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The Huron Expositor, 1882-03-24, Page 64 - THE HURON EXPOSITOR. ; MARcu 24, 1882. Tlini LITTLE DISH- WASHER She stood before the dish -pan, with a questioning and perplexed expression on her nweet young face. It was August,. and she had washed dishes ever eince the first of June. These particular dishes.wereparticular- Iy exasperating.. As Huldah said to herself -she was never known to utter a fault-finding word in any other hear- ing -they were "all stuck up." How tired she was of scraping and scrubbing, and washing, and rinsing, andi polish- ing, none but her weary little self ever thought. ne teaspoons were stained with eggs, aud sanee-plates were rough with sugar andieerry-juice. Then there Were oat- meal pans, and pots, desd kettles with- out number.- The great rambling fatm house was full of sumtner boarders, and IIuldah surveyed the pan full and the table fall of dishes, piled up as high as they could be without danger of a tum- ble, and wondered how she ever could go on washing the sticky thing", for the next two months; for these boarders always remained in the country through September. After they went away Ifuldah could go to school, and -better than all -there wound. be a little time for piano practice, which was more. to this little girl than everything else in the world. The proprietor of this house and farm was not Haidah's own father. He had died when she was an infant. Her step -father, John Blaisdell, was called by his Long Island neighbors an unustunly "fore -handed man." Fere- handed in this connection meant "close fisted," for this farmer worked like a slave to make money, and •racked his brain day and night to devise means for saving it. In order to make this house popular for summer boarders, there must be a piano in the parlor, comfort- able, cosy furniture, and a luxurious table. The piano came hard, but it was a good one, and little Hulda.h was provided with a teaober for the fall and winter months, wbo agreed to furnish the necessary instructibn for twenty-five casts & lesson. There was one lesson a week. This was paid for on the spot by Mrs. Blaisdell, who to use her own pbraseology, iiskinched it oat of the butter money." , Mr. Blaisdell said that "of all the hifaleitin notions, this was the hifalutinest.!" And as he was never near ettocigh the'parlor to be bothered with the "strumming," as he called it, he soon forgot all about the matter. "I wonder how girls feel that never have to wash ashes?" Hulda1i asked as she commenced her scraping. "I won- der if it is wicked to feel iike breaking thines? I always feel like breaking dishbes. Perhaps I shall throw 'em all out of the window some da," and the little girl laughed as she saw, in her imagination, cups, saucers, plates, sou-ptareens, and oat meal pots -.flying one after another into the yard. Then she pinned up her calico sleeves, tied her bib apron a little more -securely, and went briskly at the obnoxious work. It was hard work, but she did not stop for a long time. Then a suddea happy thought seemed to strike her, fol. ,her face looked very brightt as she washed and dried her little red hands and stole softly into the diuing room. There was no one to see her as eha opened a draw- er of the great old-fashioned secretary and took oat a piece of music and hur- ried back t� the kitchen. There was a strange weird light in the child's brown eyes as she carefelly parted the sheets, and placed theixann rack abovethe six*. The music was an arrangement of Bee• thoven's symphony in A Major It had been loaned her by one of the young lady boarders, who wondered what upon earth this little dish -washing country, -girl could possibly want of Bee- thoven, If she could have seen the child's rapt look as she stood on her wooden stool before the sink, hummiug the wonderful strains and keeping time with -the glasses she was polishing, she would have some faint realization,at least, of what it meant. - Sometimes Huldah got too near the end of the stool and lost her equilibrium, and sometimes she forgot and polished the •same piece two or three times over, but she never stopped work, and iudeed made considerable progress. In the „midst of Huldah's greatest enthusiasm her mother entered upon the scene, and immediately took in the situation. "Huldah - Calhoun," she exclaimed, "those dishes ought all to have been washed said pat away What are you doing with that piece of music ?" "Just seeing how it goes; that' e all," said the chilcl with a sigh. "Go and put it where you