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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1888-02-17, Page 6Li ver COnipiain Dyspepsia, Bili- ousness, Sick HeadacheKidney Troubles, Rheu_ m atisneSkin Dis- eases,and all Im- purities of the Blood,from what ever eauee ari ing. e THE HURON EXPOSITOR. ee7: FgBIWARY 17, 1888. In a Woman's Barber Shop. A New York novelty is a barber 'shop for women. The way the thing works is thus touchingly described by - The Sun :- The patrons of the shop buy a check in the store down stairs. For a plain hair cut it is fifty cents, a shampoo costs fifty cents extra, and for a quarter extra a guaranteed -can't -be -told -from: - life complexion will be put on. Up stairs the patrons sit in a row along the wall and wait for the first bar- ber at leisure to call out :- "Naixt ! Five seventy-two." The woman with check 572 steps for- ward, her wraps removed, a.ncl puts her- self at his mercy. A deft touch and two motions place her in- the: chair facing a big mirror. t "Vat vill it be ?" "I want my hair cut." " Oui ; how vill it be?" " Pointed please and cut back on each side." " Oui, oui; short or long ?" Just medium, I think. „ " Oui, oui, oui ?" Two whisks and a jerk place a huge calico bib around the victim's neck, and a few delicate and lingering touches tuck it away under the collar. , Then hairpins come out and three pulls and a twist bring the hair down in a cataract over the back of the chair. Then, with a bottle of tonic or something in one hand and the woman's front hair in the ether, the barber alternates squirts of the liquid with vigorous pulls and rubs of the hair. "Do I hurt? Oui ! No! Ah!". Then, with a pair of scissors in the kand that held the bottle, seventeen tourishes and five snips cut the stray- ing ends of the bangs into the desired shape. " Dus it suit ? No ! Oui ! Ah More flourishes and several long sidashes trim the ends ef the long hair to a fitting evenness and then one dab !cads finger with vaseline, and an in - City of rubs and plunges get it thor- oughly into the front hair. " Ah !" One pose and three motions satisfy the barber that he is all right so far, and he 'elegies off to a gas stove and gets along curling iron. A. gingerly touch and a smothered d -m prove that this is not all right at all, and it takes a dozen weird brandishes through the air to reduce it to a proper degree of tem- perature. " Zet 'cies better." It takes three twirls and seven mo- tions to curl every lock of hair and a stand off and a pose go with every curl. All the time the barber is chatter- ing French with the other four men, and the hapeless victim, unless she understands French and knows that the talk is to the effect that it is a nice day to -day and they're going to get a new girlat Mrs. La Peter's boarding house, imagines all sorts of dire comment and ekiaff. about herself passing back and forth. " Ah !" A final pose and a grand swoop puts the curling iron away, and -then, with both hands advanced and an air of timidity, the barber approaches until his outstretched finger-tips nestle in the kair of either temple. Three different sets of swift caressing touches with a different pose of timidity to each, scat- ter the curls in a good imitation of way- wardness over the forehead, and the bar- ber springs back into a new pose and a distortion. " Nice ?" "Yes, very nice." " Ah." A long swoop removes the calico bid, and three bows and a motion induces the wonaan to rise. A grab and seven leurishes, with interjaculatory quivers, with a small broom brushes the dress off back and front, and a hop and two skips place the barber in possession of the woman's wraps. Allow me ?" A grace learned at French balls and burlesque shows puts the wrap over the shoulder and adjusted its drapery becomingly. A pose and a gaze of ad- miration complete the job. "Naixt ! Five seventy-nine !" The process is an entirely passive one on the part of the woman. She takes her tonic her vaseline and even her bay rum without any question from the bar- ber. He cuts and Mashes as he sees fit. He does not ask a lot of questions about how you want it and then do it the other way, and he dosen't talk politica and metaphysics between snips. And yet when one of them was asked :- `k Do you get many tips ?" he answered with a world of scorn in Ms tone :- Teeps ! Monsieur, if ees ze yeomen eat ve vork for! Zay nefair teep !" These five barbers in the Fourteenth street shop are kept busy all day, so women who are up to the tricks of the place bey tickets beforehand and keep them till they are ready to use them, sio that they get the first vacant chair when they go to the shop. All sorts of women go there, even some that could well afford to have a hairdresser at their ltomes. It is more convenient than to *aye a man at the house. Especially profitable patrons are the short -haired girls. Apparently every girl with a cropped head has crisp little curls all over it. Half the time or oftener they are the work of a barber and not of na- ture. With two or three visits to the barber shop every week the short hair- ed girl, even in the dampest weather, oars keep her hair in as betwitching a state of curliness as ever fooled an in- nocent and confiding man. In ordinary fall and winter weather one barbering will last a short haired girl a week. Journey of the Human Jaw. The noonday customers were dropping out one by ene from a Sansom street restaurant, when a dyspeptic looking Mall who sat at the next table startled me by saying: ".Have you any idea how many miles a man's jaw will travel in the course of his life, assuming that he lives to be 70 years of age ?" " Well, 1 never thought of it," answer- ed a young man, who halted