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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-11-26, Page 6G THE HURON EXPOSITOR mistimmismessuesessEEMI! THE SEAFORTH TEA STORE Is now in full blast aelling goods cheaper than ever. Japan T;ft worth 20c, now 15e a pound; Japan Tea worth 256, now 20e a pound; Japan Tea worth 35c, now 25c a pound; Black and. Green Teas worth 35e, now 25e a pound. Five pounds Raisins for 25ca Five pounds Prunes for 25c. Five pounds Tapioca. for 25c. Five Packets Corn Sterch for 25e. Three Boxes Matches for 25c. Six Tins Sardines for 2e. Eight pounds Sulpleeer for 25c. Eight pounds Salt or 25c. These are just a few of the many bargains which I am now offering. Also another coneument of China, Crockery and Glaesware in Dinner, Tea and Toilet Sets in the lateat designs. A very find assortment of Decorated Lamps, and a fine display of 'Lennanade Sete. Also a well assorted stock of alle kinds of Crockery and Glassware. All of Which will be sold at the very lowest prices. Fresh Finnan Haddies arriving this week. Fresh Labrador Herrings and barrel fish just arrived A call solicited. The highest prices paid for god fresh But- ter, Eggs, and all kinds of Poultry -the crops - must be out of Poultry and not sealded. A. G. AULT, C4th. VETERINARY. rOliN GEIHVII, V. S., honor graduste of °Mario • Veterinery College. AU &seams of Domestic aninsals treated. Ws promptly attended to and dimes moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a epeobIty °Mee and reeddenes on Goderioh street, one door Aas Of Dr. 800tt'eo0e, Seaforth. 111211 G. H. GIBBS Tetettnary Surgeon and Dentist. Toronto College of Yeterins.ry dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vela szthixy College, Honor member of Ontario Veterire ary M641oa1 Sodety. All diseases of domestic animals 'skilfully treated. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Moe and 'Dispernsary-Dr. Campbell's old offioe, Main street Seedorth. Night callsanswered from the Office. 1406-52 LEGAL - JAMES L KILLORAN, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyaneer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Band's Store, formerly Mechanics Institute, Main Street, Seaforth. 1529 '- Mr G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & in. Cameron, Barrister and Sone:Hoe'. Goderich, oneeile, offiee-tremilton street, opposite Colborne Hotel. 1452 TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mol- e) sou"' Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott lock, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 ID S. HA'f3, Barrister, Solicritor. Conveyancer and .1-1e Notary Public. Solicitor tor the Dominion Bank. Oflice-Cardno's block, Main Street, Eleaforth. etonery to leen. 1235 / if. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o. . Offioe-Rooms, five doom' north ofOomrnercia Rotel, ground- floor,, next door to C. L. repots sweiry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich ente-Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 - ft ARROW & PROUDFOOT. Barristers, salmon, kir fso., Goderich, Ontario. 1. T. 9111201t. Q. C.; Wu. Padioreo7. 684 rtiligRON, HOLT at HOLMES, Banisten. licitorein Chancery, lio.,Goderich, Ont M. a CA411011, Q. 0., Mew HOLT, DUMMY HOLMIS HOLMESTED, eumeiraor to the late firm of . McCaughey & Holmested, Barrister, Solicitor Coneeyancer, and Notm y Solicitor for the Can Mimi Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm for sale. Office in Scott's Block, IWO Street ffeatfortio DENTISTRY. FW. TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office -Over Richard- . son & McInnis' shoe store, corner Main and John streets, Seaforth. Dit. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work carefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.' nardware store, Seaforth. 1451 D11. H. EL ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. S., of To- ronto University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell, Coterie.. 1402 AD AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will visit Howell at HodgensHotel every _Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in °soh month 1288 D''ToR. A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. S., D. D. S. ',Honor graduate of Toronto Univereity, Den- tist, will practice dentistry at his father's rooms in Exeter, and at his room at Mre. Shafer's restaurant, Hewlett, every Wednesday. H. Kinsman, L. n. 8., at Zurioh the last Thurdsday of each month. 1546-13 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Geaduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Offioe end Reeidenoe-Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickerd. Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church NLflt calls attended promptly. 14531E12 TNR. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. 