The Huron Expositor, 1884-10-10, Page 22
HOPSON'S CHOICE.
"Say, !Josiah, let's get up a feerdly
gatherin', same as other folks do V'
"I'd like to see a Hopson gatherin' I
Folks would say 'twas an ant hilt on a
bender, Oaias. We are all too little.
'Twon't do to make our short-corain's
publio, as you may say."
" Well, I'd nether be little and good
than be au Irish giant. I don't never
hanker after betweenness. It goes quite
a ways to be somethin' nobody else is.
Now there's them Schuylers, the gran-
dees over to Newton.. They do say—
and I guess it's so—thatl thev'ee always
a-talkin' pompious about the Schuyler
nub,' a kind of a bunion like that grows
on to the outside of their hands. Why,
they think the world on't, because the
Solthylere all hey hed it as long as the
memory ,of man endareth not to the
contrary. I'd jest as lives be little as
have e, nub."
"Do tel I Well, Ozy, folks is folksy,
ain't they? Come to think on't, there's
a tribe over to Still River they call the
Sandy Steeles, all of 'em red -heads. It's
poplar to call 'em sandy, but you
could warm your hands real well, the
coldeet day in winter, to any crop
amongst 'em. Carrots ain't nowhere;
it'seoals."
" Anyhove, 'Siah, if we are little,we're
spry, and that's half the battle. More
over,there haynt Ilene of us been hanged
nor put into States -prison, nor yet see
the inside 'of no jail.'
"Not yet," said Josiah.
Ozias turned and looked at him with
a twinkle in his deep-set eye.
" Expectint °lett, be ye?'
Josiah laughed.
"I don't know as I be ; but life's
chockfull of onexpecteduess. There !
there's the ineetin' bell. Come over to-
night, will -ye, after sundown. We'll
talk this here matter over deliberate
then. The idee kinder takes hold of
me."
" Yes, I'll drop in.. Mandy 'Jibe real
•willin' to get rid of molter a spell. Ye
see, Obed's first wife's boy's to home,
and it seems as though he was a -think -
in' about &parkin' my girl, 1 dent
.know. It's pecooliar, anyway, how
quick girls get to be women folks. I
never see the beat on't. 'Tie snip,snap,
so to speak'. Makes me think of Priest
Etawes'e favorite hymn, or one line on't,
that he used to come down on real sol -
kin :
" The creturs-look, how old they grow I"
" Hope yea dont feller that kotation
out entire,' said Josiah, "next line
bein',
wait their fiery doom.'"
Ozias looked at him with a face -of
the derciareat fun.
" Come !along," fee said. " Mandy's
feller ain't one &f the Still River
Steeles."
Josiah tried to solemnize his face, but
barely soceeedecl as they entered the
church door.
Hop Meadow was a little village in
one of our New England States,lying in
a tiny green valley shut in by low roll-
ing hills, patched here and there with
yellow grain fields, squares of waving
grass, or crimson clover flagrant as the
breath of Eden ; and threaded by a big
noisy brook that pursued its joyful way
to the great river rolling but a _mile or
two beyond the valley, yet quite out of,
sight of its inhabitants. In this fertile
and sunny spot,when New England was
first settled, Andrew Hopson, yeoman,
from Kent, Old. England, had staked
ont his share of land, and, built his hut;
he had married, shortly after,.his second
cousin, and in due time a goodly family
of ten children gathered about titian.
Cousins,, too, came over and settled be-
side Andrew, and more distant relatives
were gradually persuaded to find homes
in the New Country; so, partly for the
sake of the numerous Hopsons, and
partly in memory of the goodly Kentieh
hop fields which they hoped one day to
emulate, the village was called Hop
Meadow. It was a peculiarity of the
Hopson family that almost without
exception its.members were small in
body. Not a man, for years after their
ereigration,as for unknown years before
it, reached. a height of over five feet
two:; most of them ignored the inches ;
and here and there a real dwarf carried
the family specialty to excess;
Bat if nature had, given them little
bodily presence, they all had keen wits,
humor, good temper, and good princi-
ples—except exceptions.
Josiah and Ozias were Hopsons by
name, but there were Browns among
the cousiery, and here and there a Hop-
son girl bad married outsile," and
hrought her tall husband home to
Thanksgiving occasionally, half proud
and half ashamed of him. There was a
tradition in the family that the first
Hopson, that Andrew who put up his
log hut in the sunny intervale beside
the Bright Brook,had left Old. England
quite as much from pique as principle.
He had become a Puritan, no doubt
from deep conviction, butthere was
only the parish church for him to wor-
ship inetnd the old rector was a staunch
adherent of Church and King. When
Parson Vivyan heard of the emigrating
seceders of Leyden he felt afraid that
Andrew Hopson might cast in his lot
with those fanatics ; and having a kind-
ly feeling for the small yeoman, whom
he had christened and hoped to marry,
he exhorted him in season and e out of
season. on, the folly of such rebellion
against king and Church. Andrew
resented the interference, for he had
neither thoight nor talked of leaving
his goodly farm ; and he grew tired,too,
of the parson's one theme of conversa-
tion ; so he evaded him everywhere,and
showed all the quick wit of his race in
those evasions: like a drop of mercury
lee departed from under Mr. Vivyan's
touch and was- off ; so that worthy man
took unworthy advantage of his position
and preached a long sermon en the
text, " The conies are a feeble folk, and
dwell in flee clefts of the rock," in which
discourse he took occasion to set out
with humiliating detail, what would
naturally be the fate of te poor little
creature like the cony if t forsook its
home and friends in the', rocks that
sheltered it, and went out to wandering
and strife with wolves and foxes.
