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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-02-19, Page 6Practical Joking. "My dear bairn's "._ said arandfather, looking up from his easy chair where we had thought he was asleep, "1 hear you are planning what folk now -a -days eaa practical joke. Now, as practical jokes, more especially those played upon per- sons of weak intellect, sometimes lead to serious consequences, I think I couldna dee better than repeat to you a story which my schoolmaster used to tell when he caught any of us annoying a half-wit named Charlie Hogg." As a story from grandfather was con- sidered a great treat, we instantly crowded around his chair, a little band erf eager listeners, when he began as fol- lows: Away up among the headlands of Nithsdale is situated a clachan called tlieatheryknowe. There would be about a dozen houses altogether. In one of then.) lived Jamie Gray, the joiner, who was kept employed by the neighbor- ing farmers making carts, harrows and other agricultural implements. Now, Jamie was one of those individuals who are aye ready for a joke, and, if they ean bxtt :gratify their humorous pro- pensities,Ipay little heed to the conse- quences. In the cIachan there likewise lived a half-wit called "Daft Andrew," who was accounted harmless by the dwellers in the district, and considered more lazy than daft. The joiner's shop, especially at night, was the rendezvous of a number of youths from the surrounding Tartan aiid Andrew was also in constant atteadance, having a particular seat that healways occupied, and nothing irritated him so inuch as to find his favorite place taken up by some of the other visitors. One fine summer night a lot of them were gathered as usual at the joiner's shop, and Andrew tires there among the rest. Jamie was busy painting 'a cart with 'ted lead, when some one,, for a ."' lark" put a board on which they had smeared a quantity of the paint behind eviler° Andre* was sitting; then one of them, called Jock Thomson, began to sing an Irish song, which so delighted Andrew that he hotehed and laughed, and leant against the board until the back of his coat was covered with paint. The onlookers, seeing the success of the lark, now joined in the merriment, and Andrew, poor innocent, sat and kinkit and laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. At last, fairly exhausted, Ite leant back against the board, and, drawing from his pocket a cotton' hand- kerchief, began to wipe the tears from Ms eyes, saying- ' " Oh! man, Jock, that's gran -bang • " Gie's time to get ma win', Andrew. Ye diuna consider that it's warm week, bath sineihd an' dancin' at mace," said Sock. ":"I'm fair sweatin'. Len' me yer napkin, Andrew, to dicht my. face." Here Andrew got up to hand J ck the napkin ; but lo and behold, the board stuck to his back, and he had gained the middle of the floor before he dis- covered it. Tearing it off, he gave one iook at it, and with all his might made it fly at Jamie's head ; then he glared round the company like a wild beast, and. without uttering a word left the- a hop. Next day was oppressively warm-- ene of those days which have a ten- dency to foster drowsiness in both man and -beast. Jamie had all the forenoon been engaged sawing, and after dinner, on returning to the shop, he stretched himself on the bench to rest during the meal hour and soon fell asleep. ' Little did he think; when he lay down that he would never rise again. At the window appeared the face of a man, peering in through the cobwebs which hung around the panes; then with noiseless steps he crept inside the shap, and for a few seconds gazed with a diabolical look at the sleeper. Seizing an axe which stood near, he poised it at artees length, and with one fell blow severed. Jamie's head from his body.