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TIIE HURON
EXPOSITOR.
FEBRUARY 9 1894.
VETERINARY,
OM GRIEVE, V.8., honor graduate bi °Marie
Veterinary College. All diseases 4ft Domestia
Anitnale treated. Celle -promptly attended to and
charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentist* a specialty
Oflion end re1deno oa Goderich street, one door
icA5 a Dr. Seott'a office, Sentortei. 1112t1
RANK 8.1eattie.V. So graduate of Outline Vet
erinary College, Toronto, Memberof * Vet
erinary Ittediesi Sod . etc., treats all dlteases of
the Domesticated Anthaia. All oath promptly at•
to either by day or night. Charges moder-
ate. Special attention given 4 vetertnary dentis-
try. Offiete• on Maio Strear, Seaforthe one door
eouth of Kidd's iitardware store. I112
WORTH HORSE INFIRMARY. -Corner dJu•
vhi and Goderloh Streets, next dootto the Pres-
byteries' Churoh, Seater*, Ont. All dis see of
Homes, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do a Waded
animals, mooessfully treated et tn. liter:eery or
elsewhere, on the shorted notice, „bargee in Aer-
ate. JAMES W. ELDER. Vetreinery. Surgeen." P
EL -A large stook of VeteiitaryMedieinee rept con
iftantly en haeact '
LEGAL
Tip S. HATS, Barrister, Solicitor, Cenveyancer and
Ito Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion
Bank. Ofilce-Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth.
Money to loan. 1285
HIGGINS ilk LENNON,
Barrieterse Solicitors, Notaries, Public), 84o. Oa1ces-
120 Tonga Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Sealer*
Ontario. Seaforth Office-Whitneyee Block, Main
Street. Money to loan. THOMAS Itinfros HIGGINS.
JAMBS ILYNTION. 1291
14 ATTILRIV MORRISON, Welton, Iasurante
In Agent, Commissioner for taking affidavits
Couveyanees. &a, Money to loan at the loweei rates.
M. Mousson, Walton.
T M. BT, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o
• Oce --Rooms, five doors tiorth &Commercial
Hotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papst's
jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich
agents-nal:unroll, Holt and Cameron. 1215
re ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors,
ke,1- &a, Goderioh, °Mario. JT. Gokaoie. Q.
W. Puounroor. 688
flAMERON, HOLT & HOLUE(3. Barristers So-
ko Belton in Chucery, &o.etioderfeb, Ont M. 0.
Cratareon, Q. 0., PHILIP HeIst, DUDLRY HOLMR8
la et ANNUM & SCOTT, Battistero, Solicitors Con
voyancent, &e. Solicitors for the 'Sam cd
Johnston, Tisdale di Gale. Money to loan Ofiloe-
=tett Blook, Clinton, Ontrielo. o A.. R. Kuntnio
JAMES Sour. 781
HOLEESTED, =memo, to the 'late firm
McCaughey & Holuteded. Barrister, So
lioi‘eee Conveyancer and Notary. Solicitor ter the
Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend Farms
for sale. °Moe In Boot*, Block, Mats Street,,
Sealer*.
W. (CAMERON SMITH,
BARRISTER.
Solicitor of Superior Cont, Commissioner for
trikisg Affidavits in the High Court
of Justice, Otravoyancen
• Money to Lend
Can be consulted atter office hours at the Comm,i.
• dal Hotel.
HENSALLe ONTARIO.
DENTISTRY.
FW. TWIDDLE, Dentist, Moe over Hamilton
& McInnes' Shoe Stori, corner Main and John
eets, Seater*, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gee ad•
ministered for the painless eetraetion of teeth. e16ii
JoR. FRANK \BELDEN, Dentiet. New lace
J anaesthetic for painless extraction of teeth.
No uneonweiousness. Oftlee-Over Johnson Bros.
Hardware Stair, S?aforth. •1226
D AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton'will
IV. visit Heiman at Hodgens'Hotel
every Idoeelay, and at Zurich the
second Thatielay in each month 1288
ispr EINSMAN, Dentid, L. D S.,
Exeter, Ont. Will be al Zurich
at the HLUon Hotel, ()Nee an the
LAST THURSDAY in each month, and
blimlociles Hotel, Hansa% on the neer FRIDAY
in each month. Teeth eitracted with the least
palm poesible. LAB work first-olass at liberal rates.
971
MONEY TO LOA.N.
larirONEY TO LOAN.---neraight teens at 6 pet
an cont., with the privelege to berrowet of
replying part of the principal money at an time.
Appfy ea F. HOLMESTED, Barristet, Seger*.
MEDICAL.
J)R. C. SE(EPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay-
field, Ontario, eaceeStior to Dr. W. H. Wright.
1225-52
TIR MaTAVISEf, Phyeleian, Surgeon, &c. Office
_If corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brucefield.
Nigtit calm at the office. 1823
elTheR A iiiiiefRONG., id, B., Toronto, M. D. C. M.,
3,_./ Victoria, M. C. P. Ontario, successor to Dr.
Elhebt, oliee lately occupied. by Dr. Elliott, Bruce
-
field, Ontario. 1324x52
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T idITCRELL ARMSTRONG, M. B., M. D., M. C.
