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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-07-09, Page 6Well Satisfied with Ayer's Hair Vigor. "Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my hair -turned gray. I began -using Ayer'e Hair Vigor, and was so well satis- fied with the results that I have Dever tried any other kind of dress- ing. It requires only an occasional appli- cation of AYER'S Hair Vigor toireep ro,y hair of good color, to retnove dandruff, to heal itc mg umors, and prevent the hair from falling out. I never hesi- tate to recommend Ayer's medicines to my friends."—Mrs. H. M. HAMM Avoca, Nebr. YL Hair Vigor TreparedbyDroY.C. Ayer &Co.,Lowell,Maes. Take Aier's Sarsaparilla for the Complexion. VETERINARY. TOME GRIEVE, V. S., keno? graduate of Ontario Veterinary College. All diseases of Domeatlo salmals treated. Calle promptly attended to and obarges moderete. Vete riflery Dentistry a specialty Offiee and reptidence on Goderich street, one door Air of Dr. Soatt's office, Seaforth. •1112M G. H. GIBS, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto ()allege of Veterinary del:Mete, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- otinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- aky Medical Society. All diseases of domestio animals Skilfully treated. All calla promptly attended to day or night Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Office and Dispensary—Dr. Campbell's old office, Main street Seaforth. Night calls answered from the office. 1406-52 LEGAL JAMES L KILLORAN, nareister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public Money to loan. Office over Piokard's Store, formerly Mechanics Institute, Main Street, Sealorth. 1528 Alf G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & in. Cameron. Barrister and Solicitor, Goderiah, Ontario. Office—Hamiltotostreet, opposite Colborne HOWL 1452 TAMES wort Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mal- o) eon's Bank, Clinton. Office — Elliott lock, Clinton, Ont. Money toloan on mortgage. 1451 R8. HAYS, Barrister, Solioitor'Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Domialon Bank. Office—Cardoo's blook, Main Street, Seaforth doney to loan. 1235 iM. BEST, Barrister Solicitor Notary, &c. . Moe—Rooms, five 'doors nort.h of Oornmercis abet, ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papal *wavy store, Main street, Seaeorth. Goderida ents-nameron, Holt 'xi cameo. ' & PROUDFOLYT, Barriaten, 391101iOni, &a., Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GasiseW, Q. C.; P11011111901. 613 LIMON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barditere, Bo- ll./ &shore in Mowery, Isti.,Goderieh, CA saes, Q. e., Pamir HOLT, Deem Howls HOLIIESTED, erucceseor to the late firm of X. McCaughey & Holmested, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notaly Solicitor for the Can adhanBan.k of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm for sale. Office in Scott'e Block, Main Street ileaforth. DENTISTRY. - MI W. TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office—Over Richard- '• son & McInnis* shoe store, corner Main and John streete, Saatorth. DL BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work J.) and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work earefully performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.' nardware store, Seaforth. 1451 DS. ANDER.SON, graduate of Royal College of • Dental Snrgeons, Ontario, D. D. S., of To- ronto Univeraity. Office, Market Block, Ontario. 1402 re AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton'will rat visit Hernia at Hodgena'Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the • second Thursday in each month 1286 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Graduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office and Residenoe—Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church g"Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12 Ton. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. CM., Viotoria, M. C. P. S., Ontario, sucoessor to Dr. Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce. eld , Ontario. In E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. Ir. P. and S. _ane Glasgow, &o., Physician, Surgeon and Ao. coueher, Constance, Ont. 1127 ALEX. BK7HUNIC, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physdolana and Surgeons, Kingston. essor to Dr. Mackid. Office lately oorsupled Dy Dr. Maokid, Maio Street Seaforth. Residence —Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately °templed by L. E. Dancey. 1127 DR, F. J. BURROWS, Late resident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen- e ral Broepital. Honor graduate Trinity University, member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. WOFFICE.—Same as formerly occupied by Dr. Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephone No. 46 B ---Night calls answered from office. 1386 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Goderich street, opposite Methodist church,Seriforth J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. C. MacKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, gold medaliet Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. 17 ANNIE KILBURN. BY WILLIAM DEAN ROWELLS. ••••••••••••••••••••••• III.