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The Huron Expositor, 1881-06-24, Page 2- 2 atimmarmarmesorsemimmteurner THE HU MRS. MILLINGTON AND HER LIBRARIAN, A LOVE AND BUSINESS STORY. "Oho! Mr. George, that's the secret of yOur kindness, is it ?" thought Nelly; but she wate, good-natured, and, more- over, pplitic, so she replied: "Lor, yes; rd,like nothing better. Mr. M.12,, al- ways said I could fix the women's wigs better in front than he could. I could some over every afternoon for a couple of hour 's well 's not, and I'd. like it first-rate." ."That's all right -that's all right; that '11 be a great help to me," re- plied her brother-in-law, and gave her a check for seven hundred dollars on the epot. "You needn't give me any note either, Nelly," he said. "I know your word'e as good as your note any day, and you can pay me as you like, a little at a time. You'll soon clear that much. That 'Pettengill's' was a first-rate stand, and it's just the businese you'll like." Nelly thought so too; but she was destined to find herself as much mis- taken in this as she had been 'in think- ing she should eujdy herself in the country. Books had never been fami- liar friends to her. ' She found to tier mortification that . she was bewildefed even by the titles„, and sometimes did not understand in the least what a cus- tomer was asking. for. Pettengill had been a publisher iu the early part of his life, and his library contained many books seldom found in circulating libraries, and some which were very rare. He had a, pride about keeping the library intact, and there were shelves upon shelves filled with abstruse and uncommon books, some now al- most out of print. Nelly's first impulse had been to make a clean sweep' of these, and replace them by new books in smart bindings; but, luckily for her, she had expressed this intention one day in the presence of one of the old patrons of the library, a lawyer, who, having had far more brains than clients all his life; had settled now into a pov- erty-stricken old bookworm who haunt- ed libraries and bookatalls. "God bless my seul, madam !" he shouted in a tbne that made Nelly jump. "Don't you k ow that those old musty books, as you call them, are the only things worth an thing in all this library ? All the rest is trash. Don't you sell one book off those shelves." Poor Nelly was as meek as she was ignorant in her new sphere, and replied very humbly: • "Oh, I didn't know, sir; they looked so old, I thought they couldn't be good for anything." "Humph !" growledI the disgusted old man. "You miud what I tell you, then; they're worth all the rest of your place put together. • You old, on to 'em. They'll be worth a pi e of money to your grandchildren." After he had gone, oily took down one after another of the musty volumes, and glanced at them. Many of them were in old English, .hich might as well have been Sanskrit to Nally, and not in one of them could she find a sen- tence which conveyed any meaning to her mind. • "My grandchildren, indeed !". said Nelly, contemptuously. "If ever I have any, which seem a no ways likely, I hope they'll talk another kind o' lan- guage from this. 1 think the .old man is cracked." 1 But when she told the incident to her brother-in-law, and he , replied to her, "Well, you'd better have old Wil- kins's opinion about books than any- body's in all this cit ; they say he's been sent to from cone es to know where they could get boo they wanted ; what he don't know out booka isn't worth knowing," Nell drew a long sigh, and perceived that there Was Much more in this matter of books than she had ever dreamed. i • i More and more she realized this, and began to be ashamed as well ae perplex- ed. She had been used in her forroer business to being looked up to as an authority; here she I was humiliated every day. Mere chits of girls came in and expressed surprise, that she had not yet put in the library such and such a book, which had been "out" for a month, and of which poor Nelly had not so much as heard. How should she? She could not give a standing order to publishers for so many pounds per month of books ,i as she used to to herb dealers for all the herbs which t were needed to make o many gallons of the Millington Hair R starer. " Welly was shrewd enotigh to see that she must have