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The Huron Expositor, 1882-06-09, Page 21 Nti- W,c..1.eLIAM AND HIS ARMIES. al•••••••••••••••••=111. 1. I think it well to announce, right in the beginning of thisestory, that Idilfts Bunkly is not properly its hero, though 110m0 preliminary things must be told concerning him. Although Miles had loved Miss Caroline Thigpen long before Mr. Bill Williams courted hereyet he never had told her so inject words, un you may say it was too late. Yet everybody was surprised. Miles wee a, most excellent young man, in- dustrious, sober, thrifty, fond of laying up, and had a right good deal laid up already. Then he was quite passable as to looks. Mr. Bill could not have been said, even by Miss Thigpen, to have any advantage of Miles as to looks. As for the rest, alt except Miss Thig- pen and his own mother considered him the inferior. Yet Dukesborough manners, or something else, put him in the lead on his first entry upon the field. It was theh, and not till then, that Miles Buukly made one, and, but one, avowed effort, and failing, gave up the contest, and resigned himself to what ha called molloncauly. He had. never been—at least he had never teemed to be—a cheerful minded person anyway. His courtship even hut been a rather eolenac piece of busi- ness, and the final declaretion sounded somewhat as if he had invited Miss Thigpen to go with himto the grave- yard instead of taking charge of his do- mestic affairs. The lady, after gently declining his snit, and claiming the privilege of regarding him as a friend— nay, a brother—announced. her inten- tion of ever keeping his proposal a se- scret, and requested him to do the Mine. “No, ma'am," said Miles; "no ,Miss Car:line. I shall not deny it, ner I shall not deny it. I'm much obleeged to you, and shall be aeiriend to you and to yourn. The wound is in my heart, and it '11 stay titer, and it '11 be obleeg- ed to stay thar, bat I'll be a friend to you and yearn." On his way home he called to his neighbor and friend Abram Grice, who was standing in his door: "Mawnin , Abom." "Mawnint, Miles, 'Light and conie in." "Step out here a minute, Abom, ef you pleases" Mr. Grice came out to the gate. "Kicked, Abom." "Kicked, Miles ? Who?" iMe. 71 - "Kicked bad, Miles ?" 'Powerful." "Your horse, Miles, or a mule, or a steer ?" "Nary one. It's here, Abom." Then he laid his hand broadly on his breast. "In the stomach, Miles? Bad place to git kicked. What in thunder kicked you 'way u.p thar? (}it down, come in and take a drink, and, tell me about it afterward." "It's not my stomach, Abom; it's ray bras. The waound's inside —'wat, inside. Sperrits wouldn't do it any good ; it wouldn't retch it." "My goodness gracious ! Miles Bunk- ly, what in. the dickens is the matter with you ?" "Pve been yonder, Abom," and he pointed mournfully toward the Thig- pens', "and my desires is toe tell no lies. I got it from a human person over thar, and that not of the sect of a man per- son." "Who ?—Miss Carline ?" "Ef I was to name the name, Abom, that were the name I should tame." Mr. Grim) shouted with laughter. "Miles Bunkly, you skeered me out of a year's growth. 1 thought you been kidleed lay a team o' rauleEt, or at least a yoke o' steer& Well, look here, you ain't a-goin' te stay kicked ?" "It's dope done, Abom." “Yes, but, Miles, I've knowed Bich as that ondone. Why, Serena kicked me three times han' mania% but I told her every time she done it that sich talk is that didn't pheze me. That's woraen, Miles. Them's their ways. Therein% a-goin' to let a fellow know, not at the first off -start, that they gain' to have him. I dont know what it's for, 'Mont it's jes natchelly to try to git the whip -hand of hire at the !dart. It's the .natchel tnstirto of the women sect. You go beak to Carlin° Thigpen, and don't • let on that you 'member anything abbot her kick - in' of you, and that yoi ain't even phaztel by it. Yon're so r slow, -old fellow—that is, in inchmotions—but Carline Thigpen got too nuch sense to give up sich a chance." "'Nothor person, Ab m," replied Miles, roost mournftilly "'nether. per. son, of the male sect." "Who's he ?" ",William Williams." "Who? Bill -Williams " exclaimed Mr. Grice, in astonishm t and dis- gust. “That's the name of the man, Abom." "Well, Miles Bunkly, f you can't whip