0. M., 11 Victoria, M. C. P. S., Ontario, successor to Dr. offioe lately °coupled by Dr. Ellett, Bruce- eld,Ontario. ID E. COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and 18. .1.41. Glasgow, &o., Phyeiciato Surgeon and An comber, Constance. Ont. ; 1127 iii, - LEL BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royer College of Physicians and Surgeone, Itingstou =tensor to Dr. liaalrid. Oftba lately °coupled ny. Dr. lisokid, Male Street Seaforth. Reeidenee -Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately ocouplee by L. E. Dancey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS_ - Late residertPhysician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen- eral Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity Univereity, member of the College of Physicians and Surgeone of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. • OFFIOE.-Same as formerly occupied nr Dr. Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephone NO. 46. N.B.-Night calls answered from office. 1880 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Dederick street, opposite Methodist churoh,Seaforth J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physioians and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. C. bleoKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, geld medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1488 AUCTIONEERS, Tits ICHARD COMMON, liceased auctioneer for the ene County of Huron, sales and bills attended to promptly, charges in keeping with times, Seaforth, Ontario. 1523-12 WM. M'CLOY, Atrotioneer for the Countles of Huron and Perth, and Agent at Hensall for the Massey -Harris Menu- factming Company. Sales promptly attended to, °bargee moderate and satisfacMon guaranteed. orders by mall addressed to Monsen Post Office, or left at his reaidence, Let 2, Concemrion 11, Tuck- eremith, will receive prompt attention. 1296-11 TOHN H. MoDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for eI the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the County. Terms reasonable. From Mr. McDougall's long experience as a dealer in farm stook of all kinds, he is specially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at Tint Errosrroa office, or at hie residence. Lot 26, Huron Road, Tuckeremith. near Alma, will be pronaptly attended to. 1468 MONEY TO LOAN. To loan any amount of money, -on town or farm property, at the lowest rates of interest and on the moet reasonable terms. Apply to THOMAS E. Mays, Seaferth. 1612-11 A happy mother is the happiest being in this world. To hold in her arms the sdear little fe - a part of her very own life -nest - 1 i n g, trusting and dependent on her protecting love is the sweet- est, most sacred re- sponsibility of a wo- man'a- existence. But many a woman approaching the tirne - of • motherhood feels most deeply its duties and, trials. She is burdened with a senae of anxiety and unreasonable foreboding. This state of mind is un- favorable both to the mother and the child. A prospective mother may insure herself against the slightest fear of danger or exces- sive pain by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, during the period of expect- ancy. This "Prescription" makes the coining of baby absolutely safe and compar- atively painless. It gives elastic endurance to the organism specially concerned in motherhood, and healthy vitality to the nerve -centres. It makes the mother strong and cheerful. It gives her recuperative power. It promotes' abundant nourishment and provides con- stitutional health and energy for the child. It is the only positive specific for all dis- eases of the feminine organism, devised by an educated and skilled specialist in this particular field of practice. Its sale ex- ceeds the combined sale of all other med- icines for women. "1 am very thankful for what Dr. Pierce's Fa- vorite Prescription has done for me," wribes Mrs. Etta E. Smith, of Grenola, 1.,uk Co., Kansas. About a month before I was confined I had such pains I could stand up only a little while at a time. I could not rest at 'uight at all, nor at any other time. I could scarcely eat anything at all. I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- scription and after the second dose I felt better. From then until I was sick, I carried nearly all the water that was used, up a tome' hill, and worked in the garden every day, besides my other -work, and did not feel at all bad. When the baby was born the doctor and 'the women who were with me said I had an easier time than any one they ever saw for the first time. The baby is very healthy and growing right along. I have been up ever since she was five days old." AT BYRAMS BY LUCY C. LILLIE. Continued. The voices went on and on. Rita never knew how she sat still and absolutely silent while the words burned themselves into her brain. So thaii was whatit had all meant. He