The natural history was correct, but
the application was so pointed, when
Parson Vivyan drew out at length the
analogy, and portrayed the fate of the
man unfitted by nature for wars and.
hardships who should leave his neigh-
bors and hie native land for the sake of
a misguided and heretical epinion, that
not even the proverbial good nature of
the Hopsons could abide it.
Andrew took fire at once. He made
immediate preparations to sell his farm
—e hereditary freehold—and having
obtained Prudence's consent to follow
him Whea he should have a home pre -
1
pared for her, he gathered his hensehold
goods together and set sail for the Nevi
World, where, as he expreseedliimse4
to Parson Vivyan, " there be no pitelatit
cal priests to vex the soul, nor yet the
ungodly kingdom of a carnal 'kigg."
That Sunday evening on which out
on -1 ght
th who
nt door,
ith evi-
story opens, a bright June m
night, Ozias, avoiding the yo
came slowly and slyly to the fr
which stood hospitably open, ev
dent intent of " sparking," beto k him-
self to Josiah's house, and pert ted the
plan for a Hopson reunion..
There were many letters to write, for
the tribe had branched far, if tiparsely,
There were two Browns in
three Hopsons in Illinois, a
three generations ago a certai
Hopson had settled on a stony
land in Vermont, to dig Jan. s
and called the village which sp
about his furnace Hopyard ;
unfit was the name when that
the hills became strewed with ala
h blac
ad sal,
r call it
the Devil's liopyard, I should say." This
ill name had fastened itself ftrmiy on the
little cluster of houses, and thOugh thie
Hopsons themselves swarnhed therei ,
and looked like a troop of gnom
ever there was a run of iron,
skipped about the moulding be
lurid firelight, yet outsiders we
settling there, and told- quaint'
the tiny tribe who occupied t
and delved, Etnelted,and hauled
with an energy that seemed to
for strength. ' '
It was currently reported th
early days of the Devil's Hopy
peddler from " below " aturable
small village, and trying to oat
of the little people for purposes
bition, chased a dozen of the
bunghole of , an empty bar
triumphantly proceeded to sto
aperture and secure his pri
while he pounded at the bung
creatures made their escape
the spigot -hole, and derided him with
shrill laughter and mocking gestures
from the top of a barn, whither they
had climbed on a wild grape -vine.
lenty ef
n there
parts of
he clan ;
ttled in
Dam, on
hien, in
Quebec ; and more, whom time forbids
me to chronicle, but who all re eived
thering
reaaow
ed and
n bit of
it, right
re were
and the
°I afford
hio and
d thep
n Mark
piece of
11 irou,
rung up
but fi0
cleft in
heaps, and overshadowed wi
smoke, that a scoffing stranger
in the tavern one night, "Batt
s wherl.
nd they
sin the
e shy of
tories of
•e land,
pig -iron
ake up
t in the
d a tin -
on this
h some
of exhi-
into-a
el, and
up the
e brit
he agile
through
11
Peddler or not, there was.
Hopsons there now; and the
was Pamela Bunnell in remote
Iowa, who had married out of
and Ozias Brown who had s
Pennsylvania ; and Marinus Th
Cape Cod ; and Tertins Ho
invitation to this Hopson ga
and almost all meant to (some.
Then began a stir in Hop
There was a big tent to be hi
pitched on the green—;an ev
turf with some fine elfin about
in front of the church—and th
spare rooms to clean and dust ;
whole ta,vern was engaged t
lodgings If private rooms overflowed;
and such baking, boiling, stewing, fry-
ing, and other culinary performances
set in that one would hive the -light the
ten lost tribes of Israel, all in a faniish-
ed condition, were coming fora months
stay, and needed unlimited pie, cake,
poultry, and pickles—except tlae.t there
were hams, boiled, roaste'd,andreopped
or sliced for sandwiches, prem'nent in
every house, and hams are p
all these preparations nobody
busied than Prudence Hopson
Polly Hopson's daughter,and o
Bezaleel Hopson, her father
the." store '" in Hop Meadow for
when he died, and having mar
in life, left behind him his li
year old daughter, and plenty o
rk ! Ii
as more
Wide*,
ly
ad kept
year,
red late
tle Taw
means
to coneole his wailing widow, who was
man outsider," and perhaps a
her fat and jolly husband
extreme difference from any
kindred.
Pauline, Flower bad been pre
ttracted
by her
of hs
tty in
a
certain way ; long curling yellw
hair,
limp and flabby even in its trail • ring-
lets, languishing blue eyes, 4white
skin, narrow, low forehead, sod long
chin seemed to express and a rn; heir
manners and. customs with eenliar
fitness.
; Nobody but the Hopsons would- eyek
had called her Polly ; to ".het folks p
she was Pawliny," nothing Thea; but
Bezaleel, couldn't stand three slyllable
so he had followed the custom of his
race, and tried to make 'the best of hi
wife's melancholy while he livell.
