The Huron Expositor, 1892-11-10, Page 6BROTHER PORPHYRY.
BY OHABLES OANITET.
Translated by Evelyn E, Morse. „
It is about thirty years ago since a
heavily built Men, with bronzed skin,
knooked at the door of the monastery at Le
Trappe. -
Iemighthave been about four e'clock in
the afternoen and the ground and the
neighboring fils smoked under the torrid
heat of a clear August day. The Monoton-
ous buzzing of insects filled the air with a
never -ceasing music, always the same. One
Weald have eaid that an invisible bow was
being drawn over the same , chord, causing
it to vibrate eternally.
The man, a Hercules of twenty-seven or
thirty years, was we with, perspiratlen,
Without doubt, he bad just finished a long
journey, for his blouse of bite color had
become quite black at the shoulders, and
through the opening could be seen the
sweat- trickling in great drop a upon hie
istrong and shaggy breest In epite of this,
he did not eeern weary, and from time to
time he wiped away the moisture from his
forehead with the battom of his blouse.
After a few minutes the head of a brother
appeared behiod the iron grating. The man
of shaven hiai asked of the stranger whet
could be Jane for hie service. The latter
replied, quite simply.- "1 wish to speak
to the Father Abbot."
The face at the wicket at these words had
an expression of surprise entirely charaeter-
;stk. The man bad in his , attire more of
the air of a tramp than of a Christian, and
the brother eyed him from heed to foot, un-
decided as to what al weld be done.
The doer of the convent ie open to all the
world, but it is not forbidden to take pre
-
cations for itself. So thought the brother
who served as porter, foe h& begged the
stranger to wait in the shade of a large oak
whieh cast the shadow of its thick foliage
upon the meadow, then closed the door, and
disappeared.
Some rnonents after, be returned, asked
the man to enter, guided: hirn through a
cumber of bare corridors, fivithout speaking
a word to him, under the tule which cern-
mends abeolate silence in the interior of the
cloister; stopped before a door, knocked dis-
creetly •' upon a command which cerne frail
within, he opened it, stepped beck, and,
with ants crossed on his ibrearst and head
deeply bent, withdrew, and the noise of his
Brandeis made not the least echo in the long
corridors.
.>
Thal man, still sweating, in spite of the
dampebill which came from the bare walls
of the cloister' entered and found himse
f,
in presence oFather Abbot, seated in
wooden arm chair, imposing with his Ion
and heavy gray beard, vete° stopped hi
abruptly by uttering in a iiharp tone the
words:
"What do you want ? 4 '
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But the atranger wan net quick at a repl
Respectfully he excused himself for his bol
proceeding, and said:
" I *eh to enter' the convent and beam
a Trepplet."
The Abbot was not astenished. He ha
seen many otheda like hini, but those ha
been otherwise defeated ire the struggle
life than he who stood that!, with his solid
broad shoulder* fashioned like e beast o
burden, hiiii eyes clear ' though withou
audieity-well formed, in a word, to a
complish any task and to do his part in th
general work of the convent. In less tine
than it takes to write it, tihe Father Abbo
measured the phyaical worth of the recrui
ahd decided mentally as tii the excelleoce o
the acquisition. But,prudently, he brough
up some difficulties, Bohn° reserves, an
questioaed him. It was raally a.n examine
tion.
• The stranger began by drawing from hi
pocket a sort of memorandum of greasy Tap
pearance, which he held out to the prior
It was a military book containing the deed
of eervice of a good soldier, whom lack o
instruetien had kept in the inferior ranks
but who had fought like a lion in th
Crimea, and had been found one of the firs
in the assault at Malakoff;
As he turned the soiled leaves the Abbot
smiled agreeably. Chance did not every
day send him such good sabjects as this,
who came even with honor, already trained
..
by military discipline for the rude and
laborious duties of a convent, and who
promised a work more faithful than that of
50 many who seek Ls Trappe as a place of
refuge, and filially escape and return into
the world.
The Father Abbat knew this hist clesa ;
since he had governed this body of men,
gathered from here and there, and some
times from doubtful places, he had 'learned
to read faces at sight. This man pleased
him, but he did not yield irnmediately, but
showed him the monotonous and ever hard
life of the convent, spoke of the irregular
vocations which disappeared like a fire of
strew, and which threw upon Le. Trappe a
grievous disrepute.
While listening to all this flow of words
the other had an open smile almost artless.
What mattered it to him, who when not in
service, had dons nothing but roam up hill
and dawn, always a,nxieus for today's
bread -and to -morrow's? At the convent he
knew one never died of hatger. Of bread
and vegettiblee, and sometithes fruits, there
'was always much more than was ieeeded by
his healthy stomach, which the rations 4 t
the barracks, eternally the ame, had not in-
jured. And he tie:night of the work in the
field-, which was his joy, turd which mede
the well deserved reputation of - the
Trappists extend even to military circles. .
This peasant knew nothing of the joy of
a family. He hardly knew himself how he
' had lived until the time when he had been
--able to be hired for the hare:bit or to find on
the herrn some daily labor.
