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THE
MISERLY PEOPLf.
misers of various Slade Iliad Degrees
—inherited Meanness— tecedeuts
ot Notable Chnisieteils-
The writet;of a very wise book has
said that the right gettin , spending,
lending, borrowing, and becjueathing of
money wotild argue an al4iost perfect
man. e
We quote from memory, and do not
recall that saying is referred to in
the passage in Sir Henry Taylor's Nines
on Life, be which we allude, but it is an
important point in that which.eppertaint
to money. Juat as 'there are many like
Dr. Johason, who, in the matter of wine;
care:Antall}, but 'can't beemoderate, so -
there are very many who camibt reach
the golden mean. in accumulating money.
- They must be profuse Or niggardly. Of
• the two, the last is the worst. -
A 'famous Protestant prelate has told.
us that 4' there is not a vie which more
effectuelly contra,cts eand eadens the
feelings, which. moth, coined tely makes a
• man's affections centre in =self, and
excludes all others from artaking • in
thena, than the desire of a cumulating.
When the desire has once g tten hold of
the heart, it .shuts out all ther eonsicl-
eration,s but sack as may promote its
views. In. its zeal for the taiument of
its end, it is not delicate in he.choice of
means. . As it closes the eart, so. it
Ghee& the understanding. lt cannot
decile between right ad wrong."
There is a bitter old epitapl on a miser
which rims: •
Here jiee one who lived unlovecl ancl.
died. unlamented, who denied plenty to
himself, assistance to his frieuds; and re-
lief to the poor, who atarved his family,
oppteeeed Ins neighbolt, and plagued.
himself, totgain what he could not enjoy,
, at last c1eall4 more merciful to him than
he Wastabirnself, released him from care
andlis airt lY from want, .ancl here he
lies,, with the umiak worm he imitated.
and, with the dirt he loved, in fear of a
resurrection, lest his heirs houlcl have
spent the money he left beh nd ; having
laid HD treastire where ` moth and.
rust do " not corrupt nor thieves break
through and steal'" —
Misers are of various le- ds and de -
"green A man may be a mi ..er like old.
Bryant, who was robbed 1 tely, or he
may be a miser like men we could name
now livina in stately mans i ns tn New
York. The man is a miser who, main-
taining jast so much outw rd appeer-
ance of wealth as be deems requisite to
secure a becoming social con ectuence, 18
continually- striving how he cau possibly
add to those accumulating millions, in
which for their own sake, hot on the
ground of what he can do with them -to
make his fellow wen better and. happier, •
he takes such intense delight.
The miserly tendency is undoubtedly
inherited rn many instances. " Whata
pity," exclaimed a little girl when some
• rabbits were beingifed with parsley by a
number of her playmates, "to give all,
that nice parsley to the rabbite." It ec-
• emend presently to a bYstancler that the
speaker was of a family notorious for
meanness. It is seeain youths. "Why
don't you hunt," said a young. English_
collegian to a companion, "you like it
and you've pots of money ?" Yes,"
said the other, but—," mune hesitat-
ed, "the fact is [ead here he jingled the
gold which he always—he Was twenty—
carried in his pocket, for he did so love
to feel the precious metals passing
through his fitigersi I'm a great miser,
and I love the money it costs. He grew
up the soul of meanness. "1 have of-
ten known" says an authority on this
• subject, .4 a spendthrift grow- careful,
• but only in one instance have 1 known a
niggard grow liberal." Yet there have
been miseee who have shown very noble
The celebratedEleves was one
of these. He was a maa of extraordin- *i
ary high nrieeiple, and never let his pas-
sion get the mastery of his sense of t
right. His whole system of life and sav-
ing was founded. on pure self-denial. "
He woeld walk miles to save coach hire,
aed shiver rather _than have a fire, and
eat decayed meat to save baying fresh
food.• An old &lead. said of him, " In
the pursuit of his property, or in the re-
covery of it, I have not in my remem-
brance one unkiud, thing that ever was
done by him."
Mr. Neild, who left his property, esti-
mated as being at least $2,500,000, to
Queen. Victoria, was as thorough -going a
unser of the meanest type as ever exist-
ed. He never had an excuse for his nig-
gardliticss on the score of having once
known want, or haying been m any wat
educated up to ptrsimony. His father/
having accumulated a handsome lohthene
as a jeweler. retired from. business,
bought land, became a country gentle- a
man., and, devoted hitnself to the benev•
-
olent object which the celebrated }tow-
ard. had. begun, of iruproviug the Condi.- s
tion of the mils. Tae son went to col- e
•
when he went to his sOlieitor's tar execute
his wine which he afterwards forgot to
do. By this document a :Mr. Bacon was
appointed -.:residuary legatee, and the
whole prvertrwas intended to be total,
lY alienated froth theie to whom it sub-
sequently fell
There are a great many people who
have no natural turn for_parsiniony, but
who have it forced upon them by the •
harct experiences of early life, and never
sumed in prosperous days in getting out
of it. We can recall a notable instance
of this in the case of a lady whoee father,
a Tice '-raerehant,s got Into difficulties
Which ended in bis failure. • Night after
night she had sat up piecing, lace togeth-
er, and seeing her. mother strivieg max-
ionsIy to reap roof over their—heads:-
Tunes changed. A millionaire relation
left them each a comfortable income, and
'fortune, in various ways, seemed as
friendly -as she had once been nnkind,
But the old habits were too deeply root-
ed: -Not a fire was lit in her house that
she did not seem to count the stieks, and
all her energies seemed to be directed to
saving for those who would never need
it. In real fact, she:was simply grati-
fying herself, .
