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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1900-03-23, Page 6THE HI71,0N EXPOSITOR VETERINARY Teak( GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario si Veterinary College. An iseases of Domestio animals treated. Calls promp y attended to and cbargas moderato. Veterinary entetry a specialty. 00313e,rand residence on Goderiob street, one door East of Dr. Scott's oftlee, Seaford'. 111241 LEGAL • JAMES L. KILLORAN, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Publio Money to loan. Office over Piokard's Store Main Street, Seaforth. 1528 T IL BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer, ea • Notary Public. Oftiees up stairs, over C. W. Parrot's bookstore, Main Strett, Seaforth, Ontario. 1627 TIE:MY BEATTIE, Barrister, Solicitor, to. 11. Money to Joan. Office---Cady's Block, Sea. /orth. 1879-tf ef ARROW & GARROW, Barristers, Solicitors, &e. Cor. filimIton St. and Square, Goderioh, Ont. J. T. GARROw, Q. 0. 1676 CITARIAIS °ARROW, L. L. B. G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt & ayea Cameron, Barrister and Solieitor, Goderich, Onto; 0. Office-Blemilion street, opposite Colborne Hotel. 1452 R. BAYS, Barrister, Solicitor , Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the DOmIIIICID Bank. Office-Cardvo's block, Main Street, Seaforth. ilOnez to loan. 1215 T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o. .e.1 . Office-Rooma, five doors north of Comments i !Rotel ground floor, next door to 0. L. Pepsi. ewerr store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich e Cameron, Holt and Oamemn. 1215 C.1 TT & McKENZiE, Barristers, Solicitors, etc., .0 Linton and liayfield. Clinton Offiae, EIliott bleak Isaac) street. Bayfield Offioe, open every Thu day, Main etreet, first door west of post office. Hone to loan. James Scott E. 11. McKenzie. 1698 ER011, HOLT k HOLMES, Barristas Ro- tors in Chsrusery, dio.,Goderich, Ont M. O. , Q. 0., PEW, How, Dontarr HOranis OLMESTED, mace's°, is the Isis firm of E McCaughey & Hohnested, Barrister, Solicitor 00121/ yaneer. and Notary Sadler ter the Can Aden Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm ler e. Mlles in Soott's Block, Main Street Beate t12. DENTISTRY. LI W. TW EDDLE, Brussels, Dentist, (formerly of X Seaforth,) Graduate of R. C. D. S., Tomato. Post g-raduate csurse in omen and bridge work at llaskill's Scheel, Chicago. Moe over A. R. Smith*, store, Brussels. 16044 DP- BELDEN, Denial Surgeon ; Crown and Bridge Work anti all kinds of Detal Work performed with care. Officio over Johns° 's hardware store, 1660 Seaforth, Ontario. rip.. F. A. SELLERY, Dentist, graduate of tie jjf Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, also honor graduate of Department of Dentistry, Toronto University. Office in •the Petty block, Hensel'. Will visit Zurioh every Monday, crommenoing Mon- day, lune lat. 1587 flE. R. R. ROSS, Dentist (suooessor to F. W. Twaddle), graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontz,rio ; first class honor graduate of Toronto Universev ; orown and bridge work, also gold work in all its forms. MI the moat modern methods for painless filling end painless extraction of teeth. All operations carefully performed. 3ffice Tweddle's old stand, over Dill's grocery, Seaforth. 1640 • MEDICAL. •Dr: John McGinnis, on. Graduate London Western Univenity, member al Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Ofiloc and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the_Cattiolio Church Wilaght calls attended promptly. 1453x12 A W. HOTHA.M, M. D., C. M. Honor Graduate AL, and Fellow of Trinity MediCal College, Gra- duate of Trinity University, Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Constance, On- tario Office formerly ocoupled.by Dr.Cooper. 1650 TNR. ARMSTRONG, M. B. Toronto, D. 0. M., Vietorin, M. C. P. 8., Ontario, sucoessor tq Or. jIIbo , office lstely ocoupied by Dr. Kliott, Erno.. ad Ontario. . BETHUNE, M. D., Yellow of the Itoyal 0011crge 'of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. 100 sor to Dr. Msokld. (Mot lately moulded r. Mein, Street, Seaton/2. Residents. -tjo • er of Victoria Square, in house lately oocupied L, Danoey. 1127 • Atte mil sf Offic sloth DR. F. J. BURROWS, esident Phyeician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen - °spite'. Honor graduate. Trinity University, r et the College of Physiolans and Surgeons tario. Coroner for the County of Huron. and ResIdenee--Goderich Street, East of the diet ()burn. Telephone 46. isa: 0 1'z6 RS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ode1-o street, opposite Methodiet ohureh,Seatorth 1. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and ember Ontario College of Physicians and urgeons. Coroner for Giounty of Huron. .toKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, old medalist Trinity Medical College. Member • • ollege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 HICH GRADE urniture EMPORIUM atherdale & Landsborough sEAFoRTHI De- lers in first-class Furniture of all kin is, in latest designs. Upholstering nea Iy done. We also do picture fram- ing and a choice selection of pictures alw ys on hand. Curtain poles at all pri es, and put up. We are alsc Act nts for the New William's Sewing Machine, bet in the market for do- mestic use, no travelling agents, no hig 1 prices. U 1\TD I the Undertaking Departmenl t ,we buyi our gooch, from the best houses in fOntario,i and guarantee satisfaction in every depart-. met of our work. We have alvraya made it a point. to furnish ohairs, and e.11 other ree ui Res for funerals, MID OF OFIABOD. ri es better than heretofore. Arterial and cavity embalming 'done on Bele title principles. P8. Night -and. Sunday calls will be atte ded to at Mr. Landsborough'a resi- dent e, direetly in the rear of the Domine_n Ban . eatherdale Landsborough, sEAFORTH. cifillop Directory for 1900. ••••••••••••;II JAM 8 LOCKHART, Reeve, Seaforth 1'. 