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a
*SuffererCured .
"Every season, from the time I
was two years old, I suffered dread.
fully from erysipelas, which kept
growing worse until my hands were
almost useless. The bones softened
so that they would bend, and several
ttf any fingers are now crooked from
this cause. On my
hand 1 carry large
scars, which, but for
AYER'S
Sarsaparilla, would
be sores, provided I
was alive and- able
to carry anything.
Eight bottles of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla cured me, so
that I have. had . no return of the
disease for more than twenty years.
The first bottle 'seemed to reach the
spot and a persistent use of it has
perfected the cure."—O. 0. DA.virs,
fultoma, Wis.
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*1 W8 PILLS Promote trend Digestions
VETERINARY.
TORII GRIEVE, Y. S., honor. graduate of Ontario
Veterinary College. All dCseaees of gestic
animals treated. . Calls promptlyattended to and
°barges moderate. Vete rimy entistry a ipedlalty
Office and residence on Goderioh street, one door
AST of Dr. Sodtt's:office, 8eaforfh. 111211
Q., H. GIBS.
Veterinary Surgeon and Deiaiis*, Toronto College of
veterinary dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet -
urinary College; Honor member of Ontario Veterin.
aMedical Society. All diseases of domestic animals
y treated. All calls promptly attended 60
day or night. Dentistry mid Surgery a specialty.
O Toe and Dispensary -Dr. Campbell■ old office,
Main street Seaforth. Night calls answered !tom the
office. 140'-62
LEGAL
G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt &
Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderioh,
Ontario. Office—Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
Motel., 1462
TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mol-
t) son's Bank, Clinton. Ofiioe — Elliott lock,
Clinton, Ont.. Money to loan en mortgage. _
'.1451
RHAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
S' _ Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion
Bank. Office--Cardno'e block,, MainStreet, Seaforth..
'Loney to Ioan. 1285
IliedM. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, . Notary, &o.
Office—Roome, five doors north of Commerela
ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papet s
''3welry store!' street, Seaforth. , Goderr oh
ub—Cameron, Holt agd Cameron, 1216
"'NARROW k PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solioltorq,
ij` kc., Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GtanoW, Q. a;
W. PRODUDPOOT. 688
1 MAMMON, BOLT & HOLMES, Barristers fi
Halton in Chancery, &o.,Goderloh, Ont M. GG
limon, Q. 0., Psurr Horn, DUDLEY Houma
,1 HOLMESTED, successor ,to the late firm of
j' , McCaughey. & Holneeted, Barrister, Solicit°
Conveyancer, and Notary Solicitor for the Can
adien Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm
for sale. Offioe in Scott's Block, Main Street
Seaforth.
DENTISTRY.
1 W. TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office—Over Richard-
". , son & 3CoInnie' shoe store, corner Main ail
John streets, Seaforth.
DR. BELDEN, dentist ; crowning, bridge work
and gold plate work. Special attention given
to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work
carefully performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.'
nardware store, Seaforth. 1451
nit. H. 8, ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College
.1 of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. 8., of To-
ronto University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell,.
Ontario. 1402
�AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will
, visit :Hensel' at Hodgen' Hotel
every Monday, and at Zurich the
sebond Thursday; in eaoit month 1288
.MEDICAL
Dr. John McGinnis, .
Hon. Graduate London Western University, member
of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Office and Residence—Formerly oecupled by Mr. Wm.
Pickard,Victoria, Street, next to the Catholic Church
'Night calls attended promptly. 1463x12 j
15SIt. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M.,
MMVictoria, M. C. P. 8., Ontario, successor to Dr.
3tllott, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellott, Bruce.
eld, Ontario. -01 -
E. COOPER,M. D., M. B., L. P. P. ,and S.,
Glasgow, &c., Phyeloian, Surgeon and Act
Dowdier, Constance_ Ont. 1127
ALEX. BETHUNE M. D., Fellow of the Royal
College olane and SnrgielocSuoeessor o Dr. Maokid.Oatycccupied
ny Dr. Maokld, Matt Street Seaforth. Reetdenoe
—Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied
by L. E. Dancey, , - 1127
DR. F. J. BURROWS,
Late resident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen-
eral Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University,
member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron.
t1'OFFIGE.—Same as formerly occupied v Dr.
