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Over Thirty Years
Without Sickness.
B. WETTSTEIN, a welLknoWn,
enterprising citizen of Byron,
writes: "Before I paid much atten-
tion to regulating the -bowels, I
hardly knesva well day; but since I
learned the evil re-
sults of constipation,
and the efficacy of
AYER'S
Pills, I have not bad
one day's sickness
for over thirty years
- not one attack
that did not readily yield to this
remedy. My wife had been, previ-
ous to Our -marriage, au invalid for
years; She had a prejudice against
cathartics, but as F0011 as she began
to use Ayefs Pills her health was
restored."
YE
Cathartic Pills
kedal end Diploma at World's Per.
Unsays Iltreastb, take Ares Sanagarint
.VETERINARY.
TORN 0'RIKVS, V. S., honor greduale of Ontario
oel Veterinary College. All &seems of Domestic
ordinals treated. Cgls promptly attended to and
eharges moderate. Vete riflery Dentistry a spedalty
Ofiloe and residenoe on Goderich istreet, one door
Air of Dr. Soott's elites, Sordoni:1. 11121f
G. H. GIBB,
Veierinary &mem and Dentist, Toronto College of
veterinary deaUsh, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet -
minute, College, Boner Member of Ontario Veterin-
rittrical Society. All diseaset of domestic animals
y treated. All calls promptly attended to
Say or eight. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty.
•0111oei and Diepeneary-Dr. Campbell's old office,
thin street Sesforth. Night calls answered from The
elm 1406-e2
LEGAL
--
m0. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt &
. Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich,
Onterio. Office --Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
Hotel. 1462
TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &e. Solicitor for Mon
d toner Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott leek,
Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage.
, 1461
A8. HAYS, Barrister, Solloitor'Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion
. Offiee-Cardeo's block, Main Street, Seaforth.
Aoney to loan. 1235
11107five . BEST, Bar:Leber, Solicitor, Notary, 8co.
Woe -Rooms, doom nozth olCommercia
ground floor, next door to Ce L. Part
hereby atom, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich
enti-eameren, Holt ani Cameron. 1215
ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Banister*, Solicitors,
he., Ooderich, Ontario. 3.1. Olsson, Q. die
WL PROUDIPOOL 68
111AN1131011, HOLT la HOLMICS, Barehelen So-
liolton iis Chancery, Iso.,Goderich, Ont 11.0.
mon, Q. O., Puree How, DUDIAT HOLM
HOLMESTED, suocesecir to the late firm of
„ licessughee- & Holniested, Barrister, Solicitor
Conveyer:tem, and Notaiy Solicitor for the Can
adieu Bank of Commerce. Money te lend. Farm
for sale. Office in Scott's Meek, Main Street
Seaforth.•
DENTISTRY.
Me W. TWEDDLE, Dentiet. Office -Oyer Richardson & Molnithe shoe afore, corner Main and
John streets, issforth.
flil,. BELDEN, dentist crowning, bridge work
and gold plate work. Special attention given
lo the preservation of the natural teeth. All work
4errefu1ly performed. Office -aver Johnson Bros.'
eardware store, Seaforth. 1451
Jy11. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College
of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. 8., of To-
ronto University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell,
OnUrio. 1402
D AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton'will
_reh, visit Henes11 at Hodgenellotel
every Monday, and at Zurich the
setondThureday in each month 1288
MEDICAL.
Dr. John McGinnis,
Hon. Graduate London Western University, member
of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Office and Reeidence-Formerly occupied hy Mr. Wm.
Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church
M'Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12
/NB. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, 11. D. 0.11.,
.IJ Victoria, 11. C. P. S., Ontario; successor to Dr.
Mott, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce-
eld,Ontario.
RE. COOPER, IL D., IL B., L. F. P. and S.
. Glasgow, Ito., Phyeleian, Surgeon and e Ace
noucher, Constance, Ont. • 1127
ALEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal
College of Phyldclans and Surgeone, Kingston.
Deemer to Dr. Maokid. Ofild lately occupied
313' Dr. Macidd, Main Street Seaton)]. Residence
-Corner of 'Victoria Square, in house lately occupied
by L. E. Danoey. 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
el Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron.
grOFFICE.,--Same as formerly occupied by Dr.
Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephon
No. 46 N. B --Night Galls answered from office.
1388
DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND StileGEON2,
floderich street, opposite Methodiet ohureh,Seaforth
.1. 15. 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. M'CLOY,
Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth,
and Agent at Hensall for the Massey -Barrie Menu-
factng Company. Sales promptly attended to,
°bargee moderate and satisfaction guaranteed.
Orders by mall addressed to Hensel] Post Office, or
mit at hie residence, Let 2, Concession 11, Tuck-
eramith, Will receive prompt attention. 1296-11
TOHN H. McDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for
J the County of Huron. Sales attended in ail
parts of the County. Terms reasoeable. From Mr.