out Bill Williams, von with his Dukestorough ways he go by livin' in town six mouths, all I got to say ie you ought to git kicked by a oke o' steers, - and run over by the kear in the bar- gain. Such and s• imilar remon trances were ineffectual to make Mr. Bunkly eats tinue the contest. He re ired at-oncea leaving the field to his rival. At the wedding, though he did not join in the dance, nor even in the plays, yet he partook sufficiently, it w s thought, of meats, cakes, and sylIal4ub. Mr. Bill and Miss Caroline, her 1rother Allen and his young bride etsann, were specially attentive to 1i14 wants. He yielded with profound sa nestZ to their persistent offering& of god things, and the more syllabub he took,, the mourn- faler grew his deportment. To several persons, mainly elderly, he said during -the evening that it was the mollon- °holiest of all days to him. "Yit, farthersomemore," he would add, with touching unselfishness, "ef her who is now Missis Carlin° Williams, and who were Miss Carline Thigpen, be it her or be it hern, ef her or them might eever want for anything which it might be her, and their good rights or their desires, and ef then I'm adivin' providing, you understand., I'm a-livin' —they shall have it, ef it's in ray retch.' • II. Some four years passed. Mr. Bunk - ley, though plunged in his dear melari- eholy, yet attended punctually to his business in a gloomy, slow, sure way, made good crops, sold at good time, added to his land and plantation stock, and claiming to despise wealth, heaped it up more and more, as if to show, evidently, howvain are earthly goods for the happiness of , a man in whose breast is an incurable wound.' Mr. Bill Williams was getting along, toe, betterthan had been expected and prophesied. Aftioli of the exuberant vi- vacity contracted by several months' residence in town had subsided in these four years of living with a wife )a settled 'omen, he styled , her) who was probably the most industrious wo- man in the neighborhood. He well knew that everybody believed Miss. Thigpen to have made a mistake in preferring himself to Miles Bunkly, and he had said to himself at the be of his conjugal career that he should take it upon himself to con- vince the world that it was mistaken. When his twin sons, Romerlus and Remerlus, were born and named, he felt that he was making reasouable headway onthat ambitious road. Then he too had added somewhat to his estate, and his wife, a famous weaver,: had picked up many a dollar by her extra work. They did not rise as Miles, but 'Miles remained but one, While Mr. Bill, so to speak, had been two, and now he was four. People can not ignore figures in such calculations, especially when they represent months. Never mind, thought Mr: Bill—never, mind. Thus the contemplation 'of a former rival, With whom, however, he was on the friendliest terms, spurred a nature that otherwise ntiglat have been wanting in the energy becoming the head of a family. The coming of the twins lengthened, strengthened and sharpened this spur wonderfullt Only one thing interfered with the happiness of that rising family, and that was becoming serious. It would sting the wife painfully sometimes when she would hear of the _practical jokes put upon her 'husband, who had become 'rather , liable thereto by what had been considered in the neighbor - his -too great forwardness of speech and other deportment. Too great a talker, as frora the very first she had told hire. he was, ehe would tell him further that a man who got into scrapes ought to get out of them. In these four years he had. sobered ranch under that benign influence. Yet when a man has once been the butt of neighborhood ridicule, it requiree time to release him even when he has ceased to deserve it. Sometimes it seems that the only wee to obtain such release is to fight for it. That exigency, in the opinion of Mrs. Williams, had now arrived. One night, when the children had been put to bed, she said, “William, you've got to whip SOMebody." She spoke pointedly. ; Mr. Bill looked behindhim at the trundle bed, and asked himself, 1s it Baba, or is it Reme ?" "Nary one," was the audible 'an- swer. "It's somebody bigger'n theni, har- der to whip, and a more deservin' of it." Then Mr. till peered through the wiudow into the outer darkness, and speculated if