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'HE }1U ROM E POSIT'OR,
THE OLDEST
MD THE BEST
$-er,111 n:
Coug � t3, themost pro Ft and
effective remedy for diseases of the
throat and lungs, is A er, s Cherry
n g� y y
Pectoral. As an emergency medi-
cine, for the cure of
Croup, Sore Throat,
Lung Fever a n d
Whooping Cough,
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
cannot be equaled.
Ft M. BRAWLEY,.
D. De Dis. Sec. of
:-- the American Bap-
tist Publishing Society. Petersburg,'
Ira.,endorses it, as a cure for violent
colds, bronchitis, etc. Dr. Brawley
also adds: To all ministers suffering
from throat troubles, I recommend
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
'Awarded Mishit at World's Pair.
ASS PILLS fart List wiStomach Trodia,'
VETERINARY.
TORN GRUM, V. S., tumor graduate ofOntario
tI T College. All des of Dome/kit
animaystreaCa11s promptlyattended to and
*bargee moderate. Vete riflery Dentistry a specialty
Moe and ?seldom* on Goderioh street, One door
tri of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. -1112t1
1H3 GIBB,
Veterinary `eon and DeaiL t, Toronto a ex.
✓ eterinary deo Honor Graduate of On Vet:
misery College, onor member of Ontario Veterin-
Medicai Sob ety. All diseases of domestic animals
treated. All cilia promptly attended to
• ' orht. ,Dentistry and Surgery a Surgery
Moe and -DIapeneary—Dr. Campbells old oeioe,
Pain street Seaforth. Night callsanewered i:om the
;Milne. 1406-52
LEGAL
Ar G.' OAMIDION, fornnerly of Cameron, -Holt &
• Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderic6,,
Ontario. Moe—Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
BoteL 1452
TAMES SCOT, Barrister, Ao... Solicitor for Mob
fej eon's Bank, Clinton. Office — Mott lock,
Winton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage.
1451
D 8. HATB, Barrister Solicitor, Conveyanosr and
.LaLat Notary Rublio. lllolleitor for the Dominion
. Canoe—Oardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth.
,Edney to loan. 1235
'E ' BRBT, Barrister, Solicitor Notary, 4c..
Office—Booms, By doors north olCooamerela.
• ground Moor, nazi door to 0. L. Pepsts
smelly store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderteh
eats-tameroa Holt and Cameron. 121:
gAREOW k P&OUDPOOT, Barrtttere, SoUoltore,
es., Qedeeis , Ontario. J.T. Gannon Q. O.;
N. PiOnereOr. 686
4111111015HOLT $ HO , Banieien 8o -
helicis in Chancery, &o., rkh, Ont M. O.
Qlmea, Q. e., Pine Hour,' Desrsr Howse
—1101.101STED, enooessor to the late arm of
„ McCaughey A Helmeted, Barrister, SoUeitgr
t aaoer, and Notary Solicitor 4or the Can
adios Bank of Commero.. Money to lend. Farm
for sats. Offioe in Scott's Block, Main Street
3saforth..
DENTISTRY.
-Eli W. 'MEDDLE, Dentist. Oftloe—Over Richard -
j` . son & Mclnn(V shoe store, corner Main and
Joh; streets, 9ealorth.
DR BELDEN, dentist ; crowning, bridge work
and gold plate work. Special attention given
to the preseraraion of the natural teeth. All work
earelnlly performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.'
hardware store, Seaforth. 1451
1[, if. S. ANDERSON[, graduate of Royal College
▪ of Dental Surgeons, Ontario S
D. D. lilted To-
soato University. Office, Market Block, Yitcbelt,.
Ontario.. • 1402
4,- Ea AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton. will
.fltvisit He oesU at Hodgen.' Hotel
Avery Mondayy, and at Zurich the
ssoond Thursday in each month 1288
•
MEDICAL.
Dr. John McGinnis,
Hon. Graduate London Western Unlversiy, member
of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Oeoc end Residenoe—Formerly 000upied by Mr. Wm.
Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church
14Night oaks attended proinptly. 1463x12.
B. ABW[SIRANG, M. B., Toronto,M. D. O. M.,
iii viotoria, N. 0. P. 8., Ontario, euooesaor to Dr.
Siaott, oilioe lately 000upled by Dr. Ellett, Brnoe-
eld, 0 ntario.
