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BY THE THICKNESS or A. *triroN.
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" Ah 1 there you come at last, do you?
The punch has had a full head of steam
on this long time," said 'old ;Engineer
Zimmermann to several stur* figures
who, deep buried in thick furs that left
only red noses and gleaming eye exposed,
dame puffing and stampingaand cov-
ered with snow, into the engineer's room
at Burglitz. • It is New Year ii eve, and
the table in the engineer's room is cover-
ed with an exceptional neat white cloth,
and on it, next the stove,- stands the
mighty bowl,- at which old Zimmermann
is vigorously working; while the clouds
of steam that rise from it, a,ndithe empty.
ruinflaiiks that stand by it,1 leave no
- doubt that its contents are devoted to go
at high pressure into the throate of boiler
iron—a genuine engineer's pnneh.. '
"The devil! Uncle Zimeterinann ;
hard 'old Sylvester's day ,this, h?" cried
the new comers, shakine off he snow,
arid pulling off furs, jackets, caps and
outer boots.
"What do you sugar -babies know of
hard days in your glass hous s on your
machines that rock you with e ty springs
as if you. were in ybeir nur e's arms?
You ought to have stood with is back in
'39 and '40 on the little mac Ines that
went 80 hard and jolting you felt every
jog of the rails from the soles of your
feet up under your caps, and that would-
n't budge a foot if the snow lay a hand's
breadth deep on the rails; and then we
stood all out-of-doors night and day,
without screen or shelter, summer and
winter, the hottest day in July and the
coldest day in December, without any
protection but our coats and "a buffalo
outside coat,that had been well drubbed,
I- tell you, by the stems. That was
something like hard times. But what
do you know about it ? For th t matter,
what'sthe worst you -have to do to what
they've• put our Herring throug here to-
day, who has come out A 1 froii his ex-
amination?.And here he is no .,t
"Hallo 1 old fellow. How was it?
How did it go? Did they ake you
sweat? Come, sit down! Bring the
,.
punch !" were the •exclamations poured
on the new comer from all side .
"Less noise, there r brok in the
-voice of old Zimmermann. " e it down?
Yes! Punch? Nb! Hornig a d Franz
aren't here yet, that are corain in with
the freight. It is twenty minutes be-
hind now, and must be in in a minute or
• two tnore. Glass and glass abo it for all,
that's fair play." i
"._Well, now," began the yOung candi-
date, wiping from his forehead. the per-
spiration that broke out afresh at the
recollection, "they gave it .rcte well, 1
can tell you. I was exammed by the
the new rules, you know. There sat a
row of chaps, I guess a rod long, and
nary one of 'em, except our engine mas-
ter did I ever, see on an engine or in
a shop. And our engine master wasn't
the worst, either. They questiened me
sharp, that's a fact, right up to the
handle. But one could understand them.
and give them some sort of an answer.
But what the other fellows asked me P
didn't more'n half understand. 'Twan't
any railroad lingo they used; and what
• they were driving at—well, ye I know
—I'd looked it up in the books Su perin-
tendendent Herzel lent me, j st to be
able to answer. Never saw an thing of
it in the service, never had anY occasion
for it, and don't believe I ever s all, if I
live to be a hundred." 1
"And what in thunder wa, it all,
then ?" began one of the crowd, lighting
his cigar, just as the door was euddenly
• thrown open. A cloud. of snow burst in,
and out of it emerged the dim forms of
• two new. arrivals—the expectedengin-
eers of the two engines that breught in
the belated freight train. "Bravo!
Glad you've got here !" was the greeting
that met them. • "Now pass round the
pun*, and let's have the solids in from
what's -his -name's." ,
"ftere'e a bit of roast for one thing,"
cried one Of the last arrived, and raised
• to view a, half -scorched hare, that he
held by the hind legs. I
"Where did you get that creature?
And what are you going to do with
him.?
