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The Huron Expositor, 1892-03-11, Page 3,rio- lewleama Es—ror 5 to 13 e Ban, ig cOwe attitataba ap and Lead of = Ethel. 248-tf ALE.— i. Con- )rough - tiler 13 la Dor- emood- 55 tf. _ . — (aunty F` AN state of Widow, .of Jan - day of itor for ni their n, duly .Exeeu- eng the claims i after or any , claim ime of mut to a. Sea - [262 -4 - .. , –a est half 5. ( :tre 'mforths k 0 .. his badly ,been 'form ived bods, and ecos, chea, cket ery, or 4 S of s DtE3---- >let s„. tone- hter, wyer, -o. .ces,n ntire ,. and log a Our and 5atis--. Gid ard78 Drth. es o hig Boots ve not, II and We. = MAlcri 11, 1892. ° _ - THE HURON EXPOSITOR. ateroseteaseersreas , f , p Tlee'et_e_.--. -Settees In tfle nrat day of real convatesersnce the problem solved itself. He allowed himself to be addreased as Morton, and answered conscistusly to the -name. There was no go- ing back from it now. Harry Wynne was dead and done with, and buried in the , Balkan wilds; but there was a living, eager- • hearted and honorable youngster left be- hind him who had accepted the alias and personality of one of the most brilliant criminels in Europe. CHAPTER XIII. In the May of the year 18$t!, the London newspapersmade a tremendous boom about the arrival in town of that intrepid and dispingnished .Asiatic explorer, Mr. Ronald Mdeton. Some of the journals gave hio- grophiest of the eelebrity, hut were uncer- tain aa tohie eatly days. They were agreed that he had narrowly moped death in the first skirmish he had witneosed in the Rus- so-Turkish war, that after his recovery from: his: wound he had done brilliant ser- vice et a epe-eial correspondent,and that, at thacion of the campaigns he had set out upon a. journey of amazing difficulty and danger. - The faseinating volume, A Ride from- the Caspian to the Pacific, told the rest of Me... Rotodd Morton's experiences. The returned wanderer was the hero of the hour, and hia table was covered daily with bushels of lettere and cards of invitation from distinguished and undistinguished people. Ifthe celebrated troveller had ehosen to go into, society and get his lionizing over, it might haye been With him as it is with so many others who become the objects of the ororltra amiable caprices. He might have had his: month or six weeks of wonder and adulation, ani have got it over, failing back into the unnoticeable crowd. But the ob- stinate privaey in whichhe veiled hiniself gave a zest- to curiosity and the whole town was agog at him; He had two rooms at the Westminster Hetet,. and received nobody. His secretary opened for him and assorted the enormous correspondence -nehich peeled in daily, and a lithographed form, beginning ,with "Mr. Ronald, Morton regrets," did duty for hemdreds of answers. One morning his secretary laid before him, with a respectful grin a curious docu- ment. "This came this morning, air. It is very peeulier,, and I thought you Might like to see we have miesed you," ran o.he curious epistle. "One little pig went to: market„ and one tittle pig • stayed at home, but Ns -here's my share? Will you walk into my parlor? G. ( G." • The celebrated traveller smiled, and drop- ped the letter.. "Some madman," he said tightly. "Perhaps an error, Kir, in enveloping letters," suggested the secretary. " It looks as if it were addressed to an intimate acquaintance." "Well, ye,' the traveller allowed. "It has that air." The curious epistle went into the tire, with a huuthed or two others, but next morning the secretary primly crtunpling his lips from a smile, laid iiefore his employer a second letter in the Same handwriting,. "Won't you walk into my parlor, Wile liana? Gilead. •Baho of ; dead. 1 iht tarn vitriolie." _Nothing doubting as yet, that, the bruit about his name lied ottracted the attention of some eccentric madman, the distinguish- ed traveller confided this letter also to the flames. It was one of &hose lovely days in late spring when London easte off the mantle of ugliness it wears for nine -tenths of the year and clothes itself in beauty. The returned wenderer had nothing to do, keew nobody, and was alone in the midst of his fettle. Tne thought of the sunlit green of the parks drew him with a pleas- ing compulsion, and he dressed for the open air. The light seam of a scar which ran transversely from the right side of the fore- head to the !eft cheek made his sun -burned face remarkable without greatly disfiguring it, and the freak Hue gray of his eyes con- trasted strongly with the dark hue of his skin.. The slim figure of youth had set and broadened and thickened through a life of rare toil and purity, and a crisp, full beard and heavy imitistache lent a manly dignity to his face. He was attired