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The Huron Expositor, 1873-05-23, Page 211 THE OLD LOVE AND THEADY. A cold clear day, with. the wintry tun glittering -on the frosted e; hedgerows and O! . the light snow lyingtupon 'tthe Iigh- wy aftesethe fall of lid,- tights along Which the rumbling Calthrope;QranibliS left the track of its rolling wheels. It was the afternoon of Christmas -Eve, Christmes dt'lvetiteresyearatigeeeetteu the omnibus, which plietldto .and frem Calthrope and. the Mawfi.iiAgteky. tte: tion, came rattLing alieg the teed lead- ing to Calthropteeillageediithemticht•elate ter of hoofs and jitiglieg of harness, it . beittg an idea of the honest eountrymani who daovethe half -trained team that the more noise he made with horse andi harness, the more imposing became! the -effect ()f his approach. So the sircinilnis came clattering along within a mile of Calthrope, when it palled up with a suddenness which almost flung the horses on their haunches, while the driver shouted out : Thegentleman as was for the Oak farm gets out here," adding, as a good- looking young fellow, with pleasant blue eyes, and early -chestnut hair descended from the -crazy old conveyance with a_ portmanteau in his hand,_ "if yu get over the stile there, and cut across the fields to your left, yOu're all right for the The young man answered by a nod, and the omnibus rolled on, leavingehim standieg on the snowy highway, witla his luggage .at his feet.; " Ile's London bred, I s'pose," the • driver obserted in the ear of a passenger who shared the front seatwith him, "and the town life has made him too conceited. to carry hie - own 'box" ---the . word "box" describing Will Drayton's leather portmanteau. ' But Drayton, untouched by and tin- eonscious of the driver's - contemptuous whieper and look baok, stood in the open • :road, in the teeth of a cutting North wind, waiting till chance threw some one in his way willing to carry his luggage to his aunt's farm house, which he was too proud to shoulder and trudge under himself. '‘ Presently a lad 'came along :the high- way, singing some lusty melady as he tramped upon his -way, who ' was glad • enour,,,h to break the thread o . his song ancl. carry Will Drayton's cht . ttels, for the sake of the reward promi ecl at his journey's end. • . "The old way is open yet; Masoe's . field, and over the -stile through the Cop- pice meadows?" Drayton said as the la,c1 lifted up his portmanteate from the 1. ground. , . . The boy nodded, and Walked on in silence through the turnstile, and across a the fieldpath, until curiosity oTercoming his shyness hazarded t last: "You've been. here before, I s'poset mister?'' - Drayton laughed. " Yes, I've been here before, no doubt," he said, "seeing I was born down yonder at the Mill. But when my fath- er died and the place was sold, I went - Lumen ways, to see if I could make my "fortune." - • The boy looked in swift suiprise at the young wart beside him, who, after all, was only 'a sou; of old Drayton, of the Mill, who bed died a bankrupt, and left his son a' legacy to his brother, the hus- band of the widowed Mistress of the • Oak farm. Still, despite the mensory of his father's ruin, the lad's glance went wavering from :the 'glittering watchchain suspended from Drayton's waistcoat pocket to the gloves upon his hands and the fine cloth he wore in „ilia 'oat ; the which this clumsy country lad had never seen the like on any one, beneath the 'rank of the. Calthrope gentry, while he • conjectured MWardly that Dray ton.mustr have Made the fortune he went to Lon- don to win. "You're come down for the wedding, maybe ?" the lad suggested presently, • when, his wonder ha,Ciag had time to cool, a sudden surmise struck him that all Drayton's fine dresiing could not be for an ordinary holiday. . " What rwedding ?" Drayton asked, while the boy flung open the gate lead- ing into the yard. of the Oak farm, where- in hens and clucks and • cackling geese were straying freely. " They say Nellie Drayton's going to man ythe lord's head Keeper," the led said impressively, delighted that his gos- sip had taken his hearer by -surprise. " Why, Nellie was but a mite when I left here nine years ago," Drayton res- ponded doubtfully. "She's four years older Dor me," the boy seicl sturdily, as though those four years were ten. " That's a great age, youngster." Drayton laughed, slippieg a shilling into the lad's hand, which inspired him with - a stilt stronger respect for Drayton's riches, and the chni and distant glories of London, - where fortunes could be made so readily. Then they were at the farm house door, where the portmanteau was depos- ited with a thud, which brought a girl's face to the window, a face with bonnie - eyes of blue, the shade of Willie's own, and a eloucl of light hair, profuse and -soft,drawn off from a rosy cheek and a forehead of snowy white. That is not Nell, but -Jessie" Will thought as the girl withdrew her face from the window. "She has got the' golden hair, and the laughing lips of long ago, wIten we went nutting together in the wood, and wading after sticklebacks in the stream. " - • < _ " Mother, -therets some one at the doer, and I thiek it's cousin - Willie," • Jessie