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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-03-04, Page 2Copyright, 1391. heremeill'i he said to himself. "He had a sight, or me at the Cafe des Varietes. Once in a poor light isn't much. I've chauged a good deal in two years. The heard makes a differenead He rose and scrutinised himself closely in the- glass. "The reelour makes all the difference in the world. Let me Bee, I was German then. Pitz ,on. Bilsen, wasn't it? I think Pm safe. `VergueiTs a smart man, but I think, William, you're almost as smart aes Ver- gueil. You might begin to dawn on 'ftim if youspent a day in his society, but you won't do that, William), will you?" The boat for Athens started at four &lock that afternoon. The bride, her brother Ivan, aed her maid wereC11 an board a et:et-ter of an hour eefore the time for start - :mg, ami the thongloful husband was there eee. that, she had the most comfortable herth that could be secured for her, and to impreee upon the stewardest, by- the aid of gulderl lira and his own engaging man - leers, the necessity of ttending upon her earefelly during the voyage. The bell es:if:tided. there wer e kisses and farewells. ;he Iiezle bride sparkling between tears and smiles, end the husbend delightfully tender L o the lest. "She's a pretty little creature," he raid to himself as he walked back towards Pere. II wonder if ever we shall fall across each other again?". He thought wonderfully little of poor Dick Rae, considering how deep a bold upon his sympathies that dying isiefferer had taken a few hours before, but being a bachelor for the time he took a bachelor freedom, ate an excellent dinner at, the Cale de St. Peterbourg, and passed a quiet evening at the Greek open air theatre, a plaee little frequented •by western visitors. He paid his hill over- night,and was ready to take the seven o'clock train northwards in the morning. He had paid hie bill at the cashier's box in the vestibule of the hotel, and had just pocketed his receipt when he heard his own name pronounced. . "Monsieur Morton." The voice spoke at the other end of the vestibule, and he turned to find that one of the hotel servants was addressing a ge.ntle- man who was a stranger to him. The man accosted turned, and. the servant, with a start of emprise, made his apologies. "I bee your pardon, sir. An error." The stranger was a young fellow eminent- ly English in aspect, and of the best Eng- lish type. Slender as yet, but, giving prom- ise of a rare solidity, and facing the world with a handsome though boyish and un - bearded face, and a pair of eyes which ex- pressed a pleasing candor. The hotel servant moved away from him and approached the husband. "I mistook the gentleman for you sir," he explained. "11 y a une tdle &intik:rite." The young Englishmen smiled at this, aati Mr. Ronald Morton smiled back again. The servant's business related to nothing mere important than the transfer of the luggage M the morning, and when it was over Mr. Ronald Morton crossed easily over to the young stranger and addressed hi= "That fellow took you for me," he said, "and upon my word 1 don't wonder at it. When 1 turned at the sound of my own name and saw your back I couldn't be sure for the moment that you weren't me. , Per- haps a man hasn't a very intimate acquaint- ance with his own back aspect, but you see the waiter confirmed me beforehand." At this the yOung stranger gave him the smile his jest and his own smiling lace de- manded, and they fell quite naturally into talk together. They were both young men, and in the course of a quarter of an hour they found themselves exchanging a certain limited confidence with each other—Mr. Harry Wynne supposing himself to be in converse with Mr. Ronald Morton, a gen- tleman whose landed estates lay at Keke- wieh, Cheshire, and Mr. Ronald Morton knowing himself to be in conyersitien with Mr. Harry Wynne, a young gentleman of patriotic Impulses who had come out to offer his *services to the Turk. Mr. Wynne had but a faint acquaintance with the county of Cheshire, and oddly enough had not heard of Kekewich, but as Mr. Morton remarked, the place lay nine miles front any railway, and that explained it. They smoked, a cigar in company before going to bed, and Mr. Wynne was sorry when he learned that the other companionable young Briton was going north in the morning.'