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Fe.
va. n. HOWELLS.
VIIL
(Cantinued-from last week.)
' In that still air of the Filbrentine evin-
ter. time seems to share the arrest of the
,
natural forces, the repose of the ele-
ments. The pate blue sky is frequ ntly
t, and it rains two days o t of
ometimea, under extraordi ary
ation from the north, a Bikew-
ay
ofs,
(wee
five e
prove
stor hula along under the 'low
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dome, and whitees the brown r
• where a growth of spindling weeds ,and
grass clothes the -tiles the whole Year
round, and shows its delicate gieen
above the gathered flakes. But for.. the
most part the winds are laid, and the
sole change is from quiet sun to qiiiet
shower. This at least is the irnpresSion
which remains in the senses of the so-
journing stranger, whose days slip solvay
with so little difference one 'from another
that they seem really not to have pas ed,
but like the grass that keeps the
- sides fresh round Florence -all the wi ter j
long, to- be waiting some deeisive cha,
ge
of season before they begin.
The fret of the Carnival sights, that
marked the lapse of a month since his
•, arrival, took Colville by surprise. [He
could not have ubelieved that it *as
s, February yet if it had not been for the
stzaggling maskers in armor whom he
met one day in Via Borgoel'nissanti, with
their visors up for their better converii-
e- mice in smoking. They were part eel
• the chorus at one of the theatres, arid
they were going about to eke out their
• salaries with the gifts of people whese
windows the festival season privileged
them to, play under. The silly spectacle
, stirred Colville's blood a little, as any
sort of holicla,y preparation was apt to
do. He thought thatit afforded him a
fair OCCaSi011 to call at Palazzo Pinti,
where he had not been so much of late
as in the first days of hisrenewedee-
1 quaintaace with Mrs. Bowen. He had
• at one time had the fancy that .M114.
Bowen was cool toward him. He might
very well have been mistaken in this ;
•' in faet, she had several times addresed •
, •
, the politest reproaches for not coin-
; g; but he made some evasion, and
went only OIL the days when she was
receiving other people, and when neces-
sarily he saw very little of the family.
Miss Graham was always very,friend-
ly, but alw-ays very busy, drawing tea
f
. from the samovar, and looking after
others. Effie Bowen dropped her eyes
in re-established strangeness when she
brought the basket of cake to him.
There was one moment when he suspect-
' ed .414 he had been -talked over in fami-
ly council, and put under a certain regi -
;
I men. Bet he had no proof of this, and
it had really nothing to do with his
, keeping awaywhich was largely acci-
dental. He had taken up, with as much
earnestness as he could reasonably
ex-
peet of himself, that notion of studying
the architectural ex -pression of Floren-
• tine character at the different periods.
I; Ile had spent a good deal of money in
booke, he had revived his youthful fa-
miliarity with the city, and he had made
!what acquaintance he could with people
interested in such matters. He met
_aortae _of these in the limited bat very
antive societ3-- in which he mingled daily
and nightie-. After the first strangeness
•
to any sort of social life had worn Off, he
found himself very fond of the prompt
• hoapitalities which his introduction at
Mrs. Bowen's had opened to hina. His
host -or more frequentIsi it was. his
hostess -had sometimes merely an Apart-
. ment at a ho -tel; perhaps the family
wa.s established in one of the funiished
lodgings which stretch the whole length
• ofathe Lung' Arno on either hand, and
abound in all. the new streets approach-
ing the Caseine, and had set up the
• simple and faeite housekeeping of the
sojourner iu FIerence for a few months;
, others had been living in the villa or
the palace they had taken for years.
' • The more recent and transitory people
expressed something of the prevailing
English and American mstheticism in the
decoratioh of their apartments, but the
greater part accepted the Florentine
drawing -room as their landlord had
agined it for them, with furniture and
curtains in yellow satire a cheap ingrain
carpet thinly covering the stone floor,
and a fire of little logs • ineffectually
blazing on the hearth, and flickering on
the carved frames of the pictures on the
wan and the nakedness of the frescoed
et,llegories in the ceiling. Whether of
longer or shorter stay, the sojourners
Were bound together by a common lan-
guage and a c ommon social tradition;
they all had a Day, and on that day
there was tea and bread and butter for
every comer. They had one another_
to dine; there were evening parties,
issith dancing and without dancing. _Cal -
Sine even went to a fancy ball, where
- fie was kept in countenance by several
Other Florentines of the period. of Rorno-
la. At all these places he met nearly
the same people, whose alien life in the
midst of the native community struck
hiva as one of the phases of modern civi-
lization worthy of note, if not particular
stedy ; for he fancied it destined to a
vidder-fature throughout Europe,. as the
cenditions in England and America grow
More tiresome and more onerous. They
oaemed to see very little of Italian soeie-
andto' be shnt out from practical
owledg- e of the kcal life by the terms
n on which they had themselves insist -
e Our race finds it simplified and
eheapened London or New York in all
ith Contioental resc-rts now, but nowhere
hes its taste been so much studied as in
I aly, and especially in Florence. It
was not, perhaps, the real Englishman or
Ainerican who had been -considered, but
a forestiere conventionalized from the
Florentine's observation of many Anglo-
Saxons. 'But he had. been so well eon-
jeetured-that he was hemmed round with
a ivery fair illusion of his natio al cit-
•ances.
