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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1899-08-04, Page 65 1 - • ; ' • i - t • , ;21 • THE HURON EXPOSITOR, "24 F AUGUST 4, 14199 VETERINARY I MN GRIEVE, V.8, honor graduate of On tio eft Veterinary College. All diseases of Dom silo :I animals treated. Calle promptly attended to and charges moderato. 'Veterinary Dentstry a spool ty. Office and residence on Goderioh, [street, one door E ast of Dr. Soott's office, Seaforthe 1112' tt LEGAL JAMES L. KILLORAN, Banister, Solicitor, Conveyanoer and nitary Public. Money to loan. Office over Plokar0 S re, formerly Meohanios' Institute, Main Street, Seat rth, 1 89 _ T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer, Notary Public. Offioes tip stairs, over 0. W. Papst's bookstore, Main Street, Seeforth, Ontario. 1627 Ar G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron lt & Ciuneron, Barrister and Solicitor, doderich, Ordes;10. Office—liamillon street, opposite Coftme Motel. 1452 1151 B. HAYS, Barrister, &Honor, ConvayanDo=net Lib Notary Public. Solicitor for *a Bank. Ofilloe—Oardno's block, Main iltreet,Beaforlh. Cam to loan. 125b T M. BEAT, Barrister, Bolioitor, Notary, so. *. Moe—Rooms, five doors north of Commercia Hotel, ground door, next door to 0. L. Pipets swslry store, Main street, &Aloft. Ooderloh ento—Comeron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 COTT & licKENZIE, Barristers, Solicdtors, eta., la Clinton and Bayfield. ()Mims Office, Meat block, Isaso street. Hayfield , open every Thursday, Main street, first door wes of post °Sloe. Stoney to loan. James Scott & E. McKenzie, is el ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Ba la &a., Oadsviob. Ontario. J. L. Wm. riounTOOt. efILMT.RON. MOLT 6 HOLMX13, Rebore in ()turnery, &e.,God QA111101, Q. a., PHILIP HOW, D Barristsn, So- h, Ont. M.O. Howes V HOLIIESTED, successor to th labs firm of r . MoOsughey & Holmested, Ba rider, Solicitor Oonve sneer, and Noting Solloi r for thrsOlan satin 'ink of Commerce. Money lend. Farm for sale. Ottioe in Soars Nook, Main Street Seaforth. DE1STTISTRY. 1AR. BELDEN, Dental Surgeon ; Crown and Bridge J5 Work rule all kinds of Dental Work performed with care. Office over Johnson's hardware store, Heaforth, Onterio. 16150 DR. r. A. SELLERY, Dentle, graduate of the Royal College of Dental Su geons,Toronto,also honoi graduate of Department of Dentistry, Tor nto University. Moe in the Pe ty biook, Hen I. Will visit Zurioh every Monday day, June lst. TO AGNEW, Dentist, Clintou, ill visit Zuri3 on XV. the second Thursday of each month. lb DR. R. R. ROSS, Dentist (rimester to F. W. Tv/addle), graduate of Royal College' of De tal burgeons of Ontario ; tiret class honor graduate of Toronto Universty ; crown and bridge work, idso gold work in 'all ite forms. All the most modern methods for painless filling and ainiese extraction of teeth. All operations carefully Performed. 3ffioe : Tweddle's old stand, over Dill'e glroleory, Seaforth, 1640 commencing 16 7 MEDICAL 1 Dr. John McGinnis, flon. Graduate London Western University, member ef Ontario College of Phygicianis and Surgeon's. Moe and Residence—Formerly °coupled by Mr. m. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic, Ch rob fillrNight calls attended promptly. 1458x 2 A Pi'. HOTHABI, 31, D., C. 51,„! member of Col- „ lege of Phs Wotan of Surgoous of Ontario, Constance, Ontario. Office formerly °coupled by Dr. Cooper. 1650 TNa. ARMSTRONG, If. B., Toronto, M. D. 0.M., ,JLJ V iotoria, M. C. P. S., Ontario; suet:lessor to Dr. Billott, office lately 000upted by Dr. Bilotti Brew ela,Ontario. • Lif,X. BXTHITNX, M. D., ',elan', of the Royal IS_ College ;of Physiolans and Surgeons, Kingston. Suctoessor to Dr. Maoltid. Oftiot lately occupied ;Dr. Mackid, Moils. direct. fiesforth. Redden** —Corner of Victor's equate. in house lately occupied by L. X. Danoey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, Ade resident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen. Heopital. Honor graduate Trinity Univsnity, member of the College of Physicians and Surgeans If Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron, Office and Realdencee-Goclerich Street, East of the Netnodist Church. Telephone 46. 1886 DRS. SCOTT &. MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, - Boded& street, opposite Methodist churoh,Seaforth J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and number ',Ontario College of Physicians snd Burgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. a. MAcilAY, honor graduate Trinity Univereliy, gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physioians and Surgeons, Ontario. 148 TAR. PEfILLIPS, of Toronto, has opened an o ce Ai lately ocoupied by Dr. Campbell, where treats consumption and all diseases of the air pa s. ages by inhalation of medicated vapors, the only a. tionaI method of reaching the lungs, destroying the microbes and eradicating the dieease, The Dr. has just returned from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he spent the winter etucia ing the method there of treet- ing disemes of the urinery organs, and all d 8- eaaes of long etanding. Skin diseases and diseasee,of women oured in a short thne. Electricity used in rheumatism, itervous debility, &s. 1638.t AUCTIONEERS, WM. M'CLOY; Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, Isaturing Company. Sales promptly attended , aid Agent at Herman for the Mammy -Harris Mitt:. ;barges moderate and satlefaction guaranteed. Orders by mall addressed to Henssil Pon 011ie'', ler left at his reeidence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuck. smith, will receive prompt attention. 