—Continued. - Bolton sighed deeply an& continued in a diffusive _strain, which at last became per- ceptible to Mies Kilburn through her own humihation." Theree some in every com- munity that's bound to complain, I don't care what you do to accommodate 'em: and what I done, I done as much to stop their clack as anything, and give him the right sort of a start off, an' I guess I did. But bilis' Bolton she didn't know but what you'd look at it in the light of a libbutty, and I didn't knOw but what you would think I had no business to done it." He seemed to be addreseing 'a question to her,but she only replied with a dazed frown, and Bolton was obliged to go on. - "1 didn't let him room in your part of the house • that is to say, not sleep there; but 1 thought as you was cons& home, and I'd better be akinit up some way, I might as well let him set in the old Judge's room. II you think it was more than I had a right to do, I'm willin' to pay for it. Get up !" Bolton turned fully round toward hie horses, to hide the workings of emotion in his face, and shook the reins like a des- perate man. "What are you talking about, Mr. Bol- ton?" cried Miss Kilburn. "Whom are you talking about ?" Bolton answered, with a kind of violence, "Mr. Peck; 1 touk him to board, first off." "You took him to board ?" Yes. 1 know it we'll% jtist accgrdin' to the letter o' the law, and the olld Judge was always pooty p'tielith. But I've took care of the place goin' on twentef years now, and hairdt never had a chick nor a child in it before. The child," he continued, partly turning his face round again, and beginning to look Miss Kilburn in the eye, wa'n't one to touch anything, anyway, and. we kep' „ter in our part ail the time; Mie Bolton she couldn't seem' to let her out of her sight, she got so fond of her, and she used to fol- low meround among the hosses like a kit- ten. 1 deelare, I miss her; and we all do." Bolton's iace, the color of one of the lean ploughed fields of Hatboro', and deeply fur- rowed, lighted up with real feeling, which he tried to makego as far in the work of reconciling Miss Kilburn as it it had been factitious. "But I don't understand," she said. What child are you talking about ?" "Mr. Peck's..." Was he married 6" she asked, with dis- pleasure, she did nbt know why. "Well, yes, he had been." answered Bol- ton. "But she'd ben in the asylum ever since the child was ,born." • "Oh," said 1Vlias -Kilburn, with relief; and she fell back upoa the seat from which she had started forward. Bolton might easily have taken her tone tone for that of disgust. He faced round upon her once more. "It was kind of queer, his havin' the child with hinn an' takin' most the care of her himself; and so, as I say, Mis' Bolton and me we took him in, as much to stop folks' mouths as anything, till they got kinder used to it. But we didn't take him into your part, as I say; and as I say, rm willin' to pay you whatever you say for the use of the old Judge's study. I presume that part of it was a libbuty." "It was all perfectly right, Mr. Bolton," said Miss Kilburn, " His wife died anyway, .more than a year ago," said Bolton, as if the act cam- plOasi 'As Mouement td Nish Kilburn. " Git p! I told him fro:n the start thdt it had got to be a temporary thing, an' t I only took him till he could git settled somehow. I guess he means to go to house-keepin'oif he can get the right kind of a house -keeper; he wants an old one. If it was a young one, I guess he wouldn't have any great trouble, if he went about it the right way." Bolton's sarcasm was Merely a race sareasm. He was a 'very mild man, • and his thick -- growing eyelashes softened and shadowed his gray eyes, and gays his lean face pathos. " You could have let him stay till he had found a suitable place," said bliss_ Kil- _ burn. " Oh, I wa'n't goin' to do that," said Bol- ton. "But I'm. 'bliged to you just the same." They came up in sight. of the old square house, standing back a good distance from the road, with a broad sweep of grass sloping down before it into a little valley, and ming again to the wall fencing the grounds from the street. The wall was overhung there by a. company of magnificent elms, which turned and formed one aide of the aveaue leading to the house. Their, tops met and -mixed somewhat incongrously with those of the stiff dark maples which more -densely shaded the °thei side of the lane: lano ICHARD COMMON, liceese d auctioneer for the jai County of Huron, Goleta and bills attended to promptly, charges in keeping with times, Seaforth, Ontario. . 152342 WM. M'CL,OY, oneerlor the Clountdes of Huron and Perth, and Agent al Bengali for the Massey -Harris Menu - g Company. Wee promptly attended to, &snow moderate and satistooton guaranteed. ceders by mall addressed to Mensal Poh office, or tett at his residence, Lel 2 Commission 11, Tuck- oismith, will reoeive prompt attention:J 1296 -if • TOFfN R. MoDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for ej the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of -the County. Terms reaeooable. From Mr. ItaDougall's long experience as a dealer in farm stook of all kinds, he is apteially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at TER EXPOSITOR °duo, or at his residence, Lot Huron Road. Tunkersmith, near Alma, will be promptly attended to. 1466 $5.00 REWARD: A reward of $5 will be paid for such information as will lead to the detection and conviction of the evil disposed person or persons who have been breaking the windows of the School House in Section No. 7, Tuckersmith, bettor known as Hannah's School Rouse. OORDOV. MoADAM, Secretary of Trustee Board. 