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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-03-16, Page 6VETERINARY. OWN GRIEVE, V. honor graduate of On*sio Veterinary Collat AU diseases of Domestic treated. ,promptly attended to and ahem* moderate. Ve _ winery Dentistry of specialty Office sad raddence O Goderich skeetone door matt of Dr. S iomo Seaforth. 11111tt 1-"IRANK S. Beattio•VeJ Be graduate of Ontario vd arnmury College, Termite, Member of Ilk Vet *Artery 'Wined Socletym eta., treats all dimmers of the Domesticated Aninfais. All oallo promptly at- asseeed to either by tidy: or night. Charges moder- ate. Special attention, trip so veterinary dentis- try, Office ea Mein. et, Beaforth, one door south of Biddle. 1Iarda store. 1119 . , QM/PORTE ROME INFIRMARY. --Comer t,f Jar la vie and SoderloliSWeets, next door to the Pres lirtiNe Munk Seaferth, Ont. All db1 sea ol Onatt, Cialitine Sheep, or any Of the do u sticated , liebtege, ettoesteltilly treated at lib. inirsearr or elsewhere, ca the shortest notiot. aharges maden atm. JAMES W. ELDER, Veaninary. Surgeen. P S. -A large Moak el Veterveary Medicines Jcopt eon dais* on hand , L AL a. HATS, Barrister;Solieltor, Conveyancer _Me Notary Publio. Skilicitor for the Dominion R Beak: Office--Oardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth. Money to loam, 1236 i end -- - HIGGINS lc LENNON, BitATIMOTS, Solicitors, Notaries Public., &e. Offices 110 Tonga Street, Toronto Ontario, and Seatorth Ontario_ Seatorth Officeel-Whitney's Block, Main Street. Money to loan. . Tinnees Mnacer HIG0188. JAMES UNION.` 1291 AficATTREW MORRISON, Walton Insuraziee In Agent, Commissroper for taking affidavies, Conveyances, &e. Money Yoe loan at the lowee: rates. M. Motteuent, Wilton. , .. ea., BEST, Barristera, Solioitor, Notary, s, ve -doors north ofeommercial ffice-Roomfi i. Ot. 1, ground floor, milt door to C. L. Papet's jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Coderich agents -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216 &° C.; ARROW & PROUDFODT, Barristers, Solivitors, Ito., Goderich, Ontario. S. T. GARROW, Q. , WL Panuersor. V irIAMERON, HOLT & 110LMES, Barristers So - k) Bolters in. Chancery, &c,,Goderiett, Ont M. C. 0AX11,0x, Q. 0., Pmear : Howe DUDLEY Rooms , AlfANNING k SCOTT, ,Barristers, Solioltots, Con 111. veyancers, &o. SOlioitorie for the ',Beane Johnston, Tiedale & Gale, Money to lona Office Elliott Block, Clinton, Outario. A. B. MANNINO Una Soon. 781 cO - r- 1 Mt HOLMESTED, imonnitkor to the Ate tIrm r . McCaughey & Remanded, Barrieter, Sta Honor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solicitor for the °median Bank of Commeree. Money to lend. Farms for sale. Office in SooWe Bleak, IlMs Street, Seaforbh. W. CAMERON SMITH, ,. • BAR R I.ST ER. _ Solicitor of Superior Court, Commissioner for taking Affidavits In the High Court of. Justice, Conveyancer, Moue v to Lend Oan be consulted miter office hours at the Commt eit.' Notel. 1INNSALL, -3- ONTARIO. , DENTISTRY. ; lUi W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Ctffioe over Hamilton ..0 & Whines' Shoe Stem, corner Main and John Streets, Seaforth, Ontario', Nitrous Oxide Gas ad- ministered for the painleseextraotion of teeth. 1169 of - of 1 , f i t 3 c 1 ' 0 s 1, f 11 fi h 0 n r -1 b b ir h, q ( - P m m if al ly En en ric ed th sa an WI un do by Elti TIE. FRANI( BELnEat, Dentist. New loca X., anaestlistie for paioloss extraction of teeth. No unoonatiousness. Office -Over Johnson Bros. Hardware Store, Seaforth.. . . 1.226 , . AGNEW Dentist Clinton, will ,,,enneeiee, visit ilensall at Hodgens' Hotel • every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thqaday in each month 1288 eenerehe KINSMAN' , Dentist, L. D. S., t ea -Oa -a -en -. Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurich ta at the Hilton Hotel, ONLY on the LAST THURIWAY in each month, and at Murdock's Hotel, Hensall, on the FIRST FRIDAY in each month. Teeth 'extracted with the lead pain possible. IAII work fitst-class at liberal rates. 971 - r MONEY TO LOAN. Air ONEY TO LOAN.--Seraight loans at 6 ITi cent, with the privilege to borrow, o reps part of theaprinoipel money at any time. App y P. HOT fESTED, Barrieten Seaforth, . MEDICAL. Taelt. MoTAVISH, Physielin, Surgeon, &o. Office , Jai corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brucefield. Night calls at the office. 1328 DR. ARMSTRONG., M. E., Toronto, M. D. 0. M., Victoria, 31. 0. P. Sa Ontario, successor to Dr. Elliott, cm ce lately ;occupied by Dr. Elliott, Bruce field, Ontario. 1324x52 DRS. soo-r-r- & MACKAY, OFFICE; Goderich Stmet, opposite Methodiet Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural Grounds. T. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. 14,, (Ann Arbor and Vio- toriee) 31.0. P. S. 0. , EL, MACKAY, 31. D. C. M., (Trinity,) F. T. M. 0. 31.0. P. 8.0. - r Jo E. COOPER, M. Da. �. B., L. F. P. ana S., far. Glasgow, &o., Phyeeoian, Surgeon and Ae• Toucher, Constance, Out. - 112; Et W. BRUCE SMITH, .M. D-, C. M., Member . the College of Physioiens and Surgeoue. &o., letiorbh, Ontario.- Offiee end reeicienee same as neoupied by Dr. Vence. - 848 ---- - - A httr. BETHUNEI M, D., Fellow of the Royal ein., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. tocessor to Dr. Machid.' Office lately occupied .y Dr. Maokid, Male. Street Seaforth. Residence -Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied ,y L. E. Danoey. 1127 For IP; fil iniftt....socri t Pk... 03. A V -claue- ,. . ,,, 4 ti 4% Neil iral g IC TRY *4•"="-'4"-6-6-77.-.........."Ini ONE APPLICATION rat IIS OF THE . s..... -...