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•E 'HURON EXPO ITO
INDIAN
SUMMER.
BY W. D. HOWELLS.
VIII.
(Contenued from last weir.)
In the Por San Maria, Colville found
maski and dorninoea filling the shop win-
dows and dangling front the docks. A
devil in red end a elown in white- creased
the way in front of him from an inter-
secting street; several children in pretty
znasquerading dresies flashed in and out
among the crowd.He hurried to the
Lung' Arno, and , reached the palace
where Mrs. Bowen lived with these
holiday sights fresh in his mind: Imo-
gene turned to meet him at the door of
the apartment, running from the win-
dow where she had left_Effie Bowen still
gazing.
" We saw you coming," she said,
gayly, without waiting to exchange for-
mal greetings. "We didn't know at
first but it might be somebody else dis-
guised as you. We've been wetching
the maskers go by. Isn't it exciting ?"
"Awfully," said Colville, going to
the window with her, and putting" his
arra on Effie's shoulder, where she knelt
in a chair looking out. "What have
you seen?"
"Oh, on/y two Spanish students -with
mandolins,' seal Imogene, " bat you
can See they're beginning to come."
"They'll stop now," murmured Effie,
with gentle disappointment; "it's com-
mencing to rain.'
4t0h, too bad !" wailed theYoung
girl. But just then two mediteval mon-
at-arms came in sight, carrying umbrel-
las. "Islet that too delicious? Um-
brellas and chain armor!"
" You can't expect them to lei their
chain armor get rusty,' said Colville.
"You oueht to have ,been with me—
rniostrels in scale armor, Florentines of
Savonarola's times, nuns downs,
demons, fairies—no end to them." -
"It's very well saying we ought to
have been with you; but we can't go
anywhere alone." i
"I didn't eay alone," said Cielville.
"Don't you think Mrs. Bowen would
trust you with me to SO these Carnival
beginnings ?" He had not meant at all
to do anything of this kind, but that
had not prevented hie doing it
"How do we know; when- she . hasn't
been asked. ?" said Imogene, With a
touch of burlesque dolor, such as emakes
a dignified girl enchanting, when she.
permits it to herself. She took „Effie's
hand in hers, the child having heed
round from the window, andstood
smoothing it, with her lovely head
pathetically tilted on one side. •
"What haven't I been asked i yet?'
demanded Mrs. Bowen, coming lightly
--toward them from a door at the :Ade of
the salon. She gave her hand to Col-
ville with the prettiest grace, and • a
cordiality that brought a flush to her
cheek. There had really been nothing
between them but a little unreesoned-
ceolness, if it were even so mirch as
that, say rather a clrehiess, aggravated
by time and absence, and now as friends
do, atter a thing of that 'And', they
sisere ettddenly -glad to be good to each
other.
- "Why, you haven't been asked how
you have been this long time," said Col-
yille. I
"I have been wanting to tell you_ for
a whole week," returned Mrs. owen,
eeating the reat in taking a chair for her-
selL "Where haVe you been ?" '
"Ob, shut up in 'my cell at Hotel
d'Atene, writing a short history iof :the.
Florentine people for Miss Effie."
"Effie, take Mr. Colville's hate" said
heet mother. "We're going to make
you stay to lunch," she explained to
him.
"Is:that so ?" he asked, with ail affect
of polite euriesity. '
"Yes" Imogene softly elapPed her
hands, unseen by .Mrs. Bowen, far Col-
t
ville's instruction that all wa going
well. If it delights women to et an
undangerous friend of our sex, to use
him like one of themselves, there are no
words to paint the soft and fl ttered
_content with which his spiri1 purrs
- under their caresses. "You mut have
• nearly finished the history," added Mrs.
Bowen. - ,
"Well, I could have finished it,"
said Cole -Me, " if I had only begun it.
•You see, writing a short history of the
Florentine people is such quick work
- that you have to be 'careful hew you
actually put pen to paper,- or 1 you're
through with it before you've -had any
fun out of it." .
"I•think Effie will like to read that
kind of history," said her mother. .
