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SAWS if UDGMT1NT
"Hen-e-ry! Itielee-ry! Say! Hen -e
xy Pine, Where be ye!"
Almire (commonly called Miry) Cal
kins shrieked this summons from th
ba,ekeloor of the ,farm house_ Th
month was April; the weather, for the,
day, vernal. Crocuses gilded. the po
bed here and there, a few rad bud
decked the maplebranches. A robin o
two hopped wistfully about the chip
yard, keeping an eye out for aggressiv
hens ;i but as it was morning, then
dames of price were busywith domesti
cares in. fragrant hollows of the hay
, =ow or cavernous brands half o
dean shavings, made ready for such ex
igencies, while the cook was far afiel
picking up the early worm, so the robin
were undisturbed.
Miry was embodied Spring herself, a
she stood on that rough stone, her shin
ing hair knotted in a golden bunch be
hind her head, her face rosy as &peach
her eyes bright and. cool as gold gra
eyes can be, and. her trim' figur
dad in a clean calico gown, with
E.
striped bib -apron, while rolled -u]
sleeves displayed to the elbow a pair o
sturdy arms, smellier strong short hand
grasped the broom handle. .
"What do you want ?" cheery voice
reeponded, as a handsome young fellow
lifted his dark head. fronn behind the
wood -pile, and smiled at the girl, with a
glitter of mischief in. his eyes.
"I didn't know aa your 2101110 was
Iferiery," said. l'airy, with a sniff.
"When ye can't git what ye want, it's
Sorter policy to take what ye can
returned Sam Peters with a smile,
"Mebbe ef ye hollered a mite loader,
Hen would hear ye,"
Remedy !" screamed the girl again;
and as the words left her lips, a sheep -
ink looking fellow came stumbling out
- of the barn with a hada' of eggs.
"Ben a-layin,' on 'am, Hen -fashion,"
put in Sem, M stage aside. 'Mira
wanted to laugh at this rustic joke, but
she -was vexed with Sam, so she bit her
lips; but her eyes would glitter.
" Was_ you mcallin' me ?" said Henry,
ambling to the door.
"Ye, I was ; don't you know your
'name yet, Hen Pine ?" -
‘4 naow, ye see, I was up totthe
top o? the mow. Iheerd ye; but ef ra
'a hollered back, I'd 'a skeert the old
hen outen her wits." -
Maybe you'd have picked 'em up,"
dryly remarked Sam, shouldering his
axe and going off to the wood -shed with
an armful of kindlines.
'Mira threw an iagnant glance at
him, and proceeded to do her errand to
Henry. Sam was out of her good
grace a just now. He had talked too
much to Emily Snow at last night's
quilting. And who was going to believe
aill his nonsense, when he could talk a
whole hour to another girl? It did not
°cam: to 'Mira that she had refused his
escort to the aforesaid quilting, and he
had. been obliged to, go -with Emily in.
consequence. If consistepcy is a jewel,
according to the much -vexed quotation,
it is not one that women wear ; perhaps
it is reserved for collar buttons and scarf
pins.
Now Sam Peters end -Henry Pine,
though thy were both "hired out to
old Jehiel Calkins, were also -his daugh-
ter's lovers -a state of things neither
anomalous nor uudommen in old. New
England, where many a Jacob served
his time ikt'llachel, aud (new up into a
patriarch with flocks and.° herds of his
owe..
But neither Almira nor her lovers
knew yet who would succeed. in this
service, nor whether iudeed, soiree third
• man might not step in and clistance
them both. Henry had. one powerful
ally in the -well-known fact that his
fathee had " means," as Yankeelom
phrases ib, and 'Mira had a keen eye for
the goods and gands of this present
world. Good, hard commou sense lined
that low square forehead, and the iirm
eltin, almost too promieent for sym-
metry. told its story a resolute will and
stern determination. -She did not un-
derrate that big farm -ho -use of Sol
Piee's, with its etretch of level mead-
- ow s lying fair to the south, sheltered -6y
great hills wooded to their summite, and
on their towel' terrace bearing orchards
fitll of pink and. white 'promise and
gaiden performance. -She liked a snug
prospect for the future, a garnished and
well -stored home but then Ile -my was
BO stupid 1 sueh an utter lout !-Icind-
hearted, dull-witted, With DO resource
and no energy; while Sam Was intelli-
gent, alert, quick-witted, and full of
courage-aud so handsome ! In her se-
cret sou" 'Mira admired Sam mightily,
but he was enly one of seven children,
and his widowed Mother's sole posses-
sion lav in a wild mountain farm, par-
tially cleared as yet, and the other six
were girls.
If she married him the worid lity be-
fore her, and onitr their -four hands
wh.erewith to open its sturdy shell ; but
then there were great possibilities, and
these were fascinating. A future with
Henry was deterMinate and secure;
there Wit:i Only peace and plenty, and.
'Mira, was ambitious.
But Sam also was determined. Na-
ture had not given him these keen dark
eves and that strong development -of
sinew and. nuwole no purposo ; the
future did. nut. daunt him, end his mind
was resolved, on 'Mira aud Congress,
aud. this wite his own precioue secret.
However, like many another male his
plauecame near elnpwreck for. want
a a chart; yet what man ever lived
who knew the channels and the quick -
sande of a wommes mind? .