help iii this business, or make a failure of it. One day she went into a large free library and reading. room in the oity, and at herself down to watch what was done there. She watched quietly the whole afternoon. At dusk she left the room, with a resolute look and a ;half -smile on her , face. - The next day George Millington, walking by "Pettengill'e, was astonish- ed to see workmen tearing down part of the wall: "What on earth are you doing, Nelly ?" he exclaimed. "Reading room," said Nally, curtly - "reading room and coffee." Her brother grasped her idea instant- ly. "By Jove, Nelly," he said, "that's a good idea. How're you going to pay kir it ?" ..., "Mortgage," Said Nelly: - "No, you shan't," said George. "Go shares with me, and let me pay." "All right," nodded Nelly. And this was all that passed between them, but George Millington went home 8,nd told his wife that they'd always been. mightily mistaken about that girl John married: She Was “real bug - t; nese," which was the highest compli- ment George Milling on could pay-eny anybody, man or woman. • ia The ext d.ay there ppeered in three of the leading paperof the city the followine advertisem nt, which would _have been worded di erontly if Nally had got somebody else to write it for her; but if it had been worded differ- ently, it would not h Ve caught Jerry Williams's eye, and th re might never have been anything especial to tell about Mrs. Millington' librarian. The advertisement ran as follows ; WANTED -A book buyer in a circu- lating library. Must be a woman, and write a good hand, and know all about books. Apply through post office box No. 1004. This did not seem to Nelly an extra- ordinary advertisement. It stated pre, eisely what she wanted. To "know all about books". did not mean much to her. On the whole, she flattered her, self that the advertisement wasa sin- gularlS, concise and sensible one. When' Jerry Williams re d it, she laughed out- right and alimd, hough Elbe as all alone, and s id • her elf, "Goodness! what idiot vv. ote hat '!and she laid down the pa Or a d la ghed again. Then Jerr ha a eeond thought, Which made her take he paper up and read the dyer isem nt Over again. dyi g ad ertisernents very the, ti e, and nothing , So Hie way of earning her cit she was bent upon tic. so that she had even ; olu ens of adv rtisemeuts of situations at service, al the time hoping that he eight find one prom- ising a situ tio not. wholly moniedwhich which she could ring her Mind. to take. Jerry was t .e da ,ghte of New Eng- land farmer, and !lad lived the first 17 years �f *er .1 fe in the u 1 solitude of a poor an. thi ly s ttled' ill coun- tey. Here he h d gr wn up a strong, self-containei ch3aialiei e woman, such as the est New; Eng and stock produces. J father had been a college -bred .. an, and from him Jerry . had inherit°. an a6quired ; a love of books arid yea •ning for a wider ex- • perience. S eh dindOmitable in- stinct that fe he d dug t to hold a good deal m re t an Could e compass- ed or afforde in the monotonous suc- cesion of tui s and seasons in a New g d fa m house. From the time she wa twe ve years old she had resolved to o o t into the world - how, when, her;, she did ! not know. But her reso ve t go as none the less strong beet... se of her total Uncertainty as to ways aid m ans nd destinations. Persistent p rpos s bring their own ful- filment in t s e. Nobodymay dare to seta limi to the extent of their power to in ite nd conquer destiny. How else w s it t at to Jerr„ Williams, sitting still, sum leer after summer, on the sweet su .ny •arren hill slopes- of her father's; arm, and knowing nobody, this should have happen , that a great-uncle f hr mother's, who had never seen y of them, wrete,lall of a sudden, to a k if there were a daughter in their horn wh. would liketo come to live with , nd do the work of a copying cler in his law offic . He was old, and his zyesi ht growing dim, and he did not l'ke o _have young men about the ho se o the office; he want- ed somebodr h could truse. And. Jerry, with° t a misgiving, her heart bounding wi h r pressed delight, had journeyed alone the old man's door, created her 'own eloorne on the instant by her honzst, f auk,t' sensible behav- iour, and sat hers ldown to work the next mornin as f she had copied law papers all r life.. Her desires could not be said to have been e4ravagant, for they wer full satisfied now. She worked hard. at la r writing day, and boarded in er Uncle's fa,nily, which consisted of him elf and a disagreeable deaf old hou ekee er She had, besides her board, t -o h ndre and lars a year. Wit this she co do wonders. 