Drayton cried from within ; and • before Willie had time to push the door open for hi:nself, it was flung wide, and Mrs. Drayton, was welcoming him back to Calthrope. • " Only fee • _fess, I wotildn't •have _knowed you, Willie, you're grown so tall and big, and Eli like a town gentleman," Mrs. Drayton exclaimed, looking proud- ly up at her nephew, who had changed from a slim lad, into a tall, fine-looking young man, daring his nine years of Lon- don life. "I've got old and stiff while you've been away, lid, and the girls have (Town e_ into women; and, I suppose, you wouldn't have known any of as only you seen us in the old place." • To which Willie protested be would have known theni anywhere, while he kissed his cousin's flushing cheeks, and the younger one looked shyly out of her naellow brown .eyes, to see how one of the gioup ia the farm house kitchen, not of -their kith and kin, bore the friendly greeting;• but my lord's head. keeper never looked, up from the contemplation of his strong brown hands to see ,the kisses given or to mark the flush which the touch of Drayton's lips brought to Nellie's cheek. She was the prettiest of the two girls, this 'younger one, of whom my lord's heed keener wee said te- be „eriamoreddf dessissiitreire, ftsessiy; eroutittY fair- haired and rosy -checked; but s Nellie's cheek was i•ounderiend niette delicately tinted -if, and het: eyes, dess laughing ',than the blikeeetieS af Jessie, and rwere of Ai iete*.-11artatinginttlerowit ;- set that Dray-. tine sitting in theeefillfarte kitchen, and watching the faces•bitthe two girls light; ,ed up by the glow of the warrn wood fire, , -silently :indorsed. Mark. Wilson's taste in choosing the delicate Prettiness of Nellie, rather than the buxom comeliness of her elder sister, while sweet i Nellie Drayton fettelstetstitOtlitsdmekittstke GlAtiut lute r site ting by the ingle nook, in the wondering - contemplation of Willie's glittering chain, the ring upon; his finger, andethe gloves he had flung carelessly down upon theta, ble. ! • " ISo, as ye tell ene in your letter, your master's dead, and ye must look for an- other place," Mrs. Drayton ooserved, meditatively, while Willie eefreshed himoelf with meat and. aletefter his journey. " But,then, I suipose, a good place ain't eaAily to be found, Wil- lie!' s I'll takes fling out of myself before f try," he answered, puttiug away his plate; " but I'll not find it hard to suit myself, I've got such a good charac- ter." I ' Here, with shy politeness, the keep• er rose up and went out, feeling he had no business to listen to Willie's concerns. Half -way • to the gate he turned and glanced backto see if Nellie would steal aftei him for a farewell, but Nellie only smiled and nodded to the look, a,nd Mark Wilton pissed though the. gate alone, clanging it after him. 11. • The,. snow, which had fallen lightly all the past night, and left its thin white coating on. the field .and highway, began drifting again as 'Mark Wilton crossed the copp,ice meadows on his way to the keeper's lodge, dropping down at first softly and slowly, but changing as the short day closed in, to swift, short flakes, which went on failing_ all the_ night through, and when Christmas moraine; broke, a thick white sheet of snow lay over the earth, on which the sun shone with a eold, frosty glitter. • In the Oak farm kitchen; a strong wood fire blazed upon the hearth, where e) essie Drayton stood with her dress pinned up, frying slices of bacon, while Willie came down in search of breakfast. She look- -ed up fram her -work as he came in, with a laughing fac'e, to which the fire had brought a bright, hot flush, and wished _ him a merry Christmae. • "A merry ChristMas to you, Jess, and a happy New Yea'," Willie answer- ed. in response, and going o:ver to where she stood, he stooped downward and • kissed her.' I have brought a new g.,,,own for my aunt and a Christmas box fer you and Nellie, Jess," he said, stand- ing by her on the hearth. • Then, • as Nellie's footstep sounded along the pa.ssage, he took a parcel wrap- ped in silver paper from his pocket*, and drawing out of it a pair of glittering bracelets, held them up before Jessie's surprised eyes, who, snatching up the hissing pan from the- fire. reached out her hand. for the young man's showy gift. ." It was good of you ,to think upon us, Willie," she said in a grateful simile en her full ripe lips, while she turned the bracelets round and round in her hand, without attempting to draw them on her wrist; ".Only l'm thinking they're to fine fot working girls like me or Nellie. So if the man you got them from would take them back, and give us a nice dress or the like—" • But Willie interrupted her with a laugh. " Jess, girl," he said, "jewelers don't sell dresses." "They do down this way," Jessie per- sisted, still with an admiring eye on the bracelets, despite their uselessness. "_There's a man goes through here once a fortnight with rings and brooches, and -dresses, too, of all sorts." "Ay, Brummagen jewelry !" Willie said, contemptuously, a trifle nettled at. his cousin's' questioning acceptance ,• of his gift. Well," she said, with a smile on hei,. bonnie bo -nest face, "I'll no scorn' your