Ift was not that he had his En
Ainerican doctor to prescribe
w, en sick, and his English or A
aOthecary to compound his pot
wag not that there was an Engiisl
said an American dentist an
lish or
r him
erican
on; it
tailor
nglish
ooksener and an English baker, and
ehapels of every shade of Protestantism,
'with Catholic preaching in English every
Sunday. These things were mere or
lens matters of necessity, but• Colville
• objected that the barbers sheuld offer
hini an American shampoo; that the
groceries should abound in English bis-
cuit and our own canned fruit and vege-
tables, and that the groceries' clerks
shOuld be ambitious to read the labels of
the Boston baked beans. He heard -
the -ugh he did. not prove this by 'experi-
meat-that the master of a certait trat-
toria had studied the doughnut of New
England till be had actually surpassed
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the -original in the qualfties that hales
undermined our digestion as a people.
Ba above all it interested him to see
that •intense expression of .Amerinan
civilization, the horse -car,- triumphing
along the magnificent avenues that Mark
• the line of the old aity walls ; and he
recognized an instinctive obedience to
an abstruse natural law in the fact that
whereas the omnibus, which the Italians
have derived from the English, was not
filled beyond itts seating capacity, the
• horse -car eves overcrowded`without and
within at Florence just as it ds with. us
who invented it. ••
"I wouldn't mind even that," he said
one day • to the la.dsewho was drawing
mt. his fifth or sixth cep of tea for that
afternoon, and with tehozn he was 'sate's:
ally making this absurd condition of,
things a matter of personal_question ;
"but you people here pass your days in
a round of unbroken English, except
when you talk with your servants. I'm
not sure you don't speak English with
the shop people. I can hardly get them
to speak Italian to me." , 1
" Perhaps they think you ean speak.
English better," said the lady.
This went ever Florence; in a week it.
was told to Corvine as something said to
some one else. Ile fearlessly reclaimed
it as said to himself, and this again was
told.- In the houses where he visited he
had the friendly acceptance of any intel-
ligent and reasonably agreeable person
who- comes proinptly and willingly when
he is asked, and seems always to have
enjoyed himaelf when he goes away.
But besides this sort of general favor, he
enjoyed very pleasing little personal
popularity which came ,froin his interest
in. other people, from his good -nature,
and from his inertness. He slighted I no
acquaintance, and -talked to every -one
With the same apparent wish to be en-
tertaining.. , This was because he was in-
capable of the eruelty of open indiffer-
. Orice when his lot was cast with a dull
person, and else because he was men-
tally too lazy to contrive pretences for
getting away ; •besides he did not really
fled anybody altogether a .bore, mid he
dno wish to shine. He listened with-
out shrinking to stories that he had
heard. before, and to things that ihad
• already been said to him; as has been
noted,. he had himself the habit of re-
peatieg his ideas with the recklessness
of maturity,for he had lived long enough
to know that this can be done with al-
most entire safety. ••
He haunted the studios -a good deal.
and through a retrospective affinity with
art,and- a human isympathy with the
sacrifice which it always involves, he
was on friendly terms with sculptors and
painters who were not in every case so
friendly with one another. More than
once he saw the sears of old rivalries,
and he might easily have been an adher-
ent of tivo of three parties. , But he tried
to keep the freedorn o -f the different
•camps without taking sides; and he felt
the pathos of the -case when they all told -
the same story of the disaster which the
taste for bric-a-brac had wrought to the
cause of • art.; -how people who came
abroad no longer gaveorders for statues
and pictures, butaspe t their moneyon
curtains and carpets, old chests and
chairs, and. potaand -pans. - There were
some among these artists whom he had
knoWn twenty years before in Florence,
ardent and hopeful beginners ; and now
the backs of theit gray and bald heads,
as hey talked
tow ed tilde w
pinch of clay hel
theft- fingers,
to him with their faces
irk, and a peecil or a_
- thoughtfully between
ealed to himas if he
had remained young. and prosperous,
and they had gohe forward to age and
hard work. • They were very quaint at
times. They talked the American slang
of the war days and of the.days before
theevar ; without a mas-tery: of Italian,
they often used the idioms of that tongue
in their English speech. They were dim
,and vague &bait the country, with whose
•effairs they had kept up through the
newspapers, Bete and there one thought
he was going home very soon; others
had finally relinquished all thoughts of
returnThese had, •perhaps Without
knowing it, lost the -desire to come back;
they cowed before the expensiveness of •
' life in America, and doubted of a future
with which; indeed, only the - young can
. hopefully grapple. But in spite of their
accumulated years, and the evil times
on which they had fallen, Colville
thought them mostly very happy men,
leading simple and innocent lives in a
world of the ideal, and rich in the inex-
haustible beauty of the city, the sky,
the air. They all, whether they were
ever- going back or not, were fervent
Americanteand their ineffaceable nation-
ality marked them, perhaps, all the more
strongly for the patches of something
Alien that -overlaid it• in places. -They
knew that he was or had been a news-
paper man ; but if they secretly chert
ishect the hope that he would bring theni
to the dolee tume of print, they never be -
elide, hich he printed in the ArneriCan
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traye ' it; and the authorship of his let-
ter eh ut the American artists in Flor-
Register a,:t Paris, was not traced to him
for. a whole week.