MoDougsll's long experience n.s a dealer in farm
stook of ail kinds, he is specially qualified to judge
of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders
left at Tau EXPOSITOR office, or at his residence, Lot
3, Concession 3, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, will be
promptly attended to. 1466
SEAFORTH
PACKING HOUSE.
To HOG BREEDERS.
T. It; F. bilik ft CO.
Of the /Worth Packing Howe are pre-
pared ter handle any _quantity of Hogs,
Live or Dram, for which they will pay
the highest market price. Will have
man cel on any parties hating live Hogs
to dispose of, if notified. For par-
ticulars call at Retail Store, Carmichael's
Block, Sesforth.
T. R. F. CASE & CO.
1518-t.f.
BOLTON' AND HIS FRIENDS.
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BY HARRIET B111011111, STOWE;
(Continued.)
"i have reflected upon my own tempta-
tion, endeavoring to divest myself ol the
horror with which my sense of the suffering
and disappointment I have caused my
friends inspires me'. I have settled in my
own mind the limits of human responsibility
on this subject, and have come to the con-
clusion that it is to be regarded precisely as
Mary Lamb and Charles Lamb regarded
the incursion of the mania which destroyed
the peace of their life. A man who under-
takesito comprehend and cure himself has
to fight his way back alone. Nobody un-
derstands, nobody sympathizes- with him, ;
nobody help him -not because the world
is unfeeling, but because it is ignorant of
the laws which goyern this species of in-
sanity.
"It took me, therefore, a great while to
form my system of self -culture. I still hope
for this. I, the sane and sound, I hope to
provide for the imiane and unsound inter-
vals of my life; and my theory is, briefly,
a total and eternal relinquishment of the
poisonous influence, so that nature may
have powerto organize new and healthy
brain matter, and to -remove that which is
diseased. Nature will do this in the end,
for she is ever merciful; there is always
forgiveness with her, that she may be
feared.' Since you have known me, you
have seen that I lived the life of an anchor-
ite, that my hours are regular, that I avoid
exciting society, that I labor with uniform-
ity, and that I never touch any stimulating
drink. It is a peculiarity of cases like
mine that for lengths of time the morbid
disease leaves us, and we feel the utmost
aversion to anything of the kind. But
there is, always a danger lyieig behind the
aubtle calm. Three or four drops of alco-
hol, such as form the basis of a tincture
which a doctor will order without scruple,
will bring back the madness. One five
minutes' inadvertence will upset the pain-
ful work of years, and carry one away as
with a flood. When I did not know this I
was constantly falling. Society through all
its .parts is full of traps and pitfalls for such
as I, and the only refuge is in flight.
"11, has been part of my rule of life to
avoid all responsibilities that might involVe
others in my liability to failure. It is now
a very long time since I have felt any ala
normal symptoms, and if I had not so often
been thrown down after such a period of
apparent calm, I might fancy my dangers
over and myself a sound man.
The younger Hestermann was a clams -
mate and chum of mine in college, and one
whose friendshigfor me has held on through
thick and thin. He has a trust in me that
imposes on me a painful sense of responei-
• bility. 1 would not fail him for a thousand
• worlds, yet,,if one of my hours of darkness
should come I should fail ignominiously.
"Only one motive determined me to take
their offer -it gave me a chance to provide
for you and for Caroline,
"1 dare do it only through trusting you
for a friendship beyond that of the com-
mon; in short, fora brotherly kindness
such as Charles Lamb showed to Mary, his
sister. If the curse returns upon me, you
must not let me ruin myself and you; you
must take me to aa asylum till I recover.
" In asking this of you I am glad to be
able to offer what will be to you an inde-
pendent position, and give you that home
and fireside which I may not dare to hope
for myself.
"In the end I expect to conquer, either
here or hereafter. I believe in the Father-
hood of God, and that He has a purpose
even in letting us blindly etumble through
life as we do; and through all my weakness
and unworthiness I still hold His hand. I
know that the whole temptation is one of
brain and nerves, and when He chooses He
can release me, The poor brain will be
cold and still for good and all some day, and
I shall be free and able to see, I trust, why
I have been suffered thus to struggle. After
all, immortality opens a large hope, that
may over -pay the most unspeakable bitter-
ness of life.
'Meanwhile, you can see why I do not
wish to be brought into personal relations
with the only woman I have ever loved, or
ever can love, and whose happiness I fear to
put in peril. It ia an unspeakable delight
and relief to have the power of doing for
her, but she must not know of it.
"Also, let me tell you that you are to
me more transparent than you think. It
requires only the penetration of friendship
to see that you are in love, and that you
hesitate and hang back because of an un-
willingness to match your fortunes with
hers.
"Let me suggest, do you not owe it as a
matter of justice, after so much intimacy
has existed, to give her the opportunity to
choose between a man and circumstances?
If the arrangement between us goes into
effect, you will have a definite position and
a settled income. Go to her like a man and
lay it before her, and if she is worthy olyon
she will come to you.
"He either dreads his fate too inuch,
• Or his desert is small, •
Who fears to put it to the touch,
• To win or loae it all."