present, Willie, but I'll lock it up, and keep it to wear at Nellie's wedding." Drayton laughed, but though he lau ed, he felt his face flame hotly, as he followed the girl's smiling glance to where Nellie stood in the open doorway, watch- ing the little scene between the cousins. You had better keep. them for your own wedding," Nellie retoreed, as she passeci t] -rough the door, with a pout on her scarlet lips. • But Jessie only laughed. and said, she had no chance of a wedding yet; while Nellie, with the pout on her lip changing into smiles, held out her hand for Wil- lie's offered- present. Willie and the two girls walked to- gether that day to Calthrope Church by the road, as the snow Ley too thickly on the meadow path to allow of their taking the shorter route. Coming out after service, they found stalwart- Mark Wilton waiting for them in the Church yard, dressed in his home- ly Sunday' best. Ile was to dine that day at the Oak farm by special invita- tior, and ha,ving joined the praytons in the Churchyard, he walked. 'hack to the farmtwith Nellie, taking his place at her side with a silent assumption of owner- ship which mad. Will Drayton feel a trifle sulky—not that it had aught to do with him, as he told himself while he Went with Jessie down the ;path leading to the church gates, ouly the girl was too dainty. and pretty for such a rough giant as my lord's head keepe/. - In honor of • Christmas, dinner was served that day in the farm parlor, in place of the kitchen, where the family dined on ordinary occasions; andat din- ner Wilton took his place by Nellie again. with the same air of ownership as had offended Willie ma their wav home from church. - " I suppose it's settled -Wilton is to have Nellie for a wife'aunt ?" Willie hazarded, when he anclJessie and Mrs. Drayton had come out after dinnet into the kitchen, leaving Nellie and. her lover by the parlor fire. " Yes, I stppose he is. iThey've set- tled it between them, a•nl i'113. content," Mrs. Drayton said, quietly. 5' Something in e's voice when b e ask - :el the question.made Jessie look sharply at him, and then glance away and into the fire ; but nothing more was said on either side, and the talk drifted away to other things. Late in the afternoon, when the Dray - tons were sitting down to tea, Tom Churton, 'an old Calthrope friend of Willie's, dropped in to have a chat with. him ; and when Churton rose to leave, TTHE HURON EXPO§ OR. illie volunteered to Walk back h so well-dressed and proap.ereus a gen- :hinlio-„the village, Whispering Jessie, as gem= • ke fellowed Churton out, that he would. Nellie's 'foolish head. Went round in be back to say good -night to Mark bee these days, when she dreamt *aims and fore,he lefr the farm, Buz when theii saw visions in a way she marveled at reasshed Oaltluope, inete4 of lett-WO:lint later, when the glamor had faded. return as he meant-te:da;,vhon he.etart:: She Iik6d Willie's bine eyes and chests esti Willie was induced by;hieraotapanione nuthair, his comely face and town -bred to come into the bar of, Oalthiope Inn, ways, better than the homely, honest and have somethin .hot ltefortt Welkieg lover, who had. nothing in common with back to the farm through ttles darkness- Willie's -dandyism and fine clothes and and, the. driving snow, which had begun gold watels chain, all ofwhich were so . . to fall again. Talking in the lighter' bar many snares in the way of foolish Nellie and drinking his brandy and water, so , Drayton.- , beguiled WEI Draytoidinto-forgetfulness, I At tint Nellie's flirtation was kept tli it 1.1 o'clock h4 tripk before he,en- out of Wiltou'e ken, wise cartie and went tered the yard gate O the Oak farm as usual, end from whom: she stole mo - again, and saw to his dismay that all the ments to be given, when he was gone, to lights in the -house were out, and only a tVillie Drayton. But as her zest for glimmering blaze of the ; kitchen fire Willie's society strengthened, she grew gave a hope that any of the family were careless and saucy to her old lover, and ast leaving him with heir mother and Jessie He knocked softly at the door, which for company, boldly Went out doors with was unbolted and opened as softly by her cousin, and, in the short winter Nellie Drayton, who crept back instantly gloaming, while the clasp of the old love within the warm circle of the firewas warm on her hand, yielded her lips to the kisses of the uew.. "Nellie's only a bit dazed. with 'Wil- lie's talk about London," Mrs. Drayton would say, excusingly, when she saw Wilton's look darken or his brew lower . ; while the glow of the burning wood shone 1 at Nellie's open defection But Wilton would answer never a word on the silken glossiness of her hair, and of complaint or reproach to mother and lighted up the subtle softness of her ' sister of the girl he loved so well. Only, eyes. as tu• ne went on, and Nellie grew more She turned to him. as he a,pproached heedless of his silent patience, or .his si- with a little smiling nod, but her lips said nothinglent pain, he began coming less frequent- . sly to the Oak,Farm, a proceeding which " So you are all alone, Nellie ?" Willie began, by way of breaking ground, for very mucn disconcerted Miss