Colville was a frequent visitor of Mr.
Waters, who . had a lodging in Piazza
San Marco, .of the poverty -which can
always ibe decent in Italy. It was bare,
but for the bboks that furnished it ; with
a table 'for his ivriting, on a corner of
which he breakfasted, a wide sofa with
cushions:in cearse white linen that frank-
ly confessed itself a bed by night, and
two chairs of plain Italian wahuit ; but
•the windows, which had no sun, looked
out upon the. 'church and the convent
sacred to the Old Soeihian forathe sake
of the meek; heroic mystic whom they
keep alive in all the -glory of his mar-
tyrdonel ' No two minds could well have
been fatther . apart than the New Eng-
land.mihister and the Florentine. Monk,
and no two .souls nearer together, as
Colville recognized with a not irreverent
smile. , - ,
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When the old man was not looking up
some point of his seint's history- in his
books, he was taking with the hopeful-
ness of yOuth and the patience �f age a
lesson in coiled uial Italian froni his land-
lady's daughter, - Which he pronounced
with a Scholarly scrupulosity and a
cere atonicMassachusetts accent, He
practised the language wherever he
could, especially at the trattoria where
he dined, and where he made occasions
to detain the :Waiter in conversation.
They humored him, out of theit nation-
al good heartedness and sympathy, and
they , did what they could to realize a
a strange American dish for him on Sun-
days -.a combination of Stock -fish and
potatoes boiled, paid theta friedgtogether
in small Oakes. They revered him as a
foreign gentleman of saintly amiability
and incomprehensible preferences ; and
he was held in'equal regard at the next
green -grocer's, where he spent every
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morning ,five centesimi for a bunch of
• radiehes and ten for a -little pat of but-
ter to eat with his bread and coffee; he
could not enst accustom himself to mere
bread and coffee for breakfast, though
he conformed as completely as he could
to the Italian Way of living. He respect-
ed the abstemiousness of the race ; .he
held that it came from a spirituality of
nature to which the North was still
- Strange, with all its &insolence and sense
of -individual accountability. He con-
tended that s he never -suffered in his
ennall dealings with tese people frOni
the dishonisty which most of his coun-
trymen compldined of; and he praised
their unfailing gentleness of manner;
• this could -arise only from goodness of
heart, which was perhaps' the best kind,
of goodness, after all. 1 I
None of these.humble acquaintance of
his could well have accounted for the
impression they all. had , that he was
some sort of ecclesiastic. They could
never hare understood -nor, for thafr
matter, could any one have understood
through European. tradition -the sort of
sacerdotal office that Mr. Waters had
filled so long in the little 'deafly book -
clubbed New England village where he
had out -lived most of his flock, till one
day he rose inthemidst of thesurviving
dyspeptics and con'sumptives,and follow-
ing the example Mr. Emerson, renounc-
ed- his calling forever. By that time
even the pale Unitarianism thinning out
into paler doubt was no longer tenable
with him. He confessed that while he
felt the Divine goodness more and more,
he believed that it was a mistake. to
preach any. specific creed or doctrine,
and he begged them to release him from
their service. '; A young man came to
fill his place iretheir pulpit, but he kept
his place in their hearts. They raised a
subscription of Seventeen hundred dollars
and thirty-five. cents, and this being
.submitted to the new button manufac=
turer, who had founded his industry in
the village, he promptly:, rounded it out
to three thoesend, and Mr. Waters came
to Florence. His people parted with
him in terms of regret as delicate as
they were awkward, and their love
followed him. „ He . corresponded regu-
larly with two ct• three ladies, and his
pleutitpeirt.swere sometimes read from his
e- - .
Colville took the Piazza San Marco in
on his way_ to Palazzo Pinti on the morn-
ing when he had made up his mind to
go there, and - he stood at the window
looking out With the old man when
some more maskers ' passed through
the place -two .young fellows ; in old
Florentine dress, with a third habited as
a nun.
. "Ah," said the old man, gently, "I
wish they hadn't introduced the nun!
But I suppose they can't help signaliz-
ing their escape from the domination of
the Church on all occisions. It's e nat-
ural reaction. It will all come right in
time." I ' • L
•" You preach the true American gos-
pel," said Colville.