P s Ontario Physiaian Suirifeon,Accoucheur,
. - •, • , •
ete. Graduate of -Toreeto U versity Medical
Feenite. Member of College of Physicians and
Srirgeotio, Ontario. Office next door to MoDonald &
Co., Walton. 1352
SOOTT & MAOKAY,
orneE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist
Chureh, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural
Grounds.
J. Ge. ieRYIT, X. D. C. Id., (Ann Arbor and Vic-
toria) M. C. P. S. 0.
C. MouKAY, M. D. (a M., eTrinity,) F. T. M. C.
M. C. P. 8.0
T o E. COOPER, M. D., MB., LY. P. and S.,
▪ Glasgow, eee., Phyelolan, Surgeoe and Ao
cotteher, conatance, Ont. 112i
TepeR. ELLIOTT, Bruoefield, Lieentiate Royal
_Er college of Physicians and Surgeons, Edin-
burgn Bruoefield, Ont. 980
ItW. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. M. Member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons &o.,
Se.aforth, Ontario.. Offiee, and resit:tenet same as
oconpied by Dr. Verooe. 848
A LEI BETHUNE, 11. D., Fellow of the Royal
• College of Physichinicand Surgeons, Kingston.
Stemmer to Dr. Ifackld. Offic lately occupied
by Dr. Mackid, Main Street Seat:idle. Residence
-Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied
by L. K. Dandy. 1127
AUCTIONEERS.
EGELGE TAYLOR, Licensed Auotioneer for the
7Comity of 1We:en Sales promptly attended
te to all parts of the County. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Charges moderate. GEO. TAYLOR, Kirpen
1357-t. f
i P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for fah Coup,
. fry of Huron. Salo! attended in sel parts of
•a Oonoty. All orders left id Th t Exrearroa
Once will be -promptly atiended to.
WIVi. 1,41'CLOY,
neeesemeer for tbe Comities of Huron and Perth.
Wes promptly attended to, charges moderate and
sigisiset104 gnaminteecl. Orders by mail addresaed
to Clizelhorei Peet Office, or left at his residence,
2, Coneassion 11, Tuckersmitte will receive
ptenspt atte,tion. 1296.tf
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lialEillop Directory for 1893.
JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0.
JAMES EVANS; Deputy Reeve, Beeciawood.
NIEL MANLEY, Coenoillor, Beechwood.
X. etioa.A.VIN, Ceuneellor, Leadbury.
WILLIAM ABCIIIPALD, Councillor, Leadbury.
JOHN 0. elORRISON, Clarke -Winthrop.
OnyLOMON 3. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop.
M. EVANS, Assessor, teeoliwood.
GABLES DODDS, Colleotor, Seaforth.
W. B. SMITII, M jI., Medioal Heath Officer,
Seeorth.
RiGlIARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead.
buoy.
eller; IN 1! .,Warl(1 for Young Men.
vo,`. ,1 to Secure a Busloes
I F.1:0 soorthand, Etc., is the
I ler rt*; t, lis!' -4 University, De-
' .%1 lel,. Illustrated Catalogue
Isref;. Re9.-.T ences: All Detroit.
W. F. JEWELL, Preeetent, SPENCER, Secretary.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
want. AT
RE }UNION EXPOSITOR OFFICE
8FORTEL ONTARIO.
warintitisorname
SSES RE,OUIRIED '
'Shorter" Pastr
and
‘1Shorter" Bills,
We are
lking about a et shorter.
iing" whch will not es.use in&
igestion. ''hose who "know a thing
•0? two" /about Cooking .. (Marion
Marko& among a host of others)
:WC
C TTOLENE
Instead of lard. None but the
:purest, healthiest *ad cleanest
-Ingredients go to make up Cot.
• tolene. Lard isn't healthy, and ie
not always clean. Those who use
• Cottoleine will be healthier and
Wealthier then those who nIO
lard -Healthier because they win
get "shorter" bread; :wealthier
• because they will get "shorter*
grocery bills -for Cottolene emits
no more than lard and goes twice
far --so is but half u expensive.
byspeptios delight in it!
Physicians endorse HI
Chefs praise HI
Cooks extol it I
Housewives weleorn• Iti
An live Grocers self It!
Macte only by
N. K. FAIRBANK &
Wellington and Ann streets,
MONTREAL.
1\1 E_w.' T7?, I
The be5t
t•tr,
eVidenC2
t _
of Fqh
qrade merir
in continued /V'
and increay-2d
demand.
IF
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113,5 had 3 more
rap. , , r,r,,..,, ,;.,. .4... ,
la c...,,,
sales than wa5 ever.,L2
\
aCCCIded a new ''\._...',.
brand of imo'Aini? .1.,-
tobacco in a .5iMilk ti
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J. B. Pace Tobacco Co., Richmond,
Va , and Montreal,Canada.
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naNIME=MMEW
A LITERARY GENT.
BY GOIrLSON KERNAHAN.
CHAPTER L
,1N ROUTE TO TIIE DINNER -----My FIRST
WARNING.
"You tell me, Frank," he said, "that
your circumstances -your being a bachelor,
and so on -are against your leading as tem-
perate a life as you wish to lead; but
• eumstances.' my dear boy, never yet inade
• the man do right who didn't doright in
spite of them. Its quite true that I've
never known you the sOroe for drink, but I
can't help noticing 'that the habit of indul-
gence has been growing on you somewhat
lately, and though I have no doubt you
mean what you say when you tell me you
intend to be very careful about everything
of the sort when you are married, I should
like to see you make the change beforehand, -
if my Alice is to be your wife.'