0. ALE. GARDINER, Councillor, Leadbury P. 0. JOH 0. GRIEVE, Councillor, Wkithrop P. 0 JAR S O'LAUGHLIN, Councillor, Beachwood P. 0 ARCIIIBALD McGREGOR, Councillor, Seaford' P.O JOH ' C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop P. 0 DAV D M. RqSJ Treasurer, Winthrop P. 0. WIL IAM EVENS, &sew?, Beechwood P. 0. CHA LES DODDS, Colleoter,,Seaforth P. 0. RICH RD POLLARD, Sanitary hIspeoter, Lead • b ry P, OE A. BROKEN LORCkNETTE. 1 They were pacing the platform of the little station that rose up frorp, the midst of the prairie. She looked as it she were go- ing to - a fuleral, ii rather than to a new life of gaiety. Her dark eyes were tearfully bright, and her dainty figure beemed bent 'with grief, but she •pressed her lip between her teeth and tried to put down the feelings of sorrow and regret that orowded her heart. Her corn anion looked as miserable and woebegone io it is possible for a cow punch- er to look, He was a great tall fellow, straight as ,a sturdy pine tree, with an eye as true and leeriest, as ever gazed from be- neath a sombrero. His rather long, well proportioned face was lighted with more than ordinary •intelligenee, and the lines about his mouth beepoke firmness, amiabil- ity, and depth of nature. He had come over from erulchtown to bid her God speed. " The Gulch," about fifteen miles from the railroad, was just one long street reaoh- • ing from the foot of Devil Mountain and extending on towards the plains. Not more than two hundred houses made the town, and two-thirds of these were ehanties. The other thirty-three and a third per cent. were saloons. Here for two years "Mies Jen" had spared the rod without spoiling the child ; but the commisaioners had come .along, and not finding more than a hand- ful of wondering eyed, open mouthed child- ren, they summarily abolished the school. There were great doings in Gluchtown that day. An indignation meeting was held at "Bill Biggins' Place," resolutions were passed, a petition drafted and sent to the commissioners. Then with a suppressed interest the townspeople, young and eld, literate and those whocould not read a lager beer sign, awaited an answer. It 08•1110. One morning they awoke to find the school house closed, every door with a pad- lock, everiwindew with a bar. A flaring poster, covering half its side, announced that the plain was for sale. Forthwith Bill Biggins organized a committee of twenty prominent ;Jitizens, with the avowed inten- tion of riding seventy miles to the adjuent town where the comminioners dwelt, and treating each of them to a little swing from the branoh of some convenient tree. Ac- cidents will happen, however: . A new bar- rel of old brandy arrived from Kentucky, and the next morning Bill Biggins and several members of his committee were indisposed. So, for the time being, the ex- pedition was given over. One stern fact remained, though. In the words of War „Whoop Jim when he summed up 0 the ' case that night *tress the bee, " Mies Jen had lost her job." '1 The following afternoon Ben Winston and the little Reber took a walk up the side of Devil Mou tain. Then it was that she read him a lotto from some relatives of hers in Boston inv ting her to make her home with. them, at le et for the preeent. "There'.nothing for me here; I guess I'll go," sh said, looking down wistfully upon the. attered roofs of GluolatOwn, with here and here a forlorn little column of smoke risi g heavenward. Ben did ot try to dissuade her. " Do *h t you think is best for yer, Jen," he told he , while his regretful eyes went wandering over the plains to the eastern sky, as to measure the distance that would moo lie between them. Later on he sauntered into "Bill Biggins Place." " Parda, she air goin'," he said and from his face it ight have been a tragety he was telling the . They were a rough lot, but they could feel sorry, and there were not so many demi able citizene at the Gluch that they could afford to lose Miss Jen. " We'll do the right thing, and we'll do it in style," declared Bill Biggina, and it was decided then and there that the whole town should turn out to bid her good bye, that day one week. It was a rousing send off they gave her. At the he d of a score of her admirers, Bill escorted h r to Bison Creek, a famished little stream tha vanished into the sand about a mile below the Gluoh trail. Here they drew 1 up in ine nd gave her three ringing cheers, firing. aln es with their revolvers until she 3 and Ben, vhoae prerogrative it was to see her to the etation, were far on their way. Once She turned and looked .back over the waving grass at the little band of horsemen. A cloud of dust made them in- distinct, and behind them rose Devil Moun- tain She almost fancied she could see the great white rook where she and Ben had so oftea sat. t She turned, a tear on her oheek, and lightly laid her hand upon her compan- ion's shoulder. _ "1 wonder when I shall free all this -and you again," and then, as ififearful-of, break- ing down, she began to ask Ben gliestions about the Indians, who had lately been or 9;=.' tA ifteN ataalleS e: a C eraee Ize-leetreere fs rj • , " 1, • ' • - Lots of people