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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1896-09-25, Page 63_„, I • — r ---77"ile \Min 61411:17P4A1.41.4i. R4 Elt '4iiPsillt'INziMir-17111" ..„ _ . • 1711111.1 _ THE HURON , EXPOSITOR SEPTEMBER 25, 1896. • The' Only One To Stand the Test. Bev. William Copp, whose father was a physieianior over fifty years, in New Jersey, and who himself spent many years preparing ler the practice of medicine, but subse, quently entered the ministry of the M. E. Church, writes: "I am glad to testify that I have had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara- tions known in the trade, but - AYER'S is the only One of thena that I could , recommend- as a '0( t- • • blood-purifieri Ihave given away hundreds of bottles of it, as I consider it the safest as well as the best to be had."—Wm., COPP, Pastor M. E. C urch, Jackson, Minn. iNE ONLY WORLDVAIIR Sarsa artIla When n doubt, ask forAyer's Pills VETERINARY. TOILE GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate! of Ontario tt Veterinary College. All diseases ef Doniesge auto:tale treated. Calls promptly attended to and charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty. , Office and reeidence on Goderich street, one door ' Aar of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112M I G. H. GIBB, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of veterinary dentist!, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College,,Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Society. All diseases of domeetio animals skilfully treated. All calls promptly ,Mtended to day or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Office and Dispensary—Dr. Campbelre old office, Main street Seaforth. Night calls answmed !tom the office. 1406-52 LEGAL - G. CAMERON, formeirly of Cameron, Holt & Ilia Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderieh, Ontario. Office—Hamilton street, opposite Colborne note. 1452 " TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mol- t) OM'S Bank, Clinton. Office — Elliott 'oak, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1461 RS. HATS, Barrister, Solleitor'Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Hank. Office—Cardno's block, ain Street, Seaforth. atoney to loan. 1235 ATATTHEW MORRISON, 1Wa1ion, Insurance Ina Agent, Commissioner tv taking affidavits, Oonveyouaces, &c. Money to loa at the lowest rates. • Ittoismsorr, Walton. T M. PEST, Barrister, Solioitor, -Notary, &e. est . Office ---Rooms, five doors north ofOommereia Hotel, ground floor, next door; to C. L. limpet s fewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich ente—Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 GARROW & PP.OUDFOOT, Banieteirs, &diatom, &o., Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GI/3,20W, Q. C.; Wm. PROIIMPOOT. - 686 OAAMERON, HOLT & HOLMF.S, Barristen So- licitors in Chancery, &c.,Goderieh, OM M. C. Kelton, Q. .6., PHILIP Hour, Dupont Heateas FOLME,STED, successor to the ie firm of . McCaughey & llolmested, Barrister, Solicitor Conxeyancer, and Notary. Solicitor for the Can adian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm tor Bale. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street Seaforth. DENTISTRY. W. TWEDDLE, Dentiat. Best rubber plates, ▪ $6. All other work at oorrespendingly low •, prices, and the best workmanship guaranteed. Office i—Over Richardson & McInnis' shoe store, Seaforth, 1469 TAR. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work _If and gold plate work. Special atteution given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work carefully performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.' hardware store, qoaforth. 1461 -r-vt. H. S. AND RSON, graduate of Boyal College If of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D, D. S., of To. route Univereity. Office, Market Block, Mitchell, Ontario. 1402 1--) AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton,will V I. visit Hensall at Hodgens'Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the almond Thursday in erten month 1288 re- wale'sT KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S. . Exeter,' Ont. Will be M Zurich * a esa;ata at the Huron Hotel, or on the 4. rase THURSDAY in each month, and Murdock's Hotel, Hensall, on the Nast. Fatima' n each month. Teeth extraoted with the least painapoesIble. All work first.claes at liberal rates. , 971 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, non. Graduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Phyeicians and Surgeons. Office and Residence—Formerly occupied by Mr. Win. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church SW -Night cane attended promptly. 1453x12 DR. ARMSTRONG, M. B. Toronto, M. D. C. M., Victoria, 51. C. P- S., Ontario, suceessor to Dr. Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce - &Id, Ontario. -lina E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L P. and S., ny Glasgow, &o., Physiolan, Surgeon and Ac. cowl:ter, Conetanee, Ont. 1127 A LEX. BETHUNE, M. 