like any other British gentleman, bat his costume offered the- thinneat of disguises. The dull- est eye might see in him elic signs of wild travel and perilous adventure. He was walking along the corridor, drawing a glove, over one sunburned hand as he went, when a spare, bearded man threw a door open, and ieime out with so unguarded a vivacity ' teat in half a second Ite and the great traveller Were mingled in what looked like the fondest of embroces. "Oi beg your pardon," said the slight man, reeovering the peependicular, and bowing with an overflowing politeness. "I saw ye too late to save meself." "Hegan, old man," said the traveller. ''Upon me word," returned the other, scrutinizing him, “ye have the advantage of Inc." "1 dare say fee changed. It's seven years, since ymi pulled me out of the grave, Hogan. Tile another look. Don't . you remember me?" "Begad!" tried the, deetor, " '+is Mor- ton!" And there enaued a mighty hand- shaking. "Co•rne into my room. /v'e a tomsuiting chamber here. I'd just got my morning's work over and was away to see my patient. Batt they can wait. "rotas no wonder I did not know you. What a mass of a Mall ye've grown! What's your chest measurement now? Yell have a drink now, won't ye? Upon me soul, Pm delighted to meet ye. I've read your book. Why didn't ye tell me you were goin'? I'd have given a leg to be -with ye. When I came to that adventure with the old Khan I though I'd die with laughing. Whet'S your beverage? Put a name to it. Really,. upon me soul now, I ate delighted." The returned wanderer stood smiling down on him; holding both his hands, and tt•itery- now and then giving thorn a solid tittle shake. "You're looking prosperous, Hogan." "Pros"prous, me boy," returned the doc- tor, in a whisper of almost awe-stricken secrecy. "I'm a world's wander to meself when I think about it. • "rivos the gunshot practice did it all. Oi was staving with a friend in the country, and as good luck would have it a burglar put, a load o' lead into Sir Mlles Sinclair. D'ye know 'int ? A foine Etigtish gentlemen, one of the olden toinee. Bali traversed the shoulder, and lodged behind the shoulder -blade. I whip- ped it out with, a pee -knife. Simplest op- eration in the world. Sir )(Wes swore was the Napoleon of surgery, and called me in, a month later to attend her ladyship. I've half the strietsteeacy now, and no word of a he aatout it. 'The' very minute I ran into ye I was off to see Lady McC'orquo- dole, sister of Lord Holmes, and the daugh- ter of the Earl of liridgebourne. She's stayin' at hi a lordship's house in Eceleston Muerte and tuy ivrOOTR-Si waiting at the door this initiate." The distinguished traveller's heart leapt at these familiar names. ife longed to esk. questions„ but geve 110 "Her leedvehip was opeakin' a,beut ve," Ifogen pursued,. "only yesterday. Ye're the talk of Lorelei'. I told her that I'd had the good luck to pull ye through, end -. was ass, enough, to. (target that she was poor young Wynne's- great-aunt, and I - apoke about the boy being killed in the earne scrimmage. `rile olddady said noth- ing. but Mise Grey„ thoCe a kind of niece to her, gave me. a warning glance, and. after that I had the good taste to hold my tongue, and to change the subject. Every- body say's ye're hiding yourself.. Why don't ye gotato. society ?" "I don't know," said the traveller, laugh- ing rather joyleesly. "Perhaps I have be oat of society so long that 1 might. be a little i1.1. atease: and uptat-home inIX" trew too,- said Brogan gravely, and rang the bell. "We'll have just a pint of Monopole and a touch of angostura. Now ye can't refuse me. I prescribe it. I know your constitution from of old, and I knot" what's good for ye. You won't think me shabby in ordering a point ?" said the good Celt. "A point between two is an excellent thing of a morning, but a quart's too much. There's always duns and old chums, and that sort o' people, waritin' money of me, and if I had my share of a full bottle I'd be too generous. The wanderer drank his wine sadly, though. he made no show of sadness. He would have liked to question Hogan " about Lady McCorquodide and her house- hold, but h&wasunused to pretences, and before he had found a subterfuge the small bottle was empty, and the doctor was on his feet prepared to go. "Ye'll dine with me to-noight ?" said Hogan. "Won't ye now? -We'll have a talk about old times and I'll beat up one or two Of the old boys. Seven sharp. Don't fail me now. Ye'll come, won't ye ? ' "Let us dine alone to -night, Hogan," said the traveller. "We shall have plenty to talk about, and I den't care about a erowd," It was agreed to, and they parted. The distinguished wanderer sauntered into the park, thinkine of