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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-03-11, Page 2THE HURON EXPOSITOR. MO QINID Cotes Lewitt, 1891- riarry react the tines, and made a furious effort to struggle into a sitting posture, but fell back, groaning. "That !" he cried, beating the !Gaper with his clenched fist as it lay on the floor beside him, "that is what I was ass enough to come away from! That is what I have led the world to think! The scoundrels! The villains! The bans !" What with rage and shame and the pain he had given himself, he could say no more. He lay clawing at the paper with his right hand, clenchea his teeth tightly together, and stared blindly at the roof. Mr. Morton drew the clumsy three- legged stool he sat on close to his com- panion's side, and stooping over him, laid a soothing band upon his shoulder. "Tell me all about it, Wynne," he said, in a kindly, sympathetic voice. "I think I know en honest man when I see one." The story wen rankling in Harry's mind anew, and it was a relief to tell it. "About nine months ago I lost three hundred pounds ecarte one night at the Five -Year -Old Mb. I am not proud of myself now for having played beyond my means, and I suppose I pretty well deserved everything that came out of it. I found a man who aid a hill for me at three menthe, and when the time came I couldn't meet it. I tried my honest best, but he was in an awful hole himself, and couldn't wait; or, at any rate, he said so." "Who was your obliging friend ?" asked Morton'smilingly. Hie companion was taking him on to familiar ground. "A man named Whale. Herbert Whale." "Oh !" said Morton, smiling more broad- ly. "The fellow they call Hump? He's a very nice man. Champagne and cigars, eh! Five hundred per cent. per annum." "Yon know him ?" cried Harry. "I know of him," said Morton. "Who has knocked about London who doesn't? Shall I finish your story for you ?" "Do you think you can ?" said Harry. "I can try. Let us suppose that Mr. Whale is very desperately pressed for money. He knows a jeweller who will sell you anything, and wait until the crack of doom for payment A most obliging fel- low: Your uncle will take the jewels. Butterfield won't ask more than thirty per cent over their value. And when you've been innocently guilty of illegal pawning, Mr. Whale and Mr. Butterfield will put the screw on your noble relative& Was Captain Heaton in it? Ab! I thought so. Re's got the whip hand of the other pair. IV'S= old trick, my boy. It's been play- ed over and over again. It seldom fails. They seem to have made a hash of it in your case, but they did very well with young Lascelles and young Crawford last year and I suppose they have somebody else in tow by this time." Harry did not stop to inquire how this intimate knowledge of affairs fitted with Mortw's earlier aspect of wounded cold- nesseHe was mainly occupied in savoring a new bitterness. He had been gulled by a device so stale that a. stranger hearing half the story could fill in the rest for him. He had knowir himself a victim, and had now to confess himself a greenhorn, which, for a greenhorn is as unpleasant a thing as MR be well imagined. "You should never have come away," continued Morton, working towards 'his own purpose. "A clever solicitor _would have pulled you through in safety. They dare not have fought the case. But in run- ning away yon have thrown up everything. If the case went before a jury now they would convict to a certainty. You're ex- patriated for life, and that's the plain Eng- lish of it. You dare not show up again." "No ?" said Harry. "As soon as ever I can cross a horse again, back I go. I'll have it out with these scoundrels and tell the truth whatever it may cost me." "That's all very well," said Mr. Morton, pursuing his role of man of the world, "if you had any witnesses to prove anything for you, but warrant that Messrs. Whale and Butterfield were too smart to give you that chance. You saw them alone. You have no evidence of their complicity, and Pll bet what you like thatp hale asked you to tear up the bill when it came back into yonr hands. Did he ?" "Of course be did." "Of course he did. And you obliged him? of course, again. That bill was your only bit of evidence, and you threw it away. Before you talk of going back again, look things in, the -face. You'll go into the dock to he tried for fraud. The witnesses against you are of course the people who bring the charge. You have no witne88es to call. Your own mouth is closed by the law, and you are not allowed to say a word. Whatever