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Animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and
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tended to either by day or night. Charges moder-
ate. special attention given se veterinary dent's -
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Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Elliott, Bruce -
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te_ College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston.
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AUCTIONEERS.
T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for tht Coun
ei , ty of Huron. Sales attended in a 1 parts of
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Office will be promptly attended to.
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Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth.
Sales- promptly attended to, charges moderate and
satisfaction guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed
to Chiseihurst Post Office, or left at his residence,
Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuckeramith, will receive
prompt attention. 129641
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AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conian amen
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Life, Accident and Fire Insurance Agent; Money to
Loan, Correspondence, &c. Parties requiring his
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STAIRS), MAIN STRKIT, SalP3ILTEI. 113'
McKillop Directory for 1893.
JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. O.
JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beechwood.
DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood.
WM, MeGAVIN, Councillor, Leadbury.
WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury.
JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop.
SOLOMON J. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop.
WM. EVANS, Assessor, Becohwood.
CHARLES DODDS, Collector. Seaforth.
R. W. B. SMITH M 1) Medical Health Officer,
Seaforth.
RICHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead -
bury.
Dr. McLellan, London,
437 Talbot Street, Specialist on the
EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT
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1889. Post Graduate Course at the New York Post
Graduate Medical School and Hospital on the Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat, 1892. Eye e Tested. Full
stock of Artifice] Eyes, Spectacles and Lenge. Will
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MR. GIBBLB COLT'S DUOS.
BY RICHARD MALCOLM iJOILNSTON.
" Dux !mina faCtl,"..f.xmis
CHAPTER I
"1 have come to the conclusion that tIvhat
waut is a little duck to call mine."
He had the solemnity not uncommon in
very tall, rather slim, and moderately dark
•gentlemen, old enough to know what ;hey
are talking about when the matter ie 1heir
own individual, special wantie The an.
nouncement excited some surprise, eV3n a
little flutteriug ; thereforoI shall proce d to
tell briefly the conditions of the speaker and
his audience that led to it.
Property to the value of 'bout one hun-
dred millers, his share in hie father's estate,
by accretions in one way and another dur-
ing the twenty years since the majoritC of
Mr. Gibble Colt, had amounted to five hurl.
dred-perhapt a little over. In this While
he had lived with an oldrit --Oster, of
Mr. Isaac Spillers, his service's about the
house, the yard, the gard , the hors lot
and the cow pen being takeni as equiva ent
for board. The mall farm was situate a
couple of miles from the village of Red Qxk,
and bordered on the public `road leading
thence to Augusta. The land was not rrlore
thin wed gravelly than the average in that
militia district,which, by a pleasant con eit
of ono of the early settlers, had been Ina ed
"Pea Ridge." - Notwithstanding his g eat
length and solemnity, Mr. Colt was a an
affectionate in his feelings. Therefore, al-
though he shed not many • tearreshe as
much grieved at the death of his sister. is
sense of bereavement had been quicknadj by
some changes already made in the ho se-•
hold, and others contemplated by his brcith-
er-in-law. These had put him to thinkiug
that perhaps it might be well for hinr to
make some change in himself. This thought
was in his mind on a uice morning when he
called at the Sprityberrys'.
• These extremely nice people Mies Pru-
dence and her sister, Charty Z'
an two years
younger, owned a farm of similardimenston,
half a mile nearer town. Their oottage,
modist like themselves, was retired qtiite
out of public view. Both parents had de-
ceased some peen back, when they had fully
reached womanhood t By this time, they
had managed to get iii comfortable, respelot-
able living on the place, and make a ea
factory beginning in the raising of negr es
from the man and woman with whom at he
death of their fether they hid started on
their own independent, inoffensive line. it
was at this house, and in the joint presence
of these ledies, that Mr. Colt made the re-
mark above quoted,
As to ages, slitnnesses, and complexihns,
the Misses Sprayberry were not far unlle
their visitor.( Almost all of their ti e,
especially of late years, they staid at ho e,
taking 6are of theirl little property, trying
to make little additions to it in honest ways,
feeling mild compassion for the moving,
restless world outside, and, upon thwhcongratulatiog themselves on their form,' ht
e ille,
in not having encumbered themselves with
husbands, children, and the other itievitable
it
appurtenances of married life. These v ry
last words, however,were-appliceble in t eir
entirety only to the elder sister, who neer
had had a beau, and, if people,would lbe-
lieve her, never had wanted one. Mies
Charty Aun, despite her suspicions tat
had read might not have been precisely as
some of the things in what few novels he
• occasionally was tender enough for tear at
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set down therein, admitted an interest tat
scenes capable of todching au affeationate,
sympathizing heart, Whenever a wedding
took place in the neighborhood, if ,invited,
she went to it. If net invited, just, for
curiosity; nothing elee in the world-eihe
liked to hear how the bridal party and
everybody else looked and did, and how
everything in general wept off. Miss Pru-
dence knew well enough how to make al-
lowancie for the harmless levity of her
younger sister, it being a foil to her own ha-
bitual seriousness. 'Without ever chiding,
she regarded it enough to set for her an ex-
ample in the matter of books. On week-
days she opened never one except the Bible;
and on Sundays, this, the hymnbook,
and Pilgrim's Progress. With the last I
suspect that she never did get entirely
through; but often was she heard to express
her never having a douht that the poor,
dear, good man was bound to get there at
last -or, as she expressed it, "safe and
sound eventual."
