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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-07-14, Page 6JULY 14, 1893. Katharine now and then with inquiring eyes. " He were took down yestidday," he volunteered, pointing with his finger at ,a bed near by. " Took down where ?' asked - Katharine, smiling. T' operatin'-room," explained the sadly knowing baby, to whom these issues of life and death were as so many Punch' and Judy shows for his excitement. Dr. Lynah turned also. • " He means Johnson, I suppose. His leg was amputated yesterday. You must know him, for he is quite a character. A frankly unregenerated soul, just a step above ac- cepting public charity, and feeling it a little bitter to the taste. He needs comforting as no one else here, and will have none of it," nurse was hovering near with a. quer- tion on her lips, and, Dr. Lynah joining her, Katharine was left alone with the olds young man on the table. She opened a con- versation with him, from which she wast learning that his name was George, and that he would like "somfin" to play wif," when' she became conscious of a steady regard fastened on her face, and looked up to meet the eyes, of the man called Johnson. He withdrew hie gaze instantly, but Katharine, setting the child on the floor and returning him his crutches, walked over to the bed. "Dr. Lynah told me that you have had a bad time." she said, kindly„ Johnson smiled grimly. " Some 1" ho replied, his eyes glued to the further wall. Katharine smiled also as she quietly drew a ohair near his side and seated herself by the bed. " Which pains you the moat now ?" she asked-" the buried leg, or what they have left you ?" He glanced at her quickly from 'under his bent brows. " How did you know that ?" he (asked. " I have been head nurse, in a ward like this. Have you ever been in hospital be- fore ?" " J?our times." " With this leg ?" " The same. 'Twee drink as brought me here," he added, defiantly. But, after -applying his test, and not re- ceiving the sermon which his large hospital experience apparently led him to expect in each new face, he melted somewhat in man- ner, and gave the history of his case briefly. " I broke my leg, and they set it wrong at the first hospital, broke it again at the second, fooled with It at the third, and out it off at the fourth," " It would not kbit, ]: suppose," said Katharine. " That was owin' to the drinkin'," he as -i, sorted quickly, voicing the thought he knew to be in her mind. " Yes," she answered, quietly, " I im- agined eo." Johnston laughed. " You do know a thing or two, and you know how not to preach, too," he added, approvingly. " Do all buried legs call ?" ' " All I ever nursed." n •o-7 THE HURON EXPOSITOR. VETERINARY. JOHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario Veterina:y College. All themes of Domestic Animals treated. Calle promptly attended to and charges moderate. Vote rinary Dentistry a specialty Office and residence over W. N. Watson' Sewing Machine Shop, Seaforth. TIRANH S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Ontario Vet J' erinery College, Toronto, Member of the Vet erinary Medical Society, etc., treats all dteeaaee of the Domesticated Animals.or Anight. call) pr eepromptly at- tended to either by day ght g ate. Special attention given •o veterinary dentis• try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one door south of Kidd's Hardware store. 1112 IZAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY.-Cornercf Jar• vis and Goderioh Streets, next door to Ste Pres- byterian Church, Seaforth, Ont. All die, see of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do u etioated animate, successfully treated at tn. in. rmary or elsewhere, on the shortest Hotter. .,harges metier - ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Veterinary Surgeon. P 8.-A large stook of Vetertesry Medicinoe kept eon scantly on hand LEGAL RS. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveys. icer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office-Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth. t Itloney to loan. HIGGINS & LENNON, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c. Offices - 120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Seaforth Ontario. Seaforth Office -Whitney's Block, Main Street. Money to loan. THOMAS MILTON H lel e JAMES LENNON. ATTHEW MORRISON, Walton, Insurance Ili Agent, Commi'esioner for taking affidavits, Conveyances, &o. Money to loan at the 'owner rates. M. MORRISON, Walton, TM BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o Office -Rooms, five doors north ofCommercial Hotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papet's jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderioh agents -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216 rot ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, kir &o., Goderioh, Ontario. .1. T. GAMMON, Q. .; WM. PROUDY9OT. 684 CAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES&o.,Goderkh Oat re So - L C. CAMERON, Q. Chancery, PHILW Hour, DUDLEY HOL'rles ANNIING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors Con veyancers, &o. Solicitors for the 'Bans o' Johnston, Tisdale & Gale. Money to loan Offloe- Eiliott Block, Clinton,, Ontario. A. H. Mammeio Jamas Saorr. 