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HURON EXPOSITOR.
"I CAME TO ASK."
Two pretty, old fashioned cottages
staridingynear each other on a secluded
tree shaded country road, separated by a
little meadow, which from the birth of
inning to the death of autumn rejoiced
an waving green grasses and white
daisies and yellow dandelions, and after
that wore a robe woven of snow flakes
its fair and pure aa when they fell from
• the skies, tintil old winter, to whona the
robe belonged, hearing the returning
birds ask for the violets, gathered it
about him and vanished again.
• In one of them, the larger, in front of
which was a neatly kept lawn, and at the
back, a small hot -house and miniature
vegetable garden lived Miles -Guernsey
and his man Mike, the one an old bach-
elor, the other, as ho described himself,
'a widcly man, thanks be to the Lord
• that sint her to her rest."
• .1 In the other --Rose Cottage they called
at, for in rose time it was completely sur
rounded by roses • they filled the space
in front and clambered over the porch
up the sides of the house—had lived a
quiet elderly couple for many yeare,until
about a mouth before my story (if it may
be dignified by that title) begins, when
they went to heaven on the very same-
day, as they had often prayed to, loving
old souls, and left Rose Cottage waiting
fpr new tenants.
. "Just as 1 had got comfortably settled,"
grumbled Miles Guernsey," to be all up-
set again!. Other old men and old women
live till they're a hun lred. %Vliy couldn't
these have done so, instead of dying at
the early age of eighty? And there's
no knowing who'll take the cottage.
' Somebody with dogs, cats and babies,
I've no doubt—three kinds of animals I
atest."
" Thrue fur ye boss," said Mike with
an ominous shake of the head.
1 There was something else Mr. Guern-
sey insisted he detes ed, and that was an
old- maid. A ma ," he used to say,
" don't need smiles nd kisses and pet
names and children anging around him
to keep him. sweet, ut a vvornan does.
Of course some of th poor things can't
help their forlorn sta, e; the men don't
propose, or they (to a d run away,or their
parents cut up rough, or they have in-
valid relations to t ke care of. I am
very sorry for them; hey have my heart -
jest sympathy ; but, 11 the same, I don't
like 'ern.*
And so when Mi e came one lovely
june morning to tell is master the cot-
tage was rented, add d with a slygrin,
" An' shure its an o Id maid, an, her
mot1;er." Mr. Guer sey said something
of which he ought to ave been ashamed,
and which, for that r ason, I shan't -set'
down; and then wen on,, sarcastically,
• and now we'll have 11 sort a of 'sweet,
minning pets,' I supp,se ; bat if any of:
them come near my ['remises ;" furious.
ly,—"I'll poison 'en, drown 'ern, wring
their necks. Do you I, ‘ar Mike ?"
"Faith, I do," said Mike grimly.
"I've lived here te years," resuroed,
the master "in peace and quiet, driven
• hereby an old maid n the first place,
and it will be hard'in eed. if I'm driven
• &Way by another. % ith a piano or gui-
tar, no doubt ?"
• " Aither that last or a fiddle, Sur,"
said Mike. • I saw th gurril a carryin'
• it in yisterday in its o wn neat little cof-
firi.o
" She'll play and si g from morning till
night, out of time a d tune, and I shall
• be obliged to close all the doors and suf-
foeate.
"Anyhow," sugge ted Mike, "there
can't be no babies."
• Thank Heaven f r that !" said Mr.
Guernsey, fervently; though I dou't
know but what the •itar's worse. you
can scare young e ildren rby ma,king
faces at 'ena. When •o they move in,
Mike?"
To -morrow, Sur,' said Mike. "Och,
but it's dreadful."
1;.„We'11 go a fishing Mike. Be ready
to -morrow morning t daybreak, arid
we'll stay away a wee . I neve( could
bear the noise women ake when they're
• putting a house to rig ts, as they call it;
• and if I can't stand it • fter we come back,
why 1,11 pull up stake and go for good,
that's all."
f' Yis sur," said M ke.