- - They parted at midnight, and one of them at least lay long awake;listening to the wild howlings of the Picks of dogs careering in the street, and ;the metallic stroke of the backchi's rod upon the sounding stones. At six o'clock Mr. Ronald _Morton was astir. He crossed the Golden Horn in a etagere under that miracle of sunrise which once in every twenty-four hours in spring- time transforms the turbid waters to liquid gold, makes every tree a living emerald, and every 'mean hut along the shore of Galata a habitation for a poet.. Adr. Ron- ald Morton regarded none of these things, but at ey-cry stroke of" the sturdy brown legged caiquejee's bulbous -handled oars, thought "So much further from Vergu eil and danger, so much nearer the interior and safety." In due time he reached the rail- way station, and there encountered face to fa.ce M. Vergueil himself, pacing the plat- form, alert and vigilant. :the Morton paseed him without a sign, and. approached the guichet, to demand his ticket. M. Vergueil was at. his elbow, lie hoped and thought by hard. He asked for his ticket, in excellent (.reek, with the true accent indeed of an Atheniau dandy, was supplied wit& it, put a question or two in the same easy ariateeratie accents, was answered and strolled away. He saw his luggage safely stowed and took hie place in the carriage he had selected. The whietle sounded_ and the train started. In a little while it rumbled past the Seven Towers, and theu he breathed freely. CHAPTER. IX. Harry Wynne had come to Constantino- ple in the first, or glowing, stage of the war freer. The boat which carried him touched at Naplee, and had there taken up two or three English officers who were ging ut in expectation of being attached. to ilea -brilliant gendarmerie which was air( edy construetede on- paper arid never get can- etructed in faet. The dipIn.tie end ad- - minstrative officers of the eiWiitee Porte wculd seem to he tilled by poets who con- struct censtantly the most charming and delightful. tele:nue, end pigeon hole them pelt mall for the be wi Wenner] t or guidance a some far ldtepia. The. Britieh officers had tried to chill the war fever itt the young: man's mind, but hest itt no wise succeeded, The subordinate officials who were concern- ed in the ferried ion el that lame:amble Pelish Legion; took the task in hand and quieted his pulses a liteld He was full of enthusiasm about the, Turk, awl it was reserved for the Turk himeelf to damp him. The first. word .a the oriental tongue the young man learned was Yavosh„ which being freely in- terpreted signifies, "Take it easy," er "Go elow." You learn that significant expletive in your first -five thinutee et Turkish ex- perience, and are never allowed to forget it. A young man whose heart is wrung with uamerited shamei and,whose soul is on fire to do great deeds for the rehabilitation of his diameter,- finds the gospel of go slow and take it easy hard to bear. Harry tasted the heart sickness of hope deferred, and tasted. it all the more bitterly because ehe 4cilinutilg had such splendid promise in is. erae tutu not neen two aays in teen- stantirrople before somebody took him to a, ramshackle old hoese in a baek street in Para, and somebody else swore him in as an officer hi the Polish Legion. That hopeful body was so card fly constructed that when its directing s irits learned that the applicant 'was wholle iesaors,nt of the art of war, and had never von been a. volunteer, they dear ed to gi -e him higher eorninis- sion than t at of a ieuteaant. They sent him to a tailor who drew the uniform, and itt two or three days -at his own charges --- he was atti:ed in it. He walked itbout, itt tary ref for lie f art hour, and at the e.ed aft hat time, diseavering himself to be an object of contumely, he took off his plumage and resumed his civilian iashion. He bought a horse and a saddle, it sabre, and a rerel 'er, and waited for his march- ing orders. The dein .ens of inetels in Constantinople about this tlinie began to know the meaning of wait pric s. Ther waaditily news from the front o a more and more stirring kind, and the na ural longing to be in the midst of action 4s made none the less keen by the contemplation o a purse which shrank rapidly towards the actual diminishing point. Master Harry had known duns in his School and college days, but they had known him, and lad at least been re- spectful. He had iever seen before him until now tbe prosect of wanting a din- ner, but now that (lame closer and closer, and at kat he at4w it face to face. He sold his watcb. and h cheaper lodgings. , small poitthanteau began to grow din touch of althost abje were wearing down had to. gala and hi sabre and the revolv down to hie last eig - In those same eh he had betaken hi far from the low Star, there was livi ii by namke hmed avised gent. eman wi years' training in likely a plane in wh officer s e ucation genuity coUld find.