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TTIE HURON EXPOSITOR.
MARCH 04 1894.
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THE BROKEN CHORD.
BY A. H. MORRISON. '
CHAPTER I.
EVENING.
"Where's Tom ?" inquired gr. Brown,
senior, looking up from his \paper.. "1
haven't seen him this evening."
"I think he's in the tool house, John,"
• responded his wife. -
` Humph !" snorted her lesser -half, plung-
ing again into the financial columns, "1
suppose he's at that old violin again."
Mr. John Brown, senior partner in the
• firm of Brown' & Co. was a short, stout
man, with grey, ferret -like eyes, -rubicund
visage, and sandy hair, slightly shining on
top, and seamed here and there with silver.
He was a practidal man, a grocer, with a
snug little sum in the funds, anti a praise-
worthy ambition to add perennially thereto.
Mrs. Brown, his wife, was a meek little
woman, with great, tender, brown eyes, and
soft brown hair, likewise streaked here and
there with silver. She was a good house-
wife, but not of as practical a turn as her
husband, and, as long as the family were
comfortable and above want, cared little
'whether the funds aforementioned were add-
ed to or not.
Tom, their eldest born, was a bright, good
looking young fellow of two-and4wenty,
just home from college. Physically, he
was of the same fair type as his father, only
taller, slimmer and handsomer. Intellectu-
ally andaesthetically, he was his very con-
verse, „his mental antipodes, with e strong
distask for the shop, a lofty disregard for
accunaulated " bawbees " and a love for
music and the violin, which promised to be-
come the ruling passion of his life.
There. was yet another- member of the
family, at . present engaged, with eyes de-
murely cast down'in working a pair of
worsted slippers for her brother Tom.
Jessie, the only. daughter, a sweet, pink.
and -white rosebud of nineteen, with eyes
and hair like her mother's, a quiet though
cheerful disposition, and a belief in and rev-
erence for Tom, that.- amounted to a cult, a
sort of tacit fetish worship.
It appeared strange to some interested
people, who are always wondering at the
peauliaritiee of other People, having none of
their own, that the eldest hope of the house
of Brown had not been named John after his
father, and there were all sorts of romantic
and tragic stories current about the reason.
The simple truth was, however, that. Tom's
father had an aversion to his own mono-
syllabic Christian name. It was the only
thing, he declared, about the Brown's, ex-
cept Tom's unhappy penchant for fiddling,
and callousness to the acquisition of filthy
lucre, that he did not like. .-
" I think it's time that boy:began to think
of something else besides fiddling," remark-
ed pater families presently, again lowering
his paper, and permitting his ruddyvisage
to shine over it in the direction of his wife.
"What's the use of a college training, if
he's going to waste it among shavings and
eat -gut? I believe you encourage him in
his idleness, Maria."
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"1! Why, John ?"
"Yes, yes. I know what you are going
to say. I've heard it a hundred times be-
fore; youth and talent and inclinations and
all that'sort of thing. But youth and tal-
ent and inclinations '11 never make money
and a position. They never did anything
for me." -
"Why, John," expostulated his wife
again, with a quiet smile. "'Tis some-
thing unusual to hear you run yourself down
so."
" Eh ! What do you mean? I run my-
self clown! I never did such a thing in my
life."
"You said just now you never had talent
or inclinations."
"Pshaw ! You know what I mean well
enough."
. And once more tile sandy poll of the seni-
or patner in the firm of -Brown & Co. bobbed
down behind the price of stocks and rise in
sugars.
Meanwhile the subject of these remarks
was busy in Chiselling away at a sounding
board in the little tool -house back of the
kitchen. It had long -been the ambition of
Tom's young life to construct a violin of his
pwn, and with. the assistance of a friend Who
had had some practice in musical instriunent
inaking, backed by great mechanical ability
and inclubitahle perseverance on hi own
part, he.had at length Succeeded in almost
ompleiing an instriunent whieh 'had been
ronounced by more than one connoisseur a
friars -el of constructive skill for an aniateur
yhe had no practice In violin -making, and it
Was the pride of all the .famiry, except the
bstina,te, practically --minded head of .,the
louse.
,! Tom whistled away softly to himself as he
firr, ked, handlint,o- the tools tenderly, as
;hough they had been sentient things and
friends, stopping every now and then to
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ispect his accomplished work, fitting, mea
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ring, calculating, and all the time deeply
inmersed in thought. 'D
a There are some ,ntatures that elm think
nncurrently along Venal or treble lines.
Itch a nature was `NW& He whistled and
laned and chiseled, And thought of many
liings in combination. As in hishwn loved
usic, so with his nue'Vations. Thee was
s•st the sinsple air, the melody of thought -
le, his present work. Then there were the
oung aspirations of the neaf-future, when,
le present work accomplished, he should go
a first-rate master, ensi take real, set les -
ems, for hitherto he had been a mere trifler,
elf -taught, depending almost entirely upon
ie ear and fine instinct for direction. And,
lere was that ..other theme of all young,
rave, generous souls, the chord of love pul-
vg through the life melody and permeating
albeit in his case, with &strange and sub
--
*ed strain of pathos, unsatisfied dessire,and
et altogether too confident hope.