12984f LUMBER Slaii4GLES. Being always- in commuuication with the lumber dealers, the undersigned ie in a position to supply Lumber, Shingles, Cedar Posts, etc., at the very 1 twt.st price% either the car load or otherwise. Verds—in the rear of the Queeree Hotel, Seaforth P. KEATING, Seidorth. 1627tf TO THE PO LIC. Having .a complete hne of Builders' Hard a e, Stoves, Tinware, Dairy Supplies, ETC., ETC. Prices Right. We aak a share of your patronage. S. MULLETT & CO. SEAFORM. AN OLD MAID'S LOVE STORY. BY FLORENCE STUART GARSTON IN THE CA. NADLAN ROME JOURNALt — An ” Old Maid" —well yes, it was true, she was ferty-five years old to -day, when yet she had heard a young girl speak of her as such, it had wounded her a litiatlrea. ce Howard, alone in her little eittin room, drew near to her open gate, fire, an settled herself comfortably to think. Le and cared for by a widowed unt. Sh Ili an orphan when a child, she had een love grew up e pretty warm hearted girl, who every one liked and respected. At ninetee she took the position of teaoher in the vi lege school, where she won the regard of th teachers, and better still, the love of h own scholars. She had plenty of suitors i those days but though she accepted the a tentions dial were offered her, and even fli ted a little perhaps, she never encourage any man to think that she oared for him, o allowed any one of them to speak seribual of his love for her. To the two rnt wb would propose to her, she said, " I a to young to think of these things a I meet se more of the world and have a little fun, an then I'll settle down." , " Yes growled Ronald' Graham, the la unfortunate, " with some other fellow." She laughed merrily, " well, time will te I certainly can't pretent to." Shortly after, a new principal came to th sohool, and it was omen whispered that h was in love with Grace Howard ; and eh who a month before, deolsred herself " to young," now began to think of " thee thinge " most ,seriously. As Mr. Tempi boarded only a few doors from her aunt' they saw each other every day, and it soo became a matter of course that he shoul wait for her that they might walk togethe to and from the school house ; and, besides this, it was very often necessary that he [mould help her prepare the lessons for the next day, at least so be said, though no one ever found them at work at anything of the kind. Seeing each other constantly; as they did, their friendohip soon ripened into love, and just six weeks from the time he met her he asked her to be his wife. He told her that he could not marry for some years, for he was the`hole support of his mother and in- valid sister, but that the next year they were going to live with his behther, so that then he would be free to nye_ what he could for himself. He said, " I feel that I am sel- fish in asking you to marry me Grace, but I love you, and if I cannot_give you riches, I will try with all that is in my power to make you happy." And she answered "yes, for she loved s, him with her whole heart. The days which followed were very happy ones. If the day seemed long and hard to Grace, the thought of the walk home with him cheered her, and never were so few scholars " kept in," as during those few months. . One day, six months after their engage- ment, he came to her with a letter in his hand. " Read that, Gracie, and tell me what I must do. Think it over well dear ; I'll come and talk it over with yod this even- 'ing." She read it twice, slowly and care- fully, and as she read her heart ached, for she knew that ehe must advise him to accept the position it.offered him, An old friend, in a far off western town had written asking him to come -and help him in his business ; the pay was good and there were spleodid opportunitiee of bettering himself later on. Had Ernest Temple been with her when she read the letter he probably would not hahe gone, for her face would have shown him the pain at her heart. But she fought he battle bravely, and when he came in the ev fling, she met him with a smile and told hi he must go. s STOP WOMEN from exercising common sense You can't do it. As the old rhyme .runs • At The inan's a fool who tries by force or skill To turn the corrent of a woulau's i For if she will, she will, you may depend on% Aud if she won't Ihe won't, so tfiere'-a an end oral." Collimon sense tells a woman that when she's sick she needs a doctor. Cornmon sense tells a woman that in disease the firs: question is not of man or g woman, but of recognized medical ability. d Common sense applied to advertihements es which invite women to "write to a woman d because she is a woman am'. und rstands women," will show the woman so ppealed • to, that it's no use to write to an wotnan I about disease unles,s that womitn is a n I physician. 