"My dear Colonel Frazer," I said, light-
ly, "You neecl not have the slightest anxi-
ety upon that score. If it were a new thing
for me to take a little stimulant now and
then, it would be a different matter, but I've
been used to drinking in moderation for
• years, and I know just when to begin and
when to leave off.'
"I'm sorry to be disagreeable, Frank," he
persisted, "but you know as well as I do
what it was spoilt your father's ; and
when there is a chance of a man having the
thing in his blood, the best course he eau
pursue is not to drink at all. I quite agree
with what you said just HOW about the in-
temperate advocates of a cause doing it
more harm than its -enemies; but when we
are dealing with a thing so accursed that it
. can make men spend their money in public-
• houses while _their wives and children are
staring at home or in the streets -when • I
read in the papers of the murders and worse -
than -bestial outrages •which, almost every
day, are committed under the influence of
drink, I tell you, sir, that, man of the world
and old soldier as I am, I can syznpathize
with the veriest teetotal ranter that ever
thumped a tub. And as for what you said
about temperance fanatics' and the folly of
extreme measuhea,' I think you might just
as reasonably complain of the fauaticism of
the sanitary authorities in taking extreme
measures' to keep the eholera out of Eng-
land -and drink kills more men, aud woinen
too, I am afraid, in this country, each year
than the cholera does in a century. No,
Frank, my boy; you're a good fellow and
like you; but there's no doubt that the
habit has been growing on you lately, and
when I remember your iather, I must stick
to my point, if you're to marry my girl.
Come, give me your promise that you'll turn
the thing up altogether, and let's drop the
subject.•
"Promises and pledges are for weak-
minded fools who have no will of their own, -
I answered hotly, being annoyed ab his per-
sistence; "I'm not one of that sort, and I
know what I'm about. I've never given
you cause to speak to me as you have to-
night, and I must say that I consider your
remarks almost insulting. But excuse me,
here we are at Sir Frederick's, and as his
dinner hour is seven, we have no time to
spare for further unprofitable discussions."
CHAPTER 11.
AT SIR FREDBEICIeS-1 LOSE MY HEAD, AND
MAKE MY FIRST SLIP.
My seat at dinner was, I discovered -to my
annoyance, exactly opposite to that of Coao-
nel Frazer, my future father-in-law and
would-be mentor. I was already flushed
and heated. by his remarks; and it did not
mend matters when I found, or fancied -that
I found, he was narrowly watching •• what I
drank; and as I was determizted to show
him that I was not to be bullied,or dictated
to, I took wine with eaoh course more freely
than was my custom. •
Under other circumstances, and in my
ikidrien Cry for
Usually colleeted condition, this would have
been followed by rui pe eptible result; but
Colonei-Frazer's insultin remarks and sub-.
Sequent • offensive behav or had brought
bout such a state of brafn and nerve irritit-
aion, that the wing affected me almost int-
ediately, and by the time two or -three
`purses had been One through, I scarcely
knew what I was about.
iUp to this point I had said or done no-
thing to attract attention; but as time went
!so, I found myself almost monopolizing the
aonversation ; and as the more I talked the
More excited I -became, I am afraid that
long before dinner was over my remarks had
become not ' only inconsidered, but incon-
siderate. I had not, however, so lost my
head as to be altogether unconscious of the
-fact that some of the guests were beginning
to look at me curiously, and to exchange
!meaning glances among themselves.
' My wisest plan would have been to with.
aw at once from the conversation, and to
remain comparatively silent for the rest of
the evening, but I was tonflushed and ex-
cited to have the complete control over my-
self which was necessary for such a course.
4 last, and in order to cover a remark
which, directly I had said it, I felt was both
arIld and foolish, I broke into and interrupt-
ed a conversation Which was being carried
on between Sir Frederick and one of his
gliesliebs.
The possible lifting of our host's
eyebrows, as he turned courteously to accord
me his attention, told me of what I was next
moment aw&re-that the interruption was
in anything but , good taste; and this, in
coiijugation with a cup of strong coffeehad
some effect
recalling me to myself.- But
when, pleading a headache I took an early
leave, I carried with me the -mortifying con-
seibusness that I had, for the first time in
my life, been betrayed into drinking more
wine than Was consistent with the solf-pos-
session and Self-restraint which are the first
essentials of all afell-bred intercourse, and
that I had been guilty of one of the most un-
paadonable forms of social suicide.
CHAPTER III.
I AfAKE SELF EXCUSES AND GOOD RESOLUTIONS.
How natural it is," says an American
hula -wrist, "for a man who has made a fool
of himself td ease his mind by cursing some-
body else for it."
When I awoke on the morning following
the dinner at Sir Frederick Dean's, and re-
collected with intense mortification what
had happened the night before, it Was against
Colonel Frazer, rather than against myself,
that; my indignation was directed. I was
the more convinced that it was at his door,
and hot mine, that the fault lay, from the
fact that, so far from ever having been guilty
of a similar offence in the past, .1 had, on the
contrary, achieved something of a reputa-
tion for irreproachable bearing, and was re-
garded, even in the most fastidious "set," as
a man whom it was particularly safe to ask
anywhere or to meet 'any one. •
Bot for Colonel Frazer's ill-timed and im-
pertinent remark, I should have been; I told
myself, as collected and self-possessed as
was iny wont; and but for his particularly
offensive conduct in watching what wine I
_ took, I should never have been betrayed
into any excess. For what had• happened,
he, and only he, was accountable; and the
more assured I became of th-is fact the less
inclined was I to under estimate the hein-
ousness of the offence.
