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THE HANDSOME HOMES.
RY WILLIAM BLACK.
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CHAPTER XVI.
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A 'CHALLBNG E. --Continue41.
"Well, I will," Dick made an wee ; and
he followed his host into the house, and into
the dining-roinn, and stood by while the cel-
laret was being opened. "Travelling all
night, don't you know—couldn't 'get away
till the last 'minute—my grandfather is a
nailer when he wants people to dance at-
tendance on him."
The brandy seemed to revive him some-
what.``I'll tell you in one second how I came to
turn my back on Henley," he- proceeded.
"I was driving from the station to the Red
Lion, and saw something—that rather _made
me jump. And if you say that I'm mis-
taken—well, then, the regatta may go hang;
and if you say I am not :Mistaken, then
Henley Regatta is no place or me. Only I
seemed to want to know jut at once; and
so I made the cabman drive right on. And
what I saw was this ; I saw Miss- Nan
driving • and her hompanion was that young
fellow. flume—Sidney Hume. Of course
there mayLe nothing in it—"
"There's something in it, Dick," said
Nan's father, quietly—perhaps rather ,pity-
ingly. 1
"Oh, there is, is there ?" the young man
repeated. "There is something in it,
then? They have made it up iremy ab-
sence ?" He paused for a inoment, perhaps
the better to conceal his mortification.
"Rather rough, I call it. I think you will
admit yourself that it is rather rough."
"Well, to tell you the truth, Dick," Mr
Summers said, "it all came aboat in an un-
expected kind of way. And. I am sure
there was nothing underhand;' I am certain
there was no thought of doing anything un-
fair to you. You must remember that
neither of them could have known you had
any views—I don't suppose you said any-
thing to Nan—and then again you didn't
put in much of an appearance, now did
"There it is4-that's where it is !" ex;
claimed the young !non, bitterly. "That'
the result of being kept buried in a hole of
a sea -side village, all because my grand-
father keeps groaning *-ith lumbago.' Can I
cure lumbago! Do I look like a cure for
lumbago ?"
He took a turn or two up and don, and
even went to the window to conceal his pro-
found chagrin. Then he came back.
"Well, I've got to show I'm not a bound-
er," he said. "I mean, to show those two
I know what's what. I'm not going to
make a fuss, like one of those Johnnies on
t
the stage, made up with a white fac and
black eyebrows, and slouching- round street
corners with a dagger in his hand. I m not
built that way. Still—still I think it a
little rough."
He suddenly fixed his ,regard on two in-
struments that Mr. Summers had been car- •
rying when he was met at the gate; one Was
a pair of powerful steel pincers, the other -
was an iron hook. 1
"Where were you going when I .came
along ?" he asked; clearly he had no mind
to return to the river.
"Well," said Summers, "there is a farm-
er some little way from here who has igone
and put barbed wire all thrOtherh his -hedges
--by theepublio road—and the hetige.; are
tall, so VIAt you don't. notice the wire -- and
;
in tact, the day before yesterday5 Nan was
reaching at some wild roes,and shehtumbled
a bit, and scratched all her wrist. It's a
illegal—or ought to be—"
monstrous shame, I think. , 13arbed wit is
."Why, you Wild summons the Infernal
beast !" crital Dick, his pentdip vexation
luting vent at last on a specific object.
" Or, I'll tell you what's better, now • vou
and I will start off this very minute, and
we'll go to the farther, and you'll taito
him fair and square and moderate and then
ell give you some -eheek, and then you
ust hit him a clip on the side of the head
hat'll make him think he is a dear sweet
a.by-child again, with the mother o' Al ses
tretching him on her knees. That's just
hat We'll do now. You think your ne
rm isn't enough to knock the sawdust but
f any Turnip -Johnny in the country? If
comes to that, I'd rather like to have a
y in myself. I'm not a big un; but I can
ound a bolster; we'll see—We'll vl see.
ofue along; I think we can make old
heep-dip sit up !" .
.
