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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-12-12, Page 2, • 2 TI4E HURON EXPOSiTOtti DECEMBER 12 1879. • THE , als:TY-STERY OF DR. HARDY'S MARRIAGE. 4 It was a standard question in Din- nent : Why had Dr. Hardy married Miss Ray? Even when that laOy had been Mrs. Hardy for some years, the old puzzle would serve to quieken Dia- nent conversation when it flagged, or to point the. moral of the general un- certainty of human actions. There was no such terrible disparity between the worldly circumstances of the cotiple. Both belonged, ,to respec- table Dinnent families. Perhaps the Hardys had been the more reapected, but the Rays were held to be the better off, a belief which. Miss Lydia Ray's astonishing marriage had tended to confirm. Old Mr. Ray was thought to be a miser, perhaps on the theory -that nobody but a rich man could look poor so frenkly. :The Rays had mixed little - in Dinnent society, only giving a stiff tea-party now and then. M.S.: Ray had been long dead, and the family consisted of the old gentleman and three daughters, the youngest of whom, Lydia, • became the fortunate Mrs. Hardy. The Rays' house Was called Briar Cottage, and. there were ao flow- ers in its garden and very few orna- ments in its rooms. The Miei3eS Ray had always dressed with an artificial and elaborate primness, and the two • elder sisters were dry and. stiff in man- ner, as if the ever forward advances of the world needed Much repelling • The Hardy family had been of quite another starap. They lived in the Red House, aud eatery little Urchin in Din- nent knew the Red House- and. its ways, and its abundant jams and sweeties. There had been rather •'hard lines" there in Dr. Hardy's boyhood, for his fathef had died suddenly, and left "his widow very poorly provided for. But she gat through somehow, and was still seatedln the chimney -corner -a jolly old lady, who received her daughter-in- law without wincing, and who, if she shared Dinnents wonder at the match, never allowed Dinnent to know it. Dr. Hardy himself had. been a popu- lar character from his vory cradle. He was thoroughly. good-hearted -and well- meaning, and yet he had certain weak- nesses and foibles which cot him into scrapes, and saved -him from the spite which, is too often the lot Of a, strong and militant virtue. He was a, curious mixture of activity 'and indolence. Perhaps he may Le de- scribed as physically active and mental- ly lazy. It was easy for him to per- form feats af strength and endurance - to ride twenty miles at midnight to see a sick child; to spend. night after night beside sick -beds instead of iia his own. But it had never beeu easy for Edward Hardy to make up his mind, and then stick to it. Perhaps some of Dr: Hardy's popu- larit3r was due to the fact that it was by no means easy for him to run coun- ter to anybody while he was in that person's presence. Silence was his ut- most dissent, and rare, indeed, was that unaccompanied by a smile or a dubious gesture, . But these trifles were not likely to detract from his importance, when he turned, his back on colleges and hospi- tals, ja,ral settled down in Dinnent, a cleveis young medical man, bright in face a* d kindly in manner, with pleas- • i ant faen ily traditions behind him and t good nancial prospects before. Whim would he marry? had- then • been Dinneu Csquestion regarding him, Laura Devine, the Mayor's daughter, had Elwell Teuggestetl. Laura's beauty bad a consumptive cast, and the young doctor was often at the Mayor's house. _ Some people said a doctor would be too wise to marry -a sickly woman, but others remarked that it was a proverb that nobody wen t so ill -shod as the shoemaker's wife. Others, again, sug- gested one of the daughters of Mrs. Rowe, the widow of the last Vicar. The doctor went there often, too, and that must be quite non-prefessionally, for Rose aud Sarah Rowe were as sturdy as the hawthorn trees, a.nd their Another was constantly boasting that -tY nobody who had a good constitution and common sense needed to trouble a doctor at all. In fact Rose and Sarah sometimes wished the; their mother - walla not be so loud in these procla- mations. They feared they might hurt Dr. Hardy's feelings, and eould scarcely believe in the sincerity with which he endorsed them. Though these three young ladies car- ried the palm of probability, , almost every other girl in Dinnent wag casual- ly contemplated in the seine light. Even- the poor orphan, Lucy Craven, who served. in the influent book -seller's shop, was suspected of having "apset- ting ideas," and of being just the . girl (well, her gown was very:black alul her face was very white) "to bewitch a -fine '3-autig fellow with more chivalry than knowledge of the World." - But nobody -no not deep old Mrs. Simeon, at the Gate House-, nor sharp Miss Rutter, of the Grange, ever thought of Lydia Ray. The oversight was not wonderful. Dinnent had seen the three sisters coming in and going out for nearly forty years, always dressed alike, al - waves prim, preeise and proper. If aily`body had thought of Lydia, they • must have, also thought of Miss Eliza and Miss Jane. Only