"God grant you a home and fireside,
Harry, and I will be the indulgent uncle in
the chimney -corner.
Yours ever,
Bolton."
• Bolton's letter excited in my mind a tum-
ult of feeling. From the beginning of my
acquaintance I had regarded him with
daily incleasing admiration. Young men
like a speciesof mental fealty -a friendship
that seems to draw them upward and give
them an ideal of something above them-
selves. Bolton's ripe, elegant scholarship
his rare, critical taste, his calm insight in-
to men and things, and the depth of his
moral judgment, had inspired me with', ad-
miration, and his kindness for me with
gratitude. It had always been an additional
source of interest that there Was something
veiled about him -something that I could
not exactly make out. This letter, so dig-
nified in its melancholy frankness, seemed
to let me into the secret of his life. It
showed me the reason of that tort of sad
and weary tolerance with which he seemed
to regard life and its instincts, so different
from the fiery, forward looking hope of
youth. He had impressed me from the.
first as one who had made up his mind to
endure all things and hope for nothing. To
keep watch every moment, to do the duty
of the hour thoroughly, bravely, faithfully,
as sentinel -paces through wind, ram and
cold -neither asking why nod uttering com-
plaints -such seemed to be Bolton's theory
of life.
The infirmity which he laid open. to my
view was one, to be aura, attributable in
the first place to the thoughtless wrong-
doing of confident youth. Yet, in its begin-
ning, how little there was in it that looked
like the deep and terrible tragedy to which
it was leading! Out of every ten young
men who begin the use of stimulants as a
social exhilaraidon, there are perhaps eve in
whose:breast lies coiled up and sleeping
this serpent, destined in after years to be
the deadly tyrant of their life -this curse,
unappeasable by tears or prayers or agonies
-with wheal the struggle is like that of
Laocoon with the hideous python. Yet
songs and garlands and poetry encircle the
wine cup,and Tidioula and contumely are re-
served for him who fears to touch it.
There was about this letter such a patient
dignity, such an evident bracing of the
whole man to meet in the bravest manner
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her own health and physical
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If the prospective
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of'
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the bard truth of the situation, and such a
disinterested care for others, as were to me
•inexpressibly touching. I could not .lielp
feeling that he judged and sentenced himself
too severely, and that this was .a case where
a noble woman might fitly co -work with a
man, and by doubling his nature, give it
double power of resistance and victory.
I Went hastily up to his room with the
letter in my hand after reading it. It was
in the dusk of the evening twilight, but I
could see him sitting there gazing out of the
window at the fading sky; yet it was too
dark for either of U8 to see the face of the
other. There are some conversationa that
can only be held in darkness -the visible
presence of the bodily form is an impedi-
ment -in darkness, bpirit Speaks directly to
spirit.
" 13olton," I said, "1 aim yours to every
intent and purpose, yours for life and
death." •
"And after," he said, " in a deep under-
tone, - grasping his hand. "1 knew you
would be, Harry."
"But, Bolton you , judge yourself too
severely. Why slouldiyou put froadyour-
self the joys that other men, not half so
good as you, claim eagerly? If I were a
women like Caroline, I can feel that I would
rather share life with you, in .all your dan-
gers and liabilities, than with many an-
other."
He thought a moment, and then said
slowly, "It is well for Caroline that she
has not this feeling; she probably has by
this time forgotten me, and I would'not for
the world take the responsibility of trying
te call back the feeling she once had."
At this moment my- thoughts went back
over many scenes, and the reel meaning of
Caroline's life came to me. I appreciated
the hardness of that lot- of women which
condemns them to be tied to one spot and
one course of employment, when needing to
fly from the atmosphere of an unhappy ex-
perience. I thought of the blank stillneas
of the little mountain town where her life
had been passed, of her restlessness and im-
patience, of that longing to fly to new
scenes and employments that she had ex-
pressed to me on the eve of my starting for
Europe; yet she had told me her story,
leaving out the one vital spot in it. I re-
membered her saying that she had never
seen the man with whom she would think of
marriage without a Shudder. Was it be-
cause she had forgotten? Or was it that
woman never, even tb herself, admits that
thought in connection with one who seems
to have forgotten her? Or had her father
so harshly painted the picture of her lover
that she had been led to believe him utterly
vile and unprincipled ? Perhaps his proud
silents had been interpreted by her as the
silence of indifference; perhaps she looked
back on their acquaintance with indignation
that she should heve been employed merely
to diversify the leisure of a rusticated stud-
ent and abandoned character. Whatever
the experience might be, Caroline had car-
ried it through silently.
Her gay, indifferent, brilliant 'manner of
treating any approach to matters of the
heart, as if they were the very last cub-
jects in which she could be supposed to
have any experience or iotereste had been a
complete blind to me; nor could I, through
this dazzling atmosphere, form the least
conjecture as to how the and actually lay.
