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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-01-22, Page 6w•oi THE HURON EXPOSITOR ee, "Saved My Lite' A VETERAN'S STORY. «Several years ago, while in Fort Snelling, Minn., 1. caught a severe cold, attended with a terrible cough, that allowed me no rest da x or night. The doctors after exhaust- ing their remedies, pronounced my case hopeless,- say- ing they could do no more for me. At this time a bottle of AYER'S Cherry Pectoral was sent to me by a friend who urged --- me to take it, which 1did, and soon after .1 was greatly relieved, and in a short time was completely cured. 1 have never had much of a cough since that time, and 1 firmly believe Ayer's Cherry Pectoral saved my life?' -W. H. WARD, 8 Quimby Av., Lowell, Mao, AYER'S Cherry Pectoral Irighteit Awards at World's Pair. • AYER'S PILLS csra ladiwodim haatacht VETERINARY. TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario Veteritutry College. AR diwiaes Of Domestic animals treated. Ws promptly attended to and ebargee =dents. Vete finery Dentistry a specialty 01Bos and reoldence on Goderlob streetone door Alt of Dr. SooteVii office, Seafterth. 1112t1 O. H. GIBS, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist,. Toronto College of veterinary dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet. winery Cedlege, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Society. All diseases et domestic ankles& *Wally treated. All calla promptly attended to day or night. DentlitrY and Surgery a eeieltY• Office and Dbpensary-Dr. Campbell a oldoffioe, Main etreet Seaforth. Night calls answered item the office. 1406-52 LEGAL Air G. CAMERON, formerly ofCameron, Holt & In. Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich, Ontario. Office --Hamilton street, opposite Colborne Rotel< . 1452 Taws scow, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mob tet ton's Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott lot*, Clinton, Out. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 MO• S. Ran, Barrister, Solloitor, Conveyancer and ..aila Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Offioe-Cardeo's block, Main Street, Seaforth. edoney to loan. • . 1235 • LII. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o. .e Offioe-Roome, five doors north ofOonamerois I, ground Boor, next door to C. L. Papet e feireIry store, Main street, &aloft. Goderich ente-Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 ••••••••••••••.m. "ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, 47ar,..,OoderielvOnbaulo. J. T. GURROW Q. lito WL Paouoroor. 586 CAAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barrister, go - Helton in Chancery, lio.,Goderich, On* M. C. miaow, Q. C., Paton. Hour, DIIDI,SY Hoof= "161 HOLMESTED, encceesor to the late firm of _E e McCaughey & Hob:nested, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notaty Solicitor for the Can adieu Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm for sale. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street Seaforth. DENTISTRY. MI W. TWEDDLE, Dentiet. Offiee-Over Richard- son & Martinis' shoe store, corner Main and John streets, Soaforth. pit. BELDEN, dentiet ; crowning, bridge work and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work earefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.' nardware store, Seaforth. 1451 DR. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College of Dental SnrgeonsOntario, D. D. 3., of To- ronto University. Office, '3Iarket Block, Mitchell, Ontario. 1402 ACII:IFO, Dentist, Clintowill ..111,4ryvi;ititoirleanysallattal at ciscallottel eecond Thursday in futon morith 1238 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Graduate London 'Western University, iOereber of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Cathelie Church darNight calls attended promptly. • 145342 11R. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M., Victoria, M. 0.2. 5., Ontario, successor to Dr. Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce- eld, Ontario. TS E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and S. jte Glasgow, &c., Physician, Surgeon and Ao. ooncher, Const;noe, Ont. 1127 4'1XX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal 'Ai College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kinston. Stsoeeseor to Dr. Maokid. Offict lately occupied oy Dr. Maokid, Mate Street Seaforth. Residence --oovner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied lee le E. Dancer,. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, Late resident Phyeimian and Surgeon, Toronto Gen eta Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University member of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons a Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. ggOOFFICE.-Same as formerly occupied ey Dr. Smith, opposite Public, Sollool;Seaforth. Telephone No. 46, N. B. -Night ealls answered from office. 1386 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Goder0a street, opposite Methodist church,Seaforth J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. - e. refecKAY, honor graduate Trioity University, geld medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. WM. M'OLOY, auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and Agent at Hensel' for the Massey -Harris Manu- facturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, aharges moderate and setisfaction guaranteed. Orders by mall addressed to Menotti-Post Office, or left at his residence, Let 2, Conceeeion 11, Tuck - et -smith, will receive prompt attention. 