have thin hair. Per- haps their \;;9* parents r had • thin ki, hair • Der- \ d`ki, haps their children have thin hair. But this does 1,') not make it necessary for thcra to have thin 4144.1 Onc you may rely upon- ' makes the hair healt 1 and vigorOus;- makes it grow thick. and long, It cures dan- druff also • It always restores color to .gray hair, - all the dark,"fich color of earlylife. There is no longer need of yo r looking old. -be- fon your time. 51 00 a bottle. Ail druggists. " A a remedy for restoring color to the hair I believe Ayer's Hair Vigo brrs no erlir:-.1. I has always give' toe perfect satisfaction in every sNay." Mrs. A. M. 1., Aug. 8, Ms. Haulmondsport, N.Y. Write Cho Doclop. He ill send you a book on The Hair and Scalp free, hpou request. If yot do not obtain all tho benefits you o pected front the use of the Vigor write the Doctor about it. A dress, Dn. J, C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. ff END1111 HER TROUBL11. "I a courted, newsp7er notoriety, yet I 11 tdriElt a ood word Mt your met i at an' Pleasant Pomo.' 1 ad terribly for nearly Our and warjacnese. AMer us - &volts Pr ption ' and • itilIWONISS. t have tad ye 1I1 $Q 117Stp- sob". It It. A. Deader, driven back to their reservation at, the point of the bayonet, and to talk ce: other local topless, just as if she were not leaving him, perhaps forever. During the remainder of the ride they talked but little; yet the minutes were precious, like a chain of jewels, dropped one by one, and lost with each step, unolaimed and profitless. At the station, the waiting time was short. The cow puncher nervously fingered the revolver that hung in his belt, and kept:, his eyes fixed three feet in front of him. The girl's eyes were dim but she held her chin defiantly in the air and walked straight ahead. . "Here, let's it down," said Ben, audden- ly pausing at the edge of the platform. " Due in jest a minute I" yelled the station man to some one half way across the road. Ben gave a great sigh, pulled himself to- gether, and looked the little teacher in the eyes. His face wore a look of now or never, and, though his voice I wavered, hie eyes never moved from her face. "Look a here, Jen ; ever since we left town I've been tryin' to talk to yer--etrug- glin' to tell yer somethin' suitable like. Somehow I ain't been able. It jus' gets lassoed in my throat. The Lord knows I ain't got no time to say anything now. It's jes' this, though, Jen : when ye're gone • don't disremember me. I know I ain't : maoh-ain't nothina but all the same, don't dieremember me. Yer an' I has bean good friends out here in this wilderness ; ye're goin' to a great place -I stays here. What the blue blazes do without yer, ther Lord knows. Only ef I thought yer wouldn't go an forget me- as soon as yer gets away amon them fine people, I know I'd be more happy like. I ken alo my part better, too, afen," he went on. "Somehow, jes' yer kweet preaence has taught me that I ken be a better kind o' a feller -maybe make some - thin' Out o' myself. I'm a goin' to stake it, any ay -that I promise yer. An' then mayb , some o' these days, wen I'm differ- ent hiIe, I'll come over to Boston, an' -an' p'reps yer'll think--" A shrill whistle out alma Ben's words, but his eyes ,told the rut. He stood mutely by the girl's side as the train rolled in. "It does 'pear like ye're goin', sho' 'nut," was all he could find heart to say as he hurried her aboard. He saw her through the window, smiling at him through the tears that blurred her sight. For one wild moment she could have thrown herself back to his arms, but the bell sounded, and the great engine began to move. She thrust her hand out, and the cow puncher on the platform took it. "Don't disremember me, Jen, little one." "Indeed I will not," she sobbed. The next instant he was standing there alone, bewildered and hopeless. * • Atter Jen's departure, Ben seldom ap- peared in public. His abeence had become the topic of the hour at "Bill Biggins' Place." "1 don't know what's struck him," Bill often declared, "but 'pears like he allers stays in that thar shanty of his." On towards autumn, Ben was sitting!, one evening inhis room. A lamp fixed tO the aide of the wall shed a dim light on the pages of a book that rested on his knee. It was one of Jen's books. His great shoulders bent themselves to it, as if with difficolty, and his strained eyes were perplexed With picking out the sentences. Ever since the evening she went away, he had assiduously heat over this volume, but his progressbad been slow. Suddenly he was aroused by a chorus of shouts, and the eller") sound of firearms. Seizing a brace of pistols, he flung open the door and stepped out into the open air. In front of the shanty were a score of men. " Thar's Ben now. Be quite, everyone," sang out the voice of War Whoop. "Ben," he continued, coming forward, "a while ago we runned across n man travelin' through the town. 