"Of Course. That is the gospeltel
" Do -you suppose that Savonarola
would think it had all come out right,"
asked Colville, a little maliciously, "if,
he could look froni the wilidow with us
here and see the I wicked old Carnival,
that he tried so hard to kill four hun-
dred years ago, still alive? And kick- -
iam ?' he added, in cognizance of the
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:leper of one of themaskers. - : ,
"Oh, yes ; •wh I not? By this time
he knows that his puritanism was all a
mistake, unless as a thing for the mo-
ment only. I should rather like to have
Savonarola here with us; he would find
these costumes fainiliar ; they are of his
time. I shall make a point of seeing all
• I can of the Carnival, as. part of my
study of Savonarole, if nothing else." ,
"I'm afraid you'll have to gire your-
self limitations," said Colville, as one of
the maskers ' threw his arm roUnd the
mock -nun's. neck. But the old man did
not see this, and Colville did not feel it
necessary to eeplain himself. - ,-
The maskers had passed out of the
piazza now, and " Have you seen our
friends'at Palazea Pinti lately ? ' said
Mr. Waters. , 1 I
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"Not very," said Colville. "i was
just on my way there.' " I wish you would ,make them my
compliments. Such a beautiful :young
creature." 1 - i
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"Yes," -said Colville, "she is certain-
ly a beautiful gir1.1 I
"1 meant Mrs. 13 wen," returned the
old man, quietly. 1
"Oh, I thought you meant Mis,s Gra-
ham. Mrs. Bowen is my, contemporary,
and so I didn't think of her when you
said young. I should have called her
pretty rather than beautiful.
"No, she's beautiful. The young girl
is good -looking -I don't deny that; but
she is very crude yet."
. Colville laughed. " Crude In looks ?
I should have said: Miss Graham was
rather crude in mind, though I am not
sure I wouldn't have stopped at saying
young."
Ito," mildly persisted the old man;
"she couldn't be crude in mind without
being crude in looks."
"Yon mean," pursued Colville, smil-
ing, but not wholly satisfied, "that she
hasn't a lovely nature ?" _
" You never can know what sort of
nature a young girl has. Her nature
depends so much upon that of the man
whose fate she shares."
"The woman is -what the man makes
her? That is convenieAt for the wo-
man, and relieves her of all responsi-
bility."
" The.man is wha•t the woman makes
him, too, but not sctmuch so. The man
was cast into a deep sleep, you know-"
"And the woman was what he dream-
ed her. I wish she were !"
"In most cases 1 she is," said Mr.
Waters.
They did not pursue the Matter. The
truth that floated in the old ministee!s
words pleased Colville by his vagueness,
and flattered 'the man in him by its im-
plicatson of the man's superiority. Be
wanted to say that if Mrs. Bowen were
what the late Mr. Bowen had dreathed
her, then the late Mr. 13owen,I when east
into his deep sleep, must have had Lina
Ridgely in his eye. But this seemed to
be personalizing the fantasy unwarrant-
ably, and, pushing, it too far. For like
reason he forehore to say that if Mr.
Water's theory ere correct, it would be
better to begin ith some one whom no-
body else had dljeamed,before ; then you
could be sure t least of not having a
wife to somebo y else's mind rather
-than -Your ownj Once on his way to
Palazio ?Intl' he stopped, arrested by a
thought thathad not occurred to hiin
before' in relation to what Mr. Waters
had been saying, and then pushed on
with the sense of security Which is the
compensation the possession of the initi-
ative brings to our sex along with many.
responsibilitiesi In. the enjoyment of
this, no man steps to consider the other
side, which must wait* his initiative,
however they Mean- tiemeet it.
(To Be Continued.)
REAL ESTATE 'FOR SALE.
101ARM FOR SALE. -For vale in the township
X of Ribbed, 160 acres being Lots 29, otnd the
west hell of 28, ; in the 8th Concession, it
is free from stumps and in a high state
of cultivation, 'With a log hong° and
good outbuildings. There is an everlasting
spring creek runinog through the farm. It will
be „sold together or separately on easy terms.
For further. particulars address the Proprietor
on the promises or to Seaforth Postoffice.
EBERHART, Proprietor. .921-tf
-1DARM FOR SALE. -For sale North -half Lot
X 26, Concession' 21 township of Hay, contain-
ing 60 acres, 45 of tihich are cleared and in a fair
state of cultivation, well. underdrajned, 2 good
wells, 2 frame barns, also drive house and pig
pen, log house with frame addition, good bearing
orchard. Two miles distant from either Kippen or
Hensall,one-half mile from schooi,this lot is in it
No.1 neighborhood, and will be sold cheap and on
reasonable terms. Apply on the premises to B.
S. PHILLIPS or Heiman p0. 916tf
FARM FOR SALE. -The Executors' • of the
estate. of the late Samuel Simon offer
for sale that excel) ..ht farm being Lot 12, Con-
cession 12, Grey. There are .3,00 acres ; 80 of
which are cleared, 10 acres partly cleared, and
10111 good hardwootl bush. • There is a good
frame barn with stone stabling underneath 30x
60 feet. - Immediate possession will be given, A ,
large portion of the purchase- money will be al-
lowed to stand on idterest ; for further particu-
lars apply to JOHN IJECK1E, 197 College Street,
Toronto, or to JOHN SLEMON, Ethel P. 0.
