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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-12-14, Page 6DECEMBER 144 189 VETERINARY. TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honbr eraduate of Ontario B7 Veterinary College., All dramas of Domestic Animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and charges moderate. Vete rinasy Dentistry specialty *Mee and maidence on Goderich street, one door eterer of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112t1 G. II. GIBES, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentlet, Toronto College, of Teterinery dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Society. All diseasee of domestie animals ekilfully treated. All calla promptly attended to drier or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Offime and _Dispensary—Dr. Campbell's old office, 3lain streei Seaforth. • 1406-52 LEGAL "The a HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Pub1t, Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office—Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth. Money to loan. 1235 ATTHEW /MORRISON, Walton Insurance, Agent, Commissioner for taldng affidavit., Obriveyances, &e. Money to loser at the loweer rates. Mosauroie, Walton. L•it. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o Office—Roome, five cloora north,of0omniercial 1. ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papst's jewelry store, .Main street, Seaforth. Gederioh onenta—Cairteroo, Holt end Cameron. 1215 III p-luP/ItOUDFOOT- mmy. & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, &o., Goderich, Ontario. j. T. Gesuow, Q. C-; 686 - AILERON? HOLT & HOLMES, Hudgins So- tto -Mersin Chanoery, &c.,Goderich, Out M. C. GeNenos, Q. O., Pnuar Home Denese Holaiss ANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors. Con =tomcats,. &re Solicitors for the Bant ol Johnston, Theists & Gale. Money to ken Moo— Elliott Block, Clintoet, Ontario. A. H. Meetings§ /AIM Soon. 781 "Elt IIOLMEETED, suoceasor to titb late firm X• McCaughey & Hohnested, Barrister, So- flalto Conve rimer and Notary. Solicitor for the alined of Commerce. Money to lend. Farms for sale. ijffioe in Scott's Blook, Math Street, Seaftrth. W. CAMERON SMITH, BARRISTER. Solicitor of Superior Court, Commissiover for taking Affidsvits in the High Court of Justice, Conveyancer, Money. o Lend can be consuEed atter office hours at the Con-uner- cial HoteL RENSAT.Te ONTARIO DENTISTRY. TNR. G. F. BELDEN, L. D. S., Dentist. All kinds of work done known to _Modern Dentistry. Gold, Aluminum and Porcelain Crowns a specialty. Door bell answered at all houre. Office and resi- dence over Mr. Pickard's store, in rooms lately occu- pied by Mechanics' Inetitute. FW. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Offioe over Richardson & McInnes' Shoe Store, corner Main and John - Sada, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad- ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1169 IY. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Caen,' D. D. el of To - onto University. Office, MarketBlock, Mitohell, Ontarlo. 1402 - 'ED AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will 1-11„ visit Hansen at Hodgena' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in eacn month 1288 Ly KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D „ Exeter, Ont. Will be at Enrich at the Huron Hotel, ONLY on the LAST TELURSDAY in each month, and at Murdook's Hotel, Hensel', on the FIRST FRIDAY to each month. Teeth eetraeted with the least ran poeelhle. All work fleet-eleas at liberal ratea 971 MONEY TO LOAN. likArONEY TO LOAN.—Straight loans at 6 par ILL (tent., with the privilege to borrower of repaying pert of the prinoipal money at In time. dpplY to F. FIOLMESTED, Barrister, Seaforth. ..„ MEDICAL. DR. 8.8. MURRAY Member British Medical Association, late coroner County of Middlesex. Offiee—oPposite Town Hall n theCady block. Residence -67 Victoria Street Telephone No. 80. 1400-52 'ENE. CAMPBELL, Honor Graduate of Medical Fa- x/ culty of Toronto University, Physician, Sur- geon, etc. Office—Zellet's Block; night calls— Greb's Hotel, Zurich, One. 1387 lAR. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M., jer Victoria M. C. P. S., Oetario, successor to Dr. Elliott, offiee 'lately occupied by Dr. Eliott, Bruce- lield, Ontario. 1370x52. McTAVISH, Physician, Surgeon, &e. Office jeer corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Bruoefleld. Night calls at the office. 1323 DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY, OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist Church, Seaforth RESIpENCEI nerd A,gricultural 6-. SCOTT, M D. C. Id., (Ann Arbor ad Via- toria,) M. 0.E . 8. 