'Pears like he war a school commissioner-leaswiee he's suspi- eh:pa like. We thought we'd take him dciwn to' Little Sandy Creek and branch him, and we are come to ask you to jine the entertainment." " Whar's the man," demanded Ben. " Here I" answered a dozen voices from the crowd. "Wal, now, 'it's so divilish dark I can't see anything," ,returned Ben. " &pose, pards, yer all come into ther light and bring the prisoner with yer ?" Thie proposal was greeted with a pro- longed shout, and immediately the room was filled. Ben went over and tried to turn up the light. Then he took a look at the stranger. He was a tall slender man of thirty or thirty-five. His hair was partially gray and his face sunburnt. His small, keen ayes were just at present very fiery, but he seemed to realize that resistence was ueeless. "Stranger," said Ben, " might I ask yer what yer occupation is ?" • 'Geologist,"anewered the man in quick, firm voice. "Gee -what ?" enquired Ben, advancing a step with his hand to his ear. eologist," repeated the man, a light of humor breaking upon his face. Stranger, yer say ye're a geeoljist-now I'd like to know what kin is a geeoljiat to a school commissioner ?" " Look here, friends," said th: an, with a laugh '• "I'm not a school ci minaisioner. I have been sent out in the nterests of a scientific society in Boston- " Boston !"- broke in Ben. "Yea, Boston. I am trying to find the different kinds of strata -kinds of earth, you know -that lie between the Fork River and Devil Mountain. That's why I ain here:" And you say ye're not a commissioner ?" The man protested that he was not, and Ben drew War Whoop aside. Finally the latter turned. Boys," said he, "Ben here thinks the man'a straight. Anyhow, he's willin' to be responsible for him until tomorrow. Ef we git .the dead wood on him as bein' a commissioner, we'll branch him, and Ben will help. Fur the present we'll leave thn stranger with Ben, and the rest of us might as well adjourn. This was somewhat disappointing to the erowd, and they filed out grudgingly, leav- log Ben and the geologiet alone. • "Ken yer write, stranger ?" asked Ben. The man seemed somewhat amused at this. " Well, yes," said he. " And read writin' ?" "Yes, I can do that, too." "Stranger, how long do yer calogate to , hang out round these here diggin's ?" " Well, that I can't tell certainly ; at least a year, perhaps a good deal longer." Ben got up and threw hie revolver on the bed. This was a sign of peace. "Stranger, here's a proposition," he be- gan, settling down and eyeing the geologist calculatingly. " While yer here 'bouts, stay in this here shanty wi h me. I'll give yer yer bed and board, tell er what I know of the country around, tak yer to any place where yer want to ace InO the earth. That's my part of ther ontrac' ; here's yonrn : teach me how to earn somethin' everything, anything. Sh w me ho* to make somethin' better o myself. Now thar's the whole biz in a utahell take it or leave it; thar won't be no hard teelin's ef yer won't go me. Wh t do yer say, stranger ?" The geologist scarcely kn what to say. He took another survey of his companion. The cow puncher looked bi and honest and sincere as he sat eagerly 1 ening forward, awaiting an answer. "My friend," said the • n in a decisive voice, I accept your pr position ;" and they shook hands upon it. • . The geologist was not" ranched." Ben took him to Bill Biggins', and introduced him to the boys u his frien From that time the co ▪ puncher and,7. Lewis Moorman were inse arable. During the day they rode for miles d miles around, exam ining the " earth' corn lexion," as Ben expressed it. At night t ey shut them- selves up in their shanty. 1 ben, for Ben at least, came the most difficu portion of the day. His mind had remai ed so long nn - trained that it was hard fOr him to grasp abstract things. But the geologist did his own part untiringly, and Oven sent. on to Boston for a number of volumes, when Ben had exhausted his little atonic of books. Jen? She knew nothing of the change. Of eourse they corresponded, but the geolo- gist was Ben's amanuensis; at first from necessity, for Ben. wrote a very sorry band -and latterly because of 7 idea Ben hid picked up somewhete. H did not want Jen to know that he had improved. "I look at it this way," he told hie friend. "11 she still loves the rough cowboy, when I go to her one of these days, then her love is solid as a rock." He did not state the alternative. The geologist supplied it, however, and he shook his head doubtfully and tried to argue Ben out of hie plan. Moorman had seen a good deal of the world, and knew its people pretty thoroughly. But to go back to the letters themselves. They were serenely more than friendly ones. They could hardly be anything stronger with a third party participating in the cor- respondence. Latterly the &rumens that came from Boston did not exactly satisfy Ben. It seemed to him that their tone was increasingly strained and formal. Indeed, on one occasion he expressed himself on the subject to Moorman., Her last letter he read with a wrinkle of annoyance across his brow, then handed it to his friend as usual. "1 I went up to Boston and found the girl as unnatural as that letter," the geolo- ligist remarked with feeling, "that would be the end of the whole affair, right then and there !" It had now been eighteen months sinoe Lewis Moorman entered into his agreement with the cow puncher. The terms of the original contract had been conaiderably altered, however. Moorman, finding Ben such a useful and congenial companion, had written on to his people in Boston, asking that Ben be made his assistant in his geolo- gical researches. This was immediately ac- corded, and Ben, the cow puncher, was now a salaried geologist. This was his first piece of good luck. The second oame several months later. It happened this way. Moorman had al- most completed his work, and was soon to go to Alaeka. One day he was occupied some fifteen miles from the Gulch, For some reason Ben had remained at home. The geologist was trying to trace a certain stratum of earth and connect it with an- other of thesame nature about five miles distant. The land where it