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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-05-02, Page 2 (2)THE HURON EXPOSITOR. THE LADY OF THE P:ROO$TOOK. BY W. D. HOWELL,. � II. (Continued- from last week.) The captain swept the deck with a loving eye. It was spacious and hand-` some, with a stretch of some forty or • fifty feet between the house at the stern and the forecastle; whioh rose consider- • ably higher ; a low bulwark was sur- mounted by a heavy rail supported upon turned poste painted white. = Every- thing, in spite of the captain's boastful detraction, was in perfect trim, at least to landfolk's eyes. " Now come into the cabin," said the captain. He gave Lydia's traps, as he cii,lled them, in charge of a boy, while he led the way below, by a narrow stairway, warning Lydia and her grandfather to look out for their heads ;as they followed, "There 1" he said, when they lead safely arrived, `inviting their inspection of the place with a general, glance of his own. "What did I tell you, Lyddy?" ask- ed her gratelfather, with simple joy in the splendors about them. " Solid mahogany trimniin's everywhere." There was also a great deal of milk - white paint, with,some modest touches of gilding here and there. The cabin was pleasantly lit by the long low win- dows which its • roof rose just high enough to lift above the deck, and the fresh air entered with the slanting sun. 'Made fast to the floor was a heavy table, over which hung from the ceiling a swinging shelf. Around the little saloon ran lockers cushioned with red plush. At either end were four or five narrow doors, which gave into as many tiny state -rooms. The boy came with Lydia's things, and set them inside one of these doors ; and when he came out again the captain pushed it open, and then called them in. " Here !" said he. "Here's where my girls made them- selves at home the last voyage, and I expect you'll find it pretty comfortable. They say you don't feel the motion so much,—I don't know anything about the motion,—and in smooth weather you can have that window open some- times, and change the air. It's light and it's large. Well, I had it fitted. up for my wife ; but she's got kind of on now, you know, and she don't feel much like going anymore ; and so I always give it to my nicest passenger." This was an unmistakeable compliment, and Lydia blushed to the captain's entire content. ." That's a rug she hooked," he continued, touching with his toe the carpet, rich in its artless domestic dyes as some Persian fabric, that lay before the berth. " These grimcracks belong to my girls ; they left 'em." He point- ed to various slight structures of .card- board worked with crewel, which were tacked to the walls. "Pretty snug, eh !" "Yes," said Lydia, " it's nicer than I thought it could be, even after what grandfather said." - " Well, that's right !" exclaimed the captain. I like your way of speaking up. I wish you could know' my girls. How old are you now ?" "I'm nineteen," said Lydia. "Why, you're just bstween my girls !' cried the =captain. `• Sally I is twenty- one, and Perais is eighteen. Well, now, Miss Blood," he said, as they returned to the cabin, " you can't be in to make yourself at home too soon , for me. I used to sail to Cadiz and M laga a good deal, and when I went to see any of them Spaniards he'd say, 'T is house is yours.' Well, that's what say : This ship is yours as long as you `stay in her. And I mean it, and that's more than they did !" 'Captain Jenness laughed mightily, took some of Lyuia's fingers in his left hand and squeeze them, and clapped her grandfather on he shoulder with his right. Then he slipped his hand down the old man's boy arm to the elbow, and held it, whil he drop- ped his head towards Lydi and said, " We shall be glad to have ini stay to supper, and, as much longer s he likes, ash ?" "Oh, no 1" said Lydia; ' grandfather must go back on the six o' lock train. My aunt expects him." He voice fell, and her face suddenly clouded. r. " Good 1" :tried the captain. Ten he pulled out his watch, and away as the chain would et ing at it with his head asla he buret out. "" He hasn't much time on his bands." gave