quite elderly peo- ple knew exactly which were the elder of the three, for between thirty-two and forty there he not always a very striking differeuce of appearance. But oue must draw a, line eomewhere, and con- sidering that Dr. Hardy was not more than seven -and -twenty, the Dinnent ladies thought they drew the linia among themselves wide enough when they drew it from sixteen to thirty. If you were to draw a line wider than that, where were you to stop? Nobody felt any suspicion, even when Lydia Ray sickened, and. Dr. Hardy was summoned to attend her. It was not his first introduction to Briar Cot - de, for Lydia's sickness grew orit of a dangerous illness of her father., The Rays did not call in a doctor for slight occasions. They made no such-- beast as Mrs. Reeve, and, indeed, that valiant matron would probably have Said that there was not a good constitntion or a grain of common sense among the lot. But they had their little dietings and dosings, and never dreamed of 0, doctor until the vision of an undertaker loom- ed not very far behind hirn. - Old Mr. Ray really had "a very bad turn," as the oId ladies called it. He lost the use of his limbs and. he wan- dered in his mind, and for & long time it was very doubtful Whether strength or consciousness would ever return. Dinnent pressed all sorts of help on Briar Cottage, for Dinnent 'was not an unkindly place, though it loved to serve with' its right hand that its left hand raight know whet it had done. But the pale ladies of Briar Cottage put aside all proffers of succor. In those days inquirers always saw Miss Eliza or 1Xliss,Jane. They said that Miss Lydia was the nurse, and Miss Jane was apt to add, rather sarcastipally, that 'Ly- dia thought nobedy was any use but herself.' "Andif she's any use at all, she's right in her opinion of the others," said caudid Mrs: Rowe. • • But old Mr. Ray rallied, though slowly, and proved a very troublesome •Cenvalescent. Briar Cottage returned to its accustomed ways, except that Miss Eliza and Miss Jane took their walks alone; and had their meals to- gether in tbe faded dining room, send- ing portions upstairs for the invalid and the nurse. They felt that Lydia had put them aside when "there was really sornethine"t� be done," and it never oc- curred to their peevish pride to offer to relieve her now, when all danger was past. So, Worn out -with anxiety and. watching,Ldia spent day after day in a close and heated atmosphere, driven to her pits' end by the ceaseless worry- ing of aenarrew and embittered nature, and pained and chilled by the coolness aud implied disapprobation of her sis- ter'. All this time she and the young doc- tor had scarcely exchanged twenty un- necessary word.. Lydia herself •had a friendly heart, but it had. lived among unfriendly natures. She thought that Eliza and Jane felt ai she did, and she believed it was right, and indeed neces- sary, that she should act as they did, and draw back and. keep aloof from any kindly contact with one's fellow - creatures. Not that she could ever do it from the same motives, for Eliza and Jane did it from an innate sense of su- periority, while she was deeply im- pressed with her own unvvorthiness. Though a casual observer might have .found it hard to distinguish one of the three old maids from the others, Lydia 'Ray was quite of a different nature from Eliza, and.Jaue. • She must have resembled their mother, who had been dead so long that noneof her daughters remembered her. But this difference only made her the more subject to the family will and tradition. Eliza and Jane differed, wrangled and were far m e'independent of each other than eve. Idia of either • of them. They were at bottom in sympathy; they - made their own atmosphere and throve in it, to the limited extent of the thriv- ing power which was iu them. Lydia was simply repressed. Like a wither- ing plant in a dark closet, her real life was shut up -within herself, while ex- ternally she reflected as a mirror the forms of those about her. • Had Lydia Ray ever left 'Briar Cot- tage and gone out alone for a single month, it is not likely that on her re- e turn she would have suceunabed so ut- terly. • But Briar Cottage represente leer world., and if anything within he found no response there, she had u idea, no hope that i might find rel - sponse elsewhere. ew men can reals d ize the existence of such women. They pass about the world, they look con- tented, often cheerful, they seene well provided; In reality they are creatures who have. never found their element; though, less fortunate than fishes, they can CT) on liciing without it. Lydia had! had her young dreams Of w friendship -even of love. She knew t her sisters would call these foolish, and s she innocently accepted their verdict _wanted them to hire a trained nurse to wait on their. sister ; and fearing lest their pride might resent and resist any supposed slight on their ewn powers, he slyly urged that • the train of illness ' was likely to be lengthened out if al the care were cast on delicate and se sitive relatives, -That did not gain his end, but it inolified, the ladies. Had Lydia been conscious, she might have wondered at the