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The Huron Expositor, 1896-11-27, Page 6P: Over Thirty Years Without Sickness. Mr. H. WETTSTEIN, a well-known, eenterpnising citizen. of Byron, Ill, writes: "Before I paid much atten- tion to regulating the bowels, I hardly knew a well day; but since I learned the evil re. sults of constipation, and the efficacy of •AYER'S Pills, I have not had one day's sickness for over thirty years — not one attack that did not readily yield to this remedy. My wife had been, previ- ous to our marriage, an invalid for years. She had a prejudice against cathartics, but as Poon as she began to use Ayer's Pills her health wag restored." YE Cathartic Pills Medal sad Diploma at World's Fair. To Restore Strength, take Ayees Sarsaparilla VETERINARY. TOIIN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario ter Veterinary College. All diseases of Domestic animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and eherges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty Offioe and residence on Goderioh street, one door Ase of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 111211 G. H. GIBB, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Toronto 4:1o11ege of Veterinary dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- my /acacia Society. All diseases of domestic animals skilfully treated. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Office and Diepeneary-Dr. Campbell's old office, Mein stryet Seaforth. Night calls anewered horn the office. 140e -A52 LEGAL Air G. CAMERON, formerly of Cam.eron, Holt & dna Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich, Ontario. Office -Hamilton street, opposite Colborne aotel. 1452 JiAMtES SCOTT, Barrieter, &o. Solicitor for Mot- e son's Bank, Clinton. Office -,Elliott leek, nton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 10) S. HAYS, Barristere Solicitor, Conveyancer and .11n Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office-Cardncea block, Main Street, Seaforth. etoney to loan. . 1236 ir 'it REST, Baerister, Solicitor, Notary, &e. , Office--Romus, five doors north ofCommerola Elate', ground floor, next door to C. L. Papa 4ewe1ry, store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich slats -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216 - - - - ARROW & PROLTDFOOT, Barrieters, Solicitors, TeX &a., Goderiele Ontario. J. T. falage-W, Q. C.; PROUDYnnr. 6g5 13aAMERON, ROLT & 110thES, Barrieters So- licitors In Chanoery, teo.,Goderich, Ont M. C. Wiln012, Q. C., Farrar Hoer, Demare Howees TjI HOLMESTED, eiaccessor to the late firm of e McCaughey & Holmeated, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notary. Solicitor for the Can adian Bank of Commerce, Money to lend. Farm for sale. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street Seaforth. DENTISTRY. W. TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office -Over Richard- son & MoInnea shoe store, corner Main and F. John streets, Seaforth. DR. BELDEN, dentist ; crowning, bridge work 1..7 and gold plate work. Special Attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work e.arefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.' eardware store, Seaforth. 1461 r‘lt. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College jef of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. S., of To - sante University. °thee, Market Block, Mitchell, Ontario. 1402 AGNEW, Dentist, Clintoia'will -visit Hensel' at Hodgens' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in (mon month 1288 - KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S., •jr1 Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurich at the Huron Hotel, orme on the LAST TIIIJUDAY In each month, and Murdock's Hotel, Efensali, on the neer Fames a ankh mouth. Teeth extracted with the least pain poeeible. All work first-olaas at liberal rates. 071 MEDIOAle Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Graduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physiciane and Surgeons. Office and Residen 'e Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Plokarde Vieter.a Street, .text to the Catholic Church Cr -Night calla attended promptly. 1453x12 Jy.ARMSTRONG, M. B. Toronto, M. D. C. M., Victoria, M. C. 1'. S., Ontario, successor to Dr. Eno.% office lately ocoupied by Dr. Eliott, Bruce - field, °uteri°. D- E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and S., etle. Glasgow, &c., Physicien, Surgeon and Ao ooucher, Constance. Ont. 1127 ALEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Phyelolans and Surgeone, Kingeton. itmessor to Dr. Yillaokid. Offim lately °coupled oy Dr. Maokid, Malt Street Seaforth. Residence -Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately °Dimpled by L. E. Danoey. 1127 - - - - OR. F. J. BURROWS, Late resident Phyelolan and Burgeon, Toronto Gen- eral Hoepital. Honor eraduate Trinity University, naemuer of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 'ef Ontario. . Coroner for the County of Huron. eafeeFFICE.-Seme e formerly occupied by Dr. Smith, oppoeite Publio aohoel. Seaforth. Telephone No. le N. B --Night cane anewered from office. 