a nervous start, and <. bled. " Hold on ! Yes ; It's only fifteen minutes af " Ohl but we were more than :h if an hour getting down h "re," said Lydia, anxiously. "And g4andfather doesn't know the way back. ' He'll be sure to get lost. I wish we'd come in a car- riage." Couldn't 'a' kept the carriage wait - in' on expense," Lyddy," retorted her grandfather. "But I tell you," he ,,added, with something lik " if I could find a carriag near that wharf, I'd take eld it as far etch, frown - t. " Well !" ot any too The old man lime. t e girl trem- here's me. er five.' resolution, anywheres it, just as sure ! I wouldn't miss that train for rnore'n half a dollar. It would cost more than that at a hotel to -night, let alone how your aunt Maria'd feel," Why, look here !" said Captain Jen- ness, naturally appealing to the girl. Let me get your grandfather back. I've got to go up town again, anyway, for some last things, with an express wagon, and we can ride right to the depot in that. Which depot is it?" "Fitchburg," said the old man eagerly. " That's right'!" commented the cap- tain. `" Get you there in plenty of time, if we don't lose any now. And I'll tell you what, my little girl," he added, turning to Lydia ; " if it'll be a comfort to you to ride up with us, and see your grandfather off, why come along!!' My girls went with me the last time on an express wagon." " No," answered Lydia. " I want to. But it wouldn't be any comfort. I thought that out before I left home, and I''m going to say good -by to grandfather here "First-rate !" said Captain Jenness bustling towards the gangway so as to leave them alone. A sharp cry from the old man arrested him. "Lyddy ! Where's your trunks ?" " Why !" said thegirl, catching her breath in dismay, "where can they be ? I forgot all about them." I got the checks fast enough," said the old man, " and I shan't give 'em up without I get the trunks. They'd ought to had 'ern down here long ago ; and now if I've got to pester round after 'em I'm sure to miss the train." "Let's see your checks," said the cap• taint with an evident ease of mind that reasured ber. Wh?n her grandfather had brought them with diffloulty from the pocket visited last in the order of bis search, and laid tbem in the cap- tain's waiting palm, the latter endeav- ored to get them in focus. " What does it say on 'em ?" he asked, handing them to Lydia. My eyes never did amount to anything on shore." She read aloud the name of the express stamped on them. The captain gather- ed them bask into his hand, and slipped them into his pocket, with a nod and wink full of comfort. " I'll see to it," he said. "At any rate, this ship ain't a -going to sail without them, if she waits a week. Now, then, Mr. Latham !" The old man, who. waited, when not directly addressed or _concerned, in a sort of blank patience, suddenly started out of his daze, and following the -cap- tain too alertly up the gangway stairs drove his hat against the hatch with a force that sent him back into Lydia's arms. " Oh, grandfather, are you hurt," she piteously asked, trying to pull up the hat that was jammed down over his forehead. " Not a bit ! But I guess my hat's about done for,—without I can get it pressed over ; and I d' know as this kind of straw doos press." " First-rate!" called the captain from above. "Never mind the hat." But the girl continued fondly trying to re- shape it, while the old man fidgeted anxiously, and protested that he would be sure to be left. It was like a half - shut accordion when she took it from his head ; when she put it back it was. like an accordion pulled out. "All ready !" shouted Captain Je>r • nese from the gap in the bulwark, when he stood awaiting to descend into th+ small boat. The old man ran towarus him in his senile haste, and stooped to get over the side into the boat below, " Why, grandfather !" cried the girl in a breaking voice, full of keen, yet tender reproach. " I declare for't," he said, scrambling back to the deck. "I 'most forgot. 