When Miles Guern ey and his man re-
• turned from the fishi g excursion, Miss
• Osborne and Miss Osb re's mother, and
Miss Osborne's maid o all work were in-
stalled in Rose Cottag , and sure enough
the first sounds that reeted the ears of.
the fishermen were th pleasant tinkling
of the guitar, and a equally pleasant
• voice singing an old- shioned love song
—Dot out of tone, hoi ever, but decided-
ly in tune.
and a vine that ran up the window out-
side had been coaxed throu h a broken
pane, and hung, heavy with Sweet white
buds, over the picture of • handsome
young man in the dress of c rgyman.
The guitar leaned against t e in of a
cosy old-fashioned crimson ofa ; a hang-
ing -shelf of books eccupied no corner of
the room ; • a mirror who e tarnished
frame was almost hidden b a pretty or-
nament of autumn leaves, hung ip the
other. " Humph ! she's got Isome taste,"
said the old bachelor to hinciaelf, and be-
gan, without knowing why, to wish he
were at home—in fact, was meditating
an inglorious retreat when the old maid
entered the room.
Tall, graceful, with chestnut brown
• haie parted simply over a frank, un-
wrinkied brow, and gatherel into a silk-
-en net at the back of her he d • honest,
ull at you;
des darker
sight nose;
11 throwing
vely mouth
with the falutest suspicion qf a shadow
at the corners, which was instantly lost
in a sunshiny smile.
"Our neighbor, Mr. Guernsey, I be-
lieve ?" she said in a remarkably pleasant
voice. I
•" Yes," replied Mr. Guerpsey, blush-
ing violently. (the idea of it! an old baOh-
elor, forty-five his last birthday, blush-
ing because an old maid spoke to him!)
and having uttered this monosyllable, he
dropped his hat, and pat his cane through
the crown of it as he stooped to pick it
up again. The hat in hisj hand once
more, he went on: I have Called to see
if you --tbat is, your mother—I mean
both of you, of course—In fact," with a
sudden inspiration," I came to ask if you
would like some trout; just out of the
water yesterday." •
" Oh ! thank you; you are very kind,"
said Miss Osborne, a little surprise in her
voice, and a puzzled expression in her
eyes; and at that moment Mike's rough
-
gray -blue eyes; that looked
arched eyebrows, two sli
than the hair; small st
- cheeks a little faded, but st
out pink roses on occasion; 1
110
And the very nex
after sniffling curiou
outside for a while,
nearly flat, and crawl'
gate, frisked ga,y13 o
-from thence up to
sat the lawn's owner,
paper.
day a small dog,
ly- around on the
squeezed himself
•g u der -the front
er lhe lawn, and
he jorch, where
reading the news -
IS
Theintrucler was lei ight-eyed little
• terrier, slightly lame n one of his legs,
and he proceeded. to c per .about the old
bachelor as though he recognized in him
an earlyobut long lost riend.
'f Mike ?" shouted .r. Guernsey.
"Sur !" shouted Mike, running out
with a potato in one h rid and a knife in
the other.
"Remove this dog.'
"Removed. it is, su ," said Mike,c1rop-
ping both knife and p tato.
But this dog" cle rly objected to be.
ing removed. He skip ed nimbly around,
barking all the time what larks 1'
manner; darted under the garden chairs,
got entangled in a w oodbine that was
climbing to the roof f the porch, and
tore it down; seized t e knife Mike had
droPped, in his mou h, and made off
with it; and the 'wi dy man " making
off with him, slipped on the treachi
erous potato and ca e down with a,
whack.
"This thing must be stopped at once !"
exclaimed Mr. Guer sey, setting his
broad brimmed hat fin ly upon his head,
and grasping his cane. Out of his own
gate he marched in ti e most dignified
style, along the path through the rose -
crowded garden, to ti e door of • Rose
Cottage. "I want to se your mistress,"
he Said to the black -e ed maid -servant
who answered his ring.
"Which ?" asked th girl.
" What ?" retorted. Ir. Guernsey.
" ! I thought •'haps you didn't
know the old lady's lais up with rheum-
atiz—got cold moving. Will Miss Os-
borne do?"