iu his wild career of beefsteak. The dyspeptic man ehauged his seat and exposed a much soiled piece of paper with some figures on it, which he proeeeded to explain : " For the first tensyears a. child's jaw will go about 55 inahes daily, or 200,750 inches altogether in a decade. From his 10th to his 20th year, what with chewing gum, food and tobacco, he will work his jaw for, say, four hours a day, at an average of one-half an inch per ininute ; that would make in a day 120 inches, or in ten years 438,000 inches. During this time he will talk about five hours a day; traversing about three- fourths of an inch a minute with his jaw; 0 that would give in ten years 822,250 inches to be added to our former figures. "For the next forty-five years he will spend sixty minutes a day in eating, when he will open his mouth half an inch a minute, and seven hours in talk- ing; when he will average five-eighths of an inch • that is, when you figure it out, 5;008,625 inches_ " We now have our man 65 years old. For the htst five years his jaw takes a rest. He will eat no more than thirty minutes a day at one-half inch a minute, or 27,345 inches, and in talking the dis- tance traveled will not 4mount to more than 338,500 inches. Now for the total. If we add the various su s together we get 6,835,470 inches, an dividing by 63,360, the number of inches in a mile, you find that the maxilla y journey is a distance of 107 miles and a fraction." "That is certainly in eresting," said the young man. "11 ve you ever calculated the same 1 p trip for a woman ?" " My dear boy," camq the slow, sad reply, " life is short." Philadelphia News. Courting Aunt rhilura. We went into the c rner grocery. There was only one fel1or in, and after he'd been forward and ound out we didn't want anythiug, Ie went out in - the back part of the st re and stood around -and we didn't p y no more at- tention. I was lookin' t some cocoa- nuts, and wondering how nuch they was a dozen, when I heard a Le11 ring some- where and the fellow in he end of the store called out : "My dear Flurry ! Hallo, darling." I didn't answer him, I vas too aston- ished. "Come down here, m darling," he went on. "I'm all alone and shall be for half an hour at least." I was too dumbfound d to speak, though I could 'a' Shook he impudent PuPPY- " Never mind whet they say," the fellow went on. " Come right along to the one who has no solitoe in life but thee, my love. Until you come life will be a cold, desolate existence." Johnt had been standin at the win- dow, and had heard it a . He turned and came toward me. "Johnson Winters," aa d I, 'be you 9, man or noir " Dummit," says he, "yes, I be, I'll teach him to talk soft to my pardner right before me."' "Behind your back," sai I, "I should say." But he'd already st rted. "When you reach me," e went on in a soft way, "a golden flo d of sunshine will pour its radiance into his one horse grocery, gilding the cans of tomatoes into an almost supernatura radiance. I own no power but thine- " You don't eh?" say -s ohnt, as he grabbed him by the collar nd proceed- ed to choke him. He was, small, deli- cate feller, and if he ha n't been ad- dresain' me in such a plagu y mean way (me, a married woman !) I never would have stood by and seen Joh t shake him across that grocery the wa • he did; but I experienced a real meal sense of de- light. Johnt he mopped out t .e middle of that grocery in good shap and then he flung him out of the door, hich I open- ed for him. "There," says he, " teach you to make love to my wife !" aid he rapped him against the lamp po t. I dunno what he would have done, but a police- man came along and seize, 'ern both. He shook 'ern like a cou le of school- boys in a fight, and want d to know what the trouble was anyhow. "Trouble !" says Johnt, Why, that rascal called my wife a dari ing, and his love, and told her to com out there where he was." "1 didn't," says the felle , wiping the blood from his nose. "You did," says Johnt, "and I can prove it. Didn'the, Phan e " Yes," says I. " Youn man, you did, you used shameful Ian ;uage .to me -a woman old enough o be your mother." "Explain," says the poli e t� the fel- ler, "or I'll tske you both to the lock- up.” "Why," says he, 'most cryin'. " I was telephonin' mY girl, that's all. There's a private line up t the house, and I was talking to her I'd forgot that anybody was round." "It's a lie !" exclaimed Jo nt. "You called her by name-Philur ." " I didn't 4" says the fe ler. Her name's Florrie and I call:d her so - Heavens !" said he, lookin' t me-" did you think when I called er my love and my darling that I wa.. talking to that old squat ?" "-Come, Johnt," says I, tarting for home. "It's time we were goinV He had changed mighty sudde from hot to cold, and I dunno what he will call me next," and we locked arms, leavin' the police roarin' with laughter "Goodbye," called out the grocery feller. " Call again som afternoon when business is dull." But I pretended not to he; r and so did Johnt.