The Huron Expositor, 1876-11-17, Page 2ilk
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
NOVEMBER 17 1E7 6.
THE FOUNDLING.
, otiettrah a
Most people in England, if they have
not seen, have heard of -the fens of Lin-
toliishire—a flat, low-lying district of
clamp farms and marshy pastures, always
requiring drains to be made or looked
after, alaounding in ponds and pools, and
intersected by deep peat mosses and
reedy swamps,,where the heron and wild
duck build in stinuner-time, and the
rivers come down from the wolds in
mighty flood.when stvollen by the
winter rains. It is a dreary time in the
fen country when, as people there say,
"the waters are out" over moor and
meadow, a shallowsea, extending itt
some places as far as the eye can reach,
and tilling the air with a dull, gray fog,
which makes the _November day -still
shorter and more gloomy.
But the fens have brighter times and
fairer sights than these. Their damp
lerms are fertile to a proverb ; the labor
ad care of continual draining are repaid
1,
' b glorieus harvests, and no , part _of
England sends more wheat to ' market.
Cattle graze and geese feed by thonsands
on their green pastures. The morasses
and the swamps yield reeds th thatch
poor cottage roofs and peat -fuel to keep
the hearths warm. They. are gay with
wild wa,ter-plants that bloom in bright
succession all the summer, and alive with
marsh and water -birds that make their
homes among them. The rivers that floocl
the country in wet winters run clear and
cool between their green banks in the
sultry season, full of fish, and -proving
safe highways to trading -boats and bar-
ges. There are lordly mansions with
parks and gardens round them, substan-
tial farm -houses in the midst of their
own fields, thriving villages, .with wind-
mills and old churches, towns, with
rnarkets and. manUactories, schools,
shops and fashions, in the fens. .
These towns arid villages, farms and
mansious, had no existence, no represen-
tative -a, less than two hundred and fifty
years ago. The fens of Lincolnshire
then and. for ages before formed part of
what was called the great fen level—a
tract of couatry estiniated by ancient
•eugineers to be almost as largd as the
-whole kingdom of Holland, steetching
along the east coast of Lincoln, i Norfolk
and Suffolk, and extending westward
into the counties of Cambridge, Hunt-
ingdon and Bedford. The fen level
comprehended that part of England
ivhich tlopes down to meet the German
ocean, whose great tide poured far ioland
. over the flat, low-lying country, filling
all its hollows and choking up the mouths
of its rivers with shingle and sand.
Those rivers—descending from the high
grounds in the cectre of the land, swol-
len' with the rains of winter, and thus
checked. oil their passage seaward—
spread out into 'vast lakes or metes,
which the summer's heat rendered stag-
nant, but was not sufficient to dry up.
So the whole district became a stagding
swamp. For many a ceiatary the great
fen level was - knowh as a distinot and
peculiar part of the kingdom—by no
means a wealthy or well -reputed one,
though it had inhabitants besides the
pike that lived in its pools and the wild
geese that built anaong its reeds. There
were low knolls and sandy ridges, suffie
ciently elevated above the general swanip
to be clear of the waters. except in very
wet *litters, and when the German sea
rolled in extraordinary high tides. On
these isles of the waste hernias had
built their cells, monks had erected
monasteries, feudal lords had raised. their
strongholds, and. wild, hardy men, tak-
ing refuge there from the wars and the
tyrannies of those iron taxies, often from
law and justice too, canstructed huts of
turf and reeds which grew into villages.
From age to age the reat swamp stood
always stagnant, and often increased by
the inroads of ' the sea and the choking
up of rivers. Its inhabitants were
reckoned a separate race, savage and
dangerous to those who had anything to
lose. Without commerce, arts or culti-
vation, they heed ou the fish. of the
pools and the fowls of the marshes. They
hadlaws, customs and traditions of their
own. , ,
The Protestant Reformation' -which
wrought such a chanae on the life and
learning of all England beside, for a
time Made little or no alteration on the
fens or their people. The few sedaded
monasteries, which darker times had
reverenced as places of superior sanctity
because of thetr dreary surroundings,
lost their: privileges and property in fisb-
ing streams and goose-frequentec1 marsh-
es, were dissolved; and little missed by
the wild people. The ruins remain to
this day; so do those of the baronial
castles destroyed in the feudal warts which
raged between rival lords, even in the
fens; .but the gray old churches, some
of them built as early as the thirteenth
'century, still stand, strong and stately,
with all the land about them so altered
and improved that their builders would
not know it to be the same soil.