Smith. opposite Public Sohooi,_Seaforth. telephone=
No. 46 N. B• --Night calls answered from office.
1886
DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS;
Goderich street, opposite Methodist church,Sealorth
J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and
member Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron,
C. MacKAY, honor graduate Trinity University,
gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.
1483
AUCTIONEERS.
WM. il'OL<OY,,
auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth,
end Agent at Hensaii for the Maesey-Harris Manu.
featuring Company. Sales promptly attended to,
chargee moderate and eatiefaotion guaranteed.
Orders by mall addressed to Hensel! Post Office, or
tart at his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Turk-
eremith, will receive prompt attention, 1286 -if
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TORN County
un D of Huron Sales attended Licensed
Auctioneer
in alt
parts of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr.
McDougall's long experience as a dealer in .farm
stook of alt kinds, he is specially qualified to judge
of valves, and can guarantee satisfaction, All orders
left at TICK E.lceosIT°R office, or at his residence, Lot
3, Concession 3, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, will be
promptly attended to. 1466
LADIES!
Emancipation from Pain
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Dr. ieRoy's Female Pills.
The only tellable sad tncutworthy pre.
paration known. ;;orris, surest and moat
effective P• no+lyerordisearored for allirreg,
nlaritirsofthrteni; lesy,_em. Seated circular
free.. i'ri, n 31 per box ofdruggists, orbyn,„u
w:curtly sealed on receipt ofprlca
LeRoy P111100. Victoria St., Toronto, Can.
Sold in Seaforth by I. V. Fear.
—” Our house-cleaning went off witlout
any grumbling this year." "How did that
happen ?" Why, I put some dimes and
quarters in the pockets of my old vests and
1 hen told my wife I had lost a $10 bill."
A CHRISTMAS CAROL..
BY CHARLES DICKENS,
STAVE THREE.
THE SECOND OF THE THREE. SPIRITS..
Awaking in the riddle of a prodigi
--
_
arp
tough snore, and sitting up ..in be
his thoughts together,; Scrooge h
caeion to be told that the ' bell w
upon the stroke of One. He felt
was metered to consciousness in t
nick of time, for the especial pu
holding a conference with the sec
senger despatched to him throng
Marley's ° intervention. ;out, ,find
he turned uncomfortably cold ` who
gan to wonder which ' of his ourta
new spectre would draw,baek, he p
every one aside with his own Than
Tying down again, established a sh
out all round the bed.', For, be w
challenge the Spirit on the mome
appearance, and. did not wish to
by surprise, and made nervous.
Gentlemen of the free -and -easy e
plume themselves' on being acquain
a move or two, and being usually
the time of day, express the wide
their capacity for adventure by o
that they are good for anything from
_
and toss to manslaughter ; betwee
opposite extremes, no doubt, ' ther
tolerably wide and comprehensive r
subjects. Without venturing for
quite as hardily as this. I dont min_
_
on you to believe that he was read
good broad field of strange appearan
that nothing between a baby and rh
would have astonished him very muc
Now, being prepared for almost an
he was not ' by any means preps.
ously
an again
that he
he right
rpose of
h Jacob
ing that
u he bee
ins this
ut them
ds, and
leased to
at of its
be taken
ort, who
ted with
equal to
range of
Nerving
pitch
n whioh
ange of
Scrooge
calling
y for a
oes, and
h.
ything,
red for
he Bell
he was
, Five
n -hour
a time,
d cen-
stream-
ed the
t, was
meant,
ma
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thr
bra
lon
pu
nut
luc
see
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eas
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tore
and
Sere
doo
I it
Se
head
dogg
the
did not like to meet them. s
" I am the Ghost of Christmas Presient,"
said the Spirit. " Look upcin !"
Scrooge reveeently did so. It was cloth-
ed in one simple green robe, or mantle,
bordered with white fur. ,This garment
hung so loosely on the figure, that its cap!
anions breast was bare, as if disdaining to
be warded or concealed by any artifice. Its
feet, observable beneath the ampre folds of
the garment, were also baren and on its
head wore no other covering ! than a holly
wreath, set here and there with shining
ieicles. Its dark brown Marls were long
and free ; free as its genial face,its sparkling
eye, its open band, its eheerY voice, its un-
constrainahle demeanor, atoll its joyful air.
