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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-01-01, Page 6A HE 1113-RON EXPOSITOR SPECIFIC ,FOR SCROFULA. "Since childhood, I have been afflicted with scrofulous boils and sores, 'which caused me terrible suffering. Physicians were unable to help me, and .1 only grew worse under their are..c At length, I began to take AYER'S SarsaParilla, an d very soon grew bet- ter. After using half a dozen bottles I was completely cured, so that I have not had a boil or pimple on any part of my body for the last twelve years. 1 can cordially recommend Ayer's Sarsa- parilla as the very best blood -purifier In existence." — G. T. REINHAR'F, Myersville, Texas. E THE ONLY WORLD'S YAM !Sarsaparilla kier's Chem Pectoral wee Ceske aid Col* VETERINARY. TON GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario ts Veterinary College. Ali diseases of Domestic animals treated. Ws prompidy attended to and charges moderate. Vete ?Wary Dentistry a specialty Office and residence on Goderich street, one door Ali of Dr. Soott's officio, Seaforth. 11121f G. H. GIBB,. Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of veterinary dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Society. All diseases of domestic animaki Wittily treated. All calls promptly attended to 'lay or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Office sad Dispensary -Dr. Campbell's old office, Wain street Seaforth. Night calls answered from the office. 1408-52 LEGAL G. CAMERON, _formerly of Cameron, Holt & ..111„ Cameron, Barrister, and. Solieltor, Goderich, Ontario. Office -Hamilton street, opposite Colborne flateL 1452 TAMES SCOTT, Barrieter, &o. Solicitor for Mol- e) fOilta Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott look, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 ' 113 13. HAYS, Barrister, Solloitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public). Solioitor for the Dominion Bank. Office-Carduo's block, Main Street, Seaforth. Armee- to loan. 1225 r m. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &e. Office-Roome, five doore north of Commeron Hotel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Pepsis eaweiry store, Liain street, Seaforth. Goderich ents-Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 GA BROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitor% Goderich, Ontario. .I. Gesso*, Q. 0.; Wu. PriouroPooe. 1 686 ClAMERONHOLT & HOLMES, ParrIstess So- - !doni ors n Chancery, 10..Goderich, Out IL 0. mama Q. C., Pamir" HOOT, DIMWIT Horan "El HOWIESTED, succestor to the late firm of ,U . McCaughey & Holmested, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notary. Solicitor for the Can Mien Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm for eel°. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street Seaforth. DENTISTRY. 1G1 W. TWEDDLE, Dentiet. Office -Over Richard- . son & McInnis' shoe store, corner Main and John streets, Seaforth. FIR. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work • and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work earefully performed. Office -over Johnion Bros.' nardware store, Seaforth. 1451 Drt. II. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, To D. S., of To - route University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell, Ontano. 1402 AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will rah 'visit Hansen at Hodgens' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in eaen month 1288 11 KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S. ,. Exeter, amt. Will be at Muni at the Huron Hotel, ONLY on the raker THURSDAY in each month, and M. edock's Hotel, Heneall, on the FIRST FRIDAY et,ah month. Teeth extracted with the least ,nssible. All work flevieelase at liberal reties. 971 MEDICAL. " Dr. Oohn McGinnis, • Graduate London Western University, member O ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Odio and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Plekerd, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church roe -Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12 • IN. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M., Victoria, M. C. P. 5., Ontario, succeesor to Dr. Jo 5, office lately occupied by Dr. Eliott, Bruce- -Id. sntario. -ate ta COOPER, IL D. M. B., L. F. P. and S., 4 a. Glasgoto &c., rhysiolin, Surgeon and Ace 101 tr, Conetanee, Ont. 1127 te e41 nen f C. tario. Coroner for the County of Huron. aro -TICE.-Sarne as formerly occupied ey Dr. amity opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephone Jo. g B --Night clan answered from °Aloe. 1885 X. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal :cling° of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingeton. -for to Dr. blaaidd. Office lately occupied . Maokid, Malt Street Seaforth. Residence er of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied .t. Dewey.. 1127 OR. F. J. BURROWS, esident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen - °apnea Honor graduate Trinity University, ar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons DRS. SCOTT & Mac KAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ' lob street, opposite Methodist ohurch,Seaforth SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physicians and S ugeonsaloroner for County of Huron. blacKAY, honor' graduate TrinityUniversity, .td medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. WM. IVIVOLOY, ,ctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, ---d agent at Hensall for the Massey-Harrie Menu- renturing Company, Salmi promptly attended to, salrgefi moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. • de,s' by mall addressed to Hensall Post Office, or eft it his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuck- eeer th, will rebeive prompt attention. 