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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-11-23, Page 6V THE HURON EXPOSITOR. hawnseemenmemeneellie ;7ETERINA.RY, TON GRIEVE, V, S., honor graduate of Ontario ce, Veterinary College. All dhlwasm of Domestie Animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and charges moderate. Vete Tillery Dentistry a specialty Office and redden:it:, on Goderich street, one door seer Of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112tt EAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY. -:-Corner cf Jar. vla and Goderioh Street., nett door to the Pres- byterian Church, Seater -1h, Ont. All dis sea of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of ihe du a attested animals, sucoessfully treated at th. inirmarv or elsewhere, on the shortest oothe .,harges ate. JAMES W. IILDER, Vetetinary Surge tn. P a.—A !ergo stook of Vetermary liedieinee Kept con. **Wily on hand LEGAL llels S. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Ckniveyancer end ...fer Notary Public. Solicitor or the Dominion Bank. Office—Cart:leo% block, Main Street, Seaforth. Remy to loan. 12$5 NvATTHEW MORRISON, Walton Insurance Agent, Commissiouor for taking affidavits eyanees, &o. Money to loan at the lowest rates. M. Mohatees, Walton. X. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Ste . Office --Rooms, five doo.e north ofOommeroial Itotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papet's jewelry store, Main etreet, Seaforth. Godwrieb agents—Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 el'" ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers,Solltitors, kl` Goderich, Ontario. J. T. GAMOW, Q. 04 Wit. Paounrear. 884 flAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Harridan So - k) Beliefs Chanoery, /se.,Goderich, C. -11a1MON, Q. C., PEfilitr HOLT, DUDIar HOlana /UrANN1NG & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors Con EL yam de at air eautSoll. toonrsoyfg thegBent Elliott Blook, Clinton, Ontario. A., /I, Rassfee laind Scum 781 "0 110LMESTED, suconsor to the Ate firm MoCau,ghey & Hohnested, Barrister, So Ilelbor Conveyaneer and Notary. Solicitor for the Otiasdian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farms f or sale. 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Seen & Bowne, Beeville. All DruggiAs- 60c. & Si. THE HANDSOME HUMES. BY WILLIAM BLACK. CHAPTER II. CROWIIURST FAR:a—Continued. "It's all very well, Nan," he said, dog- gedly, "but I am not going to have you treated here as you were at the vicarage. No; when I went there I used to think the food was just v. little too meagre. And if you don't care to Wait for anything hot,well there are cold things here—oh yes, a lot of other things; that fool of a girlhasn't open- ed half of them. There's caviare—caviare is very nice on oat-cake—and there are sar- dines. I wonder where the mischief she has put- the opener ?" He searched about and found it, and then he proceeded to pry into the metal case. "Dodo," she said, laughing, "don't you know -that refined and superior persons con- sider it very ignoble to put imp_ortance on what one eats or drinks?' He stopped and looked at her inquisitive- ly. His hand relaxed its grip of the instru- ment. Yes, I suppose that is so " ,he said. He came away from the sidelsOard. "Only, I thought You might be hungry, Nan. She instantly perceived the mistake she had made. "But I am—furiously hungry," she said at once. "And if yon couldhecon- veniently open that box, or give me lice of tongue, or a piece of the lobstetihhit's really quite delightful to see such a display on a sideboard. No, wait a moment, Do- do; here comes the hot things. Suppose we begin with a cutlet ?" And so they both sat down, and be help- ed her to a cutlet and some of the steaming - hot mashed potatoes, but there were early peas as well, and likewise there was a dish of asparagus with stems not as thick as a slate -pencil. • What, dreadful extravagance !" . said she, shaking her head. "I cannot permit this to go on, Dodo; I cannot. really." "I tell you, Nan," he said, with a certain stubbornness, "that you must break away from those vicarage traditions. No doubt it was very simple and wholesome fare for a young girl, and I did not like to interfere when 1 B&W you took nothing but water with your meals; but now you are a woman and the mistress of a house, and—and you must have some wine, Nan, however little. That is Bargundy in