"No, no," said Mr. - Summers, with a
ugh at the young man's ferocity. "Peace-
ble ways are best, Dick. If you like to go
ong with me, I'll keep snip -snipping with
e pincers, and you can take the hook and
aul the wire through the hedge, and heave
away, or hide it in a ditch. It's quite a
vorite neighborhood of Nan's ; she- liles
loiter about searching the hedges r
lants and things. And of course a m n
ould think nothing of a scratch ; but it's
frerent with a girl's wrist. Nan tried to
de it with her glove—but I found it
t—"
"1 think," said Erridge, with grim sig
ficance, "that if old Thorley's food-fo
ttle were to happen to come along whi e
e are destroying his fence, there might- e
little difference of opinion—yes, just
tie friendly difference of opinion. And
onder what he'd he like when we had don
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with him."
But as they- moved away from the house,
his own private sorrows resumed their
•
sway.
"Not that Ihave anything to complain
of," he said, with a magnanimity that might
have been absent from greater minds. "Per
haps I was a little backward in coming -for.
ward; but that was my own lookout ;
wanted to give public notice and have every4
thing above -board. Then the,_lumbs,go—
that confounded lumbago ; hard'luck I cal
it ; for what use was 1? • I'm not a hospi-
tal nurse, with a bib. and tucker, and a .pair
of scissors dangling by her side. Of course
I had my reasons; the old gentleman is go-
ing to leave me a little bit—so he kept tell-
ing me, anyway, when he wasn't growling
and grumbling and groaning like a hedge-
hog on a hot gridle. No, 1 don't suppose
I've anything to complain of; but all the
same, when you get a thing sprung on you
like this, when you have been looking for-
ward to domestic felicity , and a smart din-
ner table, and doing your friends well when
they come to see you ; and then all of a sud-
den you're brought up, as if you'd- burst
your head against a flint wall—another fel-
low drivin,g with her, don't you know—svell,
I call it a little bit rough—I call it just a
little bit rough."
" Ah, well, my good chap," said Mr.Sum-
mers, with his grave eyes grown pensive,
there are many disappointments in life ;
but you are young—" •
" Oh, look here," said Erridge, interrupt-
ing without, scruple,." I'm not going to have
that con•solation. I know what they say :
there's as good fish in the sea as ever were
caught. That's all blossoming tomfoolery s
find the her match- alit -where -betwixt here
and the Land's End, and then I'll believe
those , Solomon - EccleSiasticus idiots. And
suppose it was true ; suppose there's as
good fish in the sea as ever were caught,
how are you going to catch 'em ? I had
my chance—well; I ought to say that perhaps
I had my chance,and missed ialike a blamed
jackass. But 1 don't bear malice. I'll show
them I'm not a boender—".
" You're a right good fellow, Dick," said
Mi'. M. Summers. "And sometimes I have
thought-- But then, you gee, Nan is pea
culiar—elre has been peculiarly situated—
she has been brought up irrn different kind
of way. And I hope it will be all right. I
think you can fairly believe it was no ambi-
tion of mine, her going among those people.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
No, nor of hers either. But here in a kind
of chance way thiri young fellow emnee along
—handsome enough to dazzle any girl's
eyes—and a fine young fellow besides—yes,
I will say thae,: modest and manly and hon-
est, if . ever 1 !net any human being that was
so; and by a sort of accident, as it were, all
this happens; and the main thing, the very
fortunate thing, that I can see about. it is
that Nan looks happy. And I suppose I
should be satisfied, too. You see, Dick,
I have been. a little bit anxious now
and again, in case anything should happen
to me—"
"1 like that !" the younger man broke in,
scornfully—" I like that ! About the
strongest man in the length and breadth of
this country talking like that! But listen
to what I'm going to say now, and this is
my last word. If anything should happen
—and nothing is going to happen—but what
I want to say is this: that the daughter of
Jim .1Summers, whether she's married or
whether she's single, will never want for a
true friend as long as this humble person has
the breath of life left in him."
e" I can believe that," Mr. Summers said,
slowly, and in an undertone. •` I know you,
Dick.'
And while these two now proceeded to
snip the scoundrelly wire, and haul it out,
and heave it away, so -that Nan's pretty
wrists should not again be scratched, Nan
herself and her lover were away in the soli-
tudes beyond and above the Thames—by
Culham, and Cockpoll Green, and Crazy
Hill—wandering along the lonely lanes,
watching the cloud shadows steal over the
blue-green wheat, or some recently harrow-
ed field flare red in the sun, while ever and
always they had the same old story, magic
and wonderful, to repeat to each other a
thousand times in the course of an hour.