Great men have rarely been greedy of •
money, but amore thoroughly:avaricious
pair never existed in, this world than
John?" first Duke of Marlborotsgh, and
his wife Sarah. • They were ahsolntely
insatiable. Their revenue trona places
and pensions alone, independent—of other
initaente sources of income, has been
carefully. computed at three hundred
thousand dollars a year. Yet it has been
truly said thatthose who hopeleSsly cov-
et wealth, hosier and celebrity may read
the life of 'Sarah, -Dirchess •of Marl-
borough, with profit, and rise from the
-perusal resigued to fate! She d.escribes
herielf aa a Inost miserable woman, and
there is every reason to believe herd
Professional men rarely are miserly in
their habits,- although this certainly ha
been -a Weak point with a few members o
the British Bar and Bench. Notabl
Lord Eldon who was undoubtedly very
penurious, a habit which his _wife, wh
never got over the redollectnon .of the
hard tinies which she had endured when
her lord was -a hriefiess barrister,. served
to intensify. America it is the very
wealthy who are the niggards. Who
'cannot point now. to millionaires who
wallow in gold, and yet seem to gru-dge
every cent? Who are mean to.their rel
-ations, their friends; their dependants,
not given to _hospitality -hut addicted to
a life of sour seclusion, and no good to
anybody or anything?. Such men recall
Swift's reflection in his sermon; " We
see, my- friends, what God. thinks of
riches by the hands in Which he plaoes
them."
The:French as a nation are wise and
econondc in money. affairs, and .this ap-
plies to the natiOns of Northern Europe.
The English make money, but, as -a na-
tion, .spend it more freely and less- pru-
dently than the French and. Germansea
Menibers Of tbe peerage and In,nded gen-
try in Englapd. rarely accumulate vast
sums of money, and even the late Mar -
qui of Westminster's whole personal
estate was sworn under one million five
hundred. thousand dollars. Their - im-
mense incomes, when -not absorbed- in -re-
presentation, are, • for the most part,
spent in -the improvement of their prop-
erty. Scotland has of late years seen
some areal accumulations in successful
commerce on. the part of the Bairels anol
other houses. In Ireland, up to the time
of the Guineas family achieving estech
immense wealth by their brewery,
personal :estate sworn over three thun-
dred thousand p wads • was, we be-
lieve not on recor . The largest ever
accumulated s in a ngle lifetime prior to
1850 was proba.b1 that of Mr. Luke
White, who in'179 , when the. rebellion
broke out and *the Government was at
ts wit's ends for money, leaned it a
million at five per cent., the loan being
a.ken at sixty-one. Pretty good. terms
luggage, who had just arrived there to
seek her fortune. She was destined to
bt'lilielpanate to the subject of our m0,
mom,' and for More than forty years was
--a faithful better half to him. Shortly
after, being married, it was resolved by
them to come back to add Scotland,eend
in a short time they settled down in
Gatehouse, his guidwife being a daughter
of a highly respectable and tvell-to-do
bled-tan:nth there, Mr. Wm. Stodart. As
.
time passed on their farmly rapidly grew
in number till far ayont the "baker's
dizen." Still that did not prevent him
from indulging in hispoetic fancy --with
this difference to many—"he blushed to
find it fame." A sample 'of' his style*
may be seen in a piece entitled "Hapless
'Ennui" that hesent to an uncle in Stine
quhar, who was publishing a volume
about that time, and who passed it, and
many others, as his own, altering aviord
here and there so that relations in Gate-
house may not know A. The subject of
the piece was the daughter of a well
kaown tradesman in. Gatehouse, and was
servant in a minister's house_ in Borgue.
'The original title was
HAPLESS MARY.
"Oh, what gars the people rin hither and
thither, -
•
And why are they a' in sic a quandary;
Soiree scouring the rowlan's, and some
the recf heather,- '-
eryin' saw ye the.lostane? my bonnie
-.sweet Mary !
Lang, lang she had served at the manse
in the Cla.uchart,
Than mister and mistress ne'er better
bad she,
Sae modest, an' tidy, aye cheery an'
laughin' ; •
An' blest was the lad got a blink o'
her e'e.
'Twas April, and nature the fields was
ad °ruin',
• The gowan an' primrose bloom'd fair
sf
by the barn,
for Mr White Mr White was indeed
a financial genius never caught napping.
A life so remarkably fortunate in a coun-
try so peculiarly unfortunate has a, spec-
ial interest. From peddling books he
becomes a book stall keeper, thence a
bookseller, selling pirated editions of
English works. _In many an old library
of Irish °wintry houses you will find his
name on a title page. Mr.- White, One
of nature's gentlemen in point of man-
ners and appearance, lived to be mem-
ber for Dublin, and to -see his sons in
Parliament. His last surviving .son was
created a Peer of Great Britain under
the title of Lord. Aunaly. The present
Peer is his grandson, and another grand-
son is Lord Lieutenant of County Clare.
Luke White became one of the greatest
holders of rcrbl estate in Ireland. The
rst Sir Robert Peel, Sir Richard Ark-
vright, and the late Mr. Astor, present -
d, up to a late .date, euistirpa.ssed in
-
tames of accemulation made by indi-
idurila who started with nothing. In
onsequence of Peel's will it was found
necessary to extend the scale of probate
duties. The scale had not eontemplated
fortenes above e certain anrounk and the
man with fiv-e paidno more
han the man 'with one. Railroad men
an now claim the greatest personal es -
ate ever known in Eugland for their
raft, Mr. Brassey's personalty having
een sworn under six millions sterling,
t being further 'neelerstoocl that event
-
ally it would have to be sworn under
n additional • sum of several millions
more. Next came "dry goods," in the
person of Mr. Morrison, of the firm of
Morrison & Dillon, four millions. The
largest personalty property -in England
to -day is generally thoneht to be that of
Lord Overstone, ferinerly Mr. ,Tones
Lloyd. It has been rolling steadily,
steadily u for min 7-• d h i
reported to live on theintetest of his in-
,
terest. It may coneole some people to
• reflect that scarcely any men renowned
- in arms, arts, and song have died rich.