The child hung her head, ind i would
not look at Colville; she was sill shy
with him; his absence must have seem-
ed longer to a child, of course. 1
At luneh they talked of the Carnial
sights that had begun to app r. He
told of his call upon Mr. Wate s and of
ei
the old mirrister's purpose to see, all he
could of the Carnival in order to judge
intelligently of Savonarola's opposition
to• it. ,
" Mr. Waters is a very goad, Man,"
said Mrs. Bowen, with the air I of not
meaning to approve him quite, nor yet
to let any notion of his be made fun of
in her presence. "But for myi part I
wish there were hot -going to e
Carnival , ; the city will be in e ch an
'lie any
t '
; uproar for the ne t two weeks." 1
'
"oh, Mrs. Bo ven !", cried Iihogene,
reproachfully, rde looked at her
mother in apparent anxiety lest she
should be meaning to put forth Ian un-
qoestienable power and atop tbe Car-
ni val.
1. .
" The last Carnival, I thouglit there
-was never going to be any end to it; I
-was so glad when Lent came."
j
- " Glad when Lent cameJ" breathed
Imogene, in astonishment e but heiveto
tired upon nothing more insuboidinate,
and Colville admired to see this epieited
girl as subject to Mrs. Bowen as her
own child. There is no reason Why one
woman should establiah another ,woman
over her, but nearly all women do it in
one sort or another, from love of a
voluntary submission, or from a i fear of
their own ignorance, if they ereyounger
and more inexperienced than their
lieges. Neither the one passion or the
_other seems to reduce them to a like,
passivity as „regards their hUsborids.
They must apparently have a fetich of
their own eex. Chlville could 4ee that
Imogene obeyed Mrs. Bowen nOii onlyas
a protegee but as a devotee.
"Ob. I suppose you will have to go
through it all," said, Mrs. Bowen, in -re-
ward of the girl's acquiescence. , - ' •
„
"You're rather out of the eirt4 of it
up here," saki Colville. "Yeti had
better let me go about with the young
ladies --if you can trust them. to the
care of an old fellow like me,"
"Ob, I don't think you're so very
;
old, at all times," replied - Mrs. Bowen,
with: a- peculiar look, whether indulgent
or reproachful he could net quite make
out. =
But he replied, boldly, in his turn:
"I have certainly.my moments of being
-young still; I don't deny it; :.There's
always &danger of their occurrence.'!
" I was thinking," said Mrs. Bowen,
with a graceful effect of not listening,
that youwould let.ine ge too. , It
would be quite like old times."
Only tgo much honor and pleasure,"
• returned Colville, "if you will leave out
the old. times. I'm not particular about
havingthem along." Mrs. Bowen
i
joined n laughing at the joke, which
they had to themselves. "1 was only
consulting an explicit abhorrence of
yours in not asking you to -go at first,"
he explained, .
Oh yes; I understand, that." ,
The excellence of the whole arrange-
• ment seemed. to grow upon Mrs. Bowen.
Of course," she said, Imegene ought
to see all she can of the Carnival. She
may not have another chance, and per-
haps ifshe had, he wouldn't consent.
• engage to get his consent," said
the girl. What I was afraid of was
that I couldn't get yours, - Mrs. Bowen."
"Am 1 so severe as that ?" asked
Mrs. Bowen, softly,
"Quite," replied Imogene,
"Perhaps," thought Colville, ".it
isn't always silent submission."
-For no very good reason that any one
could giv%, the Carnival that year .was
net a brilliant one. Colville's party
seemed to be always meeting the 'same
maskers on the street, anti the maskers
did not greatly increase in numbers.
There were.---tr few more of them after
night -fall, but they were then a little
more bacchanal, and he felt it was bet-
ter the ladies had gone home by that
time. In the pursuit of the tempered'
pleasure of looking u the maskers he
was able to make the reflection that
their fantastic and 'vivid dresses sym-
pathized in a -striking way with the
architecture of the city, and gave 'him
an effect of Florence which he could not
otherwise have had. There came by- -
and -by a little attempt at a 'corso in Via
Qerrantani and Via Tornabuoni. There
were some masks in catriages, and from
one they actually threw plaster con-
fetti ; half a dozen bare -legged boys ran
before and beat one another with blad-
ders. Some people, but not Many,
watched the 'show from the windows,.
and the footways were crowded.