effect produced by so slight a compliment from One of that sex which her sisterdespisedl • so heartily. Lydia's illness was that sort of low, fever which lingers long and often leaves deep traces behind it. Eliza and 4ns, never quite believed in it. They thought Lydia did not bear up well. When she was Worse they chid her; when she was better they exhorted her. They would read aloud to her, and she asked them to stop, they felt so in- jured that it was easier to let them go on, at any cost of confused brain and bewildered dream. • I Dr. Reedy grew to pity the p quiet women, who seemed to watch his coming, because he brought comfort of:a coMprehending and sy pathetiallresence. She interested h as the first revelation of the sad Buhl tion which underlies so many wome lives. Its result he had often seen fore; the secret of its -process had hitherto been displayed to him. B he felt little more than a pathologi interest, with •a genuine healer's stinet to relieve. Not only was s thirty-six and wan and faded, but mind was as little likely to fascin him as her face. It had been sten? on the driest rand. poorest nutrime and her sympathies, like the limbs of a man long fettered to a seat, were now scarcely able to stir themselves. Dr. Hardy Was twenty-seven, his whole na- • ture throbbing with the ambitions and ViSi0138 of an ardent, warm-hearted man who does not even dream that any- thing in the world or in himself can hinder or check the strong tide of en- ergy he feels withip him. It was simply because he was so glorying in the race of life before him that this poor thing, who had never left the starting point, touched his heart and craved from hirn a little help, which at its utmost could be so small. • He brought her books to beguile her convalescence. He could easily see where she stood. intellectually, aud he did not startle her by presenting too violently -opposed mental standpoints, nor shock her by requiring too far a leap from her accustomed ground. It might have astounded Edward Hardy had he guessed how difficult it would have- been for anything from him to startle or shock her. Accustomed all her life to unquestioning loyalty to her standards, she had now made him one of them. Under cover of his medical authority had grown up another. She began to make an unconscious refer- nce to his opinion on all subjects. was a formidable rival, even to \that Eliza and Jane. As she recovered, one wretched trace of her illness --did. not yield. In its ourse she had grown deaf, and this eainess continued, though, like most nervous affections, it varied much in intensity. This troubled her sadly, be- cause she saw troubled others, who did not disguise that they found it troublesome. - Jane wore a wrap round her throat because she "had strained it shoutieg at Lydia." Lydia's recovery as visibly retarded when she found he deafness did not go. In her heart he wished she had died, and then bed sorrowful tears over her wicked re- ellion. She clung more and more to r. Hardy's daily visits. He did not for tho im ec- e'S lee - not ut cal in - REAL ESTATE F0`.3 SA E. Le RARE CHA.NCE.-Teventy- with house and barn for Bale This property is well ituated fo garden purposea. Titl indlepti RORERT BRETT. pun SALE. -For Skle a firat 4- Ian, nearly new end in goo situated in the flottriehiug Toa • W111 be sold cheap. Terme ea SECORD, COSSENS & 00., Goa v8 nom in Egm either able. of land ndville, farm or A.pply to 6 L5 class Planin running order n of Seaforth yie i.h,Eonigitii. ,ire WARM AND TOWN PROPER Y FOR SALE PRICES TO SUIT THE 'T MES. -Lot 17 Ion the Ilth concdssion, McKillot ; price $40 per acre; Building lots in ditTere b parts of the town of Seaforth; purchasers eau make their oavn terms of .payment, at 8 per cent. utmost.• JAS. • BEATTIE. 591 VALUABLE le.A.Rat FOR' S LE. -For Salo, . v the east half of Lot No. 4, on. 4, II. B S., •,Tuckersinith, County 01 Huron, • nsisting o 50 toeires, 31 miles from tho Team• f Soaforth, and convenient to school. The lent is of the very best quality. For further pterti .ulttes apply ,to JAMES PICKA.RD;opposite the premiseel oi to Egmondvillo 1'. 0. 52, t pROPERTY IN EGMONDYILLE FOR SALE. For sale the house and Jot Egrnondvillp at present occupied by Mr. S. Ctoneron. .Tho lemse -is a frame'the lot contains lialf 0.11 acre end is one of the best building sites in Egmondville. ,There is a good well and all ethelr necessery con- veniet cos, aud will be sold cheap. For paitioulae apply to JAS. H. BENSON, Settfrirth. • 521 FARM AND TOWN PROPER' I FOR SALE, CHEAP. -Lot No, 24, Oon. , Molt:Mop, 100 acres; north half Lot 80, Con. , MoKillop, 50 acres; north half ef north half Lot. 31, Con.' 9, kb:anion, 25 acres; residence emitted. by Mr. Malcolmson on Gouinlock Su vey, ',Settfortli ; building lots on Jarvis' and F. G. Spaeling's Sur- veys. Apply • -to GRAY, YOUR & STPARLING. Seteforth. 