0OOPER, M. b., it. B., B., F. P. and 8.
"bH . Ol.egow, Ao., Phydaian gurgeba - and Ase
coacher, Constance, Ont. 1197
5 IA, I... BM. D., Fellow of the Royal.
allegro of P and Surgeons, Kingston.
Buooeesor to Dr. 'lid. Ofaot lately ocoupled
aT.
y '- IIaokid, Mala Street. Seaforth. Residence
—Oosr. a of'notorla Square, in houselately 000upled
by L. r ,Osney. 1127
OR., F. J. BURROWS,
Lite re stdent Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen•
oral b dpital. Honor graduate 'Malty University,.
oneisiber of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
et Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron.
ga'Or`r'I0E.—Same as formerly occupied ly Dr.
Smith opposite to Pubiio School, Seaforth. Telephone
No.. 40 N. B --Night calls answered from o®oe.
1388
DRS. SCOTT & : M acKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Oaderioh street, opposite Methodist ohurch,Seaforth
J. G. `4COTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and
the *fiber: Ontario College 'nl Physicians and
8.+-geone. Coroner for County of Huron.
V. M:.cKAY, honor Fraduate Trinity University,.
(old medalist Trinity Medical College. (Member
:lege of Phyeloians and Surgeons, Ontario.
1483
AUOTIO NEERS.
ICHARD COMMON, licensed auctioneer for the
County of Huron, sates and bills attended to
prowl -ay, charges. in keeping with tines, Seaforth,
Ontario. 1523-12
WM. M'OLOY1
Audio seer for the Oountlee of Huron and Perth,
end .+.;cent at Heiman for the Massey. -Harris Manu.
featuring Company. Sales promptly attended to,
cheer s moderate and satisfaction guaranteed.
Order by mall addressed to Hensel' Post Ofiioe, or
telt at his residence, Lei. 2, Conceseioa 11, Tuck.
.rem` 41, will receive prompt attention. 129840
TOUR H. IIoDOUGALL, Lioeneed. Auctioneer for
e3 the County of Huron. Sales attended in alt
parts: of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr.
MDi ofaall kinds, he i`ps is
as a dealer in farm
o
gebially qualified to judge
of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders
left at Tim-Exeostroa office, or at his residence Lots
8, Concession 3, H. R. S., Tuokeremith, will be
promptly attended to. ' 1466
A PRODIOAL FATHER.
She urned nervously before the high,
thin m rror, a tall, heavy woman, with
sleek g ay hair. Her gown was of blank
alpaca , ade in bygone vogue when narrow
pipings held sway and a lingering fondness
for crinolines lurked in full skirt breadths.
dignifies
a wheeled in critical half circles, the
girl at . er side pulled and patted the alpaca
folds st eight,hea woman observing this
process of adjustment with a look of helpless
anxiety her elbows lifted.
"• I on't know a thing to say," she
argued.
•` Oh, mother 1 don't go worrying again.
You. wo 't have anything to say. He'll do
the talk` You just sit up and listen.
Here's your hestitched handkerchief
with th initial. Fd hold it like this.'
She dre the stiff linen into shape, holding
it ot t center with an assumption of
carelessness.
A handle on the bureau with its restless
brush of flame painted in the oval glass a
sketchy' r picture of the room, the ceiling of
which lifted'like a tent. A 'spot of rich
blue deepened in the homespun bed cover.
Yawning darkly under the low side wall
was a little hide -bound trunk, the dimen-
sions ofwhich were exactly reproduced in
the creases of the alpaca skirt.
a` You look mighty nice," said the girl,
stepping away, her hand judiciously poised
on her hips. She was young, with a peachy
face in round cheeks of which certain little
dimples were furtively tucked. Her hair,
of the faint brown which in shot with sil-
very reflections, was coiled awkwardly, as
if it had; only lately been coiled at all, and
still yearned to lie in the hanging braids of
ohildho -
" I hpe my collar is even," reflected the
other w man.
" It ` n't that I care for myself, Lizzie.
I ain't ared to dress since—your father
went away. I wouldn't think it looked
just ri ht. But William's maw is rale
dressy. I saw her once at church. And so
I want o'pear just as well as I know haw.
Only I o hope I'll never hev to go through
any sue doin'a again. ! I do so."