1- Common sen e used in the reading of e advertisements discover that no claim er is made in the to a physician's knowl- edge or diplom And that is not because the claim woul be morally culpable as a lie, but becaus it would be legally pun- r- ishable as a fra d. The law permits you to masquerade as a, doctor in an advertirie- ✓ /tient, just so ong as you don't actually y claim to be a doctor, or put M. D. after o our name. T at's why the advertisement Ts worded " wri e to a woman " instead of write to a docto Common sen e ▪ has brought more than half -a -million omen, aflicted with some form of female isease, to Dr. R. V. Pierce et AS one of the m . st expert physicians in the United States n the treatment of female 11 diseases. Dr, ierce is a specialist. He has given mor than thirty years of active practice to th treatment of female dis- e eases. Dr. Pie ce is not a physician " by courtesy. He i a physician regularly grad= uated, legally • mpowered to practice and With thirty yea s of experience in the treat- ment of diseas s of women, a hich he has e made his spec alty. s, The offer of free consultati on by lettsy a ' made by Dr. Pi rce is a real offer, an honest offer. It is a offer backed by a medical institution wi h a world-wide reputation, ,-- ' It will be better, for you Graee." "No, n better for me, at least I can't feel that it but you do not wish to teach always, eo i s too good a chance for you to mime" So th matter was settled and two weeks later, having provided a substitute, he left. In the meantime Grace cried herself to sleep ght after night, and felt that she could Iii n t let him go, but in his presence She was Ways cheerful, speaking hopefully of his urn, and guarding carefully the tears that re so ready to fall.• And he, matelike, %use she smiled, never -realized hose she ered from his going. hen he came to bid her good-bye, great tears, probably the first for years, stood in hie eyes. He caaght her in his arms for the last time. "My darling, You will be true to me, even fez years, if it must be, will you not?" And she had answered, "Yes, Ernest, for years, if it must be, ,but oh, you wIll try and come soon ; you Will re- member how dreadful it will be for me here without you. lithe!' wait for you and love you always.' " I shall come just as seon as I possibly can. It will be just as inted for me as it is for you. Dear little girl,l good-bye," and the next moment he was gone. She stood and watched him as he left, smiling at him through her tears when he turned for a farewellslook, and' -then—what then ? Well, every womat and some men, perhaps, will know—what then. He wrote to her often—long loving letters they were. He was very busy, he eaid was doing Well and was glad he had gone, though he missed her dreadtully. When he left he hoped to be` away only a year, but he soon wrote her that he found he eould not leave so soon end that it would probably be two years before he could get away. And then as the second year was nearing its close, aud she was eounting the weeks till he should come, he wrote her that his friend and partner was going away and he mutat wait until his return, but would certainly be with her for Christmas, three months later. "You do not know how • 1 long to see you" he wrote ; "You must not think I have not tried to get away. i am doing my best so that I may make a home for you." Slowly dragged the months and weeks until at last she was numbering the days be- fore Christmas. Perhaps he may come to- day was her first thought on waking every morning, and she rose every day with a feel- ing of gladness. "Now I can tell exactly when Ernest is coming," she said to her aunt one day when she broeght her a letter from him, just three days before Christmas ; but, after hastily scanning the pages, she quietly folded it, placed it in her pocket, and, paying no heed to her aunt's interrogations, went to her own room, turning at the door to call over shoulder, " don't worry over the cake, auntie ; I guess be is not coming yet awhile." " Well," soliloquized Mrs. Howard, " she takeis it cooly. It seems to me I would have felt more like having a good cry than going off to curl my hair : but Graoe always was a stra ge girl. Sometimes she locate as if she was ust dying of lonesomeness for that man and hen other times like this, when you woul expect her to feel blue, she is livelier Suninicr Colds are noted for hanging on. They wea en your throat and iungs and lead to serious tro ble. Don't tr fle with them. "a Take Scott s Emulsion at once. It soothes, heals, ,and cures. soa. and SI. AU druggists. a staff of -near y a score of regularly grad - u ted physicia s, a practice which reaches e ery state in the Union and a record of 'store than h lf-a-million wo new treated and ninety - ei ht out of every hundred perfectly cure . Write to a d ctor. That's the first thing. *Ate to the d ctor. That's the next thing. The woman's octor, is Dr. R. V Pierce, a the Invalid ' Hotel. Buffalo, N. V. than ever ; I able to unders it?racie went so t of way re th re it was: till the lase m tad! be able t h not reticen I m so disapp hat night en from him, hi letter ; " sa d, "1 want w s indignant m life to go as ed herself ; "If I were in hie place noth- in weeld hay kept me another day. If he lo ed me one uarter as much a he says he do s, or as I do him, he would aye made a fl a auyt wtoitchomth lomnogrraogwo.," all bitterness died away. , She r membered tuat he was lonely too, hoMesick and longing to see her ; and she wrote him a brighe, cheery letter, full of love and coati ra making no mention of her own sorrow a d disappointment: He did not now of course, that she cried all the time he wrote that letter ; there was nothing in the words to tell him of the ache in her he rt. She wrote gaily of the Christmas fes ivities, omitting, however, to mention th t she had taken no part in any of them. t, would have been better for them both perh ps if she had written as she felt, for he, if e had realized how much she ' wanted him, w uld have sacrificed other intereets, and h ve come to her ; but she knowing he was doing 9,11 for her sake, and knowing too, th ugh he had not told her, that his butanes was not now as prosperous