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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-09-01, Page 6/3 th 0 Au set to Lo , pr ATJ Co Lif Lo ser pr Sea bur ten- ETERINARY* TOHN GRIEVE, V. S., ej Veterinary College. Animals treated. Calls charges moderate. Vete Office and residence dver Machine Shop, Seaforth. honor graduate or untart 0 All diseases of Domeetio promptly attended to and riflery Dentistry a specialty W. N. WatsonSowing 1112tf 'Ll-KANK S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Ontarte Vet X erinau College, Toronto, Member of the Vet erirsary Medical Society, eto., treats all disuses the. Domesticated Anhtials. All calls promptly tended to either by day or night. Charges modes". ate. Special attention given to veterinary dentis try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one does youth of Kidd's Mardware store. 1112 ol at of 01 P Q EAFORTH HORSE INIeMMARY.-Corner cf Jar Q via and GoderiohStreets, next door to the Pres byterian Church, Seaforth, Ont. All die., see Horse*, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do n attested anhaals, sue/cogently treated at th. inlrmary elsewhere, on the shortest notice. ,harges mxier. ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Veteiloary Surge sn. S. -A large stook of- Veterinary Medicines xept eon dandy on hand LEGAL Rs. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office-Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth. Money to loan. 1285 - - C. o4 - . t - 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. Toone's MILTON HIGGINS. JAMES LENNON. 1291 ATTHEW MORRISON, Walton, Insurance Agent, Commissioner for taking affidavits, Cenveyanceff, &e. Money to loan at the lowed: rates. M. Idoesuson,f Walton. 'e --- T le. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o el . Office -Rooms, five doors north ofCommercial Rotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papet's jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich agents -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 GARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, n.X 8ern, Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GARE011. Q. C.; WM. PROT/DIVOT. 6811 riAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristen So. ia netters in Chaneery, &e.,Gorierich, Ont M. Gennon, Q. C., Pawn Hour, DUDLEY HOLMES iurANNING ag SC1OTT, narristene Solionors, Con an veyanoers, &o. Scilioltors for the 4Bant Johnston, Tisdale & Gale. Money to loon Office Elliott Block, Clinton, Ontario. A. H. Mamie JAMES 8002T. 781 -LI HOLMESTED, suooenor to the. MO firm J, McCaughey & Hohnesied, Barrister, So lieltor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solloitor for the Canadian Bank of Commeroe. Money to lend. Farms for sale. Moe in Soott's Block, Mats Street, Seaforth. W. CAMERON SMITH, BARRISTER. - Solicitor of Superior Court, Commie/fierier fo: taking Affidsvits in the High Court of Justice, Conveyancer, Money to Lend Can be coneulted after office hours at the Comm dal Hotel. HENSALL, - ONTAR1u. DENTISTRY. eo W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton X . & McInnes° Shoe Store, corner Main and John Streets, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous 'Oxide Gas ad. ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1169 „ 1 i , I i s i , 1 i s , ' i a 1 t r 8 h NI e g a 11 " v: c, ' a 1. tl n h al m ea in cc gc ov fir e v na WI wi r° EC an eh ed a DR. FRANK BELDEN, Dentist. New loca anamthetic for painless extraction of teeth. No unconsciousness. Office -Over Johnson Bros. Hardware Store, Seaforth. 1226 • -,,,,„.- - . Ds AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will %.. visit Hensall at Hodgens' Hotel E. ..n . every Monday, and at Zurich the second Tuesday in each month 1288 - - t , "[]- KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D. S., 4 4'1' ' . El, Exeter, Ont. Will be 61 Zurich at the Huron Hotel, en the LAST THURSDAY AND FIRST THURSDAY ix lAos MONTH, and at Murdook's Hotel, Hensall, On the FIRST AND THIRD FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the least pain possible. All work first-olass at liberal rates. 971 DR. C. H. INGRAM, Dentist, (successor to 11. L Billingsn, member of the Royal College of Den. tal Surgeons, Ontario Teeth inserted with or with. lout a plate in gold celluloid or rubber. A safe_ awed. thetio given tor the painless extraction of teeth. Dineen -over O'Neil's' bank, Exeter, Ontario. 1204 N. B. -Plates secured firmly in the mouth by Yemen& Patent Valve. MONEY TO LOAN. tairoNEY TO LOAN. -Straight loans at 6 per 111 cent., with the privilege to borrower of repaying part of the principal money at sny time. hpply to F. ECOLMESTED, Bungles, &Monte MEDICAL. s' DR. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay. field, Ontario, successor to Dr. W. H. Wright. o 1225-52 DR. MoTAVISH, Physician, Surgeon, &o. Office corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brumfield. Yight calls at the office. 1323 R. ARMSTRONG., M. B Toronto MDCM Ll Victoria, M. C. P. S., Ontario, successor to Dr. Iliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Elliott, Bruce. old, Ontario. . 