your solicitor says for you is tainted and not worth a straw. You get at least a year, and probably two. You have com- pleted your ruin, and the prison brands you for life. Stay where you are, Wynne. Stay where yon are." There was no doubting that the advice was eminently practieal and wise, and there was little doubt, if any, in Harry's mind that the programme his companion laid down would be fulfilled to the letter if he returned to England. He made no answer, and the theme was allowed to drop. Morton stooped and patted him softly on the shoulder, and went away with an admirable delicacy into the open air. The theme was buried, but its ghost walked_ in broad daylight. Morton turned cynic in his speech'and railed against the world. The worthlessness of reputation be- came a favorite theme with him. "If I were wrongfully suspected and proscribed as you have been," he said, "I believe I should be tempted to turn adven- turer. I'd take it out of the beggars some- how. It should go hard if I didn't better the things they brought against me." This, as a mere explosion of sympathetic wrath, was passable. Harry had no dream of its being anything more than that, and bo let it go by without response. Morton let the seed lie, but he had no idea on how stony a ground it had fallen. Even his inost friendly sympathiser could hardly deny that Harry. Wynne had been a fool, but a conscious -temptation to dishonor had never so much as presented itself te him. He was lamest to the bone, and could no more help it than he could help being six feet high. The subtle Morton plied all the tools of his agriculture, threw his seed broadcast, and watched for signs of growth. None came. He was extremely open and confidential, as he could very well afford to be, since he carefully eliminated all truth from the statements he made concerning himself. He described familiarly that airy Keke- wich in Cheshire which Harry Wynne could not remember to have heard of. Harry grew intimate with the place, and with its inhabitants. He made accinaint- ance with the excellent Morton senior, a model country squire, now lying in the church,arcl of quiet Kekewich by the side of his admirable wife. The narrator could only just remember his mother, and their common early orphanage was a bond be- tween the historian and the listener. All this time his devotion to hi B suffering com- rade was really surprising. He manufac- tured a, rough but stalwart crutch, by the aid of which in a week or two Harry began to get about again. He drew his comrade out in the long dull days, and found a hunt- dred devices for passing the time. He marked a square of the old newspaper for a draught board, and they played on it with gold and silver coins. He introduced an- other amusenaent which Harry found at- tractive. He was a remarkable nearse.-- ann could mate the signatures ot scores of eminen people. He set his compan- ion to w rk at this, and in that way they wiled away many an hour which won a otherwise have been listless and unoco pied. Napoleon's treinendons autograph, Captain Marrystt's copper -plate signature. Carlyle's grim crabbed . fist, Byron'sep wl, and Dickens's self -proclama- tory flouris , these and countless others ap- peared on paper at the bidding of Mr. Morton's s ilful fingers. The invalid's fancy was quite .chauted by this new art. He pursued it igorously, and to his own aston- ishment d' overed that he had great apti- tude for it. Ronald Morton began to have hopes ot hi pupil, and if he could but once have broke throughthat unconscious hedge of naturtd onesty, would have congratulat- ed himself est highly. He want.d a gentleman for his purposes, and was judge enough of what he wanted to know that he had found it in the young- elit, representative of the house of Bridge - bourne. The boy had an undeniable air of distinction, and it was a pity to waste such material as he owned on a careerof honesty. It was a pity too that the look of honor that he wore should have been actually ac- companied by the real thing. To disarm suspicion is the rogue's best game, and Mr. Morton himself was always conscious of a Mae difficulty in it. Harry Wynne would have foundehis own ingratiating airs super- fluous. When the two companions got to imitat- ing each other's signatures, Morton grew facetious about the business values of the art he taught. Harry met his jest with an honest laugh, which -never failed to discon- cert him, though le always hid his discom- fiture. They had been together nearly a month before Harry's stolid, stupid honor finally blunted such implements. of