as before, tried o write catty such things as would comfort a d cheethim. A few weeks latter he wrote er that, while he tried to keep it from her e was obliged now to tell her, that his bus nese had not paid, a,ud that he wes now, even poorer than when he left her ; he had been offered a position in Alaska, and befor his letter reached her. he would be -gone. e was glad to know by her bright, lively letters that she did not miss him as she di at first ; if he were not sure of that he wo hi go home and take any- thing that offered, brit he could make money so much faster the e that he felt it would pay in the end, to ait a year or two longer. He t-goved her jus as dearly as e er, and hoped she would n t be angry with him for going." Well, he was gon ! It was too liate now or she would have written and fprbidden his going. Ali, wel ! she was gettling used to the pain now ; sh meet bear th burden a few years longer. hat was all. Then her aunt di d, 1 and she as left alone. 1 - The day after the funeral Ronald Graham came to her. " Gr ce," he ' said, " cannot you feel differently oward me ? I know I have asked you twice already, hitt now you are left alone ; oann t you learn to love me, just a little, I. will t y so hard to, make you happy." i Then she told him for ehe had 'not ione-so bettors, that she w s engaged ;to Ernest Temple, and that ev n if he should never ree- turn, her heart was holly his. , " Do you think " he ventured, "if he, came again, you wo Id still care for 'him ? You know he has b en gone so long, and may have changed." . " Ronald, I am ce tain if he came twenty years from now, I a all feel just the same.' " Well," he said vith a sigh, "I will say no more about it ; b t if at any tithe I can do anything to add o your happiness, you know how glad I e all be to do •t, and I hope you will alway look upon m as your friend, and let me lo k after you a ittle un- til he does come." : " Thank you • onald, " she enswered, " you have always b en my good, trde friend, from the time we w re child' en together. I shall keep auntie's lil housekeeper, and I hope you will come a d eee me often; for I am Very lonely now." " I know it, poor little 1. girl ; yes, I will com —sometimes.1 a l The years rolled sl wly on, and still Ernest Temple did not com . After ten years she scarcely expected th t he would, though she heard from him occ sionally, vehee he often spoke of coming ho e, though as years rolled on the time for his oming grew more and more indefinite. A d so ten, fifteee, twenty years passed, and s e realized that she was outgrowing her you h, and that slowly hut surely she was growing old. The friends of her girlhood, most sf them married or went away, and ehe founs herself no longer invit- ed with the " youne folks," still she dressed just as prettily and . aintily as she did when a girl. " Ernest, mit find as little chaege in me as possible," she side to herself, " I am changed I know but I ave given him all my youth, and t is not my fault if be finds me an old oman hen he comes back." And now, On h r forty fifth birthday, which is also the an iversar of her engage- ment to him, she si by her fire and thinks of him, though he h sheen g ne now twenty- five years. " Shall I light a amp, iss "Howard ?" tusked her little mai , who h d replaced her old housekeeper, lo g since . ead. 44 Not yet, Jennie she a.swered, and so she sat there by the flickerin light thinking —still thinking. the little c de whit) still el ater round her L She is a pretty.wo an etil in spite of the grey hears which nii gle wit the brown in forehead. Her face to be a re has 16st its piquant g rlish be uty, bu has gained a womanly weetness of expr action which is even more leasant t look u on. She made a very pr tty pict re in t e firelight, at least so th ught Ro ald Gra am, who pre - ender if any one ever will be and her." o her room and in a dazed d her letter once more. Yee, " I have pnt off telling you ment because I hoped I might get away, but my partner d and is amply impossible ti inted." a be received a hanclsotne pres- but she toesed it aside with do not want his present" she im." -Fur the first time, she as well as disappointed. " Is on like thie fo ever?" she sently entered with, a large bunch of viblete in his hand. " Dreaming in the dark, Grace? A nice way to celebrete your birthday." " Yes, is it not ? Oh, Ronald, what ex- quisite violets ! You must have sent t the oity for them. It is to good of you elways to remember my birthday ; I do not think any one else even knows when it is." " Then it is the more necessary, that I should not forget your little posy. He came and dropped the flowers in her lap, but in- stead of taking the chair she offered him he stood resting an arm on the mantle -a elf, and looked steadily into the fire. " Are you not well to.night, Ronal 1 7" she asked. " Oh, yes—that is—I have somethin to tell you." He roused himself with an effort ; then in a voice which trembled a little, " Grace, he—Ernest Temple I mean —has come. When I went to the train to- night to get the flowers he was t,here. I knew him at once, though he,has greatly changed. I thought I ought to tell you, you might be startled you know—that is= I know how you have wanted'him all these years though you never said so. He has gone to the hotel for his dinner ; I suppose he will come here soon, and 1—I—thought I bad better let you know." " I—thank— you — Ronald, I am very glad you told me." The fingers which held the violets, trembled, until at last they fell to the floor, "I will go now