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The Huron Expositor, 1874-11-06, Page 2a- > - 2 THE EKIGMA OF A LIFE—A NOR- WECIAN SKETCH , ed for 'Mtn tea speak, and teied to pre- pare herself for whatever he might say ;. .,, . but not a word, came, and she grew yet BBJORNST.TERNhjORNSONmore disturbed, iand felt obliged to look _ Y E .; - " Why sit here " up.I She sprang to her feet instantly. ? "Bemuse its high nd pleasant " Botolf's long, weather-beaten'. face seem - ' :i • " But it goes so deep down it makes ed to have 'become sunken and hollow, me quite giddy, and. the sun shines so his deeply -set eves staringly prominent, dazzliag ou the water. Let's go a age and his whole figure moustrous ; and it farther." stood over her With some strange in "Nonot any further " - firience that suddenly mide her see him ' ,. .. "Just back, 'thee', as far as that once more upon the ship just Its she saw ' him on the night of the wreck, but now Teen inelosure ; it WAS So pleasant hereh astrengthl wee boundless, and it was ." "No, I say, not there, either," and he all turned agaiust her.• 11ung himself (Iowa as it he either ;could '. You liaise 'been untruthful with me, not or would not go further Aasta" ! . . . - - • She remained standing, with her eyes She turned. away, but he followed her, . : intently fiked upon him. and continued "Aasta," thea be said, - "no* you ' "And yon liasee made rne - untruthful, must explain to m.e why it was you were tool; there hash't been .perfect truthful - so much afraid of that foreign skipper ness between he ia, single day ever since .who came in just in the duski. of the ; we have beep together.' . evenin. He stood So near that she could feel g." "Didn't I think that is it !" she his hot breath ; he looked straight into her!eyes till . she felt quite giddy-; the whispered, and seemed to WiSh to avoid the matter, knew not What he might the next mo- " Yes, you mast tell nie before you go, ment say or .do ; and. so she closed her else 1 shall never come agauL" 1 eyes. She stood as though she must " Botolf !" she exclaimed ; and she either fall or rush away.; the crisis was turned, but still remained standing. , coming. "it's true," he continued, "I; promis- In its prelude of deep -silence,- Botolf ed you I wouldn't ask any cpreations, himself beeame afraid. , Still, -once 1 and: I'll keep my word if you like' .- but mere he began. in hie "former StrainL- - then things must come to an. endbe - 4.' Make everything clear, - make an 1 • tween us." I end of all is miserablehtrickery and 1 • She burst into tears, and came over to cencealment—do it here—now.", , him, With the sun shining full upon her "Yes," she answered, but quite un - slender little figme, small hands and soft - consciously-± "set 1 ,§ay—do it here -- golden hair, wherefrorn the kerchief .had now !" fallen. ' He gave a loud cry, for she rushed past He apraua up : , hint and thing herself over the ateep. He !" z'he exclaimed, "you know caught a glimpse of her golden hair, her ver well when .you come- looking like uplifted hands, and the kerchief, which tha at me, I- always give in to yeti. But spread out, slipped off; and floated slow - I know, too, that the longer this thing ly down after her by itself He heard goes on the . worse it geta. Can't you no shriek, and hp heard no fall jute the - you. understand that, though I may water belows; tor it was very far down. promise you a handred times not to wisb Indeed be Was not listening, for he had to know about-FOUT bygone life, I never sunk to the eartb. have any peace? I can bear it no more." Out from. the :sea, she had .come to His face, too, did -indeed., bear a look of him that night at first, into the sea, she iong-centinued sufferinghad. now -passed. away again, and with "Yes, Botolf, you did indeed promiseher, the story of her: life. In the mid. me to let that thing rest—that Which L night darkness of that silent deep lay all can never, never tell • you about, Yoe& thatlwas dear to him ; should he not fol- . promised me selemnly, ; you said you low ? Ile had cerne to that place with a didn't care abent it, if you could but firmidetermination to make an end- of have me. Bac& r She exclaimed again, the thing that tormented him ; this was sinking to her knees before hira upon the not the end ; and now it could never heather ; and. she wept as though her come ; the