moral agriculture as Morton dared to bring to bear upon him. Morton gave up at last, seeing clearly that there was no hope of a confed- eracy between them. In the meantime war and the rumours of war were thickening about them, though lying off the one main road of the country, they saw nothing. Morton had already had enough of warlike experiences to last him for a lifetime, and was eager to find a safer hiding place. He talked of pushing across country to Dalmatia, and induced Harry to give him a half promise of com- panionship. The sprained. leg still made movement painful, but its uses were rapid- ly returning, and fin a day or two he hoped to be quite himself again. They woke up one morning to a scene of great excitement. The surviving score of villagers were wild with joy at the arrival of a handful of Cossacks, who naturally and wisely proclaimed themselves the advance guard of the main body, though as a matter of fact they were playing the rashest roving game, and had no supporta within seventy miles. Gourko's cavalry was rather fond of this sort of knight-errantry, and perhaps found it easier and safer to practice in a country which has but one road in it than it would be in any more civilised land. There was not a woman left in the village, nor a child; but the residue of the inhabi- tants turned out in clumsy festal style, their great bearskin hats ornamented with ribbons, and cockades of rags pinned to their sheepskin breasts. The new arrivals ate and drank of their best,and bounced and swaggered as only thi s kind of military &elven t- urer can bounce and swagger. Overwhelming forces were close behind them, the whole country was in their hands. Suleiman had been ewept away at the Shipka; a hundred thousand of their men were massed at Teliche; the war was practically and glor- iously over. Bulgaria was free of the Turkish yoke, the treaty of peace would be signed in a fortnight, and the little Father was coming down the road in peaceful, glorious military procession in a day or two; Every Balkan villager heard these fine tidings at one time or other during the war, and most of them lived to wish that the news had come later and when it was nearer fulfilment. Harry and Mr. Ronald Morton were too wise in their generation to say anything of the Circassian company in which one of them had arrived. They accepted the chances of war, which like poverty makes one acquainted with strange bedfellows. and gave the arrivals a cordial welcome. The lieutenant in command, being pretty sick of a seven weeks' diet of black bread, onions, and dirty water, fell on to Morton's potted luxuries with gusto, and vowed him- self delighted to have met so charming and hospitable a companion. Mr. Morton had provisioned himself at if for a siege of long duration, but the Cossack lieutenant's appetite was abnormal, and made visible inroads on his stores. The brandy and tobacco gave him supreme contentment, and when the meal was crowned with coffee, lie declared himself in Paradise. He complimented the two English gentlemen on their courage in looking so closely at war without the combatant's interest or compulsion, and Morton, whilst accepting his compliments, swore inwardly to have seen the last of it. He would mount and ride to -morrow for Zara, where sweet peace reigned, and the detective forces of Paris, London, and Vienna, were alike unknown. The day of rejoicing was wound up over a huge flaming pannikin of burned rum, to which the village world at large was in- vited. Sentries .were posted, and the village went to sleep e little sounder than usual perhaps. The densest dark of night was over, and the first pale gray of dawn was in the air when a sudden clatter of‘f horses hoofs in the street awoke Harry and his companion. "What's that?" said Harry, stirring on his couch of rugs and skins. "The Cossacks are off," said Morton. "I never believed their Vapouring. The Turks are in force close by." "We'll see them away anyhow," said Harry. "The lieutenant's a jovial bird, but unless his head is lined with cast-iron he carries a headache with him." The inside of the.hut was,in dense dark- ness. The two arose groping for their jackets which they had thrown off before going to sleep. Morton dragged the door open, and tbe. village street showed dimly with half -a -dozen mounted figures in it . thronging before the door- The two passed through into the gray dawn, aud at diet second there was a crackling roar of noise, a sudden belching of red light. a hundred yards away, and Harry felt a vivid sting, followed by a strange numbness in his shoulder. Morton screamed and threw both arms into the air. He spun round tsvo- or three times with his hands writhing above his head, and fell back through the doorway of the hut. Harry, vainly striv- ing to seize him, followed. There were quick recurrences of light and darkness in his eyes with every pulsation of the blood, a curious painless stupor fell on him, and be dropped on the body of his companion. L -The sound of firing .reached his ears again, and the mad clatter of hoofs which had an- swered to the first, diedoff into the dis- tance. With that he lost all consciousness of his surroundings, and lay like a stone for an hour. 