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MIARM FOR SALE, ---The Subscriber offer's for
jp. sale -his splendid. farm of 100 acres, being
Lot 44, Concession , Tuckersmith. Good new
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story and half frai le house, 2 acres splendid
orchard, good buil iings, 85 acres free from
stumps, 15 acres in fall wheat: The whole under
good cultivation, and well _underdrained, live
spring on the farm and has good wells. Close
to churches and schools. Three and on.e-half
miles from the town -of Clinton, 6 from Seaforth.
Will be sold on reasdnable terms. HUGH Mc -
DONALD, on the preinises, or Clinton P. 0.
• 930tf
151ARM FOR SALE. For sale, Lot 26, Conces-
12 - sion 5,111cKillopi containing 100 acres, near-
ly all cleared, web fee cd and underdrained, and
in. a first-class state 6 cultivation. There is a
stone house, bank .I) rn and other necessary
buildings all in first- lass condition. Also an
orchard of bearing tre .s, and the river Maitland
runs through a corner of the farm but there is
no waste land. It is a first-class farm either for
stock orgrain, and is ,within two miles of the
town of Seaforth on -the northern gravel road.
Apply on the premites or to Seaforth P. O.
HUGH J. GWENT. 1 . 911-tf
FOR SALE. -For eale in the thriving village
of Hensall at a grbat bargain,. that valuable
property situated -on the west side of Brooke
street; consisting of a good new frame dwelling
.18x26 feet, and well . finished throughout, with
good web and stable on the premises. Reason
for selling' is that the ukiersigned intends leaving
the village about the mid 61 theyear. Possession
can be given‘at any time within a weeks notice.
. Terme of Sale. -Very liberal. For full particu-
lars -apply to D. MOWERAY, Mason and C%n-
tractor, Hensall P. O.' 905
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ler OOD -FARM FOR ...ALE. -For sale, Lot 1,
Concession 8, Tuc -ersmith, containing- 100
acres, about 80 of whicti are cleared, free from
stunips, underdrained, ih a high state of cultiva-
tion and well fenced. There is a. comfortable
log house and a large hank barn with stabling
underneath. Also a young orchard and good
Well. The land is all dry and of the best quality. ,
It is conveniently situated to Seaforth and
Kippen stations, with good gravel roads leading
to each place. For further particulars address
the Proprietor, • Egmondvine P. 0. or app.ly at
the Egmondville cnills. JAMES 'KYLE, Pro-
prietor. . - I 00-i-tf
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FARM FOR SALE . Ilt. THE TOWNSHIP OF
TUCKER8MITIT.--Por sale in the tcwnship
of Tuckersinitia, county of Huron. being Lot 35,
Concession 2, L. R. 8., containing 100 aores, 90
-acres cleared; the remainder in bush. The farm
is well fenced, with a good orchard, a good one
anda, half story brick house with a 'slate roof,
two frame barn's and shed, and good .wells. ,The
farm is of first-class soil. • ,. It is two miles from
Brucefield station, six froin Clinton and six from
.Seaforth, a good gravel road leading to each
place. Apply on the premises tc JAS. WALKER,
or DAVID WALKER, 31111 Road; or to Bruce -
field P. 0. 904-tf
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riARNI IN GREY FOR 4ALE.-For sale cheap,
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j. Lot 4, Conceseion 1. i , Grey, .containing 100
acres, about 7 acres cleaned, free froni stumps
well fenced an in a hign state of cultiration ;
the balance is veil timbeSed, there . being seven
Walton, wher there are cl irches, school, stores,
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acres of black ash and ce ar.- There is a good
orchard and sj lendid sprii r water; It is situa-
ted within on nule of the flourishing village of
'the place. A oo new fr' me house and first -
1
alit!, cheese f tory, Sze. • is within six miles
of Brussels an a .nod gra el road running past
plass outbuildings. This ferm will be sold on
-reasonable terms', as the proprietor wants to get
more land. Apply on the premises or to Walton
'P. O. THOS. leFADZEAN. 913
GOOD GRA)N AND G AZI.NG •FARM FOR
. SALE.-- +or sale, bei g Lot 2, Concession
13,Hullett, co itaining 160 acres, 130 of which
are cleared; b mice well timbered with hard -
weed. Superi • r soil, Well underdrained, and
workable with fly. machidery, 28 acres seeded
to- grass. A n ver failing; spring creek runs
ix and,one-hal miles from Blyth; _10 from Sea
lin
th ough the ba kond. There are two log houses,
fra le barn, lar e shed and homfortable housing
- for stock. Goo bearing ordhard and three wells
forth, and a lik distance rom Brussels. One
Mile from scho 1 and poste ce. Churches con-
venient. Terni easy. Apply to J. ALLAR-
DYCE, Harlock P0. - 899tf
SPLENDID F RM IN El
For Sale, t 30, Conee
Bruce, containi g 104 acres,
acres are cleared, fencedan
the balance is ti
hardwood and a
are frame buildb
creek.rmining t
miles of the fiou
equal dionince fr
school opposite t
settlement. Th
bricks or tile, wh
is, asked for the f
and, will be sold a
Seaforth P. O.
