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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-08-31, Page 63 4 GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario Veterinary Otdifige. All enemas Of Deauestle Animate treated. Callirpromptly attended to and charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty Ofiloa and residence on Goderich street, one door 'Aar of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112tf ▪ erinary College, Toronto, Member of the Vet now Medical Society, eto., treats an diseame of SS Domesticated Animals. All ealle promptly at- tended to either by dart or night. Cluirges moder- Me. Special attention given le veterinary dentis- tr7. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one door south of Kidd'a Hardware store. 1112 OlfeleFORTH HORSE INFIRMARy,--ceenee (,f jar, vis and GoderichStreets, nest door So bite Pres- hylieltian Church, Seefortb, Ont. All +Ilse see of Homes Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do n stioated animals, sumesafully treated ft Pis in irmary or elaewhere, on the shortest notice. oharges ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Vetelinary. Surgoan. 1' 13.-A large stook of Veteelearyllediemes xept con slimily on hand LEGAL n_y a frorn Lungs' tO Con- sumption, from ,* Deptetid, Blood to Aneemia, from, eased Blood to Scrofalasfrora Loss of Flesh to Illness. Scott' -INO S. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and „Di Notary Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office-Cardeo's block, Main Street, Seaforth. iteney to loan. 1285 • ATTnEw MORRISON, Walton Insurance Agent, Commissioner for taking affidavits, Obrweyancee, &o. Money to loan at the lowest rates. M. Mosnisox, Walton. T M. BEST, Barrister Solicitor, Notary, &c • Office --Rooms, five, 'doors north ofOommeroial Hotel, ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papst's agents-eameeon, non and Cameron. 1215 mulsion the Cream of Cod-liv_er Oil, prevents this step from being taken and restores Health. Physicians, theworld over, en.• dorse it. Don't be deceived by Substitutes! Scott &Bowne,13elleville. Ail Druggists. 50o. &SI* 9 U. Parineremt. 686- • Holton in Chanciery, tree,Goderich, Ont N.. C. 011111Ron, Q. O., runes Horn, Demist MOWN Air ANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors, Con ivi veyaneers, &o. Solicitors for the "Bana en Johnston, Tiedale & Gale. Money to loan Office - 10 HOLMKSTED, suoceesor to the ',ate firm lieltor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solloitor for the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend Farms for sale. Office in Sooties Block, Male Street, W. CAM#RON SMITH, Solicitor of Surierior Court, Commissioeer for taking Affi &vita in the High Court of J 'as, Conveyancer, Money to Lend • • Csn be consultadiarter office hours at the Coranier- cial Hotel. of work done known to Modern Deutistry. Gold, Aluminum and Porcelain Crowns a specialty. Door bell answered at ali hours. Office and resi- dence over Mr. Pickard's store, in rooms lately °cm pied by Mechanics' Institute. -L1 W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over,Itiohardson X & McInnes' Shoe Store. corner Mein and John Streeta, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gae ad- ministered for the painless extraction ot teeth. 1169 n AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton will _Lei. visit Hensel at llodgens''Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in ea,cn month 1288 sET KINSMAN, Dentist, L. 0 S., . Exeter, Ont. Will be al Zurich at the .Huron Hotel, ONLY t n the LAST THUNMDAY each mote h, and at alurdocre Hotel, Hensall, on the FIRST eRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the least pain possible. AIL work first -salsas at liberal rates. 971 MONEY TO LOAN. There- 15 a.5 much flavor, itreqth and aroma of 5moKin2 tobacco5 as ciqars. PLUG CUT rad) with the fine5t h.av- J. B. Pace Tobaceo Co., Richmond, Va., and Montreal, Canada. ONEY LOAN. --Straight loans at 6 per cent., with the privilege to borrows: of repaying part of the principal money at any time. - MEDICAL. TAR. CAMPBELL, Honor Graduate of Medical Fa- ll oulty of. Toronto University, Physician, Sur- Greh's Hotel, Zurich, Ont. 1387 1J Victoria, M, C. r. S., Ontario, successor to Dr. Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Eliott, Brum- field, Ontario. 1379x52 - MaTAVISII, Physician, Surgeon, &o. Office IJ corner Boutb,west of Dixon's Hotel, Bruoefield. Night calls at the office. 1323 DRS. SCOTT' & MACKAY, OFFICE, Gederich Street, opposite Methodist Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural Grounds. J. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic - XV. Glasgow, &c. Physician Surgeon and Ao. comber, Constance:Out 1127 HMO W. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. id., Mambo/ of „no the College of Physioiens and Surgeons, &a., Seaforth, Ontario. Offiee and reeldenee same as occupied by Dr. Verooe. 