the decanter—very soft and nice; and the other decanter is-- sherry —it is old and dry and quite harmless ; and. this is hock—Marcobrunner of '71—I know you will like the perfume of it *hen it is poured into your glass. Besidea, there's some light sillery, if you would prefer that. only I thought you would have that for dinner." " Oh, Dodo; how you spoil me !" she said. And then she added, with a sigh'of resigna- tion, "But it has been like that all my life long—ever since I can remember. So they proceeded with their luncheon; and when it was over, she went into the hall and rummaged in the pockets of his over- coat until she found his pipe and tobacco pouch, and these she brought and put on the table beside him. But he did not take them up. By-and-by', Nan," he said, in an evasiVe way. "1 shall be going out for a stroll presently through the plantation." "And so this is not to be a Bristol day, after all?" she said, reproachfully. "What was there more memorable about a Bristol day than the smell tif tobacco—nothing of that kind known at the vicarage, yoa maY be sure; and I was looking forward to hav- ing this house so saturated with the scent of tobacco that whenever I came out of my room in the morning I should at once say to myself, 'Ah, this is going to be another Bristol day !' Come, to please me, Dodo!" He took up the tobacco -pouch and filled his pipe; she brought him a lighted taper ; and they both drew their chairs in towards the fire. "You see, Dodo," she continued, "you can go for your . stroll afterwards, while I have my interview with the cook and the housemaid, to find out about the trades- men's pass -books, and a .number of things like that. I must have my code of laws and regulations, you know, just as Mrs. Honeyman has; she showed me all—how it was arfanged. And then about half -past four, if you care to come in for a cup of tea, I should like to go out for a little walk with you, in the twilight, when you hear the thrushes best." Later on that evenine those two were again seate0 before the nre —he at the table, where there was some whisky and water aki an accompaniment to his pipe; she at his feet, shading her face with the book from which she had been reading to him. Now, however, they had. fallen into some discue- sion of theeventsof the day. "And remember it is only an experhnerif Nan," he Said, with a return of that timid solicitude whieh had marked his demeannt in the morning. "I don't bind you to any. thing. We could try some other place—h some other way. You are young ; and pe; - haps I don't quite know what you would like. We could go away elsewhere, Na;, You may find it too lonely, after all." " Ah, Dodo, Dodo, don't talk like that l" she said. And then she leaned her arm arid her cheek affectionately on his knee, so that the firelight and the lamplight played hide- and-seek among the tags and curls of stip- brown hair that strayed about her small ear. " It seems far too beautiful and wen- derful to be real. And I never did think such happiness would come true ; but if has, hasn't it, Dodo? At last !—at last 'I" f CHAPTER III. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER. Clad in abundant furs, the /Jody H.:Olen Yorke -was standing on the step of Monks - Hatton Hall, leisurely buttoning her (lov- ing -gloves ; and in front ,of her and an:hat- ing her was a mail -phaeton, with a pair of handsome grays more or less .submitting to the -Ocitic ministrations' of the crroom at their head. Her companion was of maturer age than herself—alady of quiet and serious aspect,who rarely .spoke unless when spoken to. On the other hand, when. these tWo had at length got into their places, when the younger of them had taken possession of • reins and whip, and when a touch of the silk had sent the horses forward, it speedily appeared thas Lady Helen was in Children Cry -for nlarly gay and talkative mood, though: as natal, her eyes maintained a certain mys- terious reticence in their ' expression of hu- mor or sarcasm, as the reasp might be. You are so dark and edbret,Mrs.Spink," she was saYing, as tho. carriage rolled along the Fair Mile. "Spink by name but Sphinx by nature. , One can never tell what you are brooding over. I can only guess now, for example, what you are thinking- of my having dragged you away at this un- earthly hour, when I might have taken Willis with me. But then, you 'see, Mrs. Spinkie, it's a long drive to Oxford, Lad the horses will•want at least a couple