Girded round its middle Was an antique
scabbard ; but no sword wae in it, and the
ancient sheath was eaten upi with rust.
" You have never seen the like of me be-
fore !" exclaimed the Spirit.
THE HURON '-EXPOSITOR
XPOSITOR
The Strength of Natitre.
- According to the ancient mythology, when
Hercules wrestled with A.ntoeus, every time
he was thrown
stronger thaw
pow e r from.
earth. Hercu-
he jumped up again
ever, gaining ftesh
every contact with the
les conquered him at
last only by holding
him in the air away
front the source his
N.,,,trength, until he grew
weaker and weaker
and finally be-
came exhausted.
perfect symbol
of mankind. Na-
ture is the real
source of health
and vigor. The
closerwe keep to
Nature's laws the
stronger a'nd
healthier we
grow. When we
get away front
them we are eure
to be overcome
by weakness
and disease.
When sick-
ness gets hold
of a man the
only remedy to really cure him must be a
natural remedy. It must work according to
natural laws and bring him right in touch
with Nature. Any unnatural stimulus or
Inere temporary appetizer" does no per-
tuanent good to a person who is debilitated
Ind "run-down."
In these conditions the most perfect, nat-
ural strength -builder is Dr. Pierce's Golden
Kedical Discovery. It acts directly upon
the natural nutritive processes, and creates
pemtanent strength and vital force in
the same way that Nature creates them.
It capacitates the stomach and liver to
Vitalize the circulation and feed the nerve-,
centres with pure, healthy blood. This is
exactly Nature's way of cuting nervous ex-
haustion, debility, insomnia, and neuralgia.
During the past ao years, Dr. Pierce's
. medicines have become recognized standard
'‘ remedies throughout the world. His
"Pleasant Pellets" are a perfect and per-
manent cure for constipation.
Sister Rliza, at de Falcon, of Corpus Christi,
Nueces Co., Texas, wiites: " This is to tell you
that I have been ill for twenty-one years and was
finally cured by your medicines Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription.' I was
completely cured after taking the medicine."
For, the people who were shoielling away
on the house -tops were jovial and full of
glee ; calling out to one another from the
parapets, and now and then exchanging a
facetious snowball—better-natured missile
far than many a wordy jest—laughing
heartily if it went right and not leas hear-
tily if it went wrong. The poulterers' shops
were still half open, and the fruiterers' were
radiaist in their glory. ' There were great,
round, pot bellied baskets of chestnuts,
shaped like the waist -coats of jolly old
gentlemen, lolling at. the doors, and tum-
bling out into the streets in their apoplectic
opulence. There were ruddy, brown -faced,
broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in
the fatness of their growth like Spanish
Friars, and winking from their shelves in
wanton slyness at the girls as they went by,
and glanced demurely at the hung-up mis-
tletoe. There were pears and apples, clus-
tered high in blooming pyramids ; there
were bunches of grapes, made, in tne shop-
keepers' benevolence, to dangle from con-
spicuous hooks, that people's mouths might
water gratis as they passed ; there were
piles of filberts, mossy,and brown, recalling
in their fragrance, ancient walks among the
woods, and pleasant shadings ankle deep
through withered leaves ; there were Nor-
goneit folk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off
d c"- the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and,
ltry, in the great compactness of their juicy
Pigs, persons, urgently entreating and beseeching
lum- to be carried home in paper bags and eaten
hest- aiter dinner. The very gold and silver fish,
nges; set forth among these choice fruits in a
"u bowl, though members of a dull and stag -
the
Li
jolly
wing
orn,
on
the
his
the
ugh
" Never," Scrooge made answer to it.
" Have never walked forth with the
younger member of my family ; meaning
(for I ani very young) my elder brothers
horn in these latter years a)" pursoed the
Phantom.
" I don't think I have," said Scrooge.
" lam afraid I have not. Have you had
roany brothers, Spirit ?"
" More than eighteen hundred," said the
" A tremendous family te provide for !"
puttered Scrooge:
The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.
" Spirit," said Scrooge submissively,
" conduct me where you will. I went forth
last night on compulsion, and I learnt a
lesson which is working now. To -night, if
you have aught to teach me, let ene profit
by it."
Scrooge did as he was told, and held it
fast.
Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy,turkeys,
geese, game, poultry, brawie meat, pigs,
sausages, oyaters, pies, puddings, fruit and
punch, all_vanished instantly. So did the
room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of
night, anchthey stood in the city streets on
Christmas Morning, where .(for the weather
was severe) the people made . a rough, but
brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in
scraping the snow ft one the pavement in
front of their dwellings, and from the tops
of their hanses, whe-nee it was mad delight
'to the boys to see it come plumping down
into the road below and splitting into
artificial little snow-stOrms.
The house fronts looked black enough,and
the windows blacker, contrasting with the
smooth white sheet -of snow upon the roofs,
and with the dirtier snow Upon the ground ;
which last deposit had been ploughed up in
deep furrows by the heavy wheels- of carts
and wagons ; furrows that crossed and re-
crossed each other hundreds of times where
the great streets branched off ; and made
intricate channeli, hard -to trace in . the
thick Yellow mud and icy water. The sky
was glnomy, and the shortest etreets were
choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed,
half frezen, whose heavier particles descend-
ed in a shower of sooty a,toms, as if all the
chinineys in Great Britain had, , by one con-
sent, caught fire, and were blazing away to
their dear hearts' content. There was noth-
ing very cheerful in the climate 'of the town,
and yet was there an air of cheerfulness
abroad that the clearest summer air and
brightest summer sun might have endeavor-
ed to diffuse in vain.
nant-blooded race appeared to know that_
there was something going on ; and, to a Cra
fish, went gasping round ,and round their
little world in slow and passionless excite- 4
ment. dee
The grocers' ! oh the Grocers' ! nearly bee
nearlY closed, with perhaps two shutters chu
down, or one ; but through these gaps such eem
glimpses ! It was not alone that tine scales an
descending on the counter made a merry en,
sound, or that the twine and roller parted pre
'company so briskly, or that the canisters end
were rattled up and down like juggling- era
tricks or even that the blended meats or off i
tea, and coffee were so grateful to the nose,or the
even that the raisins wereso plentiful and
pure the almonds so extremely white,' the Nits
stick's of cinnamon so long and straight, the cred
other snices so delicious, the candied fruits to h
so cake'd and spotted with mblten sugar as
1 " There are lame upon this earth of
yours," returned the Spirit, " who lay olairn
to know us, and who do their deeds of pas-
sion, pride, ill -will, hatred, envy, - bigotry,
and Belfishness in our name, who are as
strange to as and all our kith and kin, as if
they hail never lived, Remember that,
nano", charge their doings on themselves, not
Scrooge promised that he Weuld ; and
they went on, invisible, as they had been
before, into the suburbs of the town. It
was a remarkable quality of the Ghost
,(which Sorooge had observed at the baker's),
that notwithstanding hie gigantic size he
could accommodate himself to any place
with ease ; and that he stood beneath a low
roof quite an gracefully and -like a superna-
tural creature, as it was ' ossible be could
have done in any lofty ha .
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good
Spirit had in showing off this power of his,
or else it was his own kind, generoustheaety
nature, and his sympathy with all poor
men, that led him straight, to Scrooge's
clerk's ; for there he went, and took Scrooge
with him, holding to his robe • and on the
threehold of the door the Spirit smiled, and
stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling
with the sprinklings' of his torch. Think of
that ! Bob had but fifteen " Bob " a week
himself ; he pocketed on Saturdays but
fifteen copiee of his Christian name ; and
yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed
his four -roomed house !
Then up rose Mrs. Cratchitt Cratchit's
wife, dressed out but poorly in a twiee
turned gown, but brave in ribbons -which
are cheap and make a goodly ehow 'for six-
pence ; and she laid the cloth, assisted by
Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters,
also brave in ribbons • while Master Peter
of potatoes, and getting the corners of his
monstrowt shirt collar (Bob's private prop-
erty, conferred uphn his son and heir in
honor of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced
to find himself so gallantly attired, and
yearned to show his linen ln the fashionable
Parke. And now two snialler Cratchits,
boy and girl, came tearing in screaming
that outside the baker's they had smelt the
goose., and knew it for their own ; and bask-
ing in luxurious thoughts of sage and
onion, these young Cratehits danced about
the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit
to the skies, while he (not proud, although
his collar nearly, choked him) blew the fire,
until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knock-
ed loudly at the saucepan lid to be let out
and peeled.