-......,a 0 1"MENTHOL 66 -00C0Eau 6 - PLASTER IT WILL DISPEL TliE PAIN LIKE MAGIC. . AUCTIONEERS. 4 EORGE TAYLOR, Lioedsed Auctioneer for the If County of Huron. Seles promptly attended In ell pants of the County. Satisfaction guaran- ad. 0hrges moderate. GEO. TAYLOR, Kippen 0. 1357-t. fee; - - P. BRINE, Licensed 'Auctioneer for I ht Coun , fer of Huron. Sales Attended In rel parte of • County. All orders- left at Ti Expoarroa Moe will be promptlyetteldied to. , el WM. m'arploy e r etioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth. es promptly attended to, charges moderate and iefaction guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed Chiselhurst Poet Office. or left at his residence, k 2. . Concession, 11, Tuekersmith, will receive erupt attention. , I 12964f c' Killop Directory for 1893. OEN BENNEWIES, Revel), Dublin P. 0. AM ES EVAN, Deputy Reeve, Beeohwocd. IANIEL MAN I.EY, C,ounoillor, Beeohwood. M. MoGAVIN, counoillon Leadbury. FILLIAM ABCHI BALD, Councillor, Leadbury. oas a MORRISON, Cleak, Winthrop. OLOMON J. SHANNON, Treaaurer, Winthrop M. EVANS„ Am:mar, Beechstood. ' ' HARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth. . W. B. SMITH, M. D., Medical Health Officer torth. ' 1CHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inepector, Lead- r. ------ _ -- - - IARRIAGE LICENSES f_SSUEe- eeT HURON EXPOSITOR 13FKi SBAPORTE , 'ONTARIO, no WITNESSES REOUIR ED Loss of Flesh is one of the first signs of poor health" Coughs, Colds, Weak Lungs, Diseased Blood. follow. Scott's mosemiinsimaginfr Ernulm • the Cream of Cod-liver Oils- • cures all of these weakness- es. Take it 4n, time to -avert illness if yo9 Clan. Physicians, the world over, endorse it. 1 Don't be deceived by Substitutes! seat St Down o, BelIe10 All Druggists. 60o. &j t'''esel kes Ili ---- e I- ; , /;-.. pilifliel'ire, ,...e. a ti, `,/ r 1 - ,1 .i 2 NI---t---L----i,-- f.), i'i 1 c! CI . 3 CI- ". 1::i e ri ..1.:1 -#.1.7:.i: -.1,..-:(,'.i..,-,- _ i. • ‘- --- , . I 11 C 0 ll 1 i nued ( -r : . "..,r% „. .., ina.L1 ., '1. "-'.1 9(./ -`'-'7"; -.1 1 3 0i:ri-i an ci . 1:7 1, .> - h- rhea „e-enaera ,( Fan 1:7 ...„..,-,d •-:-., 4- ,,, li ,--...--., v 7/ .1- =rk ^...•,.tr•- ',f . I,. P L U c UT _ h a5 h aid a t*r e rapid growth .3ak3 th evT.r:\ accorded a new \ brand of stciiiiq tobacco ir .!iimilar Urne. J. B. Pace Toba4o Co., Richmond, Va., and Montreal, Pa.nada. '411M1111111•111111 THE BROTHERS, Doctor Franck came 41.1 as I sat sewing -up the rents in an old shirt, that Tom might go tidily to his grave. New shirts were. need- ed.'for the living, and there was no shfe or mother to `dress hint handsome when he went to meet the-Lorclehaseme-Woinan said --describing the fine funera1-1,81re had pinched herself to give her sp. "Mise Dane, I'm Min, 4uandary," began the doctor, with that ea -pression of cormten- 0,nce which says as plainly as words,- "1 want to ask a favor, but I !wish you'd save Me the trouble." "Can I help you out h)f it ?" "Faith ! I don't like to propose it, but you certainly. can if you pl ase. "Then give it a name, I beg." "You see a Reb has jus been brought in crazy with typhoid; a bad case every way; a drunken, rascally little c ptaan somebody took the trouble to cap -true., but whom no- body wants to take the trouble to cUre. The wards are full, the ladiet Worked to death, and willing to be for our own hoys, but rather slow to risk their lives for a Reb. Now, you've had the fever, you like queer patients, your mate will see to your ward for a while, and I will find you a ood at- tendant. The fellow won't. last long, I fancy; but he can't die without sc me sort of care, you know. I've -put him in the fourth story of the west wing, away from the rest. It is airy, quiet,, and comfortable there. I'm on that ward and will do my best for you in every way. Now, (then, will - you go?" "Of course I will, out of perversity, if not comnion„charity ; for some of these people think beaauseI am an abolitionist I am also a heathen, and I should rather like to show them, that; though I cannot, quite love my enimies, I am willing to take" care of them." "Very good; I thought you'd go; and speaking of abolition reminds me that you can ha.ve a contraband for a, servant, if you like. It is that fine mulatto fellow who was found burying his Rebel master after the fight, and being badly cut over the head, our boys brought him along. Will you have 'hid' ?" - "By all means -for 111 stand to .my guns on that point, as on the other; these black boys are far more faithful uicl hardy than some of the white scamps given me to serve, nstead ef being served by. But is this man well enough ?" " Yes, for that sort of work, and I think you'll like him. He must have been 'a hand- ome fellow before he got his face elashed ; is master's son, I dare say, and the white Iood makes him rather high and haughty bout some things. He was in a hacl way -hen he caned' in, but vowed he'd die in the tweet ratherathan turn in with the black &tows bele)* so I put Ilien ttp in the west ing to be Vitt of the way,and he's Seen to he captain all the .morning. When can ou go up ?" "As soon as Tom is laid out,Skinner mov- d, Haywood washed, Marble dressed, Char- y rubbed, Downs taken un, Upham laid own, and the whole forty fed." We both laughed, thongh the doctor was n the way to the dead -house and I held a road on my lap. But in a hospital one erns that cheerfulness is one's E•silvation Dr, finale atmosphere of suffering and death, eaviness of heart would soon paralyze use- dness of hand, if the blessed gift of smiles ad been denied us. In an horn- I took'possession of my new arge, finding a dissipated looking boy of ineteen or twenty raving in