of hours' rest in the middle of the day; and what could I do with Willis all that time? What does she know about architecture—about colleges and quadrangles and chapels? Never mind. If this is another deadly injury, 1 daresay you have your revenge. ' 1 should not Ise in the least surprised to discover that you wrote articles for the Sunday radi- cal papers..denouncing the brutal selfishness and tyranny and hard-heartedness of the British nobility. Oh yes, I dare say we catch it—" . " Of course you are only joking; Lady Helen," her companion _said, in her tranquil and 'grave fashion; "but if I were capable of any such thing, surely it would be a piee0 of the worst ingratitude. Ever since 1 caie to Monkt-Hatton I have received both ng but kindness • nothing _ could equal her adyship's thoughfulness and consid- eration" `fOhyes," broke in the other in her wil- ful Way. " Mamma is always thoughtful and housiderate ; it is mamma's daughter whe is selfish and cruel and bord-hearted— dragging poor Mrs. Spinkie away from all her 'home ditties and her home comforts,and driving her through &lonely eountry on a glootny March morning. I understand. I can guess how you are plotting ont your revenge. Those iniquitous people called the aristocracy will catch it next Sunday or the Sunday after. Well, well !" . Ihit whatever the taciturn or discreet Mrs. Spink may have been thinking, she could hardly have resented being called from constant attendance on even the most considerate of invalids to join in this im- proMptti excursion. The morning was over- clouded, it is true, but yet it was beautiful in is way; and the landscape was an English- loolting landscape of early spring—of soft greehs and purple -grays mainly ; a glimpse of a tted-tiled farm -building here and there; a pond struck into a shimmer of silver by the Wind; the beech woods carpeted with the bronze and copper leaves of the previous autumn. Then, by-and-by, they got up on to very high land—for the drive between Henley and Oxford is one of the pleasantest in Argland ; and from the lofty highway running between strips of heath and com- mon, they had spacious views Over the wide champaign country, with the variegated pastnres and homesteads and leafless woods gradually ascending towards a line of hill tha,t sloped away to, the wt. The air was quite mild and soft for the beginning of Mercla And here was a companion in the gayest of good humors; surely there was nothing to complain of ?—nor, in . truth, did Mre. Sp- ink appear to complain. Then at last there appeared before them a vision of ghostly gray spires and towers rising above aevague wilderness of elms and pollard willows, with a distant white glint of water; and,presently they were driving over Magdalen Bridge and past the Botanio Gardens, and got into the,midst of the High Street. The younger of these • two ladies, \OM had now grown silent, wore a serenely impassive air ;. she seemed to be chiefly oc- cupied with her horses, as was natural ; but her eyes were alert, and it may be presumed that there we're few objects in this famous thoroughfare that escaped her covert scru- tiny as she made her way along. They stop- ped at the Mitre, The charge of the phae- ton was resigned to the groom, who de- parted to the stables. And then the trav- ellers entered the hotel. , But when Lady Helen came.out again she had underg le a transformation. ''On this mild morning 4 unnecessary furs had been discarded, and rw she appeared in a welk- in dress chiefis f blaelt, with' blue sleeves and a broad barid of blue round the hese of the skirt; her hat was also of blue and black, with a single feather of bright golden yellow ; her hands were incased in a slung !miff of black -dyed beaver. It was a tome perhaps a little more suggestive of Some fashionable watering -place than appro- priate to the staid streets of an ancient town; and yet it was quiet enough and in good taste; while there was in the carriage a th,e wearer of it o certain repose and. dig- nity that seemed to remove from her any euspicion of trying to produce effect. For a Second, as she anis came out into the day- light, she appeared undecided as to which *ay to turn, Her eyes—those beautiful elear gray eyes, with their black lashes— looked conscious ; and her first half-con- eealed glance along the dull pavements was almost apprehensive. That was but for a moment ; she had an abundance of self- pommand. ( "And where would you like to go