The cmscription surpriged him in the
iniclet of this quietude, and took hirn away
for Borne years; ani he returned from the
' than in going away, but in the cholera am -
service perhapa not less sineerely devoted
bulance of Varna 14 had soleninly vowed
to became a TrappistVf he escaped from
and hp had kept his eiow. He asked only
one favor, which was to keep his military
medal which. he had so well earned. No
one should see it; he would dew it inside of
hia robe, and to feel it froth time to time
against his skin -that would give him cour-
age and perseverance.
After a short time "Brother Porphyry "
• -that was the name given him -because a
model in the brotherhood; tireless at work
summer as well as winter, through cold and
through heat; el ways awake at the first
sound of tae bell in torrid nights and in
freezing flights ; chanting in the chapel, ein
a voice full and sonorous, vespers and
matins, pitiless to himself, serving others ;
a rude edifier in the company that cleared
the land, guided the plow, weeded, broke
stones, pruued the magnificent fruit -walls of .
the garden, knocked down the apples and
toiled at the wine preas. He easily carried
twa sacks of grain upon his strong should -
ere, ancl if there was any laborious task to
be done, there was only one monk to do it,
and that monk was Brother Porphyry.
So things went on during some years, or
more than a year Aad a half at. least, when
the rumor spread even to La 'Trappe that
the Emperor was leaving for Italy at the
head of an army, and that soon there would
be opened a campaign against the Austrians. ,
At that time no one doubted that it was -
a, piece of folly'. But, to the eyea of
Brother Porphyry, Austrians and Russians
• were all (me, and he began to feel a desire
to -be on the move. However, as he had re-
spect for the discipline of the convent, he
asked leave to go, to enlist again in the
service, with a formal promise to return
at the end of the campaign, if he were still
iii the world.
He was abruptly refused, and Was told
that such ideas were criminal in a house of
ice and religiouti mortification. '
The following day Brother PorPhyry had
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entered again into the freedom 61 the outer
world. It was not known What clothing he
wore away, but on his -narrow couch was
found his monkhi robe carefully rolled; at
the foot of the bed on the floor, the wood-
en shoes, still full of straw; and hung from
a large nail driven in the wainscoting, the
heavy rosary which he told daily i with couii
punction, between two severe tasks. That
same evening, in the chapel, the brothers
recited for him the death -prayer;
A year after, to the day, Brother Porphy •
ry knocked at the door of La Trappe, cletir-
ed agein in a military uniform which had
seen many a hard time, from the passage of
Mont Cenis to Solferino, without counting
the intermediate hefting placee. -
He entered, did pinence-a penance long
and severe -without poinplaint, without a
word Of'reproach'and became soon,
as he had been in the Rasa a model of the
convent.
That lasted till 187'
0 when the news of
the surprise of Wisseinbourg penetrated the
walls of Le Trappe. This time Brother
Porphyry left without a, word to any one,
and reached Cherburg, where he presented
himself at head quarters.
As he had reached the fortiee, in spite of
his record of service 'and his military medal,
he was pronounced too old. Some weeks
after, he was enrolled in a company of free -
shoots, whose survivors perhaps remember
yet a comrade with shaven head, who shot
down so many Germans with a eurety of aiin
incomparable in the numerous engagements
which took place between Rouen and
Mantes; who slept wherever night overtook
• him, in a barn or on the hard snow: who
who was always found ready for all the
extra duties, and who when the hour for
sleep arrived, never who,
down without re-
peating aloud his prayer, despite the sneer's
and puns of the coarser fellows, who mocked
bim and gave him their benediction with in-
sulting gestures.
During the long and painful partisau war-
fare Brother Porphyry was -the aoonymous
here of many exploits. He felt himself, as
he said, fired to the heart, and risked death
twenty times, not through mere rashness,
but in order 'ea accomplish the perilous mis-
sions that the leaders confided to him, and
which none other could cerry out as he did
in this terrible winter when the roads and
paths Were obliterated under the snow, and
the gun -barrels burned the fingers of the
wretched soldiers.
At the news of the capitulation of 'Paris,
supposing the war ended, Brother-P-orphyry
disappeared. Hed he fallen in some am-
bush? Had the terrible cold seized him in
• If one of those solitary spots to which he
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pushed beyond the advance guards, and
▪ whence he returned almost always with a
pointed helmet, sometimes two, held by the
• strap to the barrel of his rifle? Not one of
his comrades knew.
• Brother Porphyry had simply taken again
the road to La Trappe. ••
In the firet days of February, towards
• evening, trembling with fever, his strength
almost spent, he fell juet at the threshold of
the convent. It was only with a faltering
hand, and after tremendous efforts, that he
Was able to seize and drop the heavy
of knocker, and 'it was with s voice almost in-
' audible that he murmured :
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"Open ! It is I, Brother Porphyry."
• The door was opened, he was revived,
c -
lend it was learned from his lips what he
had done for Frauce, for his •country. The
tears ran down the tanned cheeks of those
monks, who thereselves had fought by
prayer, and who within the walls of the
monastery forgot the rule of silence, and
made repeated exclamations without seem-
ing to suspect that thereby they were losing
one chance for their hope of heaven. It
needed the presence of the Father Abbot
a and his severe look to bring them again to
e ebedience of the rule, and the sound of the
ell to recall themto the fact that the hour
a
f
of service had arrived.