the holitary om, with no one near him but the contra - rid in the room adjoining. Feeling decidedly more" interest in the lack man than in the white, yet remember - g the doctor's hint of his being " high and ughty," 1 glanced_furtively at hiM as attered chloride of lime about the room to rify the air, and settled inattere to _ suit yself. I had seen many contraband. but ver one so attractiVe as this. All colored men are cane 1 "boys," even their heads are -a1'; ; tl is boy was, live- d -twenty at lesse, st reez4- imbed andl man- , and had theioei- mc -.ho had never en cowed by ;Lena c -Or .eor wire o 'epres7 e labor. He sa en 1.Iktd duinf hing; bobk, no pen or pet er tote where al pear- , yet anything less neidhl t tr hstless n his attitude and expreeeion i never - 1..rec1- he sat, with a handl on either siattate melancholy whiah in some men al ways seems to utter k mute protest against the broken law thatdoomed them at theft birth. What could he be thinking of ? The sick bey cursed and raved, I rustled to and fro, Steps passed the door, belle rang, and the steady rumble of iron -wagons -came up the street, still he never stirred. had seen colored people in what they call "the black sulks," when, for days, they neither smiled nor spoke, and scarcely ate. But this was somethmg more than that; for the man was not dully brooding over some !mall grievance; he seemed to see an all - absorbing fact or fancy recorded on the wall, which was -a blank to me. I wondered if it were some deep wrong or sorrow, kept alive by the- memory and im- potent regret; if he mourned for the dead master to whom he had been faithful to the end • or if the liberty now his were robbed -of hetlf ft sweetness by the knowledge that someonenear and dear to him still languish- ed in the hell from which he had escaped. My heart quite warmed to him at the idea; I wanted to know and comfort him; and following the impulse of the moment,. I went, in and touched him on the shoulder. In an instant the metnevanished and the slave appeared. Freedom was too new a boon to have 'wrought its blessed ehanges yet, and as he started up, with his hand at, his temple and an obsequious "Yes, ma,'am, any romance that had gathered round him fled. away, leaving the saddest of all sad facts in living guise before me. Not only did the manhood seem to die out of him, but the comeliness that first attract- ed me • for, as he turned, I saw the ghastly wound that had laid open cheek and fore- head. Being partly healed, it was no longer bandaged, but held together with stripe of that transparent plaster which I never see without a shiver and swift recollections of the scenes with which it is associated in my mind. Part of his black hair had been shorn away, and one eye was nearly closed; pain so distorted and the cruel sabre -cut so mar- red that portion of his face, that, when I saw it I felt as if a fine medal had been sud- denly reversed, showing me a far more striking type of human suffering and wrong than Michael Angelo's bronze prisoner. By one of those inexplicable processes that often teach us how little we understand our- selves, my purpose was suddenly changed, and though I went in to offer comfort as a friend, I merely gave an order as a mistress. "Will you open these windows? , This man needs more air." He obeyed at once, and, as hit slowly urged up the unruly sash, the andisome profile was again turned toward me, and again . I was possessed by my first im- pression :so strongly that I in oluntarily "Thank you, sir." Perhaps it was fancy, but I th ught that in the look of mingled surprise paid some- thing like reproach which he gave me there was also a trace of grateful pleaeure. But he said, :in. that tone of spiritleas humility. these poor souls learn so.soon,-- I ain't a white man, ma'am,II'm a con- traband," "Yes, I knowit ; but a cOntraband is a free man, and I heartily /congratulate you." He lihedthat ; his face shone, he squared a his shoulders, lifted his head, and looked. me full in the eye with a brisk- " Thank ye-, ma'am ; anything more to do fer yer s" "Doctor Franck thought you would help me with this ma,n,as there are many patients and few nurses or attendants. Have you had the fever ?" "No, ma'am." " They should have thought of that when they put him here; wounds and fevers should not be together. I'll try to get yeti moved." He laughed a sudden laugh -if he had been a white man I should have called it scornful; as he was a few shades darker than myself, I suppose it must be consider- ed an insolent, or, at let, areennina,nnerly one. "It don't tatter, ma'am. I'd rather be up here witt- the fever than down with those niggers;.and there ain't no other place for me." Poor fellow ! that was true. No ward in all the hospital would take him in to lie side by side with the most miserable white wretch there. , Like the bat in aEsop's fable, he belonged to neither race ; and the pride of one, the helplessness of the other, kept himlovering alone in the twilight a great sin has brought to overshadow the *hole land. \ " You shall stay, then ; for would far rather,have you than my lazy Jack. But are you well and strong enough?" "1 guess I'll do, ma'am." He spoke with a positive sort of acqui- escence -as if it did not much matter, if he were not able, and no one would particular- ly rejoice if he were. "Yea, I think you will. By what name shall I call you ?" " Bob, ma'am." Every woman has her pet whim; one of mine was to teach the men self-respeet by treating thein respectfully. Tom, Dick and Harry., would pass, when lads rejoiced -in those lamiliar abbreviations; but to address men often old enough to be my father in that style did not suit my old-fashioned ideas of propriety. This "Bob'' would never da; I should have found it as easy to call the chaplain "Gds" as my tragical-look- ins- contraband by .a title so strongly associ- ated with the tail of a kite. 