In these churches priests had chanted
and relies had been shown to pilgrims,
till the Protestant form was established
bylaw in the beginning of Elizabeth's
reign. Some of them hacl parsons, some
of them were supposed to have: the ser-
vice was known to be read in a few of
them on Sundays ; in winter there was
no service at all. itlest of the clergy
presented to the, fen flivings said they
0
-could get no congregations; their parish-
ioners were hard to -find among swamps
,
and marshes; perhaps they were not
zealous in search of them. But a wild
-country must and will make wild people;
and in spite of . thebest. endeavors of
good men, -both lay and clerical, the fen
level and its inhabitants continued to be
a lost and valueless portion of England.
There etas better and worse ground
within its borders, as there Is everywhere
--land more or less drowned, as the peo-
ple said—but decidedly the most lost
and valueless part of the fen',country was
a district lying in its verylheart, where
the eleeat river •Ouse,: on its passage ftom
the high grounds of Bedfordshire .clown
to the German' ocean, met the up -coming
tide, and was driven back to spread its
waters over a Wild mossy hollow some
hundred thousand acres in extent. Great
floods were so -frequent that ',there had
no land remained 'above thesurfaceof
the stagnant waters but one marshy isle,
-which they tailed Wildmore. The
winter floods had often washed over it •
its outer edges were fringed with a broad
belt of reeds that ruetled and waved in
the winds like standing ' torn. Thick
mossy grass and- willow grew on the
higher ground in its centre; and there,
in the one hut to -be founclon Wildmore,
lived a solitary fen man and his wife.
The man's name was Hugh ' Hammer-
eon—hardy Hugh, the feurtien trilled
him. He boaeted of -his descent frorit a
Danish rover who had sailed nit thetrtuse
.and plundered the rich lands of Bedford
ages b.efore ; and. Hugh was worthy of
his lineage. There was not a bolder
swimmer of the winter flood, or plunger
of the summer swamps in all the fen
coantry. There was . nobody who
would venture) so far to help neighbors
on - whom the waters were rising, or to
snare a- flock of wild fowl ready to take
wing. -'Ilis family had lived in, the fens,
by all accounts, from the time of that
Danish rover. Wildmore was their first
settlement; there one generation after
another had lived. and died, disturbed
only, as Hugh was accustomed to say,
by the "bailitfof Bedford level," other-
wise the floods of the Ouse'. The ailing
of their successive huts might still be
traced _among the moss and willow.
The Flemrnersons had been pretty
numerous once, in spite cif the ague, the
rheumatism and the marsh fevet, . those
ordinary atteudants on life in the fens.
Biiitthefernily had died out in process
of I time, tillaHugh was left the last of
them—a Man with no! children - and
above sixty. Hugh's hai-r. was gray and
his joints cansiderably swollen, for rheu-
, matic attacks were not tobe escaped in
Wildmore; but his hardy habits, his
dauntless courage aod. his .knowledge of
the wet wastes io. 1which he had been
born and bred made him still a skilful
fisher of the pike, aid a fearless ltunter
of the wild goose._ IVIounted-on . his tall
stilts; with nets and snares hanging from
his girdle, and sometimes his matchlock
on his shoulder, the ,valiant old fennaan
would -plunge into morasses deep enough
to swallow a city; he knew by long ex-
perience where the bottom was safe,
. when the reeds ruight be trusted as a
hold,- the isles.where the fowls built and
theepools where fish might be found. - A
hunter and fisherman of the swamps, he
had maintained himself and his wife on
their produce for many a year, and fol-
lowed the wild business as much from
liking as necessity; for Hugh was ac-
counted rich, being the owner of some ten
score geese, a couple of cows, a small
flock of fen sheep, and -a hut which had
never been - swept away since, ii; was
built in his grandfather's time. The fen
people thought Hugh's house a .kiud of
castle. - Its walls were six feet thick,
built of earth and stones which had been
brought inboatsfrom thefar-offquarries.