" Anybody," said. Miles, walking
into the parlor, as sh threw open the
door. Evidently Miss Osborne was ex-
tremely fond of roses. The white runs -
lin eurtairis were loope • back with sprays ,
of half opened ones; a vase filled with.
them stood on the cent e table; on the
hearth lay shells from ' 'ich they peeped,
tones brokein from outside :
"I've got him, boss, an' the divil's own
time I've had to ketch him. Il3edad, he's
the liveliest lame dog that I ver met in
me loife, an' he's pult down the other
vine, an'—"
"Good day," hurriedly said rthe boss,"
flying before the old maid's questioning
looks, and spinning off the stoop with
such impetus as to almost knock down
his faithful retainer. • "Shut up, you
idiot!" he said in a hoarse whi per. "Drop
that dog, and go home and fasten the
vines up again."
"newly Moses !" ejaculated Mike, as
he disappeared in a hurry; 'is it mad
he is ?"
"Oh dear !" exclaimed the old maid,
raising her pretty hands and eyebrows
as she caught sight of the fine little fel-
low's dirty paws and drooping tail," he's
been in some mischief; I'm sure he has;
I saw your man. What has he been do-
ing, Mr. G-uernsey ? In the kindness of
your heart you're screening him; I know
you are. Oh, Waif! Waif! if you
weren't lame, I'd whip you. I 'picked
him up in the -street one day, Mr.Guern-
sey "—the pink roses were in full bloom
now—"where some wicked boys, had left
him after breaking his leg, and took him
home and nursed him well again, and the
1 poor thing became so attached to me I
could not bear to leave him behind when
we left the city." •
"Of course not," said Mr. uernsey,
adding rather irreverently, "I on't won-
der at it. Good morning." 4ndso the
acquaintance began.
What a fool I've been !" s id Miles,
as once more on his own porch he picked
-up his newspaper again; "but bless me,
who'd want to hurt a lame dog ?"
A week passed away, during which
Mr. Guernsey only caught occasional
glances of his fair neighbor, as she came
'out into the garden among the roses,
with a plain straw hat shading her face,
anci tied with a bit a blue ribbon under
her chin. "I always liked blue ribbon,"
sighed the old bachelor. "94e used to
wear it." "She" was the young girl he had.
loved some twenty years ago, and from
whom he had been separate4 by the
machinations of his father an1 her old
maiden aunt.
All was -calm ;and serene, hen one
morning Mike burst into th library,
where his master sat, and gaped. out
" Thim lamb chops, sur, the delicate, tin-
der wuns I mint for yer dinner, they're
gone, and no liss— or may I never sphake
another word—than fourteen littens in
the wood -shed, an' all, on a count uv
Miss Osborne's cat, the thaf of the
w urriId."
"This certainly must be stopped at
once," said Mr. Guernsey. "Give me
my hat, Mike ;" and away he went-,
growing angrier and •angrier at every
step. His lamb chops ! and no more to
be had until to-morrow—good. gracious !
And fourteen kittens—gracious goodness!
to say nothing of the canary in a fit, per-
haps its power of song scared away for-
evlleer.
actually banged the gate of the
garden of roses; but his anger, ,which
was up to "butter melts" at least, fell to
"zero" when he entered the pretty par-
lor. There sat the old maid, in a low
• rocking chair, idly swaying to and fro,
• dressed in a loose,ilowing white wrapper,
without a ruffle or puff, with a golden
hearted daisy in her hair, another at her
•throat, and by her side stood the lean,
lank cat,with a squalling kitten leltnging
from its mouth. "Poor Mary Ann !"
she was saying ; but where, oh, where
are the other—" when she raised her
eyes and met the not at all irate gaze of
the old bachelor. "Glad to see you
again, Mr. Guernsey," she said, in her
frank voice, rising and holding out her
hand. • "Mother is much better, thank
you," in answer to some rather indistinct
query on the subject. Run away with
your kitten" --to the cat. "Not a very
handsome cat, is she, Mr. Guernsey?
