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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-07-23, Page 6' HE HURON EXPOSITOR Sick Headache Permanently Cured "I was troubled, a long time, with. sick headache. It was usually ac- compsnied with severe pains in ths temples and sickness at the stom- ach. I tried a good many remedies tecommended for this coMplaint ; but it was not until I be- gan taking AYER'S Pills that I received anything like perma- nent benefit. A sin- gle box of these pills did the work for me, and I am now a well man." C. H. Hupcnucos, East Auburn, Me. For the rapid cure of Constipa- tion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Nau- sea, and all disorders of Stomach, Liver, and Bowels, take YE Cathartic Pills Medal and Diplome. at World's Fair. OA yew emu's: fat Aitr's VETERINARY. 11-ORN CRUMB. V. S., honor graduate of Ontario en Veeerinery °aloe*. All dies of DomesEe aahaals treated. CaW promptly attended to and enastres moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty °Bios and reeidence on goderich greet, ono door an of Dr. Sottet'infiloe, Sesforth. 111211 11.s G. H. COBB, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Toronto College of _ veberinary de~4, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veteria- =triad Society. All diseases of domestic enteral' y treabed. All calls promptly atteeded to day or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specielty. Moe and 'Dispenseay—Dr. CampbeLl's old offiee, Main street Seaforth. Night calls answered hom the *Moe. 140642 LEGAL JAMES L KILLORAN, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Piokard'a Store, formerly Mechanics Institute, Main Strad, Seaforth. 1528 OAMERON. formerly of Cameron, bona Cameron, Be:dater and Solleitor, Godsrich, Ont• ailo. Office—Hamilton street, opposite Colborne 1452 e TAMES SCOTT, Banister, &o. Solloitor for Mot- el eon% Bank. Clinton. Office — Elliott leek, Clinton, Ont. kioney to loan on mortgsge. 1451 &IL HAYS, Barrister, Solioitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for ihe Dominion . Ofiloe—telartino's block, Main Street. Eteaforth. 4oney to loan. 1211. • LaM, . BEST, Barrteier, Solicitor, Notary, &a. Moe—Room, five doom north of Commarde ground floor, next door to C. L. Pope. 4 miry store, Main street!, Seaforih. Goebert& ente—Camoron. Holt sea Cameron. 1216 QARROW ts PROUDFOOT, Barrisien, elollelton, &o., Godoentle, Ontario. J. T. Oasastr, Q. O.; . Fun:mem 1566 jet IMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barri:nett So - Xi Holton in Obanetery, Sio.,Goderiolt, Out M. O. r A •111011, Q. O., Yana' HOU, DEMI.= HOLMAN "LI HOLMESTED, successor to the lets firra of X e McCaughey & Hohneeted, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notaiy Solicitor for the Can adieu Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm fur sals. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street %Worth. DENTISTRY. FW. TWEDDT et, Dentist. Office—Over Richard- . son & ilcIoole` shoe store, corner Main and John streets, Sefoorth. DR. BELDEN, dentist ; erowning, bridge work and gold plate -work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work earefuLly performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.' iaardware store, Seafortin 1461 11E. H. IS, ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College • bf Dental Sorgeonso Ontario, D. D. S., of To- ronto Univercity. Office, Market Blook, Mitehell, Ontario. 1402 13 AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will IA. visit Hensel], at Hodgens' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in eitoh month 1288 MEDICAL, John McGinnis, Mon. GraduaLe London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office and Residence—Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church illiTNight calla attended promptly. 1463x12 1-1R. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. 0. M., -LAY Victoria, M. C. P. 8., Ontario, gummier to Dr. ELliott, office lately °coupled by Dr. Eliot*, Brume eld,Ontario, 10 E. COOPER, D., M. B., L. F. P. and S. otteisher0.1.teogow, &oz., Ireiedan, Burgeon and112.4ine iikLEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of Wee Royal College 'of Phytdolane and Surgeoree Kingston. 130009801. to Dr. Mookid. Mae lately occupied ey Dr. Maokid, Kant Steeet fleaforth. Residenoe —Corner of Victoria Square, tn hones lately occupied by L. E. Danooy. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS Late reaident Phyeloian and Surgeon, Toronto Gen. oral Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University, 'somber of tho College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. ATOFFICE..--Same aa formerly ocouptod by Dr. Smith, opposite Public! &hoot, Seaforth. Telephone No. 46, N. B.—Night calls rumwered from office. 1886 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Goderloh street, opposite Methodiat ohurch,Seaforth 3, G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physioians and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. MacKAY, honor graduate Trinity Univereity, gold medallet Trinity Medical College. Member College of Phyeicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. !CHARD COMMON, liceased auctioneer for the County of Huron, eales and bills attended to promptly, thargee In keeping with limes, Sesforth, Ontario, 1523-12 WM. NEOLOY. Auctioneer for the Oatuatiee of Huron and Perth, sad Agent at Bengali for the Massey-Her:fa Menu - !saunas Company. Sales promptly atiended to, charges moderate and satiedaction gnaranteed. Orders by mail eddressed Hanalei Poei Offioe, or WS at his, residence, Let 2, Oonoession 11. Tuck- ammith, will reoeive prompl attenldon. 