'CHAPTER XII. Mr. Hogan, M. 1)., was getting the love- liest practice in gunshot wounds, and was in a state of supreme contentment, over half -a -dozen Cossacks, when a Turkish regu- lar plucked him by the sleeve and pointed to the open doorway of a hut in the village street. "Wan thing at a toime, and that done well, is a very good rule as many can tell," quoted Mr. Hogan, serenely; but the swarthy little man insisted, and the medico rose from his knees and followed. "Begad!" he broke out, "they're English, the pair of 'em. Blackbeard's business is over, and it's a pity, for he's a foine loikely-looking fel- low. There's life in the other chap, and whilst there's life there's hope they say. Let's have a look at him. Whv. you're only a Roy, me cnna! robr ladi vvnat brings ye out at this kind ce foolery?" He busied himself with skilful hands about the wound. 'Tis ugly, but it might have been uglier. An inch makes all the difference. An inch and a half lower down and somebody would have gone into moureing. Ye'll do for a while now. 111 get back to my Cos- sacks. There's nothing to be done for Blackbeard, poor chap.' He held Morton's hand iri his own for a second and then droppe1 it and turned away, saddened whilst he might have counted three, and then brisk and alert again. The daylight grew broad r, and a slant- ing ray of sunshine fell nipon the feet both of the quick and the dead as they lay side by side. It climbed higher, touched the knees, the waist, and at la.t shone full into the wounded man's eyes. He woke from his swoon with a groan, and turning saw Morton lying close besid him, and knew at s a glance that he was wide- open eyes were fixed an glassy, and he stared as if he saw some d eaclful thing. Harry lay regarding hi for a full min- ute. He himself was con cloves of no great pain, but the dead moms face was like a prophecy to him. "It's all over," he said himself. "This is the end of it all." A new faintness crept ver him, and he took it for the coming of death. He had carried Inthia's letter in is inner pocket ever since he had received it. His thoughts turned to it and to her. lie groped for it feebly for a last farewell in his heart. He would die with Inthia's 1 tter in his hand, if he died in the act of etting it: In his feverish struggles he d covered that his left arm and his breast we e bandaged. He wondered at this for a mo» ent, but gave it no further thought. Tr ing to force his uninjured right hand bene th the bandage, he discotered that thejack t he wore was not his own, and a single glen e at the dead man beside him' told him tha in the hurry and the darkness each had seized the other's garment. Morton lay on his right, and he could stretch a hand across his body. He -struggled with a vigour which would have shown an onlooker how far away from death he really was, but he had no thought in his own mind except of a final farewell. He succeeded in seizing the alone, and drawing it fro he tried to raise it to his mente had disarranged brought"on a new flow of dizzily back into unconsci letter dropped from his ha Later on, he had a dr of voices, motion, and t thia faded, and for a week of the world. The first was a blue 6ky, with fanci which dazzled and darke colors, but always kept t He was dimly interested enon. He had never seen before and was feebly t,e it. In the very fact of th letter, which lay its hiding place lips. His move - he bandage and blood. He sank unless, and the d. mlike knowledge e open air, but he knew nothing hing he woke to ul figures on it, ed into singular e same pattern. in this phonom- a sky like that ipted to laugh at t humorous per- ception he fell asleep. 