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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-08-29, Page 22 THE BAR -MAID AT BATTLETON. BY F. W. ROBINSON. CHAPTER IIIA Continued. The Major was a man of; tact, and did net worry " the question. ' They walk- ed on in silence after this ; he had spoken out and paved the way to acom- plete understanding ; he was disposed, being ,a truthful man, to believe his nephew, if not wholly and implicitly, -and to think that the women -folk had made the usual mountain out of the .customary mole -hill. So far, so good it was a very fair beginning, considering that this was the first hoar of his ar- rival ; and now here they were before the great country house of the Todds, -lying a little apart, on a hill -side, from the town of Battleton. The major let go his .nephew's ''arm, strode forward, pushed open the great spring gate, and entered first. You'll -find them all within, uncle, said Edwin ".I shall not be long." " But—" " I shall be back in a few minutes ; I have forgotten something for to -morrow —in the town, you know ;" and ,young. Todd was off like a lap -wing. " Yes, you have forgotten something, Edwin, and that is that I'm not to be humbugged," muttered the angry major, as he stood in the dark carriageway, looking after his rapidly receding nephew. CHAPTER IV. TH7 MAJOR SETTLES IT• SATISFACTORILY. Ruth Daly, prayer -book in hand, and looking very unbarmaidlike, was com- ing quietly home from church the fol- lowing day, when across the last mead- ow between the church and n she encountered. Major Crawsh She recognized very quickly the tall, gnis- itive gentleman of the previous a ening, and would have passed him, had he not stood direct in- her way in the little foot path that ran across the fields there: "- Good -morning, Miss Daly," he said, raising his hat. Miss Daly bowed slightly, but did not respond to his salutation. " I thought you would come this way," he continued. " I have been look- ing for you." " Indeed !" " They told me at your lodgings that you had gone to church, so I came to meet you." • They had no right to tell you where I had gone, and you had no right to ask, Sir," said Miss Daly, drawing herself up very proudly now. " Pardon me, but I had a right." " To persecute me because I serve at Battleton Junction. Ah, well, you are not the first gentleman who has thought that, she said satirically. I have not persecuted you, young lady," said Maier Crawshaw, very gravely, " and I have no intention of do- ing so." ' " Then good morning "But I have an intention of speak- ing to you about my nephew ; I have come to London expressly for that." " You had better speak to your neph- ew himself." " I have ` done so, as you," he added with emphasis, " are perfectly aware." Miss Daly colored slightly, Yes, I am aware of that," she con- fessed. " He told you so last night, after he had given me the slip inthe most un- gentlemanly fashion. Did he not ?" " He told me that you were his un- cle, Major Crawshaw, and that he was very much afraid of you. But I am not, Sir," she added, looking up at him fearlessly, " and I will trouble you to let me pass to my home." The major half drew aside to allow her to pass, and then altered his mind, and blocked the 'way again. " No ; I can't be put clown in this fashion," he said firmly. " I must speak, and I will speak, and if you are not afraid of me, you will listen. My persecution will not last many min- utes.' " Very well ; come to the bar to- morrow, and leave me in peace to- day." " Leave you in peace !" said. the Ma- jor, indignantly. " I have had, enough of this nonsense between the two of you. You know my nephew is waiting for you well enough." No, I don't," said Miss Daly, quick- ly. " Where is he ?" "Outside your own door—hanging about like a thief." " He told me he would never do that again." " He would tell you anything, my child ; he's an abominable liar," said the major. "You had better listen to an old man like me," the major remarked, " though he may