there were insubordina- tion among his little lot of negroes. "Nor them neither. It's white folks; it's Mose Grice, that's who it is, and it's nobody else—that is, to start with. . Mr. Bill was startled. Colonel Moses Gricebad indeed been extrernely rough with Mr. Bill on several occasions, and (being a childless married man, and thought to be sore on that point) had especially and repeatedly ridiculed the father of the twins. Yet he was a man of insane, a censiderable- fighter, tend colonel of the regiment. So Mr. Bill was Obliged to he startled, and he leek - ed at his wife. "You've been joked by Mose Grice, William, and Poked fun at, and made game of by him, until I don't feel like standin' of it no longer, nor I don't think Rom and Reme would feel like standin' of it, not if they were big enough and had sense enough to under - sten' his impudence." "Why, Cartine—" remonstrated Mrl Bill. "Oh, you needn't be a-Carlinin' me!" she said. And never before had Mrs. Williante addressed her husband in precisely that language. But her feelings had been hurt, and allowance ought to be made. She cried some; what, but tears did not serve at once to produce the softening influence that is their' legitimate result. • "There's brother Allen," she con- tinued, "and which Betsann told me herself that Allen told her that the fact of the business was, if you didn't make Mose Grice keep his mouth fillet, 'specially about Born and Reme, he would; and then there's Miles Bunk- ly—" "Oh, Lordie ?" exclaimed Mr. Bill. "There's Miles Bankly, and which Betsama says is about as mad as brother, and which, ef he ain't any fighter, yit, when Mose Grice was one day a•makin' game of him about his molloecholy, Miles told him that his molloncholy was his business and not his'n, and that if he kept on meddlint with it, he naout ketch the disease, and Mose Grice let Miles Bunkly's molloncholy alone, he did." "And then," Mr. Bill said afterward "Carlin° sot up a cry, she did, and it woke up Rom and Reme, and they sot Ili° a howl apiece, and I says to myself, I'll stand a whippin' from Mose Once rather'n run agin sich as this." After that night Mrs. Williams :lid not again allude to its matter of conver- sation, and was as affectionate to her husband -as always. Mr. B11 gloried in the possession of her, and he heel good reason. He brooded and brooded.' The allusion to Miles Bunkly stung him deeply, usually irciperturbable as his temper was, though not a jot . of jeal- ousy was in the pang. He would have known himself to be the greatest of of fools to feel that. Yet, easy going, self-satisfied as he was, he knew that • other people, including his brother-in- law, still regarded his wife less fortun- ate than she might have been. The more Mr. Bill brooded, the more seri- ous appeared to hire the relation of his case to that of several others, especially Colonel Grice. Superadded to a general disposition to impose upon whomsoever would en- dure hint Colonel Grice had a spite against Mr. Bill on account of the friendship that, since the intermarriage with Miss Thigpen, had grown up be. tween him and Abram Griot', the Colonel's younger brother, whose rela- tions with himself were not only not fra- ternal, but -hostile. The colonel was 4 THE HURON EXPOSITOR. fighter, and had managed somehow aiways to come victorious out of cam bat; for he was a man of powerful build, and of great_viger and activity. Some, indeei, had often said that he knew whom to encounter an& whom not. His position of head of the regi- ment had been obtained at a time when military ardor, after a long peace, had subsided, and leading citizens cared not for the seka of the office. He had sought it eagerly, and obtained it because there was no strong competitor and especially because his election was expected and intended to ridicule and discourage regimental parades. He was greatly exalted by hiaelection, and became yet more overbearing whenever he could do so with safety. "That's Mose," said his brother Ab- ram one day to Miles Bunkly—"that's jest him. He'll impose on anybody that'll let him, and he'll try it with anybody that he thinks likes me. He's been so from a boy. He imposed on me till I got big enough to whip him, which I done a time or two, and then he quit it. But he took his revenge on me by itheatin' me out of part