'What is your other name ?" I asked. "I like to call attendants by their last names rather than by their first." "I've got no other, ma'aen ; we have our master's names or do without. Mine 's dead, and I won't have anything of his about me." " Well, I'll call you Robert, then, and you inay fill thi,s pitcher for me, if you -will be so He went; but, through all the tame obedi- ence years of servitude had :taught him I could see that the proud spirit his father gave him was not yet subdued, for the look and gesture -with 'Which he repudiated his master's name were a more effective declara- tion of independence than any Yourth-of- July orator could have prepared. We spent a curious week together. Rob- ert,seldom left his room, except. upon my errands ; and I was a prisoner all day, often all night, by the bedside of the Rebel. The fever burned itself rapidly away, for there seemed little vitality to feed it in the feeble frame of this old young man, whose life had been none of the most righteous, judging from the revelations made by his unconsci- ous lips ; since more than once Robert au- thoritatively silenced him when my gentle hushings were of no avail, and blasphemous wauderiugs or ribald camp -songs made my cheeks burn and Robert's face assume an aspect of disgust. The captain was a gentleman in the world's eye, but the contraband was the gentleman in mine was frantic, and that accounts for such depravity of taste, I hope. I never asked Robert of himself, feeling that somewhere there was a spot too sore to bear the slightest touch; but, from his language, manner and intelligence, I inferred that his color had procured for him the few advan- tages within the reach of ti quick-witted indly treated slave. Silent, grave and thoughtful, but more rviceable, was my contraband; glad of the oks I brought him, faithful in the per- rmance of the duties assigned- to him, itteful for the friendliness I could not but 1 and show toward him. Often I longed askwhatpurpose was so visibly altering . aspect with such daily deepening gloom. never dared, and. no one else had her time or desire to pry into the past of s specimen of one branch of the chivalrous F. F. Vs." On the seventh night Doctor Frans ck sug- e . nee, k .. eyes fixed on the bare wall opposite, so pt in some absorbing thought M to be se onf;cious of my presenCe., though the bo *r stdod wide open and my motions were for no means noiseless. His face was half gr . _ doc- fee tor's taste, for the profile wl 1 . aaw psis- to sassed all the attribuces of coineliness belong- his ing to his mixed race. He was more quadroon than mulatto, with eit . • Saxon features, Spanish complexion darken- , thi ed by, exposure, color in lips and cheek, ; " waving hair; and an eye full of the compas= 1 _ gested that it would be well for soMe one, 1 besidee the general watchman. of. the ward, I to be with the captain,. as it might be his last. Although the greater part of the two preceding -nights had been spent there, of course I offered to remain -for there is a Arange fascination in these scene, which renders one careless of fatigue and unconsci- ous of fear until the crisis is passed. "Give him water as long as he drink, and if he drops into a natural sleep it may save him. I'll look in at midnigh , when some change will probably take plac . No- thing but sleep or a miracle will ke p him now. Good night." Away went the doctor; and, devo ring a whole mouthful of grapes, I lowered the lamp, wet the captain's heads and sat down on a hard stool to begin my watch. . The captain lay with his hot, haggard face turn- ed toward. me, filling the air with his poi- sonous breath, and feebly muttering, with lips and tongue so parched that the sanest speech would have been difficult to ' under- stand. . Robert was stretched on his bed in the in- ner room, the door of which stood ajar, that a fresh draught from his open window might carry the fever fmnes away through mine. eould just see a long, dark figure, with the lighter outline of a face, and, having little else to do then, I fell to thinking of this curious contraband, who evidently prized his freedom highly, yet seemed in no haste to enjoy it. Doctor Franck had offered to send him on to safer quarters, bat he had "No, thank yer, sir, not yet," and then had gone away to fall:into one of those black 'moods of his, which began to disturb me, because I had no power to lighten them, As I sat listening to the clocks from the steeples all about us, I amused myself with planning Robert's future, as I often did my own, and had dealt out to Man a generous hand of trumps wherewith to play thie game of life, which hithertoshad gone so orue/ly against him, When a harsh, choked voice called- " Lncy !" It was the captain and some new terror seemed to have gifted him with momentary strength. "Yes, here's Lucy," I answered, hoping that by following the fancy I might quiet him, -for his face 'VMS damp with the clam- my moisture, and his frame shaken with the nervous tremor that so often precedes death. ';His dull eye fixed niacin me, dilating with a ;bewildered look of incredulity and wrath, till he broke out fiercely- " That's a lie! she's dead, -and so 's Bob, damn him!" / Finding speech a failure, I began to sin the quiet tune that had often soothed delir um like this, but hardly had the line " See gentle patience smile on pain," passed my lips, when