Almost the first words spoken by Mr.Colt
on this rooming were those announcing his
rather singular want, It was the more sur-
prising to these ladies, particularly Miss
Prudence., because, as for ducke, not one of
that !Tames of fowl was on that place, nor
had been since as far back as anybody there
could remember. Therefore,
when the an-
nouncement was made, MissPrudenoe simp-
ly looked at Mr. Colt, and said not a single
word. The visit in itself was not e sur-
priee; for living so near,his wont had ben to
fall in there occasionally; the same ets if he
were an old maid likeehemselves, and he
had been no more suspected of evil intents
than if indeed he wee in that condition Of
life. But on this occasion, when he alluded
to ducks, and that in a sort of abstracted
'distant eway, in a voice almost husky, and
looking aa solemn as ,if somebody was: dead
or upon their death -bed, Miss Prudence ask-
ed herself if shelosew what upon earth the
man could be driving at. The answer being
in the negative, and Mr, Colt sitting there
without'adding a word of explanation,,after
Borne moments she broke the silence in the
following 'manner :
"Gibble Colt, I thought you knewed it;
but if you didn't, they haven't beeit a duck
of no sort on this plantation since here I've
been. My father always before he died
took up e predigioe ag'inst the thinge; for
what reason he never told anybody that I
riclect of, except it might have been, their
everlastin' puddlin' and paddlin' in every
blessed thing that have water in it. And I
have freckwent heard him express hie Opin-
ions that for eatin', chicken aud turkey was
good enough for him, with -maybe sometimes
gootte for rarity, but although which he ac-
knowledged he loved goose not to the ;same
extents. And so ever since his time we
never got in the habit of havin' the things
in the? family. It is therefore, and for ithem
reasons,that if you're certainin your ,mind
they is what you do want, I hatn't a
doubts on my mind that the Hills, if they
couldn't let you have a par, they could at
Children Cry for
least spar' you a settin' of eggs to raise
from. They've got em, I know, because
every time I go by there I see 'em by their
?spring branch."'
While this speech was going on, Mr. Colt
was looking all around the room, as if, not
fully crediting Miss Spray berry's disclaimer
he :tweeted that an individual of the kind
he had specified was hid away somewhere
.on the mantle, 'or behind the clock, or
under the table, or somewhere else. When
the lady bad finished her elaborate, kind
• answer, be replied :
" I don't need to go to the Hills. The
duck I'm after is hereLright here - and
• she's nowhere else -that is, providire she's
wiilhine'n'il
The looked at Miss Charty Ann with
all the pointedness and painfulness which his
countenance could put on. -
Now notwithstanding that the nigh re-
semblance between Miss Charty Ann and
a duck, especially a small duck, had occur-
red perhaps to only -a few imaginations, she
seemed not displeased that it had been not-
iced by that of Mr. Colt. She did not essay
to squat very far down on her chair, but she
did shrink herself into a mien of girlishness
and meek lovelinese that few ducks of any
size could have aurpassed.
"1 am positive and simple disgussed
said Miss Prudenee, rising, and leaving the
pair to themselveri.
Long as both lovera were, long as had
been the time before their coming togethee
in this intensely interesting relation after a
long, long acquaintance, their courtship and
other antenuptial preparations were ex-
ceedingly brief. I suppose they thought to
make up for so much time unnecessarily
thrown away.