Sam set himself to work to ma,ke his
rival ridiculous; he demonstrated poor
Henry's ignorance aud played on
his credulity ; he ridiculed him ,
to his face, and carefully be- ' I
mined him iuto all kinds of false po-
sitions; all of which roused Miry's in-
nate feminine perversity and. kindness
to take the side of the weakest, and she
gave Henry se muell encouragement
that even her perents were puzzled.
" do it chime' said. father Candle-1,as
he sat demi by the kitchen fire-plare
one chilly May nielit. and pulling off his '
big be,en pie panel te mast hie feet at ,
the embere, " Almiry beate me, mother.
I'm denied ei .11,‘ ain't a -settee to Hen
Pine mew 's true .1-s ye live ! cui"taixet s
good two mouthe back I could bee ewore t
she wile b ,und hey Stint Peters. Jee-
thunder ! evoinou-follee \atlas 'n the
Weather ; t t *c/11.-
" We -t -t-11:' dr:qied the tired and
sleepy wife. " 1 deno as I keen Hen_
ery*e got means; ehe won't never want
fur within' ef elle takes up with him.
A bird in the hand's wuth fend deal, ! t
pa, and Aliniry ie pooty keen, new I 1
1
tell ve.''
Thatte so ; that's so.- rejoined the
old. man. But Satilif3 dreadful likely:
he's smarter'n any steel -trap ; fortino
(which is vernacular, dear reader, for
" for what I know ") " he'll be a jedge
or anthill' afore he dies, and lien Pine
won't never be nothin' but an everlast-
in' fool to the day after nev-er."
Well, Almiry '11 tune him, I bet ye.
pa. e won no his soul's his own .ef
H
that gal marries him "
" ! jerooeh, haitet you: live
long enough to know you carn't no wa,
break in a fool? They're just lik
Parson Powder's donkey, that went all
ways of a Sunday except the way t
meetiiit. I'd. ruthere take rat/chasm
with a feller that hada got sailing -in
side d' his heed than- ne with nothin
but what_was inside his podia, edam
ed sight."
"Mebbe so, mebbe so, Jehiel ; but it'
land.er borne in on my mind that Miry
will take Henerymevertheless and what-
soever. Ain't she gone amid -in' oven th
Colebrook with him Cats- blessed. night
jut for nothin' but becos Samwell. ask-
ed her for to go to the teeter over 'n the
' 'vine?"
• " That ain't nothin'; she'll be all -fired.
sick o'. Hen's stoopid griunin' waye,
afore lone, I'll bet ye ar red emit she'll
take to Sam
"It's dreadful onsartain, anyway,"
sighed Mrs. Calkins, as ehe took up her
tallow candle and went into the bed-
room. quite too _sleepy to discuss the
matter, while " pa" turned the current
of his thoughts to the new litter of
pigs, Almira and her ways being quite
too much for his rustle brain.
But it is certain that so stupid. did.
Henry Pine show himself this very
evening, such an unspeakable bare and
donkey, that Miry's heart failed her and
she almost inclined to put a sharp and
sudden end to his probation; besides,
Sam was on his dignity, and piqued her
wayward fancy mightily byhis curt end
masterfel • rnmmer, toward. her and
Henry both.- She began. to feel a cer-
tain respect for him, a consciousness
that he was the strongest ; and with one
class of women this is a long step to -
Ward surrender; much as they like to
rule, there is a keener fascination in dis-
covering their ruler.
Perhaps she might have been enraged
perhaps trenibled, had 811,0 seen, herself
unseen, an interview between her two
lovers the next morning. They were
both Plantino corn in the long let -a bit
of mea,dow fend at the extreme limit of
the tarfie-and when their bags were
empty, and the drills levelled over their
golden sprinkling •of seed, Henry was
turning his face homeward, when Sam
stopped him.
-Look here, Hen ; hold on ; I've got
somethin' to say to ye."
" Hay ?" responded Henry, with an
air of idiotic astonishment, but turn -
lug back on his treas.
"Don't yawp so. I jest want ter say
that I kuow..what you're suakin' around
this here hunasted for; an! you can't
come it, now I tell ye." .
"What he yew a talking about ?" put
in the naturally astounded Henry.
Why, laten talkin' about Miry Calk-
ins: Maybe ye think you're go -in' to net
that -gal; but I tell ye you ain't, not ''by
a long shot 1" •
7)
d.
y he himself familiar as 9, squirrel with
e all the wood ways; hastenedbackto the
pasture, released Miss Betty, who had.
o been kept quiet -with a bunch of juicy
O carrots, and. turning her into the road
where the rest had gone, took the short ,
' homeward. cut, and. wouldshave arrived
- there in time to be seated on the door-
step to receive Almira but for an un -
s -foreseen occurrence.' And. yet fate had
no spite against Sam; it was the old
story of- evil that is only hidden good,
though it seemed unmixed evil to him
that in jumping over a tivemail fence
into the high -road only a few rods from I
home he should light on it rolling stone, '
that slipped from under his foot and
sent him too rolling into the gutter,
with a broken leg. Now Sam had. been
properly brought up by a strict New
England mother, -who believed. in. judg-
ments ready to be hurled from the hand
of God on very sin of man,while mercies
I were capricious visitants, to be feared
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both wrath and disgust, but not d
to go home without the cow, which was
Miry's especial pet.' . After various trib-
ulations Sam landed his luckless rival
On the edge Of a great swamp, from
whose tangled thickets the distressed
utterasace of Miss Betty issued more ,
than once before Henry dared attempt
the boggy surface and darkling growth;
at last, however, he 'plunged boldly in,
and Sam's device having taken effect,
"Well! whose troop do yeti ride in?"
