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BLOWN UP.
The Story of a Stoker.
Can't say, I'm sure, sir. Been used to
biters all my life, wotking 'em's differ-
ent. to making 'em a There's something
wrong, as yon !my, or they wouldn't at
.ways be. 'a-bustia', 'Taint once, nor
•twice, net now and then, for it's a
thing as is always a -happening
although I've never had more than a
acald or two nayself, I've seen some
strange sights; men all blowa to. pieces,
so that they were picked. -up aft6erwards
in baskets ; men taken to the hospital
with theu. flesh hanging to them in
rags, and thus they'd lie 'Writhing and
tearing at the wrappines in such agony
that—there, I, ain't aove owning it
—
I've cried like It child to see My mat'
sufferinga. And there they'd be, day
after day, till a sort of calm calrn.
over them, and the pain. went, when
they'd (pith smile if you spoke to 'em,
ethey seemed so easy, and it would be
because a gentle hand waslaid upon 'em,
and they were going into the long sleep.
Some gets better, but not when they're
,scalded badly, for it's strange stuff, is
steam. Well, no, I'm not afraid, and
never de feel afeaid. What's the good?
One's got to do, and there's the mouth's
at tunnel° feed, so. one can't afford. it;
and then the odds are precious long ones
against it being one's own bustint But
now so many more steam engines are
coming into use, day by day, it seems as
if something ought to be done in the way
of making bilers strongOr. Cheapnets is
cheapness; but then, a thing's deal, at
any price that makes such ruin as f'
seen sometimes, so why don't they try
some tougher metal than iron ?—though
certainly, steam's strong enough to tear
up anything: Butthere seems to me to
be some fresh plan wanted for making
bilere. I tlidn't work there, but I went
and had a look- directly after that hole
rible accident at the Big Works last
autumn. Well, there was about an
acre of bttildinga—sheds and .setrer—
Swepped away as if you'd battered -'em
all down, great bee bricks, weighing a
hundred and a half, pitched here and
there like chaff, sheets of lead sent fly-
ing a hundred yards-; tall chimneys
powdered (-Iowa ; and the big busted
biler itself jumped right out of its place;
while as to the middle of it, that was
torn off, and crumbled up, and blown,
like a sheet of paper, to a distalce.
Beaty of life lost thereand plenty of
escapes, but what I took most notice of
S the plates torn. off the biler—torn
, as I said before, like so much paper,
hie these sheets or plates of iron had
giten away at the rivets, and looked for
all the world like torn off postage stamps
—torn off, of course, along the perfor-
ating.
"Now, then," I says to myself,
'" that's a thing as wants altering. Yon
perfarates the edges of your plates to ad-
mit rivets, and so takes half their
strength off-e-p'eaps more, then you
pats, perhaps, hot rivets in, and. they,
p'rlaps, crystalizes the iron " — only
p't'apt, mind, I don't sae so, only the
raw edges of the biler looked crystally
and britde. "Well, then, some days
comes a hextry pressure of steam, mad
up goes the biter—busted. and spreading
ruin, and death., and misery around."
" Then how are we to fasten our biler
plates," says you, "if we dont rivet
em?" -How should I know-? I ain't a
ecientific man only stokes. That's
for you to find out, But you ain't a -
'going to tell me are you, that you scien-
tific men and biler-makers can't tind no
other way to make biters ordy by rivet-
ing them ? Say you bent the plates over,
and hooks the one into the other, like
tin_sarapan makers does their tin. They'd
staled some strain. that way, and you
-wouldn't weaken your plates. I ain't a
biter maker, or I should try that dodge.
but there, that's only one way
out of Many as ceuld be found by experi-
ment.
Seems to me, sir, as if. we English
people hates anything new, arid ,always
wants to keep to what our fathers and
grandfathers had before us. They
went gong and made their foot -marks,
and we go along after 'ern; putting our
foots M jest the same spats, thinking it
must be right, come what will of it.
Had to do with eneines many years.
Stoked locomotives and stationary, agri,
culturals and manufactories; and printing
-offices, and. had been down in the engine
rooms of steamers; and that last is about
the hot -teat and wont of all. Killing
work, you know, for anybody 'specially
in a hot country, where every breath of
air that domes down to you is already
roasted, as it were, and don't de you no
good.
Bustirs ? Well, no, only one, and.
that was quite enough ; for though it
didn't hurt my body, it did my heart,
and if you happen to be a father you'll •
understand what I mean.