Had anyone but the father of the woman
I loved been [guilty of such ungentlemanly
behavior, I have declined to have any-
thing further to do with him. As it was, I
determined -that if, whena,I called to see
Alice that night, Colonel Frazer referred. in
any way to the events of the preceding even-
ing, I would give him clearly to understand
- what my views were upon the suliject.
When I aiirived at the house, however, I
heard that he had -been summoned out of
town. on urgent business, and was not likely
to return for some weeks. But I saw and
spent the evening with Alice, who, though
she -was, as I now know, aware of what had
happened, never alluded to it by word or
look. When I bade her "good -night," and
retutied to my chambers, I was more in
love with her than I had ever been, and
-shall I say it ?-not a., little ashamed of
myself7 and full of good resolutions for the
future.
CHAPTER IV.
air FIRST uooK----i AWAKE TO FIND MYSELF
FAMOUS AND GET A BAD ATTACK OF
"SWELLED -HEAD." •
Colonel Frazer alicl not treat me very cor-
dially When he returned, but he refrained
from any allusion to what had happened, or
from again favoring me with his views upon
the total . abstinence question. Though I
had not forgotten the incident at Sir Fred-
erick Dean's, I knew myself too well to fear
any repetition of the mistake I had made on
that occasion; and the months as they went
by fully justified my -confidence in myself.
At last the time approached when I felt I
might reasonably ask Alice to fix the date of
our marriage, which was finally settled for
the following spring.
This was in, the autumn, and it was almost
immediately, afterwards that my first book
was published. The success of the volume
was on Social Reform -was im-
mense and immediate ; and I might almost
say that I went to bed one night a nobody,
and awntlee in the morning to find my book
a " boom," and My personality an object of
public interest.
The saddenness and unexpectedness of
the, notoriety I had aehieved had the not un-
common effect of turning my head eomplete-
ly. .Great as was the stir which the book
had made, this stir assumed such exaggerat-
ed propoations in my eyes, that it seeined to
me as if the i nation -not to say the world -
instead df that microscopical minority of the
population which is known as the ." reading
public:: Was concerning itself about me. I
walked, ,Isr 'rather swaggered the streets,
puffed uP with pride and self-sufficiency, as
I told myselfthat 1 -the being inside this
suit of clothes' and wearing this identical
hat-waa the Frank Russell about whom
everyonelwaa talking, and whose portrait
was in all the papers.
If anything be needed to prove how un-
substantial was the basis upon Which the
fabric of iny fame was eeected, I think it is
to be foadd iii the fact tliat I was thus spoilt
by sucaiese The man who, conscious of
great abilities, toils patiently on unrecognis-
ed and anknown, until at last, by sheer
-force of hitelleet or of character, he collars
the great world as a, policeman collars a
prisoner, and assisting the gaping creature,
by means of a fist fixed in the scruff of the
neck, up to the book or picture it has per-
sistently neglected, says, "There you fool!
Look at that1! It's been staring you in the
face long enough !"-that man is rarely
spoiled by success, be it slow or sudden when
it comes.
If the smile with which he hears the pub-
lic gushing as persistently about his work,
as it had. in the past. persistently ignored it,
is a smile of gratification, the gratification is
not altogether unmixed with cynicism or
contempt. And so far from being inclined
to give himself airs or to lose his head, he is
not a little shamefaced that so much has
been made of so little; and is inclined; in
his less 'hopeful moments, to ask himself
whether work which hats been so indiscrimi-
nately praised is not ,more Shoddy and less
sterling than he believecl it to be.
No such mistrust of myself or of my abili-
ties ever troubled my peace of mind, and I
regarded my fame, (the words mean in these
nineteenth century days, as Mr. .Oscar
Wilde once wittily said, being talked
about in the penny and halfpenny newspa-
pers,") as seriously as if the verdict of the
press of the day had already been endorsed
by prosperity.
The amount of money- I managed to spend
in periodical literature at that time was
Pitcher's Castoria.
marvellous; and I invested the variouajour-
nals with a sort orpersonality, in ,accordance
with the views they took in regard to my
book, or the amount of space they devoted
to paragraphs about myself.
But so far from being grateful to the men
who had done most to exploit me, I felt
when, as afterwards happened, the interest
in my book subsided anda-a scandal in high
life succeeding to -the fireit place in public at-
tention -my name began to drop out of the
papers, that these same Men had treated me
exceedingly ill. Jealousy' had prompted
them, I declared, to enter into a conspiracy
to crush me; and I was more malignantly
inclined towards them than I was towards
the journalists who had never noticed me at
all.
But, during the time of which I am no
writing, the boom" was in full swing, an
my vanity seemed to grow by what it fed o
and to become each day more and more i
satiable. Flattery could not be fulsome
enough' for my voracious maw, and I kno
now that at one of the literary and artist c
clubs I frequented, "trailing" me was a fr
quent pastime among the members,
-Except for the fact that most of us like o
be on intimate terms With a "lion," I th" k
my many acquaintances must have sicken d
at the sight of me during those Weeks. • s
the bee flits from flower to flower to drsm,
the hooey, so I went from friend to friend,
greedily drinking to the dregs the cups of
flattery which were offered to me, and m k-
ing my house to house visitations with 11
the persistence of a tax -gatherer.