Grace, good-bye," and passing his hand caressingly over her bowed head, before she could speak he was gone. She remained just as he left her. Ten yearebefore she would have rushed to her mirror to smooth het hair, but now she sat slowly turning the ring he had given lter on her slender finger remembeting how plump it had been when'he had placed it there, and how he had laughed and told her that she could never brea her engagement, for in that case he s ould demand his ring back, and he knew she could nev r get it off, and would have to send finger nd all. She felt a, little surptised at her elf, that she could be so still, but she was lad, oh, so glad, that he had come ! Toget er they would forget the many yeare that had passed, and at last the lonelines of her life and the aching of her heart ould be "Tethers came a tap at her door, nd then her servant tells her there is a str nger—a gentleman—asking to see her. he next moment, Jennie, carrying a light d lamp, ushers him in, and this is what he s es : A tall, good looking man, his hai slight- ly tinged with grey, rather stout, nd fifty years old. She watched his approach with feeling of dismay. Somehow she had ne er real- ized that he would be so differen . Was this Ernest, her darling, whom he had watched for all these years? Thi stout, bearded man, bears arnall resemb ance to the slender, handsome young fell w who left her twenty-five years before. He advanced hesi tatingly, " I th ught at first I had made a mistake, but I se now it is really you ; I trust have not ch nged so much that you do not recognize me " Oh, no, indeed, I have not f rgotten you," she gahe him both her hand as she spoke, they stood silent for a mome t, then with a faltering voice " it is—Mr, Temple —she tried to say Ernest—she hone tly did, but she simply could not do it. G adually they withdrew their hands without the lov- ing embrace eaoh had evidently int nded. Each face grew sad, and he dre a long sigk as he dropped into the ch:ir she pu9lied towards him, not the big, ld arm chair which she had intended wh re she might sit on the arm of it and talk to him as they did so many years ago. He passed his hands quickly thro gh thick; wavy hair in the way she remem- bered so well. In the old days it h d been a sign that he was worried abo t some- thing, and she bad hastened to omfort him ; but now she felt that she was utterly helpless to speak ; a word of com ort or otherwise was impossible. It was the old, old story—twe ty-five years had changed them both, and t ey had grown apart. And irt that insta t when they had stood with clasped ban s, each realized that their love for each ot, er had gone—utterly and hopelessly gone. Their hearts are still full of tenderness f each other—as they were—but for each ther— as they are—they know that they ave no lovea There is an awkward pause etween them, then she asks him about his ravels. He answere in an absent, constrain 4 sort of way. There is so little they an talk about, for everything in their lives, n hers at least, seems connected with the r love for each other, and that, they are at resent not prepared to discuss. They spend a very miserable hour togeth- er. She is thinking of the dreams he had of his comi g, how she would rush t meet the happiness , of havi g him ce more, and she widh s, oh, hes, that she had once ore her he knows the reality ea never him, and o with her o how she wi dream, for be hers. And he i cursing the spirit of money whi h had grown with his uecdcefsosr, and which ad kept him away til he could retui a rich man, and now— ell, he has riches and nothing more. Hie leaves early, pleading fatigue as he Lad be n trav- elling seve al days, saying he shi 1 c me again the n xt evening if she has ne ng ge- ment. She tells him that she has tto le, isnd will be glad to see him ; then to her nteinse relief he go s. And no now once more she is lone -- never so ut erly alone in her whole lif as now. Thro gh all the years of the p et he had had his coming to look forwa d to. She had fel that there was a happy im in store for he . But now he had cone s nd she had fou d no joy in his coming er heart refuses to own him as the man wh m she loved. ahe sank back wearily o to or couch and burieeher face in its p llo s. This, then, was the end of all the y ,are of waiting. She ha& given her life, the est of it, for his sake, and now her re ain ng years must be, if anything, more lon ly, for there was now nothing to look forw rd to. With a sense of utter desolation upo her, she rose to go to her rootrx ; her foot t uo ed something, and there, on the floor c us ed and forgotten, but fragrant still, e'he found 000 HEAL 11 FOR WOME Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Food stores Weak, Sickly Womeri . to Robust Health. ' Any irregularities in the monthly ut rine action is sufficient cause for women t be alarmed about their health. Whether painful, use th. Re. suppressed or profuse menstruation, the can be traced to some derangement o nerves. • A few • boxes of Dr. A. W. 