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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-01-23, Page 2; 2. AN 01.D-FASHIONEO STORY. BY MARIAN STOCKTON. There were.ix gigs, and there were six couples. Edmund Burt and I led the way in the first gig. He drove an iron -gray horse. I remember all this d alth u h it • at° .1= TH I -1U _V ON EXPO TTOR. perfectly well, iny ear, o gnap-. pened sixty- years ago. We were all Methodist young p Itwas Tom Grigg who firet propose& this riding party the week teefore, when Edmund was walking home with me hem Wednesday prayer-meetiog. Tom Grigg and Sallie,Eliot overtook us, and they had been talking about it, a.nd ask- • ed us how we would like it. I fell in with the notion right away, and. Edmund. thought toe that it .would be right plea- sant, and. that was lio-w the affair started. I name& it to four other girls, and. Ed- mund asked four young wen; these were, all naerabers of our class, and knew each other intimately. A pleasanter party couldn't have been got together ; and it r was in the month of May, and the spring was very forward that year. We left Trego at three o'clock in the * afternoon, and drove nine miles to Lu- therville, where we had stepper. Toni Grigg's brother -m -law kept a temperance house there, and a very quiet, genteel tavern it was, though Lutherville hadn't a very good name among Trego people. Treg,o had. not been made a city then, but it was a good-sized town and held I took up my 1 its head pretty high ; though there nothing unbecom was some drunkenness and. card -playing young wonien, an and such like there, it compared, favor- church will look o .ably with any town to be found any- that I do." " where. But Lutherville people generale When my ange V were a pretty rough set, thou.gh some ga,n to feel a little good families lived. thereabouts: But and on my way h we did. not go to the village to see any of mund's shop, to a the people, we went there beeause it the young men of the riding -par y that was a pleasant drive. There are no hills I wanted then). to meet at iny h use the - of any size between the two places, but -next eveninee. I got the igirls t gether, there is a gradual slope all the ,way, Lu- and on. Wednesd y evening tb whole therVillelying low at the mouth of Tay- company was as etabled y little - Creek. parlor. Oh, that ride down there in the sun- I had rented a ice little fra house, 1 0 ern, too 1 Seeins t found a more respe have to be dealt scandal will be bro church members." =Sally was so frig answer a word, an • pale, scared face, t heard. just wal kitchen. • ' "Sister Sands," that ye be not kid -decent church me • you'd better find you talk about our We did to Luf cause it was a p • tevetn where we t „house of entertain dist,: who never se mere than can be members who.. ho high." I That struck he known that Noah in liquors, thoug business of it. T greet temperance church was too ea liquor in large q hard on those wh 't Blackening ot whitewash yours tartly.' You've and I only hope y "We haven't g a me y n. might h ve table place! Y with, all of you or ght u on the de ent tene she cculd not c e. back wi h a tell e what she had ed at eight into the said I ''judge not, •ed ; e are qui • as bers s yourself; and -out tie truth b lore not b mg respect ble. erville yesterday , be- easanb ride, an the ok supper is a ge teel ent, kept by a M tho- s limier ; and t at is said " of some c urch d. their heads retty e, far ' it was well ands eometimest •ad.ed he did not m ke a is w s all befo e any ie mo ment, an the y wi 11 those w o solcl entities, thoughvery drank too mile of it. er folks ain't g ing to lf," elle said, retty . got into hot ater, u may get out f it !" t in it yet," sad I, as on. "We have done ng modest Me hodist you May be sire the it in the sa e light • had cooled 0 r be- , worried and a xious ; me I stopped at Ed- lahim to get ord 'to birds that I •ittd -w the honeysuCkles f thathad been in we ha,d done any but eve perh, the flowery path the Heavenly Ho So I felt kindly and thanke privately, i before the., • him •stead churd tohed skiin r rill .the se e. I did - no hing actually ps trod the bat leads aw t• to Brother Bu for coming to of bringing the , as he mig done ; and- I tol him I woul over what e had said. Would they ha e turned us oub h, n , but we wou , and the matte about all o would. have b g ver witless think de of y from oughs, see me matter t have plink f the d have ould. et • dt he church? 0 been reprimande have been. talke town, and that agreeable. Well, that rea ride ; but one th in this life in a '1 time, but it is when our memm tip the stitches. •light, and that ride back in _the moon- with four good.