The tri slipped out a low gurgle of
laughte .
-" 1 d n't reckon you will," she said.
" seein I'm the only daughter you got. I
den't I k -t() be asked for more than once.
Hush ! Oh, mother, there's him knocking
right n
" Yon better: go to the door. Give me
the can le.. I'll light you down.."
The d woman, seeming to gather reso-
lution f despair, stepped heavily on the
first ate of the narrow stair. Lizzie held
the flaring taper aloft with a shaking
hand. Suddenly she caught her mother's
sleeve.
" Do
knows
in the
to the
A yo
mg.-
" Ri
we're
by nex
Lizzi
heard
within
1"
't say much about father. Will
he ain't here." She hung breathless
hadow of the staircase, listening
itvle bustle of entrance just below.
g man's voice stammered out a greet -
ht cold night," he said. " Reckon
oing to have real Christmas R eather
week."
, hanging, against the deal casing,
he sitting -room . door shut. From
low murmur of talk . came. The
girl, w 1d -eyed and flushing, crept down the
steep a airs, slipping into a room across the,
bit of try.
A yo ng. fellow whose boyish face"'re-
duplicd in a less delicate tone her own
pink a4d white tints glanced up from a
book.
" B p calm, Lizzie," he said teasingly.
" You , ook excited. I reckon mother will
say y You told her to say, yea, didn't
you ? expect she'll be easy on him—a
nice oung man like Will Raley. One.
thing ` she may forget what you told
her—" he drew up, warned by the tremor
of bit ten's lip that this heart -stirring
moms t was not a time for jest.
It occurred to him for the first time how
little s &must be to him in the future,
this pretty sister of his, whose ways were
appointing in the room across the hall. •
" P'1 hate to see you marry, Liz 1" he
exclai ed. And mother—it'll be awful
hard fir her. She's only got us two. And
she's had a fearful lot to put up with.
Fab/herr-1
"wouldn't
. -
S e wouldn t like to have you breathe
a wor against him, Ed." She started as
she ap ke. Her mother was puehing at the
door. She came in groping a little.
G , Lizzie," she said, in a labored
voice. " I'll•give you to him. He—he's
po'ful fond o' you. He'll make you a good
man." las las the girl flung toward - her impul-
sively, he made out to smile. " Don't
you mid me, daughter. " He's waitin' on
gyou—ggpo on.' Shuttingthe door upon the
irl, she aa} down heavily. •
" Don't feel so bad, mammy !" cried the
young man. " There's no nicer fellow any-
where, than Will. Well fixed:and all. He
could have had his pick. Hess never had
eyes for any one else but Liz since he settled
here a year back. She's as sweet as a pink,
but, mother, we've got nothing. And then
folksremember—well, you know father
oftentfinea-=—"
Th woman at the hearth listened with a
quire ing Chin.
" I m not saying a word against him,
moth r."
Hi father's figure recurred to him,
cloth d for the once in some thin shroud
of se timent.- ,Practicallyrreviewed, it was
the fi tire of a man who, in deserting his
famil , had conferred on it a deep and last-
ing g od. A tall man, as his son remember-
ed hi , with a rollicking air in his long,
!pay oustaches, a disreputable uncertainty
th texture of his Blenched hat, and a
Hi son recalled the night of the bld
man' departure. There had been a storiny
acene Unable to wring tribute from %is
wife' empty purse% the master of the house
in h' family ties. He had swung himself
over he threshold, declaring an intention of
leaving forever a -family so unworthy a
fathees devotion. The family itself believ-
ed the calm which followed. his going would
be as fleeting as the odor of rye which Inin
upon is menace. ' But as days lengthene
and n stumbling foot sounded after night'
1 on he door step, it began to seem as if.
the ol man's threat had not been merely .a
obi 1 device. -
Th human growths he had tramped on
began to lift themselves, daring to freshen
in the sunshine. But they never put into
tohve,err a. a,pe the satisfaction which enliVened
aybe if I'd been different to what
was— ore stern -like and pushing—your
father wouldn't ever hev give way to
irks f
Is es
sagest
1,44‘ argyea
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Notice to Creditors. ts
Puntumb to the statutes in that behalf all
persons having elainis or demands against
the estate of Hutch McKay, late of the town-
ship of Tuokerstnith, in the county of Huron,
yoeman, decanted, are required to deliver
to the undersigned, on or before the 29th day of
March, 1897, their names and addresses, and full par.
tioulars of their claims. and notice is hereby given
thst after the above' date the executors of the said
estate will distribute the assets of the deceased
amongst those entitled thereto, having regard only
to the claim of which they then have notice, Dated
at Eleaforth this 26th day of February, 1897. R. S.
