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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-07-18, Page 2_ , • . • e ' -eeesse-se,ersee.e.,,, eeseeeseseee...-eeLessesessereseteeeenet•ee' . "r• • A • 2 „ THE 11 ORON EXPO$1TOR. e: vs, JULY 18, 1890. THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK. BY W. D. HOWELLS. (Continued from last week.) XVIII. The young men did not come back- to the ship at night, but went to a hotel, for the greater convenience of seeing the city. They had talked of offering to show Lydia about, but their 'talk had not ended in anything. Vexed with himself to be vexed att such a thing, Staniford at the bottom of his heart still had a soreness which the constant sight of her irritated. It was in vain that he said there was no occasion, perhaps no opportunity, for her to speak, yet he was hurt that she seemed to have seen nothing uncommon in his risking his • own life for that of a man like Hicka. He had set the action low enough in his own speech; but he knew that it was not ignoble, and it puzzled him that it should be so passed over. She had not even said a word of congratulation upon his own esc Lpe. It might be that . she did not know how, or did not think it was her place to speak. She was cur- iously estranged. He felt as if he had been away, and she had grown from a young girl into womanhood during his absence. This fantastic conceit was strongest when he met her with Captain Jenness one day. He had found friends at the hotel, as one always does in Italy, if one's world is at all wide,—some young ladies, and a lady, now married, with whom he had once violently flirted. She was willing that he should envy her husband ; that amused him in his em- bittered mood ; he let her drive him about ; and they met Lydia and the captain, walking together. Staniford started up from his lounging ease, as if her limpid gaze had searched his con- science, and bowed with an air which did not escape his companion. Ah ! Who's that?" she asked, with the boldness which she made pass for eccentricity. "A lady of my acquaintance," said Staniford at his laziest again. "A lady ?" paid the other, with an inflection that she saw hurt. Why the marine animal, then ? She bowed, very prettily ; she . blushed, prettily, too." "She's a very pretty girl," replied Staniford. "Charming 1 But why blush ?" "I've heard that there are ladies who blush for nothing." "Is she Italian ?" "Yes,—in voice." " Oh, an American prima donna !" Staniford did not answer. • "Who is she ? Where is she from ?" "South Bradfield, Mass." Staniford's eyes twinkled at her pursuit, which he did not trouble himself to turn aside, but baffled by mere impenetrability. The party at the hotel suggested that the young men should leave their ship and go on with them to Naples ' • Dun- ham was tempted, for he couldhave reached Dresden sooner by land ; but Staniford overruled him, and at the end of four days they went back to the Aroostook. They said it was like get ting home, but in fact they felt the change from the airy heights and breadths of the hotel to the small cabin and the closets in which they slept ; it was not's° great alleviation as Captain Jenness seemed to think that one of them could now have Hicks' state -room. But Dunham took everything sweetly, as his habittwas ; and, after all, they were meeting their hardships voluntar- ily. Some of the ladies came with them in the boat which rowed them to the Aroostook; the name made them laugh ; that lady who wished Staniford to re- gret her waved him her handkerchief as the boat rowed away again. She had with difficulty been kept from coming on board by the refusal of the others to come with her. She had contrived to associate herself with him again in the minds of the others, and this, perhaps, was all that she cleated. But the sense of her frivolity—her not so much vac- ant-mindednees as vacant-heartedness— was like a stain, and he painted in Lydia's face when they first met the re- proach which was in his own breast. Her greeting, however, was frank and cordial ; it was a real wekome. Staniford wondered if it were not more -frank and cordial than he quite liked and whether she was merely relieved by Hicks' absence, or had freed heraelf from that certain subjection in which she had hitherto been to himself. Yet it was charming toep her again as she had been in the happiest moments of the past, and to feel that, Hicks be- ing out of her world, her trust of every- body in it was perfect once more. She treated that interval of coldness and diffidence as all women know how to treat a thing which they wish not to have been ; and Staniford, a man on whom no pleasing art of her sex was ever lost, admired