1296 -id JOHN H. MoDOUGALL, Lioeneed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parte of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr. McDougall's long experience as a dealer in /arm stock of all kinds, he is specially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at THE EXPOSITOR office; or at his residence, Lot 3, Concession 3, 11. R. S., Tuckersinith, will be promptly attended to. 1466 LADIES! Emancipation from Pain IS WOUND IN Dr. LeRoy's Female Pills, The only reliable and trustwodlyrme. paration known. Safest, stireat and most effective remedy ever discovered for all irreg. alarities of the ferrialesystem. Sealeilcfreular free. Price $1 per box of druggists, or byrnr.lt securely- ac-aled on receipt of price. LeRoy Pill Co- Victoria St., Toronto, Can. SOLI in Seaforth by; I. Y. Fear. -The engagement of Miss Elle Walker, granddaughter. of Hiram Walker, the mil- lionaire disSiller of Walkerville, Ontario, to Count Menford Von Matuschka, of Schloss, Bechau, has been announced. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. BY CHARLES DICKENS. -a- STAVE THREE. THE SECIOND or THE THREE SPLRITS. (Continued from kat week.) It was a great aurprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing. it was to move ou. through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were se: crate se profound as Death; it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognize it as his own nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability! " Ha, ha' laughed Scrooge's nephew.' "Ha, ha, ha!" If you should 'happen, by anyi unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know 'him too. Intro- duce him to me, and cultivate his ao- quaintance. It is a fair, even-handed,noble adjustment •of things, that while there is infection in *disease and sorrow, there is nothing so ir- resistibly contagioua as laughter and good humor. When Scrooge's nephew laughed in this way: holding his sides, rolling his head, and twisting his face into the most extravagant contortions: Scrooge's niece, by marriage, laughed` as heartily as he. And their assembled friends being not a bit behind hand, roared out huitily. "Ha, ha ! Ha, ha, ha, ha!" "He said that Cluistmas was a humbug, as as I live !" cried Scrooge's nephew. " believe.d it too r "More shame folk, him, kited !" said Scrooge's niece, indignantly. - 'aless those women; they never do anytbhe; by halves. They are always in earnest. She wasvery pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised -looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed -as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that Melted. into one another when she laughed, and the sunniest pain of eyes you ever saw itt any little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have called pro- voking, you know; but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory. "He s a comical old fellow," said Scrooge's nephew, " that'a the truth; and not SO pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him." "I'm sure he is very rich, Fred," hinted Scrooge's niece. "At least you always tell me so. What of that' my dear !" said S'crooge's nephew. "Hie wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it. He don't make himself comfortable with it. He hasn't the satisfaction of thinking -ha, ha, ha !-tbat he is ever going to benefit Us with it." "I have no patience with him," observed Scrooge's niece. Scrooge's niece's • sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion. - Oh, I have !" said Scrooge's nephew. I am sorry for him • I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. :Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always. Here, he takes it into his head to dislike us, and howon't come and dine with us. WhaVs the conse- quence! He don't lose much of a dinner." "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge's niece. Ev- erybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been cohipetent judges,lie- cause they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamplight. "Well! I'm very glad" to hear it," said Scrooge's nephew, "because I haven't great faith in these young housekeepers. What do you say, Topper ?" Topper had. clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for, he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outeasit,who had no right to express an opinion on the subject. Whereat Scrooge's neiceis sister, -the plump one with the lace tucker; not the one with the roses -blushed. "Do go on, Fred," said Scrooge's niece, clapping her hands. "He never finishes What he begins to say! He is stieh a ridic- ulous fellow !" Serooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the mfection off: though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example wai unanimously followed. I was only going to say," said Serooge's nephew, that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleas- ant moments, which could do him no harm. I a.m sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers. I mean to' give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him. He may rail at Christ- mas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it -I defy him -if he finds me go- ing there, in good temper, year after year, and saying Uncle Scrooge, how are you? If it only puts him in the vein to leave his poor clerk fifty pounds, that's something; and I think I shook him yesterday." It was their turn to laugh now at the no- tion of his shaking Scrooge. But being thoroughly good natured, and not much caring what they laughed at, so that they laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment and passed the bottle joyously. After tea they had some music_ For they were a musical family, and- knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you; especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it. Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp ;- and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere nothing; you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which had been familiar to the child ,who fetched Scrooge from the boarding school, as he had been re- minded by the Ghost of Christmas Past. When the strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he toftened more and more; and thought if he could have listened to it often, yearsdago, he might have cultivated the kindness of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley. But they didn't devote the whole evening to music; a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Stop ! There was first a game at blind -man's buff. Of course there was. And I no more be- lieve that Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots. My opinion is; that it was a done thing between him and Scrooge's nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the - credulity of human nature. Knocking down the fire - irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping against the piano,smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went, there went .he! He always knew where the plump sis- ter was. He wouldn't catch anybody else. If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did on purpose,) he would have made a feint of endeavoring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your under- standing, and would instantly have sided off The fac- simile egEtatilre ef • Is on every TiTaPPer, Yoke Fellpws. Many women work too hard. There is no ques- tion about that. If they did not have Love for a yoke - fellow they could never endure the daily, . hourly grind and drudgery of life. But theybeat it cbeerfully, sustained by loving thoughts of hus- band and children. But when physical weakness or disease is added to a woman's burden it becomes al- together too heavy. No woman can be cheerful or hopeful who is dragged down by continual pain and physical wretch- edness. . The special weaknesses peculiar to the /feminine organism are comparatively easy to overcome if the earlier symptoms are given proper attention. But if allowed to .go unchecked, they are liable to develop ;into serious, chronic complications. f Any woman afflicted with these delicate ailments ought to have the immediate aid ,of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is a perfect and unfailing specific for all dis- leases of the feminine organs. It was de- !vised for this one purpose, and accompn .ilishes this purpose as no other medicine bas ever done. For nearly 30 years Dr. Pierce has been chief consulting physician of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,at Buffalo, N. Y., where in conjunction with his staff of associate specialists, he has successfully treated many thousand cases of " female complaint." No physician living has had a more ex- tended opportunity to study this class of • diseases in actual practice. No medicine ever invented has done for women what hie "Favorite Prescription " has. jj Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation. m the direction of the plump sister. She , often cried out that it wasn't fair; and it really was not. But when at last,he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rust- lings, and her rapid flutteritigs past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape; then his con,duct was the most exe- crable. For his pretending not to know her • his pretending that it was necessary to touch her head-dress, and further to assure himself of her identity by pressing a certain ring upon her finger, and a 'certain chain about her neck; was vile, monstrous! No doubt she told him her opinion of it, when, another blind man being in office, they were so very confidential together be- hind the curtains. Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind man's buff party, but was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her. But she joined in the for - felt's, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. Likewise,at the game of How, When and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow; though they were sharp girls too, as Topper could have told you. There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for wholly forgetting, in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, war- ranted not to cut in the eye was not sharp- er than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be. The Ghost was greatly pleaaild to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with such favor, that he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay until the guests departed. But this the Spirit said could not be done. "Here is a new game said Scrooge. " One half hour, Spirit, only one !" It was a game called Yes and No, Where Scrooge's nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; heonly answering to their questions yes or no, as the case was. The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a sav- age animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sonietimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets and wasn't made a show Of, and wasn'Cled by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a mar- ket, and was not a horse, or an ass,or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear. At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter • and was so inex- pressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up 'off the sofa and stamp. At last the plump sister, falling into a similar state, cried out: "1 have found ib out! I know what it is, Fred? 1 know what it is !" " What is ia ?" cried Fred. "It's your Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge !" Which it certainly was. Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some ob- jected that the reply to "Is it a bear !" ought to have been "Yes ;" insomuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr. Scrooge, ' supposing they had ever had a tendency that way. "He has given us plenty of merriment, I 'am sure," said Fred, and it would be un- grateful not to drink his _health. Here is a glass of mulled wine readyt to our hand at the moment • and I say, 'Uncle Scrooge !' " " Well ! Uncle Scrooge !" they cried. "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he is !" said Scrooge's nephew. "He wouldn't take it from me, but may he have it, nevertheless. Uncle Scrooge !' Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart, that he would have pledged the unconscious company in return, and thanked them in an inaudible speech if the Ghost had given him time. But the whole scene passed off in. the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels. . Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty,and it wad rich. In almehouse,hos- pital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, he -left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts. It was a long night, if it were only a night ; but Scrooge had his doubts of this, because the Chrietmas holidays appeared to be condensed into the space of time they passed together. It was strange, too, that while Scrooge remained unalteted in his outward form, the Ghost grew oidenclearly older. Scrooge had observed this change, but never spoke of it, until they left a children's Twelfth Night party, when, look- ing at the_Spirit as they stood together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was gray. "Are spirits' lives so short ?" asked Scrooge. The fee. simile simuturo of Ced1.13iII1C611.X.adie. is os wrapper. nary "4y life upon this globe ie very brief,' replied the Ghost. "It ends to. -night." .6" crii!ght 1" cried Serene. " Tomaght at midnight. Hark! The tine is drawing near." The chimes were ringing the three quar- ters past eleven at that moment. "Forgive me if I am riot justified in what I ask," sigid Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit's robe, " bail see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding .from from your ekirts. Is it a foot or a claw ?, "It might beia claw, for the flesh there is upon it," was the Spirit's sorrowful reply. "Look here." . From the foldings of ita robe, it brougbt two children; wretched,. abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They kneltdown at its feet and clung Upon the outside of its garment, "Oh, Man! look here. Look,look, down here!" exclaimed the Ghost. _ They were it boy and girl. Yellow, mea- gre, ragged, scowling, wolileh • but pros- trate, too' in their humility. Where grace- ful youth,should have filled their features outi and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had piuched and misted them, and pulled them into. Article. Where augek might have sat enthroned; devils lurked,and glared out menacing. Ne change, no degra- dation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonder- ful creation, have monaters been half so horrible and dreadful. Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themeelvesmather than be parties. to a lie of such enormous magnitude. "-Spirit ! are they your e ?" Scrooge could say no more. "They are Man's," said the Spirit, look- ing dewn upon them. "I.And they cling to me appealing from their Ifathera. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of; theil degree, but moat of all beware this bioy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it !" cried the Spirit, stretching out ita hand towards the city. ti Slander those who tell it ye! - Ad- mit for your factious purpories, and make it worse, And abide the end !'" "Have they no refege or resource?" creed Scrooge. "Are there no prisons ?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. Are there no workhouses ?" The bell struck twelve,. Scrooge looked aboiit him for the Ghost, and saw it not. As the last strokeceased to vibrate, he remembered the, prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded,coming like a mist along the ground, towards him. STAVE FOUR. THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently .pproached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon' his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one out- stretehed,hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded. He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious , presence fined him with a solemn dread. He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved. "1 am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come ?" said Scrooge. The Spirit answered not, but pointed on- ward with its hand. " You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," _Scrooge pursued. " Is that so, Spirit ?" The upper portion of the -garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received. Although well used to Ghostly company by this time Scrooge feared the silent shape so much thnt his legs trembled beneath him and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it The Spirit paused a moment,as if observing his condition, and giving him time to recover. But Scrooge was all the worse for this. Itabrilled him with a vague uncertain hor- ror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though be stretched his own to the utmost, could see 1 nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black. "Ghost of the Future !" he exclaimed, "1 fear you more than any. spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared ao bear you company, and do it with a thank- ful heart. Will you not speak to me It gave him no reply. The hand was. pointed straight before them. "Lead on !" said Scrooge. "Lead on ! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit !" The Phantom moved away as it had come towards him. Scrooge followed in the sha- dow of its dress, which bore him up, he 'thought, and carried him along. They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seeffied to spring up about them, and emcompass them of its own act. But there they were, in the heart of it ; on 'Change, amongst the mer- chants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals • and so forth, as Scrooge - had seen them often. The Spirit stooped beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk. "No," said a great fat man with a mons- trous chin, "1 don't know much about it, either way: I only know he's dead." " When did he die ?" inquired another. "Last night, I believe., "Why, what was tho matter with him ?" asked edthird, taking a vastl quantity of snuff oat of a very large snuff-box, "1 thought he'd never die." God knows," said' the first, with a yawn. "-What has he done with his money ?" asked it red-faced gentleman eadth it pendul- ous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of.a turkey -cock. "1 haven't heard,"' said the man -with the large chin, yawning again. "Left it to his coMatiany, perhaps. He hasn't left it to me. That's all I know." • This pleasantry was received with a gen- eral laugh. "It's likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; "for npon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. Sup- pose we make up a party and volunteer ?" " I.don't mind going if a lunch is pro- vided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. 'But I must be fed, it I make one." Another laugh. ," Well, I am the most _ disinterested among you, after all," said the first speaker, for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I'm not et all sure that I wasn't his most par- ticular friend ; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. By -by !" Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups. - Scrooge knew Te Ed faei simile eigaature of is as itae/e/ erery Wrapper. themen, and looked towards the Spirit for lam eine S Its CUREAT THE NERVE CENTR ng. JANUARY 22,1897,. anTehxepplahanantitoonm. glided on into a street. finger - pointed to two persons meeti sklerooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here. He knew -these men, also,perfectly. They were men of business ; very wealthy, and of great importance. He had made a point al- ways of standing well, in their esteem; in a business point of view, that *0 ; strictly in a business point of view. "How are you ?" said one. How are you ? returned the other. " Well !" said the first. "Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey ?" "So I am told," returned the second, "Cold, isn't it?" Seasonable for Christmas time. You're not id skater I suppose ?" "No. NO. Something else to think of. Good -morning!" , Not another word. That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting, Scrooge was at first inclined t� be surpris- ed that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some hidden purpose, he set himaelf to ponsider :what it was likely to be. They could -scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his old partner, for that was Past, and this Ghost's province was the Future. Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them. But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they Applied they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasnre up every word he heard, and everything he saw and especially to observe the shadow of himself whenit appeared. For he had an expectation that the conduct of his fut- ure self would give him the clue he missed. and would render the solution of these rid- dles easy. He looked about in that very place for his own linage '• but another man stood in his accustomedcorner, and though the -clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch. It gave him little surprise, how- ever ; for he had been tevolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out in this. - Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand. When he roused himself from his thought- ful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to him- self, itii at the Unseen Eyes were looking at l him eerily. It made him shudder, and feel v. ry cold. , They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he rezognized its situation, and its bad repute. The ways were foul and narrow e the shops and houses wretched; the people half -naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and arch- ways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets a and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browied, beetling atop, below a pent -house roof, where iron old rags, bot- tles, bons, and- greasy offal were brought. Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, .scales, weights, and defuse iron of all kinds. Secrets' that few would like to scrutinize were bred and hidden in mountains of un- seemly rags masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres Of bones. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove,. made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal near- ly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frowsy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon aline ; and Smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement. i Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this eaan,'just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, eimilarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by adman in faded black, who was no leas startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other. After a short period of blank astonishment, in whieh the old man with the pipe had joined _them, they all three burst into a laugb. (Tobe continued.) • Mrs. Smalley, No. 52, St. Dovid street, Toronto, says :-sI, have used .Dr. Lavio- lette's Syrup of Turpentine in my family for true croup and .severe coughs, and I have been more than surprised at the good results obtained. I really consider it the. safest and best remedYI have ever used, as well as the, most palatable. d ma The Profit of Giving. In Connecticut, a few years ago, lived a lady who had a beautiful flower garden in which she took great pride. The whole country was proud of it, too, and people drove miles to see it. She fastened two large baskets on the outside of her fence next the road, and every mor ing they were filled with cut flowere-t e • large, showy- kinds in one basket, an the delicate, fragile ones in the other. All the school children going by, helpedthemselves, and studied the _better for it. And the business men took a breath of fragrance into their dusty offices that helped the day along. Even the , tramps were welcome to all the beauty they could get in their forlorn lives. "You cut such quantities," some one said to her, "aren't you afraid you will rob yourself ?" "The more I cut the mold; I have," she answered. Don't you know that if plants are allowed to go to seed they stop bloom- ing? I love to give pleasure and it is profit as well, formyliberal cutting is the secret of my beautiful garden. I'm like the man ha Pilgrim's Progress: "A man there was, (though, some did count him mad), The more he gave away the more he had." Fits of coughing are often canoed by mic- robes Attached to the niucoue membre.nees of - the respiratory organs. Dr. Laviolette's Syrup of Turpentine stops this at once, for it is the best microbicide known. -Visitors to Hawarden say that they have not peen Mr.Gladstone in better health for some time. conditi r In ,some conditions -the gain from the use of Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil 1775.--i-a7 For this reason we put'up a 5oc. size, which is enough for an ordinary cough or cold Or uspful as a trial for babies and childi-en. In other conditions gain must be slow', sometimes almostimperceptible,health can't be built up in a day. For this „ Scotts Emulsion must be taken as nourish- ment, food rather than - medicine, food prepared for tired and weak digestions Soon- a BOWNE, Chemists, 5c.e. and $1.o And Thus Cures Permanently—The Oni Spring Medicine., Banishes Like Magic irkligestion, Nervou • ness Sick Headache and General Debility. There is a great deal of uncertainty In themethods adopted to remove dis- ease. Doctors are not free from OLIO kind of thing themselves. The poor patieAt has to put up with: a good deal of experimenting. The discoverer of South American Nervine takes too se- rious a view of life to play pranks of this kind. He does not think that these human bodies of ours should be fooled with. He has recognized that they are subject to disease, but by scientific methods he has learned that Just as the watch is to be put in, per- fect repair only when the main spring is kept in running order, so with the dndividual, he remains in perfect health only when the nerve centres are kept healthful and strong. - What disease Ismoredistressing than Indigestion or dyspepsia? Some simple remedy may be given to cause relief for the moment. Nervine is an indis- putably successful remedy for the worst cases of indigestion, because it reaches the source of all Stomach trou- bles -the nerve centres. Indigestion exists because the vital forces have be- come diseased and are weakened. Ner- vine builds up tire nerve centres which come these forces, removes t. CaUSeS of indigestion and then buil up the health completely - How many systems are run date through nervousness. A etimulant ma give ease, but it will not, cure nerveu troubles. Nervine has cured more des- Perate cases of nervousness than an other medicine anywhere, and it does for the same reasoyr that it cures 1 digestion. The nerve >centres are d r.anged, or there would be no victims. nervousness. Nervine rebuilds an strengthens the nerve tissues, an hence its marvellous powers In diseae of this kind. In the spring of the year the strong est suffer from general debility. The blood through neglect has become Im- poverished, and the whole system seta out of order, We speak of it as being a spring medicine. - Nervine restore the exhausted vital- forces that have. led to this tired, don't -care, played-ou miserable condition. 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