'Shedressed re )Jerry was,st • carefully at escaped her. living in tha finding; so studied the 1111 fty dol- trived to pectably, went to lect res nd concerts, reed and studied, and whei her uncle died sud- denly, in th setuth year of h'er stay with him, s e had five five hundr d dollars in the savin s bank. i There se:med1 nothing o do, then, but to go ba k t herlathe 's house. She was sui cien ly well eau ated no to know the, shq was far tQo poorl educated to Leach ; -, and s e had to much pride o stand behind a counte ass, saleswo .. an., . Very bitte 1 she re- flected on . - °wile incapacitiesand th narrowness )f th openings o women' self-support. Such work s she ha done for he unle .she tri dn vain t get. Young awyers did it for them selves, and o d lawyerslhad 31erks. Sb resolved, ho - °veil, to stay in I the cit for six mont s, and leave ; no acme un turned to fin. a a isituation there.' Th thought of nturning to the monotonou solitude of he country was iusupport able to her. She had made few ac quaintancee in tlp.e', t wn. 1 Her uncl had been a , aciturn, eccentric old man not on good, wee with bis neighbors and Jerry h d been toe bus as well a too reserved, to Make frien Bias youn girls general y do • Bat there was ort house in which she felt at 121011113-th home of the widow of a former partne of her uncle':. Mrs. Shepheiid was th only woman who ever visted in --the uncle's hous "t el() e woman who' got sense th t 1te'd eve • kn wia," the ol man used to say. • Au1 he paid her th compliment of aisking her todinner o Thanksgivin da regiIarly every yea When Jerry fotiad ere' f {homeles she went i#0 med atel§ to Mrs. She herd's house and BO N40111 on ,the goo woman'a'sy to pat v- that l she consen ed to take h r as boarder for the wi ter. "If you w, n't, Mrs. Shopherd, I must go home," s id J rry, "for I can't go and live all lonej in a boarding-house ; , and I'd al a ost rat er dio than go 1 , home." "It's a b rninu shame your uncle , didn't provi e for yotr," sitiel Dirs. She herd ; "and 11 his meneylgoing to th good -for -not # mg 4oamj of. a nephew his." I I "Not at 11," said Jerry, coolly; "1 was only his clerk; just the same s any other clerk. He "had me in t e house becau e it was More cotevenie i t, that was 4i. He wit5 only gre t - uncle to m m ther,larid never s w her in his lif I never looked*for a dollar of hs ro ney except what I earned." .1 "Little_ eaoughI that was, to, I'll bound," said Mrs. Shepherd. "My h band. away us d to tty, when was your un le's partner, that he real ashame , he' be so close in bargain." "I think la pai1 me a good pric replied Jerr , naitiug the sum. "Tha better than can Icto at 4nything I c hear of. "Vl got I five hUndreil. doll • laid u.p alrea y." • "You don t say- so !" eX,claimed M Shepherd, tdmiimg1y. "Well, y ain't a bit like other girls, I decla Why, that's dough to keep you a go while." "But I do 't want to be " plied Jerry. "I ant to earn my 1 ing, a,nd lay .p money jut as I ha •been doing ; and mean to do it, t I can find something to do, I know can." But as we k a1ft1er week went on, a she found n thin , Jerry' • courage gan to fail. Witij a gloonay face s reckoned ov r ai4d over the inroa that Were b ing Imade on her lit hoard- by eve the very moderabe c of her living at •Mrs. Shepherd's, a said to herse f over a,nd over, "T • 5- 8,8 a ) • rs won't do; I wp.11 take My home." ; She had jus been plasm Season of 8ncI refleetions chanced to se Nelly's ad for a "W01:1184 W110 "knew books." "It Will- do no b what it means," she to written by a woman, 1 t may be some ody I shotild with. So Jerry aa down, and thinking, and tearing up a sheets of not Taper, cone° lowing rep*: money and go through a when she ertieement all about m to see ht. "It is ink, and it ike to *jerk --a, fter much half dozen ted the fol - your ad- er,' I write eituation, ements. I g clerk for ✓ I,aud, and I t books. to for a cir- nd see you I "Meesai,1- sevnag no ce vertisement fir a 'book u to say that I ivou1d