The Huron Expositor, 1876-01-14, Page 102
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HURON
NATURAL SET ACTION.
I.
His name was Wil iam Wright. I
could have wished that : for purposesof
euphony, his people ad named him
Clarence Courtenay iinitead, St: Clair
Seymour, Achilles Grandville, Or somb-
` thing of the sort, high-toned and sonor-
ous, but they did nothing of the kind,
and' am forced to state the fact.
It is grief to me tbatt 1 can no more
create a character than -1 eau invent a
vessel to navigate the air. Even if I
could have congtructed uch an ethereal
person, 1 would be as dreadfully at a
lose to keep her or him going during a
series of advcntures as I would have been
to have kept up my si rial machine in
the air, even had I succ eded in launch-
ing it from some hous -top. Owing to
something painfully realistic in my own
training, or in the style land sort of per-
son intended let the time I was myself
invented, I can do nothing more than
tell of men ahd women whom I have:ac-
tually known; as well as narrate simply
what befell them. It is the more eager'-
tial that I el ould confine myself rigidly
1
to the facts o the case in this instance,
because I int nd this to be a scientific
etatenaent in reference to Natural Selec-
tion. 1
This is the one reason which causes me
to make it at all, and we all know that
in reasoning across the wide and swift
, stream of everiliwing phenomena, from
the bank, so to speak, pf the known to
the shores of the unknown, facts -thor-
oughly ascot ained facts -aro as indis-
pensable as t<1 a bridge are the iron links
by which it is suspended, or the :solid
arches of rock upon wh•ch it is support -
e(1. Not Comte, Joh i Stuart Mill,
Buckle, Dr. Draper, nor any other
scientist ishall be mor accurate than
myself in what folio vs, which you
will please °milder 1 enceforth to be
not a story, but a c refully worded
anon og rank
- "William Wright, M. D," --I copy
from the sign beside the door' Of his little
office in Jack on -was the son of a very
plain pair of pld eo le, who were held
all their uneven ul Iifo in the rift of a
mountain belonging to East Tennessee,
as a brace of robins are held to their nest
. in the forks of an oak.. Shakespeare him-
self could never have made anything nut
of the desert island which he has lashed
with his fl'empe8t if he had not _placed a
Miranda there, to say nothing of an Ariel
or Caliban, and there was no one on that
rocky farm who -Could have been ethe-
realized by the most imaginative poet,
unlesi, indeed, he had dropped his pen,
and, grasping a club instead, had spirit-
nalized by slayinthern.
I
Mr. and Mrs. %Vright lived in a dou-
ble log cabin, and died there, and that
was all, because there is nothing what-
ever to say of them beyond that, except
that she cooked, spun. wove, made rag
carpets and clothing,while her tall and
gaunt husband plowed„ chopped wood,
planted and gathered corn, according to
the season of ,the year. But for the fact
that the days were born 24 hours apart,
all the 366 days of the year were twins
-a slight variation on Sundays of going
to hear the circuit rider preach at the
cross-roads. ' Husband and wife were so
thoroughly the same as to each day and
as to themselves that Sunday was only
like another sort of night's rest which
started them again, when it was over,
that much more thoroughly the same peo-
ple over again. I .
Beyond the matter of color, there was
not a cent's worth of difference between
the couple and Luke ard Suite; the
negro man and his wife whom . Mr.
. Wright had bought, as you buy a pair of
fowls, at the cross roads 'with 14 hundred
hard dollars, the hard savings of his wife
and himself, with this distinct object in
view, from the day they married and
took possession of their farm. I dare
say all four grew more and more alike
during all the years they labored and
lived together, the blacks contributing
almost as. much as the whites to the
common fun of sameness, no perceptible
1‘
difference in hohsing, dressing, food,
work or gen attl infer- ation. I doubt
whether a soul of the four cared a clod
of dirt for t-isi rustling of the growing
cone or the beautiful dawning upon them
of summer in the blooms of apple -tree
and peach -any more, in fact, than they
did for the breaking of day or the glori-
ous sunsets, to say nothing of the storms
which dashed their thunders into frag-
ments against the mountains to roll away
among the valleys. Like :Luke and Suke,
_ Mr. and Mrs. Wright were good Chris-
tian people, but dull to a degree that
sautes as inconsistent with piety as it is
with genius.; !
I
1 have no !doubt that all four went to
heaven wheri they ceased to live -to say
that they did anything so tragic as to die
seems out of keeping with lives so vegeta-
ble. And, with ut oat reverence be it
said, surely, the ot Let world must be
graded and adapted to us when we get
there as well as this. Could Mr. and
Mrs. Wright have he • seized upon in
the stagnation of 01er nd-like life and
pet down instantly r, Broadway, New
York, nothing but 4.N ilderment toa
pitch of agony could li v resulted; and
heaven itself would, e cannot but
think, be a world th very reverse of
heaven were such peo de, ceasing to live
here, to find themselve suddenly amidst
the magnitude and mu titude and music,
in the centre of the nrapturing gran-
deur and unceasing splendor of that eter-
nal state.
I had not the least dea of saying all
this, but dullness be ones sensational
• when it reaches such e -cess thereof as in
the case of the parent of Dr. Wright;
and I am sure, so far 8 the other world
is concerned, thet t e Creator who
adapts the rush of ligh from the sun to
the fragile eye can nd does adjust
heaven to each of us ho arrives there,
as He does earth to Mi who are born
therein.
The one solitary bi of romance dur-
ing all the life of thes people was their
one child, the William Wright of whom
I am trying to speak. But -and I make
haste to say it -there was no romance
whatever in this child, beyond the fact
that he waiita child. Those dull eyes
which never noticecl star any more
than they did a wild r se could not help
observing the babe. To say nothing of
the wonder of anything so new among
things which had been always as they
were forever, the babe awoke springs of
love in the bosoms of Luke and Suke, as
well as of the parentswhich surprised
them as much as if the rocks against
which their plows otrnek in the corn
field had suddenly gushed out with wa-
ter, or rather honey. I
But "Billy," as he grew up, took his
place in the round of the eternal same-
ness of the farm -a practical sameness
which saturated the boy through and
through. Yet there must have been an
anc stOr, * mebody possibly
the Revd tion o '76, who
thi g d what
tal d a ut, torn
so' t in. or other
' rk,
0:,14 kn • w,
will o ly
di " in is li
it 81 a dis
t1at
ce4ain planet, no
kn a kna
hi horfo, snpst be in a co
p c n th sk es a4 the causeof ce
eff e ise nnaccoun able, a
th e va� such a, planet. And • th
we e trai s ib thi eharac er of,
W, ight 9i ounta,b1 for onl upon,
hy es' of such .n ancest r. The
ter t, ve s sport neelus gi aeration
th a e 9, at loast the l soul pf the d
to ; a d I tun 180 re 1listic that I can
col e if a st e m with ut a fo
tai h ad th ngh it be ii measura
wa •
as nxioustp get don with th se
prdl minar es as the reader can be, or
s ient fic disc esi0 of N turalSel lc.