The cream -colored, black -maned Captain
had an easy time of it; the phaeton was a
light one, and the groom a mere feather-
weight; and now, when they were in out-of-
the-way neighborhoods, they -had almost
given up the pretence of driving; the cir-
cus -looking animal, as Mr. Summers had un-
fairly called that most excellent creature,
was allowed to walk both heights and hollows,
and even level plains. For Sidney and she
had a marvellous number of things to talk
of—the passionate hopes and aspirations of
youth, doubts to be resolved away, courage
to be summoned up—end still again the old
assurances to be given. Not that Nan was
over -timid and apprehensive. She was nat-
urally of a gay disposition—well pleased
with the passing hour—especially when the
sun was shining, and the winds were soft,
and there were wild roses along the high-
way. But on one point she could not attain
to her lover's confidence.
" No, no, Sidney," said she, laughing and
shaking her head; "you can make me be-
lieve a good deal, but not that. I know
what your mother thinks of me, and -What
she is likely to think. I am a dangerous
person. All the time she was in the room
at Crowhurst she was examining me ;' I -felt
her eyes. upon me—"
"Yes, notarially, as a stranger !" he ex-
claimed.
"No, no; more than that," said Nan.
"She suspected—and she suspects me now."
"There I can convince you you are
wrong," he rejoined. "There is no more
suspicion in the matter. -Last night I in-
formed her in set terms that I meant to
marry you or no one."
She looked up quickly. "Why did you
not tell inc that before ?"
" Well," said he, with a trifle of embar-
rassment, "J. was waiting until the Mater
and I had had some further talk—so that I
se-el.rl 'bring you a message from her."
"So you have told her !" said Nan,
thoughtfully. "Then I am no louger mere-
ly suspected. Now I am her enemy."
"Oh, stuff and nonsense !" he cried.
"Do you think she sets such store by her
futile schemes? Do you think she cannot
recognize the impossible as well as any one
else'? There is no question of compalsioe.
She knows I am my own master ; tand if the
worst came to the worst—"
At this moment they happened to be pass-
ing an old little way -side public -house; and
a sudden thought struck his fancy.
"Shall we stop and have a bit of lunch,
Nan ?" said he.
" Very well," she answered ; for it was
mid-day, and they had walked many miles.
So they sat down on the outside bench;
the phaeton, coming up, was brought to a
stand still, and a shock -headed boy de-
spatched for a pail of water for the horse;
and by-and-by an old woman brought the
two travellers some bread, awl a piece of
cheese, and a couple of bottles of ginger -
beer, all of which they consumed with the
greatest apparent satisfactinn.
" It is good to practise econoiny," said he,
with some dark amusement in his eyes, " in
view of contingencies."
"1 wish for no better fare,".said Nan ;
she was a contented kind of a lass.
But while they were thus divinely idle and
unconcerned, Mrs. Hume had been neither
the one nor the other. Swiftly and dis-
creetly she had been pursuing her enquiries;
she had no longer a thought for the busy
river and her many friends there; even her
dearest Helen, at the lawn at Monks -Hatton
Hall, had to be neglected—so terrible was
this danger that threatened. And as it
chanced her desperate efforts were rewarded
in a way she could not have anticipated ; she
could hardly believe in her astonishing good -
fortune ; now she could assure herself that
her. precious son—her Benjamin—the last
lof all her brilliant family—was to be saved
from destruction. -
Yet she was outwardly calm when she
next encountered him—which was on his
return hotne in the afternoon.
"'What ?" he said. "1 thought you
would be over at the Hall !"
"No," she made answer, quietly. "I
wished to have the earliest opportunity of '
conveying to you a little piece of news I
have received to -day. It is about some
friends of yours. You remember what you
told me -last night. I said nothing; for it
is not a thing to be araued about • but I
felt certain you had fallen into rather in-
comprehensible company-; and so I have
been making inquiries. My dear boy, you
have been misinformed, though that would
have been bad enough, if you had been so
infatuated as to think of associating any one
connected with him with our family. No ;
Mr. Summers is not an ex -trainer ; but he _
is an ex-champion—a pugilist—a common
prize-fighter—"
" It is ridiculous rubhish !- he exclaimed,
indignantly. Do you suppbse a pugilist
would- have enough money to educate his
daughter in that. way—to live in that
- e
way—
" Nevertheless it is true,' she replied, in
a tranquil manner. " I can give you my
authorities. Why, he is well known in the
town—familiarly spoken of—though be
lives apart there as a sort of outcast, with
hardly any one to visit him but a kind of
-creature who keeps a public -house in Rich-
mond. And these are the acquaintances
you appear to have made! At all events, if
you will think for a moment of the family
—or rather, the families—to which: you be-
long, I imagine you will pause a little be-
fore asking them to receive the danghter o
a common prize-fighter. That would be
something too much of outrageous folly !"