- A short time after a neighbor who happen- ed to enter the shop found Daft Andrew sitting staring at the fearful spectacle. "Mercy, grandfather 1" exclaimed my mother, " that's an awfu' story to tell bairns. They'll no sleep the nicht wi' thinkin' about it If they forgot it as soon as I did the first time I heard it their rest 'ill no' be broken by it. I want ye to pay partic- ular attention to what I have now got to tell ye, because it's about myself,' and is true -far too true, and that I know full well., When I was about twelve years old we lived at Pearson's Cleuch. There was my father and mother, and my brother Jamie, two years younger than myself, and my sister Annie, who was about seven. Oar nearest neighbors were Jock Johnstone, the shepherd, and his family of three sons and tvvo 'daugh- ters. They lived in a cottage about 300 ed the ppose, ouses, ienext yards farther down the road, cal aleuch Cottage. As you may s although we lived in different we were almost like one family, house being three miles distant. Well, you see, one night Rb and Aadrew. Johnstone and I had been play- iieg at tottarn (a game common , among bairns when I was a bay), and Rob be- coming bankrupt, having lost all his pins, went off home to replenish his stock. In his absence, what do think Andrew and I did ? Like you, we were fond of a lark, so we took it into our heads, as it was a dark night, that :we would give Rob a fright on his way back. Off we set to a clump of young fir trees that was growing by the road- side, about halfway between the houses. I' was to personate the ghost, itnd for that purpose I took off my jacket (they were all either moleskin or corditroy in those days) and turned it inside out, to make it have a more ghostlike ppear- mace, being lined with -white cali; o. • Hidden by the trees, we waited until we heard footsteps passing, whets I ran out howling. But, oh, merciful eaven! far shriller and louder ther rang through the still night air a piercing, blood-curdline scream, and the eext in- stance 1 caught in my arms, not Rob whom we meant to frighten, but My- own little darling sister Annie. I The heartrending 1 shriek had been, heard by my father and mother, who came running to see . what was wrong. Apparently dead, for she had fainted, they carried her home. But,eh 1 my bairns, the faint was nothing; in a few minutes she began to revive, but ever afterwards, from that day, until she set 4 own case, consequences which *10 amount of sorrow or repentance can atone. for. though I was but a boy,; and so many ars have intervened since, I still carry out with me a vivid recollection of t terrible calamity which it brought o our happy home. Now, if you wish to live happy, let in concluding, counsel you to be oa to all men, and endeavor to act up that golden precept - "Do to others as you wcu d Have others do to you, And what you would not Besure you never do." When grandfather ceasod apeaking he nt back in his chain cowing his face th his hands and I could see the tears nning down ids furrowed cheeks, and were all so affected by his story that scarcely spoke until it was time to go bed. -S. Hyslop, Langholm, in Scot- tish Reader. a . 1 o Stories of Cheviot Dogs, It is related that when the late Prin- al Lee was preaching I in a, pastoral strict he was surprised that none of his ngregation rose when he pronounced t e benediction. When heasked the ✓ ason he was informed that .it was "tae o eat the dowgs ; for when we used to s an' they made sic a yafttyaffin' at the t ocht that they were to getloot that we n ver sten' noo, just keep them q ate." Another story is ;related of how old minister in the Cheviots used, • hen excited in the pulpit, to raise his ✓ fee' to a loud half -whimper, half • hine. One day a shepherd had brought with him a young collie, wh� became so t 1 filled with the high 'IA te of the p eacher that he also broke out in a 9 aver so like the other that the min - 12 t stopped short. " Pat out that llie 1" he said angrily. The shepherd, ually angry, seized the animal by the n ck, and, as he dragged Itha down the p ssage, sent back the growling retort at t e pulpit, "It was yersel begoud (be- g n) it r -Good Words. - • "Worth Remembering. Simple cures are very ef n forgotten hen most wanted, and the doctor's ill invoked unnecessarily. In eases of A a to le rv k?' again 01 di s s i re throat showing diphth rite symp- t ms it would not be well to neglect calling immediate medical assistance, bit a simple remedy can always be kept nt hand. It will not only afford im- ediate relief,but if piPpirly applied ill effect a certain cure. 1 I the throat i not entirely closed up, p all doses of fl ur of sulphur shouldbe blown on the ected parts through a 'quill at brief tervals until an improveinent is effect - c;, applying a poultice of ]ard and wood a hes to the throat externally, as hot as ji can be borne. If the disease has not ✓ ached its worst form, or if it is already s bad that