129641 TOHN H. MoDOUGALL, Licensed AnoVoneer for el the County of Huron. Sales attended in all pert!, of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr. IdoDougall's long experience as a dealer in farm stock et all kinds, he is specially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. Ali orders left at Tins EX1,08froR Offlue, or at hie reeidence, Lot 25, Huron Hoed. Tuckeremith, near Alma, will be promptly ateended to. lass —Mr. J. 8, Willison, numaging editc•r of the Globe, will take his first trip to the old world next month. He will no doubt enjoy his well-deserved holiday. —The reeves of Caradoc and Ekfrid, in the county of Essex, have been notified that those townships are free from hog cholera, and that the quarantine has been raised in both. ' I • ANNIE KILBURN. BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. VL—Continued. Annie repeated her ataternent More defin- tele', and explained, from Mr. Brandre th, m before, that the invitations were to he -given so as to elimivate the shop -hand ele- ment from the supper and dance. Mr. Peck listened quietly. "That would prevent my taking part in the affair," he toed, as quietly as he had listened. - " Of course—dancing," Annie began. " It is not that. Many people who hold strictly to the old opinions now allow their ,ehildren to learn dancing. Bat I could not join at all with those who were willing to Iay the foundations of a Social Union in a aocial disunion—in the exclusion of its ben- eficiaries from the society of their benefam tors." He was not sarcastic, but the grotesque- ness of the situation as he had sketched it was apparent. She remembered now that she had felt something incongruous in it when Mr. Brandreth exposed -dt, but not deeply. The minister' continued, gently : " The ladies who are trying to get up this Social Union proceed upon the assumption that working people can neither see nor feel a slight ; but it is a great mistake to do so." Annie had the obtuseness about those she fancied below her which is one of the con- sequences of being brought up in a superior station. She believed that there was some- thing fo say on the other side, and she at- tempted to say it. " I don't know that you could call it -a slight exactly. People can ask those they prefer to a social entertainment." " Yes—if it is for their own pleasure." " But even in a public affair like this the work -people would.- feel uncomfortable and out of place, wouldn't they, if they staid to the aupper and the dance ? 'They might be exposed to greater suffering among those whose manners and breeding were different, and it might be very embarrassing all round. Isn't there that side to be regard- ed ?" " You beg the question,' said the minis- ter, as unsparingly as if she were a man. " The point is whether a Social Union be- ginning in social excluaion could ever do any good. What part do these ladies ex- pect to take in maintaining it ? Do they intend to spend their evenings there, to associate on equal terms with the shoe-ehop and straw -shop hands ?" " I don't suppose they do, but I don't know " said Annie, dryly • and ehe replied by. belplesely quoting &In Brandreth : They intend to organize a system of lectures, concerts, and readings. They wish to get on common ground with them.' " They can never geb on cemmon ground with them in that way," said the minister. " No doubt they think they want to do them good ; but good is from the heart, and there is no heart in what they propose. The working people would know that at once." " Then you mean to say," Annie asked, hnlf alarmed and half amused, " that there can be no friendly intercourse with the poor and the well-to-do unless it is based upon social equality ?" " I will answer your question by asking another. Suppose you were one of the r,and the well-to-do offered to be friend - y with you on such terms as you have mentioned, how should you feel toward them ?" - " If you make it a personal question--" " It makes itself a personal question," said the minister, dispassionately. " Well, then, I trust I ahould have the good sense to see that social equality be- tween people who were better dressed, better taught, and better bred than myself was impossible, and that for me to force myself into their eompany was not only bad taste, but it was foolish. I have often heard my father say that the great superi- ority of the American practice of democracy over the French ideel was that it didn't involve any assumption of social equality. He said that equality before the law and in politics was sacred, but that the principle could never govern society, and that Americane all instinctively recognized it. Ana I believe that to try to mix the differ- ent classes Would be un-American." Mr. Peck smiled, and this was the first break in his'seriousuess. " We don't know. what is or will be American yet. But we will suppose you are quite right. The question is, how would you feel toward the people whose company you wouldn't force yourself into ?" " Why, of course," Annie was surprsied into saying, " I suppose I shouldn't feel very kindly toward them." " Even if you knew that they felt kindly toward you ? " I'm afraid that would only make the matter worse," she eaid, with an uneasy laugh. The minieter wee silent on his side of the stove. _" But doTI understand you to say," she demanded, " that there can be no love at all, no kindnees, between the rich and the poor ? God tells us all to love one an- other." " Surely," said the minister. " Would you suffer such a slight as your friends propose, to he offered to any one you loved ?" She did not answer, and he continued thoughtfully : " I suppose that if a poor person could do a rich person a kindness which cost him some .sacrifice, he might love him. In that case there could be lo ve between the rich and the poor." " And there could be no love if a rich man did the same ?" • " Oh yes," the minister said—" upon the samenground. Only, the rich man would have to make a sacrifice first that he would really feel." " Then you mean to say that people can't do aey good at all with their money ?" Annie asked. In her heart she had hoped to do a great deal of good with her money, to make herself loved and valued through it, to