oropped out had been left to Ben, some years before, by a man for whom the cow puncher had done a good turn. Bea always regarded the sixty odd acres, a very small tract in that region, as almost worthlese, but he liked the idea of being a property ' owner, and had always paid the taxes. That evening, wh le Ben was going over his books, the geolo ist retraped. He came in quietly and,sat dpwn opposite the cow- boy. The latter loaked at his companion with some eurprise, for it was his wont to begin talking as aeon as he entered the room: The geologist moved his chair close to Ben and leaned forward. "1 believe you said you owned that hill- top I was on to -day ?" he asked. Yes," Ben answered, wondering. " Well, I just want to tell you," returned the geologist, in a slow, mechanical way, 'that there% gold on it." " So ? How mueh ?" asked Ben, scarcely interested, for he had been finding traces of gold almost every day. The geologist's eyee sparkled like dia- monds. He drew a deep breath and straightened himself. "Enough gold to make you a pance I" and he brought his fist down o the table with suoh fierce that the shanty hook. Ben sprang to his feet. To hi a sudden surprise had always embodied he ides of danger, and meehanically he se zed his re- volvers and belted them around him ; then he sat down. T e, two friends • rew their chairs olo e to t e table, and f r into the night- the talko4 and made plan after plan. Before aybrea Ben rode thro gh Gulch - town, on his way to the telegrap office, to ' send a di patch signed by Louis Moorman to . a certain anker 4nd mine promoter in Boa. ' ton. He paused lon the platform, as he had done onc before and looked up the rail- road just as if he expected to see the train, with Je on it,disappearing toward the i east, whe e the s might rails converged be- yond his ight. "11 oh still loyes the rough and penni- less cowb y, her love's as solid as a rook," he murm rech Three ours brOught a reply to the tele - RIGHTS ISEASE Is thy deadliest and ost painful malady to which mankind ie subject. Dodds Kidney Pills will cure any case of Bright's Disease. They have never failed in one single case. They are the only remedy, that ever has cured it, and they are the only remedy that can. There are -imitations of ° Dodd's Kidney Pills -pill, box shad name -but knita. • tions are dangerous. The original and only genuine CUM for Bright's Disease is ODD'S KIDNEY PILLS , Dodd's Kidney Pills fifty cents a box at all ills are I gram, saying : " Expe tions are In thr were at a take the strate to Then he They wits ta start to -day. If representa- rne, will buy outright." e days the geologist's reeearches end. He finished just -in time to xperts to the hilltop, and: demon hem the value of the property, nd Ben took the train for Denver. ed to be where ' they could have direct telagrephic communication with the capitaliate in Boston. Moorman had a long report to write up, but that did net prevent him and Ben from amusing themselves. Ben was generally pleased with city life, except that he could not bear anything that savored of unnatural- ness, One night at the theatre he touched the geologist on the shoulder. - "What in the world is the thing that woman there in the box is holding up to her eyes ?" The geologirt turned his head. "Oh, it's a lorgnette," he anSwered, laugh- ingly. " Well,what's a lorgnette ?'" "Nothing, only glasses wit handles. A' mere fad -all the society wolien use them; not to see out of them espeoia ly, but to be seen with, you know," he explained. Ben said nothing, •bab Mamma* knew by the curl of his lip what his thaughts were: Several evenings after thzpui they were having a quiet smoke in the! . room at the hotel. "As soon as I finisk mY report," said Moormanremoving the pipe from his mouth, "1 mast get ready or Alaska. I , shall probably be there a 'erg while, for there's a big treat to go over, and I'm glad_ of the trip East before I start" "Alaska," repeated Ben, thoughtfully. "I wish you weren't going sorir away." Moorman was silent a mom nt. He blew a great whiff of smoke in the air, and then averted his eyes. , "Look here, Ben, I want yp1 to promise me sornething. It's this. If n find, when you reach Boston, that-" hesitatingly - "that you are not likely to be married soon, in that event you will go with me as a fellow explorer to Alaska." oigBaer.ntook a long pull at the butt of his " kARCEI 23, 11,00 1 "Pard, ra go you, and -"I A boy entered with a telegram. Ben opened it and read aloud: ' Will give seventy-five thousand cash for 1Hilltop mine , -Belmont." .- , The cowipuncher wrote two telegrams, and gave them to the boy. Then be sat down and resumed his cigar. ' "1 acceptectthat thar offer," said he, un- consciously using the old lingo. "Other ono? Oh, I jes' wired Jen I Would call on her Thursday evening." On Thursday morning they reached Bos- ton, and that evening Moorman came into Ben's room to find him putting on a brand new suit of buckskin. "Now I feel as if I was at home once more," said Ben, adjusting the !sombrero on his head. "Why, if I called oh Jen in any other kind of clotbes, I wouldn't feel natur- al ;" atid he laughed aloud. As Ile started towards the door the geolo- 1 gist oiled him back. " L ok here, old man," said he, hesitat- ingly, " if that girl of youts doesn't appear just the same as when she left, you, why, you mustn't take it too bard. You know we are all ruled by oircum tanoes." Ben raised his, hand, sot mnly. "Pard," he said, "all the °frau stances in the world can't change the tru h in a true wo- man's heart." Ban took a cab. As he frattled along the street he pictured Jen coming down to meet him in aorne simple ittle white drese, with a bow of ribbon in her hair, perhaps, end her eyes half averted, yet filled with a light begotten not of material things, but: of the soul. The cab stopped. Ben got out and went up the atone steps. The door opened, and he stood in a flood of light. 