now, Mrs. Spink ?" she said with much cheerful- ness. " You have never been to Oxford be- fore ! Well. the river ought to be lively just now, in view of the boat -race, you know. Shall we go down to Folly Bridge? and you might have a look in at Christ Church on the -catty." "But, Lady Helen," said her companion, with some astonishment, "I thought you had come On some errand—that you had . some architectural matters to study -a." ' "Yes, yes," she made answer, impatient- ly. "But I have forgotten the hook. I had a book marked. We'd better just Walk about and look at the place. Oxford is al - Ways interesting; any part of it is inter- esting. Besides, we shall have to have lunch by-and-by.. It is hardly worth while going away down to the river; who wants to see a lot of bop splashing about ?" Mrs. Spink was the most pliant of com- panions ; she professed her -readiness for anything; and so the two ladies set out, go- ing along the igh Streetby the way they had come. I must be confessed, however, that Lady He n proved herself a most in- different cicero e. At first, it is true, she was in high spi ts, and was inclined to con- tinue that twig ying of poor. Mrs. Spinkie with which she 'ad started in the Morning; but gradually sl became mare and more pre -occupied; w ille, despite all her conceal- ment, it was clear that she was furtively glancing along the gray pavements from time to time, and that with an ever-increas- ing disinclination to talk, Mrs. Spink re- ceived little information. Nay, their wan- derings in this direction extended no furth- er than Queen's. Here Lady Helen turned, on some excuse or other ; and when they had repassed. All Souls' and regained the region of the shops, she hung about the windows, -affecting to be deeply interested in their contents. It was an odd way* of studying the architectural beauties of Ox- ford; or of introducinec'a stranger to the chief features of the town. Shop windows in which were straw hats and gay necker- chiefs ; in which were clocks and watches and ornamented alarums '• in which were apples and oranges and early rhubarb—these seemed all alike capable of arresting her attention.; while she even stood and gazed, or ) appeared to he gazing, at a fishinonger's slab, with its salmon and _eels and cod. : As the time went by in this fruitless and fatiguing fashion, she seemed to grow more taciturn and discontented ; in- deed, her answers to any haphazard reniark her companion ventured to 'offer, were dis- tinctly sharp and short, ; and it almost seemed as if the fleeting expression of dis- appointment that occasionally crossed her features were about to settle (Lawn into ab- solute ill -temper. And then again, and without a word of explanation or excuse,she 'Pitcher's Castoriao "Commend to Your HonorableWife" —Merchant qf Venice. and tell her that I am composed of clarified cottonseed oil and re- fined beef suet; that I am the purest of all cooking fats; that my name is -1191e that I am better than lard, and more useful than butter; that I am equal in shortening to twice the quantity of either, and make food much easier of digestion. I am to be found everywhere in 3 and 5 pound pails, but am Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, Wellington and Ann Ste" HONTRF.Ale. OINIIIIIIIirtibdildMINEM set out to retrace her steps along the High Street, secretly watching, perhaps, and yet with an air as if she would defy any one— Mrs. Spink or another—to say there was any occult quest in her thoughts. She pre- tended to be carelessly observant of what- ever she encountered—an undergraduate with his gown tucked over his arm, a butcher's boy facing a yelping terriers a heavilY laden wain lumbering along the middle of the gtreet. But when she had once more reached the entrance to All Souls', she hesitatingly pauseid at the small wooden portal, and glanced !inward at the damp green grass of the quadrangle, at 'the cloisterlike and crumbling ,walls, a,nd the small and sombre windows. "There is a gateway in there," she said, with a certain cold indifference, " that has z•oof with fan tracery. I should- like to have seen it." " Shall we gO in, then ?" Mrs. SPink said at once. " I don't, know whether the chapel is open," she said—and still she lingered in a sort of sullen indecision. " If Mr. Hume—, of course you remember Mr. Hume—if he were here he could tell us. Mr. Hume is a Fellow of All Souls." `• Then let us go inside and ask for him," said Mrs. Spink, naturally