_McKay, deemed.
HAYS, Sohoitor for the Executors of the said15251 1,3ugh
47
POISONIN0. THE FOUNTAIN.
If the fours- tarn of
poisoned at its very source,
there can he no h.e a 1 t h in
any part of ,4; the body.
When a '�i?� -woman las auk
di::ease or � �►. > ---1 weakness of
ate delicate , x*. I. ,..,-.0P\..
ex
ism, of her ,1 1 r:t 4ex, the ;ittnt-
ti
sin=he _c of ,," -
h _ r pity,:i.^al
.,
exi:�t��tt_c is t*.• F `Er,,,�...e poisoned and
site cannot
healthy .. tcal.lt in
Y
any t respect,
'.
fundamen-
cured:
Tire fa,,tity
physician d;t I'
may make 1
ills very corm- ,\1I
moil error of
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hr.
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�fitl1 causes; nema. r•
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gta, indigestion, in- /l
. sotnnia, or headache, I, f,,
when.�these are merely e•ymp- • U
tans of some deep-rooted
mot
a ady of the distinctly fem. ' �
inine organs.
Any woman suffering from
these delicate com-
plaints may be com-
pletely cured right in
the privacy of her own
home (without recourse
to mortifying examina-
tions and "local treat-
ment") by Dr. Pierce's
Pavorite Prescription.
It gives health to the special organism of
wotuanhood. It purifies all diseased con•
ditions; gives elastic strength to the liga.
nients, and vitality to the nerve -centres. It
.promotes good digestion, sound sleep, ai3i1
freedom from. pain.
It is the only medicine devised for t)iis
`one purpose by an educated, skilled spe-
cialist in this particular field of practice. It
is the only medicine which insures pro-
spective mothers against the dangers and
'sufferings of motherhood.
until this one
tal trouble is
tee
Just on the stroke Lizzie came, calling
out some word to young Raley as he f shut
the gate. -
She came in 'all the pretty color going
swiftly from her' cheeks, all the frosty
brightness quenched in her eyes at sight of
the massy figure: greeting her in a Jovial
tone ae daughter.
ins the
The three people who were left
room when the new comer Thad yawned him-
self off to bed, stood dumbly looking at- and
away from each other. Lizzie's white face
as awhite rose just unhoodedei .atr uggled
with tears.
" Will he'll be hero all day. to -morrow,"
she breathed. "He—he's never !seen
father." Ed. wheeled round, holding his
lips in. Their mother, enfolding them in a
look of prophetic love, saw what shame,
what possible discomfiture, and ruin lay for
them in the dark face of the future.
Her lips trembled and the water stood in
her eyes.
'` It's lata," she said. " Let us remem.
ber all we got to be -grateful for. Your
•father ain't sick, or in want or dead. He's
come home."
But there was no prayer in her heart as
she lay at Lizzie'a side, listening to the girl's
uneven,. sighing breath. When she woke in
the morning it was with a sense of surprise_
that she had elepteven a little, had been
able for an hour or two eo bind slumber Up-
on her.paining eyes.
It was` full day. Lizzie was already up
and gone down stairs.
Across the panes a snow heaped beech -
branch cantor ed itself t i s if like a stem ofrough
coral. Behind it she saw a blank sky which
seemed to her to wear 'the very look ahe
felt her face assuming, a look that must
hide all hint of doubt and fear.
She got up with faltering knees. It was
Christmas day,' when the measure of joy is
full, so full that.even the wretched of earth
may wet their lips at its flowing brim. She
went down stairs. They appeared strange-
ly steep, a venturous descent for one whose
eye took a suggestion of unreality from
-their very elope.
• Dr. Pierce's thousand -page illustrated
hook, !‘ The People's Common Sense Med-
ical Adviser" contains several chapters de-
rted to the special physiology.of woman,
with advice and suggestions for self -treat-
ment which every woman ought to read.