got it from, this minute," the lady continued stern- ly*. "Your father has • just sent up word that he can't spare anybody to pick the beans for 'dinner. You'll have to do it, and iron the napkins besides. Dear me„ Haldah 1 if you knew how you keep things behindhand with your capers you. would be more careful." lituldah took the music back to the secretary drawer, theu,without a word, wiped the rest of the dishee aud hurried out among the beae vines. Huldah liked to piek beans. Adything that took her out of doors was a relief and a diversion, and now the full, green pods cantle off the curling vines and dropped into the pan in the time of the Seventh Symphony. Huldah had thought very much about the composer of this won- derful music. Some one had told her that this Symphony was written when the great master was too deaf to hear a u.ote of it. This see,ned very sad to the sensitive child,and now the beans drop - pee more slowly, and Huldah had. to leave off picking and wipe her eyes. Then the sad face brightened as she thought of sonaething else she had been told. Beethoven played so well on the violin when he was wily eleven years old that he made many of those who heard him weep, and everybody came r away from the performance wondering and astonished at the little boy's genius. It was a piece of Bach's that he played when folles cried so hard. She loved bach's music too. nho recalled a spark- ling fantasia and fugue she had once heard. when a neighbor took her to the city to hear a great concert, and her eyes shone with a new light ; but they soon grew sad again. Her friend had told her that Bach studied so hard that he became totally blind,and dissatisfied -with the beautiful things he had writ- ten because he could not compose any more. Bach played the organ well when he was only eight years old. She Wondered if Beethoven and Bach had been obliged to wash dishes if they would have accom-plished such wonder- ful thinge. She was twelve, and *hat had she ever done? It was all on acs count of having so much housework to do that she could not play just in well on the piano. Huldah h d the atn- bition and the self-conflde ce which are the fortunate and natural accompani- ments of true genius. Slowly, very slowly, the beans found eir way to the pan now, for Huldah ad left Bach and Beethoven to do a su ,.• in mental arithmetic. If she co*, &Aiwa half hour each day,liowIC • hours would that make in .thee:r? It was'nt hard to reckon, and she h oil] net found the answer when her moth r's voice re- called her to her work.' uldah stop- ped short and looked into he pan. "Enough for a, mess," eh said, and hurried into the house. "What in the world has kept you so long ?" the busy, bustling woman in- quired, snatching the bean from her daughter's.hands. "Gott shelling as fast as you can 1" she continued. "There is somebody extra for dinner, some hifalutin musician fro'. the city. Hen very particular about hat he eats, I npose ; such people ge orally are; and those beans ought to be cooking this minute. They'll be s tough as David's armor, I've no don t. Hulnah Calhoun, couldnit you have been a little swifter?" The child said no word o Beethoven or Bach. , She never s aoke of her dreams, and scarcely of he wishes, to ber mother. She knew in iutively that she wokild not. have uneerstood her. But Halds,h had sensed ve little- of what had been said after t te one magic word "musician." She ha drawn a chair to her mother's si e, and:was shelling beans with all her might, and turning things over in her mind with equal celerity. She did ot aek any question. That was not h r way, and she wondered where the musician would sit at the table, and i he would play on the piano, and if h did play, should sbe hear him, or be ite the kit-. chen washing dishes. "Mary Rich was in a m nute ago," i her mother began again "a d said you would be dreadful pleased to hear- the =siker again. I . s'pose t • at's Dutch for musician. I wonder ti ary don't speak English better, after li ing in this country so long.'