781 Z1 HOLMESTED, successor to the. isle firm ltoCaughey & Hohneeted, Banister, So • iioitor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solioltor for the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend Farms for elle. Office in Scoffs Block, Main Street, Seaforth.. a W. CAMERON SMITH, BARRISTER. Solicitor of Superior Court, Commissioner ices taking Afndavita in the High Court of Justice, Conveyancer, Money to Lend Can be consulted after office hours at the Comm. r- clal Hotel. HENSALL, - ONTARIO. DENTISTRY. W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton , & McInnes' Shoe Store, corner Main and John Streets, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gee ad- ministered for the parolees extraotion of teeth. 1169 DR. FRANK BELDEN, Dentist. New iota anaesthetic for painless extraction of teeth. No unconeciousnesa. Office -Over Johnson Bros. Hardware Store, Seaforth. 1226 AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will Zeit Hensall at Hodgene Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the secon Tuesday in each month 1288 Z iral� �..t.ii 1"r KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D. S., jl . Exeter, Ont. Will be al ' Zurioh at the Huron Hotel, on the LAST THURSDAY IN ndoH MONTH, and at Murdock'§ Hotel, Hensall, on the FIRM AND THIRD FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the least pain possible. All work first-class at liberal rates. 971 DR. C. H. INGRAM, Dentist, (successor to H. L 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 an>esa• thetic given tor the painless extraction of teeth. Office -over O'Neil% bank, Exeter, Ontario. a 1204 N. B. -Plates secured firmly in the mouth by Yemens' Patent Valve. MONEY TO LOAN. ONEY TO "LOAN. --Straight loans at 8 per Dent., with the privilege to borrower of repaying part of the principal money at any time. Apply to F. HOLMESTED, Barrister, Seaforth. MEDICAL. T\R. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay- field, Ontario, successor to Dr. W. H. Wright. 1225-62 A WOMAN'S PRIVILEGE. BY MARGARET SUTTON BRISCOE. CHAPTER 'II, " No, Imean what I said. You are as muchabove the average wCman as I am like the normal man. That each followed the natural law of being is to be neither praised nor blamed. Your emotions were stronger than your will. I honestly forgot you in my work. It may sound brutal, but men are brutes in a way, and that way ie the road to success in certain lines. And yet - I had more excuse for emotion than your- self ; for you know well that I have loved and do lone you, as you never dreamed of loving me.' Katharine drew back hastily. As she would have risen he checked her with an eager gesture. • " You proved that to me once and for- ever. I do not mean to distress or annoy you now. Let my statement stand as an argument only to prove that God made me man and you woman, fitting me for certain works in life, as you for others. Can't you recognize and accept this fact ? Surely this last experience opens your eyes." Katherine's spirit rose. " No," she said, firmly, `" I cannot and will not recognize a failure under most pe- culiar circumstances as outweighing all on the other side. I have not decided lightly. You know that. Nor have I followed only my own judgment. It was my chief at the old hospital who taught me this confidence in myself, and in the past your respect for his decisions first taught me to rest in them." " I was an unsuspecting fool throughout," Dr. Lynah Bald, slowlyand with tooling. "To leave you at the hospital and under those influences was madness. I should have let my chances in life go, and stayed near you. Then this could never have happened. I had my oyster to open for us both, I thought, and it was slow work with surgical instruments there. Yes, I shouldhave stayed, but I wholly trusted you." " I did not deceive you," said Katharine, quickly, "No, you were ruthlessly honest in your faithieseneas. But you threw me over for a theory, as\another woman might for a new lover. I doubt if I suffered any less bitterly." " I let you choose," said Katharine in a IOW voice. " Between no wife and a wife who could be nothing to me ? The choice was not large. You know well my objections to wo- men in the profession. You should have known that for my wife it would be an im- possibility. .And yet you decided on your course as if I were out of the question. You could not have believed I would consent" " I thought you would be open to reason when you knew how strongly I also,folt myself called to a work for God and man." As she paused and glanced up into his face, something which she saw there made her speak quickly and with greater decision than she had yet shown, " But I did not seek you to defend my- self, Dr. Lynah, nor to replow old ground. What I have sowed, that I reap glad€y." She flushed as she