Poor Min Prudence, feeling herself thus
deserted -or, as she expressed it, "clean
flung away "-could solace herself, and that
in a very small way, only by thoughts, of
which the following were a few among vast
numbers of expressions to the friends to
whom in her desolation she turned:
"When Gibble Colt come to the house a-
enquirin' about ducks, I natchel said that
we didn't keep the things, and I were per-
fect honest in my mind when I a-p'inted
him to the Hills, that they have a spring
branch where they could keep theirselves
from troublesome people that liked to have
a clean, decent, respectable yard. I ain't
a settin' in this cheer' if I weren't a-tryin'
to give him the best intimation I knowed
how, all be I were ruther took back in my
mind by Gibble Colt at his time of life a-
wantin' to begin OD the raisin' of such a kind
of a animal. Tell you the truth, for a min-
ute I suspicioned Gibble Colt of bein' out of
hie head, and not a-knowine what it were he
did want. And the first thing I knewed
there wap him a -eying of Charty Ann, and
she not displedged at it. Sol just ris • and
as I ris, I heard him ask her if she wouldn't
be his little duck. That of all the names I
ever expected to live to see Charty Ann
called by, the lastest one was that. And
yit I never in my born days have I ever see
a ides took holt of so fast, and break out all
over 'em, which; if it hadn't been my own
blessed sister, I should have to sat down an'
laugh. It only ehow what people can come to
when they think they -fell in love: because
its:10 seem to me at her time of life -and
special a high, tall woman like Charty Ann
-she'd felt ashamed of hereelf at the very
namin' of bein'IGibble Colt's little dUck."
Yet Mr. Colt made a firet.rate hueband,
and soon a satieifactory brother.in.law ; and
Mies Prudence,rhaving to do so, admitted it
honorably. He did not try to interfere with
her right, acquired by primogeniture, as
established by long usage, to the headship of
the family, and he would have discouraged,
If he bad noticed, any ambition on the part
of his wife to rile in her own scale of being
than as his own favorite bird. About every
rural homestead there are tome things which
it hale to a man more conveniently and
more becnmingly than to a Woman to look
after. These were undertaken at once by
Mr, Colt, and attended* to with constant
faithfulness and effloiency. • For the rest, he
let himself be supported by these ladies
_without a single word of complaining. Soon
after hie marriage he did a thing which
could not have failed to affect sensibly any
feminine heart that knows how to value
affectionateness land kindnese. The sisters
hadetlways waited on themselves mainly.
-They had been 'so brought up, and such
work was not irksome, But Mr. Colt, early
in his domestication, said that eo duck of
his, nor no duck's sister of hie, should do
sucjh as that much longer. And so one day,
at in administrator's sale'with his money
that he had dialled in, he bought a young
woman, whom, when he had brought her
home, he turned, over to Miss Prudence,
with very few, btit: thoee affectionate and
specific remarks. Delicate little things like
that go far with good women. Miss Pru-
dence could have pried, but I suppose she
decided that euch;giving way could hardly
be expected of her, and so she did not. Sylla
the new servant, healthy, honest, will-
ing, became a great help, Not following
the example set by her mistresses, she mar-
ried young, and few Women of any race ever
bore a more numerous, eound, likely pros
geny. In time Miss Prudence came to love,
almost as well as her sister, him who so nat.
urally and smoothly had assimilated with
the whole lam ily.1
"Yee, yes, I think a heap o' Gibble Colt,
and I've even got riconciled to him callin'
Cherie, Ann his little duck. But still I can't •
but be thankful it ain't me instid of
Charty Ann. He's la affectionate kind of
a creatur'-affeotienItter than Charty Ann,
in fact -and he ;ain't much more in a
body's way than if he was a female. Yee:
I got complete riconciled, and I'm thankful
I did."
CHAPTER II.
Things went oniand kept going for twenty
year ik without one 'unhappy ripple. It eeem-
ed a pity for a change to come. Yet it fell
most lightly uponehe one Who was to be
subtracted soonest. Neither her husband -
nor her sister could believe when, after a
few days of what rimmed a 'very light spell
of illnese, Mrs. Colt bade them good -by,
calling them both to witness that of the
two she could not Pay which she loved beat.
As for their future she offered no advice,but
expreesed loumble, hope that her own Was
secure.
They were not people to make a great ado
of mourning, yet each was deeply, sorely
distressed.