Having -proposed that theyshould see
the .Carnival together, Colville had made
himself responsible for it to the Bowen
household. Imogene said, "Well, is
• this the famous Carniiar of Florence ?".
"It certainly doesn't compare with
the Carnival lest year," said Mrs.
Bowen. -
"Your reproach is just,Mrs.•Bowen,- "
he acknowledged. "I've managed it
badly. But you.know I've been out of
practice a great while there in Des
Vaches." I
"Oh, Poor Mr, CoIville !" cried -Imo-
gene. "He isn't altogether to blame."
"1 don't know," said Mrs. Bowen,
humoring the lokin her turn. "It
seems to me that if he had consulted us
a little earlier, he inight have done
better."
He drove home -with the ladies, and
Mi. Bowen made him stay to -tea. As
if she felt that he needed to be consoled
for the failure of his 'Carnival, she was
especially indulgent . with him. She -
played to him on the piano some of the
songs that were in fashion when they
were in Florence together before. Imo-
gene had never, heard them; she had
heatel her, mother speak of them. One
or two of them were negro songs, such
as very pretty .young ltdies used to sing
without harm to themselves or offence
to others; but Imogene decided that
they were rather rowdy. Dear me,
Mrs. Bowen ! Did- you sing such
songs? You wouldn't let Effie !"
"No, I wouldn't let -Effie.' The times
are changed. I wouldn't let Effie go to
the theatre alone with a young gentle-
man." . •
"The times are changed for the
‘
worse," Colville, began. What harm
ever came to a young 'man from a young
lady's going alone to the theatre water
him 7"
He staid till the dandles were brought
In, and -then went -away Only because, as
he said, they had not asked him to stay
to dinner. , .
He came nearly every clay, upon one
pretext or another, and he met them
oftener than that at the teas and on the
days of other ladies in Florence ; 'for he
was finding the busy idlenees of the life
very pleasant, 'and he went everywhere.
He formed` the habit of carryingflowers
to the Palazzo Pint!, eaeusing himself on
the ground that they were so. eheap and
so abundant as, to be impersonal. :Ile
brought violets to Effie and roses te;
Imogene; to Mrs.; Bowen he always
brought a bunch cif the huge 'purple
anemonewhich grow so ablindantly all
winter long about Florence. "1 won-
der why purple atiemones ?" the' asked
her one day in preAsenting them to her.
'Oh, it is quite time I should be
wearing purple," she said, gently. .
" Ah, Mrs. Bowen !" he reproached
her. "Why do I bring purple violets
to Miss Effie ?"
" You must aek Effie !" said ' Mrs.
Bowen, With a laugh, 1
After that he staid away forty-eight
hours, and theu appeared with 'a bunch
of the red anemones, as large -as tulips,
whieh light up the meadow grass I When
it begins to stir from its torpor in the
spring. They grew on purpose to set
me right with you," he said, " le,nd I
saw them when I.was in the coufitry."
It was a little triumph for him, whichl
she celebrated by putting them in a vase
on her table, anel„ telliing people who. ex-
claimed over them thatthey were some .
Mr. Colville gathered in the CO. Intry.
He enjoyed his privileges at her house
• with the futureless satisfaction of a
man. He liked'to go about wit .the
Bowens, he was seen with the 1 dies,
driving and walking, in most of their
promenades.. •He directed their visits
to the churches and the galleri s ; he
was fond of strollinghbout with Effie's
daintly gloved little hand in his. He
took her to Giocosa's and treated her to
ices; he let her choose from the con-
fectioner's prettiest caprices in candy;
he -was allowed to bring the childi pre-
sents in his Poaketb. Perhaps hq was
not as conscientious as he might 1 have
• been in his behavior with the littl girl.