'D., Fellow of the Royal _Li_ College of Physiolane and Surgeons, Kingston. Successor to Dr. Macatid. Office lately occupied ley Dr. Maokid, Malt Street Seaforth. .Eteeldence —Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately-ocoupied by L. E. Dancey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, Late resident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen- eral Hospital. H000r graduate Trinity University, member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. SW-OFFICE.—Same as formerly occupied ey Dr. • Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth, Telephone No. 46 N B --Night calls answered front office. t 1386 DRS. SCOTT & MackAY, PHYSICIANS AND S RGEONS, Goderich street, opposite Meth° ist church,Seaforth J. 0. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ano Arbor, and member Ontario College Physicians and Surgeons. Coroner for Cou ty of Huron. C. MacKAY, honor graduate Trinity UniversitY, gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Memher College of Physicians ad Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 1 WM. M'CLOYg Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and AFent at Hensall for the Massey -Barrie Manu- facturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, charges moderate and satisfaotion guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed bo Reused' Post Office, or left itt bis residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuck. sramith, wilt receive prompt attention. 1296-tf AUCTIONEERS., TOHN 11. McDOUOALL, Licensed Auctioneer for t) the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr. McDoug,alra long experience as a dealer in farm oftook of an -,kinds, he is specially qualified to fudge et values and can guarantee satisfaction, AU orders laat at Tint ExPostros office, or at his residence, Lot 3, Concession 3, R. R. S., Tuckersmith, will be vroroptly attended to. 1466 THE TRIPLE E.. , BY MRS. CLAR. ........e... • APTER IV.—(continued.) \ BELLS AND BRASS. • This was the first word she had caught which gave a clue to any relative. "Achor's mother," Hope had saicl, and 'her heart gaie a great bound. She had a mother, then ;- perhaps she lived. Could Esther find her,? Surely she, if any one. And then came .Esther's words ".Yon want me to search for CeIhauncle ? You think she is in the great city some- where ; perhaps in L-- ? _ gave her a look—a glad, conscious look—such as she had' never seen on his face, and with a sigh of relief, as if the un- derstanding of his desire was the key un- locking the shut avenues of speech,he cried : "Find her, find her !• Bring her back to me ! Tel her the old home awaits her, and I will welcome her in spite of everything. Why should she ruin all her life?.Bring her to me, Esther 1" As he spoke, the high enthusiasm had gradually faded from his voice and face. • A wail of sorrow inexpressible breathed' through thgese last swords ; and dear, impul- sive ope threw herself on her knee beside him.assuring him that they would try in every way to find aunt Celia, and 'ether's tears fell fast upon the head over wtiith she bowed. Bt Achor had fled at that last, sad, be - seedling cry S- fled les her emotions, should defy restraint; lest s e should throw her- self at their feet and implore them to tell her all ; fled, conscious of but two things; that ff.she had a mother, she was a wanderer, an outcast through her own fault ;and that inspite of that fault, she was still loved by uncle Icloward. - 'What could have been her sin? -The faces of the two girls when that name was . uttered ; their hushed voices carried an in- definite idea of guilt. That cry, that hun- gry cry of uncle Howaid's—awful, because so unlike his usual self—so fraught with un- measured woe, unutterable longing tor some human good, rang into her ears still. She shut them up, but still its echoes haunted her brain ; she hid berface in the pillows; but -only to see again his face agitated with mighty emotion, illumined, for the first time in her remembrance, with conscious 'ness and feeling. Who was her mother! Celia. And who was Celia,? What had she done?."Bring her to me !" the old man had cried. Why ? What was she to him? Could it be thia he, uncle Howard, was her father? She shud- dered at the thought, Yet bow many things would seem to confirm her suspicion. Oh, this was too much to bear 1. If only she could be sure of anything. Should she ap- peal to Esther ? While she yet pondered the girls came upstairs. i They were very quiet. They spoke only a few words, but Achor fleard those cis- tinctly. " Esther," said Hope under her brea h, as if afraid to break the stillness, "'Esther, what was aunt Celia to unele Howard ?" The listener caught her breath. " Aunt Celia." She was, then, i some relation to them. She lifted herself in bed and bent eagerly forward to catch Esther's answer. "1 don't know, Hope. .I only know he loved her, and that in some way th is re- sponsible for his ruin." The listenee shuddered. "Esther, you loved Oliver, yet his con- duct:could not ruin you ?" "No. There is some difference. I don't know what. We are unlike in disposition, and perhaps he had no religious hope. The shock, whatever it was, =must have been terrible to work such results." "Esther, you remember him before he was like this?" continued Hope. The listener strained her ears to catch each word. "Dimly," replied Esther. " I remember he was tall and handsome, and , courtly. I used to imagine him some prince of romance. The present is too terrible to be reconcilable with his past," "And he brought Adler here ?" "Yes ; just a few ours before he was stricken helpless. 