- izecl rooms, and a light ! It Was my first sight of the coun- kitchen in the " lean-to," for Which I try that year. We skimmed along the paid thirty-five el Rees a year. I took it edges of green fields, the roadsides were chiefly for the sa e of ea launt of mine, bordered with dandelions, buttercups, who had married badly. Her husband and Maywee4 ; the air was sparkling, beiog dangerou -tempered in n when and. thc grass iwas of that early spring drunk (which wa pretty mue all the green that hat a yellow glimmer through tame), she had let hine and tri d. to sup it I could. not help brealdng out into port herself and er children. But she singmg i could not earn m ch, a,nd if sh ever got eai fields of light, Celestial plains, ad bier husb d would a little money ah Where pure, serene effulgence reigns, om, her. . Ye scenes divinely fair," ' manage to 'get t all away f When she lived trouble her, for h loot over the thr you may be sure with, me he had. no rig shold of my h e did not get much she co did not and all the others joined in. Then we t to set went through the -woods, and they were use and all green above and all pink below, for an. invi- they were filled with honeysuckles in tation. It twasn' ld earn, f 11 bloom, and the sweet scents blew all,' having little eh -Urea to car for, but J she put her furm are into the 1ouse. It was in the /tor of this ljiouse the little conipatty a sembled. AI.1 that I wanted was to 1t them know that I did not consider hat we tiled. done any- thing sinfu , and hat 1 shouldl make no enention of 1 this de in giving in my ex- perience af class. All agreed 1 with me, and it was'detid d to say noth ng .about it at Saturday el The c16:ss-meet though. I 'could that nothing was day ride. ! The usual., some bem riosity, but they On Monday, h came to see me, me know the obj Sister ; Mine that your feet ar "I hope not Brother B irroughs," said I. " Is not the world, getting t be a de! light to your eyes, and a snar to your out us. Out in the 4Spen again'we. went round. a marsh where °the tall blue 'flags stood in rows a like an army with ' banners." Then we -were iti the pined, where the air was strong and spicy, and 1 We all stopped awhile to listen to the 4ange, solemn, sounds among the tree - s that that we had been told was like. the of the ocean, which none of •us had. ver seen. Then we drove through Lu - 10 t erville to the quiet little tavern, where e had a, nice supper.. The ride back as pleasant, too, but in a different way., e were not se gay; Moonlight is very lemuizing to the feelings, I think. he night was not very bright, for the noon was pat the full, and things were little hazy. and indistinct. You know what strange shadows the n makes, and as' we drove pretty ast they seemed to be flittinng aboutin n unearthly way, but, of, course, al- ays towards Lutherville, because we ere riding towards the moon. I en - eyed the night -its strangeness and weet solemnity. But aftewards ,tlais 'de up from Lutherville seemed. to me like a sort of proptheey, such as we have in dreams, and to this day, if I am be- lated in a country ride, and see the moonlight streatning in under the trees, d the shadows flitting about, my Mincl oes back to that ride, and to Luther - Ile, and the dreadful sights ---,-But '11 tell you about that by and bye. Now will finish about the ride. Waa I engaged to Edmund Burt' 0, ' no. There had never been anything like charting between him and. me. I was an only child, and an orphan - from three years old, and. I had always known Edmund '• and for seven years past he had been like a brother to me. We both experienced religion at the Berne revival, and made our public profession at the same time, when .1 was only fourteeen years old. He was then eighteen, and we had both.. continued in full church - membership ever since; and when we took this ride I wad just turnecl twenty-. one. What did_ we talk 'about? Of the things mounds us; a good deal about church matters, and some little about business ; for Edmund had lately been made foreinan in his father's shop, and Mr. Burt was accounted the best shoe- maker in that part of the country, and did a large business, having sometimes a dozen apprentices; and I had learned my trade, and siet up in the dressmaking business with Sally Eliot. In Trego, in those days, working at a trade was not considered lowering to the dignity of a young woman, and I always went into the very best Methodist society. We reached. home that night about eleven o'clock, and I thought that was ! the last of our ride, but I was mistaken: ! It was on a Monday afternoon that we went to Lutherville ; for work was apt to be rather slack with all of us at the begin- ning of the week ; anIthe very next day we heard of it in a way that was not ex- actly agreeable. I Sally and, I had rented a_ work room in•the business part of Trego, in a house next door to Mr. Sands, a grocer, and one of our prominent church members ; 'and as Mrs. Sands's kitchen and. oui room epened on the same back