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The Huron Expositor, 1890-05-23, Page 2r 2 anconiesac THE HURON EXPOSITOR. THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK. BY W. D. HOWXLLS. , VIII. (Continued from last week.) " Yes, it's very 'strange," said the girl, seriously. " It looks like the Flood. It seems as if all the rest of the world was drowned." Dunham glanced round the vast hori- zon. "It is like the Flood. And it has that quality, which I've often noticed in sublime things, of seeming to be for this occasion only." "Yes?" said Lydia. " Why, don't you know ? It seems as if it must be like a fine sunset, and would pass in a few minuttis. Perhaps we feel that we can't endure sub- limity long, and want it to pass." " I could Iook at it forever," replied Lydia. Dunham turned to see if this were young-ladyish rapture, but perceived that she was - affecting nothing. He liked seriousness, for he was, with a great deal of affectation for social pur- poses, a very sincere person. His heart warmed more and more tQ the lonely girl ; to be talking to her seemed, after all, to be doing very little for her, and he longed to be of service. " Have you ' explored our little wooden world, yet ?" he asked, after a pause. Lydia paused too. " The ship ?" she asked presently. "No ; I've only been in thein and , a d here ; and this morn- ing," she - added, conscientiously, " Thomas showed me the the cook's galley,—the kitchen." " You've seen more than I have," said Dunham. " Wouldn't you like to'go forward, to the bow, and see how it looks there ?" "Yes, thank you," answered Lydia, " I would." She tottered a little in gaining her feet, and the wind drifted her slightness a step or two aside. " Won't you take my arm, perhaps ?" suggested Dunham. "Thank you," said Lydia, "I think I can get along." But after a few paces -a lurch of the ship flung her against Dun - ham's side; he caught her hand, and passed it through his arm without pro- test from her. "Isn't it grand ?" he asked triumph- ' antly, as they stood at the prow, and rose and sank with the vessel's careering • plunges. It was no ge}le, but only a fair wind ; the water foamed along the ship's aides, and, as her bows descended, shot forward in hissing jets of spray ; away on every hand flocked the white caps. "You had better keep my arm, here," Lydia did so, resting her disen- gaged hand on the bulwarks; as she bent over a little on that side to watch the rusk of the sea. "It really seems as if there were more of a view here." 't It does, somehow," admitted Lydia. "Look back at the ship's sails," said Dunham. The swell and press of the white canvas seemed like the clouds of heaven swooping down upon them from all the airy heights. The sweet wind beat in their faces, and they laughed in syrnpathy,as they fronted it. "Perhaps the motion is a little too strong for you here ?" he asked. " Oh, not at all !"•cried the girl. >t He had done something for her bring- ing her here, and he hoped to do some- thing more by taking her away. He wait discomfited, for he was at a loss what other 'attention to offer. Just at that moment -a sound made itself heard above the whistling of- the cordage and the wash of the sea, which caused Lydie to start and look round. Didn't you think,' she asked, " that youheard hens ?" " Why, yes," said Dunham. "What could it have been. Let us investigate.' He led the . way back past the fore- castle and the cook's galley, and there, in dangerous proximity t5 the pots and frying pans, they found a coop with some dozen querulous and meditative fowl in it. " I heard themthismorning," said Lydia. " They seemed to wake me with their crowing, and I thought I was at home !" - " I'm very sorry," said Dunham, sympathetically. He wished Staniford were thereto take shame to himself for denying sensibility to this girl. The cook, smoking a pipe at the door of his galley; said, Dey won't trouble you much, miss, Dey don't gen'ly last long, and I'll kill de roosters first." "Oh, coiner now !" protested Dun- ham. " I wouldn't say that !" The cook and Lydia stared at him in equal surprise. Well," answered the cook, "I'll kill the hens first, den. It don't make any difference to me which I kill.. I dunno but de hens is tenderer." . He smoked in a bland indifference. " Oh, hold on !" exclaimed Dunham, in repetition of his helpless protest. Lydia stooped down to make closer ac- quaintance with . the devoted birds. They huddled themselves away from her in one corner of their prison, and talked together in low tones of grave mistrust. " Poor things !" she said. As a country girl, used to the practical ends of poul- try, she -knew as well as the cook that it was the fit and simple destiny of chickens to be