went on with distinct effort towards a definite footing. " We have proved, as you say, once and forever, that the bond which united us was less strong than our wills and wishes. Now you are the successful surgeon, but I have still to prove my power._ I will not be lightly turned aside or discouraged by an accident." Dr. Lynah replied quickly : " Possible accidents are not to be lightly considered. A surgeon should hold himself as responsi- ble for every drop of unnecessary blood which he spills as the law of Venice held Shylock. And had I been nurse and you surgeon the other day,the poor patient must have fared but badly. Do I offend you be- yond pardon ?" " No, ' answered Katharine, thoughtfully. " I cannot be offended, because I know that you are right, in a measure, for this gener- ation of women." She rose as she spoke, and there was a smile on her lips as she continued : " Remember what an appalling inherit- ance we have in our history, and how much we have to live down. But we are doing it, and the next century is to see nothing more remarkable in a professional woman, Dr. Lynah, than this century sees in a gentle- man who can write his name." " In all reverence, may God forbid !" re- sponded Dr. Lynah, fervently, as Katharine moved from him and ended the conversa- tion by opening Mrs. Champion's bedroom door. TAR,. McTAV}SH, Physician, Surgeon, &o. Office corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brumfield. Night calls at the office. 1323 DR. ARMSTRONG., M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M., successor to Dr. M.C. Ontario, C Elliott, office Victoria,ately occupied by Dr. Elliott, Bruce - field, Ontario. 1324x62 DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY, OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural Grounds. J. G. SCO'LT, M. D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic- toria,) M. C. P. S. 0. C. MACKAY, M. D. C. M., (Trinity,) F. T. M. C., M. C. P. S. 0. . • E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and S., Glasgow, &c., Physician, Surgeon and Ace couoher, Constance, Ont. 1127 DR. ELLIOTT, Brumfield, Licentiate Royal College of Physioiane and Surgeons, Edin- burgh. Brucefield, Ont. 980 RW. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Member of nv the College of Physioiane and Surgeons, &o., Seaforth, Ontario. Ofilee and reeldence same as occupied by Dr. Vercoe. 848 LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal ▪ College 'of Phyeioiansand Surgeons, Kingston. Successor to Dr. Maokid. Office lately occupied by Dr: Maekid, Main Street Seaforth. Residence -Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied by L. E. Danoey. 1127 AUCTIONEERS. T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for the Conn ty of Huron. Sales attended in al parte of the County. All orders left let Tse Ezroerroa Office will be promptly attended to. WM.. M'GLOY, Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth. Sales promptly attended to, charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Orders iby mail addressed to Chiselhuret Poet Office, or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuckersmith, will receive prompt attention. 1296•t1 W« G. DUFF, AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conveyancer, Collector, Book-keeper and Accountant .Real Estate, 2. ' Life, Accident and Fire Insurance Agent ; Money to Loan, Correspondence, &c. Parties requiring his services in any of these branches will receive prompt attention. Orric. IN DALEY'S BLook, (UP STAINS), MAIN STREET, Sa1FoRTH. 113' McKillop Directory for 1893. JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0. JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beeohwood. DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood. 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: Dr. McLellan, London, 497 Talbot Street, Specialist on: the EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT Graduate of the New York Eye and Ear Hospital, 1889. Post Graduate Course at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital on the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, 1892. Eyes Tested. Full stock of Artifice] Eyes, Spectacles and Lenses. Will be at the RATTENBURY HOUSE, CLINTON, ON FRIDAY, JULY 7th, 1993. 0 Next visit MAY fith. hours 18 a. m. to 4'p. In Barges Moderate. 