liketh if I can mee your rni have been a 1 wyer's co • six years,:and write a el think I know J enough a, o make the pur hoses need n1 calating libra y. Will ctell if desired: Y urs truly; ! "JO Y ILLIA.MS, "Address imply Genr; 1 Delivery." When Nell,, received hi letter, she in ' disgue eying : "If like the co c it of men! y, "Must Ipe a woman.' more -ap ilia tions from dl, threw it :low that isn't just I said express If I get any men, I'll alt.r the a ver 'Bement to `No males ne d An he tossed the letter into the waste-kpaeer basket, and forgot all bout it. • Meantime •oor Jerry Was trudging to the post office several times a day for her letter,0 the third. dayshe timid- 1yasked the derkif he would please tell her who o -ned Box No. 1004. "What -11°37.0 want to 1:no* for?" said the clerk, gruffly. "Because I ansWered an advertise- ment for a book buyer in a circulating library, and i said to seii the answer to that box," eplied Jer y, with some spirit, "and I thought if I could find out where the place was, 1 would go and see if they got my letter. I want the situation very much." "Millington is the na e," aeswered the clerk; "t at's all I k ow about it." An older cl rk steppedi forward and said, kindly, It is the widow of Mill- ington, the h:*r dresser. She has just bought out Pettengill's library." "Oh, Pette gill's !," exclaimed Jerry, in astonishme t. "Why, I knew that place very ell. Than you." And she hurried a , ay, with a tr nge feeling of bewilderm nt. "I wonder never thong t of that •place !" she s id to hersel "I remem- ber seeing M . Pettengill s eath in the newspaper. f I don't h a to -morrow, I'll go right t # ere ;and ts about it. Perhaps the neVer .got My letter. There's nothi ig in the w rl I'd like so well." The next if orning no ieltt r, and Jerry set ofl early In hererrand. When she .. ade inosr er business to Nelly, NePy said, ar.pt1y, "Why didn't you wr te ? I ha m write, so that I could e their han writing in the beginning and save my elf trouble; and a preciou set of scr: -ls I've got, too." "I did wri e," said Jerr . "I wrote four days ago "What's yo "Jerry Wil ing. She li ward ways with a decor Grape at her 7) r name ?" sai. Nelly. ams,' repl e. Jerry, smil- ed the otrti straightfor- f this dr 11 ittle widow, us cap on he head, and hroat, but lhe face as full of mischief a a kitten's. "You don't' say so! e ry ?" Nelly pried out. "Why, Jerry's he name of a man. I recollect new; that's the only man's letter I got. I thought the man must be a fool, when I said, 'must be a woman' in the advertisement. How do you come to have such a name ?" "My name is Jerusha," Jerry replied, laughingly, "after ,my mother-; but I always hate the name i s I've been called Jerry ver since 1 w a child. "Well, I ever!" said elly, eying her visitor fr rn top to to?, and liking her better an better. 4 I vish I'd only known it so er.'! ' • "Have yo engaged sme one .al- ready ?" ask d Jerry. " so sorry! I think Icon d suit you alid I should like the plac very muo "Yes, :yes" nodded iJelly, "you'd snit; an' yo • 're the firs r one I've seen that would. You 'n' m get on first- rate; I can see that. r. M. he al- • ways said I could take tlje measure of folks quick° anybod e ever saw. We was in t e hair bum es. Did you ever use Millington's r Restorer? No, I guess ot"-looking vith a keen professional ye at the thic1 wavy brown hair drawn ack from Je ry's temples. "You hain't 1. ad any o ca ion; but it's the best thi. g was ever m de to put on heads, an' n thing in it io urtso n-Auch 's a fly. I "as a precio s fool ever I sold out t. at businest3. But there's times when women doili't know their own minds, la' I got in10 one o' them times, an' s ld out , qui�k r'n jiffy; an' there 'twas, yen Bee. ouldn't help myself; 'n' Could se ight down 'n' cry any tim I'm's° 10 esick to get back to 't, mb George 1te won't hear to it. He ain' the fool t ive it up now he's got it, 'a' the Gni° a Dye 'n the Restorer, too." - Jerry wa azing , b w lderedly into Nelly's face alnd her e pr ssion of per- plexity rec ed Nelly'sw: ndering mind to the subj in hand. "Oh, youj eedn't m h she said, gc nature et od way. If I couldn't tal what Mr. 4. ,4aid Whe Paris: we went there Says he, "Little woma place now where you' your tongue ;Id'ye thin an' Ilmost thought 't round looldn' for