1388 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Goderich street, oppoeite Methodist ehurch,Seaforth J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physician° and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. C. Meenen, honor graduate Trinity University, gold metialiet Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physieiens and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. WM. M'CLOY, Anctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and Agent at Hensall for the Massey -Harris Manu- facturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, nnargee moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Orders by mall addressed to Hensel' Post Office, or left at his residence, Let 2, Conoeseion 11, Tuck- sremith, Will reoeive prompt attention. 129841 TORN H. MeDOUGALL, Licensed Auotioneer for ej the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr. MoDougall'e long experience as a dealer in. farm stock of all kinde, he is speoially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders /eft at TIIR EXPOSITOR office, or at hie residence, Lot 8, Concession 3, H. R. S., Tuckersraith, will be promptly attended to. 1466 ACENTS CAN EARN LARGE SALARIES weelcly, canvassing for Pelham Nursery Co., who possess. newest and improved- methods for propagating hardy stock for all sect Ions Of Canada; also new and tested varlet( of .seed potatoes; write us for terms and ex- clusive territory. PELHAM NURSERY CO., Toronto. PROF. IlliGaTIIANKS BY DAVID A. CURTIS. . [Copyright, 1!; n was a cry for help. Professor Hugo htid down his geological hammer and put the epecimen he had just chipped off carefully away in his knapsack, and then straightened up, listening'. He never did anything in a hurry. Again the cry sounded. It was a girlish voters and it sounded from down the mountain. He was half way up the side. "Help! Hipl Quick " "I better go, maybe," muttered the pro- fessor in his queer German speeele and then he raised his voice and shouted: "Fear not! I comer One eould not say he hurried even then, but there was no hesitation, and there was not a misstep. Presently he Stopped and likened. Hear- ing nothing, he called_ out: "Where you are nese; Call out to me again!" , "lninihe here. Oh, come (Feick!" an- ssvered the voice, only a few yards to the right. Stepping around a bowlder , that was lodged on the mountain side, he StNir a young girl lying flat on the grass. Be- fore she could speak he understood her peril. She was almost at the edge of a cliff not less than 40 feet in height, and below her was a mass of,jagged rocks. The slope on which she laY was steep, and the • short grass that covered it was so dried and burned by the sun that it was as slippery, almost, as ice. Moreover, the soil in which It grew was hardly more than a sheet of forest mold over a smooth rock, and there was no chance for her to get even a slight hold by digging her fingers into it. "You are hurt? No?" he asked quickly. "NO, sir," answered the girl es coolly as If she had been lying on a sofa. "But every time I try to move I slip a little nearer the edge, and there is nothing to keep me from falling over if I slip any farther." "That is right," said, the professor, "and it is good for you that I hear. Lie still Th5W, and I will soon up get you." It was not so easy, however, as it looked and as he at first thought it was. On either sideof her he could get within some 20 feet of where she was without ventur- ing on the treacherous grilse himself and so losing his own foothold. But, though he could have held out a stick or impro- vised a rope that she could reach across that distance, it would not do to pull her along the edge without some stay from the upper part of the slope, and that' was fully 60 feet above her. "I could go for a rope," he said present- ly, after he had 'studied the situation a moment, "but - how far away is. some house? I do not knew." "It would take you an hour to go and get back," said the girl. "Can you -not do something -else? If I had only a little thing to hold on to, I could crawl back, but I. •dare not"— . . , "No, no, Franklin!" interrupted the peofesson "You must lie still. I will something do." . Opening his knapsack., he fumbled in- side of it for a moment and drew' out a stout Igray flannel shirt. This he tore into strips, and, knotting the strips together, he had in a little while a string long enough to reach across the dangerous slope. As he worked he chatted with the girl, who was cool enough now that some Dile was near to aid her. She had been picking berries, she told him, and, although she knew tile ground well and, Understood how treacherous the grassy slopes'were, after the late sumneer sun scorched thene, she had slipped from pure carelessness, and, falling, she had slid out of reach of the bushes. Struggling to rise, she had slipped farther and farther toward the edge until she realized that her only chance of safety was to lie still and call for heln. "And I was so thankful when I heard you answer," she said, "for I did not know but I would have to lie here till they missed me