Brother Porphyry put on his frock and
' prepared to follow the monks, despite the
weekneas from which he auffered. A gesture
t from the prior stopped him, and the follow -
day he appeared before the superior, who
showed himself merciful bat not weak in ad-
mitting in favor of this second offence some
extenuating circumstance?.
Two years ago Brother Porphyry died
like a saint, without having fouud new
cause for deeerting the convent. When his
monk's frock was taken off to apply to his
breast a large blister, ordered by the doctor
to relieve the pleuriey which was torturing
him, there was found fastened even to hie
skin, by the yellow -watered ribbon • with
its greetaberder, discolored by perspiration
and byetim43, the military medal, whose im-
print marked his flesh:
He expired after having seen visions of
battles, repeating in his delirium aeveral
words, amorig which were " Vi ye la
France !"
The body Of thie soldier rests in the con-
vent cemetery,in the shadow -of one of these
humble white crOsees upon' which are in-
scribed, without the least Word of regret,
the religious names of all those disheartened
one° whom faith or discouragement or the
tempeSts of life have driven to this somber
asylum of self-deoial, of calm, and of labor,
Children Cry for
What Boys Should Do.
Horace Mann says: You are made to be
kind, boys; generous, magnanimous. I
there is a boy in school who nas a club foot,
.don't,-- let him know you 'ever saw it. I
there is a troy with ragged clothes, don't
talk &bout rage within his hearing. If there
is a lame boy, assign him some part of the
game that doesn't require running. If
there is a hungry one, give him part of your
dinner. If there is a dull one, help him to
get his lesson?. • If there is a bright one, be
not envious of him ; for if one boy is proud
of his talents, and another boy is envious of
- them, there are two great wrongs, and no
more talent than before. If a larger or
stronger boy has injured you and is sorry for
it, forgive him. All the school will show
by their countenance how much better it is
than to „have a, great fuss. • And remember
who said' Love your enemies," and " Bless
therwthat curse you."
Restless.
It is often said that Americans lack re-
pose. Although there are undoubtedly ex-
ceptions to this rule, it is a painful fact that
repose, either of body or speech, is not a
strong characteristic of the American na-
tion. An elderly gentleman was obliged to
wait over an hour in a railway station for a
certain train. The day was warm and the
people sat about the room in various atti-
tudes iuggeative of great exhaustion and dis-
comfort.
"I am eo tired it seems as if I should
die !" said one woman to another' as they
sank each into a rockingollair, anddeposit-
ed -their-bundles on the floor. They began
to rock violently; each flushed face grew
redder and redder, They had not strength
enough to talk, but they rocked steadily on,
until "Cara ready for Squantumand "Way
Stations l" smote the air. •
At this cheering announcement the two
women euspereded their exercise, gathered
up their bundles, and walked lifelessly out
to the train.
There was a middle aged men, who came
in with hill wife and two boys.
"Sopby," he seid, as he sat down heavily
on one of the benches, " let's all keep still
and get rested before we have to go into that
smothering car." And Sophy agreed that it,
would be wise to do sb.
In the 20 minutes that the group sat in
the station, the man who was going to keep
still crossed and uncrossed his legs fourteen
times according to the elderly gentleman's
count. His wife buttoned and unbuttoned
her jacket jour times,and made five thorough
examinations of the contents of her bag.
The children made a dozen excursions to the
door.
Among all the tired people -who came and
Pitcher's Cattoria
•
went,during the -elderly gentlernan'a sojourn
in that waiting room, there was not one who
kept perfectly still.
As, in a philosophical and pitying mood,
he recounted his observations at supper,his
wife said, smiling':
Poor thing! They don't know the
first principle of rest. And you were tired,
to,my dear; I can see that from your fore-
hea!
The elderly gentleman rose hastily from
the table; one glance at the telltale mirror
convincedhim that, while sitting in judg-
ment over that railway assemblage, he had
been vigorously employed • at his old time
trick of rubbing his forehead the wrong way.
•
Sure to be Satisfied.
"Pm nearly,always disappointed in the
Christmas gifts my husband buys me,"
confessed Mre. Dimmick to Mrs. Kickshaw.
" Is that So ?"
"Ye. He means well, but he doesn't
seem tri get me the things I want. I try to
appear plemed, of course, but I'd tether
have thing e Leered for„ I give hien 'hints,
but he never Seems to catch therm"
"Now I never have any 1 trouble like that
with Mr. Kickshaw."
• "How do you manage it ?"
"Easily enough. I buy him for his
Christmas present just what I want to have
myself, and he gets for me just what he
thinks he would like to have, and then we
exchange the articles with each other."
A New York Hackman. •
An instance of business enterprise, of
rather a shady kind, to bo sure is given in
connection with a hackman in New York,
Four Philadelphia gentlemen, landing
from a coasting vessel one morning in New
York, asked ,a hackman what he would
charge to take them and their luggage to
the wharf of the Sparrow, tiooked to sail
for .Boston that day .