conversational devices by means of which he might lure on Hogan to talk of his patient and her companiein. Inthia, was Miss Grey still, it seemed, and had not, married Humphrey Frost and his millions after all. He did not flatter him- self that lie knew much of the great world of human nature. He had elected to im• inure himself in savage solitudes, ;and had given himself but little opportunity for study of the human heart. He was faithful to his old remembrances, but questioning himself he found a reason for it. In leng, • lonely marches and companionless night bivouacs Inthia had been the constant com- rade of his thoughts, and he had given her no rival. If he had mixed with the world things might have gone differently, and she had remained in it. Then again she had thought him dead this seven years. A girl of her position, her beauty and prospective wealth could never be without suitors, and he thought it strange that she had not mar- ried long ago. He dismissed, as a sort of corcornbry; the thought which would in- trude itself, that she had been faithful to his memory all these years. He had so lone since resigned her, and had so completery obliterated himselfthat these thoughts were pensive rather than painful. The boyish ardor of desire had faded and he was contented to be alone. But none the leas was she a saint to him, an object of worship, the embodiment of all that was true and pure and good and beau- tiful in womankind. Dinner -time carne, and he was punctual to the hour. He played his oenversational wiles, deliberately prepared, on Hogan. "Poor young Wynne," he said, "was in love with your patient's ward, I fancy." "And that's no wonder," Hogan ._answer- ed, "though she could have been no more thane, child when he knew her. She's not more than four -and -twenty now, and to my mind she's just the loveliest woman in London. • Hogan'is companion knew nothing of that masterpiece of fiction, The Ordeal of Rich- ard Feverel, but without its guiding aid he ree,ognised Beauty's Dog in Hogan, M.D. Beauty's Dog excites no jealousy in the mind of any lover, and when Hogan chant- ed Inthia's praises Harry Wynne listened in grave and tender assent. A crowd of Hogans might, have worshipped. her, and have awakened no sentiment except one of acquiescence in his mind. "I wasn't bra,ggin'," said Hogan, "but I mentioned to her ladyship that I'd niet ye this morning, and that you were going to dine with me this evening." The excellent Hogan had indeed carried that intelligence everywhere. was a feather of such exceptional brilliancy in his cap that it made quite a personage of him. - That distinguished Ronald Morton, after _whom the whole of London was running in vain, was his own private and particular prey. Dukce and earls, duchesses and ladies of inferior title smothered him with invitations, and he declined them all to sit over a bottle of sitnple claret and a plain chop with an old chum. "She's a line stately old lady," continued Hogan, naturally unconscious of his hear- er's superior knowledge of his theme, "and I suppose she's always been a bit inclined to be hard about the Poor boy thot ran away, but when she learned that I'd just come hot from the man that was shot down by the side of hio she got out, her handkerchief, the poor old dame, and wiped her gleans." Hogan blew his nose and his eyelids grew a little red. "I tell ye," he said, defiantly, "I was affected, and when her ladyship asked me to use my best. influences to bring you up to Lord Hounes's house to have a talk with her I promised I'd do my best." This was more than the returned exile had bargain.ed for. There lay there a danger of detection, and he atammered some lame excuse. "Unused to the society of ladies. What should I. do in a drawing -room?" "Me dear fellow !" cried Hogan. "What are ye talkin' about? Ye'd have all the girls at your feet, like a Sultan. Not that that matters, for ye're mightily changed since the old days at Tashkesen if ye'!'e grown feather -headed. But now really ye can't refuse. Here's an old lady that wants 'iteWs of the last days of her great-nephew, and a young one that wants to hear about her young sweetheart. Your own chum, too, Morton. You can't find it, in your heart to say no. They live just as quiet as mice, and ye're bound to like them. Come up with me to -morrow morning when I pay my visit. Ye needn't stay twenty minutee, and yell be doing me a personal service." It was so slight and natural a thing to ask, and so easy to aceede to, that the wanderer was treubled. He took refuge in a social fib, and being unused to that sort of exercise, boggled over it wofully. "Not to -morrow. I am too busy." - "Ah, well !" said Hearty Hogan, "there's no trouble about to -morrow. We'll