0. • G. MACKAY, M. D. C. M., (Trinity,) F. T. M. C. M. C. P. 8.0. Ri E. COOPER, M. D., M. B.' L. F. P. and S. e Glasgow, &c., Physician, 'Surgeon and Ace toucher, Constance, Ont. 1127 ArjEL BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. Bileoeseor to Dr. klaoltid. °fact lately mewled by Dr. Maokid, Mak Street Seaforth. 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It has no equal as a_cure for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Consumtion, Scrofula, Anaemia, Emaciation, an d Wasting Diseases of Children. scat & aowne, Belleville. Ail Drup,gie:e. 50c. &$1. THE HANDSOME HUMES. BY werreestM BLACK. CHAPTER, V. :A. SQUIRE OF DAMES. —Continued. Yet not always, and at every hour and moment was he thus their bounden slave. He claimed and exercised. a certain liberty; he would run across to the Oval for some cricket match; he would look in at the ten- nis -court at Lord's; and he was most assid- uous in keeping up his fencing. But his fa- vorite resort during an unoccupied half- hour was the British "%Inseam ; and it was not the books and gems that drew him thither, but rather the sculpture rooms— those silent and .lone echoing hails, where the solitary stranger may dream dreams. This poor, forlorn, abducted Carytid, for example, broken-nosed, begrimed, deserted —is she thinking of her five radiant sisters, far away on the lofty height, looking acroas the wide valleys to the gray -green slopes of Hymettus murmuring of its bees? Then those various voiceless fragments of buste and limbs: when they were compact and alive, in the distant times, surely they must have -listened to the laughter of Greek Maidens by the Fountain of Callirrhoe, down there in the plain, where the Ilissus trickles along its arid channel, or sweeps in storm400d, tawny and turbulent, through the sparse olive groves. Nay, this young fellow standing here—who might himself have been taken for a Greek youth of the great 6:3,s—he had some little bit of imag- ination, too. When the sunlight fell from the roof- and lay in broad squares on the floor, it was easy to forget the great outside world of London; it was easy to summon up another vision — the steep white steps of the Propylae-e-the witionountry stretching down to Phalerum —the long cur \ e . of Salamis—the blue waters of the Gulf of 2Egina baskine°in the heat. He was sorry for this poor forlorn Caryatid. The bees on Mount Hymettus would be murmuring now. He was more familiar, less reverential, with the Remans—with the portrait busts. He would stand before them and ask them questions ;. would try to discover nihat they had been really like—what they had done and thought. Here was the large -eyed, mild -featured Marcus Aurelius. "Tell me, now," he would say to those blank eyes, "was your philosopheneliving and actual and ee re a part er yonrseu'or were yOrt Only play- ing with phrases to console yourself a lit- tle, or to keep up your courage, or perhaps merely to display your wisdom? Could you really hold yourseli so superior to all the buffets of chance. and the opinion of your fellow creatures? Is it true that you could so serenely contemplate being swal- lowed up in the universal substance, follow- ing ,Chrysippus'and Socrates and Epictetua into the unknown? Impervious to any dint of fortune you professed to be; yet they say you betrayed violent grief when Faustina died. Was that quite consistent? But perhaps you forgot the philosopher and revealed the man ?" Lady Helen's courtship of this beautiful youth, however subtly planned and skil- fully carried out (with varying moods and petulandes,) was not progressing very satis- factorily. He was always most polite and kind to her, even as he was always obedient to the imperiously good-natured mamma but ha did. 11Gt ;',"1:11W With 9fhr fe1V4re,telltt he ilia hot seek: for any secrets, nr endeav- or to monopolize her society when they were at any ball or party together. What seems still more inhuman and incredible, he did not even sympathize with her piteous attempts at learning Greek' ; and when at last, worn out with dialects ar d dual num- bers and dots, she yielded to a fit of tem- per and flung dictionary and grammar and all the rest from her onto the table, and de- clared she would have done with the whole thing, he merely gathered the volumes to- gether, and said, with a laugh, that she was very wise, seeing that so many excellent " cribs ". were being issued from day to day. Nevertheless, in a pathetic kind of fashion, she did what she could to associate herself with his favorite studies and pursuits. She was an eager admirer of Greek intaglios and cameoes ; she professed sympathy with the ladies who are or used to be desirous of introdueinet'Greek costume—though she her- self did not propose to walk along Oxford Street in chiton and