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THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK.
BY . W. D. HOWBLLS.
XIV.
(Continued from last week.)
" Not the risk. My oldest sister
tried tamin' a tiger. Ninety-nine times
out of a hundred, a tiger won't tame
worth a cent. But her pet was such a
lamb most the 'while that she guessed
she'd chance it. It didn't work. She's
at home with mother now,—three child-
ren, of course,—and he's in hell, I
s'poee. He was killed 'long -side o' me
at Gettysburg. Ike was a good fellow
when he was sober. But my soul the
life he led that poor girl ! Yes, when a
man's got that tiger in him, there ought
to be some quiet little war round for
puttid' him out of his misery." Stani-
ford listened silently, waiting for the
mate to make the application of his
grim allegory. " I _ s'pose I'm - preju-
diced ; but I do hate a drunkard ; and
when I see one of 'ern makin' up to a
girl, I want to go to her, and tellher
she'd better take a real tiger out of the
show, at once."
The idea which these words suggest-
ed sent a thrill to Staniford's heart, but
he continued silent, and the mate went
on, with the queer anile, which could
be inferred rather than seen, working
under his mustache and the humorous
twinkle of his eyes evanescently evident
under hie cap peak.
" I don't go round criticisin' my sup-
erior officers, and I don't say anything
about the responsibility the old man
took. The old man's all right, accord -
in' to his lights .; he ain't had a tiger in
the family. But if that chap was to fall
overboard, --well, I don't know how
long it would take to lower a boat, if I
was to listen to my conscience. There
ain't really any help for him. He's be-
gun too young ever to get over it. He
won't be ashore at Try -East an hour be-
fore he's drunk. If our men, had _ any
spirits amongst 'em that could be beg-
ged, bought, or borrowed, he'd be
drunk now, right along. Well, I'm off
watch," said the mate, at the tap of
bells. " Guess we'll get our little gale
pretty soon."
"Good -night," said Staniford, who
remained pondering. He presently
rose, and walked up and down the deck,
He could hear Lydia and Hicks trying
that song ; now the voice and now the
flute ; then both together ; and pres-
ently a burst of laughter. He began to
be angry with her ignorance and inex-
perience. It became intolerable to him
that a woman should be going about
with no more knowledge of the world
than a child, and entangling herself in
relations with all sorts of people. It
was shocking to think of that little sot,
who had now made his infirmity known
to all the ship's company, admitted to
association with her which looked to
common eyes liked courtship. From
the mate's insinuation that she ought to
be warned, it was evident that they
thought her interested in Hicks ; and
the mate had come, like Dunham, to
leave the responsibility:with Staniford.
It only wanted now that Captain Jen -
nese should appear with his appeal,
direct or indirect.
While Staniford walked up and down,
and scorned and raged at the idea that
he had anything to do with the matter,
the singing and fluting came to a pause
in the cabin and- at the end of the next
tune, which brought him to the head of
the gang -way stairs, he met Lydia
emerging. He stopped and spoke to
ker, having instantly resolved, at sight
of her, not to do so.
"Have you come up for breath, like
a mermaid ?" he asked. " Not that I'ni
sure mermaids do."
" Oh, no," said Lydia. " I think I
dropped my handkerchief where we
were sitting.
•
Staniford suspected, with a sudden
return to a theory of her which he had
already entertained, that she had not
done so. But she went lightly by him,
where he stood stolid, and picked it up ;
and now he suspected that she had
dropped it there on purpose. -
" You have come back to walk with
me?"
' No !" said the girl indignantly. "I
have not come back to walk with you !"
She waited a moment, then she burst
out with, "How dare you say such;e a
thing to me ? What right have you • to
speak to me so ? What have r done to
make you think that I would come back
to "— - -
The fierce vibration'in her voice made
hien know that her eyes were burning
upon him and her lips trembling. He
shrank before her passion as a man must
before the justly provoked wrath of a
woman, or even of a small girl.