the throat is almost closed, i haling the fumes of selphar by sprink- -1 ng it on a hot shovel Will do much od. This is not an old wife's nostrum, t the result of the experiences of an ent English physician. ' a How to Selebt • 'Boy. A gentleman advertised , for a boy, a d nearly fifty applicants presented t temselves to him. - Out of the whole .Ut mber he selected one and dismissed t e rest. "I Should like to know," s id a friend, "on what ground you se - i cted. that boy, who had not a single r commendation." " Yott are mis- ken'," said the gentleina ; "he has a eat many. He wiped jbis feet when ,h came in, and closed 11e door after h m, showing that he -wa -careful. He velis seat instantly to 1 that lame old an, showing that he W s thoughtful. e took off his cap whep he came in, a d answered my questions promptly, s owing that he was gent emanly. He icked up the book whi h I had pure osely laid on the floor aid replaced it t pon the table; and he waited quietly., f r his turn, instead bf pushing and' i c owding, showing that e. was honor- ' le and ordl orderly. When talkedto him noticed that his clothesiwere brushed, is hair in order; when he wrote his ame I noticed that his fieger-nails were lean. Don't you call th,ose things let - t rs of recommendation " ' I do; and I • 1 ould give more for what T can tell bout aboy by using my eyes ten min- tes than all the letters he can bring 0e." Little things showcharacter, and f equently. determine • 4 boy's whole a.reer. It is the boy who does the kind, olite, and thoughtful acts unconscious- li that wins his way to employment and uiecess,. And success does not mean ealth or fame. True success means he development of a° character that is rust, and that is unselfish enough tie nd time for kindly a,cts that are not orced, but the simple expression of a uccess is fidelity to. every relation infe. I orthy of example -a character that is onest to every duty, faithful to every arm and generous pripciple. True ' liI . Raising Early Potatoes. Early in June, Dr. E. H. C. Goodwin eft at our office some beautiful speci- ens of Beauty of Hebron Potatoes, aised by him at Govereor's Island, in -`-ew York bay. They were of mierket- ble size and condition, and, at this sea - on,. something so remarkable that we ere anxious to learn how they were liaised. To an inquiry, tie doctor oblig- ingly replies. "The Potatoes were iplanted in the thpen ground on March 29th, the ther- oineter between that date and April st falling as low as 25° . On April 8th e glass of the cold -pits was covered with ice, and the following day it flowed. The sprouts became visible bove ground on April 16th, and on the "1st all were well up. i The first dig- ing was made on June 4th, and others ccasionally till June 10th, with a total ield of over twenty bushels from a iece of ground 50 by 251feet. "Toward the end of February, I put eat potatoes in a .shalloW basket and set hem in a rather warm reom (say 60 ° ), ith plenty of light. By the time the Tound can be worked they have made hot, thick, dark -green shoots, with ootlets showing. They are then cut to he proper size, dried dr eolled in ashes, nd I planted with - a pretty liberal ap- plication of ground bone gt ano in the urrows. Should the seaeon e too back- -ard to allow the ground to be worked 4t the time the potatoes sho 1d be cut, -which is apparent by the Withering of Ihe tubers, -the sets are placpd in shal- low i boxes with a little so I sprinkled , THE HURON _EXPOSITOR. operation serves as a first hoeing at the same time; but a slight frost does not injure them. They are then worked and hilied in the usual way. The bugs are not likely to attack them, as the vines have made pearly their full growth be- fore the Iarvie make their appearance. To guard against frost, a mulching of straw might be applied, which need not be removed afterward, and, if heavy enough, would save all after -cultivation. " Althougii I have tried this method only on a small piece of ground, I see no reason whedmarket gardeners near large cities could not make it profitable on a larger scale." -The American Garden. • sail on her final voyage acroes that ( ver them. When the gr mid- is in ocean, the waters of which wash the noper condition, the sets are planted shores of all lands, she 'was a raving ut, at which time they) have sometime maniac. ade roots an inch long. As I said at the