become the friend of many deserving and even undeserving poor with it. " Money is a palliative, but it can't cure. It can sometimes create a bond of gratitude perhaps, but it can't create sympathy be- tween rich and poor." " But why can't it ?" " Because—common feeling—the sense of fraternity—can spring only from like ex- periencete like hopes, like fears. And money cannot buy these." He rose, and looked a moment about hini, as if trying to recall something. Then,with a stiff obeisance, he said, "Good-evenieg," and went out, while she remained daunted and bewildered, with the child in her arms, as unconscioua of having kept it as he of having left it with her. Mrs. Bolton must have reminded him of his oversight, for after being gone so long as it would have taken him to walk to her parlor and back, he returned, and said, simply, " I forgot Idella." He put out his hands to take her, but she turned perversely from him, and hid her face in Annie's neck, pushing his hands away with a beckward reach ef her little arm. " Come, Idella !" he said. Idella only snuggled the clown Mrs. Bolton came in with the little girl's wraps ; they were very common and poor, and the thought of getting her something prettier went throush Annie's mind. At sight of Mrs. Bolton the child turned from Annie to her older friend. " I'm afraid you have a woman -child for your daughter, Mr. Peck," said Annie, re- motely hurt at the little one's fickleness. Neither Mr. Peck nor Mrs. Bolton smil- CI.Ang3PTICANLX.EL. Th 1091"/"."mma Ittet,e Cupp*. giant h sway elpatuto of wptnan has no right to "go it blind" in mat- tera of life and health. She has to right to shut her eyes to the plain facts of her physical being- lect. She has no \--.\\\ and the Conse- quences of rieg- right to be -Wretch- ed and when ahe might be hap- py and free fiotet pai n. Women who drag through life weigit'ed down by some torturing, dragging weak ness or disease of their sex are not doing their full dutyjo themselves. They are not taking tbe means which enlightened set• ence affords them of being well and strong and capable. These special complaints from which so many women suffer are not necessary, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription positi‘,ely tures even the tnost severe and obstinate a'l4tesi.s not a haphazard medicine. It is not a cure-all.". It is a sCientific remedy de- vised by an educated and experienced spe. eialist for tbe one purpose of curing the Special diseases of women. Tens of thousands of wotnen have been restored to perfect health by this wonderful " Prescription " In many instances they were actually given up as hopeless by phy- eicians and family doctors. " I have taken both your 'Golden Medical Dis• eovery ' and 'Favorite Prescription' for chronic inflammation of the uterus and bladder," writes Mrs. U. A. Scot', of Park Rapids, Hubbard Co., Minn. " I also had stontach trottble which was terribly distressing. I have been cured of alt.-- 1 bad suffered untold misery for four years pre. vious to taking your treatment, but began to feel the goo& effect at once." Dr. Pierce's thousand - page illusteated book,' The People's Common Sense Med- ical Adviser " contai n5 n formation of price. less value to women. A paper -bound copy will be sent absolutely free on receipt of 31 one -cent stamps to pay the cost of customs and mailing only, Address World's Dis. Densory Medical Association, Buffalo, N, Y, 'For s. cloth-boend copy send .so otomo. ed, and with some vague intention of show- ing him that she could meet the poor on common ground by sharing their labors, she knelt down and helped Mrs. Bolton tie on and button on 'della s things. - VII. Next morning the day broke clear after the long storm, and Annie woke in revolt against the sort of subjection in which she had parted frcm Mr. Peck. She felt the need of ',hewing Mrs. Bolton that, although she had been civil to him, she had no sym- pathy with his ideas • but she could not think of any way to forniulate her opposi- tion, and all she could say in offence was, " Does Mr. Peck usually forget his child when he starts home ?" " I don't know as he does," answered Mrs. Bolton, simply. " He's rather of an absent-minded man, and I suppose he's like other men when he gets talking. ' " The child's clothes were disgracefully shabby !" said Annie, vexed that her attack could come to no more ehan this. " I presume," said Mrs. Bolton, " that if he kept more of his money for himself, he could dress her better." " Oh, that's the way with these philan- thropiets," said Annie, thinking of Hollings- worth, in Blithedale Romance, the only philanthropist whom she had really ever known. They are always ready to sacri- fice the happiness and comfort of any one to the general good." Mrs. Bolton stood a moment, and then went out without replying ; but she looked as offended as Annie could have. wished. About ten o'clock the bell 'rang, and she came gloomily into the study,emd announced that Mrs. Munger was in the parlor. Annie had already heard an authoritative rustling of skirts, and the was instinctively prepared for the large, vigorous woman who turned upon her from the pieture she bad been looking at on the wall, and came to. ward her with the confident air of one sure they must be friends. Mrs. Munger was dressed in a dark, firm woollen staff, which communicated its color, if not its material, ,to the matter-of-fact bonnet which she wore on her plainly dreseed hair. _In one of her hands, which were timed 'driving gloves of somewhat insistent evidence, she carried a robust black silk sun -umbrella, and the effect of her dress otherwise might be sum- marized in the etatement that where other women would have worn lace, she seemed to wear leather. She had' not, only leather gloves,and a broad leather belt- at her waist, but a leather collar ; her watch was secured by a leather cord passing round her neck, and the stubby tassel of 'her umbrella etiek was leather • she might be