porch, she said to Us, as soon as the weather got a little 'Warm, "There's no need, girls, for you to go to the expense of a fire to heat your irons; there's al- ways a fire on my kitchen hearth, and. -you're welconie to a place there when you want it So we thanked her, and. , ac- cepted her offer, for it was easy to step flora our room te the porch and right into her kitchen, and. it was not UIICOM- mon for us to stop a rainute or two for a chat. Sometimes Sally or I went out by the day, and sometimes we took in work, just as the orders happened to conie in, but that day we wer6 both in the room ; and, late in the afternoon, Sally took an. iron into the kitchen to put to the fire, and found Mrs. Sands just come in from a visit to Mrs. Lines, our. preacher's, wife. , "What's this I've been hearing about you young people ?" she said, in her tehort way, for she was just as quick to find fault as to do ii. kindness -that was Mra. Sands-" what's this I hear about party going? And to a Lutherville tav- ly was the last ng leads on to a ay we don't sea all clear enough es travel back , n f our other t the to us take eie con- ia!le me lartha o e day on, I am sure, b t the g it to me • for bit of lartha meal an drink, rod gin g besides. , Gen,er- antler of heed ith what talk: was no mo worth e tinkle of a Ow -bell. ence wasn't eas , under ghs's words, an 1 I had g • myself wheth r • I had keep my lamp trimmed and burning in the last few mot Is. So when Martha !told rire that tl e whole church (she neer used smell n easures) ' was talking bout Mary Min ey, and. how hard she as striving to m ke Rich- ard Gardiner ait on her, even making a point of going out of evening meeting, in the face o the whole con regation, before it was ime. to close, in order to oblige Richer to go home with her -so, when Ma.rth told me this, I was not angry as I in ght have been a another time. But did. feel hurt t at they should bring bp against ,me th fact of my sometime coming early out .of meet- ing, for they 11 knew the reaso i as well as I did, and that it was a gt at cross to me, as I had _explained in class on several eecas ons. . I am sure nbw that it Was t versation abont he ride that n take to heart a lace of gossip of Rays. -She ea e to my house for no other rea pleasare of tern' scandal. was to and pretty goo ally I paid no rt she said, for he minding than t But my cense Brother Burro been questioni been careful to a roll out 0 case ; " I tho the Mome t I saw it." He unrolledit arid tossed i hand, audit littered down o of dark cambrie he had been for me, whichturn:shed a ls bring out he gree tint ---jus .of young age-ieav " It is lovely, Ri lard," I too gay felt. me. "Why I "it is ve cate gree He wh slow slowly = uo light, wl were IIIII • I shoo bright," afraid. Then heap and threw it softly do the sunshine that fell on .„ and there it showed a pal with just the sligIttest susp and it lcioked so ptain4color it really' might ,suit me, so cut me eft two plaids. I k this rib on for a lime time, t was heayy Mant let lee bake it at price, s rety cents b, yard. =-Ild him , o give mit anythi etore, but he would not le than wholesale price. Whenhe •thanded me managed. to slip the note 1 and I went to the prayer - day ni lit thinking how s be to take the walk back er's alone. I was quite it VbraS 'time to return. T were a uging " The year remenibbr, as I stepped o 1.3 ss. ng passed ova ee all were said about t lass was f brought the ere disappoi wever, our c -nd he pre et of his visi y," he said, set in slippe r quietly, surprised at Mon- ller than e by cu - ted. ass -leader soon let "1 fear y places." footsteps ?? ' I though it w tend that I did n alnainIg at, and so are referring to confegs that th bird4 and the Iio light Ito ntyeyes. " The green fi Mindey, doingtheir duty in b for than and be honeysuckles ar and, no doubt, u but what good. o complished by s last Monday? I easir to the ene fessieg young me suretricting over up Iwith a car tavern ?" This speech in swet•ed : Now Bu. ottahs. jUst that hewent on ao carouse. all the young fol s in the pa there are no stea ier person in t cl you kno Joli ethodist, ord. ce public not quite ri t know wh I spoke out our Monde green field eysuekles lds are at w st, and. :the as God m efu.1 in vari useful serv ch a frolic it not rath y, when a and wome the cOuntr use in a de me angr you kn s well as Mi th th he Church, a ns is a good erly, temper 1 I was hast ney. I was ough the ey ough my own in my s looking rt it rather s of the world than The Circi it -rider down th re does speak well of Blether Johns, and. I believe tha you had o evil inten- ticin, and bchaves in an orde ly andbecora- .ingmaaner ; but worldly p ople will not so regaial it, as you know. T ey willthink ow it may be ut even for s for the in- oung peo le on you s a 'at is why I n the matter. bosen vessel, ide from his ht to pre - t he was "If you. 