inquired the other, with fine sarcasm:
" Not your'n, anyhow, Hen -Pine -mid
I ain't jokint you kin swear. Pin -genii
to marry Almiiy, -of any living man
se you'd jeat as good. haw out o'
the road afore you're kicked. out."
tt- Mighty Moms ! how ye. talk!" gasp-
ed the slimed youth.
'Mita all talk, Sir. Be you. gone
to quit without or not ?" '
'I do' kilos -et' answered Henry, sul-
lenly, his naive obstinacy asserting it-
selfin plane of courage-" I do' know's.
Tie gone to be walked over this fash-
ion., guessi'm as good as You be, and
I've get a: sight more chink."
" Darn -your dollars! Who wants 'ern ?
Miry ain't that sort; she'd rather marry
a man than e pocket -book."
She ain't nobody's fool, now I tell
ye, Sam Peters:. See ef she wouldn't a
heap ruther .settle d.own on our farm
than AO to tin peddlin"long .0' you.
Ho ! I guess I shien't ha,w out o' your
toad; not much. No, Sir !"
Look -a -here," ejmulated Sam, grow-
.
ing savage. • • Yau'd better hear to me,
Hen - Pine. Ef ketch you hangiu'
ranumi Aliniry any more, I'll make
you sos't you'lf-eVish you -was further,
pretty quick. A bamble-bee's nest
won't be nothiu' to it. Now this I say
an' swear: ef you don't go easy, you'll
go hard; jest you inclect that."
Sam's handsome foe grew dark and
Lis fist clinched involuntarily. . he
spoke; end with an uneasy chuckle,
whit -belie meant to have made defiant,
111pnry went off alone, resolvieg to per -
se Tem hides devotiou to 'Almira, and,
beelike that, to tell her all about this
smell interview with his rival,
13 ut S11,111.8 keen wit warned him that
this would be ileursds first move, and
that luckless wight got no chance to
speak to his adored all day,. and was
eveu obliged to see her drive off to. the
village with her mother., quite iguorant
of Sam's audacity'.
Now ib was Ilem•y s duty to fetch the
cows from pasture at night, and he set
elf early to-cley, that they, might be
back by sunset, and. his chores done
When 'Mira, returned, intending to ask
her for a walk after supper, and put his
fate to the tench, well as bring Sam
to coufusion. „ But he reckoned without
1113 host. bare ttiOk &.1.1t, across
the hill, drove the only Alderney heifer
the pride and delight of Mrs. Calkies's
heart, out of ,the pasture into a mowing
let Where an old_ bait -stood, and shut
her up, betaking himself to a chimp Of •
hemlocks -which overlooked the- road,
tiIl Henry came sauntering along, and,
,etting dowu the bars, began to cell the
creatures out of the lot. They ceine
on after the _fashion of eows„das if time
was no matter and speed. unk-no we, .aett...
mpossible ; and. perhaps Henry .%vould
have driven them home without miss- ,
ug the Alderney. had • not Sam, sehe
wae senliehing of 0 ventriloquist,
thrown his voice across to the • further
aed uttered it faint •• Moemot.
'leery - start e- d, looked. is 'ward the
sound, flue back to the cows, and after
-ribbing hie emu and counting over the
low prlet.ssion filing past him, seemed
0 "become aware th tt Miss Betty waS
lot among them. Another distant low r. 1
't,nvincud him.
Darn it all !" Sam could hear him
nutter that all -tired critter's ben an' 1
trayed Well, they'll go hum dy- t
vet,. guess. Must hunt her.'
Ad hunt her he did, first up hill. (
hu into the deep woode, SEIM stalking-. •
ern all the time like a deer -hunter, and k
Teeny disturbing the fragrant stillness t
if nature with Various expletives of t
rather than welcomed., and accepted o
I"We ehould Suspectrsome 'danger nigh, .
Mao platform of the old hyran
1 When eve possess delight;"
' Poor woman !- her horizon was so drat
and her heart so eramped that she coal
not believe in a God of love, and even
stinted her affection for her own child
ren lest it become idolatry. There
fore it is not strange that Sam . consid
ered it a direct punishment for hi
tricks upon -Henry when he found hi
leg wan- helpless, and. "he must lie by
the way -side till some Samaritan came
past. • Luckily this proved to be Miry
and her mother, who were .shocked to
find him lying on the grass, pale • as a
sheet, and. suppressing with effort the
groans of. pain that all but opened his
imm-set lips in. spite of his self-control.
With Almira's strong -arm. to help, and
his own efforts, he was attest latdin the
bottom of the wagon and taken to the
hou.se, where the old farmer came to
Mao rescue, and before long Sam was
_..carefully laid on " ma's " own bed. in
the little teem . off the kitchen; and
Henry being. yet in that unpleasant
swamp ldoking for Miss Betty, Almira
herself drove hurriedly back to the vil-
lage and fetched the doctor.