In my former letters to her I had dwelt
a good deal on Bolton, and mentioned the
little fact of finding her photograph in his
room. In reply, -in a postscript at the end
of a letter about everything else, there was
a brief notice. "The Mr. Bolton you speak
of .taught the academy in our place while
you were away at college -and of course
was'one of -his scholars -but I have never
seen or heard of him since.; I was very
young then, and it seems like something in
a pre-existent state to be reminded of him.
• I believed him very clever then, but was
not old enough to form much of anopinion."
I thought of all this as I sat silently in the
dark with Bolton.
"Are you sure," I said, "that you con-
sult for Caroline's best happiness in doing as
you have done ?"
There Nes a long pause, and at last he
said, with a deep -drawn breath ;
"Yes, I am sure ; the less I am to her
the better."
• "But may not your silence and apparent
neglect and indifference have given pain ?"
"Probably, but they helped her to pease
oaring for me ; it was zcessary that she
should."
"Bolton, you are mor id in your estimate
of yourself."
"You do not know all, Hal; nor what
nor where I have been. I have been swept
far out to sea, plunged under deep waters,
all the waves and billows have been over
me."
" Ytt now, Bolton, surely you are on
firm land. No man is more established,
more reliable, more useful."
"Yet," he said, with a kind of shudder,
"all this I might lose in a moment. The
other day, when I dined with Westerford,
°the good fellow had his wines in all frank
fellowship, and pressed them on me and the
very smell distracted me. I looked at the
little glass in which he poured some particu-
larly fine sherry, and held to me to taste,
and thought it was like so much heart's
blood. If I had taken one taste, just one,
I should have been utterly worthless and
unreliable for weeks. Yet • Westerford
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eouldnehundetitond 61'4 nobody on, ex-
cept one who hos been through my bitter
experionee. •One sip Would flash tn the
bridal -like fire, and then all fear, all care,
all conscience would be 'gone, and not one
glass, but a dozen, would be inevitable, and
then you might have to look for me in some
of those dens to which the possessed of the
devil flee when the fit is on them, and
where they rave and tear and out themselves
with stones till the 'madness' is worn out.
This has happened ' '.me. over and over,
after long periods of self-denial and self-
control and illusive hope. It seems to me
that my experiencels like that of a man
whom some cruel fiend condemns to go
through all the agonies of drowning over
and over again -the din* plunge, the mad
struggle, the suffocation, the horror, the
agony, the clutch at the shore, the weary
clamber up steep rocks, the sense of relief,
recovery and hope only to be wrenched off
and thrown back to struggle, and strangle
and sink again."
He spoke with such a deep intensity of
voice that 1 drew in my breath and a silence
as of the grave fell between,usr
"Harry," he said after a pause, "you
know we read in the Greek tragedies of men
and women whom the Gods have smitten
with unnatural and guilty purposes, in
whioh they were irresistibly impelled to-
ward what they abominated and shuddered
at ! Is it not strange that the Greek fable
ahonld have a real counterpart in the midst
of or modern life; that young. men, in all
theinexperience and thoughtlessnese of
youth, should be beguiled into just such a
fatality; that there should. be apossibility -
j
that they could be blighted by ust such a
doom; and yet that song, and poetry, and
social illusion, and society customs should
all be thrown around Courses which •excite
and develop this fatality ?" What opera is
complete without its drinking chorus? I
remember when it used to be my forte to
sing drinking song; so the world goes
Men triumph and rejoice going to a doom
to which death is a trifle. If I had fallen
dead, the first glass of wine I tasted, it
would have been thought a horrible thing;
but it would have been better for my
wither, better for me, than to have lived as
I did, ia such prolonged and inexpressible
nii`7017b.," no no, Bolton, I don't say so;
you become morbid in dwelling on this sub
pot."
"No, Hal. I only know more of it than
• you. This curse has made life an unspeak-
able burden, a doom instead of a privilege.
It has disappointed my 'friends, and eub-
jected me to humilitations and agonies such
that death seems to me a refuge; and yet
it was all in its beginning mere thoughtless-
ness and ignorance. I was iost • before I
kn,e,wBiut.t'you are not lost, and you shall not
be !" I exclaimed; "you are good for mote
than moat men now, and' you will come
through this."
"Never 1 to be jutas others are. I
shall be a veseel with aecrack in it always."
• "Well, a vase of fine porcelain with a
crack in it 18 better theft earthenware with-
out," I said.
• " If I had not disappointed myself and
my friends so often," said Bolton, " I
might look on myself as sound and sane.
But the mere sight and smell of the wine at
Westerford's dinner gave me a giddy sensa-
tion that alarmed me; it showed that I was
not yet out of danger, and it made me re-
solve to strengthen myself by making you
my keeper. You have the advantage of
perfectly healthy nerves that have come to
manhood without the 1 strain of any false
• stimulus, and you can be strong for both of
" bod grant it 1" said I earnestly.
"But !warn you that if the curse comei
upon me you are not to trust me. I am a
Christian and a man of honor in my sane
moments, but, let me tell you, one glass of
wine would make me a liar on this subject.