He did. what he could th spoil her, or at
least to relax the severity of the rain-
ing she had received ; he liked tosee
the struggle that went on in the moth-
er's mind -against this, and then the
other struggle with -which she overcame
her opposition to it. The worst he dicli
was to teach Effie some picturesque
Western phrases, 'phrases, which she used with!
nocent effectivaness ; she committed I
e crimes agalfisteonvention which he
taught het with 41 the conventional
elegance of her training. The most that
he ever gained for her were some con -
Cessions in going out in weather that
her mother thought unfit, or sitting up
for half-hours after her bedtime. He
cirdered books for her from Goodban's,
and it was Colville iiew, and not the
Rev. Mr. Morton, who read poetry
aloud to the ladies on afternoons when
Mrs. Bowen gave orders that she and
iss Graham should be denied to all
ether comers. I
it was an intimacy; and society in
Florence is not blind, and eepeeially it
is not dumb. ,The old lady who had
celebrated Mrs. Bowen to him the first
night at Palazzo Pinti led a life of active
question as to what was the supreme at-
traction to Colville there, and she re-
ferred her doubt to every friend with
'Whom she drank tea. She_philosophized
the situation very scientifically,, and if
not very concliiively, how few are the
absolute conclusions of science upon any
point!i'
He is &-bachelor, and there is a
natural affinity between, bachqlors and
widow37-much More than if he were a
Widower too. If he were a widower, I
should say it was -undoubtedly made-
moiselle. If he were a little bit young-
er, I should have no doubt it was
madame; but men of that age have such
an ambition to marry young girls! I
Suppose that they think it proves thy
are not so very old, after all. And cer-
tainly he isnft too old to marry. If he
were wise—Which he probably, isn't, if
he's like other men in such matters—
there wouldn't be any question about
Mrs. Bowen. Pretty creature! And so
thuch sense ! Too Much for _him. Ah,
My dear, how we are weeted upon that
sex
Mrs. Bowen herself treated the affair
with masterly frankness. More than
once in varying phrase she said.: "you
ale very good to give us so much of your
time, Mr. Colville, and I won't pretend
I don't know it. You're helping me out
with a very hazardous experiment.
%Vhen I undertook to see Imogene
through a winter in Florence, I dn't
reflect what a very gay tithe girls have
at home, in Western town especially.
But I haven't heard her br the Buffalo
o ce. And I'm sure it's oing her a
'eat deal of good hete: S e's • natural-
ly got a very good mind; s e's very am-
bitious to be cultivated. 'he's read a
good deal, and she's anxio s to know
history and art • and your
criticism are the greatest
vantage to her."
" Thank you," said Colv
fine, remote dissatisfactio
advice and
(amble ad -
Ile, with a
. I sup-
posed I Was merely enjoying myself."
Ile had lately begun to
benker's for information
tie Carnival ball, with th
s mething raight be made ea
But either there were to
Carnival bills, or it was a
haunt his
regard to
hope that
t of .thern.
e no 'great
mistake to
siippose that his banker ought • to know
• about them. Colville went experiment -
a ly to one of the people's balls at a
n inor theatre, which he f
sed' on the house walls.
t •n the dmicing had not beg
asks w're arriving; youn
find adver-
t• half past
, but. the
women in
y silks and -dirty white gloves ; men
• women's dresses, with enormous
hinds; girls as pages; clowns, pante-
leans, old women, and the like. They
Were all very good-humoredthe Men,
Who far , outnumbered the • women,
•danced contentedly together. Colville
liked two eavalry soldiers who waltzed
with each ether for an hour and then
iibition in
went off to - a battery on ex
the pit, and had as much ele
they . could hold. He liked
young @Weans who danced together as
long as he staid, and did- not leave
off even for electrieal refresh fent- He
came away at midnight, pushing out of
the theatre through a crowd t people at
the door, some of whom were tipsy.
This certainly Would not have done for
the ladies, though the people were
civilly tipsy.
:
IX.