She left him, the better to let the blow
strike home. And he -stood stunned and be-
wildered ; for, despite his angry denial --
first of all to her, and now to himself—there
were some strange coincidences that came
surging into hie- memory, assuming a great-
er and more startling importance the longer
he thought of them.
CHAPTER XVII.
and phrases kept repeating themselve
his brain in a dull mechanical way: th
not wholly unconnected either—the d
nations of the officers who presided
the ancient gymnasia—the names of
different contests and the conditions
tached—lines and passages from his favo
Greek authors in laudation of phys
prowess and feats of etrength and skill,
the like: accompanied by visions, too—
of the godlike man, Euryalos son of K
Mekisteus, about to enter the boxing-ri
now of the heaven -born Polydeuces o
throwing the giant -champion of Bebry
again of Simietha confiding to the L
Moon the story of her tragic love—of
nrieeting with Delphis and Eudamippu
their return from "the glorious wrest
toil" 1. "their breasts were brighter
sheen than thyself, Selene !" For ere
went to sleep this young Fellow of
Souls' had been valiantly striving to
vince himself that a profession and an e
cise that his beloved folk of the great d
held in high honor might very well be to
ated in these later times; and he was
solving that if this statement about
Summers were trqe—and several surpris
coincidences seemed to point to its trut
he would make no apology, he would t
no shame to himself for the alliance he
formed. All this was very fine and hero
it was at any rate some little thing he co
do for Nan's sake; and he went to
comforted.
But when he awoke to the cold light
the new day, matters began to ,assum
very different and a very grave asp
How, for example, was he to introduce
ex -pugilist to. all those proud Hays
Humes and their families, or even to -so
college friend whom he might accidenta
meet in town? He had never conside
the necessity of introducing Mr. Summ
to anybody. Nan's father had So per
teatly effaced himself and kept himself
the background—placing her forward a3
only person to be considered—that Sidn
had unconsciously fallen in with this
rangement, as he would have fallen in w
any arrangement that secured to him N
herself, with her musical undertones a
her deep -wounding eyes. Nevertheless a
undoubtedly marriage would bring him t
father-in-law, whatever kind of man he NI
or might have been; and the Odium wi
which the prize -ring is now regarded
England was not to be got over by appe
to the customs of the ancient Greeks. Th
Lady Helen—and here his face flushed wi
vexationa-would not Lady Helen smile h
placid, inscrutable, patronizing smile wh
she heard that he had married a pugilis
daughter?
And again his mind revolted from ti
possibility: it was a false and prepostero
accusation, and nothing more. Were priz
fighters in the habit of earning sums su
cient to enable them to retire to such
place as Crowhurst, and live there, if not
luxury, at least in easy contentment ? It
true that quite recently, in England, Ame
ica, and Australia, an attempt had be
made to galvanize a moribund institutio
and matches had been made for large stake
but the winners of these fights, few in nun
ber, were quite well known, and Mr. Su
niers was not one of them. Had Nan
father—Sidney asked hirnself, in this rap
survy of a critical situation—the manne
or the appearance of a pugilist? Was n
the typical pugilist a low-browed, broke
nosed, crop -haired person, wearing sha
diamond rings and wide -checked trousers,
frequenter of public -houses and mean gam
bling-hells, occasionally the buffoon and a
tendant of seine Microcephalous peer? An
had not Dick Erridge distinetlz stated tha
Mr. Summers ha4 heti it trainer of race
ziorses, which was in a rough -and -read
way a sufficiently respectable calling? Die
Erridge ought to know: he appeared t
have been acquainted with Nan's father fo
years. Doubtless there were disquietin
circumstances. There was the prompt an
skilful manner in which Mr. Summers ha
bowled over the two navvies in the Oxfor
Road (a, performance which had won Sic
ney's entire admiration); there was the prou
look with which Nan had turned. to her fathe
when he Sidney, chanched to be talking o
the fashion in which the Greeks had gfori
fied wrestling and boxing and all atbleti
games ; and there was the curious fact tha
.