-Aunt Philura, in B ston Times. Tiraber Rafts on th Ocean. Shipmente of timber in reat ocean- rafte have long been conside ed possible. Interest in the subject is re ived by the abandonment of the great Nova Scotian raft off Block Island in December. Readers of the Lumber orld are familiar with the history of s me of these rafts, but it may not be uninteresting to recite the points in their hist ry. Hugh R. Robertson, of two Ri -ers, No-va Scotia, in 1883 eonceived the idea of building an ocean -raft of los all sizes, bound together by chains in the form of a ship. In 1884 he paterite his plan in the United States, CO.D1 da, Great Britain, Norway, and Sw den. The patentable point in this system of raft- ing* is the adjustment of the chains which bind the whole tog ther. The main or centre chain runs f om one end of the raft to the other, and it is that by which the structure is to be towed. The lateral chains are used to prevent the raft from working apart longitudin- ally by the action of the w ayes. The enctreling chains are attacl ed to the lateral chains and are to pre ent the raft from flattening, out while afloat. On this plan Mr. Robinson begai in Nos -em - her, 1885, to build his first raft on this, Bay of Fundy, six n iles fra m Joggins. This was ready for launching in August, 'See. It was 400 feet long, 50 feet wide at the pentre, 33 feet deep, and 25 feet in diatheter at the ends. The way S on which it rested broke and the launch of the 2,000,000 foot monster was a failure. Mr. Robertson tore it apart and re- built it on a large scale on stronger ways. The monster in its new form was 585 feet long, 62 feet wide and 37 feet deep. It contained 3,000,000 feet of lumber, in 27,000 pieces, and weighed 11,000 tons. It was successfully launch ed November 15, 1887, and the steame "Miranda" took it in tow on December 6 and started on the 600 mile ocean trip to New York, where the lumber was consigned to James D. Leary, the ship- builder. The weather was tempestuous and on Sunday, December 18, in a heavy gale off Nantucket South Shore light- ship, the towing cables parted at 7 a. m. and the giant went adrift. The " Mir- anda " proceeded to New York and the captain reported that the raft had gone to pieces, although other vessels reported several days later that the raft was intact and lying quietly near the spot where the hawsers parted. Govern- ment vessels were dispatched to the scene to clear the pathway of incoming ocean vessels. At this writing reports do not indicate the finding of the raft. According to Bon. Wm. Gould, of Portland, Maine, the well-known down - east historian, this great raft is not the first of its kind. It had a number of predecessors, and all of them were suc- cessfully 'launched but came to grief before reaching their destination. In 1792 a raft containing about 1,000 tons of timber was built at Swan Island in the Kennebec, by Dr. Tupper, a some- what noted eccentric character. It was made by treenoiling square timber together in the form of a ship's hull and was ship -rigged, the intention being to send her across to England. At that time no manufactured lumber was ad- mitted into Great Britain ; hence the timber in the raft was simply squared with the axe, to make it stow well. The ship or raft lay at Rath for some time, as it was difficult to get men to go in her. She finally went to sea, carrying a small vessel on her deck. . But off the Labrador coast, her crew were frighten - by bad weather and abandoned her. She was afterwards boarded by sailors from a passing vessel and found to be in good order, and it was suspected that she was deserted without sufficient cause. Two other aimilar attempts were made from the Kennebec, and both vessels went safely - across, but foundered on the English coast, under the same suspicions of fraud as in the case of the Tupper ship. In 1825 the ship Baron of Renfrew was lauched at Quebec, having made a previous unsuccessful attempt when she stopped on her ways, owing to the grease being consumed by fire from friction. She was towed down to the .island of Orleans and anchored. Her dimensions are given follows : Length 209 feet; breadth 60 feet; depth 38 feet internally and 57 feet externally; tonnage 5,889 tons; draft when launch- ed 24 feet; cargo on board when launch- ed 4,000 of timber. She was ship - rigged, with four masts, and was per- fectly flat on the bottom, with a keel of about 12 inches; wall -sided, sharp for- ward and rather lean aft, and looked more like a block of buildings than a ship. She sailed in August, 1825; in command of a Scotchman, a half -pay lieutenant in the British navy. October 27th the Baron of Renfrew drove on shore on the coast of France, near Calais, and went to pieces.1 NorthAmerican Life Assurance Company. The annual meeting of the North American _ Life Assurance Company was held at the head e I office of the company, 22 to 28 King street west, I Toronto, on Thunal , the 27th day of January, when the annual report was submitted as fol- . A Mean Trick. A man who probably hailed from Buffalo played a powerful ,mean trick on a Detroit bridal couple itt Niagara Falls the other evening. They went to a hotel and registered, had supper and then started out for a night view of the Mighty Roarer. They had not gone far when a man called to them and said: "Have you just been married ?" "We h -have !" answered the groom. "Going to stay here a day or two ?" " Yes." " Well, I want to say a word to you. I don't want any ducky-deary non- sense around my house. I want no popsy-wopsy business on the verandas. I want no squeezing hands on the balconies, or feeding each other . at the table." The groom let his arfn fall from the bride's waist slowly, and the stranger continued: "The first time you call her peaches and cream, or she calls you her darling, out you go !" " Y -yes, sir." "She's no sweeter than ten thousand other girls, and you are no more of a darling than I am and I won't stand love sick nonsense." He walked away with that, and people at the Falls who knew the bridal couple were amazed to hear them ad- dress each other as Mr. and Mrs.: and to see what precautions they took to prevent touching hands or betraying any symptoms of love. They put in two wretched days, and it was only as they were upon the point of leaving that they discovered how a base villain had duped them. -Gas companies are great jokers. They are always making light