eaten, sooner or later ; and it must have been leas in commisera- tion of their fate than in self pity and regret for the scenes they recalled that she sighed. The hens that burrowed yesterday under the lilacs in the door - yard ; the cock her aunt so often drone,_ insulted and exclamatory, at the head of his harem, out of forbidden garden bounds; the social groups that scratch- ed and descanted lazily about the wide, sunny barn doors ; the anxious com- panies seeking their favorite perches, with alarming outcries, in the dusk of summer evenings ; the sentinels answer- ing each other from farm to farm be- fore winter dawns, when all the hills were drowned in snow, were of kindred with these hapless prisoners. Dunham was touched at Lydia's conn - passion, `•` Would you like—would you like to feed them ?" he asked by a happy inspiration. He turned to the cook, with his gentle politeness : " There's no objection to our feeding them, I sup- pose?" "Laws, no !" said the .cook. "Fats tem up." He went inside, and reap- peared with a pan full of scraps of meat and crusts of - bread. " Oh, I say !" cried Dunham. "Have- n't you got some grain, you know, of some sort ; some seeds, don't you know 7" " They will like this," saidLydia, while the cook stared in perplexity. She took the pan, and opening the little door of the coop flung the provisions inside. But the fowls were either too depressed in spirit to eat anything, or they were , s not hungry ; they remained in their cor- ner, and merely fell silent, as if a new suspicion had been roused in their un- happy breasts. " Dey'1l come to_ it," observed , the cook. Dunham felt far from content, and re- garded the poultry with silent disap- pointment. "Are you fond of pets?" he asked, after awhile. Yes, I used to have • pet chickens when I was a little thing." " You ought to adopt one of these," suggested Dunham. " That white one is a pretty creature." " Yes," said Lydia. " He looks as if he . were Leghorn. " Leghorn breed," she added, in reply to Dunham's look of enquiry. "He's a beauty." Let me get him out for you a mo- ment ?" cried the young man, in his amiable zeal. Before Lydia could pro- test or cook interfere, he had opened the coop door and plunged his arm into the tumult which his manoeuvre created, within. He secured • the cockerel, and. drawing it forth was about to offer it to Lydia, when in its struggles to escape it drove one of its spurs into his hand. Dunham suddenly released it; and then ensued a wild chase for its recapture, up and down the ship, in whichit had ev- ery advantage of the young man. At last it sprang upon the rail ; he put out his hand to seize it, when it rose with a desperate screech, and flew far out over the sea. They watched the suicide till it sank exhausted into a distant white- cap. " Dat's gone," said the cook, philo- sophically. Dunham looked around. Half the ship's company, alarmed by his steeple -chase over the deck, were there, silently agrin. Lydia did not laugh. When he asked still with his habitual sweetness, but en- tirely at random, " Shall we—ah—go below ?" she did not answer definitely and did not go. At the same time she ceased to be timidly intangible and aloof in manner. She began to talk to Dun- ham, instead of letting him talk to her; she asked him questions, and listened with deference to what he said on such. matters as the probable length of the voyage and -the sort of weather they were likely to have. She did not take note of his keeping his handkerchief wound round his hand, nor of his at- tempts to recur to the subject of his mortifying adventure. When they were again quite alone, the cook's re- spect having been won back through ,his ethnic aueceptibility to silver, she re- membered that she must go to her room. " In other words," said. Staniford, after Dunham had reported the whole case to him, " she treated your hurt vanity as if you had been her pet school boy. She lured you away from your- self, and got you to italking and think- ing of other things. Lurella is deep, I tell you. What consummate tacticians the least of women are ! It's a pity that they have to work so often on such dull material as men ; they ought always to have women to operate on. The young- est of them has more wisdom in human nature than the sages of our sex. I must say, Lurella is magnanimous, too. She might have taken her .revenge on you for -pitying her yesterday when she sat in that warehouse door on the wharf. It was rather fine in Lurella not to do it. What did she say, Dunham ? What did she talk about ? Did she want to know?" "No !" shouted Dunham. " She talked very well, like any young lady." " Oh, all young ladies talk well, of course. But what did this one say ? What did she do, except