Mr. Summers seemed to have cut himsel
off from all his former companions, even re
fusing Nan's repeated prayer that he shoul
bring some of them about the house, t
'cheer him up a bit. 13ut would a profes
sional pugilist—even granting that a strong
animal -like instinct of affection was no cer
tain key to any one's nature—would a per
son accustomed to the battering of the prize
ring be likely to show that assiduous car
in small trifles which made Mr. Summer'
treatment of his daughter such a beautifu
thing to look at?
Meanwhile, between mother and son :no
a single further word had been uttered oi
thia momentous subject. Sidney, at firs
indi'gnantly incredulous, controlled himself
(indeed, he could not be in any wise dis
courteous to the stately, silver -haired dam
of _whom he was so fond and proud), an
would wait until he could procure a definit
refutation of the charge that had been made
Mrs. Hume, more confident of her position
was content to abide the result of this dis
elosure. And of that result she had n
doubt whatsoever. Youth might be ab
surdly roznantic (though this son of hers had
scarcely ever seemed to have a look to
throw a woman's way), but it was too im
possible to imagine that the last of all these
splendid Humes, the inheritor of all her re
maining hopes, would think of bringing the
daughter of a prize-fighter into the family.
" Whate'er hath end, whate'er begins,
There'll aye be Hays while Tevlot rins—"
but Thomas the Rhymer eouhl not have
foreseen the contingency of this climax of
disgrace. ,And no such thing would hap-
pen. It was all too ineonceivable. Her
tall and handsome boy had got into some
..unfortunate blunder, had perhaps been de-
ceived ; but now that his eyes: were open
there would be an end. The girl was pretty,
no doubt ---even a beautiful creature if the
truth were confessed ; and she had good
manners ; and an attractive kind of sim-
plicity and directness that won for her
favor; it was easy to understand how any
young fellow might have had his senses
confused for the moment. Even the father,
if it came to that, though be had hardly the
bearing -of a gentleman, was harmless tmough
—diffident—keeping himself out of the way
—apparently conscious of his - positio4. and
in a sort of fashion apologetic for itaa'Ssa
the same the idea of introducing the dauglit
ter of an ex -pugilist as the latest acaession
to the great family of the Hays and Humes
was too preposterous to be entertained for a
moment ; and this brisk and confident lady,
emboldened by the unvarying success of a
life time, brushed such a possibility aside
as not worth regarding, and only waited -for
Sidney to be definitely and filially convinced.
At breakfast the same embarrassing sil-
ence prevailed, on that one point ; but .Mrs.
Hume affected to be very cheerful, and
would give him the last news she had heard
frome the various members of the faini&—
perhaps with some covert and skilful design
f of recalling him to a sense of the duties of
his position. It was all a talk about Jeanie,
and Philip, and Agatha, and the rest—ar-
rangeznents for the autumn—house parties
—grouse -moors — salmon-fishings—to say
nothing of the festivities of the remaining
weeks in town ; a picture of a fine array of
people healthily and busily employed in
amusing themselves.
"Bub poor dear Helen,- continued Mrs.
Hume, compassionately—and 'she spoke of
Lady Helen quitetas if she belonged to this
domestic set. " It is really too selfish and
inconsiderate of her father to go and leave
her to shift for herself. Men only—nothing
but, men—at that Perthshire lodge of his.
THE PUGILIST'S DA'UGHTER.
Like to the slow -pulsating throb of the
screw of a great steamer at sea, all through
the long hours of the night certain words
Children Cry for pi
tcher's Castoria,
-
Children Cry for
- - :--sreetrhahaaarehhrahehh'etaz2-•;----he - ---ehthh.""--
I...Wellington
and
Ann Sta.,
MONTREAL
The
Best
Food
For Children?
is worthy every parent's study;
not only what they can eat, but
what gives the most nourishment.
No children
are worse,
lard -cook-
If, how..
their
prepare
health -
vegetable
are better, and most
for eating
ed food.
ever,
food 'is
with the
ful new
shortening,
COTTOLENE
instead of lard, they can eat free-
ly of the best food without danger
to the digestive organs. You can
easily verify this by a fair trial
of Cottolene.