Nor thing! she came to our door one
cruel cold night last winter,half starved,
and with the tips of her poor ears frozen
off. I took her in, warmed a,nd fed her,
and she would not go away. To tell the
truth', I didn't try very hard to make
.her; and I couldn't bear to desert her,
when we came here, any more than I
could Waif. He and she odd as it may
seem, are very fond of each other. But
one bad habit, I am sorry to say, I can't
break her off, or haven't as yet --a result
of her early vagabond. life in the streets;
she steals.' Then suddenly noticing ii,
queer expression on the face of her
listener, she continued eagerly, 't I hope
she hasn't been annoying you in any
way?"
Straight into those child -like eyes did
MileGuernsey look, and say, deliber-
ately, "Oh, no, not at all. I came to ask
if you-- that is—" (growing a little inco-
herent), "your mother—of courselI mean
both of you—would like a fresh cucum-
ber pr two and some green peas," (with a
-
•
flush, of pride). "I'm ahead of all the
neighbors." He meant the peas were.
"A thousand thanks," said. Miss Os-
borne.
"Just nine hundred and ninety-nine
too many," said Miles, actuatly smiling
at her. "Good -day." And when he re-
appeated in the study, he had a daisy in
his buttonhole. ,
Mike came out of the dining room,
where he had been soothing the canary,
with a crisp lettuce leaf. , Well, stir
said he. - -
"Hang the bird's cage where the cat
can't get it, lock up the chops after this,
and drown thirteen of the kittens,"
quietly said Mr. Guernaek.
"Mod,is it?" Mike soliloquized. "He's.
madder nor fifty hatters., '!
"Good heavens! what man in his sober
senses," Miles Guernsey asked himself,
would hurt a frozen -eared cat ?" •
Sunnier painted away, carrying with
her the fragrant roses and thousands of
other beautiful • flowers; autumn,. in
rustling garment, gathered the gold and
brown and crimson leaves to her bosom,
and bade the earth farewell; winter
came, and flung downy snow flakes upon
and hung glittering icicles from the roofs
of the cottages and the naked , branches '
of the trees—and the neighbors had only
met a dozen times. But in that dozen
times Mr. Guernsey had managed to
learn, (principally from the old woman,
from whom the daughter had inherited
her pleasant eyes,) that the picture of
the handsome young man in the parlor
was the portrait of Aosa's lover, who had
died fifteen years: before in a foreign
land, where he had gone for his health.
"Rosa' was well nigh heart broken at
first," said the old lady ;' "but time has
softened'her grief, and now she can speak
of himas calmly as she can of the dar-
ling little sister who died when she was
a child."
From the same source he learned that
Rosa's father had been a speeulator, un-
lucky in all his speculations, and that
when, his last great disappointment
breaking his heart, he departed this life,
there was very little left for his wife and
children. " Robert, my Only son,"_ said
the'old lady, "helps us all he can; • but
lately he has married a sweet girl, who
has patiently waited for him five long
years, and now Rosa and I will have to
live more economically than ever, if that
be possible. But, dear me, how I do run
on, and how Rosa veuld scold me if she
knew it ! but you are so kind and sym-
• pathetiC, Mr. Guernsey; that, short as
our acquaintance has been, 1 almost re-
gard you as one of the family. Rosa, my
dear, I should like Mr. Guernsey to hear
that new song your brother sent you last
wee •
k."
"And
would Mr. Guernsey like to
hear it ?" Rosa asks.
"How can you ask Me ?" says the old
bachelor, "I am always pleased to hear
you sing." By which remark you will
perceive he had become entirely recon-
ciled to the guitar.
It was the evening of Christmas-day—
Miles Guernsey sat alone in his parlor,
thought on his brow and a pipe in his
mouth, when Mike entered with a dainty
rose -perfumed three -cornered note.
"From the meld maid, Sur,". said he.
"Miss Osborne, you mean," said his
master sternly. Don't call her an old
maid again." .