" What has ever got your precious father
theu !" said Mrs. Cratchit. " And your
brother, Tiny Tim ! And Martha warn't
as late last Christmas Day by half an
hour ?"
" Here's Martha, mother !" said a girl,
appearing as she epoke.
" Here's Martha, mother !" cried the two
" Why, bless your heart alive, my dear,
how late you are !" said Mrs. Cratohit, kiwi-
ing her a dozen times, and taking off her
shawl and bonnet for her with officious
a deal of work to finish up last
night," replied the girl, " and we had to
clear away this morning, mother !"
" Well ! Never mind so long as you are
()erne," said Mrs. Cratchit. " Sit ye down
before the fire, my dear, and have a warm,
Lord bless ye !"
"iNo no ! There's father coming," exit
the two young Cratchits, who were every-
where at once. " Hide, Martha, hide !"
" So Martha hid herself, and in came
little Bob, the father, with at least three
feet of Oomforter exclusive of the fringe,
,hanging down before him ; and his , thread-
bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look
seasonable ; end Tiny Tim upon his should-
er. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bOre a little
crutchra, maend. had his limbs supported by an
' Why, where's our Marth ?" cried Bob
tchit, looking round. '
' Not coming !" said Mrs. Cratchit.
' Not coming !" said Bob with a sudden
Iension in his high spirits ; for he had
n Tim's blood horse all the way from
rch, and had come home rampant. "Not
ing upon Christmas Day !"
artha didn't like to see him disappoint-
if.it were only a joke ; BO she came out
maturely from behind the closet= door,
tan into his arms, while the two young
tchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him
nto the wash -house, that he might hear
pudding singing in the copper.
And how did little Tim behave ?" asked
. Cratchit, when she rallied Bob on his
ulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter
is heart's content.
to make the coldest 100103ra-on feel faint
and subsequently bilious. Nor was it that tbientgt
the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the etre,
French plums blushed in modest tartness me,
from their highly -decorated boxes, or that maw
everything was good to eat and in its eeipp
Christmas dress ; but the customers were all roma
so hurried and so eager in the hopeful prom -
each other at the door, crashing their wink- lamBeo
ise of the day, that they tumbled up against
upon the counter, and came runnieg back to
er baskets wildly, and left their purchases htheaatrt
them
fetch them, and committed hundreds Of the
like mistakes, in the best humor possible ;
while the Groeter and his people were so the fl
frank and frOh that the polished hearts
with which they fastened their aprons be-
hind might have been their own, worn out-
side for general inspection, and for Christ-
mas claws to pick at if they chose.
But soon the steeples called good people
all, to, church and chapel, and away they
came, flocking through the streets in their
best clothes, and with their gayest faces.
At the same time there emerged. from
scores of by -streets, lanes, and nameless
turnings, innamerable people carrying
their dinners to the bakers.' shops. The
sight of these poor revellers appeared to in-
terest the Spirit very much, for he stood
With Scrooge beside him in a baker's door-
way, and taking off the covers as their
bearers paased, sprinkled incense on their
dinners from his torch. And it was a Very
uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice
when there were angy words between some
dinner carrier's who had jostled each_ other,
he shed a few drops of water on them from
it, and their good humor was restored di-
rectly. For they Said, it was a shame to
quarrel on Christmas Day. And so it was !
God love it, so it was !
In time the -bells ceased, and the bakers
were shut up ; and yet there was a genial
shadowing forth of all these dinners and
the progress of their cooking; in the thawed
blotch of wet abeve each bakers' oven ;
where the pavement smoked as if the stones
were cooking too.
" Is there a peculiar flavor in what you
sprinkle from your torch ?" asked Scrooge.
" Would it apply to any kind of dinner
on this day ?" asked Scrooge.