Two hours after, as . Sam lay there
splintered and helpless, but. not un-
comfertablet he could not but hear a
blundering foot stumble -into the kitch-
en, and the old farmer's voice in its
eruffest tone begin:
"Where in thunder hev ye ben, Hen-
ery Pine? Here's the old. • cat- to pay:
cows hum two hour back, an' nobody to
do a chore but me; -Sane fetched in with
a, broken leg, mother e'en. a'ractst dis-
tracted, Alnilry obleeged-to go atter the
doctor herself, and you a'watitiie."
'Well, I swan to man," reeponded.
Henry, ill au injured growl, " I've ben_
a-doin' my darnectest to find that tarnal
jersey keow. She's led me aech anoth-
er. chase all over creation, and I hain't
famed her yit; *en' I douo but what
she's sot in the hemlock swamp this
minit." . -
" Oh, come now, that won't pass no
muster at alleSir. Betty's safe in the
yard along- o' all the rest on an' has
-give. down geed six quarts into my pail
this very night; so you needn't give me
no such Inunbuggire talk, Sir. I won't
stand it."
" Lordy ! I done What you're a -talk -
in'. 1 say an' swear I've ben a-huntin'
Bet all up aerest the wood lot an'
'way into the big swamp, till I've tore
my clothes a'most off'n. rim; Look
a -there !"
" Moreloel you!" ejaculated the dis-
gusted oliffarmer, ho eyed. Henry's
rags with a sidelong glare. Jest you.
harne'ss up • Vother mare, an' make
tracks up to Miss Peters's, over on. the
mounting, an', feteh. her over to see
Sam. Take the lantern -along; the
road's kinder bad, an' don't lose the
mare."
Stung by the undeserved sarcasm,
and not as sorry for Sam as he ought
to have been, Henry took things at his
cesesand it was well ein to midnight be-
fore lfrs. Peters got to her- boy's bed-
side, to_find. hit n sleeping quietly; and
when he woke at early dawn, to the
strange consciousness of his own help-
less and painful condition, it' was a
comfort to see his mother's anxious,•
tender face beuding over him, and to
feel her motherly toriCh about his bed.
smoothing andeettling and "tidying up"
as only ins mothercoulddo. After the
rest of 4,1 e family had dispersed to their
-varioue ()Ales, and. Sam .badhis mother
auto hi4elf, he came- to full confes-
sion, even so far as to OW11 his previous
conversation with Henry.
"1 thought of you in a minuit, moth-
er, I kne-w you'd. tell about.itts being it
magnum -6 : 1 declare I done but
what it was. lle's got tl, clear field,
anyway, au' I. 'in left out in the cold.,
for all my boastiu';" and here Sam
heaved a deep reluctant sigh.
‘• Well, Sarnwel, it don't never do to
force Providence. The Book says, ye ,
know, tit is good that a man should
both hope and . quietly wait,' and.. I ex-
nect that holds true about all 'mod gifts
I. make ue doubt but it's a judgment,
Samwel, and- hope it '11 1)0 blessed. to
-
." I don't feel mem too blessed now,"
inwanurou Sam, tunler his breath. It
does seem a heap more as if . I was
•
of his services that there had been
Even Henry, seeing the field. was dear
for his courtship, became sulkily ami
able to his rival, ana helped take care
of Min unasked, whichin time soften
ed Sam's feeling toward him so much
that one bright Sunday afternoon, when
Henry had. betaken himself to church
with the rest, leaving Miry to look
after a hen - that would •" come off'
on Sunday in spite of tithing-mata-Sam
improved on the occasion to confess his
sin to Miry -that is, asfar as concerned
his hiding of the cow and leading Hen
ry astray -and his profound conviction
that the broken leg was a judg
ment.
Now Almi.ra, was at heart a real wo-
man, for all her cool head and. strong
will. To have Sam on her hands,belp-
less and. appealing, for the last three
weeks, had softened her mightily toward
him. • The handsome dank eyes, languid
with pain and. weariness, had their
share in this influence, no doubt ; and
the courageous patience with pain, the
grateful look and word which always
met any little service done for him, the
cheerful endurance of helplessness and.
weary days -all these bent Mira more
and more toward her Undeclared lover;
for Sam bad never yet said the first
word of love to her, yet by some won-
derful perception this acute young per-
son was as well aware of his passion as
if it had been blazoned in a thousand
words.
Sam did himself good service un-
a,wares on. that Sunday, for Henry took
heart the sarn.e night to declare himself
on the way home from singing -school,
prefacing his offer with a full, true and
particular account of Saill'S threats and
hard words. Of course 'Mira was quick
enough to understand. at once why Sam
had misled Henry on that eventful
night when he broke his own leg, and Is well filled with every variety. The steady increase of trade in this department is a sufficient
she could scarce help smiling at the proof that m -y goods.gio entire satisfaction. I have imported this season a much larger stock of
HAND -MAD. E- WORK ; at any previous time. Ladies' and Ohildren'sfinelLeather and PL an
tone of her present adorer as he
elk a Specialty.
recounted Sam's fierce menaces.