and gratefully accept- ed the effect of this. He fell luxuriously into the old habits again. They had still almost the time of a steamer's voy- age to Europe before them • it was as if they were newly setting sail from Amer ica, The first night after they left Messina, Staniford found her in her place in the waist of the ship, and sat down beside her there, and talked ; the next night she did not come ; the third she came, and he asked her to walk with him. The elastic touch of her hand on his arm, the rhythmic movement of her steps beside him, were things that seem- ed always to have been. She told him of what she had seen and done in Mes- sina. The glimpse of Italy had vividly animated her; she had apparently found a world within herself as well as without. With a suddenly depressing sense of loss, Staniford had a prevision of splen- dour in her, when she should have wholly blossomed out in that fervid air of art and beauty ; he would fain have kept her still a wilding rosebud of the New England wayside. He hated 'the officers who should wonder at her when she first came into the Square of • St. Mark with her aunt and uncle. Her talk about Messina went on ; he was thinking of her and not of her talk; but he saw that she was not going to refer to their encounter. " You make me jealous of the objects of interest in Messina," he eaid. " You seem to re- member seeing everything but me, there." She stopped abruptly. " Yes," she said, after a deep breath, " I saw you there ;" and she did not offer to go on again. " Where were you going, that morn- ing ?" "Oh, to the cath t dral. Captain Jen - nese left me there, and I looked all through it till he came back from the consulate. "Left yon there alone !" cried Stani- ford. 4 " Yes ; I told him I should not feel lonely, and I should not stir out of it till he came back. I took one of those little pine chairs and sat down, when ,I got tired, and looked at`the people com- ing to worship, and the strangers with their guide -books." "Did any of them look at you ?" " They stared a good deal. It seems to be the custom in Europe ; -but I told Captain Jenness I should probably have to go about by myself in Venice, as my aunt's an invalid, and I had better get used to it." She paused and seemed to be referring the point to Staniford. " Yes,—oh, yes," he said. "Captain Jenness said it was not their way, over here," she resumed; "but he guessed I had as much right in a church as anybody." " The captain's common sense is _ in- fallible," answered Staniford. Be was ashamed to know that the beautiful young girl was as improperly alone in church as she would have been in a cafe, and he began to hate the Euro- pean world* for the fact. It seemed better to him that the Aroostook should put about and sail back to Boston with her, as she was,—better that she should be going to her aunt in South Bradfield than to her aunt in Venice. " We shall soon be at our journey's end, now," he said, after a while. " Yea ; the captain thinks inabout eight days, if we have good weather." "Shall you be sorry ? ' "Oh, I like the sea very well." "But the new life you etre coming to,—doesn't that alarm you some- times ?" " Yes, it does," she admitted, with a kind of reluctance. " So much that you would like to turn back from it ?" " Oh, no 1" she answered quickly. Of course not, Staniford thought ; nothing could be worse than going back to South Bradfield. " I keep thinking about it," she added. " You say Venice is such a very strange place. Is it any use my having seen Messina ?" " Oh, all Italian cities have something in co-mmon." "I presume," she went on, that after I get there everything will become natural. But I don't like to look for- ward. It—scares me. I can't form any idea of it." " You needn't be afraid," said Stani- ford. It's only more beautiful than anything you can imagine." " Yee—yes ; I know," Lydia an- swered. "And do you really dread getting there ?" "Yes, I dread it," she said. " Why," returned Staniford lightly, "o do I ; but it's for a different reason, I'm afraid. I should like such a voyage as this to go on forever. Now and then I think it will ; it seems always to have gone on. Can you remember when it began ?" "A great while ago," she answered, humoring his fantasy, " but I can re- member. She paused a long while. " I don't' know," she said at last, " whether I can make you understand just how I feel. But it seems to me as if I had died, and this long voyage was a kind of dream that I was going to wake_up from in another world. I often used tta think, when I was a little girl, that when I got to heaven it would be lonesome—I don't know whether I can express it. You say that Italy—that Venice—is so