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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-02-19, Page 6-t4vr 6 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. -e-. 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 CI.41.113"1"4=0 XX IAA.. Th.f&. Ammo et Is Oa OTOU Trapper There menage ("ler le 110 which brings more gladness to a true Woman's heart than the sweet assurance that a little one is com- ing to bless her life and call her "Mother." But in all her loving' prepara- tions for the expected little guest, a tnother is liable to forget that her own health and physical condition is the most import- ant provision which can possi- bly be made for the baby's happiness. If the prospective mother is weak, nerv- ous and anxious, this condition . is bound to react on the baby'a constitution. No dain- tiness of wardrobe wilt compensate for the loss of' the natural, healthy vigor which it mother should be- stow upon her baby. As early as possible ,dur- ing gestation, the expectant tnother should reinfoece her bodily powers with the sustaining, health - bringing influence of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It gives natural, healthy vigor and elastic endurance to the organs specially concerned in motherhood. It makes the coming of baby perfectly safe and almost painless. It gives nerve -strength to the mother and vital hardihood to the child. It is the only medicine devised by an edu- cated physician specially to overcome all aweaknesses and diseases of the ferninine organa. Mrs. Roscoe Vanover, of Robinsole Creek, Pike Co., Ky., writes: "1 wish to express my thanks to yeti for the good I have received from your Favorite Prescription.' I have used it at differ- ent times for the last five years, and always with the most gratifying results. But the greatest good received from the Favorite Preecription was about four months ago when my last -baby was born. I was afflicted with child -bed fever.' Instead of eending after a doctor I used the ePre- scription and was cured. A lady friend of inine was similarly afflicted and sent after the doctor and took his remedies and died. I am 27 years old, weigh 147 pounds, the mother of five children, and am enjoying the best of health." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant, Pellets cure coma- vatiotespromptly and permanently. messemeas, A111111111M111 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 C:I.ELEATCONLX.AL. hos every wrapper. - 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 ,LEATHER 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, TEA THE Sl TEASr Is the teas one W • that 1 mark4j • Japan to the been very ing ti kind • low pj • Orockl • As we inten Business, we bergaine ever -Ten and Toile lection to ehoo 'away down be ,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 D 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 ems h