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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-12-04, Page 22 RUTH'S THANKS.CIVINC. Ruth Hill was the niece of Farmer Hill, as wild and pretty a housekeeper, the neighbors said, as an old man would care to have. whose own sons and daugh- ters were married. and gone, and whose • wife was in heaven. She was good at churning), baking, or weaving, however ; her cheeses were the pride of the county, her breed b.ad passed into a proverb. She made nothing of skipping down the alippery sides of the wheel if the bueket dropped in, and she would catch the colts ia the pasture by the mane, and leap a fence bare-backed—enough to make one's hair sand on Cad. She bad movred a whole afternoon with a neigh- . bor's son on a wager, and. won it too, and _ had looked as bewitching as Maud Mut- ; ler herself at the task. She was both -.hoyden and flirt at once, but so =capable -aud high-spirited that everybody forgave her. Many of the young men in the township had paid court to her, only to find it time wasted if they dared put the question, though it must be owned that A.3 e carried things with a high hand, and gave them tlenty of encouragement; not that she wanted them or their offers, but just because she couldn't help it --- because it was natural to her to shine ill their society, and to love their admire- tioa rather than. themselves. " Whom does Ruth Hill expect to marry?" the old people would say, shaking their heads at her wild. capers. "She May go through the -woods and pick up a erooked stick at last. It didn't use to be thus and so in our day. If girls would mar- ry,, they had to take such husbands as were going, and not flout their betters !" And when these things were repeated to Ruth, as they were sure to be, she would only laugh. " Whom do I expect to marry? Why, none of their country bampkins, tell them. I haven't seen the maa yet who's made my heart beat, and I mean to wait for him till I'm gray." " Maybe she's waiting fon him of the Ridge Farm," was the favorite sarcasm launched at Ruth. Now the owner of the Ridge Farm was as mythical a • per- sonage to the residents at Greenside as the Grand Lama of Thibet or the man in the moon. It was, indeed, a well-a.u- thenticatecl fact that a farm of that name existed ; that its owner carried off the country prizes; but nobody among Ruth's acquaintances remembered hav- ing seen him. Nobody in these parts had had the happiness to meet him in highway or markettown ; but when a son of Greensick was to be especially commended to the goodgraces of any of its datighters, he was declared "as good. a catch -as him of the Ridge Farna ;" or if &neisilabor raised an ambitious crop of gram or grapes, or a yoke of steers re- markab e in any respect, he was reputed to have heath)] the -Ridge Farm hollow. As this hero was understood to be a bachelor, the girls joked about him. Every stranger driving by was "him of the Ridge Farm ;" when their scissors stuck in the floor, he was coming to call; and every letter among the tea grounds was written by him. To be mistress of the Ridge Farm was almost equivalent, in theirregard, to being Queen of Eng- land. , 'I'm tired of this eternal titter about the Ridge Farm and its owner," said Ruth, on one oocasion.' "1 suppose he's made of clay like other folks." "Like his farm too," put in her Uncle Isaac." "I don't care for him nor his farm either," answered Ruth. " Wait till you're asked, Ruth." _ "I'd show him there was one woman in the world he couldn't have for the asking; he'd. aek in vain, I promise you." Perhaps, as rumors of the Ridge Farm travelled to Greenside, so Ruth's scoff- ing may have reached sthe ears' of ita master, since a dog that, brings a bone will carry one. -I, One winter Uncle Isaaa was over- reached by rheumatism, and though he fondly trusted that spring would bring him raund, yet spring came and. found him still beneath the counterpane, but as the planting must be down; and the farm hands needed a head man, he ad- vertised in the Comity Plowman for a capable man to oversee the farm a Isaac Hill. And to illustrate the advantages of advertising, a somewhat tall and thick -set man of