said to be in harness. She had a large,. handsome face, no longer fresh, but with en effect of exem- plary cleanness, and a pair of large gray ieyee that suggested the notion of being new- ly washed, and that now looked at Annie with the assumption of fully understanding her. " Ah, Miss Kilburn !" she said, without any of the wonted preliminaries of intro- duction and greeting. " I should have come long ago to see you, but I've been dis- persed over the four quarters of the globe ever since you came, my dear. I got home last night on the nine o dock train in the last agonies of that howling -tempeA. Did you ever know anything like it ? I see your trees have escaped. I wonder they weren't torn to threads. • Annie took her on her own ground of _ignoring their past non -acquaintance. "Yes, iteseas awful. And your son—how did you leave him ? Mr. Brandreth—" " Oh yes, poor little man ! I found him writing for me at home last night, and he told me he had been here. He was blowing about in the storm all day. Such a spirit ! There was nothing serious the matter ; the bridge of the nose was all right ; merely the cartilage pushed aside by the ball." She had passed so lightly from Mr.Brand- reth's heroic spirit to her son's nose that Annie, woman as she was, and born to thoe bold bounds over sequence, was not aure where they had arrived, till Mrs. Munger added : " Jim's used to these things. I'm thankful it wasn't a finger, or an eye. What is that ?" She jumped from her chair, and swooped upon the Spanish -Roman water- color Annie had stood against some books on the table, pending its final diepoeition. " Its only a Guerra," said Annie. " My things are all scattered about still ; I have scarcely tried to get into shape 'yet." Mrs. Munger would not let her interpose any idea of there being a past between them. She merely said : " You knew the Herricks at Rome, of waren I'm in the hopes I shall get them here when they come back. I want you to help me colonize Hatboro' with the right sort of people ; its so easy to get the wrong sort ! But, so far, I think we've succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. Its easy enough to get nice people together at the sea -side ; but inland ! No ; its only a very few nice people who will come into the country for the summer ; and we pro- pose to make Hatboro' a winter colony too; that gives us agreeable invalids, you know ; it gave us the Brandreths. He told you of our projected theatricals, I suppose ?" Yes," said Annie, non-committally, "he did." " I know just how you feel about it, my dear," said Mrs. Munger. " Been there myself, as Jim says. But it grows upon you. I'm glad you didn't refuse outright ;" and Mrs. Munger looked at her with eyes The fae. dulls sigastun of lo on .44/.Ileeppu. every e. of large expectance. " No, I didn't," said Annie obliged by this expectance to say sometling. " But to tell the truth, Mrs. lqunger, I don't see how I'm to be of any use to you or to Mr. Brandreth."s " Oh, take a cab and go about, like Boots and Brevser, you know for the Veneeringe." She said this as if she knew about the humor rather than felt it. " We are placing all our hopes of bringing round the Old Hat- borians in you." " Pin afraid you're mistaken about my influence," said Annie. " Mr. Brandreth spoke of it, and I had an opportunity of trying it last night, and seeing Just what it amounted to." " Yes ?"-Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectance in her large, clear eyes and of impartiality in her whole face. " Mr. Peck was here, said Annie, reluc- tantly," " and I tried it on him," " Yes ?" repeated Mrs. Munger, as im- mutably as if she wore sitting for her photo- graph and keeping the expression. Annie broke from her reluctance with a sort ef violence which carried her further than she would have gone otherwise. She ridiculed Mr. Peck's appearance and man- ner, and laughed at his' ideas to. Mrs. Munger, She had not a good conscience in it, but the perverse impulse persisted in her. There seemed no ether way in which she could assert herself hgainst him. Mrs. Munger listened judicially, but she seemed to take in only what Mr. Peck had thought of the dance and supper ; at the end she said, rather vaeantly, What non- e sense !" " Yes ; but I'm afraid he thinks its wis- doM, and for all practical purposes it ,amounts to that. You see what my in- fluence has done at the outset, Mrs. Mun- ger. He'll never give way on such a point." " Oh, very well, then," said Mrs. Mun- ger, with the utmost lightness and indiffer- ence, " we'll drop the idea of the invited supper and dance." " Do you think that would be well," ask- ed Annie. " Yes ; why not ? Its only an idea. I don't think you've made at all a bad begin- ning. It was very well to try the idea on some one who would he frank about it, and wouldn't go away and talk against it," said Mrs. Munger, rising. " I want you to come with me my dear." " To see Ikr. Peck ? Excuse me. I -don't think I could," said Annie. " No ; to see some of his parishioners," said Mrs. Munger. " His deacons, to be- gin with, or Ms deacons' wives." This seemed so much less than calling on Mr. Peek that Annie looked out at Mrs. Munger's basket -phaeton at her gate, and knew that she would go with very little more urgence. " After all, you know, you're not one of his congregation ; he may yield to them," said Mrs. Munger. " We must have him— if only because he's hard to get. It'll give us an idea of what we've got to contend with." It had a very practical sound ; it was reallY like meeting the difficulties on their own ground, and it overcame the question of taste which was rising in Annie's mind. She demurred a littlemore upon the theory of her uselessness ; but Mrs. Munger insist- ed and carried her off down the village street. The air sparkled full of sun, and a breeze from the southwest frolicked with the t*inkling leaves of the overarching elms, and made their shadows dance on the crisp roadWay, packed