suffer a visible pang of homesickness at the sight of unattainable poultry ? Come, you have represented •the interview with Miss Blood as one of great brilliancy." "I haven't," said Dunham. "I have done nothing of the kind. Her talk was like any pleasant talk ; it was refined and simple, and—unobtrusive. " That is, it was in no way remark- able," observed Staniford, with a laugh. " I expected something salient. Well, never mind, She's behaved well by you, seeing what a goose you had made of yourself. She;behaved like a lady, and I've noticed that she eats with her fork. It often happens in the country that you find the women practising some of the arts of civilization, while their men folk. are still sunk in barbaric uses. Lurella, I see, is a social creature ; she was born for society, as you were, and I suppose you will be thrown a good deal together. We're all likely to be asso- ciated rather familiarly, under the cir- cumstances.. But I wish you would note down in your mind some points of her conversation. I'm really curious to know what a girl of her traditions thinks - about the world when she first sees it. Her mind must be in moat re- spects an unbroken wilderness. She's had schooling, of course, and she knows her grammar and algebra ; but she can't have had any cultivation. If she were of an earlier generation, one would ex- pect to find something biblical in her ; but you can't count upon a Puritanic culture now among our country folks." •` If you are so curious," said Dun- ham, "why don't you- study her mind, yourself 7" "No, no, that wouldn't do," Stani- ford answered. . " The light of your in- nocence upon hers is invaluable. I can understand her better through you. - You must go on. I will undertake to make your peace with Miss Hibbard." The young men talked as they walked the deck and smoked in the starlight. They were wakeful after their long nap in the afternoon, and they walked and talked `,late, with the silences that old friends can permit themselves. Stani- ford recurred to his loss of money and his Western projects, which took more definite form now that he had placed so much distance between himself and the fulfilment. With half a year in Italy before him, he decided upon a cattle - range in Colorado, Then, "I should like to know," he said, after one of the pauses, " how two young men of our form strike that girl's fancy. I haven't any personal curiosity about her im- pressions but I should like to know, as an observer of the human race. If my conjectures are right, she's never met people of our sort before." " What sort of men has she been as- sociated with ?" asked Dunham. - " Well, I'm not quite prepared to say. I take it that it isn't exactly the hobble- dehoy sort. She has probably looked high,—as far up as the clerk in the store. He has taken her to drive in a buggy Saturday afternoons, when he put on his res,dy-made suit,—and looked very well in it, too ; and they've been at pic- nice, together. Or maybe, as she's in the school teaching line, she's taken ome high-browed, hollow-cheeked high- school principal for her ideal. Or it is possible she has never had attention from any one. That is apt to happen to self -respectful girls in rural commu- nities, and their beauty doesn't save them. Fellows,as they call themselves, like girls that have what they call go, that make up to them. Lurella doesn't seem of that kind ; and I should not be surprised if you were the first gentle- man who had ever offered her his arm. I wonder what she thought of you. She's acquainted by sight with the ordinary summer boarder of North America ; they penetrate everywhere now ; but I doubt if she's talked with them much, if at all. She must be ignorant of our world beyond anything we can imagine." "But. how. do you account for her be- ing so well dressed 7" .y "Oh, that's instinct. You find it ev- erywhere. In every little village there is some girl who knows how to out -preen all the others. I wonder," added Staniford, in a more deeply musing tone, " if she 'kept from laughing at you out of good feeling, or if she was merely overawed by your splendor." " She didn't laugh," Dunham answer- ed; "because she saw that it would have added to my annoyance. .My splendor had nothing to do with it." "Oh, don't underrate your splendor, my dear fellow !" cried Staniford, with a caressing ridicule that he often used with Dunham. " Of course, I know what a simple and humble fellow you are; but you've no idea how that ex- terior of yours might impose upon the agricultural imagination; it has its effect upon me, in my pastoral moods." Dun- ham made a gesture of protest, and Staniford went on : "Country people have queer ideas of us, sometimes. Pos- sibly Lurella was afraid of