enough. But theeffect produced by this casual suggestion was startling ; Lady Helen's eyes flashed, and her face crimsoned. "What do you mean?" she demanded. "Do you suppose—or would you have any one suppose—that I came to Oxford to call on Mr. Hume? That would be a, pretty story to tell ! We are going back to the hotel—and at once." And not another word did this submissive attendant, rdheive as these two returned to the Mitre ; while as for Lady Helen, she seemed so vexed and angry (for some reason or another) that she appeared to have definitely abandoned that furtive scanning of distant passers-by. On their.arrival at the hotel a waiter who happened to be coming through the passage opened the door of the coffee -room for them; and Lady Helen entered, and, with never a glance around, walked straight up to the window which looks into the: High Street Her companion was less confident or less self absorbed. "Don't you think, Lady Helen," she said, in an undertone. " that your mamma would prefer your having lunch in a private room?' " Oh, I don't want any luneh !"s„she made answer, impatiently—and she .fttenained standing and looking out,. " Order what you like for yourself." And indeed this was not at the moment much of a public place ; there Were only two other persons in the room, and these were at .separate, tables ; one of them, a stout country looking clergyMan, devoting himself to a Gorgonzola cheese, the other a young man deep in the columns of a sport- ing newspaper. Mrs. Spink, left to her own devices, secured a small fable close by where Lady Helen Was standing, and pro- ceeded to order luncheon for two—perhaps that wilful young personage might be in- duced to change her mind. And Mrs. Spink saw no reason why she herself should be deprived of her mid-day meal.' They had been driving for about three hours; for well over another hour they had been wear- ily pacing up and down the High Street pavement ; in her case, at all events, the vague nerve had begun to sound its warning little bell. But of a'sudden all this was changed. "Mrs. Spiuk !" exclaimed Lady Helen, in a low and hurried. voice. The elder woman looked up. There was someone coming along outside; and although a screen of wire gauze intervened, she easily recognized who that was ; it was Mr. Sidney Hume. But what was to be done-4issum- ing that Lady Helen wished to intercept and speak with this son of her particular friend? In another instant he would be past ; and she, Mrs. Spink, could not be expected to run away dowis the High Street of Oxford after him. But it was., Lady Helen hereelf who proved herself mistress of, this occasion. The moment she had caught sight of him she had—in her eager- ness and headlong forgetfulness of strangers —wrapped smartly on the screen of wire gauze stretching across the window; but that was of no avail to attract his attention, for the screen Struck the wooden frame- work, not the glass, and no sound was caia ried outward. Then for a second she stood irresolute, with some desperate thought of appealing to the waiter ; but she now per- ceived that Sidney Hume was crossing the thoroughfare to talk to an elderly gentleman in cap and gown who appeared. to be waiting for him at the corner of the lane. She hesi- tated no longer. "Mrs. Spink," she said, quickly, " Mr. Hume is over the way. -Wouldn't it inter- est Mrs. Hume to know that I had seen and spoken with her precious boy? Stay where von are. Perhaps he will come and have lunch with us." And therewith, and calmly and sedately, and without any appearance of baste, she left the coffee -room, emerged into the outer daylight, and watching her opportunity be- tween the passing cabs,crossed the thorough fare. The elderly gentleman—when Sidney Hume saw who this was who now approach- ed—was very speedily dismissed. "I made sure I should meet some one I knew," she observed to -him, placidly, when he had expressed his surprise and pleasure. "1 tolk Mrs. Spink, as we were driving along this morning that Iknew several lads Children Cry for that were at ,Oxford—men, I suppose they call themselves up here --though one for- gets the name of their college when one isn't interested. There is my cousin, . Cyril Leslie, at .Brasenose; I thought I might by some accident run against him, though it would have been it matter of little conse- quence. But it is different meeting with you; for Mrs. Hume will be so pleased to • hear that I saw you and had a. chat With you. 1 hope ,you can come and have some luncheon with us over at the hotel there." " Oh, no, no," he said, laughing. " 1 cannot afford to throw away such a chance. Mrs. Spink and you must come along and. have lunch with me in my rooms; the en- tertainment of visitors is rather a rare joy at present—it is not to be forfeited. All Souls' is quite close by ; and I can show you the college silver while something is being got ready for you. What do you say ?