of every- thing. -The Labor Commission has discov- ered grave abuses in Montreal cigar fac- tories in regard to the treatment of children. A commissioner, in evidence, said, "We have knowledge of a boy beaten at his work so severely that he has been in bed for months, and is not likely ever to get over it. We also hear that a certain factory has a black hole under the stairs, where refractory boys and girls are imprisoned." - Consumption Cured. - An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East "India mis- sionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of consump- tion, Bronchis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung affections, also a positive and radical .cure for Nevous Debility and all Nervous CotuL plaints, after having tested its wonderful cura- tive powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to wake in known to his suffering, fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve .human suffering, Y will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this receipt, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent hy mail by addressing with stamp, namin,,,•, this paper, W. A. NOYES, 149 Power's Block, Rochester, N. Y. 1037 -5 -cow Advice to Mothers. Are you distrit bed and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of - cutting teeth? If so send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething. Its value is incalenlable. It • will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mother ; there is no mistake about it. It cures dysentery and diarihma, regu- lates the stomach' and bowels, cotes wind colic, softens the gum -s, reduces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to he whole system. ",Mrs. 'Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for ehildred teething is pleasant to the taste and is the pre- scription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States, and is for sale by all druggists throughout the world. Price twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for " MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP," and take no other kind.966.1y. 10W9 REPORT. In submitting their annual report the directors have much pleasure in stating that in every de- partment tending t,o the company's substantial progress and prosperity, the year's operations have been most satisfactory. ' During the year 1,678 applications for $2,420 050 were received, upon -which were issued 1,515 policies for $2,294,550, the rest being unaccept- able, and 7 policies for $10,635, which had lapsed for non-payment of premium, were revived. The accompanying revenue acceuot and bal- ance sheet show that the reserve fund has be n increased by $104,826 and that fund now amounts to the handsome sum of $416,611. The addition to the company's assets is largely in excess of that of any former year, amounting to $120,508.89, being over fifty per cent. of the whole income of the year. All the reserves and resources of the company are invested in Canada throughout nearly all the provinces, and are thus utilized in building up and extending Canadian interests. Dr. James Thorburn, the company's able and experienced medical director, has prepared his usual full report of the company's mortality ex- perience, calling attention to the fact that over oanluec-tahisredso.f the year's losses arose from acciden- t ., Both the preliminary and full reports of the company's business for the year, including a de- tailed schedule of its mortgage securities, were mailed to the Governnient within a feer hours after the close of business on the last day of the year. The same minute and complete audit of the sources of income and expenditure and of the property of the company, has been continued by the auditors appointed by the annual meeting, and the usual examination has also been made by the auditing committee of the board. Their certificates are annexed to the balance sheet. Every loounientary security held by the corn- pany has been examined and verified indepen- dently by the auditors and the committee of the board. The directors have declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum to June 30th next, payable July 2nd to the guarantors, as interest upon the paid up portion of the guarantee fund. The services of the company's staff of officers, inspectors and agents again deserve favorable recognition. The directors all retire, but are eligible for re election. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, Presiden t. Toronto, January 26th, 1888. REVENUE ACCOUNT OF VIE NORTH AMERICAN LIPP. ASSURANCE COMPANT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1887. To Nee ledger assets $375,557 33 " Cash for premiums and annuity coneiderations216,074 12 " Caeh for interest 23,718 72 $615,350 17 By Expenses $ 39,087 12 " Commissions and salaries to agents 31,724 67 " Re insurance 11,510 20 " Claims -paid under policies 33,348 09 " Profits to Policy -holders 271 35 " Surrendered policiee 2,003 73 " Annuities 524 22 11 Interest on guarantee fund. 4,800 00 " Quebec government taxes 3,875 00 $127 124 38 Balance not ledger assets 488,225 79 $615,350 17 BALANCE SHEET. Liabilitin. To Guarantee fund $ 60,000 00 "Assurance and annuity funds $435,910 00 " Less for re-itisurances19,399 00 416,611 00 "Contingent fund to provide for the collection of out -standing and de furred premiums and other charges accruing on year's bush ne88 6,575 00 " Death losses awaiting profits 9 000 00 "Surplus. 55,671 87 Note. - For the security of policyholders the company holds :- Assets (as per balance sheet) $547,660 87 And in addition, Uncalled guarantee fund 240,000 00 8787,660 87 From which deduct, Reserve ($416,511 00, and death loses 89,000, at Dec. 31, as above).. .3425,511 00 Surplus on policyhold- ers' account 8362,149 87 8547,660 87 - Acts. By First mortgages on real estate....