tell you some plain truths, than to a weak fellow like him. It might do you more good, Miss Dalv, after all." Ruth Daly looked at the uncle's ear- nest face attentively, and her manner' changed for the. better, and became more natural. " Perhaps it would. Come along then," she said. She turned from the direction she had been pursuing, and the major said, This way ?" Yes ; away from him, please," she added, with a little shudder. ; " You don't like my nephew?" " I can't boar him," was the reply. ` Honor bright ?" " Upon my honor, I can't," she said. " Then I have nothing to trouble you abeut, Miss Daly," said the major. • " I caii say good-morning,at once, that is if I can believe you—and it's very odd, somehow, but I can. It is all his fault, then ?" He spoke as if he had made a full ex- planation of the position, and she did not affect to misunderstand him. Yes, it is all his fault," was the re= ply. " If he would only keep away—if he would not be so very, very foolish, and not make me look so very foolish, too— if he would talk to Miss Dart; or Miss Racket—no, he had better not, perhaps, fcr he is weak, and neither of them would make a good wife—" Geed wife—good God !" said the major. ‘• But if he would keep away for a while amongst his own people, or if you would take him away to India, Sir, he would soon be, oh ! so much the better for it." " And yon would be glad to see the last of him ?" Yes, very glad—poor fellow!" " I don't like that ' poor fellow !' said the major, doubtfully again. " ' Pity is akin to love,' the proverb says." " Oh ! I could never love him, with all his property at his back, and all his fine mother and sisters to love me even in return," cried Ruth Daly. " He is a poor, weak, whiskey -drinking . boy, who wants a good uncle to look after him." " Are you laughing at me, Miss Daly ?" " No, I am very serious," she replied, " but this Edwin Todd has been left to run wild too- •much, and so has grown wild. He has wanted his own way at home, and had it. There has; been no one to Care for him, and he is careless in consequence."- " All his own fault." Yours ; for you are the guardian of him, and he respects and fears you." " You are an extraordinary young wo- man, exclaimed the major. " You should have been' in a better position than at that beastly refreshment coun- ter.. By Jove ! .here am I receiving ad- vice instead of giving it.' " I am very rude, I fear." " Not at all ; don't mention it," he re- plied. " I like iudeness of this kind ; it does one good. You're straightfor- ward, if I'm not." " Ah! I remember.. I said last night you were not straightforward, and you were offended." " Yes—because—but never mind that. Now tell me, Miss Daly, has my nephew asked you to marry him ?" " Once to marry him—sev ral times to run away with him." ' ' " And you have refused him the ' sev- ral Gimes ?' " '"Mese - " And the 'once to marry him '-when was that ?" " Last night." _ " I thought so, and yon said No?" " Yes ; I can't bear him -I could hate him almost—haven't I said so t—if he wasn't such a fool and a child !" she added, passionately. " There, take him away, and do your duty for once." " Upon my word; Miss Daly, I never was talked to in this way .before. I have been all my life doing my duty." " You have failed here, I think," she murmured. " And you have done your duty, Miss Daly? Let me ask you that iii all -kind- ness, and as a man of my age may do to a you young lady out in the world, and exposed -to temptation?" I have tried. We 'can all ,but try," she answered. "I hope I have not sig- nally failed." - " To have been asked ' several times' to run away with my nephew implies a patient listener. I wish you had not said '_several times,' but only once ; and then a sound slap to his leathern chaps, and a. gallon of bad stout thrown over him." Yes, it might have been wise," was the quiet response ; " but one lias to bear a great deal, and take everything as a jest, behind the bar, or. else the pro- prietors say we are disobliging and bad- tempered, and