:•kle paused, looking down at his work sad -
and ceased whistling.
'Where was a gentle tap at the door, and
ting the latch, Jessie stepped into the
. '`Ah ! Jessie. Is it yo, s" said her bro-
er, ahonce resumii ,i,, 0 cell "See
t'e. I have almoss iisnalied the Violin.
ne little piece more ;innshali be done."
q' It is beautiful," sod 1 .icsene itepping up
-,"his side. ," I ani ,,c, ercu 31 of nt, .and of
is, dear."
He stoopel. and kissed her on tile fore -
ad.
" Barbara 'wasn't in to -night, was she ?"
presently enquired.
There was -en assumption of indifference
his question, that a certain little tremor
voice belied.
His sister noticed it, and replied quickly :
No, but she may be here yet. It's early,
ly 8 o'clock.",
Barbara Fishena near neighbor and bosom
end of Jessie, Jessie's other self and idol;
er her mother and Tom, was in the habit
dropping in .every Tuesday and Friday
ening to chat with the old people, to sme
jey a confidential:hen-hour with Jessie, and
to tease Tom, at least, 8o he° thought and
Maintained.
• She 'was a tall, regal -looking branette,
With the step .of an empress, eyes like stars
at midnight, and as noble and good as she
wee beautiful. •
, So everybody saidwith whom she came in
contact. In spite of her stately beauty and
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qr4en1y gait, she was modest?, gentle and
un4ssuming-, and as sympathetically kind. as
charity herself.
o everybody.said a,ncl doubtless thought.
Alnexeept Mr. Tom Brown. He, poor fol-
low, said nothing but thought a good deal,
sal the more he thought the more he be.
careperplexed,and the more he became
perplexed the more hopelessly did he become
entangled in the snare of Miss Barbara
Fisher's regal eharrns.
Ifi• was the chord of pathos in his harmony
of ltfe, the strange, eubdued plaint that was
need
so eloquent of unsatisfied desire and not al-
together toe confident hope.
For, kinak as she was to others, Barbara
was not always kind to him. He knew she
was beautiful and good, and sweet as any
damask rose -with the bloom of early sum-
mer oinite radiant Cheek -but kind!
Why did she tease him so and make mock
of his advances, sometimes ardent, some-
times bashful, but always loyal and sincere?
Why did she laugh at him with her eyes,
When her lips were discoursing all manner of
grave matter -of fact things?
Why, When her eyes were declaring as
plainly asl possible, "taint heart never won
fair lady," and flushing all sorts of chal-
lenges and encouragements, did her lips
turn traitor to her glances, and, denying
their supremacy, utter contradictory badin-
age of light disloyalties and coquetish trea-
sons!-
And, why should she persist in calling
him a boy, and ina,ke sport of that most au-
gust, undeniable sign of robustious and ag-
gressive manhood, his downy and cherished
moustache ?
Ali ! Tons.
There are more things in heaven and
earth than are dreamed of in Love's phil-
osophy.
Go on with thy life -harmony, thy violin,
thy prospective music -lore, and thy present
love -pathos. The first to -day, is thy com-
fort, and the last, the one detracting element
in thy dream of a perfect joy; yet, who can
see the end?
The unexpected is what happens in life.
Work on and wait, Tom. By-and-by the
end will be shaped by that Divinity that
shapes all things, rough hew them how we
will.
"1 shall go and see if Barbara is come,"
said Jessie.
"Wait a minute," said the young man,
.with a sigh. "1 shall put my work away
and come too. I feel strangely tiredto-
night."
CHAPTER II.
MORNING.
It was late summer, and the damask roses
were showering their crimson petals on the
garden walk just outside the door of the
little tool -house in which Tom was in the
habit of Working.
Barbara had not paid her customary visit,
after all that Tuesday evening, nor had • she
been at the house -since, and now it was Fri-
day. •
The work on- the violin had, moreover,
been interrupted. Tem had himself been
away from home, and had returned. late only
the night before. • But this morning he was
about to resume his occupation to be com-
pleted as he thought with a feeling of ela-
tion, before noon.
It was a lovely morning. Far away
acroas the meadows the blue mist Was yet
lagging above the rippling current of the
stream; that wound by banks of alder and
willow, past broad lily -padded stretches to
the lake beyond. As he gazed, Tom could
almost see the silver, sinuous band, with the
gray trout leaping up from its bosom and
falling back with a little flop and eddy into
the cool, pellucid flood.