$279,502 83 " Deeentures 65,705 " Loans on stocks, nearly all on call 79.650 00 " Reversion e 13,385 70 " Bills receivuble 0,027 14 " Furniture 3,224 00 " Loans on policies L298 40 " Fire prems. paid on a/c Morten; 146 94 " Commuted commissions 5,0e0 00 " Agents' balances. 532 05 " Cash in he td and branch offices1,723 2u " Cash in banks 35,990 53 " Special cash deposit 140 00 " Balance net ledger assets SI88,225 79 Add " Short date notes for premiums.. 27,765 14 11 Premiums on existing policies in Agents' hands, and in due cunree of transinission 9,096 99 " Premiums on existing policies due subsequent to December 31st, 1887 16,558 72 (Reserve on this and preeeding items, included in liabilities.) " Interest due, $613(32; and accrued, $5,402 -61. 6,016 23 Wm. McCerie, $547 660 87 Managing Director and Actuary. We haee examined the books, documents and vouchers rept t senting the foregoing revenue ac - collet, and also each of the securities for the property in the above balance sheet, and certify to their correctness. JAMES CARLYLE, M. D., Auditoi s. W. 0. CAMELS, Toronto, January 3rd, 1888. We concur in the foregoing certificate, and have personally made an independent examina- tion of said books quarterly, and also of each of the secEurBit.ieHs uoli, reprr.seeenting said property. WM. GOR.DON, Auditing Corn. of the Board, The President then said, in moving the adop- tion of the report: I have very great pleasure in making the usual formal motion to adopt the report, printed copies of which you have in your hands. Year by year, since- the commencement of this company, it- has been my pleasing duty to take the chair at our annual general meeting, and to make some re- marks on the position of the company and its progress, but never, in its history, have we had such a splendid showing as that for 1887, which has just been read. The 'statement is so full, clear and concise, that it seems to me almost un- necessary to make any remarks thereon. It is eaid "nothing succeeds like success," and this may be the reason that, year by year, our suc- cess has increased until to -da e we -meet you and say that we can show a statement with -over half a million of accumulated assets in the short period of a few years, together with a handsome surplus. The actual increase in our assets during the past year has amounted to the large sum of 3120,508.89, while our Reserve Fund has Infeil increased by 8104,826, now reaching the hand- some sum of 8416,511. These grand results have been accomplished mainlyby hard, persistent work on the part of our active agents on the field. The splendid in- vestment and other plans of insurance offered b • this company, all of which have stood the test of time, and have been endorsed by the highest authorities on this continent, have been widely approved by It ading professional men and others desiring to protect themselves hy the safe -guards of life insurance c•oinhined with an investment. The applioations of the year ha \ e been of an unusually good eharacter. It is gratifying to observe that so many farmers, constituting as they do. the largest industrial interest in this country, are availing themselves so largely of the great advantages of life insuranee. The Government otlieial report8 Show that, in the amount of our income, a^einnillated funsls, new business, insurance in force and addition to assets, we are again considerably ahead of our chief home competitors- at the same period in their histery, and what is of more iinportance, the cost of our business is still kept within re- sonable limits. • Competition both from the Am- erican, and also from the British companies, was never keener than during the past year, and in many instances prices were paid for the business which we consider excessive.. One word about the excellent character of our assets. Our F nance Conimittee have been very careful in th eelection of investments, and it is a great sourc of congratulation to know that so successful hay they been in this respect, that there is not single investment on the books about which w have the slightest anxiety that the compan will lose a single cent. The interest has bee wonderfully well paid, and the income from tha source has now reached a very handsome figur being in cash 823,718.72, and due and accrue 86,016.23, which would have more than paid th losses of the year in the general branch. As you are aware, it is a most important fac tor in a life insurance company, that full prov sion be made for every contract which will ma ture in the future, whether by death or by th termination of the endowment or investmen period. This has been done, and the security t policyholders is most ample. I think we wer the pioneers in introducing here the premp payment of death claims, and I believe the hon est .and straightforward manner in which al claims have been immediately met by this corn pany, abundant evidence of which we possess i letters we have received an this point, is perhap one of the reasons that has established anion the insuring public in this country the greates confidence in our institution. If every one pres ent will, as opportunity offers, put in a good word for our company, it will not only assist th agent in his canvass, but will be doing kindnes to a friend in inducing him to take out a policy of life insurance. For various causes there ha been a somewhat severe financial depression ex isting throughout Canada. This, to some ex tent, has affected life insurance as well as other kinds of business, and yet I am tread to be able to say that several of