0 Hope, how hard it must have been for mother—her • only idol- ized brother !" " Yes," assented Hope, with a sigh. ' There wee silence for a while ; then Hope asked another question—the one the child in the other room longed so, to hear answer- ed: " DO-yeru know who Achon's father is, Esther ?" " No ; I don't know anything more than you know noar, Hope." That was all ; and, the poor little child hid her 1.e •..d in the pillows, and wondered why she had been born, and prayed that she might die. The morning dawnelcold and clear. Tired little Achor did lipt awake in time to bid the girls good-bye, hilt Esther pressed many kisses on her cheeks and lips, and left a note beside her pillow, which went far to- wards comforting ihe child for • the loss of that last parting h ur. t Precious little n te ! Achor read it so often that she coul I soon repeat it word for word. This is wn it said : 'MY LITTLE :Acnoi : I have left -enoueli kisses on your face his morning to last until I coma again, nd every kiss was a prayer that my little sister might become the pure, good child mother that Esther wishts her to be. I am very sure she will not disappoint us; I trust her so much. I know she will obey - Jennie, take good care of little Willie, obey uncle How- ard, and read her Bible veese, and pray every day, just as she knew' I desire.she should. . .Remember the meaning of your name, Achor—the new, sweet meanings—Door of Ilope. While I 'take one Hope with me you see, I leay behind another no less' dear. Keep the ddor pen between yourself and Heaven, and carry Esther often to Jesus in your prayers. Try to study a little every day, so- OS not to fall too far behind in your studies. I hope you will soon have a chanoe to get an education as you so much desire. You will, if I succeed. I shall•write to you,. and expect you to answer every note with a nice little letter, well spelled, that I shall be proud to read. Now, little sister, good bye, and God bless you ! ESTHER. "Dear, good Etta 1" sobbed the child. "1 will be good 1 I will study, if I am no- body, for her sake. How- did she know I wanted an education? She just knows everything. She balls me little _sister 1 I wthe pray, ancl ther's God „will make me more like hr, and bring back my mother." • "Door of Hope 1" She had not before known the meaning of her name. She soon learned to love this—Esther's interpret- ation, for all of the tiny letters that came afterwards began thus, " My. precious Do r of Hope, " My little Door of Hope," and so on. •• hile Jennie and Abhor were feeling very Ion ly at home, and uncle Howard shuffling languidly from roon1 to room as usual,Esther and Hope grew tire4 of their long journey. The novelty of theiij surroundings, their in- tere:4 in their fe11ovr travellers, everything was forgotten in utter weariness ere the day closed, and they were glad when the last station was reached, and the conductor shouted " L---- 1" Then came the cries of the cabmen, the hustling into a hack, the jolting. over the paved road, and Esther closed her eyes with Children Cry for • a sigh, remembering that about this time little Achor had driven the coW, s into the barnyard, and Hiram was preparing t� milk. Oh, for home 1 The tears rushed into her eyes unbidden, and she dashed them away silently, while Hope, roused by the now scenes, stared from the carriage windows. 1 " Clang, clang, clang 1" sounded the great bells as the hack swung round the corner of a street, and soon from gate and alley came cr wding girls and men, until the street was on mass oil moving life. "Esther, 4o look ! What ascrowd ! See this great Inflding 1 It must be •a mill," cried Hope e ditedly, leaning forward. Bat poor Esther said wearily, "If only we could have remelted here -before the bell rang 1 Now there will be so much staring to endure." But belltime it was, and as the hack drew up before one of the many doors of a brick block, alike in all save their numbering, Esther's prediction was fully verified. A general halt OD the sidewalk, with whisperinge and much staring, accompanied the removal of the trunk to the hall, and then the hackman, having rung the bell to no seeming purpose, pocketed his fee, and drove away, leaving the girls awaiting, the coming of thelandlady. Poor girls ! They looked helplessly from from one face to another of those eurround- ing them. Some laughed, others winked, others inquired if they ha.d just arrived from the country., One coarse -looking girl, pointing at Hoe, •sid, "Pretty, but green ; ' at Which w,itity saying there was a general titter. , Hope finished angrily, while another girl retorted quickly, "Sometimes country Ver- dure is reirerhing after so much city brass." This was applauded with "Good for you, Margery 1 Give it to her well. EverybOdy knoWs Sall's brassy enough." " Will you kindly call the lady of the house ?" now inquired Esther of -a