A paper -bound copy sent free on receipt of
31 one -cent stamps to pay fat custom: and
mailing only ; or, tioth-bound. so stamps.
drink," breathed Mrs. Hicks, staring into
the fire.
" No one could have been any kinder
than you was, mother."
" I was rale short to him the night he
went, Ed. You said_ some things, too,
that—oh, 'dear ! I ain't rehigned to think
maybe he's cold and hungry 1'
Ed. pocketed his hands with a' sudden
sense of gloom.
It was not a pleasant fancy. He hated
to think even a stranger's dog might be
abroad on a night when black skies housed
& howling wind and barren trees wrung
their empty hands to the etreas of it. ,
In spite of himself he seemed • to see a
leaning old shape buffeted by that raw
sweep. It's gray beard mocked by blehk
gusts. The cheer of the rag -carpeted
kitchen upon which a -series of dark pictures
came and went, pictures alwaykof the same
aged figure, bent with a burden of shameful
years. It stretohed out feeble hands, beg-
ging bread of a hard -faced fuer in a city
way. It crouched for shelter in some nois-
ome door. It looked from prison bars, it
slept in hedges, always with the peculiar
pathos Upon it of sins long past and bitterly
soft laugh rang out in the hall.
-
There WM a whispering. She was bidding
her lover good night.
Ed. sat with his head in hie hands. His
mother stared into the fire with a gray
" Will's going to eat Christmas dinner
with us 1" died Lizzie, bursting into the
room. " Why—why, what's the matter
" We just happened to get talking about
father. I wieh I knew where he 18," ex-
plained Ed. striking away the somber pan-
orama from'his disliking eyes.
But somehow the voiceless actor in these
dramas of woe had a peculiar insistence. He
was not to be banished.
Meaeuring musline in the store next day
Ed. Hicks was constantly sensible of a mis-
erable presence, which went through the
piteous enactment of the night before.
'" Perhaps he's dead !" surmised ,the
young MU. " Dead—huddled under' the
clods of a pauper's grave." The idea, cer-
rying a weight of compunction, ringed a
new glory round old Hick's brow. " I
wish to the Lord I hadn't _spoke to him
like I did the night he left,' mused (-his
son. —
On Christmas eve Lizzie had gone to
.some neighborhood festival with her lover.
Ed. coming in late from the store was
hanging his overcoat behind the door. His
mother stood shaking a dipperful of corn
over the blaze.
" Yon set right down and eat this while
it is hot, Eddie. I never see corn pop like
it does—white as cotton."
Ed. stretched his hands over the stove,
watching the leap of the corn flakes.
Mrs. Hicks bent a glance of inquiry to-
wards the house front. -
" That wasn't a step, was it ?" she de-
bated.
" Some of the boys, said Ed. " I half -
promised to look in on the candy pulling
ab Howe's to -night. Reckon they've come
to -1' he flung the door wide.
It disclosed a parallelogram of snow-
white earth, rippling along its upper part
with star-faceeted gray sky. A bare sap -
lin, at the.gate, the glow of a Christmas
tree in a window over the way, its brandies
specked with fire and gaudy with tinsel, the
ringand clamor of a sleigh full of young
folk passing in the street—all this made
an indefinite settling of the figure on the
step.
It was not a bowed, wretohed figure with
hollow eyes and blowing 'strands • of ashen
hair. It was mean enough in its ragged
clothes, a limp hat jammed over its brow,
but despitethese signs of fallen [fortunes it
stood upright and rotund, the mottled red
of its puffy cheeks reaching out and rimming
its heavy nose in scarlet. .
In the hanging, bibulous Moustaches hung
the old Bohemian air. The eyes 'rollicked.
The unsteady knees had something jaunty
in their advance.
The prodical had come hoine. He enter-
ed the house with a step of amiable Assur-
ance, anticipatieg tbe fatted calf With a
tolerant nostril. He had doffed the willows
of exile for holiday green and hie . manner
was that of one who realizes a certain de-
light in forgiveness. °
Yes, I'm back," he conceded, in,aking
himself at ease in the rocking chair. 'This
time of year a fellow feels like he owed
something te bis faini.ly, even if they ain't
treated him just straight. I never was a
man -10 cherish ill -feelings. Forgive and
forget is my motto. Well Ed. you're a big
bey. Looking fine. Whites Lizzie ? Cute
little trick, that ! Heh ? 'gone out.' Well,
I'll be here when she comes in. A man's
place it; with his folks. I'm going to bury
bygones."
tHis wife, brewing tea holding up bread
o toast, was moved with anguish thet her
heart had given no ether token of joy and
grstitude than might be eincompassed in a
ce
ld sinking.