595 _ ARM FOR SALE. -tor Sale, the est part of "50 acres; e en a state c house, is on the orth, and so within he Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Giey, conto.inh her 35 of whish are cleared, well fenced, an of good cultivation. Thee° is a good Ir ate good orchard and plenty of water. I u• gravel road leading to 13ruese1s and Se ot, adjoins a church and school. it is half a mile of the Village of Welton. A ply on the pni iicmsiEresor:- to Welton Post Office. ILeRLES mtR 493 It of She looked with her gentle, wistful eyes b in other people's households, and wish- D ed that Eliza or Jane had found some- body good enough to marry, so that she Ai seem to blame her for her suffeein ter he bad been' with her for a -few iuutes, she could bear his voice more eadily than the others, though on h rst corning in she was- always at he orst, since any excitement, painful o leasing, se) ved to increase the affii plum Pori SALE. -For sale Lot. 2; con. 10 Tuckersinith, containing 100 peens, about 80 cleared, the bala,nce well thnbered. There is a stone house and good frame barn, it -is well fenc- ed and underilraieed. There is a young bearing oruhard. It is aboue seven miles from Seaforth and four from Hensoll, and is conventent to 'wheel. Two good wells of water. PosSeeeion given at any time. Appiy at the EXPOSITOR office, Seaforth. 610 "WARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, North half Of -22 Lot 9, Concession 14, MeKidep, containing 100 acres, 65 acres cleared, and the remainder well timbered with white ash, maple, beech. and boas wood; good_ barn and , stable and good louse; plenty of water, young orc'hard. good. fencing, &c.; convenient to churehes and schools, and 8 miles from gravel road; possession given. immediately. For further pinticulars apply te MRS. Wala_STAFFORD, Seafort.h. 625 PARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Cheap, the east -a: half of Lot 28, Conceseion 9,:McKillop, con, taining 50 acres, 85 of which are cleared, well fenced and in a good state of cultivation; there is a good frame burn and stable, and log house with frame addition ; also a einall °retard and well of water; is within half a mile of the villag of Winthrop, and Sia miles from Seaforth. Thi farm must be sold at once, and a bargain willb given. Apply to Winthrop P. O., oe to theproprie- tor.on the premises. , J01114 BROWN.' ! 623 PROPERTY FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 14, -1e • Con 16, Grey; West half of Lot 29, Con. 6, with` cheese factory complete; Lot 11; Oen. 6, and south half of Lots 16 aud 17, Con. 5, town- ship Of Morris • Lot 22, Con. B, and. Lot 28, Con. B, township oiHowick, all geed improved farms, together with several 50 acre farms in Grey ancl Morris, and houses and lots and vaetint lots in the village of Brussels. Ptices low, terrets easy, sflet title good. Apply to JOHN L.ECKIE, Brus- 574 879 1\TO-V-1./113R. 1879 DUNCAN & DUNCAN, SEAFORTH. A THIS Inv WE SHOW 751 PIECES NEW DRESS GOODS, SERGES, CORDS AND LUSTRES—Very Low. 3 Wmceys, -Plain and Checked, from 50. per yard up. Clouds in Pine Wool and Fancy, Heavy Canadian Clouds from 250. to $1. Wool Squares in all the Newest Styles, from 15c, up. GlOves, Ladies' Kid Mitts, Lined Kid Gloves, Cloth Gloves, Lined Lisle. Gents' Kid. Mitts, Lined. Kid Gloveso Buck Kid, Red Gauntletand Cloth Gloves, from 25c. up. I Ladies' Wool Shawls -a very large Stock.' • IMPROVED HORSE AND CATTLE FOOD pURIFIES THE BLOOD, Ilemovee Olestruee lions in Water, Lcosens the Hide, Relieves Hetaves and Influenza, Improves the Spirit and gives a fire gloesy appearance to horses, while they keep fatter and do their week with one- fourth less gnat). Cattle fatten rapidly when fed with it, by assietieg in digestion.. Cows give on e-li th more mi;k, and :elves thrive wender- fully well. • Sheep keep in letter heelth, lay on fat abundantly, and grow more wool, while lig fattening emits piga is truly surprising. Farmers should not fail to feed it to animals they intend to exhibit at Fall Feint. Fer sale in all priecigal places. PETER STEWART HARLOCK 3 General Agent for Virestern Ontario. • For Sale at J, S. Roberts' Drug Store, Seaforth. Hamilton Manufactory,' 48 John Street, South. 616 BRUCEFIELD MANTLES NEWEST STYLES AND SHAPES BRIGGS • BROTHERS • ATI/eG purchased the business canied on, lei Mr. J. E. BEIGGS tor so many years, are now preparek to do • Our Third Lot this Season bought 20 per cent. below regular pncee. Man des from $2.50 up. BOOT AND SHOE-MAKiNG '01 Every Description 011 the shortest notice and i roost reasonable terms. They will nee nothing but the very best tea- tcieal. and as to fit and -workmanship they gnu. LADIES' FURS. ' By sttict tat ention to businees, giving a good LAMES' FURS. antee satisfaction. article, and fair and reasonable prices, thee -hope i to- merit and receive a liberal there of public We have this Beeson the Lareest Stock ver -shown in this County, andi: at Their Shop will be intend in Itattenhurryis patronage. - buil ding, D. McIntosh's Veterinary Oce, one Ladies' South Sea Seal Sets. ' I Give us a triaL .617 door south of the post ad eGje-OEE0L. wBRBIRGGIGSG. 