trouble was, indeed, only new very life was in peril, and so looked at . insreality beginning. Aasta,'s deed cried ' hinathreugh her fast -falling tears that out to him that be had made a terrible sheseemed at once the loveliest and most mistake, anci hied killed! her. Even if miserable creature he had ever seen in all his misery should become ten times great his dayser, he must _live On to find out how all "Oh. dear me !" he exclaimed, rising, - had !happened. !She, who was almost but then directly sitting down again, the only one Saved on that fearful night, - "if a-ou. (lid but love me Well enough to had been saved °illy to be killed by hini have confidence in ;me, how happy . we i who had saved her. He. who had gone two might be 1." voyaging and trafficking about as if the - "If yora rather, could but have a lit- whole world were nothing but sea and tie eontidence in me !" ; she imPlored, mart, had ll at once become the victim corftiag-nearer him, atilt upon her knees, of a love which had killed the. woman of and looking yearningly into his 1 ta.cehis choice, and niest now kill him. Was " Love you ? Why that very night when lie at bad man ? He had never heard your ship lia.c1 run. into ours, when I -any One say so, neither had he ever felt came up on the (leek, and you stood it hiniself. But What if .after all, if it there in command, I thought I never had were!! so ? He rese ; not, however, to seen pinybody so .brave and manly ;a and cast bimeelf over the .steep, but t� re - I loved you frora that moment , And turn to the valley ; no man kills hiniself then when you carriect me over into the just when he has foundaa great enigma boat when the ships were sinking, I Once which he wishes to solve. • ' more felt, what I thought I never shottlel Bet the enigma! of Aasta's life could feel again—a wish to live." She -wept never: be solved now. . She had lived iu in silence, with her hands clasped to- 1 America ever 'since she had been grewn gether resting upon his knee. i up.; and she was coming from there "Botolf !" -then she exclaimed, "be when!the ships ran into.eaeh other. In , good and noble ; be as you. ;were when what 'part of America. 'should his quest l 1 , yea first took me 1:—Botolf . e , begin' From wl - " Why do you urge me so9' lie replied had. at first come almost harshly.. "You know very well know, arid he . it can't be. One must have a wo nail's whole soul '- thotigh for a little while at first. perhaps„ one is content with- out." She drew ba,ek, and said hopeless- ly--- "Ah, well, then, my life can come right -again ! 0 Cod !" and more she began to weep. " Trust ine with the whole of life, and not merely a part tof it, a , will all come- right so far as I ate • ce,rn ed. " • He spoke cheerfully, as though t en- • courage her. She did not a.nswer,:but he sa, She • was strintgling with herself • •" Master yoursetf," he urged - ''run the risk of doing as I wish. 'Things can't be worse than they are, at l any •rate. " You'll drive me to the very w rst," ishe said., piteously. Re naisu n e rs too" her, aud , con - tinned : "Ever if you have to confess the reat- est crime to me PE try to bear up but this 1 can't bear." " No ; and neither can I !" sh claimed, and slie rose. " Pll kelp you," he said, rising • " day by day La kelp you, when I know what this thing is. Bat Pm too proud to be with a Woman I • fully kuow about, and who, perhapi, be- , longs to somebody else." A bright flush came over her face. " For shame ! If you talk )if p I'm a good deal prouder than tou _lever once your ad it con - rat part of Norway She he Aid not positively Was uncertaiu --even whether her family name had. not been; changed since- then. And that foreign skip,per ? Who ce-uld he be? . Did he know! Aasta, :or • Was it only . she who. knew • something Of him? To question thus was like que ',tile -Mug the very sea; .and to journey for h to investigate, was liin; planging hitt) ts depths. 'ttSurely he lia,t1 'Dade a terrible rits- teke. .; -A woman enitent on. ;toe:omit:of some guilty thing 'votildhave ..found- re- . lief in confessing i ' to her husband ; and e .. , one .sttll empenitei t. would have. sought refuge in smile ,e !iasion or ether..