"I stated a hope, not a fact," he said
in meek uncandour. "Don't you think
you ought to have done so ?"
- "1 don't—I don't understand - you,"
panted Lydia, confusedly arresting her
bolts in mid -course.
Staniford pursued his guilty advant-
age ; it was his only chance. " I gave
way to Mr. Hicks when you had an en-
gagement with me. I thought you
would come back to keep your engage -
anent." He was still very meek.
" Excuse me," she said with self re-
proach that would have melted the heart
of any one but a man who was in the
wrong, and was trying to get out of it
at all hazards. " I didn't know what
you meant—I "—
" If I had meant what you -thought,"
interrupted Staniford nobly, for he
could now afford to be generous, " I
should have deserved much more than
you said. But I hope you won't punish
my awkwardness by refusing to walk
with me."
He knew that she regarded him earn-
estly before she said, I must get my
shawl and hat."
"Let me go !" he entreated.
" You couldn't find them," she answ-
ered, as she vanished past him. She
returned, and promptly laid her hand
in his proffered arm ; it was as if she
were eager to make him amends for her
harshness.
Staniford took her hand out, and :held
it while he bowed low toward her. " I
declare myself satisfied."
"I- don't understand," said Lydia, in
alarm and mortification.
" When a subject has been personally
aggrieved by his sovereign, his honor is
restored if they merely cross swords."
The girl laughed her delight inthe
extravagance. She must have been
more or leas than woman not to have
found his flattery delicious. "But we
are republicans !" she said in evasion.
"To be sure, we are republicans.
Well, then, Miss Blood, answer your.
free and equal one thing : is it a ease of
conscience ?"
" How ?" she asked, and Staniford
did not recoil at the rusticity. This
how for what, and the interrogative yes,
still remained. Since their first walk
she had not wanted to know, in however
great surprise she found herself.
" Are you going to walk with me be-
cause you had promised ?"
" Why, of course," faltered Lydia.
" That isn't enough." 4
" Not enough ?"
. " Not enough. You must walk with
me because you like to do so."
Lydia was silent. -
" Do you like to do so ?"
" I can't answeryou," she said, re-
,
leasing her hand from him.-
"It was not fair to ask you. -What I
wish to do is to restore the origidal sta-
tus. You have kept your engagement
to walk with me, and your conscience is
clear. Now, Miss Blood, may i have
your company for a little stroll oyer the
deck of the Aroostook ?" He made her
another very low bow.
What must I say ?" asked Lydia,
joyously. -
" That depends upon whether you
consent. If you consent, you must • say,
I shall be very glad.' "
"Andifldont?"
" Oh, I can't put any such decision
into words."
Lydia mused a moment. " I _shall be
very glad," she said, and put her hand
again into the arm he offered.
As happens after such a passage _ they
were at first silent, /while they walked.
up and down.
" If this fine 'weather holds," said
Staniford, "and you continue as oblig-
ing as you are to -night, you cap say,
when people ask you how you vent to
Europe, that you walked the greater
part of the way. Shall you continue so
obliging ? Will you walk with me every
fine night ?" pursued Staniford. .
" Do you think I'd better say so ?"
she asked, with the joy still in her
voice.
" Oh, I can't decide for you. - X mere-
ly formulate your decisions after you
reach them,—if they're favorable."
" Well, then, what is this one ?"
" Is it favorable ?"
You said you would formulate it."
She laughed again, and Staniford start-
ed as one does when a nebulous associa-
tion crystallizes into a distinctly remem-
ft
bered fact.
" What a curious laugh you have !"
he said. " It's like a nun's laugh.
Once in France I lodged near the garden
of a convent where the nuns kept a girl's
school, and I used to hear them laugh.
You never -happened to be a nun, Miss
Blood ?"
" No, indeed !" cried Lydia, as ' if
scandalized. .