" She beats all," said Ozais te Josia,
his consi n and special cry. "
never see a woman who likes to owl s
well in my life ; she's forever spiflir
salt water. She'd oughter kee
a pork battel, so's to save brine.
she'd set down an' cry to the
gates, ef ever she got there,
the' wa'n't a fiery chant sent
fetch her." ,
" Well," answered the mo
minded Josiah, " some folks is raOes
gets addled second day, out, an
haven't really got a thing to
they'll'do it a -pappus. She'
them that likes to cry jest as
you.do to larf, Ozy. It ain't re
fertile' to other folks 'to see 'er
will say I've hankered some
t
I blies,
eayenly
o thin
own t
e slo
nothin' suits 'em never. Th. re- egg
if the
cry f
s one
well a
• cone-
, and I
to' give
Polly aehidin' ; 'twould do her ' solid
good ter have somethin real to l'cry
But you can't tune another ma
nohow."
"That's so," sadly responded
But Prudence, " little Pr
i's wife
zias.
dye" a
Et
everybody called her, borrow ng her
title from, the most utterly d lightf 1
children'er books ever written was
thorough Hopson.
When her father died shei
five years old, and though She
him heartily and sincerely, it
children mourn, with brief to
tender remembrance, but a blilased iij
competence of understanding What lose,
death, separation, really me
saw her mother no more, if
tearful ; she could not be more
and folorn under any loss than
been in the daily fashion of her life';
and Prudy was as different from Pollr
as was possible—a gay,sparkling, happy
creature,everybody's pet and. darling. If
she had lost one father, she had twenty
uncles and cousins ready to protect and
indulge her, and she grew up totwomito-
hood as nearly spoiled as he sweet,
honest nature would allow. But who
ever was proof against those leeaatifel
brown eyes, red and saucy lis, that
tossing, wavy, shining hair, never in
order, but never anything butt exqui-
site in its dark, shadows and golden
lights ?
Who could resist that coaxing, °Brew
ing, beguiling voice—that voice that
could soften with pity and sparkle with
mischief ? Who did not clamor for the 1
help of those deft and taper fingers that
were always ready and able to do w/aat-
,
as b
iciurne
Was
re an
n. She
o lese,
dolefql
she had
ever was asked of them ? It wa
who came to the front now i
adornments of preparation,
he long wreaths of groued
coral pine for Istooning thert
the church, endfastened tLem u
note Of golden rod and bosses o
stet, lfor the Hopson gaehe
early in September. She erre
&Acta of fruit that adorned th
so. that the pink. and purid e an
rapes' ;lay the ped togeteer
leaves i and t
and gold pear
earliest scarlet
and deep mar
eaves.
She made the
stars
vices
countl
them out of al
Prudy who ma
silver cake and
made contrast
beside the geese
and roast turke
Her mother 1
melancholy hea
that unwilling
been done.
- "Yes, I dare
pose. But,oh, I
think how that
lished it. This
,
Prudence. Ef you'd ha'
what • I have ,, ou wont
great 1 of int'r,tst in t
thirigi."
Prudy laugh d ; her fat
dead a thousan years—to
mother's mala choly 'me
mote eignifican to her th
in the spout.
"'Well, mam' y, they're
way, and I expe t most of
will be a fleetin' show who
hungry Hopson get hold
coming to our h use to a
know yet ?"
"II Should ha liked to
Bunnell and he boy, but
spoke 1by Ozia's olks. I u
her Some befo e I was
she married Be nell who'
our piece, and while she'
spell I come he e to visit
see your pa. 0., I remem
the fust time I see hi
meetiff of the sons an'
Massachusetts. Josiah, h
the paper that ' all who ar
in Itlaitsachuset s is expect
th' annooel me tin' in Cht
see, Joeitth's wif she co
ham ; and well o 1 mole
that, evenin' a d said
" gaol " of his a bition he
to maery a Ma sachusett
didn't really on erstand w
butPemely she said he'd
word ' Josiah's little mi
forevet was an will be ;
he burst out lau ihiu" belai
looked round an see him,
no business the e,
only 't
the provisions, ud he'd je
a pot of pickles t sombody
— Oh 1 I've ki der run
n-ely. Well, Ican't hey
have her
h
nd rose
that wo
es pies h
1
1
•
e profusion o
was oset off
foliage of t
on of huge
wonderful orn
and araite
Id haste adort
d notthe ovei
shape. An
afactured th
the clearest je
ith the iv
✓ ailment
eked on a
when Pr
aredt to
say ; its p
'an't help
our pa w
world's a
t
11
to- Oztas for to
house I a pose 'tis m
there I than 'tis to a soli
like me. One that's seen
tion and is so cast down ii
of moorein' es I be a'n't
And jest ny luck ! —me
could abide
rinus's peopl
dren, end-sh
hildren—the
to us—seve
's weakly.
be I to bear it ?"