. “Why should I be glad, did. Mary say ?" Huldah had asked a questi n at last. One long yellow pod was op n in her fingers e.nd the fingers trem ed fit) that Mrs. Blaisdell looked from t em to the pale face of her daughter in unfeigned astonishment. • . “Well, I should like to k ow !" she exclaimed, and from the exp ession. of her face it was plaint 13he spoke the truth. Huldah emptied the 1od and re- peated the question: "She said he was the eader, or whatever you call it, of that•c noert she took you to hear, and tha you were gene carried away by his mu ic." “You can leave now, H ldah, and tidy up a bit,', the lady went 011 in a tone of unusual tenderness. The beans were not all s Huldah needed no second bid ran -like a deer up the bring back stairs to her little roo attic, and, once there, locked died, but ing. She flight of • in the her door -for what reason she never c uld have told -and sat down by the evnidove to think it all over. "Mr. Blaisdell may storm f he's a mind to," said Huldah' s moth r, as her daughter left her, "but I &hall send over for Sophrony West, and give. uldah breathing spell. Good gracious how her little hand: trembled at t • e thought of the music. She is just like her father. - If he'd a lived, no 0 • y would have beat him with the fiddle I wish- ed I'd thought a little more of Carl's playing at the time. I wish • goodness I had. I've tald him many a, ime that I'd enough sight rather h ar a cat squak than that violin of -big wailing and lamenting. It did used to make my hair stand on end, Barnet mes, and yet Carl was accounted a goo player. I must try and make -it up to Huldah some way." The little girl was too res less and excited to stay long in the at ie. She came down looking, very s eet and lovely in a light print dress, w th' pretty lane on the neck and slee es. She would iron the napkins fol. di • er, and the one that was to lie beside his plate should be just the least bit n cer than anybody's else. She would pu same of the late Jacqueminot roses in it, the great red -hearted, velvet-leav roses, which were her especial favorites. He would nt think it strange. Bos s would make a musician happy, she as quite BUT. Did the music man pia, so very extra nice ?" Mrs. Blaisdell en aired. Huldah could'nt quite un erstand this newnnterest of her mot er's and the lady would„, have been p zzled to have explained it heritelf. "He dicInt play at all, mam o• a," the child replied with a merry la gh, “at least he had nothing but a w ite stick in his hand. It seemed to me though, he made all the music. Mary ays the stick ia called a baton, and the leader of of the orchestra" -here Hun ah put down her iron and waved an i aginary baton -marks the time this way and they all follow him ; but I told Mary he did a good deal more than mark the tinae, and Mary laughed and s id yes, that the right kind of a c nductor always inspired his orchestra." “Welleyou and Mary do be:t all !" Mrs. Blaisdell replied, "and if your father was alive he'd m tch. the pair of you." 1 11 uldah had often been told hat she took after her father in her odd notions, but this was the first time that he tone of the communication seemed o have either respect or iuterest in it. When found. she “rna.deia note on't," s Cap- taiu Cuttle would have suggest d, but it was done instinctively, and wit .out the least design, though with adme natural curiosity. After the table was set, and the musiker' s place made as right as . possible, Huldah went into the garden and picked tnree of the faire t roses she could find. The stems she tucked into the fold of, the visitor's napkin, leaving the wonderful blossoms exposed to view. She did not put th m in a vase, because she feared he w uld not know they were intended for im, and theu he might not feel at libert to take them away with him. Huldah did not eat at the first table, so she co d not see how the maestro received her tribute, but that was of small account. It was quite enough that he should be pleased with ber Jacqueminots. The 1' tie girl was in the orchard -when th great family,of boarders poured into t e At this time she nually washed the pots and pans, an skim- mers andeullenders and puddin -bags- housekeepers oniy can tell what did not _ fall to her lot on these occasions -but Sophrony hadarrived and Holdall was at Iiberty.t� enjpy herself as she , pleas- ed,- not** taken the- Sytnphony out With hert and when the object of her -enthusialint took Up her roses she was -beating time with a, branch of aspara- gus, her Symphony arranged on a low apple bough, with a fantastic backing of twigs and green •leaves. "Are these rosea intended for me?" the master Inquired as he picked up the flowers. • The key at his right hand laughed lightly as she said, "That must be Huldah's work." "Who is --Huldah ?" the gentleman asked. "The daughter of our hostess," his companion replied. "She went to one of your concerts not long ago, and has not been able to talk of anything else since, I arn told." The musician caressed the roses for a moment, then put them in his glass and