tio lis t; ae exclusively w th. the 1 t-
te d. ys f arn Wrigl t. Beca se
th1 f ct as ma heni pleat relation to
th fte -ho re, I am, pompelled to say
t1 V a a hild he was in no acnsse eitl er
be iiti ul ir intercsting His head,
m un d ith a shock of undisciplii ed
Int r, was so eWh t of the shape- s -
pe 1 y of th spec le col r -of a t ir-
ke iegg se on end be ween his vigor us
sh •
11
n or before
said somo-
his s genera ly
e. progedit�r who ,did
iu fact was some -
1 do not assert, because I
ut 1 am, convinced there
nie person out of the or -
ea ; but 1 'am convinced
ingushed surgeon. The
er
in
in
id
re
r.
he
1 -
in
c-
ot
10
le erg.
Yet, m rely as a %.‘pli 'Id, blow n,g
he ubl les u1pon the foaming pail
11. Kin ,ti e to gt a good dri k ;
i g ii to xis weay mother, at ter
r 8 vm, w.itlh a hand ul of dan e-
• ero vcliu g hi 8 If into the fat and
t arn 8 0 Sti e, restin upon ber
ub and de nding a story or it
. making sduK tionfor 1 eeks by the
1 ing f clip or )OW1; a rkening the
er
to i thrilled .er es Of the house-
unti they re, g espo sive to his
s f sin some burn, or fall, or cut,
kk frim the a,g d horse hat did not
et ta i ichildre -" runt ' of a child'
e was "Billy ' as at le st the near -
pr eh to a bit of oetry ever
o thc clr ary old farm. But
en 18 eing abl a te rciv, write and
end ca e. I
led by t e very 81 adow of the
nt, hots d before the terrible
r, an Mrs. N right died
,
war bet een the North and
eg n. 'he farm was left' in
Luke an his wife, and Wil-
htt•was wept o and away
jet's, life Toil the Confederate
plesely a d as naturally as any
before the storm The last
tats ni his will that be was
his life by the spirit of his
e-althoughe one would sup-
af er Waterloo, that uncle
e shnL frern guiding in the
f S da; and it Would seem
intent eestor whom I have
theo • e uidedi the youth.
ery outslt o the war. From
firstli ur he became associat-
e surgeon of an East Tennes-
nt, and t11 the end of the war
amidstE all theovernents of
il
nt, healv diiither and thither
illows of blood, now here, now
dive SLricai employment un-
. •
orkifor which ho was born,
ii
been cast
The out litu
nt .end t ste'and ever-growing
layi- in that direction, and in
1 I 1
thisl, gr e est of novices was
in. 1 le ning, - sharpening and
y or se the arsenal of im-
sed by be surgeon, as well as
andihol Luig the patients dur-
rations and 'in bandaging and
in afte ward.
izing with the cagerncss of
ssistan , and app eciating the
quickness with which, as 'by•
lilt
e seize utter' eve y new et,
eon -iii -chief uude whom he
the rapidchair es of war
im with all instruction by
pre, tical illustrat on, as well
eh ibook as life in camp al -
het, th
its if ki
co int e4
tei,s pest,
W en the
th outh
ch elia trof
ri
in p9 sol
BS he
ot ier eaf
N pol on
gu ded al
gr at unc
po e tha
w uld ha
di ention
as f the b
ve tured
fr the
al s ostth
ed -with t
se
re
hi
to
in
all
en
no
ha
Pi
in in
hi
in.
ea
811
wi
asi
loi
an
regi
• ed,
regim
the
rp,;
the' en
at
his tal
1 uSias
Other..
first
eyed
ng re
ents
acing
he op
Ming th
impa t
young
lerful
ition,
h sur
e in
plied
rd and
With s
'I nev
Harri
r saw h a fell w," Ferclin-
said to hirn one day. "When
th ire is n» battle qr e idernie on hand,
yo i are reading those alf-covered
bo s as if your •ife depe ded on it •
a, as 80 111 es there coma work to
'do you o into that as if you were
g g tit a wedding 1 am not like you
on. bit."
Whi 1 you are not," y ung Wright
re 1 ed, ith renergy. Y u are rich,
an 1 1 o 50 acros anong the rocks
tl e in ./ ast; Teri es ee, too poor nd
fu of bla ed trees to be worked._ I s Lp-
P0 You • wn a hundred bandit, and LI ke
an Suke there on the pace, if t ey
he n't run away, are old. Beaides, ou
ai air= --
Took he whole course at the I, ni-
ve ittr of Vi gini ," Ferdinatid La ris
in jeetec .
11Whil I never had ally show, living
at the ol place like a pill in a bo -
ra er iik a specinten in 'a jar," said his
fri d.
Enoq t that ti ere{ was no alch
d hi comph ion; who could
tri fully have seeded the same
hi elf.- he rfact s, Ferdinand Ha
lull been shot th ough, the lungs,
h been ached, p and u wearyin
ed b young Vright uutil it
ti to go back into the ranks -if he
b thong t so; bnt all the first fins
th war h 1 been long over with Fer
an
not t tat e objected a all to
" n" of
qBvt t
lained
o hours
lure w
noth
rching
or tit
ave a
•
good fight.
u bother of it is,
to
Wright,
"" tha
• egu1ar battle
ole months of rl
ng of tb
and., cou
mud.
ellow i
•
•
he had of
for one
one has
ket duty
ousands of Miles
termaehing in
orse than all i
h shoulder straps
Before the wa
d ng you abo
n't de. a p nt not
todi-die ic•aotuhretr.
ht to
til I a
• too,
elping
g nie
Yeilo.
k
0 the wr
he right
f quipi
teerdbearist,
ie al m°
wh a:
d. You smoke
11 the hOspital Arnie. I will
ed to report you to -morrow
uty." '
u won't, 'Doc. If there W98'
to t, I wouldn't wait to be re-
01 4r,I'm
guslu 8.81 °11
oht•opini
pi and
Help'
ght.
y under
al ys gi
m of
spil iiiful
J;
, a y
m Iniac -t
li e miad.
yo when
st
dr
be
re
swo
up
owe
for
o, y
a fig
t.