'When he woke to consciousness again somebody was feeding him. There was a yellow glow of lamp- light in the room. He knew it for, lamp- light though he could not see its source; but the same absurd bl e sky with arab- esque figures on it of various colors still winked at him, and dezzled out, of dark - nese into light with a regular pulsation. He was sleepily bent once more on laugh- ter when his eyes cleared. The blue sky became- a blue distempered wall, and the strange arabesque of dark and light resolv- ed itself into a vulgar Bqlgarian mural de- coration. . "He'll dew, Hogan!" said a voice. The valiant children of Erin were everywhere. "Why wouldn't he?" another voice re- sponded. "He's as lean as a rat, but he's forty inches round the chest, and as hard as a nail from top to toe e He's a noble constitution and he's takee it as if it was mother's milk. Poor Wynne was nearly as fine a fellow. 'Twas a sad end for the poi* lad." The patient listened in a vague wonder. He seemed to know nothing, and to care for nothing, and yet it was strange- that they should speak of him as dead. The spoon came with a slow regularity to his lips, and trickled warm beef -tea between them. Why should they :feed him if he were dead? He had a feeble desire to laugh again at this ridiculous query. "Me gad! Hogan," said the first voice, "if you and me had run away from our debts we'd hardly have run out here." "It's excellent practice," returned the other, solemnly, "but ye can't help think- ing sometimes. There's not a spot o' whis- ky within -five hundred modes." Then the patient went to sleep, having given no sign of being awake beyond his 'absorption of the nourishment offered him. Be knew nothing of the lalpse of time, and it seemed natural and in the ordinary course of things that the same voices should sound in his -ear again. He opened his eyes, and saw a bearded man in a fez, bending over him. He had never before beheld him, but he associated him with the float- ing flavor of rum and tobacco which had touched the atmosphere of every conscious moment since be had received his wounce "Come, young gentleman," said the bearded man; ."you're beginning to pick up again. That was a glance of intelligence, Dick. What's he saying?" • Hogan leaned over. The pale lips shaped a Word. "Morton? Morton. • That's all right, me' •boy. We know who y'are; The pabers . are all right. They'll be taken proper care of, and you'll get them ; when the time comes. Yell just take thiS,"—proffering a glass to his lips—"and get to sleep again." • Some dim memory Of the exchange of garments floated into Harry's 'mind, and he guessed that his identity was confused with that of his dead com anion. He could explain nothing now, and for the moment the error did not matter. Next day he was a lit le stronger, but not -strong enough to talk ebove a whisper, and even then a mere wo:1 or two cost him so much effort that the doctor waved a and for silence, and stole iaway on tiptoe. He heard himself spoken dt as Morton, Lind was constantly addressed by that name. Once, in his bearing, the two doctors talk- ed of poor young Wynne; and the tragic ending of his trivial serape. His mind began to work more dearly, and he understood that the i mere change - of garments had for the moment cost him his identity. Then he - began to think further, and to ask himself if it were worth while to disturb that arrangement,. Here was an end of Harry Wynne, his troubles and. disgraces. There was 110 more hope for him, no going back again no chance of offering an unsrotted i name to Inthia. Ile made no definite resolUtion. He could not as yet have denied theigeneral supposi- tion, even if be would; and as the hours went by and in his waking moments he revolved things in his mind, he grew more 4and more certain that he did not desire to do so. He heard, while he wa, in this state of doubt, that the news of th death of "poor young Wynne" as every -ody called him, had been wired home by the special cor- respondent of a great Lond n daily, and he began to ask himself whet)) r he could any- how have found a more fortiunate ending to his troubles. As for Inthia, she was never out of his thoughts, but she was utterly be- yond his reach. She would grieve, but she would grow reconciled in time. She would marry Humphrey Frost, and be wealthy and distinguished and in time happy. It was hard to think it, bu the conviction forced itself more and more, Upien his mind. The chance of self-effacement thus thrust upon him was not lightly to be thrown away. Even honor seemed to call him to it. What right had he to i hold labia to a fruitless bargain, to block up her way of life with his own miseries and rnisfor- tures. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. ljeleUILDLNG LOTS FOR SALE.