- lish, was a royal f himself. They bee told each• other a spondenciee. "I am lige," Ha il Bey would say, for he was never tired f expounding this one particular igrievanc , "to attempt to re- cover a fraction of t o years' pay. I shall never get it, for not o pay is a Turkish art, my friend. I wish that you and I could acquire it. f we could we might dine." , . Harry prOduced h s last. medjidieh and looked at iti "That would pay f r a dinner." "My young friend,' returned Hamil Bey, "you had best keep that for bread. One does not dine on bread, but one can live on it. I," said the brave gentleman "have an invitation t� dinner to -night, and I wish I could take you with me. I could not—it would be aahunpardonable imperteneece." The good Hamil was going to dine with Duke Hungihrey, but he was willing to spare his coinpanion's wretched resources, and not to let him kn w it. "What's doing to come of it all?" the lad asked. 1 e The Circe4sian shrugged his sheuldeis as if to say. he decline& to give the problem house -room. They rbIled their last Iittle scrap of tob- cco and smoked it lingeringly, , making the nost of it. Then Hamil Bey went out o waltz the streets hungry, under prete ce of kce ing his dinner engage- ment. Harry lin ered in the shabby bedroom until the d. rkness b gan to fall, and the howling dog • gathere into packs to course itt about the • eets an make life hideous. He was phy ically a 1 ttle sick with hunger, and his heart was like a leaden coffin for dead hopes. He seethed to care wonder- fully little, he thought, and indeed no man knowe the real bitterness of such time as those till afterwards. i Memory brings back their hideous nightmare, and the sufferer learns whatne suffered. He arose el last, and wandered aimlessly into the street, toying with the coin as it lay lonely in his pocket. He passed a little French bakery where he had been wont to buy his daily loaf, and his foot lingered for a- moment a the thr shold. lie went by somehow, n t knowi g why he resisted his own hunge , unless t were that the un- broken coin were a s rt of symbol to him. His careless steps took him up the steep cobbled pav ment of the hill of Galata, and led him to he Grande Rue. He shrank a little from he light !of - the shops and the eyes of the ounging erowd, but he. harden- ed his hearb and went on. He passed the hotel where,he had spent his first few days of hopeful Waiting, end pulled up short be- fore the n 'Tow entrance of the Concert, Flamm. The Con ert Flamb was one of half -a - dozen cafes chantants which at, this time decorated t le Grande Rue de Pere. The main featu e of all were identical. Each had a sma.1 band of Bohemian musicians, each had a fat. and u der -dressed lady who sang indelate sons in French, and a 1 meagre Eta lish you g person who would not have been tolerated at a penny gaff in the East Eed of Le don, who interpreted the ditties of her net ve land. The nightly concert a. orded t e flimsiest possible shelter to t re procee lings of a little gaming hell, where a polyg ot crowd punted tor silver piee a on a roulette table with twen ty-fou xtumbers anda. double zero. A highly res eetable fat Greek in a frock= coat and f z spun 1 le wheel and raked in the money. Play ran pretty high some- times when an adventurer with money in his_pocketseame that way, but even at its t worst the f t Greek made a fat and pros- perous thin f of it. Harry lingered at the door of the Place for a ininirte or two. He had been there before, and knew its character. The aniuse nent it tittered had no great let t raat ion fpr him as a rule, but anything loeked bete ,r just then than strolling in the ring, .and moved into e had brought hut one it'll him, and his linen y. He noticed. with a t terror that his boots t the heel. His horse saddle. He sold the r a.bargain. He came rette and his last coin. ap lodgings to which self, which were not r end of the Shooting • g a. Circassian officer, amil, a jovial black - o had had two or three oolwich dockyard, as .ch to finish a cavalry s even Turkish . in -- He spoke capital Eng- -11°w, and as poor as me great friends, and 1 their hopes and de - streets. Ile walked hp the dirty uncarpet- ed stair, aa d stood for a moment at the doorway. !'he ,fat Frenchwoman, in e low- necked. sh. rt-Sleeval dress, had long since teen old en 0 noh to know hetter, but. she screeched h r edit in lecencies with a- faded relish, and vrithed a id leered and ogled a 'thou:mild -ti nes more persuaeiyeiy than she fancied on the side f virtue. The young exile; faint and he rtsick; cast his milli. terested ey s about the room; and seeing nobedv he new there paseed through it and into the apt rtinent wthere the ft Greek pre. tided over his toy °elate and his two eretitalde z roe. There are not more than :half -a -closet players about the table, for the r was ea •Iy: • ry stood looking on fur a 'while, ear ssine'llis solitary zoin with his finger tips.. His .1A:qua:int:Ince with French literature lagsnot laige. but out of it there floated irito his Mind 0, phrase of Rousseau's. lialzac