8. LADIES' FURS. prices very much less than ever Blown before. Ladies' Canadian Mink Caps. Ladies' South Sea Seal Caps. Ladies' Ciinadiah.Mink Sets very low. Ladies' Black Persian Lamb Muffs. Ladies' S. S. Seal and Ermine Muffs. A Very Large Assortment of Chtldren's Fur Sets in Grey Lamb and Ermine. CLAOTIIII\TO- ODER • Men's and. Bops' Beaver and Nap Overcoats, in' all styles, made on the prene- ises, and all warranted good. Men's Clothing in all styles. - HATS AND CAPS. HATS AN.D A PS. pellet FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot Con. 11, II. R. S., containing 100 acres; 82 cleared and in a first-class state of .cultivation, the balanct being good hardwood bush e log house, with sten( cellar under, and well finished ; frame barn 36x60, with stone stabling underneath ; good beittiug orchard and 8 good wells; convenient to school and post office ; is situated 8 mles from Seaforth and 5 from Hensall, on a good gravel road. For farther particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or if by letter to Chiselhurst P. Q. JOHN C. STEELE. 603-4x Q AW MILL AND FARM FOR SALE - The '-' Saw Mills known as the "Turner Mills," together with a good frame dwelling and bank barn, nearly new, with 15 acres of land attached. This well-known and valuable property will be sold cheap, and liberal terms given to close out g• the estate. Five mores of land with mills and buildings, or the Mills tit -be sold sepaiately if wanted. Also, Lot 6, Concession 6, Stanlev,100 acres of good improved land, will be sold cheap . audelibeeal terms given. Apply to NEIL MATH- • ESON and W. W. FAIlltA.N, Executors to the A 141 ✓ Estate of William Turner. 626x3 might have been , god -mother to their ria children and helped with their b g r ing up. She had not courage to have a fi dream husband and dream babies of w her own; she had only a dream „ brother-in-law and dream nephews and. neices And all these years the wolf of pove had been. drawing nearer and nea • r- to the shabby porch of Briar Cottage. :s Little house properties lost in value.; j one or two investments stopped their a divielen,ds altogether; Eliza and Jane grew only sharper and sourer, and con- demned the little -luxuries they were obliged to cut off. It was under a blow of this sort that old Mr. Ray had sick- ened. Then, for the first time, Lydia, had been obliged to oppose herself to her sisters. She had no will of her own to do it. It was the sick man himself who drove the others from his room, saying -that their voices went through his head, that their hands were cold and their attentions worrying. He had never before preferred Lydia -of his three ehildren, perhaps she bad been the, least favored hitherto.; Eliza and ja•n e eedflul re w affron tea. Each shed 011. Men's Fur Caps in. Beaver, South Sea Seal, Otter, and Mink. Boys' and Men's Sealet Caps and Astrican Caps. Men's Whitney Caps. 1 BLANKETS—White Blankets, rangine in weight frorn 4 pounds to 10 pounds CHRISTMAS SHOW. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. paetnership heretofore existing between id & as Manufaeturets of pia, PER, • Wagons, &c., hue this day been edissedned by mutual consent. All accounts due thefinn to be nada to Mr. Barton at oree. either by cash or note who will ply all liabilities of the firm. Dated at Seaforth this 19th day of july, 1879. SSAMLOBEELIDiARTON. • Witness -EDWARD CA.SIL AA, R. BARTON will carry on the- leasitiess in 1N -2 -the same ce, viz., that old and well known staid of G. Williamson's, on Goderich street. and takes this opportunity of thanking his elas- tomers for past favors, hoping, by strict atten- tion to inesiness, even to inerease the confidence reposed ie the old. firm. puicEkLD8rAmessirnoglie.nd Brazing Specialties. IVIR. BARTON is a first-e.lass tradeS1114/4 -44-4- strictly honest and of teanperate habits, has had a large experience and extended opportuni- tiee, and I therefore hope that Mr. Barton may receive that patronage which hie talents and 1307 abilities justly merit. Ss. K. BEI]). per pair, in Canadian and English. florse Blankets, from $1.50 up. - T13E Annual Show for the Exhibition and Sale BUFFALO ROBE S—A Full Stock, all Fresh this year. ei FAT STOCK, under the auspices of the Tuckersruith Branch Agricteltaral Society, will be held on the Society's Geounds, in the TOWN of SEAFORTH, on Stock we are Offering -at Less than MONDAY DECEMBER Ben 1879, Former Prices. When the following Prizes -will be - AI -1 our JD TT IVc &1\T• cSz ID u 1\T C MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH. THE SEAFORTH AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT EMPORIUM. competed for : • Best Fatted Ox or Steer, 1st $3, 2nd $2, 3rd $L Beat Fatted Cow or Heifer, lst $3, 2nd $2,3rd $1. Best Pair Fatted Sheep, 1st$3, 2nd $2, 8rd $1. Best Fatted Hogs, 1st $2,2nd $1. Best Pair Fatted Tri rkeys , lst $1e2nd 50 cents. Best Pair Fatted Geese, ist $1, 2nd 50 cents. All entries must be made with tbe Secretary not later than 11 o'clock A. M. on the day of the show. GE• ORGE SPROAT, President. G. McADAM, Secretary. •622-6 ANDREW CALDER 0. C TaleS the Lead amr mg the Photographers WILLSON, PROPRIETOR. qf Western Canada, and 0 - TWO SPLENDID. FARMS FOR SALE - Still, she gradually progressed, and she said to herself that Dr. Hard ould very soon discontinue his visit he had already overheard Eliza _an aue discussing their cost, and she fel pang of self-reproach that she ha pleasure in what involved the expendi- ture of their scanty means. No further thought was in that