132Ax52 j DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY, OFFICE, Goclerich Street, opposite Methodist fhuroh, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural rounds. . G. SCOTT, M. D. C. toria,) hl. C. P. S. 0. . MACKAY, M. D. C. M., M. 0. P. 8.0. - - a E. COOPER, M. D., Glasgow, &c., Physician, molter, Constance, Ont. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic- (Trinity,) F. T. M. C., M.L, L. F. P. and S., Surgeou and Ao. 1127 B. ELLIOTT, Bruoefield, Lieentiate Royal _I College of Physician. and Surgeons, Edin. Int. Brumfield, Ont. 980 f 3 W. BB.UCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Member of Ai. the College of Physicians and Surgeons, &o., iaforth, Ontario. Offiee and residenot same as foupled by Dr. Vercoe. 848 a LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal 1„ College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. :Gomm to Dr. Mackid. Office lately occupied • Dr. Mackid, Main Street, Soaforth. Residenoe Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied • L. E. Danoey. 1127 -- AUCTIONEERS. ' P. BRINE, Licensed Auotioneer for the Conn . ty of Huron. Sales attended in 101 parts of D County. All orders left at Te Exrearron co will be promptly attended to. WM. M'CLOY, ctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth. as promptly attended to, charges moderate and isfaotion guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed Chiselhurst Post Office, or left at his residence, 2, Gencession 11, Tuckers:with, will receive °rapt attention. 1296-tf _ _ W. G. DUFF, CTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Convey &neer, lector, Book-keeper and Accountant .Real Estate, e, Accident and Fire Insuranot Agent; Money to In, Correspondence, &c. Parties requiring his vices in any of these branches will receive MIA attention. Oerzos ut Datives Busse, (op uts), MAIN STREST, SIIA-PaRTII. 1181 cKillop Directory for 1893. OHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, AMES *EVANS, Deputy Reeve, FANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, rhI. MeGAVIN, Councillor, reuedet ABOLUBALD, 011N C.LMORRISON, Clerk, OLOMON J. SHANNON, M. EVANS, Assessor, Beeohwood. HARLES DODDS, Collector, . W. B. SMITH, M. D., forth. 1CHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Y. Dublin P. O. Bceohwood. Beeofiwood. Leadbury. Counoillor, Leadhury Winthrop. ' Treasurer, Winthrop. Seaforth. Medical Health Officer, Inspector, Lead- _ London. Ld_ .1.-. r. McLellan. 497 Talbot Street, Specialist on the EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT Graduate of the New York Eye and Ear Hospital, 1880. Post Graduate Course at the -New, York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital on the Eye Ear, Nose and Throat, 1892. Eyes Tested. Full stook of Artifical Eyes, Spectacles and Lenses. Will be at the RATTENBURY HOUSE, :CLINTON, ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1893. Hours 10 a. m. to 4 p. in. Ohirges Moderate, 1312x52 fff, THE HURON EXPOSITOR. SEPTEMBER 19 1893, JIM'S LITTLE WOMAN. BY SARAH CRNR JEWETT. There was laughter in the lanes of St. Augustine when Jim returned from a north- ern voyage with a northern wife. He had sailed on the schoener Dawn of Day, one hundred and ninety-two tons burden, with a full cargo of yellow pine and conch shells. Not that the conch shells were mentioned in the bill of lading, any more than five hand. some tortoise shell!' that were securely lash- ed to the beams inothe Captain's cabin. These were a private venture of the cap- tain's and Jim's. The Dawn of Day did a great deal of trading with the islands, and it was only when the season of Northern tourists was over that her owners fonod it more profitable to charter her in the lumber business. It was too hot for bringing any more ban- anas from Jamaica' the last were half spoil- ed in the hold, andthorie Northerners who came excitedly after corals and sprouted cocoa -nuts and Jamaica baskets, who would gladly pay thirty cents apiece for the best of the ()mach shells, brought primarily by way of ballast -those enthusiastic money - squandering Northerners had all flown home- ward at the first hints of unmistakable summer heat, and market was over for that spring. St. Augustine is a city of bright sunshine and of cool sea winds, a different place from the steaming -hot, listless -aired Southern ports which Jim knew well-- Kingeton and Nassau and the rest. He had sailed between the islands and St. Augus- tine and Savannah, and made trading voy- ages round into the Gulf, ever since he ran away to sea on an ancient brigantine bound for Elevens, in his early youth. Jim's grandfather was a northern man by birth, a New -Englander, who had married a Minorcan woman, and settled down in St. Augustine to spend the red of his days. Their old coquina house near the ilea -wall faced one of the narrow lanes that ran up from the water, but it had a wide window in the seaward end, and here Jim remember- ed that the intemperate old sailor sat and watched the harbor, and criticised the rig- ging of vessels, and defended his pet -orange tree from the ravages of the boys. His wife died long before he did, and the daughter, Jim's mother, was married,and her husband ran away and never was heard from, and Jim himself was ten years „old when he walked at the head of the funeral procession direly conecious thrit the old man had _gone up North, and that he wag to live ?gain there among the