848 -LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the R.oyal College of Physician* and Surgeone, Kingston. Swimmer to Dr. Maenid. COM. lately occupied by Dr. Mackid, Mair. Street Seaforth. Reeddenoe -Corner ot Victoria &pare, in house lately occupied by L. E. Danoey. 1127 rtEORGE TAYLOR, Licensed Auctioneer for the ur County of Huron. Sales promptly attended to in all pa.rta of the County. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Charges moderate. GEO. TAYLOR, Kippen T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for the Coub st fly of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the County. AU orders left at Tea Exrearroa Office will be promptly attended to. Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and Agent at Hensall for the Massey -Harris Manu- facturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, cluargee moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Orders by mall addressed to HensairPost Office, or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuck- ersmith, will receive prompt attention. 12Ofatt McKillop Directory for 1893. JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0. JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beachwood. DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beeohwood. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury, JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop. SOLOMON J. SHANNON, Treasurer, Whrthrop. MIL EVANS, Assessor, Beechwood. CHARLES DODDS, Collector. Seaforth. RICHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead - bury. CARSD STOMACH CURES BILIOUSNESS, SOUR STOMACH, bYSPEPSIA, AND BAD BLOOD: it Purifies and Strens-thens the entire System. 64 DOSES FOR 50 CENTS Thet best medicine ever discovered. SOLI" EVERYWHERE* AN AUGUST COURTSHIP. It was nine ,o'clock on an August morn- ing, and the express from Euston was flying over the stage of its journey to Edinburgh. Mrs. Sellars, looking froth the window ef a third-class carriage, had caught sight of the smoky chimneys of Midcalder. " We are nearly there," she said, turning to her young daughter; who was rolling shawls and rugs into a bundle; " now I shall have some chance of getting cured." " Should we call on Dr. Raleigh this morning, mother, or rest to -day, and make an appointment for to -morrow ? " Most certainly we shall call this morn- ing. This suspense is wearing me to death. am sure Dr. Foulis entirely misunderstood my symptoms, and if there is anything dan- gerously amiss, I would prefer to hear the worst. I shall tell Dr. Raleigh he need not hesitate tc; speak frankly. "But Dr. Foulis said, Mother, that the shock of the bank's failure had upset You r nerves and he wished -you to eome to Edin- burgh for a month's- amusement quite as much as for medical advice." Mrs.Sellars sighed,and leaning back in her corner closedher eyes. Bathe restlessness of the journey's end was upon her, and pres- ently she turned anain to the window. - "Corstorphine 1111 at last ! How thank- ful I am that this wretched night is over. I must have a professional nurse, of course, of course, Maud. I knoW we can't very well afford it, but it is ouch a ,comfort to have an experienced woman near one,especi- ally in obscure and lingerMg cases like mine ; and besides, dear, I want yOu to have a thoroughly good time in Edinburgh-to'go about and see the sights, and not be tied. to the sofa of an invalid." I Maud smiled ; she was not much alarmed about her mother, whose troubles were in- deed, to a great extent imaginery. Ten minutes later they were in a cab on their way to the lodging in Buccleuch Place, re- commended by their London doctor as being close to George Square 'Where lived the fti, mous nerve-speCialist,l)r.Hubert Raleigh. It east wind, which always seems keenest. and most cruel in AuOust, and Maud shivered as she Stepped out of the cab and surveyed the high melancholy houses on each side of the "A month of this will make mother really she reflected. " I wonder if Harry has an idea we are here." "Maud," said Mrs. Sellars, as they were finishing breakfast. " I should like to know if Healy Blyth has gone away for his. holi• daY.. He would be so useful in. taking you "Mainrs brown curls bent low over the teaArny, but she answered, laughing gaily ; You forget, mother, first tha,t Dr. Fou - lis told us he was going to the Tyrol with another of , the masters ; next that I should not think Of„ rushing about while you are ill; third, that if I wanted an escort, Mr. Blyth is the hist person I should choose," "Because you broke off the engagement, I suppose, silly child. Yes, you weresilly, Maud, fck‘ you know Harry Blyth could not possibly have taken his B. -Se. of London with honors and a medal if he had left off his work every day to amuse. you. You were angry because he was only once at our house during the week before examination. The result shows your unreasonableness and Harry's sense. ite gets a mastership at George Watson's school almost