Nearer, the early rooks cawed in the elm
tops, that, cowled in vapor, stood like Trap-,
pist monks at penance, silent and contem-
plative, by their- meadowed shrines, while,
nearer still, against the wall, the roses clus-
tered, laden with the dew, and every now
and then, as the breeze toyed among their
branches, showering to earth a nitorm of
moist and fragrant petals, like rubied. -rain
from clouds of emerald verdure.
As the young Man stood in the doorway,
lost in the contemplation of the beautiful
prospect, and inhaling great draughts of
fresh morning air, a light step approached.
from behind, and his sister Jessie entered.
the tool -house.
"Good morning, Tom," she said. "Why
you are up early.'
" Yes ; I wish to have a long forenoon's
work. The violin is to he finished to -day,
you know."
" How proud you will be when it is done.
There'll be no doing anything with yeu."
"No. I think I shall apply off -hand for
the position of first violin in some grand or-
chestra. Unfortunately, it is one thing to
make a violin, and quite another thing to be
able to play upon it well."
"1 suppose you'll take lessons at once,"
said Jessie, plucking
the thorns off a rose-
bud and inserting it in the bosom of her
dress.
"Yes. I wish father were not so averse
to music and literature and. all that. He
looks upon them as mere idle luxuries, and
those who love or practise them as very
drones and Bohemians, useless dillettantes
or worse. 'However, I shall manage to pay
for the lessons out of my allowance."
" You will learn rapidly, I am sure."
"It has been the dream of my life to be a
musician. . One of my dreams, I mean. • I
love music, and I think the violin the queen
of instruments. Yes, I think I shall learn
rapidly. 1 hkee a good ear, a light touch,
and can even now manipulate the bow toler-
ably well for a beginner who is entirely self-
taught."
"You said one of your dreams," interpos-
ed the young girl. "Have you, then, an-
other ?" -
"You know I have," returned he, gazing
earnestly at her.
" Oh ! that! Of course. I did not think
you meant that. Dear, dear .Tom, I hope
you maybe as successful in one as in the
other."
She put her :arms carressingly around him
and fondled him as a mother fondles her in-
fant.
" It is the only chord in my life that jars
upon me," said he, looking: tenderly down
into the sweet eyes that were uplifted to
his. -"All else is exquisite harmony; but
that, that is a discord, a chord out of tune.
Who knows, a broken chord, perhaps ?"
" No, no. Not that," said she, putting
her fingers over his mouth. "She is as true
as steel, and -only wait. I know she
likes you; respects you, and admires your
talent." •
"Why, then, does she mock me ?" broke
in the young man impetuously, "and laugh
at me ?"'
"Barbara is too good-hearted, too well-
bred, really, to laugh at any one:"
"Yes, openly and outright to one's face.
But her eyes laugh and make light of me.
They laugh even when her lips are set and
grave."
- "Toni, you are a very foolish boy. Have
you ever asked her whether -whether -o"
" No, never set in words. But I have
hinted and hinted, but whenever I thought
the opportunity had come and tried to tell
her -then-"
"Yes. What then ?"
"Her eyes prevented me. They said to
me as plainly as words, Don't make a fool
of yourself, Tom Brown. I am too fresh
and young and • beautiful for you, you poor,
plodding, grocer's son.' "
"Nonsense, Tom. You do her a gross in-
justice. It's all your own fault. You should
just hear her speak of you."
"It is pne thing to speak to one's sister,
and another to one's self," said Tom,dogged-
ly,- while something like a frown settled
upon his brow."
"Never mind, dear Tom; faint heart
never won fair lady. I do not know what
her deepest feelings are for you. It is the
only secret between us. I knowshe likes
you and thinks a great deal of you, but she
never drops a hint of anything farther.
rally her sometimes upowfier admirers, but
she is a strange girl in some ways, and will
brook no conversation on such a topic.
She invariably drops it, or turns it, -and,you
know, even with those she loves she has a
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way -e ,
"A way that plainly says, Thus far shalt
thou go and no farther," completed the
young man with a bitter laugh. "Oh, Yes.
I know it well."
"Don't call it a broken chord, Tom,
dear," said the sweet voice appealingly,
" because it hurts me. You are too young
to have broken chords in your life yet.
Only wait patiently and persevere, and it
will, perhaps, turn out like the violin; one
day to be completed: Fancy the trouble and
labor and failures you have had, and,today,
'it is all but finished."
"And if one mistress turns out a &sap-
_ pointrisent, why, there is another to make
amends." He lifted the violin caressingly,
and placing it in position, made as if he
would have played upon it.
"There are many disappointments in life,
Tom," said his sister, "and the brave man is
he who meets them and lives them down.
Who knows, our bitterest disappointments,
like angels in disguise, may turn out to be
our greatest blessings !"
- CHAPTER III.
NOON.
"What has happened, Tom? Why are
you so white ?"