1312x52 CHAPTER III. might m nai However disappointed Dr. L y_ g have been at Katharine's avoidance of any further private conversations with him, it alter impossible to al r her line of conduct. He was the physician in charge, she the nurse -that was all.,.: Her patient had soon discovered to whose skilful hands she owed her salvation from` threatened danger, and her lively gratitude was heightened by the fact that Dr. Lynah's manner with her, half quizzical,but always kindly, had wholly won her fancy. She looked forward to his visits impatiently in the tedium of sick -room life. As she became stronger and needed his services leas, she demanded more of his time for talks in which Katharine would take little or no part, retiring behind the shield of professional discipline. This was not always easy, as Mrs. Champion, who was ohafing under a sense of formality which her easy nature could not endure' wae striving constantly to establish informal re- lations between her nurse and physician. At last, to Katharine's dismay, she took the matter into her own hands. Weak Children will derive strength and acquire robust health by a persevering use of the great Food Medicine SCOTT'S EMULSION UUS1711ON,a•-Beware of eubstitntos: Bennine prepared by Scott .t Bowae, lleville. Bold by all druggist& goo. and $1.00. on Miss Maynadier long; ago," he said, ris- ing again. "Long ago !" repeated Mrs. Champion, staring, round -eyed, from one to the other. Why, Kitty !" Katharine turned to her quietly. " I knew Dr. Lynah when 1 was at the sld hos- pital. He was practising in the sari% city," she replied, composedly ; and as she spoke, she saw, with surprise' and a satisfaction which had its grain of malice, that Dr. Lynah was incapable of following her lead. He stood irresolute, embarrassed, conscious that he had only himself to blame, and yet unable to control the dark flush which rose to the roof of his hair.: The tables were turned for the moment. It was the woman who was cool and ready, while the man was hot and helpless. Katharine would not as- sist him further. Had she not borne her humiliation ? It was Mrs. Champion who came to the rescue with some irrelevant question, under cover of which Dr, Lynah made bis escape from the room ; but it re- mained an ignominious retreat. His patient's eyes followed him to the door, and filled with laughter as they noted that even the back of his neck was redden- ed. Then she turned judicially to Kathar- ine, wbo braced herself for an attack which did not conte. " Humph ! ' was all. Mrs. Champion said, as she settled her head among her pillows ; and as she said nothing more, Katharine felt that she was spared much that she dreaded ; for that Betty could suspect any serious complication and refrain from ques- tioning she did not believe. Had sheheard the conversation which took place between husband and wife in her first absence from the room, she might have felt less con- fidence. " James," said Mrs. Champion, solemnly, " Katharine's Joshua has come, and how that sly girl has deceived me." "Do you think there is something between Mies Maynadier and' Dr. Lynah ?" asked Mr. Champion, with interest. " Not at all -as yet ; but, unless I am greatly mistaken, there's a great deal be- tween Dr. Lynah and Mise Maynadier, and I see a remarkably good time ahead for me in consequence." Mr. Champion laughed, but shook his head at the same time; " It looked odd," he said. " But you must be careful, dear. We owe too much to Dr, Lynah." " I owe something to Katharine, too," answered Mrs. Champion, implacably. " Standing up by my :pillow like a bedpost, and pretending that it was her 'nurse's training in the physician's presence ! I be- lieved it, too. That'3 what I can't forgive. I won't spoil eport, James. You need not shake your head at me and look solemn, but I mean to take a hand in the game and have my sport also. That will - be helping Joshua along. I shall get even with Katharine in this way better than any other." " And spoil a profeesional woman at the same time," laughed Mr. Champion. " Exactly ; you always were such an understanding man, dear. It was my chief reason for marrying you," answered his wife." If Katharine took pleasure in expecting Dr. Lynah's discomfiture to outlast his next visit, she was to be disappointed. His em- barrassment on entering might have satisfi- ed her, but it was soon conquered, largely through the tactics of Mrs. Champion, ' who referred simply to their previous acquaint- ance, uaint- ance, and seemed to imply that it had been more professional than anything else. When the visit ended, Katharine felt doubly be - cure of the safety of her secret ; yet, insen- sibly, the ice was broken, and her relations towards Dr. Lynah were altered. She must t see him constantly, and, except by giving Betty her reason, which she shrank from doing, she foundthat she could no longer maintain quite, her former reserve. There- fore, as the days passed, a new and friendly basis naturally established itself. The change was so gradual that Kathar- ine was scarcely conscious of it, and recog- nized no revolution of mind when one morn- ing she found herself being taken over the open wards of the hospital by Dr. Lynah. Yet, a short tirne before, this would have seemed to her an impossibility. One morning, when his professional visit was over, and Dr, Lynah had settled him- self in his chair for hie usual chat, waiting for Mrs. Champion to begin, her miaohiev- oue face peeped out at him from the top of the covers with a queer determination. " Dr, Lynah," she asked, " I want you to tell me something. What do you think of women doctors ?" " Dr. Lynah's eyes dropped, and the cor- ners of his mouth twitched. " Surely you are not bent on invading our ranks ?" he said. " As you are a