It was dinner time at oar works—a
great place, where the engine used to
be going to pump water night and day,
BO that there were two- of us-; and one
week I'd be on day work, next week
night work, and so on. Now, it so hap-
pened that our water in that part was
terribly hard—Water. that weuld Geyer
the inside of the boiler with a thick fur
intno time. But whether it was that or
no, I can't say.; all know is that one
dinner time I Went out into the yard to
wash my hands and have a cooler, when
I heard. a strange, wild, rushing noiee,
and felt something hit me on the back'of
the hea.d ; and then, turning round, I
stood fixed to the spot, for the air was
blaelt- with, tiles, and brick bats, and.
laths,and rafters, while the whole place
seemed to be crumbling up toeether,
just as if you'd built up a t'all card house,
aud then tapped it so that it fell, one
card on top of another, till there was a
little heap eall lying close and snag ; so
that out of a tall building there was noth-
ing left but some smoking rnius.
I knew it was net my fault, for I had
looked. at the gauge just before, and the
pressure of steam wasn't heavy. I knew
there was plenty of water in the biter,
and the safety valve was all right, SO
that all I could do was to be thankful
for the iaccident happening at dimier
time, and also for my own wonderful
escape. And then, though I wasn't
hurt, something seemed to come over me
like a flash, arid struck me to the ground
in an instant.
When 1 came to, J felt horribly sick-
ened and deathly like, and. I looked
about from face to face, wonderiag what
was the matter, for I couldn't make it
out why I should be lying on my back,
with people round. me in the yard—one
holding up my head, and another sprink-
lin my face with water4
hen all came back at once, and I
shuddered. as V turned my head and
looked at the ruined works,. for I knew
what it was atruek me down to the
forth. I asid. before it was like a flash, t
and it was was one quick, thought r
which flashed • across. my brain, for 1
knew that, being dinner time, my little
golden haired gal would have brought inSt
allowance tied up M a basin ; and some-
thing told me that she had gone into the
stoke hole to find me when 1 bad gone
into the yard. .
"Let me get up," T says ; and I ran
toward the ruins and began tearing away
at the heap of brick rubbish,. while
the crowd now gathered „together, hear-
ing, that there was some - ope under-
neath, began tearing aWay at the rub-
bish like furry.
By and by the police came, and some
gentlemen, and dotriething like order was
got at, and. people worked well to get
down where the stoke hole had hem. I
. bad said that there was some one there,
Ibut I cotildn't -shape' my mouth to say
who it was ; and some one said it was
1 one man, and some another; but
i whoever they named seenied to. come
; directly back fioni his dinner, or because
I he had heard the explosion. So, by and
by people betan to look from one to an-
other, and ask who it was. -
"Ask Wilum," says tome one; he
was here at the time ;" and some one
asked nee. But had no oceasioin to _
speak, for just then, alarmed 'atthe
ehild not going back as nsual, the little
gal's mother came shrieking out, and
crying:
" Where is little P-atty ? Where's lit-
tle Patty ?" and then when. no one
spoke, she 'gave soA of pitiful moan,
and sank slowly down— first on her
knees, and then sideways on to a heap of
bricks; and I remember thieking it was
beat, for I could not find it in my heart
to go to her help, but kept tearing away
at the hot bricks and rubbish.
It was puzzling and worrying ; for one
could not seem to be sure of. where any-
thing had once stood, ia the horrible
confusion before us. One said that the
stoke hole had been here, and another
there ; but even I, who had worked
there two years, could not be slim amidst
the confusion.
Hour after hour went by, and still we
worked on; while, as every big rafter or
beam was lifted and dragged away, p
was obliged to turn my head, for I felt
sick. and the place seemed to swim ; for
I expected to see Patty's little bright
entls torn out and hanging to the gagged.
wood,- and that ued.erneath there would
be something horrible and crushed,
know it wasn't manly_ ; but' what
can I. say, where there was a little;
bright, blue-eyed child in the case—one
of those little things_ whose look will
make yoer great rough hand fall to your
side when raised in anger, while the tiny.
thing can lead you about and do what
she likes with -you? reaps I ain't man-
ly ; but, somehow, children always seems
to get the upper hand of me.
And ,so on we worked, hour after
hour, men getttiN tired and dropping 1
off, but always plat ty ready to fill their
places ; while la -LI never thought of it,
hut kept on tearing away till my hands
bled, and the sweat tan down my face;
but I turned away every time there was
soMething large lifted, for I said to my-
self,. "She must be under that !" And
then again and again, in my mind, I
seemed to see the torn and crushed face
of my darling, and her long curls dabbled
in blood.