chlaina, ; Minerva be- came for her Athene; and Zeus,not Jupiter, ruled over the gods; .'while she was pro- foundly interested in certain historical pro- jects of which Sidney had rather indiffer- ently told her—projects that promised to lead him away into personal exploration of the °hereon tee, Where the thundering Bosporus answers the thun- der of Pantie seas." - She half intimated that she also would like to visit those legendary shores, *under the kind guardianship that had now been estab- lished. For this Upper Brook 'Street ex- periment had worked admirably well; airily should it cease with the autumn dispersal? And Mrs. Hume seemed not unwilling to continue at her not very onerous post. Per- haps the -elder lady mayhave considered that the whole situation would have been render ed more explicit by the introduction of a wed- ding -ring; but she was too shrewd to press matters. For this son of hers, with all his filial obedience, had a sort of sensitive per- sonal pride. She limited herself to an -oc- casional hint, apparently of the most hap- hazard kind; and meanwhile, the longer this arrangeznent existed, the more natural did it appear to be. Why should these three separate, either now, or at the end of the season, or at any time? "Ab, Helen," said Mrs. Hume one morn- ing, before Mr. Sidney had made' his ap- pearance,." you might make me a very happy woman if you chose." For she affected to believe that it was the young lady who was coy. Lady Helen laughed, and colored a little. "1 know what you mean, dear M.A. Hume," said she. "1 don't pretend not to know what you mean. But that is about the last thing likely to happen in this world-. Oh, there are fifty reasons against it—a hundred! For one thing, our interests are so different; he is taken' up with his histor- ical schemes, and 1 with the frivolities of this town. And then another very excel- lent reason is that he doesn't like roe --1.' "Helen, how can you say so ?" the elder woman remonstrated, warmly. "rte is de-. voted to you -:-I never . saw such constant attention anti kindness—" • "No, no, not" the other said, with wilful insistence. "I understand him well. There is only one thing he tolerates 'about me, and. that is my name. He addresses me by name, but he is thinking of another Helen —the Helen who came to Ilion's towers.' That was somebody worth thinking about, somebody of importance. But as for the actual women he meets—the vain, frivolous, ignorant, vacillating creatures—I know he holds us all in contempt—" " Helen, how entirely, how provokingly mistaken you are 1" Mrs. Hume exclaimed again. "Oh, I know, 1 know," her companion persisted. "I can see it in his eyes. They are the most extraordinary eyes ! They look right through you: There's no biding from them. They seem to command you to be honest; and, you know, that isn't al- ways convenient; honesty is very evell—buk you may have too much of it. And then his marvellous quickness! He sees what you are going to say before you have got it said; and then I am haunted by the terror that he will turn away, tOlet you know it wasn't worth saying—" 1 " Really Helen, you don't pay me any compliment about Sidney's upbringing—if he can be guilty of such rudeness—" "Rudeness ;" the younger woman broke in. "Nothing of the kind! He does not take trouble to be rude. But you feel con- scious of such a terrible standard of • hon- esty. No pretty little bit of hypocrisy and make-believe; say what you've got to say, madam, and don't give • yourself airs and graces!. Why, we were looking ,over the armor Homezicum—you know—the Baron de Triquetis—and we came to the head of Aplarodite—the smiling one, with the mir- ror --and I said, `No wonder she smiles when she looks in the mirror." Well, he never uttered a word. And I knew what he was thinking; I knew perfectly; he was inwardlysaying„ 'If yeu wish fbr a com- pliment, you must make the invitation a little -less coarse and obvious.' No, he re- rnained absolutely. silent; as hard as iron; brutally stiff, I call it; for, after all, human nature wants a little give and take. Other people have mirrors, besides Aphrodite among her dolphins—" By this time Mrs. Hume was inclined to smile. "I don't know what strange fancies you have got into your head, Helen," she ob- served at length, "but clearly it is not ow- ing to anything Sidney has said or done. Why should you imagine such things about him ?