's ride, I , and the ere a de- rk, ,Sister aring food birds and de them, us ways; ce was ac- es that of • r giving oe- set of pro - go plea- , and end Lutherville , and I an - w, Brother know it, • You know ty, and that to be found that Luke ral keeps an ouse." eech, Sister - The reas was this: Th family and the rom our people, one was p at nine happen ; working aye eve - and, just on the Richard en's side, d with me ected to enough, ot need. not the fraid. hat was ar wages, seventy - a week, ce work ey paid which gave me the most work best pay lited. a long mile 1 church. They were excellent but had Ipecluliar notions, and that the houte must be locked o'clock at night, whatever migh so when I 'as engaged there by the week, I was obliged to il ning meeting before it closed. ; as surely as I rose from my se -women's side of the church, Gardiner rosie from_ his on the and, followi t g nie out, Walk to the house. • I had never his going, as it teemed nature, intimate as we were, but I did his protection,' for there was slightest danger and. I was not ' As for giving -up the place, not to be thought of. My regu when I went out to work, were five cents a ay, or three dollar but I did a good deal. of fine,' for the Brewer family, and t ine extra for it, sometimes as high as six dollars a week. This was an bject to me, as you may know, with a ouse on my hands and. Aunty Carr's amily to look after. I could not giv up the place, but I could prevent Bic rd from going there with ,me. And t is I re- solved. to do, not so m,nelr on a count of the gobsip, or this would die a ay after a while, butfor my own sake. For Mar- tha's 'word had given forms to the shadows of ideas that had la ely been troubling rae, and I saw at one that the truth of the- matter had been tl at I had allowed myself to be too much i fluenced by Richard.. it was difficult ot to be influenced y Richard. Someh w he car- ried you alo g with him when I e talked, until you d cln't know exactly here you stood. He ' morally go honorable. wrong, I or was high - 1 could t see now how worldly had. generally been, and. ho caused Ime to look on the thing as if they were to be compared_ things of eternity. . Who as Richard. Gardi only chil of Paul 61-ardiner, kept the largest store in 'Tr father ha died a couple of ye this time, nd had left Riet..arc ness, so t at he was better off Of the young men. It was a family, and Richard had been piously brought u , and attended 11 the meet- ings, exc pt class, as reg tarty as Ed- mund anc I. He had. the d epost respect for religicn, end I believe had honestly tried. to s cute it for himself, but, up to this time he had not found saviing, grace, thotigh le the anki had; bee vest afte our ebur outside. Somctirr been w chaiece f pressing ght of you out of his the heap utting off kground to the color said, "but ts not gay at a ," he said ; y Pale in color, ant this deli - will suit your pin cheeks." spered this as he 1 ent over to the ribbon, which he let float t of his hand int a stronger re it looked as i moonshine ting up and. down . my head. It i entirely too said., rather regre fully, I am e gathered some. o it up in a right into he counter ; , pearl-gray, ciou of green; cl I thought told hitn to pt atscrap of but it is lost a ribbon, but he =, wholesale never allow- ig out of the me pay more now.. -Richer it at partiy- for a reteorted that yo tlis I do not car enee it will h the church. leader among th hAve come to yo Yung Brother' and he must not fl in gilt we danced, so mucli e on the Ve look u in, and t alone up urt is a be led a hiigh calling." 1" I didn't ask him to ta you may be sure of that !" Brother Burro ghs's t a little crack in «hat was as he could ma age. "I sad, "that you ill not d breeming in a ell-beha only meant that your infl oung people in he chum- ith them, wh tever Ma right.. It behooves you, eircunispectly d not t that will cause • our weak ter to.offend." • As I look lea.. now, 1 epiritual pride «as the w hristian armor. _ I was es Brother Bu oughs h knew it, .and wa proud o in. the chuech an and so, you see, dart touched. me tometimes to tu ,n our v helps to goodnest ; and t my place in t e estim people set me t thinkin ride was not, aft r all, a ness. It was u whatever except and I thought day, I might as I 1 JAN. 23, 1874. for the last twenty:years, Until now t sales average over one hundred thousand boxes it year. Eminent merabecs of the medidal profession without number ad. - mit that they know of no preparation' reducing "isuch beneficial results as these he package I to his hand ; eeting Tues - range it Would to Mr. Brew - nervous when e congregation of Jubilee," I t of the pew 1 into thetaisle. At that °Inept I saw a 10 black iure looming up on' the other side of the church, and as I alked clown one aisle Ribliard walked do