quiet girl standing, bat in hand, listening. She tared at the 9uestioner, making no reply, bu an- other,,sust behind her, said pleasantly "To be sure, Miss. Here's the sitting root4. Go right in and I'll find her. The two girls escaped just as a f ouzy- looking maid from the dining -room made her appearance, crying, , Ef yees want eny shunter, jiat git out to 'the table." And there was a general stampede, amid much talk and laughter. Esther looked at Hope dubious y. " What shall we do ?' she ask d patheti- _ cally, sinking into a chair. "Fight it out," was the 1 ughing re- sponse. " We've seen the wors side, and the boldest will soon leave us al ne if they find we do not mind their nonsense. I'll constitute myself your champion ." and Hope walked over to Esther's side as if to protect her. Esther tried to laugh, but she felt dis- eouraged. Just then the door opened, and Mrs. Bunker, the boarding-house mistress, ap- peared, introducing herself. Bright, cheery and brisk, she.helped the girls to feel at hoir immediately. ' We were so busy we did not inind the bell," she said. " Meal -hours are always hurried. You are the Misses Eats of whom Miss Spinkbamtold me. . Your room is all ready. I will send up your trunk. Now you -must come out and get a cup of tea. YoU look tired." Tea ! in that house, With all those girls stafring at her ! Esther shook her head, but Hope nodded here most decidedly. " Yes, we will, Mrs. Bunker. Esther, I want it, and you need it. We might as well begin at once," she said, so they re- paired to the:dining-room. It was a much more severe trial to retir. ing Esther than to Hope, but 80011 over for both'; and then they escaped to their tiny room, and sat down to look at each other. CietAPTER V. BY AND BY. . They had looked at each other for five minutes, perhaps, when a knock disturbed them. On,opening the door, a tall straight.. backed, grim -visaged woman of middle age, whom Esther instinctively knew was Miss Spinkham, entered the room. 'Miss Spinkham it truly was. Her gray eyes snapped as she advanced, "hem -hem- ming," as was her wont when she was I embarrassed. "I'm Independence Spinkham, I sup- . posed I ought to come, though like as not you'd rather be alone," she said. "This is Queen Esther," putting out her hand to Esther; "and that Butterfly Hope," nod- ding towards that smiling individual who had risen to greet the stranger. "You never spoke more truly, Miss Spinkham," replied Esther, smiling. "1 Mean in regard to Hope," she ad ed, re- membering' that the title applied . o her- self. "Hem 1 Hope I didn't complime t her; didn't intend to," said the visitor drjyly. " You know the Greeks have but one word to xpress, butterfly and soul," ex- plained li sther, handing her visitor the only chair and taking a seat on the bed beside her sister.- " My Hope is the very soul of hope, I assure you." "Hem ! No ; I didn't know," returned Miss Independence. " Never had time enough for English, . without troubling Greek. Guess you won't find much use for it here. Had a pretty good day for your journey ?" " Yes," assented Esther simply, fearing to say more. "Oily Griffin—she's my room-mate— said as how the girls teased you a bit. You needn't mind 'em. They'll soon stop it. Ef they don't, I'll stop it for 'em. Jest mind your own bisiness. You see it' uncommon to hire girls this time of the y .ar. You're flere because some others were turned off, and some that's left will resent it, sure." Esther looked towards Hope and smiled and nod ed. " We were led, after all, Hope," she said. It was very comforting just then to know this, for hey had both been questioning the wisdom of coming there. - Miss Independence saw the nod and smile, and understood their meaning. "You ain't heathen enough to th nk God. turns off other poor ,girls from work on pur- pose to provide for you, are you ?" he ask- ed grimly. " Why, hardly that," 11]sther replied hesitatingly, "1 did not think of the other girls:" . " Hem _! Selfish, like the rest of 6 Spinkham.t did not deny they apt o be absorbedests, ' she . admitted stantly. • world," grunted Miss Esther colored, bu charge. " We are vert in self and self -inter humbly. - But Hope bridled in " You are not apt in either direction," ly. "Esther hasn't she interrupted warm a particle of selfishness in her composition, Miss Spinkham. She was only thankful here without direc- that we had not come tion. That God has provided for us and o9f that this is the opened our way, is pr right .way. Selfish ! ShO doesn't know what selfishness is. But she is conscienti- that she walks after Lifted her brows. and iously. There was a er eyes, yet she only ous, and glad to know and no i before God."' The !maiden lady listened o -Hope cur peculiar k'ndling in h said when the girl got through • "A very fine speech, Miss Hope ! Trust you are as conscientious as your sister. 'El, God cares about your affairs, be thankful. Ef any one had auspicioned that the other girls were even, distinctly acquainted •with him their places wouldn't be empty now for you to fin. The Devil mostly deals -with • Pitcher's Castoria.' corporations, ef 1 fon't mistake. Good- night 1 pleasant drowns to you." She dis- appeared before the girl could return her patting well wishes. ; " 01 all the mortals, ?" Hope threw her. self across the bed,and laughed immoderateir ly. " Esther Ertts, did you ever dream of such a creature? Mercy ?