1296 -if 10f -IN H. MoDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for aJ the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the Comity. Terms reasonable. From Mr. McDougall's lodg experience as a dealer in farm e let of all kinds, he is specially qualified to fudge • valuta, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders rt at Toe EXPO8ITOR offide, or rir hid reeidence, 1.ots nonceasion 8, IL R. S.. 'I nt•keretnith, will be . :Teeny attende? to. 1486 LADIES! Emancipation from Pain IS YOUND IN Dr. LeRoy's Female Pills. The only reliabis and trustworthy pro. paration known. Seat, surest and mod effective remedy ever discovered for allirrep ularities of the female system. Sealed circular free. Priee sl per box ofdruggiste. (wily runit 9f:cute1y sealed on receipt of prica. isettoy P111 Co. Victoria. St., Toronto, Can. Sold in Seaforth by 1. V, Fear, A CHRISTMAS CAROL 4=•••••••••,...M.111 BY CHARLES DICKENs. STA.vE ONE. mARLEV'S oROST-CoNTINE ED. After seyeral turns, he sat down again. As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance hapPened to rest upon a bell, a dis- used bell, that hung in the room, and com- municated for -some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the - highest story of the building. It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing. It swung so softly in the outset, that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house. This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour. The bells ceased as they had begun, together. They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below as if some person were drag- ging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchant's cellar. Scrooge then re- membered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. The cellar -door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, ott the floors below; then eoming up the stairs; then coining straight towards his door. "It's humbug still 1" said Scrooge. "1 won't believe it." His color changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes. Upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, „I know him ; Marley's Ghost I" and fell NOM. The same face.: the very same. Marley in his ,pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat -skirts, and the hair upon his head. The chain he thew was clasped about his middle. ,It W9.8 long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash -boxes, keys, padlocks' ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wroughtin steel. His body was transparent; so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind. Scrooge had often heard it said that Mar- ley had no bowels, but he had never be- lieved it until now. No, nor did he believe it even now. Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him, though he felt the chilling, influence of his death -cold eyes • and marked the very tex- ture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrappea he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses. "How now ?" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever. What do you want with me?" _ e' Much !"-Morley's. , voice, no doubt about it. Who are you?" "Ask me who I was." 66 Who were you then ?" said Scrooge, raising his voice. "You're particular, for a shade." He was going to say "to a shade," but substituted this, as more appro- priate. "In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley." "Can you -can you sit dOwn ?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at hint. , " I can." "Do it, then." Scrooge asked the question, beca.-use he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its be- ing impossible it might involve the ne- cessity of an edbarassing explanation. But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as6f he were quite used to it. "You don't believe in me," observed the Ghost. "J don't," said Scrooge. "What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that Of your senses?" "I don't know," said Scrooge. t "Why do you doubt your senses ?" "Because, said Scrooge, " a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment' of an under- done potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are I" Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. The truth is, that he tried' to be smart, as a means of dis- tracting his own attention,and keeping down his terror: for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones. To sit; staring at those fixed glazed eyes,. in silence for a moment, would Way,Scrooge felt, the very deuce with "him. There was something very awful, too, in the spectre's being provided with an internal atmosphere of its own. Scrooge could not feel it him- self, but this was Clearly the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapor from an oven. "You see this toothpick?" said Scrooge, returning gnickly to the charge, for the reason just aeigned ; and wiehing, though it were only frit a eecond, to divert the vi- sion's stony gaze from himself. "1 -do," replied the Ghost. "You are not looking at it," said Scrooge. "But I see it," said the Ghost, "not- withstanding." "Well 1" returned Scrooge, "1 have but to ewallow this, and be the rest of my days persecuted by a legion•of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you! hum. bug!" At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair to save himself from falling in a swoon. But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, swig it were too warm to wear in -doors, its lower jaw drop- ped down upon its breast! Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. "Mercy !" he said. "Dreadful appari- tion Why do you trouble me ?" "Man of the worldly mind 1" replied the Ghost, "do you believe in me or not ?" "1 do," said Scrooge. I must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me ?" "It is regeirecl of every ma.n," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit, within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world -oh, woe is me !