In the raidit of the piled -up blacken-
ed ruins, brieke, mortar, tiles, lead, and
ragged and torn like matches—we toiled
1 on how after hour till the dark night
came, when the gas -pipes that had been
Paid bare and plugged were unstopped,
and the gas lit, so that it flared and
blazed, and cast a sti ange wild light
Over the ruined place. There had been
flames burst forth two or three times
m
froparts of the ruius, but a few
sprinklings from the fire engine in at;
tendance had put them out and. as anas we
worked on the rubbish grew cooler and
cooler. e -
Some said that the child could not
have been -there, but the sight of the
mother tearing out was sufficient, when,
once she got away from the people who
had her in the hotise,—a house where
'but part of the windows had been broken
by the explosion,—and came running to
wlere I was at - work, snatching the
bricks and wood till I got two or three
to take her back, for 1 couldn't have left
where I was to have saved My life. But
I remember so well asking myself hy
it was that women will let down heir
back hair when they're in a state o
eitement, and make 'emselves too so
wild.
By and by some one canie to saY low
bad my wife was and that she wa ted
to see me ; but I felt that I couldn't go,
and kept on in a fevered sort of *ay,
work, work; and I've thought since hat
if she had been dying it would. have been
all the same. However, I heard. soon af-
ter that she seemed a little better ; and
I found out afterward that a doctor there
had given the poor thing something
that seemed. to calm her, and she went
to sleep. .
It would. have been a strong *Ise,
though, that would' have sent me off to
sleep, as still on,: hour after hoar, I
worked there, never tiring but lifting
beams that two or three men would have
gone at, and tossing the rubbish aWay
like so mach straw.
The owners were kind enough, and
did all they could to encourage the men,
sendieg out beer and other refreshments;
but the heap of Stuff to move was some-
thing frightful, and more than once I
felt in despair, and ready to sit down
and cry weakly. But 1*as at it again
the neat moment, working with the best
of them.
" Hadn't you better leave now ?" Said
one of my masters; " I'lleee that everye
thing is done." •
I gave him one look, and he laid his
hand kindly on my shoulder, and said no
more to me about going ; and 1 heard
him say "Poor fellow" to some one by
him, as he turned away.
We came upon the biler quite half., a
dozen yards out of its -place, ripped right
across where the riVets went; while as"
for the engine it was one curious bit of
iron tangle --rods and bars, and pieces of
iron and brass twisted and tunred and
bent about, like so much string; and the
great fly -wheel was broken in half a
&peen pfaces,
This showed us now where the great
cellaralike place—the stoke -hole. ---was;
and we -worked down now toward that •
but still clearing the way, for how could
I tell wherelthe child might be Butit
was weary, slow work; every now and
then rigging up shears, and fastening
ropes and pully, and sheaf, to haul up
some great piece of iron, ora: beam e and
willing as every one was, we made very
little progress in the dark night.
Once we had to stop and batter down
a wall with a scaffold -pole ; for the
police declared it to be unsafe, and the
sergeant would not let us work near at
it Was down; and all the while I was
aging like a madman at the check. But
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
Anis.640
it was no uee, and the man was right.
He was doing his duty, and not like me,
searching for the little crushed..foem of
my darling in the cruel ruins. The peo-
ple made me worse, for they would -talk
and say what they thought, so that -I
could hear. Onel would say that she
might yet be alive, another, woulhi shake
his head, and so on; when I kept .stop-
ping, in spite of all I tried not, listening
to what they said,. and all seemed so
much lost time.
The engine -room was now cleared,
and, in spite of my trembling and hor-
ror, as every big piece was disturbed,
nothing had been found; but all at once,
as we were trying to clear behind the
biler, and get down to the stoke -hole,
one of the men gave a cry. I caught at
"the man nearest to me,. and then lights,
rubbish, the strange wild scene, all seem
to run 8,round me, and 1 shdald have
fallen only :the man " held me up, and.
some one brought ant some brandy.
I was _myself again directly, and
stumbling over the bricks to where a
knot of men' had collected, and a police-
man had his bull's-eye lantern open, and
they were stopping to look at something
that lay just under a beam they had
raised --to the left of where I expected
she would be foutd.
-" Smashed," L heard some one with
his back to me, gay ; and then some one
else, "Poor little thing, she must have
run past here I"
Then, with my throat dry • and my
eyes staring, I crept up and thrust two
men aside, right and left, when the oth-
ers made way for me without speaking,
and, when I got close up, I covered my
face with my hands, and softly knelt
down.