hard by the rain, and faced with clean sand, which cracked pleas- antly under Mrs. Munger's phaeton wheels. She talked incessantly. " I think we'll go first to Mrs, Garfish's, and then te Mrs. Wilmington's. You know them !" " Oh yes ; they were old girl fiiends." " Then you know why I go to Mrs. Ger- rish's first. She'll care a great deal, and Mrs. Wilmington won't care at all. She's a delicious creature, Mrs. Wilmington— don't you think ? That large, indolent nature,; Mr. Brandretk says she makes him think of the land in, which it seemed al- ways afternoon."' Annie remembered Lyra Goodman as a long, , lazy, red-haired girl who laughed easily ; and she could not readily realize her in the character of a Titia,nesque beauty with a gift for humorous dramatics, which she had fillectout into during the years of her absence from Hatboro' ; but she said, " Oh yes," in the necessity of polite acqui- ence, and Mrs. Munger went on -talking She's the only one of the Old Hatboro' peeple, so far as I know them, who has any breadth of view. " Whoa !" She pulled up suddenly beside a stout, short lady in a fashionable walking dress, who was pushing an elegant perambulator with one hand, and shielding hetneomplexion with a crimson sun -umbrella in the other. " rs. Gerrish !" Mrs. Munger called ; and Mete Gerrish, who had already looked around at the approaching phaeton, and then looked away, eo as not to have seemed to look, stopped abruptly, and after some exploration of the vicinity, discovered where the voice canie from. " Oh; Mrs. Munger !" she exclaimed, bridling with pleasure at being called eo in that way by the chief lady of South Hat- boro', and struggling to keep up a dignified indifference at the same time. Why, An- nie !" she added. . . " Goed-morning, Emmeline," said Annie; she annexed some irrelevancies about the weather, which Mrs. Munger swept away with business -like robustness. " We were driving down to the house to find you. I want to see the principal ladies of your chureh, and talk with -them about our Social Union. You'ee heard about it V' " Well, nothing very particular," said Mrs; Gerrhsh ; she had probably heard nothing at all, After a moment Rho asked, " Have you seen Mrs. Wilmington yet ?" -" No I haven't," cried Mrs. Munger. " The ?act is, I wanted to talk it over with you and Mr. Gerrish first." " Oh !" eaid Mrs. Gerrish, brightening. " Well, I was just going right there. I guess hehr in." " Well, we shall meet there, then. Sorry I can't offer You a seat. But there's noth- ing but the rumble, and that wouldn't hold you all." Mrs. Munger called this back after start- ing her pony, Mrs. Gerrish did not under. stand, and screamed, " What ?" • Mrs. Munger repeated her joke at the top of her voice. " Oh, I can walk !" Mrs. Gerrish yelled at the top of hers. Both the ladies laughed at their repartee. " She's as jealous of Mrs. Wilmington as a eat," Mrs. Munger confided to Annie as they drove away ; " and she just as pleased as'Punch that I've spoken to her first. Mrs. Wilmington won't mind. She's so delight- fully indifferent, it really renders her al- most superior ; you might forget that she was a village person. But this has been an immense stroke. I don't know,"she mused, " whether I'd better let her get there first and prepare her husband, or do it myself. No ; I'll let her. I'll stop here at Gates's." She stopped at the pavement in front of a provision store, and a pale stout man, in the long over -shirt of his business, came out to receive her ordersde He stood, passing his hind through the top of a barrel of beans, and listened to Mrs. Munger with a humorous, patient smile. " Mr. Gates I want you to send me up a leg of lamb for dinner—a large one." Last year's, then," suggested Gates. " No ; this year's," insisted Mrs. Mu.n. ger ; and Gates gave Way with the air of pacifying a wilful child, which would get, after only what he chose to allow it. " All right, ma'am ; a large leg of this CtetLIIEPPC111211./.11Le Ito fae. h en MgSatta 41-4" *lir? Of * IrrAPPIL year's- latnb—grown to order. Any peas, spinnage, cuoumbers, sparrowgrass ?" " Southern, I suppose ?" said Mrs. Mun- ger. " Well, not if you want to call 'em na- tive," said Gates. " Yes, I'll take two hunches of asparagus and some peas." " Any strawberries ? natives ?" suggested Gates. " Nonsense !" " Same thing ; netives of Norfolk." " You had better be honest with me Mr. Gates," said Mrs. Munger. " Yes, I'd take a couple of boxes." " All right Want 'ern nice and the biggest ones at the bottom of the box ?" Yee, I do." " That's what I thought. Some oust° ere wants the big ones on top ; but I 'em its all foolishness ; just vanity." Gatiss laughed a dry, hacking little laugh at his drollery, and kept his eyes on Annie. She smiled at last, with permissive recognitioh, and Gates eame forward. " Used to knOw your father pretty welle but ea.n't keep tip with the young folks any more." He was really not many years older than Annie ; he rubbed hiteright hand on the inside of his long shirt, and gave it to her to shake. " Well, you havenit been about much for the last nine or ten years, that's a fact." " Eleven," said Annie, trying so be gay with the hand -shaking, and wondering if this were meeting the lower classes on COM - mon ground, and what Mr. Peck would think of it. " That's so ?" queried Gates. " Well I declare ! No wonder you've grown !" He hacked out -another laugh, and stood on the curbstone looking at Annie a moment. Then he asked, " Anything else, Mrs. Mans ger ?" " ; thatee all. Tell me, Mr. Gates, how do Mr. Peck and Mr. Gerrish get on ?" asked Mrs. Munger, in a low tone. " Well," said Gates, "he's workin' round. —the deacon's workin' round gradually, I guess. I guess if Mr. Peck evii.s to pnt in a little more brimstone, the deecon 'd be all right. He's a great hand for brimstone,you know, the deacon is." Mrs. Munger laughed again, add then she said, with a proselyting sigh, " Its a pity. you couldn't