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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-05-19, Page 84 e. VETERINARY. TOHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario ej Veterinary College. All diseases of Domestic Animals treated. Cslls promptly attended to and charges mote. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty Office and sidence over W. N. Wateon' Sewing Machine Shop, eaforth. 1112tf ANK S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Oahe& Vet erinary College, Toronto, Member of the Vet °riflery Medical Society, eto., treats all dieemes of the Domesticated Abimals. All callpromptly at- tended to either by day or night. Charges model.. ate. Special attention given so veterinary dentis- try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one door eouth of Weida! Hardware store. 1112 SEAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY. --Corner ef Jet vie and GoderichStreete, next door to ste Pres- byterian Church, Seaforth, Ont. All dist ees of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the clan stiosted animals, eueoesefully treated at th. imirmary or elaewhere on the ehorteirt notice. ehargee mader- ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Vete; leery Surgean. P Ei.—A large etook of Veloric ary Medicines Yopt con irtantly on hand LEGAL -DiS. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyan ancer d _DJ Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office—Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth. Money to loan. 1235 HIGGINS 81. LENNON, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c. O1ces- 120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Seaforth Ontario. Seaforth Office—Whitney's Block, Main Street. Money to loan. Triomas Miliros Rigouts. JAML3 Lemma. 1291 111/FATTHEW MORRISON, Walton, Insurance eata Agent, Commiasioner for taking affidavits, Conveyances, &o. Money to loan at the Iowa') rates. M. MORRISON, Walton. T M. BEST, Barrieter, Solicitor, Notary, &o Office—Roome, five doors north ofCommercial Iiotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papst's Jewelry store, Main etreat, Seaforth. Goderich agents—(ameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216 ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, 'tX&c., GoderiGh, Ontario. J. T. GARRON, Q. Od WL PROUDFOUt. egg riAltERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Berristers So - k,/ licitore n Chanoery, &o.,Goderich, Ont M. O. Cieflaoa, Q. 0., PHILIP HpIlf, DUDLIT A.NNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solloison, Con Jji veyancers, &o. Solioitors for the 'Bent a' Johnston...Tisdale & Gila. Money to loan Offioe— EUlott Clinton, Ontario. A. H. Mammas JAntss Soon. 781 /10LMESTED, rueoessor to tht. kate firm . McCaughey & Hohnested, Barrister, So Bettor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solicitor for the Canadian Bank of Cornmeroe. Money to lend. Farms for milt. 0111ce in Soott's Moak, Male Streets Seaforth. W. CAMERON SMITH, THE HURON EXPOSITOR. AN OPEN WINDOW AND , WHAT CAME OF IT,. BY WILLIAM T. JAMES. CHAPTER L One day, the Montreel elipress of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, bound for To- ronto, came to a sudden stop in a wild part of the country, about fifty miles west of Smith's Falls. A young widow, with her only child, a boy three years old, were the solitary ocoripaots of one of the oars. - The boy was standing on his mother's lap, look- ing out of the open window, when a crow, Winging its flight across his line of vision, attracted his notice and caused hiro to shake his cap off, which fell through the pperture and rolled down a low embankment. Thinking she would have time to recoverit before the engine started, the woman left the child alone on the seat and got off the train; but just as she stooped to pick up the cap, the engine—which had stopped while the fireman cleared the track _of a stray cow—with a loud whistle, steamed away before she could reach the train, leav- ing the poor mother behind, a crazed spec- tator of her child leaning far out of the win- dow and screaming lustily for her, with no one near to snatch him from what.she fear- ed would be certain death. Struck dumb with terrors, she stood awhile in a epeeohless agony of suspenve, expecting momentarily to see her darling's form mingled for an instant in the cloud of dust whirled up by the wheels, and, after- wards, to find his mangled body beside the track. Would nobody see and rescue the child? "Help 1 help! help! Oh 1 My darling ! my darling ! Help! help !" and a succes- sion of hysterical shrieks sounded in the wake of the thundering train, and echoed among the pine trees that grew in clumps on either side of the track. But the train kept en, going faster and faster, with a little human life—a widowed mottser's boy—trem- bling in the balance between fete and for- tune. In the delirious tension of her excitement she flew down the track, shrieking and gesticulating