitihen sir, the mate's 'hard • et 1 f grigk 0,ilefbroke up all to once, like I'veseed the ice in ,t1te, Witte. He snatched up the b�' in "his arms, ited kissed him,- and busd, Out .a-- crv in' like a plikl • and', lettti.* there ware t one of us as didn'tdo the eetme. -.Pknow I did for one.... " God bless you, my boy!" says liettiaitithibci.4'clitlilteliatteeltlitig- great hard hand. " You're a -true Englishmen, . eery inch of you : wouldn't tell -a lie•te save'your life 1.• Well, if So he your father's cast ye off, I'll be your father from. this day forth ,tand if I ever forget you', then may God forget rae !" . "And he kep' his word, too. ,When we -got to Halifax, he found out the little un's atuat, and give her a lump, o' money to make hien comfortable ; end, now. he goee. to see tb ,:yoeugeteit every voyage, ea - if-retitle as tican be ; and to see the ok, and his voice, and the way he pair on-' kern together --the little e si oke,tv as enough to . show that e ap so fond o' hid, and not bearin' ;r t 'ere rn't a har'poith n' lyin' in him a bit of grudge—it's 'bout as hWhole skin. But the Mate didn't pretty .a sight as ever I sed. And 0 em to'rswaller the yarn at all ; he now, sir, axin' yer parding, it's time ly sheugged his shoulders t.vith.a for me to be goin' below, so I'll just ind of grin, as ,much as to say, wish yer good-night.--Chantbere. " too old a- bird to be caught etttat-- rith that kind o' chaff ; and , then A Remarkable Dog Fight. e says to him " Look- here my L.Tncle John's' Defeats add Final Rfivenge. master ok the king of clogs, and ping. a sly wink at the crowd, " Well, what do you say to iettin! Pem together in the morning 7" right," said Uncle john. bound to. be off .borne nighty airly in the mornin', but if you'll be ready, directly after latiokfast, won' mind mind paving you tuat one tare turn anyllow et" _The remor soon speed through .the village of Sparta, that a great dog fightiwas to come '-off nexeday by Sunrise, and the whole vicinity was the ettievivee Our bero ettalaiii- e.d that his clog was so vit,trus that he was compelled to keep hint closely .confined. 131timecl;" said he, " if I bleeve he knows his own, master yit." So it was arranged. that his dog was to remain in the out -house —an old trite or barn, by the way —and that the other dog was, to be unchained anti. turned in with. him at a given signal. By deylight everybody was up and ready. for the fray. The old barn in whieh uncle John's dog was shut eifas so dark that only his outlines -e -just enough to indicate that he was "a sho miff 'doe "—could be detected. Bets ran high, the odds being ali an favor of the great victor in so many 'hotly contested: fights. Ude .John stak- ed a round hundred against a like sum Gf the inn -keeper's. Time Was called, the ferocious bull -dog sniffed his antagonist through the cracks of the old barn, growled defiance fot a moment, and When ue,Chaited and the window . 'Opened, Int lit in at. a single bound. Ah! then and there was hurry- ing to and flee- and flying fur, and sputterings of distress, and cheeks all pale which an hour ago hlushed with a quart of rum, or somethieg less. Men, women and children outside were running round that crib, tryieg to peep in through the cracks and crevices. Stich a ttpatter- ing, sputtering, growling yelling, gnashing of' teeth and caterwaul- irtg has never been heard in agparta 7)Itifoteette9orrh,c:tti from that day to this. The tavern- faaetreitrotek,,amegettuasee I id, that's all very fine, but it won't A Nashville correspondent cif the, c o here—some of these men o' mine Louisville Courier-Jouinal is respon-• re in the secret, and I mean .to have Bible for the followins account of a due i 'out of 'em. Now, you just point fight, which he is pleased to call thrhe ut the coenc as stowed you away most remarkable that evertoccurred- lad fed you, this very minute ; if in Tennessee : There is, at the pros- ou don't it'll be the worse for ent writing, a Member of the Meuse ' on !" •. , . whose 'father was it'S repowited ill.illiS 1e , * The boy looked up in his . bright day and way as the far-famed Davy arless way (it did my heart „ good °Lockett, of pleasant Memory. We o look -at -him, the