go up the next day, and to -morrow I'll tell them that ye're coming." "No, no," cried Harry. "Tell them nothing of the sort. I—I would rather not meet anybody whilst I'm in town." "What ain I to tell them at all r Hogan demanded. "That ye won't come and ex- change a word with two ladies that loved an old comrade that was shot down at the side 0' ? It's not like ye, Morton ! Ye can't refuse thein." Hogan had been so sure of his friend's consent. beforehand that he had aetually pledged himself to bring him, and had even indulged in some harmless flourishes about the intimacy of his friendship with the ereat traveller and his influence over him, so that the refusal was doubly a disappoint- ment. "I'll think of it,- said Harry. "We'll speak of it later on. 1 don't like to refuse you. Hogan. Leaveeit there for a little while." When the two parted for the night Harry Wynne set a candle on either sole his look - jog -glass, and, sitting down'stared stead- ily at his own reflection for a long time. He tried to call to memory the slim should- ers and the beardless ingenious face of youth, but he failed ] signal ...y. He could not tell how far he had ehanged, but the scar, the tanned complexion, and the beard most, he thought,- afford him an almost im- penetrable disguise. He pondered long as - to whet -her he dare risk the experiment of e. visit, and at the thought, of meeting Inthia again his heart sounded a mad alarum. It had bees steadier a hundred times.when he had hold his life in his hind, and had ex- pected at every seoond to have it wrested attom him. He went to bed half determined that he would dare the risk, but he woke ao in the rnornino animated by leen aaleateue nincies. nos nre or late hart been a rare school for rapidity and firmness of decision. His vacillation worried him and he told himself that he was growing effem- inate in London, and began to long for his Wilds again. Hogan, having once promised the famous traveller to Lady MoCorquodale, was re- lentless in pursuit of his game. He was in and out of Wynne's chambers a dozen times a day, and at last he quite unwittingly clinched the nail of argument. "It's no nee going to -morrow," said Hogan, "bemuse Miss Grey's going into the country, and 'tis she I specially want t� see you." Harry discovered precipitately that to- morrow was the one day in the year that would suit him. He felt that he could en- counter Lord Hounds and Lady McCorquo- dale without fear of recognition, and with no temptation to self-betrayal. The more he feared to sneet Inthia the stronger grew his desire, and the more he came to wish the meeting, the more he feared. "The broom's at the door," Hogan an- nounced, thrusting his head into Wynne's sitting -room at noon next day. We're due already, but I've been kept waiting by a patient." Time had not often seemed to go so swift- ly no it passed on that rapid little journey. Harry's heart was beating fast when Hogan's carriage pulled up before the door of the house in Eceleston Square, and his mouth and lips were dry. If he could have had his choice he would sooner have scaled a battery with a determined enemy behind it than have mounted the innocent flight of steps before him. But he was in for the business now, and must needs stiffen his nerves and go through with it. Almost before he knew it, Hogan's voice, in oiliest suave medical tone, was introduc- ing him. "Me friend, Mr. 'Ronald Morton, the world-famous Asiatic explorer, Lady Mc- Corquodale. Mr. Morton, Lord Hounes." Lord Hounes, dried and sour, and with- ered to ',an extraordinary degree, bowed with his own frosty dignity, and waved a hand towards a wonderful old figure in an armchair. "My father, the Earl of Bridgeboutne." The Earl of Bridgebourne had never been a big man physically, but in the extreme old age to which he had lived he seemed to have shrunk away to nothing. The skin clung tightly to his withered old temples ae if it had grown too small for pie skull. The toothless mouth fell in, and the nose and chin peaked beyond it, threatening to meet. Not a nerve or a muscle of his face seemed to have motion in it, and only his eyes were alive. They had grown aim -zing large and brilliant, like a bird's. The unknown visitor's heart fluttered with a sudden unexpected tenderness and pity. The stetely old man had been kid to him when he was a lad, had patted his head and advised him, and on two or three memorable occasions had tipped hini a five - pound note. It was wonderful to himself to notice how near and keen and fresh the past from which he had severed= himself grew at that moment. Lady McCorquodale's hair was white, and arranged in scanty bands. She was less majestic than of old. He thought she looked