wildly, while the train :sped farther and farther into the distance, and finally disappeared round s curve in the r"ah' Te darkness of a moonless night, which had been lurking in the east until the set- ting sun should go down below the horizon, now began to steal athwart the weird stretch of oncultivated landscape. Sombre shadows, like huge, black bats, spread their ebon wine over the lonesome scene and en- veloped the woman with gloom, as she fol- lowed with fruitless haste in the direction in which she had seen the last of her child. Onward and -onward she ran, until even the rails were invisible, knowing not what might be the result of the oext step. How she escaped destruction by falling headlong through a trestle bridge when she approach- ed it is surprising, so heedlessly did she come upon it, thinking only of the , danger of her child and naught of her own. Beyond this she could go no farther. What could she do now? True she coald walk back to the &et station and telegraph, and then take the next train going west—if she only had enough presence of mind to think of the first thing that reason would be likely to suggest. But ehe was distracted and wholly incapable of reflection or delib- erate action, Her maternal feelings were aroused to epitch of intense frenzy which, now she could no longer pursue the one idea that possessed her mind, increased her per- turbation to such a degree that she lost all control of herself and was on the verge of insanity. Only to follow, slowly as she might, the rushing train, perchance to find a dying boy and kiss him before he breathed his last, would be some relief. Anything but inac- tion—anything but that undiverted struggle which was now being waged between the demon Insanity and a woman's reason . And what a struggle? the throes of it—the ex- quisite tension of nerve and feeling. Could she endure it and not die? Could that wo- man, now raving, with dishevelled hair and eyes too hot to weep—knowing the deadly peril of her heart's idol—oontinue through the long watches of the night a prey to a consuming emotion? To and fro, up the track and back to the bridge she fain would cross, wailing inces- eantly she went, and shrieking aloud with the energy of despair, that she might be seen by the men on the trains that swept past her like a hurricane, their dazzling headlights illuminating her surroundings for a brief space, gleaming on the water that flowed beneath the bridge, and then vanish- ing in the darkness on the farther nide. . Yet midnight, and then daybreak, found her still striving for her desire; and it was not until the rosy -hued hour that follows sunrise, that she succumbed to the opiate of unconsciousness that Nature so kindly im- parts when a troubled spirit can no longer resist her ministrations. In the broad daylight a freight train stop- ped to pick up a woman, found in a swoon upon the track, and then, with a raving maniac in the caboose, continued its journey to Toronto. BARRIST ER. Solicitor of Superior Court, Commissioner for taking Affidavits in the High Court of Juatice, Conveyancer, Money to Lend Can be coneulied after office hours at the Comm, r - chit Hotel. HENSALL, • — ONTARIO. DENTISTRY. - W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton F & McInnes' Shoe Store; corner Main and John Streets, S4fortb, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad- ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1169 DR. BELDEN, Dentist. Special rates for next six months_ Greatest care taken with all work, and beet material used. Office—Over Johnson e Hardware Store, Seaforth. 1226 RAGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will „ visit Hensall at Hodgeme Hotel every Monday. 1288 A4P-4-47.- TT KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S., . Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurichs at the Huron Hotel, en the east THURSDAY IN RA0/1 MONTH, and at lifurdociee Hotel, Hensall, on the ruun AND THIRD FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the leaet pain poeelble. All work first-0We at liberal rates. — 071 TIR. O. EL INGRAM, Dentist, (successor to H. L. 1.) Billings), member of the Royal College of Den tal Surgeons, Ontario •Teeth inserted with or with- out a plate in gold celluloid or rubber. A safe awe* thetic given tor the painlese extraction of teeth. Office—over O'Neil's bank, Exeter, Ontario. 1204 N. B.—Piates secured firmly in the mouth by Yemens' Patent Valve. MONEY TO LOAN. Air ONEY TO LOAN.—Straight loans at 6 pet JI cent., with the privilege to borrow's, of repaying part of the principal money at an Urns. Apply to F. HOLMESTED, Barristm, Seaforth. MEDICAL. DR. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay- field, Ontario, successor to Dr. W. H. Wright. 1225-52 DR. McTAVISH, Physician, Surgeon, &c. Office corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brucefield. Night cells at the office. 133 DR. ARMSTRONG., M. B., Toronto, Id. D. C. M., - Victoria, M. 0, P. S., Ontario, successor to Dr. Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Elliott, Bruce - field, Ontario. 1324)02 DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY, OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agrioultural Grounds. 3. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic- toria) M 0. P. S. 0. C. MACKAY, M. D. C. M., (Trinity,) F. T. M. C., M. C. P. 3.0. itE. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and S., . rilasgow, &c., Physician, Surgeon and Ao- ooucher, Constance, Ont. 1127 PR. ELLIOTT, Brumfield, Licentiate Royal College of Phystoians and Surgeons, Edin- gh. Brumfield, Ont. NO Til W. BRUCE SMITH, M. D, C. M., Member of _fle the College of Physicians and Surgeons, &o., Seaforth, Ontario. Offiee and residence same ae oeoupied by Dr. Vereoe. 848 A LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal j. College of Physioianeand Surgeons, Kingston. Sncoessor to Dr. Maokid. Office lately occupied by Dr. Mackid, Main Street, Seaforth. Residence —Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately 000upled by L. E. Bewley. • 1127 AUCTIONEERS. T P. BRINE, Lioensed Auctioneer for tht Conn . ty of Huron. Sales Offended in a 1 parte of the County. All orders left at Tas ExPosrroa Office will be promptly attended to. A POOR MAN indeed is he whose blood is poor, who has lost his appetite, and his flesh and seems to be in a rapid de. cline ; but SCOTT'S E 11131011 Cf Pure Nonveglan Cod liver Oil and Ilypophosphltes can make It rich again by restoring appetite, flesh and rich blood, and so giving him energy and perfect physical life, cures Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula and Bronchitis. IT IS ALMOST AS PALATABLE AS MILK. Prepared only by Scott lo Bowne, Belleville. in an easy cheir far into the night, smoking end deep in thought, and when he rose to retire he muttered, to himself ; " 'Before the little chap shall be restored to a parent who abandoned hina to the mercy of strangers, if he did not succeed in kill- ing himself by falling out of the train, But the conclusion of the sentence, what- ever it was, he did not utter, The next morning, when the police ser- geant enquired at the hotel for Mr. Sea- combe, he was told that that gentleman had left the city on an early train and had taken the child with him. WM. M'CLOY. Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth. Sales promptly attended to, charges moderate and satiefaction guaranteed. Orders lby mail addreseed to Chiselhuret Post Office, or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuckersmith, will receive prompt attention. 1296-tf _ . W. G. DUFF9 - -AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conveyancer, Collector, Book-keeper and Aocountant :Real Estate, Life, Accident and Fire Insuranot Agent; Money to Loan, Correspondence, &c, Parties requiring his services in any of these branches will receive prompt attention. OFFICIO IN DALBT'S BLOM, (UP STAIRS), MAIN STREWN SR/FORTN. 1131. McKillop Directory for 1893. JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0. JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beechwood. DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beedliwood. WM. McGAVIN, Councillor, Leadbury. WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury, JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop. SOLOMON J. SHANNON;*Treasurer, Winthrop. WM. EVANS, Assessor, Beeohwood. CHARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth. R. W. B. SMITH, M. D., Medical Health Officer, Seaforth. RICHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead - bury. Township of McKillop COURT OF REVISION. The Court for the Revielon of the Assessment Roll of the Township of McKillop will be held at Fulton's Hotel, on 'Monday May 29th, 1893, at 1 o'clock p. me of which all persons interested will iplease take notice and govern themselves according - . Appeals will be received until the 15th of May, The e owners of all property that has changed hands e assessment was made, will please notify the suoh change. \ JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk. 1324-4 CHAPTER III. Several years Ind elapsed, when an Am- erican fsmily, living in a fashionable suburb of Toronto,received as their guests a wealthy compatriot and his young son. A few days after their 'arrival, the head of the house- hold accompanied his guests in his carriage on a drive through the city, for the purpose. of seeing the sights. Naming every publio inetitution as it was passed, he at last indicated the Lunatic Asylum, saying that he was acquainted with the medical superintendent, and that if his friend cared to go through the build- ing they would do so. His friend assented, and they alighted from the carriage, and were shown through the various wards. Pausing at a door, the superintendent said: "In this ward we have a very pathetic cue., A woman, who was brought here a few years ago, violently insane, and for a time unrestrainablee is now in appearance a study of subdued