Its roof was sepported by strong timber
beams, the turf and. reeds henped on,
which, in succeisivelayers to the.depth
of on old. English ell, were kept safe
against' the winter storms with heavy
, stones ranged. along the ridge and em-
bedded in the cornets. :The damp air
of the old level had covered the thick
walls and massive roof With a coatiog of
green moss, which made the house look;
at a distance, like some old rock standing
there alone under,the willow trees; and
it was Hughts hoest that wind or water
•never had moved it, nor ever would in
his time. -Within, there was one room
for. the Hemrnersons, another for the .
cows the Sheep and the geese. One
door served for the incomings and out-
goings of all; it was enough to keep
barred against the fierce storms and
,- fiercer floods which every winter brought
i to the lonely isle. . .
Hugh was thought well-to-do, and was
' well respected by his neighbors. IC is
1 true that the nearest of them had to .be
waded' or swam to, as the season permit-.
ted, some halfmile or more, but that
Was counted neighborhoOd in the fen
country; and Hugh was in repute not
only for his.wealth, .his fowling and his
fisbing, but also for his 'readiness to save
poor families from droWning and from
want. :Many a houeehold had he helped
lorit through their 'own ' roofs When the
water was coming out at their windows.
To manyet, widow or ague -stricken man
had be come over the frozen meres and .
treacherous unosses with a fat goose or a
hag edarout. - The man had lea a rough,,
rustic life, had no learning but • what it
gave hint, was blunt of speech, hot of
temper, and obstinate in his opinions and
prejudices ; but he possessed those
,kindred virtues, courage, and humanity,
and wherever want pinched or water
threatened, there Hugh was. expected
and Hugh was always 'found. It must
be allowed., nevertheless, that hardy
Hugh was net an over -good husband.
Always from- home after the pike and th
wild -fowl, . he left the management o
cows, sheep and geese to his solitary
wife, a poor, patient, sickly woman,
whom the neighbors thought "too gen-
teel," because she had been brought up
in the town of Ely aura could. read, and
whom Hugh esteemed but little, because,
though she was a goodwife and at ,good
manager, she had no childreu. The
Hammerson line must, therefore, die
out, and the hut which no flood '14.1
swept away go to strangers. At holge
and abroad be repinectaver his want of
heirs, as a lord might do who had broad
lands and mansions to leave them: It
afforded,him an excuse ;for joining the
roystering companies of -fenmen at the
-fairs of the border . towns and ale houses
of the islaud villages, where, like many
a foolish man of later times, he drank
his reAson away under pretence ,of for-
getting his trouble. .Hugh might have
had heirs by adoption; there were poor
families who could have spared some
frona their numerous progeny t� 80 rich
in inheritance, and the fl ods made man
a with)* and orphan in the fens. y
"But rice" said Hugh, "nobody's child
shall wait for my houF:e and my gather-
ings, and wish for the old man's going
all the while t - since. I. haven't a true
Hammerson to leave it to, let the ruffs
and reeves get it, for aught 1 care, when
the old woman mid I are gone." - •
-Hugh was pot the man to changehis
mind op that or any other subject; yet
Providence at length seemed to sendhim
an heiress for his house and his gather-
ing. He was roused from sleep - one
night in a wet, stormy November, some
two hours before _the break of day, by
Jack Mossman, his _nearest neighbor and
trusty comrade, who waded -across a
wing of the old level to tell .him that a
high tide and a strong north-east wind
were bearing up the chaunel of the Ouse,
and the ,waters were rising on the fishing
village of Reedsmere.
“They have heard the roar of the river
and got out oftheir bedsttIehope," said
honest :lack ; "if I hadn't. been watch-
ing my mallard -net I shouldn't have
heard it so soon, but it sounds like thun-
der down the level."
Down the level he and Hugh went
wading, holding by the reeds and breast- •
ing the wind. The fe4men marched to
face the flood as soldiers march to bat-
tle; every one .knew that his own turn
iniaht come some da,and that made
them helpful to each other. • The roar of
the river did indeed sound like thunder,
as the gathered waters met, the advances
ing tide and the strong north-east wind,
and were driven np- in foamy mountains,
which crashed over the banks and felt in
a deluge on the adjacent land. The peo-
ple ot Reedsmere had fortunately heard.
it in time to escape with their geese and
cattle to the higher ground, but the flood -
was over the village roofs before Hugh
and his companion came in sight; and
the winter moon, breaking through a
mass of ittormS7 clouds, showed them that
the tide was bearing in pieces of wreck
—it might be of fishing boats, it might,
be of some great ship gone to pieces far
out to sea, for the gale had been higher
in the early part of . the night; but the -
wrecks were floating away up the level"
with the village • huts and furniture;
nothing seemed likely to stand but the
old church, through Which many a flood
had swept since its firm foundations and
solid i'valls were built by a Norman
mason in the third King Edward's
time. .