—will you be so kind 1—shall we go over and cap- ture Mrs. Spink ?" She was highly pleased by this friendli- ness ; for,so far as she had observed,Sidney Hume hat' never shown much desire for the society of women -folk. Yet, as this tall young man piloted her across the thorough- fareawith a profound disregard of any urg- ent hameorri ; and as he brought his power of persuasion to bear on Mrs. Spink, who was glad to think of having luncheon anywhere; and as he conducted the two ladies along to All Souls',and showed them over the college and finally had there installed in his own rooms, nothing could exceed his courtesy and modest kindness. She remembered .a saying of Mrs. Hume's, "When you get a Scotch boy well mannered he is very well mannered indeed." And this handsome lad, though his blood was but partly Scotch, had' received his training from that Scotch moth- er, who was extremely proud of her name and lineage, and solicitoue above all things that her sons and daughters should have a bearing worthy of their descent. As for his good looks— But here lady Helen found herself unaccountably shy. As he nioved about the room, bringing his two guests (while luncheon was being preCp reeil for c( them) such small curiosities of his wn as he thought might interest them —an i Ituninat- ed manuscript on vellum, it Trautz-Bauzon- net binding, a rare Elzevir—her glances could only follow him in a veiled and covert fashion. She found herself, too, when be regarded her, it little disconcerted. His eyes, grave and serious,had a curious direct- ness in their look. They seemed to say: " Let us have done with conventionalism, with pretence. Affectation is tedious, a 1mere waste of time. . Let us establish a shimpler,a more reasonable relationship than that." And yet, serious and,attentive and respectful as his eyes were, they could light- en up at times when she was inclined to be merry •, while his laugh was quite boyish. Beautiful eyes, she thought. And his hair was beautiful, so soft and smooth in, its rich brown tones. As for his features, they were striking and interesting rather than strictly regular; but were they not somewhat pale fer one who was fond of athletic exercises, who had taken prizes for running and high jumping; and who (according to a certain fond mamma) was one of the most distin- guished members of the University Fencing Club? Of fine physique he was most clear- ly ; shoulders square, back -dot, Muscles firm and clean, while his upright figure and the fine set of his head were such as might have been expected (as Lady Helen thought) of one of "the handsome Humes." (To be Continued.) • The River of Life. BY .101111 IMAM TORONtrO, CANADA. Drifting down the river of life— Drifting, drifting, drifting : A lonely hark—hnmortal soul !— Launched forth to seek life's finel goal, O'er sunken reeks or hidden Antal, Drifting, dri:ting, drifting ! Drifting down the river of life— Drifting, drifting., drifting ; High, reeky, frowning banks o'erhead, 'Heath tangled branches, 'live and deed. A tiny bark to ocean sped, Drifting, drifting, drifting ! Drifting down the river nf life— Drifting, drifting, drifting ; Here, passing through some lovely scene, Cool shade and sueshine intervene, Now, o'er a cascade's glist'ning eheen, Drifting, drifting, drifting ! Drifting down the Ever of life— Drifting, drifting, drifting ; Ever moving—resting never— tepee& thaltark ad am n lifted river, Da,ing Death and daeger ever, Drifting, &Ming, drifting ! Drifting down the river of life— Drittifig, drifting, dri tine ; Bark! the roll of distant thunder, Lighteings rend the recite asunder, oh 1 the lotk of awe-ttruck wonder, Drifting, drifting, diifting Drifting down the river of life— Drifting, drifting drifting : Cowering 'neath the chilly blast, Many a dreadful cavern past, Out—out lute tne light at last! Drifting, drifting, drifting ! See ! the Pilot looking for ue— Drifting, drifting, drifting ! Raise the signal to Him—r" Prayer !" Truitt Ilis wiedorn, skill and