The policeman said something, and
seme one else spoke cheerily; but I
couldn't hear what they said, for my ev-
ery thought was upon what 1 was going
to see. And, now, for the first time, the
great blinding tears came gushing from
meal eyes, so that when I slowly- took
down first one hand and then another, I
was blinded, and could not see for a few
moments; till, stooping a little 'ewer,
there, smashed and flattened, covered
with mortar and dust, was my old red
cotton handkercher, tied round the
basin and plate that held my dinner,
dropped here by my little darling. -
For a few moments J was, as it were,
struck dumb—it was so different a sight
to what I had expected to see; and
then 1 leaped up, and laughed, and
shouted, and danced—the relief was so
great.
"Come on !" 1 cried again, and then,
for an hour or more, we were at ' it,
working away till the light began to
day-
break.
as it was, plenty of people had
come in the. east, aud tell us it was .
•
stopped all the time; for, somehow or
another, hundreds had got to know the
little bright, golden -haired thing that
tretted backwards and forwards every
day with My dinner basin. She was
too little to do• it, but then, bless you,
that was our pride; for the wife combed
and brushed, and dressed. h-er up on pur-
pose. And fine and proud we used to
be of the little thing, going on and com-
ing -4;o -old-fashioned. Why, lots of
heads used to be thrust out to watch her,
and seeing how pretty, and artless, and
young she was, we used to, feel that ev-
ery one would try, and protect her; and
it was so. Time after time, that night,
I saw mother1y400king women, that I
did not know, with their aprons to their
eyes sobbing and crying; and, though T
didn't notice it then, I remembered it
well enough afterward—ah 1 and al-
ways shall ; while the way in' which
some of the men worked—well-to-do
men, who would have thought them-.
selves insnited if you offered 'em five
shillings for their night's job—showed
how my poor little darling had won the
hearts of all _around. Often_ and often
since, too, I could have steeped this one
and shook hands with that one for their
kindness; only there's always that shut
upness about an Englishman that seems
to make him "all heart at a time of sor-
row, and a piece of solid. bluntness at
any other time.
Well. it was now just }Ton morning,
and we were all worked up to a pitch of
excitement that nothing could be like.
-We had been expectiug to come upon the
poor child all the afternoon and night,
but now there could be no doubt of it.
She nmst be here ; for we were now in
the stoke -hole, working again with more
vigor than had been sho‘viii for hours.
Men's faces were fliished ',aid their teeth
set. They did.n't talk, only in whispers;
and the stuff went flying out as fast as
opers could take it away.
d "Easy, easy," the sergeant of police
kept saying, as he and two of his meu
kept us well lit with the strong light of
their lanterns.
But the men tore on, till at last- the
place was about cleared out, and we had.
got to a little woodwork on the other
side, along with some rubbish.
And now was the exciting time, as we
went, -four of us, at the brick wall, drag-
ged at it, and raised itwhen some wo-
men up above shrieked out, and we
stood' tremblin, for it had. tumbled down
and lay all of a heap where we hacl rais-
ed it from.
"Quick !" I shouted huskily.
And we tore the bricks away till there
was hardly a scrap left, and we stood
staring at one- another. _
Why, she ain't here after- all !" says
a policeman. - .
"I'm blest," says another.
But couldn't speak, for I didn't
know what to do ; but Stood staring
about as if I expected. next to see 'the
little darling come running up again un-
hurt.
"Try there," says the sergeant.
Then he turned- Oa hie light into a
dark corner, where the bits of wood lay,
and I darted across and threw back two
or three pieces, when I gave a cry, and
fell on mv knees again. For there was
no mistake this time; I had uncovered
a little foot, and. there was the little
white sock all bloodstained; and I felt
a great sob rise from my breast as I
stooped down and kissed the little red
spot.
"Steady," said the sergeant; 'and
then quickly, as I knelt there, they
reached over me, and. lifted piece after
-piece away, till there, in the gray light
of the morning, I was looking upon the
little motionless figure, lying there with
her golden hair, as I fancied, dabbled
in blood from a cut in her little -white
forehead, where the blood had run, but
now lay hard and dry. Covered with
blood, and. scraps of mortar, she lay
stretched out there, and I felt as if my
heart would break to see the little,
peaceful face almost with a smile upon
it ; while as if out of respect to my feel-
ings, the men drew back, till I knelt
thore all alone.