" Hush ! Where's mother ?" Tom, Who
stood in the doorway of the little room with
hhiasu..hat on, looked furtively round the apart-
ment, and then beckoned his sister into the
"Jessie, I have met with an accident. I
shall have to go to the doctor at once.
Don't say anything to mother till I come
back."
" Oh, Tom ! What is it ?" The sweet
lips were quivering, and the great brown
eyes were filled with tears.
"The chisel slipped just as I was putting
the finishing touches to the bridge, and I
'have cut my hand severely, the left hand. I
have bound it as well as I could, but I must
have medical aid at once. There, don't cry,
dnar. 'Tis nothing."
"The girl had obtained possession of the
wounded hand, swaddled in linen, through
which the blood was slowly oozing, and was
patting and caressing it with moans and
tears, and terms of endearment.
"Run, Tom. Run Tom, dear Don't
delay an instant. Oh! Do be quick.
say nothing to mother."
She opened the door and pushed him
gently out, and stood looking after him, -
wringing her hands, as he strode away down_
the sidewalk.
It was not far to the doctor's -not the
family doctor -he lived several blocks away
-but a stranger, who had lately settled in
the same street. He was, fortunately, at
home, a fresh, fair, good-looking young fel-
low, not unlike Tom himself, with an eye
and manner that inspired confidence, and
bespoke both nerve and. skill:
"An ugly cut," said he, examining the
wound, from which the bandages had been
removed. "How did you do it ?"
"With a chisel. I was finishing a violin.
The wood turned in my hand, the chisel
slipped, and this is the result."
Humph !" ejaculated the doctor, looking
up into the face of his patient. " Do you
play the violin ?"
" Only a little by ear; but I intend to
study 1111181.0."
51 This is your left hand," said the doctor,
bending low over the 3wounded member.
"1 fear the leaders are cut, at least of the
little and second fingers, and I shall have to
.sew them."
"The leaders?" faltered Tom.
The doctor answered nothing, but busied
himself with his task, which was, ere long,
deftly and skilfully accomplished.
"Are you very fond of music -of the vio-
lin. ?" inquired the doctor at the conclusion
of the operation, as Tom sat itt his chair,
pale, silent and thoughtful.
" Verypassionately fond of it," he re-
plied.
"And you have made this violin your-
self ?" pursued the other.
"Entirely -myself, and I hoped to play
my first tune upon it to -night, or to -morrow,
but now-. It will be some time now, I
suppose, before I shall be able to use my
left hand 7" ;
Again the young doctor was silent. He
moved to a desk which occupied one side of
the little surgery, and stood for a moment
fidgeting with some loose papers thereon.
• Presently he turned.
"Would it be a great disappointment if
you should never learn to play upon the vio-
lin ?" he asked, with a strange shade of
pathos in his voice, Tom thought.
"Why, what do you mean ?" replied Tom,
looking up curiously into the face of his in-
terlocutor.
The young doctor was now standing full
in front of him, looking down thoughtfully
at him, with an expression of pathetic sym-
pathy in his eyes that was not lost upon
Tom. Laying his hand kindly upon his pa-
tient's shoulder, he asked:
"Can you hear to put up with a greet
disappointment ?"
." I -I ---hope so," faltered poor Tom. "I
have had disappointments before, and have
outlived them," and, like a flash, his
thoughts went back to the regal form and
dancing eye of his divinity.
"Because," continued the doctor, slowly
and. kindly, •` you may never be able to play
upon the violin now. The leaders , are cut,
you see, and your little finger, at any rate,
shill always be stiff. You will not be able
to manage the fingering."
There was utter silence in the little sur-
gery for a space. Only the ticking of the
clock, through the half open door leading
into the next room, could be heard, but it
was strangely loud and distinct.
Tick, tick, tick, -the dewy morning -tide
of life and hope, -it said. Tick, tick, tick,
-an hour has flown, the sun is high, and
dove is born, and hope goes forth with high
ambition. Tick, tick, tick, -how golden is
the glint of the sunshine on the work of life
begun! Tick, tick, tick, -the first disap-
pointment. Tick, tick, tick, --not gold but
silver now, where the shadows lengthen.
Tick. tick, tick, -love has gone home, for it
is colder, grayer, bleaker than before and
hope is old, and ambition wasted. ;;;Tick,
tick, tick, -the dusk, the dark, the outer
void!
With something like a groan of anguish,
Tom rose from his chair to go.
"Don't fret about it. Don't take it too
much to heart," said the good-natured
young doctor, as he accompanied Tom to the
door. "It might have been much -.worse
than it is, even if it should turn out as I
fear. Well, my dear fellow, there is other
music in life besides- that of the violin."
Other music in life'other music in life,
other music in life. He walked to the re-
frain, marching to it as it were, in the di-
rection of home, where, in the doorway,
stood Jessie, pale as Tom himseltexpectant,
eagerly watching.