shops 'English sp ken' over liVe, when that spok ne out, or twas a you Ir. M. he' • say, 'No ing but poke Fre Mr. M. did. Most go make 'era understand hi about your comin.' her jest this way: I'm goin' I've made up my min is, I said, 's soon 's I se sures you young laay have just g sometimes go out, an' door, 'n' I' ain't anyt here.' He se my goin' on," "That's my d die. That's e took me to o years ago. ou've got to a got to hold t'll kill ye ?" ld. We'd go here they had door; an' 's d get in, the nglish she'd young man - man. An' I'd waitin' at the poppy; there ch spoke in pretty good, ally he could . But now You see, it's to have yon; o that. Fact Jon comin' in, 'Now here's a girl I'd 1k to have;' an' all the while I've been taIkin', I've been turnin' thi gs over in rpyj mind to see how I coul -fix it." To be COni 72. d.) -Trickett, the Au tr accompani d by Harry in New Yo k a few day pects to re ain three or and will ro any man in Hanlan. lien oarsman, Kelly, landed ago. He ex our months," a race except ON EXPOSITOR. REAL -111DROPERTY -I- Lennie, th Street owned h J. S. PORTER, lOR SALE. •s- Mill, nearl eituated in th W111 be Bola o SECORD, 003 ARM FOR J- cession 5, whieh are Clear tion; a g d fr ling undo eat failing spring o field and 6 'fro THOMAS lAIL STATE FOR SALE. OR SALE -For Sale, on easy t desirable residence on Janice Mr. George Dent. Enquire of eaforth, gfp, or Bale a first i class Planing new and in good running order, flourishing To' in of Seaforth, esp. Terms ea. -Enquire of NS & CO.,Godeaich, Ont. ALE -Being part Of Lot 22, Con- tanley, containing 761 sores, 60 of d audit. a high State of =Wye, me house, frame barn with stab- ; a large orchard and a never the plaqe ; 4 miles from Bruce - Clinton; terms easy. Apply to S, Constance P. 0. 702-8 F ABMALE IN GREY -For Sale, that Splendid heat farm, being Lot 12, Corm s - Rion 18, Grey t • wnship, Huron ounty, contain- ing 100 acres; is conveniently si nated to church, school and poet office, and within cafe/ distance of a good market will be so'd itiesonable, as the proprietor is d iroue of giving np farming. For further pertict tare apply • on the premises to JOHN BOBER 1 SON, Proprietor 703n4 TH • 'ARM FOR ALE -West half of Lot 6, Bay- -a: field Road North, Stanley, Ciounty of Huron, containing 100 ares; first-class soil, brickhouse, frame barns, very superior oachard and good • fruit; 30 acres of fall -wheat ; large quantity of cedar ir rear lot; near school, chureb, and market; on ea el road. For terms apply to JOHN PECK, roprietor, on the premises, or to JOHN ESq0N, t ayfield. 692-16 VAR181 FOR 11, HiPber are cleared, tin first-cla sta timbered avith frame bean an a young orohar from Seaforth ALE -P eing Lot 26, Concession , containing 100 acres, 80 of which erdrained, well enctd and ha a e rf cultivation; the balance ia ardwood ; there s a frame house, stable • plenty o ; it is 6 miles nd 21 from Cro good -water and ram Hensel], 10 arty. For fur- thet partic•ala apply to the p Oprietor on the premises, or if y letter to Cromarty post office. THOMAS OLIN ER. - 701x4 ARMFOR • Farm, bein Road, East, acres of land, 5 the belance go place a good be good fi ame bar the place is wel For further pa LOCK, Gestic, LOCK, Proprie SALE -For Sale, a first-class tbe sontL half Of Lot 17, Lake timley ; the tar* contains 661 acres of which are cleared, and d -hardwood bush' ; there is on the ring orchard, a iirst-class Nadi, a , stable, flied and, driving house; fenced and in first-class onter. tieu ars apply to ROBERT POL- Line, Stanley, or to JOHN- POL- or, Silver Spriugsi Manitoba -704-8 Ti OUSE AN that desii formerly owne Sp arling ; the rooms and kit w oodshed ; a LOT FOR S4LE - For Sale, le property on Nclrtli Wain Street, and occupied b •the late James is a frame hon containing six ,hen, with pantry, bedroom and good cellar,slso hard and soft -water; there i. one acre °fiend ith a frontage of 21 rods; there is a good young bearing orchard; it is true of th moat dethable Tiroperties in Sea - forth. Apply ti JAMES SPARLING, Blyth, or JOHN' S. WAL STRONG-, Seaforth. 