twenty-five arrived, one Elkanah Reed, with honest brown eyes and a severely outlined mouth; which a smile broke into tender lines and curves. . He carried. ample recom- mendations in his pocket, one of which bore the name of Guy Grosvenor, the master of the famous Ridge Farm. "And how long have you. worked. at the Ridge" asked Unele Isaac " From a boy, sir, on !and off," was the answer. _ Ruth stood with one arrested hand on her spinning-Nish:eel, listening—a pretty picture enough, with her :saucy bright eyes, the apple -blossom color flitting across her cheek, and her lips half pouted with a smile. She had been too often told of her eharrcts not to believe in them, and perhaps she was the least bit surprised that Elkanah Reed never looked at her after the first salutation.. It was surely srery odd, when every clod- hopper M the fields turned his head to gaze after her—and this was surely no clod -hopper. "And -why did you leave - the Ridge Farm. ?" she asked, presently, not caring at ail, but bent- upon compelling his re- gard.- " Why; miss? Because I wished. to and untolded its banners to the imeleie, earn more, by your leave." , THE HURON EXPOSITOR -AI, t 1 A --.ALA ALr AA 44 *Yr - 41., A A4.1, a quite as likely to be deadly -nightshade or poieon-ivylis any thing. He seemed another order of man from that with which Muth had had to deal hitherto, and her presence appeared to affect hint no more than if he were made of flint in- stead Of flesh, and she were the ugliest girl in the township. _ He relieved her, to be sure, of a dozen burdens; when Unele Isaac had an ill -turn, he, watched a,m3. sent Ruth to bed; he repaired her spinning -wheel, and praised her cooking; but whether he took the heavy milking pails out of her hands, whether he turned the eh.urn-dasher in her stead, or held her skein of yarn in place of the broken reel, he did it with auch nonchalanee thatit was more aggravation than pleas- ure, jest asdie would have done it fbr any wbman, plain or pretty, naarried pr single, with no more visible emetion than if she had been a lay figure instead Of a breathing beauty accustomed to home 'Ruth was learned in these things, aha perhaps it vexed. her, this total dieregaid. of the fascinations she had deemed o er. potent. Perhaps it pigned her th t viten a, curl bruelied his face by chan e, he gave the chance no heed ; that when their two hands met accidentally, he did not appreciate the situation—his own neifheddelayed nor hesitated ; that he never sought occasion to be near her; I that. he looked at her as if the sight quickened no single pulse, as if man had never been beguiled by woman. Ie never Said pretty things to her, such as she had been used to hear all her life, and to expect from the young men abott her; and when their eyes chanced to meet, no electric spark was streak, no eloquent story told. He came in and out, and sat at the same table and be: side the same hearth, and went to the same merry -makings, and knelt beside 'a r y in her eyes, without taking recognition of her charms. Naturally flesh add -blood like Ruth's could not long enduee ettch treatment; she must Other hate r love hien ! , • - •One morning they were cutting off a dead limb from a button -wood tree near the house, and just as it was' about tb fall Ruth came sauntering across the yard, her curls blowing ,back from her rosy face, and carrying a handfal of but - dock leaves for Uncle Isaac's rheu- matism. In half a minute more her ebances wouldn't have been worth a fig had notElkanah Reed dropped the axe he wae grinding, and snatched. her away in two strong arms at the risk of his owa. head. t ' "1 say, Elkanah," sang out the man in the tree, "hat's a pretty tableau of yours. Practiced it before ? .. That night, when Ruth lighted Elka- tuah's ca.ndle, she detained it a moment, and began to say, "You,were very _good this morning—to--to do as you did. I—" "Oh, that's nothing," he _interrupted, brusquely. "Do you think I'd stand by and see a woman knocked down ?" . "But you might have been hurt your- self. I don't—know how to—reward you," she a . ered, dropping her eyes before his. It was the first time she had ever hesitated in her speech before man. " You