-- .But Aasta ;had neith,er • onfes-sed anything nor had. recourse to 'ns' ev-asitni, but had sought refuge in d Ja-th when he had So tormented -lier4 • ;itch cond u c t showed no eta, of ffitilt. . . at why not? Some folks had a great dead of ,confessing any- thing-. Aasta, 11(1'w -ever, had. . ro snob dread.; •for she; 1 tel already confesse there .was somethi ne about heel ife- whic 0 she could never tell him. Perhaps then, the greatne of her guilt mad .cottlesS'on imPoss ble ? But she coul never have had. t burden of .any grea guilt upon her ; f ., she was Often joyon. ex- —nay,. even full o Tuve- _ She_ -was .has.., sinf and impetuous, it 4 true ; but she -• weS - had iso a also, very full of tender feeling and kirel- - plac only •liness.i Perhaps the guilt was some ot - hea 1 r aite ' er persbn's and na •hee's at a,11.? - W h.- ; bar s THE hU1ONEXPOsIT Would itreally be right for husband and wife to tell ;each other evetything Would all be understeodif it were told? MoSt certainly not. ; .He heard two children .playing, and he cleskecl areund. .f -le was • sitting in theigreen inclosnre Aanta had spoken Of a little While ago, but he had not been await of it till now. Five hours had passed, he thought it was a fens min- utes. The children had most likely been playing there for a long time ; but he heard- them eow for the first time. What!• Was not one! of them Agnes, the clergyman's little daughter of eight years, whom Aasta .frad loved 'even to• idolatry, and who was sollike hr? Good heavens !- homelike she was ! Agnes had just set her little- brotar :upe , a great stone, *here he had to 1 e in school, while she was school - ma ter. ; • "Say now just what 1 say," she com mai ded. " Our Father." "Ou' Farver," " Who art in heaven." • " Hallowed be thy narne." "Arvid be Milne. t Thy; kingdom come'," • " No !" • - • "Thy will be done." • "No ; s'an't." Botolf crept away; not, however, be- cause the prayer had touched .him ; in- deed, he had not marked that it was a pray er; but tvhile he looked at and lis- tened to the children; he became in hiS own eyes, a horrible wild beast, unfit to com near either God or Man. He dragJ ged himself behind -some ;hushes, so that the hildren might not discover him ; he was more- afraid of thorn than he had eveii been of anyone in all his life. He shin off into the forest, far away from the ligh road. Where should he go? To the noW errip y }Muse lie had bought and, furnish-. ed f r Aasta? Or should he go some., whe .e.further away? • It Mattered noth- • ing ; for wherever he thought. Of going, he s, w Aasta standing there. It is said that when folks are dying, the last ob- ject hey. .see is pictured upon their eyes; so, t o, when a man awakes to conscious- ness after doing a wicked deed, the first: obje t he sees. is pictared Upon his eyes, and le can never get rid of it. Thus, when Botolf saw Aasta, she no longer appeared to him as .she had. upon the mornitainedope 80 boa a time before, bat she seemed to be la little innocent girl—in fact, tor be Agnes. Even the pietere he retained of her figure while she was- sinking down the steep,' was • that Of Agnes, with her little hands up- lifted. In whatever diredtion he turned his thoughts and remembrances of the suffering wernan whom he had so sus- pected, they were met by this innocent child; whom he had just heard repeating the Lord's Prayer. In every scene of his life with Aasta—frorn'. the night of the shipwreck to this Sunday morning— the child's face appeared. The thought of this mysterioua transformation So preyed upon hiar in both Mind and body, that in the course of a few days he be- came unable to take his n!ecessaryefood, and a little while after waa compelled to keep his bed. • Soon every one could see he was ap- proaching death. He whose mind is burdeaed-by some geeat life7enigina ac- quires a peculiar manner, through which he hiniself' -becomes an enigma to others. Even from the day Botolf and Aasta first came.to live in. that parish, his gloomy' taciturnity, her beauty ,and the loneli- ness of the life of both, had been the • subject' of frequent gossip among the neighbors ; and. now when Aa,sta, all at once '1iSeppeared, the talk increased, un- til the Most incredible things said were the best believed. - Nobody could throw Any light upon the matter; for none of all those who lived upon the mountain - ridge, ot the shore beneath,' or who were accustomed to go there, had happened to be looking toward the steep just :when Aasta flung herself over. .Neither did her corpse .even drift