Prudy latighed again ;
help it ; the idea of seve
ted her su
they would
s 1—she woul
-pan to -day
ens in the ba
Lot betray he
hopes to her daughter. L
guid, Selfish sloppy, mon
she had a certain ennui
which tended to amuse he
times other people when i
them ! She had purposel
ing Pemelia Bunnell,
widow with one son, to h:
the son shoo d take a fanc
leretly delig
What romps
corn-poppiu
old warmin
were five kit
i Polly did
Mrs. Polly
girl if she
could or wo
tinglets, tha
of forty-nine
ly down her
woman wai
cheerfully o
she chose to
fed with t
Prudy knew just bow to
To be sure Hopson Bute
boy, was "w :11 spoke of"'
clan as had eard of him,
property of his own, besid
of the great prairie farm
superintend d With all al
skill a bigge woman coul
to bear en t e premises ;
Mrs. Polly c. red nothing.
selfetbsorpti n would ha
tween Prudy and the best
ble, so she h d never as
who expectet it of her—ti
house, but h d gently bin
ception committee of the
she could take a large f:
were mostly children,
crowded two or three ir
Prudy had her own intim
course, in the village, for
were but few young girls
dow, the Hopsons having
rying young, there wer
Lizzy Brown was the bes
next to Pru y—a sober, s
maideb, wit brown hair
who looked at Prudenc
might at an oriole, but di
at all as the one bird tre:
but hetd her in all adorat
her wish earnest affectio
At last the day of the ET
arrived—one of those sof
goons days in autumn w
quiet, the heevens serene,
steeped in dreams and
the Hopsons were not sti
They ewarmed-like troop
fairies, through the wide
ing, sleeking hands, chat
full of welcome and che
girls ;, ronnder but still
ln hing an
with dolls of blies in th
little men, a
every Inewcome --the onl
did not inten
ould help it
Id so neatly
, threaded w
years,still dr
rack ; norw'
on her eo
the frequen
keep her bed
e da,n ties t
being !Mrs. Poll
daintiest white
of red late roses
ing the crowd
the' goests to t
smiling at ever
every 'old man
cold shoulder o'
1 (Conan
's; whil
own, wit
at her be
verywher
eir respe
child, co
nd turnip
the yont
on Thir
Prudy
11 the
made
no and
nt and
under
purple
g was
god the
table,
amber
n vine
green
ith the
maple
g beet
cents of
red de-
ed the
baked
it was
whitest
ly that
ry toed ruby
of geld ham
ok her
ragged
at had
d
d
ett
-ni
ul
ee
h
en
n't
est
er h
e
ns
n
pret
here
a
It
a
ah
t
mar
he
ived
and
er
a
'd
I sup.
ruin' to
ha' re-
' show,
hrough
eke. no
trittin'
d been
and her
had no
e wind
y, any -
things
owd. of
Who's
do you
Pamely
was be -
know
ied, fdr
ivedito
her a
the I
it well,
as to a
ters of
t it, in
re born
attend
11.' You
fling.
got up
highest
ye been
Some
meant
wrong
ays an'
our pa
and I
hadn'
rovide
lied i
nit, an
om Pa
.he writ
in his
erk up
idder's
oh flit •
valley
mpany.
never
nt Ma-
ll chil-
d ! how
or
ci
k
t lie
he
alW:
girl.'
at lh
ot tit
• nd
Ito
he
t ft
d for
fff-
to
od
41
t
'ye
h
1
sh ouldn't
eh h4lren se -
shin soul.
avz II What
r b up the
a - there
ke
nf
di
del
h
to
to
14
rl
th
pp
Id
ha
an
or
ep
ell,
Ys
nd
s a
hi
ha
ut f
H
e
ma
10
e
a
cone
ed to
ceatie
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d c
a c
te
tho
in ia
a
an
ead
nd
as
not t
B th
an ,
p
secret
fly lan-
people,
slyness,
some-
ot vex
ed ask -
was a
se, lest
rudy.
ose her
servant
er lank
e gray
absurd -
y other
ily and
when
net be
s that
naelitt's
h of the -
d '54m�
version
mother
gy and
ronght
all this
listless
me be-
possi-
elia,—
to her
the re-
n that
if they
mild be
amber.
'end; of
there
p Mea -
of mar -
'w, and
ettiest,
• iscreet
1 e eyes,
robin
eat her
other,
served
pson
, g 1
en
and
amn
1;
tre.
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0
0
reunion
en, gor-
air is
e earth
s ; but
at all.
o d -sized
t4, laugh-
rin 1, singing,
r— lit airy
idy atrons,
ir ; fat
ng with
fiat face
, in the
g bunch
thread-
ehalling
edgings,
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itching
buzzed
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EXPOSI
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REM ST
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E -FOR SA E.
'ARM FOR 8-
L. sale his f
Joncession 6, ..
leered and in
tweed and tnderdra
imbued with first
raver failiog running
dose to the buildings,
'ree access all the
eank barn, and
)(miring orchard
town on entre
lowing done. '
Possession give,
er without the
selance at 6 p
Egmondville Ps
LE.
t rm o
R.
good
cla
jto
year
ety colinpiete
Theije
aerfellcw
t is within
at any
stook. I
.r cent.
Q.
The subscriber Mini for
.•100 acres, tool g Let 12,
., Tuckersmith, 85 twee
state of cultiv tion, well
nod, the remain er is well
s h irdwood. '11 ere is a
spritig of emit nt water
which stock may have
round. Good bri k house,
outbuilein B. Good
are eix.aeres of all wheat
; also conside able fall
two miles of Sealer] h.
time. Will be old with
-Terms, 88,000 own, and
ALEX. NW OLSON,
874 tf
VARM FOR :ALE.
1: ing of -2A
Township of •
between the
within one Milo
ter, and a good
remaindef in 'asturo
well underdrai
bait acres of or
Awelliog, eith int,
wells, with a n-
the premises.
particulars, aptly
CHING, Proprietor;
e.,LLIOT, Real-
acres
ay, ai
ownith
of the
, I aeke
ed en
hard,
of
ver failing
I itle
on
Estate
A valuable far ,
of first-class la o
meted on the Town
ps of Hay and
flourishing villag
. 150 acres clear qf
and good nnxel
well fenced.
grafted fruit, I
as outbuildings ;
spring rannin
ndireptatable. Fr
he prernetes, to -THOMAS
Exetee P. 0.
agent, Axoter.