you. Think of that, Dunham—having a woman afraid of you,for once in your life ! Well hurry up your acquaintance with her, Dunham, or I shall wear myself out in mere speculative analysis. I haven't the aplo lip for studying the sensibilities of a young lady, and catching chickens for her, so as to produce a novel play of emotions. • I thought this voyage was going to be a -season of mental, quiet, but having a young lady on board seems to forbid that kind of repose, I should- n't mind a half dozen, but one is alto- gether too many. Poor , little thing ! I say, Dunham ! There's something rather pretty about having her with us, after all, isn't there ? It gives a certain distinction to our voyage. We shall not degenerate. We shall shave every day, ind and weather permitting, and wear our beet things." They talked of other matters, and again Staniford recurred to Lydia : " If she has any regrets for. her mountain home,—though I don't see why she should have,—I .nope • they haven't kept her awake. My far -away - cot on the plains is not going to inter- fere with my slumbers." Staniford stepped to the ship's side; and flung the end of his cigarette over- board ; it struck, a red spark amidst the lurid phosphorescence of the bubbles that swept backward from the vessel's prow, Ix. • The ` weather held fine. The sun shone, and the friendly winds blew out of a cloudless heaven ; by night the moon ruled e. firmament powdered with stars of multitudinous splendor. The conditions inspired Dunham with a rest- less fertility of invention in Lydia's be- half. He had beard of the game of shuffleboard, that blind and dumb cro- quet, with which the jaded passengers on the steamers appease their terrible leisure, and with the help of the ship's carpenter he organized this pastime, and played it with her hour after hour,while Staniford looked on and smoked in grave observance, and Hicks lurked at a dis- tance, till Dunham felt it on his kind heart and tender conscience to invite him to a share in the diversion. As his nerves recovered their tone, Hicks showed himself a man of some qualities that Staniford would have liked in an- other man ; he was amiable, and he was droll, though apt to turn sulky if Stani- ford addressed him, which did not often happen. He knew more than Dunham of shuffleboard, as well as tossing rings of rope over a peg set up a certain apace off in the deck,—a game which they eagerly took up in the afternoon, after pushing about the flat wooden diska all the morning. Moat 'of the talk at the table was of the varying fortunes of the players; and the yarn of the story -tell- er in the forecastle' remained half -spun, while the sailors off watch gathered to look on, and to bet on Lydia's drill. It puzzled Staniford to make out whether she felt any strangeness in the situation, which she accepted with so much ap- parent sincerity. Sometimes, in his in- frequently recurring talks with Dun- ham, he questioned whether their deli- cate precautions for saving her feelings were not perhaps thrown away upon a young person who played shuffleboard and ring -toss on the deck of the Aroos- took withasmuch self-possession as she would have played croquet on her na- tive turf at South Bradfield. "Their ideal of propriety up country is very 'different from ours," he said, beginning one of his long comments. " I don't 'say that it concerns the con- science more than ours does ; but they think evil of different :things. . We're getting Europeanized,—I do'n't mean you, Dunham ; in spite of your en- deavors you will always retnain one of the most hopelessly American of our species,—and we have our little borrow- ed anxieties about the free association of young people. They have none what- ever ; though they are apt to look sus- piciously upon married people's friend- ships with other people's wives and husbands. It's quite likely that Lurel- la, with the traditions of her queer world, has not imagined anything anom- alous in her position. She may realize certain inconveniences. But she must see great advantages in it. Poor girl ! How:she must be rioting on the united devotion of cabin and forecastle, after the scanty gallantries of a hill town peopled by elderly unmarried women ! I'm glad of it for her sake. I wonder which she really prizes most your or- nate attentions, or the uncouth homage of those sailors, who are always running to fetch her rings', and . blocks when she makes a wild shot. I believe I don't care and shouldn't disapprove of her prefer- ence, whichever it was." (To be continued.) —A second consignment of nine tons of mummified cats from the great Egyptian cat cemetery has been sold at auction at Liverpool. The bulk of it brought £5 17s 6d per ton, but some single pieces went for fancy prices, such as 40s 6d for a head, and 5s 6d for a per- fect body without the head. - - REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. JOUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.