at home and came out to search for me. ' 1 "Yes, it was good that I study the rocks today," said the professor. _"But now lie still some more till my Tope shall touch your fingers. Then do not too hard pull it, for it is not so strong. But it will- help you a little, and you oan up the hill creep carefully." And he tied a small stone to one end of the string and slid it down to- ward her till she grasped it, he holding the other end. e , • It was very easy• en for her, having something to steady ere to make her way upward to where he tood, at the edgeof the slope, holding the. string firmly. • All went well till she came within reach of his outstretched hand, when, as he stooped to lift her to her feet,- his own footing gave way, and he fell headlong beside her on the slippery grass. ' - • - He strove in vain to atop himself, grasp- ing frantically at the grass,- Which broke as he clutched it. Carried swiftly by the mo- mentum of his fall, he slipped striobthly down to_the very edge and over it, falling, with a loud cry, sheer over the cliff. The girl called out twicre, but there was no answer, and With a terrible fear • leste she should find only a -lifeless body she hastened around by the nearest practicable way to the foot of the cliff. He was not dead, as he found immedi- ately. But when he tried to rise he could not. . "My log is broken," he said, "and I am bad. hurted on me.inside. You must now to me bring help, for I am as you were." "Yes, yes," answered the girl. "I will go. But how can you stay alone? It will be more than an hour before- I can get anybody here who can carry you to the house." "Achl That is bade" said the professor. "But I will do as I can best. If yon will look my knapsack in and give me the little flask there, I can wait, but be unit longer as you can help." "I will be as quiok as I can," said the girl after she had brought the knapsack to ' him and given him a drink. It was a long hour for the poor professor, and before it was.over he had. fainted, de- spite Ms flask, so that When John Bascom HE UNDERSTOOD HER PERIL. came back with his daughter he shook his head gravely, fearing that his help was too late. He could do nothing, however, but wait 'Mil his son should come np with the neighbors, for whom he , had sent. And when they had carried hiM to the Basoom THE HURON EXPOSITOR aootor nen come and examined him and set his bones they found' that they would have him to oare for for several weeks. "It seeme kind o' hard it should be so, Maria, beta as you've got about all to do 't you can stand," said Mr. Bascom to bis wife, "but I don't isee as 'twould be decent not to eare for him." •" Why, we've just got to, John," said Mrs. 13ascom. "And dear suz knows we can't grudge him nothin. If it hadn't 'a' been for him Ella might 'a' been kill - But if the Bascora household was poor 1 • In worldly goods, as it certainly was, and if it was a serious tax on the family purse to provide the medicines the sufferer need- ed and a drain on the strength of the mother and, daughter to nurse him as as- siduously as they did, no hint of these facts appeared. The professor was not al- lowed to want for anything that could be had, nor did he see any but a cheerful oeuntenance in the house. He was not blind, however, nor was he baekward about asking questions When he recovered sufficiently to talk. He went straight to the point with a directness that would have Seemed grossly impertinent in a neighbor, but.which ap- peared childlike simplioit; in this- queer foreigner who spoke such twisted English: "What for do you stay where the land so poor is?" he asked one day. "You are a farmer. .Why do you not sell and to the THE PROFESSOR'S EYES GLEAMED. west go? There you will do better as here, where yotir fields are all tipped on one side up and rock full." "Well, I've had a sort o' hankerin to go west for a long spell," said Mr. Bascom, "but 'tain't' soeasy to sell .when there ain't anybody eeekin to buy. I stay here 'because the ficrna's mine, an there ain't nothin else that is.. I never could get fore- handed enough to make a start, and it's all I can do to make a livin here." "But the boy," said the prefesser, "will he all his life stay hero also and be poor?" "No!" exclaimed the father almost an- grily. "Not if spared long enough to care for his mother till ho gots a start He's bent on schoolin, and his mothei and I are goin toseeet he gets it. He'll have to Work his own‘wan though," -added the. old man, with a little sigh. "We can't help him much." "Yes, that is geed," said the professor. "It is better as a boy his own education And after that he talked with young John. The boy was shy at first, but un- der the nieofessor's blunt questioning he soon warnied up enough to talk of his am- bition. He wanted to be a civil engineer, he said, and the professor found that he had laid a good foundation for an educa- tion -it the village academy and had bought and mastered a few good 'books. Moreover, he was observant. One d'ay - when the professor was almost well he was looking over the spectmens in his knap- sack when John came and looked on. "There's a good deal