1
ot
of
ris
nd
ly
as
ad
of
in -
he
en
Or
to
to
of
he
is
or-
o (lb whatever I was
nd here, if I don't
rtialed.i No, Sir.
now about my own
perfectly well, in ny
prefer staying in os -
u."
ha vengeance 1" id
dead Asleep when
up with a patie t ;
oo
ea -
el
ng medicine, or
ne. It was a
e you gave Colo
had hiin a raving
ingint in his had
unified I he had hit
ed at you with that
1 the cigars,
ported, and you know it. But as it is
only to dodge up and down the river try-
ing to get a shot 'nt the gunboat. -'--and
at geed does it do When you hit , hem ?
I believe not. We like eachother too
ell, Doc." I ' '
" Atacid does alkali -because We are
xactly the opposite of each. other" re-
liedis companion, who wad very busy
leaning a set of surgical knives and pin-
rs and oasts at a table in the eritem-
orized hospital of the hour,. he instru-
• ents having a look of scientific
ruelty in their silver mounting and
azor-like steel, in comparison With ,which
evolvers and sabres were but toy..
"Yes, certainly,: I am; for instance,
ery good lo9king," Ferdinend Harris
muted, taki g an easier position in his
tunniock, sw hg:upon one side of the
int, and stro ing his mustache. "My
wound, you s e, makes me pile and in-
teresting. while you pre-'
- "Ugly," his companion said, proruptly.
Were it notlathentific paper Which I am
preparing, ill s fact would have been
crirefully ktp Mit of these pages. I
1
know it will strike 'every lady reader
like a blow,' but I cannot help if, even if
the blow killed whom it hits. - '
i William Wright was ugly. Perhaps
the gifted progenitor, whose talent had
alighted upon WM as by a Oleg leap
over the heads, literally, of _ generations
intervening, was beautiful; but the vola-
tile intellect irtil left all loveliness of
form among the dust of the dead in de-
scending to him. : Not for nothing had
his father toiled Winter and slimmer on
his sterile farm, bowed of back, bronzed
of brow, hardened of hand, 'wh tened
doWn to the very roots of his hair 1y the
premature age of hard work. 1 Mrs.
Wright could never have been 'a !reality
even in the eyes of her bridegroom, and
Working at the loom, sewing at the cloth-
ing, hardening her face and hinds over
the cooking and the washing,had left
her during all the years her Pon 'knew
her a .small, thin," red -eyed, furrowed -
faced old lady, °somewhat leathery, if the
phrase may be allowed. With such par-
ents, it was impossible for the son to
be other than homely, and very homely
indeed. I ,
"1 lived among those rough moun-
tains," De. Wright used often to say af-
terward, "stumbling, until I was :near-
ly 20 years Of old, over the boulders: in
field -and pasture, until I grew to be as
rough and rocky as all my surroundings
were. Luke and Seim, with me all the
time,. Were, I do know, the very blackest
as well_as homeliest of colored folks; 1
am bled( from long association with
them." For he was so decidedly ugly
that he had got used to it as one does to
a birth -mark upon the face, a terrible
scar from forehead to chin, or even, I dare
say, to an artificial nose.
You are hairy and black and rough
as anybody I ever saw in my life. Doc,'
Ferdinand Harris remarked on the occa-
sion in question; "but this military life
has made a man of you, not only in your
surgieal knowledge, although ' you have
had ten times the chance at that in camp
you would have had during years in
Paris under the best teachers. Your
practice may not have been lucrative,
but it - certainly is ' as extensive arid
varied as you could wish. What I 1110911
is, the drill has made you straight as an
Indian, and the pressure upon yon has
made you 'quick, decided, self-reliant,
energetic, beyond any fellow I , ever
knew. ! I like you, Doc, and :about the
only thing I regret in you is that you are
so very, vert-" 1
And the invalided soldier lighted an-
other Cigar from the breast pocket of his
friend's coat; hanging near him from the
tent pole, and, took an easier position in
his hammock.
no
very, what ?" the other replied,
pushing- back his exceedingly tangled
mass (if jet-black hair from his !ample
fcrehead, p8,118111g, saw in one hand and
chamois -skin in the other.
1'WT1I1 you pardon me ?" said. his com-
panion, in the softest of -modula ions,con-
trasted with the rasping of his f "end's
harsh voice. "But you are Oars
so exceedingly coarse ! I wohldn t tell
you, but know you do not care Be-
sides, 1 like you. And then what does
it matter, when everybody says you are
gding to make ithe most splendid sur-
geon in the world ? But, the hand-
some young soldier added after a
pause, I ',wonder what Bell would
think ? ' ,
"13e11?. Colonel Bell? VIiit do you
think 1 care?" • •
" Pshaw' ! it is another ell than
aughed Ferdinand Harris. "Did
tell' you about my sister. Doc?
that,"
I neve
You are the only man in thie camp I
would hame her to, and 1 didn't 'intend
to,do it to you. I was thinking of how
you loolked the day I was shot. It re-
minded me of hog -killing time at home
i'enthcicy. You know what fun
the boys Shooting the hogs down
mornings, sousing them in a tilt -
hogshead of water boiling from
in old
it is to
of cold
ed -up
red-hot rocks thrown in, scraping them,
hanging them up by the heels from a
pole between two trees: I :hover ate
anything in my life as goodis the tails
we aged to split. and -salt, and roast On
the coals by the big firm ;And then
the bladd-ers ! We never have any fun
like that afterward. But I was talking
of the day of the battle. You km)* how
you stood there by the stable door laid
over two mess barrels, exactly is they
did at: hog -time, except that they were
living men placecl there, bleeding, groam
ing, dying. i believe you Vole actual
pleasure in it, with the other doctors
that. day, ripping up pante, or sleeves, or
coats; probing, sawing off legaland arms.