" Oh, I merely meant in some prev-
ious existence. Of course, I didn't sup-
pose there was a convent in South Brad-
field." He felt that the girl did not
quite like the little slight his irony cast
upon South Bradfield, or rather upon
her for never having been anywhere
else. He hastened to say, " I'm sure
that in the life before this you were of
the South somewhere."
" Yes," said Lydia, interested and
pleased again as one must be in romantic
talk about one's self. "Why do you
think so ?" .
He bent a little over toward her, so
as to look into the face she instinctively
averted, while she could not help glanc•
ing at him from the corner of her eye.
"You have the color and the light of
the South," he said. " When you get
to Italy you will live in a perpetual
mystification. You will go about in -a
dream of some self of yours that was
native there in other days. You will
find yourself retrospectively gelated to
the olive faces and the dark eyes you
meet ; you will recognize sisters and
oousins in the patrician ladies when
you see their portraits in the pal-
aces where you used to live in such
state,"
Staniford spiced his flatteries with
open burlesque ; the girl entered into
his fantastic humor. " But if I was a
nun ?" she asked, gayly.
" Oh, I forgot. You were a nun.
There was a nun in Venice once, about
two hundred years ago, when you lived
there, and a young English lord who was
passing through the town was taken to
the convent to hear her sing; for she
was not only of 'an admirable beauty,'
as he says, but sang 'extremely well.'
She sang to him through the grating of
the convent, and when she stopped he
said, -` Die whensoever you will ; you
need to change neither voice nor face to
be an angel ! Do you think -do - you
dimly recollect anything that makes you
think—it might— Consider carefully ;
the singing extremely well, and "— He
leant over again and looked up into her
face, which again she could not .wholly
withdraw.
"No, no 1" she said, still in his
mood.
"Well, you must allow it was a
pretty speech." -
"Perhaps," said Lydia, with sudden
gravity, in which there seemed to Stani-
ford a tender insinuation of reproach,
"he was laughing at her."
"If he was, he was properly punished.
He went on to Rome, and wheh he came
back to Venice the beautiful nun was
dead. He - thought that his words
`seemed fatal.' Do you suppose it
would kill you now to be! jested
with ?" -
" I don't think people like it gen-
er-ally."
" O4Why, Miss Blood, you are in-
tense !" -
" I don't know what you meati by
that," said Lydia. -
" You like to take things seriously.
You can't beer to think that people are
not the least in earnest, even when they
lust seem so."
" Yes," said the girl, thoughtfully,
`!perhaps that's true. Should you like
to be made fun of, yourself ?"
" I shouldn't mind it, I .fancy, though
it would depend a great deal upon who
made fun of me. I suppose that women
always laugh at men,—at their , clumsi-
ness, their want of tact, the fit Of their
clothes."
"I'don't know. I should not do that
with any one I "—
" You liked ? Oh, none of Ulm do !"
cried Staniford.
" I was not going to say that," fal-
tered the girl.
" What were you going to say ?"
She waited a moment. " Yee; I was
going to say that," she assented with a
sigh of - helpless veracity. - s' What
makes you laugh ?" - she asked, in
distress.
"Something I like, I'm different
from you ; I laugh at what -I like ;
'IhI IUROI EXPOSITOR.
JUNB 27, 1890.
I like your truthfulness,—it's1 charm-
ing." didn't know that truth • need- be
charming."
" It had better be, in women, if it's to
keep even with the other thing." Lydia
seemed shocked ; she made a faint, in-
voluntary motion to withdraw her hand,
but he closed his arm upon it. " Don't
condemn me for thinking that fibbing is
charming. I shouldn't like it at all in
you. - Should you in me ?"
" I shouldn't in any one," said
Lydia.
" Then what is it you dislike in me?"
he suddenly demanded.
"I didn't say that I disliked anything
in you."
" But you have- made fun of some-
thing in me ?" -
" No, no 1"
" Then it wasn't the stirring of a
guilty conscience when youasked me
whether I should like to be made fun
of ? I took it for granted you'd been
doing it."
" You are very suspicious."
Yes ; and what else ?"