-she looked as it elle would swallow me, boots and all. How thankful I am to escaPe 1 I hope that old dragon isn't delegated to teach me my new duties. I should disgrace myself every hour. What do you think Of her, Esther r'.)' "1 think she is a gbod, true woman, and will prove a real triend in spite of her oddity," Esther replied. And she was not mistaken. I Hope had nothing to fear from Miss Spinkham's supervision. The two girls were to work'in separate rooms, in the places va- cated, and while ESther was under Miss Spinkham's care, Hope was given to her room -mate, Miss 011y Griffin, a lady as old, and in he way as peeuliar as her friend,but by no means as awe-inspiring. Hope's live of mischief led her into a •dozen pra s the fillit week, but her affec- tionate d1S osition land frank Confessione quite won his Griffin's_ heart, and she was as thoroug ly her admirer as Miss Spink - ham was 4sther's and much more open in her advocaey. 1 Esther soon found; that Hope was des- tined to be a favorite with the baarding house girls; and that; she had much more to fear from their intended kindnesses than from their occasional rudeness to her sister. As to herself, more slowly, but just as sure- ly, she won her place in the regard of all,and early learned to manage her work so well as to receive the approbation of her overseer, and earn wages before she expected. But...how the work told on their frames ! Such aching limbsand heads they had be- fore they became accustomed to the labor and the din? Hope alternated betWeen scolding over ber miseries and laughing4over her blunders for the first month, and rote dolefuraccounts home, arousing suspicions of hard times not to be dissipated by Esther's assumed cheerfulness. 1 What accommodating creatures we are 1 Our very bodies adapt themselves to their surroundings 1 Before the winter was over the girls became inured to hardship. There was little but work '-• nething worthy the name of recreation. Th ir room was too cold to be endured out of be1, and the as- sembly in the sitting -room blow too motley to suit Esther, so they g nerally retired early. • Occasionally Esther went �ut with Hope to satisfy her thirst for change, and once in a long while to the room below, determined not to let Hope seek such, companionship alone. Both girls suffered • from the con- stant strain without relaxation, but Hope chafed under it most sorely, and before he spring came Esther had determined to hire a tenement, if slily one room, and get her sister away from the hoarding -house, for the temptation to join the sports of her com- panions *as too great for Rope to resist constantly, and Esther feared contamin- ation if nothing worse. I 1 Meanwhile things had g ne on much as usual at home. They had nanaged to keep uncle Howard's board paid, and had bought a Pair of shoes for Achor. But it had taken self-denial to accomplish this, Hope's lb e cf little extravagances, dis- covered andi developed since coming where it might be gratiffed, mast_ continually be held in check. She must and did indulge it occasionally, and Esther must and did curtail her own expenses to leas than the necessities of life, that those at home need not suffer thereby. ,And so work went on. The one dress still served them. The hope of another was FUR in the future, and seem- ingly no nearer realization. They took turns in going to church, each one attending every. other Sabbath, morn- ing service and Sabbath -school. Very rarely both attended in the evening, when Hope's blue dress would not be seen, for it was very shabby. •, A quiet interest was manifested. in the girls by their teachers, a quiet wonderment expressed by each that they could not be present every Sabbath. But no confidence en the subject was volunteered, and no on knew that they were sisters. Jennie reported that, though Achor w&4s obedient, truthful and studious, she w very different from what she used to be. Sad -faced and listless, she felt dietressed about her. Unele iHoward was much the same, with .this difference ; he knew the night mail was expected from L—, and watched Hiram on his return from the office. If he brought no letter, the ofd mai turned away with _a dejected air ; if one came, he waited qiiietly.until it was read, and then always asked the same question 1 " Has he found her ?" 