"This fellow wished to do himself the
honor of making a part of Hening's treat
to -night, but probably was in too much
of a hurry, and did himself a lettle too
brown," laughed the possessor
hare. "The red lights of my
routed him out of the hole in
where he sat crouched. on the
comfortable as you please, and •
of ' the
'Phi to'
e snow
bank as
e began
to run a wager with our train. 1 For two•or three minutes, perhaps I aw the
stupid, little black rascal slimin ng over
the snow in the second track alongside
the engine. I gave a short Mir/ That
scared him; he put on a spurt, got
ahead into the red light of the signal
lantern—perhaps that blinded tini-e-he
doubled before the engine as h. would
rack. I
hen he
e didn't
✓ killed
and for-
d got to
engine
down
r called
out from the afeh hole: 'Hor ig, Hor-
nig, you've brought a roast with. you. I
believe the fire of the Pluto has corched
the fellow's brains. Come dawn and
see !' Sure enough, as true as I it here,
there lay my hare underneath in my
ash box, dead and half \stewed. The
aide box must have caught .him on
- the jump. He was in -a hurry to be
roasted.
\Lo1
ud laughter followed the young en-
.
gi eer s story. • . .
blot! growl -
'Now laugh, will you, you stupidkheads, at the poor beast
' ed Zimmermann,. as he filled theiglasses ;
"because you don't know what • a
cursed pleasant feeling one has under an
ash box." •,
before a clog, right across the t
looked to the other side to see
would. came in sight again, but
appear. I thought he was eith
or had run back under the train,
got the creature. But when we
Seestaclt, and the grate of
was -being_cleaned out, the fello
underneath there with the pok
"And do you know that, then ?"
cried. several voices, in tones o strong
doubt.
"I know -everything, as you rascals
know right well, and have been ithrough
everything that can happen between the
underside of the rails and the top of the
smeke-stack."
'But you havn't been in the ash -
box ?" laughecl the corctpany, a little de-
risively.
"Not exactly," replied the °id man,
very gravde
ely, "but under it, ancpartly,
too, very near in it. But I tell you. I've
been by when a splendid train rf mag-
nificent cars, full of people In high
spirits, with one jolt—before you could
lift your hand to your pipe or light a
match—was nothing but a heap of
kindling wood and broken scre'ws and
pieces of axles and wheels, out of which
came groans, and cries for help, While de-
spairing men stood round it Wringing
their hands; and locomotives, like kit -
t tl
/
tens on a roof, leaped down the bank,
and rolled once, twice, three times over
and over, wheels up and smokestack -un-
derneath, and all was steam, fragments,
fire, hissing and shrieks; but never in
five -and -thirty years, eailroading, ham
my heart stood so .still as it did under
• the ash -box." ' •
"Tell us about it, Uncle Zim, tell
• t18," cried voices one eould see were
used to making themselveri heard above
the clatter, rattle. and clank of the loco-
motive.
"Well, well, I'll do it," he replied,
as he undid, his tobacco pouch and
began to fill his short pipe, "though
I don't like to go over - the story.
To this day there's something. turns
over under the third rib when I think of
it.
"You see,lib
oys, tho hands that work-
ed this punc in those days came near
being the hands of a, widow then, and
my Carl and Julia _weren't born yet,
though you might eve e then have called
me Stout Franz." 1 I
"But what's that to do with it, uncle?"
asked the Circle. i
"Well, then, in the d -----'s name, ,
light -up your plagned elegant cigars
again. They 'suit you ,dolle in glass cases,
as the short pipe suite us stout fellows
under the free heaveris. Pass the glasses
this way, then hold your jaw till 1 get
through :
"It was upon New Year's eve, in the
year 1845, 30 good years ago, and a
• devil of a storm, driving snow and sleet
mixed together. 1 was a young fellow,
I'd been married about a year. . You -
know the station is a. horrible place for
service. Let a storm cOme which way
it will, it always sw4ps clean across the
square that's open and level as the top
of this table. In towards the towii there
is a little cut with two tiacks one or the
other of which always chokes up iii the
first hour of a drifting snow. Jut as
you get through' the eta, in the ihird
house in Garden' street, behind th oil
mills, which we so often cursed for a
nuisance, because we had to shut off'
steam going by for feae of the sparks
from the chimney catching in the shingle
roof, I lived with my. Leuise and Franz,.