scenes of his youth. There were a few old shipmates walking two by two, who had known the captain in his active life, but they held no definite views about his permanent location in. high latitudes. Still, there was a long procession and a handsome funeral; and after a few years Jim's mother died -too, a friendly, sad -faced little creature whem everybody lamented. Jim came into port one day after a long ab- sence, expecting tto be' kissed and cried over and coaxed to church and mended up, to find the old coquina house locked and empty. He shipped again gloomily; there was no- thing for him to do ashore; and that year the boys took all the orauges, and people said that the old captain's ghost lived in the house. The bishop stopped Jim one day on the' plaza, and told him that he rnuet come to church sometimes for his mother's sake ; She was a good little woman, and had said many a prayer for her boy. Did Jim ever sara prayer for himself? It was a hard life, going to sea, and he must not let it be too hard for his soul. "Marry you a good wife soon," said the kind bishop. "Be a good man in your own town; you will be tired of roving and will want a home. God have pity on you; nay boy!" Jim took off his hat reverently, and his frank, bold eyes met the bishop's sad, kind eyes, and fell. He had never really thought what a shocking sort of fellowhe was until that moment. He had grown used to his mother's crying, but it was two or three years now since ehe died. The fellows on board ship were afraid of him when he was surly, and owned him for king when he was pleased to turn life into joke. He was Northern and Southern by turns, this Southern born young sailor. He could talk in Yankee fashion like his grand- father until the crew shook the ship's tim- bers with their laughter. But in all his roving sea -life he had never been to the coast of Maine tantil this story begins. • The Dawn of Day was a slow sailor, and what wind she had was only a light south- westerly breeze. Every other day was a dead calm, and so they drifted up the Nor- thern coast as if the Gulf Stream alone im- pelled them, making for the island of Mount Desert with their yellow pine for house -fin- ishing ; and somewhere near Boothbay Har- bor their provisions got low, and the drink- ing water was too bad altogether, and there WAS nothing else left to drink, so the cap- tain put in for supplies. They could not get up to the inner harbor next the town, but came to anchor near a little village when he wind fell at sundown. There were ome houses in sight, dotted along the shore, nd a long low building at, the water's edge, lose to the little bay. Jim and the Cap. ain and another man pulled ashore to see hat could be done about the water -casks, nd the old water tank, whidh was leaky nd good for nothing when they first put to ea, but the captain, who was a lazy soul, ould not believe iti Jim went ashore, and preeently put his ead into a window of the long low build - ng ; there were a dozen young people there, nd two or three men with heaps of lobster hells and long rows of shining oane. It as a lobater.canning estabfiehment, and ork was going on after hours. Somebody creamed when Jim's shaggy head and road shoulders shut out the little daylight hat was left, and a bevy of girls laughed rovokingly ; but one of them -Jim thought e was a child until she came quite close to im-asked what he wanted, and listened ith intelligent patience until he had quite plained his errand. It proved easy to et somebody to solder up the water -tank, nd in spite of the other girls this little ed -haired, white-faoed creature caught .her at from a nail by the door, and went off ith Jim to find the solderer, who lived a uarter of a mile down the shore. Jim thought of the old bishop many times he walked decently along by the little omen's side, He thought of his mother o, and how she used to ory over him; he ever pitied her for it before. He remem- ered his cross old father and those stories out the North, and by a strange turn of emory he mentally cursed the boys who me to steal the old man's oranges -there the garden of his awn empty little quina house. What a thing to have a od little warm-hearted wife of his n ! Jim felt as if he had been set on e -as if something hindered him from er feeling like himself again -as if he et forever belong to this little bit of a man, who almost ran, trying to keep' up th his great rolling sea strides along the d. She had a clear, pleasant little voice, d kept looking up at him, asking now, d then something about the voyege, as if e were used to voyages, and seemed pleas - with his gruff, shy answers. He heaved reat sigh when they came to the solderer's or. The solderer came out and walked back with them, saying that his tools were all at the factory. Ho told Jim that there was the beat cold spring on the coast oonvenient to the schooner, just beyond the factory,and a good grocery store near by. There was no reason for going up to Coothbay Harbor and losing all that time in the morning, and Jim's heart grew light at the news. Ie sent the solderer off to the schooner, and staid ashore himself. The captain had al- Child!en Cry for ci ACUTE or CHRONIC. Can be cured by the use of scums pmuLsioN of pure Cod Liver Oil, with th d Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. A