1 be'n so put about." -He took Lydia's hand loosely into his own, and bent for- ward to kiss her. She threw her arms round him, and while he remained look- ing over her shoulder, with a face of grotesque perplexity, and saying, " Don't cry, Lyddy, don't cry 1" she pressed her face tighter into his with- ered neck, andtried to mnffie her home- siek sobs. The sympathies as well as the sensibilities often seem dulled by age. They have both perhaps been wrought upon too much in the course of the years, and can no longer respond to the appeal or distress which they can only dimly realize ; even the heart grows old. " Don't you, don't you, Lyddy !" repeated the old man. "You musn't. The captain's waitin' ; and the cars— well, every minute I lose makes it risk- ier and riskier ; and your aunt Maria, she's always so uneasy, you know 1" The girl was not hurt by his anxiety about, himself ; she was more anxious about him than about anything else. She quickly lifted her head, and drying her eyes, kissed ,him, forcing her lips into the smile! that is more heart -break- ing to see than weeping. She looked over the side, as her grandfather was handed carefully down to a seat by the two sailors in the boat, and the captain noted her resolute counterfeit of cheer- fulness. " That's right !" he shouted up to her. " Just Like my girls wheat their mother left 'em. But ,,bless you, they soon got over it, and soli you. Give- way, men,' " he said, in a lower voice, and the boat shot from the ship e side toward the wharf. He turned and waved his handkerchief to Lydia, and,' stimulated apparently by this, her grandfather felt in his pockets for his handkerchief ; he ended after a vain search by taking off his hat and waving that. When he put it on again, it _ re- lapsed into that likeness of a ' half -shut accordion from which Lydia had rescued it ; but she only saw the face. under it. As the boat reached the wharf an ex- press waggon drove down, and Lydia saw the sarcastic parley which she could not hear between the captain and the driver about the belated baggage which the latter put off. Then . she saw the captain help her grandfather to the seat between himself and the driver,.and the, wagon rattled swiftly out of sight. One. of the sailors lifted Lydia's baggage over the aide of the wharf to the other in the boat, and they pulled off to the ship with it. III. Lydia went back' to the cabin, and presently the boy who had taken charge of her lighter luggage, came dragging her trunk and bag down the gangway stairs. Neither was very large, and even a boy of fourteen who was small for his age might easily manage them. " You can stow away what's in 'em in the drawers," said the boy, " I sup-. pose you didn't notice the drawers," he added, at her look of enquiry. He went into her room, and pushing aside the valance of the lower berth showed four deep drawers below the bed ; the charm- ing snugness of the arrangement brought a light of housewifely joy to the girl's face. " Why, it's as good as a bureau. They will hold everything." " Yes," exulted the boy ; " they're for two person's things. The captain's daughters, they both had this room. Pretty good sized too ; a good deal the captain's build. You won't find a better state -room than this on a steamer. I've been on 'em." The boy climbed up on the edge of the upper drawer, and milled open the window at the top of the wall. Give you a little air, I guess. If you want I should, the captain said I was to bear a hand helping you to stow away what was in your trunks." "No," said Lydia, quickly. " I'd just as soon do it alone." All right," said the boy. "If I was you, l'd do it now. I don't know just when the captain means to sail ; but after we get outside, it might be rough, and it's better to have everything pretty snug by that time. I'll haul away the trunks when you've got 'em :empty. If I shouldn't happen to be here, you can just call me at the top of the gangway, and I'll come. My name's Thomas," he said. He regarded Lydia enquiringly a moment before he added : "If you'd just as lives, I rather you'd call rse Thomas, and not steward. They said you'd call me steward," he explained, in a blushing, deprecating confidence ; and as long as I've not got my grow .1, it kind of makes them laugh, yore kno espeoielly the second officer." "I will call you Thomas, sa. 3 