of that kind of rock on the east side of the farm," he said, pointing to one of the chips. The. professor started a little but ho spoke as deliberately as usual. "You shall sbow to me that east side," he said, "when I can climb those hills some day." "I guess you can get there now," said the lad. "It isn't much of a climb, and there's a smooth path." SQ they went out together, and the pro- fessor's eyes gleamed when he sawthe ledge John pointed out. He said very lit- tle, though, and after he had taken some measurements and collected a few speci- mens they went back to the house. Next day he said he Was going away, and he asked Mr. and Mrs. Bascom how much he owed them for his board and his medicines. -` "Land sakes, professor," said Mrs. Bas- com, "you don't s'pose we could take your money, do you? What little we've been able to do for you is little enough for what you did for us." And the farmer himself spoke as earnestly, so the professor said no more about money: In fact, he seemed so well pleased thatMr. Bascom remarke1 it when he -was alone with his wife. "'Pears to me that there Professor - Hugots almighty skimpy about money," he said. "He was tickled to death eenamost when he found he didn't have to pay noth- in. "‘ "John Bascom," exclaimed the good woman, "you don't moan to stand there and tell me you would take money from the man that saved your own daughter's life?!' "Don't he a fool,- Maria. 'Tain't likely I would, but I'd 'a' thought more oe him If he'd 'a' tried a little harder to- payl " But there was another one in the family who had no such thoughts. When Ella Bascona bade- the professor goodby, she said, "I never have really thanked you is I want to, and I don't s'pose I ever can, but I want you to know that I never can forget what ,you did and what you have suffered for me." - "Pish, 'pish!" said the professor careless- ly, though he was well pleased. "It was nothing only my own stupid foot that all the trouble made.' And I clid for you very little. Only I am glad, fraulein, that study the rooks that day, " And he kissed her goodbye "-But you will come again to see - urged. the 'little maiden. "Won't you ome Thanksgiving?" - "Maybe, maybe," he said. "That is a gtod day, that Thanksgiving. You teethe good Lord give thanks because he so good to you is. And you have one great dinner. Maybe I thank him, too, that he kill me not. And you I thank that you take of mother good care. And maybe I take din- ner that day with you." It. was several weeks, however, before Thanksgiving day came, and in the in- terval, as the hard New England winter came on, things went badly with the Bas-' corns. Ella developed a slight cough, that • made her mother turn pale when sho heard. 'it. She had learned to know how easily consumption attacks young people in the rigorous climate of upper New England; yet she dared not speak to Mr. Bascom "about sending the girl south for the win- ter. - The means were lecking. The crops were poor. One of the two pigs they had - fattened died before killing time. Mr. Bascom himself, growing old before his time, seemed no longer able to look on the bright side of anything, and the anxious wife and mother could only pray a little more earnestly and a little more frequent- - ly than before. To work harder was im- possible. And John oould only study later and rise earlier to make up for his father's falling strength. Nothing was heard from the , professor, and, as the family realized more and more even* day how bestsv.Y the 1111111111111-11111/1- inaniffeeeneeerrees odds were against theta, they ceased to talk g." A MODERN FLAVOR. 6 and almost ceased to think much about him. .EIe had saved them from -B great sor- row, he had been a great care and a bur- den for a time, and then he had passed away to be only a inemory. • It Was therefore entirely a surprise when, a few days before Thanksgiving, John brought home a letter from the village postoffice addressed in a queer foreign handwriting to Miss Ella Bascom. "It must be from the professor," she said, and after. they had all agreed to this and had -examined the envelope and the postmark and had wondered, sufficiently about what he could have to say, as people do who do not often receive letters, she opened it. MY D'EAU L TTLE FRA.170311N-I have not for- gotten that ou asked me to go to See you again on Th nksgiving day, and I will go. I Will to see what is the great holiday of the American peciple in the American people's homoe Your . yr brother John, he is a good boy, and he will be a good man. He will give thanks, maybe, that I did get him a place in New York where he can study and be an engineer and will earn money -not very much, but enough. Tell your papa I have, maybe, some good news -for him, and tell your mamma since I come to dinner I have the great liberty taken to send my dinner. .And I kiss your hand, HITOO. Such news was too wonderful, and yet it was tantalizing. There was no end to the 'speculating, and it was later that night than it ever had been before when the Bas- co:nets went to bed. The next day, however, brought a still greater surprise. Word came from the