and the rest had come there to make a summer's holiday and jest of the honest people who had. loved her -of her, herself! The girl felt herself at one moment flaming with passion and in the next fairly bowed down with flame. What. could she do ? What could she say? The tumult of thought resolved itself only into a confused senee of pain, in which memory and dread of the future made -her almost afraid to move, to speak; above. all to meet his eyes or hear his voice again, How it was that sh° contrived to escape and get back to her mother's side she hardly knew, for in the second doorway she encountered Macbane, with her shawl upon his arm. The girra face, white and as it were stricken, shocked him. "Miss Breton," he said, quickly -"You are ill. "No" Rita answered quietly, -she felt already that she must learn to control her voice- `no ; I am tired. I will not finish the dance, if you don't mind." She had reached her chairagain, but Macbane was still there. M re. Eversley had begun to be agreeably reminiscent. Rita listened to an account of his father,his grandfather, his uncle Theodore,who died in the war, his aunt Lucille who married the one-armed Hungarian patriot. Maebaue meanwhile leaned back in his chair smiling languidly, and supplying Mrs,Eversley with the thread of her narratives from time to time when they seemed to be giving' out. All the time with inward wonder he, was observing Rita's face with its strange look, half disdain, half mieery. The girl refused to dance, hut a crowd !of men were about her, and Macbane gave himself up more exclusively to Mrs. Evers- ley. ' In the pauses of her own conversation with various geutlemen,3oung and old, Rita caught sentences which plainly told her that her mother intended Macbane to be im- pressed favorably. Was it not shame enough, asked the girl, that he had once had the chance to amuse himst-11 at her ex- pense but that again the ridiculous weak - ness Of her position be made apparent to him, again to have her folly and heraelf as it were thrown at his feet? For by this time Mrs Eversley had drifted on to her own family traditions, and was giving an account of the early settlement of Byrams and Tallmans by her own great-grandfather. Rita, who had made a little respite for her- self from her adorers, turned suddenly, with white cheeks but very brilliant eyes. " Mamma," 'she said, in a voice that seemed to hold all her concentrated feeling, "do you not think Mr. Macbane would be amused by an account of Byrams of to day? I think he has seen it; so the family tradi- tions cannot be particularly entertaining to him." "The place has certainly run down," be- gan Mrs. Eversley, Joftily. " Nevertheless some of the first people of Pennsylvania be- longed there." " It is a dear old place," said Rita, " a very ugly country -but the people are true - hearted, honest, and sincere. They are too trusting, that is all." Mrs. Eversley laughed a little nervously: She had learned to know, with all her daughter's docility, when it was not eafe to contradict her. Rita is so intensely loyal !" she said. "My remembrance of Byrams," MacbanS said, quietly, "is of the most perfect hos', pitality, the mot sincere kindliness, I ever met with in my lifer He forced her to meet his glance ; as it were challenged her ; but Rita could -say nothing. It ,,eeined to the girl as though something in th, very air were stifling her. When thewere in their own rooms, it was -with a pang she heard her mother say : "That Mr. Macbane iir one of the very finest young men in America -good old. Scotch and English blood ; and he will have a million dollars, if a penny." Alone in her own room, Rita turned ou t the lights and sat down in the open window, trying to collect her thoughts. How was she to bear the next week, seeing him, hear- ing him, being near to him, humiliated, grieved, wrenched from her illusions, and vet to her shame knowing that his presence, the sound of his voice, the very touch of his hand, were a joy to her? Of what poor stuff was she made, the girl asked herself passionately, if she could feel the spell and yet bate herself for feeling it? Was such a feeling to be called love? Was it not an unworthy fetter which she must force her- self to break, else die of very shame? And then with a rusrh came back those strange two days which had awakened her to life. She recalled his lighte.st word, wondering whether she had now the right to remember what she must feel as insults, jests, veiled derision of her youth aad childishness. Mrs. Eversley went to sleep with a de- termination, and awoke with it unchanged. She WW1 on the poreh when the hand played at ten and had desired Rita to join a game of tennis. The girl, loving all out -door sports, played well, and looked even better, fo.a.esircom.x.a.. The fee - signature ef fa en every wrapper. so that Mrs. Eversley was gratified by