—The under - signed has a number of fine building Lots on Goderich and James Streets for sale, at low prices. For partionlars apply to D. D. WILSON HOUSE AND LOTS FOR . SALE.—The sub• scriber otters for sale the house north of the Egmondville manse, together with three acres of land, suitable for building purposes. On the front are a quantity of young fruit trees commencing to bear. WM. ELLIOTT. 1116 'FARM FOR SALE.—For sale the north half of Lot 25, Concession 2, McKillop, one mile from Seaforth, containing 60 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 will be sold cheap. Apply on the premises or to Seaforth P. O. SAMUEL CLUFF. 1157tf FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 31, Con- cession 6, MoKillop, containing 100 acres, about 90 acres cleared and all in a good state of cultivation. It is well underdrained and well fenced. There is a good brick house and good frame barns, stables, sheds, &c. There is a large bearing orchard and a never failing epring well. It is situated within three miles of Seaforth and will be sold cheap. Apply to JOHN McCLURE, Porter's Hill P. O. 1168tf FARM FOR SALE.—The subscriber offers for sale his farm, being Lot No. 41, Conces- sion 13, East Wawanosh, containing fifty acres more or less situated two and a half miles from Wingham, all cleared and under a state of good cultivation, well fenced and watered. On the premises are a good house and bank barn with outbuildings and two good orchards. For 'par- ticulars apply to the owner, THOMAS K. LINK - LATER, Wingham, Ont. 1141 FARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE. --For sale cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultiva- tion.: The balance is well timbered with hard- wood. There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile- of tho Village . of Varna and three miles from Brueefleld station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144t1 FARM FOR SALE.—Undersigned offer fo sale the farm of 100 acres, being lot. 30, llth concession of Hullett, belonging to the estate of the late Richard Cole. On the place there is a tram a house, good barn, stables &c., young bearing orchard of ono acre and first- class wells. Situated about one mile west of Londeaboro. About ninety acres cleared and in good state of cultivation, Possession ist of April. Apply on the premises or to either of the Executors. JOHN COLE, Belgrave ; H. RADFORD, Londesboro.' 1139t1 FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 12, conces- sion 4, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, 85 'cleared, 63 seeded to grass, 8 sown to fall wheat. The farm is well -fenced, well under -drained and well watered by a never failing spring which runs through pipes into a trough. There is a brick house and kitchen, frame barn, stable ani driving shed. Good orchard. The farm is situated within two and a half miles of Seaforth, with good gravel roads leading in all directions. Will be sold on easy terms. For ,further particulars apply on the premises or to JOHN PRENDER- GAST, Seaforth P. 0., Ont. - 1136t1 FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, the south half of Lot 23, Concession 6, Morris, containing 100 acres, about 90 of which are cleared, well fenced, about 70 free from stumps and well underdrained. The balance is well timbered wit.• ardwood. The cleared part is nearly all seedy i to grass. There is a frame house and rranre Darn, also a small orchard. This is one of the oest farms in the township and has no broken er bad land on it, and is good for either grain or stock and wilt' be sold cheap. It is within three miles of Brussels and within a quarter of a mile of a school. Apply on the premises or to Brussels P. O. WM. or JOHN ROBB, Jr. 1144tf FARM FOR SALE.—Containing 119 acres, being parts of Lots 1 and 2, on the 8th concession of Morris, 100 acres cleared and 5 acres chopped. The be once good hardwood bush, fairly fenced and yell underdrained, good frame house and kit hen with woodshed attaohed. two frame barns and frame stable, good orchard and three wells and a soft water cistern. Within two miles of Blyth, where there is a good market for all kinds of produce, school within five minutes' walk from the house. Would take fifty acres in part pay. This is a first class farm and parties wishing to buy would do well to call and see it. Apply on the premises or address ,Blyth Post Office. NICH- OLAS CURING._• V _ 1139tf FARMS IN TUCKERSMITH AND STAN- ZEY FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 