TWO HUNDR
sale
sion of Tuckersm
140 of which ar
5 underdrained, we
Cultivation. The
hardwood, except
Ash. There is al
Two orchards an
about 40 acres see
miles of Seaforth,
Hensall, with a go
place and is conve
did farm and will.
sold it will be rent
Egmondville, or a
913
UCE, FOR SALE.-
sion 13, township of
of which about 30
free from stumps,
ibered prineipally with splendid
little heml ck fencing. There
go, and a lever failing s ring
rough the.
ishing toe
Ili Underw
e place, an
re is a g
ace. It is within 6
n of Paisley and an
od. There is a good
it is in a splendid
od clay bank for
eh is worth one fourth of what
rm. Thi e is a splendid farm
ry cheap. Apply ,to box 24,
877
D ACRE ARM FOR SALE
ts 4 and kiln the 9th Conces
th, containing 200 acres, about
cleared, free from stumps,
I fenced ani in a good state of
balance is web timbered with
a few acres of splendid Black
g house and good bank barn.
two good wells.' There are
ed to grass. It is within five
and the slime distance from
d gravel road leading to each
ient to sehools. It is it splen -
e sold on e sy terms. If, not
d. Apply tto the undersigned,
dress Seal rth P. O.
DUN• MCMILLAN.
1VARM IN STElillEN FORI SALE -For icale
12 "Lots 4 and 6'nd part of ' ; Lake Road East,
also a young orchard. It is w ithin 12 miles of
Stephen, containin 282 acre , mostly all clear-
ed, good bnildinge nd abunda ce of good spring
water. This farm is mostly lay loam and is
good either for grassing or cr pping. There is
Park Hill. The abOve will be old in one block
or separately to suit purchaser It is all in one
block except a small part ont e opposite side of
the concession. If not sold 'i will be rented.
There are churches •and school convenient and
good roads leading to market. Apply to the un-
dersigned, Blake 1'. O. JOHN.,REITH. 899t1.
N. B, -A large stock of well bred Cattle now
On the farm will be sold with tile landlf suitable.
899tf
VALUABLE F 31 FOR ALE. -The sub-
scriber offe s for sale his farrn of 100 acres,
being South East i4lf of Lot i7, Concession 8
East Wawanosh ; t1ont 66 acr ei are cleared and -
free from stumps, t e balance 18 well timbered
with hardwood, h�nBoek and cedar. The farm
is in a high state of cultivation It is situathd
one and three -qua er miles from Belgrave, 7
nines from Wingha , 8 miles f OM Myth. It is
within one-quarter ile from school. There are
on the premises a g od frame house and frame
barn and stabling, a young bearing. orchard
a never failing well, nd creek running through
the baok part of the farni. This property will be
sold cheap. For f rther particulars apply on
the premises, or to GEORGE A. TYNER, Bel-
grave_p. 0., East Wravanosh. 894
!
0. C.
Has the best
Chilled, from
kinds are no
WS ! PLOWS
ILLSON, SEAF
RTH,
-
sor d stock of PLOWS in the county, consist lig of Steel and
he bet manufacturers in Canada and the State4.
in s ck : The following
South Bend . 10
No. 01 ver C
' The yr A
he Es
Er
nd 15 Plows,
illed and Syracuse Chilled and Steel Plows,
erican Plow Company's Chilled and Steel Plows,
ex Centre Steel and Chilled, -
ntford Plow Company's Steel and Chilled,
And W. H. Verity's Steel and Chilled Plows,
Including the old reliable Massey, No. 13 Thistle Cutter.
South Bend, Syracuse and Brantford Sulky Plows,
And all kinds of Plow Castings at
ILLSON'S, Seaforth..
•
SPECIAL - ANNOUNCEMENT !
Extensiv Arrivals of New Cip.rpets
. MACNAIR & CO.
Have received d ring the last few days, through the Stratford Custom House, the
largest invoice o ENcuali CARPETINGS ever imported into Stratford, or to
any House *est 4f To onto. Our entire Fall Stock of -
1:?, S
I
Is now open for i4ispee ion. Every variety of quality, pattern and coloring is re-
presented, from the eh apest to the most expensive fabrics. We will offer this
day, Wednesday, and uring the month, the following special hits, all of which
are priced much elow regular value: !
English Wilt ns, Neutral Boirders in Tapestry and BrusAels,
English Velvet • English Body Biussels, English Tapes-
tries, Englis Moresqu, Uni4n a9d Wool Kidder-
minster arpets, [hitch and Hemp Carpets, I
Floor Oi Cloths—all widths, Linoleums in
variou qualities nd designs for halls
_ and Bith Rooms.• • '
Remeniber, t is m terial is ainon-lonductor of heel or cold, and very durable.