softened, gentler, and less masculine. She had taken to spectacles, and looked shortsightedly at the visitor, ILitry took the seat that was offered him, and Lady McCorquodale began to question him. - “We understand from Dr. Hogan, Mr. Morton, that you are averse to society, and that during your brief stray in town you desire to he left alone as much as possible?" He bent his head in silence, but accom- panied that gesture with a little depre- catory wave of both hands, which seemed to make light of the matter. "We are very sensible," her ladyship continued, "of the favor you do us in coming here. You knew poor Harry?" The old lady's severe voice trembled. She had meant to put the question ,in her usual ememonious. faehion, and had introduced it solemly enough, but it touched her heart when it came. The handsome, wrong- headed, foolish lad was dead, and being dead had long since been forgiven. "I knew him, madam," the visitor an- swered simply, and waited for further quos- tio,n , Vsli. 'here did you first meet him," asked her ladyship. "Ile went straioht to the Byzance Hotel on the night his arrival at Constan- tinople." He tried tra avoid the lie direct, and hesitated from whet his hearers took for shyness or long disuse of eociel habit. "We met there for an hour or two," he went on, forced to admit the situation frankly. I believe he joined the Polish Legion, but nothing .came of that, and he finally went up country with a Circassian officer." “We heard," said her ladyship, inter- rupting him, "some confused story of his having saved an Englishman's life from the Circassians. Did you know of that?" "It was Ronald -Morton's life he saved." The quaint form passed with the rest of the stranger's oddities__ "Your life?" cried the old lady, tremb- ling. "He risked his own?" _ "I am sure," said the pretended Morton, shrugging his shoulders with an incompre- hensible modesty, "that he never thought of that." - "He was brave," said the old lady. Her tremulous lips told more and more of pride and affection, and perhaps something ot re- pentance. Harry had been very young when the members of all his house had turned their backs upon him, and had left him to his own fatal devices, She thought piteously, "If they had only been a little more generous I" "Did he often speak to you of home?" Lord Hounes asked drily, "and of his own affairs?" "I knew his reasons for leaving England. You must let me speak of this. I am per- suaded—I know it as well as I know that I am sitting here—that lie tneant honorably all along, that rogues took advantage of his inexperience of the world, and gulled him." "I have always said so," the old earl broke in with shrill and wavering pipe. "I have always said so. His Uncle Percy maintained it to the day of his death. The boy was duped by rogues." "We caused," said Lord Lounes, in his dry -as -dust parliamentary tones, "we caused the strictest inquiry to be made into his way of life, and could discover nothing, absolutely nothing, which militated against his character." "If he could have guessed," said the visi- tor, "that his family would have teken so much care to do him justice he would have stayed, and faced the hollow charge against, him. An able counsel could have blown it, to the winds in a minute." "If I had not been certain," eaid the old earl in his trembling falsetto, "if.I had not been certain of the boy's honor 1 would never have paid the debts he left behind him." The visitor looked up, with a glance at once keen and troubled. There was a - momentary hoarseness in his tone as he re- sponded. "I wish poor Wynne couldihave known. It lay upon his mind like lead." "ie seems to have made you his confi- dant," said. Lady McCorquodale. "I do not think," Harry answered, "that he had a secret from me." A ring of the outer bell and the opening of the outer door had passed unnoticed, but at this instant a figure entered the room and brought him unconsciously to his feet. _ "Inthia!" cried the old lady. "I thought you were forty miles away." "Roberts was mistaken as to the time of the train," she answered. "We were twenty minutes lats. 1 oalled on Lady Mabel" as I &awe home" (TO SR CONTINUED.) Old:PORT T N OTIC E DURHAM BULL CALF FOR SALE.—For sale a Durham bull calf, about 13 months old, of dark roan color.Apply to tho undersiened or address, Egmondville P. 0. G. E. CRESSWELL, Tucker - smith. 1263x4 MONEY TO LOAN —The Municipality of Mc- Killop has money to loan at 6 per cent. inter - eat, on first mortgage, on farm property. Time to suit borrowers, and costs low. Apply to the Reeve or Treasurer. J. U. MORRISON, Clerk. 1263•tf ATOUNG BULL FOR SALE.