You corded thoee arms and legs, Doc, as
fast as • you cut them off, ljust as our
hands used to do logs of woo1. Ah yah I
if Bell could but have seen you , You
hadn't slept or washed for days, standt
mg there, bloody from heaJ1 to foot
reeking with gore, the most horrible
cannibals I ever saw --more like devil
incarnate."
I don't think you were 89 very, love
ly just then, shot through, expeetmg t�
die, leaving charges" I I
"13y -the -by, and I'll be shot I" ex,
claimed the other, rousing up. "It
ii-
a shame, butJ never thought of it from
that Moment to this. What did you de
with that photograph ?" '
AMong my "traps somewhere," said
the other, indiffeently. "But what was
it.you were going to say ?"
"Hand it to me, old fellow, whenever
you can think of it, I'm so forgetful,
The d fference between us,", continued
Harris was that I hated it; while you
aetuall loved it."
"What do you mean ?" asked the °till
er, his swarthy face almost ashen with
astonishment in contrast with his black
and disordered hair.
Mean ? 'What am I talking about ?'
replied l his companion, with the irritabil
ity of in invalid. "No man not a mon-
•
---)
0 icould stand it; but there y u stood,
happy as you were t irty, all full of
e thusiamn, hacking an liewitig atn011g
t ose poor 'fellhurs„ keg hag anl talkhig
if it -was fuii alivle, f I -did 't know
u never driwk,./ wo ild II* at. twhZ
u were half tight. I, was hein
w ic. I can just imagine it,1'
rrible trait Of it; yotti• enjoyingthe in -
such
tr
✓ lid continued, after a long pause--
4 0Bell coming in upon you the
b lieve it would, have killed ir. r.
a ellow a gigue of port, Doc."
And the young 8oldie sett1eL himself
b k after hip wineand ook a good nap,
ti e tent being pitched ',tong it grove of
st oaks off to itself fr in can* all the
en except the guard. aving tgone be -
f re day upon a raid i orthwalra. The
y uung surgeon cleaned steadily away at
h s instruments for some morttents, but
s eing how soundly his cornpanion slept,
h unlooked a camp chest, tdok out a
edical book, and sat dawn Upon the
ound, his back again t the I chest, to
✓ id. One would have upposer1 that he
h condensed the wh le vol rne into
emoranda upon a card, whichlals° serv-
e as a marker in his 1. ok, so intently
d d he gaze upon it.
At last he arose, an , card in hand,
800(1 looking from it to the sle per. An
a e aziug contrast between the two men,
f • r you could hardly hope to find a band- '
s • mer youth t an the 01 30 sleep ng in the
h rainock, no a homdi r one :than the
o her, gazing somewhat sul1•3hly upon
h m. The on . was fair-haired) with de-
li': te features slight mustache
p rpose in his face than in th petals of
no more
a flower t • the ther tall, defiantly erect,
ith dark, ai gular face, abuntlant hair
a d beard, eycs strong, clear aid direct,
t e eyes au bearing and man er of the
e an in keeping with hi + way if speech
a d actien, which wa prompt and de -
c ded enougl • ,
L
"Queer, but I dre ined pelt was
0 ending overe "Ferdinand ghid, ;wen-
t g his eyes 0 denly. " What's o'olock,
' " Twelve, 1
ring which the surgeon had
t e book and the bc
c tercd upon the m
a t in a complicate
cf his owe'he
ccd • at thee pie
of when 370fl
dy was not ve
he seemet to be
As
! 1 do
Give
1 II
11
, •
And after a 1oig silence,
replaced
ok in the
ending of
surgical
added at
ure, you
gave it
strong,
very gen-
laughed
muscle,
'hing but
•
8
11
a
5
8
8
e
t
ti
0
a
a
0
e card in th
est, and ce
broken rive
nirivance lo
st, "1 gla.
ere speakrn
me. The
as she? but
"Sensible
e other. '
• sinew in
ryes. Sh
lpless bab
old aunt
hool, and
e only chi
th of us
e negroes as
r. AA she
ces and. m
nse general
e is a splen
oking, or sh
• added, st
e pets do
the most
et. Ther
e brother
You see,
urch at al
tend chur
16 -was a go
with Bell
n do nothi
id. I tel
int, too nukc
c
up sort ot
know her
ere,' the
e back age
wine, Do
ankees ag
ape vine
aded neg
atom. $h
e question
oc, before
n."
"Ask aw
t looking
ntinued :
i
" Yon're
at don't
d drink,
id the like
by ?"
"`I told o
id, soinewl
ar broke o
rut among
6 cross-ro
O never ea
g in the b
lieve ther
that far
y or a car
e old. to t
spise it.
•ake, and.
"You ta
llows tak
ded for hi
u must ha
? Not a bi of it,
Bell hasn't a bon
r whole body -no
lever was anythi g but a
She is o in France' with
ours, or in Genially, at
uch she'll learn., We are
en. Our parent:Slave dead.
0
8
re petted by the
long back as I ca
ares about is p
y, flower and
onFihine rd -
id music an, an
couldn't be m
king his fnustae
nd cats and ea
minateWoman
another t ing ab
a ded, afterquite
ur father lever ntered a
, o that our mod4r had to
enough for both of them.
o Christian,you bet! And
I'm a hard ease and she
with m ; but she tries
her she i too r uch of a
li of a good thing. A mix -
lady, isnt she? One has
understand her. Listen I
t amp of hoofs. 'rhe boys
ii • and I'll bet yo a bottle
• e've beer trick d by the
It's th� old st ry of the
egrapb, and the e thick -
o 0 sheet hemp ar the op -
if thy ain't! B Lt there's
I would lie to k you,
h
fellows corne ine gaps-
," the ot er re lied, but
assual f and 1 is friend
b ut the only ma in camp
etnae and swear gamble
fpol with the ye ow girls
What I want t know is,
and by
remem-
etry and
ell, non.
the like.
is good -
sister,"
e, "and.
ary-birds
you ever
ut Bell,"
a pause.
I I
1
•
0,
"It does e, loo
pon it," th; lied, "
hole life t ere was more tha
Ing, and it was heave , I
a out such things, Fr d, to
b t every ernin and venin
1 r as the cl e -Luke and Suke
i , and my atherLread a charer from
t e Bible n co rse ith prayer,
:I was ex- ttly t e sa e prayer, and I
now it by eart. So with t e Bible.
t • e other
"It's a • ght+lid undat on Doc,"
• °rail ed ; " deep and dull
hat's all.