married woman, I strongly advise you not eoneider- ing it." Mr. Champion,who was present, laughed. " Betty consider it ! As a married man, Dr. Lynah, I strongly advise your changing the conversation. My wife will mount any convenient stump p and harangue against such innovations." " I must positively forbid that for the present," said Dr. Lynah, laughing and ris- ing to escape. Mrs. Champion prevented him, holding out her hands imploringly. " Don't go yet. I really want to know what yen think." " Now can it matter what he thinks, or what anybody thinks ?" said Mr. Champ- ion. " Put up your useless sword, Betty. You are too late. The professional woman has come to stay, and you might as well say that the sun shall not shine in the hea- vens." " The sun has been told to stand still be- fore to -day, James." • " Perhaps, but Joshua did not bequeath the secret to posterity. Don't you lie there fighting the stars in their courses, my dear." He glanced kindly at Katharine as he ended, but her face was averted, " What I want," cried Mrs. Champion, tragically, " is a Joshua for Katharine. Dr. Lynah, do tell her how foolish it is. She wants to be a doctor." She pointed a dramatic finger at her fiend as she spoke. Katharine did not move and when Dr. Lynah replied, it was after an embarrassed silence. " I exhausted alt my stock of arguments • He looked down at the empty space at his side. " I'm most sorry now I was so croes to that pore leg. I got mad at it. Dr. Lynah says, 'Johnston, that leg ain't ever goin' to be much use to you. I can splint it up so you can get along with a crutch, and it will Dost less than a cork one, Doctor, says I, 'drat the expense. I'm that sick o' seein' this leg stuck out in front of me, I'd like it off.' `Done,' said the Doctor ; 'cork it ie,' And that's how I come to be lyin' here and my leg there callin' and callin' at the stump. I tell you that buried leg is Lakin' it out en me now." " Then you mean to wear a cork leg ?" said Katharine. " Yee ; I'm rougher and tougher than my folks. They'll not give me a penny more to wash down my throat. but I know I can get all the cork lege I want out of them. What's up, George ?" Little George bad crept towards him, his eyes big with excitement. He balanced himself on one leg, leaning confidently against Katharine's knee and talking across her to Johnston. " Mr. Johnston, the orderly, he told me he heared you' leg a-comin' bump, bump up the hall las' night, and it come and stood jes' here at the foot of the bed ; an' it skeered me, it did." " You tell the orderly from me he's a liar !" said Mr. Johnston, indignantly, "skeering children and makin' their eyes. pop till you could knock 'em off with a stick ! Tell him my leg has walked its last, kid. It can't do nothing but call now," " And he said the Lord took it from you so you couldn't walk so fas' to the devil,' Mr. Johnston glanoed hunrorously - at Katharine, who laughed her anavier, and his wrath evaporated in a chuckle. � Well,he'll see liow He did, did he . fast I can walk when I get my cork, baptize it by kicking him. You can tell him that, too." " So Mr. Johnston is your friend, is he ?" said Katharine, lifting the boy to her knee. " Yes," he nodded. " Ain't you, Mr. Johnston ? My bed is next to hie'n, and we bof had legs. He ain't got but one now." " He's going to buy another," Katharine ventured. " No, he ain't," said Mr. Johnston, jovi- ally. " He's goin' to have it give to him by lovin' relatives." " Is you coming again soon ?" said little George, nestling againstt Katharine's strong shoulder. " Do you want me ?" " es ; you said you'd bring me somefin," " That was unvarnished nature, said Katharine, experimentally, to Johnston, and she saw with amusement that lie under- stood and enjoyed the suggestion. "What do ou want, George ?" " Buffeters." " But suppose I can't find buffaloes ?" " You can if you hunt, Well, juse bring me somefin' ; anyfing will do. Is you going to stay when you ,come again 2" " No," she answered, smiling down at him. " When ie you'oomin' ?" " Never, I think, George." " Then is you ?" " Yes, then she is coming," laughed Dr. Lynah, who had approached unheard. " So you have found a friend, Johnston ?" " There's the cheerful visitor and the tract visitor," said Mr. Johnston, from the depth of bis experience, " and she's of the first. I'll be pleased to see you again, 'm." But as Katharine bade him farewell and turned to go, he palled her back. " Could you bring me a book to read ?" he said, with half -assumed gruffness. " What would you like ?" asked Kathar- ine, pleasantly." Johnston raised his finger, e Do t you bring me nothing pious," he said, warning- ly ; and, to Dr. Lynah's amusement, Kath- arine turned on him instantly. " Have you found me pious ?" she de- manded. " No, I have not," Mr. Johnston admit- ted ; ""but I aorter suspicion you ;" and she accepted as reparation the fact that he ac- companied the words with an apologetic wave of his hand. As the sea breezes to an old sailor, so were the wards and the busy life there to Katharine. She