melancholy that an artist, capable of reproducing her on canyass,would give his left hand to behold. She hasn't spoken a word for over a year; looks utter- ly dejected; recognizes nobody; her mind is an inanity; won't eat unless she's forced to. Don't know exactly what the trouble was—soinething to do with a child, I fancy, as that was the burden of her ravings when she came in. Nobody conies to visit her, and nobody could be found who knows any- thing about her. Don't even know her name. She was picked up somewhere on the railroad, but I forget where. She had quite a large sum of money on her person and was well dressed when she became an inmate. She seems, from my obeervation, to be well bred, as though she came of a re- spectable, if not well-to-do, family. Don't speak to her, as she will try to hide from With thet he opened the door, and there before them stood the subject of the sketch. Stood, did I say? That is scarcely the word to describe her attitude. She seemed fixed to the spot, like a marble statue; but her -features unlike those of a statue and altogether different from the superintend- ent's description _of them, expressed a variety of emotions in rapid succession. At firet there was an unmistakable look of sur- prise on her face, then sorrow, which instantly changed to intelligence—to re- cognition of somebody—to unbounded rap- ture. The superintendent was dumfounded, and hie visitors were not a little perplexed at seeing in her mein something so contrary to what they had been told to anticipate. Evi- dently the troubled dream of years was be- ing dispelled from her mind and 'she was prickly regaining her natural condition. What could have caused this apparently un- accountable metamorphosis? There are well authenticated cases of per- sons having lost their reason owing to some domestic calamity, whose minds have been recalled to ft normal condition by hearing a favorite tune or seeing a familiar face. The result in this instance is no more ex- traordinary than that of many others of a similar nature. Temperamental and •other constitutional influences would doubtless affect the patient and largely determine the possibility of a cure by such mewls. But the fact rather than the rationale of the phenomenon is whet chiefly concerns this narrative. So to the dory : Before anyone was aware that the suppos- ed lunatic was no longer eligible -Act remain where she was, the woman, with a cry of joy, had darted forward, thrown her arms about the boy's neck and burst into hysteri- cal sobs. While this affecting scene was being en- acted, Mr. Seacombe, for it was he, was struck with something in the woman's coun- tenance that seemed very famgiar to him and awakened in his own minderfiemories of a pathetic past, of what was the cause of his celibacy. He was reminded of the face of one whom he had met and loved as a young man while on his first visit to Canada. That he had left the country before he had the courage to make a proposal of marriage to her had been to him ever since a source of regret. Had they met again at last? And was the resemblance which the boy bore to his mother the reason why he had become so xtrangely and so fondly attached to him? "Are you my mother who left me on the train ?" the boy asked in reproachful tones, when she released him from that affectionate embrace to gretify her sight with another look at hie face. "Don't speak so reproachfully to me, my darling. I feel that I am hardly myself at present. Something terrible has happened to me which I cannot recall. Give me time to collect my thoughts, and! I will—. But where am I, and who is .this gentleman? Mr. Seacombe 1" she exclaimed, recognizing him before he could speak. "Pray excuse me, I am utterly bewildered, and know not what these unusual appearances mean. Surely, surely I have not been—" She had guessed the truth from her sur- roundings, but could not say the word most significant of it. While her feelings found vent in a fresh outburst of tears Mr. Sea- combe took her by the bend, and said that although he had the pleasure of recognizing her, he had not the privilege of addressing her by the name which She had acquired by marriage since they had last met. Then turning to the superintendent he whispered a question into hie ear, to which that gentle- man replied: " Certainly, certainly. This is no time for formalities ; we will comply with those later." When the carriage left the &sedum it con- tained one more occupant than when it stop- ped at the doer, and that was Mrs. Palgrave, the boy's mother. On the way back an exchange of confi- dences took place between her and her for- mer lover, whose demeanor towards her seemed to imply that his heart was still true to its first attachment, and that love had in no wise diminished by absence, lapse of time or altered circumstances. He eonfessed to having kidnapped the young boy to prevent his being restored to a parent, who, he had supposed, had put him on the train and there left him to