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Chases new illustrated book " The Ills of .,ife and How to Cure Them," sent fr to yot r address. , , „ Cfaill0 and LORI Always relieved promptly bt Dr. Fowler's Ext. of Wild Strawberry. , When you are seized with an attack ot Cramps or doubled up with Colic, yout want a remedy you are sure will give you li [ relief and give it quickly, too. , e You don't want an untried' something [ that atsithelp you. You want Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild, Strawberry, which every oue knows will positively cure Cramps and i Colic quiCkly. just a dose or two and you have ease: 1 But now a, word of ! .proof to back up these ' assertione4 and we have it from Mr. John Hawke, Coldwater, Ont., who w ites: 1 "Dr. Fowl r's xtract r, of Wild St aw erryis a wonde pi c re for ; Diarrhoea; Cramps a d pains In the stomach. I Was a great s fferer until I gave it a trial,' but now I 12 ve perfect comfort." t17, flowers Ronald Graham had, given her.; " oor little violets," she said, " it west, very ungrateful to treat you so." Perhaps! before retiring for the night. The nex0 lc th thought came to her, that their donot h d been treated in much the salme manner, fo she gathered them up aarefu ly and ear' ry'ng them with her, placed the in water[ d y, after an almost sleepless: night, she fe t weak and ill, and when Er est Temple/ ii,. ea e in the evening he found he lying bacic in her easy chair, dressed in a 1 ose crimson! h use dress with dainty ruffles of soft; or arity lace at her throat and wrists. Sher lo ked much younger than she had thel ni ht before in her plain clerk; dress. Hei ea e and drew a chair close beside her. "I; a BO sorry you are not well " he aside 6 6 ould you rather I did not tay ?" then,: as she answered in the negative, he reached o er and taking one of her slender white b nds in his great , brown cne, he said, What is it, Grace, have I stayed away I 6 to long?" Her eyes filled with tears as Byh n basil:ow. 'e'red, " Oh, Ernest, T am afraid 1 tie " Have you no love left tor me, then !" " Not now ; not since you came. I have and I cannot tell you why it ie, but some le be n faithful to you, Ernest, all these years, way it seems to me that you : are not the man I have loved, and now—l-my love is gohe—end I cannot bring it back.' . ' Yes, I saw that it was so ;lI am very sorry ; I ought to hs,ve come before." " Oh, Eeueist, why didn't yon ?" There was such a plaiutive tone,in hen voice, that he pressed the hand he still helri as he ans- wered fiercely, " Because I was a fool ; I thought the more money I made, the better it would be at first, and llately-i-well, I had been away ;so long, I suppose I did not think so much about it • and forgive me, Grace, I never realized wh'itt a lonely life, you were having. You know I always thought of you as I left yon—with a house full of company alweys, and having a good time ,generally." Then, after a pause, " Grace*, don't you suppose you could learn to love: me again, after a while, perha s ?" " No Ernest, it w uld never be the same ; we cannot either of ue love now as we did then, and it would e only a mieerable imi. tation, at best. Bet r to forget if we oan, all that is past, than try to revive a love that is dead." The with one of her old bright looks, " You know very 'well that you don't want me " 'He laughed nerv- ously, as he said, " ou ate the same little tease as ever, I see.' " Well, you cannot deny it's truth." " Why, as to that " he said, " I have be- come such a coufirme old bachelor that I am not so sure now as 1 was when I left, that a married life is the° only happy ohs. But you are a ver sweet woman, Grace, and I should indee be :very glad if ou could change your ind ; r dare say hits sounds very cold an unioVer.like, but it would be rather aill , woeld it not, to ry and revive my boyis enthueiasm ?" " Thank you very much fOr your opin on of me, but I cannot hange 'my mind ; nd I am glad to know t at your grief will • ot be more than you ca bettrah Then gen ly touching the hand w ich rested on the a m of her chair, ", Do not think me unfeeling, that I have forgot en ohe word vee e er spoke to each other ; but it is better to laugh over it than to cry, as lit not 7—an I must do one or the otherS" She drew off the ring, which he had given her, and drop- ping it into his hand, said, " I take it off now, for the first time, as I promised you." He stepped over to the prate, and dropped it down into the bed cif glowing coals, say- , ing, " Well, that ends it then. I shall go I back, and if ever I come across a man whoi has a girl at home waiting for him, I will I make him go home to her, if I have to fight him to make him go." After which vigor -1 oes outburet, he eat down and they had a long, cozy talk together. When at last he looked at his watch he was surprised to findl how quickly the evening had gone. Finally, he stood once more, waiting to , bid her good-bye. As they stood hand,, in hand, each remembered that other parting so long ago ; as then, so now, eaoh pair of eyes were wet. " Grace," he said, " I am going to kiss you, as I did then." She lifted her face, and he kissed her cheek saying, " I have spoiled your life, in- stead of making you happy, as 1 promised to do, but, I never meant to do it." And once more he was gone. No one who saw the little " old maid " ,coming and going as usual, day after day, ever euspected that • anything unusual had occurred. One of her friends asked her what had become of her pretty ring, and she answered, and truthfully, that she had losotf iRt. onald Graham, she eaw very little for several weeks. She met him on the street several times, but he seemed always in a hurry, and did not stop to speak to her. She stopped him one evening, on her way home, and asked -him if he had been ill, he looked so pale and worn. " No," he told her he had been busy, would come and see her soon, and offer his congratulations, hoped she had not thought him unsympa- thetic, but he bad not been able to come be- fore." " Yee," she " I—there is something I will