o' the property, and he done that the quicker because he knowed I, bein' of his brother, wouldn't prosecute him for it. That's Mose—that's jest him." ' "I hate the case, Abom," answered Miles, "because I has that respects of Carline Williams that it mortify me, and make me, So to speak, git !mollon- °holier than what I natchelly arp, to see a man. that's her husband, and ; the fa- ther, as it were, o' them two fair pinks of boys„runned over in the kind o' style that Mose- run over him, nigh and in about every time he come up along of William Williams. I never keered no great deal about him, with them town ways o' his'n, untell he were mar- ried to Miss Carlin°, and then I know - ed that there were obleeged to be that in Wm.Williams which people he general never suppoeened." "Ah, Miles, old fellow," said Abram, "you ought to took that prize, and you'd 'a done it ef you'd 'a listened to me, and been perter in your motions, and hilt on longer." "No, ne, A.bom," answered Mile%, his arm giving a mournful deprecatory wave. "It were not my lot. ,I tried, and I tried honest and far. I were not worthy of Miss Carlin°, Abom. I didn't know it, but she did. Acid yit I could see it hurt her to put the waound where she knowed it were obleeged to stay. I wasn't a eupposenen, though, as to that, that William were worthy of Miss Car'line neither. But Carlin° Thigpen—I ain't a•speakin' o' Your wife now, Abom, and a-leavin' of her out o' the case—Car'line Thigpen'but whieh she is now Carline Wil- liams, is the smartest woman, and got the best jedgment, I ever. saw. And sence she have choosed William Wil- liams, I been certain in my mind that there were that in William Williams that the balance of us never supposened and' which '11 show itself some day if William Gan ever git fairly fotched to a right pint." Thus that nature, upright, unselfish, simple, fond to persuade itself that it was unhappy, took ite chief solace in contemplating and magnifying its own disappointments, and in sympathizing with those who had been their chief occasion. IV. It was muster day for the battalion. Colonel Grice always felt it his; duty to be at these occasione, preparatory to the great regimental parade. The ex- ercises, after many boars, were coming to an end, as the companiee marched, with short intervals between, down the one street of the village, preparatory to disbandment. Alternately had the colonel been complimentary and cen- sorious, as he rode, sometimes in a walk, other times at full gallop, up and down the lines. "Peerter, peerter, major," he remon- strated with Major Pounds, respectful- ly indeed, but with a warmth that seemed difficult to repress—"peerter ; make them captains peerten op them lines! My blood and thunder! my Juberter and Julus °wear! if the ene- my was to come on as with fixted ban - nets— Oh, you've done your part admarrably, major. It's them cap- , tains." It wasjust before the -final halt that the colonel addressed Ceptain Collins, whose company was in the centre, and then immediately in front of Bland's store. "Ah, Cap'n Collins; look to your ran It's so far behind that it look likes two companies 'stid -o' one. That sergeant o' yourn you'll have to talk to and drill in private. He's after makin' twins out o' yeur company. Ser- geant Williams is a great man for twins you know, cap'n. But you better tell him to make 'em keep his cubs at home. We want solid columns when we come to the field of battle." The warrior epjoyed his jest, that had been heard by all in the conapany, and others beside. But he did not allow himself even to smile whe the head of the military forces of li.k country, in order to keep himself ever bthe alert against sudden attacks of her.enemies. His gloomy brow indicated , indignation at the thought that a petty subaltern, from some vain notion ofemaking his own donaestic status the model of the nation's principal means of 'defense, sought to demoralize it, and actually in. vite invasion. "My Lord !" said Allen Thigpen, when they told him, "if Bill don't fight him for that, I will! To think that sister Carline's feelin's is to be .hurt by hearin' of sich as that !" "I don't think, Ahem," said Miles (who everheard the remark), "that it can be put off any longer. Ef there's that in William Williams which I been a-supposen is obleeged to be thar, he'll fetch it out now. Now you go right on home, Ahem." (To be Continued.) Diphtheria, That terrible scourge of the present day, attacks chiefly those whose vi- tality is low and blood impure. The timely -use of Burdock Blood Bitters forettalls the evils of impure blood, and saves doctors' bills. Sample bot - ties 10 cents. 