—for it is all your own imagination. If he has been accidentally silent on some oecasion—" 'Oh, he is a great deal too perfect," Lady Helen said, with angry patience," and he expects every one else to be the same.' And here Mrs. Hume did actually break into laughter. Poorlad!" said she. "1 had always thought that his chief failing was an ex- cessive modesty.. But mothers are blind creatures." With all her other engagements Lady Helen Was at this time having her portrait painted by Mr. Mellord, the greai. Acade- mician; and the days on which she gave hina_sittings Mrs. Hume devoted to her own immediate relatives; for several of her married sons and daughters had come to town, and there was a good deal of visiting to be done within the wide family circle. Lady Helen went off alone, accompanied only by her maid Willis,who was quite con- tent to sit for hours in the spacious hall of white and black marble,looking at theplash- tug fountain, and the alabaster swan, and the flowers, with the occasional distraction of -the appearance of a visitor. It is true, Lady Helen had hinted to Sidney Hume that if he Would come and talk to. her in the etudio, the famous Academician would not only not object; ht wwW really wel- come him, for it would allow him to give all his time to his painting and his pipe. But Sidney did not respond to this invitation. The "'History of the Scythians," for ex- ample, demanded wide research. Lady Helen went alone with her maid. Now on the evening of one of those sit- ting days she returned with a certain air of triumph ; though it was difficult to tell, from her mysteriously reticent eyes, what her real mood was. The three of thexn sat down to an apology for a dinner, for they ,were going to the Haymarket Theatre later on; and hardly had Lady Helen's guests taken their places, when it became evident that she had recently encountered seine un- usual experience, "Yes, indeed," she said, with animation, "I have had some little amusement to -day. Very different from the ordinary thing— sitting deadly still and being stared at; watching Mr. Mellor(' fill his pipe, listening to detaehed sentences that are not meant to have any meaning in them; afraid t6 speak lest you should alter your expres- sion; wondering whether you are looking dull and heavy and stupid, and whether that will appear in the portrait, No, there was little of that to -day. The fact is, I happened to see Captain Erle as we were driving down --he lives in Kensington Gore, you know—and I stopped the carriage, and asked him whether he wouldn't come in and sit with me for a while in Mr. Mellord's studio, and he eaid ' Yes ' 'directly, and in we went. There wasa difference 1 Yu know what an amusing man he is, dear Mrs. Hume—been everywhere—seen everything —with a, trick of .inock exaggeration—mere cynicism—that is really very funny; and Mr. Mellord was as much cheered up as I was; I am sure it must have put ever so much more spirit into his work. I don't know how long Captain Erie stayed—the time went • quickly enough anyhow; and I was very glitefur ; indeed, I askecl him to come to our44ox at theIlayenarket to -night." Nothing,Was said for a second, but at length M. Hume remarked, somewhat coldly, "Of course you -know best, Helen; but don't you think Mr. Mellord considered it rather odd that you should take iastrang- er with you into his studio?" . " Oh dear no. !" she made answer, with an easy confidence. "He- was delighted— charmed. Of course he knew. Captain Erle by name. • And as for Me, I would not have believed that sitting to have one's por- trait painted could be made quiteso pleasant. And as I say, I think I ought to show my gratitude. I think we must ask Captain rle to come -home with up to -night for sup. per, if he cares for such a mild form of dis- sipation." . And again there was silence—until Sidney observed that be would leave a message with the people at the theatre so that . Captain' Erie should have no diffictAty in finding th.e box. Nor had Captain Erie any difficulty in finding the box. He had the air of a man who -could make his way about without much difficulty. . He was about thirty; of middle height; sun-tanned face, with short sike whiskers; spare of form and wiry -look- ing ; rather elaborately dressed, with a conspicuous button -hole. Lady Helen made much of liim from the vexy • outset; turned and talked to him almost continuous - .1y, from behind her fan, while the perform- ance was proceeding, and had barely a word for any one else. They could have received but the baldest idea of what the piece was; they laughed and chatted—for the most part about the sayings and doings and char- acteristics of the people they knew. The peer players, doing their best, were all un- heeded. Then he drove -home with them to Upper Brook Street ; and when r they went into the dining -room it looked exceedingly cool and pleasant on this hot night.; for there were on the snow-white table blocks of ice festooned with maiden hair fern, and tall salvers filled with yellow roses; while the windows had been left open, with some you nitts draw the line att 4and have, like thousands of other people, to avoid all food prepared with it, this is to remind you that there is, • a clean, delicate and healthful vegetable short- ening, which can be used in its place. If you will USE COURENE instead of lard, you can eat pie, pastry and the other "good things" which other folks enjoy, without fear of dyspeptic consequences. De- liverance from lard has come. Buy a pail, try it in your own kitchen, and be con-- vinced. cottolene is sold in 3 and 5 pound pails, by all grocers. Made only )4, The N. K. Fairbantt Com pa ny, 1 Wellington and Ann StS4 MOSTREfela, =XI partial screening -out of eny inquisitive passer by.