tell you.i" She bad drawn off the silk mitten she wore, to fasten back a re- fractory loek of hair, as she epoke, and, as she did so, his keen eye -caught sight of the finger which now wore only the little plain ring, which had acted as keeper for her en- gagement ring.l " Oh," he said, slowly, as if to himpelf, " then, I arn going home with you now," to !he turned and walked with her, a thing he had not done for years. As they passed a group of girls one of them giggled end said, " Well, if that don't beat ; there is old Miss Howard, got a beau ?" And they both blushed like boy and girl of sixteen. She turned to wish him " good evening" when they reached her gate, but found he was following her in. He opened the door for her, then walked, unasked, into her sit- ting room, When she came in a moment later after rernoving her wrips, she found he ad taken off his overcoat and was atand- ing looking aV the_ faded butash of yiolete, which. he bad found in turning over the leaves of the hot* she had been reading. " Grace," said he, " I want to talk to 1 yo do you know why came home with Yes, Aoneld, becalase you a e sorry for this evening ?" me, and *ant to cheer me as you always o ; but really do not feel so badly now. he first few days after he had been here, I did; f el so utterly dea late ; bu it was just as yro i once told me, we are b changed; a.ucl we did not love each ther as we thought we did ; and I have m de up my mithilthat.after all I can be ver happy and Conic ted here aloneoind there is no par. I t10 1 /4 reason Why I Amid fr t because I ism t end my, daya an "old ma d." race;" he said, " you k ow I love tf g Qh, no,- you ddn't," eh answered qui kly. I sulked you three times to marry me." Hut that was yeara ago; to -day, you are Snl a little sorry for me ; that was years n years ago Ronald." Yes, butte -day I have come here to ask again, and thii tune I will writ be re- fus d. I have waited for you all my life, t:30 r, and I t ink you owe it to me to marry Oh, I co ld not, would not be right. now." f g ve him al the best part of my life, now a old, and my hair is turning grey. I evi h new I had married you when you ask- ed e before, but you lee, I did not know— h d no idea I could ever feel I do -now." Grace," he saie4 I hay =" loved you fai hfiilly for twenty ears, y s for forty trs, for I loved yoa the first day we met word of love to a other oman, and I hildren. In all hat time have spoken hi k it is now time ,yOti were wing me my ard. I believe. yo wont have loved me if your thoughte had n t been for . So now that he, as com and gone, I *a t you to think of te, and ee if you can, not learn to love me little will you do Cha , dear ?" j Yes—that is—I h ve ne r thought of 4 efore—but I bell& I am rather fond of ou now," she felt ed. " But Ronald, do otlask me to mart. you et us be al- eiva is good friends ; w are tes old now,and c nnot foriget that ave to someone eltse y best dap." e stooped and kis d her f ded cheek as be aid, " No, Grace, !you ar at last to be thy wife, and, please od, y ur best days ere et to come. ' Y PROPOSITION I3eauty and style without comfort is easily obtainable, comfort with- out appearance is equally simple. You never saw an ugly pair of "Slater Shoes," yet many of theM cover comfortably most unlovely feet. The combination of these two:— comfort and beauty—are only to be had in the "Slater Shoe." Made in twelve shapes, tsn lasts modelled from actual feet, all widths and sizes, leathers, styles arid colors. • Bvery pair Goodyear welted, name and price stampedes:in the sole. $3.50 AND $5.00. R. WILLIS SOLE LOCAL AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. . 7.31 o. P, R. ENG EER' STATE MV1 T. Be Rafferty, of innip g n, Says Dodd' Kidney Pills are 0 K. I innipeg, n., July 31—Pr bably the Mos enthutdast c man in Manit ba in re - gar to Dodd's Kidney is Be Rafferty, of the C. P. Re 1 He is one of the drivers on the ig trans.noetinentas1 road, an the jam. hog f the engine and long hours combined to b ing on Kideey Disease, from bich Mr. Ra erty suffered for twenty y ars. He was cured by !Dodd's Kidney ills. His case is ao well known throughou Canada tha a Termite gentleman wrot to Mr. Ra rty recentlY, asking him if he could recto mend Dodd's Kidney Pills. r. &a- lert wrote in reply Winnipeg, May 30th 1899. • D ar Sir, --I reeeived your note of yester- day, I will recommend Dodd's Kid ey Pills at a y time to any person with leasure.. The are 0. K. Yeurs truly, B. RAFFERTY. Th Penny in Church Collections. 6 4 he important p rt which the penny play in the avera e church offering is i kno n to every one who has ever been in - tare ted in ehurch finances." wrikes Ed - war W. Bek in the Ladies' Rome Jou nal. " A.nd than it is a part ittirely nick e or a di e into the 'church offering, out f proportioa to the neceseities is felt and ealized y many a church tr asturer. Scor a of peo le who could afford to drop a cont nt them elves by giving a penny. The feeli g is eith r that the smallest offering ' will do,' er he matter of church finances is ncit given a y thought. Therelealfailure to realize that a church is the same 'as any ess institution, and it maet have i other busi money for " There interpretat is free.' )tope that it will alw country, But to make oney—and this isn't a ihere are those to wit i•law's mite' given to ea 0 doing without a ity of life. The penny oat welco e gift to an !la oble offeri g which an rom those ho can give nd who ar giving only ts maintenaoce. s each a thing as too literal an on of the p rase that 'religion