the Canad,an companies, in common with ours, have, I understand, been very succet-sful during the past year. Notwithstanding this depression, I know that, sooner or later, appreciation will set in, and those of you who have lived In this country and studied its history, know well its great natural resources, and will, like myself, have great confidence in ite future; and although there may be a tem- porary cloud, yet shortly this will dleappear, and the sun will shine through, presaging a bright, grand future for the Dominion. As regards our company, I feel the utmost con- fidence in recommending it to the consideratieh of every one contemplating insurance, as I fully believe there is no company- doing business in Canada to -day that is better prepared or more able to n-eet its contracts than this company. Hon. Alexander Morris, vice-president, eaid : I have much pleasure in seconding the motion of my old and tried friend, the president, for the adoption of the report. - The able address of the president has left me very little to do. It is impossible for any one to read and study this report without feeling in- tensely gratified. Here is a home institution that trusted itself to the public, that endeavored to ineet the wants of the people, and the people have nobly rallied round it. They have shown appreciation of tho efforts of those who desire to make life insurance a home word and a home institution. They have shown that they believe in the benefits of life insurance, and the most gratifying featere of the report alluded to by the president, is that the farniers, upon whom every- thing in this country rests in so great a degree, have begun to realize the benefits of life insur- ance, and are largely taking advantage of it. and of the opportunity afforded them of making pro- vision for thei families. It is very satisfactory to find that at e close of the brief period dur- ing whirh this mpany has been in operation, notwIthstandIr the partial depression which has prevailed throughout the country, owing to the short crops that have been realized in the Province of Ontario -the banner province of the Dominion -yet nearly $2,500,000 of new and specially good business has been secured by the company. The report shows- a very large and handsome addition to our reser e fund, and to the assets of nearly fifty per cent. of the wtole income of the company for the year. I think that you find in it strong proofs of increasing public confidence, a large, growing and profitable business, increasing stability, and increased ac- tivity, and an adaptation by the company of its plans to the wants of the ineuring public. Alive and active, the management has shown itself to be able to cope with anything that may arise. Attacks have not been made upon other corn - panics, but the corepany has gone on in a steady quiet 'way, and thus has realized increased pub- lic confidence. I would like to refer before I sit down to one or two matters connection with the company and its position, first as to the careful considera- tion of the risks accepted by the company. Every attention is given to the matter. We select the best medical advisers and we have a most thorough and accompliehed chief medi- cal officer, Dr. Thorburn who g-ives the utmost attention to the examination of all applications received, and we have the advantage, in ad- dition, of the matured wisdom of the president, who I may state, is in daily attendance at the office, and gives all attention in his power to this business, and also one of the best life insurance men in Canada, your managing director, Mr McCabe, and then you have the quiet eeergetio application and long and steekessful finantial ex- perience of a gentleman whose merits are not fully known to you; I refer to my colleague in the vice-presidency. Mr. Blaikie. I had no intention to delay you so long, but as I look around the room I cannot help but re- mark on the good appearauce of the company's agents. bI see a number of clear-headed, intelligent, active business men. Gentlemen, you have a record of a most successful business, you heve most attractive and well -tested plans to offer to policy holders, and all I can say to you is to go on, assert your right, assail no other corn- pany, push the benefits of life insurance, and you will come out ahead at the end of the year. What we wa• t in this country is a spirit of deep patriotism, of intense devotion to our coun- try and our soil, and what we want in all classes of the community is a determination to put our energies to the test, and with the accumulation which we have of these, no man ought to say that Canada has not before her a great future, and that it will not develop into a stronebBritish nationality ; and in the shaping ef that future every one of you has a power, and as the coun- try grows, institutions like this will grow with it, and. will share in the general prosperity. I take no stock in the cries of depreciation. I cannot bear the idea, as my Hen. friend, the president, once said, and I share in the idea, "that he never would live in sufferance on Can- adian soil." We have a future, a brilliant future, and I have no doubt that the corning year will show that with brighter times, which I think are before Us, the steady path of progress will be pursued, and those of us who are spared to meet here on another year, will have reason to con- gratulate ourselves on even greater success. As a director, I thank the agents again for their efficient services in the past, and would simply say to you that the North American Life Assurance Company expects every man to do his duty as he has done in the past. When Baby wsa sick, we gave her Cestoria, When she wee