"Would Mr. Guernsey,"—so the note
ran.—"give Mrs. and Miss Osborne the
pleasure of his company this Christmas
evening? Brother Robert and his wife
have -come down from the city, and there
would be a little music, a little supper,
•and whist." •
"Wait, and I'll write an answer," said
Mr. Guernsey. • And while Mike waited
he began to talk again. "Shure, ye
heard news, Sur; the village is full of it
They say she 'oughtn't 'a dyne it; that
it's encouraging wickedness an—"
"Who the dickens are you talking
about !" asked his master, turning impa-
tiently around, pen in hand.
The owld—I mane 'Miss Osborne,
Sur," answered Mike.
"And pray what shouldn't she have
done?"
Taken Bessie West's boby, sur."
"Taken Bessie West'si baby? Go on
this moment, Mike, or brain you with
the poker."
,,vvel
you see, Sur" Mike thus ad-
monished, went on glibly enough, "ye
know that unlucky story about Bessie
West, the purty Sewing gurril ?"
"Yes, yes—heaven knows I do. Nota
woman's tongue within ten miles, except
one has wagged about it."
"Well, Snr, last night she died, an'
she Hint fez. the owld—I mane Miss Os-
borne. For she was frightened uv the
other women, they'd*be so hard to her
— bad 'cess to 'em—an' not knowin' what
they're comin' to; an' the owld.—I mane
Miss Osborne, wint—"
"Of course she did," interrupted his
master. "Go on."
"An' she prayed wid the poor thing,
an' they so say she's a-goin' to 'dopt it,
an' they'll never spake to her agin."
"Which would be a very great pity !"
said the old bachelor, with emphasis, and
ra
ther a diabolical grin.
"Yis, sur. An' now I suppose we'll
be afther rnovin' shure, for it only
naded the baby to make it complete;
owld—I mane Miss Osborne, cats, dogs
and. babies."
"Get me my great -coat," was the only
answer he received. "I'll answer the
note personally." And the great coat on,
• away started Miles Guernsey for Rose
Cottage once more.
"Bedad," said Mike, with an intoxi-
cated wink, "it's mesilf knew he would-
n't shtand the baby."
Miss Osborne's parlor was that night,
if possible, brighter and. cheerier than it
was on the summer day the old bachelor
first entered it. Instead of roses, Chaist-
mas greens dotted with brilliant red ber-
ries looped back the curtains, enwreath-
ed the pictures, .and drooped from vases
and shells, and right over the tall wax
candles burning on the centre table hung
a branch of mistletoe (sent with kindly
greetings and a real English plum -pud-
ding from some kinsfolk across the sea,)
its waxen berries gleaming like clouded
pearls among its slender green leaves.
',Miss Osborne had evidently not expect-
ed. her guest so soon, for she sat before
the glowing grate fire, with Bessie
West's baby on her knees, its small,
pink toes held out towardsthe welcome
warmth, and itself cooing and gurgling,
after the. fashion peculiar to extreme
youth. H
How
lovely she looked, with a spray
of holly in her hair, a tender light in her
eyes, and the loose sleeves of her dark
silk falling back from. her shapely white
arms, as Elie held the child with mother-
ly grace aid softly sang a dreamy nur-
sery rhyme! Miles Guernsey thought
of a beautiful Madonna he had..seen in
Rome, as he looked earnestly at her, a
moment before she became aware of his
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Second hand 16 horse Portable Boiler, with Smoke Stack
Second hand -20 horse Portable Boiler, with Smoke Stack
Second hand 80 horse Portable Tulinhir-Boiler, with Smoke Stack, Furnace, Front, Grate Bars,
Steam G nage, Guage and Safety Valves, all in Good Order
Secondhand Shingle and Heading Machine
Heading Jointer
Heading Planer
Heading Turner
Stave Machine, with Knife
IN•qinegle.••••••••gm.magnIa
$225
225
275
240
250
150
209
225
450
90
49
50
70
80
New Engines and Boilers on hand, also Made to Order very cheap. Mill Machinery
for Flouring, Grist and Saw, Mills Middling Purifiers of Improved Kinds.
Attended to.
Implements.—Stoves of Various Eindie—Repairs on Boilers, Mills, due, promptly
CODERICH FOUNDRY AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
•
•MARCH 16, 1877.