And now far up in the -Sky the warm
light of the rising sun shone, and it was
reflected down upon that tiny face, light -
mg it up With almost heavenly beauty ;
and 94 1 knelt there in the still silence of
that early morn, I .could hear again and
again a half -stifled sob from those look -
'mg on. -
With trembling hands I leaned for-
ward and raised her head; then, passing
one beneath her, I rose on my knees to
bear her out, when 1 stopped as if turn-
ed' To stone, then let go, and elasped
both. my raw and bleeding hands tomy
blackened forehead, as shrieking out,
My God, ,she's alive 1" I fell back in-
sensible ; ftr those little blue eyes had
opened.' at my touch, and a voice, like
the faintest sigh of the wind in summer,
whispered the one word,
" Father !"
* * • * * * *
That's her, sir. Fine girl she's grown,
ain't she? But she was beautiful as a
child. -Hair ever so many shades lighter;
and, unless You went close up, you
couldn't see the mark of that cut, though,
it was some time before the sear gave
over leaking red.
But irevilly, you know, sir, there ought
to be domething done about these bikre ;
for Mei rate at which they're a-bustin's
fearful.—Onec ct
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Jou MOSES' PERIODICAL, VILLS.
THIS invaluable medicine is Unfailing in the
-I- cure of all those painful and ,clan ger ou s dis ea ses
te which the female constitution is subject. It
moderates all excess and removes all obstructions
)
and a speedy cure may be relied on.
To married ladies, it is peculiarly suited. It will
in a short time, bring on the monthly period with
✓ et'lealt
Tcrthisl. ls shotild not be taken by i'emalee
during the first three mouths of Pregnacy, as the3
are mire to bring on Miscroriage, but at any ()that
tine they are safe.
In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections,
pains in the baok and limbs, fatigue on alight 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 to the eonstitutiou.
Full ditections in the pamphlet around each
' pacicage, which shotild be carefully preserved.
Job Moses, New York, Sole Proprietor. $1.00 and
12i. cents forpostage,enclosed toNorth op &Lyman,
Toronto, Ont.-, general &mite for the Dominion,
will insure a bottle, containing over 50 pills by
' re
tgani.n8milil'in Seafort
oldh by E. Hickson & Co., and
R. Lumsden. 197
s —
• PSYCHOMIANCY, OR SOUL
/TOW eitherCellexAmnayMfaTinGit "1"and - gain the
.4,6?
-L--I- love and affectioII nx of any p they chooae
instantly, Thie simple mental/
acquirement n11
can possees, free by mall, for 25 cents, together
with a Marriage hide, Egyptinn Oracle, Dreame,
Hints to Ladies, &c. A queer, exciting book.
100,000 sold. - Address T. WILIAAm & Co., South
Eighth Street, PhiladOphie, Pa. 828-e 0 w
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Aj...z.lyweol:OntoR&S: aFn04 gRoodllitAo L.:
A SPAN of fine young. horsefly 5 yours, old.,
WIC DOBBBNOE,
85
Scatortb.
DEe. 2.5, 1874
CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS,
'CHRISTMAS.
NEW YEARS, HEW YEARS,
NEW YEARS.
IN- thankinf OUT -numerous .customers for the
liberal pa rona_ge bestowed upon ns the last
four years, sindeistarting Business in Seaforth,
we take tnis privilege of wishing you one and all a
IIIERR
CIIR MAYAS
AND
HAPPY NEWIYEAR
Also calling your - attention to the following ar-
ticles, suitable for
HOLIDAY PRESENTS,
AT
ASTONISHING LOW PRICES.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
MINK FUR SETS,
MINK MUFFS,
MINk CAPS,
MINK RUT St,
ALSO IN SEAL,
PERSIAN LAMB,
1.411,*1 .1SAI
J3L. DOYLE, Barrister, Attorney Solicitor in
'L.P. Chancery, UoderP2h and liendorth. Of-
iee over Jordan's Drug Store, aoacrich, and
Ride's Store, Seaforth. _ 854
ClfAMERON & 3IeADDEN, Barristers and
. _
Solicitors in Chanceey, GoN5%1,1:1-3iIii.1)Tcym)Dmia.18
C. cAmErtax.
aARRO 4.‘i, WALKER, Barrieters, Attorneys,
Solicitora in Chencery, &e. Offiee on NVest Si.,
opposite the Post Office, Goderich wmAcy,11
3.0
40.7 :4T1.,(7:1TAV: 8 01 tor, Ai' in gluon, bus been ap-
• poiu tea a gent for the Colonial Securities Com-
pitny of England, be is also Agent for several pri-
vate Capitalist .1 Toronto, who loan Money at
very reasonable ratea Interest payable yearly
Charge"; moderate., Also Solicitor for tile St.