t� laiid, itself to give evidence. Even -while Botolf was. yet alive, there- fore, no end of strange 'spiritualistic stories were told about him). He became dreadfol to see, as he lay' there with long, sunken' face, ,red beard, aml un- kempt_ red _hair, growing tangled to- gether, and large eyes looking up like some dark tarn in a deep mountain hol- low., -He seemed to have no wish either to live 'or to die ; and so thefolks said d there was a fight for his soul going on be - h twetn 'God, ,and the devil. Some said , they had even seen the evil one, sur- e' rounded by flames, climb up to the win- d dows of the dying man's chamber tb call to him. They had seen the evil one, too, they said, in the form of a black dog, go fing reund the house. Others, who rowed past, had. seen the ,whole e on fire ; while others, again, had rd a company of -devils; shoriting, kale and laughing, come up from • p the ton% then, lead she Aeti_el '; told him. so ? if she sea, pass .slowly toward the house, enter . had Only -done this; would have come through the closed doors, reeh furiously iight But Supposing there -were no through all the rooms, and then go down euilt either on her side or onethat of once mere beneath the waves, with the @rake,. R. that one must alas try to do what MANCHESTER dying'folks wish ; an that if she prayed nicely to God, nething could do her any harm., She believed this, and let them dress her to go. It was a cold, cle# evening, wherein she could see long dark shadows follow- ing. and bear echoes ef the harneSs-bells sounding far off in t1ie forest. On the whole:she felt it w rather dreadful, and she sat saying he • prayers, with her hands folded togethe • Inside her muff. She did not see, th devil anywhere, neither did she heat any company of devils rashing up outi of tbe sea while she rode elong t e 8 many stars above her straight before her lir reek. Up • around seemed. dismally qu peasant woman eame carried Agnes indoors eling dress, and let h the fire. Meanwhile ore ;'.but the salw and light shining on the inoantain- otolf's honse ttli et; but the cld • out at once and 'took off her trate' *r wenn herself at he old woman told her she need. not be anywise afraid of the ..sick inane but must • ust .go into him with good courage, at d say the Lord's - Prayer to him, -The' , when Agnes had got warm, the old Wo nan took her -hand and led her into the ick room. Botolf ley there, with long eard and 'hollow eyes, and he gazed at her intently ; but 'she did not think he looked dreadful, and. she Ntas riot afraid.; "De • you • forgive ne ?" he whisper- ed. ; ' She supposed she ou ht to Say yes, and she. said." yes,".a cordinely. • • Then he smiled, and, tied to raise him- self in the bed, but hi strength failed, . and he remained lying. -. She began at once t say the Lord's Prayer but; he made a :Movement as though 'to bid her e, and pointed to his breast. • So she laic both her hands there; for this was wh t She thought be intended her to do ; an he directly laid one of his clammy, ice cold; bony hands upon her little warm ones, and. then she found he did she had finished venture to re- t began to say it iv fin' the third anie. in, looked, now, my dear -- law Journal. closed his eyes. Whet not say anything after the prayer, she did. no mOve her hands, but ju again. When she had said time, the old woman and said : "You eau leave off he's gone 1" -7 -The Satur SPECIA.Ck—oTICES. BREAKFAST.--EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATE- FLU, AND COMFORTING. • ' 'By a thorough . . knowledge of the nat ral laws which govern the operations f- digestion and • bles with a delicately 11 voured beverage - • Mr. -Epps his provided ur breakfast to,- ' bills."L-•Civit Service fazette. Made - • , i Each packet is labelled JAMES EPPS & -.Badly 'mit of condition, nd I cannot tell sure. and effectual in al cases. Many quantities of it, and tes ify- that its ef- nutritioneand by a care ul api(Alinceathiomit.seof . the tine properties of we I -selected coeoa, kimply with Boiliug 1 .ater or Milk. persons who -deal in . h wses use large : which may save us man heavy doctors' . MAN UFACTITAB 01? CO OA. --;$ i We will ;now give en account of t e process adopt- ;Cas8ell's Household GM,. .- either what is- the tuatt r :with him, or how to get him intoibett order " They ; ed by Alessi's. 