f course it is free, and let us ye be free in this religion ft e costs .Irish bull either. m more than the the church would rne absolute neces- f such a one. is the . church, the most ne can make. But more than a penny, she penny, such an I • A NEIN . FOR W A AND THOS T ftlpitatIon T TO SUM fir oie t • hortnese of to Pr a or pa t xertifon. m nrbl iparh m Ultpd,,l-a fil ar $f ne A, , ervou nes ra De ility. A er Loss I Appet te, Remember ilb Nervt Pills c sr ther re ed re , , La4-Liver 2 PEOP E. OUSLED WI N VI or irr gular a , Piss Ness, t"r sifter F mines rough he roast jeondi Ion if the Weis, lee less - 'Atte Moto IVA: rn's HORit and e worst me a fall. Osalti offering is an insalt to God and to ft church, and the sooner people free the met, ter in this hard, true light the better, Were this done the nickel would be the pre. veiling offering, and to how few persons, when one stops to consider the question, would such an offering be a hardship Or alt impossibility ? A yearly offering of two dollars and sixty cents, calculating that One attended church once each Sunday, or twice, with one offering of five cents, woe.* galvanize the church finances of this coun- try." Quick aa Thought The maddening toothache stops when Nerviline—that wonderful nerve -pain erne —is applied to the tooth. Nerviline is * positive, never -failing remedy far toothache and all nerve pains. Be adving and try it. • He Knew Not the Word. " Did year father bring you ?" wilted a teacher in a Wesh Virginia tnonntain San - day school of a smell new pupil." " Me what ?" " Your father." "Nome," "Did you come alone?" '"Nome." " Who came with you?" ss pap!, A Quebecer's Confidence in Dr Chase's Catarrh Cure—Gives Relief at Onde. He Says 1 Danville, Q April fhb, 1908. I EDMANSON, BATES Co„ Toronto. DRAR Mak—Enclosed find 11 for dozen home& Dr. Chase's Catarrh Cure. Please send them at once. Every patient using it says ; " It is an excallent cure, gives relief at once.' JAIL MAESON, General Merehant. • He Never Got Over It. , James was always under the impression that he was a born humoriet, and his friends never succeeded in convincing him to the contrary. But he has given up trying to be funny now ; he says his humour was the means of losing a girl with a lot of money, and he has never got over the blow. He ex- plains it in this way:—He was courting * broker's, daughter. One slay he called upon her, and the happened to be at home . he considered hirnielf fortunate as she had Lees out every time he had called for a week, and he determined to make the baste' his oppor- tunity and pop the question, He found her in a room busily engaged with small bundles of dried grasses which she had collected. "What a quantity of dried grass you have collected, Muss Ritchie," he said. Then lie humour burst forth. "Nice room for a done key to get into—" " Make yourself at home, Mr. James," she said, sweetly, before. he could 'finish the joke. He went home,. and all the humour was crushed out of hint for ever. ANXIOUS MOTHERS lind (Da., LOW'S WORK SYRUP the beet -medicine to expiel worms, Children like it—worms don't. Hills Green. NOTES.—The farmers are all busily ens gaged at the harvest. They report the wheat a very good erop.—Mr. Thomas Jar- rett, principal of Courtright public school,. is spending his vacation under the parental root here.—Mr. William Consitt has greatly improved the appearance of his dwelling by giving the wood -work of the exterior afresh coat of paint.—Mrs. Peter Eagan an& daughter, who have been spending a month or so at her father-in-law's, Mr, James. Hagan's, returned to their home in Detroit on Tuesday last.—Mr. and Mrs. A. igttre dock, of Hensall, visited friends in thia vicinity on Sunday lairt.—A number of our young people took in the social held at Vex- na on Friday evening last, and report having slime Es pleasant evening.—Mrs, Fernette, accompanied by her son James, and daughter Miss Marjorie, are this week the guests at the home of Mr, James. Hagan sr.—Mrs. Gilchrist and daughter of Hensel% are tithe week the guests of gm ThomaJ3 Smith. REGULAR ACTION of the bowels is necessaty* health. LAXA-LIVER PILLS are the best we* lonal cathartic for family or general use. Price 25e. Any druggist. Chewing Gum. It seems to' dreadful to think that any dear boy or girl who reads this chews gum, There is nothing true which can be said in favor of such a- habit. IL is uncleanly, un- healthy and disgusting. It ruins the teeth, the throat and the digestion no matter who - tells you otherwise. About 'the appearance omfotrhee: gum chewer the Boston Herald bail this to say, and it's true, every word and " Gum chewing is a most unpleasant spectacle for the disinterested observer.. That wagging of jaws looked at persistently has been known to drive one insane and the desire to seize the chewer and make him or her disgorge is only controlled by getting out of the way as quickly as possible. The chewing never comes to anythhig. The eternal chop, chop of the jaws bring into, play a set of muscles that eventually die, figure the facer, while causing an expression of bovine idiocy to settle upon it. Where is the human being's natural vanity while ; that piece of gum is being masticated? If the victim of this gum chewing habit will e kindly look at herself or himself in the mit. orofritd2uring an hour or so of the operatlar it may have the effect of curing her or hine ! THAT aching head elm be instantly relieved!" taking one of MILBURN'S STERLING HEADACHY& POWDERS. 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