will reward me -if reward is necessary for doing one's duty—by for- getting all abouf it," he said. And Ruth felt as if it had been less cruel had he allowed the button -wood bough to crush her instead. _ . "If you are ping over to the quilting at Jackson's," said Uncle Isaac next day, "yon had better let Elkanah drive you." "Isrefer to walk, thank you," said Ruth. "They've found bears' -tracks in the woods between. here and Jackson's," said Elkanah. "You can go round by the highway if .you like walking. It's a mile further, bet you avoid the woods." Ruth made no response, but Elkanah was busy in the yard when she passed out, with a saucy bow and smile, and he saw that she perversely chose the short- cut through the woods. She went along through the foot -path with her head down, not mueh carina for the bears' or a . . . . bang over her mantle, and Ruth laid 110 flattering unction to her soul on aceount of these. things. So the maples blushed in the Woods,' and turned. to fluttering gold pieees, the etunitch and woodbines reddened, and oak and. beech put on their holiday attire ; the shaPes of the trees were growing every day more de- fined against the pensive 'autumn sky; there was a hush in the air, only broken, not marsed, by the bursting and patter- ing of nuts, by the ripple of the falling leaf, and the mournful monody of the crickets; end one grew to have a Sense of insecurity in all this beauty, as if a breath would break the spell, bedirn the gold, and sadden the scarlet leaf. At All -Halloween the young men and girls assembled in the kitchen at the Hill Farm to work their charms, while they dived for the lucky apple, aild searched the melted lead for the implements of e. their future sweethearts' craft, and roasted chestnuts. "Did any one name my chestnut ?" a,sked Ruth, as it began to burn brightly. "1 named it," Paid Elkanah. " You ? And who, pra,y ?" "1 named it the master of Ridge Farm," be replied. "See ! the two flames have become one—that signifies marriages." ' "Then I'll quench it," Ruth cried, throwingswater upon the blaze. '1 The master of Ridge Farm, indeed, to inarry a crutch ! It is not seemly of you to be laughing at me, Elkanah Reed." "Ani I laughing at you ta You had a plow in the lead for your share; they should go together." " There are other farmers in. the land, thank Heaven." i Though Ruth would not confess it, even to herself, the year had been full ,ef disappointment to her, and now as the wind whistled through the leafless boughs of November, and the Indian summer was vanishing like a beautiful wraith, and the time drew near for El- kanah to depart, she was oppressed with a foreboding of trouble and grief, which was realized one morning when Uncle Isaac fell asleep, in his arm -chair, with the November sunshine on his face. "Hush, don't wake him," she said to Elkanah, when he came in to dinner; '1 he rested poorly last night." ! "But he's gone to his eternal rest to- day, Ruth." said Elkanah, touching the dead man's band. There was a hushed stir, in the farm -house next clay, friends and relatives coming post-haste, needles and neighbors busy over yards of bom- bazine. But when Uncle Isaac left the Hill Farm forever, Ruth woke to the fact that she no longer had any home. The will in which Isaac Hill was to have provided for her had been. put aside un- finished ; the farm was to be sold and the proceeds divided among the heirs; and the only one among them who offer- ed her a shelter was the cousin she had refused to marry years before, and whose wife naturally did not second the invita- tion. Alone, homeless, and crippled, Ruth found herself, as Thanksgiving Day drew near, when comfort and friends and good cheer seem the only natural things, and misfortune a spot on the holiday sun, a cloud in its sky. The place was to be sold the next week, and there was a great packing up and pulliag down, and the familiar rooms she had known so long were as naked • and forlorn as the outside world, and every one was moving homeward for the holi- days. But where should she go, and what .should she do ?