beautiful ; but if I don't know anyone there"— She stopped, as if she had gone too far. " But you do know somebody there," said Staniford. " Your aunt"— " Yea," said the girl, and looked aw4sy. "But the people in this long dream, —you're going to let some of them ape pear to you there," he suggested. " Oh, yes," she said, reflecting his lighter humor, " I shall want to see them, or I shall not know I am the same person, and I must be sure of myself, at least." "And you wouldn't like to go back to earth—to South Bradfield again?" he asked presently. " No," she answered. " All that seems over forever. I couldn't go back there and be what I was. I could have staid there; but I couldn't gu back." Staniford laughed. " I see that it isn't the other world that' a got hold of you ! It's this world ! I don't believe you'll be unhappy in Italy. But it's pleasant to think you have been so con- tented on the Aroostook that you hate to leave it. I don't believe there's a man on the ship that wouldn't feel per- sonally flattered to know that you liked being here. Even that poor fellow who parted from us at Messina was anxious that you should think as kindly of him as you could. He knew that he had be- haved in a way to shock you, and he was vary sorry. He left a message with me for you. ...He thought you would like to know that he was ashamed of himself." " I pitied him,"said Lydia succintly. It was the first time that she had re- ferred to Hicks, and Staniford found ;it in character for her to limit herself to this sparse comment. Evidently, her compassion was a religious duty. Stani- ford's generosity came7easy to him. "1 feel bound to say that 1,Hicks was not a bad fellow. I disliked hint im- mensely, and I ought to do him justice, now he's gone. He deserved alt your pity. He's a doomed man ; his vice is irreparable-; he can't resist it." Lydia did not sayanything ; women do not generalize in these matters ; perhaps they cannot pity the faults of those they do not love. Staniford only forgave Hicks the more. "I can't say that up to the last moment I thoughti him any- thing but a poor, common little crea- ture ; and yet I certainly did feel a greater kindness for him after—what I —after what had happened. He left something more than a message for you, Miss Blood ; he left his steamer chair yonder, for you." . "For me ?"-demanded Lydia. Stani- ford felt her thrill and grow rigid upon his arm, with refuaal. I will not have it. He had no right to do so He—he —was dreadful ! Iwill give it to yon 1" she said, suddenly. " He ought to have given it to you. You did everything for him ; you saved his life." It was clear that she did not senti- mentalize Hicks' case ; and Staniford had some doubt as to the value she set upon what he had done, even now she had recognized it. He said, " I think you overestimate my service to him, possibly. I dare say the boat could have picked thim up good time." "Yes, that's what the captain Mr. Wattereon arid Mr. Mason all sai assented Lydia. Staniford was nettled. He wo have preferred a devoted belief that for him Hicks must have perished. sides, what she iaid still gave no clue her feeling in regard to himself. was obliged to go on, but he went on indifferently as he could. " Hovrev it was hardly a question for me at time whether he could have been out without my _help. If .I had thou about it at all—which I didn't—I s pose I should have thought that wouldn't do to take any chances?" " Oh, no," said Lydia, simply, couldn't have done anything less t you did." In his heart Staniford had of thought that he could have done v much less than jump overboard af Hicks, and could very properly h left him to the ordinary life-saving paratus of the ship. But if he had b putting the matter to some lady in ciety who was aggressively praising h for his action, he would have said j what Lydia had said for him,—that could-nothave done anything less. might have said it, however, in such way that the lady would e have pursu his retreat from her praises with s fonder applause ; whereas this g seemed to think there was nothing e to be said. He began to stand in a of her heroic simplicity. If she dr every -day breath in that lofty air, wh could she really think of him, who p ferred on principle the atmosphere the valley ? " Do you know, M Blood," he said gravely, " that.you p me a very high compliment ?". _"How ?" she asked. " You rate my maximum as my me temperature." He felt that she listen inquiringly. " I don't think I'm habit ally up to a thing of that kind," he e plained. " On, no," she assented quietly ; "b when he struck at you so, you had to everything." " Ah, you have the pitiless Purit conscience that takes the life out of alt !" cried Staniford, with sudden b ternese. Lydia seemed startled, shoe ed, and her hand trembled on his ar as if she had a mind to take it awe "I was a long time laboring up that point. I suppose you are alwa there." " I don't undetstand," she said, tur ing her head round with the elo motion of her beauty, and looking hi full in the face. " I can't explain now. I will, by an by,—when we get to Venice," he adde with quick lightness. 