rail- way station, tveo miles away, that there were several large cases there for Mr. Bas- com, expressage paid. The old gray horse was astonished enough at the speed at which he was rattled along, but his feel- ings were nothing to those of the family when the oases were brought home and opened. If there was anything known to the gro- cery or delicatessen trade that wasn't rep- resented in those eases, it was because the professor couldn't find it. And there was the biggest turkey Bascom ever saw, with a box of fresh vegetables, and everything else needed to cook with it. And of every- thing else there was enough to last all win- ter. Mrs. Baseom was stunned. She could say nothing, but the ohildren made up for her silence, and Mr. Bascom • after he had recovered a little from his , bewilderment, said, "Well, Maria, if that's the professor's dinner, he must have" a leetle the best ap- petite of anybody I eiver knowed of." Next day the profe4sor came himself, fat- ter than ever and jollier than they had ever seen him. "It is nothing," he said Ras Thanksgiving Observance Degenerat- ed,. After Airt It seems to be generaally !held that the "first Thanksgiving" came after the first • bountiful harvest by the pilgrims and was chiefly a religious feast, and this is true enough, but this "first Thanksgiving" was not the only one. It took place in 1623, and while all who took part were seemly and devout in their demeanor there was probably no laok 01 ilarity and honest, hearty laughter. Inj this it was probably more like the moder city Thanksiving observance than som rural Thanksg ving doings of the taiddl of this century and, later. In another matter it resembled tie modern was marked by what mut have been very like athletic sports, for the account of the day by Mr. Winslow, one of the pilgrim fathers, says: "Among other recreations we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among u and with the rest their greatest king, Ma sasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three llays we entertained and feasted." Now for the other first Thanksgiving. It was held eh. 1798 in New York city and was the firot observance of the holiday by - the national authorities. In the course of the day.a dinner was eaten at Fraunas 'tavern, at which a number of patriots got shamefully drunk and had a free fight, in which an officer's nose was broken. After that they had so disgraceful a quarrel about a turkey that Hamilton swore, and when Washington heard about it he swore twice. If this be true, and it seems so to be, then our forefathers were quite as human as the rest of us. THE PROFESSOR'S DINNER. when Mr. and Mrs. Bascom Undertook to - remonstrate with him for sending them such a wealth of stores. "It -is nothing. I have never your Thanksgiving kept before, and I thank you so much for your to me kindness when I was suffering." "But you said you were a poor man?" said Mr. Bascom. \ "Ach, yes! They call ine in the city poor, but always I have a few thousand dollies." • And again they sat up half the night discussing John's future, whioh now de- pended on himself. And only the mother remembered to cry silently even while she reproached herself for ingratitude, because there was in all the good fortume no way yet open for sending Ella away from the winter storms. But the next morning, when the mother anddaughter were in the kitchen and John was busy outside, the professor said: "I wrote in my letter, Mr. Bascom, I have scime good news for you maybe. It was this: Your son John he showed me good stone on your farm. It is for build- ing most excellent. It is the stone for which I was looking when the little frau- lein for help called. I have in one great -quarry company a small interest, for I am what you call stockholder, and for them I was looking. They want that kind of stone. So when I returned to the city I said, 1 `The stone is found.' Then they would to send somebody to buy your farm cheap, and I said no. When they were angry, I said: yery well, gentlemen, then I tell you nothing. You go and yourself ilnd the stone.' •So they were angry some more, but I make them offer you 610,000 for your farm or a contract for 61,500 a year. It is better you take the contract, I think, feel have the paper, and if you sign they 61,000 bonus pay you." And he pro- duced the paper. And that was how the Bascoms spent the happiest day they ever had and the professor saw his first Yankee Thankegiv- ing. Talking Images of Olden Times. Several of the old time magicians, sor- cerers and alohensists are given the credit of having made "speaking heads" or "talk- ing images." In mot instances these heads were made of bras, -but other metal was occasionally einplo ed. The "Goiden Wonder," the monster talking image made by (Nails Magnus, was composed of brass with the 'exception of its bead, which was wrought from pure gold and weighed 68 pounds without its internal Machinery. The total weight of this wonder was 688 pounds. The "Golden Wonder" wag also called the "Inanimate Prophet," on ac- count of the faot that it was said to have made many predictions that were remark- ably fulfilled. Finally