, consist -
d in the
Line
S ephen,
of Exe-
stumps,
timber,
ne and a
rge brick
hree good
through
further
GLINN
874-13
,
VARM FOR SALE.
'11: lot 10, eoecessio
miles. There are
balance has been
There is a frame
chard and 4i acres
within a mile and
will be sold cheap.
also for sale. ' This
ly Or together.
POLLOCK, on the
town P.O. . •*-
30.
bur
hous•
of
a qi
'1
prtpe.
A ply
fur
.
For sale, the aoteth
1, Grey, containing
!ores cleared, part
ed down and p
and stable, a
all wheat. It i.
arter of Jams
is adjoining 60
ty will be so*
to SAMUEL or ANDREW
i , or by mail
half of
60
of the
trt bush.
young or-
situated
own. It
acres are
.cparate-
to James-
850
lot 11,
, contain-
well
There
running
the ad-
village
with g od
a eh ice
on easy
ous to re-
ses or ad-
860x4tf
Q13 I END1D
" For rale cheap,
concessions. 14
ing 200 acres, o
fenced and in a
is a good orchard
through the farm.
joining lot. It
of Walton ard six
gravel roads leading
form and will be
terms of payment,
tire from farmi
dress Walton. Walton P
FARM
aid
Audi 15
' whic
high s
and
There
is wit
mils
t
sold
as
ig. A
0. ADAM
FOR SALE CHEAP.-
on easy terms,
township of Gree
160 acres are cleared,
ate of cultivation.
a swing creek
is a school On
in 31 miles of the
from Brusse!e,
each place. It is
'ery cheat) and
he owner is anx
ply on the prem
DOUGLAS.
ARM FOR SALE.
eligiely situated
elullett, le miles
every convenience
taining 100 acres,
house, a large
horse and cow
one at the bani,
various kinds
handsomest fat
well underdrained,
30 acres of first-class
owner is unable
must be sow tbis
Only 82,00(P cash
for remainder.'
-The
from
of
on
bank!
stuble,
2 ;,
of frute.
ms in
an
to coo
fall
requ
H. B
subscriber ones
farm. Lot 13, Coact
Kinburn, weere
a country vii
,which there are
barn 6(x40, chaff
good well at the
cres of good orchard
One of the
'ne towr ship, well
in first dace order.
hardweod bush.
tinue f tinting, any
Nearly all seeded
red, put chaser can
LL, Coe sten cc P.
that
salon?,
there is
age. con-
a frame
house,
house and
of
best and
fenced,
A bout
As the
1. nger,
down.
arrange
0. 87;, x8
FARM FOR e'
of Lot 13,
Wellington, cobtaini
acres are cleanse,
well fenced wita
wit h hardwood..
did dry land cedar.
and leg house.
through the fat
class hied. It
towns of Harrietoii,Pe
and there is a store,
conveniences within
sold cheap. , Apply
Cons' ante '). 0.
ALE.
0)DV:sem
..g
par
ceda
ex. e
' I
Then o
ne and
tel with
post
a
to
Par Sale, the south halt
12, Arthur, County of
103 acres, of, which 65
ly free frose stornpe and
. The balance is t timbered
t 6 acres nn which is splen-
here is a good frame barn
is a spring creek running
a good well. It is all first
n 6 miles of the etourishiug
merston and Monnt Forest,
office and other village
mile and a hilt .ve ill be
ANNABELLA. SN -ELL,
t 870
FARM IN M
the north
McKillop of which
fenced, wed under
cultivation. The
best of hard woOd.
free from stumps,
There are good
Iwo large young
2A• miles ft om the
forth, and 8 from'
roads leading to
sown with fail
one block, or 60
Apply on the premises
THOMAS SOUTER.
KILL1
132 ac
10
-dr
balance
5
an
'frame
heath
vill
B
each
wheat.
acres
P FOR SALE. -1
es of lot 15, concession
acres are cletred,
ined ani in a hig
is timbered
here are eighty ac
200 rods of board
uildinge, three
g orchards. It is
ere Of Walton, 12
ussels, with good
lace. There are
The farm will
of it, to suit p
or address W
.
-For sale,
14,
well
1 state of
with the
es nearly
fence,
wells, and
situated
from. Sea -
gravel
14 acres
be sill in
rechaser.
P. 0.
, 828
enPLENDID FARM1
L)-ForSale, lot 20,
containing 100 acres, r-
ed, fref from stump.,
fenc.d The balance
is a got d Sugar Bush.
house, i batik barn %%NI
neethe end all other
fitst cl, ss order.' Had
house- nd water cony
also a age bearing o
seeded o 0 -ass. It is
and is nenvenient•to churches
gravel roads in all - dir
best farms in the ceu
of waste land on -the I
easy terms of payinen
or to Seaforth P. ie.
'Icli.ILLOP F
'concession 6,
b ,ut 4-0 of which
well drained,
s well timberedtied
There is a large
stone stabling
ecessary out beidings
and soft water
nient for stack.
chard and over
bout 4 milt s froth
and schools.
caions. It is one
ty, and there is
t; will be sold
. Apply on the
A,MLS NICIR1Lt
)lt SA.LE.