1540-1 Bolton drove into their gloom, and then out into the wide sunny space at the side of the house where Mks Kilburn had alighted so often with her father. Bolton's dog, grown now so very olcl as to be weak-mind- ed, barked crazily at his imaster, and theno recognizing him, broke into an imbecile whimper, and went back and coiled his rheumatism up in the sun on a warm stone before the door. Mrs. Bolton had to step over him as she came out, formally sup- porting her elbow with her left hand as she offered the ,other in greeting to Miss Kil- burn,with a look of question at her hushaod. Miss Kilburn intercepted the look, and began to laugh. -All was unchanged, and all so stran e ; it seemed as if her father must both et down with her from the carriage and colne to meet her from, the house. Her glance n - voluntarily took in the familiar masses and details; the patches of short tough grass mixed with decaying chips • and small weeds under foot, and the spacious June sky overhead; the fine network and blis- ters of the cracking and warping white paint on the clapboarding, and the hills beyond the bulks of the village houses and treee • the woodshed stretching with its low beard arches hi the barn, and the milk - pans tilted to sun against the underpinning of the L, and Mrs. Bolton's pot plants in the kitchen window. "Did you think I could be hard about such a thing as that? It was perfectly ' right. Oh, Mrs. Bolton 1" She stopped laughing and 'began to cry; she put away Mrs. Bolton's carefully offered hand, she threw herself upon the bony structure of her bosom, and buried her fade sobbing in the leathery folds of her neck. Mrs. Bolton suffered her embrace above the old dog, who fleclovith a cry of rheum- atic apprehension from the sweep of Miss Kilburn a skirts, and then came back and snuffed at them in a vain effort to recall her. "Well, go in and lay down by the stove," said Mrs. Bolton, with a divided interest, while she beat Miss•Kilburn's back with her bony palm in sign of sympathy. But the dog went off up the lane, and stood there by the pasture bars, barking abstractedly at intervals. IV. Miss Kilburn found that the house had been well aired for her coming, but an old earthy and mouldy srnell,which it took days and nights of opeo doors and windows to drive out, stole hack again wit h the first turn of rainy weather. She had fires built on the hearths and in the stoves, and after opening her trunks and scattering her dresses on beds and chairs, she spent • most of the first week outside of the house, wan- dering about the fields and orchards to ads just herself anew to the estranged features of the place The house she found lower - celled and smaller than she remembered it. The Boltons; hod kept it up very well, and CLACLIESTCO23.1...fh..• lite fate ; - simile is os sigsators sysr7 - Wrapper. - • 4 6 Sweet Bells..fangled Out of Tune." How *Audi of woman's life happiness is lost far lack of harmony. A hutidred sweet melodious tones ruined by one little note of dis- c r d. Wo- e •who aught to en- joy the per- fect happi- ness of love and wifehood and mother- hood are mis- erable front one year's end to the other, be- cause of some weakness or diseaseofthe delicate organism of their sex. These; delicate com- plaints, which make a Jangling dissonance of so many lives, are not by any means a necessity of womanhood. They May be overcome and completely eradicated uuder judicious treatment. There is no need of repugnant examina- tions. There is no need of resorting to any unauthorized medicament compounded by an unskilled, uneducated person. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures the troubles of the feminine organism posi- tively, completely and safely. ; For nearly 30. years Dr. R. ye.ekielrce has been chief cons.,ulting physician of the In- valids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N.Y. Hills an eminent and expert specialist in this particular field of practice. Any woman may write to him with perfect confidence, and will receive, free of charge, sound, professional advice and suggestion for self -treatment by which cot out of too cases of female complaint, even of the mast obstinate kind, may be completely and per- manently cured. Address him as above. "While I was 'Wing at Eagle Rock, Botetourt Co., Va.," writes Mr% G. A. Connor, of Allegh- any Spring, Montgomery Co., Va., "a ladv friend came to me and said: ' My daughter. aged 15 years, has repeated hemorrhages at the nose, and she has never had the necessary, indispcx4i- tions of womanhood.' I 'advised her to get Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prestription. The lady pur- chased one bottle and it cured her daughter. She was well and happy when I left there. Constipation is the all - embracing cause of ill -health. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets ewe it. They never gripe. in spite of the earthy and mouldy smell, it IN as conscientiously clean. There was not a sPeck of dust anywhere; the old yellowish - white paint was spotless; the windows Abase. But there was a sort of frigidity in the perfect order and repair which repelled her, ard she left her things tossed about, as if to break the be of this propriesy. In several places, within and without, she found marks of the faithful .hand of Bolton in economical patches of the woodwork ; but she was nob sure that they had not been there eleven years before; and there were darnings in the carpets and curtains, which affected her with the same 'mixture of nov- elty and familiarity. Certain stale smells about the place (minor smells as compared with the prevalent odor) confused her; she could not dee* whether she remembered them of old, or was reminded of the odors she used to catch in passing the pantry on the steamer. Her father had never been sure that he would not return any next year or month, and the house had always been ready to receive them. In his study everything was as he left it. His daughter looked for signs of Mr. Peck's opoupation, but there were none; Mrs. Bolton explained that she bed put him in a table from her own sit- ting -room to write tat, The Judge's desk was untouched, and his heavy wooden arm- chair stood pulled up to it as if he were in it. The ranks of law -books, in their yellow sheep -skin, with their red titles above and their black titles belowowere in the order he had taught Mrs. Bolton to replace them in after dusting ; the stuffed owl on a shelf above the mantel looked down with a clear solemnity in his gum - copal eyes, and Mrs. Bolton took it from its perch to show Miss Kilburn that there was not a moth en it, nor the sign of a inoth. , r the air, they laughed when she said she in. now to make it her home the whole year round, and Bahl they guessed she would he tired of ill long before winter; there were plenty of, -summer folks that . passed the winter ai long as - the June weather lasted. As they grew more seoure of themselves, or less afreid of ane =ether in her presence, their voices rose; the' laughed loudly at nothing, and they yelled in a nervousehorns at times, each trying to make herself heard above the others. They showed that - they were just the same gaY, unaffected village gide that she used to know. Two of them were really women of very good minds; the other was a simpleton, but in these -mo- ments of demonstratioa they were all alike, and collectively they *ere inferior in And and manners to the went of their number. She asked thein about the social life in the village, and they told her that a good many new people had I really settled there, but they diet -not know} whether she would like them; they were pot the old Hatboro' style. Annie showed them some of the things she had bro ght home, especially ti Roman views, and the said now she ought to give an evening in the church parlor with them. "You'll have to come to our church, Annie," said Mrs. Ptitney. "The Unitarian doesn't have preaching once in a month, and Mr. Peck is very liberal." ; "He's 'most too liberal for some," fund Emmeline Gerrish. Ot the three she had grown the stoutest, aid frOm-being a slight, light -minded girl, shelhad become a heavy matron, habitually censorious in her speech. She did not mean any more by it, however, than she did by her girlish frivolity, .and if she was not supported in her severity, she was apt to break down and disown it with a giggle, aa she novv did. "Well, I don't know_ about his being too • liberal," said Mrs. Wilmington, a large red- haired blonde, with a lazy laugh. "He makes you feel that you're a pretty miser- able sinner." She made a grimace of hum- orous disgust. : "Mr. Gerrish says that's' just the trouble," Mrs. Gerrish broke in. "Mr. Peck don't put stress enough on the prom- ises. That's what -Mr. Gerrish says. You must have been surPrised, Annie," she add- ed, "to find that he'd been staying in your house." "1 was glad Mrs. Bolton invited him," answered Annie, sincerely, but not in- stanhtly ' Teladies waited, with. an exchange of glances, for her reply, as if they had talked the matter over beforehand, and had agreed to find out just how Annie Kilburn felt about it. "Oh, I guess he paid his board," eaid Mrs. Wilmington, jocosely, rejecting the euphuistic implication than he had beeh the guest of the Boltons. "1 don't see what he expects to do with that little girl of his, without any mother, that way,' said Mrs. Gerrish. " He ought to get married." "Perhaps he will, when he's waited a proper time," suggested Mrs. Putney, de - m u 1. el y. "Well, his wife's been the, same as dead ever since the child was born. I don't know what you calla proper time, Ellen," argued Mrs. Gerrish SI presume a minister feels differently abput such things," Mrs. Wilmington re- marked, indolently. , "1 don't see why a minister should feel any different from anybody else," said Mrs. Gerrish. "It's bis duty to do it on his child's account. I don't see why he don't have the remains brought to Hatboro' any- way.') They debated this point at some length, and they seemed to forget Annie. She lis- tened with more interest than her concern In the last resting.place of the minister's dead wife really inspired. These old child