just born, who is superintendent now
over at Rudriche's. ' . - r
on Sylvester eve, 1845,1 came
into the station with a heavy freight
train from Griesthal, after standing for
14 hours on the engine in a storm at 60
below zero. I was frozen stiff as an icicle,
and glad enough, you I bet, to get hold of
the Sylvester punch. It was getting
dusk already as I came in,, and through
the- whirl of glistening 'flakes, saw the .
station with its hundeeds on. hundreds of
lights, like a huge Christmas box. A
poor Christmas blixl for me! There
were collected through the holidays a
regular -town of cars, sorhething like 500
•of them, and they'd got to be off directly
after New Year's. Hardly had I got off
my engine in the engine house, when
up comes the stationtuaster, and says to
me :
"'Hauser is taken sick, and you will
have, to take No. 3 in his place.'
"'Ten thousand thunder e !' said 1;
'but I hope it won't last till midnight,
Mr. Station -master, for then I must be
at home, or there's ill luck for the new
year.'
"'Fiddlesticks l' said he; 'only you
be sure you're on hand,' and away he was
gone in the driving snow.
I thought -I'd _taken the matter more
to heart than it was worth, and laid the
cold shiver that crept l over my skin to
the uncanny blast tha came snorting at
me as I came out with the engine. •'Tbe
whole air was full of ! white snow, b.nd,
as the wreaths of it drove like white
ghosts across the engine, I could hardly
see the smoke stack.
"Of the light signals one caught only
now and. then a glimpse, red, white or.
green; of the horn and pipe signals,
what with the howling of the winds
about the cars and car wheels, and its
singing in the telegraph wires, and the
rumbling of cars and the whistling of the
engines, one heard only enough to be
sure one had not _ understood them.- Of
the shouts of the Men one could make
jast nothing but that they shouted.
"Then there were a couple of hun-
dred cars being shunted about in all
directions at the same time; on all sides
they came looming like great shadows
out the darkness and thick snow, and
straight vanished in it again. The poor
switch tenders, wet to the skin, up to
their knees in snow, sprang this way and
that between the rolling cars. You
know how a distributing station looks of
a winter night. God only knows how
'tis we're not all made minceraeat of in
the course of it ;, and I've all my life
long been surprised when next morning
I haven't heard that this one or that one
was killed on the spot. And if anything _
does happen, then the strict gentlemen
at the green table in their warm office up
there out with the rules oat of their
pockets. To be sure, it's the oply way.
But if they would only just for mice in
their lives take the trouble to look on
themselves outside !
"That night, then, it was right bad,
and the Sylvester punch, too, may have
touched the men's .heads a little before-
hand, for the ringing went at a rate as if
Satan himself was giving the orders.
The care flew ithis way and that, and the
lights went by like flashes, and every-
where one heard the groaning and clink-
ing of the buffers crashing together, and
• the men crept about under and between
the cars as if the wheels were ginger. -
bread and the buffers downy pillows.
But before alt there was a wretched lit-
tle assistant station-master—I could not
bear the man; because he once came very
much in my *ay in a certain matter—
but I could net help looking in amaze.
• meut as I saw his signal lantern every-
where, swinging in one inch, swinging
horizontally, swinging crosswise, up,
down, behind, before'and heard hia
shrill voice through all the storm. And
see, I'd just called to the man as I saw
him slip through between two buffers,
that he ought not -to be so devilish reck-
less in a storm where one could neither
see nor hear a thing, and mig t slip
down into the bargain, But he had
•laughed at me, and called out 'You
attend to yOtir work, Zimmerm n, and
never mind me ; we must be thr gh be-
fore midnight—forward, forwar !' and
away he was gone. I had cal ed af-
ter him with a good : o the
devil with you, then r and. ,that I
shall tnot forget my • life long, but
shall think of it with sorrow on my
death -bed."