sin3ple, un- worldly mind. There had been gray days before -there was a gleam of sun- shine now -and then there would be gray days again, just a little darker. She- had hoped. that perhaps Dr. Hardy might oftener find' his way to Briar Cottage as a friendly visitor. After his long professional attendance, even Eliza aud Jaue might think him& rivi- leged. to dispense with a formal vita - tion. It was a glorious summer afternoon. On Dinnent High street the suu had poured. mightily, and there the air was se and a little thickened by/dust. ou the moorland 'roads around a eeze would be blowing, and past snug d farms those roads 'would dip through fy hollows, where even noontide had t scorched. Dr. Hardy, leisurely iving out behind his sturdy pony, ought Ore these things, and how, at e very moment, Lydia Ray was bably tottering around her narrow, edy garden, hearing just enough to catch some of her sisters' sharpest words. Why should be not volunteer to give his patient a drive. He was go - 'some miles by a lovely route to visit ase in -which. there was no fear of in - tion. Dr. Hardy was never slow to ry out an idea when there was no - 37 to oppose it. He pulled up his y before the gate of Briar Cottage. d there sure enough' was Lydia, seat- ed on a garden chair, quite alone, look- ing very pale -and draggled. Dr. Hardy had. to repeat his invita- tion twice before she caught his mean- ing, and then her face lit with intense pleasure. Such a thing was soaunpre- cedented, so outside the usual range of Eliza and Jane's opinions that she actnally forgot all about them and ac- cepted it without any reference to them. The very idea, seemed to bring back her youth.. A longelong drive over the ors gave a sense of boundless free - to one whose peregrinations had for year been limited to the shops, the church, and the neighboring. villas. sho assured Dr. Hardy that her pre- parations should not detain him five minutes, and left him in the .garden, smiling indeed, yet half sad to think that so small a pleasure seemed to be worth so much. 8. clo some Bitter tears apart, and then, by -Bu con:linen consent, but without one br spoken word, th.ey henceforth implied. 01 that ..yydia, had arrogated to herself the ica post of nurse, and that they only hoped no she had sense and. strength to do her dr duty to their poor dear father. th While their father's illness contin.ued, tb at its height, Lydia believed, that her nrc sisters' asperity was due to her anxiety fi've about him, and to their very natural doubts ot her skill and ability. But during hie recovery it slovvly dawned upon her that a gulf hal suddenly ing opened in the dry soil of the family life, a e aud that she was left standing alone on fee ,one side of it For a h regainedcar iltrength, her father's preference for heezs bod va,uished, and he openly chafed at the • other girls leaving him so /mach to her 'An Don society, as, with a inaliciorts dutifulness, they persisted in doing, except when expressly commanded to the contrary. It was not much that Lydia had 'lost, for it was little that she had ever had. But it seemed a great deal to her, and it was her all. No -body knew that she had suffered; probably she did not know herself; she was too humble' to think that anything she could feel could be worthy of the name of pain. But day after day the stairs gre v more wearisome, and the furniture heavier, and the food less appetizing. And ene m° evening a strange mist hung over every- ydeoarn thing -in -doors as well as out of .doors. And next morning she could. not lift her head from her pillow, and Dr. Hardy had a new patient. Dr. Hardy Understood the situation very fairly, as doctors often do. He had had his colloquies with -Eliza and Jane. Even now they were not slow to lay Lydia's illness at her 'own door. "She would nct let them take their fair share of their father's illness, and now she had come upon them herself." He (To beContinued.) I }JANE ON HAND , as usual, Bell's Ex- tra Family Flonr-the Housewife's delight -sup- plied direct treat the mill. D. Th Row. 61132 Either of the tunlersigned will sell two splen- did farms within a short distance of Seefurth, the beet market town' west of Toronto. Both farms aie on good gravel road, ample supply. of Nrater without the trouble of pumping, buildings, orchards, &c., complete. As both gentlemen have -retired from businese, terms of pa3ment will be mole exceedingly easy. -The greater part of the pure1me6 money nifty remain- on mortgage for Years. Immediate possession can be given. Full description, price, terins,, &c., given on applica- tion to JACOB McGEE, Egmendville, or WM. LEE, Seaforth. • 619 WARM FOR SALE. -For sale Lot 2, Con. 17, J". -Grey, and paet of 'Lot 1, Con. 17, containing in all 129 acres, about 91) of which are cleared, and under good cultivation. The balance is well timbered. with hardwood. • There is a hewed log house, and frame barns; eheds and stables. There is a good bearing orchard and good water. Is situated on a good gravel road within half a mile el Welton ; five miles from Brussels, 071 the Great Western Railway; and ten miles from Seaforth, on the Grand Trunk Railway; with a choice on