friends of heas seemed to have lost the sen- sitiveness tf their girlhood without having gained tenderness in its place. They treat- ed the affair with a nakedness that shocked her. In the country „and in small towns people come face to face with life especially women. It means marrying, child-bearing, household cares and burdens, neighborhood gossip, sickness, death, burial, and whether the corpse appeared natural. But ever so much kindness goes with their disillusion ; they are blunted, but not embittered. ; They ended by recalling Annie to mind, and Mrs. Putney said: "1 suppose you haven't been to the cemetery yet? They've got it all fixedup since you went away— drives laid out, and paths cut through, and everything. A good many have put up family tombs, and they've taken away the old iron fencearound the lots, and put gran- ite curbing. They mow the grass all the time. It's a perfect garden." Mrs. Putney was a small roman'already beginning to wrinkle, and she bad been rather an odd girl. She had married a man whom Annie remembered as a mischievous little boy, with a sharp tongue and a /nervous temper- ament; her father had always liked him when he came about the house, but Annie had lost sight of him in the years that Make small boys and girls large ones, and he was at college when she went abroad. She had an impression of something unhappy in her friend's marriage. "1 think it's too much fixed up myself," said Mrs. Gerrish. She turned suddenly to Annie : "You going to have your father fetched home?" The other ladies started a little, at the queetion and looked at Annie • it was not that they were shocked, but they wanted to see whether she would not be so. "No," she said, briefly. She added, helplessly, "It wasn't his wish." "1 should have thought he would have liked to be buried alongside . of your mother," said Mrs. Gerrish. "But.the Judge always was a little peculiar. I pre- sume you can have the name and the 'date put on the monument just the same." Annie flushed at this intimate comment and suggestion from a woman whom as a girl she had never admitted. to familiarity with her, but had tolerated because she was such a harmless simpleton, and hung upon other girls whom she liked better. The word " monument". cowed her, however. She was aired& they would begin to talk about the soldier's monument. She ale] Miss Kilburn experienced .here that re- fusal of the old associations to take the form of welcome which she had already felt in the earth and sky and air outside • in everything there was a sense of impassable separation. Her dead father was no nearer in his wonted place than the trees of the orchard, or the outline of the well-known hills, or the pink of the familiar sunsets. In her rummaging about the house she pulled open a chest of 'a chest of drawers which used to stand in the room where slept when a child. It was full of her own childish clothing, a little girl's linen and muslin; and she thought with a throe of despair that she could as well hope to get back into these outgrown garments, which the helpless piety of Mrs. Bolton had kept from the rag -bag, as to think of re-entering the relations of the life so long left off.' It surprised her to find how cold the Bol - tons were; she had remembered them as always kind and willing; but she was so used now to the ways of the Italians and their showy affection, it was hard for her to realize that people could be both kind and cold. The Boltons seemed ashamed of their feelings and hid them ; it was the same in some degree with all the -villas -rem when she began to meet them, and the fact slowly worked back into her consciousness, wound- ing its way in. People did not come to see her at once. They waited, as they told her, till she got settled, before they called, and then they did not appear very glad to have her back. But this was not altogether' the effect of their temperament. The Kilburns had made a long summer always in Hatboro', and they had always talked of it as home ; but they had never_ passed a whole year there since Judge Kilburn first went to Congress, and they were not regarded as full neighbors or permanent citizens. Miss -Kilburn, howeveri kept up her childhood friendships, and she and some of the ladies called one another by their Christian names, but they believed that she met people m Washington whom she liked better • the winters she spent there certainly weakned the ties between them, and whem it came to those eleven years in Rome, the letters they exchanged grew rarer and rarer, till they stopped altogether. Some of the girls went away; some died ; others became dead and absent to her in their marriages and houaehold cares. After waiting for one another, three of them came together to see her one cloy: They all kissed her, after a questioning glance at her face and dress, as if they wanted to see whether she had grown proud or too fash- ionable. But they were themselves appar- ently much better dressed, and certainly more richly dressed. In a place like Hat- boro', where there is no dinner -giving, and ,evening parties are few, the best dress is a street costume, which may be worn for calls and shopping, and for chureh and all public entertainments. The well-to-do ladies make an effect of out -door fashion, in which the poorest shop hand has her part; and in their turndthey share her in -door simplicity. These old friends of Annie's wore bonnets and frocks of the latest style and costly material. hey let her make the advances, reeeiv- in them with blank passivity, or repelling. them with irony, according to the several needs of their self-respect, and talking to one another across her.. 