"Well, I Wa'n't skeert none, Miry,
now I tell ye; but thinks I, Pll be even
with him, sure as shootin', for I'll tell
A LARGE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE, STOCK OF
Miry on't next time I git chanoe, 9,n'
1878.
SPRING. 1878.
NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS
AT
1-11.13.3D'S
SEAFORTFI.
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have much pleasure ie. announcing to my cast° iners that the first instalment of tlio new Spring
and Summer Goods have come to h and, and are being opened out for inspec ion. In conseqaenee
of the downward tendency of all cla sses of Dry Goods daring the last two mo ths, bave been n
abled secure some excellent line s at extraordinary low prices. These I propose running off at a
very emall advance ou cost, and my customers as well as all who favor me with -a call dpring the en-
euin.g season may rely on being liberally dealt with.
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THE DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Will be found to contain plaything in that line, Cheap Stylish and Durable. All classes of Dress
Goods are much ;cheaper this season than at any former period.
APRIL 5 1878.
THAT HUSBAND OF MINE"
Buys all bis Machinery bora
L. MURPHY,
WHO has pleasure in
"farming community
still selling the very best
SEAFORT!1
announcing to the
of IlliTon that he it
Sewing _Machines, Agriczdtwral
plernents, and Musical Insti.u.
311.9 .12:enin Murphy's favorite machine is the 6" ,
which is the best in the market, having cartfal
off first „honors ea the Centennial and Stmet
B zFhairbmi teirenns hing to purchase any of the loom
MW,Orti. mla.ticiovnhsyulftirtshte, iarsohwen ciannterdeostsbobtyterapfo,olryinuieg:
taiSalleivaillnyg°Mthaecthitethanedtraoather repairs always su
hand at his warerooms, Goderich street.
L. MURPHY, Seafortli.
,THE COMMERCIAL LIVERY,
• SEAFORTH.
ARTHUR FORBES
•
HAVING purchased the Stock and Trade efth
Commercial Livery, Seaforth, from -Ma
-George Whiteley, begs to state that be inteate
carrying on the business in the old stand,and-bes
added several valuable horses andaehiclesto the
formerly large stock. None but
First -Class Comfortable Felicia and Good
• IN THE OLO-TH AND TWEED DEPARTMENT 1?eliable Horses Will be Sept.
:
Double and Single Wagons always ready forme,
Covered and Open Butogies and Carriagee,m4
The Stock excels everything I have emashown, and some new and eiceediogly fashionable patterns
1
in Spring Tweeds arc being added to the already large stock.
Special Arrangements Made With Com.
mercica Men.
Orders kit atthe stables or any of the hotels
-promptly attended to.
THE BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT D. MCLENNAN, HENSALL
•
ef that don't show her what sort o' a . ,
feller he is, I dono nothin'." ' HATS AND CAPS GENTS' FURNISHINGS lice
I I •1
"And I s'pose," retorted 'Mira, "yen
_
never thought -you was a-showin' what
ALWAYS ON HIND.
kind. Of a feller you was, now did. ye?
Looka-here.Henery Pine ! I always did
despise a tell-tale from the time I was
knee-high to a hop -toad • and a grown-
up tell-taleis the worst Of all !" • -arge-, jug ..A. -etz- -17-3 ia cyr 7:E_I iNt G.
"Oh, Lordy ! Almiry Calkins
what dew .you moan? Why, I want
ye to marry ! - Hedn't I said it out
plain?"
" You needn't never say it no more," .
put in Almira,'witha noble disregard
of grammar in behalf of inaptessiveness,
"1 wouldn't marry you ef you -was the
King o' Siam." • Is now opea, and New and Beautiful Millinery Goods are beieg added daily to the Stock. The
" Well ! wells! well !" blubbered. Dressmaking pepartrnent is also in full swing, and ladies who are anxious to have their dresses -
Henry. "1 never'd. ha' thought you'd made in tha most Fashionable Style and on the most Reasonable Terms are requested to patronize
- At exceptionally low prices, which for cut and finish cannot be surpassed.
THE MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
ha gen me the mittm, seem. what a
farm our folks has got, an' money in the
bank, an' etock an' crops. I don't know
how to blieve it."
"Dont make . me giye ye a pair o'
mittens," said his enraged goddess. "1
ain't no Iseelite to _worship a golden
calf, Mister Pine; so I wish ye good-
niOt and better manners" -for here
they wore at the door Land Almira slip-
ped up stairs to bed, filled with loath-
ing and rage, and thinking in her secret
soul that Sam never, never could. have
made such a fool of himself. No, in-
deed! Sam was no fool. He beca,me
aware that Henry was in a drear and
sore frame of mind the next day.; and
seeing that 'Mira was more than usual-
ly snappy and, alert, and went about
with a hot color in her cheeks, our bed -
rid philosopher drew his own conclu- GO TO C.
sions, and. when Miry came in after tea
to "visit with him," he contrived to And get one made by the Massey Manufacturing Company.
coax the story out of her. It was'
abominable in :Mira to tell her discard -
his Department. I
A FULL STOOK OF CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES
Always on hand., The finest Tea'in the Dominion only 600 per pound. Call and get sample.
. THOMAS KIDD, SEAFORTEI.