he clutched ine b the wrist, whispering, like one in mort lea4I-ush ! she used to sing that way 'Bob, but she never would tea. erne. I swor I'd whip the Devil out of lien; and I did lout you know before she cut her throat sh .said she'd haunt me, and there she is !" He pointed behind me with an aspect o ,such pale dismay, that I involuntarily, glan -ed over my shoulder and started as if I ha .seen a veritable ghost; for peering from th gloom of that inner room, I saw a shadow lace, with dark hair all about it, and ,glimpse of scarlet at the throat. An instant showed me that it was onl Robert leaning from his bed's foot, wrappe in a gray army blanket, with his red shir just visible above it and his long hair dis ordered by sleep. But what a strange e pression was on his face 1 The unmarre side was toward me, fixed and motionlesi when I first observed it -less absorbed now but more intent. His eyes glittered, hi lips were apart like one who listened wit every sense, and his whole aspect reminde me of a hound to which wind had brough the ecent of unexpected pvey. "Do you know him, Robert? Does h mean you ?" Lord, no, ma'am ; they all own half -a dozen Bobs; but hearin' my name woke me that's all." He spoke quite naturally, and lay doWn again, while I returned to my charge, think ing that this paroxySm- was probably hi last. But by another hour I perceived hopeful change for the tremor had subsid ed, the cold Clew was gone, his breathin was more regular, and Sleep, the healer had descended to save or take him gentl away. Doctor Franck looked in at midnight bad me keep all cool and quiet, and no fail to admthister a certain draught as soo as the captain woke. Very much relieved I laid my head on my arms, uncomfortabl folded on the little table, and fancied I was about to perform one of the feats whic practice renders impossible, - " sleepin arith one eye open," as we say; a half -and half doze, for all senses sleep but that o hearing ; the faintest murmur, sigh or mo tion will break it, and give one back one' wits much brightened by the brief per mission:to "stand at ease." - al to f a as11 On this night the experiment was .a fail- ure, for previous vigils, confinement, and muth care had rendered naps a dangerous indulgence. Having roused half a dozen times in an hour to find all quiet, I dropped my heavy head on my arms, and, drowsily resolving to look up again in fifteen minutes, fell fast asleep. The striking of a deep -voiced clock woke me with a start. "That is one," thought I, but, to my dismay, two more strokes fol- lowed, and in remorseful haste I sprang up to see what harm my long oblivion had done. - A strong hand put inc back into my seat, and held. me there. It was Robert. The instant my eyes met his my heart be- gan to beat, and all along my nerves tingled that electric flash which fortells a danger that we cannot see. He was very pale, his mouth grim, and` both eyes full of sombre fire, -for even the wounded one was open now, all the more sinister for the deep scar above and below. But his touch was steady, his voice quiet, as he saicl,- " Sit still, ma'am.; I won't hurt yer, nor even scare yer, if .can help it, but yer waked too soon.' "Let me go, Robert -the captain is /stir- ring -I must give him something." "No, ma'am, yer can't stir an inch. Look here V' Holding me with aue hand, with the other he took up the glees in which I had left the draught, and showed me- it was empty. " Has he taken it ?" I .asked, more and more bewildered. "1 flung it out o' winder, ma'am; he'll have to do without." "But why, Robert ? Why Aid you do it ?" "Because I hate him !" Impossible to doubt the truth of tit; his whole face showed it,as he spoke through his set teeth, and launched a fiery glance at the unconscious captain. I could only hold my breath and stare blankly at him,wonder- ing what mad act was coming next. suppose I shook and turned white, as women have a foolish habit of doing When sudden danger daunts them; for Robert re- leased my arm, sat down upon the bedside just in frontof me, and said, with the omin- houeasrq,lietude that made me cold to see and "Don't yer be frightened, ma'am; don't try to run away, fer the door 's locked and the key in my pocket: don't yer cry out, fer yer hi have ter scream a long while, with my hand on yer mouth, before yer was heard. Be still, an' I'll tell yer what I'm goni. to do. "Lord help us! He has takeu the fever in some sudden, violent way, and is out of his head. I must humor him till some one f comes," in parsuance of 'such swift deterrni- s nation I tried to say, quite composedly,- " I will be stilt and hear you; but open Window. Win did you shut it 1" "I'm ;ferry I can't do it, ma'am; but yer'd jump out, or call, if I did, and I'm not ready yet. I shut it to make yer sleep, an' the heat -would do it quicker'n anything else r could do.". he The captain moved, and feebly muttered. "Water 1" Inst1nctive1y I arose to give it to him, but the her.vy hand came down upon my shoulder, and in the same decided tone Robert said,- " The water went with the physio; let him call." " Do let me go to him; he'll die without "I .1"inea,n he shall -don't yer interfere, if yer please, ma'am' 1) In spite of his quiet tone and respectful manner, I saw murder in his eyes, and turn- ed faint with far; yet the fear excited rile, and, hardly I knowmg what I did, I seized the hands that had seized me, cry- ing,- 1` No, no, you shall not kill him! It is. base to hurt a heltiless man. Why do you hate him? He is aotyour master." "He's my brother.', I felt that answer from head to foot, and 1 4 seemed to fathom lvhat was corning, v,ith a prescience