btave _little will call Eta "Uncle John." Uncle , - - .i hap I' and says, quite quietly : John lived and moved in these parts ' I've told you the truth; I ain't got forty; years ago. Cards and race o more to say." r, _ • ' horses and dog fights were his chief -' "The mate says nothin', but looks delight...1i Feat men could beet him t him for a minute as if he'd see at a game of "old sledge." His 'clean through him, and he faced horses lead lightning in theirrieeels ; -mend- to the men, lookin' bla6ker while hie dogs (bull dogs and fight• than ever. "Reeve a -rope to the ing dogs were fashionable -in. those iyard rthe sings out, loud enough to 'ditysttat. thetr were the genuine ." dog. raise the dead, "smart, now !" day") carried the 'swift ,arrevve of "The men all looked at each death in thee bristling fangs. But other, as enrich tis to say, '" What on it is seldom given to one men to errth's a -Contin' now 7" But aboard excel in theee pursuits at one- time ship, o'coprse, when you're told to and in. tall ,tplaces. ,FIowever, in do a thingyou've got to do it, so respect of caeds, horses and dogs, the rove was nave in a jiffy.. -Maple John had.never met his match "Now, my lad,' stys the mete, tihtil the'l'etes took him to Sparta,, in a•hard, square -kind 0 voice, that then, as- now, a flourishing little vil made every word seem like tittite a lage in Whtte eounty. Even there stone into a wall, " you see that !ere he beat everything in sight as far as rope'? Well, I'll give you ten min- his cards and horse's were concetned, tiles to - confess" (he took out his but his cl?gs ''ere badly worsted. - watch .and held it in his hand); the Spartan inn -keeper had the king " ancl if you don't tell_ tile truth dog of all his; tribe -4 ferocious afore the- time's up, I'll bang - you " bnll " that.'"-c'ua,wed up ;and spit like a dog !" out" everything that came along. . "The crew all stared at one an- Uncle John pet up fifty dollars in • other as if they couldn't believe their specie on his own " Tige," -but .if ears (I didn't believe mine, I can Tige had gone through a Cincinnati , tell ye), and then a low gtowl went sausage -grinder . he couldlt scarcely among 'em, like e a wild beast have looked more ragged than he , awakiu' out of a. nap. - , did whet}, he came out. t As went "Silence there !" shouts the the first, SO followed the seeond, mate, in a voice iike the roar of a faster and faster, till it .seemed me. nor'easter. " Staudt by.: to run for'- merciful - disaster ,had. overtaketa aid!" and with _his own" hands he' _Uncle John in the flog Hee line at put thenoose round the boy's neck._ last. He travellea many weary Th,e little feller never flinched a bit; miles in search of a dog that could but there were some , among the whip that tavern -keeper's doge but sailors (big strling chaps as could ha' ell to -no purpose. Ile was losing felled an cc) Its shook like leaves in his money fast, and, worse than all, the wind. As for me, I thought he was losing his temper and his myself.o' my little .0(1111y -haired lad patience. Faith in the motto, "try, at home, and how it '.ed be if any try again" had almost deserted hie]. one was to go for to hang hum, and He 'went out on _ what. he avotved at the very -thought &nit I tingled Was his lest hunt, and was nearing all Over, and my fingers clinched Sparta:on-his return late one after- theirselves as if they were a -grip- noon e gloomy sind dejected, for he ping' somebody's throat. I clutched hadn't found the right animal yet, hold 6' a handspike, and held it be- when, aa. good luck would have it, hind my backt all ready. . just when he got within a few miles " itone".whispers the chief-engi- of that inn which had been the neer to me, " d'ye think he really scene of so many disgiaceful defeats, means it I" he met a beckwoodsman driving an -- '1 don't know," says I through ox -team with a great, vicious looking my teeth. "but if he does, he shall wolf chained behind the wagon. He go first, if 1 swings/or it !" Was not long ascertaining that the "I've been in many an ugly wolf was as Wild and as savage as a I scrape in my time; but T. never hyena; that he but an hour before ' felt 'ea as bad as I aid then. Every