feeble stomach takes kindly to it, and its continued use adds flesh, and makes one feel strong and well. 4,0 A UTION.it-Beware of substitates. Genuine prepared by Scott to Bowne. Belleville. Sold by all druggists, 50o. and $1.00. sowsunesminsemsanse ready heard about the grocery, add had gone there. The grumbling member of the crew, who was left in the boat, looked back with heart -felt astonishment to see Jim sit down on a piene of ship timber beside that strange little woman, and begin to talk With her as , , if they were old friends. It was a clear June evening, the sky was pale yellow in the I west, and on the high land above the shorel a small jangling bell rang in its White steeple. A salt breath of sea wind ruffled the lamooth water. The lights went out in the canning factory and twinkled with bright- reflections from the schooner. The solderer finished his work on board, and was put ashore close to his Own house; as for the captain, he remain- ed with some newimade friends at the grocery. They wondered on the deck of the Dawn of Day what had come over Jim ; they laughed and joked, and thought that he might have found oneof his relations about whom he had told the; Yankee stories. As long as there was any light to see, there he sat, an erect, great fellow, with the timid- looking'little woman like a child by his side. The captain came off late, and in a state Inv befitting the laws of Maine, and Jim came with him, sober, pleasant, but holding ' his head in that high, proud way which forbade any craven soul from putting an unwelcome question. The next morning, ielten the wind rose, the Dawn -of Day put oat to sea again. Somebody besides Jim I may have noticed that a white handkerchief fluttered at one of the canning factory windows, but nobody knew that it meant 80 much to Jim; the little woman was going!to arry him, and promised by that signal to c me to Mount Desert to meet him. They had no more time for courtship; it wa now or never with the quick-tempered fell w. Little Martha did not dare to promise un- til she had thought it otter that night; but she was a lonely orphan' and ad no ties to keep her there. Jim had tol her about his hope and his orange tree in t e South, and when morning had come she ad thought it over and said yes, and the even cried a little to see the old schooner o out to sea. She said yes because shellove him; besides j she had never thought that ae ybody would ever fall in love with her, she was so small and queer, and not like the r st of the girls. Jim had certainly waved l hishandkerchief in reply; and as Marty reil ernbered that she felt in her pocket for a ;queer smooth shell to make herself sure that she was not dreaming. , Jim had carried this shell i his pockeb for good luck, as hie old sea aring grand- father had done before him, a d by it he plighted his faith and troth. Before they sighted Monhegan, running far out to oatoh the wind, he told the skipper that he was going to be marriedaand expe ted to carry his wife down to St.lAugustin in the Dawn of Day. The skipper swore' roundly, but Jim was the ablest man ab ard, and had been shipped that voyage a first mate. . They were short-handed, and he was in Jim's powe in many ways. There'w s a wedding before he week was out at a mi biter's house, and Jim gave the minister's wifo a pretty basket of shells be- sides what t1arty considered to be a gener- ous wedding fee. He had bought a suit of readymade clothes before he went to the cousin's house where the little woman had promised to wait for him. ° Marty did not xplain to this cousin that she had only seen her lover once in the twilight. j She wonder - d if people would think Jim rough and strange, that was all; but Jim, for once,was in possession of smallsavings, and when he a7ne,d dressed like • other people, she fell to so tall and dark, shaven and shorn crying with' joy and excitement, and had much difficulty in explaining to her lover that it was nothing but happiness tnd love that had brought such tears, i And after the yellow Pine was on the wharf, and the conch shells sold at unex- pelpted rates to a dealer in curiosities at Bar Harbor, who got pews of, them, and after much dickering gave but a meagre price for thd tortoise" also, the Dawn of Day set forth again southWard with dried fish and flour fro' Portland, where, with his share of the cou hshell gaitni, Jim had given his wife Imoh a pleasuring as he thought a lord who had an earldom at his back might give his fair lady. - , V hen the crew first caught sight of Jim's small, red-headed, and pale -faced wife, the diedepancy in the size of the happy couple was_ more than could be silently borne. Jim always Spoke of her as his little woman, ,. and im's little woman she was to the world in general. She was as proud spirited as he. grow pale in the face and keep silent if 're seldom scoldedbut she could ; things weet wrong. The schooner was a different place on that return voyage. They had dr captain's cabin, and she made ' it look pretty with her girlish arts. She mended everybody's clothes, and took care of the.schooner's boy when he was sick with a fever turn -a hard -faced little chap who had run about from ship to ship, just as Jim had; and though the wind failed them' most of the time going South, they were