"Jack,." said Hugh, as he and his com-
panion surveyed the desolation from the
nearest stand-pointathei ridge of a mossy
rock rising high above the swamp—
"Jack, what is that that has stuck in the
- east window .?"
"It's te bundle—a bale Of goods, I'll
warrant—silk or linen from Hollartd ;
our old women would give somethieg for
the inside Of it; but it is too far to swim
and the wind is strong."
"It's a gager bundle,". said Hugh,
"and moves about as if tkere was life in
it," as another gleam of the m000 lit ap
the heaving waters, and showed him the
subject of their speculation. A bale of
cloth it seemed,,the coverings of which
were loosening away, and some of them
had caught on the stanchions of the'l
church window..
"Wait - for me here.' Jack; I'll see
what it is; something tells me I ought,"
said the -fearless old man. "Jest keep
that coil of rope I hive brought with me,
and fling me the line &the flood gets too
much for me,"
Before Jack had time to. remonstrate,
Hugh had flung off his sheepskin doublet
and plunged into whot had been the •01 -
lege street, but was now a *surging river.
Gallently he struckout, and the moon
seemed to smile upon him; she shone
through the rent cloud clearand calm,
'while Hugh swam to the church window
disengaged the floatiug bale, allpported
himself with his one . arm, while he
clutched it with the other, and regained.
the rock in safety. There the two fen -
men opened the bundle; it did not con-
tain webs of silk or linen. from Holland,
with which wrecked ships were wont to
strew their coasts, but gowns of fine
cloth and richly furred mantlesewrapped
round, -as if to keep warm and safe from
injury, a tiny infant, too . young for
speech or intelligenceebut unhurt and
r.inreached by the waters."
"I'll take it home to the old woman,"
said Hugh ; "it's not a Hammerson ;
but God has sent it, and „I won't cast the
child away.. It never belonged. totthese
parts, Jack; look at the fine clothes it
has about it; some great lord and his
lady have been comieg home in that
ship which the storm has. wrecked ;
they have all gone to the bottom but it-
self, for I can see no living thing on all
the waters; they are rising still. We'll
have the bailiff of Bedford at Wildmore
before the sun this morning; but my
house will stand it, and take the
child home to my old woman."
CHAPTER IL
The. child was taken home according-
ly, and Grace Hammerson received it
with- a kindly welcome. The lonely wo-
man had a mother's heart, and could
provide for its wants by the help of her
cows' milk. It hadbeen sent to them
from the sea, an infant never to be claim-
ed or or inquired about ;. for who would
think of searching for anything in the
old level? So they made it.their own,
though not a Hammerson; and when the
bailiff of Bedford was gone, when the
street of Reedsmere was dry ground
agein, When the damp was out of its
'church sufficient for clerk and parson to
come back, they took it thither in a boat
—for the level was still deep between—
and got it baptized by the name of Grace
Found, for the sea -sent baby was a girl.
1 The surname was Hugh's idea.
"I won't have them calling her Ham -
thereon, when she is not of the blood,"
said he. "I found her—nobody can deny
that—and there is nothing like truth in
name and nature."
"I'll call her for myself," said his
!good wife •' "it will bind my heart to the
child as she grows up, and. I'll forget -that
she came tome from the sea."
. The parson, a faithful minister and a
benevolent man, who, according to the
ireport of the *Reedsmere drowning sent
up to Parliament, "brought divers chil-
dren out of the flooded cottages on his
back," approved of the name, saying
it was one of good significance, and
might lead the child toseek and find
grAce early.