had been caught in a trap, and that minute seemed as long as a dozen ; his owner could be incluced to part and the tick o' the inate's watch with him for a valuable considera- regtlar pricked my ears like a pie. tion. ' The Men werevery*quiet, but there • "I'll give you two &liars and k was a precious ugly tlook On some o' half in hard money for the critter," their faces; and Inoticed that three proposed Uncle John. or four on 'era kep' -edgin' for'ard to "Not enough yet," said back - where the mate was Istandint in :a woods. _ way that meant mischief . .A s for "Well," said Uncle John finally, ,me, I'd made Up my mind that if `tifyou'll just help me to strap hini he did go for to hang the poor little -behind Lity saddle and'll take live Each packet is labelled—JAmEs EPPS & chap, I'd kill him on the spot, and dollars it's a trade." stowaway.' (That's the name, you know, sir, as we gives to Avg as hides theirselves aboard outward- bound.vessels, and gets carried out unbeknown to everybody.) "Tho dickens you have !" says L Who is he, and where did yor find him 7" " Well, we found him stowed' away, among the casks' for'ard ; and ten to one we'd never ha' twigged him at all, if the skipper's dog hadn't sniffed him out end begun barkint Sitch a little mite as he is too! 1 could almost put him in my baccy-pouch, poor little beggar! but he looked to be a good plucked un for all that." • " I didn't wait to hear no more, but up oil deck like a sky -rocket ; and there I did see a sight, and no mistake. Every man -Jack 0 the erew, and what ,few passengers we had aboard, was all in a ring on the fo'c'stle, and in the middle stood the fusanate, lookin' as black as thun- der. Right in front of tiim, lookin' a reg'lar mite among all them big fellers, was a little bit o' a lad not tea year old—ragged as a seareciow, . but with ')right curly hair, and a bonnie little face o' his own, if it hadn't been so woeful thin and pale. But, bless yer soul! to see the way that little chap held his head up, and looked about him, ycet'd ha' thought the whole ship ,belonged to him. The mate was a great; hulkin' black -bearded feller, with a look that 'ucl ha' frightened a horse, and a voice 6t to make one jump through a key -hole; but the - young 'un warn't a bit afeared— he stood straight up, and. looked him full in the face with them bright, clear eyes o' hisn, for all the world as if he was Prince Halfred himself. Folk did say arterwarde (lowering his voice to a whisper) ." as how he corned o' better blood nor what he ought ; and, for my part, l'm ray - ing the wind of horses. Bp bet: ,the name, and _Nee that thesiguatitireal get & Co., is oat each package. - Ncrthrop & Lyman, Neateastle, Ont., Proprietois-fer Canada. Sold iby all Medicine Dealers. COMIffERCIAL SCHOOL, . • II/mtge. 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This was the first and last time he ever turn- ed back on an enemy; he made one or two nervous kicks and all was over. fle was in a shocking plight,. _indeed; minus one ear, one eye, and the greater -part of his innards," he might have passed through a different cambinatione. Thus in the preparation of this oil a elle/Meal change takes place, formilag a compound which could not by any possibility be made from any other eprebination or proportions of the sates ingredients, or any other ingredients, and entinly different 'front anything ever before made, oue which produces the most astonishingre- sults, and having a avider range of application than any medicineever before discovered. It con- tains no Ideohol or other volatile liquids, come- qttently loses nothing by evaporation. Wherever applied you get the benefit of every drop; whereas with other preparations nearly all the alcohol is lost in that way, and you get only.the man quan- tity of oils !which they may contain. S. N. 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DID MITCHELL, M. *, Graduate or vita). ria College, Physientn, burgeon, ete., etc., ICuinunta ONT.—Coroner of the Couitty of liunan-t* Office and iesidence, at Thompson & Stanley's. he bade him achetethat "Whenevei.