1 To the oft -repeated negatives' he made the same reply, "By and by," nodding his gray head. The winter passed, snow disappeared, the air grew warm, and the girls no longer felt their little room so uncomfortable, But when the buds swelled on the trees in the Common, and a few birds made ',their ap- pearance, Hope began to pine for home. "Esther, it seems as if I cannot stand it any longer," she said one Sabbath in May, as, having justj returned from Sunday school, she threw herself into a chair, "I'm so tired and so h me sick ;" and she burst into tears. What could Esther do?.She soothed Hope as well as she could, and finally sue- - ceeded in driving the clouds from her sis- ter's brow, but he could not forget her wail. Her own eart echoed it, but she put it down stei nly.. She could not go. But Hope—well, perhaps the child needed a rest, she looke thin and pale, and—well, Esther forgot he own looks, and how much harder the way would be alone, and told Hope one night that she had decided to send her home in July, when excursion tickets would reduce the fare to Vermont. How Hope's face lit up at the bare sug- gestion ! Esther was glad that she had ies.ched this decision, and no amount of after arguing or reasoning on Hope's part as to the unfairness of the proceeding and their poverty could, atter her determin- ation. , 4on must go, Hope. You can, if we give ip the dress. We can get along with a nej mile° apiece, and eerhaps the black one lill come by and by. Brave Esther stilled a sigh at thought of the long Stibbaths\ at home which this plan , however, and inkham, for by uite a favorite with her room - involved. It was settle Hope ran in to tell Miss S this time she had bepome with this lady as well as mate.mss si., inkham wa alone, and listened quietly, as, amid littl flutters of delight, Hope told her story. "And what will become of Esther ?" asked she.at length, doking up from her sewing. ' e is going to st here. I "Swish she could go too, but we re too poor, she says. I wish we were rich." 'I " You'd better wis you were less sel- fish," was the dry reply. "1 tell you. Mordecai demanded no greater thing of Queen Esther than you do daily of that girl in yonder. You ought 1 to be ashamed to add to her burdens." "1 am, you precious, old scold 1 Dear Penny, don't be cross witb inc 1" and Hope put her arm about the thin neck and laid her cheek against the withered face of her friend. "Stop your nonsenees child 1 Ihn too old for pet names. Be etensible when you talk to m ." " Wha Shall I call ; you ! Everybody lets me pt them." "More fools in the world than I thought," replied the woman grimly ; but a half smile flitted, across her hoe at sight of the fair head. on her breast. "Call me any- Aa important tam* sage 'Often comes by telegraph, but . the isiost important mess deliveredsatgoe that tnkeZedr w"Ints been given to them tkorluglt the newspapers. It ifi given again in this article. It is the information that 98 per cent. of all cases of con- sumption can be completelf and permanently cured. There is no doubt about it The statement is not made _ recklessly, but after the ex- Terience of thousands -has made it an in- disputable fact. Consumption is npt a dis- ease of the flings. It is 'a disease of the, blood, which in weak lunged people man- ifests itself by the forniation of tubercles in the lungs and the wasting away of Irng tissue. The cure for consumption is slinple. It consists iu the administration of &medi- cine that will assist the lungs in, throwing off tubereulous matter, and that will elsanse the system so that this refuse matter will be replaced by strong, healthy iqssues. That sounds like at very simple operation, and yet consumption baffled the combined med- ical skill of the whole world for hundreds of years_ Consumption was consideOd in- curable until the adSent of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery: This great remedy is the most wonderful blood purifier and strengthener that the world hal ever known. It is the result of years Of tti'dy and experiment, by a scientific physician and has been tested in every way by'hirn for over so years. It has an unbroken record of succ-ess. It cures a great vaiiety of diseases, because almost all diseases have thefr origin and support in impurity and weakness of the brood, As long as a man's blood is rich and pure, he is in no danger limn diseases. The thlood is tha medium through which foodifs carried from the digestive system to all of the tissues of the body. If it carries impure things, or all insufficient quantity of good things, trouble will ensue. There is nothing about that so very hard to understand. It is ioer- fectly plain and naturar and rational. The "Golden Medical Discovery '1 puts'the -di- gestive system in perfect order, purifies and enriches the blood and 'so puts the whole.body into pet -feet tune. '1103 talk is continued in Dr. pierces Common Senst Medical Adeiecr. This naoft page book sentfree on receipt of 31 one.cent stamps to WV:Cr CUSLORIS and Mail DM/ only. WORLD'S DM- ARNSARN MaDIchL AssoctAlros, Buffalo, N. Y. thing you please, but not that, and don't abuse your sister. Come I must finish my sewing. Sit down and be sensible." "1 don't know how. Can't you teach me? You call me_ butterfly." ".1 know I do. You make everybody foolish with your fly -away airs. Esther is Sensible. Copy Esther." "1 can't. There is only one Esther in the world. God did not intend me to be like her. If I were, she wouldn't have any one for whom to care." Miss Spinkham looked up quizzically. "So she wouldn't. I never thonght . of that. You are quite a somebody , to live only to make care for folks. Butterflies don't do that" 0 dear, what oan the matter be, 0 dear, what can the matter be, • 0 ar, what OlD the matter be, Penny is getting so sharp! sang Hope. "Didn't I tell you not to call me that again ?" • Hope stopped suddenly at sound of the quick, decided tones. There was something in Miss Spinkham's voice that told her not to repeat the offence. "How cross you are," shel said. "1 don't understand you." Esther, who had entered, took a scat, saying: (Tobe continued.) • • SERVES YOU RIGHT. IF YOU WILL LET THAT PAIN IN YOUR BACK GO ON EVERLASTINGLY IN THE FACE OF EVIDENCE LIKE Till'. Mr. William Wilton, the well-known miller at Flour Mills, says: "I consider Doan's Kidney Pills a sure cure for back trouble, and I speak from expetliences "I was troubled with severe, pain in the small of my back, caused by a strain in lift- ing some time ago, and the pain kept get- ting worse until it was most intense, and almost continuous. "1 made up my mind I had injured my kidneys so got a box of Doan's Kidney Pills from Sahtzer's drug store. They did me so much good and that so quickly that I bought a second box. This box was all I needed to take, for by the time I had finish- ed them my back was entirely cured. "1 recommend „.Doan's Kidney Pills as a first-class cure for all diseases arising from .kidney trouble." ' Retaliation. A little negro gamin passing along Bay street yesterday morning saw the stump of a cigar fall on the sidewalk in front of the store of Ellis & Husey. e He made a seoond base slide for it, and when he had it safely corralled beneath him he relied his eye around :the points of the compass to see if another gamin had also seen the stump fall; 'Dat war in Cuba is making Havanas skace, an' you can't take no chances," he remarked, as he brushed off the ash and blew away the sand and dust from the coveted snipe. Going into the store he said to Charley Ellis: "Boss. gimme a match, please, sah." "Matches are not here to give away, but to sell," said Mr. Ellis assuming a look of intense severity. "Deh is, eh ?" "That's what -they are." "Well, how much is dey er box ?" "ThOengeenacmint" tilted the stump in one corner of his mouth, held to the band of his pant- aloons with one hand, ran the other hand in his pocket, and pulled forth a copper. " Gimmie a box," and he laid down the cent. He got the box, struck a match, lit the stump so well that it poured forth volumes of smoke, and then handed the box back to Mr. Ellis, assumed a look of intense sever- ity, and said: "Put clat box on de sheff, and the ne time gemmen come in hyar to ax you fer a match, you gin hem one outen my box." —For that tickling sensation in the throat try a 10 cent box of "Mist" Cough Lozenges, They -will allay the irritation at once. For sale by all druggists and the Key Medicine Company, 395 Yonge Street& Toronto, Ontario. • —John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil trust, °VMS 400,000 of the 1,000,000 shares hi the corporation and their market value •s said to be $100,000,000. s His incomeirom thi source alone is $1,328 for every hour of the day, and his annual income from all sources is estimated at from $35,000,000 to $40,000,000. • WHEN a woman is pale, og • • anaetnic, low-spirited, tier- 4 sure in life for her till she ha.s vous, sleeplos, there is no plea- t system put right by ••••••=1=101....1 Indian Woman's Bal ffl • It is the unfailing remedy for all 46 debilitated; dyspeptic, despondent women and gfrls. Makes rich, •IP new blood an4 improves the • complexion. $1i, Ali druggistsr. For sale in Seaforth r by J. B;Broberte!. Jordan's NEW Headq uarters For everything in the Grocery business choice and New - Store AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE, PRICE FOR CASH OR TRAM. Choice butter and eggs wanted, for which we will pay the highest market price. M. JORDAN, Seaforth. OVES .STOVES It is what everybody will want- shortly, and we are prepared to, show you the best assorted stock of Rangel s, Cook Stoves, Parlor and Box Stoves Ever shown in Seaforth: We would therefore ask you to tail and examine our stock, promising you that we will not feel - offended if you do not buy, as we always consider it a pleasure.' to show our goods. We have also a large number of go& second-hand stoves, both coal and wood, which we are offerin T ROCK BOTTOM PRICES And are that we guarantee perfect. Still bear in mind that I we_ are sole agents for the Clare Bros.' Hilburn Furnaces, SI. MUiLLETT & Ca, Seaforthi 'Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Merchants. eLnd hand stoves taken in exchange for new ones. Wood% Phosplioclinea—The Grad Englisk Rmerly, Is the result of over CS years treating thousands of -cases with all known drugs, until at last we have discovered the true remedy andotrestment—s. combination that will effect a prompt and permanent cure in all etagesof Sexual Debility, Abuse or Excesses., Nervous Weakness, Emissions, Afentar Worry, Excessive Use of Opium, Tobacco, or Akokolic Simulants, ell of which soon lead to Insanity, Consumption and an early grave: 'Wood De ore Taking. Phosphodine has been used successfully by hundreds of cases thatseemect aim st hopeless—cases thathad been treated by the most talented physi- c —cases that were on the verge of despair and ineanity—eases that were tottering over the grave—but with ,the continued and persevering use of Woolito Phosphodine, these