Here the old engineer made a, pause,
wiped. his forehead, took a draught from
his glass of punch, and went on el
"I heard. him still giving the. order,
'Forward yonder among my cotnrades,
and. heard the car chains clink, ris!id then
a soundte-what like was it? hatv, e you
ever heard a butcher hack though a
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thick bOne with his axe ?—and then a
dull cry, and then again, only the ding
an4 clang of the buffers clashing togeth-
er. A cold shudder ran over me, then
I got the signal to go ahead—there was
no stopping. 'Forward—forYard 1' In
a moment [was far away in the other
• end of the yard, where no one could
know what had happened.
"But I did my duty still, only as if I
was dreaming, and when, a half hour
later, we had got through and I entered
the engine house again, the boss said to
me, 'Have you heard, Zimmermann, as-
sistant station master Perges has been
killed on the spot, crushed to death be-
tween the buffers ?' .
• "I didn't ask many ,questions; my
very heart shuddered, and I don't know
how I took care of my engine and got on
tire way home. As I passed by the
stairs, I saw a group with lanterns stand-
ing there, and something covered with a
cloak lying on the snow. I didn't stop;
I shivered all over; and I can tell you,
boys, I'd have given heaven knows what
if I hadn't wished him to the devil half
an hour before. I tried hard to get that -
out of my head. I mean't nothing par-
ticular by it; 'twas a way Of talking
common enough with us. Among young
chaps it's worse yet, and it would cure
you if you once felt the crawling inside
of you that I have. Well, at last I
made out tcaget thinking of the warm
room at hale there with the felt slip-
pers all ready, and Louise and the
youngster, aad the flask of arrack and
the sugar and the lemons • on the table,
and the cat and the tea kettle sing-
ing, and by degrees I begunito feel a lit-
tle better.
"Now, with all this thinking of this
and that, you'll readily believe I hadn't
paid much heed to wind and weather,
road or pathway; and all I knew was,
it was whirling and howling yet in the
air as I entered the cut by the oil mil,
through which I might have seen the
windows of my house, if one could have
seen anything at all ten paces off. I went
ahead on the right hand track of the two
in the cut because that was freer from
snow, and from that side I could see my.
'house sooner.
"And, in truth, I went aleng quite
carelessly, for I was going -from the
yard, /Ind that was the in -track, so no
train eould come on ma from behind,
and at that hour none was, to be expected
front. Besides, I must have heard it
coming.
"Just as I was in the middle of the
cut, which lies, you know, in the curve,
end where that night one could not see
a car length off, I heard a whistle be-
hind me, and right after it the clip and
clop of the approaching train. I noticed,
too, that the engine was pushing the
train before it, because the stroke of the
engine was much farther behind than
the rolling of the wheels. I thought.
'Ah ! that is the reserve train of some
twenty pair of wheels that stood yonder
ahead on the track, and that they are
shunting over to the freight house.' But
all this passed vaguely through my mind,
as one always thinks mechanically of his
work even when his head and heart are
full of other things. I say vaguely; in
reality I didn't feel the slightest interest
in it, for the train must directly pass me
on the other track. But when the ping
and pang of the wheels on the hard -
frozen track had got quite close, and I
already heard the coupling chain on
• the foremost car clinking back and forth,
and saw the light of its signal lantern
begin to glide by me on the snow, I
.partly turned my head. to call out a
'Happy New Year to the fellows upon
the train.
"But there was no train' on the track,
and at the same instant 1 -got a violent
blow in the back. The sparks danced
before my eyes—slap-!—I lay flat
on my face on the , track, and,
pung ! pung ! the cars began to pass
over
Here the old engineer made another
•pause. It was still as death in the
room, and faces breathless and rivet-
ed leaned forward and -round the ta-
ble. He filled the glasses again, press-
ed down the tobacco in his pipe, and
went on :
"You see, boys, when we sit here this
way refund the table, or stand on the
engine, or even, like poor Hornig here
to -day, have to go through a squeeze by
those examiners, our ideas come along
one after the other, slowly and in some
sort of order, so that one can take a
good look at 'em. They even say we
engineers are slower than other men, be-
cause all the quickness is gone -out of us
into enir engines. . But, boys, in the sec-
ond or so between the blow and my lying
flat on the ground I did more thinking
than ever I did before or since from
Easter to Whitsuntide.