—For sale a Thorough- bred Durham Bull, with regiutered pedigree, 14 months old and of ,red color. lie was sired by Big - gin's imported Bull, " Excelaion" Aplily on Lot 20, Concession 4, Tnekersmith, or address beaforth P. 0. CHARLES RUTLEDGE. 1263 tf. JOHN BEATTIE, Clerk the of Second Division Court, County Commissioner, of Huron, Con- veyancer, Land, Loan and Insurance Agent. Funds Invested and to Loan. Office—Over Sharp & Livena' store, Main street, Seaforth. 1289 atif OSEY TO LOAN,—Private and dompany funds oso_ to loan at lowest rates. $10,000 of private funds have been placed in our hands which we will loan in sums to suit borrower. Loans can be completed at once if title satisfaetofy. DICKSON it HAYS, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. 1143t1 $16000 TO LEND at 5a per ceint in sums to suit rrowers firstclass farm i securits • Also improved farm for sale at a great bargain. rormor owner left County. Apply person- ally or write. E. N. LEWIS, taolieltor, Goderich 1247-26 1%4 ONEY TO LOAN.—The Township of Tucker - i71 smith has money to loan on first mortgage on farm property at a reasonable rate of interest and for periods to suit borrowers. Apply to ROBERT B. atieLEAN, Reeve, Kippen P. O. or to JAMES MUR- RAY, Treasurer, Rodgerville P. 0. 1261-tf "DULL FOR SERVICE.—The undersigned will keep 1) for service on Lot 80, concesaion 10, McKillop, a thorcughbred Durham bull, Duke of Winthrop, registered in Dominion Short Horn Herd book. Terms, $1.25 payable lat January, 1893 with privilege of returning if necessary. JOHN CUTHILL, Win- throp. N. B. He has for sale a number of good mileh cows and heifers hi calf to the above bull, which he will sell on reasonable term. 126.5x4 HOTEL TO RENT.—To rent for a term of years and on easy terms, that well knewn and pop- ular hotel, known as the River House, Has field. It Is ono of the best and moat popular _hotel stands in the county, and does a large and good paying busi- ness. Satisfactory reagens given for wanting to 'Trent. Posaession given at any time. Apply to the Proprietor, JOHN E. SWARTS, Bayfield. 12130 AGOOD CHANCE FOR BUSINESS.—To rent, on easy terms, a commodious store with dwel- ling heuse'attached. There la alao a stable. This properly is situated in the Village of Cromarty, and in the eentre of ae fine an agricultural community as there is in Canada, and offers a fine opportunity for a good, live busineaa man to do a large trade. Apply to GEORGE MILLAR, Cromarty. 12.631.1 vOR SALE.—The undersigned Micro for sale that , valvable hotel property situated in the Village of Zht Mil and known as the Commercial hotel. The house is commodious and conveuie.nt, enjoys a pat- ronage second to none in this section and affords a (splendid opening for a good live man. Possession nay bo hao at once. For I urther particulars apply to the lessee on the premises or to the undersiened. D. WEISMILLER, Proprietor, Kippen, Om. 1257t1. DOG LOST.—Lost fromathe premises of the un- -ler:signed, town line Hullett and MeKillop, near Kinburn, a young collie dog, answering to the name of "Carlow.' He has four white feet, tip of tail white aud a white ring around his neck. Any persoe givieg auch information as will lead to his re- covery will bo liberally rewarded, and any person found harboriug birn after this notice will be prose- cuted as the law directs. JOHN THOMPSON, Con- stance P. 0. 1261x4 $ 300 $ 500 $ 700 81,000 81,500 $2,500 Private funds to loan at lowest rates of interest at sums to suit borrowers. Loans can be com- pleted .and money advanced within two days. Apply to. R. S. HAYS, Barrister,&c.,Seaforth. 1258 - - 'DULLS AND SEED GRAIN.—For Sale, 6 choice 1) oung Short Horn Bulls, fit 1 or service. Some of them are the hest 1 have had. Also a quantity of eleau Coloradn Spiapg Wheat; Black Tartarlan,V ck's Banner and WhitieVoland Oat, and Prussian Blue and Crown Peas. Prices right. DAVID MILNE, Ethel, Ontario. 1264 tf. 0 TRAYE0 STEER—Strayed from Lot 7, Comes - pion 12, Stanley, on or about the first of Novem- brr, 1891, one small Steer rising two years old ; white and red color, with white spot on forehead. Any person giving information that will lead to his re- covery, will be suitably rewarded. D. B. STECKLE, Blake 1'. 0. 1264-4 SHORTHORN BULLS FOR SALE.—Two yearling thoroughbred Shorthorn Bulls for sale, sired by the Cruickshank's bull "Perfection.' They are ex- tra good animals, and will be sold on reasonable tonna. Apply ( n Lot 16, Concession 10, Morris, or Blyth P. 0. NEIL McDONALD. 1264t1 A UCTION SALE OF VALUABLE VILLAGE Jj PROPERTY.—lf not sold privately on or be. fore the 26th day of March, there will be sold by pub- lic auction in the village of Hensall, on that date, two village lots pleasantly situated in the said village of Heneall, having on there a two story Cottage 29 feet square, with good cellar and eleteres. There is also a new stable, pig pen, and other out -buildings. F. G. MEYER,Ijensall. 