,
"One dollar," was the prof -alit tieply.
" All right," said the spokesman.
T,he trunks were strapped; Cabby
mounted his seat, turned his fiery steeds,
and becked up to the opposite side of the
pier, about ten feet distant. Then, with
the gravity of a weary drive upon him, an-
nounced, "Sparrow, geritlemen."
• Funny Bits.
Rind party: "'What ars you crying
that way for for, little boy? Little boy:
"Cause it's the only way I know how-to
cry."
In the familiar song, " Pull for the
Shore," thexe is, a line, " Cling to self no
more," which, as sung by the colored child-
ren in one °lithe schoolo, sounded strangely;
and on having it said slowly, it was dis-
covered that they were singing," Clean you
sell no more."
Mamrna'(to Teddy, who is growling about
his food): "Just think, Teddy, of the
many poor children to -night who are going
to bed hungry, without any supper at all.
Teddy "Yes, but you see I'm tbinking
of Willie Simpkins, who said he was going
to have sponge cake and custard."
Millicent: "Whet - is the meaning of,
'reciprocity,' Will ?" Will: "It means an
exchange in which neither pirty has the ad-
vantage; as, for instence., if you were to
give me a kiss (like this) I would be obliged
to give you one in return (like this), Bee ?"
Millicent: "Yes, how lovely ; but Will,
/ don't see how an old man like Mr. Blaine
oan be so interested in it.
The tall, elim man with spectacles and
shaggy hair, who had been fishing from a
pier in the neighborhood of 'Jackson park,
threw his string of fish back into the lake,
put away his rod and line and turned to go.
"Even the fiSh down here," he muttered
savagely,." are mo,nopalists. There's noth-
ing but `ring' perch. And he shook his
6st in the airection of the administration
building and walked rapidly toward an
anti -syndicate steamer that was whistling
for paesengers.
i" Billings got his pension- yet ?" " I
didn't know Billings was entitled to a
pension."
"He thinks he is, anyway. He claims
to have contracted a chronic case of that
tired feeling from reading war articles in
the magazines."
Ancestral Pride.
Pride often goers before a fall in families
where there are bright children, but." truth
crushed to earth will rise again."
One of the descendants of a celebrated
general of the revolution, when a little boy,
visited Independence Hall iu Philadelphia
with his mother. Wiahing to impress upon
him the good blood from which he had
sprung, she pointed to an oil portrait, and
said," See there is a picture or your greet-
great-grankather, hung by General Wash-
ington."
The child took no notice to what she said
at the time, appareotlyi being more interest-
ed in the liberty bell and other curious
things. But, some months afterward, when
distinguished guests were dining at his
father's table he broke an interval of silence
by asking :
"Mamma, what did you tell me in Phil-
edelphia about my great -great-grandfather
being hung ?"
Though the question was startling, it was
soon explained.
A Barefaced atd.
The following, clipped frothbe columns
of the Toronto Globe, October 29th, is of
sufficient importance to newspaper readers
to warrant its reproduction in these
columns:
To the Editor of The Globe :
Sir, -I am sure you will agree with me
when I say that something ought to be done
to stop the barefaced swindling (no milder
name will do) which is going on in certain
directions in our midst,and I have no reason
to doubt tbat my experience in this city is
the experience of others in many parts of
Canada. I had read so much of he great
succsss of DJ.. Williams' Pink Pill for Pale
People that 1 determined to giv them a
trial for nervous troubles. I ac ordingly
went to a drug store to procure supply.
On eskirg the druggist for the pill he took
don a glass jar and preceeded to take out
i
the quantity. ''But," said I." Dr. Villiams'
Pink Pills are not sold in balk, nd that
cannot be them. "0, yes, it is," fetid the
dealer, " We always get them in Wit and
sell them that way." I had read th caution
of thaproprietors to the effect t at these
.pilie were never sold in bulk, e.ndthinking
they should know beat, I declined taking
them, and left the store, My next experi-
ence was no more fortunate. Again pille
pink in color to imitate the genuine, were
offered me. When I remonstrated this
dealer admitted the pills were not supplied
to him by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
but declared they were just the same. And
yet, for the sake of a little more profit he
would have impoeed them on me for the
genuine -Pink Pills had I been less ceutious.
As I left the store, I thought the repeated
warning against imitations given by tbe
Williams Co must be the result of bitter I
experience on their part. But I did not ex- i
pect I would meet with three dishonest
deelers (cli3 you think the term too strong?)
in succession. My next experience proved
the third dealerilittle batter than the other
two. Whon I asked for Dr. Williams' Pills
he said he had them, and then produced a
iipackage which I saw at.a glence bore an-
other mune, and which he insisted were just
as good. I declined taking them, and turn-
ed to leave the store, wheu the druggist of-
fered to give me the genuine pine. But I
did not feel that I ought to patronize a man
who would have imposed something else on
me had I been less guarded, and declined
buying. I •almost despaired getting the
genuine Pink Pills unless I sent to head-
quarters; but on my visit to the fourth drug
store I was melee successful, and was at once
Children Cry for
handed ,the genuine Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. No doubt, Mr.Editor, my experience
is that of Many others, and no doubt hun-
dreds less cautious are constantly being de-
ceived. I think the newspapers ought to do
something towards protecting their readers
from frauds of this kind. We frequently
read of reporters doing clever detective
work, etc., visiting churches in the garb of
the lowly, and then writing up their recep-
tion. Here is a new field for them. Let
some clever reporter travel the length and
breadth of this city in humble guise, and
zee how many dealers are honest enough to
give him what he asks for without trying to
impose a substitute upon him.