"First about home, the ' warm room
and everything in it, and the New Year's
chimes, and the going to church in the
morning; then the assistant Station Mas-
ter is he lay there under the cloak on
the mew ; and then I began reckoning
as distinctly as if I was giving the orders
for making up all the trains, about the
train that was passing over me. How
was it it was on the wrong . track, the
one I'd been on, coming out on the in -
track. And -then all at once thought,.
what before in the midst of my cogitat-
ing I had forgotten—the outward track
I had seen as early as noon already deep
buried in snow, and that was why they
were coming out an the in -track. Then
• I saw plain enough the train just as it
stood; there couldn't be more than 10
or 11 freight cars, all our own cars, they
all went high above the rails—they
would do me no harm: I lay flat enough
between the rails. But the engines
theash boxes of the engines! I knew
all three engines that still stood fired up
at the station = as well as my tobacco -
pouch. The 'Wittekind would go harm-
less enough over me, even though I had
been stouter than I was; the 'Hermann',
too, might be merciful to me, at any rate
if it was carrying little water and fire,'
and the sleepers under me didn't stand
up too much ; but under the 'Hue', one
of the new, low -built elephants, I
was a dead man. Ay! dead? That
wouldn't be the worst. I should
be slowly crushed and torn into shreds.
Which epgine was it, then, • coming
there?
"All this, you see, boys, I had thought
between .the blow and the lying flat;
but when I was once down, all calcula-
tion ceased, and it was just. by instinct
I stretched myself out and held my
breath and made myself thin as an otter
that's trying to get out from a trap, and
counted the axles that passed On over
me: Every ping and pang spoke dis-
tinctly out in syllables. 'A wretch -ed
death, 'a wretch -ed death!' And new
something heavy catches hold of me!
No, it io nothing yet—it only grazes me,
and glides clinking its length above me
and off, I striking a chill to my very mar -
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Steam Guage, Guage and Safety Valves, all in Good Order
Seco nd hand Shingle and Heading Machine
Heading Jointer
Heading Planer
Heading Turner
Stave Machine, with Knife
450
90
40
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;
IleR"Agricaltural Implements.—Stoves of:Various Kinds.—Repairs onBoilers, Mills, &e.,promptly
Attended to.
CODERICH FOUNDRY AND 'MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
MARCH 30, 1877,
LE GAL
CAMERON & MoFADDEN, Barrister; eed
solicitors in Chancery, Goderich. 848
N. en CAMERON. W. H. MOFADDR11.
XTILLIAM SMA.LL, Conveyancer and Comae,.
77 sioner in 13. R., Wroxeter. Auctioneer and
Appraiser. Accounts and notes collected on
reasonable terms.
866
"Ileo L. DOYLE, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor le
-1-". Chancery, &c., Goderich and Seaforth.
Ike, over, Jordan's Drug' Store, Goderich, eee
Kidd's Store, Seaforth. 35e
& McCOLL, Barristers, Attorneya.le
Law, Solicitors in Chancery, Notaries Publie,
&c., Goderich and Brussels. W. R. Sorge, God.
• ()rich; A. J. McCown Brussels.