a shower of admiration of her daughter's skill and beauty. Methane had been playing, but stopped when Rita's game began,so that he:drew a chair near Mrs. Everaley, who chained him until Rita, prettily flushed by the exeroise, was summoned to her side. She could not refuse to sit down at her mother's request, but the music was an ex: cuse for silence. Macbane and Mrs. Evers- -ley resumed genealogical investigations, and the former had to amount for his own par- entage and childhood. He was "old Joseph's " son, Oh yes, she remembered the New Hampshire M'acbanes. And did he practise law like all of them ? rm afraid I don't do much that is very worthy," he said. "1 have travelled a greafaleal,dabbled a little in various things, and generally given myself up to considering the world as in need of reform, with the ex- ception of myself" - Rita sat silent, looking fixedly ahead of her at the tennis -players, yet console:is that her heart avas throbbing with a desire to hear -him speak, especially of himself. The subject weei the dearest to her, yet she must not listen. "Mamma," she said, breaking away suddenly, "1 will go in and change my dress." But Macbane,indulging in a half -reproach- ful, half -amused glance at the young girl, instantly expressed his willingness to be at Mrs. Eversley's bidding ; and Rita, morti- fied and vexed, went away to the solitude of her own room, allowing herself half an hour's reflection and ten minutes for a hasty toilet. Why, oh why, when she felt free to do it, had she not urged his talking of himself, that at leaet she might know the details of his life 1 To be tortured by hear- ing her mother draw him out, and feel that she must harbor no more painfully sweet recollections ! But a day or two later chance favored her. Every one had seemed stimulated to vast exertion t since the arrival et the famous Mies Breton, and ex- peditions of a luxurious as well as rural and Arcadian character was eagerly planned. Amoag the drift -wood of this litetsan pour- ed at the girl's feet was- a friend of Mae - bane's, a young medical- student who had known him in Vienna. Charlie Wentworth, as every one called him, had been timid over his first introduction to Rita, but at one of the large and luxurious picnics ar- ranged for her amusement he found himself, to his wild joy, actually strolling apart with her. Rita had been drawn to the boy by his likeness to Jered-they were both of that fair, placid, honest type in which nothing is so clearly distinguishable as sin- cerity and purity of heart. But Charlie had both education and a fervent soul. He was readily induced to pour forth his entire history to Miss Breton. " I don't mind telling you," he said in the midst of his long recital. "t Was Macbane whc gave me my real chance -you know Meehan°, don't you? But of course you know him just as a woman -beg pardon, a lady - would; but what he really is you can't imagine." Rita tried to look unconcerned. The lad went on: "He seems so careless and indifferent that you would never dream what he really is. I wish youcould have seen him in Vienna ! A lot of us poor chaps got stuck, you know; loat all we had. Well, Macbane in the quietest way came forward, never said much; but we were all on our feet again. And as for myself, why, he just put me right through my course. Miss Breton, he made a man of me -I don't like to think what I'd have been but for him -and it was his example too. He never sets up for a saint, you know 3 • but if I were half as good," said the lad,with enthusiasm, " I'd be a credit to him." In this way the ingenuous youth discours- ed for some time and much to Miss Breton's satisfaction. time, she to blame if, after he had recounted innumerable of Macbane's noble deeds, he saw with joy that she was surrounded by half a dozen admirers, and received with but languid interest their at ? But such talks were as stolen fruit. In no way could the girl bring herself to be more than distantly civil to Macbane him- self. Once when he tried to speak of the concert, she silenced him peremptorily. They were walking up and down at evening in front of the hotel, and Rita stopped, feat ing him suddenly in the moonlight, her face pale and stern. "Nr, Macbane," she said, "let me ask of you a favor : never allude to that -un- fortunate episode." Failing to satisfy her, Macbane attached himself to Mrs. Eversley, whose welcome was always cordial; but even this luxury was soon denied him, the old lady falling ill -not seriously, but enough to make it necessary that she should keep her room -a reason for Rita's absenting herself as much as poaaible. The season had waned; near- ly every one had departed; Macbane had gone away twice and returned. Rita's most ardent admirers had been compelled to tear themselves away, comforted by the thought that during the coming winter she was to be with her mother