—a woman on a crutch ! "And where do you go, Miss Ituth ?" asked Elkana,h, as if he had heard her thoughts. "You know almott as well I do," she answered, sedly. S' Aye, perhaps I know better," he said, raking together the coals upon the h earth. All the household goods, packed and labelled, stood ready to de- part in the wainscoted kitchen, while -Ruth sat on the old settle,with her hands idly folded over each other. "It is Thanksgiving Day to-morrovv " she said, bitterly, a,nd what have I 'to be thankful for? Last year we had a nee in the kitchen here, and I could lance and polka with the best." " Do you recall the day I came here the early spring day ?" asked Elkanah, ting down beside her on the settle, d taking her hand in his broact paint. e thing was so strange on his part at Ruth drew. it away quickly and. riled her head aside. Ay, I remember well enough." If is man was going to take pity upon r, she would show him that even a pple had tome pride, some spirit; d yet there had been something in the ich of his warm hand that renewed the ore of Thanksgiving weather. She s almost sorry she had drawn her hand ay, but could not give it back. And do you mind what answer de when you asked why I left Ridge rm?" not heeding her rebuff, but lean - nearer and winding a vagabond curl out an audacious brown finger. Yes," she said, twisting the curl o the net that confined her bair to- -"yes, you said you -left Ridge rm because you wished. to earn more, words to that effect, not worth re- mbering ;" for she was angry with self because she remembered them so hfully. And can you guess what it was I bed to earn? Can you? Come, e's a new conundruin. Look me in face, Ruth, while I tell you the wen How long was it Jacob served Rachel ? I came here to earn your e, Ruth. Put your hand. into mine, d, if I have not failed, and let us be nkful together." And, truth to tel truant hand crept shyly back an tled into his. 'And now, you see, sir," laughed h, on Thanksgiving morning, as the Greenside together, with the bell ing across the frosty air, and di tow-ard Ells.anah's home, where- he ha sent word for a parson to meet him— . " now, you see, I shall never marry th master of Ridge Farm, and make all th envious. Who knows," with a h. of her old mischief, "but I might done better for myself and my ch ?" Who knows, ilideed.?" answered_ nah ; and whefi, after half a day's ney, he drew up before a farm -house called fines', man to take his horse and said, " Welcome home, Ruth !" bending to kiss her mouth, Ruth ex- claimed. What, here? Why, 1 passed by six years ago with Uncle Isaac, ng home fromAuntEsther's funerat se said it was the Ridge Farm." It is the Ridge Farm," he assured "and I am. its master, Rath. They told me you'd jilt even an angel in dis- guise, but I can swear that you treat a man better. When I saw svou at the ast year I made bold to fall in love you. Forgive me the part 1 play - her at evening prayers in Uncle Isaa keeping -room, for six months and heft without making answers to the coquet . 10 1 believing in their neighborhood, but de- da laying here and the* to pick the tenipt- ba ing raspberries that4everhung the way, or to gather the wild geranium flowers for a bouquet. She had .forgotten all sit about danger, in fact, when a rustling in an the underbrush starded her out of her Th thoughts, and she had only time to look th over her shoulder in season to see Bruin tu spring across the path and plunge into the woods again, before there was a th sharp click and a flash; and it seemed to he Ruth as if the trees were all dancing cri together and the earth was shaking an uuder her, and. then she had fallen like tot. one dead. among the brambles and the blo scented ferns, shot throuah the foot by wa, a .gunner on the track of the bear, whose aw fowling -piece had caught in the under- growth and discharged itself. ma When Rath got about after this it Pa was very plain that she would never ing skip down the well again for the lost ab bucket, nor catch the colts in the pas- .1 ture, nor mow a long summer's after- int noon, nor dance at quilting or wedding, day nor " be much of a matcefor any young Fa farmer now," as the neighbors said, for -or she walked with the crutch Meath •the Reed had fashioned for her, and would her probably never .lay -it aside. tale