McKillop,
are clear-
and, well
there
dwelling
under-
in
at the
`neve is
30 acres
Seaforth
Good
of the
not a foot
on very
premises,
866
cePLENDID FARMN
k'l For Sale, Lot ate
Bruce, containing! 104
acres are clearedefen
the balance is timbere
hardwood and's -little
are frame buildings, a
creek running through
miles from the ileum
equal distance from. U
school bpposite the pl
settlement. There is
bricks or tile, which i
is asked for the farm.
and will be sold very
Seaforth P. O.
BRUCE FOR SALE.-
oncession 6, township of
acres of which about 30
ed and free froni stumps,
1 principally with splendid
hemlock fenciug. There
-id a never failieg spring
the place. It is within 6
ling town of Paisley and
iderwood. There is a good
ceeand it, is in a splendid
splendid clay t bank for
wroth one forth of what
This is a splendid farm,
cheap. Apply to box 24,
- t 877-tf
FARM FOR SALE.-,
cession 6, East
acres, about 100 of which
cultivation, and pearl
the ba'ance is well til
farm is well fun cod fuel
ing timber. TI ere is
and a barn 40x80
geed bearing orchard
plenty of good spring
and a windmill pump
of the prosperous village
is a railway, mills, stores,
conveniences.' There
This farm is Well adapted
stock, and the land hes
Will be sold cheap. APply
premises, to MR.
the undersigned, Bel
For Sale, • Lot
%yam sh containing
are cleared and
the whole seeded
bered with har7ood.
has on it plent
'a comfortable freme
feet, both- new
isf choice young
water convonientj
It is within three
of Bclgrave where
churches and
is a school adjoining
either for
never been much
to the Prop' ietor
VIA.MIL TON, Blyth,
eve P. 0. WM.
,
i 38, Con-
MC
fit for
to grass;
The
of fenc-
house
There ie a
trees, and
for Stock
miles
there
all other
it.
grain oi
cropped.
on tie
or te
DOBBIN,
866 ta f. '
to close
W. G
very
half of
co -
a good
orchard
end is or
village of
is wel
Second.
y, county
13 cleat cc
'i -ed wits
s is three
one teeth
d term!
, HENRI
or JAMBI
County
8
GOOD FARMS FO
the ethers of the
Hingston; the executcirs
valuable lands for
Lot 30, Concession 5,1
taming 90 acres. On
frame barn with stone
well and pump. Neerly
the gravel road closele
Brussels. This farm
fenced and in' a good
-Lot 4, Cone, salon 6
of Huron, containing
and free of stumps, b1
part good haul wood,
and a half Miles frc
from gravel ;real.
apply to Tilos. KR',
JENNINGS, Victoria
Selma Maple ,Lodge
ISALE.-In order
estate of the late
offer the following
ale. First -North
Township of Morris,
i this lot is erected
foundation, good
til cleared,
adjoining the
a a valuabic one,
state of cultivation.
township of Or
RO acres, 10 ac-
lance well tmah
i ine and cedar.
m Brussels, an
. For prices a
Y, Brussels P. 0
quare. P. 0.,
P. O., Middleset
VARM FOR
sion4, Ee,t
taming 200 ac
free from st
wheat and the
7 acres. It is
farm is well
white ash, black
ing. 'The farta
buildings and
56x86 feet, ftaine
turnip. house, 'attachee
below,, and
schools close
Markets-Bly
Wingham, 12
markets. Th
state of cultiy
as it has been
• Terms -A small
nd 6 per cen'$.
pay for it, if needed,
need the money,
ing is the want
bits apply to the
to Blyth P. O.
- .
SALE.
Waw
es, she
nips.
best or
well wa
timber
ash,
is we)
good lo.
ben
rame a
y, 2 sa
-In 5
Ales ;
fermi
tion a4.
under
amo
on tho
onl
of hoalth.
own
Ont.
For Sale', Lot
nosh,County of Ifuron,cou
t 140 acres clear
There are 19 ares
'hard in the To.wieship,beire
cued and the balence
d with beach, Temple,
1 emlock and cedar
fenced and has
house, frame
shed and stabliiig
to stabling
ove 48x12. Churches
mills within
des •'Belgrave,
Clinton, 15 milets,
of good quaheyein
very clear' of
tty care since it
o t down to secure
balance and 10
s the Proprietor
interest. The cause
For further
•r on the farm, or
JAMES W. AULD.
7, Conces-
d,90 acre '
offal
of tin
elm
for fens
good out
bank ban
106x26
with sten,
am
14 miles
6 miles
all goo
a goot
foul weed
was bush
the s1'
years t
doe"S no
of sell
particu
by letter
878
essamosisms.
t
SEAFORTH, SEPT. V, 1884.
CHEER, FiZIENDS,
Yield Not to Iale Sorrow, MTh
Low price of Grain Makes
Rather Despondent
I- R1EJ MEJ MD
The Mammoth Bargain
EERe
ugh the
ou
House
Has placed goods where you can clothe the whole family, and eome out as far
ahead as WHEN WHEAT WAS $1 A BUSHEL. There ate two important
1 t
facts to be borne in Mind for the fall: One is, that during thie mouth Chicago
and Montreal qui
etatons for wheat is from 70c to 73c, Seaforth 76c to 79c, mak-
.'
ing thie the beet market on the continent. Then the other fat is, that whilst
, 1
merchants of Tornto, Montreal, Chicago, and most all our towns bought their
stocks before the market was established, in the hopes of everything selling off
early and at high pries, the Mammoth Bargain House held off, and has bought
t the dropped price, !clearing out LOTS; therefore, giving you the advantage of
eying fatly 20 to 25 per 'centby doing your marketing in Seaforth. BE
lif
ARE' OF JEALOUS WISPERERS!