Lydia. " Thank you" The boy -glanced up at the round clock screwed to the cabin wall. "I guess you won't have to call me anything unless you hurry. I shall be down here, laying the table for sup- per, before you're done. The captain said I was to lay it for you and him, and if he didn't get back in time you, was to go to eating, any way. Guess you won't think Captain Jenness is going to starve anybody." " Have you been many voyages with Captain Jenness before this ?" asked Lydia, as she set to open her trunk, and began to lay her dresses out on the locker. Homesickness, like all grief, attacks in paroxysms. One gust of passionate regret -had swept over the girl ; before another came, she could occupy herself almost cheerfully with the details of unpacking. "Only one before," said the boy. " The last onewhen his daughters went out. I guess it was their coaxing got mother to let me go. My father was killed in the war." "-Was he?" asked Lydia,' sympatheti- cally. , ' Yea. I didn't know much about it at the time ; so little. Both ,your par- ents living ?" " No," said Lydia. " They're both dead. They died a long while ago. I've always lived with my aunt and grandfather." " I thought there must be something the matter,—your corning with your grandfather," said the boy. "I don't see why you don t let me carry in some of those dresses for you. I'm used to helping. about." " Well, you may," answered Lydia, " if you want." A native tranquil kindness showed itself in her voice and manner, but something of the habitual authority of a school -mistress mingled with it. " You must be careful not' to rumple them if I let you." " 1 guess not. I've got older sisters at home. ` They hated to have me leave. But I looked at it this way : If I was ever going to sea—and I was—I couldn't get such another captain as Captain Jenness, nor such another crew ; all the - men from down our way ; and I don't -mind the second mate's jokes much. He don't mean anything by them ; likes to plague, that's all. He's a first-rate sailor." Lydia was kneeling before one of the trunks, and the boy was stooping over it, with a hand on either knee. She had drawn out her only black silk dress, and was finding it rather crumpled. "•I shouldn't have thought it would have got so much jammed, coming fifty miles," she soliloquized. "But they seemed to take a pleasure in seeing how much they could bang the trunks." She rose to her feet and shook out the dress, and drew the skirt several times over her left arm. - The boy's eyes glistened. "Good- ness !" he said, "just new, ain't it? Go- ing to wear it any on board ?" "Sundays, perhaps," answered Lydia thoughtfully, still smoothing and shap- ing the dress, which she regarded at arm's length, from time to time, with her head aslant. " I -suppose it's the latest style ?" pur- sued the boy. " Yes, it is," said Lydia. " We sent to Boston for the pattern. I hate to pack it into one of those drawers," she mused. " You:. needn't," replied Thomas. " There's a whole row of hooks," " I want to know!" cried Lydia. She followed Thomas into her state -room. Well, well ! they do seem to have thought of everything 1" - " I -should say so," exulted the - boy. " Look here !" He showed her a little niche near the head of the berth strong- iy framed with glass, in which a lamp was made fast. " Light' up, you know, when you want to readSor feel kind of lonesome." Lydia clasped her hands in pleasure and amaze. " Oh, I tell you Captain Jenness meant to have things about right. -The other state -rooms don't begin to come up to this." ' He dashe out in his zeal, and opened their doors, hat she might triumph in the superio ity Of her accommodations with- -out de ay. These rooms were cramped togeth on one side ; Lydia's was in a comps lively ample corner by itself. She went on unpacking her trunk,and the boy again took his place near her, in the same attitude as before. " I tell you," he said, " I shall like to see you with that silk on. Have you got any - other nice ones ?" . " No; only this I'm wearing," an- swered Lydia, half amused and half honest n her p Y ay m ath with his ardor about her finery. " They said not to bring many clothes ; they would