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Payson's indelible Ink is indispe sable tor the. purpose ; it needs no "reparation; it will not injure the finest fabric, and, can be used with a common p n. _ a , . trim GREAT SITPERJORIT OF DR. WHEEL- -1- Oefi . Compound Elixir of P1 osphates and _Cal. isaya consists in its being pnr( ly phySiologiCal in its action in -restoring all for us of debility by supplying the waste of tissues r ;suiting from ;Jinni- tal and muscular exertion, am thus preventing nervous prostration and gen ral debility. ! Fifr building up constitutions of low vitality from ' serofulous, nr consumptive di.- ascii, or impaired hy dissipation or bad habits, it s nuequalled, as it immediately imparts energy to the digestive ap- Paratus, and creates healthy bl od, toning and vi- talizing at once all the organs Iff the bodyin the same manner ftS our daily food • Phosphates are the only compounds of Phosp mous assimilated hy the system, and are Nature', agents for main- . &tilling the vital powers. : • CO StO Plai HOUSE. jAm EtSON MILD respectfully ask inteLding purchasers ai of Goods who may visit Se 'forth during the Ing month of November to c 11 and, see their k of Lustres, igured Lustros, Grey Lustros, Diagonal Twills, Silk Serges, Paramattas, • French Bine - Lustres, lain Winceys, • Fancy Winceys, Fancy ,Flannels, Chil ens' Hose, G is' Hose, Boys' Hose, = ide, anybodY else, how; then ? But she her- same 'awful row as they made in coining are, serf had. saict there was Rornething she out. Botolf's servItnt s, men as well 115 Zald 1WW1 t 'MVO YOU say suc.hi thingscould never tell him. Aed then, hew women, left immediately, ' and told So step !" : aboutthat foreiion skipper she as so all these tales to everybody. Hardly I e "If you're so very proud, then, afraid of' How was it ? In the name any one dared go, near the place ; and if why do you leave room for my sus- of goodness, how leas it ? Ah, had she an old peasant and. his wife to whom" 'mn elo. - "00(1 help me I can bear thi longer?" " No, nor I either. rye made a shm It all coe ti eud this -date" "to been still alive., he would still have tor- s no mented her ! This thought.moved him deeply, ansl made hini reprea,oh and de- veiv spise himself beyond measure. iu regal' again—perhaps she was How cruel it is," she Wailed out, not so guilty as she herself believed. ; or, go on tvorrying and tormenting a. perhaps, not so guilty as (Allele might an who htei trusted herself eo fully have thought ? • How often did we do on, anl hee begged. and prayed of wrong quiteiunocentlyeaed only through as 1 have been doiug." ignorance, thoegh so few 'could under- lie was men. again ineginning to -weep, stand. that ! Thus Aesta, had thought with a sudden change of:feeling, sthe that he, who was always full of sus 1113.111 : "Would not understand it. Out of Yee, I see how it is ; you think by one.clear simple ansWer ht.- would have -oking and exeiting me you'll get found_ Matter:for a:hundred suspicious gs out of me !" She looked at hun t• • , s had chosen to con, 14-0120 to y 1 -on 8 but, excl. -• 4, trot thin • 'Indignantly and turned asidefide herself to death rather than to bim. Then she heard him say slowly, worde__Why coul1. he never leave her i • n niece.? I -the sick man had shown 011ie kindness, had not taken care of him, Ire would • havelain'utterly untended. Even this - old wooian herself was • in terror When she was with him ; and she used to bern, . straw ander hie bed to keep dfr the evil one ; but though the sick matt was near- • Payson's.Indelib e- Ink • TITE SIMPLEST, CHEAPEST A,'D BEST MARRING .APPAII.ATUS IN THE,WORLD FOR MARKING corrox, 41.1,,x, WOOLEN AND,LINEN. USE ) wint A COMMON PEN WITLI0CT A PREP, RATION. t This ink flows perfectly; will write as easily on the -finest Muslin as ink on pa )er. It does not dry up, and retains its NrilitteS longer than any other Ink known. 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I To that he made no -answer. The next ; clay, while he was lying as usual. he die - by word.