immedi- at ly with _a comfortable salary, and, if you ha been his wife, you might have come to Scotland this autumn on your wedding trip." " All well, mother," was the quiet reply, " I never intend to marry a man. who is merel3r clever." Mrs. Sellars' delight the great special- ist treated her case quite seriously. He re- coinmeinlecl massage, advised her to have a nurse from the infirmary, and introduced her to one in whom he placed partictilar Every morning she took a drive with Maud and the nurse ; every afternoon she vviis allowed to sleep on the 'sofa, and in less than a week "she declared that Dr. Raleigh had done wonders for her. The afternoons were spent by Maud in exploring the nooks and corners of Edinburgh. • She had special 16ve for the old parts of the town ; twice she visited the castle, and three times Holy - rood. She knew the grass market, the West Bow, the Cowgate, and had even -ven- tured into the closes of the High street and the Canongate. The entries were dark and narrow, and some of the faces that looked out on her were repulsive and even as she imagined, threatening, but here and there only survived the Edinburgh of Scott and Stevenson, the close into which Catherine Seymour haddarted when she fled from ' the pursuit of Roland Greame,the window from which David Balfour looked out on Barbara Grant and Catriona Drummond. The old 1 shields of arins which still remained above I the doors could not be studied minutely bsea i walking atop' in this -crowded:, looked in vain for the ample paved emirts, • decorated with - great stone vases of yews and cypresses, which her -reading of The Abbott had led her tee' expect. But the stately street, the -lofty lehrels houses i'vith tion to her after the trim elegance of her London suburb. All the history of Scotland pascied before her in dream and ,shadow as sheesat, during. the warm- afternoons, under the crown of St. Giles', or looked Ont from John Knox's house on the swarming throngs of the Cannongate. Her .mother was too much occupied with her own treatment to inquire veyy carefully host; she' -spent her timeeand it was often long after dark Whew Maud returned to Buccleuch Place. One evening a policeman noticed the girlish figure emerging from an alley which he knew to be one of the loweiit quarters of the town. She was simply dressed in a blue serge skirt and cream silk blouse, but her Watch and chain, two gold ,bangles and brooch set with'pearls, attracted his (Len - tion, and he hinted her that perhaps it might lie safer to keep the main thorotigh- fare. Maud laughed incredulously,and ask- ed if he knew that the old nobility of Scot- land once had theirehomes in these closes ? - " Maybe sae," he replied, 4,` but there's different tenants In them noo, missie, an' it's no for a bonnie young lass like you to be stravagin aboot in the Canongate at e'en." For a few days after this Maud kept tO the newer parts of the -town, but Princess street and Ctebrge street, the Botanical Gar- dens, and the Cathedral were tame and dis- appouiting after the old Town with its ro- mantic memories. So again one afternoon she found her way back to the precincts of ''Holyrood.- .As she came near the foot of the Canongate an old woman in a short wincey skirt, with her head and. shoulders muffled in a 'dirty red tartan shawl, 4epped nut of an entry, and in a whining voice asked for a " copper to buy a bit o' breid." Mond fan- cied this was the same old woman who had begged of her when she was last in the neighborhood, -She bad a sly, crafty face, and her watery blue eyes took in every de- tail of the girl's dress and ornaments. "Ne•v- er give to- beggars,': ,was Mrs. Sellars' rule ; " Always give to beggars," was Maud's. She hastily took out her purse, and, having no pennies, gave the old woman v. sixpence. The greedy eyes did net fail to notice her shining sovereigns in the centre ccimpartment of the purse. With many thanks and blessings she hobbled away, but when, a moment later,- Maud ttirned back, she saw the tunning face atill watching her from the mouth of the close. It was a sunny afternoon and Maud strolled to the Village of Duddingston and returned by the. foot of Arthur's Seat. The Queen's Park, which, on dull days, seetned wild and lonely as a blasted heath, now lay smiling in the evening sunlight. The voices of the children at play echoed musically from the braes, and even the grim Salisbury Crags seemed to frown less sternly. Maud decided that it was too early to go home ; she would walk round the road which runs ,:beneath the crags, and get a sight of"the 'iea and the shipping. A faintnnst was fall- ing as she reached the entrance of the path and the tall houses began to lade into uni- form gissyness. It was very lonely here, she thought, as she walked quickly on. . No others seemed to have chosen the Salisbury Craga for their evening promenade, and sud- denly she recalled the words of the landlady at Buccleuch Place, " Dinna gang by the craigs in the evening, Miss