• d hard; but yon can afford build a
1.4 od deal o it, and to wild pretty high.
tut we wereraised different, Bell and. I,
e• cept that Bell goes in for religion ; we
of thatsort, and ou m st excuse
s. What row those fellow are mak-
g ! just 1 s en to th ir curing. As
• re as you live, it is he ne oes who
,•
etrayed us
" You ca came in e e " Dr. Wright
s •d, at this ncture, a party of offi-
.
O rs about aging in, hiefly in hopes of
c rtain res atives fr in the medicine
c est of th rgeon. is ow parents
ould not h e known im a he filled
t e 1door of he nt, erect, pe emptory,
'nal', the ve sou of decision and com-
and pe n and voice. No an,could
ave so de loped. in three years had
ot the ea been in fact but the eon -
t nuance of e hard life of the farm go- -
g before.
" Oli, D ' ‘11 Wh , 'Dec," " Now
oc," "Co Doe," "Yon know your
o va uncle, c," was t e cho outside,
• ut not a m even tried to enter. You
w at a gla cc that the fear in which
e surgeon Was held was equa ed by his
Ipularity, or the hearty affection for
on the art of Ferdinand arris was
t the feel g of every man lin camp,
• m the co nel commanding clown. In
a sneaking ort of 'way the lettest bum -
/I
$AN SMW 21 i87
mer was only too glad
"Doc" the degraded turkeyor d reput-
able pig which ,.came somehow to the
possession of the humme , and much
without possibility of e pl atie there-
for as if the turkey and wet nnate
ideaa generated in the dept of is, the
bununerls, inner cOnficionsn
"Thank you, Doc; and tiler '8 one
more thing I will tell 'you, for eeping
those greedy fellows mit," said the tans
quid invalid-invalidedias Much by his
life-long dandyism as by the shot through
his lungs. "I'm a fool o o it, tina it's
part of my illness. w s speaking about
my sister Bell. It's no secret, even in
the army ; but she's to e Married, when
the war is over, to Ge Mal —,; and
the brother named one of the most dis-
tinguished of the Confederate leaders -
quite proud of it, too.
" What ? She is ?" hiS companion
exclaimed, and with itteh roughness that
the other could not help replying.;
"You cut with your' tones as you do
with your saws Doi e so :coarse,
Doe ; be a little more e Itu, ed. lCocertre
is the word."
1
(CONCLUDF,D NE. _FMK.
TWO QUESTIONS EAS)Lv RED. ---
Why should men wear beards? '
al appearance. Why, should person.
nt they are a great protection to tb throat
and lungs and add much to their
"Bryan's Pulmonic WI fers ?" Because
when used. for coughs, !ds, tickling in
the throat, hoarseness, c, they they act like
a charm. Ministers nd law ers use
them, physicians reeom end in, and
singers and publie, spea erri say hey are
the very best medicine in nee for
the cure of all such co Plaints.
Sold by all druggists and nutty deal-
ers. Price 25 cents per box.
Atli: with
I
NOT QUITE SO.-" it i am g the
most savage and debasedtr bes only that
,je
the condition and cornfort of t ' horse
have been neglected,"but w belie ,e there
are many in civilized corm ries :wlio are
are guilty of the same negl t ar a with-
out the excuse of the form r ; 1 here all
may avail themselves of the use of an ar-
ticle which has done more than a ything
else heretofore known to improve e con-
dition and relieve the surferin# of the
horse. Those who will inot use I will be
avoid both use "Darley'a C nditi n Pow-
dersthe losers, their horses the suffer s ; to
and Arabian Heave item ,," and
you will be satisfied with th result.
Remeniber the , name, and see that
the signature of Hurd & Co. is on each
package. Northrop & Lyman Toronto,
Ont., proprietors for Canada. 'so a by all
medicine dealers.
LEGAL
a•al
tr T. GABROW, Banter, Attorney, Solicitor,
u &c. Office in McLean's new blo k, corner
Market Square and Waterloo street, Goderich. 417
rt,AMERON & MeFADDEN, j Barris ere and
Solicitors in Chancery, Gode 'eh. 848
L 0. Opt -EROS:. W. •. X MIX.
WILLIAM SMALL, Cenveyan er an
v'T sioner in B. R., Wroxeter. Audi
Appraiser. Accounte and notes co
reasonable terms.
!Commis -
neer and
'Wed on
866
hotter in
rth. Of -
and
854
IDS L. DOYLE, Barrister, ttorney, S
Clumcmy, &c., Godeiie and Seal
fice, over Jordan's Drag tore? God
ICidd's Store; Seaforth.
QUIER & McCOLL, Banisteut, Aft •iaeys-at-
L7 Law, Solicitors in Chancery. Neter ds
&e., Goderich and 13russels. Sq • rt, God -
or Joh; A . a. MeConn, Brussels, 415
VT" A1COMSON lic WATSON, anis is, Atter-
4v-a- neys, Solicitors in Chancery, &C. i Clinton,
Ont. Office -First door casit o the '• w Royal
Canadian Bank building. one3 to loa on farm
property.
s. MALCOXSON. 404 o. .t.
MoCAUGHE17 & HOLMESTEip, Ban titers, At
torneys at Law, Solicitors n Chit ! ery and
Insolvency, Notaries Public an Cep 4anecre,
Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Seat Ali. exits fot
the Canada Life Assurance Company, .
N. B.--$130,000 to lend at 8 per pen .1 Farm!,
House* and Lots for sale. • 58
-----r-
TItENSON & MEYER, Banisters and ttorneys
"" ' at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and I solvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Public, e en 0 es--Sea-
forth and Wroxeter. $28,000 of rivate ands to
Invest at once, at Eight per ce t. ntere , payable
yearly. f 58
JAS. 11. BENSON. 11. W. C. IltEYXli.
MEDICAL
_Tees t etli.pSrCeOsbTyTte,oMs.riDc.h&ner.e,hP.hysiciant SP goonand
dence south side of Goderieh Street, 'rt door
u •
Accoucheur, seaserni, Ont. Oftle and red-
,
1
, ,
. I
taw L. VERCOE, M. D., ci,. M. Phys elan, Sur -
1"2" • geon,. eta., Coroner forthe County etHeren.