I trust, Mr. Editor, you will give this a
place in your columns, as it may serve to
prevent some one else from being cheated.
A LADY READER.
Toronto, October 27.
•'Temperance Colunin.
lettov. 23, 31.32: Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it giveth color in the -cup, when
it moveth itself aright. At the 4,st it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
-The following is condensed from a boy's
essay on total abetinence : I abstain from
alcoholic drinks because, if, I would excel as
a cricketer, Grace says, I abstain" ; as a
walker, Winton says," abstain"; as a swim-
mer, Webb says, " abstain" ; as an orator,
Bright says, " abstain" ; as a missionary,
Livingstone says, " abstain" ; as a doctor,
Richardson says, " abetain ." as a preacher,
Farrar says, abstain." Asylums'prisons
and workhouses repeat the. cry," abstaiu !"
-It is ssid that Governor Hill of New
York recently pardoned a life convict from
Sing Sing prison who has served since
_1878, upon cendiden that he should totally
abetein from liquor for five years, and that
if he violates the condition, he shall return
to prison to serve out the life 'sentence. Poor
fellow! Satan himself will stop his inferno -
machinery to tefript the convict back to his
cups. Temperancepeople should close the
dram shops and there will be fewer life sen-
tences to serve.
-It would need six hundred years to send
a Bible to each inhabitant of the globe, at
the present rate of progress; the drink bill
• would enable us to do it in six months.
MiSSIOES cost us 7s. for each tick of the
clock; drinkabout eight guineas.'
-At a temperance meeting, an honest
German was asked to speak, and after some
hesitation did so in the followiug exhaustive
manner : "1 shell tell you how it was. I
put mine band on mine head; there was
one bigpain. Tben I put mine hand in
mine pooket, and there was nothing. Now
there ish no pain in mine head. I put my
hand ia mine pocket and there ish twenty
pound. So I shall stay mit the Temper;.
auce."
-Edward Crummey, Esq., of New York,
F ays : It has been properly stated that in-
toxibating liquor is the 'dynamite of mod-
ern civilization." It is far worse than the
sconrge, cholera, yellow fever and war com-
bined. •They come upon us, but they go;
the liquor traffic remains. From my own
persmal experience with its ravages, I have
known it to destroy the minister in his
pulpit, the_physician in his office, the law-
yer in the court -room, and worse still, I
have known it to destroy the honest yeoman
and ruin his family, and leave nothing but a
wreck behind him.
Let us have no compromise of any kind
with the liquor traffic, for its minion in
this world is death -first, last, and all the
time. Let us have no mixed temperance.
Let us be for temperance -morally, reli-
giously and politicelly.
-Since Noah got drunk, and all down
through the ages to the present time, it is
the alcohol that does mischief, first taken in
moderation, and in almost every instance
the commencement was with beer, cider and
wine, pronounced innocent by men and wo-
men who ought to have known better, be-
cause itthe evil relts appear on every
hand. Nine -tenths of the drunkards of to-
day commenced on beer and light wines, but
the alcohol which they contained nourished
the appetite until it mastered its victims.
There can be no compromise on beer. It is
the devil's kindling -wood.
• How's Your Little Brother.
We mentioned the other day, says the
London Star, that Sir Henry Parkes, the
GiO.M., of Australia, has had a son born to
hirn in his seventy-eighth year. He hes an-
other son in the New South Walee Parlia-
ment, along with himself -a , gentleman
close on fifty years of age, and rejoicing in,
the name of Mr. Varney Parkes. Varney
recently addressed leis constituents, and at
the close of his speech a solemn faced elector
intimated a• desire to ask a question. The
chairman gave the neceseary permission,
and, the meeting exploded in laughter when
the question turned out to be. "How's
your little brother ?"
The Night for Sleep.
Martin Luther, -whose combats with a
personal Satan are matters ef history, some
times found his arch enemy disturbing him
at night, doebtless because he knew that a
inind and body unrefreshed by sleep were an
easy prey for. his devices during the work
and care of the next day.
But in this, as in other experiences, Lu-
ther had no idea ef allowing his eubtle foe
to get the best of him; and his rejoinder
vs as sometimes in this style, " Devil, Ienlust
sleep now. It is God's command that we
work by day and sleep by night."
It was a shot well stlected and well fired.