markets. For further particulars apply to theipra elector on the premises or to Walton P. 0. JOHN McFADZEA.N. • 610x20 mum Ii McK11_,LOP FOR SALE. -For Sale, the North part of Lots 8 and 9. Con. 13, Mc -- Killen, containing 112 acres ; there are about 80 cleared, well fenced, underdrained, and in a high state Of cultivation, the balgnce is well timbered with hardwood; good dwelliner new bank frame barn 50x57, with stabliug underneath, and other outbuildings, also a good young orchard and plenty of water. Is 10 miles from Brussels, 5 from Walton, and 12 from •Seaforth, 'tin good gravel roads to eaoh place; convenie to church and echo* ; will be sold as a whole in two parts, or willhe exchanged for a small •en. Apply to Walton P. 0. or to the proprietor the premises. WILLIAM DYNES. •593 QPLENDID FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, that fine farm, the property of David Fergu- son, being Lot 1, Con.9, II. R. S., Tucketsmith containing 10C acres, 75 of which are cleared and in the very best order; is all well fenced and underdrained ; the timbered portion is beech and maple; there is a new frame house frame barns,stables, sheds and eutbuildinet's ; an ex- cellent, orchard of bearing trees andplenty of good spring -water ;, is within 7 milts of Settforth, - on theeGrancl Trunk Railway, and the same dis- tancelrom Hensel], on the Great Western, with grave) evade leadingto each place; aspen creek runs through the feint. Apply; if by letter to Seaforth P. 0 , or on the premises to DAVID FERGU SON. 617 G 001) FARM FOR SALE. ---Being Lot 80, Con. 11, Township of Grey, eontaining, 190 acres, about 75 denied ; clearing neatly all free of stuint s; soil clay loam ; 10 o.ores 01 fall wheat are sown, and balanbe of eh aring seeded down; '011 the lot there is a good new frame house 20x30, storeys lugh, a good log barn 80x60, frame stable and other out -buildings; a good bearing orchard and 3 good wells ; the lot is favorably sit - mated on leading road through the township, 3i miles from Cranbrook and 21 from Heufryn roil - way station; School within a quarter of a mile, and church close by; as t he proprietor has retired from farming, the lot will be sold on C1167f .terms. For further particulars apply to JOHN H. FIODGES, on the premises, or if by letter to Cranbrook post office. 622 STOCK FOR SALE T., OR SALE. -Two colts, one rising three years old and tbe other two, both Marrs. Apply to DAVID DOREANCE, Sr. Lot 29 Con 1st 604 --• - — C OLT FOR SALE -For Sale, a Heavy Draught • Colt, riving two, sired by old LOrd Haddow. Apply or Lot. 11, Cnneeesion 4. H. R. S., Tucker - smith, te J. H. CARTER. 623 • • LL STOCK OF PLOWS ON HAND, Consisting of the Following Kinds: MASSEY'S NO. 13 THISTLE CUTTER PLOW; OLIVER'S NO. 40 CHILLED PLOW, HILL'S PATENT PLOW, NO., 2 MASSEY'S NO. 10 SOD PLOW PORT PERRY AND TEESWATER GANG PLOWS. A Full Stock, of Straw Cutters, Horse Bakes, Gram Crushers, Boot Cutters, and all Implements, belonging to the Business. SEWING MACHINES. AS USUAL. The Florence, Wanzer PI, Raymond, Royal Singer, and Machines. Sewing Machines Repaired on the Shortest Notice, and warranted. Oils, Needles and Attachments always on hand, other work • 0. C. WILLSON, Main Street, Seaforth. "DON'T YOU FORGET IT." He is to the front, as -usual, eupplying his pat- rons with Photographs and Ambrotypes, well taken and of beautiful finish. -Old Pictures -copied and enter ged to perfection. Children's Pictures taken in a manner that will make mothers smile with delight. Give the "People's Popular Gal- leey " u trial and be happy. No "cheap trash" • tuined out. lnices as low as good work ean be done for. ANDREW CALDER, Seaforth. ANCHOR LINE. UNITED STATES At ATI, STEAMERS Sail Every Saturday from NEW YORK and GLA.SGOW (via Londonderiy) and LONDON TICRETS for Liveepool, Londonderry, Gifts - now, end all parts of Europe. Fares as low as any other first-class line. Prepaid Passage Certificates isened to persons wishing to bring out their friends. The Pa esenger accommodation of Anchor Line Steamers are unsurpaeeed for elegance and earn - fort. .A.pply tos. . DioxsoN. 593 At the Post Mae, Seaforth THE SEAFORTH PORK FACTORY. • itonIE3, AATHILE thanking his numerous patrons for the liberal patronage bestowed upon tint during east years, begs to intimate that he is again prepared to furnish his patrons and the public generally with as good an article (if not better) this season as in thepaet. All kinds -of Clued Meets, Petit Cuttings, Sausages, Bologna, &e., constantly on hand. • IL 110)313. N. B. -The highest enice initd. for hogs, Arens - ed or alive. 016 THE HENSALL MILLS. aBISTING, FLOURING AND CHOPPMG `--,2 done in the ehortest possible time. Flour and Feed wholesale and retail. Corn aud Corn Chop at bottom prices. • 1 Thanking our customers and thepublic for the liberal patronage beetowed on us in ehepast, and • -TO- hope for a -continuance of the same. McGREGOR & URQUHART. • P. S. ---A thoroughbred Suffolk Boar for service LONGER at the MilL PAINTING. 