Ijil'\17"'an
illgle,le:1331))1,11J3)1ree. 15, 1871. 218
_ _
Air oCAUGHEY & HOLMES TED, Barristers, At.
torneys at Law, Solieitors in Chancery and.
Insolvent:3a Noteriee Public and Conveyancers,
Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth. Agents for
the Canada Life Assurauce Company,
N. 13.—$80,000 to lend a b 8 per cent. FIUME,
Houses and Lots for sale. 58
leZENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorneys
-1--' at Law, 8 oliritors in Chancery and Insolvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc.. Offices—Sea-
forth and Wroxeter_ .O.;:23,000 of private. Funds to
invest at mice, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable
yearly. 53
7A8. H. BENSON. W. C. MEYER.
•
ery, 'Goderich, Ont. 1/Dice—over J. C.
vie SQUIER, Barrister, Attorney in Chane-
Detlor & CodsEreporinin, Market Square. 26£
Napvier & llieflontaaltil,
Attorneye,Solicitora in Chancery
&c., Brreisela, Ont. Office—two doors limn) of
the Post 011/kie.
W. R. SQUIE11, DANIEL
271 Goderich. Brussels.
i!LEDICAL.
C.1MPBELL, Seaforth, Coroner -for the
County. Office end residence.-,IMaiu Street
South, near the Station.
_
• McKENNA, Physician; Surgeon, &c., Grad -
nate of Toronto University, and Member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontalio.
Residence, Seaforth. Will attend at Carronbrook,
on Mondays, 'Wednesdsys and Saturdays, in the
afternoon,
854
_T sooTa., M. 1.). &c., Physician Surgeon and
t? • .:Iccoucheur, Seaforth, Ont. 011.1cc and resi-
dence south side of Goderich Street, first door
842
east of I'resbyterten Church.
IT L. VERCOE, M. D., C. la., Physician. Sur-
• geon, etc., Cormier for the County of Huron.
Office and Residence, corner of Market and High
streets, next to the Planing UM.
NMUNRO, M. D., Physician, Surgeon and
• Accoucheur, Graduate of the Medical De-
partment of Victoria University; formerly of the
Hospitals of New York and London, Eng.; visited
also the Hospitals in Paris, Valiuburgh and Glas-
gow. Residence—Brucefiehl. 849
J. G. BULL, L.D.S.,
Q 'LIEGE D tis ike.,Sea forth,
Ontario. Plate work, latest
styles, neatly executed. .5.11 sur-
gical operations performed with
care and promptitude. Fees as low as can be ob-
taiued elsewhere. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5
P. M. Rom= over Mr. A. G. McDougalrs Store,
Main -&t. 2.70
• CA.RTWRIGHT, L. De S., Surgeon Dentist'
will visit Goderich on the first TUESDAY
and -WEDNESDAY of each inonth, at the Col-
borne Rotel. 850
A M. CAMPBELL, V. S., Licentiate and Prize-
-1-k. man of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto,
has settled permanently in Varna, wherehe bo
ERAIINE GREBE, 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. °Mee two doors eget of Cook's Tem-
perance Hall. 819
LADIES' JACKETS,
SHAWLS, CLOUDS,
SCARFS, HOODS,
SONTAGS,
BREAKFAST SHAWLS, •
GLOVES HOSIERY,
CORSETS.
TWEEDS,.
FULLED- CLOTHS,
FLANNELS,
DRESS GOODS,
SEA:LETTES,
Mantle Ornaments,
YAK LACES,
- SILK FRINGES,
GIMP TRIMMINGS,
SLIPPER PATTERNS
SILK TIES,
CUFFS and. COLLARS,
FRILLINGS,.
&e., &c.
THE NICEST .
.ASND
BEST ASSORTMENT
IN
VETERINARY SUR G EON .—D . MeNALrfallT,
V. S., hogs to announce to the inhabitants of
Seatorth and Sian -alluding cal:miry that he has
been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases
°Moises and Cattle and all domestic anfinala. He
has opened an office in connection with his herse-
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 ih the rear
of Killoran & Ryan's new store. All kinds of Vet-
erioary Medicines kept eonstantly on hand.
Charges reasonable. 229
j.—CH—TIRCHILL,Teterinary Surgeon; (mem-
• ber of the Ontario Veterinary College,) begs
to intimate that he has returned to the practice of
, his profession in Seaforth, and may at all tfinee be
comfbited on the diseases of Horses, Cattle, &e.
Veterinary medicines constantly on hand. 5.1.I
calls promptly attended. to. Officio, at Mansion
House, Seaforth. 278
.111 OrrlE.114 PA.