'You put off everything till we g to Venice," she said, doubtfully. " I beg your pardon. It was yo who did it the last time." " Was it? she leughed. So it was I was thinking it was you." It consoled him a little that sh should have confused them in he thought, in this way. "What was i you were to tell me in Venice ?" he asked "I can't think now." • "Very likely something of yourself or myself. A third person might sa our conversational range was limited." "1)0 you think it is very egotistical ? she asked, in the' gay tone which gav him relief from the sense of oppressiv elevation of mind in her. " It is in me,—not in you." " But I don't see the difference." "I will explain something." " When we get to Venice ?" They both laughed. It was very non sensical ; but nonsense is sometime enough. When they were serious again. "Tel me," he said, " what you thought of tha lady in Messina, the other day. She did not affect not to know whom he meant. She merely said, "I only saw her a moment." " But you thought something. If we only see people a second we form some opinion of them." " She is very fine -appearing," said Lydia. Staniford smiled at the countrified phrase • he had observed that when she spoke her mind she used an instinctive good language ; when she 'would not speak it, she fell into the phraseology of the people with whom she had lived. " I see you don't wish to say, because you think she is a friend of mine. But you can speak out freely. We were not friends ; we were enemies, if anything." Staniford's meaning was clear enough to himself; but Lydia paused, as if in doubt whether he was jesting or not, before she asked, " Why were you rid- ing with her then ?" - "1 was driving with her," he re- plied, "I suppose, because she asked me." "Asked you!" cried the girl; and he perceived her moral recoil both front himself and from a woman who could be so unseemly. That lady would have found it so delicious if she could have known that a girl placed like Lydia was shocked at her behaviour. But he was not amused. He was touched by the simple -self-respect that would not let her suffer from what was not wrong in itself, but that made her shrink from a voluntary semblance of unwomanliness. It endeared her not only to his pity, but to that sense which in every man conse- crates womanhood, and waits for some woman to be better than all her sex. Again he felt the pang he had remotely known befote. What would she do with these ideals of here in that de- praved Old World,—so long past trou- ble for its sins as to have got a sort of sweetness and innocence* in them,— Where her facts would be utterly irre- concilable with her ideals, and equally incomprehensible." in and d,' uld but Be - to He er, the got ght up - it you ban ten ery ter ave ap- een so- im ust he He a ed till irl lse we ew at re - of iss ay an ed u- x- ut do an US it - m, Y. to Ys n - w m d, et u e r t y ft 1 t They walked up and down a few turns without speaking again of that lady. He knew_that she grew momently more con- strained towards him ; that the pleaeure of the time was spoiled for her • that she had lost her trust in him ; and this half amused, half afflicted him. It did not surprise him when, at their third ap- proach to the cabin gangway, she with- drew her hand from his arm and said, stiffly, "1 think I will go down." But she did not go at once. She lingered,and after a certain hesitation she said, without looking at him, "I didn't express what I wanted to about Mr. Hicks,—and what you did. It is what I thought you would do." "Thanks," said Staniford,with sincere humility. He understood how she had had this in her mind, and how she would not withhold justice from him because he had fallen in her esteem; how rather she would be the more resolute to do him justice for that reason, (To be continue(L) REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. DUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.