I should lie, and intrigue, and deceive the
very elect to get at the miserable comple-
tion of the aroused fury; and there are
times when I am so excited that I fear I may
take that first irrevocable step -it is a hor-
ror, a nightare, a temptation of the devil
-for that there is a devil Men with my ex-
perience know; but there is a kind of safety
in having a friend of a steady pulse with me
who knows all. The mere fact that you do
know helps to hold me firm."
"Bolton," said I, "the situation you
offer to Caroline in the care of the Ladiee'
Cabinet' will of course oblige her to come
to New York. Shall you meet her and re-
new your acquaintance ?"
"1 do not desire to," he said,
There was a alight hesitancy and faltering
• of his voice as he spoke.
"Yet it can hardly be possible that you
will not meet ; you will have arrangements
to make with her."
"That is one of the uses, among others,
of having you. All that relates to her af-
fairs will pass through you;and and now let us
talk of the magazine and its programme for
the season. What is the reason, Hal, that
you waste your forces in short sketches?
Why do you not boldly dash out into a
serial story by Harry Henderson."
Accepting Bolton's offer, I entered with
spirit upon my editorial duties, and very
soon afterwards my engagement with Eva
Van Arsdel was recognized as a "fait ac-
compli." •The announcement of my engage-
ment brought the usual influx of congratto
lations by letter and in person. Bolton was
gravely delighted, shook my band fratern-
ally, and even promised to quit his hermit
hole and go with me to call upon the parents
of- my betrothed. Our wedding was a suc-
cess, so far as cheerfulness and enjoyMent
was concerned. We spent our honeymoon
in the Old village where I was born, and
rambled like two school -children hand-in-
hand over all the haunts of my boyhood.
Having spent some charming days, we re-
turned to New York, where I settled down
• under great pressure of business at the of-
fice, while my home was growing leaf by
leaf, and unfolding flower by flower under
the creative hands' of my home -queen and
sovereign lady. "Harry," said my wife,
the morning of the day of our projected
house-warming, "there's one thing you
must get me."
" Well, princess ?"
"Well, you know you and I don't care
for wine, and don't need it, and can't afford
it; but I have such a pretty set cc glasses
and deeanters,and you must get me a couple
of bottles just to set off our table for cele-
bration."
Immediately I thought of Boltonis letter,
of what he had told me of the effect of
wine upon his senses at Westermahn's dinner
table. I knew it must not be at Ours, but
how to explain to my wife without com-
promising him! At a glanceisaw that all
through the future my intimacy with Bol-
ton must be guided and colored by what I
knew of his history, his peculiar struggles
and temptations, and that not merely now,
but on many future occasions, I should need
a full understanding with my wife to act as
I should be obliged to act. I reflected that
Eva and I had ceased to be two and had
become one that I owed her an unlimited
confidence in those respects, where my ac-
tions must involve her comfort, or wishes,or
co -operations) and so I resolved to 1St her
know about Bolton's history.
(To be continued.)
•
Making Old Butter as Good as
N
A new and up-to-date iedustry has been
established recently on Richmond street,
Toronto. In wanting a better name it may
be called butter reformatory. Though machin-
ery does not really produce butter, it con-
verts the rankest old rancid butter into re-
, taatLIBITCMX•
Visiesaitrs• tion
d • TITPra
siesstsis
ATARRH
Mrs. Dobai!, of London, Ont.,
Cured ,for 25 Cents
Doctors Cottld Help, but Couldn't Cure -
Dr. Chase's Catarrh, Cure Released the
'Prisoner, and To -day She Is as Wel1 as
Ever -She Says it is a Great -Remedy
"Yes, I am Mrs, Dobell," said a comely,
pleasant -faced woman at her home on Horton
street to a ,News reporter to -day, "and I will
very gladly tell you what you want to know.
About three years ago my husband was very
111, and I had frequently occasion to rise in the
night and go for a doctor or to the druggist.
In. my .hurry 1 often neglected to properly
clothe myself, and contracted several henvy
colds, which turned at last to chronic catarrh.
I tried ,doctors, who helped me, but did not
cure me, and several special catarrh medicines.
I was relieved but not cured. I was suffering
intolerably when Mr. Shuff recommended me
to try CHASES CATARRH CURE, and it began at
once to help, and in about two months .had
entirely cured me. I cannot speak too highly
of this remarkable medicine, -and cheerfully
recommend it to all -sufferers from catarrh."
The blower included is a great help to sufferers.
111111111111k.
AMMON
spectable butter, and , tolerably bad butter
into the choice fresh article. • The agents
of this American enterprise are abroad in
the land buying for a mere song ancient
butter, little better than axle -grease. This
is shipped to the butter: alchemist, who
straightway produces the sweet golden rip
petizer at the tune of a thousand pounds a
clay. The wonderful process is known to
only three or four persons in America. The
secret is jealously guarded, and no one is
allowed to enter the chamber of mysteries
on Richmond street. The modus operandi,
speaking in general terms, is as follows:
The old vile butter is first heated red hot
and converted into oil. This oil is put
through a blast, and falls into a vat like a
small snow storm. After being exposed to
the air for some time it is churned in sweet
milk or buttermilk. No chemicals are
used whatever. The process will not work
• during the warm season of the year, June,
July and August. At present things are
in full swing, and great quantities are being
shipped to England.