- Supper was a mere farce --ex- cept, perhaps, as regards the strawberries. Lady Helen's sole attention and. her mirth- ful eyes ,were centred on her new guest, while he was telling her merreatales of the experienne and escapades of officers' wives in India. Not that he. addressed himself exclusively to her, but he addressed himself chiefly to her because she was his hostess; the others were free to listen if ttiey liked. And perhaps the grand -looking lady who presided at this tale did condescend to: listen, with a certain cold austerity of de- meanor; but as for Sidney, his eyes were absent; clearly he was thinking of quite other and distant things—perhaps of the oars that " wc n their emoy Where the narrowing Symp!egades ahitened the straits of Propontis with spray " ? - No, this was not. as the other 'evenings had been ; the little family group had been invaded and disconeerted ; a stranger had been introduced—a stranger who had no kind of idea of remaining a stranger, but seemed resolved upon monopolizing the whole of Lady Helen's replies and smiles and hospitalities. • When Sidney Hume's wandering faneiee came lea& from the shores of the Propontis_, he rapidly discover- ed that he was being bored. He listened for a while, indifferently. And then, as he did noti. see why, he should go on being bored, he rose and. begged Lady Helen to excuse him, and bade her good night. She pressed him to stay, but he said. he had been keeping too late hours recently. And, of course, when he left, Captain Erie had to go also. - Now,, as Sidney . walked along to his hotel, he was inclined to be angrily resent- ful over this intrusion, but not so much on his own account as on account of his mother. Mrs. Hume, as Lady Helen was well aware, had a peculiar dislike towards this man ; she had done all that could be expected of her'in the way of 'civility when he called of an afternoon; and it was not fair—at least so her son judged—that she should be confronted with him in the inti- macy of a little after -theatre supper party. It argued a certain want of delicacy on the part of Lady Helen, in view (af the particu- lar position Mrs. Hume held in the house. Or downright selfishness? Personally, he had no quarrel with Captain Erle. He re- garded him as a fair type of the ordinary man about town. But he had a great re- gard and respect for his mother; and so annoyed was he over this lack of consider- ation (as he deemed it) that he had thoughts of going along- the next morning and de- manding that she should at onee return to Henley, himself accompanying her But on that next morning Lady Helen came down stairs in a most penitent mood. She knew she had done wrong, and she beg- ged of her dear Mrs. Hume to forgive her. She had been vexed and hurt by Mr. Sid- ney's masterful and half -contemptuous ways, and by his refusal to„go to Mr. Mel - lord's studio with her; and she had acci- dentally caught a glitnpse of Captain Erle hi Kensington Gore and some madness had possessed her to stop and speak to him, with all that followed thereafter. And did the mother think that Mr. Sidney would forgive her, too? He ootald not be mortally offended? What was Captain Erle to her? Indeed, it was almost impertinent in him to, Intrude on so chance an invitation. • And very contrite the fair patient still re- mained when Mr. Sidney made his appear- ance; and she was extraordinarily kind to him, and would willingly have given up go- ing to some ceremony of trooping the color in St. James' Park, whithen they were bound, if only she could have heard of some lecture on Greek excavations which they could attend. And that evening, again, When, they had to got° a dance at a big hoeseanear the top of Kensington Palace Gardens, she quite overwhelmed him with her gracious favor. She said she was ready to ' sit out” any number of dances with him, for the night was hot ; so they re- mained apart, listening to the music andthe swift whistle of slippers on the waxed floor, or they sat on. the stairs and talked, or they made adventurous excursions into nooks and corners in search of cool currents, while all the