739 From, Rossevell M. Kenny, M. D., of Mans-ville, N. Y. "I do not hesitate to say that the Peruvian Syrup has claims to confi- dence equal if not superior to those of any medicine that has ever come to my knowledge. I have used it with great success for Dyspepsia and Epilep- sy." Sold by dealers generally: 710 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. VARM FOB FIAL.E.—For Eiale or will be ex- -1: changed fora farm bitherin MoK op, Tucker - smith, Stanley or Hullett, Lot No, 85, concession 12, Turn -berry, containing 60 "acres good timber lane. Perntinhorpartioulere apply A. to STRONG,— Land Agent, Seaftth. • ' 788 1AR/411011 BALL—The suborn -Pier offers for Sale Lot 45, Conoriwsion 1, Lendon Road, Tuotersmith, within 21 miles of the Town of Clinton, and 84 from Brncefield. This farm contains 100 acres of choice land. Well watered by never failing sprines. No waste land. Good orchard and out buildings. WIll be sold either svith or without the crop. Terms easy'. For further particulars apply to. MRS. ELIZABETH GRANT, Clinton P. 0. 754 VARM FOR SALE—North half of lot 28, conces- sion 2, East Wawanosh, containing 100 acres, 80 acres cleared.and in a good state of cultivation. There are 14.iieree of summer fallow ready for crop. There is a large frame barn with stabling under- neath, a log dwelling and a small orehard. It is one and a quarter miles from the Village of Man- chester. Soil is good clay loam. This is a choice farm, and will be sold cheap. If not sold before the 10th of March it will be rented. C. HAMIL- TON, Blyth. 741 FARM FOR SALE—For sale, Lot 24, conces; sion 1, Huron Road, Tuckersinith, contain ing 100 acres, of which about 90 acres are clear- ed, in a splendid state of cultivation and all underdrained. There is a good brick house, first-class out -buildings, two orchards and plenty of good water. This farm is situated on the Huron Road, about half way between Clinton and Seaforth, and is one of the choicest farms on the Huron tract. It will be sold cheap. Apply on the premises or to Seaforth P. 0. MRS. GEO. CUESNET. 740 "'WARM FOR SALE—Farm in Tnckersmith for - -IL sale—For sale, Lot 2, Concession 10, Huron Road Survey, Tackersmith, containing 100 acres, 76 of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation, and all underdrained. The balance is well timbered with hardwoLd There are 18 • acres of fall wheat and 30 acres fall piowed. There is a stone house, goed franie bani with stabling underneath, and other good out -buildings. Three good wells and a young orchard. Is within eight miles of Seaforth on the Grand Trunk Railway, and'five from Hensall on the Great Western. Schools and Churches quite convenient. Will be sold cheap. Apply to Chiselhurst P. 0., or on the premises. MRS. A. YULE. _ 733 FARM FOR SALE—Lot No. 7, in the 4th Con- cession, H. R. S., Of Tuokersmith, 100 acres, the estate of the late James Chesney; 90 acres clew ed and under math ation, balance timbered with beech maple elm &es. Good briek house 1i storeys high, 26 by 36. Frame bars and cow stable on stone foundation, also franle stable, and good orchard. The lot is well watered, well fenced andis in a good state of cultivation. For particulars apply on the promisee, or to the un- dersigned. MoCAUGHEY & HOLMESTED, Solicitore, Seaforth. 7104 1 FOR SALE—A story and a half house on the corner of John and High streets, containing every convenience for family use in one of the most central localities of the toWn as regards churches, rnarkets, schools and business centres. Hard and soft water on the premises. A fine lawn with chpiee shrubbery, the whole enclosed - by a handsome wire fence. ALso barn with stabling for cow and horses. For further particulars apply to W. S. ROBERTSON, Sea - forth. 