So the year wore: on. The fragrant hay -ricks had -loitered up from the wis meadows, drawn by the contemplative her oxen; the corn had filled out its :'ears the mire for lov chil been gathered in, and ground in the So he of the Ridge is a hard. master, mill; the Blue -nose and huckster pota- eh ? he a baelselor still ? Will he toes bad bidden adieu to sunny fields ; never marry, think you ?" the early, wheat crop had. been %the 1 ; tha • "Perhaps—if he were to see you, the yellow pumpkins, like gold nuggets, the miss." • - I had heaped the staggering wains ; the ries her wheel buzz. This was the recogni- sons preserved, the tomatoes calmed ; Rut tion she had craved, but somehow it half the quince bushes had been stripped of left displeased lecr ; she was uncertain but their spicy fruit e and gilly-flowers . and peal this Elkanals Reed was laughing at her. Baler -ins had gone to market, or, repos- " I would sweep the streets first," she lag in the bins in the cellar, they dream- anewered, aeornfully, Then she turned ed of the days when they lived and Ruth flung back her curls and made winter pears had been stored, the dam- " ed, dear; the end sanctities the mea, in this case at least. Come, sweethear Parson Welfare is waiting for us." And so Guy Martell took Ruth Elle for his wedded wife, and it was Thank giving morning at the Ridge Farm. SPECIAL NOTICES. BREAKFAST. —13PpS'S 0000A. —GHAT 'FM. AND COMFORTING. —` By a thoroug knowledge of the natural laws whic govern the operations of digestion an nutrition, and by a careful application the fine properties of well -selected cod() Mr. Epps has -provided our breakfast t bles with a delicately flavoured beverag which may save us many heavy doctot bills."—Crivil Service 'Gazette. Mad simply with Boiling Water or Milk Each packet is labelled—James Eres Co, Homceopathic Chemitts, London. 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The Hill -Farm had yielded touc I said, "1 haremetyou somewhere, if 1 largely under Elkanah. Reed's manage= have mistake not, was it at the fair last Ment, but he was to leave it at Thanks- cent autumn?" _ - givina. It wad he who had assisted - " "Very likely," he answered, indiffer- .Ruth at pickling, preserving, and can; i Elka endy ; "1 was there ;" and he addreseed ning, and had become almost as aeces- 1 Jour " himself to her uncle. . sary to her in -doors as he was to her 1 and 'They have told him that I am a uncle outsided. He antscipated her wants flirt, and he means to take dare of him- 'before she coact put hand to her crutch, self, the craven," she thought, "but but he never let fall a tender word or when did I ever have to beg for notice, I look, nor permitted himself to be betray - that." need mind if. a farm hand turns ! ed. into turning a com liment t 1 his eyes a.ivav from me? He'll be look- ing this way hard. eeough before long, I'll warrant." 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DOYLE, Barriater, Attorney, Solicitor in J--'• Chancery, &c., Goderieh and Sertforth. Of- fice, over .Tordan'e Drug Store, Goderieh, end ;- Kidd's Store; Seaforth. 854 11 flAMERON & (4°1'01,81,1,Y, Barristerd and b. `--1 Solicitors in. Chancery, Goderieh. -- 348 1 at. c. cauenoN. - J. J. GORMALLY. f cgannow & WALKER, Barrietere, Attorneys, `-A Solicitors in Chancery, &e. Office on West St., ' opposite the Post Office, Goderieh. " 846 - J. T. ovum. e. F. WALKF.R. (3 .r M. LEET, Solicitor, Wingharn, laris been ap- ,' " • pointed Agen t for the Colonial 8 ecuritias Com- a pany of England, he is oleo Agent for several pri- vate Capitaliste of Toronto, who loon Money at , vory reasonable rates Interest payable yearly ' Charges moderate. Also Solicitor for the St. Lawrence Bank. 1 Winglann Dec. 15, 1871. . 218 - vf, oCAUGIllia & HOLM.ESTED, torneys at Law, Solicitore r lneolvency, Notaries Public and Solicitors for the R. 0. Bank, Soaforth. - the Canada Life Assurance Company-, N. 13,—V0,000 to lend at 8 Houses and Lots for sale. 1 -RENSON & MEYER., Barristere -1-' at Law, Solicitors in Chancery ' Conveyancers, Notaries Public, • forth and Wroxeter. $23,000 of invest at once at Eight per cent. I yearly. JAS. H. BENSON. n. ___.... W It. SQUIER, Barrister, Attorney " • ery, &e. Goderieh, Ont. " Detlor & 00.'s"Empotium, Market Squint. ctin McDonald, 11QARRISTER8,Att0rneye,Se1t0rs -1-' &e., Brussels, Ont. Office—two tho Post Office. ' W. R. SQUIBB., DANIEL 271 Goderieh. Barristers, At in Chancery and Conveyancers. Agents for per cent. Farms, 58 and Attorneye end Inuolveuey, ote. Offices—Sea- Private Funds to Interest, payable 58 W. C. MEYER. fn Chanc- Office—over S. 0 Square. 