Anew
LEGAL
OAMERON & MoltADDEN, Barristers aid
Solicitors in Chancery, Goderich. • 848
M. C. CAMERON. • W. M. moratenne
WILLIAM SMALL, Conveyancer and oanerata,
TV sioner in B. R., Wroxeter. •Anctioneer and
Appraiser. Accounts and notee collected on
reasonable terms.
-
BL. DOYLE, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor in
•. Chancery, &c., Goderich and. Sealorth. Of -
Mee, over Jordan'e Drug Store, Goderich, ace
Kidd's Store, Seaforth,354
SQUIER & liffeCOLL, Barristers, Attornereat
Law, Solicitors in Chancery, Notaries Pdblie,
&c., Goderioh and 13rnsse1s. W. It. SQUTER, GOd..
erich ; A. J. McCoLn, Brussels. 41,15
IMALCOMSON & WATSON, Banisters, alba,
neys, Solicitors in Chancery, &c., Clinton,
Ont. Office-eFirsts door east of the neW Eva
Canadian Bank building. Money to loan on feral
property.
• s. seALCONSON. 404 G. A. WATSON
aARROW, MEYER & RADENHURST, Barrie.
•‘-•11 tore, Attorneys -at -raw, Solicitors in Chancery,
&ea Private funds to loan at a low rate of inter.
est, and ena terms to suit borrowers; Goderich and and Wingham.
J. T. GARROW. B. W. C. MEYER,.
W. T. RADENNUBST. 474
-ve/r, cCAUGIDZY & TIOLMESTED,Barristers,At,
A"- torneys at Law, Solicitore in Chancery awl
Insolvency, Notariee Public and Conveyaneers
Solicitora for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth. Agentsioe
the Canada :cafe Assurance Conapany,
N.B.—$80,000 to Tend at 8 per cent. Ifanne
Houses and Lote for sale. 53
BENSON& MEYER, Barristers and Attorneys
at Law, Solici tore in Chancery and Insolvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Pablic, etc. Offices—Sea-
forth and Brussels. $23,0oo of Private Funds•to
invest et once, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable
yearly.
53
JAS. M. BENSON. A. W. C. MEYER.
The above firm has ilia day been dissolved by
mutual consent. All accounts due the firm to
be paid to Mr. Benson who will pay all liabil-
ities.
Nov. 27, 1876. JAMES H. BENSON.
H. W. C. MEYER.
.1111 EDICAL
JG. SCOTT, M. D. &c., Physician, Surgeon and
• Accoucheur,Aien.forth, Ont. Office and raid. .
deuce south side of Goderich Street, first door
east of Presbyterian Church. 342
IT L. VERCOE, M. D., C. M., Physician, Sur.
4-1-* geon, etc. Coroner for the Comity of Huron
Office and Resihence, corner of Market and High
streets, next to the Planing Mill.
• T B. PHELAN, M.D., C. M. (late of the firm
to. • of Shaver, & Phelan, Sinaford) Graduate of
McGill Univereity, Physician, Surgeon and ,A.e.
ocuchear, Seaforth, Ontario. Office—Roome in
Meyer's Block, formerly occupied by the late Dr
King. Residence—Commercial Hotel. Will at-
tend at Carronbrook on Tuesdays and Fridays. 39e
DMoNAUGHT, Veterinary Surgeon, Green.
-se' • ate of _Ontario -Veterinary College Seaforth,
Ont. Office and Residence in reer of College,
&
Ryan's. Calls promptla •attended to, night or
day. A stock of veterinary medicines on hand
Charges reasonable. Horses examined as to sound -
nese and certificates given if required. 407
TAMES W. ELDER, V. S., Graduate of the
" Ontario Veterinary College. After devoting
two years to practice with Profeseer Smith, of
Toronto, has settled in Seaforth. Office at his
residence east of W. M. Church. Calls promptly
attended to by day or night. A large •stock of -
Veterinary Medicines constantly on hand. Roues
examined as to soundness and lertificatesi given
'Horses bought and sold on commission. 424
•
MISCEL LA NEOUS.