"My darling Tons. Is it all right? Have
you had it tended? What does the doctor
say?"
He stood for a moment in the slanting
sunlight, looking down into her beautiful
eyes, even now dimmed with tears, that, in
apite of her, would have their way, and
welled slowly up and. out.
. He stooped and gravely kissed them, her
eyes and lips, and then straightened himself
again, and looked 'up to the blue sky and the
sunlight
"What does the doctor say ?" he repeat-
ed. "He says, dear, that there is other
music in life. other music in life, and we
inust find it."
She knew what he meant., With a wo-
man's quick instinct, she had already divin-
ed the danger, the possible outcome of that
cruel slip.
She drew him into the hall, and putting
her arms about him, laid her head on his
shoulder and cried there quietly for a while.
Then she dried her tears, and taking his un-
injured hand in hers, led him toward the
sitting-roon.
"Come, dear," she said. "We will not
fret any more. There is, indeed, other
music in life, and, together, we will find it.
CHAPTER iv.
The rosea clustered outside, and showered
their crimsra petals downward. The soft,
slumberous veil of the gloaming was be
ning to droop above the river bend, w
the alders and willows stood by the br
lily-padsthat had flaunted in the sunsh
and the gray trout had leapt and shimm
in the ,inornmg light; the sable rooks w
slowly winging their homeward way tow
the mist -cowled elms that did their Trap
penance at the shrines of the daisy-bro
ed meadows; and, against the wall,
roses sent up their silent evening orisons
the hush, the purple, and the gloaming
in the morning they had offered their r
chalices of dew at the altars of virgin da
The do& leading from the kitchen i
the little tool -house opened gently
noiselessly, and a female figure, clad in
gray, clinging drapery, glided into
shadow•of the room, a figure tall and re
yet with the supple grace of a woodl
nymph. She stood for a moment by
threshold, as if listening, and then loo
cautiously round.
Ah! yes. It was there.
Swiftly and silently in the uncertain lig
that momentarily became more obscured,
glided to the bench upon which, untouc
since the accident Of the morning, had 1
the violin.
No one had been near it. It would h
broken Tom's heart to behold the idol t
bled from its throne, and as for Jessie -w
she was her brother's counterpart, his ec
It was rarely that anyone else ever ea
near the tool -house.
The gray figure stood with arms f
length before her, and hands clasped
front, silently regarding the violin.
Was it the embodied wraith of the hest
ment gazing at Ail own inert, forsaken ah
Was it the ghost of the music that n
could never well forth from its vibrat
strings to the touch of the maker, griev
over its untimely fate' Or was it the sp
of the broken 'chord. of that maker's 1
harmony, that stood, surrounded by
dusk and the rose -glamour, contemplat
the unfinished cenotaph of that maker's h
ambitious hopes.
There was a sound, as of a stifled s
strangely human, strangely womanlike, a
the gray figure stooped and laid her wh
taper fingers tenderly on the neglected
strument, and there followed a subd
murmur of words.
"Poor boy! Poor dear fellow Wh
oh! what has happened? How shall he
comforted ?"
The gray dusk deepened around the gr
form by the bench, while in the corners
the room the shadows loomed blackly.
' Again there was a sound as of someone
the door.
The figure by the bench started and tu
ed, and her eyes fell on another gray fig
that filled the entrance, tall, erect like h
melt yet indistinct in the gloaming, b
with one arm, the left arm, supported by
is that you? What are you do -
ng here aIone in the dark 1"
He had entered the room, and was ap-
proaching the bench.
" didn't think anybody had been here
before, tedday," he sontinued. "1 myself
ould not bear it before, in the light and the
unshine, but I thought perhaps-"
He ended abruptly, for he had approach -
d the figure closely now, and it was not
sTessie.
"Miss -Miss -Fisher," he stammered,
I -I beg your pardon. I did not kitew-)1
He stopped in evident confusion.
She had taken a step forward.
" I am Miss Fisher to my associates in the
unshine ; to my friends in sorrow, I ax*
imply Barbara," she said, gently.
What was there in her voice, her pre
nee, that he had not recognized befor
Why was she there at all, and now?
The roses outside flung in a sweet burst
f fragrance, and as it played about the
oung man's brow, it seemed fraught with. a
message, the message he had heard outside
efore, that day, "there is other music in
ife, other mimic in life."
" Jessie told me of your accident, and
our -your-" she could not go on.
Again came in the sweet breath of the roses
" Oh ! I am so sorry," she said, " so very
orry. I have no words to tell you how
orry I am."
What was that in her voice?
The music of life was being played as of
ore. It was full and strong in the young
an's ears -strong and as palpable to the
utward sense as the perfume of the roses in.
he air, as the magic of the stately presence
efore him; but where was now the discord?
hat one hope of a life had become this day
educed to a minor key, and now another
ope, another melody was intermingling
ith the music, and making itself felt
hrough and above the variations that wove
hemselves in billows of sound -feeling about
is listening senses.