K
IC°r S HOTEL, SEAFORTH. — Thomas
Knox begs to state to his old friends and
'and the travelling public, that he has leased the
Hotel lately occupied by Mr. MURRAY, and
formerly known as the DOWNEY HOUSE, and
hopes to receive a continuance of the patronage
so liberally bestowed upon him during his many
years in thehotel business. Every ncomfsurt The convenience will be provided for traveller
choicest Liquors and Cigars only kept in the Bar.
A careful and reliable hostler el ways in attendance.
291 THOMAS KNOX, Proprietor.
ATICTORIA. HOTEL, WALTON.—john Winter,
Proprietor. This hotel is situated on the.
Gravel Road, 10 miles north of Seaforth, and pos-
eesses every accommodation and comfort for trav-
elers. The best brands of liquors and cigars kept
in the bar, and a careful and attentive hostler in
attend:ince. 0 ood stabling in connection with
the hotel. • 850
1aIVEI,Y.
T
-
A. SHARP'S LIVERYAND SALE STABLES.
- • Officea--At Murray's Hotel, .Seaforth. Good
Horses and first- classCouveyaneee always onhand.
_
TIELL'S LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont.
Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, always
on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with
Cormnercial Travellers. .5.11 -orders left ,Itt the
Commercial Hotel, will be promptly attended to.
OFFICE AND Smakosi—South of the Coramer •
ciaI Hotel, Main Street.
.221 THOMAS BELL, Proprietor.
THE SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL DECAXnE-
--
semble thegradual changes that come over
old people, and are shuilar to those induce I b
excesses unci bad habits, and the tendency is to
-the production of softening of the brain and ir-
sainty. The cause is deficiency of phosphates,
as it is well known that man grows older and
mentally weaker when the nervous system is in-
sufficiently supplied with these elements --the sol-
idity of the brain depending upon phoephonzed
compounds—and that those foods which are rich-
est in phosphates renovate Most speedily weaken-
ed brain powea and 10SS of constitutional aigor.
Dr. 'Wheeler's Compound Elixir of Phosphates and
Calisaya contains these Agents in an easily as-
similable form, constituting a brain and nerve
food.
Bearine, or real Bear's Grease
A HAIII maatarmatn, PRESERVER AND DRESSING.
THIS elegant preparat- ion named from the Cana-
da Bear, from which its most essential ele-
ment is obtained, is a. scientific compound of Real
near'Grease, and other ingreaients, so combined.
M 1 I, I.i 11\1"E3 IR, -NZ" as to retain fax a great length of time, its original
fragrance and, purity.
An a dressing for the hair, nothing can be more
beautiful and agreeable. It is elegantly perfumed
and renders the hair soft, pliant and glossy. It
serves 1.o give it that' peculiar richness and color
which is so essential to a complete toilet. It is
the cheapest, most harmless, and best dressing in
the world.
Sold by Drnggists. Price 50 cents per packege.
PERRY DAVIS & SON, Sole proprietors.
_ _
PEA TITER'S'Avoid Quacks'.
A 'VICTIM of early indiscretion, causing nervous
prennittue decay &c., having tried in
vain every advertised remedy, has discovered a
Simple means of self -cure, which he -will send free
to his fellow-sufferere. Address, J. H. REEVES
78 Nassau Street, New York.
51•23•31FRINgmFormania
-.• 71111111111
WILLIAM SMALL, Conveyancer and
_
sioner n B. R., Wroxeter. Auctioneer and
Appraiser. Accounts and notes collected on
reasonable terms. 866
Ever opened out, such as
BONN_ETS, FIATS,
_E L 0 117 B I? S ,
RIB130_117S, LACES,
TURQUOISES, JETS,
B UCI? LES, &e.,,t6e.
HOFFMAN BROTHERS'
CHEAP CASE C STORE,
J. P. BRINE,
T ICENSED AUCTIONEER fax the County of
Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the
County. All orders left at the EXPOsiTon Office
will be promptly attended to. '
E. LUSBY,
T ICENSED AUCTIONEER "for the County of
, Huron. Sales attended in allparts of the Conn-
te. All orders made personally or sent to Seaterth
S .ri• .C -J. r Post Office will be promptly attended to. - 927
A Masonl
In- a small villa,ge,
miles from this place,
beniaerot,a eertain
is strongly oepoeed to
i1101117
lielyee'llinvaiTe4rh)fat::vdaiel;c:ioeire:i
asoi ry,
came out to hear him. 41
er begin -to warm w.