720 FARM FOR SALE—For sale, the tweet half of the north half of Lot 2, Concession 8, Morrie, containing 60 acres, 85 are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bush is Well timbered with good hardwood, good 'revue barn and two good log stables, also a iog dwelling- "house. A good young orchard sith a choice variety of fruit trees. Gooa well. Saw mill and eohoel within one- quarter of a mile. Two and a half miles from the village of Blyth, and ene-quarter of a mile from the Winghani gravel road. This property will be sold cheap as ths proprietor is going to Manitoba in the spring. Apply to AUGUST KRUSE on the place, or to C. HAMILTON at Blyth. 784 SPLENDID -FARM PT. SALE —For sale Lot 27, Concession 6, Hay, containing 100 acres nearly all cleared, well fenced, tinderdrained, free from stumps and in a high state of cultiva- tion generally. 1 here are about 16 acres of fall wheat and about 40 acres fall plowed. A triune house,' two good frame barns, frame stable and other good outbuildings • plenty of water and a good orchard; also aliuut 160 rods of thorn hedging. It is within 4 miles of Eippen and about some distance to Hensall, and convenient to churches, schools and post office. This is a splendid farm, and will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as the proprietor wishes to retire. Apply on the preinises or to Hhills Green P. 0. JAMES HonLDEN, Proprietor. 737 FARM IN TUCKERS MITH FOR SALE — For -a- Sale Lot 28, Col cession 8, L. R. S., Tucker - smith, containing fee sores, about 80 of which are cleared and in a first -Class state of oultivation, and nearly all underdrained. The balance is timbered with hardwood. Thole is a good brick house -with a splendia cellar, and firet-olass frame bares, stables and outbuidings. A large orchard. of first-class fruit trees, and plenty of water There is about 120 rods of board fence. Is within 2 miles of Brucefield on the Great Western Rail- way, and 6 miles from Seaforth on the Grand Trunk, with gravel roads leadieg to each p ace. There are 17 acres of fa.11 wheat. This is as good and comfortable a farm- as there is in the County of Huron, and will Oe geld cheap and oo easy terms. Apply on the premises or to Brucefield P. 0.ALEX. LIVINGSTONE. 724 FARM IN HULLETT FOR SALE. —For sale Lot 2, Concession 73, • Hullett, containing 150 acres, about 125 acreS cleared, in good culti- vatiou Well.feated and well underdrained. The balance is well timbered whir hardwood. There is a good frame barn and other frame buildings, anti two comfortable owellin,g houses; also a bearing orchard of choice fruit trees, a here are two good wells and a never failing spring creek running through the fain. It is within 7 miles of Biussels on the Great Western Railway, and ten from Seaforth on the Grand Trunk, with good gravel roads to each place; ad churches, schools and post office convenieet. Terms easy, as the in oprietor wishes to retire from farming. Fur further particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises or to etarlock P. 0. WILLIAM DcNaoi. 735x4., t f FARM FOR. SALE. —For sale, Lot 9. concession 13, Hullett, containing 150 acres, about 120 cleared, under -drained, well fenced and in a good state of cultivatiou ; the balance is well timber- ed with first-class ha:dwood. There is a good frame house and good log house; and two good frame barns, one of which has stone stabling underneath, and other good outbuildings. There is a large orchard of first-class fruit trees and two never failing spring wells, also a creek running through the farm. It is within 12 miles of Sea - forth on the Grand Trunk Railway, the same distance frum Cliuton, and is within five miles of the village of Londesboreugh, on the Great Western Railway; it is within a mile of a school and pest office. Possession' at any time. It is one of the best farras in Hul ett, and will be sold on easy terms. Apply at THE EXP0S [TOR Office, Seafor,h • to the proprietor on the premises, or to Harlock P. 0. ALEX. WATT, SR. 754 • MELLVILLE'S MILLS, HULLETT. THE undersigned having procured a. first-class -IL practical miller, and having his mill in the very best order, is now prepared to do GRISTING AND CHOPPING on the shortest notice and on reasonable terms. They guarantee a first-class article of flour. All kinds of Mill and Feed Offal, con- stantly on hand. They solicit the patronage of the Farmers of Hullett and neighboring townships, and can guarantee them the fullest satisfaction. ANGUS McKARRALL, Proprietor. 