commencement, you J "If there is dabger of severe frost can see that practical jokes do lead to 1 ;Iter the vines have appeared above serious consequences. Ay! as in my ' round, 1 cover them with soil, which • About Hens. Watch your fowls closely,' and ascer- tain if the falling of the feathers is not caused by featherieating hens. When poultry are housed all winter, or not given sufficient exercise, they often re- sort to feather -eating. Give them a dust bath of fine woodrashes, in which they can wallow, and, scatter their food through straw or hay, so that they will be compelled to scratch before procuring it. Some green food such as cabbage, or a chopped onion, would be beneficial, as also would a warm meal every morning. The hens that lay eggs are young and healthy, and will lay in winter freely if well taken care of. In most flocks one- fourth of the hens are non -producers. With a little watching the bright, young likely -to -lay hens can be easily selected and the worthless ones marketed. Thus the food is not wasted, and the force of the egg layers is solidified, as it were, and put into trim for active work. This is anether of the secrets of winter egg laying -getting the hens that lay eggs and disposing of those that not only do not, but will not till next summer. It is easy to make the mistake of condemning Imps that,with proper Calle will begin to lay at once, but old hen; that is these over two years of age, whether fat or lean, and young, half grown pullets,will not be likely, to lay till spring. It will not pay to keep them unless they may be needed as setters. As winter egg layers they are almost sure to prove unprofit- able. We apply this advice to all kinds of fowl, regardless of breeds, and what we might select as winter egg layers might not suit another. But whether Leghorns, Brahmas or Plymouth Reeks, or cross -bred fowls are kept, the hens that lay eggs will be found to be those that are in their prime and vigorously healthy. 4. • -The Louisville Courier -Journal tells the following incident of the late Mr. Hendricks', boyhood: ." A boy, the son of a poor widow, attended the seminary. One cold Noveinber morning the boy came to school barefoot, as he had no shoes. During the forenoon there was a heavy snow.storni. At noon the bare- foot boy went to. the front door when school was dismissed, but turned back to re-enter the school -room, as he could not go out into such a storm in his naked feet. Young Hendricks knew ail about his poverty, and, folloWing him into the school -room, insisted on taking off his shoes and lending -them to the poor boy to wear home. You can send them back by sister Nannie, whom I will get to go home with you,' The boy accepted the proffered kindness, and Hendricks sat in the school -room in his stocking feet till his sister returnecl with his shoes." Catarrh -a New Treatment. Perhaps the most extraordinary success that has been achieved in modern medicine has been attained by the Dixon Treatment for Catarrh. Out of 2,000 patients treated during the past six months, fully ninety per cent, have been cured of this stubborn malagly. This is none the less startling when it is remembered that no five per cent. of patients presenting thethselves to the regular pradtitioner are benefitted, while the patent medicines and other advertised mires never record a cure at all. Starting with the. claim now generally believed by the most scien- tific men that the disease is due to the presence of living parasites in the tissue, Mr. Dixon at once adapted his cure to their extermination- ' ehis accomplished, he claims the Catarrh is prae- tically cured, and the permanency is unquestion- •td, as cures effected by him four years ago are cures still. No one else has ever attempted to cure Catarrh in this manner, and no other treat; ment has ever cured Catarrh. The application of the remedy is simple, and can be done at home, and the present season of the year is the most favorable for a Speedy and permanent cure, the majority of cases being cured at one treat- ment. Sufferers should correspond with Messrs. A. H. DIXON it SON, 305 King Street, West, Toronto, Canada, and enclose stamp for their treatise on Catarrh. -Montreal Star, November 17, 1882 882-52 NEMINOMEr MON AS CONSCIENTIOUS DRUGGISTS, WOULD - t Reduction in Prices recommend for DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and