'One of them asked her when her hair had begun to turn, and theyoaoh told her how thin she was, but promised her that Hatboro' air would bring her up. At the same time they feigned humility in everything about Hatboro' but CALE§ Ct MLLES - The heulmIle= signature Of es every 'rapper. - ewere, and began to ask them about their Mrs. Wilmington, who bad no children, and Mrs. Putney* who had one, spoke of Mrs. Gerrish'S large family.. She had four ehildren, and she refused the praises of her friends for them, though she celebrated them herself.' 'You ought to have seen the two little girle that Ellen lost, Annie," she said. " Mien Putney, I don't see how you ever got over that. Those two lovely, healthy children gone, and poor little Win- throp left 1 'I always did say, it was toe hard." She had mirried a clerk in the principal dry -goods itoze, who had prospered rapidly, and was now one of the first business men of the place, and had an ambition to be a leading citizen. She believed in his fltnees to deal with the questions a religion and education,which he took part in, and was always quoting; Mr. Gerrish,. She called hire Mr. Gerrish so much that other people began to call him so too. But Mrs. Put- ney's husband held out against it, and had the habit of returning the little man's cere- monious salutations with an easy: "Hello, Billy," " Good -morning, Billy." It was his theory that this was good for Gerrish, who might otherwise have forgotten when every- body called him Billy. He wee one of the old Putney's; and he was a lawyer by pro- fession. • Mrs. Wilmington's husband had come to Hatboro' since Annie's long absence began; he had capital, and he had started a stock- ing -mill in Hatboro'. He was much older than his wife, whom he had married after a protracted widowerhood. She had one of the best houses and the , most richly fur- nished in Hatboro'. She' had more mind than either, of the others, and she and Mrs. Putney saw Mrs. Gerrish at rare intervals, and in observance of some notable fact of their girlish friendahip like the present. In pursuance of the stibject of children, Mrs. Gerrish said that she sometimes had a notion to offer to take Mr. Peck's little girl herself till he could get fixed somehow, but Mr. Gerrish would not let her. Mr. Ger- rish said Mr. Peck had better get 'married himself if he wanted a step -mother for his little girl. Mr. Gerrish was peculiar about keeping a family to itself, " VV ell, you'll think we've -come to board with you too," said Mrs. Putney, in refer- ereece to Mr. Peck. The ladies all rose, and having got upon their feet, began to shout and laugh again— like girls, they implied. They staid and talked a long time after rising, with the same note of unsparing per- sonality in their talk. Where there are few public interests and few events, as in such places, there can be no small talk, nothing of the careless touch-and-go of the longer societies. Every one knows ail the others, and knows the worst- of them. People are not unkind; they are mutually and freely helpful; but they have only themselves to occupy their minds. Annie's friends had also to 'distinguish themselves to her from the rest of the villagers, and it was easiest to do this by an attitude of criticism min- gled with large allowance. They ended a dissection of the community by saying that they believed there was no place like Hat- boro', after all. They went out en the tide of the most tolerant hilarity and exuberant local pride. Each felt that she had not made a good im- pression, but blamed the others for it, while she laughed and screamed to keep, her spir- its up. In the contagion of their perfunc- tory gayety Annie began to scream and laugh too, as she followed them to the door, and stood talking to them while they got into Mrs. Wilmington's extension -top carry- all. She answered with deafening prom. ises, when they all put their bonnets out of the carry -all and called back to her to be Eure to come soon lo see her. D. S. Doan, of Clinton, says: "DR. CHASE'S OINTMENT will cure Salt Rheum when all else has failed; believe what I say and try it. Don't go on suffering for years as I did." - - Mrs. F. Pearson, Inglewood, Ont., says: "My baby, five months old, had eczema very badly on his face and head. I procured two boxes of the Ointment and when they had been used all signs of the disease had disappeared." • acceptable, but none that is not tolerable when once it establishes itself; and while Annie Kilburn had never committed to be an old maid, she had become one without great sufferitg. At thirty-one she could not call hereelf ,anything else; she often called herself an old maid, with the mental reservation that she was not one. She was merely unmarried; she might marry any time. Now, when she assured herself of this, as she had done many times before, she suddenly wondered if she should ever marry.; she wondered if, she had seemed