-and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happi- ness 1" Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. "You are fettered," said Scrooge, tremb- ling. "Tell me why?" I wear the chain I forged in life," re- plied the Ghost. "1 made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you ?" Scrooge trembled more and more. "Or would you know," pursued the Ghost," the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You. have labored on it, since. It is a ponderous chain !" Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself sur- rounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable; but he could see nothing. "Jacob," he said, imploringly. "Old Eternal Vigilance. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," Tt is the price of everything worth having, dttdt It is the price of life itself. A man needn't be always looking for danger, / afraid that tsomething will happen to him; but a wise nem will forin a habit / of care about the important things of life. Iisn't h al f so m Itch trouble to take care of yourself as it is not to. A man - who follows regular, 'healthy habits, feels good all the time. Life is worth living to him. - But a man who " don't want to bother" with taking care of himself has more pain and Jule-- ery crowded into one day than a .good healthy, hearty who lives right would ever know of in a whole year. When a man's stomach is out of _circler, and his digestion don't work; when his liver gets to be sluggish and won't clear the bile - out of his blood, it istime for him to look - out for hitnself. He gets no nourishment out of his food. His blood gets thicker -and thicker with impurities: His nerves get irri- tated. He loses energy and fighting force. , He may say, "1 can stand it, I will feel better to -morrow;" but the chances are he will feel worse to -morrow and worse still next day. He ought to put himself right at once. He needs Dr.Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is made for just this condi fiat It rouses up the digestive and nutritive organs, and gives them power to extract from the food all the nutritious elements and transform them into rich, nourishing blood. It enables the liver to cleanse out all bilious impurities and pour into the circula- tion an abundance of highly vitalized blood, full of the life-giving red corpuscles which build up healthy flesh, muscular strength. and nerve -energy. It does not make flabby flesh. It is tbe only suitable tonic.. and strength -builder for corpulent.people. Jacob Marley, tell me more. Speak com- fort to me, Jacob !" "I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge,and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men. Nor can I tell you what I would. A very little more, is all permitted to me. I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never walked beyond our counting- house -mark me !-in life my spirit never roved bey ond the narrow limits of our money -changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me !' It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets. Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without Mine up his eyes, or getting off his knees. "You must have been very slow about it, Jacob," Scrooge observed, in a business -like roannenthough with humility and deference. "Slow ?" the Ghost repeated. "Seven years dead." mused Scrooge. "And travelling all the time 1" "The whole time," said the Ghost. "No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of re- morse." "You travel fast ?" said Scrooge. ". "On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost. "You ought to have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years," eaid Scrooge. The Ghost, on hearing this set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance. Oh! captive, bound and double -ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know that ages of incessant labor, by immortal creatures, for this earth meat pass into eternity before the good of which it is suceptible is all de- veloped. Not to knowthat any Chrieian spirit working kindly in its 'little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal fife too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no apace of regret can make amends for one life opportunity mis- used!! Yet such was I ! Oh ! such was I!" "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business ' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was --my busi- ness. The common welfare was my busi- ness ; charity, mercy, forbearance, and be- nevolence were all my business. The deal- ings of my trade were but a drop of Water in the comprehensive ocean of my business 1" It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing' grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again, At this time of the rolling year," the spectre said, •‘ I suffer most. V-Vhy did I walk through crowds of fellow -beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a, poor abode Were there no poor homes -to which its light would have con- ducted me !" Scroogeewa.s very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly. "Hear me !" cried the Ghost. My time is nearly gone." "1 will," said Scrooge. "But don't be hard upon me Don't be flowery, Jacob ! Pray ! ' "How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat beside you invisible many and .many a day." It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from h is, ,brrhoaw. t is no light part of my penance," pursued the Ghost. "1 am here to -night to warn you that you have /et a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring,Ebenezer." You were always a good friend to me," said Scrooge. " Thank'ee 1" "You will be haunted," resumed the Ghost, "by Three Spirits." Scrooge's countenance fell almost, as low as the Ghost's had done. - "Is that the chance and hope you men- tioned, Jacob ?" he demanded, in a faltering mg voice. , " It is." "I-1 think Scrooge. "Without their visits," said the Ghost, "you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to -morrow, when the bell tolls One." "Couldn't I take 'em all at once, and have it over, Jacob ?" hinted Scrooge. "Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of TwelVe