And there was no broken chord, but per -
et harmony,
"Miss Fisher, -Barbara," he began, "1
ould not live to -day over again for wealth
ntold. I think I have verily passed through
e valley of the shadow, but this moment
ekes amends."
She had come nearer to him, and he could
mly see her eyes in the dusk lifted to-
ards his, but in their depths, the old-time
ughter had died away, and in its place
as a pathos and a pity that emboldened
m to go on.
"Oh, Barbara! I have lost one love. It
ver can be mine now." There was a
orld of feeling in his voice, pathos unutter-
le in the dejected droop of his head. He
t a hot tear fall upon his hand. "! I have
t one love. You, of all women on earth,
n tell inc whether I am to lose or hold an -
her."
She had come entirely to him and was
stling by his side.
Outside, the roses showered. their fragrant
tals downward, the dusk deepened into
e night, the cowled elms watched in the
a.dows by the river brink where the lilies
pt; but, inside'the unfinished violin lay
on the bench before the two gray 'figures
ts mission accomplished, its music gone
into all the spheres.
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[THE EltD.]
•
School Report.
No. 4, MoKunon.-The following shows
the 'standing of the pupils of School Section
No. 4, McKillop, for the month of March:
Senior 4th -L. Lawrence, M. Campbell, G.
Hogg. Junior 4th -S. Beattie, L. Hender-
son A. Kerr. Senior 3rd-Essie Beattie,
A. Lawrence, M. Beattie. Junior 3rd -M.
Murdie, W. Kerr, W. Scott. Second -Tilly
Scott, Louie Beattie. H. Dorrance. Part
2nd senior -Harold Lawrence. Part 2nd,
junior -Alex. Wright, S. McIntosh, Russel
McIntosh. 1st Class -Russel Dorrancee
John Gordon, William Shannon, Albert
B ulger.
TIO_HS ®
LITTLE PEOPLE.
South End Clothing
FiCiTTS-Ri
NEW SPRING GOODS
CLOTHING.
We have a large assortment of.
Men's, Youths' and Children's Ready.
made Clothing at very low prices;
also some exceptionally fine goods for
Snitings and Pants at rock bottom
prices for the Spring frade.
HATS HATS
New Spring styles in all the leading
shapes and makes. Also the finest
stock of Soft Felts.
GENTS FURNISHINGS.
All the latest novelties in Shirts
Neckwear, Gloves, etc., at the lowes
prices, just opened out for the Spring
season.
liarlDrnderwear at greatly reduced
prices.
INSPECTION IN VITED.
-FOR- N. T. CLUFFN
BIGPEOPLE. The South Rnd Clothier.
Shoes to Shoe the World
Almost.
Don't invest in Shoes until you
have examined our new Spring stock.
Never before has there been such
lovely Shoes far so Iittle money.
Hats and Caps for men and boys.
Groceries, Crockery, China, Glass-
ware, Tinware. Trunks and Valises
for everybosly at lowest prices.
Butter anal Eggs wanted.
COOD BROTHERS,
SIIAPORTH.
J. C. SMITH 86 CO.,
13_A_W3KMPIS_
A General Banking business trausaeted.
Farmers' notes discounted.
Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits.
SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for
allection
OFFICE -First door north of Reid &
71/son's Hardware Store.
SS/WORTH.
e 9 See that horse?
_
A Whole Temperance Sermon.
The following story is told of General
Harrison in connection with a public dinner
given him on one occasion: "At the close
of the dinner one of the gentlemen drank his
health. The general pledged his toast by
drinking water. Another gentleman offer-
ed a toast and said: "General, will you
not favor nie by taking a glass of wine? The
General, in a very gentlemanly way, begged
to be excused. He was again urged to Join
in a glass of wine. This was too much. He
rose from his seat and said in the most dig-
nified manner: "Gentlemen, I have twice
refused to partake of the wine -cup; I hope
that will be sufficient. Though you press the
matter ever so much, not a drop shall pass
my lips. I made a resolve when. I started
in life that I would avoid strong drink.
That vow I have never broken. I am one
of a class of young men who graduated to-
gether. Sixteen members of my class now
fill drunkard's graves, and all from the per-
nicious habit of wine drinking. 1 owe my
health, my happiness and prospenity to that
resolution."
BLOOD
Be has a
smooth and
glossy cos
and feels in
good enough
condition to win
tke
"DERBY"
and so would any
horse if its
owner used
PURIFIER.
It renews the system, enriches the blood and gives
nature a fair chane, Is also an unfailing eradicator
of bete and worms. It is just as good for (rattle as
for horses. Try a 50e. package if your horses or
cattle are not thriving. For a spavin, curb, ring-
bone or splint, use Dick's Blieter, 500. --Dick's Lini-
ment for sprains, swellings, bruises, etc. 250. -Dick's
Ointment for scratches, eld sores, saddle galls, etc.