• he had any more fightia' dogs to 'please let him know." - How long the wolf remained in that crib as monarch of all he sur- veyed, or how long " Bull's " master was in finding out the nature of the 'dog that sent his favorite to. his last account, is At"precisely stated, but it is said that when he beca.me fully conscious of the facts as they existed, his neighbors heard him swearing for a distance of two miles. Fie took off kis coat, rolled lup his sleevesc-mounted a stump and ,gave utterance to such maledictions as were never heard: before. His character as a dog-fighist gone, his money gone, his dog gene, and Un- cle John gone (never to return) stirred the deep foundations of his inmost bile. - It is stated as a fact that he never smiled again; and all that -anyone had to do tt set up the biggest sort oft,. rumpus was just to ask tfiat Spartan if he had any more dogs that he'd 1ik.e to bet on.. - SPECIAL NOTICES. ,BREAKFAST. —EPPS'S COCOA. —GRE-. FUL AND COMPORTING.—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the. operations of digestion and nutrition, and. by a careful application of the fine properties of well -selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast ta- bles with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills."—•Civi/ Service Gazette. Made simply with Boiling ,Water or Milk. Co, Homceopathic Chemists, London." Aaci they- traded. "If I don't take my enance MANUFACTURE OF COCOA.—" We will . "Eight minutes I" says the mate, whip that tavern -keeper's now give an account of the process ado ed by Messrs. James Epps & Co. man n great deep voice breekin in upon' dog this time," muttered Uncle ufactitrers of cliefetic articles, al their the silence like the toll o' a funeral John to himself, as he drew. toward works in the Elision Roa,d, London" — nell "If you've got anything to Sparta, he may take my hat for a canal's Household Guide: confessmy lad, you'd bst out with corn basket." VERY NATURAL—When a person has it, for yer time's nearly up," As it was dark when our hero proved an article and found it good, and I've told you the truth," an- reached the inn, he unstrapped the auswering the -purpose for which it is swers the boy, very pale, but as firm terrible beast, and pitched him antointended, he will not readily abandon it as ever. "May I say my prayers, a deserted outhouse, which, fOrtu- - for one of doubtful' reputation, or con- cerning -which he knowS nothing. We plea, e gt . . t nately, stood hard: by, and fastening are lecl to make these remarks owing to " he mate nodded, • and down him in seenrely, entered• the hotel. the course always pursued by those who . . . b ones the poor little chap on his ' 4 1 think I've found a doeb that can have used that celebrated and truly val- C• • • , uable horse medicine known a.s Darley's knees (with that infernal rope about • chaw your., n up this tune,,, remark- . ouilition Powders and Arabian Heave his neck all the time); and puts up ed Uncle John to the maior-dotno, Remedy. All are so well pleased with his poor little hands ' to pray. I after passing through the usual sal- it that they will not use any other, many couldn't make out what he said utations. Fall directions in the paniphlet around each package, which should be carefully preserved. Job Moses, New York, Sole Proprietor. $1.00 and 124 cents forpootagb,Cnclosed to Northop &Lyman, Newcastle, Ont., general agents for the Dominion, ineure a. bottle, containing over 50 pills by return Mail. Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson & Co.,. and R. Lumaden. 197-6 JOHN SEATTER CHEAUST AHD DRUGGIST, . T_Tas now on lend a full as- -L-1- sortment of all the leading , , medicines of the day, eompris- ing Dr. Wheeler's Compound Elixir of Phosphates, Drs. aa,. Ayer's, Radway's Depew's and Hag,yard's medicines, Thomas' Ecleettie Oil. Kennedy'sMedi . Discovery. Extract of Buchu, Horse and Cattle Medi - eines, Supeaior Dye Stuffs, Perfumery Combs and Brushes, Hair Oils and Pomades, School Beets and Stationery. - EXCHANGE OFFICE. In connection, where all parties going to the United States can be plied with Aramican cur- _ reney. Money to lenlitm easy terms. Tickets is- sued to all parts of Europe and the Western States. Parties wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can be supplied with