Sellars, for the place has an ill name.' She turned back, half frightened by the stillness. It might be safer not to go on, as she scarcely knew where the path ended, and whether it might not take her too far -from home. The sound of falling pebbles startled her ; could it be possible that she was not alone ? Maud was no coward, but her heart beat fast when, as she turned, she saw two figures coming to- wards her in the gathering gloom. By the red tartan shawl and coarse petticoat of one she recognized the woman who had begged from her that afternoon. Behind her walk- ed a big hulking fellow, with one hand in his pecket and Carrying a thick stick i -n the other. She had. no %owe but to face them, for to continue her way might lead her into worse dangers, and the evening was closing in so quickly that her one thought was to get back to the town. " Fine nicht, missie,"' said the woman in her whining drawl, " Fine night," Maud replied,and was hur- rying on when the man placed himself in her path. "Na, na, ma bonny lass, well no pairt sae sune. There's thieves an' wa,ur aboot the craigs at nicht an' we'se e'en see ye safe hame. Wun't be seven o'clock yet think ye ?" , gaud took out her watch with trembling hand, but the man made a sudden snatch and possessed himself of it, chain and all, The old woman laughed a shrill discor- dant laugh. "Noo, hinny, ye man gie us the bracelets and the bit brooch, and the purse with the yellow gowd in 't. Then well let ye gang. by cannily, an' yell no be like the puir la7ds auld beggar man that wished her guid e'en," Maud again attempted to get past them, but with a sudden movement the man push- ed her nearer to the edge of the slope, and seizing her by the arm began to fumble with the clasp of her bracelets. Thoroughly ter- rified, and seeing that resistance was useless, she tore off first one and then the other, and began tremblingly to unfasten her brooch. The man kept firin hold of her, while she could feel the woman searching for ' her pocket. " Wheesht ! what's that ?" cried. the wo- man, suddenly. Voices were heard on the other side of a boulder that stretched half across the path. • The man loosed kis grip and shrank back against the wart of the crag, waiting to see whether the neit comers would be likely to interfere. TheY might very possibly be` comrades of his own, for dangerous night prowlers were kpown at time to frequent the Salisbury Crags, and more than one gruesome tale had been whis- pered by the firesides of Edinburgh during the previous winter. The woman crouched back into the shel- ter of the boulder, but as she did so she shook her fist warningly at the girl as if to dare her to seek help from the strangers. Maud did not notice the gesture, for some- thing in the tone of one of the voices seem- ed familiar. Two stalwart figures came in sight, walking quickly, and with their eyes bent down as they talked. With a cry the girl sprang ferward, and laid her hand on the arm of the nearest. " Harry !" she said, and then the terror of the moment overcame her, and she sank against the rock and broke into passionate sobbing. If a ghost had suddenly confronted Harry Myth on that . dim path in the August gloaming, he could scarcely have been more astonished than at the sight of Maud Se1-' lars. But before he had time. to say a word, n ruffianly fellow slouched forward and put in his hand a watch and chain. " There, take it," he said, measuring with his eyes the athletic figures of the two young men ; " we've gren her a fricht, but she'll be name the worse, and ye'd better tell her, my lad, tae leave her chains and brooch at hame when she gangs to the Canongate closes and at nicht tae the craigs. Before they could lay hands on him he had dashed at lightning speed down the fast darkening path. The woman was already far in front of him, and although 'Harry Blyth's companion gave chase right acroes the Queen's Park and into the Ganongate, he lost them in one of the intricate pa.Ssa- sages that open on the north side of the street.. They had got off with Maud's brace- ets and brooch, but two days later the po- ice discovered their hiding -place, and so broke uP a -gang of thieves which had for -Harry' Myths:who had staid behind with Maud, found it no eaciy task to get her back to the town. She Was too vigorous to faint outright, but tho'reaction had left her se eihausted thatehe had almost to carry her across the park, It was not till be had placed her safely in a cab paid. stepped in - beside her that she was able to relate her adventure. 