vague, but unmistakable. One appeal was left to me, and I made it. Robert, tell Me what it means. Do not camera a crime and make me accessory to it. There is a better way of righting wrong than by violence; let me help you find it." My voice trembled as I spoke, and I heard the frightened flutter of my heart' --so did he, and if any little act of mine had ever won affection or resipect from him, the mem- ory- of it served me then. He looked down, and seemed to put some question to himself; whatever it was, the ranswer was in my f vor, for when his eyes ose again, they wee gloomy, but not des- perate. "1 will tell you, ma'am; but mind, this makes no difference ; the boy is mine. I'I give the Lord a chance to take him first; if He don't, I shall." "Oh, no ! Remember he is your brother !" An unwise speech: I felt it as it passed my lips, for a. black frown gathered on Rob- ert's -face, and his strong hands closed with an ugly sort of grip:. But he did not touch the poor soul gasping there behind him, and seemed content to it the slow suffocation of that stifling room end his frail life. "I'm not like to forget that, mahlm,when I've been thinking of it all this week. I knew him when they -fetched him in, and would 'a' done it long 'fere this, but I want- ed to ask where Lucy was ; he knows -he told to -night -an' now he's done for." " Who rs Lucy ?" I asked, hurriedly, in- tent on keeping his mind busy with any thought but murder. . With one of the swift transitions of a mixed temperament like this, at my question Robert's deep eyes filled, the clenched hands were spread before his face, and all I heard were the broken words, - "My wife! he took her-" In that instant every thought of fear was swallowed up in burning indignation for the wrong, and a perfect pa.ssien. M pity for the desperate man so tempted to avenge an in- jury :for which there seemed no redress but this. He was no longer slave or contraband ; no drop of black blood marred him in my sight, but an infinite compassion yearned to save, to help, to comfort him. Words seemed 80 powerless I offered none, only put my hand on his poor head, wound- ed, homeless, bowed down with grief for which I had no cure, and softly smoothed the long neglected hair, pitifully wondering the while where was the wife who must have loved this tender-hearted man so well. The captain moaned again and faintly whispered "Air !" but I never stirred. God forgive me! Just then I hated him as only a woman thinking of a Sister woman's wrong could hate. Robert looked up; his eyes were dry again, his mouth grim. I saw that, and said, "Tell me more," and he did, -for sympathy is a gift the poorest may give, the proudest stoop to receive. (To be Coetinued.) • Lakelet. NEWS ITEMS. -We are much pleased to see Mrs. V. Halladay able to go around again. -Mr. William Clegg's daughter is very ill at present with whooping cough and brain fever. -Rev. J. Greene, of Gorrie, tied the knot between Miss A. Spotton and. Mr. A. Strong, of Qrange Hill, on February 28th -Mr. John MeConnell left this place for Dakota, on Tuesday. He will be missed by his many friends. -Mr. Gamble, of Dakota, is visiting his uncle, Mr. Hooey. - The social held at Mr. Wright's was very successful. The young people enjoyed thernselves, especially at the table. SAD ACCIDENT. -One of the most terrible accidents that ever happened in Howick, was the one that befel Mr. Bert Dulmage, second son of Mr. A. Dulma,ge, of Iakelet, on WednesdaWYebruary 28th. Bert while out hunting with his uncle and carrying his gun rather carelessly, having hold of the barrel, slipped off a log; he put out the other end to save himself, when the hammer struck the log, sending the whole discharge into bis right side below the ribs. Three doctors were present while Bert was under- going the operation. They removed 98 grains of shot, pieces of his garments and a large portion of his mitten, which was in his pocket. He lingered until Friday noon, when God in his infinite mercy took him to Himself. He gave many words of comfort, and left a bright testimony to those who mourn his loss. His death was a severe shock to all who knew him, and especially to his Public and High schoolmaster, as he was a general favorite. 31e was a very intelligent boy, as will be seen by his stand- ing at school, he holding a second-class cer- tificate at the age of seventeem He intend- ed to write for a first and also for matricu- lation in July. A large concourse of people attended his filneral on Sunday in Lakelet. His remains were interred in the Clifford -cemetery along with many more, who have one before them to await the resurrection morn. 1 Pleasantries. Bragg-" I am s. self-made man air. I began life as a barefOot boy." Jenks-" In- deed. ! Well I wasn't born with shoes on. either." " My muvver, shes French, she is, but I'm English, and so's my farver." An, what's yer little sister ?" " Dumw, she can't talk yet." -Judy. Teacher-" I am glad to see you take so much interest in chemistry." Bright boy- " Yeshre When I grow up I want to have a big candy store ancl maple syrup fac- tory:" Visitor-" So yoUr brother is taking lessons on the violin,. Is he making pro- gress ?" Little girl -h" Yes'm ; he's got ,so now we can tell whether he is tuning or playing." "18 this coffee ?" asked one visitor of an- other. "1 don't know," was the reply, as the speaker ruefully twirled the contents of his cup, " but there are certainly grounds for suspicion." Mr. Isaaes-" I sells you dot at a great sacrifice." Customet-" But you say that of all of your goods. How do you make a living ?" Mr. Isaacs-" Mein frient, I makes a small profit on the paper and string." 