quotes approvingly in the Peau de Chagrin,and it was there that he had .fuund it. undeiatend play," says Jean Jacques, "etnly when between a man and aleolute ruin there stands his last crown." - -•Teeth ny ease," .thought Harry. He stood tinge:111g his piece wonderieg where he should ,lace His eye lighted on zero, his hopes were there. He took the fancy as 4e inspiration, and threw down the coin. l!fe had chosen the. red zero, by hazard, because it heppen.ed Go be nearer to him than the other. There was a faint tinge of hope inthat; red is the color of hope. His ,heart began to beat wildly, and he had no Courage to watch the revolving wheel. Tabling his bead away, and doing his best to 400k uninterested, he saw Hamil staring at him from a corner, looking pale and worn, and by no means like a man who had found an eleemorivnaree dinner. In tha THE surprise or seeing nun arry eorgot 1118 stake and crossed over. . "I thought you were go g out to din- ner?" he said. . "I was, my eon," the 01 cassian .responcle ed with a flickering smile; "but my man ens out. Ieuppose he ha forgotten me." "Then," said Harry, "y u haven't dined at all today?' The Circassian shrugge 1 his shoulders with a repetition of the ickering smile, but gave no verbal answer. "I suppose 111'1'3:ye throwt my last medji- dieli aWay," said Harry. 'I'll see. what's become of it." He crossed over to the able, and there on the red zero lay a email pile of gold and silver. "Is that mine?" he ask d swiftly. No- body .enswered him. It vas not the fat Greek's business to under. tend English -at that lament. He begs to stammer in Freneh "Eetece que ceci "Rion ne va plus!" cri d the croupier, and spun - the fatal whe 1, warning off Harry's hovering fingers w th his rake. "Oui, monsieur," said a fezzcd bystand- er, "vous avez gagne, mais vous etes trop tard pour retirer la mise." His wondering look bowed that he .had only halt under tood, and the 'bystander repeated his phrase slowly with explanatory gesture. The fatal wheel' slowed _ down d Harry's e es counted the money hunerlly. There ere six golden lire lying there—almost si pounds in Eng- lish money. If be had not crossed over to Hamil it would all have ben his, and the pair of them could have b cd Upon it for weeks. He had been but second too late, and he watched this flyii g gift of chance despairingly.: The wheel topped, and the marble made its last, click. A tremendous blow between the shoulde : drove him for- • ward, half across the ta le, and Hamil's voice roared. "Bravo ! Cho ularishali Padis- had l" . At this patriotic senti ent the little crowd laughed, but the fa croupier's face went green. "-Zero rouge," he said, as if the words were plucked out of him, and began with Jewish fingers to count ot the money for payment. Hamill made a royal row with the croupier for having co pelled the play:. er to leave more than th maximum sum allowed by the rules of the bank, but Harry, cramming the milts into his pocket, dragged the Tchirasse a ay. They ran down the stairs with this ed cheeks and kindling eyes, and raced up the narrow street until they came to the Concordia. They entered boisterousl and demanded dinner, spread the glitterin haul upon the table and counted it with eager hands and eyes. They had a hundred and six pounds Turkish, a full half of it in hose noble five lire pieces which shine wi h SP . glorious a contrast amidst the ordi ary metallique currency of the most banlkupt nation ih the world. They laughed nd sparkled at each other, calling for wi e and chafing the Waiter who took thei _orders. They pledged each other with linking glasses, and for one superb five min tes they r• were gay. ' Then they dined.. Ye gids ! how1 they dined ! The red mullet, the quail, the tomato falai, the mutton cutlets—ill the spring of the year the travel er finds nothing but thesq dishes in the capital of the European orient. In the days ' of their -prosperity they had grow weary' of their eternal repetition, and. ts ould have ex- changed them gladly, as he poet puts it, for "one rump steak, on pint of ale." But now they were pure a throsia. When the dinner was over they lhad half a mind to begin it again, but the ounsels of pru- dence prevailed. They sat over cigarettes and coffee, and Harry, seeing himself free of the waiter's eyes, began again to count over his gains. This time he divided them into two &pal sums, and pushing one pi1c towards his .companion, raked. up and pocketed the other. "What is this, my bey?' asked the .Cir- caesian. "That's your share," Ha ry answered. "No, no," said. the other, pushing it back* again, "1 will borrow a. pie e , or two if you will let mei but 1 canna ta e it all." 