be cheaper over there." She had now reached the bottom of her trunk. She knew by the clock that her grandfather could hardly have left the city on his journey home, bat the interval of time since she had parted with him seemed vast. It was as if she had started to Boston in a former life ; the history of the choosing and cutting and making of these clothes was like a dream of pre- existence. She had never so many things 'new at once, and it had been a great outlay, but her aunt Maria had made the money go as far as possible, and had spent it with that native taste, that genius for dress, which sometimes strikes the summer liparder in the semp- stresses of the New -England hills. Miss Latham's gift was quaintly unrelated to herself. In dress, as in person and manner, she was uncompromisingly plain and stiff. All the more lavishly, therefo e,. had it been devoted to the grace a> d beauty of her sister's child, who, ever since she came to find a home in her grandfather's house, had been more stylishly dressed than any other girl in theiillage. The summer board- ers, whom the keen eye of Miss Latham studied with unerring sense of the best new effects in costume, wondered at Lydia's elegance, as she sat beside her aunt in the family pew, a triumph of that grim artist's skill. Lydia knew that she was well dressed; but she knew that after all she was only the expres- sion of her aunt's inspirations. Her own gift was of another sort. Her father was a music -teacher, whose fail- ing health had obliged him to give up his profession, and who had taken the travelling agency of a parlor organ man- ufactory for the sake of the out -door life. His business had brought him to South Bradfield, where he sold an organ to Deacon Latham's church, and fell in love with hie younger daughter. He died a few years after his marriage, of an ancestral consumption, his sole heri- tage from the good New England stock of which he came. His skill as a pianist, which was considerable, had not de - Continued cn 3rd page.) 1- -","*" ,MAT 2, 1890. REAL ESTATE 1FOR SALE, BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.—The under- signed has a nuinbe of fine building Lots on Goderioh and James Str eta for sale, at Iew pricer. For particulars appllyto D. D. WILSON 908 T_TOUSE AND LOTS FO i. SALE.—The sub- let offers for sale the -house north of the Egmondville manse, ,together with three acres of land, suitable to building purposes. On the front are a quantity of young fruit trees commencing to bear. WM. ELLIOTT. • 1116 -VARY( FOR SALE.—For sale the north half of 1' Lot 25, Concession 2,'•McKillop, one mile from Seaforth, containing 50 acres, all cleared and in a good state of cultivation. There is a good frame house, a new bank barn and two good wells of water. it is one of the choicest lots in the district and 11 be sold cheap. Apply on the premises o to Seaforth P. O. .SAMUEL CLUFF. 1157tf FARM FOR SALE.—Fo cession 5, McKillop, about 90 acres cleared and cultivation.. It is well un fenced. There is a good b frame barns, stables, she largo bearing orchard a spring well. It is situate of Seaforth and will be s JOHN McCLURE, Porter's sale, Lot 31, Con- ontaining 100 acres, 11 in a good state of erdrained and well ick house and rood s, &c. There is a d a never failing within three miles Id cheap. Apply to ill P. O. 1158tf FARM FOR SALE.—The subscriber sale his farm, being I ,ion13, East Wawanosh, containing more or less, situated two aide Wingham, all cleared and u 3ultivation, well fenced an premises are a good house outbuildings and two good orchards. ticulars apply to the owner,HOMAS LATER, Wingham, Ont. I offers for ot No. 41, Conces- fifty acres half miles from der a state of good watered. On the and bank barn with For par- K. LINK - 1141 FARM IN STANLEY F 1 cheap, the East half of Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres are cleared and in a good pion. The balance is well ti.. wood. There are good b irchard and plenty of water. mile of the Village of Var 'rom Brucefield _station. tIme. This is a rare chance 'o 'arm pleasantly situated. : FORBES, Seaforth. R SALE.