tickets here to send to them. , 207 JOHN SEATTER. TAMES STEWAIIT, M. D., C. M., Graduate of MeGill, University, Montreal, Physicitra, Sur- geon, etc. Office mad iteeidence—Brucelield. have waited several weeks until the , agent could. have obtain' ed a new supply. (fact, my head was in sieh a whirl "You really think you've mune. Thes is nothm* g equal to if as a condi- that I'd hardly ha' knowed my own him at lest, do you?" chuckled the tion medicine, or for any complaint affect - T_T L. VERCOE, M. D., C. M., Physician, 84. Li.. goon, ete. Office and Residence, corner di Market and High fitreets, next to the;Planing Mill. J. G. BULL, LAS., URGEON, Dentist, &e.., Seafortla, Ontario. 1.--1 Plate 'wok, latest styles, -neatly excented. All surgical operations performed- with care and promptitude. Fees as low as canbe obtained else- where. Office toms from 8 A.M. to 51?. M. Room; ovei Mr. A. G.McDougall's Store, Main -iib. 270 ..4 VETERINARY SURGEON.—D.- MeNAUGHT, V V, S, begs to announce to the inhabitents of Seatprth and surrounding .country that he hu been awarded the diploma of the Ontarid Veterin- ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases oil:Wrote and Cattle and all domestic anireale. He has opened an office connection with his horse - shoeing shop, where he will be found ready to at- tend -to calls. Diseases of the feet specially at- tended to. Residence, office and shop in die rear of Killoran & Byanfs new store. All kinds of Vet- erinary Medicines kept constantly on hand. Charges reasonable. a - 229 Tri J. CHURCHILL, Veterinary Surgeon, (mem- • ber of the Ontario Veterinary College,) begs to intimate that he has returned to the practice of -his profession in Seaforth, and, inay at all times be consulted on the diseases of Horses, Cattle, &c. Veterinary medicines constantly on bond. All calls promptly attended to. Office, tit Mansion House, Seaforth. 273 _ PLOWS PLOWS! t(illUNRO & HOGAN PLOW -MAKERS INOTELS. 1-4 OYAL HOTEL, Seaforth, Ontario', smolt JV POWEIAL, Proprietor. The subscriber hes thereughly renovated and newly furnished the above house, so that it now affords good accommo- dation for the traVelling public. Choice liquors and cigars in the bar. The table is supplied with the delicacies in season. Oystem in season. Large stabling and an attentive hostler in 'Con- nectian. 251-ly rtoattreneette HOTEL, AinleyviAe, Ont., W/if. ANNETT, Proprietor. This Hotel is under entirely new management and has been thorougly renovated. The Bar is supplied with the best Liquors and Cigars. Good Stabling and attentive Hostlers. A First-class Livery in connection. WS -PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL, Clintton, Ont., C. J. McCpTCITEON, Propriet-o-r. First-class accommodation for travellers. The Bar is imp - plied with the Very best liquors and cigars. Good , stabling attached. The stage leaves this House every day for Winghatce 204-0 mUl1/471R0 & HOGAN desire to thank the farmers -LI& of the vicinity of Seaforth for the liberal patronage which has been afforded them since they began business here. They would also say that they are prepared and tEtt it is their intention to naaintain the excellent reputation which their work during the pas6 season achieved, not only among the farming, community of Huron, but as -well at every show and exhibition where they ex- hibited. We make the following Plows, and devote special attention to their enattufacture, our ex- perience showing* that they are the kinds best adapted to agricultural purposes in this section : IRON PLOW, IRON BEAM PLOW (wooden handles) three styles, DOUBLE MOULD -BOARD PLOW, IRON AND WOOD SCTIFFLERS, or HORSE HOES. The above Plows we furnish at $20 and upward; and guarantee them to give satisfaction—if not, they can be returned. The Scufflers wefurnish at $9 to $17, according to quality, and also guarantee satisfaction. GREY'S PATTERN OF MOULD BOARDS AND CASTINGS Always kept otahand. MUNRO & HOGAN, North Main -street, Seaforth, McNaught's old , stand. 2175-13 TO LET. A LARGE STABLE. Apply to JAS. MURPHY, Chegnered Store, Seaforth. 272 LIVERY. rp A. SHARP'S LIVASY AND SAW STABLES. a- • Office—At Murray's Hotel, Seaforth. Good Horses and first-class Conveyances always on hand. TlItELL'S LlaasatY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont. Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, always on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with Cepamercial Travellers. All orders left at KNox's HoTEL, will be promptly attended to. OFFICE AND STAPLES :—Third dor North of Knox's Hotel, Main Street. -221 THOMAS BELL, Proprietor. INSURE. YOUR PROPERTY AND YOUR LIVES. A. Strong, Seaforth. AGENT FOR The Seottisb. Provincial Insurance Company -- Fire and. Life. - The Western Insurance Corqpany, of Toronto— , Fire and Life. The Isolated Risk Insurance Coinpany, of Canada. Terms as raesonable as offered- by any other agent doing business for reliable Companies. MONEY TO LOAN. Also,. Agent for tke Agricultural Investment Society, London. This Company offers better in- ducements to borrowers Attu any others doing business in this,Preeince. Call and get circulars giving full particulars before applying elsewhere. OFFICE—over. Strong & Fairley's Grocery Store, Main Street, Seaforth. • 252 A NEW HARNESS . SHOP IN SAFORTH. BELI?RY & MAY have just opened a HA.IINZSS STIOP in Counter's old Jewelry Store, right op- posite the Mansion' Hotel, and aretprepared to make, and also keep on hand all elasses of Buggy-, Carriage and Team Harness. All -Harness will be made in the latest styles. Good material and good workmanship guaranteed, as we have had good experience hi the best of work in some of the largest cities. We will also keep on hand all styles of Horse Collars, Saddles, Trunks and Valises,1Thips,Whiplashes, Curry Combs, l3rushes, and` everything that is generally kept in a first- class Harness Shop. - All orders -will be promptly attended to. Good attention given to repairing. Charges low. Reinember the shop—Opposite the Mansion Hotel, Seaferth. 274 BELFRY & MAY. BAGS FOUND. VOUND, about the middle of February last, on the Gravel Road, north of Seaforth, near the residence of Mr. Robert Govenlock, a bag contain- ing 16 Grain Bags. The Owner can have the same by applying at the RonoN Ex.nosrron Office, prov- ing property and paying for this advertisement. Seaforth, March 6, 1873. 274 MONEY TO LEND-. -TH1'4undersigned has $3,000 and upward, private funds, to loan, at 8 per cent. per annum, on Farm property. Charges moderate. Marriage licences issued. Apply to 227-52a W. G.,WILSON, Zurich. MONEY TO LOAN. Tait, subscriber has MONEY to loan to any -1- amount on good farm property. Interest, SIX per cent. per annum, when the interest and prin- ciple are paid yearly, and 8 per cent: per aunt= when the interest only is paid. ' A G. MeDOUGALL, 227-52 At cheap cash Store, sign, of the Bear. ARCHITECTURE. rp H14; undersigned is prepared to furnish Plans, Specifications, &c., of Public and Private Buildings, and also to superintend the erection of - the orkfiRmllneea.surCettdand iu rpenttvia-s, ert.lasterers' and Masons' ADAM GRAY, 262 Second Concession, Mepilop. GAIETIES, josh Billie-gs says " Yu kant end contentment laid d9%\ fl on the 'Map 3 it iz an itriaginary place not settled yet, and those rpaeli it soonest 1 . who throw a:tatty their compass and go it blind." —A Cincinnati. belle, upon being generaii about wh carefat tl - to the si tO 01.11allie without va ZaS. This is I Swinburne ke_ic.;e1;b:.net-netdu etkioyrk.e,ditor yeeeived i bun soa sbe believed*" 'i :ott'en slat said ; iivg patriot i ennea en. asked het tatecytt profession, . 1 the opptes, 11,91:eettifs:g1111.8:11ja:tgg-11:aefkaleere. notice of his i Teetely to number noteieom a subscribe;_i 'i time get r -nods a few errors in the 'obituary of i _ death might be corrected, "Sir.iape-Tr !I priests. - self wieh appeerd in your of last wensday, I .was born in -greenly conot ealdwell, and -my -retirement from bisnes in 1869 was ot owin to 11helth, but tu a, little ,. nearly fragments and mix Place then able I had in ection with a te connpeeeetco with col top cal ga'reished ley suer() horse, atel the tens of my death was not small -pox pleas make correc- tions for wich 1 'enclose 50 cents." —An old lady who died was or ing orders for her funeral, and f ; the amono other things she said she ,wantet'd to be " laid out " in her black