21, Con- cession 2, L. R. S., Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, of which 85 acres are cleared, free from stumps, all underdrained, well fenced and in a high state of cultivation. The balance is well timbered with hardwood. There is a good brick residence containing all the latest im- provements and conveniences, a good barn, stables, driving house, sheds and other out- buildings all in good repair. There are three acres of orchard and garden containing all kinds of large and small fruit trees and the whole farm is surrounded by maple and other shade trees. It is close to school and is con- venient to markets, railways, churches, etc., and good gravel roads leading in every direction: -Thele are three never failing wells. This is one of the best farms in Huron and will be sold cheap as the proprietor desires to remove to Manitoba where he •has purchased more land. Apply on the premises or address Brucefield P. O. GEORGE PLEWES. He also offers for sale for the same reason his farm in the Township of Stanley, being Lot 12, Concession 6, Stanley, containing 100 acres, about 76 acres cleared, free from stumps and in a state of good cultivation, the balance well timbered. There is a comfortable frame house, frame barn and drivin house and stables. There is a good orchard and plenty of water. It is within, three miles of Varna and con- veniently situated for markets. Apply on the premises or to either of the undersigned. WM. T. PLEWES, Varna P. O.; GEORGE PLEWES, Brucefield. 11271f HAND -MADE Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE Has on hand a large number of Boots and Shoes of his own make, best material and Warranted to give Satisfaction. If you want your feet kept dry come and get a pair of our boots, which will be sold • CHEAP 4FOR• CASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Boots and Shoes made to order. All parties who have not paid their accounts for last year will please call and settle up. 1162 D. McINTYRE, Seaforth. Flax for Farmers There is yet a lot 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 Store,Seaforth. 1165 • J. & J. LIVINGSTON. ' IN DARKEST AFRICA.' THE PUBLIC are hereby notified that the title of STANLEY'S NEW BOOK is " In Darkest Africa," and anyone representing any other boos as containing' an account of the Relief of -Ervin Pasha will be liable to prose- cution. Any one subscribing for any other book on such false representations is not bound either legally or morally to accept such book, or to pay for the same when presented. The Presbyterian News Co., Toronto. D. T. McAINSH, Manager. 1169 MAY 23, 1890,. INTELLIGENT PEOPLE Do not feel flattered by the methgds of those who seem to think they can bully them into buying. Most people Know What They Want A great deal better than the merchant knows. They know, too, what their means are AND. WHAT TO PAY For their goods without extravagance. Knowing all these things perhaps THEY DO NOT KNOW The place where they can trade to best advantage and would be glad of .a hint WHERE TO GO. We can only say we do our best by all and invite buyers, when looking around, not to overlook Pickard's Bargain Dry Goods, Clothing and Millinery House, Seaforth. WM.' PICKARD, Corner Main and Market streets, Seaforth. • HA_IIILTON & M'iNKES BEAFORTH, For Cheap Boots & Shoes. We are still keeping to, the front in the shoe line, and as we have purchased a very large stock for the spring trade, we are prepared' to sell goods which will suit everybody, both in style and price. Our stock is complete, and any one wishing to provide themselves with 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 anyone. We have just received a few linea 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 8c MaINNES, Latimer's Old Stand, Opposite William Pickard's, Seaforth. URE THOUSANDS OF ,BOTTLEI GIVEN AWAY YEAR►Y. um When I say Cure I dei not mar merely to stop them for a time, and ther tame them return again. 1 MEAN A R A D I C A L C U R E. I have made the disesa a of Fiis Epilepsy or Falling Sickness a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to laure tht vorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving it care. Seel d w In ce for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my Infallible Remedy..Give Expcs #ant "est Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :-H. G. MOOT M.Oti Branch Office, 186 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO. 