Office and Residence, corner of Market and High
streets, next to the Planing Mill. ' r
T R. PHELAN, 31. D., C. U., late 0 the firm
. u • of Shaver & Phelan, Stratford) 0 aduatelof
McGill University, Physician, Fitirgeo and 4o-
coneheu r, Seaforth, Ontario. Office-- ozne in
Meyerni Block, formerly occupied by th late Dr,
King. Residenee--Commer al Hotel. Will at-
tend at Canonbrook on Tue dart and!? ida, ye. 898
i pone of Ontario. Late Ho
, ton General and Lying-in Hos
n H. Dowstry, M. ., II Rita; JO, . 01 Kings. Kiii•uggs.r.
-1-/ • Member of College of Phybician and Sur.
S goo
hysicien,
1 Surgeon and Accoucheur. Me --Alb rt Street,
opposite Fair's Steam Mill , n. gem S--iitOon
Street, opposite Cotamercia liotel„ Cli ton, Ont.
Professional calls punctual)), attended to hot in
town and country. 1 6
before, an," he other
t s vagely. " lJntil the
I li. ed on our ittle old
LO mountains. Except at
once or twice month,
of
nyliody. It w like liv-
re of -a well; b t I don't
as such a thing s an oath
uch less a bottl of whim-
smee God. made it. -I am
to ,auch ionsen e flow; I
sides, I'v my fortune to
to AS soine
to he other
, 11 dog's life
e had d, wasn't
Pt se ing back
loth as if my
AU hour
on't talk
nybody ;
as regu-
your
drink
.But
of it
in to
r rep
urger
ng, '
hat a
-stup
•
li
8
I t
1
T or. BULL, L. . SI, iSargoim,
u • Dentist,&c.,Seafort ,Ontario
Plate work, latent tall in neatly
executed. All surgical perstions
performed with care'and prompti tu de. ties as low
as eau be obtained elsewheee. 0,ffice
.
8 A. M. to 5 P. 31.. BOOnli!‘ over Mr. . Ets.friro-
. .
Bengali's Store, Main-st. i 270
D• ate of Ontario Veterinary College eaforte,
-- -1- - -__ .___,_......_
MeNAUGHT,I Veterinary urge0 0 i adri-
Ont. ' Office and Residence ' in rear of Lilloratt &
Ryan's. Calls prom1.t13 attended 10 night 1 or
day. A stock of li terinary mtdieineit pn hand.
Charges reasonable. Horses examined Oslo Sound-
ness and certificate given if reqUired.' 407
i I _1
'
A K. CAMPBEr L, V. fg.„Lic ntiateand Priize-
-4.-1-• man of Cornell University, theca N.Y.,elnd
G(lradnate of Onta o Veterinary College,ITorouto ,
has wattled permanently in Varna, wher he w"ilbe
found ready and willing to attendto allkinds,iof
diseases, in all kinds of ardinale manexcepted)
in an kinds of weather, and at 11 he ts. Itesi.
,
deuce and office two doors east or Cook's Tr -
peruke° Hall.
19
MI PI L LA NE 011114.
-LA-
Jeweler, Customfars wi ; find itto
A LEX. CAMERON, Practical Watc aker aind
Mitche
their interest to deal with rae as the Will have
the benefit of my leng Practical expert ace in the
trade.
408
INLTOTICE.--The County Council of uron will
-1.1 meet in the Court Berm, in the TO of God-
erieln on TUESDAY, the 25th di Jan.ay, inst
PETER ADA3ISON, County Clerk. oderich,
Jan. 10, ine. 428-2
00MM:ERCIAL LIVERY, Settforth, • • t. T. A.
v.' SHARP, Proprietor. Co Sortable ad elegant
carriages, and first-class r liable hor s always
ready. Charges moderate. Offl e and tab1es on
Huron street, second door east of Men street.
Orders left at any of the hotels rompt y attend-
ed to.
899
"VICTORIA HOTEL, WALT04.-70 Winter,
Proprietor. This hotel is Altus on the
Gravel Road, 10 miles north of Seafort and pos-
sesses every accommodation and /comic, for trav-
elers. The best brands of liquorand, gars kept
in the b,ar; and a careful and attentive • ogler in
attendance. Good stabling in Oonne t on with
the hate]. 850
LAN
N TO :CONTRA ORS.
CEMENT.
• i-•='
ALED TENDEJIS addressed
w .eiill begnaeaced,-,vndadoarsedt titi4:T,0.-eneerideriofrorth ardargenitatt
of' this 'Canal, consisting of the :widening and
tide4erpsenit.nagaSroonAatter? adipwetaarnacactotibothVan Liteeivitersot,,.
to
Lawrence, .14.Litelaine ; embrocing t e constreetion
fof new Leek at COteSt,Pettl, taking down and
„to,
VO tuiding .the upper portions of t . preeentlotk
.81 'that plate, .construetien Of r bating webs,
ca vorts, bridge piers, and it 120W ;0 tram leek at
Iii
bine, antee formation of d .chennel mul
basin on tbe south iv river side of t existiagarn
trance. 'The •wor wilt be let in . Monis of the
reSpeetive lengths indicated on a • p Of the line,
wbich, together wi In la ' d-. ' . Ifieations of,
t various !world!, en be .seert at 1.in .Dillee, and
at the Lachine Zonal 011iee, 'Mont eat; at either
of. which places printed. forms .of . ender can be
obtlned. Tenders for lice,tionl,to 9, or what ie
es ed the '"Rock Cut," and Beet 011 NO. 11.1, at
Lacbtie, rn will be r ived -until tee arrival of •the
fl
E steon . Wein -In Titans on driesday, the
12th.day of Xenia next, plans an vecinetitions
fo ,which c n be a n atthe places: bovementien.
ea .o17 unattant! stoer.roWt rupesarlattay.ottheth51: odrIcaya,otaf .Tuandliirs-
w be •receiveil n til Tuesday, the 21ist day -of
March next, and i r *Well plans end epecificsn.
tions OSA be 110011. -t the respective places 111:10V0
10 riti011etil Oil aut after Tuesdays tihe 7th day et
March. COUtrile 'YR are requested to bear in
mind that Tenders will not be ,e0 idered prates
mades.strie ly in faccordance vi the minted
i.