all sorry when they reached St. Augustine bar. The last Sunday night of, all, Jim's little women got out her Moody and Sankey song -book for the last time, and sang, every tune she knew in her sweet, old-fashioned voice. She syas rough in her way sometimes, but the crew of the Dawn of Day kept to the level of ite best manners in her hearing all the t me she was on board. As they lay out beyond the 'bar, waiting fair enough water to et in, she strained her eyes to see her future home. There was the queer striped ight-houee, with its corkscrew pattern of black and white, and far . beyond were the tall, slender towers of a town that looked beautiful against the sunset, and a long low shor, white with sand and green here and there with a new greenness which she believ d to be orange -trees, She may have had a pang of homesickness for the high ledgy pasture shores at home, but ;Jo - body ever ueseed it. If e er anybody in thin world biarried for Iove,I it was Jim's little woman. It was not long before th dismal little, boardeCI-up,\ spidery coqui a house was as clean as a whistle, with ew glass win- dows and fresh whitewash in ide and yellow wash outeid ; with curtain and rugs and calico cushions, and a shinin cooking stove, on which su h meals were oo coated as Jim Pitcher's Casto ia. never dreamed of having for his own, The little woman had a small inheritance of house -keeping goods, which had been pack- ed into the schooner's hold; luckily these had been in charge of the NOrtheast Harbor cousin; as Jim said, they had to get mar- ried, for everything came right and there was nothing else to do. He seemedas happy as the day was long, and for once -was glad to be ashore. They went together to do their marketing, and he showed her the gray old fort one afternoon end the great hotel with the towers. In narrow St. George Street, under the high flower -lined balconies, everybody seemed, to know Jim, and they had to spend much time in doing a trifling errand. Go into St. George Street t when she would, the na row thoroughfare was tilled with people, aid dark -eyed men and women leaned from he 'balconies and talked to passers-by in a strange lingo,which Jim seemed to know. People laughed a good deal as they passed, and the little wo- man feared that they might think she was queer -looking, She hated to be so little when Jim himself was so big; but somehew the laughter all stopped after one day,when a man with an evil face said something in a mocking tone, and Jim, blazing with wrath, caught him by the waist and threw him over the fence into a garden. "They laugh to think o' me getting so small a wife " said Jim, frankly, one day in one of the best moods. "One o' the boys thought I'd raised me fambly while we was gone, and said I'd done well for a little gal, but where was the old lady. I promised I'd bring him round to supper some night, too; he's a good fellow," added Jim. "We'll have sorne o' your clam fritters, and near about stuff him to death." The summer days flew by, and to eve body's surprise Jim lived the life of a so man. He went to work on one of the n harbor jetties at his wife's recommendati and did good service. He gave Marty pay, and was amused and astonished to how far she made it go. With plenty good food he seemed to have lost his erav for drink in great measure; and they two boarders, steady men and Jim's ma for there was plenty of room; and the li woman was endlessly busy and happy. J had his dark Spanish days with a bl scowl, and Marty had her own hot tempe that came, as she said, of the oolor of hair. Like other people, ,they had th great and small troubles and trials, these always ended in Marty's stealing i her husband's lap as he sat by the wind in his father's old. chair. The months we by, and winter came, and spring a their baby came, and then they w happier than ever. Jim, for his mothe sake, carried him to the old bishop to christened, and all the neighbors flocked afterward and were feasted. But there w no mistake about it, Jim drank more th was good for him that day in his pride a joy, and had an out and out spree, wh the baby's mother was helpless In bed; was the flret great worry and sorrow of th married life. :The neighbors came and with Marty and told .her all about him; a she got well as fast as she could and we out, pale and weak, after him, and fon Jim in a horrid den and brought him hom But he was sorry, and said it was the oth fellow's fault, and a fellow must have fling: The little woman sighed, and ori too when there was nobody to see her. S had never believed, though she . had h warnings enough, that there was any ne of being anxious about Jim. Men were d ferent from women. Yet anybody so stro and masterful ought surely to master hi self. But things grew worse and wore and at last, when the old schooner, with rougher -looking orew than nsual, came in the harbor, the baby's father drank wi them all one night, and shipped with the next morning, and sailed away, in spite tears and coaxing, on a four month voyage. Marty had only three cen in her thrifty little purse at the tim It was a purse that her mate at the cumuli faotory gave her the Christmas before e was married. All the simple, fearless o life came up before her as she looked at i The giver had cried when they parted, an had written once