n the other. thld you not to d this," I said, turning hiar sharpl , as soon as we were o Dude. all not let you take that long ine riding.; I retorted. lips opened. near a smile am sure," he anything un - d. woman; I ence over the is unbounded. y Mincey does then, to \yea - do anything brother or sis- can see that ak point in my looked up to, d said, and I my standing my character for piety, rother Burroughs's last But t e Spirit seems ry faults into e fear. of losing tion of pious whether the ece of worldli- dertakeniwith no object our ownj gratification.; th sham that, on that ell have eeu one of the -was a good young men- d, I mean -and up ight, and. e would not kno vingly do ead others to do i , but he pirited and wor1c11 -minded. our talk he had of time with the ,, 1 8 walk ahtne," he said, "if all the busy tongues in the church wag at us." So he had heard the gossip too, and did net care for it I was secretly so much pleased that he should, as it were, set al ' the church at defiance for my sake i that • did not giye him the scolding I intertued. "And, after all," I thought, " hisrporaiug out of church with me was less npticeable than his staying in would. lia.v_elieen.". You see I had completely lost /tight of the deeper reason I had had for timesting him not to go with me. So II only said, "There is not tbe smallest danger." And. then I slipped. my hand iato his arm, and we walked. off as usual,' . But we had a very unusual conversa- tion, for Biehard. told me that he loved Me, land asked me to be his wife. I was startled, almost frightened, for he was very vehement, and my brain was in a whirl with the new,thoughts he had put in it I had sometitnes wondered if I ever would. have an offer of niarriage, and. who would. make it, and perhaps it is strange that I had. never thought of the two young men who were Most at- tentive to me. But their attentions had always been so brotherly, and_ I had known them so long. I did not ask myself now if I loved. him, it seeined such a strange thing that he should love me. That was all I could think of. Richard kept talking on, trying to win a word :from me. • Scrip- ture sentences always came readily to my mind, and I finally murmured; more to myself than to him, "Be not un- equally yoked. with unbelievers." But he ; caught the words : "1 was afraid that would. be your feelings, Mary," he said. • "1 will not argue the point with you now, or quote other Bible phrases, shell as the unbelieving husband being won by the conversation of the wife ; but I am sure that, at some other time, I can convince you that my not being a professor of religion should not stand between us. All that I want to know is if you love me. Love is the best thing in this world, dearest, and your words give me hope, for, if you did. not care for me a little you would not have thought of any. barrier there might be .loetween us." . I did love Richard ; I bad. alvvays loved. him]. But the kind. of love he was now asking for I knew nothing about. I could not have told whether I loved him in thet way or not, if my life had depended upon it. But, turning aside from any spiritual view of the matter, and looking at it only in the -worldly light in which he wished me to, I found a barrier there a1°. Something did. stand between us even then. It was Ed- mund Burt It seemed almost as if I was looking into his eyes, and that they were tellingme that any word. of love I•raight say to Richard_ would be a pore hurt to Edmund. And yet, I could" not hurt Ricaard. So I thought it best to speak out frankly part of what was in my heart. "1 have always looked upon you, you know, Richard, as a sort of brother, and I cannot think of 'you in this way all at nee -it startles me so." My voice trembled, I expect, for I Was near crying, and Richard said, sooth- iugly : ' t -'Never mind, dear Mary, there is plenty of time. Don't worry over what have aaid. Let everything be as it as betWeen us. I Wanted to let you know My feelinge towards you ; and seine time you will get to know your own h,eart better. I shall not trouble you with this subject again for a long time." (TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.) i wafers. When taketi in season they feet a perneanent cute. 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The vtonderfally restored. me (a consumptiVe) choicest Liquors and Cigars only kept in the Bar.' gladness I A careful and reliable hostler always in attendanoe. to such. good health., With THOMAS Is.