Nellie, who was well pleased to sit as queen be Nellie's little nod had a* coy reticence in it which lured Draytpn morefatally than tween her two admirers a freer welcome. "Where are my aunt • "You're like to lose a good man with and Jessie " your giddy -headed nonsense, and I don't ? believe you care a pin for Will Dray - Out of the mellow brown eyes shot a ton'," Jessie said to her, warningly, glence haf snailing, half laughing, as she answered withtlemure gravity: "It's only the folly of gold bracelets "They've gone to bed an hour Lige; so and foolish,bits of ribbon for your hair if you want Jess, you won't belike to see thaNii lifting you off your feet. her till tomorrowFor Nellie, not daring to wear Wil- . in- " But I don't particularly want Jess, lie's bracelet's every day, had taken Nellie." sttail to tie up her pretty brown hair She gave her head a Coquettish little with ribbons of blue and ribbons of scar- - t°88let, that Willie bought in the village for "How am Ito understand your Lon- her adornment, and to which vanity of don- ways of asking looking away from for people you don't the flesh Jessie scornfully alluded. want " she said Whereupon Nellie laughed saucily, and ?, 'told Jessie she liked Willie better than Drayton's face into the fire. Mark, to which Jessie impolitely re - There for a moment in the silence of leaping firelight the two stood wordless sponded that if she did she was a greater until Nellie raising her hand. to brush silly than she took her for. • — her hair back from her forehead, the "Maybe •you'll take Mark yourself glitter of a golden bracelet on her uplift- whenlady en " Nellie suggested in reprisal I'm gone up to London to be a lighted eyes ?. ed wrist struck on the young man's de- " A lady !" Jessie echoed mpitying . derision. "A fine lady you'll be in a " You re a brave little cousin, Nellie, London lodging, living, on Will Dray- -Willie cried eagerly, "to weer my gift ton's weekly wages, which, it's my opi- on your arra, instead of locking it in a box like Jessie." •• • nion, he can spend the bulk of on him- ." Nellie's (iyes fell on the gleaming brace- self, without, a wife let on her Upon which Nellie walked out of the left arm, and she half -laugh - kitchen to the dairy, with her head in ingly covered it over with her right handthe an, full of the flattering notion that Jessie was jealoaa of her coining good " I only wore one to night," she said . • primly, half inclined to make play for fortuneBut when the cream was herself with the young man's eagerness yet abashed and toached by it, "jusi churned, and her deft little hands were busy with the butter, theimemory of the to show it to a friend" old honest love, on Which she had leant ., "Your friend was Mark Wilton. from ehildhood, came back to her re- ' - Nell," Willie miegested, 44 What might gretfully, and stood. beside the gilded. . . Mark have said, if it's a fair question ?" shadow ofa passion less real, less true '. To this Nellie, twilling the bracelet Yet, when evening cameand she strolled. into the farm_ kitchen, after a round, and looking at it wistfully, out of her drooped eyes, answered slowly : walk with Willie Drayton, *wearing Willie's ribbons in her hair, and. a knot , " Ho said it was foolish finery for such of Willie's buying at her throat, the as me, who was to be a Working man's wife." •flitting regret had vanished, and the light of the new love shining in her Was it the witchery of the purple fire light eyes of brawn, had killed the light, or the girl's eyes, or her wistful downward look upon her present, which light Of the old. •• _. As January closed in. Mark Wilton's made Will Drayton blurt out tmg,uarcl eal. dropping visits to the farm had ceased "OnlyY—say. *a wordNell, end there will totally. At first MI's. Drayton bemoan- ed his absence with Jessie, but grew rec- be no need for you to be a working man's wife." onciled when she saw Nellie so taken up But Nellie either did not or would not with her new lover and the notion of see the drift of her cousin's rash remark the fine lady life she was to lead in Lon - and weeit on detnurelt - ' don, where she was to have nothiue to . "So Mark bid me give you you)pret- do only to dress and go out with Willie . ty present back, and tell you it was too when his day's work was over Dray - grand for a poor girl." ton had no true appreciation of the Willie's face flushed red pleasures of home, and filled Nellie's '. %And do you mean to say you'll do heed with the idea e of theatres, and it ?" he asked sharply. Christy Minstrels, and summer after - The downward eyes glanced upward to DODDS at Kew or Richmond, never peus- his faceing to think that the salary he usually "No, I said I wouldn't, because spent on his personal enjoymentmight not afford the same delightful recreation though pan. present was too good for me, I'd wear it now and, again for sake to two. • s of the kindness that made you give itLooking at Willie'picture of their ." • • • • ",-Even when you are Mark's wife ?" town life, m its gilded. setting, one cold February afternoon, when he was absent And. when Willie put the question the soft eyes wavered in their glance, and a • in the village, and her hands were busy