25c. mailed on receipt of price.
14' DICK & CO. P. 0. BOX 482, Montreal.
G74' t ,_••.... ..•_
V" t..c1*-1 frornchildr' en. or adults,
517111.1
1-15e DR. SMITH'S
CERMAN WORM
LOZENGES. Always
rompt, reliable, safe and pleasant, requiring no
tfter medicine. Never failing. Leave no bad after
„,
' Pleicce,.saltS prer Eox
The Kippen Mills
TO THE FRONT AS USUAL.
Th e Rippen mills are now running at full blast and
are prepared to do (MISTING on the shortest notice,
and meat 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.
LOG S -
The highest price In cash will be paid for good
loge, or they will be cut to order.
MiT373VE33M1R,-
All kinds of Lumber for sale, cheap
JOHN McNEVIN,
Proprietor.
1357-t f
HAND -MADE
Boots and Shoes
D. McINTYRE
Has on hand a large number of Bootsand Shoes of hie
own make, best material and
Varranted to give Satisfaction,
you want your feet kept dry come and get a pair o,
our boots, which will be sold
CHEAP FOR CASH.
Repairing promptly attended to. All Uncle of Boote
and Shoes made to order. All parties who have no*
paid their accounts for last year will please call and
settle up.
1162 • D. MeINTYRE, beaforth.
Piece in the World for Young Men
and Women to Secure a Business
Education,-Sborthand, Etc., is the
Detroit Bueiness 17niversity, De -
trait, Mich. Illustrated Catalogue
Free. References: All Detroit.
W. F.JEWELL, President. 1'. R. SPENCER,Secretary.
• - -
AN WANTED
To take oharge of Loo1 Agency. Good opening for
right man, on salary o commission. Whole or part
tune. We are the onbr growers of both Canadian
and American stook. inrseries at Ridgeville, Ont.;
and Rochester, N. Visitors weloonae at grounds,
(Sunday excel ted.) B quick and write tor MI in.
on. We want you now. BROWN BROS. Co.,
Toronto, Ont. (This houge is a reliable intorporated
Company. Paid capital, $100,000,000.) 8158x18
teenne
S1 a Day Sure.
Send me your address and 1 will
show yon how to make $3 a day; absolute-
ly sure, 1 famish the work and teach
goa free; you work m the locality where
you lire. Send me your 'a,ess and I
wal explain tbe business fully. -.mem-
ber, 1 guarantee a clear proilt of $3
every day s work; abtoiuuey sure; don't
fail to write to -day.
AddreSS A. W. KNOWLES, Windsor, Ontario.
Wellington,
Goma NolITH-.
-
Brussels..
Bluevale.. -
. Goma Bones-
Wingham _
Bluevale -
Brussels-
Ethel -
Grey and Brno....
Passenger. Mixed.
8.00 r. M. 9.30 P.M. 9.0Op,.
3.13 9.48 9.45
8.27 957 10.10
8.37 10.07 _1L20
Paseengcr. Mix ed
6.26 A. 11.20 7.30
6.87 11.85 8,15
6.54 11.59 9.00
7.08 12.14 9 30'
London, Huron
Goofs Noma-
Londen, depart........
Braoefield: _
BLoainlywantres.13.14:rol-:
Belgravia. . .
Wingham.. ...
GOING SOUTH-
Winghams, depart-
3elgLondeehere
rave_ _.-
B1 - -
mown -
and Bruce,
Passenger.
8.26A.m. t4t,5),.*
9.29 sae
_ 9.42 6.81
9.47 6.36
... 9.55 6.44
_ 10.12 7.00
,10.29 - 7.19
_ 10.38 7.28
.. 10.62 7.42'
.. 11.10 8.05
Passenger
6.403.n. 8.45r.m.
_ 6.65 4.06
-. 7.68 4,20
- 7.16 4.22
7.46 4.48
8.05 15.06
3.13 5.18
8.22 5.18
8.40 5.30
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Sesforth and Clbatota etation as
follows:
Gorse Wan- SNAPORTN. CLINTON.
Passenger _ - _ 1.12 r. it. 1.28 zo er.
Passenger._ ... _ 9.05 P. K. 9.22?. N.
Mixed Train_ - _ - 9.30 A. ar. 10.15&.a
Mixed Train._ .... 6.30 r. se 7.05 eat.
Goma Misr*
Passenger. _ _ _ 7.54 A. M. 7.37&.M.
Passenger _ _ _ 3.05 P. M. 2.46r. Id
MIzed Tram_ ....... 6.25 r ta. 4.50p. 14.
Freight Train.- .. 4.25r. x 3.25 . as
The MeKillop Mutual Fire
Insurmee Company...
FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN
PROPERTY ONLY INSURED.