kindred diseases, the use of MALTOPEPSYN. For Consumption and all wasting diseases, the use of MORSE'S CARBOLATED NORWEGIAN' COD LIVER OIL. For teething infants and nervous troubles, the use of GLYCEROLE OF CELERY COMPOUND (containing no opium.) You probably ask why we recommend these remedies! It is because we know them to be -reliable remedies, endorsed by leading physicians throtighont the Dominion, for the cure of specific diseases, and not claiming to cure 'everything. Also because they have the exact formula printed on eech bottle label,thereby enabling the pur- chaser to know just *hat he is taking. The time is rapidly approaching when intelli- gent people Will refuse to take quack cure-alls, the ingredients of which are kept secret, but will insist upon knowing just what they are taking. We would also inform any who may not yet be aware by actual trial of the superiority of our "ROYAL GLYCERATED BALSAM OF FIR," in uring Couglei,Colds, Bronchitis, Sore Throat! Incipient Consumption &c. &c., that this reli- able remedy can now be proeured from every dealer in the County of Huron, and although not advertised outside our own Connty,- entirely owing to its own merits, we have already receiv- ed orders from the most distant parts of the Do- minion,if afflicted give it . a trial, price 60 cents per bottle -wholesale and retail by LUMSDEN & WILSON, Manufacturers, Seaforth, Ontario. 925-52 EAST HURON FARMERS' INSTITUTE. A Farmers' Institute for the Electoral District of East Huron, will be held in the Town Hall, Brussels, on • FRIDAY .and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19th and 20th, 1886, Commencing each day at 10 O'clock a, in: Professor Mills, President of the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph, with another member of the staff, will be present to read papers and deliver addresses on subjects connected with Agrienitu re. Farmers and others are cordially invited to be present. A preliminary meeting will be held in the Town Hall, Briissels, on Monday, February 8th, at 1 o'clock P. m.,. for the purpose of making arrangements for the holding of the above Insti- tute. A large attendance of the.- fanners and others interested in the vicinity is desired ' at this meeting. JOHN MeMILLAN, Chairman. 1 PBELL AT- & BRIGHT O MAKE WA1 That is just COATS an supply the cheaper tha coats; it wi 1 pay to buy for next winter. FOR THE LARGE coming, We have decided to Cut down the price of all our OVER - HEAVY TWEEDS to cos elves with cheap goods. any other house in town. t, to give a chanceeto or.r customers to We buy strictly for cash, and can sell Don't fail to get one of these cheap Over- AMPBELL 84. BRIGHT. NEW FA LL GOODS McLO AT--- GHLIN'S. Piles o New Goods received an cheaper thai ever. Special value in NEW RESS 4ATERIALS, EW FLANNELS, NEW TWEEDS, NEIN more on the way. Prices away down BLANKETS, NEW COMFORTERS, NEW UNDERCLOTHING. Every one Invited to call and Exa. line Stock and Prices. Groceries new, fresh and cheap. utter and Eggs Wanted. McLOIUGH LIN, Whitney's Block, Seaforth. NEW MILLING TH Mc Having bo and best m FIRM IN SEAFORTH. E SAFORTH ROLLEk' MILLS, LATE TH RED MILL. RIDE & SMITH, from Strathroy, ght the above mills, and r chiuery that could be proc RADUAL REDU And the re ult attained is, they have Farmers caja now get all their GRIS and have it home with them the same FL4tTP BIA., tted them throughout with all the latest ed for a TION ROLLER MILL, ne of the best mills in the Province. ING and CHOPPING done in Seaforth, day, and Satisfaction Guaranteed. For sale by the to or in less quantiti Wheat. MR. THOMAS SMITH will Mills. .A.INTT2) SI-101R,TS s -FOR CASH. Cash for any quantity o cBRIDE*& SMITH. ersonally superintpd the Seaforth Roller POPU AR GROCERY. HUGH Main Street, Seafor FR 0 B B , h, the People's Grocer. Thougli times sale hard, the Popu and is offeiing good fresh goods at specialty. I•A1l kinds of Teas from 25 brown Sug r at 16 pounds for $1, and grocery eq ally cheap. All kinds of signs, good and cheap. All kinds o • Sausage, Bologna and Pork Cuttin Honey from my own apiary. Hogs. suitable for packing. ar Grocery is found to be equal to them, rock bottom prices. Teas and Sugars a to 75c -good value. An extra nice light all other goods to be found in a first-class Crockery and Glassware of the latest de - Cured Meats kept constantly on hand. good and cheap. Comb .S,nd Extracted The highest market price for dressed hogs H. ROBI3, Seaforth. 