flush. came to her cheek. .washing up the cups after their early "Mother and Jessie like Mark," she tea, Nellie was startled out of her day - said, M guileful evasion - Teets steady dream by a shadow falling athwart the. . , and careful, and has some money pat by, open doorwayGlancing up, she saw - so they talk of his leaving my lord, and the stalwart figure of Mark Wilton al taking a farm, and—and " tering tee kitchen, carrying his gun on tier confidence stammered 'and halted his hand, and bending his head as she now, and Willie filled up her sentencehad seen him bend it many a time under Marrying you and settling dawn in the old-fashioned entrance. The scarlet " home." . blood, flew hot to Nellie's cheek. • " Something like that, Willie : :only "You frighted me with that gun, ." she said, in excuse for the tide I'm young yet,, and it's tune enow to Mark think about it.' which would not be stayed, although • Willie fastened the door behied him, and then taking off his hat, shook the white snow from it as he neared the hearth; where Nellie stood, looking si- lently down' upon- the blazing embers, • And if anather man came for •tiou the small, plump hannds, busy among that my aunt and Jess liked as vvell as the teacups, never faltered in their Mark, what would you do then. Nellie?" work. • • But Nellie, instead of answering, look- • " There s no need to be flighted " be ed from his eager eyes back again to the said, "it's not loaded • though for all that I shouldn't have brought *t h glowing wood -fire. , ere, "What woulcl you do, Nellie?"' he but I carry it about with me for company urged. 4 like, because. it's the only company I've Them was a world of reproach in his "There, I hear Jessie calling," she got now." stand.tea(' of going 'here talking, laS. to cried "she'll say I'm a silly lass to voice, a world of pathos in the simple bed." - sentence, to which he adcled no word She slid by him into the passage lead but ground his gun upon the door, and ing to the stairs, but he . followed her - clasping has • strong brown hands over „swiftly, and. Aught her hands. the 'nuzzle, stood looking into the girPs • st You never kissed me for my present, fac,e, mmloctnhtelyr. and Jessie are gone a -milk- . Nell," he said. " Will you kiss me win; and say good -night !" . She drew her hands from his and, push- ed him from. her, in half -laughing de- nial. " How dare you be so bold, Willie ?" she cried, and then with fleet foot she fled up stairs to the shelter of her room. TV. December drifted into January, and still Willie Drayton said never a word of going back to • London, seeming but too content to spend his time in the society of his cousin Nellie. Only her mother and Jess, he kept telling himself, were on Mark Wilton's side; he bad no part or ceneern in Nellie's unbiased affections. So, when the day's- work was done, he sat by her in the glowing firelight, talk- ing of London, until the girl's head grew dazzled., with the notion that to be the wife of Willie Drayton and live in the great city where she might wear gold bracelets, and display a showy silk with- out a word of ;comment, was to • be al- most, if not quite, a lady. It was one thing to be the head keep- er's wife, whom every one called Mark, if they did eot call him Wilton, but it was another thing to marry her cousin, whom people always -called Mr, Dray- ton, net daring. to make, too free with ing," Nellie said; forcing herself to say something, and lookiug down at a tea- cup she liehl in her fiegers, rather than into the eyes fixed on her across the brown hands clasped upon the gun. "1• just came to have a word with you, Nellie," Wilton said, not noticing her remark about her mother and Jessie. " And if you don't mind listening to me a minute, I'd like to say it hete." She made ;noM -answer, and ark, lift- ing his large hands away from the muz- zle of the gun, laid it in the *corner 'of the kitchen. There was not much romance about Mark Wilton, nor any show of sentiment; yet what he had to say to Neliie he Wished to say there, in the crimson glow of the fire -light, where he had told her of his love nearly a year agone. "Where it began let it end," he said to himself. Then he crossed the kitchen, and standing before Nellie on the hearth, hrpoke : They be talking down in the village about your marrying Will Drayton, and. I just came up to hear the truth of it, Nellie, from your own lips." But with scarlet cheek and drooping eye, Nellie stood still, without ereiwer- ing him. "Silence is the same as woi!ds some- limes,' Mark proceeded after a moment ; "and all I have to say now, Nell, my lass, is, that if you are going to marry Will Drayton. and want the proMise youniade me back, I'm here to give it to you.'' There's no hurry about it, Mark," Nellie said eaterveusly, " rather you'ddipeak to (mother." Your mother has never come be- tween is two yet, and she won't now," with quiet decision. "But Nell, my edirl, if 80 be you want your promise, take it to -night, for maybe when the time comes when you do want it, I mightn't be here to give it -Nellie felt startled, althoueli she made no sign, but stood with her lead. droop- ed, and her eyes wandering from the scattered tea things on the teble to the flitting gleams of the fire. You see 1 thought there was no lige staying in these parts an longer," he went on. '1 got to dislike the place when I stopped Corrfing up here, so I gave my lord notice a month. agone, anct as a brother of mine has a farm in ktioncestershire, • and I mean to tens farmer too, I -thought I might as well shift for good, and I'm. going them to- morrow, to see if I cau find a farm near his." "You've been solar away from us this month back, Gloucestershire won't be much further," Nellie answered, with a coolness which struck Mark sorely, but he only said: "1 thought -if you wanted me any nearer, you'd have sent for me, Nellie."