The prodigal, unaffected by the silence,
the spasmodic remarks, the flushings and
paling of the two who plied him with re-
morseful attentions, rambling cheerfully on.
A 12 of the • clock he announced hiniself
dead on his feet and ready for bed. s
Its ha-
sipanui
simile dor / os
•
Lizzie was setting the table. Her lashes
glinted up a morning .glance as her mother
unlatched the door. Then she averted them
quickly, With a look at her brother. •
" Your father ain' up ?" said Mrs. Hicks
feebly, nearing the Stove. " Make the
coffee strong, Lizzie. He likes it strong."
hate to tell you I—spoiling your Christmas!
but—he's gone, father has— '
" Oh just out som'ers ! Hen be in
against coffee boils."
She broke oft,. shaking, searching his
face for contradiction.
"No, mammy, He won't be back. e's
—well, he's taken my overcoat—and several
little things of mine—of course he's Wel-
come to 'em—but he's gone for good." His
voice rang with a stifled joy.
Lizzie eyes beemed under their covert
lashes. In her mother's countenance strug-
gled a feeling that broke at the lips in a
short sob.
There was a moment's silence, a moment
in which Mrs. Hicks let her eyes shine
with the wild brightness which like some
minister of grace, the prodicsi had left in
his brain.
His wife looked at her children. Some-
thing in her glance seemed to beg them to
disbelieve the rapture she could not banish
from her face.
" We'll have to comfort each other," she
• Remarkable Testimonials.
Atwood, September 28th, 1896.
J. M. McLeod, doderich :
Dear Sir,—I beg to apologize for not
writing you sooner to thank you for the
marvellous cure effected through you. On
December, 1893, I injured my knee. Two
weeks thereafter I was obliged to have the
doctor. • I doctored all winter. Prom the
let of May, 4894, I waa confined to my bed
for seven weeks. I had no rest day or
night, the pain was intense. I got ao thin,
and became quite , helpless. The doctors
had a consultation Over me, and said if they
could save the leg I could never have the
use of my knee again. An operation fright-
ened me, and it was then my husband took
me to Goderieh in a very, helpless condition.
I took your System Renovator for my sys-
tem and to build me up, and applied E. A.
MeLennan's Liniment as reconimended.
Which you kindly applied when I couldn't
do it myself. I remained at my brother-in-
law's in Goderich for five weeks. In about
a week I was able to walk with -a staff. The
Renovator gave me an excellent appetite
and I gained --considerably in weight, as
well as in strength. ..My knee is quite
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hold duties ever since I came home. My
husbend joins with me in tendering you
our sincere thanks. _
Gratefully Youre,
MRS. JAMES STEVEN'.
For sale bye]. S. Roberte, Seaforth.
A Unique Document.
The first insurance policy on -record is the
one issued at Florence, Italy, in the year
1610, in favor of Giovanni Ballest, on %he
life of Sir Brother Ferdinand, for the sum of
30300 scudi, the term extending from the
August Festival of Piacenza of that Year to
the Feast of Epiphany, in 1611, the prem-
ium being n per cent. of the amount under-
wiritten. The' policy was written in Med-
ieval Latin. The old Florentine policy
marks the limit of historical life insurance
as a transaction : The policy is incontest-
able and indisputable. It is agreed, in the
event of the death of Sir Ferdinand, the &s-
ewers shall makelell payment. covers
natural or accidental death. It gives free
residence and travel anywhere in the world,
by land or water ; it is good at issue, and
the claim is to be payable three days after
the notice of death.—Northwestern Bank-
ing and Insurance.
A Noble) Answer.
The following story was related upon a
recent Sunday by the faithful pastor of an
evangelical church in Vienna. Returning
to his charge after en enforced abserice of
several months, the pastor had called upon
an old friend, a German and- a devout
Christian. To his surprise end grief, he
learned filet for some time he had been
'suffering from a most painful - internal dis-
ease, from which there,was no hope of re-
eoveny. The sick man spoke with deep
feeling of an interview held one day with
the physician who had charge Ief his case.