at the Bristol in New York, but with little else from the young girl herself to console them. "Tell you what it is," young Sturgison confided to his friend and travelling com- panion as they were whirling away, "if, that girl wasn't so stunningly good-looking, she couldn't afford to put on such airs. Cold as an icicle. I know them, my boy - one of your out and out icebergs." "Then you didn't come to the point, eh ?" inquired the friend. Mr, Sturgison reddened. "Better luck next time, per- haps," said the friend. " Wish you Joy, but I wouldn't try it." Rita meanwhile found her hands full in caring for her mother, who during this ill- ness had grown querulous and exacting. The doctor who had been in the hotel staid on for their benefit, and Charlie Wentworth was invaluable. Rita did not know that it was by Macbane's special management he remained, but he was Just young enough to make it possible for the girl to call upon him for all the service a brother would have performed -such as she would never have dreamed of asking Macbane himself. She missed him, however, in his absences with a pang that smote her like grief and shame to- gether. How many times, while watc ing her mother sleep in the twilight, she allowed her faneies to wander, her heart recklessly to assert itself ! If, as often happened, she was summoned at that hour to the sitting - room to see Macbane, it would seem to the girl that with the first touch of his hand on hers, the first sound of his voice, her cour- age failed her. But the feeling only lent her new coldness, and Macbane went away atarrh Shackles Broken in 60 Minutoo It's an alarming fact, but statistics bear it out, that at least 80 in every hun- dred persons in this country are tainted in a lesser or greater degree by that disgusting, offen- sive and dangerous dis- ease -Catarrh. If Symp- toms appear, such as cold I n the head, dizziness, Painsin the forehead, headache, dropping in the throat, offensive breath, loss of taste and smell, the Catarrh shacides may be tightening about you - DR. AGNEW'S CATARRseAL POWDER Is the mtist potent Catarrh cure known to-daye- Recommended by eminent nose and throat special- ists -gives relief in from 10 to 6o minutes. " For years I was a victim of chronic Catarrh; the first application of Dr, Agnew's Catarrhal pow- der gave me instant relief, and in an incredibly short while I was permanently cured." -James Headley, Dundee, N.Y.-33 For sale by I.V.Fear and Luinaden:& Wilson - each time with a new sense of rebuff. For, however careless his earlier feelings may have been the fact that he loved her was apparent to hirranow in every moment of his life -loved her as he had never thought it possible to love any woman on God's earth. He had fancied a dozen wo- men, had flirted, had enjoyed the charms of feminine society as all other men;but he had never asked any woman to beoome his wile; and this girl, with her cold white face, her proud eyes and distant manner, her voice that haunted him long after she had spoken -this girl he desired to make his wife, to shield, to protect, to love, to command, and to obey, with all the ardor, the joy, the passion, of a nature long pent up, yet hav- ing an ideal and craving the reality. Dur- ing his brief absences he fought the feeling only to come back to it with new anguish and desire. There game a time when Mrs. Eversley's condition' improved ect that she was Jess subject to nervousness, and Rita occasion- ally escapee' for a longer walk than she had taken for two weeks. The October weather was perfection in the -mountains ; the air chill, but never too keen;* the sky showing only a faint haze, the foliage reddening and gilding on every bank and hill -side, so that the views far and near- were glorified re- minders of the summer. Macbane discovered that Rita walked alone, and :remonstrated with her for it. She reminded him of her many years of such freedom at Byrams., Before I was a great lady," she said, smiling, though a little sadly; "and you know I cannot take Maria away from mam- ma." "You are childish," he said,. half angrily. "You know you could have me, or Charlie would be glad to go." But Rita had grown to fear Charlie as a companion. His beloved theme was like an intoxicating draught to her, and she could not trust herself with it. "Then come with me to -day," she said, with an unusual gentleness. . I am only going a little way down the ravine." The place was tranquil, deserted, and yet peaceful. They walked almost in silence, each fearing speech that would bring their minds and memories, their hearts, back to the first starting -point. At last, "1 think that I must be naturally ma- ture," said Rita. "1 am only twenty, yet I fel nearly a hundred sometimes." Macbane looked down upon her with a while ; she was pulling little leaves from the half -bare bushes as they walked along, and letting them fall idly to the ground. Her face was turned away from, him, and of 'late Macbane was possessed by a jealous longing always to see her face -meet the honest if proud look of her eyes while she talked. 