ruining the trade. And perhaps it was a jest ---for him ! It is difficult to take in earnest everything he says." " He's a fool., Miss Daly," said the excited major ; a perfe t fool !" " I am afraid he is not 'particularly clever." - Perh Perhaps,"- he added, " if I did look after him a little more, it would not be lost time on my part.". " I don't think it would. He is nat- urally a good-tempered man—most of the Junction girls like to see him at the statical." " And you will not be sorry to part with him ?" " I shall be very glad," she answered frankly. . " It has struck me that a few of the young ladies in your position are fond of attention even from men like young Todd." "A few, perhaps. But there are not - a few deserving of kind words and hon- est folks' sympathy." " I trust so." " Try and believe so, Major Craw- shaw, when. you are inclined to be hard in yo.ur judgment upon ns," she mur- mured. " Good day." Are you going now ?" _ Yes! if you will allow me."' " I would not detain you for the world against your will. I am. obliged, deeply obliged, by all you have told me. I—I think you have taught me my duty, instead of my teaching you any- thing," he said. " May I shake hands with you before I go ?" " Certainly" she answered, putting a little gloved hand in his. I should like to ask you one ques- tion, if you will let me ?" She bowed assent. "'Are you satisfied with your position at Battleton Junction ?" he inquired. " Would you not be happierin a new sphere of life ?" She hesitated •#or aninstant. " My mother; who was a widow, died suddenly, anti' left me very poor. I was alone iu the .world ; and Mr. Freshwater, who is my oousin, told me this was the best that I could do for myself." " He's as big a liar as young Todd 1" cried the major. " You haven't been happy in a berth of this kind—you I -- it's impossible." , " One is never happy without friends —but," with _a sudden sigh, ' • I exist ; and I hope for better days." " They will, come to such as you—bet- ter days and truer friends than you have found at Battleton. Good -by, Miss Daly—God bless you! if you will allow an old soldier to say so. " Thank you," she muttered in re- ply. Major Crawshaw raised his hat with formality and to a considerable height,' and then strutted away like a man at the head of his regiment, and Ruth Daly went slowly and thoughtfully ho -mew : rd. CHAPTER V. Majo town w By wh the you forced t ters no certain borne o .days wi snug ch the "da weeks again a Todd_ 1 society, his firs wise en where souls a tobacco no star friends, the bac signed t raptured major v designed THAT DESIGNING MAJOR. Crawshaw took his nephew to th. him the very next morning. t inducements or terrible threats •g gentleman was persuaded or • accompany his relative mat - to the purport of our story ; it is that young Todd was -to London to spend a few h the major in that officer's tubers in the Albany, and that s lengthened into weeks, and to months, before he was back Battleton. Meanwhile young unched, possibly hurled, into which he took to kindly after dip, the major having been ugh to discover for him some- one • or two congenial so partial to billiards and smoke — young fellows with h in them, but sons of old ith nine sisters shimmering in ground Somewhere, and de - buret presently upon the en - gaze of Todd, as the artful ry well knew, sand even had from the first. Sisters, with : THE HURON EXPOSITOR. money, too, some of them ; one with immense :expectations, but with the slight drawback 'of a wen behind they ear, but for all thakaud as aforesaid, an extremely nice girl; and under the circumstances, not too- proud to turn aside from young Todd's attentions, which became manifest by slow degrees, and after hehad heard about the prop- erty. - - When he returned to Battleton, he was still a free man, however; he had not acted precipitately ; he was taking time to consider, his future coarse, he thought, and he had an idea in his inind that it would be " jolly," after all this society, to see Mies Daly