I
Our Curtain epa tment is crOwded with the latest novelties. We have
every grade of Lace Cu tains indeed everything which should be kept in a first-
class Curtain Depaa rtme We invite every housekeeper to inspect our goods.
Come and see them. ou can always aepend upon finding the very latest styles
and prices out of he r ach of all conipetition, at the popular and progressive
store of '' : -.
tford. i
931-4
A. MA NAIR, & CO., Str
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150
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U'RDS It A BeA 8,D RUGS
RDSRAE E R S D.R U G
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GURDSR A R DRU G ST
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! Any customer guesst g the correct number of - ways the sebove m y be read,
i .. .
will be the recipieni of'a bottle of perfume.
I
'
I. V. FEAR,
• ClIenaist and Druggist, Seaforth.
•
•
DUNCAN
Would res
NTREA17 HOUSE.
& DUNCAN, SEAFORTH,
ectfully solicit special and close inspection of their
Splendid and :Superb Millinery and Mantle
Stock,
Which for variety, be uty, style, taste and quality combined, stands unrivalled.
in the county, while 4e splendid Dress GocLls, Dry Goods and House Furnishings
department of the Montreal Hmise for abundance and -quality, has never yet been
so cbmplete as • at this ease . Our stock is marked and sold at cash prices. We
have been to the Euro ean and Foreign market personally for this immense stock
of goods, and taknacvantage. of the slaughtered prices which the commercial
depression has afforded for puechasieg gooda when bought direct from manufac-
turers in such abundant cousig,nments "As lye only buy."
And Messrs. Dune n & Puncan further promise their cuatomers all the ad-
vantages over others w o have to be content with what the local markets have on
hand, while our goods ire fresh, durable, economical and reliable.
I Give es a visit. l• e are always proud to show a-sthck which we know can't
• r I
be equallect in the coun
iPartieL bringing in
:
1
as .we lead the van,
.1. •
utter or Eggs receive all the benefits of a dash customer,
as Nye do nft work on t e prineiple of robbing Peter to pay Paul, by pretending
to give three cents per e ound more than can• be realized for Butter, and then
charge a customer doubt the balance on the price of inferior goods.
Give us a trial.
Duncan d Du can, Mon.treal House, Seaforth,.
•
Knitting Machines
•
World's Star' Knitting
AND,
RIBBING MACHINE
WILL KNIT
SOCKS and STOCKINGS
(of all Sizes.) Mitts, Scarfs and varies other
• articles either plrin or ebbed:
-
The best family Knitting Machine Manufae.
tured, - I
Full instructions will be givoin by a Competed
• Operator free of i!harge to any one buying a ma.
chine. 1
Plain Machine...
Machine with Ribber
84
* FOR SALE Bir
1
1N.T. W_A:ItS01•T,
General Insurance Agent and Sew-
ing - Machine Dealer, gain
'Street, Seaforth.
—
All kinds of Sewing Machines Repaired. Charges
Reasonable.
14.00
'WILL BUY YOU AN
American Solid Silver
WATCH,
-AT
Purvis ,8c Milks'
JEWELLERY STORE,
• OPPOSITE THE
Commercial Hotel.
REPAIRING NEATLY DONE.
Agents for the Light Running New
Home Sewing Machine.
FARMERS' BANKING HOUSE.
OCi (Sz
•BANKERS & BROKERS,
SEA F 0 .R - 052'.
Office -First Door NORTH
or Commercial Hotel. ,
Notes discounted, and a general banking busi-
ness done.
1 Remittence to and collections made in Mani.
toba.
Business done through Bank of Montreal.
A limited amount of money received On deposit.
Money to loann on real estate at best rates.
8. C. M'CAUCHEY, WM. ,LOCAL
, P. S. -S. on, McCaughey will attend to Con-
yeyance in all its branches, lending Money on
real estate, buying ii.nd selling farms, houses.„ Ai.
in Tan 1\17I.IN-Ei
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ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.
A. STRONG, Seaforth, Agent,
GREAT REDUCTION IN PASSAGE RATES.
Cabin rates from Halifax to Liverpool_and Len-
donderry, 850, 863, and $U, according to position
ef stateroom. Children under 12years, half fate;
under 1, free. Servants in Cabin, $50. Inter-
mediate, 836; Steerage, $13. From Liverpool or
Londonderry to Halifax: Cabin, $63, 878.76 and -
894.50; Intermediate, 835; Steerage, 813. Re-
turn Tickets from Halifax to Londonderry or
Liverpool and back to Hali-fax: Cabin, 8100, SIN
and 8143; Intermediate, 870; Steerage, 826.
--a
• Money Loaned and Real Estate Bought
and Bold as 'Usual.
INSURA-NCE.
I represent severed of the best Insurance Com-
panies in the world.
td -Office --Market Street, Seaforth. .