•` Oh, you like to know just what
every one thinks and feels."
"- Go on !" cried Staniford. "Ana-
lyze me, formulate me !"
" That's all."
" All I come to ?"
" All I have to say."
" That's very little. Now, I,11 begin
on you. You don't care what people
think or feel."
" Oh, yes, I do.. I care too much."
" Do you care *hat I think ?"
" Yea."
" Then I think you're too unsuspic-
ious,"
" Ought I to suspect somebody ?" she
asked, lightly.
" Oh, that's the way with all your
sex. One asks you to be suspicious, and
you ask whom you shall suspect. You
can do nothing in the abstract. I should
like to be suspicious for you. Will you
let me ?"
" Oh, yes, if you like to be."
" Thanks. I shall be terribly vigi-
lant,—a perfect dragon. And you really
invest me with authority ?"
" Yes."
" That's charming." Staniford drew
a' long breath. After a space of musing,
he said, "I thought I should be able to
begin by attacking some one else, but I
must commence at home, and denounce
myself as quite unworthy of walk-
ing to and fro, and talking nonsense to
you. You must beware of me, Miss
Blood."
" Why ?" asked the girl.
" I am very narrow-minded and pre-
judiced, and I have violent antipathies.
I shouldn't be able to do justice to any
one I disliked."
" I think that's the trouble with all of
us," said Lydia.
" Oh, but only in degree. I should
not allow, if I could help itis man whom
I thought shabby, and coarse at heart,
the privilege of speaking to any one I
valued,—to my sister, for instance. It
would shock me to find her have any
taste in common with such a man, or
amused by him. Don't you under-
stand ?"
'Yes," said Lydia. It seemed to
him as if by BOM® infinitely subtle and
unconscious affinition she relaxed to-
ward him as they walked. This was in-
comparably sweet and charming - to
Staniford—too sweet as recognition of
his protecting friendship to be question=
ed as anything else. lie felt euro that
she had taken his meaning, and he
rested content from further trouble in
e t ro
regard to what it would have been im-
possible to express. Her tacit confi-
dence touched a kindred spring in him,
and he began to talk to her of himself ;
not of his character or opinions,—they
had already gone over them,—but of
his past life, and his future. Their
strangeness to her gave certain well-
worn topics novelty, and the familiar
project of a pastoral career in the far
West invested itself with a color of rom-
ance which it had not worn before. She
tried to remember, at hie urgence, some-
thing about her childhood in California;
and she told hire a great deal more
about South - Bradfield. She described
its characters and customs, and, from
no vantage -ground or stand -point but
her native feeling of their oddity, and
what seemed her sympathy with him,
made him see them as one might whose
life had not been passed among them.
Then they began to compare their own
traits, and amused themselves to find
how many they had in common. Stani-
ford related a singular experience of his
on a former voyage to Europe, when he
dreamed of a collision, and woke to hear
a great trampling and uproar on deck,
which afterwards turned out to have
been caused by their bare escape from
running into an iceberg. She said that
she had had strange dreams, too, but
mostly when she was a little (girl ; once
she had had a presentiment that trou-
bled her, but it did not come true. They
both said they did not believe in such
things, and agreed that it was only peo-
ple's - love of mystery that kept them
noticed. He permitted himself to help
her, with his disengaged hand, to draw
her shawl closer about the shoulder
that was away from him. He gave the
action a philosophical and impersonal
character by saying immediately after-
wards : " The sea is really the only
mystery left us, and that will never be
explored. They circumnavigate the
whole globe,"—here he put the gathered
`shawl into the fingers which she stretch-
ed through his•arm to take it, and she
said, " O. thank you !"—" but they don't
describe the sea. War and plague and
famine submit tothe ameliorations of
science "—the closely drawn shawl
pressed her against his shoulder ; his
mind wandered ; he hardly knew what
he- was saying,—" but the one utterly
inexorable calamity—the same now as
when the first sail was spread—is a ship-
wreck." -
" Yes," she said, with a deep inspira-
tion. And now they walked back and
forth in silence broken only by a casual
word or desultory phrase. Once Stani-
ford had thought the conditions of these
promenades perilously suggestive of love-
making ; another time he had blamed
himself for not thinking of this ; now
he neither thought nor - blamed himself
for not thinking. The feet justified it-
self, - as if it had been the one perfectly
right and wise thing in a world .where
all else might be questioned.