41•••••• Rus TH to the G eat Clearing Sale AS GOODS AT SEAFORI 11 TEA STORE. OF CHRIST ' The fines quality of White Granite and Glassware, I' may Goods and Christmas Gifts, In the grocer- department we can't be surpas can be had aii almost any price and quality, t ster, Finnan Iaddie, Mackerel, -and all kinds the cheapest Our stock of Teas comprise Gr best grades. Green Teas from 25c to 76c, Bla tea dust in sock. Also the Himalayan Tea, per pound. t has stood the critical test of t and is worth 75c. Also Labrador Herrings in with heads off; White Fish and Trout in half ci,, stock. Dahl Salt and salt by the barrel. Al lated Cornut . al, Rolled Oats and Wheat, Flour oats, wheat, .c. Oats taken in exchange for Poultry, Butt r and Eggs. All are cordially it over the tow) . China Tea Sets sold _very cheap, and our stock of rill defy competition,pwing to their very low prices. ed. Currants, Raising, Prunes, Sugars and Coffees suit both rich and poor, Also Canned Salmon, Lob - f fruits, which are of -first quality,, and as cheap as en, Black, Japan, uncalored Japan, and are of the k 25c to 75c, Japan 25c to 50; Green and Japan irect from India, in green, black and mixed, at 55e m Government analyiat, who has pronounced it pure, tali barrels and barrel, Lake Superior Herrings split, arrels. Canadian and American Coal Oil always in Oatmeal, Granulated Oatmeal, Cornme61 and granu- and all kinds of feed, suoh as bran, shorts, middlings attneal at mill rates. The highest price paid for vited to inspect the stock. Goods delivered free all A. G. AULT, Seaforth. NO PLACE LIKE ROBERTS' DRUG STORE, FOR Choice Perfuinery, Hair Oils, Pomades, Bearine, Flavoring Extracts, Es- sences,Carbolic Acid, Glycerine and Castile Soaps, Violet Powders, Tuff Boxes, &c., &c. Tooth, gaill Hair, Hat, Clothes and Bath Brushes, From the Best Makers, Always in Stock; A full line of Ivory? Celluloid, Vulcanite and Horn Dressing, Fine and Side Combs, of every size and style. Prices to Suit the times. LT. S. Roberts CHEMIST & DRUGGIST, APOTHECARIES' HALL, Cardno's Block, Main Street, Seaforth. FARMERS,' IT- WILL PAY YOU -TO CALL AT THE -- HURON FOUNDRY, -e-NEAR THE - HIGH SCHOOL, SEAFORTH, And see our stock of PTIOWS, Which have been made especially for this county. have greatly Improved my Gang Plow for this season, and feel satisfied in saying that it is the best in the market. Our' 1 • LAND ROLLERS Are large and heavy, running light and doing good work. Sifir -GRAIN USHERS Are made !tom; Hard Iron, and will last longer than any other rna,cine made. Having special tools for reeutting Rollers, we can guarantee Eiatisfaction. Special attention given to e- pairing- Steam Engines, paw and Grist Mills, Reapers, Mowers, Threshing Machines, and all kinds of machinery repaired on short notice and at reasonable rates - To Contractors and Others. Bridge Bolts and Castings at lowest rates. Quotations furnished on application. IW'Also Agent for the Implements of L. D. $awyer, Hamilton. A full line of repairs con- etantly on hand. THOMAS HENDRY. THE CANADIAN XPRESS COMPANY I.ow Rates and Quick Transportation. Offer Special Inducements to all Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits:Poul- try, Butter, Cheese, Eggs, and all kinds of Produce. Goods marked„ "keep from frost," guaranteed against damage by frost. Special rates quotede on application to agents, to and from New York City, Portland,- Maine; Buffalo, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Toronto, Ontario; Mon- treal, Quebec. Two fast trains daily; Insure promptness and despatch in transportation. Orders to purchase goods of any kind taken by this Company, purchases promptly made and forwarded, without charge except for transport- ation. Fire tonnecting lines at Buffalo, New York, and three connecting lines at Toronto, Ontario, covering all territory in Eastern States and Canada. Rates given to all points in Great "Llritain_upon application, C.H. CULL, Age. Office, - Main Street, Seaforth, Ont. Issuer of Marriaqe Licenses. 