or twice, but the last le ter had been Ion unanswered. Marty ha lost all her heart now about writing; eh must wait until Jim was at home and steed again. Alas, the months went by, and seemed as if that time would never oom Jim oame home at Vast, drunk and sooldin and when he went away again with th schooner it would have been a relief to b rid of him, if it were not for the worry. H did not look so stroog and well as he used Under the tropic: skies his habits were mur daring him slowly. The only comfort Mar ty could take in him was when he lay aslee with the black hair eurling about his smoot white forehead, and that pleasant boyie look coming met on his face instead of th Spanish scowl. His little woman los her patience at last and began to wear scowl too. She was a peppery little body and sometimes Jim felt himself aggrieve and called her sharp names in foreig tongues. He had ja way of bringin hi tir cronies home to super when she was ti ed and ordering her about before the low -foe men. At last one night they made such a racket that a group of idle negroee clustered about the house, laughing and jeering a the company within. Marty's Norther fury rose like a winter gale ; she was vexed by the taunts of a oman who lived up th lane, who used to come ont and sit on he high blue balcony and spy all their goings on, and call the baby poor child so that hi mother oould heart, Jim's little woman drove the ribald company out of doors that night, and they quailed, drunk as they were, before her angry eyes. They chased the negroes in their turn, and went shouting and swearing down the bay -side. They tried to walk. on the sea-wall, ' and one man fell over and was too drunk to find his -way ashore, and lay down on the wet shelly mud. The tide came up and covered Joe Black, and that was the last of him, which was net Without its comfort, for Jim staid humbly at home, and tried to make his wife think better of him for 'days together. He had won an out and out bed name in the last year Nobody would give him a good job ashore now, so that he had to go to sea. He wati apt to lead his com- panions astray, and go off on a frolic with too many followers. 1Yet everybody liked Jim and greeted him warmly when he came ashore; and he could walk as proudly as ever through the town when he had had just drink enough to make him think well of himself and everybody else. He dodged round many a corner to avoid meeting the bishop, that good, grey haired man with the kind, straightforward °yea. Marty made a good bit of money in the season. She liked to work, and was always ready to do anything there was to do - scrubbing or washing and ironing or sewing -and she came to be known in the town for her quickness and power of work. While Jim was away she a ways got on well and saved something; bu when he came in from hie voyages things went from bad to worse; and after a while there was news of another baby, and the firet one was oross and masterfnl ; and theevoman up the lane, in her rickety blue balcony, did nothing but spy discomforts with her mocking eyes. Jim was more like himself that last week before he went to sea than for a long time before. He seemed sorry to go, and kept astonishingly sober all the last few days,and picked the oranges and planted their little vegetable garden without being asked, and made Marty a new beech for her tubs that she had only complained of ieeding once or twice. He worked at loadi g the schooner down at the sawmill, and oa4ie home early in the evening, and Marty began to believe that she had at last teased him and shamed him into being decent.' She even thought , Children Cry for "A Word To the Wives is Sufficient." For Rendering Pastry Short or Friable. OTTOLENE Is Better than Lard Because it has none of its disagree. able and indigestible features. • • • Nadorsed by leading food aid cooking experts. . • • Ask year Grocer for It. 4111•1••••=1 • Made only by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Wellington and Ann Streets, MONTREAL. of writing to her friend in Boothbay after two years' silence, she had ouch new hopes about being happy and prosperous again. She talked to Jim about that night when they first saw each other, and Jim was not displeased when she got the lucky shell out of a safe hiding -place and showed him that she had kept it. They looted each other in the faoe as they seldom did now, and eaoh knew that tne other thought the shell had brought little luck of late. Jim sat down by the window and pulled Marty into hie lap, and she began to ory the minute her head was on his shoulder. Life had been so hard. What had come over Jim? " That old bishop o' my mother's," fal- tered Jim. "He'. been &in' it to me; he (latched me out by the 'old gates, and he says, Jim, you're goin' to break your lit- tle woman's heart.' Was that so, Marty ?" Marty said nothing; she only nodded her head against his shoulder and cried like a child. She could feel his warm shoulder through his coat, and in a minute he asked her again, "Was that so, Marty ?" And Marty, for answer, only cried a little less. It was night, and Jim was going away in the morning. The crickets were chirping in the garden. Somebody went along the sea wall Ringing, and Jim and his little woman sat there by the window. "The devil gets me," said Jim at last, in a sober-minded Northern way that he had sometimes. "There's an awful wild streak in me. I ain't goin' to ,have you cry like mother always done. I'ne- goin to settle down an' git a steady job ashore, after this one v'y'ge to the islands. I'm goin' to fetch ye home the handsomest basketful of shells that ever you see, an' then I'm done with shipping, I am so." " Tain't ma only; tis' them poor little babies," said Marty, in` a tired, hopeful little voioe. She had done crying now. She felt somehow as if the re Nerd for all her patience and misery was coming. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Only A Little Lesson. It Was just a little lesson, that was all, but it went right to the spot. He stopped a moment on hie way home to look in a florist's window, and the florist who saw him, asked him inside to see something extra fine. "You don't buy any more flowers now ?" said the floriet. was the response given good-na- turedly, though it was brief, "And it used to be, a year or more, that roses and violets and carnations and all sorts of flowers were a great attraction to you ?" "Yes '• I had a sweetheart then," and the man blushed and smiled. " You used to take ,her s boquet every time you went to see her, didn't you ? pursued the inquisitive, 'kindly old florist, " Yes." "And they didn't cost you very much, as a rule did they ?" "But thee did not make any difference to her. If I brought them fresh and fragrant, that was enough." "Why don't you take them to her now? Did she choose another in your stead ?" and the florist's voice was sympathetic. " Oh, no, I married her a year ago." The florist waited a moment, as if think- ing. And don't you love her now ?" he asked cautiously, as if treading on thin ioe. "Of course. We are very happy. But you know the flower burliness doesn't go any more." Did she ever say so?" asked the florist." " Well-utn-er-no, I can't say that she ever did," "Have you ever asked her about it ?" "No. I never happened to think about it. Buey ybu know with all sorts of thinge so much more practical." The florist didn't answer. He went to a pot of roses and violets, and taking a handful, he handed them over to his late customer. "There he said, " I give them to you in remembrance of old times. You might take them to your wife, and if she doesn't like them you can bring thero back to me." But they neuer came back. Twenty Millions of Packages. Twenty millions of article' of moil matter P&88 through the Post -Offices of the United States each day, and nearly half a million of letters are received annually at the Dead Letter Office, because of a deficiency in ad- dress or postage, or because of illegibility of penmanship. Ninety-five per cent. of the latter are delivered to their consignees, and only five per cent. thus _become actual dead letters, i. e., are returned to their writers. These ninety-five per cent. constitute what are known as "live letters," and their hand- ling is the work of one* themost important departments of the Dead Letter Offioe in Washington, D. C. NEAL Dow's CONCLUSIONS. -Hon. Neal Dow, after more than half a century of tem- perance work and observation, gives this de- cided opinion : "1 believe that we cannot have deliverance from the tremendous sin, shame and crime of the liquor traffic until the Church shall be aroused from its abomin- able, stolid indifference to it ! It is through the liquor traffic that many localities in our country, slums and gutters and vile dens of our great cities, crowded to congestion with hordes of men, women, and children, de. graded and bruitified by the liquor traffic, are as truly heathen as any wretched places in the darkest parts of Africa." Pitcher's Castorla. THE RICHT PLACE. JOHN WARD, SEAFORTH, The People's Favorite Harness Maker, is now prepared to furnish Light or Heavy Harness, Single Or Double, That for appearance will suit the most fastidious and for durability will wear about as fastidious, as you want it. HORSE CLOTHING Of every description always on hand. A nice lot of Whips and Nick-nacks of various kinds. Trunks and Valises Of all sorts and sizes, to suit any taste or any purse. tar ORDERS SOLICITED. Repairing promptly attended to, and neatly and cheaply done. Remember the harness shop in the Red i3rick Block, Main Street, Sea - forth, 1839-4 JOHN WARD. The OWEN ELgOTRIO B ELT. [Therm Raj DR. A. OWEN. The Only Scientific and Practical Electric Belt for General use, producing a Genuine Current of Elec- tricity for the Cure ea Diseases. OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 11=mNiff•sa=mitge contains fullest information, list of diseases, cut of Belts and Appliances, prices, sworn testimoniale and portraits of people who have been cured, ete. Published in English, German, Swedish and Nor- wegian languages. This valuable catalogue or a treaties on rupture cured with Electric Truss will be sent FREE to any address. THE OWEN ELECTRIC BELT AND APPLIANCE COMPANY 48 KING -STREET, WEST, TORONTO, ONT. 201 TO 211 STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. The largest Electric Belt Establishmeht in the world. When visiting the World's Fair do not fail to see Dr. A. Owen's Exhibit in Electricity Building Section °U, Space 1. MENTION THIS PAPER. 