11/4 Tell Miss Jordon that Ben Winston, of , Gulchtown is here," he said, simply, and walked into the parlor. A bright light , burned at the further end of • the room. Ben laid his sombrero on a chair, and sitting down waited. His heart was beating stout- ly within him, and his eyes were bright with expectancy. He got up and stood be. fore a portrait, with his back to the door. Suddenly there was a rustle of silk and Ben turned. Jen was there. She seemed to have grown taller; there was no ribbon in her hair; her gown was not of muslin, it was the stiffesi-, of rich silk, and flaring so widely at the hem that Ben wondered at its ampli- tude. In her handahe held -yes, it was a lorgnette. She came forward cordially, without the least embarrassment in her manner. "Why, really, I am very glad to see my old friend." Ben took her band, and look searchingly into her eyes.. "I am glad to see you, Jen," he said, gent- ly, as he released her hand. hey sat down opposite each other. And this was she -his l'ttle Jen, his ideal, hie queen! "-And what in the world brought you away up here. to Boston ?" he inquired, eraizing her lorgnette and gaz ng upon Ben patronizingly. Such a question! And fr rn, her, of all oilers on earth! What had brought him to Boston? A thousand images crowd d in upon his mind, filling him with bitter ess. Intuitively he knew that his ideal was a memory and -no More. Then he threw back his head, and laughedj the merriest laugh that she had hoard aims she left old Gulohtown. "Why, seein' it's you, l don't ijind tellin'. I'm here on my we in' to er !" Somehow he hardly recogn zed his own voioe in the old vernacular, "You on't disremember Bill Higgins' daughter Sal? Yes, she's the one. We was married last week. I struck ile in a little game at War Whoop Jim's thar the night afore, an' sez I to Sal, Let's pull out from here an' run up to Boston for a day or so.' Er course Sal she war infer it, an' pull out we did, an' here I am. She's 'round at ther berdin' house on Milk street, an' gal darn me, ef she know'd I was here, I know She'd raise a young cyclone ;" and the 00W puncher laughed again. "An' you, Jen -how is it with you ?" he asked in an unconcerned way. Her composure was gone now. She seemed painfully confused. "Come now, don't keep it from an lold friend." Ben was still laughing, but it seemed to him that his heart had ceaeed beating. , Well, I suppose -that ia, I am goin t� be married during the winter," she finally admitted. "Going to be married during the winter; wal, wal,'aaid Ben slowly, and bowed 'his Whett the human foot Ny.a9 first introduced to shoes it was exactly as natiire bad made it, strong-5yr11uetrical-liandsome. It has been revolutionized from what it was to the foot of to -day by sixteen centuries of distorting tightness and freakish styles. " Slater Shoes" are made to fit feet as they are to -day, comfort first, but good appearance never forgotten. Twelve shapes, six widths, all. sizes leathers and colors. Goodyear welted, name and price stamped on the soles, 3.5o and $5.00. R. WILLIS, SOLE LOCAL AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. head. There was a long silence, and then he spoke again. "Jen, do you remember the day you left me ?" he asked, but she hardly beard leis queation in her wonder at the new melody and refinement in his voice. She did not speak, and he went 011: " I can see you ,now in that little blue dress, with the light jacket and the pretty hat that were so becoming to you. That long ride, too -long and yet so short," he went on slowly, dwelling with a passionate intensity upon eaoh word. "I recall that as if it were but yesterday. And the rose, the wild rose thet I plucked just &flea we crossed Little Sandy Creek, and placed an your hair -I believe I can smell it now,"„ he almost whispered, resting his head j1 the palm of his hand, "How we walked Ithat station platform without saying a word, be- cause we are afraid to trust ourselves, lest we should become children. Then we sat down, and I tried to tell you something in my rough way; and though the train ended my poor, stumbling speech, I thought you understood -I feel that you understood. 'Don't disremember me, Jen,' I said as I Volk your hand for the last time, and as the train moved away you, answered, 'In- deed, I will not.'" He pt up and stood looking blankly 14 a picture on the wall. "Indeed I will not ?" he repeated bit- terly. Taa. girl's face was as white as the rose lorgnette had slipped from her hand and lay unnoticed at her feet.