—The 'under - LI signed hu a aumber et fine building Lots on Goderioh and James Streets for sale, at law prices. For particulars apply to D. D. WILSON 909 1GARM FOR SALE. —Being Lot De Conces- sion 0, Hoisiok, County of Huron, con- taining 100 acres, 76 under crop, balance good hardwood bush, good frame house, bank barn and bearing orshard, si• miles from Wroxeter station. Easy terms. Apply to WILLIAM BRYANS, Brussels PA 0., Ont. 1178x20 1G1ARM FOR SALE: ---For sale, Lot 81, Con - JC cession 6, 'MaKillop, containing 100 acres, about 90 acres cleared and all in a good state of oultivatidn, It 'is kwell underdrained and well fenced. There le a good brick house rapd good frame barns, stables, sheds, &a. 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 McCLURE, Porter's Hill P. 0. 1158tf MIARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE. ----For sale ..12 cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 52 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 withinhalf a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brucefield • station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144t1 TIARM FOR, SALE CHEAP. ----$6,000 will buy 100 acres on the 9th concession of Mo- Killop, belonging to Thompson Morrison, who is residing in Dakota and does not intend to return, eighty acres cleared and the balance good hardwood, maple and rock elm, within 5i miles of Seaforth and withinat of a mile of school house, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, stores, mills, blaoksmithing and - wagon making shop, poet office, &c., good build. Inge and water for cattle, and good gravel roads to any part of the township, taxes the lowest, of any of the bordering townships. A mortgage will be taken for $.3,000 at 6 per cent. Apply to JOHN C. blORRISON, Winthrop P. O., Ont. 1176tf -LIARM FOR SALE.—Undersigned offer fo I,1 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 frame 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 let of April. Apply on the premises or to either of the Executors. JOHN COLE, Belgrave ; H. RADFORD, Londesboro. 1139tf FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 12, conces- sion 4, H. R. S., Tuckersinith, 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 awl 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. 1136tf TIARM 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 web timbered with- iardwood. The cleared part is nearly all seeden to grass. There is a frame house and xrarue earn, also a small orchard. This is one of the pest farms in the township and has no broken pr bad land on it, and is good for either grain or stock and will 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. 0. 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, 1e0 acres cleared and 5 acres chopped. The tel ance good hardwood bush, fairly fenced and wlI underdrained, good frame house and kii ellen with woodshed attached, 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 nainutesrwalk 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 CUMING. 1189tf FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, lot 6, concession 1, H. It. S., township of Tuckersmith, con- taining one hundred acres more or less, 97 acres cleared, 80 of which are seeded to grass, well un- derdrained, three never failing wells. On one fifty of said lot there is a log house, frame barn and very superior orchard, and on the other a good frame house and barn, -stables, and good orchard. The whole will be seld together or each fifty separately to suit purchasers, located 11. miles from Seaforth, will be sold reasonable on easy terms as the proprietor is retiring from farming. For further particulars apply to the undersigned on the premises, and if by letter to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSEY. 1175tf V'ALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—A Good Dwelling House, main part, 16x24 and 14x18, storeys with kitchen 12x18 and a first class cellar under all the main part. There is also a good well and cistern and young orchard, with plenty of land for both garden and lawn purposes, also Cider Mi11,25x40, with stable and wheel house attached, in first class working order, with good trade established. The six fine village lots adjoining to and forming part of the above mentioned will be sold separately or together to suit purchaser ,or purchasers, afford- ing a good chance to any one desiring to pur- chase a good new dwelling, first class in every respect, or lots on which to build as the situa- tion is equal to that of any in the village. This property will be sold at a bargain as the owner intends securing a farm. For full particulars apply to BERNARD THOMPSON or G, J. SUTHERLAND, both of Hernia. 1175tf. FARM FOR SALE.