'Chance acquaintances, whom I had 1 st
sight of for years, I now looked up as a • a
ously as if I hoped to borrow money fr
,them. Each one of them represented to ne
an as -yet unreaped harvest -field of flatter ;
and the arrogance with which I trea ed
those who did not appear to be sufficien ly
inipressed with a due sense of my new i a
portance was only- equalled by the insu r -
able patronage which 1 graciously exten ed
to those who seemed to- have formed a pr p-
er estimate of my meeits.
I
CHAPTER V.
THE " BOOM " PROGRESSES, AND I BECOMI
MAN OF IYIUCIEI IMPORTANCE.
One morning, a few weeks after the pi b-
lication of my book, and when the boom as
at its height, I took up The Times, and h v-
ing ascertained that it contained no " e -
views," commenaed turning the pages of
general news with a somewhat languid • a d
'exhausted interest.
Suddenly I gave a start, and clutching e -
citedly at the paper, sat bolt upright in y
chair, flushed to the forehead, and wi i h
staring eyes, that had scarcely looked at o e
line, before they had snatched the sense f
the next,and leaping on to the following on
had raced, lightning -like, down the colum s
-two of which bristled with my ria,me.
prominent member of the House of Co
mons had -so the paper told me -asked th
Home Secretary if his attention had bee
called to some appalling statistics given in
volinne (mentioning my book by name
which dealt With certain social questions o
the highest importance to public morality
and if so, 'whether Her Majesty's Govern
ment • proposed taking, any steps in th
matter.
An evasive and unsatisfactory reply had
called forth a storm of dissent, and resulted
in soinething like a scene in the House, and
as a consequence the papers were full of me
and my book. I had hardly finished theire,
port of the speeches before a *legman was
brought me by the maid -servant, and on
opening it I found it was from the editor of
, the most important and influential
of all the monthly reviews, asking me to
write a paper on social reform for his next
number.
He offered me an unusually handsome fee,
but said that as the month was already -far
gone, he had to go to press in a couple of
days, and could give me only till the follow-
ing night to send in my copy. His telegram
• concluded with the words: "Next month
too late."
I decided instantly to , aecept his offer.
The time was certainly very short, but no
preparation would be necessary as my mind
was full of the subject, and even if my paper
lacked finish, it would certainly be the
stronger for being written at white heat.
Next month, as the editor rightly- said,
would be too late.
Public attention is notoriously fickle, and
before then some royal or eminent personage
might die or get into the Divorce ,Courts, or
something else happen to distract people's
minds. In five minutes after my reply was
dispatched. I was hard at work. I worked
all that day and the greater parteof the
night. My excitement was so intense that
I was quite unable to take , any Solid food,
and except a little whisky and water which
I sipped when I found myself beginning to
flag, nothing passed my lips until the paper
was done, which was on the afternoon of the
following day.
That article was the high-water mark of
my literary achievements. In it I surpass-
ed and surprised myself beyond my most
sanguine hopes. Something, outside myself
• seemed to animate and te inspire me. The
red-hot thoughts to which I gave utterance,
the noble and eloquent language in' which I
expressed them, were not mine. Such
thoughts and such language had never been
at my command in the past; they have
never been at my command since.
I remember that when I was young, im-
pressionable and a hero-worshipper, and had
high ideals about life, and especially about
authorship, I used to believe with George
Eliot that all our noblest thoughts are given
to us -that they dbine from some source out-
side ourselves, and are, in a measure, an in-
spiration. But after a time it occurred to
me that if this be true of what is great in
literature, it must be true to some extent of
passages in, for instance, 13yron, which,
though unquestionably finer than anything
to be found in the works of many authoris to
whom George Eliot's theory about inspira-
tion would apply, are hardly the kind of
thing to which ono. would apply the term,
"inspired."
And when I recollected that I had heard
AYER'S
MRSAPARIE
HAS. CURED 011IRCr
Will CUR YOU
A Bright Lad,
Ten years of age,but Who declines to give -his
name to the public, makes this authorized,
confidential statement to us:
"When I was one year old, my mamma died
of consumption. The doctor said that I,
too, would soon die, and all our neighbors
thought that even if I did not die, I would
never be able to walk, because I was so
weak and puny. A gathering formed and
broke under ray arm. I hurt my finger and
it gathered and threw out pieces ot bone.
lf 1 hurt myself so as to brealee the skin, it
we§ sure to become a running Sore. I had
to take lots of medicine, but nothing has
done nie so much good as Ayer' s Sarsapa-
rilla. It has made me well and strong." -
T. D. M., Noreatuie Kans.
AYER'S Sarsaparilla
Prepared by Dr. J. 0. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass.
Cures others, will cure you
•
h sicians„
the world over, endorse it.;
babies and children like the
taste of 11. Weak mothers
respond readily to its nour-
ishing powers.
Scott's
mulisi0n
CSMINiminimmimpownow
the Cream of Cod-liver 011,
, is the life of the blood, :the
maker of sound flesh, solid
bones and lung tissue, and
the very essence of nourishment.