• - She • had fled from the things -of her past I Will you, or will you not life, and -sought refuge with 'him ; and I " will /rot,- replieti she, stretching- -then lie, forsooth must constantly drag au see from hei•e !" She went from She wae truly attached to him, and out her baud ; no, not if you gave we all -them f • • • 1 • • we Wart -Owe. fully again weep moo( love a mo of ere log thein ni her face! him, her bosom heaved, and h• er eyes showed him all eloVe ,and tenderness ; dered to and. fro, but mostly looked : what riaht had he, then, to concern him- , a rd him, now sternly, next sorrove- self a,boat her past ? And if he had any , then sternly again. She leaned ! such right, why did he not say so in the st a, tree and wept ; then ceased. ; beginning ? Whereas, the more :her af- L ing, and returned to her former ! fection had grown., the more his disquiet 1 i had grown likewise—when she, not i Ah, I knew very -well you didn't ! merely through admiration and gatitude, i me," she heard next, and became in ; but else throegh love, had become ! ment the most humble and penitent wholly his own, then; forsooth, he must ; , atUres, , begin to wish to know all about what she i Twice she tried to answer, but, ins . hitd 'done and been in days gone by. The I stead, she flung herself down upon : napre, too, h had 1 , ( e or herself the heather, and hid her face in her ; the worse he had thought of her, and the hands. ! More he- insisted that there was some - Botolf came forward and stood over ; thing he ought to be 'told. her. • 1 Then, -if he rat time, arose the • she,knew he was there, and she wait- • question, had. he told her .everything ? tinctly pronounced the name,--" Agnes.' Certainiy, this • , • reply o td old woman's question of the. clay .before but she fancied it was, and she rose glad ly, went out to her husband and bad Inin harness the horses With all sliced, 2 and drive over to the parsonage to fetch IT, • Agnes. • • I When lie reached there, everybody Lthought there' must be &bole fr take, and that it was the , clergy- ath man who was. sent for; but the old man al: insisted it was the little girl. 1She her- di self was indoors, and heard the message, el! which frightened her greatly ; for she, among the rest, had heard the tales aboutthedevil,. and about the; compa,ny J. of devils rushing up out of the tea. But ; she had. also heard th.at there Was some one whom the sick man was Nirditing to see. and must see before he could die; and she did -not think it anywise strange that one should be herself, who his wife AuviltoN m OF 1. VALUABLE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF 'LLETT. ved instructions ARM , IiIVIR.frjol.ni'dieliprIoNinEjethaar!.ILccf•\.. !ILLIAM POW - e Lan, to sell by Public Auction, tat 1 o'clock, on 'JI HESDAY, NOVEAIB.t.,'R- 12, 1874, At POWELL'S' HOTEL, the; Village of Sea- fath, a first-clase farm in the of Hul- O in the cres, 75 of which . tithbered with is under grass. td, within three There is a new d runs through fillIMA in Huron ing a good farm sale. Title in - tilt. of the pnr- oofn tirne t$01,sn er cent, F,R, Proprietor. - 858 Gall • The atm Is composed of L dt Concession, and contains 100 te (geared, and. the balance we trilwoocl. All the cleared land t is situated on a good gravel ro iies of the village of Seaforth. ame barn, and the river Maitlai 0 farm. This is one of the bes U any person desirous of obtai fair value should attend the sputable. TERMS.—Ten per c ase Ineney to be paid on the an thin oue month, and the balan purchaser ,with interest at 8 .1 ' •;WM. FOWI P. BRINE, Auotioneer. An ahs All had so often fetched over to the house tilitije before. Agnes' sisters told her too Qui Grey 0 - Ble Muillers Ierinoes, B1kjuimpxcs8 Cloths, lack Sateens, STO THE 'Three Sevens Cheap Cash Store h; now en- -A-• Urged to nearly double its former size, and filled tO the donr :with • one of the Largest, Cheapest and Fini!St Stocks of •C4- CD ED' 1 Ever importid into Seaforth, consisting of every article usually kept by it Dry Goods 1 -Tone. Most of ourPINE GOODS' are imported to eaforth DIRECT from the OLD COUNTRY, thus saving the profit of :Ithe Wholesale Merchant here, The Canadian_Goods are bought from first hands an3i on the best terms, and will be found Extra Value. The following 1iies of Goods are Sneeklly Cheap, Cheaper than you can buy in n”y oshe/ House in •Panada, 600 yards of Fain: Colored Tartan Dkess Goods, 26 inches wide j at 20c per yard., cheap at 30c. i 1 . 650 yards of Fanc-S- Colored Striped tnstres, 26 inches wide, at 20c per yard, cheati at 30e. • 500 yards of Plain Black Lustres, double fold, .26 Black Silks, inches wide, atfl4c per yard, cheap a 22c. 700 yards of Plain Alt -Wool Empress !Cloths, ttll colors. 