Made only by
The
N.K.Fairbank
Company,
Soldli)lifueinigi5 lb. palia
ri
Not that, her tastes and inclinations lie that
way at all. I know what she is dreaming
of; she is dreaming of Corfu, and Santa
Maura, and Sappho's Leap, and Ithaca with
the Odyssey as her guide, and Mycenae, and
moonlight nights on the Acropolis. That is
one thing about my dearest Helen; she has
imagination and sympathy; when you talk
to her, there is response. And she has
been quite frequently to the British Mus-
eum of late—to the gem -room, chiefly--"
When she mentioned the British Museum,
it was not to the gem -room his mind in-
stantly carried him ; rather he bethought
him of a certain panathenic amphora de-
corated With figures of Greek boxers about
to engage But he said nothing. It was
not a time for taunts or sarcasm. The situ-
ation was too grave.
(To be Continued.)
•
Like Your Mother Used to Make.
Your modern school of cookery,
Where food is done by note,
Don't hardly touch old mother's focd,
Although she ceoked by rote.
She had a way of cooking things,
So wholescere and 63 sweet,
That vittles seemed to coax us boys
To take right hold and eat.
This aharlott roosh is fraud in cake.
And French a-clairs don't "stay,'
And lemon pie with lather on't it
Ie jest 1.ke mcdder hay.
In spite of all yotir
The old folks oiten sigh
1r a mother's " dish "—she called it " b'lled "—
And motheide pumpkin pie.
But p'r'aps it warn't all cookery
That made the vittles grand ;
Mn3 be the heft of sweetness lay
In dear old mother's heed.
Don't matter much what vanes is
When love is served for sarce ;
Love turns old hens to chickens, b'riled,
Nettles to sparrergrase.
•
The Minister's Dog.
13V REV. DR. PRIME, EDITOR OF "-011SERVER."
My ather had a small and beautiful dog,
who yoked in the name of Fidelity. He
, diffel d from other good dogs only in being
I bettet than others, and in manifesting some-
thing that seemed like religious sensibility,or
a peculiar attachment to religious places,
people and services. He attended family
worship with a punctuality and regularity
that other members of the household might
well have imitated, and certainly did not
surpass. If a stranger were present—and
much company visited our house—the dog's
attention to him was regulated by his tak-
ing the lead, or not, in the religious worship
of the household. If the visitor, at my
father's request, conducted the worship, the
dog at once attached himself to his person,
and when he departed the dog escorted him
out of the village, sometimes going home
with him to a neighboring town and making
him a visit of a few days. If the visitor did
not perform any religious services in the
house the clog took no notice of him while
there, and suffered him to depart unattend-
ed and evidently unregretted.
Such a dog was, of course, an habitual
attendant on the public services of the
church on the Sabbath. It required ex-
traordinary care to keep him at home. Shut
up in a room he dashed through a window,
and was at church before the family. He
was once shut up in an outhouse that had no
floor. He dug out under the sill of the door
and was at church before the first psalm. In
church he occupied the upper step of the
pulpit within which his master ministered.
He lay quiet during the sermon unless other
dogs below misbehaved, in which case he
left his seat, and after quieting the disturb-
ance, resumed it. He was equally devoted
to the weekly prayer -meeting, which was
held from house to house, the appointment
being announced on the Sabbath. He re-
membered the evening and the place, and
was always present. As it was not agree-
able to have a clog at an evening meeting in
a private house he was confined at home.
The next week he went early, before the
family had thought to shut him up, and
waited for the hour and the people. He
knew the names and the families where the
meetings were held, and where they lived,
and could have gone to any of them on an
errand as easily and correctly as a child,and
the only knowledge he had of the place of
meeting he got as the others did, by hearing
the notice 011 Hitday. These habits of the
dog weie nottethe fruit of education. On
the contrary, pains were taken to prevent
him from indulging his religious preferences.
He did not manifest a fondness for other
meetings, or for any individuals out of the
family circle, except those whom be recog-
nized by their habitofpraying, as the peo-
ple in whom he was specially interested.
•
—The other day, as the pupils of the St.