Don't be deceived by Substitutes:
Scott & Borne, Belleville. All Druggists. 50e. &$1.
eramaxemoream
laWNIFIRWRIVVIR
in my boyhood one of the most eminent and
eloquent preachers of the day (a man who
was frequently spoken of as inspired) tell my
father that he had, on a particular occasion,
at down with the express intention of writ-
ing a moving sermon, but that there had
come into his head instead, whence he could
not tell, a seemingly -funny idea for a farcical
story, I could not help saying to myself:
"If this man's sermons be attributable, as
he says, to something outside himself, and
were 'given him,' was not the farcical story
-seeing that it was not there before -de-
rived from the same sourcer
After that I.gave up thinking about the
subject of present day "inspiration," and the
knowledge that the source of inspiration of
the one and :only "inspired" work I ever did
was, like the best work of other men infin-
itely greater than I, -whisky, has not en-
couraged me to re-operi the question.
CHAPTER VI:
A DISGRACEFUL INCIDENT.
As soon as 1 had finished the article I took
it to the editor, and waited while he read
the MSS. He was delighted with it, assur-
ingir me that it as bound to score immense-
ly; and when J left his office my brain. was
-what with i want of sleep, whisky, and
gratified vanity -in a whirl. My wisest
plan would have been to go home and to
bed, but I was engaged to dine at Colonel
Prazer's that evening, and did not feel in-
clined to forego the triumph and lionizing to
which I considered myself entitled.
Recent events, too, had made me feel that,
much as I loved his daughter, I was doing
him and his family an honor in wishing to
become his son-in-law; and that it was time
he should be made to realize this. As a
matter of fact his name had recalled an inci-
dent to my mind, the recollection of which
had rudely dispelled the pleasant thoughts
which the flattery I had received had awak-
ened.
I had almost forgotten_ that he had once
ventured to lecture me -ME, about whom
every one was nb ' talking, and who was
welcomed as an ho ored guest in wine of the
best houses in Lo don -as though I had
been a badly behaved schoolboy; but, as
in my excited state of mind, I recalled the
circumstances, my vanity took fire afresh,
and what was in reality a closed incident,
assumed the appearance of a recent insult.
My brain was already inflamed with whisky
and egotism; and as the more 1 brooded
over the matter, the more indignant I be-
came, I worked myself at last to such a
pitch of excitement that when I went home
to dress for dinner, I had to nerve myself
with neat brandy before my hand was steady
enough for me to shave myself.
As a rule I rarely touched brandy, but I
elt on this occasion that in view of the men-
• al strain to which I had been subjected
uring the twenty-four hours which had
ust passed, something in the way of stirou-
ant was absolutely necessary. Of what
appeued on that eventful evening, and at
he dinner at Colonel Frazer's, I have very
I ttle recollection. I have been told since
at the tone that I adopted to my host and
is guests was either insolently arrogant or
e en more insolently patronizing. I can re -
c 11 Colonel Frazer's putting forward some
t ieory, which, though he was not address -
ii g me at the time, I violently attacked;
a d I remember that, galled by his con-
t mptuous withdrawal from the conversa-
t on, and by the meaning looks which,
✓ htly or wrongly, I fancied he was bend -
i g in my direction, I insulted him openly
nt d grossly.
A 'Vo -
1 can just recall the - moment of pained
s rprise and silence -it partly sobered me-
w ich followed, and remember hearing some
s atches of a courteous explanation, "young
m n of great ability," "most excitable
b ain," "fear he has been working too
h rss
di". which our host was making to his
ge
y next recollection is that of standing in
th open air, without a hat, and holding on
to the arm of a friend and neighbor of mine
w o sat near me at dinner; a hansom drove
u ; we got in ; and I remember no more.
(To be Continued.)
•
The Age of The Horse.
(Written for THE BXPOSITOR)
To tell the age of any horse
Inapect the lower jaw of course,
The hixth front tooth the tale will tell,
And every doubt and fesr dispel.
Two middle nippers you behold,
Before the colt is two weeks old,
Before eight weeks, two more will come,
Eight months the corners cut the gums.
• The outeide grooves will disappear
From the middle two in just one year.
In two years from the second pair,
In three the corners too are bare.
At two the middle nippers drop,
• At three the eecond pair (multi stop,
At four years old the third pair goes,
At five a full new set heehows.
5X1le deep black spots will pees from view,
At 8Ix years from the middle two,
The second pair at seyen years,
At eight the spore each corner clears.
At nine the black spots vrill withdraw,
Eleven finds the corners light,
As time goes on the horseman knows
The oval teeth three cornered grow.
They longer get and project before,
Till twenty, then, we know no more.
OferAino Vire.
-0
Wearyin' For You.
Jest a wearyin' for you
All the time a-feelin' blue ;
Wishin' for you, wonderin' when
You'll be °min' home agen ;
Restless, don't know what to do,
Jed oevearyin' for you.
Room's so lonesome, with your ehair
Empty by the fireplace there ;
Jest can't stand the sight of it ;-
Go out doors and roam a bit;
But the woods is lonesome, too,
Jest a-wearyin' for rou.
• Conies the wind with soft caress
Like the rustlin' of your dress :
Blossoms fallin' to the ground
Softly like your footsteps sound;
Violets like your eyes so blue,
° Jest a -weary in' for you.
Martin' comes; the birds awake,
Weed to sing so for your *lake).
But there's sadness in the notes
That come thrillin' from their throats
Seem to feel your absence, too,
Jest rewearyins for you.