29 inches wide, at 50e per ;turd, cheap • at 75e. i . I 250 yards of Plain Black Silks, 22 inehes wide, at •- 90c, $1, $1 25 and $1 40, a very cheap lot. l , , 1100 yards of Plain, 131ack Silks, giros grain, 2.8 i inches wide, at $1 50, worth $2, guaranteed. ' 50 Poplin Dresses, Commencing at $3 50, nu to • $6 50, (worth double.) - I 100 Pieces of Pkin n.nd Fancy Check Wineeys, at tfroin Eic to 25c per yard. _ 6 pieees of all shades of Gray- .Mantle Water -Proof, 60 inchestwide, frofn 55e to•",:i.. , 50 New all Shawls, the latest Styles, from $2 25 to $18—the largest Stock in Seaforth to select from. • 50 Children's Cloth .Taeltets, all at 50e each, a great Bargain, worth 1;,,,1 50. i 50 Ladies' Cloth Jackets, Bugle trimmed and fringed, all sorts at $2 50, worth $4. _ 25 Ladies' Cloth iFur trimmed jackets, at $3 to $5. 50 1 • 20 Ladies' Mink Sdts, from. $20 to $38 a Set, 1splendid e.val qualiti13, good ue. 20 Ladies' Alaska Sets, fritat $4 to $7 50a Set colors dark. White Flannels, I Scarlet Flanji els, Grey Fla fuels, Wateirproofs, rownHolltinds, • Window • Hollauds, Ladies' Hofic, Boys' Socks, Men's Socks, Gloves, Hand 9, -erchiefs, oods, - Scarfs, dren's Wool Hats, Children's Wool Hoods, Children's Wool Gaite s, Children's Wool 1ii ttens, • Paisley Shawl Plaid Sha ls, • StripelShawls, roof Shawls, ek Shawls, " Brown Shawls, Breakfast Shawls, Shoulder Shawls,_ Table Linens, Towels., Count rpanes, Ta le Cov,ers,ttc. Plain • 750 yards of that Great Value 38 inch Whit• e Cotton, at 124e, liorth 18c. , 1,000 yards Grey Cotton, from 7e to 124c. 500 all Linen 36 -inch long Towels, for 17e, worth 95e each. 100 all Linen Turnbldr Towels, at 10; worth, 14c. 25 Pair Roy -al Canadian Bed Blankets, 5 pounds each, for $2 75, -sforth $5. 25 Pair Royal Canadian Bed Blankels, at i;.;;5, worth$7 50. 50 pieces Scarlet all wool Flannel Shirtings, at , 25e, 80e, 85e 40e and 50e a yard. shalos-100 pieces Fancy English Twill FlannellShntings, '• all wool, at 95e to 45e a yard. 10 pieces Linen Tablinga'2 White, 60 inch. at 55e ; per yard. • ' Its, Overcoatings, Tweeds, Black Cloths, FancyCoatings, FallCY Vestings, Fancy Trowserings, ttons, ched Cotton s, Cotton Yarns, Carpet Warps) Grain Bags, • Ilntlershirts, • Drawers, ILA DUES' AND CHILDIEIEN'S 'AND ROMENADE SCARFS ir endless variety and at astonishing low prices, our Mr. McDOUGA.LL having bought them at the grat Sale of Randall, Farr & Co:, at half price, last Spring; twill be sold cheap. THE cHEPEsT LOT OF 'CARPETS.:- • EVER SOLD KERR. 2 pieces of yard wide all -Wool, at 75c a yard, cheap at 90c. • White hirts, 2 pieces of FarfeyDrugeting, 6-24e worth. 80e. l Flannel Shirts, I piece of yard wide jPeott Matting, at 75e. Neck Ties, 50 Cocoa Mats, et $tl. 80, worth $2 150—extra large size. Small t 75e. • Scarfs, •b , pieces of Tapestry afpeta, good new Pattern. S5C, 90c and 915e, worth :1 90 or yard Best value ever offtred in 8 eu forth. t 4 pieces Hemp Carpet,. yard wide, at 14, 20e and • 25c a yard. Cardigan Jackets, &c. HATS 1 . AND CAPS, (76S, TAILORINC DEPARTMENT rnder the careful superintendence of ;Stir. T., r.it!idcleon. A good tit guaranteed, and without _exception the Largest Stock! of line Cfrie°11.011! 0 6' TS' TIES, SIIIICTS, COLLARS, • froth Loudon and Paris, and the Patterns are telly 1-, beliad at this eStablishm en t. to :efoonitilEs„\,cei istIrs‘li‘oEr<Rfulto,, to choose All the fine Cloths are jiliporkid direct BOOTS AND SHOES. - AND ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES. • ESTRAY CAT LE. AUL into the premises of tlle undersigned, Lot 2, Con. 3, Tuckeremith, H. II. 8,, about g. 1, 2 HEIFERS, one red and the other white, one STEER, red, with partlywhita hind leg. these cattle are 14 year eld. The owner is re- ested to prove property, pay exilenses and take m away. 44 DAVID DONOVAN. Troitb/e to iS7Loto Goods. LOGAN & JAMIESON. AND AN_ IlND1X-S8 STOk,'''R OF NEW STYLES �F .,HATS AND 'CAPS. Call early and see: theinit To get "Clothes in time, your order should be in two weeks before you want them, so pressing is thedemand. . The Independent Bu-•t-er, the Buyers who can buy where they please, are invited to call, and we guarantee to give Go..da et the prices we adVer- tise, and no two priees, You will . bay cheaper and get better value than you can possibly get at the old fogy credit stores, where the good pays for the bad. Remember to Call at 777. A. McDOTIGALL & Go. 1 Nov. 6, 1874. A Mira,cle of • ;At a certain epoch, medianTal times, —so 1- i , wuen the place nenekno. was but a rustic village, ish 'WM presided over bv managed to. fell into •I Bishop. The latter t to chide him for his I cure of smile ander closing his reprcrofe doctrine that I' faith dead." T1iis t run - 1 effect npon the priest, ! to work to redeem his c gam the conliiheace of :1ji betook himself to fee mkelitatine in the niebt " i tering with tears,. At tion was tektite and he opportnnity to c;Ir1y-i. j bit -roue project. Winch than the worltinglef 11. 