Thomas school were returning home, a num-
ber of them got on the sleigh of Mr. A. Mc-
Intyre, which was being driven by his hired
man. Edgerton Parker, aged 10 years, son
of Mr. John Parker, was among the num-
ber. When they reached Mr. McIntyre's,
and as they were turning into the gate,
driving fast, the little lad attempted to get
off, but in so doing the rear bob slewed
around, and he was caught between it and
the gate post, breaking his back and legs,
and killing him instantly. This sad ber-
eavement comes with double force upon Mr.
Parker, as the bright little lad was his only
son. Mr. Parker also lost his wife a year
and a half ago.
Pitcher's Castoriao
CAUTION.
Owing to the euormous
sale of our famous . .
"Something Good"
Cigar
Other Manufacturers are putting on the
market inferior goods under this name.
A poor article is never imitated, therefore
the fact that "Something Good" is being
counterfeited is a guarantee to smokers that
it is the best 5 cent cigar on the market.
In purchasing see that our trade mark
(The Snowshoe) and firm name are on each
box, no other is genuine. Our "Something
Good brand is registered and any one sell-
ing other cigars under this name will be
prosecuted.
Empire Tobacco Co. Montreal.
SEE THAT
OFF HORSE?
Only three weeks ago we began mixing a
little of DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER in his
feed and now look at him. I tell you there
is no CONDITION POWDER equal to
DICK'S.—Am going to try it on the nigh
one now.
Dick's Blood Purifier, 50c., Dick's Blister, 50c.
Dick's Liniment, 25c., Dick's Ointment, 25c.
DICK & CO. P. 0. BOX 482, Montreal.
For sale by J. S, Roberts, Seaforth.
ook'sCottodoot
COMPOUND.
Arecent discovery by an old
physician. Successfully used
monthly by thousands of
Ladies. Is the only perfectly
safe and reliable medicine dis-
covered. Bevrare of unprincipled druggists who
oCer inferior medicines in place of this. Ask for
Cook's Cotton Root Compound. fake no substi-
tute. or inclose $1 and 6 cents In postage in letter
and we will send, sealed, by return mail. Fnllsealed
particulars in plain envelope, to ladies only. 2
stamps. Address The Cook Company,
Windsor, Ont., Canada.
For sale by Lumsden & Wilson, druggists, Sea -
forth, Ont.
If You Have a Room to
- •
Palm', Taint or lialsonalne
GO TO —0
F. WILLABD.
A First Class Stock of Wall Paper,
Window Shades, Curtain Poles.
etc., always,onihuarned.
PicturesandpetFraming a Specialty.
F. WILLARD,
MAIN STREET
Opposite JOHN ST., Seaforth.
1400
511L MA55ACKACHE
54 ore. ache5
with muwular artd
Ita jug pur on apt
Bani8her of Backache
11 2ie. MENThot P15-6
J. MCLACHLAN. Point au Chene. writes: Noth-
ing better for Lame Back and Lumbago than the
D. & L. Menthol Plaster.
A. E. MACLEAN writes from Windsor "The D.
& L. Menthol Plaster is curing Sore Backs and
Rheumatiern at a great rate in this vicinity.
25c. each in air -tight tin box.
J. C. SMITH 8c, CO.,
33.A.1\TMERS-
A General Banking business transacted.
Farmers' notes discounted.
Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits at the rate
of 5 per cent. per annum.
SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for
collection
OIMMW/MINIIMMINNI
OFFICE—First door north of Reid &
Arilsou's Hardware Store.
SEAFORTH.
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GENTLEMEN FIN
PALMOTAR SOAP
EXCELLENT
IT CLEANSES THE
SCALP, RELIEVES
THE DRYNESS ANT)
SO PREVENTS KIR
FALLING our.
BIG PAKEe5 y pur UP
HANDsOMe" 25
Cedar Posts for Sale.
The undersigned has on Lot 18, Concession 8,
Morris, a lot of good cedar posts which will he sold
for 7 ceuts each. WM. and GEORGE JACKSON.
1414x6
POWDERS
2'MINUTES,
Cure SICK HEADACHE and Neuralgia
in 0
also Coated Tongue, Dizzi-
ness, Biliousness, Pain in the Side, Constipation,
Torpid Liver, Bad Breath. To stay cured and
regulate the bowels. VERY NICE TO TAKE.
PRICE 25 VENTS AT DRUG STORESt
MARCH 8 1895.
Cash Buyers.
Harness at Rock
Bottom Prices.