-NOX, Proprietor.. • tell them. all that my recovery is due to 291 Fellows' :compound Syrup of HypoPhos- 1DOYA.L IfOTEL, Seaforthe onterio. stetOtt - .n, thoroughly renovated and newly furnished Fellows' Hypophospintes being peculiar • er? The who had go. His rs before his busi- ,han most Methodist had been several ti us bench, and t ice unn der deep co harvest had bee h, but Richard And so good as es up to I know, iir Ticti n. Har- igathered into as a ways left he was, too ! s I used th thin if h had only rse, there had leeen a better r his getting th ough and ex - an assured hope. He and Ed- mund w re -intimate frien s, aipd were so like brotihers to me that I nev r telt the want of k brother, though 1 of en wished. for a sis er. In any trouble I appealed. to one 4r *the other indeffere tly, t and consult$l them about inyplansj, and they were al ays thoughtful fer me. There seemed. to be an .agreement l between them, tlhat if one could not att nd to me theotih 1r would. Richard al ays went with n early,, be- cause E d in the prayers It ha pened that 1 was eng ged to- go to the rewers' the Monday fter I had heard Martha's story, and o my way out I stopped at Richard's s re to get sewing- ilkand liningsiI hd a little note fo4 him, tucked tinder my glove, for I knew there woold be people in the store tj prevent my saying wljtat I had on my mind. So I wrote a ew lines, just asking him as a favor not jo go home with me from the Tuesday nig t prayer- • meeting, and that I had agood. reason I could not tell him then. HeIL, ad just got in a lot of spri:iag goods, nd he showed me a case full ' of beautif ribbons. You talk now, my .dear, about the wonderful tinte in greens, as if theehad neter been any lake them, but they had just such sixty years ago in dress goods and ribbon* - lovely changeable greens, with browns and yel- lows and whites all blending into one another. 1 , "1 have picked out a ribboik for your bonnet, Mary," said Richard, as he took , POWELL, Proprietor, The subscriber has : Phites, with. the bleeding of God upon it." ' above house, so that it now afford.; good accoranso- in. its effect and composition, no other dation fOr the travelling public. Choice liquors ' i - , - an*cigars in the bar. ;The table is supplied with . preparation is a substitute for it I the delicacies' in season. Oystere in season.. -ft it. WHEELER'S COMPOUND Eta-x1R OF Large stabling and an attentive hostler in con- -1" PHOSPHA.TES AND CALISAYA. - neetion. • PREScOTT, June 20, 1872. «{y wife for &number of years has been suffering from Astlincia, and Dieeaee of Heart. Her breathing was short and quick, at times causing great distress awl apprehensioJl of impending death, and she was greatly prostrate -with general debility. At night, she' was constantly subject to attacks of great difficulty in breathing, the stirface; of the body becoming cold, and she was apparently life- less, being restored only by great exertion on the part of attendants. She began taking your med- icine about a year ago, and. she has not had. an at- tack slime, and isin the enjoyment of very com- fortable health. I have great reason to be thank- ful for heir extraordinary improvement. ' when I left meeting mund was needed to 1 and. the singing. W. ARMSTRONG, Landing Waiter." . Thomas' Eelectric Oil, WoRTH TEN TIAIES ITS wEIG-IIT nu GOLD. DO YOU KNOW AITITBING OP ? IP NoT, IT Is TIME YOU mn. There are but few preparations of medicine which have withstood the impartial judgment of, the people for any great length of time. Otie or these is LIMAS' ELECTRIC OIL, plarely a prepar- ation of six of some of the best oils that are known, each one possessingvirtuee of its own. Scientific physicians know that medicines may be formed of Severalingredients in certain fuced proportions of greater power, and, producing effects which could never reeult from the tise of any one of them, or in different cambinations. Thee in the preparation of this oil a chemical change takes place, forming a compound which could not by any possibility be made frem any other combination or proportions' of the same ingredients, or any other ingredients, and entirely different from anything ever before made, one -which produces the most astonishing re- sults, and having, a wider range of application than any medicine ever before discovered. It con- tains no alcohol or other volatile liquids, conse- quently loses nothing by evaporation, Wherever applied you get the benefit of every drop, whereaa with other preparations nearly all the alcohol ia lost in that way, and you get olaly the small quan- tity of oils which they may contain. S. N. THOMAS, PHELPS, N. Y. And NORTHROP & LYMAN, Newcastle, Ont., Sole Agents for the Dominion. NOTV.-Electrie-Seleeted and Electrized. Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson. & Co. and R. Lumsden. ' • 2514/ pRINCE oj WALES HOTEL, Cinaton, Ont., J- O. J. McCIATC H feON, Proprie•tor. Fint-clasa accommodation for travellers. The Bei is stip- plied with the Very best Aigriars and cigars. Good stabling attachbd. The 'stage leav-ee this- Howse everyday for Wingham. 204-4t POSTER'S HOTEL, ST:AVORTII: rpHOMAS FOSTER begs to inform his old -1- friends and the traveling public that he has opened his new hotel, adjoinnia the Post Office Seaforth, where he has the very best aceonamods- Om for Man and beast.