asked for SOlile water. il'. Iyml ust see Huldah!" dab!" he said,thought- fla1 . , * The asparagus branch broke, and Huldan was struck with a new idea. She wobld go into the house and see 'if she could , Vick out the notes on the piano. The boarders were all at dinner and nobody need know anything about it. The coast was clear, as she suppos- ed, and Huldah sat down to the piano and arranged her mask). The Sym- phony went hard, as might be expected, and after a trial of acme of !the simplest passages she article intothe fugue of Bach's, of which composition she had never seen a note; and only having heard it on that long -to -be -remembered occasion. Her memory was perfect, and her ear wonderfully correct'. Her manner of rendering some of the Pas- sages that had most pleased her was marvellous in the extreme. " Her hands were tooinexperienced and too stiff with hard work for brilliant exeeution, but there was a soul in -every note -she struck which told, a plain story of the genius which dominated her life. "This is Huldah l" said a lady's voice, as the -amateur- musician took her hands dreamily from the piano; and Huldan turned in consternation to meet the kind eyes of the master. Her roses bad been transferred to la vase, and this be held in his hand. "It was very kind of you, Fluidal; to give me these beautiful roses," he said simply. "I knew you wotild like roses," she replied, with enthusiasm. , I "Tell me, dear," the gentleman went on, as he drew the child to his side; and imprisoned one. of her little warm hands, "how Many times have you heardithe music twhich you have just played?" - "Just once; only once," was the childish response, "and then it seemed to me it all came out of your stick." There was a general laugh at this, but the musician, who loved art for art's sake, and revered • genius as a divine gift, only smiled, and held the trembling hand a trifle closer, and looked more searchingly into the tender, upturned eyes. Then the master and the young coun- try girl walked out into the August sun- shine. He told her of the sacrifices and the drudgery which a cultivated talent must always entail, but she smiled and thought of the dishes which she had hated, but faithfully washed, and did not feel afraid. "It will be easy, -because I love it," she said simply. "Huldah Calhoun; you have'nt eaten a mouthful of dinner," Mrs. Blaisdell exclaimed, as the little girl entered the kitchen at last. "Oh, mamma !" said Huldah, with a radient look, which reminded her mother more than ever of Carl's face when he played the fiddle. "If you are willing I can learn music. The gentle- man says so. He wants to see you right away. Oh, mamma! mamma! what do folks- do when they are too happy?" The beautiful dream was realized. This summer Symphony was played four years ago'and now Fluidal' is in Berlin with her dear Mary Rich, the lady who took her to hear her first con- cert. "Huldah plays like an angel and sings like a seraph !" Mary once wrote to the musiker, and the nit/siker replied, - "I do not think your enthasiasm is exaggerated. Huldah is art's own child." Our Princess . A chatty London correapondent says: The Princess Louise infinitely prefers selectingher own friends and forming her own circles. She is at the head of a great number of associations for art needlework, fan painthig, house decor- ating in the Queen Anne style,aud gen- eral artistic promulgatiou of taste. She is fond of artists,painters, and mus- icia,ns; invites them to dinner and takes them to her boa at the opera, whence she is afterwards escorted by a severely respectable Chamberlain. If she likes them, she cultivates their acquaintance. Having heard that Jacques Blumenth. al the composenhad arranged his house at Ininsiligton in the most approved method of high art. and that he follow- ed the newest and inost appropriate designs in shaded gold, peacocks, and pomegranates, the Princess Louise in- vited herself to be shown over it. Mme.Blumenthal, whois as much an elegant woman of the world as she is herself an attest, impressed the Princess so favorably that she became a frequent visitor, even staying three weeks at the Blumenthal fairy-like chalet in Switzerland,near Montreux., There she did away with the outward paraphernalia of rank, dismissing even her lady in waiting, and joining in all , the pursuits of her hostess. She was so popular that men cast lots to sit be- side her at dinner, and she was full aware of inalthough pretending to igeore the discomfiture of the unlucky ones. Of all the etaugbters of the British royal house, the Marchioness of Lorne is the one who finds the stiff fonnalty of Osborne,Windsor, and Bal- moral the most irksome. When Dociors ,Disagree, Who Shall Decide. Nothing is more variable than the different opinions of medical men; but when they fail to agree, or to perform a cure in a chronic disease, the patients often decide for themselves, and take Burdbck Blood Bitters and speedily recover. It is the grand key to health that unlocks all the secretions, and lib- erates the Slave from the captivity of disease. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE'. "UAW& FOR SALE. --For Ehtli‘, or will be ex.. 4: changed for farm eitherili bilaillop, Tucker. imitb, Stanley nr.linllett, Lot No. 85, concession 12, Tornbeny, containing 60 wales good timber land. For Fruitier particulars apply to A. STRONG, Laud Agent, Seaforth. aninmene 'PATIN( IN BULLET FOR SALE. -For sale, 'L. the west half of Lot 12, Concession 8, Bul- let, containing 60 sores, 38 of which are cleared, well fenced and under good cultivation. The balance is well timbered. There is a fair house and good orchard, alaci plenty of water. This farm is within 7 miles of Eleaforth and 5 from Clinton; and is convenient to churches and 800 0018. It will be sold cheap as the proprietor is bound for Manitoba. Apply on the premises or to Clinton P. 0. SIDNEY MORTON.: 741 VARti FOR SALE -North half of lot 28; conces- sion 2, East Wawanosh, containing- 100 acres, 80 acres cleared -and in a good state of cultivation. There . are 14 acres of summer fallow ready for crop. There is a large frame barn with stabling under- neath, a log 'dwelling and a small orchard. It is one and a quarter miles frem the Village of Man- chester. Soil is good clay, loam. This is a choice farm, and will be sold cheap. lf not sold before the 10th of March it will be rented. C. Maul, TON, Blyth. 741 • ' FARM FOR SALE -Being the sonth half of Lot . No. 213, Concession 5, Township of Morris, County of Huron, 100 acres, 60 cleared and well improved,.new frame bank barn, 55x56, stone walls 8 feet high, hewed log house 18x30, young orchard, 13 acres fall wheat. Risler Maitland on the Blind Line. The above farm is in a good stato of cultivation, is only one mile west of Brus- sels. and will beo1d at a bargain en easy terms, as the proprietot is going to the nOrth-west. Pos- session at once. Apply on premises or by letter to A. K. BoaRwrSos, Brussels P. 01.. 744x4 FWARM FOR SALE -For sale, Lilt 24, conces- A: sion 1, Huron Road, Tuckerainith, t contain ing 100 acres, of which about 90 abres are clear- ed, in a splendid state of cultiVation and all underdrained. There is a good; brick house, -first-class out -buildings, two orchards and plenty of good water. This farm is situated on the HuronRoad, about half way between Clinton and F Worth, 'and is one of the choicest farms on the Huron tract. It will be sold cheap. Apply on the'prernises or to Seaforth P. 0. MRS. Go. Ciasszsv. 740 --- WARM FOR SALE -Farm in .Ttickersmith for sale -For sale, Lot 2, Concesslon 10, Huron Road Survey, Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, 76 of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation, and all underdrained., The balance is well timbered with hardwoud. There are 18 acres of fall wheat and 30 acres fall filowed. There is a stone -house, good framer barn with stabling underneath, and other good out-billidings. Three good wells and a young orchard. Is within eight miles of Seaforth on the Grand Trunk Railway, and five from Mensal' on the Great Weatern. Schools and Churches quite convenient. Will be sold cheap Apply to Chiselhurst P. O.,- or on :the premises. MRs. A. Yet.E. 733 FARM FOR SALE-Lot.No. 7, in the 4th Con- ceshion, H. R. S., of Tuckersniith, 100 acres, the estate of the late James Cheney; 90 acres wmaple elm &o. Good rick house If i cleared and under oulthatiorit hal' nce timbered ith beech storeys high, 26 by 86. Frame herr and cow stable on stone foundation, also frame stable, and gcod orchard. The lot is weli watered, well fenoed and is in a good state of ou tivation. For , particulars apply on the premises,- or to the un- dersigned. Id o CAUGHEY & HOLMESTED, 13olicitors. Seaforth. 