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The 'next morning- Paolo when he
broughtup Colville's breakftLst, 'brought
the news that there Was to br a veglione
at the Pergola Theatre. iTh s news re-
vived' Colville's couiage. ' eaolo," he
he said,: "You ought to open a banking
house." Paolo was used to bcing joked
by foreigners who ceuld not speak hal-
ieal very well; he smiled as if he •under-
stood. • •
! • -
The banker had his Witte doubts of
Paolo's intelligence; the banker in
Europe doubts all news not originating
in his house; but after 'a day or two the
4vertiseznenti in the newspapers car-
ried conviction even to the banker.
1 -
When Colville went to the ladies with
news of the veglione the foul d °that they
had,already heard ofi it. hould you
like to go 7' he asked, Mrs. T owen. • •
I". I don't know. What do iyou think?"
sliehsked in turn.
" Oh, it's for you to do the thinking.
I only know What I ivant." I
Imogene said nothing, while she
watched the internal debate as it eit-
pressed itself in Mrs. Bowen s face.
" People go inboxes," she said,
thoughtfully ; " but you would feel that
a box wasn't the 'samt thing 9xactly ?"
I" We went On the floor,". suggested
Colville.
' it was very dif1crent t ien. .And,
besides, Mrs. Finley had ab -olutely no
sense ' of propriety." \Vhei a, woman
has explicitly condemned a 'en action,
she apparently gathers cour ge for its
commission under a little di erent con-
ditions "Of course,1 if we ent upon
the floor, I shouldn't' wish it to be
known at all, though foreign rs can . do
ahnost anything they like."
r Really," said C 'vine, "- when it
comes to that, I don't -see an harm .in
"And you" say go?"
"1 say whatever you say.
Mrs. Bowen lookedfrom h
gene. '. "I don't either," she
and they uaderstood that sh
harm which he had not seen.
ctricity as
also two
"Which 'of es has been so
deserve this f". asked Colville
• "Oh, you have all been
said.; We shall go in mask.
noes," she continued. "-N
happen; and who should k
anything did ?" They ha
tickets to the great Borghese
is still a fashiednable and de
ofthe Carnival to foreigners i
but their precenceptions of ti
threw into the shade the en
which the gentlemen of Fi
to favored sojourners.
(To Be Colitinued.)
m to Imo -
Aid finally,
hmant the
ood as to
ood," she
-and domi-
thing will
low us if
1• received
Nil w h ich
i red event
Florence;
e veglione
ertainment
rence offer
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or DAVID WALKER, Mill Road, of to Bruee-
field P. O. -...
„ . , I I 904-1
qOODGRAIN AND GRAZING 'FARM F6
. -
HulJeSALE.—For sales being Lot 2, Concession
tt, containing 160 acres, 130 of which
are cleared, e balance well timbered With hard-
wood. Superior -soil, well underdrained, sand
workable with tiny machinery, 28 acres seeded
to grass. A never failing spring ereek rens
through the back end. There are two log houses,
frame faun, large shed and coinfortable housieg
eenient. Tering easy; Apply to .J, ALLAR-
forth, and a' like distence front Brussels. One
Mile from sehoca and postoffice. Churches edn-
pYCE, Harlock P. 0. •
i
Ix and one-halLmiles from Blyth, 10 , from Sea
or stock. Good bearing orchard and three .89w,etetrls
0
!