So Grace Found became the name of
the little stranger. Fenmen and women
stood sponsors for her, and the Hammer -
'sons took her home in the boat. As
they had expected, nobody ever claimed
or inquired after the Child, nor was it
lemma- how that floating bundle came to
be caught on the old church window, ex-
cept what thefishermen . of the coast re-
ported, that in the dead of the 'same.
night in which Reedsmere was drowned,
a great ship, from what country or
whither bound they 'could not tell, had
gone to pieces on the North Wash Sands,
and every soul on board perished. - The
Hammersons had no doubt that their
foundling's parents were gone with that
lost ship. The fine gowns and 'mantles
wrapped about the child, the cambric
and lace -it wore, were tangible proofs of
its having been born to rank and riches;
and in her quiet. and careful exainiaa-:)
tion of the garments, Grace had discov-
ered in the far collar of one of them a
gold, bodkin or pin, with which the ladies
of that age were accustomed to fasten
alike their mantles and.their hair. The
head was beautifully wrought • in the
form of an opening. lily, with sparks of
topaz for the yellow' seeds within, and
on the under side there- was clearly en-
graved, though in so small a space,
sorne noble crest; it was a hand and. a
heart, with this motto, "Fear God. and
fear nothing." •
Her better education and bringing up
in Ely, which, though aitale of the fen
country, had been long iThishop's see
and a town of some importance, enabled
Grace to understand the value of the
jewel better than an ordinary fen wo-
man. She judged it to be a family heir-
loom, Madvertently wrapped up with
the child in that hour of laste and peril,
perhaps to be proof of her high descent
in after time, aricl she resolved that
neither Hugh nor apybody but the min-
ister should ever see- or hear of it, that
.its safekeeping might not be endangered
till the girl grew up. -
( To be Continued.)
BULBS.—A few choice Hyacinth Bulbs
for tittle cheap at FAIRLEVS. Cheap Cash Grocery,
Seaforth, 965
tSTILL
THOMAS KIDD'S EMPORIUM OF FASHION
IS THE CHEAT CENTRE OF ATTRACTION,
Besides which all other Houses in Seaforth, be
IfAR C A 1 4
flAMERON & McFADDEN, Banisters and
Solicitore in Chancery, Goderich. 698
I. C . cearminie. 0 W. 101. MCFADDEN...
GARROW & RADENHURST, Barristers, At-
torneys, Solicitors in ChaneerY, &e. Ofllee
McLean's new block, tomer Market Square and
Hamilton Street, Goderieh.
.r. W. °ARROW. 456 G. A. ILADEXTIUST.
AVILLIAM SMALL, Conveyancer and Conimie.
sioner in B. R., Wroxeter. Auctioneer and
Appraiser. Accounts and notes collected on
.reasonable terms. 368
they Old Establishe d or
New, Dwindle into Mere Insignificance.
THE DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Surpasses anything of the kind in Western
New Stripes, Scrolls, Checks, Serges, Plain and Striped
the Fashionable Shadesh Every Lady should see these
11 L. DOYLE, Barrister, Attorney, Soliciter In
Chancery, &c., Goderich and Seafortit. 01-
free, over Jordan's Ding Store,. Goderich, and
-----
eat
Kidd's Store, Seaforth.
SLaw,Solieitors in Chancery, Notaries Public,
QUIER 6:, MCCOLL, Barristers, Attorneys -at.
&c., Goderich and Brussels. W. R. &MIER,
erich ; McCoee, Brueselsi God-
neys, Soliciloes in Chanceiy, &c., Zlintee,
i
re A. J. -
MALCOMSON (4; WATSON, BarristeAttor:
913
,
Ont. Office—First door east of the new Royal
Canadian Bank building. Money to loan on farm
ee eys
property.
S. MALCOMSOINT. 404 G. A. WATS0
&c., in all
RENSON & MEYER, Banisterand Attorn
at Law, Solicitors in ChanceriandInsoiveriee,
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Goods, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Offices—e
Ontario, comprising over 300 Pieces
which are a marvel of cheapness. No Trouble to Show
Diagonals,
Magnificent
Them.
forth and Brussels. $23,000 of Private Punch{ te
invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable
yearly.
63
JAS. H. BENSON. It. W. C. MErElt.
cCAUGHEY & IfOLMESTED,Banistere, At -
BLACK LIT. STRE.S.-
Solicieors for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth. Agentsfor
411- torneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and
Insolvency,, Notaries Public and* Conveyancers.
the .Canada._f;507.iofooe AtenionlanaceaCtom8 epestenreecent.
Our. Stock of Black Lustres is admitted by all to be ethe Finest ever im-
Houses and Lots for sale.
ported by a retail store in Canada. A full line at all prices from 10 cents to
75 cents per ya,rd. See 'our 25 cent Lustre, mind.