to her friends' yesterday like a person who would never marry. Did one carry such a thing in one's looks? Perhaps they ideal- ixed her ; they heel not seen her since she was twenty, and perhaps they still thought of her as a young girl. It now. seemed to her as if she had left her youth in Rome, as in Rome it had seemed toher that should she 'find it again in Hatboro'. A pang of aim. lees, unlocalized homesickness passed through her; she realized that she was .alone in the world. She rose to escape the -pang, and went to the window of the par- ' tor which looked toward the street, 'where she saw the figure of a young man draped in 'a long India -rubber gossamer coat fluttering in the wind that pushed him. along as he tacked on a southerly course; he bowed and twisted his head to escape the lash of the rain. She watched him till he turned into the lane leading to the house and then, at a discreeter distance, she watt:hied him through the window at the other corner. making his way up to the front door in the teeth of the gale. He seemed to, have a bundle under his arm, and as the stepped into the shelter of the portico, and freed his arm to ring, she discovered that it was a bundle of books. Whether Itirs.Bolton did not hear the bell, or whether she heard it and decided that it would be absurd to leave her work for it, when Miss Kilburn, who was so much nearer, could answer it, she did not come, even at a second ring, and Annie was fcrced to go to the door herself, or leave the poor man dripping in the cold wind outside. She had made up her mind, at sight of the books, that he was a canvasser for some subscription book, such as need to come in her father's time, but when she opened to him he took off his hat with a great deal of manner, and Bald: "Miss Kilburn ?" with so much insinuation of gentle disinterested- ness that it ;flashed upon her that it might be Mr. Peck. "Yes," she said, with confusion, while the flash of conjecture faded away. "Mr. Brandreth," said her visitor, whom she now eaw to be much younger than Mr. Peck could be. He looked not much more than twenty-two or twenty-three ; his damp hair waved and curled upon his temples and forehead, and his blue eyes lightened from a beardless and freshly shaven face. "1 call- ed tnia morning because I felt sure of find- ing you at home." He smiled • at his reference to the weather, and Annie smiled too as she again answered. "Yes ?" he did not want his books, but she liked something that was cheerful and enthusiastic in him ; she add- ed, "Won't you step into the study ?" "Thanks,yes," said the young man, flinging off his gossamer'and _hanging it up to drip into the pan of the hat rack. He gathered up his books from the chair where he had laid them, and held them at his waist with both hands, while he bowed her preeedence beside the study door. " I don't know," he began, "but ought to apologize for coming on a day like this, when you were not expecting to be in- terrupted.' "Oh, no; I'm not at all busy. But you must have had courage to brave a storm like -this." " No. The truth is, Miss Kilburn, I was very anxious to see you about a matter I have at heart—that I desire your help with." e " He wants me," Annie thought, "to give „him the "use of my name as a sub- scriber to his book "—there seems really to be a. half dozen books in his bundle—" and he's come.to me first." "1. had expected to come with Mrs. Munger—she's a great friend of mine; you haven't met her yet, but» you'll like her ; she's the leading spirit in South Hatboro'— and we were coming together this morning; but she was unexpectedly &tiled away yes- terday, and so I ventured to cell alone." " I'm very glad to see you; Mr. Brand- reth," Annie said. "Then Mrs. Munger has subscribed already, and I'm only second fiddle, after all," she thought. "The truth is," said Mr. Brandreth, " atn the factotum of the South Hatboro' ladies' book club and I've been deputed to come and eee if you wouldn't like to join it." " Oh !" said Annie, and with a thrill of dismay she asked herself how much she had let her manner betray that she had sup- posed he was a book agent. I shall be very glad indeed, Mr. Brandrethdt • "Mrs. Munger was sure you would," said Mr. Brandreth, joyously. "I've brought .some of the books with men -the last," he said ; and Annie had time to get into a new social attitude towards him during their discussion of the books. She choose one, and Mr. Brandreth took her subscription,, and wrete her name in the club book. " One of the reasons,"- he said, "why I Would have preferred to come with Mrs. Mnnger is that she is so heart and soul with me in my little scheme. She could. have put it before you in so much better light than I can. But she was called away so suddenly!" I I; hope for no serious cease," said Annie. V. Mrs. Bolton made no advances with An- nie toward the discussion of her friends ; but when Annie asked about their families, she answered with the incisive directnessl of country -bred woman. She delivered her, judgments as she went about her work, the morning after the ladies' visit, while Annie sat before the breakfast-table'which she had given her leave to clear. As she pain- ed in tnd out from the dining -room to the kitchen she kept talking; she raised her voice in the