SEAFORTH AGRICULTURAL WAREROOMS
SEED WHEAT.
ffillE Subscriber, believing that farmers Mills
•-1- neighborhood are now fully convinced that
the Red Chaff Wheat has entirely leaned the
good reputation of our Canadian Spring firtin
in the European raarketit, as may be observed by
the unustail difference of 20c to 80e per buslobe.
tween it and theprice of Fall Wheatathatitisalso
very liable to rust before harvest, producing float
too dark and poor for family use. I would re-
commend attention to the following choice
grades now for sale at his Storehouse Honed'
Station, viz. James Lang's Plinio ilinnesOta
Fife, Selected Lake Shore Bhie Stem, and The
White Eldorado, all at Moderate Prins. Clover
Seed bought and sold.
532 D. MeLB'SNAN.
1\TO'ITOM
TO - GRANGERS, FARMERS AND
OTHERS.
TiEB
occnpy the attention of all, theee
bard Hines, the subscriber is determined to
'meet them by offering good inch liemloek, "not
reusually sold for limb," at the following rata:
12 foot Hemlock. at$6 60 per thousand; 14 feet
Fencing, at" $7, for Cash. All orders over -41000
5 per cent. discount. Call and see if you dealt
get what is represented.
Book Aecountseiver 8 months will be charged
8 per cent.
Tho snbscriberthanks his numerous customers
for their liberal support, and solicits a centime-
ance of their favors.
438 JOIlt• THOMPSON.
Steam Sa McFillop.
BUTTER TUBS.
S. T.ROTT, SEAFOATII,
TS now prepared to. simply all customers with
ea- any number of his
SUPERIOR BUTTER TUBS,
At $30 per hundred, Cash. These Tubs are so
well and favorably known to the trade thrit it is
iinneceseary to say any+hing in their recommen-
IF YOU WANT TO CET THE BEST THISTLE -CUTTER PLOW* MR. TROTT also manufactures a small Hard-
' dation.
wood Tub, suitable for washing Witter in.
IN THE MARKET Orders by mail or otherwise promptly attend-
ed to.
496 TROT, Seaforth.
WILLSON 'S SEAFORTH
REASONS WHY THEY ARE THE BEST:
ed lover's secret ; but let us forgive her,
for she had her own reasons. Sa,m's
They aro higher ia the beam, they are bigher,in the mould board, they are thicker in the. mould
face grew bright as she recounted. with board, they are thoroughly ground and polished in all working parts, aud have the. best cat_wheel,
unaffected scorn Henry's surprise at her iron points on them, no common metal being used their manufacture. This can be said: by no
other makers of Plows. A. Fall Stodk
contempt of his money. .
"He's a brute," said Sam, curtly, and
then his voice e_oftened. "Oh, Miry, if -
tc should ask you, with no sort, 0' tempt-
ation, only jest thet I'd like to kiss the
ALL KINDS OF GENERAL PURPOSE, PLOWS,
tip of your shoe, I love ye so, should I • .
get a mitten too?" Also Gang Plows of all kinds,including the Port :Perry and Grvel)h
Miry looked down. in her lap very • . . . .
hard, and turning her face toward the • . •
IMPLEMENTS 01? ALL DES\CRIPTIONS, SUCH AS
door as if she heard somebody coming,
said; slowly, " d.ono as %would hurt ye
to try." . Straw Cutters, GPain Crushers; Horse Powers of an kinds from, two to
• There was a mightily expres8tee si- ten 160978 power, Chll9M9) Washing itachines, Clothes 'frringers, and
lence for a minute, and Miry's pretty Every Machine belonging to the business..
head bent. so low that Sam could. lift
himself to meet it before he spoke Again, -
to say, -with a• queer half laugh,
" Mother said my broken leg was a
jedgment, but somehow it seems any
thing but that jest now. I dono's I
ever should he' got cotirage, Miry, with-
out I'd laid here an' seen ye so dreadful
good an' kind to me."
" Mebbe you'll find it's a 'ed ent
yet," wickedly retorted Mira.
" Well, ef 'tis," answered satisfied
Sam, "it's mightily tempered with' —
mercy, as mother used_ ter say."
And to this day iePt • 1 REMOVAL. REMOVAL. REMOVAL.
SEWING MACHINES.
It is ncedlees to Fay anything about aim as long as every person knows that the Florence is
the best. Also's_ full etock of ;all the common machines made, such as the
WANZER, ROYAL, OSBORNE, .RAYMOND, AND SINGER,
AU kinds of Sewing 'Machine Repairs, Needles and Oils alwaye on hand. Sewing Machines Re-
paired on the shortest notice.
0. 0. -WILLSON SEA.FORTII.
• _ , ^
yi
says nothing ever did him so much
good as his first acknowledged, judg-
ment, though it took the -form of a
broken leg.
GROCERIES.
7A7-1\./1.1 1\T_ "CAT_Els_rEs01\T
legs to intimate thnt luts llemoved his Office to D. McGregor's New
Brieli Building on East Side of :Main Street, Seatorth, and Pourth Door
South of Vitilliana Campbell's Clothing Emporium, where be will, it
hitherto, carry on the
General Insurance Money Loan Agency, toul Sewing Machine BUSIMCSS.