- The - cow puncher turned, and seeing it, crossed over and picked it up. "Jen," said he, restinek -▪ his elbow on the mantel, and dangling the frail shell thing in his hand, "1 had a dream once. I thought that after the day you left I tried to make something of myself -for your sake.' That was my one - purpose in life. Many a night, while the wind blew a hurricane, I. satin my cheerless cabin with my book before me, and the only thing that took my mind from it was the memory of your sweet face -my only distracting thought that of your dear self. Yet this was not all. It seemed to me, in my dream, that I tried to lead a manly life, free from anything that would bring a blush to your cheek. After a while I had a streak of luck. On some waste heed that belonged to me a gold mine was dis- covered. It was worth a fabulous sum to one who could afford to wait, and work it himself. I sold it outright, that I might come to you and offer you my honest love." . There was a long pause. She could not move her eyes from his face. Something there seemed to hold them as by some magic, and she could not conceal her trem- bling. "And when 1 came,' he continued, smil- ing very sadly, "you met me with a bright light in your eyes, and you put your little head on my shoulder -penniless and uncul- tured oowboy though you thought me." He paused, and a wave of real suffering for the first time came upon his face. When he spoke again his voice was loav and stern, "Von did not ask me what in the world brought me to Boston. Your heart told yen that. sNor did you stare at me through t; 1 elm infernal implements of affection 1" and h shook the lorgnette on high. Then, as his hand fell to his aide his strong fingers tightened around the ;lender tortoiseshell untilit broke with a sharp snap. The sound recalled him to himself. ' "But." said he, suddenly speaking in a milder tone, "that's neither her no there - my dream! It was a foolish dream, wash% it Jen ?" he asked, almost playfully. But the girl sat speechless, her eyes fixed immovably upon the towering form and the mild face of the cow puncher. He crossed the room and picked up his hat. Th9n he th came and stood over e slender figire f the girl who had once been the Gulo town school teacher, Ile cleared his throat and and with an effort he said, softly: "Jen, I'm going back now -going back to Sal," he added with pathetic humor. then, 'seeing she weaseled no reply. "Aren't you going to say good -by ?" It Gwoaot Id e- bp yo k. ie'n in so low and chocking a voice that he scarcely._heard. He did not take her hand but tose to his full heieht, and extended his own over the bent form of the girl, his eyes filled with a pathetic gen- tle:), easond bless you, little One !" he said, and • moved softly towards the door. He heard a low ery, and turned quickly. Jen, with white face, had risen. She stood leaning towards him, her hand outstretched, and he came back and took it. For a mo- inent he held it. The next he was at the door. As he passed out he glanced back in- to the room. She was standing where be left her, with dim eyes and her lip pressed between her teeth. Something in this atti- tude of suppreseed emotion made her look strangely like her with whom he had parted two years before. And with these two pic- pictures-of the past and of the present, iso wonderfully alike and yet so subtly -different A Skin Beautifier Of Inestimable Value, which Positively c,uru Pimples, Blackheads, Eczema afal every r of Skin Disease, is Dr. Chillies Oinfiriehie As greet as may be the difference of opinion as to tits various t pee of beast 4gured by piroplea pd 40 saeskhadpsh oho can see beauty in a e iblit le d14 flatted by tracek of schema ft *Mir diseaSes. Thelow-neck society y.ss fr reveaas shoulders and pimples or other ekiri eruptle the sight. Why are %veva wders tind harmful pidfleri O such Memishes when (tury Odd c re Am and make the skin clear, knitaliwonstattauursa,Dior7SCa"kaselthiRgliiii16°:inr7ilit InYtti4;;0 tiall I tlso ..it severe form of 41140 I .441 111"einalasadtioCansu." Twtib iut t has cured thio wo el on Niteroi le well huCtrh. , e prectatatien is of gush tatatIntabbi vales 16 wornan's toilet, kir ldelitlie Orbit theli 66 that are usually troublesota. at . sr. tervale, It gives ingot fatief to t • told t. whicie wore= al lubjett, wit it. ies a a kill deal's', or Itemassea,„ i *CO.. T100042. with these before him, the cow puncher later Bnlegnht.entered the room, paAsened hoouutrinitothe where sat the geologist. The latter booked up from his writing, and it seemed to him that upon Ben's face there was a stronger and nobler cast. Without a word of greeting, Ben Window wade forward and laid his hand upon his fri.lnpda'ardshf, uslaidder.be, when do you atarb for Als48ka Ther day after to -morrow," answereds M' rinaenn. Thpard, I am with you," said the co puneher, and he laid on the table a. ; br ken lo• rgnet jteo-szrii SEBASTINE ROGERS. THE BLUES IN SPRING. Despondent, Melancholic and Tired People are Made Ac- tive and Strong by PAIN'S CELERY COMPOUND RUNDOWN AND HALF-DEAD MEN AND WOMEN OBTAIN HEALTH AND STRENGTH FROM THE, GREAT MEDIQThE. • The bines, despondency and melancholy make thousands of lives miserable in the - opting time. Men and women around us complain of - tired teelings, neavousness, sleeplessness, stsIgnaret circulation and general rundovne condition. Though not confined to bed, the condition of the thousandiof despondent,melaneholice ale less nervous and rundown people la su cient'ly, mi alarming to de and mmediate care and attention. The symptoms and1. in ,e alluded to are the sure forerunnerof d° ase and death. ,, his particular season should he a tints of . cl ueing, recuperating and etrengther.int fort rundown and ailing people. . Paino's Celery Compound will quickly ban- ish the blues, despondency and melancholia, and tired feelings will give way to life,buoy- army and full health. It is suicidal for sickly men and women to mope around in a half-dead condition, and shut their eyee to the marvellous bless- ings that are offered by Paine's Celery Com- poiand. It is the one great medicine hi spring time with all classes of our papule. titi. Try a bottle and see how -rapidly you ge aid of every .physical burden. Paine7a Ce ery Compound is the kind that " makes siok people well." Little Classics. Forgiveness, that noblest offal' self -den*, is 4 virtue which he alone wbo can practice it himself can willingly believe in soother. - C lton. ' thomrnon sense is instinct, and enough of it. is trine. -H. W. Shaw. hatever distrust we may have of the siricerity of those who converse with as, we alWaye believe that they will tell us more truth than they do to others.