" To any kindly given. To a poor one
As good as gold," said Bob, " and
er. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sit -
by himself so nauch, and thailis the
ngest things yoe ever heard. He told
coming home, that he hoped the people
him ha the church, because he was a
le, and it might be pleasant to them to
mber upon Christmas Day, who made
beggars walk, and blind men see."
b's voice was tremulous when he told
this, and trembled more when he said
Tiny Tim was growing strong and
y.
s active little crutch was heard upon
oor, and back came Tiny Tim before
another word was spoken, escorted by h
brother and sister to his stool before th
fire ; and while Bob turning up his euffs—
as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being
made more shabby—compounded some hot
mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and
and stirred it round and round and put it
on a hob to simmer ; Master Peter, and Ghe
two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to
fetch the goose°, with 'which they soon re,
turned in high procession.
Thy to a poor one most ?" asked
" Because it needs it most,"
" Spirit," said Scrooge, altar, a moment's
t e many worlds about us, should desire to
t, amp these people's opportunities of imio-
at enjoyment."
ou would deprive them of their means of
c' dng every seventh day, often the only
C a on which they can be said to dine, at
" You seek to close these places on the
Seventh Day ?" said Scrooge. " And , it
comes to the same thing.",
err"
JANUARY 15, 189
came livid ! sorts of horrors were sup -
Halle° A great deal -of steam ! The
pudding was out of the copper. A smell
like'a washing -day ! That was the cloth.
A smell like an eating -house and a pastry -
cook's next door to each other with a
laundress's next door to that ! 'That was
the pudding ! In half a minute Mrs.
IY—with the pudding, like a speckled can-
non -ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of
half a-quartern of ignited brandy and
bedighb with Christmas holly stuck ihto the
top.
Oh, a wonderful pudding ! Bob Cratchit
'mid, and calnily too, that he regarded it as
the greatest success achieved by Mrs.
Cratchib since their marriage. Mrs. Clratchit
said that now the weight was off her mind,
she would confess she had her doubtst about
the quantity of flour. Everybody had
something to say about it, but nobody said
or thought it was at all a small pudding for
a largo family, Any Cratchit would have
blushed to hint at such a thing.
At hust the dinner was all done, the cloth
was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire
made up. The compound in the jug being
tasted, and considered perfect, apples and
oranges were put upon the table, and a
shovelful of chestnuts On the fire. Then all
the Cratchit family. drew round the hearth,
in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, mean-
ing half a one ; and at Bob Cratehits's elbow
stood the family display of glass. Two
tumblers, and 'a custard -cup without a
These held the hot stuff from the jug,
however, as well as golden goblets wouM
have done ; 'and Bob served it out with
beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the
fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then
Bob roposed
Merry Christmas to us all, my dears.
God bless us !"
Which all the family re-echoed.
" God bless us every one !" said Tiny
Tim, th.e last of fill.
- He sat very close to his father's aide upon
his little stool, Bob held his withered little
hand in his, as if he loved the child and
wished to keep him by his side, and dread-
ed that he might be taken from him.
" Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest
he hed never felt before, " tell me if Tiuy
Tim will live."
I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost,
" in the poor chinmey-corner, and a crutch
without an owner, carefully preserved. If
these sha,dows remain unaltered by the
Future, the child will die."
" No, no," said Scrooge. " Qh, no, kind
SpIrit ! say he will be spared."
`If these shadow's remain unaltered by
the Future, none other of my race," return-
edithe Ghost, will find him here. What
then ? If he be' like to die, he had better
do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Scrooge hung his head. to hear his own
words quoted by the Spirit, and was over-
come with,penitence and grief.
in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked
cant until you have discovered What the
surplus is and Where it is. Will you de-
cide what'men shall Jive, what men shall
die ? It may be, that in the sight of
Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit
to live than millions like this poor man's
child. Oh God ! to hear tile Insect on the
leaf pronouncing on the too much life
among his hungry brothers in the. dust."
Scrooge bent before the Ghost's rebuke,
and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground.
,But hi raised them speedily, on hearing his
" Mr. Scrooge !" said Bob, " I'll give you
Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast !"
" The Founder of the Feast indeed !"
cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening " I wish I
had him here. I'd give him a piece of my
mind to feast upon and I hope he'd have a
My dear," said Bob, • " the .children !
Christmas Day."
" It should be Christmas Day, I am sure,
said she, " on which one drinks the
health of such an odious, stingy, hard,
unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know
he is, Robert ! Nobody knows it better
than you do poor fellow ?"
y dear, was Bob s Mild answer,
" Christmas Day."