- The best of liouorsasx1 cigars at tliebar, THOMAS FOSTER. 111101DIECA.L. 1-)11. CAMPBELL, (Graduate of McGill Univer- sity, Montreal,) Coroner for the County of , Huron. 011tee-Next door to Calder Brothers' Marble Works, and opposite McCallum's Hotel, Main -street, Seatorth, near the Railway Station. The Great Female Remedy. - JOB MOSES' PERIODICAL elms. rpaiiS invaluable medieine is unfailing in the 2- cure of all those painful and. dangerous diseases to -which the feniale constitution is subject. It moderates all excess and removes all obstructions, enda speedy cure may be relied on. 1 To married ladies, it is peculiarly Suited. It will in a short time, bring on the monthly period -with regularity. These lls should not be taken by Females during the first three months of Pregnaey, as they are Sure to bring en Miscarriage, but at any other time they are safe. - In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections, pains in the back and limbs, fatigue ou slight ex- ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and whites., these pills will effect a cure when all other means have failed; and although a 'powerful remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimony, or anything hurtful t� the constitution. Full directions lin the pamphlet around each package, which should be carefully preserved. Sob 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 etra_urn Soldin Beaforthby E. Hicks; & Cp.1.9a7n_d Lumsden. 9 SPECIAL NOTICES THE SEAPORT* LUMBER YARD. TAMES STEWART, M. D, C. M., Graduate of SY McGill, University, Montreal, PhysicitAi' , Sate geon, etc. Office and Residenee-Brucefield. - TIR. KING, Seafortlf, (late of Carronbroola) Coroner for the Comity of Perth, Office.- Main-st. Residence-Gomlneroiel Hotel. Calls 1.* • DR. KING'S office will be attended to day oe night. 287 HL. VEROE, M. D., C. X., Physician, SwF- • goon'ate., Coroner for the County of Huron. 'Office and Residence, -corner of Market end Hi.iih .streets, next to the Planing Mill. , TERINARY SURGEON„ -D. MoNAUGH31, V. Sa begs to annotame to the inhabitants of Seatorth and SturouniFing country that lie hes been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterinary College, and is now prepared to treat. diseases of Horses auaCattioauaall domestic animals. He has opened. an. office in comsection with his heree- shoeing shop,'Where he will be found ready to at- tend to calls. Diseases of the feet 'Specially at- tended to. • Residence, ofilee and shop in the rear of 7 -Moran & Ilyan'S new store. All kinds of Ve.a- erinary Medicines kept constantly on hand. Charges reasonable. 229 = 3. G. BULL, L.D.S., aarNURGEON,Dentist,&e., Seaferth, Ontario. Plato work, latest yles, neatly exeiuted. All sur- gical operations performed svith . care and promptitude. Fees as low as anbe ob- tained else -where. Office hours from 8 A. M. to B P. M. Rooms over Mr. A. G. McDougall's Stolle, Main -at. 270 M.A13EE & IYEA.CDON ALD TIEG to inform the public that they have opened a to Yard in Seaforth, ;near Shearson's Mill, on the ground forro.erly used as a Limiber Yard, by Mr. Thomas Lee. • They will keep constantly on hand a good assort- ment of ALL KINDS OF LUMBER, dressed and undressed. Also, LATH AND SIEINGLLPS, all of • which they are prepared to ;sell at the lowest possi- ble prices, for Cash. _ Builders and others will find it to their advents. ago to inspect Our stock, and ascertain our prices before purchasing elsewhere, as we are in a positien to otter good indutements to cash purchasers. 160 MABEE & MA.CDONALD. BREA ITFA,ST. ----EPPS'S COCOA. -GRAT1C- • FIII, Aisb COMFORTING. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nntrition, and -by a careful:application of the fine properties of well -selected coeoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast ta- bles with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills."---Civi/ SeroiCe Gazette. Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk. Each packet is labelled -James EPPS & GoCo. Hornceopathic Chemists, London." ., OP COCOA. We will now give an account of the process adopt- ed by Messrs. James Epps & Co., man- ufacturers of dietetic articles'at their works in the Euston Road, London"- Cassell's Household Guide. tatThe efficacy of Bryan's Pelmonie wafers in curing Coughs, Colds, and all Bronchial affections, and. cheering the afflicted, bas passed into a proverb. In the United States, where these marvel - loud Wafers are known, they bear down all opposition and eclipse all rivalry; the demand for them has steadily increased :NOTICE TS HEREBY GiaEN that application will be -L• made to the Legislative Assembly of the Prov- ince of Ontarioy at its next session, for an act to reunite the North Riding of the County of lin- ron to the Soath Riding of the said.; County, for Registration purposes. PETER ADAMSON, - County Clerk. Goderieh, Sept. 10, 1873. 