again for a little while. Herein he was disappoint- ed, for Miss Daly was not to be seen at the refreshment counter, and Battleton unction and Battleton Junction 'folk ew her no more. She had vanished way, and the young ladies behind the ork pies and the sandwiches did not now what had become of ker. They were not even •curious as to what had become of her ; and Miss.. Racket was nide enough to add, " And a good job, too," when .,she informed Mr. Todd, Somewhat spitefully, that Miss Daly had withdrawn from service at the 're- freshment buffet for ever and ever, .and that she had gone, "oh, goodness knows 14ow long !" and she was not the only one who thought it was a fair riddance of a stuck-up young person. There was a Miss Creasy in her place, a very large 'oung woman, with a pair of fat rosy cheeks, and a tower of false yellow hair, with a gold arrow and a ribbon in it ; but Mr. Todd did not like the looks of Miss Creasy, and faded from her and the Battleton girls altogether after this. He went back to London, and to- the lady with the wen, and to his uncle, to whom he said not a word concerning Ruth Daly's disappearance from the Junction counter, keeping . that little fact to himself for a reason which he could hardly have explained, had he been called upon to do so. He liked to keep things to himself did Master Todd. Nature had not endowed him with a ca- pacious or communicative soul, which was his nature's fault, of course, and not his own. He- had a faint notion that his uncle world have been very glad to hear that Miss Daly had, got the " sack," and so he would not tell his uncle that she had gone. It was young Todd's way, and it saved unpleasant comments at any rate. His uncle might have said, with Miss -Racket, " And a good job, too ;" and at all events Major Crawshaw should not have the opportunity of saying it before one who had been " more dreadful spoons" on Miss Daly than he ever dared to con- fess. And was it absolutely certain that Major Crawshaw was unaware of ,Miss Daly's departure from Battleton, or did that able and indefatigable old\ soldier know more of that young lady's move- ments than his nephew ? For Major Crawshaw was not of a communicative disposition, any more than young Todd was ; and he as sly, at all events, in the "bar -maid, though it Todd's good and Miss should keep things to cloud forever between them. There was no stability in young Todd, uo respect for those beneath him in social position, no_real leve in his en- tire system ; and hang it ! little Ruth Daly was too good for the lout altogeth- er. Miss Daly, thought the major, was a clever and sensible little woman, with her pretty head screwed on the right way, and with less infernal nonsense about her than he had discovered in any woman yet ; and he respected Miss Daly because she knew how to:respect herself. He told Mr. Freshwater this at the International • Hotel, S. W., Javelins & Freshwater's new and colossal specula- tion at Lambeth • bridge, where, oddly enough, Miss Daly was to be found in the post of cashier and book -keeper --a piece of promotion which Mr. Fresh- water had considered himself justified in offering to Miss Daly, after a quiet lit- tle talk, of which Miss Daly was never aware, between Major Crawshaw and hia speculative self. Miss Daly was surprised one morning to find Major Crawshaw being shown into her own little counting -house, some three or four months after their last in- terview at Battleton. this matter of was for young Daly's that he himself, and " Here's a gentleman I think you know, Miss Daly," said Mr. Freshwater, as the major made his best bow and shook hands with her. " The major !" Miss Daly exclaimed. " I forget your name—but Mr. Todd's uncle, is it not ?" Major Crawshaw coughed as Mr. Freshwater took his departure. It is not pleasant for one's name to be for- gotten, and to stand a witness to a short-memoried individual's struggling to recall it, and he told his name again with a griin survey of her. Mr. Todd's uncle, too ! What a terrible