his fate; while she, recollecting firet one frag- ment and then another by the association of circumstances, described the unfortunate episode which bad well nigh cost her life as it had for some years her reason. Here Mr, Seacombe's host interposed to press Mrs. Palgrave to make his house her home, to which offer she assented, saying she would gratefully accept his kind hospi- tality until ehe could make other arrange- ments. A few days later, after they had renewed their former intimacy -and Mr. Seacombe had learned that his friend was a widow, they were together talking in private about the future of young Harry Palgrave (but his adopted father would have it to be Sea - combo; and the boy himself held to that side of the contention,) Harry left the room to order the carriage for three o'clock that afternoon. While he was away, other conversation of a private nature ensued, and, as a result of it, he returned to find them looking very happy, and to be informed that not only was his mother now willing that he should re- tain the name of his adopted father, but thet she, too, had consented to change her own name to that by which her son had been known for some time. Harry was delighted to hear this, but he did not infer all it meant until he had dis- seminated the news among the other mem- bers of the household, and had it interpret- ed to him by the exclamatory comments with which it was received. The few Spectators of the nuptials of Mr. Sescombe and Mrs. Palgrave in St. James' Cathedral, which took place as soon after- wards as the ceremony could be lawfully performed, little knew that they beheld the sequel to s romance in real life, the like of which is rarely heard of even in fiction. THE END. CHAPTER II. In the smoking car of the train on which was the child, a gentleman of fortune, not yet in the prime of life, was seated. Re- turning from a fishing excursion, he was go- ing to make a call in Toronto, aftar which it was his intention to proceed thence to his home in a Southern city. Throwing aside the remains of his cigar, he left the car and passed into that in which the child was crying. A brakesman had closed the window, and was now vainly try- ing to soothe the little fellow. In answer to a question put by the passenger to the brakeman, the latter explained how he had discovered the child, alone, leaning out of the window and crying for his mother. During s short conversation. on the mat- ter, they agreed in the opinion thatthe boy had been put on the train at some station along the line, and there abandoned by tome- body—probably his mother—who wished to get rid of him for a sinister reason. Prom- ising to take charge of him, the gentleman, Mr. Seacombe, sat beside the child and bonght him Nome candy, and by this means succeeded in making him quiet. Soon after he ceased crying he fell asleep, and did not awaken until he was being taken from a cab into the police station at Toronto. Here, to the officer in charge, Mr. Sea- combe related what little he knew of the case, and offered to formally adopt the child if neither of his parents could be found. To this the sergeant said that he thought the magistrate would assent, provided no legal impediment should occur. Mr. Seacombe gave the name of the hotel where he and the child might be found, and re-entering the cab, he and his ward were driven there. That night, as he sat in one of his suite of rooms, fondling the child on his knee—for he was exceedingly attached to children, and was particularly struck with the little fellow's artless ways and delight with the many playthings he -had provided, he mused upon what he considered the heartless ,cruelty of a parent who could so ruthlessly abandon one of such tender age and affec- tionate traits. Putting the boy gently -upon the carpet among his toys, he walked up and down the room in much agitation for a considerable time. Then he stooped to caress' him, and, after many similar overtures of affection to assure an anent, he asked him if he would likelim to be his papa. The boy nodded his head emphatically, kilned him without being bidden, and soon got him as much in- terested as himself in a woolly effigy of a dog that wouldibark when it was squeezed. After the child had been put to bed by one of the chambermaide, Mr. Seacombe sat A Scottish Courting. The peony did its work silently and well. When Sandy entered the manse kitchen he gave the flower a sly glance 3s it appealed to him from the dresser, glorified in the pro- tecting embrace of a bold-faced blue jug; and forthwith, taking his usual seat by the fire, he prepared to unburden his heart. " Mysie, he eaid,with quiet humor," did you Iver hear how John Tait, the miller, be- gan bis maiden speech?" "I never wad hae thought he could mak' a speech.' "Hoots, wumman, he was a fine speechi- fier. This is the way he began his first ora- tion: 'Unaccustomed as I em to this sort of thing, nevertheless, notwithstanding, i' the middle o' the meantime, the fax" o' the maitter is this !' " "Stop yer haven!" said Mysie. The fao' o' the maitter is this," continued Sandy,that I've had a notion o' ye for mony a year." "1 dinna believe with face ablaze. foolish notion Miss Jae° yer heid." An what does this wumman ?" "It means, it means—tuts ! it means that I wadna object to a hoose o' my ain, but that I couldna be fashed wi' a man in't." "The wummau'e crazy! Dae ye really think that I'm Bina born fule as to gie up my hoose and garden for naething ?" Tak' a young lass that wad dee thing you bade her, for I wadna.' a word o't," iaId Mysie, "It's nsething bit a Janie has been pittin' peony mean, my every - NI!!!!!!!!!!