415
MALCOMSON & WATSON, Barristers, Ante
neys, Solicitors in Chancery, &c., Ceinkin
Ont. Office—First door east of the new Royal
Canadian Bank building. Money to loan online
property.
s. MALCOMBON. 404 G. A. WATS0)1
GARROW, MEYER & RADENJeURST, Keret,
tors, Attorneys -at -Law, Solicitore in Chancery,
&c. Private funds to loan at a low rate of SUN
est, and on terms to suit borrowers. Mote--
Goderich and Winghera„
J. T. GARROW. 11. W. C. inerse,
W. J. IUDENTIBRET. 474
MoCAUGHEY & HOLMESTED,13arristers,As
171- torneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery,
Insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyancer'
Solicitors for the B. C. Bank, Seaforth. Agentetoe
the Canada Nie Assurance Company,
N.B.—l0,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Flame
Houses and Lots for sale. •58
- --
laSENSON & ME'YER, Barristers and Atterneo
-7-1 at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Offices--8ee.
forth end Brussels. $23,000 of Private Puna te
invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest, pifible
yearly. •58
aA8. H. BENSON. 11. W. 0. MEYZR.
The above firm has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent. All accounts due the firm to
be paid to Mr. Benson who will pay all Babe.
ities.
JAMES 11. BENSON•.
Nov. 27, 1876. H. W. C. MEYER.
I1EDiCAL.
T G. SCOTT, M. D. &c., Physician, SurgeOnane
" • Aceoucheur, Seaforth, Ont. Office mixed.
deuce south side of Goderich Street, firet 40or
east of Presbyterian Church. 81I
TT L. VERCOE, M. D., C. M., Physician, see. -
-Bet • geon, etc., Coroner for the County of Rum
• Office and Residence, corner of Market andlliga
streets, next to the Planing Mill.
T B. Pr7ELA.N, M. D., C. M.'(late of the inn
7-7 • of Shaver & Phelan, Stratford) Graduate -el
McGill University, Physician, Surgeon and.
ocucheur, Seaforth, Ontario. Office—Itoome in
Meyer's Block, formerly occupied by the late ea
Ring. Residence—Commercial Hotel. Wilhiats
tend at Carronbrook on Tnesdays and Fridays. ape
McNAUGHT, Veterinary Surgeon, ozsda.
• ate of Ontario Veterinary College, Seafertie
Ont. Office and Residence in rear of Killoraa
Ryan's. Calls prorapt13 attended to, night or
day. A stock of veterinary medicines en sue
Charges reasonable. Horses examined este seas&
nese and certificates given if required.
407
JAMES W. ELDER, V. S., Graduate ofsthe
" Ontario Veterinary College. After devoting
two years to practice with Professor Smiths._ of
Toronto, has settled in Seiiforth. Office at. MU
residence east of W. M. Church. Calls promptly
attended to by day or night. A large steeled
Veterinary Medicines constantly onhand. *nes
examined as to soundness and certificates given
Horses bought and sold on commission. •, ese
11
DERBYSHIRE. L. D.
*Surgeon Dentist, Gradtale
of the Royal College of Denial
Surgeons of Ontario. Artificial
Dontile neatly executed. All 'surgical own.
tions performed with care and promptitigle,
Office hours from S A. M. to 5 P. M. Roomeava
A'. G. McDougall 's store, Main Street, Seaforth,
MBE 881111./LIKINIG.
The EMOVAL.—Miss Quinlien hag removed to the
"8-41 rooms over Johnson, Bros. Hardware state,
where she will continue to carry on dress -making
in all its branches. A gocd fit and perfect iselit
faction guaranteed. Apprentices wantedimaieti- •
stely.
.-466
• ff11eELLANEOUS.
_1" P. BRINE, Licenced Anetioneer for
" • County of Huron,. Sales attended all
parte of the County. All orders left at the Its
Yosrrein Office will be -Promptly attendedte,'
_T LEMUR, General Loan and Real Edits
" • r • Agent, Grain, Produce and Commission
Bier° hant. Office—New Brick Bieck opposlte
Nort h American Rota, Brussels, Ont. a
CRARLES F. WILES, Provincial Land Sue
veyor, Wingham. Orders by mail will receiN
pipt littention. Branch office, Clinton.