way of recollecting a man, and a major ! "How strange you should find me here ; that Mr. Freshwater—" Major Crawshaw hastened to ex- plain. " Not at all strange," he said; quick- ly. " I dine here very freqnently ; there are more life and bustle than at my club—club very old-fashioned now, and half my friends away at the war, and so on ; and Javelins & Freshwater are excellent caterers to the British public, and one gets something to eat that is decent—and here I am." " Yes; but how did you know I was in the counting -house department ?" Oh," said the major, reddening, " a chance word or two with Ditchwater— Freshwater, I mean -about the man- agement and his finance and book-keep- ing, and he said he had found that la- dies made he, clerks, and that he could trust ithe books of the Interna- tional to Miss Daly ; and I naturally said, ' What Miss Daly ?—not from Bat- tleton, surely ?' And sorely it was ! I hope you are very well." " I am very well, thank you," replied Miss Daly, regarding him thoughtfully, even critically. " I am very pleased to hear it. This is an agreeable change of life from the Junction refreshment counter." " It is harder work here, said Miss Daly. " There is more responsibility and less amusement." . . " Oh.dear ! Why, you don't mean to say—" -No ; I don't say anything," replied Mies Daly, with a smile, as if enjoying Major C,rawshaw's surprise, " only that I prefer my rise in life to the Junction, and that I am indebted to Mr. Fresh- water for putting such confidence in me." (To be. Continued.) SMITH .•& WEST. P RICE LIST FOR JULY. Good useful Dress Material . $0 10 Good useful Black Lustre 10 Ladies' Parasols (Silk).... 1 25 A very good Umbrella 25 Good washing Prints . 05 Stripe Muslins 07i White and Fancy Pique 10 Heavy Grey Lustre. 10 • Good Black Cassimere 40 Heavy White Cotton 10 Heavy Twilled. Duck. 12} Good useful Shirting 10 Good Dress Linen.... . 10 White Counterpanes.... 1 00 Good All Wool Tweed 45 Extra Fine All Wool Tweed75 Very Nice Hemp Carpeting 12i Good Quality Grass Linen 091 - All Wool Debiege 25 All Wool Grey Flannel... 25 A Lot of Sailor Hats 25 Good useful Black Velveteen50 Good useful Black Silk. 60 `Good useful Colored Lustres 12� Good Quality Checked Grenadine 19 Good Qual'y Now French Delaine 25 .Ylseful Linen Towels Mustin Curtains (long) per set.... 60 05 Mosquito Net, per yard . 10 Useful Grey Cottons.... - 05 Men's Fine Fur Hats. A Job Lot of Men's Felt Ladies' Prunella Gaiters Ladies' Prunella Lace Boots Ladies' Buttoned roots Children's Packs ..... .... . Men's Calf Boots 3 00 • Men's Alexis 1 60 Plow Boots 1 00 75 50 50 50 1 25 25 SMITH & WEST. No. 3 Campbell's Block. ANNOUNCEMENT. WM. HILL &• CO.'S CHEAP SALE OF DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES TO CONTINUE FOR THREE WEEKS LONGER. Extraordinary Bargains in Dress Goods of Every Description. DESPERATE BARGAINS IN COTTON GOODS, Comprising White and Factory Cottons, Tickings Shirtings Ducks, Denims, &c. OUR HOSIERY, GLOVES, And TRIMMINGS to be Cleared Out regardless of cost. Another Lot of Clair De -Lune Fringe, 20 cents per yard. Good Corsets at 37* cents. Japanese Parasols at 50 cents—something new. In spite of the Hard Times and keen competition "our TAILORING DEPARTMENT Is doing better than ever. All our hands are working full time making Ordered Clothing for an appreciative public, at prices that cannot be beat. First Consignment of Fall Tweeds to lutnd, new, choice and cheap. EVERY ARTICLE In our Grocery Department Guaranteed Fresh and Best Value. 15 pounds Good Sugar for $1. 11 pounds White Sugar for $1. 