th M
form, and , in OO of ALIAS exeept there
•arn attaeheMelt ata :signatures- the nature of
the occupation and place el nee dence of each
inerriber of thosarle ; rind further, an accepted
bank cheque, Or other *Venable nednnitY, for the
:sem ot fro 000 fto Vitae Thoneand Donato, ac-
cording to, e ,eic t of work on ftla - seetion,must
a mpany oach Tender, which:fill be forfene-d
if he party tend g ,.dietline8 -Ur Ittil8 tO -entOr
in centred fortha works when cafled -upon to a()
SO, at the rates st d In the Offer sabmitted, The
anaonnt req Ind ineach ease will be stated ornate
fontn of tetider. The -cheque or r13 ney thug sent
In , will be r turned !to the respective -parties who
Tenders are not acCCjted. For the ne fulfilment
of ;the contr el, satiShantory neeiwity will be re-
quired on rod estate or by deposit of inonory, pub-
lic or municipal .seettrities, or bnnk gook to the
amount of Ave per tent. on the balk gnu of the
tract, of iy/ ch . he sum sent in witli. the ten-
d will be onside ed It pert, III ety per cent,
only of the rogressestimates will I be paid until
the coraple ion of the _works- To each Tender
i
mast be at ached the, raetual Si tures ef two
'responsible nd _so vent persono, r ideas of the
Dominion, willin to become Is eties for the
carrying on of 'th lie conditions, as well as the
due patio ince o trorks embrace 1 in the con.
truct. 'Di dela merit deo; not, however, bind
itself to se ept the 10W0St Or any tender. By
Order, ! .
i . F. 1111A.U. , Secretary.
Departmeirpf Public Worlon 1 .
Ottawa Dec. :_. ,,,,t- 'il . c
the under -
thine Canal "
I a4UOTION SALE
Of 0 Vdlvabie Farm in. the Tow-
-
, ' Bitil of Sta
.17,1ey
-
, • I ,
PtIRSITAtT to en order of dale, da
atthe 18th
!,.. Day of Dece bet A. D. 1875, made by the
r
l
Janier In e of t e County Court of the County
en, Huron, in th matter of partition between
Jnnses cagey Dunes's', P initiff, again
William Duncan and othe s, Defender'
there will he sold y publie Audio , y-GEORG
lit TRUEMAN. Auctioneer, at Mon oafs NI
Id, ht the Village of Iirtyffic d, on Sat.
terdsty, the 23,th Day Oflarch, Al....
1476, at 12 o'clock noon, the fol owing valuable
farm property nanaely : Lot num er 11,, soutkOf
the J3ayftel4 Read conceision, in the Township pi
Stanley, in . he County of Huron containing $A
Aeree of Land, more or less. Thie: oil is the beet
t
clay loam. Abort 70 acres are -cleared, will
fenced-, and in a "gh state of itivation, the
balance is well wooded with the b st hardwoods.
There is upf n the land a large brick house, wi
t
brick kitchen and ,titbroldings, large frame b
cornmeal° s shed- , Atables, outhe sernand exe
1 t orchard, coneisting partly o betning trees
and partly of young -trees lately planted. The
I na is on he gra el road leading from Bayfield
to Sealarth, is ab ut 81 miles fro Bayteld, and
chaser to b let Ito immediate possession.
yia
5 Miles from Bruc field, and Is in all reit ts
Most desirable an • valuable prop rty. e 1.iUe
is indisputeble an free from MI hicurabrances
TEI13/8-10 per c nt, on day a sa e to the Ten -
oilier rasp to, the -conditions of sale will be -the
der or his olicito , -balance to ma one.third -pf
pri:schase money 1 one month, ! emaining twO-
thinle, at o tion o purchaser, to r -U 011 aunt -
gage on the,lands earing 7 per ce t.intereat,
pnyable inwoequ 1 manual instal mats, the p
standing condi ti • . e of stile of theiConn of Chan-
cdiy, 'For Ifnrthe ! pat,tieulars ap ly to Mean*.
DAVISON ez Jo NSTON„ or 3.2'. GAI1ROW,
SOlicitor3
a, Goderi •h, or to the lahatiff on the
lands. Da ed Go erich, Decenabm 20, 1875,
ISAAC P. TOMS,
Jun or Judge Conn :Coart,linron.,
I T. GARIIOW, Vendors' Solicit° 429
1 HA .0ERY 8 -LE -
Of Beni Elitist , Shunted in the TOwn•
whip ilf If y,,, Vounty ef Huron. -
,
, y of Nov tuber, . D. 1875, there will be sold by
-! URSIJA 'T to f he Decree made in the comae
- of Ca y vs. •urry, fina bearing dote the 15th
d
Public Auction, *ith the approb tion of Henry
MacDermott, Bog ire, Master of this Combat
Gbderich, Mi TU SDA.Y, the EIGHTH day of
FEBRUARY, A. i. 1870, at 12 olelock noon, by
the said Master, t MeGREGOW HOTEL for-
merly Rattenbury' , in the Vil1e. e of BE , CE-
F/ELD, Inoue lo , the following valuable fann
property, viz.: Lo NO.26, In the 1t1I Concession
of the Township •f Hay, in the Co inty of Huron,
containing One : undred Acres. Fifty acne AM
cieared and nude cultivation an fenced.' Tke
remainder isa good hardwood bus . The seill *
geed clay; on It -are it frame hens one story high _
and sixteen feet by twenty-two, a eg barn Alai*
log stable. The land is eituate wi Inn four rat*
of the Village of Z rich, and withi 1 four nallOi Of
tlie London Gravel Road, and is convenient to
climb and sehool beta°. -The-tin to the lnall
he purchaser Must pay 'down
a deposit of 10 er cent, of his
I>
the:Vendere or beir$01kitOrill
thin 0110 month into Court to
a cause, without interest; n
balance he will e entitled to -it
t up at an upee prle,e of $4900, .
-possession of . hieeve.ryln.an. yurtil,squTiillne
e the stending
hs
a:sr
: larY: :aft: ti:Te 1 leo „dbaa 1 itz ill' te i 2:
Is indhiputable.
at the time of sal
purchase nioneyt
and the balance W
the eredit of thi
payment of which
c011Veyillietr and- to
property will be p
T e other eondlticns of the sale a
conditions ' of may b learneth Court ol Cho
1
particulars d in the
offices of J. T. G ITOW, Eton:tire
Ei3qtdre, and Messrs, Cameron &
dors' Solicitors, and of -the said
theliOth day of December A. D. 1
H. MaeDE
' 14
CAMERON dr AleFADBEN, '
Vend ts' Solicitors.