0. F. NILES. 485 T. s. Gos.8.
xv A. ADAMS, M. D,, late of Lakefield, Oat.,
7 7 • Physician Surgeon and Aceouchees
Graduate of the University of Trinity Collage,
Toronto. Member of the Royal College of Pk•
eicians and Surgeons, Ont. Kinburn.Ont. -088
$999 nthe
in
Can't bebmuasdeebsyswe
fry:igenstizbatvedi
oa
ti
willing -to work can earn a dozen dollars a Jay
right m their own localities. Have no room' to
explain here. 13usiness pleasant and honorable.
Women, and. boys and girls ,do as well as son.
We will furnish -you a complete outfit free. The
business pays better than anything else. Wefill
bear expense of starting you. Particulars Ape
Write and see. Farmers and mechanics, tiNir
on and daughters, and all Gleams in needesi
paying work at home should write to us and lam
all about the work at once. Now is the lieu.
Don't delay. Address ,x.Ru.g & Co., Await*
•Maine. 482
THE GREAT FEMATIE REMRDY.—job Moles'
-7- Periodical Pills—This invaluable medicine 11
unfailing in the cure of all those p:infulsend
dangerous diseases to which the female consigts
tion is subject. It moderates all excess and re
moves all obtructions, and a speedy cure mall*
relied on. To maeriedladies, it is peculiaily nit," ri
It -will, in a short time, bring on the monthileee
riod with regularite. _These pills should nate
taken by Females daring the first three medal
of Pregrancy, as they are sure to bring on WY
carriage, but at any other time they are safe. Is
all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affect/Alai
paisin the back and limbs, fatigue on slighter
ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, id
whites, these pills will effect a cure when all Ott
means have failed; and, although a poweriol
remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimoSh
or anything hurtful to the constitution. 17111
directions in the pamphlet around each package F
which should be carefully preserved. Job MON,
New York, Sole Proprietor. • $1 00 and 12f eats
for poetage enclosed to Northrop & Lyman., ,
rent°, Ont., general agents for the Dominfola
will insure a bottle containing over 50 ping
a
return mail. Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson
Co., J. S. Roberts, and R. Lumsden. 191
TO THE WORKING CLASS.
wk ARE NOW PREPARED to furnish 14
" classes with constant emplo ment
• home, the whole of the time or for theiraPari
moments. Business new, light and prefitabie,
Persons of either sex easily earn from 50 centatO
$5 per evening, and a proportional sum by do'
voting their whole time to the business. Bat
and girls earn nearly as much as men. That ILI
who see this notice may send their aeldress,
test the business, -we make this unparal1eledeft5
To such as are not well satisfied we will send 41
to pay for the trouble of writing. Pull ladle'
ulars, samples.worth several dollars to eomJflode!
work on, and a copy of Home and Fireside, onet
• the largest and best Illustrated Publications, so
sent free by mail. Reader, if you want perigee.
ent, peofitable work, address, GEORGE 8T1N'
SON &. Co. Portland, Maine. _ •
-PUBLIC NOTICE.
1\T OTICE is hereby given to all parties Welt
ed to Samuel Stark, that all old aecoundes'
last, year and previous must be eettled at DU*
otherwise they will be given to Joe" for 001%
lecticer No further notice will be given. POO
an4 save costs. Remember I mean what I 00
the late fire forces me to do so.
• BALANCE OF STOCK SOLD
CHEAP FOR CASH.
Lot 11, on Main. Street, for Sale.
4864 SAM -TEL STARE, SeafOrtl?..
^
• MARcH
• row,—it is a chain him
now it conies 1 theground
•gently, then stronger an
tremble under me ; it eorn
Then I saw at the side th
the snow and the rolling
over me grew ever redd
• was the engine fire ehini
box. Now I felt. it grow t
head and neck. The 1314
under me the rails groan
the ground shook violentl
It strikes me violently I
presses forward.—God
- .me! Then rip, crack/ '
me gave way. Pang 1p
thundering 1 stamping !—I
• pasted over me and off. 1
heaven once_more the sno
ed down upon Inc.
--"How I got on my legs
I stood there, I shook m
• the red lights of the et
round the curve. They
like the eyes of a veritable
Then I felt myself to see
gine had turned loose; an
regulations buttons were g
coat behind.