% ECOTTOLENP1 41110— Wm— EP— AP— dr— ePs- 11110,- 110.— No- 4110.°- MPH-- 411011 41110. -- Whitt is it Itte the new shorten1ng-41Po —t IP— —4010 4.0.-akteg the place ot lard,". 411110 --or cooking butter, or ---411P dIP"—• sp..—both. Costs less, goes,dp 11110—larther, and is easity--111,...d. 410,— dep.—digested by anyone. „dip 111100-- * --GI 4110-- --.4jp AT ALL GROCERS. 4IP-- Made only by FAIRBANK 4 CO. ....... a . dP-- Wellington and Ann Ms., dP"-- MONTREAL. ow - SPECIAL BARGAINS THIS WEEK IN— HEMP CARPETS UNION CARPETS WOOL CARPETS LACE CURTAINS ART MUSLINS CRETONNES atc. te: to bring each grain of- meal into contact with the water. Then stop. The milkmaid the night before has meas- ured out each man's portion of the milk in a basin (bowl), and he pours the cream off this over hie brow!. It is a palatable dish, of which the men are very fond. The milk, minus the cream, with oat cakee,com- pletes the breakfast. Brose makes a good dinner, with the addition of a dish of kale, especially if the brose be made with the liquid in which meat has been boiled. Kale is a species of cabbage, and no High- land cottage is complete without its kale yard. A dish of kale well boiled, mashed with a spoon and a little butter added is ae palatable to the Highlander as baked beans to a Bostonian. And to improve it—though Ms like gilding refined gold—just scatter over the dish of kale thus prepdred a sprink- ling of raw oatmeal. Sowens is e preparation of oatmeal re- commended by Scotch physicians for deli- cate stomachs. It is prepared from the "side," or inner husk of the oats. It is well known that the most nutritious part of all graine lies next and clings to this inner husk. rhe " side " are put into a jar covered with water and left to stand until slightly sour. The liquid is then poured out and passed through a hair sieve to free it from husks. The result is a thick, creamy sub- stance. If intended to be taken as a drink, it is boiled but a short time and will re- quire thinning with additional water. Salt, of course, always to be added. " Noo, Mysie, wad ye in yer sober senses adviee me to try my luck yid' ane o' time glaiket young hussies? Na, na, ye ken fine that I hae mair sense than to meddle wi' ony o' them in the capacity o' a wife. I may hae labor the noo, but if I tried that on I'd soon hae sorrow joined wil," "I'll think ower't." 4' Yell think ower't nane. There's been ower muokle time lost a'ready. Mak' up yer mind at since. Tak ma or want me, delays are dangerous," "1 canna mak' up my mind a' o' a fwd. dent like this. It's oot o the question. I'm no gaun tae be flung owre the hedge at ye sae to 'peek ; forbye I dinna think ye wad pit up wi' me." " Ye'd hae to pit up wi' e dale free me," retorted Sandy, anheo wad I, I dinna doot, frae you, my wumman; perfection's vo to be met wi' as far as I can "I've been rae lang my ain mistress here that I'm pretty sure ye wadna gie into me as ye wad need for peace; en' it wad be a fine criswin' and kecklin' match for a' the gossips o' the perish if we couldna 'gree. Na, na let me hing on whaur I sm. I dinna think they're alhegither tired o' me yet." "1 begin to see, said Sandy, that I should hae ts'en ye ten years syne ; ye wadna been sae thrawn then." "I deuraay if I had gi'en ye any en- couragement, said tMysie, ye wad hae 'made up to me afore noo; but, as sure's onything, I've bern sae thrang wi' ither folks' concerns that 1 niver had time to think aboot mysel', let alane ye.' " Ye're a faithfu' oratue, I mann say. Come on noo, Mysie—yes or no ? But what a stark, starin' idiot I am, an' that bonny peony sayin' " yes " to me a' the time."