Couldn't Dissemble.
" You have just been married," he said,
as be stopped on his way down the railway
car and addressed a young man who occu-
pied a seat with a lady.
"How did you know that ?" asked the
young man in surprise.
"Never mind how," replied the other.
"1 know that you have just been married.
So has this young lady. You have just
been married to each iother. You are the
bridegroom and she is the bride."
" You are right stranger," the young
man admitted, "but I'll be dinged if I
know how you found it out.
" ril tell you that later, but just now I
will merely add that you were married this
morning, and that you are now on your
honey -moon trip. Am 'right ?"
"You are, stranger, but won't youtell
us how you discovered these things so ac-
curately ?"
"Yea, I will tell you. I discovered them
through my cultivated powers of •observa-
tion. I noticed you two snuggling -up to
each' other, regardless of whether school
kept or not. When you thought no one
was looking I saw you steal a kiss. I noted
the rice in your hat when you placed it on
a rack, and I perceived thet some of it had
got entangled in your bride's shirt -waist. I
ohnerved, too, that the lady is dressed in
dainty white, and that she takes her laven-
der glove off her left hand ever and anon
and admires the two rings on her third
finger -one a plain gold circlet, and the
other set with a sparkling stone. I noted
the blissful expression in both your faces,
and the rapt way in which you gaze into
each other's eyes. Besides that, I observed
you board the train and I noticed that you
were escorted to the station by a merry
throng of young men and maidens; and in
addition to all this, I saw your trunks put
on board the baggage -car. Their handles
were decorated with white satin bows -
delicate attentions from thoughtful friends
who wished to make your launch upon the
sea of matrimony as auspicious an occas-
ion as possible. I may add," the speaker
went on, "while expressing my congratula-
tions and best wishes, that I am Herlock
Shomes, the great detective."
Mr. Shomes went on into the smoking.
car, and the bridegroom turned and said to
the bride in an awe-struck whisper:
" Melinda, it's no use t They are on to us.
Ashamed of His Company
The Lewiston Journal,a Maine paper,tells
an instructive story of the times of the great
temperance agitation in 1844. In those
days practically every retail merchant in
the country kept liquor for tale, or to give
away. -In a Kennebec village an old grocer
otherwise a reputable man, derived a con-
siderable part'of his income from the sale of
"
The temperance revival had come tothis
village, and a question of action, friendly or
unfriendly, to the liquor traffic, had arisen
in the town meeting. A division was de-
manded, and those in favor of the traffic
went to one side of the town hall, and those
opposed to it to the other.
The respectable grocer referred to watch-
ed this process, and saw, evidently to his
surprise, that the people to whom he. had
been dealing out liquor for years were not
as good looking as the people on the other
side of the hall: Finally he arose and join-
ed the opponents of the traffic.
"What are you over here for ?" some one
asked him. "Are you opposed to the sale
of intoxicating liquors ?"
"No -no-"
"Then that's your aide over there."
The old grocer looked around angrily at
the men on tne other side and replied :
"You don't suppose I'm going over there
with that crowd of red noses, do you ?"
His view of his own customere, all in a
bunch, had made a temperance man of
him.
We know that Cod-liver
Oil is a fat -forming food
beeause takers of it gain rap_
idly in weight under its use
and the whole body receives
vital force. When prepared
as in Scott's Emulsion, it is
quickly and easily changed
into the tissues of the body.
As your doctor would say,
"it is easily assimilated."
Perhaps you are suffering
from fat starvation. You
take fat enough with your
food, but it either isn't the
right kind, or it isn't digested.
You need fat prepared for
you, as in Scott's Emulsion.
FEBRUARY 19
1897 •FURNITURE
.havi started the New Year with as fine a line of Furniture as
wish to see, and at prices that will aStonish you for cheapness. All our
are warranted to give satisfaction, and we extend to you an invitation
and inspect our large stock of Bed Broom Suites, Parlor Suites,Sideboar4
tension Tables, Dining Room Chairs, Centre Tables, Hat Racks, War
Chiffoniers, Bamboo Goods and Chairs of all kinds. When we know e
please you in quality and price. "Give us a trail."
• Undertaking Department
Oar Undertaking department is complete in every respect, and
purchase from first-class manufacturers only,- we can guarantee to give
satisfaction in all its branches, as we have an Undertaker and Erabal
fifteen years' experience, and any orders we may be favored with shall
the -very best attention. Don't forget the old stand.
P, S. Night calls attended to by calling at our Funeral Direct°
sidence, First Door East of Drs. Scott & McKay's Office: or at Dr. Oa
Old Office on Main Street Seaforth.