For Satan has a wholeEome fear of a conflict
where his opponent is resolute and trustful
enough to fall back on God's thought in the
matter,
The nigl-it hours- have always been a
favorite time for thrusting disturbing
thoughts and fears and doubts into the
mind. And it would be a,happy habit if in
all such cases one were to refuse to listen to
the suggestion, and insteml, insist with
Luther on God's will for bleep.
Is Any Horse
worth $20?
• DICK'S
BLOOD
• PURIFIER,
60c.
. DICK'S
• BLISTER,
50e.
DICK'S
OINTMENT,
60c.
• DICK'S
e LINIMENT,
60e.
IF HE IS NOT HEALTHY AND SOUND?
Every animal that is not worth keeping over winter
should have DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER in the spring.
It will take less food to keep thele in condition.
They will sell better. A horse will do more work.-
DICK'S HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES ARE
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
Send a postal card for full particulars, and a book
of valuable household and farm reeeipes will be sent
,free.
DICK & CO., P. 0. Box 482, MONTREAL Sold
Everywhere:
1300-52
al\T`T.A.RICD
Mutual - Live - Stock
INS URANC CO.
Head Office: eaforith.
THE ONLY Live Stock Insurance Oompatee
Ontario having a Government Deposit and Wine.
duly licenied by the same. Ale now carrying ea
the business of Live Stock Insurance and solicit the
patronage of the importers and breeders of the
Provin oee
For further Particulars address
'JOHN AVERY Sec• -Trea&
lie(
Pitcher's Castoria..
„
Scott's
Emulsion
of Cod-liver Oil and Hypophosphites
is both a food and a remedy. It is
useful as a fat producer and, at the
same time gives vital force to the
body. It is beneficial in
CONSUMPTION
because it makes fat and gives strength.
It is beneficial for
SICKLY CHILDREN
because they can assimilate i when
they cannot ordinary food.
. It is beneficial for
COUGHS AND COLDS
because it heals the irritationi Of tge
throat and builds up the body and
overcomes the difficulty.
"CAUTION." -Beware of enbstitettes.
Genuine prepared by Scott & Bowne„
Belleville. Sold by all druggists.
150e. and $1.00.
Do
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You
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Need
Wall Paper
-0R- •
Window
Shades?
You will find all grades,
from the cheapest to the
most expensive, fully re-
presented in my stock.
Freizes and Decorations
to match all papers.
• Shades mounted on
Hartshorn's Self -Acting
•Spring Rollers.
C. W. PAPST, Seaforth.
Fagged Out!!
T- who
HAT tired, worn - out feeling, of
which so many women complain after a
day's washing, is clone away -
with by those
use that great
Labor •
Saving
•
•••
•
O 0
Which makes the Dirt drop out
Without Hard Rubbing
Without Bolllng
Without Washing -
Powders
Try the ca:iy, clean and economical way -the
way of washing, and
you will not be dis-
appointed.
SUNLIGHT SOAP having no equal for
Purity, you may use it with comfort and delight
for every ho-asehol 1
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fp.
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WORKS: PT. S'.11-41..!GhiT LEVER BROS., LIMITED
NEAR BIF:KZNKEAD TORONTO
STOCK FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for sale at rock bottom
prices, for the next thirty days, in order to reduce
our stock before going into winter quarters, young
Short Horn bulls, cows and heifers in calf, Leicester
ram and ewe lambs, got by the 1st prize winner at
the Toronto Industrial this year. Choice Berkshires
of both sexes. Lucknow station within three miles.
E. GAUNT & SONS, St. Helen P. 0., Ontario,
1297-tf
Wellington, Grey and Bruc,i.
StOING NORTH-.
Ethel
Brussels
Bluevale
Wingham
GOING Bourn-
Bluevale
Brussels....
Ethel
Passenger. Mixed.
3.00 le as. 9.26 rat, 9.00 P.M.
3.13 9.46 9.38
3.27 9.62 10.10
3.37 10.02 11.20
Passenger. • Mixed.
6.45 e.m.11.20 A. M. 7.25 P.M.
6.65 11.35 7.55
7.10 11.59 8.60
7.22 12.14 9.25
i
London, Huron and Bruce,
GOING NORTE- , Passenger.
London, depart 8.15a.m. 4.40 tem
Exeter 9.16 5 46
Hensall. 9.28 6.00
Kippen. 9.34 8.07
Bruoefield " 9.42 5.17
Clinton._ ........ - . .... 10.00 6.45
Londesboro 10.19 •7.03
Blyth.. . -10.28 7.12
Belgrave 10.42 7.26
Wingham arrive . 11.00 7.50
GOING SOUTH- Passenger
Wingham, depart .6.48e.x. 3.45e.m.
Be1rave.. .. 7.03 4.06
7.16 4.20
7.23 4.28
. 7.55 4.60
8.16 5.12
. ' 8.24 5.21
8.32 5.30
Exeter 8.60 6.46
B1
Londesboro
Clinton'
Bruceiteld
Kippen.
Hensel
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station
follows
GOING Wan- SEAPORTH.
Passenger .. 1.12 e. w.
Passenger... .. 9.00 P. m.
mixed Train.. 9.20 .4. w.