'Chums' luck," said 11 ery. "If I had lost ' you would have gon without your dinner. We counted this aftei noon that the last piece belonged to oth of us." "Aha :" cried Handl, "b it that -was an- other matter." "1 should not have won it it had not been for you. - should have been content with _ lie - six, and should have taken it. Co e it's a fre.e gift of fortune. Take your sha e and be that'll.-- fulli.':unil drew the pile tog then and leaned anarin on each side of it. "You want to see se 'vice?" he said. "You want to see the w rld? You want yonr chance? if mu will let 'no pay you in the meantime by givin you -what you want in that way I wil take this as a loan." "It belongs to you," Hairy returned, but Handl clung to his noint a d won it. ------ - CHAPTER X. There was a horse for sale in a Turkish village on the green' ban - of the Maritza, and Harry Wynne was thje in teading pur- chaser. The news that a argent was be- ing negotiated in the str et ran like fire from house to house. cuerable grey- beards flamed at the tidi ge; toddling in- fancy came gamesomely ou to Witness the transaction; cripples on. drutches dragged thenuselves painfully toward the scgne; a wild, surging mob gathered about the ppr- chaser, the salesman, and the horse, and . everybody harangued everybody- else in an indistinguishable hubbub' There were teconds of silence in thedin, and these were utilized by the respective bargainers. The salesman, blessed by the prophet —he had had led a holy and self- enying life and called his neighbors to w tness the fact— had caught a horse.which 1ad run riderless from a troop of the accurs d Muecov cav- alry. He was a gem, ailemarl„ a miracle, a wonder among horhe . Never since the days of Mohammed's milk -white steed had such an anithal blessed the sight of _man. As an 1 upshot of all this, he wanted a hundred pounds for him. The youeg Englishmen's ineerpreter having anathematized him as an extortioner, a Jew, and the son of a Jew i gravely offi.tred twopence, whereupon the iotending vendor spat, and gave him over to i Tophet and the fire and darkness of the ufrtbeliever. This done, the salesman profe sed his poverty, but for which nothing shou d have induced him to treat a moment longer with a wretoh so ignominious and con inptible. He would take fifty pounds (Turkish for the steed, thong!' he Vowed befOre heaven that it was a robbery of the orphan. The inter- Treter eyed the beast, and lescribed him in terms of such scathing con umely, that the crowd yelled in mingled dellight a.ud oppro- brium. Then he offered fourpence. The contending per(ies separated, spi gine back- ward on the ground towa,rds each other, and objurgat ing fiefeely. 'Then the crowd entered into active participation of the affair, and every man, won a,n, and child in it went stark, staring, ravi g mad. Vendor and purchaser were dragged- together, and laced each other with the bitterest up - braidings. The salesman would take twen- ty—not a piastre less, upon, his soul ! The purchaser would waste a eiegle pound upoe the brute. Beyond that !the compulsion neither of 'fire nor sword shhuld carry him. The interest of the crowd became, if possi- ble, more intense. The first ornamental sparring flourishes were over, and Che.com- batutts were coming to close quarters- The vernior fell to fifteen, the interpreter rose to two. Then the vendor :ell le fourteen, and the buyer rese to three. Then came effers of twelve and four, aid there the pur- ?laser etood like a rock. At every novel offer the contending parties severed and shpok the dust off their fet aeainst each HURON EXPOSiTOR. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. • 110 UILDING LOTS FOR- SALE.—The undersived ,L) has a number of fine building Lots on Goderich and_James Streets for sale, at low prices. FOr par- , Haulers apply to D. D. WILSOIs. 908 HOUSE FOR SALE.—For Salo that pleasantly situated cottage on the corner of John and i Spading Streets, formetly occupied by A. E. Aturray. ; There Is hard and sof t water and a splendid garden. i Will be sold cheap and ou easy terms ae the owner has removed to hineardipe. Apply to W. G. DUFF. 1259.3(12 TIARM FOR' RALE OR TO RENT IN THE TOWN- ' j2 SHIP OF TURNBERRY.—A good Macro farm, 00 acres cleared., good frame houee. Rent can be paid in improvements on the place. Also, wanted to let, I the contract for the cutting and drawing of ow loge and cord wood off 60 to 75 acres of land in above I township. Apply to GEO. THOMPSON, Box 123, Wingham. _ 1260 tf. IlARM FOB, SALE. --For sale that splendid and conveniently situated farm adjoining the Vil- lagc of Biuctfield, and owned and oceupied by the I undersigned. There are 116 acres, of which nearly nil is cleared and inn high state of cultivation end all but about 20 acres in grass. Good buildings and - plenty of water. it adjoins the Brumfield Station of the Grand Trunk Railway. Will be,sold cheap and on easy tertns. Apply on the premises or to Brum- field P. 0. P. McGREGOR. 