'The coil of soft hair beneath her bat, the bit of throat visible above the yel- low Falk handkerchief, were / charming, but he wanted to see her face, to read what she theant in her eyes. "Why ?" he said, rather sharply. "Look arod at me, Rita. "Why do you feel old?" She stopped and turned her face full upon him. The tears which she had been striv- ing to conceal had gathered, and one or two were beginning to roll quietly down the girl's white cheeks. " My heavens 1" cried Macbane, '1 what is it, child ? Oh, Rita !"-and the man's voice broke -"will you not let me love you? Dear, don't you see that nove you ?" • He had caught her hands, and now held them passionately in his own ; but Rita had started, with a look in which terror was the only element he could define. "No 1 no ! no 1" she cried, wildly. "You do not -you must -not ---no!" " But, Rita; be my wife, and I will make you care, dear," he pleaded,- holding her 6"1IY. "No ! never !never 1" the girl exclaim- ed, evidently in terror. Where were her resolves -her certainty that he was again cheating her, or perhaps himself? He dropped her hands suddenly, and without a word Rita turned and fled like a frightened child toward the house. Macbane occupied an hour or more in strolling about the lonely ravines. Then returning to the hotel, he went to his room, and wrote the following lines: "1 am going away to New York for a few days. If you need me, send for me, to the care of my club. I will wait a Jittle longer, hoping you may have something to say. D. M." But when early the next day Macbane went to leave the note for Miss Breton, he was greeted by the intelligence that Mr. Eversley had arrived and that Rita had been summoned to the bedside of Mrs. Tall, who was dying. Jered Hopkins had come for her. The young man made his appearance very quiet- ly at the gorgeous hotel; but when Rita, pale and beautiful, and ,dressed, as he thought, like a princess, came into the room, poor Jered's wits and. courage nearly deserted him. Had he not come on an errand of sorro R he could not have controll- ed or regained his feelings; but the habitual reserve of Byrams served him in good stead. He stood very straight and stiff and uncom- fortable as he told the stery,and it was only when they were in the cars on the way to Byrams that he thawed sufficiently to express his opinion of the many changes in her.. "Yes, Jered," said the girlarather sorrow- fully, "1 am changed; I know it." The young man looked her over carefully again, waited a little while, and then said, I don't suppose ye've changed one kinder way, hev, ye ?" The girl shook her head. "No,dear," she said, very gently. "No, I thought not," he said, and drew his hand across his mouth, and for a time looked fixedly in another direction. Presently he felt Rita's hand touch his arm, and he started, and looked at her eag,erly. Jered," the young girl said, in a low tone, "you've been about the best friend I've ever had, and so I'M going to tell you something. I love another man with all my heart, and he says that he loves me; but I can't believe him -I can't, I dare not. This is, my only secret, Jered, and I've trusted you with it." The friend who had known her always looked at her in mute anguish for an instant, and then he said, quietly: "You must tell me more, Retty, when you kin. Mebbe somethin' kin kinder fix it up." - Rita dreaded a return to Byrams to find illness and the vacancy ofdeath in the old house. The deacon had passed away a year before; only Mrs. Tall and a far away cou- sin were occupying the house. Jered drove her in melancholy silence over the familiar road, and ber heart was too full to note its dull, dreary aspect. The house itself had the look of complete changelessness, which is hardest of all to greet us when we come to say farewell to the dead or dying. Mrs. Tall was a little better; indeed, on seeing Rita, she brightened, and made the girl talk quite freely to her • but toward evening she failed again, awoke to look in a startled way at the child she had loved so well, clasp her arms about her neck, and so pass away in peace. The elderly cousin and Rita had all the melancholy work of the next week in their hands. It was over at last ; a dreary wet day heard the last words spoken over a wo- man whose whole life had been one monoton- ous, cheerless, though generous and loving round. Rita had found to her surprise that she was left sole heiress of the little all her aunt and uncle had posseesed ; the familiar place once dear to the girl's inmost heart ke faa. CtELE111111CIMILIAL. sigma= simile lios 17-2'647-.6i" Irdere Was her own -alas! when that heart was - filled to overflowingh