—For sale Lot 20, Bayfield acres, of which 52 state of eultiva- bered with hard- ileings, a bearing It is within' half a a and three miles •ossession at any buy a first class pply to ARTHLR 1144tf FARtf FOR SALE"—Un sale the farm of 100 Lith concession of Hullett, 3state of the late Richard Cole. there is a trait a house, goo o young bearing orchard of 31ass wells. Situated about Londesboro. About ninety : ;ood state of cultivation, April. Apply on the premi.es the Executors.. JOHN COLE, RADFORD, Londesboro. ersigned offer fo : ores, being lot 80, belonging to the On 'the place barn, stables &c., one acre and first- one mile west of ores cleared and in Possession 1st of or to either of Belgrave ; H. 1139tf FARM, FOR SALE. For sion 4, H. R. S., Tuck 100 acres, 85 cleared, 53 s sown to fall wheat. The f well under -drained and w-11 never failing spring which into a trough. There is a kitchen, frame barn, stable Good orchard. The farm two and a half miles of S gravel roads leading in all d'rections. sold • on easy terms. For apply on the premises or to GAST, Seaforth P. 0., Ont. :ale, Lot 12, conces- •rsmith, containing eded to grass, 8 : rm is well -fenced, watered by a runs through pipes brick house and n i driving shed. s situated within aforth, with good Will be f rther particulars OHN PRENDER- 1136tt ale, the south half Morris, containing are cleared, well stumps and well is well timbered part is nearly all •a frame house and rd. This is one of ship and has no is good for either sold cheap. It is Bels and. within a ol. Apply on the O. WM. or JOHN 1144tf FARM FOR SALE.—For of Lot 23, Concession 6, 100 acres, about 90 of whin fenced, about 70 free from underdrained, The balance with inrdwood. The cleare seedee to grass. There is trance earn, also a small oreh the nest farms in the tow broken or bad land on it, an grain or stock and will be within three miles of Bru quarter of a mile of a soh premises or to Brussels P. ROBB, Jr. _ ARM FOR SALE.—Co being' parts of Lots concession of Morris, 100 acres ohopped. The ba ane bush, fairly fenced and a •11 frame house and kit; h attached. two frame barns good orchard and three w cistern. Within two mile: there is a.good market fora school within five minutes' • Would take fifty acres in first class farm and parti would do well to call and se • premises or address Blyth OLAS CUMING. taining 119 acres, and 2, on the 8th ores cleared and 5 good hardwood underdrained, good n with woodshed and frame stable, lls and a soft water of Blyth, where I kinds of produce, alk from the house. part pay. This is a s wishing to buy it.. Apply on the 'oat Office. NICH- • 1139tf FARMS IN TUCKERSM LEY FOR SALE.—Fo cession 2, L. R. S., Tuck 100 acres,'ot which 85 acro: from stumps, all underdrain in a high state of cultivati well timbered with hardwoo brick residence containing provements and, convenie stables, driving house, she' buildings all in good rep acres of orchard and gar kinds of large and small whole farm is surrounded b, shade trees. It is close t venient to markets, railw and good gravel roads leadi There are three never failin of the best farms in Huro cheap as the proprietor d Manitoba where he has pu Apply on the premises or P. O. GEORGE PLEWES. Til AND STAN- sale, Lot 21, Con- -rsmith, containing are cleared, free d, well fenced and n. The balance is I . There is a good all the latest im- ces, a good barn, s and other out- 'r. There are three en containing all ruit trees and the maple and other school and is con- ye, churches, etc., g in every direction. wells. This is one and will be sold :sires to remove to chased more land. address Brumfield He also offers for sale for 'farm in the Township of St, Concession n 6-Stanle f c about 75 acresclearedree a state . of good ,ultivatio, timbered, There is a comf frame barn and driving There is a good orchard It is within three miles .f veniently situated for mar. premises or to either of the T. PLEWES, Varna P. 0.; Brucefield. he same reason his nley, being Lot 12, ntaining100 acres,tee rom stumps and in the. balance well ;table frame house, house and stables. and plenty of water. Varna and con• ets. Apply on the undersigned. WM, GEORGE PLEWES, 1127tf HAND--- Boots an o AD E Shoes D. McI Has on hand a large numb of his own make, best ma Warranted to gig If you want your feet ked a pair of our boots, which •CHEAP FO Repairing promptly atten Boots and Shoes made to have not paid their acco please call and settle up. 1162 D. McI TYRE, Seaforth. TYRE r of Boots and Shoes aerial and e Satisfaction. �t dry come and get gill be sold R CASEC.' ed to. All kinds of rder. All parties who nts for last year will Flax for Farmers There is yet a ldt of Flax to be let out for the Seaforth Flax, Mill. Parties desiring to sow it this sea- son should apply at once at H Grieves' Seed t3tore,Seaforth. 