1 Mamma (reprovingly, Sunday)-" You told me you were going to play church." Little Dick-" Yeshri." "Then I'd like to know what all this loud laughing is about." "Oh, that's Dot and me. We're the choir." An artist gave his latest painting to a porter to carry to the academy. "Be care- ul, be careful !" said he, "the 'picture is carcely dry." "0, never mind !" ex- laimed the porter, "it's of no consequence at all, my clothes are old." • ▪ r'LL_ nen BRISTOL'S SARSAPARILLA CURES ALL Taints of the Blood. CERTAIN J. C. SMITH & CO. 33.A.1\TICIERS. A General Bemiring business transacted. Farmers' note i discounted. Drafts bought and sold. Interest allowed on deposits. SALE NOTES discounted,. or taken for alleotion OFFICE -First door north of Reil & Xileon's Hardware Store. SEP:FORTH. FOR MEN AND WOMEN. THE OWEN ELECTRIC BELT [Trado Mark] DE. A. OWEN. The only Scientific and Practical Electric Belt made for general use, producing a Genuine Current of Electlicity for the cute of Disease, that can be readily felt and regulated both in quantity and power, and applied to any part of the body. It can be worn at any time during working hours or sleep, and will positively cure Rheumatism, General Debility Lumbago, Nervous Diseases Dyspepsia, Varleoeele, Sexual Weakness ImpoteneY', Kidney Diseases, Lame Back, Urinary Diseates Electricity properly applied is fast taking the place of drugs for all Nervous, Rheumatic. Kid- ney and Urinal Troubles, and will effect cures In seemingly hopeless cases where every other known means has failed. Any sluggish, weak or diseased organ may by this means be roused to healthy activity before it is too late. Leading medical rnen -use and recommend the Owen Belt in their practice. OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Contains fullest information regarding the cure of acute, chronic and nervous diseases, prices, how to order, etc., mailed (sealed) FR EE to any address. The Owen Electric Belt & Appliance Co. 49 KING S. Wi. TORO NTO, ON% 201 to 211 State St.,'Chicaio, EL MENTION THIS PAPER. The Kippen Mills TO THE FRONT AS USUAL. The 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 flour from your own wheat, and better value for the money than in any other way. Good flour guaranteed. CHOPPING DONE WHILE YOU WAIT. The highest price in cash will be paid for geed logs, or they will be cut to order. All kinds of Lumber for sale, cheap JOHN McNEVIN, Proprietor. 1357-t f rUMSEINUCISSISIIIIIIIMOISMIIMMUSISIIIMIN.Sintrillall:S=1=11111MSNEW POWDERS Cute SICK HEADACHE and Neural* in no MINUTES, also Coated Tongue, Dizzi- ness, Biliousness, Pain in the Side,Constwatimi, Torpid Liver, Bad Breath. To stay cured and regulate the bowels. VERY RICE Do TAKE. PRICE 26 CENTS AT DRUG STORES* HAND -MADE Boots- and Shoes - D. Mci NTYR E 1115 011 hand a large number of Booteand Shoeof hit own make, best material and Warranted to give Satisfaction. you wantyour feet kept dry come and get a pale, o. our boote, which will be sold , CHEAP FOR OASH..1 Repairing promptly attended to. All kinchi of Beebe and Shoes made to order. All parties who have pot paid their accounts for last year will please call and eettle up. 1162 D. McINTYRE. beaforth. Plot.. it; the Wiald for Yozim.-, MPn 11 1111' Li SiTif.93 :El I 1 t :4 41, t•Ittirthand, Etc., i3 the 1.1)-;;11,1itcai.sliTr11;aLitZeglliTitit; W. F. JEWELL, Pre31.1en t. P.R. SPENCER, Seeretapr. Free, References: All Detriudt. MAN WANTED To take charge of Local Agency. Good opening for right man, on salary or commission. Whole or pnet time. We are the only growers of both Canadian and American stook. Nurseries at Ridgeville, Ont.; and Rochester, N. Y. Visitors welcome at grounds, (Sunday excepted.) Be quick and write for full in- formation. We went you now. BROWN BROS. Ob., Toronto, Ont. (This house as a reliable incorporated Company. Paid capital, $100,000,000.) 868x18 $3 a Day Sure. ., r aldaresya; d 1 will al lwill explain the business fuh). •"'acitu• make shthille work rinnd ysYO:wsfruryeee.1 ;on hoywofuurtontriork in the locality where you live. Send me your ''",hs anti J ber, I guarantee a clear profit of $3,- ..!ar feavielryto dua.ry;tos wtoedrkayt. absolutely are; awes Address A. W. KNOWLES, Windsor, Ontario, MARCH 16, 1894. South. End Clothing T=TOTTS... FOR OVERCOATS, READYMADE CLOTHING, SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR, HATS, OAPS, AND GENTS'- FUR- NISHINGS IN GEN- ERAL, TRY THE South End Clothing House. Remember, my priees are as low, if not lower, than any other House in the trade. SPECIAL - BARGAINS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Before purchasing, come and inspect my goods and prices. N. T. OLUFF, The South End Clothier. Wellington. Grey and Bruce. Genie, Noma-. Padenger. Mixed. 'Ethel- . - - - 3.00 le x. 9.30 r.m. 9.00r.x. Brussels-. - - 8.13 - 1.43 g. Bluentle..--- 8.27 957 10.10 Wingham- - .. 3.37 10.07 11.20 _ Goma 80nen- Paseenger. Mixed. Wingham .... .... 6.25 Aait.1.1.20 A. in 7.30 lex. Bluevale - ..8.87 11.85 8.1e Breissele.....- ...6.54 11.69 9.00 Ethel.. _ _ 7.08 12.14 2.30 London, Huron- a nd` Bruce, Genre NORTE- Passenger. London, depert........- - 8.261.x. bore P.AI, Exeter 9.29 6.18 Bonsai.. .. 9.42 6.81 Nippon 947 8.36 Brucelleld........ ...... 9.55 6.41 . Clinton.- . ...... -. ... 10.12 7,00 Londesboro 4..... ...... .. 10.29 -7.19 Blyth.... - ..I. ........ - .. 10.98 7.28 Belgrave....1... . 10.52 7.42 Wingham arrive- .... 11.10 &05 Genoa SOUTH- - Passenger Winghant, depart.- - - - 6.40Aat. 8.45s.X. eBelgetave ...... . .. ....... .. 0.55 Coe Blyth.... ... . ...... ..7.08 4.20 Londesbo7.15 4.28, Clinton' . . .. -.............7.45 4.4a Bruosteld ..... ......... .. 