7104 1 VARII IN TUCKERS M ITH PORI SALE - For -a: Sale Lot 28, Coi.cession 3, L. It. 8., Tucker - smith, containing 100 acres, about 80 of which are cleared and in a first-class state lot cultivation, and nearly all underdrained. The balance is timbeied with hardwood. Thai e Th a good brick honae with a splendid cellariand first-olass frame barns'stables and outbuildings. A. largo orchaid. of first-class fruit trees, and plenty of water There is about 120 rods of board fence. Is within 2 miles of Brucefield on the Great Western Rail- way, and 6 zones from Stafoith on the Grand Trunk, with gravel roads leading to each p ace. There are 17 acres of fall :dust. This is as good and comfortable a farm as there is in the Cennty of Huron, and wilt be sold cheap and on easyterms Apply on the prenlises or to Bracefield P. 0. ALEX. LIVING STONE. r 724 FOR SALE -.i story and 'a half house on the corner of John and High streets, containing every convenience for family use, in one of the most central localities of the town as regards churches, markets, schools and b.usiness centres. Hard and Soft water on the premises. A- fine lawn with choice shrubbery, the whole enclosed by tr handsome wire ? fence. Also barn with stabling for cow and litorses. For further particulars apply to W. S. ROBERTSON, Sea - forth. _ 720 WARM FOR SALE -For sale, the west half of -4; the north half of Lot 2, Concession 8, Morrie, containing 60 acres, 85 are cleared and itt a good state of caltivation. The bush is Vicll timbered with goocr hardwood, good flame tarn and two good log stables, also a log dwelling] house. A . good young orchard aitb a choice veriely of fruit trees. Good well. Saw mill and 801141 within one- quarter of a mile. Two and a halt Miles from the village of Blyth, and tn.--quarter of la mile, from the Wingham gravel road. 'This propel ty will be sold cheap as ilia proprietor is going to Manitoba in the spring. Apply to AUGUST KRUSE on the place, or to C. HAMILTON at Blyth. 734 wou SALE -Property in HarpuiLes for sale - For sal.- cheap, a comfortabls dwelling house and about an acre- of land, situated in Ilarpur- hey and at preeent occupied by the undersigned. The house containe a parlor, ,diuing-room, kitchen and 1 b(cliwm, besides pantie s and clopets.down stairs, and 4 bedraonis up stairs. There is also a summer kitchen, wood shed and splendid cellar; also plenty of hard and soft water. 'the hit is well ilantedwith the best kinds of fruit trees aud bushes. It would Make a most comiort able and eligible place for a itnrod far- mer. Also about 6 acre a of land in the rear of the church ard ' These properties be sold togethei • r 1.eparate13, and n reasotaLle terms Apply on the premises to Davin McCist.Loctl 74 f.szPLENDID FARM F R SALE -For sato Lot 27, Concession 6, Hay, containing 100 acres nearly all cleared, well fenced, underdrained, free from stumps and in a high state of cultiva- tion generally here are about 16 acres of fall wheat and about 40 acres fall plowed A. frame house, two good frame barns, frame stable and other good outbuildings; plenty of water and a good orchard; also about 160 rods Of thorn hedging. It is within 4 miles of Kippen and about some distance to Hensall., and convenient to churches, schorels and post office This is a splendid farm, and will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as the Proprietor wishes to retire. Applyon the pre), ises or to Mind Green P. 0: JAMES 110tiLDEN, Proprietor. 737 . A GREAT CHANCE. -Splendid Farm for sale by Public Auction -Mr. J P. Brine has been instructed by Mr. A D. lienneallv to sell by Public Auction on the premises,' on Wednes- day, March 22, 1882, at 1 o'clock p. nr, that- valu- able property being composed of the west half of lot 10 on the 2nd concession of McKillop, eon- taining ;;0 acres of excellent land. Five acres of wood, the balance in a good state of cultivation On the premises ate a good frame house 22x:39, , young bearing orchard. good wm well ami 'pump, . Is situated half a mile from the Limon gravel . road Four • miles from Seaforth and 3 .from • Dublin. It is one of the most .destrabie proper- ties in the township and will likely go cheap as the proprietor is determined to sell TERMS. - Ten per cent. of the purchase money on the day ef sale; $937 of the balance -on the first day of February., 1883, AA WI interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and the remainder cash on the completion of the transfer of the property to the purchaser Further particulars can be obtained from the Auctioneer, or on the day of sale. -A. D. KENNBALLY, Proprietor; J. P. BRINE, Auctioneer. 