a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Mies, she clang to Caatoria, When she had Children, she gave them Cadet Charlesworth Brownell, Wholesale and Retail c4-Tzcsoizs, SEAFORTH, - - ONT. Teas a Specialty, Jobbed at Whole- sale Prices in quantities. Charlesworth & Brownell, One door north of Post Office. “BELL" ORGANS Unapproached for ---... • Tone and Quality. CATALOGUES FREE, BELL & CO., Guelph, Ont. W. N. WATSON, General Insurance Agent -AND- Dealer in Sewing Machines. All kinds of property insured at lowest rates in first-claes reliable companies, and losses set tled promptly. Special low rates on FARM PROPERTY in the Gore and Waterloo, from 75e to $1 (cash plan) for three years. Mills and factories in- sured in these companies at a saving of 20 per cent. on stock companies. Sole dealer in the WHITE and RAYMOND SEWING MACHINES (family and manufactur- ing). Prices ranging from 826 to $75. All ma- chines warranted for five years on every kind of work. Needles, oil and repairs for sale. Ma- chines repaired. 1\T_ 7A7-_4'11SCIZT, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH. HURON AND BRUCE Loan and Investment 01/11=A_N-Y-.. This Company is Loaning Money on Farm Security at lowest Rates of Irterest. Mortgages Puchased. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on „Deposits, according to amount and ' time left. OFFICE. -Corner of Market Square and North Street, Goderich. . HORACE HORTON, MAI( AGEE ektderieh, August 5th,1886. 922 THE CANADIAN RANK OF COMMERCE. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. Paid up Capital, - $6,000,000. Rest, - - 500,000. PRESIDENT, HENRY W. DARLING, ESQ. GENERAL rVLANAGER, B. E. WALKER. ARS'T GEN'L MANAGER, J. H. PLUMMER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. The Seaforth Branch of this Bank continues to eceive deposite, on which intereet is allowed at currer t rates. Drafts on ell the principal towns and cities in Canada, or Great Britain, and -on the United States, bought and sold. Office -First door SOUTH of the Commercial Hotel. A. H. IRELAND, Manager F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor SEAFORTH FurnitureWarerooms. If you want solid comfort call at M. Robertson's, And buy one of those Celebrated Self Adjustable Easy Chairs, represented by the above cut. H can also supply Invalid Chairs and Carriages. He also Bells the most comfortable aid durabl SI:a:ZING- BErn That is made. His stock of CABINET FURNITURE Is very large and Complete. Intending purchas- ers. would do well to give him a call before pur• chasing elsewhere. Wareroome one Door South of Telegraph Office, Main Street, Seaforth. M. ROBERTSON. TRY THE GREAT KIDNEY LIVER REMEDY, As made by the cele- brated Dr. Chase, for 11 diseases arising from a torpid and in- active Liver, such as Dyspepsy, Indigestion, Bilhousness, Jaundice, Pain in the Back, Headache, Sour Stomach, &c. From one to three bottles is guaranteed to cure the very worst case of Liver Complaint. One dose cures sick Headache ; one to two doses stimulates and invigorates the whole system. A FREE Book is given aweo with every bottle of Chase's Liver Cure. It contains over 300 choice receipts. The ladies' department is devoted to the secret of embellishing the complexion, giving receipts for making Magnolia Balm, Cream of Beauty, Golden Hair Dye, Eye Bright, &c. No lady or gentleman should be without the BOOK Sold by all dealers at one dollar. t. V. FEAR, AGENT, SEAFORTH. 1023-52 SEAFORTH PUMP WORKS. In returning thanks to my many customers for their patronage since commencing- blueness in Seaforth, I would add that in order to supply the demand for PUMPS, CISTERNS &c. that I have put in Steam Power and more now machinery, and ean now do my work quicker and better, and as I use none but the beet ma- terial I can get, and do as good work as I know how, I hope to merit a continuance of your pat- ronage. CUSTOM PLANING AND BAND SAWING A SPECIALITY. N. CLUFF. P. S. -I would be pleased to receipt all the ac- counts of the past and preyious years. Must have money. 9684.1 LEGAL TXTH. HASTINGS,Soficitor,etc. Offica-Ceetes Blook, opposite Commercial Hotel, Sete forth. 974 EAGER & LEWIS, Barristers, Goderich..... 0 Office, opposite the Colborne Hotel. geg T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, &c. • Rooms One Door North of the Cornmerene Hotel, ground floor next door to Bearne butcher shop. Agents--Ceemeuos, How' &CAMERON. 870 GARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, -Solid. tors, &c., Goderich, Ontario. J. T. GAREs, 684 1 Q. C.; WM. PROLTDFOOT. CAMERON, HOLT & CAMERON, Barrietero Solicitors in Chancery, &c., Goderich, One M. C. Caeuutoer, Q. C., PHILIP HOLT, M. G. Torr CA: z"Nu.506 s E. DANCEY, late with Camerae, Holt & Cameron, Goderich, Barrister, se. licitor, Conveyancer, &e. Money to loan. Bea. son's Old Office, Cardno's Bleck, Seaforth, D J. DOWNEY, Solicitor, Convevaneer, Late of Victoria, B. C. Offiee-Oeee Bank of Commerce, Main street, Seaforth. paa vete funds to loan at 5e and 6 per cent. 1035 MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitor', Conveyancers, &c. Solicitore for the sank of Johnston, Tisdale & Gale. Money to loan. Office -Beaver Block, Clinton, Ontario. A. rr. Aimnitio, JAMES SCOIT. 781 FHOLMESTED, successor to the late firm 02 . McCaughey & Hohnested, Barrister, licitor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solicitor for the Canadian Bank of Commerce. -Money to lend. Farms for sale. Office in Scott's Block, Male Street, Seaforth. MONEY TO LOAN. ATONEY TO LOAN. -Straight loans at 6 pee _11:1 cent., with the privilege to borrower of repaying part of the prineipal money at any time. Apply to F. HOLMESTED, Barrister Seaforth. „. 