lot of bnys went up
opene1 it, eheved ie.
and locked the lloor
Now thia alil,Tiat was
loW. The boys about
teased and "fooled'
that be was alwaye
When thrust into the.
that composed the midi
':rend speaker, he VA3
but began looking- arta
Nvorthy of his -horns. zio
the speaker gestic),,
r end -of the. room, and,
liminary nods, to assureneCk Wai ill pawl' WO
made for him on the do
was as if the ghost at,
Masonic goat was after'
eround the pulpit he ma
billy's well -aimed butts. -
the audience they cam
and the pursuer. WOME
mounteil the benches, an
of confusion and soak an
often seen in a solemn nes
meantime the boys were
of stones at the end of th
a strategic movement
caught and tied to a belie
gregation ettieted down„
re.tumed his suhject,
ly far a while, but whei
who knew his tricks mea
111111, he began to plunge
get at him, ereating as -1
as before. When the de
all were glad to get out
who felt that 110 had
Show.
eas-
Fouled in a
He digged better than
Mr. G. Tonaki, a 8waat
who, having "lecated"
Co., Kan -as, coneluelialeU
ago to have a well. Forty
he came to a sort of floor u
live inches thick. These ‘1
ticuItylm removed and fol
• floor a foot lower. Rem(
was rewarded by diee.ovari
but four human skulls, :0!
two etone spear -heads. eae
bowl and two earthen 1
Amos may not have been
but it is evi:leut that the
mealy to gent!emen wh;
boiled their victuals and wi
in their undertaking. 3,1r
e have preferied water to th
of bones, pipse and hardwii
rate, he went en .igoing,
perseverance was rewarde4
oils lie* of the sparkling
then took a itriek, add afte
some time fIrtw the skulls
he thought of his dear fal
-concluded to box up the
ment and send it to the sai
ten:berg, There it mil/ be t
ad, smoked end -lectured
great increase of theories t
trated folios. Let the read
age bet him, as he serati
thoughtfully, reflect that fo
1:elilelrai1,
e;t117thead,yniabe
ni
lecture-room mani•pulated
&dor, and. finally placed
in an. elegant glass casein
It is not, perhaps, inneli or
but then the scientific taay
&Us of mile to see it, aml
* amnadYnsoctizlottr wliceilliatilm:Peilit-
a•tely cherished ter meanies.
10 --
-judging by Fae
A. man's eharaetetis stanq
faee by the time he is_20.
put my trust in any Inn
eeuntenanee than his words
may lie, tbe face eannot.
a 2113.11111ay lie and be a Vi
what a smile it its—a Ube
• the moth aed creasing of th-
unpleasant grimace that inal
server • shudder. " Rascal"
written all Ase*r it.
Among the powers that al
fer eur good is that of rendi
charter of those we Feet ,
pression -of the features Ai
people neglect it, or doubt t.
of the tatbsinan which weuld
it -01n dangerous friendships t
-marriages, such feae..g to tr
intangible and mysterious, A
fiance of their impulses auel s
secTi4heeurcee.
ai.e few who eoultlei
am actual idiot, if theV inc
many knew a -confireised
sight It is as as,:), to knot:
aleo. The miser wears hie
his eyes, hi hie pinched feat
•complexarre The brutal ntai
lontality n ins low forebea
chin and bull neck.- The
all suavity and elegance, a
his watchful eyes anti snaky
sieht as he does his purpose,
lo-oks nothing else under
those who lead ujgi
iolair 11.
tive an impreas.,
tiures that it is a Marvel 1 -
ignorant and in110171t are
l
'Upon lry them.
Perhaps it is thefear tha
topic have -o!, 11.7eiintlieir see
'letu
iceiLii.ivireacIventititiga'11)ftren. te,ubitriev‘uagtir tee%
urn
tion ; butlaia gfa:eiticeriay,,Tjbea
scateely think any ene
bad, and positiiTly plain a
ii•i)las.tthite,heweay,,- and! aver tha..eve
ladies ? 13ptb }t'a-11)5
afalvtiliu:_Htreis AS: y
many ; but the search for
ticity seems -to have been
r. Thom's seareh To
Mr re
eoncerning the alieged,,a,li
,111,nicaniitiyory
lations biAllietnii-ce them ;
eitiug gliitirIy ran:: aelibdinfotri_esaIT:0,:
l3)..eoaugranasr W:Inpa:Teub im:f
stOrie:rre,
41:3nretihm_ae-railatiaptite
oitgo child, etc 1.
AA .4O
wIleli
tIie Worl