was back in her own world, which she knewand loved with all the strength of her pitying nature. Dr. Lynah's presence was forgotten. Recognizing the fact, he stood aside, watching her closely and noting her eager, pertinent questions to one nurse and the other. All that she found here was evidently satisfying to her strain- ed eyes and practical sympathy. There was no sign of the spirit -alas ! too common to a hospital ward -that regards sickness, sor- row and suffering as a matter of course and a part of the day's work, but in its place a prevading and cheerful tenderness for the weak, the maimed, and the wayward ; for bo all of these the hospital has her message of healingg As they moved from ward to ward Kath- arine's heart opened more and more. She turned to Dr. Lynah at last, her eyes shin- ing. " It is just what I always knew your hospital would be," she cried, impulsively, " It is all science for humanity, as you so often said it should be. I should love to work here." He looked at her, and as he did so Kath- arine's eyes suddenly faltered and dropped. This was her first unconscious reference to a common past. " It does mo good to hear you say that," he replied, gently, " but you must not think me discourteous when I say I would leave no stone unturned to prevent the possi- bility." He turned to catch up a tow -headed atom of a boy who was hopping swiftly past them on his little crutcher. Dr. Lynah set the child on a table near them. " Show Mise Maynadier what we are do- ing for you," he said The boy stuck out a straight, bandaged leg, and pointed to its deformed companion. " They ie goin' to fix this un fer me when that un gits well," he said, with the un- canny indifference of the hospital child. He listened with gravity, and with no ex. pression save content oa his small white face, as Dr. Lynah briefly outlined the case to Katharine in terms which would have been incomprehensible to the laity. The patient leaned comfortably against the arm which held him, and rubbed his forehead against its rough sleeve, peeping out at i 0Troune 0 Kcerroo a t`•' O CIUT OF THE FRYING PAN Has come not a litl knowledge as to coo ery-what to do, as wi as what not to do. Th we have learned to u MITI:JUNE, the most pure and per feet and popular cook- ing material for all frying and shortening purposes. PROGRESSIVE COOKING 9 Is the natural outcom4 of the age, and it teaches ° us not to use lard, but rath- llthe new shortening, GOTTGLENE, o which is far cleaner, an more digestible than an lard can be. The success of Cotto lene hascalled outworth ° less imitations nude similar names. Look ou for these! Ask yo Grocer for Co rTOLENE i int andbesurethatyougetit * Made onij/ b7 `� N. K. IrAIRBAENK CO. Wellington an Ann£ ate MONTREAL. 0 within her. She hungered to begin active work again, and longed for recovery that she might be set free purpose. But, as time went on, Mrs pion was becoming less) and leis with the condition of affairs. "This has gone on quite long e she said to her husband, decidedly. after day is slipping by and nothin for Dr. Lynah yet. In my opinio Kitty needs is a shaking." "In my opinion," repljed Mr. Ch Dr. Lynah is a man quite capable ministering Ms own shakings and on his own courtship, if that is his o fear the trouble is that '; Satan fin mischief still'-" " Now I call that unkind of you, rupted Mrs. Champion, " when I h a model of discretion, not even pe myself to look interested when I wa up with curiosity. " But, after all, you have no dat on. For myself, I see! only frie pleasant relations between them." "Platonic, I suppose ?" " Well, platonic if you will." Mrs. Champion's lip curled. " I wish I could introduce another woman for your benefit. That is t test of the truly platonic. Then yo in all its glory." " As you cannot introduce eithe. stone to convince me, I must still persisted Mr. Champion, laughing. " But, my husband," said Mrs, Champion earnestly, " why have you auppo Dr. Lynah takes such interest in godly and disagreeable Johnston ? did he ransack the carpenter's blocks of mood to glue dose hideo buffaloes against ?" " For the same reason; that Miss dier ransacked the tory shops buffaloes, and expended herself o Johnston." "Oh, I don't question Katha tives. She is honest and absort why she needs a shaking. But D James ? Don't tell me you believ carea-except in a general way, o if Johnson remains in outer dark that child got the buffaloes lc elected to cry." I had done him that injuetic6." " And you used to be such a c man ! I suppose you thought I propped up ie the bed to cut ou atrocities also ?" " You certainly said you wa " That was on the altar o But that horrid smelling glue ! you couldn't have thought I 1i " 1 can't see otherwise why Mre. Champion stretched of and laid it on her husband's her pretty face overflowing wil " Could Joshua have been ce silt if Katharine had been doi No, James, ,when I eaw Kath away, looking so demure and that killing costume she wears nail advising and helping her and never taking his eyes off here and hugged myself for woman in