care, Gone the nigh; of dark despair, No more danger drifting; Oh ! the wrecks that strew the shore— Drifting, shifting, drifting No fear had they on sea or land, Wh;le others knelt they dar'd to stand, Ant? epurn'd the Pilot',, helping Hand, Wreok'd and lost while drifting! • Her Maiden Fears. " George ?" There was anxiety—just a little of it—in the girl's tone. " What is it, love ?" "1 read something in the paper to -day that alarmed me." "What was it ?" " Niagara Falls is wearing away at the, rate of more than twelve inches a year; and in the course of some hundreds of •years it will be gone entirely." " What of that ?" " Yon know it is such it delightful place for honeymoon trips." " Yes." "1 had set my heart on going there on our own bridal tour." " Ye -e -e -s ?" " We have been engaged four years now." "About that length of tine." She laid her head on his shoulder and sol bed. that time—boo-boo ! fully fifty inches of the Falls have been worn away —boo-hoo ; and I'm afraid they'll be all gone before—before--Oh, dear! what .am I saying ?" " Never mind, love," said Gebrge, ten- derly, as he kissed her cheeks. " Don't cry. We'll go before the -Falls are worn away. How would next Jue suit'?" " That will do nicely, sweetheart." And she was happy again. • An Object Lesson. Among it lot of newspaper women, one of the group recalled the advice she had re- ceived from the man who read her copy, back in the years when its preparing was new to her. "1 expect," she said, "1 was very free with adjectives, and one day Mr. said to me as I handed hiin some work : " Before I read this, suppose you go through it carefully and take out every su- perfluous adjective.' "1 laughed and did so. Then I brought it to him again. He handed it back with- out opening, "Now," he said, 'go through it once more and take out all you have left "It was a neat little way of giving me an object lesson, and since then I have never written in an adjective without pausing to consider if I could do without it. And it is remarkable" she finished, with a laugh, "how many of these parts of speech I have lost." Pitcher's Castoria. NOVEMBER 23 POWDERS Cure SICK HEADACHE and NeursIgi In .20 mitiures, also Coated Tongue, Dim- ness,Bilioueness, Pain in the Side, Constipation, oBwaedisB. revaathR.rTpiolostairyroeurredAjcanirda Torpid regulatethLiver the b' Pimps g6 CENTS AT DENO STORES, SIGN OF THE UVULAR SAW. `squ,3t'oaap G6° t'eq.uirlii:at2y2iyAdvice fApotted. 111‘52;e1Tc13eiet To Exhibitors OF Stock AT THE Fal Fai rs:' If you would secure FIRST PRIZE ou must have your animal in the finest condition, his coat must be smooth end glossy and he must be in good spirits so as to "alto* off" well. DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER is the best Condition Powders known for horses and cattle. It tones up the wboie system, regulates the bowels and kid- ney!, strengthens the digest:on, turns a rough coat into a smooth and glossy one. It gives horses "good lite" making them appear to the best possible ret vantage. Get DICK'S frc m your druggist or grocer or address DICK At CO. P. 0. BOX 482, Montreal. — - • — W 001 Le 'Si 1311C0 SP'110 I:SIN IE. The Great English Remedy, Six Packages Guaranteed to promptly. and permanently cure all forms of Nervous Weakness, Emissions,Sperm- atorrhea, Impotency and at/ effects of Abuse or Excesses, Mental Worry, excessive use BeforeandAfter.° Tobacco, °Plum or Stimu- lants, which soon lead to In- firmity, Insanity, Consumption. and an early grave. Has been preticribed over 35 years in thousands of cases; 18 the only Reliable and Honest Medicine known. Ask druggist for Wood's Phosphodiner if he offers some worthless medicine in place of this, Inclose price in letter, and we will send by return xnalL Price, one package, al; six, $5. One will phase, six will cure. Pamphlets free to anyaddress The Wood Company, Windsor, Ont., Canada. For sale by tumsden & Wilson, druggists, Sea - forth, Ont. If You Have a Room to • Paper, Point or Idsonine GO TO -• Willard & Crich A First Class Stock of Wall Paper, Window Shades, Curtain Poles_ etc., always on hand. Pictures and Picture Framing a Specialty. Portraits made in Every Style. Small Pictures Enlarged to Any Size. WILLARD & MICH MAIN STREET Opposite JOHN Si'., Seaforth. 