1165 J. & LIVINGSTON. Having disposed of my dental practice to T. W. Weddle, of Fe gus, Ontario, I take great pleasure in reoom o, ending my successor as a dentist thoroughly competent in every branch, having had seve years' experience in some of the best offices ii the country as well as a course at the Philad: phia Dental College. Yours Tr ly, W. J. FEAR. • In reference to the a desires to say that he nese in Mr. Fear's old hopes to merit a continu bestowed upon his pred 1167 ve, the undersigned ill continue the busi- d, Daley's Block, and nee of the patronage asst. T. W. TWEDDLE. HAMILTON & M'INNES sEA.Fofz'rx, ForOheapBoots & Shoes. We are still keeping to the front in the shoe line, and as we have g purchased a verylarge stock for the spring trade, we are prepared to sell goods which will suit everybody, both in style and price. 1 Our stock is complete, and any one wishing to provide themselves w ith a new pair of shoes, will do well to call and see our stock and prices. We do not confine our bargains to three or four days in a month, but we will give you goods for thirty days in a month at prices that cannot be surpassed by any one. We have just received a few lines of goods from New York, manu- factured by Nathaniel Fisher & Co., that are extraordinary good value. Everybody should see these goods, for when you see them you will buy them. We have a very fine line of Ladies' and Children's Tan Goods, also Olive and Coffee color, which are very cheap. Men's, Boys' and Youths' goods in abundance. As we must sell these goods in the next two months, the prices will be made right. TRUNKS AND VALISES. We have an overstock of Trunks and Valises, and we will have to dispose of them in some way to give us a little more room, so this is a splendid chance for any one wishing to get a trunk. Call .and examine our goods at the RED FRONT SHOE STORE HAMILTON & MCINNE S, Latimer's Old Stand, Opposite William Pickard's, Seaforth. Young Men Will Insure their Future Success By securing a practical education, and in no, better way can it be obtained than by spending a term in the STRATFORD, ONTARIO, , The reputation of this school for thorough work and satisfactory results draws to its support students from every section of the Province. Its facilities in Short- hand and Commercial Work are unsurpassed. tar Spring' term begins on Mon- day, March 3rd next. Write for handsome Catalogue. Address W. H. SHAW, PRINOIPAL. 1132 SPRING CLOTHING. Our success in selling our Winter Clothing and Overcoats, has in- duced us to buy a very large stock .of Men's, Youths'. and Chiidren's Suits- for this S'RINGI-'S We h ave bought the nicest, neatest and nobbiest stock of goods this spring that has ever been offered for sale in Seaforth. We have fine goods, elegantly made, almost equal to custom work, cut right in style, and the prices are right. You must certainly come in and see them. To the ladies we will say that we can outdo any bargains ever offered in Boys' and Children's Suits. In our Custom Department we are not excelled in nobby styles, perfect fits, or first-class workmanship. Our prices are always the lowest. We keep the latest styles in , Hats, Caps and Gloves.' Ties from five cents to fifty cents. Braces from 20c up. Our large stock of Straw Hats just arrived. CARDNO B°ROS., SEAFORTH 1 CURE 1 THOUSANDS OF BOTTLE5 CIVEN AWAY YEARi.Y. in When I say Cure I do not meal merely to stop them for a Unit, and the* rave them return again. 