— From "Sandy and Other Folk." About the Oatmeal Cookery of Scotland. The oatmeal used in the Scotch Highlands is genuine meal. The groats or cracked oats so much in favor in the United States are not found here. The meal, after being put in the barrel, is well beaten or " tramped." This is said to "bring out the meal • " e., it gives it a better flavor and makes it go farther. " Porridge " is the invariable breakfast for young and old in the Highlands. . The Scotch wife boils her porridge half an hour. It is eaten with milk if milk is to be obtained, although many prefer buttermilk in ite season, as it is more easily digested. A certain poor widow of my acquaintance, when the cows ran dry and milk was scathe, made "treacle ale" for her children to eat with their porridge, two pouuda of treacle (molasses) with water, ginger and " balm " or yeast from the distillery. But oatmeal is not limited to breakfast. Oat cakes are found on the table at every cottage meal. I saw a cottager make and bake her oat cakea one day. She first add- ed to her Meal a little melted dripping. Then she wet the meal with cold water. There is an art in this application of cold water only attained by experience. "Just enough and not too much "is the rule. So, being not too wet, which would cause them to tumble apart even before baking, the dough was rolled thin with many a quick, even stroke of the rolling pin, dusted thickly meanwhile with more of the meal. When of proper thickness—and it must be as thin as will hold together—the dry meal was dusted off with a bunch of quail feath- ers, the dough cut into what shape the baker pleased and baked slowly on the griddle over the fire of coals or peats. The cakes are not brown, but gray, when done. Toast- ed and eaten hot with milk they are food for a king. Another form in which oatmeal is eaten is brose. When the cook for a farm bothie— and there are still bothies in the Highlands— cooks her porridge, the men prefer " brose " which each man makes for himself. He puts two spoonfulof oatmeal into his wood- en "hammy " or basin, adds a pinch of salt and then pours boiling water on, stirring the while. Here spin comes in "the judgment." Not too much water and not too much stirring; just enough of the let- J. L. SMITH'S, Whitney's - Block, Seaforth, —INSPECTION INVITED.— A Disappointment. Owing to cold and backward weath- er, our business during the month of April has been a great disappointment, leaving on our hands a large quantity of Fine Boots and Shoes That would otherwise have been sold. During the whole MAY 19, 1893 SEAFORTH Musical : Instrument MIZE,POIZTETNI Scott Brothers, Month of May PROPRIETORS, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO. PI A N OS .—DunmNew York; NV, Bell & Co., Guelph; Dominion Piano Com. New , Guelph; any, Bowmanville. BO(); manville; AprgSan.—CWon:ipBaonlyl," Do°miRniGon D. W. Kern & Co., Wood.stock. The above Instruments always on hand, also a few good second-hand Pianos and Organs for sale at from $25 upwards. Instruments sold on the instal- ment plan, or on terms to euit cuetomers. Vienne, 3Oncertinas and small instruments on hand also:sheet range, books &c. Our efforts will be to so increase sales that we may make up for the shortage in April. We can only hope to do this by offering extra value through- out the whole stock of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Fine Boots and Laced Ox- ford Shoes In Red, Black and Tan Colored. Men's and Boys' Fine and Heavy Goods of all kinds. • Boiled a longer time it becomes a delicate jelly, to be eaten with milk or cream. I can testify to its excellent qualities from a somewhat extended trial of it. Sowens, or porridge and cream makes a good supper or "night cap." This is one of the little tastes of the Princess of Wales. Not too much of either, but just a "sup ;" warm and comforting, before getting under the blankets. Oatmeal enters into the composition of the immortal haggis—vide Robert Burns. To make a haggis you first procure the "bag ;" that is, the large stomach of a sheep. And with the "bag," a sheep's "draught ;" i.e., the heart, liver and lights. The stomach is carefully cleaned and the draught boiled. The latter is then minced fine and to it added two large cups of oat- meal and some minced onion, with pepper and salt. The mixture is then wet with the liquid in which the draught was boiled. It should stand some hours before the bag is filled so as to give the oatmeal time to swell. The bag is then filled and boiled fully four hours. It is to be eaten hot with hot potatoes. It is extremely savory. But no meaner pen than Robert Burns may sing its praises. Read his poem, "To a Haggis." A great hue and cry is often raised about meat, " The workingman ehould have his meat." But the hard-working Highlander rarely touches meat. Hie dietary is oat- meal. And stronger, more stalwart men I have rarely seen —Frank Pope Humphrey. Don't pay a fancy price for a pair of Fine Shoes, until you see what we have to offer you. Our stock of —Thirteen thousand people have to be provided for in Montreal in connection with the great Christian Endeavor Convention in July. --A very lamentable occurrence took place last Sunday morning in Kincardine township, when Bertha, a handsome girl of 18, a general favorite and daughter of Mr. William Milne, took her own life by means of strychnine. No reason has been assigned, but it is presumed that to some very great disappointment is to be attributed the tash act. —Any one who goes along the main streets of our cities at a few minutes past six in the evening, will get an idea of the extent to which the bicycle is now used. He will see young men, middle-aged men, and sometimes young