4` I hate Edinburgh," ahe said. " I shall be thankful when our month ie over." " Ah, that is because vou hairse been try- ing to see it by yourself," Now from to -mors row you must let me be your guide. My liolidays began three weeks ago and I have been waiting on because Dr. Foulis wrote that you were to be in Edinburgh this month, but he never answered my letters asking your address, so I have been hoping every day to meet you in:Princess street. They vvere passing oVer the South Bridge, and Maud looked down with a shudder inte the noisy underwOrld of the. Cowgate. " My father was at Edinburgh. Univer- sity," she said, "and he told me a story about college • friend of his, which ought to have given me a Warning, This student owned estates in Ireland, and that was the time of the moonlighting, when no land- lord's life was safe. But in Edinburgh -he thought himself safe. One night my father ;and this Irish friend and -one or two other .students came home late from. a political meeting, and they parted near the Calton Hill, each going a separate way. The Irish- man has never been heard of again from that clay to this, and the police could only suppose he .was muedered," and his body made away with. " And so;" Said Harry Blyth, " you think Edinburgh is full of secret crime, a city of Nihilists and Fenians ? I must confess your first eiperience has been rather disagreeable, but, you see, you needed some ene to -take care of you. Here we are at. Buceleuch Plane ; do you think Mrs. Sellars would let me come in and tell the story ?" From that day Harry Blyth installecthim- self as the regular companion of their walks and drives. Mre. Sellars; discovered that she was too well now to need the attendance of the nurse, so she and Maud and Harry used to start after breakfast and spend the day picknicking Roslin or Lasswade, at Craigmiller, or on the slopes of the Pent- lands. Harry seemed perfectly willing to be ac- cepted as an old friend, Without the least thought of renewing his engagement. The landlady at Buccleuch Place indeed knees; for a fact that Mr. Blyth was engaged to the pretty daughterof a Free Church minister on the south side. Her washerwoman worked kir the minister's family,and she said the young lady was stitching late and early at a wed- ding outfit, Mrs. Sellars heard the story and reflected that Harry was singularly inatten- tive to his fiance. Maud heard it and vexed herself in secret, She knew very well that the breaking off of her engage- ment hadbeen a terrible' mistake, but she would not for worlds let Harry know that she regretted it. He seemed quite happy and contented, and even when she said they would return to London on the fifth of Sep- tember, he merely remarked that s there would be time before the school session opened to get a fortnight in Switzerland with Mr. Steel. Days passed on ; Septem- ber opened with that perfect autumn becuity which makes the gray northern capital like a fairy city ; Mrs. Sellars had paid Dr. Ra- leigh's bill and had begun to pack her trunk and still Harry came and went, but never asked to see Maud alone, and never seemed to notice her with particular, attention. It was the last evening but one of their visit, and Maud, as she stood her, face pressed against the dwarf venetians in their dingy sitting room, was telling her mother that she n.everhvished to. see Edinburgh again. "I shall always reniemberBuccleuchiPlace as the greyest, ugliest street I ever saw, and my visit here as the dullest Month of my life." Mrs, Sellars smiled, but did not venture on a contradiction. "By the way, child," she said laying down her embroidery, " I quite forgot to mention that Harry called when you were out ahopping this morning and asled if, you would walk over Blackford Hill with him this evening and come home by Liberton." " No,' I don't think I can," said Maud ; "I've had enough of Harry's company. I can't think why that girl he's engaged to doesn't walk with him to Blackford Hill. But I suppose, -as he will get rid of us so soon, he thinks he may as well_ let her wait But the door bell rang, and when Harry came in looking handsome, eager, and ex- pectant, 'Maud could not find it in her heart to refuse him. So they Went by a road well known to Edinburgh lovers, across the meadows, and through the lanes of the Grange, into Blackford avenue. They climbed the grassy slopes and stood .togeth- er on the brow of the hill. On one side were the low braids with golfers still linger- ing at their game, In the valley at their feet a little brook ran murmuring. On the other side lay the southern suburbs, with their villas and gardens and autumn -tinted trees. Far away to the east, sullen and scarred, rose the black mass of Arthur's Seat. They were so silent, as they stood there, that each might have forgotten the other's presence. " Maud," Harry said at last, " was it a She turned to him with a lovely smile,and with cheeks on which the color came and " A mistake, Harry, such a mistake, and I have been sorry ever since." Then they walked on hand in hand. As for the young lady on the south side, who was stitching so diligently at her trousseau, I cannot tell you whether she is a real or a mythical person, but one thing is certain ehe never wilr be the wife of Harry Blyth, [Tun END.1 Romantic Tale of Silver Island. (FORT WILLIAM JOURNAL.) All of our readers are more or less ac- quainted with the history. of that wondrous: ly rich mine, Silver Islet, To this day we listen with interest to the never ending stories of the richness of that mine as told by the miners who worked there and are still living -in our midst. It is known that a quantity -of silver was carried from the Is- land, and -such specimens may be seen in colleptions of minerals around town. Strange stories are also told of the carrying of silver to the south shore to " salt " mines there, but the followieg from the Detroit Free Press is probably the strangest yet told in connection with tbe working of Silver Islet About a week ago anneged miner, living at Lake Linden, approached Mike Ross, a prominent lumberman of that town,and told him the following singidar story : " I was one of6the miners who worked in the Silver Islet mine when it was being worked twenty-five years ago. The ore was the riehest that was ever taken from any mine, iots of big chunks being nothing but pure silver. NAturally -we wanted some share of it, bettdr than our wages, but we luiew we couldn't get it under any cir- cumstances, There wasna gang of six Uf us drifting on one of the richest veins in the mine, ancfwe formed a plan to cache- a lot of the stuff and take our chances., of ever gettingany good of it. A chance to hide it. was not hard to find. One of lair blasts had loosened a rock,which on being removed showed a cave about four by six feet, and this we made the hiding place. °Eveey time we got hold of a chunk of the pure stuff one of us would go to the rock, tip it out, throw the chunk in and then put the rock back. I reckon there must be at least three barrels of pure silver in that place at this very minute, for the company has never found it; know -thats When -the water pkteked-the- the thingOut, my mates and I thought the eompany would abandon the Island, at least in the winter. But ne, sir. They keep men theee theyear rounal,, winter and SUM - mer, and though we tried evei7 way we could we never -got a.chince to .get that stliff away, I've got the idea the . company -mis- trust§ what we did, and are simply tiring us out, and they've pretty near beat us, too, though it won't do them any good, for I am dead certain they can never find that silver unlees I show them where it is. All my mates have died since I worked , there, and I'm getting 'old as you see, and- likely to go You , don'tsesee. but few at any tame. gray-haired men among miners, it's killing Mr. Rosabecinne convinced, of the truth of the story, and finding that the stolen - silver would be Worth at a Very low esti- mate some $50,000, he undertook to open. negotiations with the representatives of the SilVer Islet Mining Company in New York. With that object in view, he visited Detroit on his way east last April, and here fell in with John Donaghue, an experienced miner, - whom he hae known from boyhood, and.to whom he confided the: general features of the entersorise. Through Mr. Donaghue he learned that a representative of the com- pany resided in Detroit, and that WS trip to New York wotild therefore not be neces- sary.- Henry Se Sibley -is, 'in fact, the prin- cipal trustee of the affairs, of the Silver Islet Company, and negotiations with him began 'at once. Mr. Ross then made Mr. Donag- hue his representative in Detroit, and re- turned to Lake Linden. Considerable diffi- culty was experienced in getting a suitable agreement with the company, the- New York trustee not being very complaisant in the matter,_ but at length signs a contract which divides the treasure above into „three equal shares, one of which goes to the com- pany, another to Mr. Ross and his friend. the miner, and the third to Mr. Donaghue. Upon the execution of the contract Mr. Donaghue's .partner at once left for Bake Linden, where he was joined by the inform- ing miner, and the two are 'now on their way to Silver Islet. The result of their in- vestigation is naturally awaited with • con - considerable curiosity and anxiety by both - Mr. Donaghue and Mr. Sibley. In speaking of the matter yesterday Mr. . Sibley said : " I haven't the most unboun- --(led faith in this story of -the stolen silver, and yet it may be true. During the early days of our operations in the Island there were abundant opportunities for that sort of thing, but after 1874, a system was estab- lished which precluded anything of the sort. If the silver was taken, it must have _ beensabout the time the old miner says they took it. The mine has net petered out as many suppose, neither does the water from the° Lake impede operations. We took out one of the best pockets in the history of the mine in 1886, and yet the mine closed down two years later. This was because our supply of coal failed to reach the mine froth L'Ause, and when the engines stopped the mine filled with water. The shaft is now 1,160 feet deep, and this will have to be pumped out before operations can be re- sumed. It will naturally take some money to dO that. About the time we were ex- pecting to resume operations