1264-3 uNRESERVEO AUCTION SALE OF FARM STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, ate.—Mr. W. G. Dtiff has been imtrueted by Mr R. Robinson to sell by public auction on Lot 12, Concession 6, Tuckerswith, la miles south of Eginondville, on Wednesday, March 16, at 12 o'clock, noon sharp, the following property, viz. florsea.-1 matched teano one in foal to an im- ported horse ; 1 mare five years old, in foal to an im- ported horse; 1 aged horse; horse colt rising one year old, 1 filly colt rising one year old, both by im- ported horses. Cattle and Sheop.-5 young milch coos suppotied to be in calf, 2 cows newly calved, 3 . steers rising thi ae years old, 2 steers two years old, 1 steer coming two years old, 1 heifer coming two yeas old, 5 calves coming one year old, 2 young calves, 3 ewes and 4 larube, Leicester breed also about 40 hena. The above stock are well bred and in good condition. Implements,ate.-1 self -binder, Mas- sey's make, nearly new; 1 Toronto mower nearly new, 1 seed drill combined, Wiener's make; 1 sulky plow, 2„f*eneral purpose plowa, 1 chill- plow, 1 set of diamond harrowa, 1 fanning mill, 1 democrat wagon, 1 covered buggy nearly new, 1 cutter, 1 lumber agon-, 1 pair of bobsle.ighti, two sets of double har• nees for plowing, 1 set of team harneas, 1 set single harness'1 wheelbarrow, 1 rollar, 1 set of milk cans and water box, 1 pair scales, 1 gene plow, 1 wagon rack, 1 gravel bee, 1 grain eradle, 1 cross ent saw, 1 Sugar kettle, 1 work bonch and screw, 1 steel crow bar. 1 sleigh robe, 1 buggy. pole and neckyoke, one sulky rake, 1 revolving rake, 2 grindstones, 1 seuffier, 2 eider barrels; also forks, shovels, spades. hoes, rakea and other articles too numerous to niontion. Household Furniture -1 cupboard, 1 kitchen table, 1 Milk can, a number of largo crocks for preserving, and intoly other household utensils. There will also he sold a quantity of white ash and lumber for wagon tongues. The whole must be eold without reserve, cia the proprietor has leased his faun and is retiring from the businees. Terms—All sums of $5 and under coati ; over that amount 11 months' credit will be given on- furnishing approved joint notes. A dis- count et th rate of 6 per cent. per annum will he allowed -for caeh on credit notes.- RICHARD ROB- INSON, proprietor; W. G. DUFF, auctioneer. . 1263.3 Spring Stock OF Wall Paper. NEW COLORS AND DESIGNS. Ceiling Papers Decorations To rnateli at prices that will astonish you. Come and see them. - C_W_P_A.1"-DS111 Wall Paper Dealer, SEAFORTH, ONT. AVONTAYS MISER I ES. Sore hands, raw fingers, cracked. skin ! What pain and misery many women suffer through the use of injurious soaps and powders! These troubles don't exist where ” $uNLIGHT " SOAP is used. On the testimony' of eminent scientists IT CANNOT INJURE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN ! Soap which hurts the skin MUST HURT THE CLOTHES, hence' it should be avoided. ".SUNLIGHT ?' has been .awarded 6 Gold Medals and other honors for purity and exoellence. Let this induce you to try it next wash day, and for all domestic purposes. Remember the Name, "Sunlight." M. Robertson's Central Furniture House, OPPOSITE E. Mc'AUL'S DRY GOODS STORE, STR T, SEAFORTH. FURNITURE.—Nobody contradicts the well known fact that in this department we carry one of the largest, finest and best assorted stocks of Household Furniture in this part of the country. Our Furniture stock at pre- sent is laraer, more complete arid prices lower than ever before. We are manufacturers as well as retailers in this line. PICTURE FRAMING.—In this department we are giving the best of satisfaction to our customers. Pictures cf all hapes, sizes and kinds, are framed at the shortest of notice and at the most reasonable charges. A. large stock of all kinds of moulding kept constanCy on hand. MANUFACTURING.—In this department we manufacture all kinds of Furniture to order,as well as the most of that for sale in our retail department. REPA1RJNG.—First-class repairing guaranteed on all classes of furni- ture; try us. UNDERTAKING.