301 PUBLIC NOTICE. rti e. CHURCHILL, Veterinary Sur eon, (mien- -A- • ber of the Ontario Veterinary C Ilege,) hew. to Intimate that he has returned to the prae,tice of his profession in Seaforth, mid may at all tirnes be consalted on the diseases of Horses, Cattle, &e. Veterbaary medicines constantly on hand. All calla promptly attended to. Office, at Mansion House,Seaforth. 278 J. R. WILLIAMS SF,AF.ORTH PUMP FACTORY, TN returning thanks'to his patrons for past fav- -11' ors, wonld state that he is new reeking exten- sive preparations for the coming year, and will be prepared to barnisla Pumps, Cisterns, Cheese Factory 'Tanks, and water -supplies generally. His pumps are already so well and favorably knovrn that any praise of them is unnecessary. „. .A.11 notes and. aceanmts now due Must he settled at once. : A. number of overdue notesand accounts will be placed in Court for collection if not imme- diately paid. , 31243 a. B. WItT,TAMS. CUTTERS ! CUTTERS! flurop_ Carriage Works, (Lite McIntosh & Morrison) MAIN STREET, - • SEAFOR'61. .161.V3ERY. A. SHARP'S LIVEP.Y AND SALE STABLES. • OfliceAt Murray's Hotel, Seaforth. Good Horses and first-class Conveyances always enhand. BELL'S LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTR, Ont. Good Horses and Comfortable Vehieles, always on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with CommercialTravellers. AU orders left at Kaoss's HOTEL, will be promptly attended to. OEFICE AND STABLEs:---Third door North Of • Knox's Hotel, Main Street. THOMAS BELL, Proprie- 221 tor, Samuel Brodie, C. E., rfeROVINCIAI, LAND SURVEYOR, Seafortla. -11- All orders kit at thellansion House with 1)' John Murray will receive immediate attention - References -pr. Coleman and Dr. King. 411152 EXTRACTING TEETH WIT1-TOUT CARTWRIGHT, L. D. 8„ 'Surgeon Dentist `-/ • attends in Seaforth, at RviOx's Hotel, the first Tuesday andWednesday of esehmonth; in Clinton. at the CommercialHotel, on the following Thnrs- daps and Fridays. The remainder of the time at his Stratford office. Parties requiring new teeth are requested to teals if at Seaforth and Clhaton, on the first days of at- tendance. Testimonials of over 500 patients who have had their teeth extracted by the use of the Gas, may be seen at my oifice office in Stratford. Teetb ineerted in the most substantiai and im- =proved styles. - Filling done in gold, &c., bit a. manner whish annot be surpassed. 237- TI:17. undersigned has on hand and is making FIF-r‘i CUTTERS Of First -Class material. and of the best finish, which he will sell cheap for cash or on short time. Also, on hand and for sale Wood- Work of every Description, Cutters, Bodies, Wiwi.% Gens, &c. 333 A. 3. McINTOSE. LONDON COMMERCIAL COLLEGE s- A ND TELEGRAPII INSTITUTE. VOTING WITIN, 'if you want a Drat -class business -I- education, attend the London Commercial Col- lege during the coming winter. The prosperity of this institution is constalitlY increasing. The number of students in actual attendance during She year ending September 1878, was larger than that of any other inetitution of the kind in the "Domirdon, being OVER TWO HUNDRED. Our course of business instruction is the most thorough, systematic and progressive ever intreduced in any business college in Canada. Specimens of Penmanship exhibited or sent by us are genuine -neither printed nor imported_ Our graduates are sought for by business men, and give general satisfaction. Telegraplessudents have ample time for practice every day. Circulars'with fall information sent free on ap- plication. Address GEORGE A. SWAYZE, Manager. London Oct. 1,4873. 308-3m-eow BOARDING. -1-1-COT,T,ATSAT has leased the large and com- • m.odions house, on the Salt Works Grounds, adjeiningthe Railway Station, and has fitted it np as a boarding-house. Good table and eonifortahle rooms. Persons wishing a pleasant boarding- house should apply, as there are at present a few vacancies. Transient boarders accommodated at los tliantotelrates. '226 • .° . , A - 'PrI3s. g -1 3 '',ineal volerf:v4c1 1:11 1 6: :pEnialyrkni;:tta.in;:r., 1,,,e0,1:_geiiiitisatois 11,ua4gglins t,171 admikabli ing the 11 i Ilt 1 etir_svs., _ .1 .1 knows1 t tsk i- .etealO,3 Iii' 1 darli;.1.1.11g, lii], • ---iik 374 -na:ugureaf seti:Y1,1 last ilghl fk:Oirtore " expeetin althiltwo.lih*4:71 !:. - -, 'weigh'" 4)f1'‘'`11111.14.:it'cP liST ' !C11c40lfort :li:31:1 ;htS1:ly :f ,0ot1i. A Yre.. TrIri :n :ot:j 'Ilis°1:11Ttb'rrvr imh:Yerv lietl: ,li ,- Tarbinea. from bee t:beohn h- itri,4,11 tb as, "3- a g:r.'eth1 n ,' le :ifi o em au, ourwa 'wealth, s. lives alo gledwilrNekis:toN11::, atd sen .hVait • 5 II,, ' ' ph,tiosol oftren aTrtwtas: -N Peatl na is:i*:attit. 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