1253 tf. Ie OUSE FOR SALE Olt TO BENT.—For Sale 1 or to Rent, the property on West Goderich street, adjoiuing Seaforth, formerly owned and ore cupied by Mr. Wm. Copp. There is a comfortable frame house containing 0 rooms and a splendid stone cellar under the whole house, also a woodehed, hard and soft water, and a good stable and other out- buildings. Also a apiendiel garden et one acre. Will be sold cheap or rented on reasonaide terms. Apply to A. STRONG, or JAMES McMICHAEL. 1244 -VARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale r cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Hayfield Roast, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal- ance is well timbered with hardwood, There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brucefield station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to - buy a first class farm pleasantly eituatod. - Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144t1 I I r • FARM FOR SALE.—Lot 12, in the 6th Coneession of the Township.of Stanley, County of Huron, the property of the late Airs. Cathesine Mitchell: 100 acres, 8) acres cleared and free from stirrups and in e good state of cultivetion ; 20 acres of bush 'land well wooded with hardwood timber. The ' farm is well watered, and has on it a good fruit bearing or- chard. There are erected a frame dwelling house, barns and outhouses. Terms of payment , can be made easy ; a fair proportion of the purchase Money may remain on mortgage at a low rate of _ interest. For further terms and particulars apply to the un- dersigned. MANNING & SCOTT, Harriet: rs. &c., Clinton. 1259-8 TIARM FOR SALE CHEAP.—The fern) Cif DO 12 acrea on the 91h concession of Me-Killop, be- longing to Thompson Morrison, who is reelding in Dakota and does not intend to return, ts of- fered for sale very cheap. Eighty acres are cleared and the balance good hardwood, maple and rock elm, within si mile,, of Seaforth and within * of a mile of school house, Metluxliat and Presbyterian Churches, stores, mills, black- smithing and wagon making shop, post office&c., good buildings and water for cattle, and good gravel roadsto any part of the township, taxes the lowest of any of the bordering townships. A rnortgagt will be taken for $3,000 at 6 per cent. Apply` to JOHN C. 31011RISON, Winthrop P. 0., Ont. 11P611 FARM FOR SALE. --The undersigned offers for sale that valuable farm formerly owned ity Mr. Mundell, on the 8th concession, Tuckersmith. It contains 160 acres. of which 115 acres are cleared and in splendid condition. It is well fenced and ' frrley well drained. The buildings are first-class, a good brick house almost new, large frame barns with stone stabling underneath, suitable for feeding stock. There is also a large silo on the premises, capable of holding all the corn ensilege grown on 10 Or 12 acres. This is one of the finest farms in the COunty of.Huron, and wil be sold at a moderate price and on easy terms of payment. The farm is well adapt- ed for mixed farming, producing fine crops of grain, and is also well adapted for grazing. For futther particulars apply to the undersigned. D. D. WIL- SON, Seaforth Ontario. 1209 FARM FOR SALE- OR TO RENT.—For sale or to rent that very desirable ferm on the Mill Road, Tuckersmith, owned by the undersigned. It con- tains 97 acres, nearly all cleared and in a WO state of cultivation: There is a comfortable brick house and good outbuildings. There is an orchard and plenty- of good water. It is within a mile and a half of Seaforth on a splendid road all the year round and cenvenient to school. It is a most desirable proper- ty and will be Held cheap or rented on favorable terms. Possession given in March. Apply 44 the undersigned or at THE Exrensiron Office, Seaforth. ROBERT FANSON, Seaforth. 1262 tf. FARMS FOR SALE.—For sale, parts of Lets 40 and 47, on the 1st Concession of Turnberry, containing 100 acres, about 98 acres cleared and the balance uneulled hardwood bush. Large batik barn and shed, and stone stabling, and good frame house with kitchen and ise odshed attached. There is a good orchard and a branch' of the River Maitland running through one corner. 11 18 nearly all eeeded, to gnus, and is one of the best etock farms in the eounty. Also the 50 acre farm occupied by the un- dersigned, adjoining the Tillage of Bluevale, all eleared, good buildings, and in first-class state of cultivation. It is a neat and comfortable place. Most of the purchase money can remain on mortgage at a reasonable rate of interest. Apply to HUGH ROSS, Bluevale, 1262-tf , W. SOMERVILLE, Agent G. N. W. Telegraph and Can- adian Express Companies, SEAFORTH, - 1 ONT. Telegrapi ic connections eyerywhere. Low, rates n money packages, and reniitters guaranteed against loss. The convenience and safety of our money order service is attracting the attention of and pleas. ing many patrons: Special rates on produce and poultry. Toronto train service only 4i hours, Mon- ne' hours. 