women whirling by homeward on their bikes," after office hours. It is estimated that 20,000 bicycles are now in use in the Dominion, Toronto alone having some thousands or riders. BAUSL AU GH, PHOTOGRAPHER, THE OLD RELIABLE 7 SOOTT BROS. FARMERS, ATTENTION! All patties requiring Farm Machin- ery, Implements and Repairs, would' d9 well to call at Hugh Grieve'sWareroom --OPPOSITE-- John Dorsey's Clacksmith Shop Before purchasing eisewhere, as he keeps repairs for the Massey -Harris, Patterson, Wisner, Goudy, Mason and Coleman machinery and implements, and he is also agent for the Baia wagon, Massey -Harris binder and mower, drills, rakes, &c; the Coleman, roller and a full stock of Plows con- stantly on hand. HUGH GRIEVE, Seaforth. lirl ' i5t § 2 P> 4 5 0 ,-- P g 2f) 1.43 11 .-1 cm 0 zi 7. 0 cp c -t - u2 no es) ken 0 ,t ▪ - EpD . .... O cp = 20 Cd 5.3 ct- W New Hats and Caps, Trunks and 0 P.,,cSt'- C r71 el' Valises, 'Crockery, China 'and Glassware. P CD 1=1 o 11:1 X arl 0 IA" A full stock of the freshest and best go g5. GROCERIES that money can buy. a) ' 1:/ cL.,, PI Everything in Tinware. 1 - Makes all sizes and styles of Pictures known to the art. My gallery is on the ground floor, and fitted with everything to make first-class work-. All photos made by the new instantaneous peocees. FOR HOUSE CLEANERS. ani offering a line of Oil Chromos in 24 inch gilt frames at the low price of $1.40. Steel Engravings, At,otypee, Etchings, etc., at correspondingly low prices. I am also showing an exceptionally nice line of Frames at rock bottom prices. Remember the place—Opposite Reid & Wilson's Hardware Shore, Seaforth. Butter, Eggs and Potatoes wanted. 1. Good Brothers, NEW CHEAP STORE, SEAFORTH A Great Clearing Sale —NOW GOING ON AT— A. AU LT'S, Seaforth As I have made up my mind to make a change in my business, I will offer iny entire stock of both Dry Goods and Groceries at wholesale prices FOR CASH. I Will just mention the prioes of a few articles, as I have not apace to give a full list. I will sell as follows : 6 pounds Tapioca. for 25c Prunes for • 260 5 44 8 ,,Sulhur for • .. 25c 121 II p Whitening for 26e 12 e 3 $$ liWominheyinfgorScIda for 25c 25c 4 cans Blueberries for 250 3 II Tomatoes for.. , : —25n Corn ffoorr 25c 3 e 3 16 260 3 Pu Salmon for 250 (11 Pumpkins for 2 I 4 2 " Sardines for 5 large bars Dingman's Soap for 6 bars Eureka Soap for 6 pound bar Jubilee Soap for 4 pound bar Dishcloth Soap for 3 pounds Mixed Candy for 4 pounds Boneless Fish for 2 pounds Tea for 3 packages Corn Starch for 3 cans Mackerel for 2 pounds Dried Peaches for 25c 250 25c 25e 25o 26c 26c 26c 25e 2.6c 25c I have a_very large stock of Green, Black and Japan Teas at all prices, which will be reduced to wholesale prices. A large lot of very fine po- tatoes, which will be sold at 50c per bush el. All kinds of Dry Goods will be sold at wholesale prices. A. G. AUIT. "P.121.1=11R, From 5c per roll upwards. Borders to match. WINDOW SHADES CHEAPER THAN EVER. CALL AND SEE THEM. Baby Carriages AT ROOK BOTTOM PRICES. C. W. PAPST, SEAFORT H. 3 '1NO `Hik$O.Jd3S '133ELLS 0 1-d fas CD CD 0 • 1 -C1 - r/2 CD et- tzi4 13111111MINIP John S. Porter's Undertaking and Fuirni ture Emporium, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. ..1.11.•••••••••0•111.•• OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION. Funerals furnished on the shortest notice d satisfaction gas anteed. A large assort- ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.. always on hand of the beet quality. The bort f Embalming Fluid need free of charge and rims the lowest. Fine Hearse. S. T. HOLUB/3, Funeral Director. Real - once GODERICH STREET, directly- on- te the Methodist church in the house ormerly occupied by Dr. Scott. The Old • Established. BROADFOOT'S Planing Mil and Sash and Door Factory, SM.A.FORTUEE- This old and well-known establishment Is Mai running at full blast, and now has better facilitied than ever before to turn out a good article for * moderate price. Seek and doors of all pattern* II' ways on hand or made to order. Lumber dressed Os short notice and in any way desired. All kinds of lumber for sale on reasonable terms. &singles 1014 constantly on hand. Estimatee for the furnield1141 of buildings in whole or in part given on aprotioatiOn• None but the best of material used end workman- ship guaranteed. Patronege solicited. 1200 J: H. BEOADFOOT, seaforth. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED AT THE HURON EXPOSITOR OFFICE SEIAFORTE, ONTARIO, NO WITUESSES RECUIRED- Boi Eyi4 tali itel, to , 0 du eei- ts eft" :0 jo o 1. bo it:°141: Line • t.faidmpowernirslocoaott4re:1 And • I ham, to 1 ille 114;:yi • Pres • viz., pt43PHicuelsRrnrIl "dee WAS: • s ' tg1117°:171 146:1 RlItcs52-aeffer.eefPrd°Infera:tteale°:13PdmeePreltrs'Ilivi‘dvigtj1:41.:°c11'- is n • In] l 'andpwrieno in t Fri' of t see 1 a And cat iciti lib 401 .wit Wit; ,onti • vOu elks no' li 1 • Sed ten • vial on am do •bre ,exi - tie* • tin • II 'W PI" r La Pe las op th Se lei -ott stJ