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 Children's Suits for this SPRI:TG-'s We have 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 offered in Boys' and Children's Suits. In our Custom Department we are perfect fits, or first-class workmanship. lowest. can outdo any bargains ever not excelled in nobby styles, Our prices are always the We keep the latest styles in Hats, Caps and Gloves. five cents to fifty cents. Braces from 20e up. Our large Straw Hats just arrived. - Ties from stock of CARDNO BROS., SEAFORTH G. N. W. Telegraph Co. Planing Mill,Lumber Yard ESTABLISHED 40 YEARS. Direct duplicate wires to all principal points ;• offices everywhere ; prompt and reliable service; connects with Western Union Telegraph Com- pany to all parts of United States, and with cables to all parte of the world ; money orders by telegraph ; use the beet. CANADIAN EXPRESS CO. Offices at all railroad points ; forward mer- chandise, money and packages of every descrip- tion : collect notes, drafts, accounts, &c. Re- mitters of money secured eirainst loss, and the charge for transmission is very low. Produce for merchandise requiring protection from heat or cold, will have our best attention. 1160 W. SOMERVILLE, Agent. AND SAW MILL IN CONNECTION The subscriber would beg to eall attention to the large stock of dressed and undressed lumber which he always keeps on hand, at the very lowestprices. Bill Stuff cut to any order on Short Notice. Good Cedar cut into timber or posts. A good stock of Hemlock Logs at Saw Mill, Lot 29, Concession 16, Grey, which will be cut to any order on shortest notice. Lumber delivered at reasonable rates when desired Orders by mail promptly filled. Address Baconaomi P. O. Charles Querengesser, 1105 Concession 8, Logan New Music Store IN SEAFORTH, Papst & O'Conn0t4. Have opened"out newt door to Jordan's Grocery Seaforth, an ORGAN AND PIANO DEPOT, DEATH TO HIGH PRICES NOW. They lute the agency of the THOMAS ORGAN, with Scribner's Resonant Pipe Combination. They have also oiolins and other small instruments. Sir Please Give them a Call. 1161 DEMAND FON'D'S EXTRACT. AVOID ALL IMITATIONS. FAC -SIMILE OF BOTTLE WITH BUFF WRAPPER, USE FOR ALS PAIN Influenza Feminine Complaints Lameness Soreness Wounds Bruises Catarrh Burns Piles It will Curet Chilblains .ore Eyes Frost-' B ites H:rseness Swe Throat Rheumatism MADE ONLY BY THE PO N D'S EXTRACT 76 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK. inflammations and Hemorrhages Kippen Plow Shap. Plows for .till. THOMAS MELDS Again getting ready for the benefit of his many customers, and all farmers in need of Plows Gang Plows, Land Rollers, Cultivators, Hat rows, which are all' genuine, and sold at 'bottom prices. Why, farmers, throw your hard oastm away, when you can save by calling on me for your plows and implements. PIow Repairing— Farmers, now is the time to hunt up your -Plows. A larger stock than ever of plow repairs on hand. The beat American mould boards for all kinds of plows on hand, and put on every kind of plows. Genuine plow handles, plow bolts, plow cast- ings, fang castings, infact everything in the plow hne, to be bad by going to the Kippen Prow Shop. Good work and small profits leads us to success. I hereby return thanks to my many customer for their large share of patronage during the past, and also for their prompt payments during the hard times, and wishing you all better suc- cess this year. 1161•tf T. MELLIS, Kippen. John S. Porter's Undertaking and Furni ture Emporium, SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO. OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION. Funerals furnished on the shortest notice and satisfaction guaranteed. A large assort- ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &c. always on hand of the beet quality. The best of Embalming Fluid ased free of •charge and prices the lowest. Fine Hearse. S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi- dence — GODERICH STREET, directly op-' posite the Methodist church in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Scott. weir ZION ROOT ' COMPOUND. --Com d of Cotton Root, Tansy and ennyroyal-prepared by an old pity ician. is suscsssju.Zty used mart* by thousands of women, and has been years,prescribed in a practice of over thirty in Canada and UnitedStatesmailed oc any consul- tation hours, 9 to 11 and 1 Doctor . Diseases -of women treated only. Sealed particulars, two etampe. Ladies only. Address POND LILY COMPANY, No. 3, Fishe Bloc 131 Woodward Avenue, Detroit Michigan. 1163-13 GODERICH Steam Boiler Works. (ESTABLISHEb 1880.) ChrystaF & Black, Manufacturers of all kinds of Station ary, Marine, Upright & Tubular BOILERS Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iron Works, etc. Also dealers in UprightHorizontal Slide Valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off Engines specialty. All sizes of_pipe and pipe fitting constantly on hand. Estimates furnished at short notice. Works opposite G. T. 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