694 11 or A. ]ARM FOR Lot 7, on tl H. 11. S., cont the place as a bearing orchar fall wheat Ow 41 miles frOm gravel road. T township, and p articualrs a premises, or if MONK. ALE. -For sale the west half of e 6th Concession of Tuckersmith, ning 50 acres of choice land; on frame barn nea •ly new, a young ; -good well and •ump ; 18 acres of , about 8 acres o bush; is within the town of S forth on a good is is one of thebes propertiesin the will be sold che p. For further iply to the pro rietor, on the v letter to Seaf rth P. O. GEO. 674144 f V ARM FOR ▪ cession 10, 40 of which a stump, well f class order. lots ef splend log house and ing to bear, a within eight n road, and con post office, propiietor on WALTER CA ALE -For Sale Lot No. 1, Oen- Hullett, containi o g 50 acres, about e cleared, under -c rained, free from laced and in eve respect in first - he balance is welt timbered, having d fencing timber. There is.a good og.bern, an oichard just commenc- d a good epring well. The farra is iles of Seaforth,nlear a good gravel enient to 'chum es, schools and ill be sold area - . Apply to the he premises or to Conaance P. 0. PBELL. • 704 TARN FOR SALE -The nort4i -L: Lot 27, a. d the east half o sion 4,L. R. ., Tuckersmi h ; 206 in one pared, or two of 1 tides respectively • first-clasa bnildi and orchan)t; the land is in a god 1, vation is -well stered, and is w roads,&a. : y person wanting good locality, ill do well to look fore bu3 ing el ewhere. For parlicnlars apply to J- • = 118 LAWRENCE half of Lot Lot 28, Conces- acres for and 60 acres go, goad fences, state of =ni- 11 'situated as Irt good farm, at this one andterms 13ROTataart MCCAUGHEY th. 672 26, sale to in a be- on & -the premise% or to MESSRS. HOLMESTED Barristers,Seafo CORNERLO the Wes ship of McFall cleared and well watered, acres p19w6d;I gaiod well en Roman Oath° a mile of Efur and 3 of Dt3bl acre farms in ply on the p P. 0., or to Office. I FOR SALE OR • hall of Lot 10; co p, containing 50 i a splendid state acres under fall good farm house bearing orchard; ic Church and school; n gravel road, 4 n; this is one of he township. Fo -e ises, to P. KEN A. D. KENNELLY SALE—For Sale r is going to Dakota, ession 13, Halle red and in a goodl nearly free from stirix,' f arced ; there is a iie barn and oth4r a good bearing orch t n wriest from Se • nd convenientlo 4chool, t • e land is equal toany1 . part of the sout 1, Hullett, contaiiIing25 i . These two Vices or tegether. Apply 1 . 0. WILLIAM 0 ItENT-Being • cession acres, of wheat couvenient iles he terms, ELLY, Lucknow Cheap, t, icontaining state ps good necessary' rd and foith, h n ihe SM 2, t4wri- nearlY all cultivation ; and. 15 and stable, to within half of &sloth prettiest 50 &c., ap- Seaforth Post 675 as the south half of 75 of cultiva- underdrain- log house, out - plenty of on a good churchand in Ontario. If of Lot 1, acres, all Nvill be sold premises or TH, Proprie- 704 F ARM FO Propriei L ot 1, Ca a ores, all cle tion, being e d and well first class fra b nildings ; w ater • it is g r avdroad, p o st office; Also the sout Concession we 11 timbere se parately to Harlock tor. . rrWO FAR "1" Townsbi containing stumps, well 40x60; good at ed one -qua Wroxeter, 0 east half, Co ing 44 acres, new bank ba ands good of Main St will be foun chaser. Fo proprietor Wroxeter P. I/ 8 FOR SALE- or of Turnberry, Lot 5, 9 acres, -88 acres el are4 enced and well wa ere onse ; two acres • 1 ter of a mile moat • of • a good gravel r ow . cession 0, same t wn,ship, 0 acres cleared MCI • 50x54, a new br ck o chard; situated wi in eet, Wroxeter. E 'my • on both places. erns further informat on in Lot 26, or if y • . ROBERT J. E fraie, in the onceesion 0, and free of •' bank barn olrehard • eau - the Village of Also Lot 26, contain- well fenced; house 24x30, half a mile convenience to suit pur- apply to the later address AS. '-06-4 LARGE and east containing drained, aria ance is heav and basswc and 60 acre: quality, bei8g little rollin creek runs tarough c lass grain young orc plums and cis buildings ar large bank driving hou new; tho h kitchen and cellars one between eta tom to top; store and bl 1 arm is sit Clinton, anil gravtl road kets. A go. remain on of the place ATKINS() office. A smaller payment of F: • M FOR SALE Fen half of Lot 4, Concession 25 acres; 190 acias nearly clear from .turnpe iv timbered .with eech, e d ; there are 50 ac es in grass; the lane a rich clay loam; 14s t, but not hilly; a ne ei the barn yar ; ir dairy farm; there art • sad, with apples, pears, erries, just beginn n large and cpremo ins; barn 58x60, and is n e and stable is 40 -6 i use is a large two :t wood shed attached, a er the whole buil. • • ding with lime an • there is a good a h . ekemith shop wit • .1 ted 10 miles from '8 6 from Londesboro rom the place to al t d part of the pure • e ortgage long enong t For particulars ape ,on the premises, or t property would b bove.