has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you re- member what has passed between us !" When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table and bound it round its head as oefore. Scrooge knew this, by the smart sound its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by the bandage. He ventured to I raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural vistor con- fronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm. The apparition walked backward from him ; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spec- tre reached it, it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. When they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its hand, warning him to come no nearer. Scrooge stopped. I'd rather not," said Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear; for lon the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self -accusatory. The spectre, after lis- tening for a moinent, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night. Scrooge followed to tho window ; des- perate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with ,phantome, wan- dering hither and thither m restless haste,, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghotit ; some few (they might be guilty govern- ments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white coati, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who' cried piteously, at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door -seep. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. But they and their *tit voices faded to- gether; and the night became as it had been when he walked,home. Scrooge closed the 'window, and examined the door by which the Ghost had entered. It was double -locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were un- disturbed. He tried to say "Humbug !"- but stopped at the first syllable. And be- ing, from the emotion he had Undergone, or the fatigues of ,the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversa- tion of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour,much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant. STAVILTW O. THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS. When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He .was endeavoring to Pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbor- ing church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the hour. To his great astonishment the heavy bell wentnn from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two whbn he went to bed.' The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve! Re touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse beat twelve; and stopped. Why, it isn't possible," liaid Scrooge, "that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night. It isn't possible that anything' has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon I" The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, aad moped his way, to the window. He was ol3liged to tub the frost off with the sleeve of his dressing gown before he could see anything; and could see very little then. All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people' running to and fro, • and making a great stir, as there unquestion- ably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world. This was a great -relief, because "three days after sight of this First of Exchange pay to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or his order;" and so forth, would have be- come a mere United States security if there were no days to count by. Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and °vet and over, and could make nothing of it. The more hethought, the more perplexed he was; and the more he endeavored not to -think, the more he thought.. Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. Every timehe resolved within himself, after mature- inquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all through, "Was it a dream or not ?" Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three quarters more when he re- membered, on a sudden, that Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one. He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed ; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolu- tion in his power. The quarter* was so long., that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon his lis- tening ear. ,` DA i ngdong , quarter stAsaid Scrooge, count- ing- Ding, dong !" C A • Halt -past !" said Scrooge. "Ding, dong !" "A quarter to it," said Scrooge. ' "Ding, dong !" "The hour itself," said Scrooge, trium- phantly, "and nothing else !" He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon ,the instant, and the curtains of • his bed were drawn. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. Not the curtains at his feet, nor the curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed., The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up intc a half -recum- bent attitude, found blineelf face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them; as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. It was a strange figure -like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, 'and being dimin- ished rto a child's proportions-. Its hair, which i hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of un- common strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of the pur- est white; and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand ; and, in singular contra- diction of that wintry ernblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was vis- ible ; and, which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which is now held under its arm. ,Even this, though,,when Scrooge looked at it With increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness; being now a thing with one arm, , now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of lege; with- out a head, now a head without a body; of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again; distinct