—A ram chance to obtain a fine propeity, being Lots 11 and 12, Concession 13, Grey township, Huron County, containing 200 acres, 146 acres under cultiva- tion, balance drained and partly cleared, with the exception of 15 acres reserved for firewood, and fence timber ; soil, rich clay loam, rolling and very productive ; a commodious frame dwelling. large cellar, with woodshed and other conveniences attached ; two large barns, one with stone stabling underneath, besides other out buildings ; two large hearing orchards of choice fruits, besides a variety of small fruits, ornamental and shade trees ; 1,400 rods of straight rail fence, recently put up, a portion underdrained, watered by two never failing wells and a spring privilege for stock. This farm is pleasantly situated, has an even sur- face and drainage facilities that cannot be eurpassed, while the building -8 command a view of the whole property and a large portion of the surrounding country, adding much to the beautv of the place. It is distant 4- miles from Brussels on the G. T. R., while post office and churches are not far distant, good roads. Will be sold reasonable. For further particulars apply to D. &J. ROBERTSON, on the premises or to Cranbrook P. 0. 1174t1 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 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. Them 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. 0. GEORGE PLEWES. He also offers for sale for the same reason his farm in the Township of Stanley, being Lot 12, Concession 5, Stanley, containing 100 acres, about 75 acres cleared, free from stumps and in a state of good eultivation, the balance well timbered There is a comfortable frame house, frame barn and eirivine 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. 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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. FAERLE'YJ SEAPORT. u THOUSANDS OF BOTTLES CIVEN AWAY YEARLY. Whea I say Cure I do not meat merely to stop them for a time, and thet lave them return again. 1 MEAN A RADI CA LCUR E. I have made the disea.ie of Fits epilepsy or Failing Sickness a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to Owe tht vorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send a' ince for a treatise and a Free Bettie of my Infallible Remedy. Give Ezpt.ss ant lost Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :—H. 0.0100T LC., Branch OfRce, 186 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTp. SPRING CLOTH! G. 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 SPRITVG-'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 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 five cents to fifty cents. Braces from :20c up. and OurGlolvaes rg.e es five Straw Mats just arrived. CARDNO BROS., SEAFORTH SEAFORTH Musical Instrument MISEPOR,ITTM Scott Brothers, PROPRIETORS, SEAFORTH, - ONT. W. BleAll&NC00.8, Guelph ; Dominion Piano .,---Dunbam, New York; Company, Bowmanville. BG ouOwe ORGANS nG; v iAlDleoN7SiniDio.n—W°WBe& W. aKna r ° kmP aCC:0Y: Woodstock. The above instruments always on hand, also a few good second-hand Pianos and Organs for sale at from $25 upwards. Instruments sold on the instalment plan, or on teens to suit cue - tomer!. Violins, Concertinas and smell instru. menta on hand ; also sheet music, books, &o. SCOTT BROS. FOR )ore Eyes ,atarrh .ameness temale omplaints sunburn soreness )rains ,rATCAFTLFIE" P afing 3rtIses USE 3calds 'lies POND'S 3urns vv Younds ACI nsect 3ites stings core Feet PRAMMATIONS and IEMORRHAGES ALL PAIN AVOID "ALL !MITA- TIONS. THEY MAI BE DANGEROUS. DEMAND POND'S EX TRACT. ACCEPT N1 SU BSTJTUTE FOR 1' THIS IS THE GNU' RIGHT KIND. DONO" 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. tar Please Give.thern a Call. 1161 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, &e., always on hand of the beet quality. The best 1 Embalming Field used free of charge and prices the lowest. Fine Hearse. S. T. 110LMB9, Funeral Director. Reti-i dence — GODERICIi STREET, directly op- posite the Methodist church in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Scott. isemmmasimis ON ROOT COMPOUND.—Com of Cotton Root, Tansy and ennyroyal—prepared by an old phy- Chin. Is successfully vse4 nt-opdhly by thousands of women, and has heen prescribed in a practice of over thirty years. Priem, E. Will be mailed to any address in Canada and United States. Doctor's consul- tation hours, 9 to 11 and 1 4. Diseases of women treated only Sealed part:Pulars, too stamps. Ladies on 3 Address POND LILY COMPANY, No. 8, Fi'.he Bloc 131 Woodward Avenue, Detroit id-kb/gen. 1163-12 GODERICH Steam Boller Works. (ESTABLISHED 18804 Chrystal & Black, Manufacturers of all kinds of Station, ary, Marine, Upright & Tubular iBOITIERSI Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iror Works, etc. Also dealers in Upright and Horizontal 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. R. Station, Goderich. 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