_ The man who goes away himself is not worth sending for," Nellie retorted, taking, with a woman's ready tact, T . the Nrt of the injured and deserted. "Nellie, s net fan to say words like them, when you know I went be- cause I didn't went to Mend in the way of a man you liked better nor you liked me. And I thought to myself, if it's only a girl's fancy and pride she has out of him, as Jessie says it is • why, she'll MAY 231 187 dtesee and healthy condition, all —Met disease having been coinpletely reme and have been sold for from 00 tem more than they would previmiy ha" brought, when you want a horse seett eine get Darley s Condition Powders aza Araleian Heave Remedy, we knew you will be perfectly satisfied with the mule Remember the name, and. roe that the signature of Hurd & Co., is on each at &f Lyman, Newedassle: age. PNrocprrtillert(o)Prs or Canada. siej. tP- ionaT:ivnol elouq: tut 1:ratad.1:13111:: 1Befir us} xt lei rl E3naig,neol itt0h:r: IrE131. ELIXIR :88DNeRf t:na (g171111:C1:011)1):11;:::::E: rtal ).ati :7firt j:(C) LIES :18yri. daily practice, I iflitht giVe it my la)preePutaic6ald erdil?c()atitliocuussi dyetnt°11 cittilijxliT,tituStToenetti them proved with .60 valuable as yonrs. 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In Nervous and Spina' Affections, paint in the back and limbs, fatigue on slight ex- ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and rolvilieotensHi these inilfai18`e. dwi;llaenflded'ailLthetion"ghwhaexiptdiewaetrful)18• 1 remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimony, or anything hurtful to the tonetitution: Fall directions in the pamphlet around each • package, which should be carefully xreserved. job Moses, New York, Sole Proprietor. .S1.00and 121 cents for postage, enclosed toNorthop &Lyman, New ca.stle, Ont., general agents for the Dominion, will insure a bottle, containing over 50 pills by le roald'in Seaforth by E. Hickson & Co., and R. Ltmsden.• • 197-9 tell me to come back ; but i never ha,d a _ word nor a look, so I made up my mind to go clear away, and as you were only a child, Nell, when. you gave me yogi. word first, I thought I'd ask you before I went, if you'd wish it back again." But the half -stilled passion, • or the deep pathos of Wilton's words struck no answering chord in Nellie. She was waxing angry now. angry with herself, while she thought she - was angry with Mark. "You say right when you tell me was a child a year agorte, when I 'said I would be your wife," elle cried, a light Bashing into her usually mellow eyes , "but I am a woman to -night, and I'll take my promise back." "Noll, my laser don't let our hate words be words of anger," he said. 'I'm not like to see you any more after • to -night, for I'd never wish to look, upon your face when you were another man's • wife. But you might let me kiss you once before I go; once, fei the sake of the time that can't come no more." He came nearer to her while he spoke; nearer yet, and the iruddy gleams of the fire lighted up the two figures standing on the hearth, when Nellie, bowed a lit- tle 'and softened, turned her face to his —.her cheek, but IlOt her lips—and then, without speaking a word, she slid away • froth the kitchen, and -along the pessage to her room, as though the kiss itself was the seal of their farewell. • e IF 4- * - It was close upon eight o'clock when Wilton left the Oak Farm kitchen that night, where he had sat alone after Nel- lie left him, waiting to say farewell to out of the shadowy darkness of ; the night, the small, winsome face of Nellie Dr‘adrAt:roantir, we uld Cal- thrope? when from the shadow of the forever. ing look at Nellie's window, wondering was elle sitting up yonder waiting for. • porch a hand stole out and touched his • shoulder timorously. turned, he -saw, looking upward at him, to himself if she watchfd Ills going. or paused. a moment to take a list, linger - Jessie and Mrs. Drayton when they a last hand -shake . before he went to where their lives and his should lie apart came in from milking, and to give them Will Drayton to come back from The touch made him turn, and as he As he passed from the house porch, he - you stay in Calthrope if I asked You ?" she said, with a quiver - in' g lip, and tears trembling in her mel- lcrtirv se 3raenss.wl-ered. no word, but for all\ an- swer took her to him and kissed her, while her clinging arms wound them- selves round his neck. • „., "And if you will," she whispered, "I'll give back the promisetI took. away to -night ; for Jess was right, Mark, and the old love is strongee than the new."