Buyers will do well to get my prices
before purchasing elsewhere.
PRICES away, down.
A large stock of everything -
on band usually found in a first-class
shop.
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TIMISTill'S PURE MILK BUTTER Ull.
(PATENTED JUL, llen, 1803,)
New Process for Making Pure Milk Butter from the:
Pure Solids of the Milk. No Chemicals or Ex-
tra Machinery Required.
This New Prooess will
tnako two to three timea
the amount of Pure Milk
Butter that can be made
by any other method yet
invented. Therefore send
stampfor full particulars.
also circulars of questiona-
asked and answered,
Thurston's Pure Milk Rutter Co.,
53 King Street East, Toronto,
‘t
The McKillop Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
FARM AND ISOLATED TOWNi
PROPERTY ONLY INSURED.
MIMES.
D. Ross, President, Clinton P. O.; W. 3,
Shannon, Seoy-Treas,, &Worth P. O.; Mb:Ante:4
Murdie, Inspector -of Losses, Seaforth 0.
entsorosts.
Jas. Broadloat, Seaforth; Alex. Gardiner, Lead-.
bury; Gabriel Elliott. Clinton •, Geo. Watt, Harlock
Joseph Evans, Beechwood; M. /durdie, Seaforth;:
Theo. Gatbutt, Clinton.
sown.
Thos. Nelms, Harlook Rohl. McMillen, Seaforth ;
James Cumming, Egmondville. John O'Sulliven and
Gecrge Mantle, Auditors.
Parties desirous to effect Insurances or trans-
act other businese will be promptly attended to on
application to any of the above offinere, addressed
their respective poet off3,ees.
HURON AND BRUCE
Loan and Investment
0 03StE1='...6
This Company is Loaning .1 tale yw
Farm Security at lowe. data -
of kterest
Mortgages e
K -I I
3, 4 and 5 pee ei ..t terea
De po
OFFICE.
North Street.
„- rr t and
ft ei Square an
1 ACE HORTON,
Maxanerne
A iJowed sir
rn,
kso
Goderloh, August 5th.I.E,
MA• RRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED AT
THE HURON EXPOSITOR OFFICE-
SELIFORTE, ONTARICh
NO WITNESSES REOUIRED
B -
tends
rightly
-ter thai.
less ex
.sdaptin
the nee
-the vali
laxative
remedy.
Its ex
in the f
-ant to t
beneflei
-utive ;
and
It has g
met -wit
profe&six
L
-ening th
-every ol
Syrup
,xista in
fuetti red
-Co. only
package,
and beir
eecept ai
- Life
And a 1
ing of axe
,of the fall
in Englisl
Lumber
thing no,
Even the
.only the e
of alue ;
to the etta
too great
Now, any
able ; for
put down
logs whith
lumbering
because of
large hunh
always wii
It shows
ing has be
unbr4en
roads are
- -track laid
- - built. In
-would have
:gone, only
on the grot
In the <
always tell
was the wit
height of ti
.parently no
the trees as
nd saw Oal
bly be used
lumber °veil
the best w4
The earn]
pulsivelool
in their bui
-warmth ; b
picturesque
and eold we
Mackinaw a
wear, and a
are Amerit
Swedes.
_ and the Iris
the German'
Their life,
full of eheer
ing in a -cm
tiful and go!
pork,' dried
eofree., and
the eook eh<
-of their life
large log bui
..and tiers g•
thrown in
that is all th
anents.
Sometime!
-or blacksmit
110.8band mui
-erected for
:where the
contrast to 1
interior.
The men li
...as they have
cannot spend
job for whie
take their
town and '4
itt driuking,
.go, penniless
ittt t:
-soon be over.
-only wealth ;
it may be for
ing, and the
there is -ow
berries it
These nay,
the land am
.PERloss, in
No. Q, Tod
-port, baked o
ality end gee
from the resu
shows the (ter
School Sectio
months of N
Senior class
_McGregor,
Melinda Goo
ior fifth class
Cooper, Davi
Cudrn
fourth elan,
Acheson, Job
Nevin, Annie
IL Chesney,
'McLean, Jos
.Junior fourt
Wha
If
it i
'GRAY
..SYRU
TIIP, OLD
FOR COW
ASTIIMA an
orseess
se years a
it is the
per bottle
KEY WA
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