time she was at once vivacious and merry and tender. On one of these voyages of discovery they had wandered back into the supper -room, which was now serving as a sort of buffet; and here they found open doors leading into a conservatory into -which they had not as yet penetrated. It certain- ly was not a cool place, as they found when they entered, for the air was heavy with the odors of pendulous blossoms; but there was a trickling of water somewhere that was pleasant enough. The glass roof was vaulted. "If we could only turn off those electric lights," she said, at hap -hazard, "1 sup- pose we should find the stars looking down on use" "1 ehouldn't wonder," he said, in the same idie fashion, ".11 the new day was be- ginning to show—over the trees in Kensing- ton Gardens." But presently she said, with a little be- coming hesitation: "There is one thing I want to ask of you, now that we have a moment by our- selves. I hope you won't mind. And. I do -think that—that, considering the terms on which we are, you might drop a small and useless formality that comes between us. really hate to be called Lady Helen by any one I know intimately. Why don't you call me Helen?". "Well," he said, " it is much more iMpre end -natural, and pill are very kind." "Then may call you Sidney ?" she ask- ed, With a pretty affectation of shyness. "Why, yes, of course. Everybody calls me Sidney," was the answer. "Everybody 1" she said, impatiently. "I don't &low everybody to call me Helen. However," she went on, with a return to her good -nature, " that is of little conse- quence. It is to be Sidney and Helen, then? A compact ?" "By all means," he responded. "Though there may have to be some compromise now and gain—before strangers, you know," "But it is a compact? Then here is my hand on it," she said, frankly, and with frank eyes. Now if she had held his hand for but one second, or even for two, nothing need have happened; it was the inadvertent third second that wrought the mischief; for here was Mrs. Hume at these open glass doors. "I have been searching for yon people everywhere ?" she exchtimed. "Do you know how late, or how early, it is?" The quickly withdrawn- palm in the third second was too late. Mrs. Hume had sharp and shrewd eyes; she hesitated only for a moment, when another woman would have made some blundering excuse and sought retreat. As for her, she went quickly for- ward, smiling,— happy, and took Lady Helen's hands in hers, and kissed her ef- fusively on both cheeks. , "Dearest, dearest Helen 1" she said. And shortly thereafter the three of them were driving homeward, mostly in silence, and with sufficiently varied. thoughts. (To be Continued.) • You'll Have to Avoid. the Saloon. You stand on the threshold of youth, boys; Your future lies out in the years ; You're learning your parts for life's work, boys; You're planning your future careere. You'll have to fill places of trust, boys ; Your fathers will pass away soon ; And if you'll be tt ustworthy men, boys, , You'll have to avoid the saloon. If you would be honored in life boys, if joy and conteotment youneknow ; If you would have plenty of cash, boys, And bask in prosperity's glow; If you would enjay robust hernia boys, That pricelees but much abused boon; lf Godes benediotion you'd hove, boys, You'll have to avoid the saloon. You'll have to avoid the saloon, bor. Or sorrow and shame you will share, And poverty's crust you will eat. boys, And poverty's raga you will wear, Your future will end ia disgrace, boys ; Your life be cut off at its noon: - Both body and soul will be lest, boys, Unless you avoid the saloon. School Report. N. 5, TUCEERsMITIL —The following marks are based upon diligence and punctu- ality: Senior fourth class, Harry Chesney, Dan Williams, D. McDougall. Junior fourth, Kate Prendergast, Lena Sproat, Maggie Sproat. Senior third, Mary Mc- Dougall, Walter Mtarray. Junior third, Shelston Grummett, Mary Hudson, Alfred McGavin. Senior third, Russel Sproat, Emma Hudson, John Hudson. Junior sec- ond, Oscar Sproat, Gertie Murray, Maggie Williants. -Senior part second, _Jacob Sproat, Ralph Hislop, Jennie Chesney. • AN ODE TO DIAMOND DYES! Ain.: BONNIE Awe.. 0 Diatnond Dyes, ye colors fair, Prepared with scientific care, Ye joy of every woman's heart, From our lov'd homes, oh, ile'er dept, Ye are our choice, our joy and pride, Forever in our homes abide, That ye may show your marv'lous pow'rs, When time brings on our dyeing hours. In vain have speculators tried To mar thy worth, thy farne deride; But women's hearts so warm and true, Forever loyal are te you. Shine on ! shine on 1 ye stars of light, Ye Dia,mond Dyes so fast and bright, Ye gems of true economy, May millions yet be bless'd by thee. • Respectable Whisky Shops. - Sweden