all find your way into the Church." " Well, maybe it would be a good thing,' said Gates, as Mrs. Munger gathered up her reins and chirped to her pony. " He isn't a member of Mr. Peck's church," she explained to #nnie ; " but he'a one of the society, apd huff wife's very devout Orthodox. He's a great character, we think, and he'll treat you very well, if you keep on the right side of him. They say he cheats awfully in the weight, though." VIII. e Mrs. Munger drove across the street, and drew up before a large, handsomely ugly brick dry -goods store, whose showy win- dows bad caught Annie's eye the day she arrived in Hatboro'. "I see Mrs. Gerrish has got here first," Mrs. Munger said, indicating the peram- bulator at the door, and she dismounted and fastened her pony with a weight, which she took from the front of the phaeton. On either doorjamb of the store was a curved plate of polished metal, with the name Ger- rish cut into it in black letters ; the sills of the wide windows were of metal, and bore the same legend. At the threehold a very prim, ceremonious little man, spare and straight, met Mrs. Munger with a cere- monious bow, and a volemn "How do you do, ma'am ? how do you do ? I hope I see you well," and he put a small dry hand into the ample clasp of Mrs. Munger's gauntlet. "Very well indeed, Mr. Gerrish. Isn't it a lovely morning ? You know Miss Kil- burn, Mr. Gerrish." He took Annie's- hand into his right and eovered it with his left, lifting hie eyes to look her in the face with an old -merchant - like cordiality. " Why, yes, indeed Delighted to see her. Her father was one of my best friends. I may say that I owe everything that I am to Squire Kilburn • he advised me to stick to commerce when'I oncethought of study- ing law. Glad to welcome you back to Hat- boro', Miss Kilburn. You see changes on the surface, no doubt, but you'll find the genuine cad feeling here. Wnlk right back, ladies," he continued, releasing Annie's hand to waft them before him toward the rear of the store. " You'll find Mrs. Gerrish in my room there—my Growlery, as I call it." He seemed to think he had invented the name. "And Mrs. Gerrish tells me that you've really come back," he said, leaning decorously toward Annie as they walked, " with the intention of taking up your resi- dence permanently among us. You will find very few places like it," As he, spoke, walking with his hands clasPed behind him, he glanced to right and left tte the shop -girls on foot behind the counter; who dropped their eyes under their different bangs as they caught his glance, and bridled nervously. -He denied them the use of chewing -gum ; he permitted no con- versation, as he called it, among them ; and he addressed no jokes or idle epeeches to them himself. A system of grooves over - heed brought to his counting room the cash from the clerks in wooden balls, and he re- turned the change and kept the accounts, with a pitiless eye for errors. The women were afraid of him, and hated him with bitterness, which exploded at crises in ex- cesses of hysterical impudence. His store was an example of variety, punctuality, and quality. Upon the theory for which he deserved the credit, of giving to a country place the advantages of one of the great city establishments, he was grad- ually:gathering, in their fashion, the small oommerce into his hands. He had already opened his bazar through into the adjoining store, which he had bought out, and he kept every sort of thing desired or needed in a cOuntry town, with a tempting stock of ar- ticles before unknewn to the shop -keepers of Hatboro'. Everything was of the very quality represented ;'the prices were low, but inflexible, and cash payment, except in the case of some rich customers, 'nye- iably exacted ; at the same time every rea- sonable facility for the exchange or return of goods was afforded. Nothiog could ex- ceed the justice and fidelity of his dealing with the public. He had even some effects of generosity in his dealings with his dependents ; he furnished them free seats in the churches of their different persuasions, and he closed every night at six o'clock, except Saturday, when the shop hands were paid off, and made their pur- chases for the *riming week. He stepped lightly before Annie and Mrs. Munger, and pushed open the ground-glass door of his office for them. It was like a bank parlor except for Mrs. Gerrit& sitting in her hushandis leather -cushioned swivel chair with her last -born in her lap ; she greeeed the others neisily, without trying to rise. " You see we are quite at home here," said Mr: Gerrish, with that laugh of the hard men which is more dismaying than his anger. " Yes, and very snug you are, too," said Mrs. Munger, taking one half of the leather lounge, anal leaving the other half to Annie. " I don't wonder Mrs. Gerrish likes to visit you here." Mr. Gerrish laughed again, and said to his vvife, who moved provisionally in her ehair, seeing he had none, " Sit still, my dear ; I prefer my uaual perch." He took a high stool beside a desk, and gathered a ruler in his hand. " Well, I may as well begin at the be- ginnine said Mtn. Munger, and I'll try to be short, for I know that these are busi- ness hours." • " Take all the time you want, Mrs. Mun- ger," said Mr. Gerrish, affably. "eIt's my biee. that a good business man's business can . DROPSY CURED BY DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS I have been troubled for three years with Dropsy. Could not get any relief. My limbs were swollen to a size I could not rest. I was advised to use Dcidd's Kidney Pills. I have only uSed two boxes and I am completely cured. I have no objection in allowing you to publfsh this so as to help others. I remain, yours, ARTHUR JONES, Ottawa, Ont. Dodd's Kidney Pills Always Cure Dropsy. 