1237-52 6. CLEARING S AD The greatest Clearing Sale of the season js now going on at . A.G. AULT'S, Seaforth In order to make room for my very heavy Fall purchases, I will clear all Summer Dry Goods at • great bargains. Now le the time to save money, as the balance of Summer Goode must be sold. Also, I will give groat bargains in Black Lustr es, Plain and Brocaded Cashmeres, and Blaok Bed ford Cords. A large lot of Men' e and Boys' Straw Hats will be clear- ed at from 5e to 20e. Also the bale nee of the Boys', Youths' and Men's Readymade Suits will be cleared at less than cost. Great bargains in Men s White and Panay Shirts, aleo a large lot of Men's and Boye' Felt and Christy Stiff Hate. I bave Just been receiving a large lot 1 Fresh Groceries, and a large consignment of new ea., first orop of May pickings, in Green, Black and Ja an, and all will be sold at very close prices. Butter, eggs, apples and plums wanted, for whioh the highest market price will be paid. A. G. AULT, Seaforth. PURE tt POWDERED 100Y4 PUREST, STRONCEST, BEST. Ready for use in any quantity. For -making Soap, Softening Water, Disinfecting, and st hundred other uses. A can equals 20 pounds Sal Soda. Sold by All Grocers and Druggists. E."1.74.T. 4:31,-IT.eXe30"1"1", Tera-csztteme Wellington GOING NORT11--.. - Blnevale........ - Wingham.. Goma SOUTH- Wingham _ Bluevele Brussels.... Ethel.. Grey and Passenger. 3.00 r. in 9.80 8.13 9.48 8.27 9.67 8.37 10.07 Passenger. 6.26 A.M.11.20 8.37 11.85 6.64 11.69 7.08 12.14 Bruce. Mbced. Lid. 9.0Opit. 9.45 10.10 11.20 Mixed. A. M. 7.80 rat, 8.15 9.00 9.30 London, Huron and Bruce. Passenger. feetints 9.29 6.18 9.42 6 81 GOING NORTH - London, depart ..... - Exeter Kippen. Bruoefield LondesbOro ..... Belgrave. Wingham arrive GOIN0 SOUTH- Winglisin, depart Beigrave Blyth Londesboro.... Clinton! Bruoefield Henan Exeter. 9,47 6.86 9.55 6.44 10.12 7.00 10.29 7.19 10.88 7.28 10.52 7.42 11.10 8.05 Passenger. 6.40a.m. 8.45e.m. 6.56 4.06 7.08 4.20 7.15 4.28 7.45 4.48 8.05 5.06 8.13 5.13 8.22 5.18 8.40 5.80 Grand Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station as follows: GOING wi:ar- SEAFORTH. Passenger 1.12?. Passenger....., - - 9.05 P. M. Mixed Train.- - 9.30 Mixed Train:. - 6.80 r. M. GOING Emu - Passenger. - 7.54 A. a. Passenger - 8.05 r. M. Mined Train.. - - 5.25? M. Freight Train.. - 4.25r. CLINTON. 1.28r, m. 9.22 P. Y. 10.15.4.s. 7.05 P.M. 7.87 A.M. 2.46 P. It 4.50,. M. 3.85,. Now's Your Chance, GREAT BARGAINS Going in the Boot and Shoe line at R. KELLY'S Boot and Shoe Store, • Main-st., Seaforth. DURING - THE - NEXT THIRTY DAYS' Everything will be sold at cost price, in order to make room for Fall and Winter stock. The stock on hand is all new, and consitts of a complete assortment ,of Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's footwear in the very latest and most desirable styles. This is no catch -penny, but a reality. All are cordially invited to come and inspect the stock at Boot and Shoe Store, opposite Rich- ardson & McInnis', and next door to Constable's baiber shop. 1888 WE DYE All kinds of fabrics on our own prem- ises. We don't have to send them out of town, WE CLEAN Faded and soiled clothing to look, like new. Bring along your dresses and suits before the rush sets in. We always do a good job, and we do it CHEAP. All you have to do to get to our place is to Follow the Pointers On Market Street from the corner of Main Stieet. J. W. SNELL, High Street, Seaforthinext door to T.Kidd' residence SEAFORTH Musical : Instrument mmpopaiam Scott Brothers, PROPRIETORS, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO. R€PIA 11 acNo.,04,7p-hD;upahomamiilNew Dominion Taonrok W o; °m-. any, Bowmanville. O Dominion ORGANS -W. cvvon;Bellpany,14Co.,BowGuelph;minviie ; D. W. Korn & Co., Woodstock. The above Instrumento always on -hand, also a few good seooncnband Pianos and Organs for sale at from $25 upwards. Instrumento sold on the instal- ment plan, or on terms to suit customers. Violins, onoertinas and emal instruments on hand also:sheet .nueio, books &e. SOOTT BROS, FARMERS, ATTENTION! All patties requiring Farm Machin- ery, Implements and Repairs, would do well to call at areroom' Hugh Grieve's W - -OPPOSITE- Th e Dom inion 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. IJohn S. Porter's: Undertaking and Furni- ture Emporium, , SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION, Funerals furnished on the, shortest notice and satlefsetion gui anteed. A large assort- ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, ane always on hand of the best (reality. The _beet of Embalming Fluid used free of charge and prices the lowest. Fine Hearse. S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Rein deuce - GODERICH STREET, directly op- posite the Methodist church in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Scott. The Old Established. BROADFOOT'S Planing Mill and Sash and Door Factory, E3M.A.FORTIT- This old and well-known establishtnent is still running at full blast, and now has better faellitiet 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. ehip guaranteed. Patronage 1209 J.0 BROADFO&I', Seatorth. Both* EYruP9 and ref gentbr Liver tera elf aches a constip only r duce& ceptabl ts acti effects, Jiealth =nye to all poWth yru. bottles Any re lave proral# to try CAUF LOUIS REID 8c WILSON, Hardware Merchants, 8eaforth.