"I went to the nearest
• and get a lantern and looke
tons in the snow; but w
sitting round the bowl at
was putting in first too m
then to much sugar, Louis
•asked- -
"usband, what's the
you? You tremble so, and
a word.' -
"Then my senses and
to me again, and I show
buttons, and told her th
holding up a button twix
thumb, said -
"See, within so men
rible death has your hnsb
night!'
"Look! -I have the bu
mean to carry them till de
reality."
The old man opened his
out two buttons, stamped w
arms, which he were secure
about his neck
"And now you know wh
poor creature in • the ash -
told you the story because
the talk, but I don't like to
because the agony of death
that's something no --man c
willingly. But, hark! Tw
Good luck to us all for the
and number of hundred th
motive miles !"— Appleton's
• Gaieties.
Man—"Do you think it
for me to cross this past
"Well, the old bull dont I
• much, but if you will dial
•-guess he won't attack you.
—"So you wouldn't tak
twenty ?" said a rieh heiress
• gentleman, while daneing
'What would you take nee
• "For beeter or worse," repli
the Emerald Isle.
-' 'Sir, you are a politica
perambulating monument of
a bankrupt in everything le
"Bose, I don't understand
I'iIdrink with you 1" The
settled on that basis.
—A lady, applying for
the junior class of an Easter
being questioned by the presi
• her qualifi. cations, replied:
• much o an atithmeticker, b
elegant granatnarist.'t
son," said a ete
_a seven year old hopeful, "1
cipline you. Your teacher
are the worst boy in. th
"Well, papa," was the re
, yesterday she said I was• ju
father.'"
—The other day, when
grocer spelled sugar "a -h -
friend pointed out the word a
ed: "That word isn't sp
• right." "Ha! see," la
grocer, "one would think 1 h
cation 1" And he crossed i
wrote ''s -h -u -g -o -r."
• —Good Deacon B—hav
of his friends thought, shown
interest in the public &Haim o
was charged by a brother
"on the _fence. "Yes, I a
• fence," was the reply, "and, t
pose to remain as tong as its so
ecl muddy on both sides."
—"Will your honor please
jury ?" asked an Arkansas
the conclusion •of a horse -t
"I will," replied his honort,
• charges each juryman one
drinks, and six dollars ext
one who used the court's
spittoon dnring the first day
sion."
• —Hear what is said of a 1
year-old. Her father has b
Irani the city on business for t
and the mother has taught th
to conclude her evening pra
"and please watch over my pa
evening the little lady solemn
her laa.nde and said, "Please
nay papa, and you'd better k
on mamma, too 1"
—An. Irishman by the
•syllogism proved himself the
in the world. "You can," he -
as good a man 'in. Ireland
other country in the world;
can produce as good a man as
county in Ireland now, m
is acknowledged to be the
in Kerry, and I 'am able to
• brother.
--Here is the bit of octave
ly overheard in the street
young lady and gentleman :
did you ever heat it zaid that
found a four-leaved clover
in their shoe, the first gentlem
the person walked:with woul
• 'husband or wife ?" "No—ne
of it before." "Well, 1 •foun
put it itt my shoe this ro.ornine
are the first one I have walked
wonder if it is true ?"
—"And have you no othcrse
ed a curious lady of a bronz
captain. "Oh, yes, madam,
that liVed in the South Sea I
nearly a dozen years." "Real
hebreedea theerreja'"N
antlv;itat:7
the
wasn't bread—he elks meat ;
the natives ate him' and as fo
• chee' f said he tastedof terbaoc
...,,q1auditiwalked to another part of
Land
and the captain smiled. and. too
—A. first-elass passenger arr
arailwav terminus, not a hund
‘t'from Ztlasgovre the other day,
been unfortunate enough to get
- 'bruised by the carriage door,
rather 'exeited manner inqui
porter (who hailed from Erin)
nearest surgeon was to be fon
who saw no reason for such ex