111111111.1.111111111.11111M111111•1111MININIIIM go on without him, when necessary."I " Of course ?" Mrs. Munger sighed. "If everyb ody had your system, Mr. Gerrish !" She went on and strecintly expounded the scheme of the Social Union. " I suppose I can't deny that the idea occurred to me," she concluded, " but we can't hope to devele op it without the co-operation of the ladies of Old Hatboro', and I've come, first of alla to Mrs. Gerrish." Mr. Gerrish bowed Ms acknowledgments of the honor done his wife, with a gravity which she misinterpreted. " I think," she began, with her censorious manner and accent, that these people have too much done for them now. They're per- fectly spoiled. Don't you, Annie ?" Mr. Gerrish did not give Annie time to answer. " I differ with you, my dear," he cut in. " It is my opinion— Or I don't know but you wish to confine this matter entirely to the ladies ?" he suggested to Mr,s,.0Mh,uIngmero.nly too proud and glad that you feel interested in the matter !" cried Mrs. Munger. " Without the gentlemen's practical views. we ladies are such feeble folk—mere conies in the rocks." " I am as much opposed as Mrs. Gerrish —or any one—to acceding to unjust de- mands on the part of my clerks or other employes," Mr. Gerrish began. " Yes, that's what I mean," said his wife, and broke down with a. giggle. He went on, without regarding her : " I have always made it a rule, as far as business went, Ito keep my own affairs en- tirely in my (nen hands, I fix the hours, and I fix the wages, and I fix.all the other conditions, and I say, plainly, if you don't like them don't come,' or don't stay,' and I never have any difficulty." " I'm sure," said Mrs. Munger, " that if all the employers in the country would take such a stand, there would soon be an end of labor troubles. I think we're too conces- siv:3`.A" nd I do too, Mrs. Munger !" cried Mrs. Gerrish, glad of the occasion to be censorious and of the finer lady's opinion at the same time. " That's what I meant. Don't you, Annie ?" " I'm afraid I don't understand exactly," Annie replied. Mr. Gerrieh kept his eye on Mrs. Mun- ger's face, now arranged for indefinite photography, as he went on. " That is ex- actly what I eay to them. That is what I said to Mr. Marvin one year ago, when he had that trouble in his shoe shop. I said, You're too eoncessivee I said, Mr. Mar- vin, if you give those fellows an ineh,they'll take an ell. Mr, Marvin,' said I, you ve got to begin by being your own master if you want to be master of anybody else. You've got to put your foot down, as Mr. Lincoln said, and as I say, you've got to keep it down.' " Mrs. Gerrish looked at the other ladies for admiration, and Mrs. Munger said, rapidly, without disarranging her face : Oh yes. And how much misery could be saved in such cases by a little firmness at the outset !" ",Mr. Marvin differed with me," said Mr. Gerrish, sorrowfully. " He agreed with me on the main point, but he said that too many of hie hands had been in his regi- ment, and he couldn't look them out. He submitted to arbitration. And what is arbitration ?" asked Mr. Gerrish, levelling his ruler at Mrs. Munger. " It is postpon- ing the evil day." • Exactly," said Mrs. Munger, without winking. ,(To be continued.) • in Battle. It is a strange paradox that since the in- vention of modern weapons ef destruction the loss of life at battles is not nearly so great in proportion to the number of men engaged as formerly, when the' combatants were armed with sWord and spear. The greatest enumber killed recorded of any buttle ever fought occured at the great bat- tle of Zemaraim,when Abijah,KingofJudwa with an army of 400,000 slaughtered 500,006 of his enemy's host out of a total of 800,000. (II. Chronicles xiii. 17, Josephus Ant Jews lib. viii. esp. ii.) This compares with the number killed and wounded at the battle of Alma, which was 8,400 only, or about eight per cent of the number engaged on both• sides. At the battle of Cressy, when the bow and arrow was the principle weapon 31,200 were placed hors de combat, or 2"/ per cent. In the Crimean war it is stated that 29 millions of shots were fired, 120,000 men being killed, being an average of 740 bullets fired for each man killed. In the France -German war the Germans fired off 30,000,000 rifle cartridges and 363,000 rounds of artillery, killing or mortally wounding 77,000 French, equalling about 400 shota fired to each man killed. TIE TRAIL OF DEATH .0 It begins at the Throat and ends at the Grave .og How many a human life is unneces- sarily sacrificed. .0 .9g .)g There are many remedies on the market for the cure of consumption, but consumption, once it reaches a certain stage, cannot be cured. In professing, therefore, to do what is impossible, these remedies prove themselves to be simply humbugs. Consumption is a disease which destroys the tissue of the lungs. Once gone, no medicine can replace that tissue. Good medicine may arrest the disease even after one lung is wholly gone, as long as the other remains sound. Once both are attacked, however, the victim is doomed. Just why people should risk their lives to this dread disease and go to great expense afterwards to check it, it is hard to conceive. It is much easier prevented than cured. Throat troubles and severe colds are its usual forerunners. A 25 -cent bottle of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed add TurPentlne will drive these away. It is, without doubt, the best medicine for the purpose to be had anywhere. JULY 24 18970. Voters List, 1897, MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF icco. • KILLOP, COUNTY OF HURON. Notice is hereby given that I have transmitted' oe. delivered to tbe pereens mentioned in seetioes 6 Inn, 6 of The Ontario Voter' List Act, 1889, the oopiarte_ quired by- said sections to be so transmitted -0e nee livered of the ilet made pursuaut to said Act, of szt persone appearing by the last revised asseement. roll of the said Municipality to be entitled to vota the Municipelity at elections for Member, of the Legielative Aisembly, and - at Municipal Ed and that said list was first posted up at my ofeee McKillop, on the fourteenth day of July, len, lege remains there for inspection. Electors are called upon to examine the Mkt and, if any omission or any other errors are f therein, to take iminediate proecedings to have min errors corrected according to law: Dated, this me. day of July, 1891. JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk of McKillp. 