_T P. BRINE, Licenced Auctioneer for the
" • County of Huron. Sales attended in ail
parts of the County. All orders left at the Ex-
posrron Office will be promptly attended to. -
ockwa .Can't be made by every ageht every month
II' el*/ ti in the business we furnish, but those
willing to work can ewe' a dozen dollars a day
right in their own localities. - Have no room to
explain here. Business pleasant and honorable.
Women, and boys and girls do as well as men.
We will furnish you a complete outfit free. The
business pays better than anythhag else. We will
bear expense of starting you. Particulars free.
Write and see. Farmers and mechanics, their
sons and daughters, and all classes in need of
paying work at home should write to us and learn
all about the work at once. Now is the time.
Don't delay. Address TRIAL & Co., Augusta,
Maine. 482
THE GREAT FEMAT,E REMTIDY.—Job Moses'
-a- Periodical Pills—This invaluable medicine is
unfailing in the cure of all those p:inful and
dangerous diseases to which the female constitu-
tion is subject. It moderates all excess and re-
moves all obtractions, and a speedy cure may be
relied on. To maaried ladies, it is peculiaily suited.
It will, in a short time, bring on the monthly pe-
riod with regularite. These pills should not be
taken by Females daring the first three months
of Pregrancy, as they are sure to bring on Mis-
carriage, but at any other time they are safe. In
all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections,
pains in the back and limbs, fatiguc 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, antimony,
or anything hurtful to the constitution. Full
directions in the pamphlet around each package,
which should be carefully preserved. ' Job Moses,
New York, Sole Proprietor. $1 00 and 124- cents
for postage enclosed to Northrop & Lyman, To-
ronto, Ont., general agents for tic Dominion,
will insure a bottle containing over 50 pills by
return mail. Sold in Seaforth.by E. Hickson et
Co,, 3. S. Roberts, and R. Lumaden. • 197
E COMMERCIAL LIVERY,
• SEAFORTH.
ARTHUR FORBES,
HAVING purchased the Stock and Trade of the
Commercial Livery, Seaforth, •from Mr.
George Whiteley, begs to state that he intends
carrying on the business in the old stand, and hem
added seveial valuable horses and vehicles to the
formerly large stock; None but
First -Class Comfortable Vehicles and Good
Reliable Horses Will be Kept.
Covered and Open Buggies aitd Caneages, and
Double and Single Wagons always ready for use.
Special Arrangements Mack With, Com-
mercial Men.
Orders left at the stables or any of the hotels
promptly attended to.
TO THE WORKING CLASS.
WE ARE NOW PREPARED' to furnish all
classes with constant einplo merit at
home, the whole of the time or for their spare
moments. Businese new, light and profitable.
Persons of either sex easily earn from 50 cents to
$5 per evening, and a proportional sum by de-
voting their whole time to the business. Boys
and girls earn nearly as mach as men. That all
who see this notice may send their address, and
test the business, wemake this unparalleled offer:
To such as are not well satisfied we will send $1
to pay for the trouble of writing. Full partic-
ulars, samples 'worth several dollars to commence
work on, and a copy of Home and Fireside, one of
the largest and best Illustrated Publications, all
sent free by mail. Reader, if you want perman-
ent, profitable work, address, GEORGE STIN-
SON & Co., Portland, Maine.
SPECIAL TO THE PUBLIC.
j R. WILLIAM, having disposed of fthie
" • businees in Seaforth, is determined to
have all notes and accounts dne him settled at
once. All rems.ining unsettled will be placed in
court for collectioia. Mr.Williams eau be found at
Mr: Monroe's Plow Factory, Seaforth, clueing
business hours. A few of his Combination Wood
Saws still on band, and will he sold cheap. Also
for sale, a seven -acre Peak Lot, 2 tood building
Lots, 1 Lot with 2 dwelling houses, and one lot
with one dwelling house. The above pr0pe1-4r
will be sold together or separately.
481-4 J. R. WILLIAMS, Seaforth.
HAIR DRESSING.