I Most of thee have been have been quite
• the reverse. tte •
_
Death of an Octogenarian in
lure and had every advantage, but he c
was evidently a nigected born. On his
property he would do nothing, and ou
one oceasiou when, he was returning from
his rent -audit, his appearance was so
wretehed that a passenger on the coach t
treated "the poor gentleman" to a warm c
drink, • which he • gratefully • accepted. et
1 Lis bequest to the Queen was probably 'c
to gain notoriety, and here he was per- b
feebly euccessful. A similar bequest was e
made in :France by one Vandille who left u
•to his sovereigu a much larger sum. His a
Wealth Was computed iu 1735 to be four
ntillion dollars, and. he used to boastit
ail came from a franc.
On the 0th of June, 1798, there died
at ACGOII Place, ucar Long Melford,
village in Suffolk, England, William
• Jennens. His father was aid. de-camg to
to the Great Duke of Marlborough, (but
no relation to the Duchess, whose name
was Jennings.) • His grandfather was
Humphrey Jennens, of Erdington Hall
in the County of Warwick, who had ae
cumelated a colossal fortune in the meta
trade at Birmingham. Mr. William
Jennens formed. a remarkable link be
tween the present and the past. He
was the godsou'of William III., and had
been page to George ,I., yet there is an
ex -Lord Chanceler id leis conritry to -day
who had attained his eighteenth year
when Mr. Jennens died: •Mr. Jennens
never married., -his habits were penurious
and his money had accumulated at his
death to about two millions of pounds.
The dividends =many of his stocks had
not been drawn for ten years, and in his
iron chest, the key of which was at last
found hidden ha a mortgage deed, there
were bank notes of the year 1788 am-
ounting to L19,000, and several thousand
new. guineas. At his town and. country
house about £20,000 in caeh was found.
He usually kept £50,000 at his bankers
"for emergencies." • He died -intestate ;
a will was found in his pocket, sealed but
not signed; which his confidential servant
aceounted for by explaining that Mr.
Jennens had left his spectacles at home
The extreme severity of the weather
• in the last few weeks of 1874 has been
very trying to the strongest constitueions,
• more especially to the aged. Among the
number passed away there is one who
was well known in this part of the coun-
try for upwards or fifty years. We al-
• lude to Mr, John Kennedy, tailor, late
of Gatehouse, who might have left a fame
behind biro, 'had but "ambition marked
him for her own." • Born in Dumfries-
shire, heearly showed that the poetic
mantle of no mean quality had fallen
upon him. On a Sabbath morn, on his
master's shop -board, he penned his first
lines. Early in life he resolved to try
his fortune in the "Land of the West,"
and after two years' residence in the city
of Philadelphia, he one day -had the good
luck to -assist a Scotch lassie with her
To taste eh:their sweets, 'ma,ng the 'dews
the mornin •
Blythe Mary walked out, but did nae
'flair return. .
'Oh, wirer can the young thing hae wan-
• dered ?' they cried,
• And lang, lang they sought her, o'er
• moorland an' lea, _
Ilk wild wood and valley, an' lone glen
they tried,
The Tarff, and the lira and the dark
rolling Dee.
As _fleet rins the muirbureo'er yon.
mountain heather, -
A$ fleet the sad news to her parents
• are ta'en,-
To
seekhislost ane, awa gangs the
• father,
• While the naither, distracted, cries,
`0, Where's my wean?'
Oh, none save a parent kens aught o' the
• sorrow, '.
That wrings a sad bosom, o'er burden'cl
• wi' care, .
When -' e;en brought nae tidings, they
sighed for the morrow,
How dread the suspense between hope
•._and despair.
Day passhlt after day, and Conjecture
grew weary, -
An' wonder gave place to amazement
• at last,
On the (lawn of the sixth,. the news that
• their dearie,
On the shore of the Solway a pale
corpse was cast.
I• Lament all ye nymphs and ye swains
hapless Mary, • •
in weeds dark and clowie yer bosoms
• enfauld,
But white Fleet rins to Solway, her fate
_ on Balcary,
Shall never, by mortal or Bardie be
tauld.
Did space permit many such samples
:night be given -for his pieces are legion,
for although age had dimmed his eye,
1 and whiteuess his once dark locks .yet
was his mind unimpaired. One remark
we will make, that few poets can say,
for nearly seventy years he wrote poetry,
and we have his word for it that he
never wrote a line that either offended.
any. ene, or brought a blush to the eheek
of the writer, yet scarcely did a week
elapse but some one heard from him in
his poetic strains. • One verse from his
_Register for '73 may not be out of place.
Speaking of Louis Napoleon he says
"A famous head that wore a crown
Stern death has humbled very low;
So falls the king, so falls the clown.—
Nouem,ay withstand -the tyrant's
• bkw,,
There can also be seen in. Twyeholm.
. Churchyard another sample iu_ the form
of an epitaph- on a tombstone erected
there in memory of a yonn m
ThO
was killed some years ago in a stone
quarry ; and -who, in that part of the
conntry,does not remember Mrs. Dan
the ''Gardenee's Wife' of Barwhinnock
whose heart and door were opened to ?
This good -woman ended • her earthly
career last October iu an hospital in
Ediiibru'gh, after going through a sur-
gical operation. In speaking .of her he
says
Life's cares are past, she's gone to rest,
No fell disease'clisturba her breast;
To you lovecl ones now left behind
She ever proved a parent kind. '
• itippress not, then, the grateful tear
Intmemory of a mother dear,
For non elthat knew her need be told
A Warmer heart death ne'er made cold.