the world. You h understood my efforts and a in all this." " Does Mies Maynadier ?" " Good gracious, no. If she I should quake in my bed, half afraid of Kitty." "May I ask if she cares fo CHAPTER IV. " May I come here again ?" Katharine said to Dr. Lynah as they passed out from the ward after this first visit. " When you will," he answered." " I ten- der you the freedom of the city. Come and go as you are moved." Thanking him warmly she accepted the permission to the hill. Her figure in the wards and about the beds became s familiar presence as Mrs. Champion grew more able to dispense with her actual services. Outside of Katharine's personal interest in little George and Johneton,all the old en- thusiasm, lulled a little by her father's death, had again awakened and was quick er own Betty's or the Cham- atiafied ough," . Day done w hat mpion, of ad- arrying ject. I s some ' inter- ve been mitting eaten to go dly and man or he sure see it touch - doubt," ed that hat na- nd why shop for • paper Mayna- o get the taming inn's mo- d ; that's Lynah, he really course- ess, or if which he ear -sighted iked being those paper ted to." friendship, Now, dear, ed that ?" fou did it." t her hand arm, raising h miechief. lied on to as - g it alone ? rine working tnconacloue in , and Dr. Ly- st every turn, of her, I lay the cleverest ve not really �preciated me THS G-P,M.AT CLEARING SALE IS STILL BOOMING AT A.G. AULT'S, Seaforth The stook is well assorted and beat quality of goods, and as prices are right down there is no trouble to sell goods to those who wish to save money. A dollar saved is a dollar made. Now is the time to save your dol- lars. I will just quote a few prices ofgoods both in Dry Goode and Groceries. I have a large stock of Teas on hand, which I am clearing out at wholesale prices. Teas worth 60e will be sold for .{ " 50o '' „ fi found me out, always was Dr, Lynah ?" "" For Joshua 1 Why she s desperately in love with him. Only she ldoeen't know it. For myself, I have seen ut one man I liked better, and I never enj yed anything eo much as watching this affair. It has been just like the • Shetkespe rean days ; a play acted in my bedroom f r my amuse- ment," " The actors might not r lish that view of it." " Very likely not, ifs the knew it ; but they don't, and so I have a charming di- version. I always did; love o chaperon,you know." " Chaperon !" repeated r. Champion, with a shout of laughter. " Now, Betty, that is a little too much, I don't criticise the situation -far from it. We live in an age of progression. Only, y dear, don't state in my presenoo that yo chaperon Mies Maynadier, or I shall disgr• ce you," " You shall see that I am on," answered Mrs. Champ for Joshua's sake, that I co other woman. That l wou arine fast enough. Somethi, Kitty's chaper- on. " I wish, ld introduce an- d shake Kath - g must be done,' :500 -40e " 40c Is "" `" 330 ," 36c "" "" 25c ' '' 26c '' 44 40 20e „ 44 20c '' ,. " 15c " " 15c "" "" '" 10e 3 cans Peas for 25c 3 cans Corn for 25e 3 cans Tomatoes for 25c 3 cans Mackerel for.. ..26c 3 sans Pumpkins for 25c 2 cans Sardines for 25o 2 cans Mustard Sardines for..... . 25c 5 pounds Tapioca for 26c 4 pounds new Raisins for 25c 3 pounds best Prunes for 25e 3 pounds Epsom Salts for IOc 3 pounds Sulphur for 10c 3 pounds Washing Soda for loo 3 pounds best English Baking Soda for 10c " I have a fine assortment of Black Cash- mere, which will be sold as follows : Goode worth 81.00 will be sold for 75c 4' " 80c " 60c ., 41 60e „ 45e „ 16 60c " 37c ,{ 40c " 25c "" " 26c 44 20c Prints from 6c up. Flannelettes from 6c up. Ladies' Sun A large aeeortme ntofHin Lad Hats Hate, Men's Straw and Felt Hate, Christy's Boys' Straw and Felt Hata, Girls' Sailor Hats, and Deadymade Clothing in Men's Suits. Suits worth *10 will be sold for $7.00 " You` had better let mat ers alone," " Perhaps," anewered c re. Champion, absently ; and her husband looking at her, laughed again, realizing than she was at that moment thinking out a plat. When, a little later, gat' Brine came into Mrs. Champion's room, her riend drew out a new book from under the !pillow and gave it into her hands. " Here is something I wa4 you to read, Kitty," she said. " It is tr e to life and full of suggestive hints. Ja es brought it to me." Mrs. Champion lifted her overs and peep- ed out from behind them at Katherine's un- conscious face as she took he volume and glanced at the title-paige. " Poems !