'.."'D I SSO Lull:
N OF- PARTNERSHIP.
:
TIM Ponerabi heretofore sub
the undersigned, Under theflrn
LIA31S d:, , bee been disse
consent. The iru ineSs will herea
o n by 3. RI Will' ma. All debts
the late tirni will be liquidated by
and all deb ts duel the late firm
ed by Idea. T. R.
isting betw
name of
ved by ran
ter be 'carried
connected by
. R. Williana,
11 becollect-
ILLIAMS,
F.
E CLUF
N eonn tion w th the above tJe undersigned
desires o state to his numeron customer:mad
II
friiends.than be in . nds to eontinn thernanufsg-
tme of 'het -class umps and nist rue as beret*.
Mire, at the old at d. Hahne! no stela fivellities
ait -will enable him to turn out a b tterarticle for
less money thane y other estabhshntent of the
kind in thie se.er n. -
i To those indeb d to him how° Id saythat an
immediate settle en t is desired, as be is n
ly in need of money. '
Seaforth Pomp F ctory. I
Remember the c,}irl established and well-knovitt
4/5 S. B. WILLIAMS.
THE LONDO HURON D BRUCE1 Ax HAS COME.
i
[01..:All THE TRACK.
,
THE undersigned, in thanking the public for
the vary liberal support accorded him in the
past, now takes tho pleasure of iuforming them
that he has rcntcci the lihop form 3y occupied by
Mr. John cooper, and that he has - eenred the stn. -
vices of a first. -class Blacksmith in the person et
Mr. THOMAS MELLIS, late of S &forth, who is
well :known- in this section as it !steady and an-
cOramodating man and:first-doss .orse-shoer, -one
a the reqaisites, idem freind in our blacksilith
shops. He is new prepaicd to fill.aul orders which
-
he maybe favored with. He has now on band
and is stUlanufactun1ng Sleighs and :Caters,
which for mute 1, style and priCe defy con3PB-
talon:, as not • .butthe very heat of nutterlin is
Wad. All'thoie • want of any of Ithe above will
de well to give a eall before •.rehaeing .e.l*n
where An work arranted, .Jobbingdonewith
neatness and kiln , . •
4113 : WM. EDGAR, Kipp=
J4•
ART
o wtt forftilpir is n'ugo t•Cial:w
tiiiie loll
angint at his own joll
-4---weAhmoT)wraoae".EleytdAibtfor,
--What a compli
, cation of Scotian
one says is the true
4.81E him to rope
Ps: slmeoP -tsma,
if he
u,
-A. young Wart SU
itary gout" Bald he A
,.hs::ilaaticoilt,m4:17,"saluu
id,1
lixarmliftehoilsaparneeerltera bet
: -An undertaker,
nhiwilgonillePuiLha-e sta
coffin, I
was f31. replied, "1
two
in4the ath
tehll neeaxIa.70; one a;
in
meelAinng jan is oP 111 Itilie:' w ila
l. - . .
110, "1 say iny AI
yon goillg toput yot
, service V' -"Not until
'out the civil list,'', wa
.---A 'foolish , old bav
men keep elear of 4-.1
de anything great
inititution. A pair,
waist, and the Liman
'wille,ta:hath
muehe ate.en
.
rnars,
-,---That Was A Are
.void of sense tither,
other girls were mak
'skirts, nna affected i
:at the exhibition the
‘ilialralleeirshelyWPuirletb-upd
be as short as mit
!, tri_UtietaitonnyI more..
mI
hat 1 dote on * qn
old bachelor. ‘
m
l
:adkniringly Chorus
the roo" Not a
,bachelot, " because,
'brat begins to 14u
ifrom the room !"
sooner delivered hi
took himself fro
' IlL(*.--eaAdtbSyccolnatatepahter,:nlew:g5lh '
lone day said to Mr
'blessed with it f
,?:,Y.,;:itoh7Hfaaeoxratoni latsha"ont: Sb
;tile startled elergyln
'Islietlier his son liv
wise man ; but bait
'sure that our sons
: :
Troubles of Et,
Pil
• The Troy Pros t<
of the vexatious
:41)ettufes:
la ,T,e&ettotrg%'•Mvii.,,,!
Monroe County, and
lone just before Chrh
started on a i
reaciihrYedwrarattil:giar
e
'groom found it nem;
just opposite the dc
blooming bride in,ti
'be back in a minuts
looking through the
train started off
de continued her
e groom went dm]
like a Inadanan to g.
:that train and brnam
:lhially burst into to
lon the street. Cox
volunteered to tO Asa'
itnauble. A dispatl
RthatsheenlYfwrtallsgo
e. brtitei
tome back after be
train and the doa
When the former
bridegroom boa
away northwa.
-drew up to t
rd the wife,
riled" and Mr. €4.'
ith a neNt!Inide o
sworn; Mor
enivinol°ritir attheed.
ainsi
'band took the next*
he was, Half way 1
l'prt Henry the tra,i
ot it aiding, the oth,
this particular - poi
wife passed 'unbekz
When the groom
gun& his wife had
reached on the last
"rwhen she reached Ji
an puler was sent
.t:u_rily requiring tbi
she was till the Ir
By observing this
isether at last, anal
iucliitiing Officer
Sociability4
For golf is an -eniz
and it Could never.
Jar 98 11. is, had no
i eminently sociable 1
i
is the fashion ama
l'tlisiettilyrisePserligolltdtobesmimfet-nt41iiq
li
p en in net preeipit
1 t e arms of -silky I
; they consent to beS
their acquaintance;
. rattle, with a goot
hospf4rtniitliatbYleasA
* Butabli
!dime to their gat
i recommendation. 1.
i lige hotels and elle
1 introduction passed
house over the
the land. His wor
in
whatly entertainers.ltearingoppressive-hlnslifmA7
i the Scotch have tai
cee
0,4vi
s, c'te.. illth2snai:tylony
comalptaetnywasat wriToutinigi,
'part, they _dm
own liospita
tappit hens at Lail
a le Change house.
Istories of Scottish 1
' tsrawhire Iairas,.zeN
edto
.m
they were doing -ea
oi their thoiceet bin
stable's Memiors,
"M, T. Hunter's bawl
-the same convivial
excessively wet wet nig
.and eisewhem Pe
with ethisoetheFrench la
ilaedueatiaii
try,as it supplied tA