74-2 MELLVILLE'S MILLS, H U LLETT. THE GREAT GOLDEN WEST. THE_ POOR MANS PARADISE TRE THE RICH MAN'S FIELD FOR OPERATION! MANITOBA, KEEWATIN AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY Have a world-wide reputation. Thousands of people are pouring into the lands, and in the near future they will control the destinies of this Great DOMINION OF CANADA.Huadredaeof Thousands of Dollars have already been made, and MILLIONS are in the near future. • J. M. McGREGOR, & CO. Wounii respectfully announce to their old friends and the people of Huron, that they have opened their • REAL ESTATE OFFICE • IN THE CITY OF WINNIPEG, And have every facility for making CHOICE INVESTMENTS. NO PAPER TOWNS HANDLED BY US. No Village, Town or City Lots two, three or four miles distant will be offered and called VILLAGE, TOWN OR- CITY PROPERTIES. Everythieg will be called by its proper name, and nothing but SQUARE, SOLID INVEST- MENTS RECOMMENDED. A nine years' residence in the Northwest ,en- ables us to speak advisedly, and many throughout Ontario can testify to our good judgment in selecting INVESTMENTS. MR. M. Y. M'LEAN; OF THE' "HURON EXPOSITOR, SEAFORTH, Will attend to- our Ontario business. INTENDING INVESTORS can make their deposits with Mr. McLean, who will furnish all posstble information as to how the. business is done. IMMIGRANTS on their arrival in Winnipeg, and calling on us, will receive our best advice FREE OF COST. THE GREAT BOOM WILL SOON STRIKE US. All- you require is a little Nerve, a little Backbone, and a little Money placed in our hands for investment, and all will go well. DON'T DELAY UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS. J. M. MacGregor & Co. OFFICE -Two Doors North of Post Office (Old Free Press Branch Office), Main Street, Winnipeg; Manitoba. P. 0. Drawer 0. SHIPMENTS ARRIVING DAILY. No time to write advertisements, but would like to say to my customers that I will be able to Show them one of the. \ wrosal G�MPIETE smiocirs Both in quantity, quality and at prices THAT DEFY COMPETITION. With my facilities for purchasing goods, and my SMALL EXPENSES, I say to FIRST-CLASS CREDIT CUSTOMERS I can sell 3%:!u 03048 on CRE DIT less than other houses can give you them for CASH, and to CASH BUYERS 1 will allow FIVE PER CENT.-DIS' The proof of it is thsaeneoftohreyrourselloulsveess' .CASH PRICE. IChOavUe tNheingooledsss. NOTE MY SYSTEM OF DOING BUSINESS. Imark all Goods in Plain Figures. Strictly one price. A, Dis- count of Five PeTi Cent. for Cash. HEAT YOUR HOUSES THOROUOM; BY USING THE CHALLENGE HEATER HICKORY or RADIANT HOME STOVES, They have the best known improve- ments for saving fuel and labor of any similar stoves in this market. CALL AND SEE THEM AT JOHN KIDD'S, MAIN ST. SEAFORTH. SEAFOBTH INSURANCE AGENCY WM. N. WATSON, General Fire, Marine, Life and Ac- cident Insurance Agent, Convev- ancer, Appraiser, Etc., MAIN ST., SEA -FORTH. ONLY FIRST-CLASS, prompt paying companies represented. All kinds of risks effected at lowest current rates on alL kinds of property. Special attention devoted to Marine insurance. Insurances effected on !arra property in the "Gore District," of Galt,estahlish- over 43 years, at from .624 to 1 per cent., cash, for three years Cheaper than any mutual tom- pany m existence. The foilowhig conennles represented, viz.: London*Laneashire, England; Northern, England; Scottish Imperial, Scotland; British America, Toronto ; Royal Ca/ladle/41t30- treal ; Gore District, (-alt; Canadian Fire 41‘ Marine, Hamilton; Alliance, Hamilton; Toronto Life, (Life), Toronto ; Travellers, Life and -Acci- dent, Hartford, Conn. tAgent for the Canada. Permanent Loan and Savings Company, Toronto. Money loaned at 6 per cent. on real estate. Agent for the State Line Steamship Company, sailing between New York and Glasgow. First Cabin, $60 to $75 • Second Cabin 640 ; Steerage, $26. Return ticllets issued good for 12 months. W. N. WATSON, Main Street, Seaforth, Office, Camp. bell's Block,_opposite theMansion Hotel. ON EXH!BiTION. The Grand"Planetory Wonder which canoes so much excitement is yet visible to the gazing mil- lions, and the 26th of June having come and gone with every prospect of several anniversaries et this eventful time, the well known firm of WHITNEY BROTH E RSI •• Stove and Tinware Merchants, M Al N 8 TRE ET, SEAFORTH espectfory Solicit theIro-pection and Patronage of the Public of Seaforth end :vicinity, to their s plcndid stock of STOVES, &c. Don't pass the sign of THE BIG COFFEE POT' Yon can see at the sign of the big Coffee Pot, that WHI1 NEY BIOS. keep stoves, and what not 2 Why Hemet Tools, Binding Witte, and all kinds ot Tinware„ as Cheap andas Good. any store elsewhere. Some think 'tis not true, but only a rhyme. But come, inspect our Stoves; t'wont take much time. • We Will fust as Cheap as We Possibly Can