—The undersigned J.1 has a number of fine building Loton Goderich aod James Streets for sale at low prices. For par- ticulars apply to D. D. WIL130.1e. " 908 •-• - - - - --- - HOUSE FOR SALE.—For Sala that pleasantly situated cottage on the corner of John aud Spading Streets, former ly occupied by A. E. Murray. There is hard and soft water and a splendid garden. Will be sold cheap and on easy terms as the owner has removed to Kincardine. Apply to W. G. DUFF. 1269x12 lel, ARM FOR SALE OR TO RENT IN THE TOW1- 17 SHIP OF TURNBERRY.—A good 100 aere farm, 60 acres cleared, good frame home. Rent can be paid in improvements on the place. Also, wanted to let, the contract for the cutting and drawing of saw logs and cord wood off 60 to 76 acres of land in above township. Apply to GEO. THOMPSON, Box 125, Winghtun. 1260 tf. ]ARM FOR SALE.—For sale that splendid and conveniently situated farm adjoining tho Vil- lage of Bruee8eld, and owned and occupied by the undersigned. There are 116 acres, of which nearly all is cleared and in a high state of cultivation and all but about 20 acres in grass. Good buildings and plenty of water. It adjoins the Brucefield Station of She Grand Trunk Railway. Will be bold cheap and on easy terms. Apply on the promises or to Bruce - field P. 0. P. MoGREGOR. 1263 tf. HOUSE FOR SALE OR TO RENT.—For Sale or to Rant, the property on West Goderich street, adjoining Seaforth, formerly owned and oc- cupied by Mr. Wm. Copp. There is a comfortable frame house containing 9 rooms and a splendid stone cellar under the whole house, also a woodshed, hard and soft water, and a good stable and other out- buildings. Also a splendid garden et one acre. Will be sold cheap or rented on reasonable terms. Apply Gs A. STRONG, or JAMES lloMICHAEL. 1244 'DARN IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale je cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, 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 ate good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty ef water. It ie within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brucefleld station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chanoe to buy a first class farm pleasantly eituatod. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 114451 FARM FOR SALE.—Lot 12, in the 6th Concessien of the Township of Stanley, County of Huron, the property of tho late Mrs. Catherine Mitchell: 100 acres 80 acres cleared and free from stumps, and in a good state of cultivation; 20 acres of bush lard 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 cagy; a fair proportion of the purchase mon4y may remain on mortgage at a loe rate of interent. For further terms and particulars apply to the up- dersigned. MANNING & SCOTT, Barristtrs. &e„ (linton. 1269-81 FARM For,. SALE CHEAP.—The farm of acres on the 9th concession of Me-Rillop, b Tonging to Thompson Morrison, who is residi in Dakota and does not intend to return, is fered for sale very cheap. Eighty acre(' ae cleared and the balance good hardwood, map e and rock elm, within 5i miles of Seaforth zed within of a mile of school house, Methodiet and Presbyterian Churches, stores, wills, black =Rhine and wagon making shop, post office, 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 mortgage will be taken for 83,000 at 6 per cent. Apply to JOHN C. MORRISON, Winthrop P. 0,, Ont. 117651 f- LIAM FOR SALE. --The undersigned offers fpr eU sale that valuable farm formerly owned by Mr. Mundell, on the 8th concession, Tuckersmith. It contains 160 acres, of which 116 acres are cleared and in splendid condition. It is well fenced and fairly wel! drained. The buildings are first-class, a go brick house almost new, large frame barna wi h stone stabling underneath, suitable for feeding stoe . There is also a large silo on the premises, capable of holding all the sorn 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 green, and is also well adapted for grazing. For further particulars apply to the undersigned. D. D. WIL- SON, Seaforth Ontario. 1209 1 FARM POR SALE OR TO RENE—For sale or to rent that very desirable farm on the Mill Road, Tirckersmith, owned by the undersigned. It cop - tains 97 acres, nearly all cleared and in a high state of cultivation. There is a comfortable brick house and good outbuildings. There is an orchard arid plenty of good water. It is within a mile and a hell of Seaforth on a splendid road all the year round roid convenient to school. It is a most desirable proper- ty and will be stld cheap or rented on favorable terms. Possession given in March. Apply to the undersigned or at TOE EXTOSITOR Office, Seaforth. ROBERT FANSON, Scaforth. 