further room,. and lowered it when she drew near again. She wore a dis- mal calico wrapper, which made 110 com- promise with the gauntness of her figure; her reddish -brown hair, which grew in a fringe below her crown, was plaited into email tags or tails, pulled up and tied across the top of her head, the bare sur- faces of which were curiously mottled with the dye which she sometimes put on her, hair. Behind, this wasggathered up into a small knob pierced with a single hair -pin; the arrangement left Mrs. Bolton's visage to the unrestricted expression of character. She did not let it express toward Annie any expectation of the confidential relations that are supposed to exist between people who have been a long time 'master and servant. She had never recognized her relations with the Kilburns in these terms. She was a mateahe Yankee single woman, of confirmed self-respect, when she first came as house-keeperdto Judge Kilburn, twenty years ago, and she had not changed her nature in changing condition by her marriage with Oliver Bolton ; she was childless, unless his comparative youth conferred a -Hort of adoptive Maternity upon her. Annie went into her father's study, where' she had lit the fire in the Franklin:stove on her way to breakfast. It had come on to rain during the night, after the fine yes- terday which Mrs. Gerrish had denounced to its face as a weather -breeder. At first it rained silently, stealthily ; but toward morning Annie heard the wind rising, and when she looked out of her window after daylight she found a fierce northeasterly storm drenching and chilling the landscape. Now across the flattened and tangled grass of the lawn the elms were writhing in the gale, and swinging their long leap boughs to and fro ; from another window she saw the cuffed and hustled maples ruffling their stiff masses of foliage, .and shuddering in, the storm. She turned away, with a sigh of the luxurious melancholy which a north- easter inspires in people safely sheltered froin it, and sat down before her fire. She recalled the three women who had visited her the day before, in the better -remember- ed figures of their childhood and young girlhood ; and their present character did not seem a broken promise. Nothing was was really disappointed in it but the animal joy, the hopeful riot of their young blood, which must fade and die with the- happiest fate. She perceived that what they had come to was not unjust to what they had been ; and as our own fate always appears to us unaccomplished, a thing for the dis- tant futuire to fulfil, she began te .ask her- self what was to be the natural sequence of such a temperament, such mental and moral traits, as hers. Had her life been so noble in anything but vague aspirations that she could ever reasonably expect the destiny of grand usefulness which she had always unreasonably expected? The ques- tion came home to her with such pain, in the light of what her old playmates had be- come, that she suddenly ceaeed to enjoy the misery of the sterm out -of- doors, or the purring content of the fire on the. hearth of the stove at her feet; the book she had taken down to readfell unopened into her lap, and she gave herself up to a half-hour of such piercing self -question as only a high. minded woman can endure when the flatter- ing promises of youth have grown vague and few. There is no -condition of life that is wholly CLEB.SAMICOXI.X.stilett Tkefae. iinll� is on etery Manna JULY 9 18974 DON'T !FORGET , "Oh no ! It's just to Cambridge. Her son is one of the Freshman Nine, and he's been hit by a ball." Oh !" said Annie. . isl ' Yes ; it's a great pity for Mrs. Mun- er. But I come to you for advice as well co-operation, Miss Kilburn. You must ave met a great many English people in teme, and heard some of them talk about it! We're thinkingasome of the young peo- Ple here, about getting up some out -door theatricale, like Lady Archibald Campbell's, dOn't you know. You know about them ?" he added,at the blankness in her face. ' r" I read accounts of them in the English . . papers. 1 They must have been very—origi- nal. But do you think that in a community Like Hatboro'— Are there enough who could—enter into the spirit ?". ; "Oh, yes, indeed I" cried Mr. Brandreth, ardently. "You've .no idea what a place „Hatboro' has got to be. You've not been *bout much yet, Miss Kilburn ?" ; I "No," said Annie; "1 havett't really hem off our own place since I calm. The weather ' has been very changeable ; - and I ve seen nobody but two or three old friends, and we naturally talked more about ald times than 'anything else. But I hear that there are great changes." 1 (To be continued.) COUNTY REGISTRAR. All else failing Mr. George C.Ward is Cured by Eight Boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I PORT HOPE, (Special)July 5—No case of recovery from serious illness that has ever Occurred in this community has caused as much talk as that of our esteemed fellow townsman, Mr. George C. Ward, Registrar of this County, residing here. For a long time it had been well known to his intimate friends that he was a sufferer from kidney disorder. But for the past year he grew worse, and all efforts to regain hia strength were without avail. 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