10 pounds IGround White Sugar for $1. Tea, Raisins, Currants, Rice, Barley, Oatmeal, Coffee, Spices, &c., propor- tionately cheap. WILLIAM HILL & CO. 1879 A�TUST 1879 GREAT GENUINE CLEARING SALE DUNCAN & DUNCAN'S, SEAFORTH. This Month we Offer the Whole of our Well Assorted Stock at and Below Cost Prices in order to make room for Fall Importations. To Clear -Fancy Dress Goods from 1Oc. to 20c.; Plain Lustres, all colors, for 10c., 122c. and 15c.; See our 20c. Colored Lustre, worth 30c.; Costume Lin - els in Plain, Checked and Snowflake, from 10c. to 20c.; Prints—Balance of our Stock, some 200 iwill be sold pieces, cheap, for 5c., 7c., 8c. and 10c. per yard ; Par- asols, Sunshades, Frillings, Silk Squares and Ties ; Tweeds, Cotton Tweeds, Linen Drills and Stripe Linens; Canadian and Scotch Tweeds from 60c. per yard up ; Shirtings, Denims, Ducks, Tickings and Towellings; 300 pairs White Cotton Hose at 10c. and - 12c.; 200 pairs White Ribbed Hose at 10c., Kid Gloves in Black and Colored ; Ladies' and Misses' Lisle Gloves at 5c., 10c., 12c., 15c. and 20c.; To Clear—Ladies' White Skirts at less than cost ; 200 Remnant of Dress Goods, cheap 150 Remnants of Print, cheap ; Men's and Boys' Felt Hats at less than half price -See them. TAILORING—Clothing Made to Order in the Latest Styles ; Large Stock of Worsted Coatings, Scotch Tweeds and Canadian Tweeds ; Suits Made to Order from $12 50 up, and a Good Fit Guar- anteed ; Boots and Shoes ; Readymade Clothing, &c. DUN"CAN Sz DU 1\1-0.A_ T'S, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH. A Cr IR. CALA7VITTY_ • THE CONSOLIDATED BANK CLOSED TIIE BILLS ARE BEING TAKEN AT PAR FOR GOODS AT THOMAS KIDD'S EMPORIUM OF FASHION MAIN STR.E?T, S.EAFORTH. THE MONSTER DISCOUNT SALE Which was commenced on the First of August, is being continued successfully, and every day brings in new customers who are taking advantage of the liberal discounts offered for all cash purchases, to secure serviceable Goods at Wholesale prices. Although the whole stock of General Dry Goods has been marked at low figures, having been secured at Free Trade prices, I am allowing A VERY LIBERAL DISCOUNT OF FROM 5 TO 10 PER CENT. FOR CASH ON THE FOLLOWING LINES : MILLINERY GOODS—Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Parasols, Sunshades, Umbrellas, Laces, Ruchiugs, Embroideries, Cults, Collars, &c. . – STAPLE GOODS—Ducks, Denims, Tickings, Towellings, Shirtings, . Table Linens, Hollands, &c. DRESS GOODS—Black and Colored Grenadines, Black and Colored Cashmaeres, Black and Colored Alpaccas, Fancy Dress Goods in Plain, Check and Twill—Newest Styles. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF, LADIES' LINEN COSTUMES At much below their actual. value. Every person should see those attractive Goods, which are certainly a great bargain. - Boots and Shoes, Readymade Clothing, Hats and Caps, And Gents' Furnishings in Great Variety. 1,000 Yards of New Fall Prints, in Latest Patterns. 700 Yards Tapestry Carpets, in Newest Designs. 500 Yards Hemp Carpeting, Extra Good Value. Stair Carpets in Wool, Tapestry and Hemp. GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE ALL OVER TOWN. THOMAS KIDD, SEAFORTIL N. B.—The Grocery and Liquor Departments are, as usual, stocked . with a choice selection of Goods. Every attention paid to the requirements of customers. AUGUST 29, 1879. THE CHEAPEST GOODS. .A TT 1 AT, Is Now RECEIVING A A Very Large Stock of all, kid If Groceries and Provision,, A Fresh Lot.__of Canned Fruits, And Honey. and .Tellies. A. Fresher `Lot of those very cltoic Teas in Black, Green and Tap 411 Grades of Sugars, Syrups and Molasses. Currants, Raisins, Prunes, Drib Apples, Oatmeal, Cornmeal, Cracked ,Wheat, Pot Barley, Shorts, best of Hams and Bares' .All kinds of Fresh, Garden Ste, Top Onions, Potato Onions and Set Onions and Potatoes. Creams. Crocks, Milk Pans, Rot* Pots, &c. Lard, Butter, Eggs, and a good va. riety_of ,Soaps. Soda Biscuits in 3 pound boxes, at,. and pure ground Coffee. .also that Celebrated English - Excelsior Horse Cattle Food. All are invited to conte and gst some of the Cheapest Goods in the Dorailuoa. Dont forget the place A. G. AULT'S GROCERY, 591 Main Street, SEAF4il; THE GANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HAD OFFICE, - TORONTO, Paid up Capital, -89008,, Kest, - - -MB- - 1,4OO ij j DIRECTORS. HON. WILLIAM MC1MMASTER, President. HON. ADAM HOPE, Vice -President. Noah Barnhart, Esq. James Miehie, Esq. William Elliott. Esq. T. Sutherland-Stayner,$q George Taylor, Esq-. John J. Arnton, Esq: A. R. McMaster, Esq. W. N. ANDERSON, General Manager. JOHN ROBERTSON, Inspector NEW Yoax. J. -G. Harper, and J. H. Goadby Agents. CalcAG o.