—Notice of this department will be found in another column of this paper. BUSINESS CHANGE in SEAFORTH. ' Notice' is hereby given that the partnership which heretofore existed be- tween the undersigned as Root and Shoe merchants in the Town of Seaforth, in the County of Huron, under the firm, style and name of Hamilton- & Mc- Innis, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. Dated at Seaforth, this 28th day of January, 1892. DONALD McINNIS. W. J. HAMILTON, We, the undersigned, having purchased the business of the above firm, the business will be continued under the firm name of Richardson & McInnis, and having enlarged our stock, selected from some of the best houses in Canada and the States, those favoring us with their patronage will find our stock complete in every line, and at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. OUR CUSTOM WORK Will be under the supervision of MR. EDWARD LATIMER, who is favor- ably known to the people of Seaforth and vicinity. Customers will find him competent to give satisfaction to those getting ordered work done, Er Having taken the accounts of Hamilton & McInnis to collect, parties indebted to them will please call and settle at once and save further trouble. Richardson & McInnis, Seaforth. You are making A wrong impression Wherever you go. If this is - not the Pattern THE IIEEL OF THE GRAX.BY RUBBER. a" on your Rubbers and Over- shoes. APPLICATiONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES NORUFF DANDRUFF D. L. CAVEN. Toronto, Travellimz PalsoncPr Agent. o. n. It,. Says: Anti •Dan d rn is a portet.t. remover of pa,n- dna-its action li marveiloos—in my owrrease • a yew eaelications'not oniy thoroughly roraovea Eexetosiva (lamina acCumniatiou but stopped EI, , fall, a:: nf tbrs hair, made it .3oft and pliubifir and )romotad a visibie gzowth. SUARANTE Restores Fading hair to its original_ color. Stops falling of hair. Keeps the Scalp clean. Makes hair soft and Pliable Promotes Growth. THE SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY. Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introduc- de the latest equipments and the most improved machines, I am now prepared to do All Kinds of Machine Repairs AND GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK. LAND ROLLERS. We are now turning out some of the best improved Land Rollers, and invite the furners to se them before buying elsewhere. T. T. COLEMAN. - • - CM:0 EAT.TOWS 33oth the method and results when Syrup of FiFs is taken -' it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and oures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedIr of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in i its action and truly beneficial n its effects, prepared only from the most hec.ithy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualitiescommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 750 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Manufactured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., BAN FBANO1800, CAL. LOITISVILLZ, NM NEWYORK, N. Y, Sold by J. S. ROBERTS, Druggist, Seaforth J. C. SMITH & CO., A General Banking business transacted. Farmers' notes discounted. Drafts bought and sold. Interest allowed on depoeits. SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for collection OFFICE—First door north of Reid & Wilson's Hardware Store. SE AFORTH. :31.750.000 MUST BE LOANED AT PER CENT. an FIrzt and Second Mortgacres. Old Mortgagee pail off. NO COMMISSION. Agents Wanted. Oall or send 3c. stamp for CIRCULAR. ,-:• EIR•REYNOLD 5 •:- 7RIC.HMOND STW TORONTO Loans can be arranged with my lo- cal agent at Seaforth. 7.1 t-4 1 PURE POWDERED 110Ope PUREST, STP.CS,04hc-XT, elsidiTs lesalyfor nee in an -r ,t1.'or 'waffle Wuter. IBeinfc .• ,s-eati ta cal.( 23. A can °qua-19SO Ise,: • •e-1 '- Sold by All (J:•.-:•••• • • "VP.. " SEAFORTH Musical : Instrument =vii:Do Rai:TM Scott Brothers, PROPNIETGRS, SEAFORTH, - ONTJ ARIO. PieII tIACNo.,OGSuei—phD; hornarn,iniNonewpYkiaonroC; 01,1Vn: pany, Bowmanville. O DomiRnioGnAolran. Bpaenl&CoGuelph; y1 Bow. manviae D. W. Kern & Co., Woodstcek, The above Instruments alwaye on hand, also a few good second-hand Pianos and Organe for sale at Isom $26 upwards. Instruments sold DI the Metal- mont plan, or on terms to suit etotemers. Violins, Conoertinae and small instruments on hand also'sheet music, books to. SCOTT BROS. • M. ROBERTSON, LeadingUndertaker • MAIN STREET, SEAFORTII. My facilities are unsurpassed. I am pre- pared to conduct burials in a most satis- factory manner. All modern undertaking appliances. Competent management guar- anteed. A full line of burial goods on hand. I aim to be prompt, considerate and reliable. SOT Charges most reasonable. RESIDENCE, NORTH MAIN STREET. 1223 ALLAN LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, REDUCTION IN RATES. Steamers Sail Regularly from PORTLAND and HALIFAX to LIVERPOOL via LONDONDERRY _XAMMG THIE WINTEIL MONTHS. Cabin, 640 and upwards. Second Cabin, 6/6. Steerage at low rates. s NO CATTLE CARRIED - STATE t SlaFICE OF LINE s ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK & GLASGOW, via Londonderry, every Fortnight. Cabin, $40 and upwards. Sewed Osbus' FM, Steerage at low rates. Anly to H. Is A. ALLAN, mamma, oc BE UNE 01W. G. DUFF, &Worth.