1262 U. FARMS FOR SALE.—For sale, parts of Lots 46 and 47, on the lst Conceesion of Turnberry, containtng 100 acres, about 98 ades cleared and the balance unculled hardwood bush. Large bank batn and shed, and stone stabling, and good frame house with kitchen and woodshed attached. There is a good orchard and a branch of the River Maitland running through one corner. It is nearly all seeded to grass, and is one of the beet stock farms in the county. Also the 60 acre farm occupied by the un- dersigned, adjoining the Village of Bluevale, all cleared, good buildings, and in firet-olass 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. 1262-51 W. SOMERVILLE, Agent G. N. W. Telegraph and Can- adian Express Companies, SEAFORTH, ONT. • Telegraphic connections everywhere. Low rates cn money packages, and remitters guaranteed against loss. The convenience and safety of our money order service is attracting the attention of and plees- ine many patrons. Special 'rates on produce arid poultry. Toronto train service only 4e- hours, Mon - real hours. 1228 PUBLIC NOTICE. The undersigned while thanking their nurnerotie customers for their liberal patronage in the paet, would say that they are in a position to supply ally - thing in the BUILDING LINE SUCH AS— Shingles, Laths, Doors and Sashes, ALSO Mouldings of' all Kinds Always_on band. Cistern Tanks and Water Troughs make to order. • CLUFF & BENNETT. N. B.—Parties indebted to the above firm will please settle at once. 1262-13 1\T S T 0 P. M —IN— LEADBU R Y. HELLO! •HELLO! WHAT NOW? A new Store in Leadbury, going to sell at cost for SIXTY DAYS FOR CASH. Having opened a general store I an) going to-isell cost for Sixty Days for Cash. Call and see prices and I am sure to sell to you. 1261 J. T. McNAMARA, Leadbury, Ont. The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company. FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED. OFFICERS., D. Rose, President, Clinton I'. O.; W, J. Shannon, Secy-Treate, Seaforth P. 0.; John Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. 0. DIRECTORS. • Jas. Broo.dfoot, Seaforth ; Alex. Gardiner, Lead - bury; Gabriel Elliott. Clinton; Geo. Watt, Harloek ; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; M. elurdie, Seaforth ; Thee. Garbutt, Clinton. AGENTS. Thos. Neilo.ns, Ha.rIock ; Robt. McMillan, Seaforth; S. Carnochan, Seaforth. John O'Sullivan and Geo /Audits, Auditors. Parties desirous to effect Insurances or tran mot other business will be promptly attended te on application to any of the above officers, addresied to their respective post officea. F 1189 5 ENTS B MAnorf 11, 1892. USE IT FOR Difficulty of Breathing, Tightness of the Chest, Wasting Away of Flesh, Throat Troubles, Consumption Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Asthma, Cougiii Catarrh, Colds. DR. T. A. SLOCUM S Oxygenized Emulsion of Pure od Liver 011. S S.. For Sale by all Druggists. LABORATORY, TORONTO, Ont-ario GOLDEN LION, SEAFORTH. FALL OF 1891. We have received ex steamships Mongolian, Alcides and Corean, a large portion of our Fall Importations, which we hope to have complete with goods, ex Canada and Montevidean, in a few days. Good—newest styles and good value. R. JAMIESO Ta=1M 130-CT33LM _A_C'TICD1\T PRESSURE and SUCTION WASHER, Between 4,000 and 5,000 already Manufactured are sold. The Great Mystery Solved. it is an acknowledged fact, that this Washer has no equal, it is one of the wonders of the age, for there are actually two machines in one. Fourteen. Shirts can be washed at a time, seven on each side. This machine has the hand principle with a leverage power. The old way is acknowledged by all very destructive to the clothes. The finest -fabrics can be washed with this machine without the least injury to the goods. The machine will pay for itself by the saving of the goods, as there is no rubbing; it is all done by pressure and suction. When the handles are drawn to the left, the right side closes, thus forcing the suds through the clothes, and when the handles are drawn to the other side the operation is reversed, and the clothes on the right side are again filling with water. Another great feature of this machine is, that it holds the clothes together throughout the washing process, and for each seven movements of the handles, the clothes make one revolution. Conse- quently, there are five different operations made with one motion of the handles. It does its work equal to,if not better, than any hand work in a very short time, and it is also easy to 'operate. A child of fourteen can do the washing. MULLETT & JACKSON, Seaforth WHITNEY'S OLD STANLI, Are the sole agents for Seaforth and vicinity for this excellent machine. Sample machine always on hand. Call arid see them, -whether you want to buy or not. NEW SPRING ARRIVALS AT THE Bargain Dry Goods and Clothing House, S'O:RTII ONE CASE DRESS GOODS, TWO OASES TWEEDS AND COATINGS, THREE CASES READYMADE CLOTHING, SEVEN BALES GREY COTTONS, TWO CASES WHITE COTTONS, TWOE CASES SHIRTINGS, TWO CASES 'FLANNELETTES, TWO CASES COTTONADES, ONE CASE HOSIERY, THREE CASES PRINTS, THREE CASES MEN'S AND BOYS' HATS, TWO BALES CARPETS, ONE CASE MEN'S OVERSHIRTS, AND SEVERAL CASES OF SMALL WARES. Fresh arrivals daily. Expect three more cases Dress Goods by Thursday, March 3rd, from -Bradford, England. We expect our new Milliner, who comes to us very highly recommended, on Friday, March 4th. Also purchases of -high-class Millinery about the same date, which were made from the leading dealers of Glasgow, Scotland, and Toronto. WM. PICKARD. CATTLE FOR SALE. TrillOROUGIIBRED DURHAMS FOIL SALE.—For 1 sale 9 A 1 Short Horn Buil Calves from 6 to 13 months' old., got by the Pure Cruieleshanks Bull, " Perfection," 9100; aleo a lot of good young cows and heifers in call to Perfection. The above animals have 8ret-clase pedigrees and will be told cheap and on easy terms to suit purchasers. Fifty head of Short Horns to select from. DAVID MILNE, Ethel, 1248-tf youNG SCOTCH DURHAMBULLS FOR SALE,— The undersigned bas for sale on Lot 13, Con- cession 4,H.1L13.,Tuckersmith, two Young Thoretvgli- bred Bulls. the one is 11 months old and the ether 13 months. Ile has also a number of good Scotch Dur- ham heifers for sale. WM. CARNOCHA.N„ Esmond- ville P. O. 125551. In the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron. IN THE MATTER OF' THE ESTATE OF ANN SMITH, DECEASED. A" persons having any claim against the estate of Ann Smitheate of the Town of Seaforth, Widow, deceased, who died on or about the 2411a day el Jan- uary, 1892, are required on or before the 21st day of Mareh, 1892, to send to the undersigned Solicitor for the Executrices of tke estate, fult particulars of their claims and the securities (if ane) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the Execu- trices will proceed to distribute the estate among the parties 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 suehdistribution. This notice is given pursuant to the statute in that behalf. F. HOLMESTED. Sea - forth, February 155h, 1892. 1262-4 FARMS FOR SALE, TOWNSHIP OF McKILLOP. Lot 10, on 9th concession, 100 acree. West half 7 on 10th conression, 60 acres. TOWNSHIP OF MORRIS. South limit 21 on 5th concession. 100 acres. TOWNSHIP OF GREY. Lott 1 and 12 on 13th eoneeesion, 200 sere TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSMITH. Lot 86 on Srd concession L. R. 8., 100 acres. For terms &e., apply to the undersigned. - F. HOLMESTED, 1197 tf Barrister &c., Seaforth DUNN'S BAKINC OWDER THE COOKS BEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. W. G. GLENN Wishes to express his thanks to his numerous customers for their kindly patronage during the time he has been in Seaforth, and now begs to inform the public that he has lately received a large consignment of New Goods, consisting of new Maple Sugar and Syrup, Oranges, Lemons, Tobaccos, Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes, Pouches, • Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Pocket 1 Books, Pocket Lin3ps, Confectionery, Canned Goods, Pickles in bulk or bottles, Figs, Dates, &c. We keep the following brands of Cigars in stock. _Petits, Bouquets-- . imported ; Oscar,- Amanda, Violets, Alvino, Invincible, Peg Top, Stone- wall Jackson, She, Banker's Daughter, La Delecoisa, Hero, Tom Sawyer, Nattie, Fresh, Good Taste, G. O. Pureza, Nectarine, Aristocrat, Ocean Coil, Excelsior and Silver Rose. I_ have disposed of alniost the entire stock purchased from Mr. Burgess, and my customers can rely on getting a good article at a reasonable price. Our Oysters are very fine, extra value and always fresh. Give us a call. Satis- faction guaranteed. Remember the place—Burgess' old stand, one door south of _John Ward's Harness Shop, Main Street, Seaforth. HAND MADE Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE Hason hand a large number of Boots and f3hoes of hie own make, best materia! and Warranted to .give Satisfaction. If you want your feet kept dry come and get a. pair of our boots, which will be sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinde of Boote and Shoes made to order. 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