On Saturday a lady with her husband came in to purchase a snit of Tweed,
brought samples of cleth, and got our quotations. On one piece:,aftelr giving her
the price, she produced from her pocket the exact goods—fr rn another mer -
r
chantwho wanted $5 more I Then she said, I did not inten purchasing when
came .up but as nayi neighbor told me of cheap bargains, I wee tem ted to come
1 e •
in and just see what you kept, but had concluded not to bay, fOr the Merchant
flown town told me "buy an where else you please, but there ; they. have noth-
ing but old goods." Nowt this lady is a living witness that teeltgoods she got
from us were as new ea the other man's, and she ie also a hvingadvertisement—
bad prone for another mer -
of them or their goods, for if
I -
at peace ith our neighbor
we allow no customer to go from our store with a
chant. No. We "letter say one word disrespectful
we do we only belittle ourselves. We want to live
merchants, but want to say Once for all—that we claim to haVe less okl 'dock
!than most house e in this vicinity, and a great deal More new than many houses,
and we purpose remaining here and doing a share of the businees, which we will
endea,vor to make the lion's one. When you come to Seaforth, why just hold up
your heads, look pleasant, arid make a B line for qampbell's Block, and should
you bring your pockets full of wealth and leave it arll behind, You will go away
happy and pleased with your purchases from the Itainnaoth Bergain House.
JAMES PICKits..RD.
0- 0 Li 1NT-1J
1884_
SASOIT-
We have receieed and opened out the bulk of our Old Con
and iever before were the prices of Dry Goods so low as they
We show a large stock of Dress Goods in all the leading shad
we have a few special lines, which are considered very cheap.
VELVETEEIiIS in black and colors, same make and
seasons. A. large stOok of BLACK AND COLOREDiS
Makes. Good range !of JACKETS AND SHAWLS;
in WINCEYS See our five cent line. Full etock of T
TER CLOTHS SEALETTES, OTTOMAN 00
COATINGS ANO SERGES. TAPESTRY CA
HEAP.
Nice Ipatterns in
CRETONNES AND
tAINS.
.1 _A. 114 I s Co 1T , sPi
try importations,
are this season.
a; amongst them
nality as previous
ILKS in reliable
Extra good value
NEEDS, UL -
DS, FANCY
PETS VERY
LACE CUR -
0 :RTI.
CENTRAL GROCE
LAIDLAW & FAIR r
TEAS!
PROPRIETORS.
TEAS!
R Y .
EY,
TEAS!
The public are cerdially invited to inspect our stock of TEAS, which for
quality and price carinot be excelled. Special bargains in five and ten pound
ots, and every package guaranteed to give satisfaction, or cash refunded.
STIC3-4R- SITC+14LIZ
We hold large stack in Granulated, Relined and Raws, and prices alow as
any house in the coniety. See our samples and prices. A. fall stock of General
Groceries at all time, and for quality cannot be sorpassed. Also a large quan-
ity of Canned Fruit, Fish and Meats.
CROOKERY AND GLASSWARE.
We hold one df the largest and best stocks west of Toren
sirous of purchasing anything in this department would do w
stock before making their selections. A tfine lot of Dinner S
a set. China Tea Sets from $5 to $15; Prnted Tea Sts—
prices low. Chamber Sets, plain and decorated,- ip priceis fr
Glassware in great variety. Call and see our stock. No trou
and quote prices. Highest prices paid for Batter, Eggs send
Laidlaw & Fairley S
o, and parties de-
ll to examine our
ts from $12 to $50
lenge stock and
,$2.50 upwards.
le to show goods
arse grains.
forth.
OCTOBER 10, 1884
HURRAH
FOR
EXETER FAIR
AND THE
GRAND RE -OPENING
AT
RANTON BROS.
ON
October 6 & 7.
All are welcome. Everybody come.
Never mind whether you want to buy
or not. Come Rod see our store and
get ail October Fashion Sheet free,
Ladies, we have over one hundred
and fffty pieces of Dress Goods to se-
loot fom, in all the newes things in
lad ie wear.
0 tte In an Cords in four different line,
Superior Costume Cloths,
Fie French Gods, Diagonals, Plaids,
Broc des &c. Also a magnificent range
of Velveteens ; over fifty pieces in Black
and Qolored, Black Silks, Satins, Otto-
mans, &c., all complete. Come and see
us.
Gentlemen, our Tweed and Ordered
Clothing Department is in full blast.
Now te the time to leave your order.
A grand stock of English, Scotch and
Can ian Tweed s,fin e Scathes in Blade
Navy1 Bronze and Myrtle, choice Pant-
ings ajud Overcoatings. We use the best
of tri mines and give a perfect fit every
time. Call and see us Fair Day, and
bringlyour friends to the Grand Re.
Openingat
RANTON BROS.,
The _Mace for Fine Dress Goods,
and perfect fitting clothes.