and clear as ever. "Are you the Spirit, sir, whotie coming was foretold to me?" asked Scrooge, The voice was soft and gentle. Singular- ly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance. "Who, and what are you ?" Scrooge de- 'manded. "lam the Ghost of Christmas Past." , "Long Past ?" inquired Scrooge; observ- ant of its dvtarfish stature. "No. Your past." Perhaps, Scrooge could not have told anybody why, if anybody could have asked him; but he had a special desire to see the spirit in his cap; and begged him to be covered. " What 1" exclaimed the Ghost, "would you so *soon put out, with worldly hands,. the light I give ? Is it not enough that you axe one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains ' of years to wear it low upon my brow !" Scrooge reverently disclaimed all inten-, tion to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully " bonneted " the Spirit at any period of his life. He then made bold to inquire what businetes brought him there. Your welfare 1" said the Ghost. Soreoge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help, thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more con- ducive to that end. The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immedi- ately t "Your reclamation, then. = Take heed?" It put out its strong hand as it spoke, and clasped him gently by the arm. "Rise t and walk with me !" It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted t to pedestrian purposes; that. the bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing -gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold,upon him at that time. The grasp, though gentle as a. woman's hand, was not to be resisted. He rose; but finding that the Spirit made towards the window, clasped his robe in supplication. I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall." "Bear but a touch of my hand -there," said the Spirit, laying it upon his heart, "and you shall. be upheld in more than this !" As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either, hand. The city had entirely vanished. Not a vestige of 'it was to be seen. The darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day, with snow upon ..he ground. Good Heaven !" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. "1 was bred in this place. I ' was a boy here The Spirit gfized upon him mildly. Its gentle touch, though it had been light and instantaneous, appeared still present to the sold man's sense of feeling. He was con- scious of a thousand odors floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten! Your lip is trembling," said the Ghost. "And what is that upon your cheek ?" Scrooge muttered, with an unusual catch- ing in his voice, that it was a pimple; and begged the Ghost to lead him where he would. "You recollect the way ?'inquired the , SpifiRneme mbar it !" cried Scrooge, with fervor; "1 could Walk it blindfold." "Strange to have forgotten it for so many Years !" obaerved the Ghost. "Let us go on." They walked aloni the road. Scrooge recognizing every gate, and post, and tree; until a little market -town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river. Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs, who called to other boys in country gigs and carts, driven by far- mers. All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the, crisp air laughed to hear it. e These are but shadows of the things that have been, said the Ghost. "They have no consciousness of us." The jocund travellers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew and named them every .one. Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them?. Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past ? Why was he 611ed with glad- ness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted at cross- roads and by -ways, for their several homes? What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry -Christmas! What good bath it ever done to him? " The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected - by his friends, is kftethere still." Scrooge said he knew it. And , he sobbed. (To be continued.) • Mr. Simeon D. Thacker, millwright, Lindsay, Ontario, says :-It my duty to teptify to the excellence of Dr. Laviolette's Syrup of Turpentine, as being the first and only medicine that gave me any relief. I am 62 years old and have suffered for a long time from an attack of bronchitis and short. nese of breath, and by the use of your pre- paration 1 am -now completely cured. • The Way They Traded, "1 witnessed a novel marriage in Vir- ginia a few days ago," said a travelling salesman to a Washington Star reporter. "-A couple on a gaunt, bony horse rode up to the hotel where I was stopping. The swain dismounted and tcdik half a dozen chickens -into the house to sell them to the landlord. He was not in need of chickens and the man said : " 'Tain't no use, Sal. We'll hey ter come agin termorrer." "The next morning they rode into town again and made the round of the stores. I watched and finally the man went to -the county clerk's office. I followed and hard) the colloquy. " Mister me and my gal wants ter git married. iVe bringed m chickens ter get meney.for a lieense, but no one won't give ua no money for sem. Kin sell 'ern in trade over hyar, an' ef you'll take the trade Pll buy a license." The deal was made wad the couple rode home, looking as happy as though the course of true love had always run smoothlY." trust him You want 5cott's sion. If you ask your drug- gist for it and get it—you can trust that man. But if he offers you "something just as good," he will do the same when your doctor writes. a prescription for, which he wants to get a special effect — play the) gaine of life and death .for the sake of a penny or two more profit. You can't trust that man. Get what you ask for, and pay for, whether it is Scott's Emul- sion or anything else. SCOTT & BOWNE, Bellevitle, Ont. 50c. and ;=.00 JANUARY 1 1897. 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