cases that had been given up to die, were restored to manly vigor and health—Reader you need not despair—no mat- ter who has given you up as incurable—the remedy is now within your reach, by its use you canbe restored to a life of usefulness and happiness. Price, one package, Si; six packages, $3; by mail free of postage. One rwitt,lease, six guaranteed to cure. Pamphlet free to any address. The Wood Company, Windsor, Ont., Canada. Wood's Phesphodine IS sold by responsible wholesale and retail druggists in the Dominion. PER gCATCHING Sf• oavime Fun Adarials—natl litre r -alt -0 A. Small but ispeei crEicyCZoos; little fun here rex° heat, in spi in Vita of war' • .course, upon Y. ',choosing one tI mean of the he; Ing,shootii -Cienfuegos is Awes us fine sp the reefs are ,grotuids in the for fishitig in -tienee to sit ste -tropic -faun, bat 43V4311 If the fish .But within the -most novel met „ea, and:which 3 the benefit of yl Among the III the outer bay of tiadarly ,old Cuban who iand great sen to: to me AS the Ica bait, and when 1 found no trael in a large tub I fishes about as .eret When I al slid with those said, "If you .0 tomorrow at 21 show on some A mutual ac 43h/trader, for slown here novr voluted I was o 'we were on the :friend anchor blue water will with fish. Th barracudas, Angel "fish, lin turtle.% hund the clear wat-ex Beaching down fisherman, drew looped a line ni dropped It over :line to me. It =other exid a tha ,gunwale, for it the little remoi -the water, that ably have held tt saed a rsardoni 0 gr .and gave a grinl .stantling Joke brought out wit] .other line and I( -water while 1 ke Soon I felt th ATOSO told me t Nell have feed t Through and Through. • Examine both the business and shorthand courses of the .zr.• Forest City Business and Shorthand College CO' DID , C11\191`.. And you will find them practical at all points. Students attend this calkge from all part* of the country. • Finest set of rooms for business college work in Canada. Graduatesznea cessful in securing positions. Catalogue and partie.ulars of either course, sent upon ppli cation. 1455-"m J. W. WESTERVELT, Principal. c A ell k.41%,L4 • ittilitti I =SKr., 1_)L ttg r•mnown...; the President's Shoes —are made of the same kind of leather as the Slater Shoes—best American calfskin. Money can't buy 'better leather, or better work- naanship, than is put in these Cana- dian shoes. They are made on tho finest and most foot -fitting Ameri- can lasts, by the famous Goodyear Welt process — superior to hand made. Made, too, in the cheapest labor market on the continent—Montreal—which means that there is more • shoe alue for the money in them than can be bad in any An2erican made shoe—black or tan. Aslic for World's Fair Prize Winners, The Slater Shoe. $3, $4,15 per pair. II ROBERT 1 ILLIS, SOLE AGENT FOR SEAFORTH, PICrliTTIZS FOB. UNLIGHT SOAP WRAPPERS. A pretty colored picture- for every 12 " Simlight" or every six 'Lifebuoy 1/ Soap wrappers. These pictures are well worth getting. Address: LEVER BROS. Ltd 23 Scott Street Toronto. CANADIAN BANIZE OF COMMERCE ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS - $8,000,000 REST - ' - - = • $JOOO,OOG B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MAnTAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Daf• t. isatied, payable at all points in Canada and the principal cities ill • the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, &c. , SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. DePosits 0 $1.00 and upwards received, and current rates of jute allowed.1 farInterest added to the principal at the end of May and Noveal- r ber in f440h year. Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and 1$1 - BIM? Sales Notes, 1'. IfOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager' CATC11INO. SII..k 11011Sey it seeme 'whale," I said ' only -grinned ani Between the tw . fish at the othf. found that my himself ton sharl 'Was too big to 't :and 1 made up 1) it I WOUld get ( broad as the bigg an set with t- -around a cavern 41 well. But, big held him Until V, surface, when Jr head with a dub boat without an as soon as they ri bait let go his he Well, in less th the fish WO eouli and then I;prop1 his tireless &hen after some gram faction of seeim any lines attach( sumabiy go a -fl) This fish, whit is called the rei be the same that ancients by atta toms like a barn -rate, by means - disk on the top vessels, but to ot It will not let g to the air, no pat at its tail, has been utiliz ' this coast ever came here, Th -don of it, and h ban Indians ea remora. Antall lice -Uses this mai • ly: "Now shall ye "kind of fishing. Iaoundes do burr Indians, as it v. take other fishes. like unto a grea the hinder part •skin, like unto a fish is tyed at th let down so far reach the keel of it lieth until it tortoise, when it _as an arrow, a 'with that purse strength is suftc -except by littie- line, it be lifted tar, where it hold_ don't know' haVe caught, but ure of gloating o racudas, four j several brilliant reached the sho —Mr, Go1lhti nephew of Mr. has been in Strat :European market shipped a ear I dr Aught animal, -as gone from th 80me of them. Eaethope nod Inices paid rang Its $150.