Russell Cords, Cashmere, Paramatta, Oxford Cloth, Barathea, Crape Cloth,
Farms
111.EDICAL
value, worth 35 and 46 cents.
T. G. SCOTT, M. D.. &c., Physician, Surgeon and
Accouchene, Seaforth, Ont. Office and reeldneesouth side of Godmich Street, first door
east of presbyterian Church. . 392
and French Twills, at hard times prices. Black and Colored. French Merinos,
1
a rare bargain. Black and ColoAd Silks, in all the New Shades, 25 per cent.
under value. Black and Colored Velveteens—Low Prices.
BIG STOCK OF SHAWLS,
From $1 25 up. 500 Pie•es Wincey, Plain, Checked. and Broken 'Checked,
from 10 cents per yard up. The Best Value ever offered .in -Seaforth.
1
proof Cloakings, splendid goods, 85 cents per yard, worth $1 25. Flannel
Grey, Scarlet and White, at lowest figures. See our
TT L. TERCOE, M. D., CM., Physician, Sur-
•• geon, eta., Coroner for the Cotmty of Huron..
Office and Residence, corner of Market and High
streets, peat to the Planing Mill.
TABS, CAMPBELL & BURGESS., Physicians,
-A-1 Surgeons, and Accoucheurs. OFFICE—Main
Street, Seaforth, near the Station. joux Clare-
-, PELL, M. D., Coroner for Huron; Joins A. Ben -
GESS, M. D. eel
Water- !
in
25 cent Scarlet Flannelt
wOrth 35 cents per yard. Table Linen, Towels and Towelling, &c., at very
'
Lowest Prices.
BLANKETS.
.An Immense Stock of Blankets, at all prices from $3 up, A 1 Value. Piles
of Horse Blankets; very 'cheap. 1,000 Cotton Bags at 25c. each, a Bargain.
BUFFALO ROBES.
The,biggest lot ever brought into town, at all prices from $'8 to $18.
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Special attention is directed to our $11 and $12 Robes. Heavy Felt Lining
from 55 cents to $1 25, Trimmings to match, cheap.
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Ii0OTS AND SHOES.
. On hand and to arrive, 117 cases of Boots arid Shoes, .e.eWomen's Plain and
Fancy calfskin, Pebble axed. Waterproof Leather. Ladies', Fine .Kid Boots,
'buttoned. Misses' and Children's, all sizes and styles, cheap. 27 cases of
Men's Cowhide .Boots, $2 25 per pair, extra good value. 23 cases of Men's
Kip Boots, $3 25- per pair. 25 cases of -Boy's Stoga Boots, from $1 50 to $2
per pair. . 19 Cases of Boy's Kip Boots, from $2 to $2 38.
READYMADE CLOTHIN G.
This Department
part of the country
$10. Children's fro
•
le fully assorted, and excels anything to be seen in this ,
to $30. Boys' from $6 to
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Gentlemen's Suits
$2 50 tit $5 50:
from $10
OVERCOATS.
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T B. PILELAN, M.D., C. M., (late,of the firm.
" • of Shaver & Phelan, Stratford) Graduath ot
McGill University, Physician, Surgeon and fee.
ocuclaeur, Seaforth, Ontario. .0.ffico—P,00ms in
Meyeee 'Block, formerly occupie1 by the late Dr.
King. Residence—Commercial Hotel. Will at-
tend at Cerronbrook on Tuesdays and Fridays. 393
T G. I3T3LL, L. D. S., Surgeon
" • Dentien&c.,Seaforth, Ontario
Plate work, latest styles, neatly
bxecuted. All surgical operations
performedwitb care and prom p ti tude. Fees as low
as can be obtained elsewhere. Office hoar s from
8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Rooms over Mr, A. G. Mc-
Dougall's StoreeMain-st. In the absence of Mr.
Derbyshire the office will be open on. Thnrsday,
:Friday and Saturday of each week. 270
DMO.:AUGHT, Veterinary Surgeon, Giadu-
• ate of Ontario Veterinary College, Seaford',
Ont. Office and Residence in rear of Rilloran &
Ryan's. Calls promptle attended: to, night or
day. A stock of veterinary medicines nn hand.