— St. Paul's Magazine. .....m..........ms SPECIAL NOTICES • BREAKFAST. —EPPS'S COCOA. —GRATE- FUL AND Comeonanto.—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of • the fine properties of well -selected coeoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast ta- bles with a delicately flavoured beverage which ma.y save us many heavy doctors' bills."--eddva Service Gazette. Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk. .Each packet is labelled—Jetres Errs & Co., Homeopathic Chemists, London." ATANUFACTURE OF CO 00A. --` We will now give an account of the process adopt- ed by Messrs. James Epps & Co., man- ufacturers of • dietetic articles at their works in the. Euston Road, London "— Cassell's _Household Guide. AFTER twenty-five years medical ex- perience, we have never met with a rem- edy worthy of dependence in any disease of the lungs, until the discovery of Tiitora.as' Eclectrie 011, WORTH TEN TIMES ITS 1VEIGHT IX GOLD, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING OE ? NOT, IT IS TIME YOU DID. • There are but qew preparations of medicine which have withstood the -impartial judgment of the 'people for any great length of tiane. One -of these is TataXas' ELECTRIC OIL, purely a, prepar. ation of six of some of the best oils that are known, each one possessing -virtues of its own. Scientific physicians know thot medicines -may be formed of several ingredients cu -tam fixed proportions of greater power, and producing effects which conld never result from the use of any one of them, or in different eambinations. Thus in. the preparation of this oil a chemical change takes plaee forming a compound which could not by any possibility lae .mode from any other combination or proportions of the same ingredients, or any other ingredients, ana_entirely clifferent from anything ever before ade, one -which produces the inostastonishing re- sults, and ha.ving a wider range of application than any medicine ever before discovered. It con- tains no alcohol or other volatile liquids, conse- quently loses nothing by evaporation. ..Wherever , applied you get the benefit of every drop ; -whereas -with other preparations nearly all the aleohol is lost in that way, and you get only the sinall (nun- tity of oils which they may contain., • S. N. THOMAS, PHF.:LIIS, N. Y. • And NORTHROP & LYMAN, Newcastle, Ont., Sole Agents for the Dominion. - • NoTE.—Electiie—Selected and Electrized. • Sold -hr. Seaforth by ,E. Hickson & Co. andR. 7.i -broaden. • EGAL. LEET, Solicitor, Wingham, has been ap- c-/ • pointed Agent for the Colonial Securities Com- pany of England, he is also Agent for several pri-' vote CapitaliSts of Toronto, who loan Money at very reasonable rates. Interest payable yearly Charges moderate. Wingharn, Dee. 15, 1871. 213 cCAUGHEY & HOLMESTED, Barristers, At. s at Law, Solicitors in Clmneery and Insolvency, _Notaries Public and Conveyancers. Solicitors for the R. 0. Bank, Seaforth. Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Coraparay, B..—$30,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and. Lots for sale.• 58 BENSON & MEYER, Barristers and AttorneyS at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Offices—Sea. forth and Wroxeter. $28;000 of Private Funds -to invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable yearly. 59 JAS. 11. BENS011. • H. W. C. MEYER. W• 11. SQIVIER, 13,arister, Attorney In Mane- " • ery, &c., Goderfch, Ont. Office—over J.C. Detlor & Co.' e Emporium, 'Market Square. 269 &gluier' ds. PAI1RISTERS, Attorneys, Solicitors in Chancery, &c., Brussels, Ont. Office—two doors noith of the Post Office. W. R. SQUIBB, DANIEL MeDONALD, 271 -• Goderich. Brussels. DIEDICALo DB. CAMPBELL has removed to the honse• on • Main -street, near the Station; one door south of Rose' Hotel, and opposite MeCallum's Hotel, lately °coupled by Mr. Frank Meyer, where he will be found as usual, _TAVES STEWART, M. D., C. M., Grodutste of • • McGill, University, Montreal, Physician, Sur- geon, etc. Office and Residence—Brucefield. TT L. VERCOE, M. D., C. M., Physician, Bur- geon, etc. Office and. Residence, corner of Market and High streets, next to the Planing Mill. J., G. BULL, L.D.S., cURGEON, Dentist, &c., • Seaforth, Ontario, Platel work, latest styles, neatly executed. All surgical I operations performed with cure and PrninPtitude. Fees as low as can be obtained else- where. Office hears from 8 A.31. to 5 P. 31. Rooms over Mr. A. G. McDougalrs Store, Main -at. - 270 A es. CAMPBELL, V. -S., formerly of Cornell -4-L. 'University, Ithaca, N. Y., and -Graduate of On- tario Veterinary College. Residence — Cooke's Temperance liouse;Varna. Will be at Brutefield every Monday- afternoon from 2 till 5 o'clock. • VETEItINARY SURGEON. --D. MoSAUGHT, v. V. S., bege to announce to the inhabitants ef SeatOrth and surrounding country that he has been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterin- ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases of Horses andCattle and all domestic animals. He has opened an office in connection with his horse - shoeing shop, where he will be found ready to at- tend to calls- Diseases of the feet specially at- tended to. Residence, ofliee and shop in the rear 0011m7rigne°srarella6s:onnalrab:e.'8 new_ erinary Medicines kept constantly • on hand - 229 J.