" Isn't it pretty late ?" she asked, at
last.
" If you're tired, we'll sit down," he
said.
" What time is it ?" she persisted.
" Must I look ?" he pleaded. They
went to a lantern, and he took out his
Cbatinued on 3rd page.)
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.—The under-.
signed has a number of fine building Lots
on Ooderieh and James Streets for sale, at low
prices. For particulars apply to D. D. WILD
HOUSE AND LOTS FOR SALE.—The cub -
scriber offers for sale the house north of
the Egmondville manse, together with three
aures 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, Lot 81, 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
spring well. -It is situated within three miles
of Seaforth and will be sold cheap. Apply to
JOHN MoCLURE, Porter's Hill P. 0. 1158t1
FARMFOR 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 halt 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 the Village of Varna and three miles
from Brucefleld station. Possession at any
time. This is a rare chance to buy a first class
farm pleasantly situated- Apply to ARTHOR
FORBES, Seaforth. 1144tf
FARM FOR SALE.—Undersigned offer fo
sale the farm of 100 acres, being lot 30,
llth concession of HuIlett, belonging to the
estate of the late Richard Cole. On the place
therein a fraite house, good barn, stables &c.,
young -bearing orchard of one acre and first-
class wells. Situated about one mile west of
Londesboro. About ninety acres cleared and in
good state of cultivation, Possession int of
April. Apply on the premises or to either of
the Executors. JOHN COLE, Belgrave ; H.
RADFORD, Londesboro. 113941
FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 12, conces-
sion 4, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, containing
100 acres, 85 cleared, 53 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 an 1 driving shed.
Good orchard. The farm is situated within
two and a half miles of 'Seatorth, 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. 1138tf
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 web
underdrained. The balance is web timbered
with* iardwood. The cleared part is nearly all
seed&r 'to grass. There is a frame house and
iraurc Darn, also a small orchard. This is one of
the nest farms in the township and has no
broken or bad land on it, and is good for either
grain or stock and will be sold cheap. Ma
within three miles of Brussels and within a
quarter of 4 mile of a school. Apply on the
premises or to Brussels P. 0. WM. or JOHN
ROBB, Jr. 1144tf
FARM FOR SALE.—Containing 119 acres,
being parte of Lots 1 and 2, on the 8th
concession of Morris, 100 acres cleared and 5
acres' chopped. The balance good hardwood
bush„ fairly fenced and well underdrained, good
frame house and kitchen with woodshed
attached, two frame barna 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 tee it. Apply on the
premises or address Blyth Post Office. NICH-
OLAS CUMING. 1139t1
FARMS IN TUCKERSMITH AND STAN-
LEY 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
-will timbered with hardwood. There is la 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, etO.,
and good gravel roads leading in every direction.
There are three never failing wells. This is ohs
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. 0. 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 75 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 'driving 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. 0.; GEORGE PLEWES,
Brucefield. 112741
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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 FOR 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.
Kippen Plow Shop.
Plows for All.
THOMAS MELLIS
Again getting ready for the benefit of his many
customers, and all farmers in need of Plows
Gang Plows, Laud Rollers, Cultivators, Har
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A larger stock than ever of plow repairs on hand.
The best American mould boards for all kinds of
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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.
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Once won they are staunch customers, not to be budged by bluster.