In thanking the public for the confidence they have reposed in him for the past fifteen. years he
GROCERIES, t
° has carried on these branches in Sento; th he -wishes to inform them he will still endeavor to give
theta he same satisfaction which they hav'e invaiiably 'expressed with his transaclions. Ira still
keeps on hand the best Sewing Machites that are reamifaetured in the world, as well as Needles,
(Oil, end Maehine Attachments. Ile sellS the Osborne A Machine, which is the ,simplest, the most
leap able of making any kind of work in the most perfect manner, and the easiest and qnickest
' threaded up machine of any m.achine made in the Dominion. He aells the Gennine Howe Machine
-a Machine that hes never failed to give satisfaction to every customer for the last ten years. He
- sells tlae Wheeler & Wilson Machines, the most rapid and least noisy Machine in the world.
Farmers' Wive, Mechanics' Wives, Merchants' Wives and Manufacturers, do not fail to examine
PROViSIO N S. and try our Sewing Machinea-Family and Manufacturing -when you want one. Also Agent for
the celebrated F lam and Pope Knitting Machine, capable of doing all kiiada of work. Instructions
given to customers gratis on any of the above machines. Sewing Machines to Rent. Also ell kinds
of Sewing Machines repaired. TEEMS LI13ERA.L. •
WM. N. WATSON, General Agent, 8caforth.
•
PROVISIONS.
Vother-thinged."
Luckily his mother did. not overhear
poor Sam's amendment to her final
minden, but busied herself as teuderly
and .Carefelly about his wants and
wishes as if she meant at least to modi-
fy the visitation. while she acknowledg-
ed his deserVing it. But Mrs. Peters
could not be sparedlong for Sam's ser-
vice , and though t ,k every oppor-
tunity during her short stay to impress
upon'him her belief that he was being
puuiehed for hard feeling and unkindly
acts toward Henry, and. read to him
punctrially and. pointedly all the Scrip-
tures she could sift out 'of the Bible to
that saine end, it was doubtful even to
,er hopeful s,n1 if Sala act:epteti the
.ituation with pn per sul:ini:-sion. Still
she had, to leave him. for hp could not
ie 'Moved yet over that 1.-Jugh moun-
ain road, and Mrs, Calkins and Miry
both declared it was not to: be thought
,f at any time. The bodwom WaS
dreadful -handy,- opening MO the
itchen aud shed. both; and. now all
he plowing and plantieg were over,
here was not the same pressing need
CO TO CHARLES ittiGRAN S,
SEAFORTII,
Fon youp, (2nocEitiE pRo•
HE HAS ONE OF THE BEsT SE-
LECTED STOCKS OF FAMILY
GROCERIES IN' TOWN.'
GOVE HIM A CALL.
LUMSDEN'S OLD. STAND, MAIN
STREET, SEAFOR.TH.
THE GODERICH FOUNDRY_
Second hand 20 Irene Engine, Balance Wheel and Saw Mandrel
Second hand 20 HorseoEngine, Balance Wheel ano. Pulleys Complete
Second hen," 16. If rase Ernfitle, e 'Wheel, Pulleys and Governors
Second hand l'2 Horse Engine, Balance Wheel, Palle3, a and Governors
A Hoisting or Boat Engine, .with Hoisting Guar,
Second hand 10 Horse -Portable Boiler, with Sinohe Stack
Second hand 36 horse Portable Boiler, with Smoke Stack -
Second hand 20 horse Portable Boiler, with Smoke Steck
Seeond hand 30 horse Pertable Tubular Boiler, with Smoke Stack, Furnace, Plaint, Grate Bars,
- Steam Guage, Guage and Safety Valves, a;1 in Good. Order r.
HSeecaodinndgliajnoiduStehringle and Heleding Machine
Heading Planer
Heading Tarner
Stave Macbine, with Knife
'925
925
275
200
250
350
200
"25
150
00
40
60
70
80
New Engines and Boilers on hand, also Made to Order very cheap. Mill maettnery
for Flouring, Grist and Saw /diddling Purifiers of Improved Kinds.
Implements. -Stoves cf Various Einds.-Itepairs 6n Boilers, Mills, &c., promptly
Attended to.
CODERICH FOUNDRY AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 1
ZURICH AND EXETER
FLOURING AND GRISTINC MILLS
HE undersigned has pleasure in announcing
-1- to the people of Zurich and 'Vicinity that his
Flouring mill is in better running order than
ever before. Gristing preinptly attended to. His
new Flouring mill in Exeter north is now finished
and working splendidly. At this rail, also,
&rioting and custom work will also receive the
closest attention.
He has also in his Lumber Yard, at Zurich,
about 500,000 feet, all sized, at from $3 to $6 per •
I thousand. Dry Rock Elm Lumber from $10 to
$12 per thousand.
518 WILLIAM FENWICK.
HAIR DRESSING.
MISS STARK
wisr!.Es to inforra.the Ladies of Seaforth and
Y Vicinity that she is prepared to make up
SWITCHES, CURLS, BRAIDS, to.,
In the Latest Fashion from Combings.
Prices Moderate, and all orders punctually at
tended to. A call solicited. Residence -Main
Street, Seaforth, 527
HAIR DRESSING.
C0MBINGS made over into Switches, Curls,
Braids and Puffs, all in the Latest -Styles and
with despatch.
Bair arranged, in, the Natural way
with Roots at the top:
MISS CAR,ROW,
At Mr. William Hunt's, four doors west of the
Market Seaforth. 528-26
WAR. WAR. WAR.