the head did as the parrot did in the story-etalked too much. It predioted the death of a certain notorious pirate on a certain day, and when he was seen alive and well a week later the people repaired to the shop of the magician and smashed the image out of all semblance tq humanity. The metal of the head was afterward wined intol" lucky pieces," which were sold at from 20 to 100 times their !real value. Certain superstitious persons who ceme into possession of these magic coins declared that 'their "lucky pieces" talked and made predictions just as the head had done! Friar Bacon is given the credit of hav- ing made a brazen head which constantly repeated the words, "Time comes, time is, time is past." The monk Gerbert, who afterward became pope with the title of Sylvester II, is said to have fashioned a head of brass that minutely predicted the after career of its maker. A fourth speak- ing head was that made by Albertus Mag- nus the great magician of the thirteenth century, and another was made by Roberto Grosseteste, an Italian bishOp, who lived In England about the year 1253.—St. LOUIS Republic. Before Starting. Mrs. Coopah—What fo' yoh take dab gun, Mr. Coopah? Yoh doan' want no gun to get -a Thanksgiving turkey? Mr. Coopah—; Yes, indeed I does, honey. It dean.' look so suspishuslike w'en. I bring um hoine as I go by Rev. Enos ,Jones' house. One Man's Memories. It's all right to say that the old time Thanksgiving dinners mere tho best ever eaten and that the features of the day's celebration when We were boys incompar- ably better than the football and other games that are chief features now. But if you were a country boy 30 or 40 years ago you might remember some peculiarities of the day as then observed that might have been pleasanter. For instance, the ser- mons which I used to have to attend were tremeedously long drawn out and. exceed- ingly dreary efforts, and I used to sit in agony through the nour and1 sometimes hour and a half consuined in their deliv- ery. Then the dinner. It was a big one at my father's house, and it took days and days to get ready for it. But during all this time of preparation my life was a bur- den. All the women - folks were rushed with work and therefore cross and "touchy," and when I was not kept busy helping them I was being shooed out of the way, pm that I should not inter- , fere with the progress of affai s. So many persons were asked to the diitnor that we children had to wait invariab y, and there were always six or seven of 11.9. , Now, Imy father was the chief deacon of his church, and the minister's boy was -al- ways one of the children who "waited." He was such a mean little chap that we itever got on -well together while our elders e, and I generally had- to box his ears. nob I "licked him good," and then my father, the deacon, licked me better—so - well that I couldn't sit down to eat the cold dinner when it came time. Moreover, I was always so hungry - when at last it came time to eat that I gorged myself ter- ribly with the cold food, and my dreams those nights would be awful. , I remem- ber that one year, having great faith in the efficacy of prayer,I prayed that next year everybody might forget all about Thanksgiving. When the day was remem- bered and observed as usual not year, ray faith „received a great shock, which lasted till I !remembered that faith to be effectual. must be held by the righteous, and this I know I was not. Turkey Always In Evidence. Gradually the observance of the holiday bas spread, until now the day is kept from Maine to California. It has not detracted from the due keeping of Christmas day in the south nor has it interfered with the observance of New Year's day, in New York. It has become to the American what Christmas day is to the Englishman and something inaore. Widely scattered members of families endeavor to be pres- ent in order to eat their Thanksgiving dinner under the old rooftree. The tur- key, which Franklin wished to make the national emblem in. place of the eagle, is always in evidence on Thanksgiving day. An Aohing Void. Doctor—There, my good man, is some- thing to give you an appetite for your Thanksgiving dinner. Patient—Yes, but doctor, can't you give me a dinner to go with the appetite? ' A Redeeming Trait. "1 dunno ez the prodigal son was so very bad, after all," said Mrs. Corntossel. "He wan't no good to his family," her husband rejoined. "That's a fact. But when he got home he didn't hey no more ter say. Ef he'd been like most of the men folks npwadays, the fust thing he'd of done would of been to find fault with the way the fatted calf Was cooked. "—Washington NOVEMBER 27, 1896. An Open Letter TIIE PTTPLIO. When you start See -read this -letter, don't say, "Oh this is only an advertisement."' Do you kno ee I am ci!tvinced of what I say to be true, that you may, if you require to, purchase goods, ma4e more money by spending fifteen minutes perusing this letter care- fully, than if you coupled the time toiling at the bench, plowing in the field, or doing; fancy work. - ' I would like, in the first place'to call your attention to the fact, that I believe