1 MEAN A RADICAL CURE. I have made the disease of Fibs Epilepsy or Failing Sickness a life-long study. I warrant myremedy to tyre tai vorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send a' ince for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my Infallible Remedy. Give Ezps,++aii ant 'oat Office. It costs you nothing for .a trial, and it will cure you, Address :—II. O., MOOT tll.0y Iirfataach Office; 186 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO. GROCERIES FOR ALL AT- FAIRI.EY'S, SEAFORTH, ONE DOOR SOUTH OF THE POST OFFICE. I would respectfully intimate to the public generally that I keep constantly for sale a choice stock of Family Groceries in the old Post Office Store. Our aim has always been, and will continue to be, to give to our customers the best class of goods obtainable in Ithe market, and at a small living profit. • Sugars very cheap. Now is the time to buy Teas from common to choice, and prices from 25 cents per pound upwards. Pure Coffees and Spices ; choice Currants, . Raisins, Prunes, etc. Farmers' produce taken in exchange. Call and examine our goods and prices. All goods warranted as represented, or cash refunded. J., FAIRLEY, SEAPOPC New Music Store IN SEAFORT,H. Papst & O'Connor Have opened out next door to Jordan's Grocery, Seaforth, an ORGAN AND PIANO DEPOT. DEATH TO HIGH PRICES' NOW. They have the agency of the THOMAS ORGAN, with Scribher's Resonant Pipe Combination. They have also Violins and other small instruments. Or Please Give them a Call. 1161 Winthrop Cheese Factory.. t Wan which be cult. who bym 'Bradfi: off her i. wh' when, which Arieri PATRONS of the Winthrop Cheese Factory will be ready to start on Monday, the 12th of May, and those having pigs to sell for factory will please let me know or bring them along after that date and we will pay the highest price. 1164 _ JOHN C. MORRISON, Secretary DEMAND POND'S EXTRACT. AVOID FOR ALL IMITATIONS. mPueolarumarr. rK FAC -SIMILE OF Bruises ALL PAIN Influenza Feminine Complaints Lameness Soreness Wounds BOTTLE WITH BUOFF 'W13APPER. — Catarr Burns Piles N TRACT will Cure. Chib1ains Sore Eyes Frost -Bites Hoarseness Sore Throat Rheumatism inflammations MADE ONLY SY THE POND'S EXTRACT CO., l 76 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK. and Hemorrhages Kippen Plow Shop. Plows for All, THOMAS MEWS Again getting ready for the benefit of his many customers, and all farmers in need of Plows Gang Plows, Land Rollers, Cultivators, Har rows, which are all genuine, and sold atbotton- prices. Why,farmers, throw your hard cash away, when you can save by calling on tae for your plows and implements. Plow Repairing— Farmers, now is the time to hunt upourPlows. A larger stock than ever of plow re rs on hand. The beat American mould boards or all kinds of plows on hand, and put en every kind of plows. Genuine plow handles, plow bolts, plaw cast- ings, gang . castings, in tact everything in the plow line, to be had bygoing tothe Kippen Plow Shop. Good work and small profits leads is to success. - I hereby return thanks to my many customers for their large share of patronage during the past, and also for their prompt payments during the bard times, and wishing you all better suc- cess this year. 1161-tt T. MELLIS, Kippen. Removed 1 Removed 1 G- m a E- i ' C- - SEA'FORTH, The Old Eetablianed Bntohes has ,removed to aew premises immediately opposite his Old Stand, 'Main Street, Seaforth, where he will be pleased to meet alibis old patrons and as many new ones as may see fit to favor him with their patronage. Remember the. place, oetween Henderson' Harness Shop, and McIntyre a Shoe Store, Main Street, Seaforth. 898 GEORGE EWiNG.` TTON ROOT COMPOUND. -Com' d of Cotton Root, Tansy and ennyroyal prepared by an old phy- - clan. Ia niecessfuifv used. ssonthlu GODERICH Steam Boiler Works. (ESTABLISHED 1880.) Chrystal Black, Manufacturers of all kinds of Station- ary, Marine, Upright& Tubular BOILERS Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iron Works, etc. Also dealers in Upright and Horizontal Sllde ' Valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off Engine§ a ! specialty. All sizes of pipe and pipe &taw constantly on hand. Estimates furnished at short notioe. Works opposite G. T. R. 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