862
A. STRONG.
E. FT -BLACK,
Watchmaker, Licensed Auctioneer,
Farm Sales Attended, Charges
Moderate; Sale Notes Di -
counted, Money Money to
Lend.
EJ M".. 3E3 L 0 71K,
WATCHMAKER,
.924
' WINGHAAL
PLANTNG MILL
SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY
•
/1111E subscriber begs leave to thank his numer-
1. •ous customer* for the liberal patronage ex-
tended to him since commencing business in
Seaforth, and trusts that he may be favored with
a -continuance of the same. -
Parties intending to build Would do well to give
him a call, as he will continue to keep on hand a
large stock of all kinds of
DRY PINE LUMBER,
SASHES; DOORS,
BLINDS & IIOULDINGS,
SHINGLES, LATIL &c,
He feels confident of giving satisfaction to
those who maffavor hirn with their patronage,
as none but first-class workmen are essployed.
Particular attention paid to Custom Plening.
201 • JOHN T. 8ROADF00T.
1
OCTOBE
Gran
* 6#
Cal
leave a sunny corner in #r
ne corner where the And
or when the glowing $13.16
randroother's sunshine 11
rfer featnree have the reel!.
:Surer li'vi*Dnitilthgevirl.aT,e,aerfottilliaid-add
ger silver hair a crown In
The 'Very wrinkles on her /
Seern but to a.dd bewails
And to enchance. her beau'
Do dicnpleson the fair, pit
The children know gratoln
And run to her their troull
They're sure to find tbei
*quite,
Ana hearts filled up again.
'
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Dear Grandmother !
rnsFNhoo erdc, drawssllo:ndttehas aA, clouds
eer si teiretabbdr nt yiee dur r "fe,111 ir pati
ynsl adawP2ti
11°-nerf 'you want to b
• -It is said of a no
faandehleabtleerthteayblileffZianfelinfigale
"Cabral ;Ito. n. thee shal,14
Thist18 faeelltilr, nee. Wh
elle life to get honor,
".no brio-a-brac on t*
applied at the wind
early in life he tried
aboutsriseyyooupururbfa dread t rai and'
o_urhl!. unreasonable
bank. He said if
--" No, fir,'9att
as th
Ineso°1-1211 dee: hngede tdt hii d Ite nh' ma
watched a eon* of
ing dinavn the street.
what they'd think if
waggonnew N- with red
• hne
tion to
no
PassaPareflrio
rena
corrected a. person
please; sir," remark
"the word e are anon
- tertain carav
after a, long yarn d
to be seen inside, gen
saying;44 Step in, g
Take my word for it,
delighted when you
-"Aunt Julia,"
17-, "what is neceSsa
it good love letter ?"
the aunt, " you m
knowing what you
finish without know*
written."
n:'
- • Your age r
' Thirty-five, your
woman. Judge-"
five the last time ye
years , ago." She -
• Honor think nu the
tohingr.?o,n, e day and
the ,
-Teacher-Jelan
shoot at a. tree With
kill three how nut
John-" Three, sin
two would be left
" No, sir, I don't th
you ;hot would be
would be flown awa
----A gentleman de
how an am:null on
off, dwelt upon the
a` pityanhooy,"saidthatw
‘he,
instrument, and Iar
could have lived in
observed his friend
tage."
a3t.,1001—einvaigk.dip.;:klelg:t:tichInaitaanfmor
moving an embank
inquired---'" Patrick,
wind.ow, to be sure.
your honour," said 1
•
-" It seems to nil
judge to hie daug
affianced -calls a at4
week. My -Court di.
near as often as y
iaspa," was the
am engaged to him,
entitles us to a
s."
." the distance is too
"What is it "
a▪ ereoiniem n;et'
They gathered. rot
exandued the
can't trot her mile
s;oYiLl
-A haberdaslier
was his wont, at h
sign of the Golden:I.
• by a tOwliscrian *
• "Good morning,
passing townsman,'
ef ?" " I was
haberdasher, gleateix
how the lamb is a p
" Yes, friend •Andrt
yours iAsa, pltsa
My
dear,"l
binsaiwght ife, " d
a, s yhe has
a
ia
siniai
glass is twelnentenr
left fOot. In spite I
Zero, my right foc
than normal war,mtl
is quite rigid and st
vUphyosniciatilh,e.,AcIvihreoet.wic,
delay, the profesaf
wben ittwndsasi:discov
1povir
t
was entirely nn
"--4
td.
:e°erge had
aec
• sing and play on
can paint, and at
in the tine arts an
and logic, and I eat
• artodnt alt, ii
aylalncitner
rt
• are someof you
•;eorge ?" "1 han•v
a single one r I
sigh,
.14iftthlinekwr
uitit
The Mind II
A eurions Story iA
jockey named :WC
sight in his second
pox, yet could ten
•defects of it horse s.
once discovered th
was blind in one ey
stance had escaped
ehaeer. The owne
k ept by the your