Death made cold the heart. of • the
author on the 28th Dec., 1874, in a very
sudden manner, at 6; St. Anne's Ter-
race Liverpool. Although the intense
• coldness of the weather prevented him
from being out for about ten days, yet
he was in his usual health, nor (lid he go
to his bed on that night till after 11
o'clock, but before 12 the Spirit had
winged its flight to that bourne front
whence no traveller returns. We wilt
ponclude this sketch with the lant two
verses of a piece he sent to one of his
sons a few years ago :
When this you've reacl pray lay it past,
And do not let it go astray;
But_guarcl it better than the last—
• It may amuse some future day;
And when the Bardie's gone for aye—
•- The fate of men both great and. small,
Then this poor shnple rambling lay
May be a frail memorial.
—Kircudbrightshire Advertiser.
• •••
People who Whine.
There is a class of persons _ in this
world by no means small, whose promi—
nent pechharity is whining. They whine
because they are poor, or if rich, because
they haven° health to enjoy their riches;
they whine because they have ` ` no luck, "
and others' prosperity exceeds theirs ;
they whine because some friend_s have
died and they are still living; they
whine because they have aches and pains
and they have aches and pains because
they whine Lind they 'whine, no one can
tell why.,Niht a tword. to theme whining
persons. First step‘whining—it is of no
use. complaining, fretting, fault -finding
-
and whining. Why, you are the most
deluded set, of creatures who ever 1.Wed !
Dbyou knimi that it is a well settled
principle of physiology and common,
*sense that theseihabits are more exhaust-
ing to -nervous vitality than almost any
other violationof physiological law? And
°do you know that life is pretty much as
you think it? You can make it bright and
sunshiny, or you can make it dark and
shadowy. • This life is meant only to dis-
cipline u ---to fit us for a higher and
purer state of being. Then stop whin-
ing and fretting, and go on your way re-
joicing.
ei* • se
Night Encounter With a Rock-
, ing-Chair.
Old MeStinger was going to bed a
little wavy the other night, and not wish
ing to disturb Mrs. McStingen who has
a tongue like a rat-tail file, he thought it
just as well not to turn on the gas. He
got on very well until he reacheelethe
door of the chamber where his patient
wife lay sleeping. Here he paused a
moment, balancing on his h. els like a
pole on a juggler's nose. Thei he made
a dash for it, in order to make a bee line
across the floor.
Mrs. McStinger, with her usual ex-
emplary foititude, had placed the rock-
ing -chair with such gifted skill that 'no
man could come into the rookn without
running over it; so the first thing he
knew McStinger stubbed histoe-nail off
against the rocker, which knocked the
seat against the crazy -bone of his knee,
and made onelof the long arm prod him
in the stomach. Simultaneou ly he fell
over the, chair crosswise, and it kicked
him behind his back before he, could get
up from the floor as he stood o all fours.
The engagement was now fel y opened.
When a man begins falling Iver rock-
ing -chairs in a dark room he ought al-
ways to have.three days' ra ions and
forty rounds. ' Before McSti ger could
get up straight his knees cam down on
one of the long rockers behinc , and the
back of the chair came down o his head
with a whaek that laid him o t flat on
the floor ; and, before he co Id move
the chair kicked him three times in the
tenderest part of his ribs with the sharp
end of the rocker- This made him- per-
fectly furious, and he scrambled up and
made a blind rush at the c ir, deter-
mined to blow up the enemy's works.
He ran square against the b ck, and it
rocked forward with him, inning a
complete somersault over th handles,
throwing McStinger half way icross the
room and landing on top of hi , digging
into his abdomen like a bull's horns, as
he lay spread out on the uncle side. It
would have been a good thin,for Mc -
Stinger had he lain still then a td let the
chair have its own -way. It la flat on
its .back, with the long poin is of the
rockers embracing his abdoi en, and
didn't seem to want to do any hing ic-
tive just then. But McStinge couldn't
make up his mind to give it up yet.
He rolled, over sideways and pset the
chair. It fell with a crash on its side,
giving him a furious dig inhe liver,
which made him straighten out his legs
spasmodically, barking one sain from
the instep to the knee on th rocker,
which hung in the air, and getting the
chair on its feet again, where'it stood
rocking backward and forward at him,
like a wary old ram. making feints of
butting its adversary, in order o throw
him off his guard.. The blow i4 the side
nearly finished. MeStinger, and *while
lying there rubbing his wind b; k again,
he was just beginning to reflec whether
his honor required him to pro eed any
further in the affair, when e rs. Mc -
Stinger suddenly began scree= g all the
names in the crimes act, under the im-
pression that the Charley floss • bductors
were trying to commit a burg ary, big-
amy, robbery, and everything else on
her. Up to this time she h d been
speechless with terror, and 1 ad lain
there trembling, shedding pers riration,
and accuinulatine shriekin. g poe er, until
she had gained the screaming caeacity of
. camel -back engine. She had just
reached her third .SfOTZall(10 01-11.1ii1710
accelerando, when old MeStin rer suc-
ceeded in getting to his feet once more
and beeame dimly visible to Irs. Mc -
Stinger. With one last wild. parting
shriek she sprang from the bed .:nd made
a dash for the door, near which he rock-
ing -chair still stood menacing tile whole
universe with a butting motio
AleStinger had no time for inve
just then, and she pitched into .
the rocking -chair, and clear o
ligation
nd over
1 down
stairs, the chair after her, turn ne over
and over, end kicking Mrs. MeStinger
every bump until they both 1 ded
the hall below. where the chair noke all
to etorn. • Thus ended the lig, it.—Co-
lu7bus Journal.