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A famous sweeper. The most famous in the market. Medium
in price, handsome in finish, substantial in construction, and rich in de-
vice. No improvement passes the cradle of - experiment before the
sweeper receives the benefit of it. We allow none to excel it as a
sweeper ; constructed in walnut or in maple, with mahogany finish ;
hand decorated, containing the following of our principal patents :
broom. action, automatic reversible bail, " everlasting " brush, and
spring; dumping device. This sweeper has been adopted as our stan-
dard ; ,it has four large rubber tired wheels and - rubber furniture pro-
tector it is constructed by expert workmen, tested by experts before
leaving the factory, and guaranteed by the Bissell Carpet Sweeper
Company. Take one on trial ; for sale by
J. FAIRLEY, SEAFORTH..
THOUSANDS OF BOTTLES
CIVEN AWAY YEARY. -
When 1 -say Cure I do not midi
merely to stop them for a tine, and tis
lave them return again. 1 MEAN AR A D I C A L C U R E. I havemadethe discal* of Pits
Epilepsy or Falling Sickness a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to Ours tlw
vorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send a'
ince for a treatise and a Free Dottie of my Infallible Remedy.Give Express act
! ost Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :—H. Q OtOOT
A.C., Drench 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 1 arge - stock of Men's, Youths' and Chiidren's
Suits for this -
SPRING -'S `TP A17E..
We have bought the nicest, neatest and nobbiest stock of goods
this spring that has ever been offered for We in Seaforth. We have
fine goods, - elegantly made, almost equal to custom work, cut right in
style, and the prices are righj. 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 BROS.,SEAFORTH
SEAFORTH
Musical Instrument
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Scott Brothers,
PROPRIETORS,
SEAFORTH, - - - ONT,
PIANOS Dunham, New York;
W. Belt & Co., Guelph ; Dominion Piano
Company, Bowmanvil-ie.
ORGANS. — W. Bell & Coq
Guelph ; Dominion Organ Company,
Bowmanv-elle ; D. W. Karn & Co,,
Woodstock.
The above instruments always on hand, also
Pianos and
a few good second-hand Organs for
sale at from $26 upwards. Instruments sold on
the instalment plan, or on terms to suit ems.
tourers. Violins, Concertinas and small instrn.
ments on hand ; also sheet music, books, &e.
SCOTT BROS.
FOR
fore Eyes
,atarrh
_ameness
Female
;omplan#s
kinburn
soreness
iprains
hafing
3ruises USE
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Hounds
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stings
yore Feet
NFtAMMATIONS
and
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ALL
PAIN
AVOID ALL MITA.
TIONS. THEN MM
BE DANGEROUS.
FAC-SIAVLE of
BOTTLE WITH BUF
WRAPPER.
DEMAND POND'SE l
TRACT. ACCEPT t+lt
SUBSTITUTE FOR if
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THIS i5 THE ONL1
RIGHT KIND. 00NO;
TAKE ANY OTHER.
New Music Store
IN SEAFORTH.
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
Scribner's Resonant Pipe Combination. They
have also Violins and other small instruments.
' Please Give them a Call.
1181
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
-Funerals furnished on the shortest,notfce
and satisfaction guaranteed. A large assert
trent of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &a-,
always on hand of the best quality. The been
of Embalming Fluid used free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi-
dence — GODERICH STREET, directly op..
polite the Methodist church- in the house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
ON ROOT COMPOUND. --Com
of Cotton Root, Tansy and
ennyroyal—prepared by an old ph "
`elan, .1. successfully used ,neatly
by thousands of women, andhae Ven
prescribed in a practice of over thirty
years. Price, $1. Will be mailed to any address'
in Canada and United States. Doctor's consul-
tation hours, 9 to 11 and 1 4. Dieeaees of
women treated only Sealed parCeulacs, tens
stamps. - Ladies on 3 Address POND LILY
COMPANY, No. 3, Fishe Bloc 131 -Woodward
Avenue, Detroit Mkhigan. 1163.13
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 Slide
Valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off Enniggesa
q»eeialty. All sizes of pip. and pipe fitting
constantly on hand. Es orates funnelled M
short noise.
Works apposite G. T. R. Station, Occlerich.
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