2,000 CEDAR POSTS FOR SALE, Suiteble for Board, Mire, or Straight Rail Fences. One mile and a quarter west of Winthrop. ALSO RAIL TIMBER By the Acre or by the Thotisand. W. C. COUINLOCK. JUNE 9, 1882. The Largest Stock West of Toronto. DUNCAN 8LP DUNCAN Have now the Largest Establishment and carry the Largest Stock of Good West of Toronto, consisting of: DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, WOOLLENS OF ALL DESCRIPTION, READY-MADE CLOTHING, GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES. 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They have the best known improve- ments for saving fuel and labor of any similar stoves in this market. CALL AND SEE THEM AT JOHN KIDD'S, MAIN ST- • SEAFORTH. SEAFORTH INSURANCE AGENCY WM. N. WATSON, General Fire, Marine, Life and Ac- cident Imurance Agent, Convey- ancer, Appraiser, Etc., • MAIN ST., SEAFORTH. ONLY FIRST-CLASS, prompt paying companies represented. AD kinds of risks effected at lowest current rates on all hinds of property. Special attention devoted to Marine insurance_ Insurances effected on farm property in the "Gore District," of Galt,establish- over 43 years, at from .62fr to 1 per cent., cash, for three years. Cheaper than any mutual com- pany in existence. The following companies represented, viz.: London & Lancashire, Eng•land ; Northern, England; Scottish Imperial, Scotland; British America., Toronto; Royal Canadian, Mon- treal; Gore District, Galt; Canadian Fire st Marine, Hamilton; Alliance Hamilton ; Toronto Life, (Life), Toronto ; Tras411 rs, Life and Acci- dent, Hartford, Conn. Agefrit for the Canada Permanent Loan and savings jConipany, Toronto. Money loaned at 6 per cent. on real estate. Agent for the State Line -a teamshiP Company, ssiling between New York and Glasgow. First Cabin, 860 to 875; Second Cabin $40; Steerage, *26. Return tickets issued good for 12 months. W. N. WATSON, Main Street, Seaforth, Office, Camp- bell's Block, opposite the Mansion Hotel. MANITOBA 1 Parties. wishing to in st money in GOOD RELIABLE TO!N OR FARM PROPERTYINM NITOBA, And net' desiring to in ur the trouble and expense of visiting the Prairie Province, should call upon or com- municate with the undersigned, who is agent for the well and favorably known firm of J. M. MACGREq0R & CO., WINNIPEG. This firm have a thorinigh knowledge of the country, and the best and most profitable investments, and only -first- class property will be recommended, so that, through their age cy, inveetments can be more safely ma1Je by people in Ontario than were thefr even to 'aieit the country themseive4. All applica- tions made to the und reigned 'will be promptly attended to. Charges mod- erate. M. Y. IlicLEAN, Seaforth. • CHRYSTAL &BLACK, PRACTICAL BOILER MAKERS. ffiHE Subscribers have tonght the Toole and Boiler Business lately carried on by the God- erich Foundryand Idarinfacturing Company, and havizg had an experience of over eight years in that shop, are now prepared to carry on the trade in all its branches. Any work entrusted to tte Will receive prompt attention. First-claes work guaranteed. All kinds of Boilers made and repairedalso Stnoke Stacks and Sheet Iron Work, &c., res.- soraable rates New Salt Peals made and 014 ones repaired on the shortest notice, and at prices that defy com- petition. CHRYSTAL 43a BLACK, 686-52 _Box 103, G-oderich. The Royal Hotels (LATE CARMICHAEL'S) SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. JAMES WEIR BEGS to inform his old friends and the travel- ling public that having purchased this new , and commodious hotel buildins, he has thorough- ly re -furnished and re -fitted it from top to bot- tom and it is now one of the most comfortable and 'convenient hotels in the county. By strict attention to the wants of his customers he hopes to merit a share of public patronage. The rooms are all well furnt;shed and ss'ell heated. The bar will be kept supplied with the hest, and an at - tentative and taut worthy hostler will always be in attendance. Good sample rooms for Commer-- cial Travellers. Remember the "Royal Hotel," corner of Main and Goderich Streets, Seaforth. 733 JAWS NVE113, Proprietor; _ At Si fan But,s Fiftee But 1 tho Then, I held But is I -said Yet t And o Btit w None And LI As youl 'Tis tra Asad t 'Tistr: Say ' But, Id tho Pasha Perhap Bat wo When A char leave. 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