A Young Artist in the
ouse.
. A Cass eyeliner father in Deti it pro-
cured an outfit of paints, oils an 1 brush-
es for his eight year old son ti e other
day, the lad haying developed a talent
for drawing. ' Little was seen of the boy
for two or three days, and then he took
his father and , mother by the h ncl and
led them into the parlor and tria phant-
ly pointed to the proofs or his artistic
skill. The gilt paper on the wall formed
a fine ,groundwork for him; and he had
painted. a horse over one door, a lion
ever another; a bird over the th rd, and
at intervals along the walls he had
brought out -fighting dogs, ships, fire -en-
gines, Indians in full dress, anl bears
• chasms; boys. He had put a new border
on the bay window curtains, striped the
legs of the piano, and had proc eded to
touch up and improve certain hromos
and oil -paintings hanging on the walls.
Father and. mother gazed_ aroui d, and
the young *artist anxiously waited for
them. to pat him on the head and say
• they were proud of such a son They
The
•
didn't pat him—not very much.
father placed the son's ear betw en his
thumb and finger,- and led him hrough
several rooms to the woodshed, a • d what
followed may be inferred from a remark
bythe boy and overheard by a pedes-
trian "" Oh, father, let up on e, and
111 never be an artist any more,
als•to ft-
DnsantoYre.ro RATS In- A LCOU
farmer s53 s he succeeds in catchir g rats
by means of alcohol mixed wit cheap
molasses. flats love sweets and -ill in-
dulge in the molasses despite the alco-
hol, until they are so drank th t they
cannot move, and are easily •aught.
We had supposed that human nimals
were the only species so degrade( as to
commit suicide with alcohol, .but it ap,
pears that we were mistaken, an that
drunkards in the human form ma. here-
after claim that rats are as great . ohs as
they.
spnciotwEs. •
• 8R,EAK1?AST. —EPPS'S COCOA. —GRATE-
FUL, AND COM#ORTING. 'By a thorough
In'ovViedge of the natural' laws which
govern the operations of digestion and
nutrition, and by a careful application
of
the fine properties of well -selected coeoa,
Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tit:
bles with a delicately flavoured beverage
which may save us many heavy doctors
bills."—Civil Service Gazette. • Made
simply with Boiling Water or Mill{.
Each packet is labelled—Jemas Eel's &
Co. Homceopathic Chemists, London."
4.A.NUFACTURE OF COCOA. — " We evil,
now give an account of the process adopt.
ed by Messrs. James Epps & Co., man
ufacturers of dietetic articles, their
works in the Euston Road, London" —
Cassell's Rouse/told Guide.
• THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE OF THE
Aon. --There is probably no family med.-
'eine so favorably aud so widely known
Davis' Pahl Killer. It is extensively
used in India, China, Turkey—and in
every civilized country on earth, not only
to counteract the climate influences, but
tor the cure of Bowel troubles, Cholera
and. Fevers. It is used. internally for all
diseases of the bowels, and externally
• for wounds, bruises; bums, &c. Sold by
all druggists generally. -
JantThe first approaches of consumption
are so insidious that thoneands remam
unconscious of its presence until it has
brought them to the verge of the grave.
The immediate use of "Bryan's Pulmon-
ic Wafers upon the first appearance of
the cough, pain or soreness of the throat
or chest would generally preclude a fatal
result; therefore when you take a cold
use "Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers," and
prevent the neceSsity for taking them.*
more dangerous complaints. To be obi
tained of all Druggists and country deal-
ers. Price 25 cents per box.
• THE HORSE.—" Of the great number
of animals under the control of man, the
horse is unquestionably -the most service-
able ;" but is it not strange that so many
who own horses, and who are dependent
on their labor for a living should neglect
to give them that care and attention
which their own interest no less than the
safety and comfort of the horse demands.
The best remedy for horses is " Darley's
Condition Powders and •Arabian Heave
Remedy -" of this there can be no
doubt—it is safe and easily given.
Remember the name, and see that the
signature of Hurd. & Co. is on each pack-
age. Northrop & Lyman, Toronto, Ont.,
proprietors for Canada. Sold by all
medicine dealers.
DB, INLIEELER'S COMPOUND ELrsin OF
Phophates and Codisaya--a. chendeal food and
nutritive tonic. This elegant and agreeable prep-
aration is perfeetly reliable in all eases of nervous
prostration and general debility, arising from
mental or physical exertion, intemperance, irregu-
lar habits. chronic wasting diseases depending
uponindigestion mal -assimilation of food and
impoverished blood. It is composed only of ingre-
dients that enter into the formation of the sys-
tem, anl being purely physiological in its action"
may be taken safely under all circumstances, as it
builds up the constitution radically and perman-
ently in the same manner as our daily food.
1VIARcH 5 1875.
14 L. DOYLE, Bari:180;r, AttOrney, 13olielter in
J4, chancery, Goderich and Seeforth. •Of -
Ike, over J.Ordan's Drug Store, Goderieb., and
Kidd's Store;Seaforth. •••
854
CAMERON' cFADIThN1 13arri8ters n ---
Solicitors in'Chancery, iGoderieh.
11, V. CAMERON. • W. MCIPADDEN.
•a.ARIIOWWALRER, Barristers, Attorneys,
4-4 SOliCii0X11 Chancery, 8ce. Office on West St,
-opposite the Post Office, Ooderich. 846
J. T. EEAHROW. ••P. V. WALRER.
JM. LEET, Solicitor, AVingham, bile been an.-
• pointed Agent for the Colonial Securities Coin -
pony of England, Ire is also Agent for several pri-
vate Capitalitits fr1 Toronto, who loan Money et
very reasonable rateS. Interest payable yearly
Charges moderate. M80 Solicitor for the St.