ellPLENDII) FARM IN BRUCE FOB 'SAT F '
ruee, cootitining 104 acres, of which about .30
J /a [--
For Side, Lot 30, Concession 6, township elf
acres are cleared, fenced and free from stumps,
„,..the balancelis timbered principally with splendid
hardwood aid a little hemlock fencing. There
ire frame bilildings, and a never failing spring
a -reek rminihg through the place. It is within' 6
+nee of thei flohrishing town of Paisley and an
equal distance from Underwood. There is a good
school oppotite the place, and it is in a splendid
ettlement. There is a good clay bank for
I ricks or tile, Which is worth one fourth of what
il, asked for,the farm This is a splendid farm
nd will be told very cheap. Apply to box 24,
eaforth P. 0. . 877
V-ALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—The sub-
scriber offers for sale his farm of 100 acres,
being South East hell of Lot 37, Concession 8,
East Wawanosh ; about 65 acres arecleared and
f ee from stumps, the balance is. well timbered
ith hardwood, hemlock and cedar. The farm
i in a high state of cultivation. It is situated
ne and threeqbatter miles from Belgmve, 7
tiles from Wingham, 8 miles -from Blyth. It is
ithin one-quakter 'Mile from school. There are
n'the premises a good frame house and frame
rn and stabling,, a young bearing orchard,
a never failing Well, and creek running through
t e bank part of the farm. This property will be
a ld cheap. For further particulars apply on
the premises, or to GEORGE A. TYINER, Bel -
grave P. 0s, East Wawanosh. 894
oR SALE OR TO RENT.—Tseo farms Lot
12 14, oit the 6th Concession, and Lot 15, on
tlie 7th Concession . of Morris, containing 100
atres each, about 90 acres oleared and free from
stumps on one farm, and about 60 aeres cleared
on the other. The cleared land is in a good
state of cultivations and well fenced. Good
frame barns and stables'and log house on one,
and on the other a loghouse and logbarn. There
is a good bearing orchard on Lot 14. A never
failing spring creek runs through both places.
The soil is flrst-dlass, there being no better
farms in the township. These places are admir-
ably adapted for grain growing or grazing, and
are within five miles Of the flourishing town of
Brussels. The places will be sold together or
separately, and can be bought cheap and on
easy terms, Apply on the prendses or address
the Proprietor, Clandeboy P. 0. GEO. SEALE.
933-4 ;
Cash
L. SMITH, Seaforth,
iscount Dry Good
Wishes to direc1 the attention of all to the fact that the c
COUNT ALE that has been going dn for the past
continued, and Te intend in future making this a part of our h
decided succesitland is meeting with universal favor. For th
who are unacquilinted with our past month's procedure, we w
vocate one trial,
I •
IS 9NE OF
HOLDING
s Man,
ASH mi-
llionth, is to be
u8inesE4 It is a
a benefit of those
ld strongly ad-
nowing that it wi..11 he to your advantage. EXITRA VALUE
THE ESSENTIAL POINTS TH4T WE ARE
UT TO COUNTERACT SCARCE MONEY.
J. L. SMITH, S
„AFORTH„
CASH DISCOUNT DRY eOODS MAN.
"Grate
FITTED
° Out large s
trade with thel
forth. My atm
I'll be good to y
" Happiness a
0
Home With the
1,1M%
•^41ria -
-samalsomos
,
,
f, •
,
WITH THE DUPLEX GRATE.
MY, IS WEALTH, BUY THE BEST.
le of Stoves this season is a sufficient guarantee that we lead the
argeet assortment, best value, and cheapest line of stoves in See-
k is complete in all departments. Call and take a look through.;
ou.
MAIN S
MRS. JOHN KIDD,
REET,
IS tit F 0 Ftt TH.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT !
Extensive Arrivals of New Carpets
ok. MACNAI
R &C -O.
Have received during the last few days, through the Stratford Custom House, the
largest invoice of ENGLISH CAR PETINGS PVer imported into Stratford, or to
any House west of Torohto. Our entire Fall Stock of °
C Tt 171 111
Is now open for inspection. Every variety of quality, patterh and coloring is re-
presented, from the cheapest to the most expensive fabrics. We will offer this
day, Wednesday, and daring the month, the following special lots, all of which
are priced much below regular value:
I ;
English Wiltons, Neutral Borders in Tapestry and Brussels,
• English Velvet, English Body Brussels, English Tapes-
tries, English Moreque, Uni9n and Wool Kidder-
minster Carpets, Dutch and Hemp Carpets,
Floor Oil Cloths --all widths, Linoleums in
various qualities and designs for halls
1 ' anci Bath Rooms.
1
• Remember, this meteria is aenon-condoctor of heat or cold, and very durable.
Our Curtaen Department is serowded with the latest novelties. -.' We have
every grade of Lace Curtains, indeed everything which should be kept- in a first -
clan Curtain Department. We invite every housekeeper to inspect our goods.