three of the principal- owners died, and a little later the power of calling a,ssessments lapsed. Then silver began falling, and there was no tell- ing where the price would. go. All these things have had the effect of delaying mat- ters, but we still believe the mine is one of the best in the world, and should conditions ever become favorable, it will be reopened." AUGUST 31 189 Elegant Pictures $9_0 O. Framed Complete, UST By speeial arrangements With W.A. Hart, wholesale picture dealer, Tor- onto, Ontario, we are in a position to offer our customers a STRAIGHT REDUCTION OF 10% ON ALL CASFI PURCHASES. It is done by our coupon system. Each and every customer making, a cash purchase of. 10e or upwards, will receive a coupon to the value of 10% of their purchase. We will exchange these coupons for elegant framed pic- tures, which retail froni $3 upwards. By dealing here you will get them ABSOLUTELY FREE. We would like you to come in and see them. We do not place any additional price on our goods, but siniply use this as an adveitising medium to introduce our cash system, and enable you to fur- nish your rooms with our pictures free of charge. See these new lines, they are simply elegant. McCOSH BROS., SEAFORTH. SOMETHING - NEW JOHN WARD'S HARNESS SHOP. Fides hovels Grim Rail A Set of Single Ilarr.Ess, all com- plete, for NINE DOLLARS. Also manufacturer of all Erstolass- Harness, single or double, light and heavy, dealer in Saddles, Trunks and Valises. All harness and collars made, on the premises, and satisfaction guar- anteed. When in town come and ex- amine my stock and get prices before - purchasing_ elsewhere. For Sciatic E. Neuralgic 40. The Prospects For Apples. Messrs. M. H. Peterson & Company, of Colborne, report as follows : United States -Maine, New Hampshire and Ma,ssachusetts will probably have 75 per cent. ; Vermont, 35 per cent. ; Con- necticut, 50 per cent. ;. New York, 40 per cent., but some reliable reports state more ; Pennsylvania and Ohio, some parts light and some well loaded ; Michigan, 55 per cent. ; Illinois and_Indiana, 25 per cent. ; Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, 60 per cent., the greater part of which is fall fruit ; Iowa and Ne- braska, 75 per cent. ; Kansas and Missouri, 55 per cent. ; Oregon and the Pacific slope, fully average. Great Britain -The crop will be light. Continent -Reports vary, some indicating small, while others indicate in certain dis- tricts a fair yield. Nova Scotia -The crop is fairly good,fully equal to last year. Ontario -A summing up of a great num- ber of reports from many sections would in- dicate 50 per cent. of an average crop. It is quite 'apparent from the above that the only reliable market this section for Can- adian apples is abroad, and that the United States, instead of being large receivers of Canadian apples as last year, will be quite heavy exporters, and necessarily the quan- tity to go forward to Great Britain as compared with last year will be many tiines been by some estinuited that this year's crop in the United States and Canada is as large as in 1892 and 1893, when 1,200,- 000 barrels were exported, but it must be remembered if this be true that owing to the distressing financial depression prevail- ing in the United States, and to greater or less degree the world over, the consumption will be curtailed as far as possible, and con- sequently a limited demand as compared with those years. It is apparent that our only reliable market this season is Great Britain, and the ruling prices will entirely depend on the demand and the quality and quantity of apples going forward. • Price of a Kiss. An amusing incident occurred in' Squire Hause's office on Wednesday afternoon. A rural looking couple stood before him to take the marriage vows. In his most de- lightful style the sqnire performed the cere- mony, and as the bride was a pretty little rosy-cheeked lass he -leaned over and kissed her, says the Washington Post. The couple then started -out and had reached the door when the squire called to the groom : " My friend, don't you think you have for- gotten something ? You have . overlooked the fees." " What !" exclaimed the young husband. " Why, you kissed the bride. I think I let you down light." Then betook his wife's arm iand walked down to the ferry boat, leaving the squire standing in his front door with his hands in his pockets and a perplexed look on his face. In the' future he will not permit his admira- tion to get the better of his judgment. Recipee against Melancholy. Sidney Smith once gave a lady of two -and - :twenty Some recipes against melancholy. One was a bright fire, another to remember all the plea,,sant things said to her, another to keep a box of sugar -plums on the chimney - piece and•a ket-4,1e simmering on the hoh. In commenting on -it afterwards he said : thought this mere trifling at -the moment, but have in after life discoyered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher and More exalted objects, and that no means ought to be thought too trifling which can oppose it iu ourselves or in _others." 