BROADFOOT, BOX & CO.,
Main Street, Seaforth, Porter's 01
THERE CAN BE NO BETTER THAN THE BEST s
IN LEAD PACKETS
ONLY -BLACK OR
CEYLON
TEA
IS THE BEST
MIXED -HALF AND ONE POUND PACKETS -
RETAIL. 25, 30, 40, 50 AND 60 CENTS A POUND
4
••••memd
THE DAVIDSON & HAY, LTD., WHOLESALE AGENTS, TORONTO
FOR SALE BY ROBB BROS, AND ROBB & CURRIE, SEAFORTEL-
,•••••••••••••••••••••1.....
AUCTION SALE.
A UCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PRO.
stee PERTY IN HENSALL.-The undersigned
auctioneer haft been instructed by Mrs. M. Gilchrist
to sell by public dilation on Seturday,. February 27th,
at Hodgins' Hotel, Hensall, at one o'clock, p.
sharp, the following valuable property, adjoining
the village, consisting of 97 acres more or less
This farm embraces what is known as the Hemel
Race Course and Driving Park and 1il positively be
sold as the proprietrees is retiring. • Terms of este
made known on day of ssle. MRS. M. GILCHRIST,
Proprietress; J. P. BRINE, Auctioneer, 1622-3
ORTGAGE SALE OF A VALUABLE FARIL-
LYL and by virtue of the power of sale con-
tained in a certain mortgan made to the vendor,
dated the 9th day of Januery, A. D., 1896, which will
be produced at the time of sale. There will be
offered for sale by public auction by Patrick De
Cantillon' auctioneer, at Prendergast's Hotel, in the
Village ofDublin in the County of Perth, on Tues-
day, March 2nd, 1807, at the hour of 2 o'clock, p. co.
The following vaulable farm being Lot number 21;
on the 2ed Comseesion of the Township of Hibbert in
the (Yount), of Perth, oontaining 100 acres more or
less. This farm is well situated as to markets and
railway, and there is an abundant supply of water
on the pleoe. There are a good barn and a small logj
house on the plaoe. The fences ars in fair condition.
Further particulars and conditions of sale made -
known on day of ash. For further particular; apple
to J. M. BEST, Vendor's Solicitor, Seaforth; Fele-
ruary Sed, 1897. . 15214
MORTGAGE ShLE.-Uunder and pursuant tO
the power of sale contained in a certain more.
gage, cieW the 5th day of November, le ' which
will be produced al the time of sale. There will be
sold by publo auction by Thomas Guudry, sum
tioneer, at the River Mittel, Bayfield, oli Saturday
the 27th day of February18e7, at 2 o'clock, p. m.,
the tethering property, vir : The north half of the
west half of Lot member 8, Lake Road, Dot Con -
°egotist), in the Township of Stanley, in the County
of Huron, containing 49 scree of land more or lent
This property is eituated on a good gravel road
about 8 miles south ot Bite field, about 40' acres are
°leered, balance in bust. The soil is a good clay
loam, and there is a never failing spriug creek. The
buildingir are a small frame barn, shed and house.
Terme.-Ten per cent. of the minimise money at
time of Bele, and balance in one month thereafter
without interest, or arrangements may be made for
most of balance to remais at fit per cent. per annum.
For further particulars apply to Menne Garrtow &
Proudfoot, Barrietere, Goderieh, or to the Am-
tioneea Goderioh, or to R. C. HAYS, Vendor's
Solicitor, Goderich.
N. B. At said time and place will be offered for
sale under power of sale in a mortgage. Let 886, in
Bayfield, good frame house on it, and choice fruit.,
a very desirable residence., •16144
TJ
AUCTION SALE OF FARM
k.) STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS,-Meeers. J. P.
Brine and J. II. McDougall have received instruc-
tions -from Mr. Wm Grieve, to sell by public emotion,
on lot 27, conceesion 4, MoKillop, on Tuesdhy, Feb-
ruary 28rd, 1897, at 1 o'clock p. i. sharp, the follow•
Ing valuable property : KORSTA,-One brood mare 8
years old in foal, bred frotn Mark Laddle '-4 mare 5
year old geldin bred by Chrystal City; 1 coil bred
years old from Wrystel Cite ; 2 Yew oldfilly ; 1 2
by e,ord of aie Manor ; onel colt bred by
eluvial City, °ATTIC -Four cows in calf ;
1 farrow cow, 1 steer 2 years old, 1 heifer 2 years
old, 2 steers 1 year old, 2 heifers 1 year old, and 3
spring calves. SliESP,-Seven Leicester .ewes, 5
Leleester rams, 1 Shropehire ewe. I Shropshire ram ;
also 2 pigs. IMPLUI/INT8,-One .Patterson binder,
Maxwell binder, 1 Maxwell mower, 1 hay loader, 1
bay rake, 4 plows, 1 . scalier. 1 pair harrows. 1 culti-
vator, 1 bay fork, rope, pulleys and slings '• 1 horse
power, 1 grain crusher, 1 grinder, 1 fanning mill
with Armstrong sieves, 1 turnip cutter, 1,600 lb.