1228 PUBLIC NOTIOE. The undersigned while thanking their numerous customers for their. liberal patronage in thepast, would sav that they are in a position to eupply any- thing in the BUILDING LINE, —SUCH AS— Shingles, Laths, Doors ALSO and Sashes, Mouldings of all Kinds Always on hand. Cistern Tanks and Water Troughs make to order. CLUFF & BENNETT. N. B.—Parties indebted to the above firm will pleaseisettle at once. 1262-13 INTE "VT s 'I', LEADBURY. HELLO! HELLO! WHAT NOW? A mw Store in Leadbury, going to eell at cost for SIXTY DAYS FOR CASH. Having opened aseneral store I am going to eelat cost for Sixty Day! for Cash, Call and see prices and I am sure to sell to 3 ou. ; 1261I ' - J. T. McNAMARA, Leadbury, Ont. The McKillop Mutual riles Insurance Company. FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED; OFFICERS. D. Ross, President, Clinton P. 0.; , W. .7. Shann en, Secy-Treae., Sealorth P. 0.; John Hannah, Manager, Seaforth I'. 0. DISZOFORa. Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Ales. Gardiner, Lead - bury • Gabriel Elliott, Clinton: Geo. Watt, Harlock ; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; M. Murdie, Seafortb ; Thos. Garbutt, Clinton. ACIENTS. Thos. N6111138, Harlock ; Robt. McMillan, Seaforth; S. Carnoeha,n, Seaforth. John O'Sullivan and Geo Murdie, Auditors. Parties desirous to elect Insurances or tran scot other business will be promptly attended to on appiication to any of the above officers, adetrested to their respective poet offices. 1189 • TLE. DR. T. USE IT FOR Difficulty of Breathing, Tightness of the.Chest, Wasting Away of Flesh, Throat Troubles Consumption Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Asthma, Gough-, Catarrh, Colds. Oxygenized Emulsion of Pure 1 • For Sale by all Druggists. LArRATORY, TORONTO, On ario OLDEN LION, SEAFORTH FALL OF 1891. We have received ex steamships Monaolian, Alcides and Corean, a portion of our Fall Importations, which we hope to have complete with ex Canada and Montevidean, in a few days. Goods—newest styles and good value. R. JAMIESO arge ods, -••••••. In :the Surrogate Court of the „County of Huron THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS HENDERSON, DECEASED. An persons having claims against the estate of Francis Henderson late of the town of Sbaforth, /look peddler deceased, who died on or about the 22ralsoay of January 1.592 are required on or before the 4th, cluy of March, 1892, to send to the under- signed Solicitor for the Executors of the estate, furl partitulars of their claims and the securities (if any) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the Executore will proceed to distribute the estate among the partice entitled, having reference only to the claims of which they shall have received notice, and after such distribution they will not be responsible for any part of the estate to any creditor, of whose claim they shall not have received notice at the time of such distribution, This notice is given pursuantto the Statute in that behalL F. 110LME- STED, &Hector for the Executors. Seaforth, Febru- ary 3rd, 1892. 1e1-4 In the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF AN SMITH, DECEASED. 11 persons having any claim against the estate of Ann Smith,late of the Town a Seatorth, Widow, deceased, who died on or aboutthe 24th day of Jan- uary, 1892 are required on or before the 21s1 day of Mareh,1e62, to send to the undersigned Soliciter for the laxecutnees of the estate, full particulars of their claims and the securities (if 38)) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the Exeeu- • triees will proceed to distribute the estate among the parties entitled, having reference only to the claims of whieh they shall have receiyed notice; and after Emil distribution they will not be responsible for any pert of the estate to any creditor, of whose claim they, shall not have received' notice at the tune of the statute in thet behalf. F. HOLMESTED. S sueh distribution. This notice is given pursuant 10 February 15th, 1892. 