850 DENTISTRY. QL. BALL, L. D. S.. Ironer Graduate, mere- . ber Royal Denta:l College, Toronto, suc- cessor to D. Watson. B. B. MORRIS, as- sistant operator. All operations carefully performed and guaranteed. Chloroform, ether, gas and local agents used in extraction of teeth. Plates inserted at pricee.agreed upon °with Mr. Watson. Rooms over Johnson's Hardware, Sea - forth. Prices as low as good work can be done for. Residence same as that occupied by Mr_ Wabeon. 980 W_ tie -P1 ..Ake.TZe TD. S., M. It. C. and b. S,of een.Ontario. Lea.ctiotesstatiinasipanave; ts ine3lin - t guaranteed. Office, -In Cad ys Block, opposite Commercial Hotel, Seaforth. Residence, -The Poplare, John Street. 941 CARTWRIGHT & SON, Den- tists, of Exeter, Ont. One of the above will visit Blyth the last Thursday, and following Fri- day of each month, at Milne's Hotel, will visit Zurich the first Wednesday of dvery month at Peine's Hotel, and Hensall the following Thum - day of every month at Reynold's Hotel, where he will perform all dental operations. Teeth ex- tracted with a new Japan anesthetic, which re- moves eearly all pain. Parties desiring new teeth will please call early in the morning of the first day. Charges moderate. Terms cash. 984 Ti KINSMAN, Dentiet, L. D. 'Ye . S., Exeter, Ont. Will be at ., Zurich, at the Huron Hotel, on the • Lest' THURSDAY IN EACH monyir. Teeth extracted with the least pain possible. All work first-class at liberal rates. 971 Le A. Martin, L. D. S., Honor grad-uate of the Pi. Royal Co1140 of Dentee surgeons, Tor- onto. Charges as low as those of any reliable dentist, and satisfaction guaranteed. Office Garfield Block, BR u S Si L. 1006-t. f. MEDICAL. WM. HANOVER, M. D. C. M., Graduate of McGill University, Physician, Surgeon and Accoacheur, Seaforth, Ont. Offiee and re- sidence -North side Goderich street, first briek house east of the Methodist church. 961 DRS. ELuoTr & GUNN-, Brucefield, Licen- tiates Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh. Brucefield, Ont. 930 DRS. MACKIDD & EVANS, Office, Meyer's Block, Main Street, Seaforth. Residence, John street. Calls at night at either the Office or Reeidence. £04 • - - - TG. SCOTT, M. D., &e., Phyeician'Surgeon, . and Accoucher, Seaforth, Ont. Ottlee and residence South nide of Goderich street, Second Door east of the Presbyterian Church. 842 RW. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Menaber h Hof the College of Physicians and Surgeons, &c., Seaforth, Ontario. Offiee and residence same as occupied by Dr. Vercoe. 848 VETERINARY. IXTM. CARMICHAEL, V. S., graduate of the VY Ontario Veterinary College, Office -in rear of the Royal Hotel, Seaforth. 1036x12 EAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY. -Corner of Jrervis and Goderich Streets, next door to the Presbyterian Church, Seaferth, Ont. All dis- eases of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do-. mesticated animals, successfully treated at the Infirmary, or elsewhere, on the shortest notice. Charges moderate. JAMES W. ELDER, Veter- inary Surgeon. P. S. -A large stock of Veterin ary Medicines kept constantly on hand --vALV TER SHILLINGLAW, V. S„ graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Tor- onto; Registered Member of the Ontario Veter- inary Medical Association • also Honorary Mem- ber of the Veterinary Medical Society. Treats all Diseases of Domesticated Animals. Also particular attention given to Veterinary Dentis- try. Horses carefully examined for Soundness, and Certificates given. All calls proruntly attend- ed to by Mail or Otherwise. OFFICE at Resi- dence,_Staffa, Ont. 1048 AUCTIONEERS. T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for the . County of Huron. Sales attended in al parts of the County. All orders left at THE Exeoerrost Office will be promptly attendedto. DR. HODDER'S BuRnocK ; AND t711t1; . - 4kpAR/// COMPOUNV4 Female Weaknesses and General Debility Pure- ly vegetable, highle• concentrated, pleasant, effectual, safe. Ask for Dr. Ilodder's Compound - Take no other. Sold .everywhere. Price 75 cents per bottle. DR. HODDER'S COUCH AND LUNG' CURE. - Sold (were where. Price. 25 cents and 50 cents per bottle. Proprietors and in:-..tnufacturers, THE' UNION MEDICINE CO., Toronto, Can- ada. 1026-52 CHEAT ENCLIZA PRESCRIPTION. -A successful nreditive tested -7, ' " e ovr 30 years in thoneands of eedee...,e • ,.e. eases. Promptly cures Ner- , eeeeeee, oes Prostratioe, Weakness of Ifireeeeeke .eoBrain, Spinal Cord, and Gen- erative Organs of either sex, Emiseione and all ills caused by indiscretion or ovi r exertion. Six packages is guaranteed to effect a cure when all other medicines fail. One paekage si,lex pack- ages $5, by mail. Sold by driiggiste. Write for pamphlet. Address EUREKA CHEMICAL CO, Detroit, Miele. VerSold in Seaforth bv Luinselen & Wilson, and druggists generally. 1084-52 soossess Bay We marks week approv/ A eol of I3 - Jaw, Scott any attl only dii ing .t-roveria twt as non was on rnent.i. been o perien,h GonstaT their a' leader" Wa rrani Magsstr &eye ti evening' bad leas mess age they re -Closed, of the and thas yellinsa arms at, give up -drove 1 crosainss salute ‘s threats, bank of There, to speak the part intend the haw ted paib as toth Act, endorse leaders s such a la like a re -What Duncan, Thoubaroll • What and brirf Medical le life -tide i ache and \nein:en into perft brings th natural IT Sciloq port WS and g,,oi staratisn;S, for the n -1st Al ing, 30 Third eb E. Sturj McClure] Maggie Walkera ond elas, 3rd Ma' 1st Mar' -3rd .1. 2nd Nettie 1 the corre Leadbur written January MeNab, Katie Te. son, 2nt Kenny, Berry, • Archibai third ela. die Arci Hugh Fu. Mai. .A lex. 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