—J. G. Orchard, Agent. BRANCHES. Barrie, Barrie, Belleville, Brantford, Chatham, Collingwood, Dundas, Danville, Galt, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, London, Lucan, Montreal, Orangeville, Ottawa, Paris, Peterboro, St. Catharines, Sarnia. Sime-oe, Stratford, Shall ay Seaforth, Thorold, Toronto, Walkerton, Windsor, Woodstock, Commercial Credits issued for use in Europa, the Eget and West Indies, China, Japan, ant South America. Sterling and American Exchange bought and sold, Collections made on the most favorable terms. Interest allowed on deposits. BANKERS. New York—The American Exchange National Bank. London, England—The Bank of Scotland. SEAFORTH BRANCH. M. P. HAYES, - MANAGER. W. &LTOIV. GOOD NEWS FOR ALL F SMITH, Laving purchased a Bankrupt • Stock of 11I11.LigEAY AND FANCY DRY GOODS, A t a Great Sacrifice, intends giving his eueton- era the benefit. and will for the next thirty days sell at each prices as have never been known is Walton before. The Stook is all new sad la good order, and must and will- be sold,so Dome along and get the Bargains while they last. CRQ►tl�1tlEEl And General Merchandise as formerly, at _fit Lowest Prices. All kinds of Farm Produce taken in exebici. for Goods. Remember The Cheap Store, first doer North of Sage's Hotel, Walton. 603 F. SJ1I10. THE SEAFORTH INSURANCE AND LAID AGENCY. ALONZO STRONG IS AGENT fo Several First -..Class Stock,Iire and Life Insurance Companies, and le preps,. ed to take risks on THE MOST FAVORABLE TERM. Also Agent for several of the best Loan Soeis• ties. . Also Agent for the sale and purchase of Taro and Village Property. A NUMBER OF FIRST -LASS 1>!t PROVED FARMS FOR SALE. $50,000 to Loan at 8 Per Cent. Interest. Agent for the White Star Line of Steamers OFFICE -Over M. Morrison's Store, Idahrtl Seaforth. SEAFORTH PLANING MILL SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTOIIT THEsubscriberbegs leave to thank hisnasaaac$ customers for the liberal patronage eztendaia himsince commencing business in Seaforth, trusts hat he may be favored with a continsma of the same. Parties intending to build would do well to ilk him a call,as he will continue to keep on hold s large stook of all kinds of DRY PINE LUMBER, SASHEA, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, SHINGLES, LATH, ETP. Hefeelsconfident of givingsatisfsetiontotkost who mayfavonrhim with theirpatronage,auD1 1 but first-clarsworkmen are employed. Particular attention paid to Custom Phalli • 20[ • JOHN H. BROADFOOT. r rOTIC TO GRANGERS, FARMERS AND OTRERS. AS THEY occupy eon all,. hard times, the the subscriattberntiis determiaeiof tl 1* meet them by offering good inch Hemlock,"; usually sold for inch," at the following rxtat% 2 foot Hemlock. at $7 00 per thousand; 14 sow_ , •$, Cash. Ali orders oiler um 5Fencingper cent.ats disconnt. Cali and see if you 4 get what irepresen750forted. Book Accounts. oder 8 months will be thAitoi 8 per cent The sttbsariher thanks hie :numerous rsitsta4Mrt for their liberal support, and solicits a ems' anof their favor$. 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In dictating fthe oompositio l" Four George: tregar, pace the &nd tlicn rase: .sed cheerf tion very freq' sOmetilnes sift' lying about. ways clear and and thoughts that the pgre dOni .checked, deliberationro, a Ing when. he point. His w' . one of mare= lowly, and, forth his thong that he rarely work. His ha plain, often ve the remark th could earn s Lord's Prayer 4f one. Uni talent, he loo'_ One of the h� height of his he wrote sig fa working anti night. An isle slightly levelol Stories lie crus i some of his lar' The person, era , has bee RIS U0Se, th r `- Was misshape bridge, .and stu near�sighteea, a "easy gray, b; bis keen and des through. spectacles. A. what he “sbott #ression of are—a rea