Come and see them. You can always depend upon finding the very latest styles
and prices out of the reach of all competition, at the popular and progressive
,•1•
store of 1
' A. MACNAIR & CO.1 . Stratford.
0
i
931-4
STILL SPREADING.
LUMSIJEN &
WIESON.S
Royal Glycerked Balsam of
THE GREAT COUGH REMEDY.
Fir,"
SUCCESS UNPREOEDENTEp.
• Showing without a doubt that this medicine really possesses the virtues
claimed for it in an eminent degree.
It is now sold all over the coentry. We sold in our own store, last week,
over TWO HUNDRED bottles.
No medicine in the market can show fz,0 many genuine testimonials from well-
.
known men of unquestionable character.
Buy no other Cough Medicine till you have given this a trial, Ask your
dealer for it, anti take no other. Price, 50e per bottle. •
Lumsden tf Wilson, Sole Manufacturers,
SEAFORTHI ONTARIO.
aeese,
NOVAMBER 6) 1885.
__Lim!Itionmesame
Knitting Machines.
World's Star Knitting
AND
RIBBING MACHINE,
WILL KNIT
SOCKS and STOCKIi 013
(of all Sizes.) Mitts, Scarfs and various other
articles either plain or ribbed,.
The best family Knitting Machine leaewee.
tnred. •
Full instructions will be given by a Competent
Operator f ree of charge to any one buying ft Ma,
chine.
Plain Machine
Machine with Ribber
FOR SALE BY
We INT. -NAT,A.'T.SOIstIt
General Insurance Agent and Sew-
ing Machine Dealer, Main
Street, Seaforth,
All kinds of Sewing Machines Repaired. Charges
Reasonable.
15.00
WILL BUY YOU AN
American Solid fret
WATQH,
—AT—
Purvis & Milks'
JEWELLERY STORE,
OPPOSITE THE
Commercial Hotel.
REPAIRING MTV/ DONL
Agents for the Light. Running New
Horne Sewing Machine.
FARMERS' BANKIND HUiJL
LJOC3-.A1INT stSz Ca,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
SEAPORT/, 0521-
• Office—First Door NORTH
of Commercial Hotel.
Notes discounted, and a general banking busk
nese done.
Remittence to and collections made in Masi.
1 tetra. •
1 Business done throe& Bank of Montreal.
• A limited amount of money received ondeposit
Money to loann on real estate at best Istese se •
C IWCA tiC II EY, WM. LOC*
P. S.—S. G. McCaughey will attend eto Cern- ,
,veyance in all its branches, lending money on
real estate, buying and selling farms, hontesekis!
AIIAN DITiI
ROYAL mAn. STEAMSHIPS.
A. STRONG, Seaforth, Agents .
GREAT ZEDUCTION IN PASSAGE RAM
Cabin rates from Halifax to Liverpool and Loss
donderry, 850, 8.63, and 873, according to Positica
of stateroom Children under 12years,baltliate
under I, free. Servants ha Cabin', 850litters
mediate, 835; Steerage, 813. From Liverposier
Londonderry to Halifax: Cabin, 863, 878.75 end
894.50; Intermediate, 835; Steerage $13. Re-
turn Tickets from Halifax to Londonderry or
Liverpool and back to Halifax: Cabin, 400, V-24
and 8143, Intermediate, $70, Steerage, 826.
Money Loaned and Real Estate Bout
• and Sold as U8116.1.
INSURANCE.
I represent several of the best Insurance Come
panies in the world.
EarOflice—Ma.rket Street, Seaforth.
862 A. STRONG.
E. F. .BLACK,
Watchmaker, Li censed Auctioneer,
Farm Sales Attended, Charges
Moderate, Sale Notes
c• ounted, Money to
• Lend. •
0
WATCHMAKER,
924
SEAFORTH PLANING MILL;
SASH CO3R AND BLIND FACTORY
atencod:d
Fr HE subscriber begs leave to thank flUIV
..I_ ous customers for the liberal patronatre0
SASHES, DOORS,
nencing busitie0 ,I...