938-3 mos eow .111••••••=••••111- IIA3.KNESS HAIR BALlit Restores grey hair to its.n tural color 1. moves Dandruff, stops the hal from falling out, increases it growth, and not soil the As a hair dr sing,g it has n superfor.ft thin anteedharml 111641kmmum we - Prepared by, Harkness &Co* la.Londoutchp Bold by all and Patent X I Dealers.' QHRYSTAL., &_BLAOKI PRACTICAL BOILER MAKERS. THE Subscribers have bought the Tools and Boiler business lately carried on by the Goderich Foundry and.Manufacturing Company, and having had an experience of over eight years in that shop, are now prepared to carry on the trade in all its branches. Any work entrusted to us will receive prompt ettention. First-class work guaranteed. All kinds of Boilers made and repaired, also Smoke Stack, Sheet Iron Work, &e., at reason- able rates. New Salt Pans made and old ones repaired on the shortest notice, and at prices that defy com- petition. CHRYSTAL & BLACK. FEBRIJABY 19, 188 ST. J.AIVIES' HOTT.L,- TORONTO. SHARP Bs BRIGHAnfi, (Formerly of Shafp'sFlotel,Seaforthd PROPRIETORS. mins Hotel, which issituated directly opposite . the Union Station, has recently been refitted and refurnished throughout, and is now one of the best and most comfortable hotels in the city VirEvery possible attention paid to gueethere 'charges moderate. I Say Look Here, If you have little money and want it ts go a great way, or if you have plenty and want to spend it well, then Idek here, go to RANTON BROS., EXETER, For Big Bargains in Winter Goods, Overcoats, Furs, Caps, Shawls, . Glove*, &c., &c. All must go this month to make room for Spring Goods. REMNANTS OF DRESS GOODS, REMNANTS OF TWEEIXat REMNANTS OF PRINTS,tie Away down in Price. Everybody cow and see for yourselves. New Cottons, Shirtings, Cottoned &c., cheap, cheap, cheap. Readymade Clothing and Clothing order. Large Stock of Gents' Ties, Collate Braces, &c. at correct prices, and yes will say so to. So come and. see RANTOil BROS., EXETER, Noted For Dress Goods. BELLS MILLS, JKIP'1=IMINT_ TOHN MeNEVIN, Proprietor of these wet: el known and popular mills,,has been Wks -- more improved machinery, and is now bettg prepared to turn out an article of FAMILY FLOUR, which cannot be excelled by any mill in country. Gristing done while the party waits for Flour exchanged for wheat, chopping dere every day and chopped for six cents pfi bag with water. Fresh oat meal always et band and for sale and exchanged for oat Flour, shorts and bran always on hand asi sold at the lowest market prices, also any qua' tity of chops on hand. Orders promptly attenk ed to. Those a -ho have not yetgiven these mina trial will find it to their interest to do ea. member the popular "Bell's Mills." JOHN McNEVIN. C. M. WHITNEY' STORE }WYSE, AND SEE OUR LINES OF COAL HEATER THE ROYAL The Leading Round Base Burner in four Double Heaters and with Ovens. The Royal Peninsular Is the handsomest Square Base Burner new* Don't fail to see it. A full line of all kinds of Wood & Coal Cooksj No trouble to show them. Come one, Come all, and get Bargaia BARGAINS IN LAMPS, CUTLERY, TINWARE, AMERICAN AND CANADLA COAL OIL ALWAYS ON HAND 031 AUCTIONEERS. T P. BRINE, Licensed 'Auctioneer for tht. eJ County of Huron. Sales attended in pa;ts of the County. 1 All orders left at TO EXPOSITOR Office will bekRomptly attended A DELGATIY, Licensed Auctioneer for it! 111_. County of Huron. Sales of all descrlpU promptly attended to on reasonable terms. dress Brussels P. 0., or apply on Lot 4, CO, cession 12, Grey. 77 MUSICAL. /TRS. C. M. DUNLOP, Teacher of X JVI Piano or Organ. Advanced pnpile for graduating at less than one-half the e of foreign teaching. Terms moderate. denee on George Street, Second Door East Main Street, Seaforth. FEBRUAR 197 1886.- Sebool Reports. No. 6, Troxyaummi.---The JO, is the report of this standbig of p School Section NO. 6, Tuckersnr -the month of January, 1886, hi proficiency and ghod eonduct : - Fourth Class -1e4 Eat. Robb, 284 Lydiaartin,2 Lan5d2s;4b9retri,F gh, armyToi 3; 3rd, 238. Junior FOltrth Landsborough, 218, 2nd Belia- chan, 208; 3rd, Mary Towneen, Third Class -let; George Robb 2nd, Emily Turner, 229, 3rd, Ha Routledge, 220, 4th, Richard 218, Second Class-Ist, Agne nochan, 213, 2nd. Mary Yeiloe Senior First elass-ist, Mmnje ledge, 279, 2nd, Everett Crich 3rd:BLAItieR:-le DY1leili75f iollowing is ti rect standing of the pupils of thc. bury school for the month of Ja based on general proficiency an conduct Fifth Class - ist Morrison, 2nd Mary McNab, 3rd J. Morrison,. Fourth, Senior -13 Getty, 2tid Peter Gardiner, 3rd McCune. Fourth, Junior-lst McNab and Minnie McEwen, 2a MeEwen, 3rd Heber Morrison, Class, Senior---lst James Seott Susan