---and on a hoop` tai ! I should like to read them I ter, but I am on my way out for a walk now, if ou don't need me, Betty." " No. James is aroinnd a mewhere." " Then you won't even w nt me, and I do Badly want a breath of air. " Do you ? I devour you odily as it is. (Continued n page 7.) „ " 9.50 " 6.50 "" " 8.00 "" 5.00 And also a line of Boys' Suite, which will be sold at cost. A cordial invitation ie etended to all. A. G. AULT. The Fn!nace. We have secured control of the celebrated Jewel Steel Furnaces, MANUFACTURED BY Burrow, Ste wart d Milne I-3AMILT01V.. The Furnaces have become very popular wherever introduced, and we have no hesitancy in saying that they are unsurpassed, if equalled, by any Furnaces made in Canada. Every Fire Pot Guaranteed FOR 10 YEARS. It will pay you to see the sample at our store before placing your order. The Best is Always Cheapest. Johnson Bros., C4th. 1328-13 Treasurer's Sale OF LAND FOR TAXES. SEAFORTH Musical : Instrument Scott Brothers, By virtue of a warrant under the hand of the Mayor and seal of the corporation of Seaforth, in the county of Huron, dated the 81st day of May A. D., 1893, commanding me to levy upon the Iand hereafter described for the arrears of taxes due thereon, to- gether with the costs ; notice is hereby given that unless such taxon and costs are sooner paid I shall, in compliance with the Consolidated Assessment Act of 1892, Section 180, proceed to sell by Public Auction, the land or so much thereof ae may be necessary, at the COMMERCIAL HOTEL, in the TOWN OF SEAFORTH, on TUESDAY THE 11th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1898, at one o'clock in the afternoon. Lot 146, Gowanlook's Survey. Taxes 38.18 Costs 84, Total $12.18 1329.13 WM. ELLIOTT, Town Treasurer. 111E11"s PURE POWDERED 100 PUREST, STRONCEST, BEST. Ready for nee in any quantity. For making Soap, Softening Water, Disinfecting, anu a hundred other uses. A can equals 20 pounds Sal Soda. Sold by All Grocers and Druggists. '13. W.-11aX V'I"I , Toroasto. Wellington, Grey and Bruce. Genre NORTH-. *thel - Brussels.... Bluevale..- Wingham ... Goixo SOUTH- Wingham...... Bluevale Brnseel.....�.... Ethel.... Passenger. 3.00 r, M. 9.30 8.13 0.43 8.27 9.57 8.37 10.07 Passenger. 6.25 A.M.11.20 6.37 11.85 6.54 11.69 7.08 12.14 PROPRIETORS, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO, JULY 1 PIAN=)S.-Dunham, New York ; w, Bell & Co.., Guelph ; Dominion Plano Com, any, Bowmanville. ORGANS, -•W. Bell & Co., Guelpph; Dorrlirion Organ Company, Bowmanville; D. W. Karn & Co., Woodstock. Mixed. lex. 9.00 roc. 9.46 10.10 11.20 Mixed. a. M. 7.30 P.M. 8,16 9.00 9.30 The above Instruments always on hand, also a fee, fcod second-hand Pianos and Organs for sate se rom. 825 upwards. Instrumento sold on the instal, meat pian, or on terms to suit customers, Violins ;onoertinae and small inetrumentss.on hand also sheet _tunic, books &o. London, Huron and Brce, GOING NORTH- Passuenger. London, depart _. 8.26a.rt. 6.1..5r.1*Exstar ....... _. 9.29 6.18 Hensall.. 9.42 6.81 pe. . BruKipeeflers.ld 9.65 68.364 Clinton ..........., _. .... 109.47.12 7.004 Londeelwro 10.29 7.19 Blyth.... > • _ .. .. B 1010.623$ 77.4228 Winghamelgrave arrive.... 11.10 8.05 Gonne SOUTH- Passenger Wingham, depart .. 6.40..x. ,3.46P.x. Bot ve _ ......... . 6.65 4.06 7.08 4.20 Londe boyo 7.16 4.28 Clinton' _..... .. 7.46 4.48 Bruoofleid ... 8.05 6.08 Kippen.. -. 8.13 6.13 , 8.22 6.18 8.40 5.30 B1 Hensall _... Exeter... Grand Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and follows: Going Warr - Passenger ... Passenger... _. _. _. Mixed Mixed Train........ Goma Kw - Passenger. .. _ _. Paeeengger Mixed Trsto.,. a. _. Freight Tratn.. - SCOTT BRCS._ FARMERS, ATTENTION! Clinton station as SEAFORTH. CLUiTON. 1.12 r. M. 1.28 r. M. 9.05 r. M. 9.22 P. M. 9.30 A. M. 10.15A.x. 6.80 r. M. 7.05 P.m. 7.54 A. M. 7.87 A. M. 8.05 r. M. 2.46 P. M 5.25 r M. 4.50 r. w. 4.25 P. M 8.35 P. M All pat ties requiring Farm Machin- ery, Implements and Repairs, would do well to call at Hugh ugh Grieve's Wareroorn --OPPOSITE- The Dominion Bank, Before purchasing elsewhere, as he keeps repairs for the Massey -Harris, Patterson, Wisner, Goudy, Mason and Coleman machinery and implements, and he is also agent for the Bain 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, t-; W z L.,1 0 M r � 3 tt cot cP m Q. cn O 3 CD SD CD to �• 0 SD (11 fD U3 3H al 3 Oki LS 112.1 Cm 0 td0 Node Cita Jpdrnoj SOOJj 131 0;0 H John S. Porter's Undertaking and Furni- ture Emporium, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO. OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION. Funerals furnished on the shortest notice and satisfaction gulp anteed. A large assort- ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.,, always on hand of the beet quality. The beet, of Embalming Fluid seed free of charge and prime the lowest. Fine Hearse. S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi- deuce- (ODERICH STREET'd directly op- posite posite the Methodist church in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Scott. The Old Established. BROADFOOT'S Planing Mill and Sash and Door Factory, This old and well-known establishment is still running at full blast, and now has 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 terms. Shingles 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. 11. BRQADFOOT, Seaforth. 0 otb tate syrup Qf d re ently e Liver an tem. of ,des an onstipa only rex duced& P ceptable is action effects, pi healthy 4 Inanyeal to al Topu SYruP bottles 1 Any rel have proTl ptr tont CALIF erchants, Seaforth. RETD & WILSON, Wh Cash ete,, previo at $o All k ises. ef to Fad new. -suits alwa.. .x ll is to On .i nth.