622 THE GREAT SALE CONTINUE THIRTY DAYS AT EocEJR1e' • Piles of ,Dry Goods still left at Rogers'. Bargains in Every Department at Rogers'. The Whole Stock to be Cleared Out at Rogers'. Dress Goods, Dress Goods, see the prices, atRogers'. Hats, Caps' and Straw Goods, price them, at Rogers'. All Buyers of Dry Goods Made 'Happy at Rogers'. TOWN BEGS to inform Lis friends •• ane the public in general that he has commenced business as a Painter and Glazier on his own account, and is prepared • to execute all orders entrusted to him in the niost satisfactory manner and on teasonable terms. Orders left at the eters of Messrs. joint- • son Brothers will receive prompt attention. 588-4 •H. TOWN, Seaforth. N.B.-Whitewashing and papering a epecialty. DRAYAGE. THE undersignedhaving entered into o-part- nerehip, are prepared to meet the wants of the Merchants of Seaforth and others who may require their servicee as earriers to and from the Railway freight sheds and elsewhere en most reasonable terms. Orders may be left at Joseph Brownell's Grocery store, and will receive prompt and careful attention. NORMAN BROWNELL JOSEPH Al3ELL. Seaferth, Aug. 30,1872. GRAIN MARKETS. THE subseriber has made arrangements for -2- buying and thipping all kinds of good clean merchantable grain at Hensall and Kippenior another EcaS011, and is prepared to handle any THE GREAT SALE TO CONTINUE THIRTY DAYS LONG- ' 411-"tit7 that ma:y • be offered' . The highest price gtven for bieght, heavy, 'newly cleaned 1 le-nley. It will pay you to clean it well. ER AT JOHN RCIGERS' SEAFORTH. • 614 DAVID 11.1cLENNAN. • ra. DECEMBE,R Galeti "I.•have a levedette girr to her raistress ; " me ? Ana here is some staff in yer ears while y -Sarah Bernhardt stout ; still this does exaggerated "An enipt up to the door, and 8 dismounted from it." --A rather gaily -dm asked leer Sunday sell _was meant by the pomp • the world. The anew but rather unexpected on your hat." -They were out • Theodore "What tree, the most precious f 440h, Dory, 1 ean't • cherry *tree." Theodor terable sweetness as he • geiina's eyes anti said, darling." -lam past sixty every DOW and then 1 na lam mo fortv-five yea members some deviltry then. Ain't it strange the memory is of these weak it is ov ennythin may have accidentall Billings, - -Meeting a -newsboy scarred with seratchese a reap of some railroad. tleman asked the youtt matter was. "Feller ep ful of my sister, and sai was oross-eyea, aud. 1= your sister cross-eyed eiBain't got no sister, '- .4.16 waS the principle of Igot licked for." Z A Natural From etty hotel windo. out almost any elesx column of smoke in the- ba;ve asked the eause been told that it is the boiling Spring, evliieb. h found, owing to the imp of the swamp in whi My informants say it fr ea blockade runners a from runnersoanwaert an ture. I suggested one d there Might he some illi- tillation going On inethe. possibility, and even admitted. "Thep none of you, asked, "saw that colinn iligNtolince;Nhvaaelr 2s"een at. un whiskey was levied, fore at bad of the smoky 00-1 it WWI Of late years I acc. id, wee,4e:rsaltaa h,, says their sted ,gray -hair down in neighborhoo smoke is, and you shoul alongside ale road wid to de handle, you'd be find daft ;jug filled wid. day." "Where would the ole?" • 'Tat would be gone, s "And 'could I spend a way -every day?" 'As newly as you like. a dolle.r -dey'll give you gw000 t temlaswuhreisky,a nd ,eenre. '-Do they de much b Ifni?" I-esked. • iq don't knew • sal. 1 !only knows el much whiskey in de jug tied to the handle will p --- - 313 004 of the "R -Tv There was much gu- by that particular dark ter was a surgeon who on another darkey an 0 ing &high degree of s darkey V.seles Wellate-de, a charged' him 25 for : Meeting the doctor's ter. this dialogue occurred.: ' -'Det eves a Mighty s the doctor's for eutting day." , 'How lunch did the b "Welt Julius, he elute ' five aollare." "Go long, niggah, charge.'" , "Well, he wasn't more fottr miautes dein? it.. an was all he °lighter took.' • "Look-a-hea,b, Sam ; 1 'sten 'bout elat ting. Ye have to spend a great nil ain'hoze to use that kill him heaps o' money. dat he duly charge you i de oper4tion ; de tudder for de kliou) how." That's it -the time ail the 1...n0o how.—Iirtrper ',' ! ....--i laavk Twain's , Thatj quaint and 01 Samuel! la Clemene- s] tola a ory- at his OWel ! breakiai tiog with: a• len! one Morning, whieh i to be Wt. and which, I.) now pulaiebed for the fii had beea sorae talk -at i the Grant banquet, wine remarked 'with a smile ti i draw1; 1 "Spe&Iting of banquei a rathei amusing incidel to me daring my stop ii grand otel LIosslon. 1 ri tation to attend a bang: went. 1.It was one of th .alinnersi where there arei guests invited. 1 haelail that sett of thing, an quite aft home. When r at the tables 1 notieed til was a little plan of the position of each guest ni • one eould see at a &me was seated by learuiu Just befere we fell to,. Lord Mayor, or whoev the occaelon-arese and a. list ef: those present - and -Sot No. 1, the Duli or-othese and eo on. Va vidual real the name al ent politieal ehaeacter ol, rity, it Would be greeted less applause. The inal reading the names.did 01101.18 ne manner that _ ; and begat' looking aboul to engage my attentiee gentleman. next to me, 1 -well-informed perZonag into tonversation 'wig never - seen him before, • '