" I'll drink his health for your sake and
the Day's," said Mrs. Cratchit, " not for
his. Long life to him ! A merry Christ-
mas and a happy new year ! He'll be very
merry and very happy, I have no doubt."
The children drank the toast after her.
It was the first of their proceedings which
had no heartiness. Tiny Tim drank it last
of all, but he didn't care twopence for it.
Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The
mention of his name oast a dark shadow on
the party, which was not dispelled fo* full
five minutes.
After it had Passed away, they were ten
times Merrier than before from the mere
relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done
with. Bob Cratehit told them how he had
a situation in his eye for Master Peter,which
would bring in, if obtained, full, dive -and -
sixpence weekly. The two young Cratohits
laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's
being a man of business ; and Peter himself
looked thoughtfully at the fire from between
his collars as if he were deliberating what
partioular'investments he should favor when
is he came into the receipt of that bewildering
e income. Martha, who was a poor appren-
Such a bustle ensued that you might
have thought a goose the rarest of all
birds ; a feathered phenomenon; to which a
black. swan was a matter of course—and in
truth it was something very like it in that
house. Mrs. Cratehit made the gravy
(ready beforehand in a little saucepan) his-
sing hot ; Master Peter mashed the potatoes
with incredible vigor ; Miss Belinda sweet-
ened up the apple -sauce ; Martha dusted
the hot plates ; Bob took Tiny Tim beside
hirn in a tiny corner at the table ; the two
young Cratchits set chairs for' everybody,
not forgetting themselves, and mounting
guard upon their posts, crammed spoons
into their mouths, lest they should shriek
for goose before their turn came to be help-
ed. At last the dishes were set on, and
(trace was said. It Was succeeded by a
breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking
slowly all along the carving -knife, prepared
to plunge it in the breast ; but when she
did, and when the long expected gush of
stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight
arose all round the board, and even Tiny
Tim, excited by the two young Cratehits,
beat on the table with the handle of his
knife, and feebly cried Hurrah !
There never was such a goose. Bob said
he didn't believe there was ever such a
goose cooked. Its tenderness arid flavor,
size and cheapness, were the themes of
universal admiration. Eked out by apple-
sauce and masbed potatoes, it was a suffic-
ient dinner for the whole family • indeed as
Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (sur-
veying one small atom of a bone upon the
disb),they hadn't ate it all at last ! Yet
e had had enough, and the youngest
s in particular, were steeped in sage
n to the eyebrows ! But now, the
ing changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs.
left the room alone—tOo nervous to
nesses—to take the pudding up and
ienit should lot be done enough !
omebody sh, uld have got over the
merry with the goose—a supposi-
hioh the two young Cratchits be -
every on
Cratehit
and onio
plates be
Cratchit
bear wit
bring it
Suppos
Suppose i
I seek !°' exclaimed the Spirit, Suppose s
" Forgive rne if I am wrong. It has' been wall of th
done in yoUr name or at least in that of they were
your family," said 'Scrooge. tion at w
tie° at a milliner's, then told them what
kind of work she had to do and how many
hours she worked at a stretch, and how she
meant to lie a bed to -morrow morning for a
good long rest ; to -morrow being a holiday
she passed at home. Also how she had seen
a countess and a lord s'eme days before, and
how the lord " was much about as tall as
Peter', " which Peter pulled up his col-
lars so high that you couldn't have seen his
head if you had been there. All this time
the chestnuts and the jug went round and
round ; and by and bet they had a song,
about a lost child travelling in the snow,
from Tiny Tim, who hed a plaintive little
voice, and sang it very well indeed.
There was nothing of high mark in this.
They were not a handsome family ; they
were not well dressed ; their shoee were far
from being water -proof ; their clothes were
scanty ; and Peter might have known, and
very likely did,the inside of a pawnbroker's.
But, they were happy, grateful, pleased
with one another,and contented for the time;
and when they faded, and looked happier
yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's
torch at parting, Scrooge had his ,eye upon
them, and especially on Tiny Tim,until the
last.
By this time it was getting dark, and
snowing 'pretty heavily ; and as Scrooge and
the Spirits wait along the streets, the
brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens,
parlors and all sorts of rms, was wonder-
ful. Here, the flickering of the blaze show-
ed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot
plates baking through and thronghl before.
thefire, and deep red curtains, ready to be
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