15444 Notice to Creditors. Persuant to Section 86, Chepter 110, of the rev*. skatutee of Ontario, 1887, and !emending Ito* mails, is hereby given that all creditors, and othere Whig claims against the Estate of Henry Eyre, late of the Townsbip of Tuckerstnith, in the County ef gum& fanner,decessee,who died on or about the 7th day4 Ifay,A.D.,1897.are hereby required to delete -permit* by post prepaid to Henry Horton, Hensel' Oenite to George Wren, Chiselhurst O., the executer** the said deceased, on or before the 18th dsy for Auguet, A. D., 1897, a statement in writing of auk nanees, addresses and descriptions, with full erne. &mars of their claims duly verified, and the • of the eecuritiee, (if any) held by them. And notice le further given Shit after the said last mention* date, the executor* of the said deceased will pies ceed to distribute the smote of the geld d amongst the parties entitled tbereto, having only to the claims of which notice shall have given as above reqUired, and they will not be liable for the assets or aye' pert thereof, to any person or persons of whose claim or claiaie they shall not tiose. have had notice. Dated, at Sense% this 7th day of July, A. D., 3897. HENRY HORTON, Hestia P. O. ; GEORGE WREN, Chieelhurst P. O. Exe- cutors. 1k4-4 Notice to Creditors. ••••••4 Pursuant to section 46, chanter 110 of the revlose etatutes of Ontario, 1887. and amending sol.... Notice is hereby given that all creditors and Ohm - having claitne againd the eetete of John La liin - ttatil of the Township of Tuckeremith, in the Coun Huron, farmer, deeessed, who died on or sum hfr- Eilst day of May, A. D. 1897, are hereby inquired* deliver, or send by poet prepaid to John Sheplainie or John Fitzgerald, of Chiselhurst, Ontario, elms& executors of the said dece aged, on or befpre VW leee. day of Augese, A. D., 1887, a statement hi wylirat .- of their names, addresses, and descriptions, with fele paaticulare of their claims duly verified. and** names of the securities, (if any), held br AM% And notice is father given that after the addle* mentioned date, the executors of the said deems* will proceed to distribute the aureate of Uremia deceaeed, amongst the parties entitled thersik having regard only to the olairos of which Wise . shall have been given as above required, and liter will not be liable for the asset* or any part theme, to any person or persons of whose claim or &dame they shall not then lutve had notice. Dalied ete Tuckeremith. this 7th day of July, A. D., 1807e JOHN SHEPPARD, JOHN FITZGERALD, Eine- cutors.° - 16454 -4; SIGN OF THE CINCULAI SAW 15" td a) cz, CD 1•1 AN eCf-- P-4 I M." cr, CD H CD I=3"' CD 5 0 ct- P-1 (7' 1:61 th; Cr' OE*. GQ en - t:54 CD s+. ok. ler 1 rmi On In74-'. <1 CD on • 2/2 1:3-m41 0 al 0 PLI 0 'mit 1,c6 g 1-e CD pacT) ct. Ft' 2' CD tj cn o cp. 5 (I) 0 CD 0 1-4 rioi • P -g I:1 1N -a fZe CD 02, ne 0 cte 1_6 ct, - - t " 2. al,`.14 0 1.-4 fed (I) 0 O mei C)%"ns st--4 40.3 Pe tr. 5 0 se3 - 0 gi) 0 p.1 rt CD e+- 0 c+ ide ,OLOS RE SE TEA ST I will quote cheap articte enn Pesisinsi for 25e ; for l'25e 151. The. Prwa forth& Pitted Apricots at I now few p & quart. -of Toe A.1 right place— etitag linos Om rived, at v solicited fron G. An Of THE -15"7 PL Mr., "John L "ecilliiriaellcitacely beofhilndsi tl vi_et-hvedeersobti ydh i RG:: jtdoaemnbei , 4;tuorolvese.tiasthrealiv.vee atuoid 1 vtion in any line o Oar goods manufacturing therefore, invite eest critic in to ..:&umr efnurnlditsuretorye ,turniture now to Ago. We have n -looked for reducti We buy the be , st, oi;lw,i In ob re e oauunnytto4r yt tve f. . In the underti dwo hearses, onei oother 'a light low - 'We guarantee th; .,5% less than hal forth. W.Leatherdals at the Champion der Profeseor :with Mr. Landsh -mem Any worl rearefully attende „settee& ;Remember and Thic :LEATHER°, SA Night and Sur -to at Mr. Landst ei.n. the rear of th• PR( • Ve are open te Dressed H .Poultry, 'Call before dice -duce, and can pi BEN .Senth ituribs vimerm/ 4J. C MELAL FOR TWENTY-SIX YEAR* MINNS. KING POWDER THECOOICSBEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. MONEY TO LOAN. .=•••••••mAMMA. To loan any amount of money, on town or twee property, at the lowest rates of Meant and co thee most reasonable terms. Apply to THOMAS Z. Rays, Seaferth. 16124i CEDAR POSTS. Any number of' Cedar Poste; for sale at P. Keating's Lumber Yards, Opposite L. MoDonald's wagon shop, on tbe corner of Gederich and East William Streets. P. SEAT-. ING, &Worth. 1-62941 McKillop Directory for 1896, 4, JOHN MORRISON, Reeve, Winthrop P. 0. WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Deputy -Reeve, Lead - busy P. O. WM. MoGAVIN, Councillor Leadbury P. 0. JOSEPH C. MORRISON, bounoillor, Beechwood• P. O. DANIEL ILUILRY, Councillor, Beechwexxl P. 0. JOHN C. MORMON. Clerk, Winthrop P. O. DAVID M. ROSS, Treesurer. Winthrop P 0. WM. EVANS, Assessor, Beitohwood P. 0. °HARM DODDS._ Collector, Seaforth P. 0. RICHARD POLLARD, dattilary InspectoreLeade- ury P. O. A G -en 131 Farmers ote Drafts be Interest ue -.7a7. 5 per sett SALE N errelleetion. OFFICE—Pi Wilmon's Horde 111 41. I. 4 1 n C As we intend rousinees, we al Thargains ever g 'Tea and Toilet Ueetion to choo iavvay down bel -Our StO 'Will be found 'see are giving e ...it 20c and 250 Although curr than 1a.st year, -.currant at ,.5c p We are payit (dor all kinds of —cash and tre 11 I SE e Taint 1FARM A! PROPEI Geo. W Pi ?Broadteot, Shannon, fancY-1 ;it urdie, Immo* W. G. Broadna bury ; George 'lleaforth; e'lintsen ; Tho -Lean, Kippen. Thos. Nelleate, James Cummin 'John -C. it POWs litiveMier b etetP_IIMittiesa to IlleelensapeoEye