LaWrence Bank. •
Wingliam, Dec. 15, 1871. 213
1VicCAUGHEY & HOLAIESTED, Darristeri, At
torneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery ani
Insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyancers.
Solicitors for the R, 0.11ank, Seaforth. Agentsfor
the Canada Life Assurance Company, -
N. B.—S80,000 to lend at 8 per eent. Farms,
Houses and Lots for sale. •53
1-4ENSON & MEYER, Barristers ami Attorneys
at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Public, .ete Offices—Sea-
forth and Tirroxeter.: $213,000 of Pri :ste Funds to
invest at Once, at Eight per cent. Int rest, payable
yearly. • 53
• ,TAs. If. RENSoN. • W. c. mErs.n.
AT R. SQUIBB, Banister, Attorney in Cherie-
" • ery, Goderich, Ont. Office—over J. C,
Detlor & Co.'s Emporium, Market Square. 26:
Stonier ar. McDonald,
pARRIST.ERS, Attorneys,Selicitors ID Chancery
&c., Brgesels, Ont. Office—two doors ninth of
the Post
W. R. SQUIBB, DANIEL McDONALD,
271 Goderich. Brussels.
MCAT, .
nA. CAMPBELL, Seaforth, Coroner for the
County. Office and rosidenee, Main Sheet
South, near the Station:
C.. SCOTT, 3i. D. &e.., Physician, Surgeon and
Accoucheur, Seaforth, Ont. Office and res..
- donee south side of Goderich Street, first door
east of Presbyterian Church. 342
H L. VERCOE, Ti C. M. Physician Sur-,
• * goon, etc., Coronerior the County of lenron.
Office and Residence, corner of 3Iarket and ifig,h
streets, next to the Planing Mill.
• A06011 j M. D. Ph
• :NT MUNE°
rtment oitteur' Graduate of Su
zletoeis, uns.,,_e. of the mr.eg„,eon and
also°8P-thiteRali3170: New york al-'121eity; form uleal De.
30w, es _Pitale i.,, d London, erly of
deuce_ jiTruPea4rise,i dinburnIgtnag. jdtteathe
s -
ii
_ 349
•J. G. BULL, L.D.S.,
• ON, D entist, S eaf orth,
kJ Ontario. Plate work, latest
styles, neatly executed. All sur-
gical operations performed with
care and promptitude. 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
0CARTWRIGHT, L. D. S., Surgecn Dentist,
• will visit G °clench. on the fast TUESDAY
and WEDNESDAY iaf each month, at the Col-
borne Hotel. 850
A M. CAMPBELL, V. 8., Licentiate and Prize-
-I -I- man of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto,
has settled permanently in Varna, wherehe 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-
perance Hall. 819
TERINARY SURGEON.—D. MoNAUGHT,
. gs o announce to the inhabitants of
Seatorth
Pain Killer.
A FTER thirty-five years' trial, it is still receiving
-1-L the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues
from persons of the highest character and respon-
sibility. Physicians of the first respectability re-
commend it as a mast effeetualpreparation for the
extinction of pain. It is not only the best remedy
ever known for Bruises, Cuts, Burns, &c., but for
Dysentery, or Cholera, or any sort of Bowel Com-
plaint it is a remedy unsurpassed for efficiencyand ;
rapidity of action. In the great cities of India,
and ether hot climates, it has become the standard
medicine for all such complaints, as well as for '
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, and other kindred
disorders. For Coughs and Colds, Canker, Asthma, •
and Itheumatie difficulties, it has been proved by '
the most abundant and. convincing teatiniony to I
to be an invaluable medicine. It is used internally ,
and externally. sold everywhere Price 21, ets.
PERRY DAYIS & SON, Sole Proprbtors.
and sstoreAl) eounti 7thatkinds h JiofahVeat-81
beenuwarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and is nOW prepared to treat diseases
ofliorses and Cattle and all dinnestie animals. Be
has opened an office in conneetion with. his heree-
; shoeing shop, where he will be •Amid ready to at -
1 tend to calls. Diseases of the feet specially at -
1 tended to. Re
sidence, office and shop in the rear
of iiilloran & Ryan's new urroundin
1 - Harkness' Hair Balm.
I The best preparation Muse for restoring, pieserv-
ing, and beautifying the hair, and rendtr-
. ing it soft and glossy.
This invaluable preparation we would pollen t to ,
the -public, knowing it to possess all the virtue we ;
claim for it. Being perfectly free from all injuri- 1
ons ingredients, and composed solely of nutri-
ments, we can confidently commend it as a safe i
and sure remedy for the "Falling of the Hair," res-
torin,„u grey hair to its original color, imparting a
healthy tone and vigor to its roots, and causing it
to grow luxuriantly. As a Cosmetic alone, even'
where the hair is strong and healthy, it is invalu- ;
able, as it imparts a rich glossiness and silken ap-
pearance, which no one who loves beauty can fail 1
to admire. Prepared only by i
HARKNESs ..% CO., •
Pharmaceutical Chemists, London.
muct, 50 CENTS. -
For sale -by T. S. ROBERTS and R. LUMSDEN. 1
Seaforth, and by Druggists generally. 345-29 4
Avoid Quacks.
A VICTIM of early indiseretion, causing nervoui;
-4-1- debility, premature decay, &e., having tried in
vain every advertised remedy, has discovered a
simple means of self -cure, which he will send free
to his fellow -sufferers. Address, J. H. REEVES •
78 Nassau Street, New '"Terk.
Thomas' Eclectrie Oil
t - i
WOUTH THN TIMES ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. Do YOU ,
•R.Now ANYTHING OF IT? IF -NOT, IT IS 1
TIME Tot) DID- 4
.