Mixed Train 6.15 P. M.
Goma Eurr-
Passenger. .. 7.69 A. IL
Passenger .. 3.00 r. it.
Mixed Train,. 5.30 r m.
Freight Train.. .. 4.25 r. m
CLINTON.
1.28 r. w.
9.17 P. M.
6,55 P.M.
2.41 r.
4.55 P. v.
0.80 m
as
KIPPEN MILLS.
Always Ready to E :ve the Public
by Giving Go. Flour.
JOHN McNEVIN
Begs to inforin his friends and the public that he is
again able to give his personal attention to business,
and having engaged Mr. John B. Austin, a thor-
oughly competent,practicalmiller,he fp prepared to do
A
GRISTING AND CHOPPING
On the shortest notice, and most reasonable terms
to all vyho may call.
Mr Satisfaction guaranteed every time.
trial solicited.
JOHN MeNEVIN, Kippen.
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The Old Established.
BROADFOOTS
Planing Mill and
ash and-Dcor Factoig,
sM.A.P101:VI11-1..
This old and well-known establishment is still
running at full blast, and now haa better facilities
than ever before to turn out a good article for a
moderate price. Sash and doors of all patterns al-
ways on hand or made to order. Lumber dressed on
• short notice and in any way desired. All kinds of
lumber for sale on reasonable tams. SI.ingles kept
constantly on hand. Estimates for the furnishing
of buildings in whole or in part given on application.
None but the best of material used and workman-
ship guaranteed. Patronage solicited.
1269 J. H. BROADFOOT, Seaforth,
J. C. SMITH & CO.
EES
A General Banking business traneacted.
Farmers' notes discounted.
Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits.
SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for
collection
OFFICE-Firet door north of Reid &
Wilson's Hard ware Store.
SEAFORTH.
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and -Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
--
Funerals furnished on the shortest notice
and satisfaction gin anteed. A large assort-
ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shroude, &c.,
always on hand of the beat quality. The beet.n
of Embalming Fluid and free of charge and
prices the lowed.• Fine Hearae,
1
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Rest%
denee - GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in the house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
411110EINIIIP 19111MISIMMarinsimmenm1171Zia
PUBLIC NOTICE.
The undersigned hereby begs to Notify the citizens
• of Seaforth and vicinity that he has opened out .a
Renovating Establishment.
ANY ONE IN NEED OF
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed,
Repaired or Dyed
Will do. well to give him a trial.
Stains from Oil, Pitch, Tar, Paint or Grease will be
thoroughly removed and nicely pressed up again,
making them look as clean and fresh as when new.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Charges moderate.
Shops and reaidence first door north of Thos. Kidd'
residenceoind,opposite S. Dicksons.
'1266 tf. J. W. SNELL.
^
OIL CAKE 1 1 \
Car lots delivered to your nearest
station.
•
Farmers and Feeders
Can club together and take a
few tuns each and get rock bottom
prices.
1294-9
ALFRED BOYD,
1 Wellington Street East,
Toronto,
NOVEMBER 10 1892.
VETERINARY.
TOHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate olOntario
si Veterinary College. All diseases of Domestic
Animals treated. •Calls promptly attended to and
charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a. specialty
Office and residence over W. N. Watson' Sewing
Machine Shop, Seaforth. 1112t1
'LlEANIC 18. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Ontarie Vet
erinary College, Toronto, Member of the Vet
erinary Medical Society, etc., treats all dieeases of
the Domesticated -Animals. All. call. promptly at-
tended to either by day or night. Charges moder-
ate. Special attention given o veterinary dent's -
try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one •door
south of Kidd's Hardware store. 1112
-
ELFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY.-Cornor nf Jar.
vie and GoderichStreets, next door to tte- Pres-
byterian Church, Seaforth, Ont. • All di, ses of
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the du n stieated
aninials, suocessfully treated at tta in.:ler-my or
elsewhere, on the shortest nottef, eharges m mien
ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Vete, inary Surge P
S. -A large stock of Velerit ary Medicines nept con
atantly on hand
LEGAL
R8. HAYS, successor to the late firm of Dickeore
& flays, Barrister, SolicitoraNetary public, &e.
Money to loan. Office-Oardno's block, Main Street
Seaforth.
1235
HIGGINS & LENNON,
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &e. •OffiCP8- -
120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Seaforth,
Ontario. Seaforth Office -Whitney's Block, Maim
Street. Money to loan. THOMAS MILTON HIGOIN%
JAMES LENNON. 1291
A TATTHEW MORRISON, Walton Insurance
.INI.digent, Commiftioner for taking affidavits,
Conveyances, &cr. Money to loan at the Loweew rates.
M. MORRISON, Walton.
T M. 'BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o.
aj,„ Office-Ikioms, five doors north olCommercial
liotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papst'a
Jewelry , store, Main street, Seaforth. •Goderloir
agenta-ttameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215
/NARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solitikra
&o., Ond,erioh, Ontario. 3. T. GAEROW. go C.:
PROUDFOOT. 886
c,AMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristers So-
lioitors in Chancery, &o.,Goderich, one M..