MISS AMANDA STARK
WISHES to inform the Ladies of Seaforth and
Vicinity that she is prepared to makeup '
SWITCHES, CURLS, BRAIDS, Sce.,
In the Latest Fashion from Combings. Prices
Moderate, and all orders punctually attended to.
A Call &Molted. Residence—Goderich Street,
Seaforth. 467.0
'• MATten 16
-ni.11
pretence. • (The t
vaut going out in a
' the door, he had en
hat , she started II
cheeks sweeter an
"A -merry Christm
good of you. to co
and call brotiaer Pio
"1 don't want
said the old bachel
1 came to ask—"
• 'I -was sure ye
Osborne, breaking
a young girl's_ "1
• morning. I know
ask."
"Are you quite
the old bachelor,
over _his face, until i
soine'dark eyes.
"Quite certain,
seriously. "But
your help, Mr. Gue
we are far from ric
share with this clea
nae, it seems—don't
as a precious Christ
ed. Christmas Day
• ed her beautiful boy
stable at Bethleh
pretty 1 And. so pl
your arms. lam sj
kind to eats and dog
this motherless Iitl
laid the child in thi
who had never he
and who looked 4
something very like
his eyes.
"Yes, it is pretty'
erything you say,
Miss Osborne; but t
Pin afraid ofit. l
mouths at me, and 1
scream," said the old
ing baby exactly tvd
• if they were tears,1
back again. "Do
shalldrop it." -
The old maid. hel
placed the child in t
"And. now you m
she said, turning aw
ing back to Say, s
laugh, "You'd sear
Guernsey, but waif i
puss and her datight
And there they we
of her, and. the cat
the.other ; all the ob
ation grouped toga]
_tableau!
"One moment, 11
you go," he stammer
•
• "Ask anything . II
Miss Osborne, "and
you have have been I
hope I may say frieti
Christmas—"
"You are to be
Miles Guernsey, a W
-lighting up his face.
The baby would
then if he hadn't eau
catch it, and the o
• atrong, tender arms.
I won't tell you
will say that noivher
a merrier Christmas
Rose Cottage that 0
1 will say further,
summer a Mrs. Miles
superintend the cii
cucumbers and peas
miniature vegetable
number of rose bus
across the daisy-sp.
over the fence to the
ly kept lawd, and o
-kept lawn a wee bab
unreproved, with
companion and Mary
EtecasionaI visitor.
urther say that t
re was a grandma
grandson with his m
hair and his father's
most abject slave to
Mike, the -"widdy-
8.
•- Touched Izt
The other morning
woman living on Artt
on the walk in front t
the snow right and le
got fairly ,settled to
lounged up and rema
"I'll clear off the
"I guess Pm abl
,
•
"But see how it loo
"Here yon areta pe
and actions, higialy edi
grovel in the dust, as
pitiful sum of 10 een
"Yon grovel along
business? she curtly
away.
"It's worth 10 ce
leaned against the ft
ler with some sentim
Now, we'll say 5 cc
to cover wear and
Give me the shovel
your seal -skin sacque
and while I werk y
and boss around, and
• the biggest half o
• whilerI had 'nothing,
that."
She looked at him
he was in earnest, an
()Vex the snow -shovel
in his hand. He loo
-went in, and then so.,
"Oh I Flattery, th‘
woman homely enoug.
Etaie
An old lady in
over a bridge marked
out seeing the sign.
of the fact OD. the *
stoutly turned. in gr
. crossed it.
—4'W ell, my good
• to/ions general to a
after the battle, "and
to help us to gain th"
replied Mike; "may
or, I walked _up bolt'
balmy, and cut off h.
- his feet ! and why d
• head ?" said the gene
that was off ah-eady,
—She was at a p
yet arrived, but she
expecting him. The
tion through the
cance for her. All
bent on the front do
opened, at every ste
she would. start, whi
flush, and her eyes li
ish expectation. Th
go back from her ch
dull, and her heart
than he came into th
arrived, and took a a
leaned. over lois sho
murraured,—"My da
She was too happy
Ten .y.ers later, and
is in her own home n