with bitterness and grief. jetted came and went d ring that time helping the lonely women, trying in an awkward, silent way to draiv Rita out upon the subject of her luckless 1 ve. One even- ing, after he had kindled a 1re for her on the hearth in the little par or, and stood watching her white face, whiter than ever in contrast to the sombre d ess she wore, the girl suddenly told him 1he whole story. " Why, Rita !" he said " He wrote you that very night. I give, Mis' Tall the letter with my own hands." I Rite started to her feet 1 Oh, if here, here only could be a solution Ito her vain, un- quiet questionings! . The widow's few posseesioAs were neatly laid away. Rita knew that he would in all likelihood have preserved an letter from a stranger, and the next day was devoted to a careful search through the desk, the small and large boxes, and at late laid away in the leaves of a book, she found it -the let- ter intended for her, although enclosed to Mrs. Tall, and which, hut for this strange turn of circumstances, she never would have seent ' Iwas a clear autumn day. Rita, holding her treasure, went down stair's to the sit- tiug room to read it, and then suddenly a strange thing occurred to her She would not read it,! She would place it in his hands, and give him her own, and say she believed in him. ' A longing to make reparation owe over her. She remembered with Self-abasement the cruel things she bad said, her covert aneers,her doubts too plainly shown, her dis- dainful aoceptance of the many kindly ser- vices he had rendered. her mother.. What was it that had caused that revolution of feeling she could not tell,- but something had arisen in the girl's heart deeper than humil- ity, and her tears were of self-abasement and joy together. She had briefly written to him of her sor- row, and where she wanto be Miti1 matters arranged themselves, and she believed that he would come to her at. once, hut she did not know that Jered, for the 4rst time in his life, had despatched a telegram, most respectfully requesting Mr. Maaleane's pres- ence at Byrams. It was four o'clock, the, Octoher twilight had begun, when Rita, sitting Still holding her letter unread in her hands, heard some one come quickly up the porch, open the door, and in another instant Macbane was in the room. • People who have passed through doubts never can say just when faith first came, or just what followed. Rita knew only that the arm i that were to shield her for life were around her, that her face was near to his, that all but the joy of the present seemed to have vanished. They talked very little of the past for some time. Macbane asked her to -read the letter. She said she would keep it,and per- haps read it long years hence. iBut wheg the next day they had walked oue to the school -house, he told her that the iconcert was the result of the maddest freak, of a week of dead calm on their yacht, and whose suggestion it was he scarcely remem- bered; that they had not dreamed of really deluding the community, and knowing their entertainment would be good,had persuaded themselves it would all end in fun. " And yet I wrote you, my darling," said Macbane, standing with her in the little bower, "because I could not go away with- out telling you the whole story, and humbly begging your dear pardon. Ah, Rita, how often when I've tried to regret it, I haven't had the heart to, knowing it gave me you 1" Mrs. Eversley, who was slowly convalesc- ing, reciaved Rita with much effusiveness. Mr. Eversley had departed on another Wes- tern trip, but left his congratulations. "1 never supposed you could even toler- ate him," the mother said the evening of Rita's return. "After all, it was my doing. I kept him going." Even now Mrs. Macbane has occasionally to endure such remarks, but her serenity is too complete to make them effecjive. One of the first things she did after hr marriage was to distiover the fate, of Bret's picture, and as it proved to have been in her hus- band's possession since the summer when the Internationals made their first and last ap- pearance,she was satisfied. Only one thing Rita tells her husband is needed to make her joy perfect. "I can't quite feel my ideal is attained," she said to him the other day in Venice. "Why, ray dear ?" inquired Macbane,who encourages his wife in expressing herself very freely. "Because although it is nice to think of Jered keeping the old place at Byrams, still he ought to marry." "But, my love," said Methane, with a twinkle in his eye, "he fully approved, didn't he ?" The Macbanes, say their friends, have a fund of the most incomprehensible prases,all dating, Rita will tell you, from. the Season the Internationals gave in '79. THE END. • Fabrics and Trimmings for Winter Gowns. The popular fabric° for winter costumes will be satin cloth, serges, cheviots, Scotch homespuus and tweeds. Fancy