CAMERON,_ Q. 0., PHILIP HORT, DUDLEY HOLMES.
1/TANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitor*, Con
JJfj veyanoers, &a. Solicitors for the 'Ban Om
Johnaiion, Tisdale & Gale. Money to loan Ooe-
Elliott Block, Clinton, Ontario, • A, H. Mamma
Jamas SOOTY.
781
F,ROLMESTED, SE000800! to MAO Inn
nei;or, ic,forrirleyanheZek
randiller
•Thnedcdt- Solioitoriort;
Canadian Bank of Commerce.. Money to lend Farms
for sale. Oflioe in Scott's -Block, Main Street,
Seaforih.
W. CAMERON SMITH,
BARRISTER.
Solicitor of Superior Court, CommissiooNr-eTrAnfoiro.
taking Affidavits in the High Court
of Justice, Conveyancer,
Money to Lend .
HENSALL,
DENTISTRY.
MIW. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton
. & McInnes' Shoe Store, corner Main and John
Streets, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad-
ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1169
TIR. G. FRANKLIN BELDEN, Dentist. Gas ad-
ministrated for painless extraction of teeth.
Office over Johnson'e Hardware Store,Seaforth.
1226
RAGNEW, Dentist, .Clinton1,28w8ill
vita Hensel' Hodgens' Hotel
every Monday.
TT KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S.s
• Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurich
e'lede •' at tho Huron Hotel, en the LASt
THEIRSDAY w NACU MONTS, and at
Murdook's Httl, Hensall, on the FIRST AND THIRD
FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the
least pain possible. An work first-chise at liberal
rates.•
971
J) R. C. II. 11\7 -GRAM, Dentist, (successor to II. L,
Billings), member of the /loyal College of Den.
tal Surgeons, Ontario Teeth inserted with or with-
out a plate in gold celluloid or rubber, A safe ansee-
thetic given for the painless extraction of teeth.
Office -over O'Neil's bank, Exeter, Ontario. 1204
N.B.-Plates secured firmly in the mouth by
Yemens' Patent Valve,
MONEY TO LOAN.
lairONEY TO LOAN. --Straight loans at ti
.01_ cent., with tho privilege to • borrowet of
repaying part of the principal money at an, rune.
Apply to P. HOLMESTED, Barriettp, Seaforth.
• MEDICAL.
DR,
C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay-
field, Ontario, successor to Dr. W. IL Wright.
1225-52
DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY,
OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist
Church, Seaforth. RES/DE/WE, next Agricultural
Grounds,
J. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic-
toria,) M. C. P. S. 0. -
C. MACKAY, M. D. C. M., (Trinity,) T. IL 0.
F. T,
M. C. P. S. 0.
E. COOPER, M. D., Physician, Surgeon and
ja,„ Accoucher, Constance, Ont, 1127
JJit. ELLIOTT, Brucefield, Licentiate Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edin-
burgh. Bruoefield, Ont.
980
Top W. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeon.
Seaforth, Ontario. Oillee and residence same an
occupied byDr. Vercoe. 848
A LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellowet ths Royal
11.. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingaton.
Successor to Dr. Mackid. °filet lately oocupied
by Dr. Mackid, Main Street Seaforth. Reaidenee
--Corner of Victoria Squaee, in house' lately occupied
-by L. E. Dancey.
1127
AUCTIONEERS.
T P BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer Ifor th. Coun-
t). of Huron. Sales attended in al parts o2
the County. Ali orders left al The Exresrrow
Office will be promptly attended to.
VVNI. M'CLOY,
Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales prompt-
ly attended to, charges moderate and satisfaction
guaranteed. Orders by niail addressed to Chiselhurat
. Post Office or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession
11, Tuckeramith, will receive prompt attention.
• 1296-tf
• W. G. DUFF,
AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conveeancer,
Collector,eBook-keeper and Accountant Real Estate,
Lite, Accident and Fire Insuranot Agent; Money to
Loan,- Correspondence, ie. Parties requiring his
services in any of these branches will receive
prompt attention. OFFIC15 IN Deressis Bac, (up
STAIRS). MAIN STREIT, SNIFDIIT'32. 113'
McKillop Directory for 1802.
JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Brodhagen P. 0.
JOHN MORRISON, Deputy Reeve, Winthrop.
DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood.
JAMES EVANS, Councillor, Be,eehwood,
WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury.
JOHN C. MORRISON Clerk, Winthrop.
SOLOMON .7. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop.
WM. EVANS, Awes(); Beechwood.
CHARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth.
SeRaloWrth.
.B. SMITH, IC Medical Health Officer,
WM. McG1VINS, Sanitary inspector, Leadbury.
HURON AND BRUCE
• Loan. and Investment
oc)314.p.A
This Company is Loaning Mone On
Farm Security at lowest Rate
of Izterest.
Mortgages Purchased
SAVINGS BANK BRANCH,
3, 4eand 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on
Deposits, according to amount and
• time left.
OFFICE. -Corner of Market Square an&
North Street, Goderich,
• HORACE HORTON,
MANA0XXL
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