Charges reaeonable. Horses examined asto sound-
ness and certificates given if required. 407
TAMES W. ELDER, V. 8., Graduate of the
" Ontario Veterinary College. After 'devoting
two years to practice with_ Professor Smith, df
Toronto, has settled in Seaforth. Office at lean
residence east of W. M. Church. Calls promptly
ettended to by day or night. A large stock of
Veterinary Medicines constantly ouhand. Horses
examined as -to soundness and certificates given.
lionses baught and sold on commission. . 424
A. M. CAMPBELL, V. S., Licentiate and Pelee -
man of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto,
has settled permanently in Varna, wherehe will be
found ready and wiling to attend to all kinds of
diseases, in all kinds of animals (man excepted),
in all kinds- of weather, and at all hours. Resi-
dence and office two doors east of Cook's _Tem-
perant e 319
HEUMATISM CURED 'WITHIN TWELVE
-1-y HOURS —Brunton's Rheumatic Absorbent
will relieve acute pain'in 4 hours, and all pain
within 12 hours, it is certain and permanent.
Brunton's Digestive Fluid—Nearly all diseases
arise from the stomach, °cc:taloned by free acid.
The Digestive Fluid neutralises the Acid, copse-
qnently it must cnre Dyspepsia, Erysipelas, and
all Blood Poisonings, the effect is immediate.
Sold by Druggists. Price 50e. Sole Wboleeale
Agents, Kerry, Watson & Co., Montreal, -or ad-
dress W. Y. BRUNTON, London, Ont. 462-28
DR I IN G.
pEMOVAL.—Miss Quinlan has removed to the
-a-ti rooms over .Tohneon Bros. Hardware store,
where she will continuo to carry on dress -making
in all its branches. A geed fit and perfect satis-
faction guaranteed. Apprentices wanted immedi-
ately. , 464
-VEW MII LINERY SHOW ROOMS.—I beg
11 leave to inform my many friends et the Town
of Seafortle and surrounding, country that I have
again reshrned business over Allan Mitehell's new
store'oppositt the Commercial Hotel, and will on
Saturday, the 28ih inst., open out a Comn!ete
New Stock of Millinery end Fetney Goods, cone,
prising all the Novelties of the Seasem. -An early
call solicited. MISS LEACH. 464
illtinaCJE 1 11.4A IVE0118,
A treniendeus stock of Men's and Boys', Cut and Finished on the °mostP. BRINE, Licenced Auctioneer fe' r the
, • County of_ Huron. Sales attended in all
Ppaorst ooli°
f
the County. All orders left at the Ex -
improved m
principles, fro. the best and most durable material manufactured in ce 'will be promptly attended toi.
the world. Heavy Beaver Overcoats $9, worth $13. Healy Brown Overcoats !
Pilot Overcoats $14, worth $18. Fur Trimmed
Hudson Bay Overcoats $8, wdrth $11. 50. Ulster
$10 50, worth $15.- fancy
Overcoats $16, worth $20.
Overcoats $13, worth $17.
HATS AND .CAPS.
A full line. Sealskin Caps, endless variety in all the newest and most
comfoitable 'designs. See our "Canada First" Real Seal, $14. Also Gents'
Furnishings, &c., &c.
MILLINERY AND . MANTLES.
Our Millinery Departient is always first in Seaforth. And why ? Because
we always keep an experienced young lady in charge, select the stock with the
greatest possible care, and import our Styles from the Head Centre of Fashion.
MANTLES—Splendid Value in Cloth and Seal. Call and See Them. A First -
Class Dressmaker on the premises. Every attention paid to Cutting and Fitting.
GROCERIES.
The Best Tea in Seaforth at KIDD'S for 60 cents per pound. Just receiv-
ed, ONE CAR LOAD OF CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE, to be sold
pheap. Call and see our Centennial Sets in China and Stone, lovely patterns,
ow prices.
Over $50,000 worth of Goode to be sold, no Bankrupt Stock, but real
Genuine New Goods, at the Smallest Possible Profit for Cash.
A Call Respectfully Solicited.
THOMAS KIDD, Seaforth.
cOMMERCIAL LIVERY., Seaforth, Ont. T. A.
Nei SHARP, Proprietor. Comfortable and elegant
carriages, and first-class reliable horses alweere
ready. Charges moderate. Office and stables on
Huron street, second door east of Main street.