• Sale, Lot 3 13, Hollett, elearedoinder- ; the bal- maple, elm in fall wheat is of the best farm lays a failing apring Jibis ia B first - 6 acres of a peaches, to bear; the there is a arly new; the , and is also ry frame, with d good stone , and is filled avel from bot- ol, post office, ails mile; the forth, 12 from here is a good e above mar- se money can make i it oat ' to THOMAS Harlock post taken in part 688 . MONEY. M ONEY. m oney m ortgages p er cent. in agreed npot• forth . ._ MONET lend se any &mono est charged commission G. McDougall& The undersigned ha for immediate invest n farm property. Sevin crest yearly; prinaipel . J. H. BENSON, .. A. G. McDOUGAL4 oney at 61 per cent. , and for any nuinbet or 1 y on the unpai charged. Apply at Co. s ii ox cf ,principal. he large sum of •• ent on first and a half as may be elicitor, Sea - , 633 authorized to mortgage, for years ; inter- ..No •Store of A. • `, 678 $100 000. ) of years not annum; N principal in giving six nf• ing one -fou i year witheat time of p OFFICE - EtTLL. , TO LOAF 00 Beal Estate exceeding twenty, at Commissions; The ney may be repaid onths' notice, or anyeura h may be paid at the notice, interest ceasing yment ; Loans effee.ed Victoria Square, . - • on 6 a; eaforth. , Security for al per ce whole any ti'me not close !rem promptly. _ of term t. per of the on exceed- of each the i WM. 1 700 • E CAMPAIGN FAIRLY OPE DUNO,AN & DUNCAN'S, SEAF THE 300 pi 11 Jun24 ED. THE JEWELRY DIM SEAFORTII AND SURhOU111 ING CO UNTR,Y; RTH. LARGEST STOCK OF EMBROIDERY I ces in all widths, from 3 cent per yard up, i rted direct. White Goods—P. K. in 2, -3 and 4 cbrd. Marseilles S ripes and Fancy lyIuslins. Just eceived, another lot of New Dr€ss Muslin, from 1 cents per yard up. 200 pi ces Print, all new patterns, from 5 cents to 12.1- c nts per yard. Corsets Two cases just opened qtnacia. out, the best value in Another Lot of Lace Curtains, whidh will be sold at h lf price. , Black Lustros at 15 cents, worth 25 cents por yard., 1 THE DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. We aave the Largest Dress oods ment in the County. epar DRE S GOODS—At 10 cents, 12i cents, 15 cents, 20 cents and 25 cents . all new and 20 per cent. cheaper than ever offered: Blac All Blac Silks M.- R. .CQUNTE, MANAGER A/IID PROPRIE're' 17.41S LS rHE pLA 1 To get Good m330 Reliable Goode -1 GOLD WATCHES, SILVERWATCHES, SI LVEROLATED W JEWELRY, CLOCKS, &O., 40. y 'Stock of which is, very choice and eetepaa Call and caernine for, yourselves. No tro eheW Goeds. All Goods sold oh the; aet m enta and warranted as represented. Having made arrangement» witlit find -Qat M alanfacturing Et Otlfie, I Can fill en -meal et any Srecial Piece of Jewelry on the Ebert* Notice. Personal Attention given to th4,,, pa -ring of Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry. Pine IVatches akaps Specialty. AII Work Wan -anted to give Satisfattkei, Caspaid for Old Gold and Silver. REMEMBER TBE, STAND—Tree of Silver. P I ated Wai e in the 'Window, and directly ow s ite J 8. Porter's Cheap Cash FOrniinrsikere, • M. R. COUNTER, deaforth, TH_E S AkORTII 1 N SU RANCE AGENCY SEAFORIA QENEI1AL FIRE, Marine, Life and /odd* Insurance Agent, Conveyancer, &iO Bish on all kinds of exoecrty effected at lowest Jen. rent;rates. Losses4justed promptly and es. factcUily. None but, Ant- class reliable Cow patties represented. Exeentionally low Atm .& all classes of farm property,. Only 50 te.abnao $1 per $100 for three years in the Gere Diseikt of Galt, estabiished li r over 40 years, The.fai.' lowing Companies represented; britieh Amerlean„ of Toronto, Scottish Imperial, of GlaagowaScotiatel, r °Allem, of London, England, Bore District, of Gait, Ontario, Canada Fire and Marine, of Hamilton, Oat, ' Royal Canadian, of Montreal, P. Q., Quebec, of Quebec, P. Q., Alliance, of Eframilton. Ontario, Travellers (Life and Accident); of Ifs I Conn.,Toronto ife, of Toronto, Ontario. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE Buntings, also Lace Checked Buntings in GreysCANADA PE.RMANM, rowns, Navy and Black. • �o DeBeiges, at 25 cents per yigd. and Colored Satin, from 60 cents to $1. at 50 cents, in Black, Navy Blue, P une and rown, worth 75 cents. • HOSE il t °F tLatestYANDNovelties G iialimOthiVs GLOVES-The entlagest . rstockin town. HOUSE FURNISHINGS. We have all Tickings, for Feathers or Straw. Sheetings, Bleached and Brown, in 8-4, 9-4 a$ 10-4, twill and plain. Pillow Cotton, -all widths. White Quilts, from $1 25 to $2 50. !Table Napkins, at all prices. • Table.Linen, in Unbleached, from 25 cents to 75 cents. Bleached Table Linen, from 50 cents to $1 25. These Goods were all imported direct and will be sold cis SHIRTINGS, DENIMS, DUCKS, COTTO1ADES, LINEN, DULL, BLEACHED AND BOA COTT011, ALL AT MILL PriCES. OUR STOCK IS THE MILLINERY DEP RTM 00 Stock is very complete at present, and We willloffer special to custiomers tib clear the balance. LARGE. NT. MOney advanced on Real Estate st -6 and perII dent. Per annum. ALSO AGENT FOR Tail; STATE LINE STEAMSHIP CO. situ ng from New 'York City every' Thursday, sill obits in Europe. Tickets issued from hm, or New York, to suit purchaser. First Celie. $60 to $1l0 -return. Second Cabin, $40 -return- Steerage,$26. Parties going to rope should try the STATE LINE, 18 114i undoubtedly OtIC of :he Best -and Safest Stew - ship Companies sailing from New York. WilM. N. sW ATS01 Main Street, SEAFORD", Ontario, 0 Fit? m.E 7iot BeretbeIVE Bleck. oP1X# S NG MACHINES J MES "WATS0 Dealer in all kinds of First4Class ARMY AND .MANUFACTIJ ING SEWING MACHINE& Kitting Machines, Lawn Mown* Sad Irons, 8ewing Machine pairs, Needles, Oils, Attachments$ c6c., tee. I ata the ONLY Agent in this partof theCautiiII • for the Celebrated WHITE SEWING NIACIIINEI Which has succeeded in taking the First bile for two years in succession at the Se.aforth Palaj over snits competitors, Also Agent for the Wheeler & Wilson, Bowe( Osborne A, Wilson, Wanzer C, and .fany Machinl a customer may want, All Kinds of Sewing 16,ohine4 • Retwared- Second:hand Machines taken in exchange si part payment for New 11 achines, and Mad* ol.4 on easy 'monthly payments. .144th/faction Gui an4eed. JAMES WATSON MAIN STREET, SEAFORD". OFFICE—In Campbell's Block, opposteabs 1111111.Bi032 Hotel, 4118 THE VERY ndneenaents BEST MACHIN 01 For Stylish, Millinery and New Goods See ou- 7: Stork. MENIS SUMMER COA, IN LUSTRE, RUSSO. CORD AND LINEN. Men's and Boys' Straw Hats at half price. We I vite ER;amination by the Publw of our Immense Bargaim. No Trouble to, Show Goods. DUNCAN •86 DUNCAN, IMPORTERS, SEAOORTH. We take BUTTER, and EGGS at Market Prices. In the World, is Bianufactuired by VIC Coil Bros. Co., rorontot ! • A nil for Fele by dealers. Ask your Merchant 101 L ardine and taken* lothe. This oil, inderthf s evcrest test and most attivetom etition,1114 a t the Tort -a° 17 drudrial Exhib* ion,swarW t he highest prize ; alc•;o the gold niedal at tht. p rovincial exhibition P,sruilton, nd the blght e ati award at the DoMinion Exhibi ."on, Ottawa-, t he silver medal. Fanners and wbofl it griculturai machinery, wilt Balm Money andmk c hinery by using none but Larelitte. 100 STILL AHEAD. BRUSSELS LIME WORKS • TOWN' & Som. THE S•abscribers take this opportunity of Ss turning thanks to the inhabitants of B and vicinity for past patronage, ane bee to that having made seveial improvements in tneF kiln and mode of burning, they are now in a igtH ter position than everbefore to supply the Pub-: lit -with fast-chun Lime at 18 centeash at the kiln, or 15 eents delivered. This being the seventh season of ourbusin6se. dealings in Brussels, and having even nnqn fied satisfaction BO far, the publici tan re,17.00: •receiving good treatment a -id a fust•elasS from us, Remember the Spot•—Brassela Lithe Works. . • 699 TOWN & SONS. . iiN1 bitta fnz faatei ow es Ole time the ea ger Yollr deO we bouilYWI struot tiown tro who )/ttt wirs nal pejo new ri„ 'en°4 112OBB'ele/i194. ThsttOngUe "TIVAITer DIOTe#19;1 Shill liftea b Mg *Oa Mid OBIrd )24 -aOlInly1 fann6 11"aewl Alp/ uzInY'- '01te 13 -ow 34 To= work til Mae alai- -61 Your Yoien* Dearielkeve OirdOrt are otir daY d 10 Isia. the Y. 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