2 SPOONS. SKREI Ccd Livor Oil. Nein do inore building up tasteless. l'repared K. CAMPBELL C.: CO., RiontTeaf. TRY ONE APPLICATION pains OF E 46 74, ENTHOI, 11 PLASTER IT WILL DISPEL THE PAIN LIKE MAGIC. JOHN WARD, Nails, Glass, P Whii Strong's Red Brick Block, next to the - Town Building, Seaforth. SUMMER BOOTS en Colors, I E Whiting a stoek Tinware, Eairl, General I 1,...,7, ,, ",, 4' if....„.. ,..._..,.-ri ,. & 6°1 )P ' .p_ . 415 Mal y „ r(t)li Tit et1;"1-9:4LA:P°1-Citt . cl'/-9‘.:-hr 57K8eAci74V40::::1 Et*411-N".1.r l'---*tdilIT) Keep the latest styles The higheat grades The largest selection to choose from And sell the cheapest of any shoe store in town. We are sole agents for Langbauir's celb/brated Trunks and Valises, which aie acknowledged to be the best goods manufactured in Canada. FRIDAY, JULY 27th Richardson & McInnis, 1844 DI AND SATURDAY, JULY 28 The grand opening days at the Sea - forth Tea, Grocery, Crockery and Glass -Ware Bargain House._ Every- thing s),ew and fresh and of the best qiialitf. In order to do my share of the:business will sell goods right down to the very lowest possible prices. A call is solicited to all to call and ex- amine goods and prices, There is no need for any further talk, as the goods will speak for themselves by trying The highest market price paid for butter, eggs, apples, potatoes and all other fruits and produce. All goods delivered free of charge to all. German China In Tea Pots, Coffee Pots, Chocolate Cans, Porridge Sets and Croton Sets, Sugar -Bowls, Cream Pitchers, Cups and Saucers, Celery Dishes and Radish Dishes, Mustard Pots, Salt Dishes, Custard Cups and Spice Mills, 'and Bone Plates ; also Crystal Flower Centers. The above goods were a set of sam.- ples, and are being sold one-third cheaper than regular prices. These are bargains, and are going fast. Call at once, if you want a snap, A. G. AULT, Seaforthe The Dr. Rourk Treatment CATARRH, ASTHMA, CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, AND CONSUMPTION POWDERS Cure SICK HEADACHE and Neuralgia in 20 mnsurss, also Coated Tongue, Dizzi- ness, Biliousness, Pain in the Side, Constipation, Torpid Liver, Bad Breath. To stay cured and re.gulata the bovvels. vastsr Nies to Warm. Gouts Nous-. Brussels Goma Sousa- Bruseels Grey and Brace. Pareenger. Mixed. 8.27 9 57 10.10 8.87 10.07 11.20 -Passenger.' Mixed. 6.87 11.85 8.15 7.08 12.14 9.80 London, Huron and Bruce. 9.29 6.00 9.42 6.15 9.47 6.20 9.55 6.28 10.12 6 55 10.29 7.14 10.88 7.23 10.52 7.37 11.10 8.00 Passenger 6.50 3.47 7.03 4.01 7.10 4.08 7.45 4.28 8.05 4.46 8.18 4.53 8.22 4.58 8.40 6.12 Gouts NORTH - London, depart Exeter Nippon_ , Londesboro Winghem arrive GOING SOUTH- Wingham, depart Blyth Brumfield Remelt , Grand Trunk Railway. . Trains leave Seatorth and Clinton stations as follows: , Goma wesin SEAFORTLi. CLINTON. GOING EAST - IADIE SPECIAL In Ladies', Miss( The latest nove Colored Fine laced and GENTS' 17 In Congress, Bahr Shell Cordovan) P4 In fact, everything stylish in the shoe, Men's and Boys Trunks and V China anc! Tinwarcl tartinTER 6000 B Is wOtively the most rational and MOST SUCCESS. FUL treatment ever devised for these troubles. It consists of combined local and constitutional treat. went, which not only speedily relieves t•he local trouble, but thoroughly eradicates the Cause as well, thus insuring a perfect and permanent cure, even in apparently hopeless oases. IF YOU FM, WEAK, WRETCHED. DESPONDe ENT, if you have Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Lung Trouble or any other chronic disease, and WANT TO BE cured, call or write at once. DR. ROURK is widely and favorably known throughout Canada, being a graduate of Queen', University and of the Academy Terra Maria. Lioen. tiste of the Royal College Of Physicians and Sure geons, member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario and Quebec, LATE MEDICAL •• SUPERINTENDENT OF LONDON GENERAL HOSPITAL. ete. Thirty years' practioe. C,onsultation free amd confidential. Call on or address : DR. FRANCIS ROURK, 1387-52 DETROIT, Miciintes• SgA RTH "Musical In trument :Scott Brothers, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO. PIAN013.-Banham, New York ; Bell Co., Guelph ; Dominion Piano Cora-. any, BovvmanvilleP-'',- The above Instruments always on hand, alsc a fear good second-hisnd Pianos and Organs for sale at from $2.5 -upwards. Instruments sold on the instal - aunt plan, or on terms to fruit customers, Violins, xi:lorusinceo.rtbioonaskeanet !mat inetrovaente on hand elso sheet 1 SCOTT BROS; The Oreat Boot SEAF through its womb spots and blem'isi and was odvised Bitters. I took benca, and can befoi-e I had tab bottle I was PERFECi I am so ple,4si 'healthy again by can strongly body. GOOD BUGG We have a Imbiber of i On very reasonable ter vehicles of this kind sh No tutor/ get up. 1P1 Repairing of all kincl• besipoulble mariner. 12