Evenite falls; I miss you more
When the dark gloom's in the door;
Seems jest Ike y u orter be
There to open it for me
Jest a•wearyin' for you.
F. L. Stant**.
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49 KING ST. W,TORONTO, ONT4
201 to 211 State St., Chicago, flL
MENTION THIS PAPER.
The Kippen Mills
TO THE FRONT AS USUAL.
Th e Rippen mills are now running at full blast and
are prepared to do GRISTING on the shortest notice,
and most reasonable terms. In this way you get
lour from your own wheat, and better value for
the money than in any other way. Good flour
guaranteed.
CHOPPING DONE WHILE YOU WAIT.
TAD G • -
The highest price in cash will be paid for good
logs, or they' will be cut to order.
••••••••••••••••••••,..
DTrMBJI
All kinds of Lumber for sale, cheap
JOHN McNEVIN,
Proprietor.
1357-t f
PUREST, STRONCEST, BEST.
Ready for use in any quantity. Fov _nakIng Soap,
Softening Water, DIttinfeeting, one u hundred other
uses. 4 eav equal20 pounds Sal Soda.
Sold by AU; Groers and Druggists.
MI6 W. 40eltroreelorierie, linearocaa-eces
Wellington, Grey and Bruce.
GOING NORTH-. Passenger. Mixed
Itikol -- 8.00 r. x. 9.90 P.K. 9.00 ?AL
Brussels- 8.18 9.43 9.45
Bluevale....'.. - 8.27 9 57 10.10
Wingham - .. _ 8.87 10.07 11.20
Goma Sotrrw- Passenger. Mixed.
Wingluusi.... - 15.25 4.N.11.20 A. it. 7.80 rat.
Bluevale _ ... _ 3.37 11.85 ale
Brassels....... ... 6.64 11.69 9.00
7.08 12.14 9.50
London, -Huron and Bruce,,
ge
awe r.
$.25A.,
.29
fai,fett
9.42 6.81
9.47
9.55
111000.: -321892
10.52
11.106.40AMee.n. ng8.413r
5e.M.
0.56 4.06
7.08 4.20
7.15
7.46
8.05
8.13
8.22
8.40
follTorws13:1'
Grand Trunk Railway.
11
ieave &Uttar* and Clinton station as
I .
Goma Noires --
London, depart 11..•
Exeter
Hensel>.
Kippen-
Bruoefield .... . .... -
Clinton
• Londesboro
Ifelgrave ... .
Wingham arrive
.#0111G SMITH-
Winghsin, depart
Beigrave
..... ......• 0,
Londesboro.........
Clinton
• •
Br:welled ..
.Hippen.. .... :-• -.Mansell • d •
Exeter.
6.86
6.44
7.00
7.19
7.28
7.42
8,05
4.254
4.48
5.06
6.13
6.18
5.30
Gloms
WUT-
Pieseager -
Passenger.
faxed Train.. ...,..
Mixed Train..
.Oonts SANT-
Passenger. ..
Passenerrain,. -
Mixed • • -
Freight Train... ..
St:A:0577x..
1.12 p. 91:2822 Sp.. M. CLINTON.
91801. 10.15ear,
6•80 r. M.
A. 7
27.. 4687
7.54 tr.: It:
43 ;56 PP : 41.5250 re:
6,25 r u.
I
3a, Day Sure.
show you how to make $3 a day; absolute.
,
Send um your address awl I ivIl 1
iy sure, 1 forrnsh the work ani teach
you free; you work in the locality where
y,,ii live. Send me' your address anti T
wtil explain the busihess fully; mom-
bor, I gus...rant;ee a clear profit of $3 for
• every, days work; absolutely hure; claret
: fall to write 'today,
Address A. W. KNOWL S, Windsor. Ontario.
eee
'Wit .1
HAND -MADE
Boots and Shoes
D. ,McINTYRE
Ilan on hand a large number of Bookend Shoes of hie
• own make, best material and
Warranted to give Satisfaction..
you want your feet kept dry come iid get spair°,
our boote, width will be sold
CHEAP FOR OASII,
Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Bente
and Shoes made to order. All parties who have not
paid their &mounts for last year will please call arid .
settle up.
1162 D. MoINTYRE, Seaforth,
J. C. SMITH & C6.,
33.421.1NTICM:EZ8_
A General Banking business "transacted.
Farmers' notes discounted.
_Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits.
SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for -
olleotion
OFFICE -First door north of Reid &.
Nilson's Hardware Store,
SEAFORTH.
M MBER
)is the I &test triumph in pharmaoLtor the euro
o
tot all the symptoms Indicating etermenir AND,
Lavnallemplaint. If yon are troubled with
COSUIT0128481, Dizziness Sour Siosnaels,i
ill'ill
MBRAYS
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Headrick
TIRED FBEILINGtliKil'UMATTO ?ADM Sleepiest
Nights, Melancholy Feeling, BACE Matz,
Membrars Kidney and Liwer
wIflg1veimnediatereliefsndrrzcTjCarc.
Sold at all Drug Stores.
Iffembray Medicine Company
of Peterborough, (linatte,d),
PETERBOROUGH, . . ONT.
For sale by I. V. FEAR, druggist, Seaforth.