-Rochefort- canld. The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the peopla helve to pay at horne.-Thomas Paine. Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfectiont knOwn than their crimes ; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or hven ill-bred or awkward, he will bate yog more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. -Ches- terfield. Conversation is the vent of character, as well as of thoughts. -Emerson. Coquetry is the desire to inspire love without experiencing it yourself --Mme. de Blade, Seventeen Years of Torture. .1 bad a bad cough for seventeen years,"' writes Mra, Samuel Hamilton, of fAwn- ville, Tenn. "No doctor or medicine could cure it until one year ago I began to use Dr, King's New Discovery for Consumja tion, which did me more good than all other medieines I ever used. It is truly a gland cure for stubborn Coughs, Colds and Throat. and Lung troubles." Positively cures Con- sumption Pneumonia Grip, Bronchitis, Asthma, Hay Fever and Croup. Price 500 and $LCO, Guaranteed. Trial_bottles fres at I. V. Fear's drug store. What a Boy Can Do. En the average middle-cleas househol& there is I regret to say, too great a tend- eney to let the boy have perfect freedoni when he returns from school and as soon 54 - the l home lessons are prepared. This mune th t all menages, odd household taake, &ea fall upon the shoulders of his sister, who is ph sically lees able to endure the extra. fat gne than he is. I have seen, on man -y; occasions, a delicate slip of a girl carrying on Ole puny arm a heavy baby, and on the - other a large message basket, laden to over - flooring, and my limbs and back have al- most ached in sympathy with the child. By,all means bring up your girl to indus- • tryi and eh° is a wise mother who reserves, for her, each day, sorne little home work, • which can be done either before or after the ketone ; but let the heavy messages be oar. vied by the boy, and let him clean the mud- dy,',, heavy boots which the father will re- quire next morning. Some years ago 1 knew a little lad who was jeered at by hie eorriplinians because he got up first no haying a sister) and made his mother, who ,, wile delicate, a cup of baa. This same bey didmany useful things in the house before and! after school, yet always found tirne for Imbue and play, and the "mother's boy," - as he was derisively called by his play- - mates, is DOW a clever, smart man of bull - nes , not a bit spoilt by his early know - ix led e of domestic duties. • Boys like this are comfort to their parents and an hone metes their sex; and it would he well if all *ere trained in the seine way instead of beidg allowed so much freedom while they are Still under their teen.). There would- be less coarse language heard from youthful lipia and there would be lees of that injuri- ous !cheap cigarette -smoking if the boys hadleach evening one or two little respon- sible duties to perform. They should have, of (spume, a certain time for play -that il necessary for health, but they ehould be Made to understand that they are yeti children, and consequently are under their- pareuts' control. -Minnie L. Doivie. LThe follo for last week, late.] Seiwor, REP for February fo is as follows. , Fifth awe M. 0. F. Johnston Junior fourth, Gould, B. 0' mono, Daisy D -third, F. R. No equal, Berge Second, Mary Carroll. Seco Carrie Nort nese part, spellers in the were: Four third, Cora M Johnaton ; eecoi part, Carrie No) He 11 Aloriouswh:wiethmee nokee, Ina as vig' rieve he is the ea ago, had to sit il •cushions, stiffed gype ami , et ia back,pod5eiti)teco, di, vi fanebi uAeti yyFt a ep el)ahleagepru:el Int 1,11 te:s and was ve 1 ' JOTTINGS. te time oarriei our Vin-, in a, Miss Weir * Fa. :ItYrrnu:le;vr jellenbh8.iynet ekge/lYteri Isi George Dane, ea clerk of liowick positiorem the s games Walker hl fj ausmt :soru:ahv have- f rtehn io Joseph Rae, live Mr. Roberta heel' Itoeff ar gr. 1 3, 1 , 1: 31 tr tt It, yh fa 13: ab met et i e _unReaht, tyto rfl! 81 it 2oc 41ethYeare netagaurc ing on Smalley who lives in the is quite ill at 13... wish her a speed Dr. R.089, of Ch friends in our WIII Countless thou ing to the body Pills , which pee 'Sick Ileadeche,D Fever and Ague,1 troubles. Purel or weaken. 0:111 .NOTES. -The Sleighing has in, burg. --Our saw supply of logs tlf eho, sr., has m Galileo, line. George Eisenbac to Mr. John Soh -A load of peop bled at the home evening last wee) broad smile. It Bender and Willi contract for cutf Ediglioffer, .As Mr. Bowman has they will be then Weigliandas emila ed for -n boy. bells will be ring Eli Thenh belping his son, Terrible Suff Mrs. J. Weth says : 44 Tor been * sufferer that time i /ISMS my come, and ha, ed cures for AA At tintire 1 kayo necessary to have open te got my despair of evor your preparati used Jt, and thanker to Our commend it as Asthma." Cater cure for Catarrh Sold by all dm .100 in stamp, le Kingston, Ont., AVMS& -112 gation of the Me hoIoaosfhWier Tow. ation el his se ing with. j.the E. 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