Seaforth, and trusts that he may be favored Valk
tint:anhicille ef8thhi ceesaen:em.1
large stock of all kinds of
him a call, as he will eontinue to keep on
Parties intending to build would dewell
DRY PINE LUMBER,
BLINDS & MOULDINGS,
SHINGLES, LAas none but first-class workmen are employets
W,
-
those who may favor him svith their pat e -
Ile feels confident e giving satisfacti
Pa ticular attention paid to Custom
201 JOHN II. 'BROAD
-
Dar
,L)iinC ah, t
Wben life seemed
• -When dismal 'eerie
And doubt was se.
_When loolieh scone
Iinpractieable,
end I was kin,ing t
The work that sei
The dark, dark day
And sobbing wit&
The echo of that km
Whose deeper u
,The slays when Loy
And Friendship b
A broken reed that
And made it inly,
The dark and dre
• The body would
And painful langno
My will in impote
• When Duty called
And, heedless bo
I answered her with
Oh, the long, achi
13ut there 0 soul, th
But one in a gre;.it
And each one had s.
As any that had v
For into ever.) lif
The solemn rain
And ewer every life
• The sombre don&
But not in laughter
Was I the nottleet
'Twas in the strovg1
My soul to highes
Then Faith, Emma
Came nem- and n
And thus the storm
Brought me the h
Ga
—" Good infirm
your health •
• watew maw
you. Maw say
and freshaw, sh
this summaw,
—A dandy
passed to him at
asked for it --t
your c-oev this way
thus retorted—"
(101V11 there where
—A celebrated
• the theatre while
tion of Macbeth,
Macbeth nried
name he exclaim
A deed without
penny," •-
—An old gentle
Me'lieinilaliname
druggist's counter
.ng the eterk, "
to whieh the mati
replied, " Why, n
Can t you read 2"
• —" Ihn sair fash
head, John," said 4
" Do you ken the e
the other. •
it's empty," said
• that's queer," said_
ye neer fashed wi'
head, John?" "• I,
John. " Ana ao
o' that.? It's beeso
—A young man
repeatedly by the
one, *rote to th
follows: I did in
to ane, thongh youi
rough, but when,
that thirteen-ineli
• feeling& i snati
to win your &tug]
your style of feet, ,
satility in the use
eould not be etitir
Tat -tab !" '
—" „Martha, de
aslied a Quaker yo
shrine his fondes'
been offered u,
severed she,
love one another, 4
Martha! but cloak
that feeling thew'
baldly know wilt
I have tried to In
but I have someth
that timer wast
share."
—Deacon, Sande]
"glen unco jai -1p
that Wa,tty Pringh
the Session,"\ wher
ons deacon. "1
minister to Wat
weighed in the ba
44 Hoots,
"111 maybe get
Samlerson's weicht
• —An American
at the village stori
the purchase of a
• friends werein, wl
had become a go
and were willing t4
tore -keeper joule
begged the judge
something. " W -
Judge ? Take any
• Judge looked aro
what to choose, an
I will take a Inael
self, he gravely wa
aahl - was not inVi
there again. •
I will give
-claimed a person -
every word of the
be not true."
repiied the philoi
;small value sten
friendeldp, and. sha
—Near-sighted 4
ing store)—" Have
ern Young Soy
sareastie manner) -
this establiehment
sighted ol-d •gent!
-clerk, eh ? Errao
Well, lege are as
departments."
, —A Seoielk fare
to see the wow;
The various curi
the woman very we
profeesed to be she
were shown off.
Jallet lint ie pleti
othere. She eat pe
the•water tigers, le
twelve feet, appear
ing with their us
now roe in great t
Come awa, , Joh
man, and zee
" See the show, nit
tie, if they awf
• brak out o' the wat
Th,e Record-
1,ONSOLATION FO;
There is no litt
thoilteht that, howe
- flourish for the se
eontinue to <IAA
Inany men eontrie
zed flaehy repute'
auto dierepute tend
•foie that years aote
44 the - univerar
tve distrusted his le
ttilled to ourselves