After informing the patient of the hopeless
nature of his disease, the doctor gave him
the following counsel, shocking to every.
Christian heart. -Yet it came naturally.
enoush from a men of deckled sceptical
opinions, who pitied the invalid, and
thought that he was suggesting & perfectly
ratioual way of terminating his sufferings.
said. You have this terrible disease from
whioh there is no hope of recovery, though
yeur sufferings may be prolonged for some
time. Now my advice is that, as a sewn-
ble man, you put an end to your life.1? The
patient looked at his physician, and . ans-
wered in steadfaa tones : " No, sir ! My
life was given to me for the glory of God,
and to be used in His service I have no
right to put an end to it, and shill bear my
sufferings till be sees *fit to releaae me.
The physician went his way, and the invalid
lived on for weary months, endtring with
Christian courage and a fortitude a stoic
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might have envied his long martyrdom or
pain. Unable tb get to his place of busi-
ness, he had of ee work brought to his siok
chamber, and attended to it day by day,
though in such agony at times that the
tears would. roll down his pale - cheeks. Yet
the light of faith shone bravely on in his
heroin soul, and at length the Master's sum-
mons came. The sufferer erer en e
m ff entered 'into
heavenly rest. " My, life was given to me
for the glory of God." Reader, have you
no lesson to learn from that noble man ?
" My, life was given to me for the glory of
God."—American Messenger.
Wit and Wisdom.
—Well, now, that you are back you can
tell how much it costs go to Europe. All
you've got and all you can borrow over
there.
` Folks nebber is saterfied," said Uncle
Eben.. " Er white young lady is allus
tryin' to it frizzes in her hair an' dp culled
young ladyis elks trying to git 'em out."
u
--- •Habit is hard to overcome.. Broome,. If
you take off the first letter it does nob
change " a bit." If you take another you
will still have a " bit " left.. If %eon take
off another the whole of " it " remains If
you take off another it is not " t " totally
used up.: All of which goes to show that if
you wish to be rid of a " habit " you must
throw it off altogether.
—" I see that you are our own washer-
woman," said Mrs. Spitely, who was lead-
ing her poodle past the place. " Yes," re-
torted Mrs. Snaply, " but thank goodness
I not reduced nlaying I'm to ying nurse girl for a
dog." .
----Those who are not Irishmen sometimes
trespass on Irish property., A French cure,
prel►ohing upon sudden death. said : " Thus
it's with us—we go to bed well, and get up
stone dead !" An old French- lawyer, writ-
ingon an estate he had just bought, added
" There is a chapel on it in which my wife
and I wish to• be buried, if God spares our
lives."
—A merchant who died suddenly left in
his bureau a letter to one of his correspond-
ents which he had not sealed. His clerk,
seeing it necessary to send the letter, wrote
at the bottom " Since writing the above I
have died." . -
—A young man came on a moonlight
night, to" serenade a Quaker's daughter,
but by mi hake got under the old gentle-
man's window. After following various
other airs with " Home, sweet Home," the
old gentleman, who was anxious to go to"
sleep, came to the window in his night-
dress and pleasantly said : "Young` man, if
thee has a home, and a sweet home as thee
sayeth, why don't thee go home ?"
Dwightl. Moody.
ON THE SIDE OF THE OLD BIBLE.
(Kingston Whig's correspindenc,e.)
D. -L. Moody has contributed an article
to the New York Independent, which, in
view of the recent statements of Dr. Lyman -
Abbott concerning fact and fiction in the
old tesban'orib, is of great interest. Kindly
permit me to bring' the following extracts
before your readers :
I arranot gladder for having said any-
thing in a long while than I am for my re-
cent words about Jonah. They have been
quoted far and wide, and stirred up as great
a tempest u that in the Mediterranean sea.
But I never said what is charged -against
me, that if you throw the story of Jonah
out of the Bible you throw, God out of it.
What I did say was that if you deny the
story of Jonah and the whale you must deny
the resurrection of Jesus Christ, because
He said, " As Jonah. was three days and
three nights in the whale's belly, so shall
the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth." * *
* Bat my—critics talk about theaeholara,
the great men who make a business of
criticising the Bible, and who think differ-
ently from me. Well, all the great scholars
don't think differently from me. There are
lots of scholars on my side, or rather on the
side of the' old Bible. I suppose that Dr.