From a Fine Polished Stove to &Bird Cage or Can. Please enquire for We are working hard night and day to place stcck, and in a few days will be able to show goods. Hoping all will favor me with a call. THOMAS KIDD, Direct Importer. -111 0-0 L D EJ1\1"-L 1 0 1V. - THE , undersigned having procured a first-class practical miller, and]havitig his mill in the cry bcnit orciur, is now prepared to de GATSTING AND CHOPPING on the ]shortest notice and on reasonable terms. They guarantee a first-class article of flour. All rinds of Mill and Feed Offen con- stantly on hand They solicit the patronage of the Farmers of Hallett .and neighboring townships, and can guarantee them the fullest satisfaction. ANGUS McKA.RRALL, Proprietor. R. TO HAND BY S S. ETHEOPIAN 11 CASES, S. S. CIRCASSIAN 20 CASES, OF OLD COUNTRY GOODS. SM.A.F0Rri-1-1. • WHITNEY BROTHERS'. SEAFORTH. CHRYSTAL &-BLACK, 16RAOTICAL 130I LER. MAkERS., THE Subscribers have bought the Tools awl 4- Boiler Business lately carriedon by the God. erich,Foundry and Manufacturing Company, and having had an experiencer cf over eight years in that shop, are now prepared to tarry on the trade in all its blanches. . Any work entrusted to us will receive prompt attention. First-class work gnaranteed. hll kinds of Boilers raade and repaired, also sonable rates. Smoke Stacks and Sheet Iron Work, &o., at res - New Salt Pans made and old onesrepaired os the shortest notice, and at prices that defy com- petition . CIIRYSTAL & BLACK, 686-52 Box 103, Goderich, The Royal Hotel; (LATE -CARMICHAEL'S) SEA FORTH§ ONTARIO. JAMES WEIR BEGS to inform his old friends and the travel- ling public that having purchased this new and commodious hotel buildino, he has thorough- ly re -furnished and re -fitted it from top to bot- tom, and it is now one of the most comfortable and convenient hotels in the county. By strict attention to the wants of his customer's he hopes to naerit a share of public patronage. The roome areal' well furnished and well heated. The bar will be kept supplied with the best, and an st- tentative and trust worthy hostler will always be in attendance. Good sample rooms for nenuner- ciai Travellers. Remember the "Royal Hotel," -corner of Main and Goderieh Streets, Seaforth. -733 JAMES WEIR, Proprietor; iAi 111/11111111111=1 oys 0760eurTher hub;_aorn:glyea4: rhfssy; wrttRn i • :90p,osEsibalrei: 311136i1:216:: ennW:211mC::: 3) -G -8C First;_iervn itTsenaotridlNifedi- h1st ifenSosgi .:::roodt,arnal:nelu.Tila:1 :ego urtnetn: rusty 28th. nl James Cart ;ME oer!a savtni 3 Medd.,2 Annie Ham 3rd , Alice 2Jnudni jeorttsnecHo Junior Fd. aniT,Ror re iexohens arljrst L' ton, 3rd Jos -The fol aPtrtlInnele), wofot.hiee, Tputtprinlbs months of Fioifat fthet,3 lassrd, elass,-IsH t Moffatt, A birdex. jes st; o junior third fait, 2nd A Miller and S class No. 1, - Douglass, 3rd first CIASS,- fittE,-. MisctGAb Ringler, -The foll general profic thelln e or t uareilettY et Schcol Sectio• month of Fe let Henry Gal I3on, 3rd Ed Fraser_ Seni Jambi King, Charles Erase Yzetya. Junior lanaayii Mustard., 4th class,-Ist Sa Messer, p ser:t3l'a Ezan lst Noble Jobe enredge. Jun eton, 2nd Bo Forrest, 4th A xuary there we and the averag -The followi the pupils in S cording to pro duct, during th Fifth Class. -1 Alexander Ma non. Fourth Leod, 2nd John Catnpbell. Se Matilda Shawl, ThOnlita Campb -1st Mary Mc Leod, 3rd Findl CIASS,-18t Agne McGregor, 3rd First Class, -1. Wm. Hogg, 3rd First Class,-litt of -The rtip intahef 8l34);1113rdir7fig aMneKiol (Ind ti )P' cboas ed dge February: Fift IleFadzean, 2n Fourth Class, -1. Dennie McGrath, Third Class,--lst Wien Morrison, 3 Senior Second, - 2nd Andrew Cala Grath and Katie men -18t George Kenny, 2nd Sam man Barwick. S 1st Thomas Craig, 3rd Margaret Ha First Class,-lst • Robert Morrison, -The following proficiency, good c port of several of t Section No, 1. Hos of February, 1882. Mary A. Newell, 3rd Robert Wallac day. Fourth Cla den, 2nd Sophia Scott, 4th Elean Third Class, ----1 Alatlie Johnston, 3r Eliza Burns. Jo Itinja neyrni , 3rd floHuvvetglh Vindlater. Senior Fred Taylor, 2nd Maggie Ritchie, At Junior Second Cl 1I.JTirnacisdaesn, ,2nd Richer jiirtd4ItJtIool enrist- loeft-t1),T1TePohirisethfilinirehiliigis Standing based on tenons and att•entla A R b ne ti eSnellM2Coo1113 to 115, Robert Sou WeS aoeuinsttPhiccb:ottisin biel°21280‘.3,CAT.. gie jack -son 71, Win: clad Ches.-A. Veil A. rEdtMC:881n, - R8 77, T1:ai7na -1ai2v;n :14:50) 0 g r to,:it :Tao oti api eib ea90m8 Sy3urbie.76:76;uh, sh r itwehi 'Jackson 42, John J. --The following is