- • bei of the Ontario Veterinary Co/lege,) begs store. All kinds of Vet - T j. enunouialt Veterinary Surgeon, (mem' - to intimate that lie has returned to the practice of his profession in Seaforth, and may at all times be consulted on the diseases of Horses, Cattle, &c. Ac7aeusteriamprorymprtniyediactirternesdedcontost.anotImyee7 hand.. All House, Sealorth. at Ma2n7ssion Fellows' Compound Syrup of 1-13syotiltoss 11110Tk.1144. phites. This article rea,lly is reliable, and successful in a majority of cases. TIIE first approaches of consumption are so insidious that thousands remain unconscious of its presence until it h brought them. to the verge of the grave. The immediate use of Bryan's Pubnonic Wafers upon the first appearance of the cough, pain or soreness of the throat or idlest, would eenerally preclud fatal result ; therefere, when yeti take a cold use Bryan's PUlmonie Wafers, and thus prevent the .necessity for taking them in more dangerouse omplaints, To be ob- tained. of all druggists and country deal- ers. Price 25 cents per box. CcOGREAT CONDITION NIElpgresIeNsED.—aAriesy as linclaiitenraPeodiwedine ers afor nd Arabian Heave Remedy has no equal, its effects in this respect are astonishing ; many horses that were supposed to be broken down and alrn.ost worthless, have by the dse of a few packages been. resthred to a sound ^ P GYAL HOTEL, Seaforth, Ontario. SIMON POWELL, Proprietor. The subscriber has thoroughly renovated and newly furnished the above house, so that it now affords goodacconnno. datioii for the travelling publit. Choice liwra ,„,ars n the bar. • The table is snpplied with e en:hes-cies in season. Oysters in season. ilLeacrtgleons.tabling and an attentive hostler in con- plicedninlwithiathtie°I;:e11-3o-lbetslitt vlieqiineorsrs. alnlideciBgaarrs2.i5s1On.:109a- pRINCE OF WALE'S HOTEL, Clinton, Onto 0.. J. MeCUTCIIEON, Proprietor. First-class setraebr3lingdayaitotarell‘rfin!d_ghT4111rie stag,e leaves 'this Tints° 204-4t la I VERA.% TSHARPS LIVERY AND SALE STABLES- Ho.rs e°sillaeand e—At -2eilulaslago'snvileYoatneel'esaiw Seaf,:von ha illi's °70d• PELL'S LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont. Good H.orses and Corafortable Vehicles, alwigo on hand. Favorable Arrangements made wif4i KHOoloiornralEieciir:vrillioaltA;b,rolaipvsreollinerpsayAllatteonradeearstil:ft linox's 221 Main Street. Third door North of THOMAS DELL, Proprietor. dee Wleat the WO Little Red Wondering snaidell, 80 'Whetelost thou murmur Stare,. Why are my eyelid.s so A Only the better to see ws Only the better and the ',shocks that are rosy, an blue, Dost thou still wonder these arms Fill thy soft beeons. with Swaying so 'wickedly?, placed, Clasping or shieldin waist?• feuds whose coarse sinei 'with fear Only the better protect e Little Red Riding -Hoo street, • Why do 1 prees your Si: we meet ? NA by, when you timid elaeek, 'Why did I Bigh, and ts41 Why, ; you eeedes appear— I'm not your grandmothA Hood, dear I" (3-ATFing -A Western ,news): _ account or perilbus voyage, deer lady her dangetons pi falls, with only "one between her keel ai. ana half an Inch 1.9 between her chitun bridge," —A Kentneky fart look at a sample sewii cently„ as he alNyays by hand." He is r man who did not wai machine on his fat* he." give me a hATileS, rel stave, and 1 cat toe the, noni- accordii Scripten" —When a an unlucky Irishinani ways gots pity -Pat. ' sc:loolboy be3 to -write a composip subject of Pins," followinv " Pins ar They hive saved tf great nriny men, wet dren — in fact, wh 41 How so ?" asked: teacher ; an&l the cz -Why, by not swaI This'inatches the stor bey who defined salt: • -that makes potatoes, 4: von dun't put en arty. . German physi covered that Wham: boys intelfet-es with changes coincident • ment tiSsueS, blood corpuscles 1:w4: at the edge Any p ascertain if his- b3lysu - 12,- taking out a handf eOi puscles and e edges. - Y.an kee groce•l -ed to auttribute to new church, proini his name to the paper ing manner : •" sTof only place in town vet even patIn' l'ledstf the 4oIlar,) twenty-fil - l'an going to d into a kno" -as when_ standing at altar. —An old Dutch ; bad his third wife, an, 1118 views on matt* " Veli den, you see, - marries for love—d den 1 marries for p0 goot too, apout as fir4 but di, time and dis is petter Cooney took a pia things. - ----" The Gilded X of the novia which Dudley Warner amal wrote to the -617' has worked up the have hnried in the fA it one of the most a .els that, ever Was after night 1 it up and over again and he pill)] iedeed eativ ii plenty of piettn'es:" Wearing a.Ne It is a little situp Pair .of. boots can tfle store. You Yet your foot only pa leg at the first tria cause voter stoeltinti you haven't started stioemaker sn.ggests attain and stand throws in a little per -box to aid v St alla 1115, ant y,onr foot, and pa self up, and yo out in an u and every vein jI to be on the and all the while ths around and eves the tently as if the N.V: perfectly new and When• your foot ha bottom, there is a f on your mind that v] Iluto an open stove, bl by solemnly observin Saw a boot fit as voo 1.