and Norway have achieved them. Sweden and Norway that ten years ago had the name of being the most drunken coun- - tries in the world. Now they are models of sobriety compared with even the United States. The change has‘been wrought by the new liquor law wider which a city government takes charge of the sale of intoxicating drinks. In Sweden "no man can make a cent" from liquor selling. The city govern- ment buys at wholesale liquors of guaran- teed purity, designates the places at which they shall be sold and the hours, and then puts a man in charge on a salary. The less whisky the man sells the more suceshful he is considered to be as. a business man. He must be one of the most reputable citizens of the town, or he will not be permitted to have charge of.a, saloon. The saloon itself is a plain, four walled room. No pictures decorate it; no warm stove sends out genial comfort. There is not even a chair to sit clown, in. A man may buy whisky by the drink. He drinks it and is sent off abotit his business. He may not have another drink Of spirits under three hours. The liquor shops are not opened till 8 o'clock in the morning. They are closed at the noon hour and closed at 7.30 in the evening in winter and eight o'clock in summer. On pay days the saloons are shut before the workmen get money, and the flay before a holiday they close at noon. The result is that drunken- ness in Sweden and Norway is decreasing perceptibly and steadily. FAME TRAVELS. The merits of a Popular Canadian Remedy Become Known Afar Off—An Important Admis- sion about Australia and German Doctors. The following extract is from the Toronto Empire of November 201h :—Dr. L. A. Smith & Company showed The Empire yes- terday a letter from a dealer in Wietzno, Austria, ordering a quantity of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. As these pills are not advertised outside of Canada and the United States, the demand in foreign countries must be due solely to the merits of the preparation. This oommunica.tion also stated that the medical profession in Austria and Germany were prescribing Dodd's Kidney's Pills for all kidney disorders, including Bright's disease and diabetes, with remarkable success. Canada has a right to feel proud of furnish- ing a remedy that not only has a reputation over this continent, but sets all Europe talh- ing. The address given for shipment of the order was: Josh Hughson, Wietzno, Post Roune, bei Dukia, _Galizieia, Austria. • —The services in the Mitchell Methodist church, on Sabbath, November 25th, were in connection with the Sabbath School. The collections that day with the proceeds of the Thanksgiving dinner netted the achool nearly $80. —Mr, J. W. Henderson, lately of St, Paul, Minnesota, has been spending a few days with his parents, Mr. - and Mrs. R. Henderson, of St. Marys. Heleft last week for San Francisco, where he will assume charge of a branch business for the firm for whom he his been travelling. - —The St.' Marys Collegiate Institute has secured the Toronto University Glee Club for the evening of December 20th. This no doubt will be by far the most successful en- tertainment of the season. The club com- prises some 40 members, whe will. be billet- ed among the more hospitable townspeople. r;POWDERS Cure SIC% HEADACHE and Nenralgie nines2s,0BiMlirusUnrer, PaininatnCthoeSedideT,oCongunsetippizziation: rTeog ur pi iadt a Ltihvee r 0 wB leT/VolestgerCOurredAkanird. ad PRUNE as cirivre AT DR. 110 STORSS• Breath. SIGN OF THE CINULAR SAW. It's no because I'm Scotch but you canna smoke a better Cigar than imp ROY," Theicost 50. but I get sax of them for a quarter. - cm PI RE TOBACCO CO., MONTREAL; WHEN THE SNOW OOMES and Horses and Cattle are taken off grass they shenld have a tonic until they get accustomed to the change o: feed, or they will hies ffesh and condition very quickly. To r need thismay keep an animal poor all winter and it may die in the spring. DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER will be found the very best condition Powder to use. Its aeti m is quick and euro and satisfactory results are guaranteed. . This tonic for Horses and Cattle, if properly rued, will .44 50 per cent to the selling price cie any animal, and it costs only 50e. Dick's Blood Purifier'50o, D'ck's Blister, 50c. Dick's Liniment, 25c. Dick's Ointment, 25e. DICK & CO. P. 0. BOX 482, Montreal. ook'sCottolliloot Mle physician. Successfuny hly used montby thousands of Ladies. Is the only perfectly RafeCanOdreliaPbOrnUedNieIDs A recent discovery by an old ueder- covered. Beware of unprincipled druggists who offer Inferior medielnea In place of this. Ask for Cook's Cotton Root Compound, take no substi- tute, or inclose $1 and 6 contain postage In letter and we willsend, sealed, by return