EXETER,
FARMERS, IT WILL PAY YOU
—TO CALL AT THE—
HURON FOUNDRY,
THE HIGH SCHOOL,SEAFORTH,
And se te our stock of
IT) r_._. 0 VT S
Which has been made especially for
tnis cnnty. I have greatly improvea,
my gang Plow for this season, and feel
satisfied in saying that it is the best in
the Market. Our
'LAND ROLLERS
Are lirge and heavy, running light and
doing' good work. Our
GRAIN CRUSHERS
Areade from hard iron, and will
longe than any other machine made;
Having special tools for recatting
Rollers, we can guarantee satisfaction.
Special attention given to repairing
Stearn. Engines, Saw and Grist 'Wills,
Reaprs, Mowers, Threshing Mahine,
and all kinds of machinery repaired on
shortnotice and at reasonable rates.
To eontra,ctors and others — Bridge
Bolts, and Castings at lowest rates.
Quotations furniehed on application,
Also agent for the implements
of L. D. Sawyer, Hamilton. A fall line •
of repairs constaotly on hand.
THOMAS HENDRY.
WALL PAPER,
. WALL .PAPR,
WALL PAPER.
LARCEST ASSORTMENT
IN' THE COUNTY
—AND—
LOWEST PRICES, AT
C. W. PAPSTS)
SEAFORTH.
NEW DRESSMAKING ESTABLISH-
MENT SEAFORTH.
MISS LAIRD takes pleasure in announcing to
the ladies of Seaforth and vicinity, that she has
opened a Dress and Mantle making establishment
in Cady's block, directly opposite the Commercial
Hotel. Dresses and Mantles made up in 66
latest:styles and on the shortest notice. sattii-
faction guaranteed. A trial is respeetfolly 60 -
boiled. Remember the place -up -stairs J91'1
Block. Apprenticte wanted. Kert
•
OCTOBER Pe
.aineewo""meeteentOsis
bout her like contee
CU a Canada thistle,pi
delieSte of its trittee
But _one of there_
• towered far above the
elegrast and their eatat
Donnell wasall titians
lege, powerful, nt let
with dark keen eyS,
oI deep brown ou4s,
of darkness that
the cool healthiness
•
.the skim
" knOW he's
liadeprecetingly,o
my heart on hie
mate Seems as trhi
terfered Beritais Wit;
ain't no gide any*li
them that's nearet,
to fellowehip ; hitt
sense his tallness asl
. thereat of us.'
answere(1
ways best to make
about folles marque
SS they darned pleal
observed.. Provided
other things to tt
easkin' matches.
tist, so fur as that
ye.ee
Oh, my I" exelal
dou't expect to mu
haven't eai4 a word
ter believe. I wee
you, Ozy, nut et I
heart as you mai
Beripter."
Well, I shanit
to Olt a finger into
pecooliar, Paately ;1
how it'll work; mo,
leave Out the boog
There's my 'Med
dead. ever sence
old, I've been coti
to do with her ; hr
to see 't she read
and said her prat
then I let her well
n' downs, but she
good -83 the avetae
to keepin'
feller, and she'll, hi
long."
Hopson Bunnell
mother's wish ih t
time enjoying
covered from hie a,
turning the laugh
various ways, 110,3.
like an amiable gi
fairy queen,. $lit
handsome fella*
than a flowerii
than a bird - he
that graceful lit
the tables, enalzin
dainty MorselS,
good things, WI
" down to their b
being unused tit
the little girls, wi
to Hopson hiMse
malicious elf!
she did. oboa
COnsin Hope
the flay after the
most all the reet
more distant nen
they had 00113 -OW
Hopson, will
for me?"
(To .14f
The Happ
I'm a bachelor 51461,
In the hands ml
But my heart es
mind
Their tinatineet t
For 'dB jthlrtee tit a
Wittenene ter •m-,
With no one to 4.6.311,
By staying outlet
•
I was very tond of a
Who was etvail y",
I tried to propose, a
And I felt thee I
She said I was wild,
My sighs with -bel
And at only eixteen
• When it gees lihro
The next girl I mt.
Who loved me, eb
But my wane e ,twer
wten 0)et'Ai:d
So she Inaerit. sl
All the comfoits
She IS ore of the '
' man's rig -Aso
And the motb(er
Mc next love antairi
Was a eerieue Ut
When I asked hisr
I have promise:
Each voted lie
heart, 1 i
Ana my latneie
She married he rci
;Her temper
My frind.ship one:
With a pretty 10
She daezleti. y est
Till the realaied
But it's jolly: to hei
With none but
With no one tel eCt.
133' staying Mit .
Income
—Vieitorndl
folks dine t'
'away—thae's
eportert
had mice 1 hi
fore breaklasI
wit, "you g111-1,1
wig."
—A.n Irieht
duel initistd,
that he ebettit
his antagoeie
to him,
eae alerted
girl, "if Lwe
should pick
mamma," at'
glad you Biro]
—A sonnet
proper tliir.4
serenaded by
late heure
answer tbAei
stairs and ut
Ciitnil
stolen frotee
25, saying,
naorse new
send some 0
Thaws again.
—Little, ,
'OU being Jai
hag receine
playfellows
ea it, tints'
Oh, I '&-U.1
the little gi
AVIIY
mother, wit;
neighboes,
for a secri
Cause)._
bled. Freak
-with ther se
eeeNothin
to go to :
'cheap