26E in Chancery doors not tb of McDONALD, Brnssels. ME DI CAL . nit. CAMPBELL, Seaforth, Coroner for the -'-' County. Office and residence. Main Street South, near tho Station. 'FIR. McKENNA, Physician, Surgeon, &c., Grad- -la' uate of Toronto University, and Member of the College of Physicians and Burgeons, Ontario. , Residence, Seaforth. Will attend at Carronbrook, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, in the afternoon' I 854 _T G. SCOTT, M. D. &c., Physician Surgeon and " • Accoucheur, Seaforth, Out. Ace and resi- ' dance smith side of Goderich Street, first door east of Presbyterian Church. 842 TT L. VERCOE, M. D., 0. M., Physician, Sur- • -I-IL • geon etc., Coroner for the County of Huron. "Office and 'Residence, corner of Market and High streets, next to the Planing Mill. ' -1V" MUNRO, M. D., Physician, Surgeon and -LI • Accoucheur, Graduate of--tha-Medical De- partment of Victoria University; formerly of the Hospitals of New York and London, Eng.; • visited also the Hospitals in Paris, Edinburgh and Glas- gow. Residence—Brucelield. 349 J. G. BTJLI, L.D.S., ;'-'1'ORGEON,Dentitt,&c.,Seaforth, esoes-ae,---„.,„ 4,, . a. • - - Ontano. Plate work, latest ' styles nefitly executed. All stir - *Gel ' gical operations performed with care and pronuptitude. Fees as low as can be ob- tained elsewhere. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Rooms over Mr. A. G. McDougall's Store, Main-st. 270 (1. CARTWRIGHT, L. D. S., Surgeon Dentist, k -i• will visit Goderieh on the first TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY of each month, at the Col- borne Hotel. 850 A en CAMPBELL, V. S., Licentiete and Prize- -L -L• mau of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, has settled permanently in Varna, where he will be found ready and willing to attend to all kinds of diseases, in all kinds of animals (man excepted), in all kinds of weather, and at all hours. Resi- dence and office two doors east of Cook's Tem- . perence Hall. 819 VETERINARY SURGEON.—D. McNAUGHT, ' V. S., begs to announce to the inhabitants of Seatorth and surrounding country that he has been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterin- ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases of Horses and Cattle anti all domestic animals. He - has opened an office in 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. Resident)°, office and shop in the rear of Killoran & Ryan's new store. All kinds of Vet- erhaary Medicines kept • constanaly on hand. Charges reasonable. 229 . . . T S. CHURCHILL, Veterinary -L. • ber of the. Ontario Veterinary to intimate that he has returned to his profession Ai Seaforth, and may consulted on the diseases of Horses, Veterinary metileines constantly calls promptly.attended to. Office, House, Seafortii. 1 S'urgeon, (mem- CollegeObegs the practice of at all times be Cattle, &c. on hand. All at Mansion 273 HOTELS. KN°1'S H2OTEL, SEIFOR TH. — Thomas Knox begs to state to his old friends and and the travellihg public, that he has leased the Hotel lately oceupied by Mr. MURRAY, and formerly knowii as the DOWNEY HOUSE, and hopes to receivO a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed upon hint during his many years in the hOtel business. Every comfort and convenience will be provided for travellers. The choicest Liquors and Cigiqs only kept in the Bar. A careful and reliable hostler al ways in attendance. 291 - TuomAip KNox, Proprietor. - i VICTORIA HOTEL, WALTON.—John Winter, ' Proprietor. This hotel is situated. on the Gravel Road, 10. miles north of Seaforth, and pos- sesses every accommodation and comfort for trav- elers. The best brands of liquore and cigars kept j in the bar, and a carefnl anti attentive hostler in -"- attendance. Good stabling' in connection with the hotel. 