scales with platform, 1 lumber wagon 1 dung
wagon, 1 three seated earrlage, 1 pair bob -sleighs, 1
long sleigh, 2 set of double harness, also chains,
forks, whiffietrees, neck yokes, and a host of other
articles tno numerous to mention. The whole will
positively be sold without reserve, as the proprietor
has rented his farm. TER101,-All sums of 11.5 and
under, cash, over that amount 10 months' credit
will be given on furnishing approved joint notes. A
discount of 6- cents on the dollar will be allowed off
for cash on credit amounte. WILLIAM GRIEVE,
Proprietor; J. P. BRINE and J. H. McDOUGALL,
'auctioneers. 1522.2
gyLEARING OUT AUCTION SALE OF FARM
has been instructed by Mr Robert Hobiark to
STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS. -Mr. Wm. Mo
ecu by public auction on Lot 26, Concession 14, Bib-
bed, on Monday, February 112nd, at 1 o'clock, p. m.,
the following valuable property :-Horses.-One
heavy draught gelding risen 4 year. old, one heavy
draught filly rising 8 years otd, one general purpose
gelding tieing 5 years old, one roadster gelding ris-
ing 4 years ale sucking foal 9 months old. -
Cattle. -Four mile& cows in ode two far-
row cows, 2 yearling heifers, 1 brood Yorkshire
sow, to litter in Maroh.-Implements.-One pair new
bobsleighs, 1 Democrat wagon, 1 single buggy, 1
cutter, 1 sulky plow, 1 No. 3 hill plow, 1 three fur-
row gang plow, 2 sets harrow., 1 scuffiler, 1 sulky
hay rake, 1 mower, 1 pea harvester, 1 seed drill com-
bined, 1 fanning mill, 1 hay fork coniplete, 1 three
horse tread power, 1 eoparator, 1 grain crusher, 1
straw cutter, 1 sap kettle, about 20 sap buckets, 1
root pulper, I set single harness, 2 mete plow har-
ness, rakes, forke, chains,and other articles too num-
erous to mention. Also a number of good cedar
posts. Tonna-Ail sums of 75 and under, cash;
over that amount nine months' credit will be given
on furnishing joint notes. A discount st the rate of
6 per cent, per annum will be allowed for cash on all
credit amounts. Everything must 'positively be sold
as the proprietor has sold the farm and is moving
away. • ROBERT HOBKIRK, Proprietor; WM.
McCLOY, Auctioneer. 15222
Wm: AL Walker,
THE RELIABLE
11 12A...starer and Mattress Maker,
iEAFORTH, ONT.
Parlor Furniture repaired and recovered.
Carpets sewed and laid; also clepned
and renovated at reaeonable prices.1
Shop • at M. Robertson's Old
Stand, Main Street.
WOOD WILL BE TAKEN FOR WORK.
• 1522
MONEY TO LOAN.
To loan any amount of money, on town or farm
properly, al the lowed rate* of interest and on the
most reasonable terms. Apply to THOMAS E.
lils INI§grth ;;.,4„.1;10 oases 151241
SIGN
OF THE
tle
pp.
THE SEAFORT
Musical - Instru
EMPORIUM.
• ESTABLISHED, 187
_ Owing to hard times'we bac
eluded to sell Pianos and Orgatut
Greatly Reduced Pr
ESSRS.
BORO
-old Golden Li
occupied by R.
keep a comple
its branehes, a
thing that is f
niture store.
'tending pure
-.see our goodi
ing- Au WI°
of the pure
We have
at large stock o
ling of coffins
-out styles, and
heard of before
W,Leatherdf
• at the ChampiC
der Professor I
with Mr. Land
nese. Any we
-carefully atteM
anted.
:11ezuember
and U.1
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Nigh t and Si
•to at Mr. losan
doors eolith e
Egmendville,
over Dominion
'IN THE
of the
In the Matter
of Hul
All punnet herr
-Christopher Dale
Township of Hull
ceased, who -died '
nary, 1897, ere re
of March, I 7.1
eilgned *elicitor/a
particulere of the
Iuly- verified by,
the executors wIll
among the retie
only to ihe 011411111
• °dyed notice, on
not be responsibli
etedit,or of whote
notice at the time
Is given pursusut,
• HOLIIMED,
eneorge Delo, Ext
day of February,
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,Our
"Will be found
• we are giv-
at 20e and 0
Although ourr
.han last year,
! urrant at Se
We are
all in
-cash iind
Organs at $25 and upwards,
Pianos at Corresponding p
SEE US BEFORE PURCHASING,
SCOTT BR
FOR TINENTY-SIX YE
DUNN
BAKI
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THECOOKSBESTFRIEN
LARGEST SALE MI CANADA.
WEwATtirr to handle estsblished
" -A- this ()aunty. Oanstellsit
guaranteed to live.
AGENTS potion,beiwhsuley:
ten dollars a week cir
us, for every week you work. No
necessary.
BROWN BROTHERS COMP
Continental Nurseries, TORONTO, ONT.
Now is the t
CUTTE
We have
of all st
material a
Call and
purchasing
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