1400 1894. Leaving Seaforth GOOD BROS. Beg to announce that they have decided to close up their Seaforth store, and confine themselves en- tirely to Boots and Shoss in the4 Town of Winghan3. The lease of the Seaforth store expires on the- ist of December, and the whole - stock must be cleared out before that date. As our Fall purchases of BOOTS and SHOES were made - before we _decided on this step, the public will have an opportun- ity of getting their Fall and Win- ter Shoes at unusually low piiees, IT COSTS MONEY to pack up and move goods, so we will offer - great bargains in solid, reliable Beots and Shoes for Fall and Winter wear. THE GROCERIES, HATS AND CAPS, CROCKERY and TINWARE has got to be sold regardless of profit, as also the chattels, horse, wagon, sleigh, shop furniture, &c Inspection of goods and prices is requested. COOD BROTHERS, SEAFORTH. HURON AND BRUCE Loan and Investment 04Dmeri:).A"\T-y-.. This Company is Loaning Money ou Farm Security at lowest Rates of Interest. Mortgages Purchased. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3,4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed ea Deposita, &wording to amount assd time left. OFIPICE.—Coriiir of Market Square VA North Street, Goderieh, HORACE HORTON, MANAGRIre Godsrich, Amu et lith.1885. ')iO070Vd NOSIVHOi' bri 'H12iOJV3S THRSTOrS PURE MU BUTTER El (PANTED JULY lien, 1293,) New Process for Making Pure Milk Butter from tho. Pure Solids of the Miro chemicals or EX••• ire Machinery Required. This New Process make two to thren times. the amonnt of Pere Milk-. Butter that can he made - by any other method yet. invented. Therefore send. stamp . for full particulars, also circulars of questionsf asked and answered. Thuniton's Pnre Milk Batter Co., 53 Ring Street East, Toronto, Ont. The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company, FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED. torten& D. Roes; Preeident, Clinton I'. O.; W. 3. Shannon, Secy-Treas., Seelorth P. 0.; Michael Murdie, Inspector of Losses. Seaforth P. O. DIR1101,01113. Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Ale:. Gardiner, Lead, bury; nGabriel Elliott. Clinton; Geo. Watt, Hemlock ; Joseph Evans, Beeehwood ; M. efurdie, Seaforth ; Thos. Garbutt, Clinton. AMBITS. Thos. Nailane, Hsrlook Robt. MeM111n, Sesforth James Cumming, Egurondville. John O'Sullivin and Geerge Murdie, Auditors. Parties desirous to effect Insurabeee or trite sot other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of the above officer?, addressed to their respective poet 0110m. _ NOVEM LARD OF While thanking town and enliven encouragement th the way of very 1 • desire to cal their facts concerning o not generally kno is our constant - the very best clas we succeed in di' but the choicest ing none but skill , While doing th it distinctly uncle charged are muc heretofore prevail .ed for by the fact, larger business ti we are satisfied margins. Machi any price is dea -coupled with depend upon gett absolutely worthl tura the best harn be obtained in th. tending purchase 'hearty invitation Charles Aitzel, or the premises, whe considerately tak M. Br Corner Main Se 1374-tf THE Musical EMP MARL Owing to hard eluded to sell Pia Greatly Re Organs at $25 Pianos at Co SEE us BEIM SC Mortg SEAFOBTH B PRO a_ TOWN 0 Under and by virtue in a certain mortgage, b ary, 1894,which will be there will be offered ler Thomas Brown. Audio tbe TOWII of Seaforth, Satunity the 174h day • lotic in the afternoon • wn of Seaforth, and ennnber 25, in the fir* ldeKillop, in the county ef Seaforth, and mutain of an acre of land, more -the Seaforth Butter used by John Homer s tpartioularly described bills. There is Situate -tory, together with all truanumeture of butter. per cent. of the purcb -day of sale and the Ws -after without interest. Purdue particulars J. 'THOMAS, BROWN, An Dated, 2.4thOutober, J. C. $MI A General Ban Farmers' notes Drafts bought an Interest allowed •of 5 peas cent per a, SAI,F1 NOTES 311ection - OFFICE—First Wilsores liagdsvare SEA The D Rof :CATARRH! AST CHRONIC "is positively the mos VIII. treatment ever 'consists of combined I nnent, which not only trouble, but 1.boranhl -thus insuring a perfeet .apparently hopelree IF YOU FEEL W ENT. if you have Cats Trouble or any other o CBE cured, call or write ena. ROURK ie ay throughout Canada. University sod of the aisle of the Ito* Co goes member of the reans: of -Ontario an SUPICIUNITODENT ii0SPITALodit; yess0" COmmitatiOn teall on or Address DR. FRA 76 P.287-52 HAN Boots D. M Oases hand,a large: own mak Warranted yon Wont your our ‘0 HEAP ZmorbssPromPtii :Oboes **date =raid theirsessola issitle