,There are but few preparations of medicine ;
which have withstood the impartial judgment of
the people for any great length of time. One of
these is TROMAS'ELRCTRIC On, purely a prepar- .
-winery Medicines kept constantly on hand.
Charges reasonable.
+
229
rp X. CHURCHILL, Veterinary Surgeon, (mem-
-1- • 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 times be
Consulted on the eiseaSes oir Horses, Cattle, &c.
'Veterinary medicines conefiantly on hand. All
calls prOmptly attended to. Office, at Mansion
Rouse, Seaforth. 273
IUKOTETA.
DAVIS' HAIX-WAY HOUSE.
rpHIS hotel is situated half way between Sea -
forth and Brussels, having been thoroughly
renovated and refitted, it now affords as good
accommodation as any country tavern in the
County. Liquors and cigars of the ch.oicest
brands. Good stabltng, good driving sheds, good
enclosed yard aud sheds for the accommodation
af drover,, and plenty of hay always on hand. A
good and attentive hostler always ready. No trou-
ble to water horses.
0. DAVIS, Proprietor.
-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 liquors and cigars kept
In the bar, and a careful and attentive hostler in
attendance. Good stabling in connection with
the hotel.
350
141.1r.E1ELY.
II A. STT ARP'S LIVERY AND SALE STABLES.
• Oilice--At Murray's Hotel, Seaforth. Good
Horses and firs t-ci ass Conveyances always orahand.
__ . _
pELL'S LIVERY STAl3LES, SEAFORTH, Ont.
Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, always
on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with
Commercial Travellers. All orders left at the
Commercial Hotel, will he promptly et to.
OPFICE AND STARX.DE,:—South of the Commer
cial Hotel, Main Street.
221• 17:10M-48 BELL, Proprietor.
't-V-ILLIAM SMALL, Convey- rimer and COHIML3-
olden of six of some of the best oila that tire kn V
each one possessing virtues of its own. Scientilie
physicians know that medicines in ay be formed of
several ingredi ents in cerfein fix ad proportions of
greater power, and produeing effect which could
never reault from the use of -any 40 ne. of them, Or in
different combinations. Thus in the preparation
of this oil a chemical change takes place, forming
a compound which could not by any posaibility be
inade from any other combirtation or proportions
of the Sarno ingre.dienta or.any othe • -01 b,
and entirely different from anything ever before
• made, one welch produces the mostastonishing re-
sults, and having a wider. range of application
than any medicine ever before discov d. con -
tams no alcohol or other volatile lignids, cense:
quently loses nothing by evaporation. 'Wherever
applied you get the benefit of every di -op ; eren s
with other preparations nearly all th
o o
lost in that way, and you get oniy the small van
tity of oils whichst.hNeyTmitizolcio.zstainua, N
And NORTHROP & LYMAN, Toronto, Ont.,
,• . X.
Sole Agents for the Dominion.
NOTE.—Electrie—Selected and Electrized.
fio;ta Seaferth- by E. Hickson & Co and R.
Lnrnsden.
The Great Female It ecry.
•47013 MOSES' PERIODICAL PILL. .45
rrilis invaluable medicine is unfailing in. the
-1- cure of all those painful and langerousdiseases
to which the female constitution is subject. It
moderatos all excess and reinos.-es all obstructions;
and a speedy cure may be relied on
To -married ladies; it is peculiarly sui ted . It will
in a short time, bring on the monthly period with
regTuhlsasItsp-ins should not be taken by Females
during the first time months of Pregnacy, as thes
are sure to bring on Miscarriage, but at any othei
time they are safe.
In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections,
pains in the back and limbs, fatigue on slight ex-
ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and
whites, these pills will effect a cure when all other
means have failed; and although a powerful
remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, anthnony, or
aaghheuerttifLl:ohaththe csonpsatsshiitrutioent
'around each
12i, cents forpost ,e, - sc toN'orthop &Lyman,llinthilln
package, which should. be carefully preserved.
Job Moses, New York, Sole Pronrieter. $1.00and
Toronto, Ont.ogeneral agents for the Dominion,
will insnre a bottle, containing over 50 pills by
return mail.
i ,..—
WTO
:0: in S2eaby E
oforth . Hickson & Co„ and
PER DA:Y.—Agents Wanted'
197
R. Lumsden.
All clam es of working people,
of either sex, young or old, make more xnoney at
work for as in their spare moments, or all the
time, than at anything else. Particulars free.
Post card to States costs but two cents. Address
G. STINSON & Co., Portland, Maine. 368
t sioner in B. R., Wroxeter. Auctioneer and
Appraiser. Accounts and notes collected on
reasonable terms.
866
•
E. LUSBY,
T ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the Cotuaty of
' -1-1 Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the Corm-
, ty-i All orders made personally orsent to Seaforth
! Post Office will be promptly attended to.
327
J. P. BRINE
T ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the Couilty of
, -LI Huron. Sales attended in all parts of th
County.orders left at the EXPOSITOR Office
will be promptly attended to.
BUSINESS CHANGE.
THE Partnership heretofore existing between
-I- Robert Callender, Hugh Scott and Hugh Wal-
lace, under the name of CALL 1.NDER
Co., of the Town of Clintcn and 'Village of
Londesborough, -sviil be dihsolved on the First da
of March next. The business -will be carried. On
after that date, under the style of the. old firm. of
Callender &, Scott, Mr. Wallace retiring from. the
but-iness
N. B.—All accounts due are expected. to be paid
by the 1st of February next.
371
Clinton, Jan. 8, 1875.
_
CALLANDER, SCOTT & Co.