1 -converting of his Daris r'ina tit t many nubtv ) I•.hy t11etiiJiae,' 431aee, WaS iastria • pastairefor a cow, -i4vIteic !over by a sitnrileboy of ;one of those rare neings ,lowe somewhere, deseribl • with a chronic; sus:permit); ;faculties_ Hie drowsy mind foii friend 'in Ins own wen 2. !when satisfied that hisge 431i-ug2.1.71.otSS 1g1 heo \rr e4.nf,t 1 This season of the boy‘i -priest's opportunity. Ta a handful of salt, he app cileeolv, and, by scatV • there a feneetfrains, allure 'Lain spot whtre the sod hi ly removed, and there an- t -Reinder npon, the gro‘m - tday, and for sevtral, soee epeated this .operation each time to remove sonk, before placing the salt he place, until at last the ea deep that the animal wan.; down atm her knecs. in the toveted salt with her he had brought her to thl •_education, he contrived h rot= the sleeper, 'without teen. The lad, on awakir of the beast on her kneeS the act of devotion and ke with pious -effusion'. , Overnme by e>teiteme• r off toward home, and tvi wiid geitieulatibus toned lage,—*en, women and came rtinninn -with him •operations, °The shout, •miracle," WaS instantly re ed from nonith to *mouth .eountry round about reser- The cure was soon upon tl as might be supposed, w. the gravity ef the .oecasi the earth to be excavated, their astonishment to find • below the surfaee,, a lead the Virgin •Mary, of ab length This waS carefn 'tt,Tatis' baoir7ecesinsn gioreathaiviigi iontlp • viTaagltaecrh. church, where it tw • The 'following moraine; eound of -tits- Angelus, —th for prayer the whole tenibig to pay their respec found. Virgin, but, On church, it was discovered had mysteriously disapp first thought 15'a-3 of the hastening thither, strange they fouud the now, which • turned out for the day, a upon• her knees, over th 911 re -opening the ;earth, was there semi reposing in sition as before, Tbe pep.) to disinter it again, when posed and arrested their his simple flock that he lot miraculous return of the in mer resting -place as a hap that it might be interpret< pressed wish -of -the Hob- e chapel ehould be built upon that 1N.ITY spot, -to tv• . grams from all quarters mi do her re-verence. whence, for many a year, idleetr,ofarisril'uctilriammis leri7oileal°me us Thus the Qterprisillig cur ed wori s, could no Ion obtained ; funds poured leaden Virgin was pbeed redeem his character ; Bishop, seeing such iproofs, 1' in cow. ----ehorlee FaidilahN poor ; the chapel Was b his heart to chidi. tt,i)e wies snccessfully wrought the -4 The Bis_h_o_p's_*.saneotioxi. w,4 'line pepsia arises from a grea causes, different persons al different remedies, aecordi tare of the disease and co stomach. We know of a derived great benefit -fr tambler of sweet Milk, - fresher the better—When experienced in the stomata gentleman of our aeqiiainta afflicted for many years tress after eating, hae effec mixing a tablespoonful of - half a tinnbler of water, ; half an bear after hie nine e s-irto stir quickly aud Art ly, or the bran wi4adheae, and become pasty- are probably the winit ii eons tronbled with 'PYspte habit of using, and itthouldi Regulat• eating of ittOrisloa anhi the use of sone like the above, wili eifeet-i quicker 7i:es than imedici Ai& rkla. VA.T.rt OF ON eation to the Some teux, MM. Dujardin div made knowu the resul pleyment of oatmeal on th ti11.(1 hygiene of infants. them; oatmeal is the aIIm reason of its plaetie,' and mente, makes the nearest human milk. It ,;dso i.s which oontains most iron espeeially the phosphate essary for infants. ;It alse erty of preventing and diarrhoeas which are so fr dangerous at this ;age. the biale mule by 341. from four to eleven Mont elusively upon Scotch oatri milk, thrive very nearly children of the seine aee good nurse.