TO THE KNIFE1,
P0 176 'I'
FURNITURE WAREROOMS,
SEAFORTH, -
- ONTARIO.
I am selling Furniture at the actual Cost Price
for the next three months,
FOR CASH ONLY.
Well-known prompt paying customers can have
twelve, months' credit at a small advance of cost
-no interest.
Now is the time to furnish, your
houses cheap. Call and be
Convinced.
Warerooms directly opposite M. R. Counter's
Mamnaoth Jewelry establishment, Main Street,
Seaforth.
Money to Lend on Farm Property, at 8 per
cent; and Notes shaved without lather, us usual.
JOHN 8, PORTER.
APRIL 5, 1878.
VitoocbLarkbile;i3rida:c:sal:a;°f:::bhar:e112:0E-81-0b:11
31:et&ble gmos,:siagpaieus:d itthewgt:a
yielding in interest to the
ns of the l'reinier Noble
tilmthoobneroen 10:Fe-naive: ag ifitgevo: r:caeNrtee7oesiinf rzie. tu3so,t ati alahitki areisygieeton:lir prIal ty 1:sent )ettv:
• of Christ Church officiatin
erysA Taw:11101:s aHe:piTti
splendid affair: The ceren
Episcopalian elergyman,
seau, furnished by Werth
stones, a spray of stipplain
and at her throat a won&
one of the largest known t
eost thebriamgr0om$10„00
wore the lemons Rosebei
including a belt of verel
'bbeweetrerenaullihn:dlgifeirlsittsjOa-aondt he won]
ever Bilace the death, el
fatT1117e.Prince of Wales 111
consfield signed the registe
MissRuthecitild was accon
altar, as laidesmaids, by
two of them her OWII re -la
of themrelatioris of Loral
Earl was aecompanied, a
by Hon. filmy T. Wilson
This is the nest marr
ever taken place betw
G-reat 13:1:1:urolu
anpas. aTd
ies
is the granddaughter of
lisia Rot-hscbild-:-Nith
Framkfort, who, in 3577,
of denization in. England,
a Baron of Auetria n 1tt
1836, leaving by his 'wife
hen, of London, seven eh
Simnel, his heir, was the
in the English Panliam
of the present Baronet,
or de Rothschild. The s
thony,was made a Baron
the remainder to his ix
two children weredaugh4
Constanee-L-the latter r
of the Earl of Hardwicl
son, B191011 Xs-0mnd, n
sin, daughter of Baron Ji
Of the three dalighters
er, one Triartied!)3-r 0011
6613, of Frankfort ; anit-
Henry Fitzroty, -son of L
ton, to whom she bore I
the 'wife of Sir CouttsLI
The only child of the
Baron Meyer Amschel
was Hanna,h, now -Con
bery. He died. in 1
widow (on board of leer
_in the -winter of 1876, lea
ter sole heir and admin
estate. His Share in t
ness was estimated to
525,000,000; and to pity,
accordance with the cus
ilanYd' o7t11°Oe'r0i0i0ivemstleaturis
in another quarter of a
Mao new Countess brings
an income sof net
t MILLION DOIXAlt
or considerably over 51
and night. The Earl
and is likely to =her
childless relatives; an
fortune is in money, an
keeping pp gigantic es
thus avoided, he will pi
20 years from nOW, the
England,- not exceptint
Bute, or the Duke of W
The bride is about 2
tall, straight, and with
dem, arras, and bust,ao
and a trace of her Orie
heavy eyebrows and f
noticeable in her'portA
natty clever -and pract
istered her affairs with
met, keeping nb
aig ettul-the
pillar of the English tu
fixie horses 1U3Ring
(Derby winner), Rest
daughter's namesake, I.
Mac Oaks and St. Leg
'warm interest in the
tenants. She inherits
a generosity that is pr
AUCIIMALD
fifth Earl of Roseberri
berry, Viscount Invt
'=Primrose and Delimit
Scotland, and Baron -
United. Kingdom, was
His father, Lord Dahn
and his dangliter Lady
Wilhelmina, only de
Stanhope, and. sister -4
married in secondo3 r2
Duke of Cleveland. I
berry succeeded, his
fourth Earl, just two nt
ing of age, passies.x, dirt
to the House of Lords,
took high rank as tt
speaker, with keen goe
mor and induetry.
Mac comingms.31outh
will certainly be is me
Liberal. Ministry Eel
He was President of
(dation for the A.dvan
',Science, four years ag,'
occasion a very not
has twice visited. the
study AreeriCan Ina
himself at the Beane t
inspection of the Ame
and trotting; for he
large stable of there
late years has not be
on the Englieh turf,
Chairman of the $
of the Lords on tho
made ate exhaustive
standard modern aut
He was one of his bri(
and proteges on the to
ding has an interest
well as'for millionairJ
THE' 1101::a:
takes its us.me from
thire. The 13arone
1651. The first Ea
1760; he was a Gen
chamber bo Queen
took ate active part.
union of the tWo
lish title was grantc
Rosebery's residencti
Park, Linlithgowship
where he entertainel
Year. This is one 0
and most interesting'
His ether residences
near Norwich; and
near Epsom; at 2