1 • 850 LINE RY . T A. SHARP'S LIVERY AND SALE • Office—At 31urray's Hotel, Senforth. Horses and first-classCons-eyancea always _ - STABLES. Good ouhand -_ " Ont. always made with left at the T attended to. of the Commer bla , Fri Proprietor. _ .._ BELt'SLTVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, on hand. Favorable Arrangements Conunercial Tra-vellers. All orders Commercial Hotel, will be promptly OFFICE AND STABLES :—Sonth cial Hotel, Main Street. 221 THOMAS BELL, J. P..BRINEI L ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the County of p -L-i Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the „ Comity. AU order a left at the Exrusrron Office -'3' ' will be promptly attended to. All Ne • - E. LUSBY, ID 8 LICENSED AUCTIONEER 'for the County of Huron. Bales attended in allpftrts orthe Coun- ty. All orders made personally or sent to Seaforth AA Post Office a -ill be proniptly attended to. 327 Pri $5 TO $20 rur deahlys.seAs geonf t's working People, of either sex, young or old, make more at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than. at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. STINSON & Co.,Pottland,Maine. 284 MONEY ADVANCED 0N Mortgage Security, in such sums and for 1 DEC. 4, 1874. MILLINERY,MANTLES& LADIEefURS A Speciality at H9FFMAN BROTHERS' CHEAP CASH STORE SEAFORTH. UST received, another assortment of Millinery, consisting ef all -the latest French and Amer - can styles in ELT HATS. VELVET HATS. BONNETS. "TAT FRAMES. BONNET FR AlSMd. FRENCH FLOWERS. MERICAN FLOWERS. jASTRICH FEATHERS IN ki ALL COLORS. OSTRICH TIPS. FANCY ,FEATHERS. ANCY WINGS. FANCY BIRDS. HAT AND DRESS BUCKLES. Steel, Pea.r1, jet; Silver oxidized. 1 IONNET and Het Jet Ornaments, in all the Newest Styles. 1 1 IBB ONS, all colors, in Plain, Corded, and Watered. URQUOISES: Silk 'Velvets. Velveteens in all colors. 131ack Silk Jacket Velvets. Laces, ck and white, _Beaded and Plain. Bonnet nts. Dress Caps, &c., &e. Ladies' Mantles sve have received and opened out a splendid lot, which were bonght at near - hall mice, and will be sold at a small profit. the Mantles are made in the Latest Styles and west Material. Alto Mantles cut, fitted, and •de to order. E also marked off the third lot of Furs, which can't be surpassed for Quantity, Quality, cc and, Style, and are all New Goods, were bought in. the best Canadian Market, on bestterins for Cash, on which all custorners can rely on get- ting a good article, in Mink, Seal, Grebe, Astrachan Ermine Sets and Caps. TN Corsets, Thompson's Glove fitting find the French Wove Comte can't be beat for comfort neatness and durability, which. can be had at such periods, anti repayable in sueh manner ; as the applicant may dc -sire. Apply to McDOUGALL, Seafortb. SEAFORTH PACKING HOUSE. HOFFMAN BROTHERS' WANTED, HOGS, alive or dressed, for which the 500 Highest Market Price will be paid, deliver- ed at the Seaforth Cheese Factory. Apply to • W. S. ROBERTSON, E. DICKSON & Co. Pork Crating,s, &c., for sale 362 .SAMUEL TROTT pains in the back and limbs, fatigue on slight ex- ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and whites, these pills -will effect a euro when all other Manufacturer of means have failed; and although a powerful remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimony, ox el/etch/ate Turned _Butter Packages anything hurtful to the constitution. Of a Superior Quality. package, which should be carefully preserved. All orders, either 'Wholesale or Retail, Promptly job Moses, New York, Sole Proprietor. $1.00 and ; Filled. 