Philip Schaff would be classed as a scholar,
but he standshy the story of Jonah on the
same ground that I do. So does Professor
Townsend, who has been connected with the
Boston University for 25 years, and so does
President Harper,of the Chicago University,
who said at Northfield, in the presence cif
five or six hundred students, " I believe
that the whale swallowed Jonah," Hun-
dreds, of the best and ablest preachers in
this country and Great Britain stand .on.this
question just where our fathers stood, and
its present agitation is bringing their testi-
mony to the front in a way that is strength-
ening faith in the word of God. Nit I
shouldn't care if scholars were not on my
side. There's o false motion of authority.
* Are those words of Jesus
Christ about .Jonah correctly translated ?
Is there any doubt of the historical accur-
acy of that text ? I am willing to listen tO
the science of biblical criticism on either of
thoie questions, because lb 'can teach me
there.r But do or does any one of aver-
age corti mon sense need ite help after that ?
Can'thwe read our mother tongue, and are
not wir as well able to form a judgment as
to the sense of our Saviour's words in suck a
case as the most learned man on earth ?"-
-Very successful meetings of the North
Perth Fanners' Institute were held on
Monday afternoon and evening -last week,
at Atwood ; and at Milverton on Tuesday
aftedmon and evening. All the meetings
disc esions following wete practical and of
wel well attended and , the speeches and
mach interest and value. •
—On 'January 7th last, Clara Edith
Hyde, daughter of Mrs. (Dr.) Hyde, of
Stratford, became the bride of Mr. J.-0.
Huret, of Washington, D. C., and on Tues-
daye 2nd inst. her friends in Stratford re-
ceived the sad intelligence of her death,
whigh matured at her residence in Washing
ton, ,of la grippe.
—Mr. Robert Moore, on his leaving Lis-
towel for the west, was given a social by
the iSfficers and teacher% of Knox church
Sabbath sehool, at the residence of Mr.° T.
L. Hamilton. • During the evening he was
com anied by a, handsome bible and Mrs.
Moo e was given a flue copy of Leigfellow's
poe s.
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been as much noted .
for their big feet as
for their large noses. A syour fool should look.
George Eliot, Madame de Stael and
other supremely intelligent women had also
very,large feet. •
It is
of the sage but the shape of the foot
which 1 makes it beautiful or ugly, and
the ,shod worn decides its shape, as well as
its eolm�fort.
'lieu is inOre care used more time
spent—in shafting " Slater Shoes," and in
takinghe stretch out of the leather so it
will re in that shape, than in the entire
making, of ordinary shoes..
The poodyear Welt process admits of this
fine modelling, and the stamp on the solo
ensures to the wearer these hidden qualities.
A to on each pair of "Slater Shoes"
tells of The leather in it.
$3i00, X4.00 and $5.00 per pair,
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CANDID STATEMENTS
FOR THE PEOPL
We are placing in stoFk some'of the nicest and most fashionable G.
that it will be your privilege to pee outside this store. We have made
elaborate preparation for the SPring trade ; and are now- in a position to s
you Goods,,which for value, we defy comparison. We are showing some beau
ful things in Dress Goods and Trimmings ; our Embroideries an& Laces, vril
found to exceed anything you have. seen before.
We imported direct through agents all our. Table Linens Tow. ellings
Apron Linens, from the Brookfield_ Puen Co., Belfast, Irelland, so that4
enables us to offer you Linens at pi s not hitherto obtainable.
Our Ladies' Vests
Are models of beauty and in them we can please the most fastidious.
Ladies' Underwear.
We intend to make al specialty of Ladies' Blouses, Wrappers and Uncle
wear ready to ivear.
Ready to, Wear Clothing for Spring
To hand; and in this department we are bound,, to know no olat5Ofoir
Every Man Youth and Boy cordially invited to call and look through our pie
in„,a we thia the magnitude of the stock 'will surprise those who are.
habit of buying where small stooks are kept.
Our Grocery Department is complete with the latest in everything, end
under the direction of Mr. James Purcell, who will be pleased to welcome
and all to the brightest and lightest Grocery Store in this County.
Our aim is to make this store to the County of Huron, what Ma
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Toronto.
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'Week and will show you literature that will pay to carefully peruse.
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