8.05 6.06 Nippon.. ........ ..... .... 8.18 US Hensall 8.22 5.18 Exeter- ... &40 6.80 Grand Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton staBon as follows: Gonna Wiir- Psusenger - 0•01r Passenger... - Mixed - Mixed Train.. Goias Rear - Passenger. .. Paasenger Mixed Tram.. Freight Train.. - &WORTH. CLINTON. N Lin r. m, 1.28 a. n. 9.06 r. m. 9.22 r. m. 9.80 A. II. 10.16A.x. 6.80 r. M. 7.06 lett. 7.545. et. 8.05 r. M. 6.25p 4.25 P. X 7.87&. It. 2.4fir. m 4--50 P. D. 3.85 . n the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILTAAM W. COOPER, DECEASED. Notice is hereby given pursuant to the statute in that behalf, that all persons having claims against the Estate of the said William W: Cooper, deceased, who died on or about the 20th day of September, A. A, 1893, arereqUired on or before the 24th day of March, A. D., 1894, to send by post. prepaid, or de- liver to J. M. Best, Seaforth, Solicitor for James Cooper, of the Township of Tuekeremith, fanner, the Administrator of the Estate of the said William W. Cooper, deceased, their . names and addresses, the particulars of their claims and the nature of the securities, (if any,) held by them, and after the said 24th day of March, 1894, the said Administrator will proceed to distribute the assets of the said Estate, among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which notice shall have been given as required, and the said Administrator will not he responsible for the said assets to any person of whose claim notice shall not have been received at the time of ouch distribution. cs J. M. BEST, Seaforth, f Solicitor for Administrator. Dated, 21st February, 1894. 1367-6 • Oenstethta. !is th el a test triumph in pharmacy f orthe cure $of all the symptoms indicating KIDNEY Ann- felvien uonaplaint. If you are troubled with Costiveness, Dizziness, Sour Stomach Headache, PadigestIon, POOR APPETITE, TIRED Fitnenena. hBJ.riMA1.10 PAINS, BleSpleSS Nighte, Melancholy Feeling, BA= Acme, Menahray's Kidney and liver Care . 11' h 4 • willeve immediate relief and Eklf MACH"... Sold at all Drug Stores, Mcmbnety Medicine Company of lreterberer.Vis PETERBOROUGH, . ONT. For sa e by L V. FEAR, druggist, Seaforth. 04113111Imulh John S. Porter's I Undertaking and Furni- ture Emporium, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION. Funerals furnished on the shortest notice and satisfaction g-ui anteed. A large assort- ment of Caekets, Coffins and Shrouds, leo., e always on hand of the best quality. The testi of Embalming Fluid aged fret of charge and a prieee the lowest. Fine Hearse. fi. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resae denoe - GODERICH STREET, directly op- ; posite the Methodist chutch in the hone(' 3, formerly occupied by Dr. Stott. • Inaltall=11301111. • The Old Established. BROADFOOT'S Planing Mill and Stievand Door Factory, EtM_ES..FORT'JEE- Thin old and well-known establishment is din - running at full blast, and now has better facilities - than ever before to turn out a good article for a moderate priee. Sash and doors of all patterne al- ways on hand or made to order. Lumber dressed on short notiee and in any way desired. All kinds of lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Shingles kept - constantly on hand. tetimatee for the furnishing. of buildings in whole or in part given on application. None but the beet of material used and workman. ship guaranteed. Patronage solicited,. 1260 J, If; BROADPOOT, Seaforth * Brings Qom 5 -mils to pe rightly ter than )iher lese cxpf.-)ndi adapting the the weds cf the value to Ii-i'e pr ren1e(1,y, S,yrn Its cc.-cllen 111 forla 3-43 t!,e tn..% benc6cial prt ctivC; cetu dir.pki!ling co!, cncl gi with t; prcfession, bo 21CTII, Liver a ening thc,m. every. objeeti Syrup F gittn JI 3.cCe?t a113 Women Ar 4Where:are few promise more fn the architect an ' As the woraa,r seems only natn know how best indeed, it is evil timat-e province' their attention and others are the business- e should be, and i that before lo ranged and mor those in which I live. There are th that the man w tion of the ince never seems to I should not be 0 cellar -wall as w and provision ni question, for .P1 she is coming ix and builder of e homes, ancl sue theoretical knol cal information] let us hope thal comfort is no chiteetural efft of more impor and where roe, eighth to seven1 every room nee of a,fault in adj artment. of a room mean pense ifl carP.et curve means au ing, all of whic for any other tl fitted, This is portance to the quent moving r erings that is a purses. A great deal is wasted in an be utilized as el too, it will be t ehiteet to refe ,least, and give 'conveniences 0 inc the need. True F1'owA A darkened i woman und.erg of unntterable , of the future hi She suffered ag iness of the ilea of any coming low knock at tl "Awake M tones. "Yes," in& "Oh, I've so up high she he: the letters Y. 1 actere. "Les Geddes sent it out with tend drew the fragr, tied with wi among their he white card ) ihessage that 11 the desponclen, "Fear thou] not dismayed ' strengthen t I will uphold my,rightectus Ob blessedeword" power new life thrill altanee. I Like a mees and months A., -with a exonfi of woe fell fro however, as clouds that 8 was triuxnpb caused by p istenee and bl ised strengthj A second t bedroom doo held aloft an the mission a mystical gold "Have n strong and o neither be thy God is .goest." Oh - word 'effectual pered them suring ea Still ano -emblem of p -congretula i „ eharaeter, • new wee of. " When .... known gent paid a visit aged man, knee breech the knees. him he too me fondly, he kindly thing spec. and rem