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John S. Porter's(
Undertaking and PIMA
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH,, ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funeral@ furnished on the shortest notice
and eatisfeetion gal anteed. A large armee
ment of Casketa, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.,
'ways on hand of the beet quality. The beet
of Enabahning Fluid mad free of charge and,
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Rest-.
denee - GODER1011 STREET, direatly opee
te the Methodist church in the housea
ormerly occupied by Dr. Soot!.
The Old Established,
BROADFOOT'S
Planing Mill and
Sash and Door Factory,.
This old and well-knowi3 establishment is still -
running at full blast, and 11011i has better faelliMes
than ever before to tuna out a good article ter a
moderate prim. Sash and doors of all patterns Al-
ways on hand dr made to order. Lumber dressed on
short notice and in any way desired. All kinds of
lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Shinglea kept
constatitly on hand. Estimates for the furnishing
of buildings in whole sr in part given on applicsation.
Nese but the beet of material used and workman-
fiblp guaranteed. Patronage solicited.
1269 .1, IC BitOADIFOOTraastorth
FEBRUARY
-
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Brings tionifort and impr
tcr;(1G to pers(›rl enjoy
rhtly used. Tho =an-
ter than other; arid enjoy if
less expenditure,
Idapting the world's beet
the needs of physical being
fho value to health of tbo
leareia ive pneiplC1 embra
rem(dy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to it
in the form most acceptab
ant
tothe taste, the refreshi
be:le:le1:11 properties of a
utivo ; effect tntlly cleansing,
clas, headaches;
tina pc: manently curing C
It has given szaisfacL'un to
net with the tpproval of
profcs.e:on, because it aCta
:nays, Liver fidad Bowels wi;
ening them mid it is perfect
every object io: substais
Syrup of Figs is for sale
gists in 75c. bottles, but
facttircol by the California
Co. on1y, whose name is prin
package, also the name, Sy
and being well informed,
locept any substitute if off
School Report
No. 10 MoYar.Lor.-The A
the standing of the pupils of Si
No. 10 McKillop, for the ment
nary 31st: First Class -M. M
John Campbell, T. Horn,
Second Class junior, George
Fulton and M. Horn, C. DI
Class Senior, P. Morrison, V.
Carter. Third Class Jtmior, 3
Riley, M. _Dodds. Third. '
Robert Grieve, A. Aitcheson
Fourth Class, L. Blanchard, 1
James Grieve.
• -
Bran as Cattle
MR. EDITOIL-I think one,
nesses of aglicultursa things '
is not knowing exaetly what
Its commonness every where f
years may be the cause of tlf
no doubt, can tell.of favorable
its use with calves, dairy cow
fattening cattle also, but its
singly as a cattle food agai
kind, as well as its manuriall
largely unknown; heitee the 1
question of its value in tie nil
_a doubtful thing.
The subject demands more
ally in these days of increasi
and lowering prices, for unqu
we get about 200 pounds of ]
on an average, of winter ands
- the crop may be worth so r
fully satisfied of its value ,
,.
,
flour and bran.
Bran, chemically, by th 1
process of milling, will avers
Fat • ' 46°8.,.
- 1111
ti WoodyaurtcehnF
ibre14.7
...
9.2
Ash,. ... 5.51
Both these analysis are
which is actually about 13 pe;
pare them with whole who
average contains 1.75 per -cent
65; gluten or albuminoids„ 1
water, n1g3 ;and crude fibre 6
the same with flour as repre
foll
Fwastt.e.r, -vs la 11 . V .. 0 i . . •
SGluAstahrt,ceh.n.. . ...
Now, as by the old process.
bran took most of the gluten!
by the new,, the greater part
is left in thflour, it follow -
from the new process shot
richer and fatter. Even by
teas bean contains 2a times '
the whole wheat, and -exact
more than flour,
In his report on ensilege ti
B. Lawes says :-`i It is son
able that the composition',
a very close relation to I
the proportion of the digest
and digestible non-nitrogerui
thus :-
Dig.Nil
3-ialt,s. bran will supply 0.4i2
311 Thiarnilk will contiin 0.4
If these chemical constitite
value, relatively, to its own ,
the bran and the rnilk ---and
of bran costs with iis about
the milk nine cents, we are;
sion of a fact highly favei
cattle food. •_ .
Some years ago our expel
made a test with 18 hea
during winter, by feeding
35 p'trunds of turnips, and 9
per head daily; this large q
(about one and One quarter]
pail full) was given against
grain principally, and ae ial
sive lierieS of them, all the.
most interesting and valu
of all the testing was 2.05
rate of increase per head -
cents per pound --the high
of Irfa, the lowest 1.00, at ii
bran gave a daily rate of t
9 cents per pound of the ael
and as the lowest cost ,of
cents, was with a, mi.),Iture
• --corn, peas, oats, barley;
2.25 pounds, We get arioth
importance of wheat bran.
Then, again looking at t
of foods, when used to ea
upon what British experi
have shown as the actual
-Idea of the manure from t
with the position taken b
i
MANURE VALUX OF
Per c,en
Nitrogen..
Phosphoric Acid. ,2.75
Potaeh ....... , 1.43
So at the present price
get $13.36 of manure, o
when we feed store cat
bran that cost $12, the
of manure is actually w
original cost. If 'this be
ad a, or pooh pooleed, it
skeptical party outside
ern science and practice.
The mean cost of the f
referred to as having
cost of production, being
fore feeding,a,nd valued
• manure, it us evident th
yv