121 cents forpostage,enelosed toNorthop &Lyman, SEAPORT/1 ONT. Full directions in the pamphlet around each Cheap Cash Store, SEAFORTH. NT 13. A good stock of Rufllirg, Friiiins, Cuffs -LI • Collate, trandlierehiess, Ties, liose, Gloves, Hair Braille, Chignons, Switches just to hand. t 4, 1874. GAIETIEd Matchless maid—The kif . —11;eirast. is the differ reIngellimalalnanadeila .thc (,the 1.1a—Ti\ylistt is the differeat Digger Indians and a One is a coarse race and Ili triu—rse' Awitch, being at tit burned, saw her son ther. iliirn to give he, %‘ srt wrong, for the Airitr - von a Ion will bum" —A little city lion turtle for the first tithi Oh, miAber mother ; away, quick ! • Here's thing.. -a great black frog, his back, ereepingdm his k --1 Joshua, saul Qnitz I er hopeful at breakfae Joshua, what is an he There's °lie on the buttel plied the unfilial younget old. lady lit on him with u. —Charles H. Webb, ma amusing men on the pla his fertlaioming hook 01 ri headed, that le oble and of Martyrs," Entertaiai that loss of hair is eause sleep," lie offers them his tellectual poppy, believing' eavn word.) that in his we low " tired nature's hair Ix sleep —A—.: writer det- erve:s ti sympathy of all gentleMen their -washing. He etaye - annoying to have sctine clothes left in one's room bi 'woman. Saturday we poi fellow's shirt, but couldn't though it was dialled aroma the sleeves were too slue en& on and, there w-ae no le lat." INSTIIrrTitnte ron Nathaniel M'Kie, it former' Crossmichael in Galloway mons were much in the sty coaversation, interepersed al ;parenthesis applicable cheracters, or tothe wilich arose Ibefore his church, said. one Sabbath reading a verse from the odus, -" And the Lord said eteek that door. Pre think ait beside the door yours be 'sae ready in lea,ving it just beside that door that Y. Temsou, the helium; gat cauld.; and I'm sure hou didna let it stay muckle the Lord said unto Moses' dour; \vim is it that brin,. the kirk, vaff-yalfird ? Let ye bring your {longs here put you and them bait)* the Lord said unto `Ales& eneath that laft wi' his hat ye're clear e' the sough id th Keep aff your bonnet, Tam vonr bare pow be ea.uld, ye get a grey werset wig they're ii0 sae dear, man, p. at Rob Gillespie's for ten anain began the verse, alla out the instructions for manner more strictly i the text. Reasons for Women. There are 1some reasons w -would be . an especial. women. Their lives are u up of an infinity of small would find that a thoussatal p would vanish in the -cleat from a good cigar,. The dep: cook three hours:before a a MI3Ula be viewed with leas' gret if seen through a bluish. tobacco -smoke. StarrtiVe eas that won't " IlfaMel-tall be by ioy over It cigar that la -hen the day's work is -do band and wife are eittiner isoe by the fire, a mutual smeke .1 thens closer to each Ilther4 tend to create between them good -fellowship which is non wantirer, Popular prejlitlie W011112:t4 puff a cigar eon t anywhere in pablic, but indie dice keeps a good many men the something, It is dotibti any one bas a right to pOnlistk 3 place set apart fee publicoa the privacy of home, or at (b dinner party, why ihould not indulge in the universal ii'rrc lunt ? Would not the media of society be ahanged into better under the influence ,of kindliness -that is born of a q And then, as a self -defensive as the husband tften .eats oni the wife dees, would it Pot • 1 --Chicago Tribune, — - --...•-•------- -- The Sensation at Sim Ivlax Adeler telates the fame- -in Tuckahoe, lt, J., there Laos Simpson, who had a flat roof covered with tin. _The roof a ing badly, and it happened Mr. Simpson that it would thing to cover the whole sulfa material outof which sionerete are mode, in order to :make i tight A man was acconlingi and be coveted the tin with e the depth ofithree or four inch The emee of Iltackahoe is 1 warna weether millions of theil .4tint hold glatifieution meanie ilearsals and general see in the back yards and tvio. In Tuckahoe that sum. . heat was extremely inteuze ; Simpson vs,as exceedingly ainat, animated discussions of the k neighborhood. The more be them itia thmg old boots at - more they yelled Night afte continued to grow more terrin after day Mrs. Shnpson obs the mysterious caterwauling during all the hours ef dayhg son hadn't a hoot -jack or a, Wee or a rolling -pia er a eologne-bo thArotwiasatt,thjaneien.moonwit Ili i roar got to be so outragensjit aeosebfrom his bed aud detain certain what all tbie growling t how' It apPearedatohtanitl nnthaj came from the top of the h garret went up into the . out of the trap-dileeoiliunTlare it, The minute they caught deep in the toad% which. hut inaidreti wit/ tainetvix. cut4 sati- ated by the heat Some of been there four days. son the whole o „ six doubledup their spin hack t' inked their taris ar, s