we ve, at the present moent, the largest stock of reedy -to -wear Clothing in this county., 1atri nd, in addition to that, I think I am quite safe in saying that we have altogether and. r away the best place to show it. Just to -day we received the balance of our Winter. sitook of Clothing, consisting of five great big cases, and the clerks seemed dumbfounded Open opening them up, and made the remark, " what in the world do you intend to do. With all this clothing? we thought we had more in stock now than we could sell this sea- flon. My reply was, we will mark them at prioes that are bound to sell 'them. When, you have confidence in the stock and know that your prices are right, there is an inspire - lion about it that is simply irresistible. Our stock consists of Men's Suits from $3,50 to $13, in every conceivable color and. weight. If you like black, we have them in abundance. If your taste runs in the cliree- tioe of blue, fawn, grey or brown, we believe we can suit the most fastidious. i Now, just a word in reference to Boys' Suits. We can show you a range in those. that you heeen't heen accustomed to see outside the large cities. We can fit a boy from. 4 years old up in all weights and 3o1ors. 077-1zZCO.A.T'S Our stock of Overcoats, I am sure, will surprise those accustomed to deal where smalb stocks are kept, both as to the almost unlimited number and price,also assortment of color-. ings and designs. If you want a good, cheap, serviceable, heavy all -wool Irish or Can- adian Frieze, we can give you one that will start you thinking in the direction of how in. the world oan they purchase the material and make them up for the money? And if your want a more fancy. coat, wevcan show you them till you are tired; we have them in Mel - tons and Beaver, with or without velvet collar. And in Boys' Overcoats we ftimply know - no competition. Kindly call and- ask to be shown through our clothing room, which is. located on the second floor, and contains three large windows, an almost indispensable ad- junct in a well ordered clothing store. Boys' Pants for 25c a pair. H'TT1R, G-0 S_ We hairs a very large stock of Ladies' Astraehan Coats and Capes at all prices, also' Muffs, Collars and Ruffs. An inspection of these goods will convince any person familiar - with fur goods of their excellent value. All the above goods on first floor. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT is replete in all the newest things, both in imported and Canadian goods. Our Tweeds include an exceedingly large range of the following colors: grey, brown, fawn, Steel and Mixtures. Our Plaids for - Waists are models of the weaver's art. GLOVES by EauSy p . not beaten person AND the HOSIERY. -Our 7.2.5—c CO ausrh 15n0eor e KidHose ll are simply stunners. a-ve in thin ves, 1 will guarantee, -jai GENTS' FURNISHIING6' DEPARTMENT.—We h department a, very heavy stock, and have marked Gloves, Ties, Collars- and Cuffs at prices, that will ensure a speedy clearance. Everybody welcome to look through and to compare prices, B. B. GUNN, SEAFORTH. —for marsh and mire—mountain and sea. moor, rain or shine—wet and pd—wear and tear. Buy the new wet-proof--snow- proof—oil-dressed—stout soled/footwear. Made with the famous Goodyear Welt, from n Harvard calf, or black Waterproof Box ea1f5 with Doge felt innersole—springy, light and stylish . . $5.00. Ask for the ROBERT WILLIS, SOLE AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. STOVES ! STOVES t It is what everybody will want shortly, and we are prepared. to, show you the best assorted stock of FRanges, Cook Stoves, Parlor and Box ,Stoves ver shown in Seaforth. We would therefore ask you to call and examine our stock, promising you that we will not fee' offended if you do not buy, as we always consider it a pleasu to show our goods. We have also a large number of good -second-hand stoves, both coal and. wood, which we are offering, AT ROOK BOTTOM PR -FOES, And ore that we guarantee perfect. Still bear in mind. that. we are sole agents for the Clare Bros.' Hilburn Furnaces. S. MULLET T & CO., Seaforth. Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Merchants. Second bland stoves taken. in exchange for new ones. THERE CAN BE NO BETTER THAN' THE BEST IN LEAD' PACKETS- ONLY—BLACK OR MIXED—HALF AND ONE POUND PACKETS— RETAIL 25, 30, 40, 50 AND 60 CENTS A POUND CEYLON TEA IS THE BEST 4 ..166mons..em.••vaIIM,16 THE 'DAVIDSON HAY, LTD., WHOLESALE AGENTS, TORONTO THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE. TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS - 86,000,00G REST - ' • - • - - S1,000,000 B. E. WALKER, GENERAL lir.ANAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts, issued, payable at all points in Canada and the principal cities in the United States) Great Britain, France, Bermuda, &c. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received, and current rates of interest. allowed. E"Interest added to the principal at the end of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and Far.? mers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor, M. 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