3:301:1331,-,M .A.CTDON RE88URk and SUCTION WANILIR, Between 4000 and 5,000 already Manufactured are s ihe 'Great Mystery, Solved. ld. It ts an acknowledg•ed fact, that this Washer has no equal, it is one Of the wonders of- the age, for j there are actually two machines in one. Fou teen Shirts can be washed ati a time, seven on each side. This machine ha the hand principle with a leverage power. .The old way isacknowledged b all very destructive to the Olothes. The finest fabrics can be washed with this machine without the leaist injury to the goods. The .machine will pa for Itself by the saving of t e goods, as there is no rubbing; it is all dot e by pressure and suction. hen the handles are drawn to the left, the righ side closes, thus forcing the 4uds through the clothes, and when the handleare ,drawn to the other side ;the operation is reversed, and the clothes on the right side are again filling witjh water. Another great feature of this machijkie is, that it holds the clothe& together throughout the washina process, and for j each seven movements of the handles, the clothes make one revolution. Conse- quently, there are five idifferent operations made with one motion (3i- the hanclles. It does its work equal to,if not better, than any hanil work in ai very 'short time, and it is alsO easy to operate. A child of fourteen can do the 'washing. MULLETT &J-ACKSON, Seaforth WAITNEY'S OLD STAN), Are the sole agents for Seaforth and, vicinity for this excellent maehine. TOWNSHIP OF MeRILLOP. Sample machines always on hand. Call and see them, whether you Want to Lot 10, . on 9th conceseion, too acres. West half buy or not. 1 "es6Tcow1°uNi60 acres. 7 o n c th half 21 on 5th concession, WO acres. MORTGA0GE SALE VALUABLE FARM IN THE TOWNSHIP OF HAY. Under and by virtue of power of sale eontained itt a certain mortgage, Which wPl be produced at the time of sale, there will be sold by Public, Auction at Greb's Hotel, in the . VILLAGE :-: OF- :-: ZURICH, --ON - 84TURDAY MAI?' f 'g2 At 2 o'clock, p. in., sharp, by Mr. E. Bosseriberry, Auctioneer. The North Half of Lot 21, Lake Road, East,in the Township of Hay, County of Huron, contain- ing according to deed 73i, acres, more or less, but said to contain about 80 acres. This lama is beauti- fully eituated overlooking Lake Huron, and conveni- ent to eebool, churrh and post office. It is about, 5 miles from Daehwood, 0 from Zurich, 12 from Hensel' and 117xeter, and only 1A niiles front Ralbfleisch's Mill, a great advantage, as Canada Company's tunbered lands are in the immediate vicinity of the -farm. There are about 18 acres in fall wheat, about as much more plowed 'ready for spriag, crop, and over 20 acres eeededdown ; good wells; orchard contains a number of eifoice young apple and cherry trees , comfortable frame dwelling, stables, &c. With fall wheat sown land plowed 1$r spring crop, pastures and land seeded down, this -firm is in just the con- dition to suit an incoming purehaser. Terins—Ten per cent. of purchase nioney to be paid at the time of sale, the balance in orie month thereafter. Sale will be subject to a reserved bid, Further particu- lars and conditions will be made known at time of stile. or on application to J. A. MeINTOSH. Agent for Vendor, 13rucefielu. 1261-4 FARMS FOR SALE, HERE WF ARE We have bought THOMAS DALY'S stock, comprising 0 Groceries, Cz'ockery and Glasswae • AND HV1 ASSORTED IT -UP WIT] I A .1 'Fine new selection of goods, and we are sell- - all at.Greatbi. Reduced Prices. We will alswcarry on the PORK PACKiNG rrn ch more extensivelyj this season than last, and pay the HIGHEST lOASH PRICE FO ALL DRESSED HOGS. Many thanks for ale people's liberal patronage in the past, and agai1 we 'solicit a call. Our store is situated in the centre of the town, facing John Shieet. R. BEA TIE CO., Seaforth. go- We have secured MR. D. DORRANCE, one of the oldest and most experienced packers in the Dominion, and customers can depend on getting a first-class article. htt TOWNSHIP OF GREY. Lou and 12 on 13th eonceseion, 200 acre TOWNSHIP OF 'ICOR ERSMITH. Lot 3s on 3rd concession L. R. S., 100 acres. For terms &c., apily to the undersigned. F. HOLMESTED, 1197 11 Barrister ie., Seaforth. DUNN'S BAKINC POWDER THECOOKSBESTFRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. HAND -MADE Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE Has on hand a large number of Boots and Shoes of his own make, hest material and Warranted to give Satisfaction. If you want your feet kept dry come -and get a pair of our boots, which will be sold OHEAR- FOR CASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Boots and Shoes made to order. All parties who have not paid their accounts for last year will please call and settle up. 1162 D MeINTYRE, Seaforth, ntner, e again an barglin. amidst a broken k and hem sacred , had fixe buyer. w.,; that he h happy. In this mounted. Turkish happier ix not led ' result of that see: was eaela his late would itt fierce sun and hand zap of ast were a C cloth-.-th shyak. On horse liami teer rect. started spicing m peaceful pastures I drove the maize, w summer they van tween Int so oia to Sometim dawdle Ii go thund pitions p- as if the maxi. W -anything OE So W chase son howls an. 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