Others left at any of th e hotels promptly attend-
ed to. ' 399
•
1SSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP — The
firm of J. & R. Clark, Millers an Grain Deal-
- ers, Wroxeter, is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. All debts owing to the said firm are to
be paid to Jaitres Clark, at Wroxeter, and all
&aims against the said firm are to be presented
to the said James Clark, by whom the same will
be paid. Dated at Wroxeter this hrst day of
November'1876. JAMES CLARK, ROBERT
CLARK. Witness, DAVID CLARK, Jr. 4664
11U.BRAII FOR, CALDER.
THE BURNT 0 teT PACTOGRAPHER.
CALDER is in full running order again, an'a the
generous public has placed him in a better
position than ever, and he is prepared to give you
better satisfaction thau ever, his accommodation -
is better, his light is better, bis fixings are all
new and of the best qnaIity. As he is at present
under the instructions of j. Inglis, of Montreal,
and F. Paltridge, of Galt, Calder feels thankful
that there are xnen of ability in the business who
lend a helping hand to roll him up the hill again,
where he expects to meet his old friends and
many new ones. Pietures copied and enlarged;
F. Paltridge, Galt, and J. Inglis, Montreal, please
accept my thanks for the valuable receipts end
instructions you have given nee. Yours,
44-4 A. CALDER -
THE ,,SEA,FORTII DRAY AND
STAGE BUSINESS,
4o The People of Seaforth.
JOHN CAMPBELL begs to return thanks to the
'Merchants and Business inen of Seaforth for
the liberal patronage awe rded him since he assum-
ed control of the Draying Bnsinees of Seaforth.
Ile would also state that he is now better prepar-
ed than ever to attend tie the wants of his met°l'.
having placed another team in tb.e service.
Goode by rail delivered promptly. House Furnit-
ure removed carefully and. on reasonable terms.
Gardens plowed, and all other chores in this line
attended to on the shorteet notice. Promptitude,
Civility,- and -moderate charges are tie caedinal
principles whieh he observes in his biBeness.
To the Traveling Public.
The -old Royal Mail Stage still alive and fionr-
ishhag. Parties requiring to travel betweee Sea*
forth and Brussels will find the Mane STAGS the
safe4 and most corufortable. The &Piers are
BELL,
panrodpsroibeteorr,.the horses fast and reliable end
tie coaches warm and oomfeleable. JOHN CAMP -
441
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believing in tontr
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in favor of expam
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table,
to the head of the
,:ridghsttipr
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heart. She made
planted her fads' la
made+himmy sCo
ware qf prejudice
and men's'minds
ce.s creep in easily
they 'ever get QUI.
---a. Seaforth gii
and injured herst4
wee carried tome
covering,- her first
her ssbiter, were :
my striped e.tockin
—The men 'alio
healthy- okirs
chunk of sandaton
torcliewing the
three comioeit)re
grof4fet-heleliinuizn
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crescenee," eta; el
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mended to ;all
to complain ce
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day of anieereie "
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seen wo...lea
afraid to ride, far 't
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fbenaart
bnh
one airdia to 4e1 ri
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man's eyee hrt or
be is in 1.,"Jvt!. °r;
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with two ral
and Ring gnough t
neck.
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by a comity tree
`‘the re1-11(2;111,A
dissipates the, cam
his nieuuscript and
'the- hig-heartecl,-
penses the eounty
urer withdrew the
-atituted au ineitatt
per instead.
Thte
In America, Dela
can take a man on
with him to theatr.
in Eaglared the sere
their yelling men
keeping company.
craving for such co
envy at the cook al
out, and enjoys t
whom, after ali,-
marry. Under car
gagement appeare
in a young, ey
be wealthier thau ti
happy. She has .1
AII ehe Naas is a 1
this she obtains by
immediately finds
afraid_ of her and.!
attention to which
unaccustomed. Stti
able partner ata b
available for arabh
has the use of ap e
and, if she likes it.
old clothes, as her
to be in progress -
from home she t
stairs all the morn.
to be basy receivi4
ter. Men have e
tages' and it is no
coulduniformly -Iv
of probation. The
find presents mort
Constant j
becomes monoteno
tiee a great falline
their it:Ali-1;1°6.1MA t.1
The male lover hi
son-a:mess of the sit
used up his stock A
%allot have this
he begins _to grol
and. manners, sons
hie beloved 1.113.V
and. havina exhau
nuptial blise, will
dor melees he is 1:4
and the difficult re
fully smoothed bel
point that many he
piness, and thong
renew love,in a me
such an expedient
ly made, and. the