OPITOISR8.
D. Ross, President, Clinton P. 0.; W. J.
Shannon, Secy-Treas.iSeaforth P. 0.; Michael
Murcia), Inspeotor of Losses, Seaforth P. O.
Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Alex. Gardiner, Le -d'
bury; Gabriel Elliott, Clioton ,• Geo. Watt, Bedeck;
Joaeph Evane, Beechwood; el. Murdie, Seaforth
...hos. Garbutt, Clinton.
AGIINTS.
Thos. Nellans, Harlock ; Robt, McMillan, Seaforth
r. Cernophan, Seatorth. John O'Sullivan and Geo
urdie, Auditors.
Parties desirous to effect Insurances or tratt
tother business will be promptly attended to on
pplioation to any of the -above officera, addressed to
heir reepective post offices. 1
reetint..".""
thelatest trittniple itt nha,rmaey_for the oure
of all the symptoms indicating KIDNEY AND
Givtal complaint. 71 you are troubled with
Costiveness, Dizziness, Sour Stoleintli
Headache, 1111114.31-20n, Poole ,APPE 'avE,
TIRED FEE7,114o,DHEIUNTATIO PAINS, Sleepless
Nights, Melancholy Feeling, BACH Aon,
Mellablrars Kidney and /aver
willxiveimmediaterelief andE,trzoTACtire.
Sold at Drug Stores.
Iblentbray Illedictne Company
Of Peterborough, (rim (tee"),
PETERBOROUGH, . ONT.
For stile by I. V. FEAR, druggia , Seaforth.
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and lituni-
ture Enaporium,
EAFORTH, - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OE THE COMBINATION. 4
Funerals furnished on the shortest notices
and satisfaction gin anteed. A large assorte't
ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.,t,
!ways on hand of the beet quality. The beet
Embalming Fluid aged free of charge wadi
riees the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resai
enoe - GODFIRICH STREET, directly op -
to the Methodist church in the house4
ormerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
The Old Established.
BROADFOOT'S
Planing Mill and
6'a8h and Door Factory,
This old and well-known egtablishment is still
running at hill bLest, and now has better facilities
than ever before to Vro out a good article for it
moderate prioe. fteh and doors of all patterns al-
ways on band or made to order. Lumber dressed on
shed notice and in any way desired. All kinds of
lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Staingles kept
constantly on hand. Estithates for the furnishing
of buildings in whole or in part given on application...
None but the best of material used and workman-
ahip gusranteed. Patronage solicited.
1269 J 1111 BROM:1'00T, &worth-
fAF
etni.
Council me
ment on Mar
the Reeve in
meeting were
E. A. Moffbt
that &Zemin
township pr;
ried. Move
Aries of town
Carried- M
by Win. Lain
pa.ssed--Cs,
seconded by
ing aceounts
ment notices
by-law No,
unicipal
and ate -band
S. A. Moffat
that the eous
again On Ma
of Revision,
3.
Grey
t°thhneeAjBeep:unPerPuvelaa1
1
aeorYsiew2.(
re en elir teDram
dfor-e
Ta:
hers were pri
over and thoi
cil, when it 'V
ReCOIlded by .
1311billitted to
for his advice
Council, and
the meantinu
it ready for 33
by the Reevs
counts were
ealary as Trel
and Jaeob K1
i-bbCeY:lacirt:Wri' rets;Walter 0]
410:billi
N1,t heoe. ::13. Reeve, aaeirryde 1,c iwa :
who was ill
members we
i
ptpreedorpttooesfemd-Jrima.;
directed, was
Moved by A.
Tiir:bruied.
ll, this
Civil Engi
____cine
priain
o,perNo:t12,et
provement a
Drain
of the Muns
was read. o
James Turnb
that by-law
adopted, iha
asubbliiiseahttih-oen _
cessive week
pu
day of Marel
the Reeves
II ee K i ar e lp°oPr t ,
mates of the
of Revision I
assessment
dB ae ye k"s eHallfMarc, I
Carried. N
by
thyn James eTr e T4
A . thensurveylmiBoll, and 1
s 1
silent Drain
-The Con
on March 0
anent ; the n
Mr. Oliver,
ithroughRiduponilin
titi,
the Council.'
seconded by
thele
' creprokhrtn:
h
ubliehed ill
iR.Reocptuheisrettsoimt
aohnft:.
vAisci°t,111888o3f,ant3
December mi
Ennis, seam
the Clerk I),
ties interestl
Council, wIn
in the matt'
plied for aid
13bi;:-IeAma. -04. .31.5;
that the ems
forwemasters,r 4efjrods.-
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posix r i. e-]
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Thompson,
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McDonald,
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Shaw, Jphi
Robert MN
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Peter Kees
MaxRaYn
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9 a'mpeneaosdr insi.)::Niihscaa:Q7eut
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Court of ,.1
law No. 01
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