malL Fulleettled particulars in plain envelope, to ladles only, 2 stamps. Address The Cook Company, Windsor, Ont., Canada. For sale by Lumsden & Wilson, druggists, Sea - 1 orth, Ont. If Yon Have a Room to • Paper, Paint or 1alsomine AP- GO TO F. WILLAB D. A First Class Stock of Wall Paper, Window Shades, Curtain Poles, etc., always on hand. Pictures and Picture Framing a Specialty. F. WIT...11.1A,RD, mirporeEgut; am, Seaforth. ASTONISH SAI Doc:YTS --AND— SITOM In order to clear out my stock to make room for Spring g soon to arrive, 1 have decided to at prices that will astonish every er. The Kelly stook, bought at price, enables me to do this, some of the prices: Children's Shoes from 25e up. Women's Button and Lace from ue Men's Laceand Gaiters from $1 up. A few pairs -of Men's at 50c. Headquarters for Felt Goods. The best Rubbers and Overshoes. The cheapest and best leather g See my Long Boots. Sale going on every day at the ch store. T. V. RUTLEDGE, Main Street, Seaforth. 139043 HURON AND BRUCE Loan and Investmen 400311EP.A.1\TMr"..- This Company is Loaning _Money Farm Security at lowest Rates of Interest. Mortgages Purchased. SAYINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent.laterest Allowed. Deposits, &wording to amount and time left. OFFICE.—Corner of Market Square Vorth Street, Goderioh. HORACE HORTON, MAN• Goderlob, Augu ei 541a866. °NOMM aVd 5 NosNHor fin 3 H.L�IOJV3S CD CD 42" C3 0 Z2../ 0 SZLA CI 0 loads 5,4444 0.1 CD CD $ad CD a 5 4 tt, tele 014 THURSTON'S POHE Milk HOTTER (Penner= Jfeer lien, 1893,) New Process for Making Pure Milk Butter from Pure Solids of the Milk. No Chemicals or tra Machinery Required. This New Process make two to three the amount of Pere Butter that can 'be by any other met invented. Therefor stamp for full part also circulars of qn esked and answered. Thurston's Pure 3111k Rutter Ca., 53 King Street East, Toronto, The McKillop Mutual Firer Insurance Company. FARM AND iSOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURE). 0171011RS. D. Rosa, President, Clinton P. 0.; W. iTA SIADZIOTI Serry-Treseemioro, Seifo: 04 lcioltael Hurdle, fnspector of LOSIlei. Seaforth P. O. • Jas. Broadfook ligatorth; Ales. Gardiner Lead* bury, Gabriel Elliott. Clinton ; Geo. Wati, Blalock p Imeph Evans, Beachwood; M. Mardi*, Beater* Thos. Garbutt, EllirdonA. gum Thoi. Netisel, Barlook ; Bob*. MOMUINI,Seatorib Jame. Cumming, Egmondville. John O'Sulliven Stege Mnrdie Auctitore. Partiee deskotut to effect insunrsooe Or larlikeeleettAllgigill6=0113":014"41 ledr istipsetkre Oleos ig• r . V. A F T taking the rrouiding t they ha' of very liberal ll their ode -1 meriting our bt enerally known. r constant endeav very best class of ucceed in doing 11 e choicest materi none but skilled wc doing thissIx ably understood are much lo -s re prevailing9 by the fact, that r business than o are satisfied 'with Machine mi Ow is dear, and ed -with poor mi nd upon getting a ijseolutely worthless. the best harness II obtained in the Pm ding purchasers w salty invitation to ca. OhaT'1es Aitzel, or the tbe premises, when the] oonsiderately taken Brod tier Main and Seafortt solution of P The avid J. G. Crieh, utiderl Zilch, wall parer and he frorft the firm ohn J. Darwin, Witness. Seaforth, November 23, 1€94e In ea -Inflection svith the above dueted by Mr. F. Willer& es old -stand of the late then, te late firm must be paid, a against the same. J. Cr bArtist,litcot thi 4.)tinhi bare remoeed to Marin --continue to do all kinds of Port -Amin he is able to move down without oratches. Address— ackson's Store, Egmondville. BRICKS 1 psrttes Intending to build p uretnek of line white bricks aone for durability, oclor l.oa few goods tiles for sale. J.andJ.S 408x4, Tao ever so Good, Ne Ten young Short Horn Bat -Offered In thie Provintre and at .oliered. They are good size, go eeondition, 1 hayenoti�*tacs msfiglit yeers by idol -nese of any Ahem. DAVID MILNE, Ethet,' THE SEM Musical EMPORT ESTABLISH/ Owing to hard time! luded to sell Pianos a ea* Redac )rgansat $25 and _Pianos at Corr -ear SEE Ufl BEFORE f SCOT A. e,.ral Banking in PMmera' notes-dzaoont flrafta light and sold Tutereat-allowed on 5 per eent. per annum: 8AI4 ItiOTSS Aisoora 4aweas* --First dOOI ?A ware Btor SEAM heDr. Rou i —FOR - HARK ASTHMA MOM B A tively the most ratio treatment ever devised mllat4of combined lona leb not only hut VIIOYOU hl IUt Ting & nerleeti hopeless oases, 1? TOIJ FEEL WEAK, Ott have Ostarrh, f4tableor any other &to nail er write at RIC is widely trohou4 Caned*, being lntveretty- and of the Ansel Lat�o Royal College member of the Oa ems of Ontario and ENT notice. and e IANC -76 Wow! e 42 HAND Soots am D. MC1 bend -a largo num own matte rranted t.4) wistyour hat °wheels, *REAP vey ielithtto ther winnow* -