Maloney,- 3rd John DJ Third Class, Juniorn-ist Dora S 2nd Amelia Morrison, 3rd Awe Kim. Second Class-lst TessR doon, 2nd Ed. Morrison, iird - Stewart and. James MeEwen, Pt -1st Bella McNab, 2nd Aggie bald, 3rd Maud Morrison. _ No. 3, TrentEntielITIL-The foi. is the honor roll for School Sectit 1, Tuckersmith, for the month a nary, 1886 Fifth Cleat -Daniel Eilie Ben, Eliza Wood. Fourth -Albert Darling, Guy Caldwell, uel Buchanan. Third Class --Wu- meer, Walter Fairbairn, Jame • meet. Second Class -Maggie Bel tie Tugrarn, Albert Bell. First C Geo. Tretneer, Wm. Caldwell. - names of the three highest only i, class appear, and these in order of. I-TEN:SALL - Fourth Class - Stitherland. Third Class-lst Smiley, 2nd Esther Moore, 3rd C _ Gilchrist, 4th EllaCrawford, 5th I Reynolds, 6th Agatha Reynolde a McPherson. Second Class --1st A Bell, 2nd Wm: Blair, 3rd Geo. 1‘1, 4th Maggie Eat -Alford and IVr christ, 5th Duncan MeEwen, 6th Carroll. Part IL-lst Herman Be Nellie Palmer:, 3rd Eadie Bonthre Mabel Reyindds, 5th Eva Thomps Ethel Murdoch and Norman. 11 Part I. -1 -St Wm. Eider, 2nd Coxworth, 3rd Daniel Bell, 4th Twohy, fith, Mary Peart, 6th Flo No. 5, TraNBERRY, --The folio the standing of the pupils of Scho tion No. 5, furnberry, for the t January 1886. Fourth Class. S Marks obtainable 975 -Janet Car obtained 799, Maggie Eadie 630 Hastings 594. Fourth Class, Ju 'Marks obtainable 870h -John obtained 612, Andre Nv Carruther Fannie Robinson 560. , Third <I Marks obtainable 847 -Wm. HA obtained 555, Eliza Hastings 552S beth Raly 551. Seeond Ciass- obtamablc Rutherford tit 855, DaidHastings 737, 1/9X'11 I692. News Notes. -The smallest firearmin the a. gold watch charm in the form wolver about an inch long. . -The congregation of :•-it. „kill ethurch, London, have decided in i f an organ by a. vote of 510 to MI -Meseta. Joseph White & lite Of St Marys, have disposed ei famou.s imported horse "(lel sited by the celebrated thineeel "Belted Knight,'" to Mr. Wm. li --Oxford county, for ' e --Messrs. J. & J. N. Gesell- hav -their interest- in the Shakespear inill to Messrs. Calder; of Stratfor Howard, of Dundee. The mill is -entirely remodelled and the new process introduced. -One cold night last week a 1 Ziamed Campbell 'left Stonewall, itoba, to drive to his home in tin; -iship of Galt On the way his left the trail and wound up in a ic They broke through the ice and , tell, being unable to extricate 4tarted to get assistance. Ifidwa: about all night and by morninIJ feet were badly frozen. Wile horses were foinniethey were (teat, ing been frozen to death. An interesting breach of um emit is in progrese in Victoria, I ,Columbia. A dashing young man business in the Pacific city hapc Let a photo of a young lady liV- - ova Scotia, and became so info: with the picture that he enteres .correspondence with the Bluenose aady. Each letter received only i to web] two hearts together. became engaged. The young Viet niletermining that eeveral thousand lashould not any longer keep two , ;apart, sent for his .Bluenose lady 'The marriage was to take place in lately on her arrival at Victoria, Arrived, but the gallant Victorian ?went down to zero at first sight, i .edeclared that the. photo- was not 1 ?representation of ;the original. I 'fused to allow the knot to bc t* -SUM the fair one from Nova Scot] 04emanded $5,000 for damages d her affections. -A very clever bit of detectiv Is reported this week from France. For some time back it -‘8, aisle for chidren to play in parks o -the streets without their elders, of cases were placed in the hand'..Volice Where little girls had been into secluded places, their hair ,-;*nd frequently -•tbeir clothes rei It appeared to bethe work of o - woman, -who, however, manae . -elude the vigilance of the polic length Detective pannier took ti In hand. Ife dreOsed his own ht -.Very elegantly and sent her out In the park, while he disguitte Torter, kept watCh. In a few Ian old woman apprmiched the offered her sweetmeats and eta, down a lonely avenue. M. Dem wed and. allowed the 'Woman to, lile child's hat and cloak before elicguhrea coitvcOn er:Sheiha been commit * trial and there is abundant evide vi : -A despatch from New York There has been 4 strong moven te in -potato importations; prin ' ,i orn Scotland, due to the fat re portion of the American cr It -was a failure, because of the The Scottish potato has become A ,