JOHN S. PORTER -
One-horse Banker and Exchange Broker.
krAILIT STREET, ASTA.FORTIL
CAPITAL - $0,000,000.01.
This is no blow, but a fact.
inettirt Greenbacks and Airterican Silver at cur-
rent rates. Lends money on good farm prop-
erty. Shaves notes without lather. Receives
moncy on deposit, and pays 20 per cent. interest
--when you get it. Buys and sells Rouses and
Lots; parties leaving town and 'wishing to sell -quick
will fina me on, hand. like a thousand of brick-.
Buys Rides, Sheep Skins, Run and Wool
at the highest prices.
All this is done with the above capital, wonder-
ful, is it not? Hand in your wants, wishes and
expectations, don't be afraid, he won't bust. 841
FONVLER'S SALE NOTES.
THE above netes are in ray hands. Parties in-
-0-
terested will do well to pay up -when due, if not
they may look out for "Joe'
376- -
JOHN S. PORTER.
MARcii 5, 1875.
GAIETIES.
ill.rT111::::::e?rti.TE:::17:ahihtevT0Atetheeeha-yahre;:e_M21:°i11:ssinrlice.s:tatiuicill:wdzteeamOe—etuh:ff::11:1271:1nfttbhiiii°teelenhairlis_sge.aliii:Iii
Mutes ?—Becalle'efb7a7p-C1:1:1
22"Ven Il..aeSdtuOtitte'trtingalk maze ligo°4
sch—°11ha
1.fil.iesnytehidngtil iniptetl
mind -with awe, it is the
the:1...apn:pfaa:caeM1:0u g
oh.arso
just
from snoring in church,
re3-
oefhilydou, rbe
through AeoeuTopeire of fellows, wh,
itithtoroutghleilygusotalltere.d
ith bad
After ilo
some time, one of them said
o another riho:iiusre;etahritiisohocte
—Ai
by remarking to the teather
day -school class : Our Ad
bet the angels were Beared
saw him coming up the walk
th—sTrarbe
ulhrrsj
h:ymes with yout
little Elsie exclaim, ra,ptural
oo dear lion! Oh, ,00 nice
booful lion I Oh, I lov-e do_
Then she added in a w'hisp
awfuyeri1"'•
once lawasked
the fellowipg question r.
you a hundred pounds to tri
and dies, 'what do you 10.
for him t" "No, sir," repli,
lord, " I pray or anetber
him."
—A teacher questionin
about the grftluation in the
ing, asked What comes n
Whereupon a little shaver, :1
ently smarting under a, sent
defeat, immediately distanci
itors by promptly shoutini;
illaaAliL"
Detroit young womh
aristoeratic, •and • did note
money she gave the horse -
but he meekly gave her bee'
on which was written
to love thee." and said he
with five little brothers to I
most be excused.
— An .old farmer talks tit]
boys: From 16 to 20 they.kr
he did ; at thi they knew as
they were willing to hear n
say; at 35 they asked his
he thinks when they get will actually acknowledge
man does kuow something.
a** ell
Thoughts of a 011
The Paris correspondent S
Dailg Telegraph writes;
document, of R.,specia1 inter
dents of psyenologys a,
taining the hist thouelits
of MOre.9.11, the herbalist, wl
ly guillotined for poisoning 1
1 Subjoin frrw ex:trivets :
ni
shnuieI:esailiflile:abelextrieiteet—yttilholitillievieti)101
tbe head feel ally thing aft
that when the knife falls y
dead,, s. ff,rrighisti—uli haw
against the executioner.
his duty. I will ask to sla
to show him that I forgive
know him, but I should
what sort of a man he is
" September 17-1 knen
the former executioner, Ntv
WWII very polite and gentle.
that when, he guillotined
he addressed him as 'Molt
times. I also saw him goal
man, who resisted. tie
Now, be quiet, like a go
don't know my executi
terrible thing it must be
his hand upon your shoul
4 September 2S—It will
perhaps - to -morrow* Th
very kind to me. They h
my etre.: jacket to let inc
lent me ibooks. Howevs
when 1 lasked for the
tram laintie,) they tef
'• Oclo Pi* 9-1 ahould
what the Pjaroantleauloz,
They i u4t have ferreted
ewe, as they always do.
hazeresslaid I should ever ba -
papers
i
Le Figaro, from wbis
these extracts. adds ---; Thi
the head of Morean fell
ket.'
.••••
Female Sallors---W
Have Done
., Says the San Francisco il
• new thing Lor women to )
We are informed in ancien
Arrnesia, peen of Halle
-1
mapiled five ships at the
Pethians et *.'alaniais, and .
• resistance, distinguishing
• daunted courage and a
ledge of strategy: TOWar
the battle, seeing herself i
- ef being taken she low -ere
attaeked a Persian -war
rible fury. Her strataffen
sired effect for the conqn
her vessel to be one of 11
to pureue her. There
stances of record ,of Ara
• wives ef deceased eapta
their vessels into port afte
their husbands. In the r
III, •of Great Britain,
named Hannah Whitney,
years in the royal Britieh
her secret eo Well that
known to be a woman un•
from the service. A few
young Yorkshire girl eva
to London in search of h
found ]in enlisted on his
of -war Oxford, and there.
ned. a sailor's suit, assault
Charlie Waddell, and e
same. ship. Her lover,
faithful to her as she to ht
ship, and inattemptina t ,
ample, she was arresta a
teeted. The officers raie
tion Lor her and be eins
the service and sentho
nifin-o.
Mre. Cola became sonienw
serving on board a
mon eallon She nfti
proper attire, and op n
for sailors. Itt 1800 a
tried to ship att London 0
•Sea whaler, and being r
on boys' clothe?•and hir
waterman, ane1.4 became
•
•