designs and plaids are not as popular as they were. Vel- vet and velveteen will be more worn than ever before, while for :visiting and dianer dresses black satin maintains its vogue, though satin brochades, either in one ceder or in soft anodes that harmonize, are also counted geed form. The colors favored, are dark navy blue, gray, a very deep golden. brown, a darker green than emerald, a pretty dark red and royal purple. Buttonsare profusely used, but they are chiefly the large fancy shades in horn, guttapercha or mether-of-pearl. The vari- ous braids and the narrow satin ribbons, eapecially in black, are used to prodace original effects on skirts and bodices, a dec- oration fancied being a contrast obtaiued by means of an outlining with white braid. For street wear the suit -that is, the cbs- tume in one color --continues to obtain. The jaquette blouse is the new bodice of the sea- son. -Isabel A. Mallon in September Ladies' Home Journal. NOVEMBER 26, 1897. Hello, There, SOOTHES THE THROAT. QUIETS THE COUGH. ALLAYS INFLAMMA- TION OF THE LUNGS AND BRONCHIAL TUBES. DR CHASE'S 'OP LINSEED ,x ',NO 4, 6. oPpt PRICE 25 MR. CHAS. 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A Knight of the Bets, by Ameii4 Barr, cloth 81. Sent post paid to any address. C. W. PAM, SEAFORTH. IT P.A.IrS TO The Canada Business College, CHATHAM, ONTARIO, Is double discounting all previous records in getting pupils placed in choice positions. This le th record: 115 pupils placed in the eleven months end ng Aug. 16th; 24 pupils placed in the put few wee near- ly all of them during °donor. Our last week'. no- tice oontained the names of seven Who weris placed, and where placed; seven others have shoe been plaoed. The demand for our pupils is now strong that some who have been graduated at Ohs scheols, and have found no call for their services, e a post graduate course with us, and get the adva tages of our facilities for placing pupils. All 'such nuat re- main withus until they gel thoroughly qual fled, be- fore we recommend them. Write for a oat logue if interested ha either business or shorthand. D. MoLAOHLAN & Co., Chatham, +Sitio. EB Cottle in and see how HUGH Down JAe irices in Crockery. A large stock of , Dinner and Toilet Sets, also Glasswsfe nnd Lamps of the•very latest 1 designa Xy style of doing business ROBBS e show a coin 'etc ges, Wood. Cook St t)ut steel oven§ of ti guaranteed. Splendid values in breo4 :popaaileinatentmd:toovic•iio:bdf 431, mates given for fu 7Gdiveees usniagheatll b4or No mari, as my stock of Teas is always. comPlett, including the noted BLUE . RIBBON and SALADA blends; also the best 25e -japan Tea in town. Ify stock o, General Groceries includes everything usually kept in a first-class OITY GROCERY. CD 0 gsi • Fels pU sui'syO 914 80 ''Everything at lowest figures. ANN - .... ....... ..... 1 11 01Vit I 111 . Our direct connections will save you time and money for all points. Oatiadian North W - et Via Toronto or Chicago, British Columbia and California points. Our rates are the lowest. We have th m. to suit everybody and PULLMAN TO - IST CARS for your accommodation. If. for further information. r, Grand Trunk Railway. fonTorawi:s: leave Seaforth and Clinton stations GOING Wen- PASSenger MPameisedligTerar Mixed Train ... Goners Elise- Paseenger Passenger, . Mixed SZAPonT11. 12.47 P. M. 10.12 P. Id. 9.0 A. M. 6.15 P. AL 7,55 A. ef, 3.11 P. M. 6.20 P14. AS CUE K. 1.013 10.27 P. M. 10.15 A. 7.067 7.40 Wellington, Grey and Bruce. GOING XORTH-- Passenger. 9.49 P. M. 10.01 1.01 10.26 GOING SOUTH- Passenger. %entrain OM A. Id. Bluevale ... 7.00 Brussels-. ...... 7,14 Ethel .. 7.28 Ethel. Brussels, bluevale.. Winghain, Mixe L40 r 2.05 /25 /26 Mix 8,55 9,17 9.46 10.02 London, Huron and Bruce. GOING NORTH- Pamouger. London, depart.. 8,15 e x, 4.45 I II. 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If you want to buy, cheap Bedroom and Par or Suite, or any kind of Rouse Furniture, Wid4W Shades and Curtain Poles, go to H. WELL, Zuri Ontario. If you want to save money buy your Organs wh re vou have a choice of 8 or 4 of the best -inanufietUJea In Owed*, ell are in stook at rock bottom in Oo to B. WELL, Zurich, Outride. 16274 u. r EMPOR • aneesileemslowool eatherd aanle Lth sEAFoRi 0 the front asmanal, witi fl found in a first-class ew goods in latSst design Sewing M r'emsae ri a.e NisT0ENtVr vWell 1 at asms,lw.1 &Ivan7 007 We sell wood cheap ford, ven on wood. -AtriNT35E3EZIM 11.n the Undertakiug De I ea goods from the best hi d guarantee 13ittisfaction nt of our work. We h a point to furnish chaini isites for funerals, }-ngi 1Arterial and cavity eni igieutific principles. Picture F e also do picture I kl!uds of moulding to se": 'We have been instru about a great reduction r#niture and Unaerta appreciate this ehang frO, In us. P. S. 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