silk gown, and they must nek take out the back breadth, as they did when Sally Smith wag. laid out. " For," said the old la'tly, deprecat- ingleriously, " what a figure - Sally with cut at the resurrection without lily back breadth in her gown:" Uncle Chew,' a venerable negro preacher of .Jersey City, cher- ishes the odd delusion that all wo- men have seven. devils. " For ," says he, as Mary Magdalene was the only women who ever had th'em cast out, all the, rest Must, conse- uently .have them I" Ile thinks the preaching of the present day is The litti shocking. tt Why, dey don't say full for nuffin about hell nowadays, and of iteeet t find out ie.' clemselves, by and by, audible wanhdattsdereldigeibobniegd looGfoureswistliodeyet,vilieila will agnictlideete epditto Mana , nd WOMart heir own Poet Poetry to Order. waterliliotbe te steps "very 1 shurrah." Scotiman) hats just been -published clever jeu d'esprit (says the at Oxforel entitled "Every Man his at him own Poet ; or, the Inspired Sing- 1 gbounitretb ertt Recipe Rook , Lay a Newgate a Prieemar. ' There `-ts enoughn'ate of little 11 ' ' truth in whet follows to give it sati- colm ric poiu t—"Poetry, like free thought. 411 Lo, was first a work of inspiration, sec- Ile MIS, ondly of science, and testi.) now of And t trick. At its hrst stage it was open 'MT) al to -only here and there a genius ; atWa'S' its next to ale intelligent wen ; I " and at its third to 'all' the human do yoil race. Thus, just as there is no boy be -Saki now but can throw stones at the to windows yvhicli Bishop Coleus() has and broken, so there is scarcely a young wreter, tatty but eau raise flowers from the seed stolen out of Mr:Tennyson% what garden. And surely, whatever, in SAT this its COIXTS0 of change, tAtetry may Than have lost in quality, is more than The I made up for by what it bee gained I in quantity. For blithe first place I to nt it is far pleasanter to the tastes of a said scientific generation, to -understand I hull. howto make lead poetry than won- little der at good • and secondly, as the gave end ofetioetry is pleasare, that we should make it each for ourselves: is the very utmost that we can desue. since it is tt fact in which we all agree, that no maei's Yeiees pleases him so much as his own." Hem is his recipe for making " Browning " "Take rather a coarse view of things in general, In the naidst of this, place a man 1 was and a, woman, she and bee ankles he tastefully -arranged on a slice of 1 st°°' Italy, or the country.nbout Pornie. Seh;1 Cut an opening across the breast ofl was each, until the soul becomes visible, 1 and be very careful that none of the 1 feer body be lost during the operation. boy Pour into each breast as much an it will hold of the new, strong \vine of 11 love ; and, for fear they sbould take too cold by exposure, cover theui quick - all ly up with et quantity of obscure claisicaLquotations, a few $ familiar allusious to an enknown peric-d of I vit history, and a half d " estroyed*fresco I 1 i by an early master, varied &Yeti 114 now and then with a refer- ence to the fugues or toccataof a quite forgotten composer. If the Po b Stili intelhgible, talea Pell .and ren catefully all the neces- , Here for the Pre-Raphaelite mix- ture : "Take three danaozeles, dress- -. ed in straight night-gowns. Pull their hair pies out, and let their / hair tumble air -about their shoulders. I A few stets naay be sprinkled into this with advantage. Place an au- reole about the head Oft each, and give each a lilly iti her bend, about half the size of herself, Bend their necks all different ways, and set them in tt, 10w .before a, stone wall with an apple -tree between each, and some large flowers at their feet. Trees and flowers of the right sort I are very plentiful in church win- dows. When you have arranged all these objectrightly, take a east of them in the softest part of your /twain, and pour in your word com- position as above described. This kind of poem is very mach improv- ed by 4tlaat is called *a burden; This consists of a few jingling words meant -to poem is with much lion of teem o verblage fiavoringi TheSt Ahlrk The who, w. a hen - don't yo the state tie bov, captt manl COB - , se t__