And now there was IMiss Prudence and
there was Mr. Colt, and no person ever did
kdow how she at the head of the table and
he at the foot, how she at one 3orner of the
fireplace and he at the other, looked at each
other and were speechlese.
In such afflictions men seem to have an,
advantage over women. The former can
and often do roam about, while the latter
-
feel as if it is their 'duty to stay at home.
Not that Mr, Colt roamed promiscuously.
He never had been a man for such as that;
and his roaming, not counting an occasional'
purposeless walk to town was confined al-
most entirely to the Hill., whose husband
and father had deceased some months be-
fore. Perhaps, of its kind and to its degree
there was consolation in Passing and repass -
log by the Hill epring branch, and looking
mildly at the Hill iducks,Ithat did not fore-
go the comfort of puddling for any losses
among their families, however unexpected,
quick and violent.; it is curioua that we do
not -yet we who are on the highest scale of
animate being ought to -set more store by
the many cheerful ;examples placed before
our view by so many of the lower animals.
Yet with this movement of her brother-in-
law Mien Sprayberry could not bring herself
to sympathize. The Hills had never been
favorite a with the family -a fact vvhioh Mr.
Colt ought to have` known and did know.
Therefore on his second -or it may have
Pitcher's Castoria•
been on his third -return, with all the
straightness which sixty years had not been
able to bend, ebe scanned him with an eye
which looked as if it wished to see if he did
not feel ashamed of himself. I saw,nothing
of the kind. On the contrary, he looked
back at her as if he had been doing nothing
itithis wide world to feel ashamed about.
"1 wouldn't have believed it," said poor
Miss Prudence, "after the names he called
Chatty Ann all the time they lived together
and appearant was in yearnest. It's a
mercy the poor child didn't live to see it.
Roweomever, I have no idea if she'd a lived
he'd a done it. Well, I suppose the good
Lord made men folks so ; but it seem a pity
they can't be_ deacent in some things, special
in times of affliction • that ie, if it ever come
to 'em, which sometimes It seem to me they
don't to some of 'em."
One night, after they had been sitting by
the fire for quite a time, wherein the few re-
marks make by Mr. Colt were answered in
not much more than monosyllables and
lounts, suddenly, in a tone of much impati-'
tent sorrow, he ejaculated,
" My ! how Ido mise my little duck ?"
Mies Prudence jumped slightly, it came
in a way so unlike the speaker. But she
recovered herself immediately, and looking
at him with interne severity, said : " If its
Charty Ann you're a.speakin' about, Gibble
Colt, I wished in my heart you missed her
like,I do. If I don't, that I do."
"'What for, Prudence? Name of the good
tord ! what's the reason you don't think
I miss her like you, and obloeged to be a
sight worse? 11]i was to miss her any more
than I do, I just know I couldn't stand it;
and I ain't quite shore in my mind I can
stand it as it is.
"Look to me like you already got tol-
er'ble peert, a-muanderin' a'most a -con-
stant over to the Hills, that you know
poor Chute' Ann never liked 'em nor their
ways."
"Prudence, I see you don't understand
me, nor hain't been a-understandin' of me.
It's for lonesome, Prudenoe-jes only for
lomesome-that it appear like I'm that rest-
less in my mind that it look to me as if I
ain't to have•another little duck in the place
of the one the good Lord seemeth Him meet
to take away from me, and leave me same
if I were on a disolate Want all by my jes
lone self -- it look to me my usefulness
is at an eend. Now that's jes how the thing
stand.",,T
te Lord help your poor old ohildess
soul, Gibble Colt! That here you are, and
at your time of life, a-feelin' like and a -try-
in to feel like you want to have another lit-
tle duck, as you call it, and a-goin' a -totter -
in' a-lookint for one, and that over yonder
to that house whar- I jes wonder it don't
disguss your very seft, Gibble Colt, like it
dieguss me."
Then, as if the riaen natural heat added to
the artificial was too much for her, she
elided her chair back several inches.
Patient, calm, studious, watchful, 'Mr.
Colt, in soft denial and avoidance, resumed:
"Now, Prudence, you call me childess,
when you knows Charty Ann never named
me them names, not in her whole lifetime;
nor she never called me a totterin' person,
a-knovvin' how I yit belt my OWD in the
p'int of strong ,and active, if so be I weren't
and I never laid claim to a fast runner, but
able to git over ground reason'ble swift,
peert, and handy. And as for the makin'
game o' my words, you never has had the
experience of the bolo' anybody's little
duck; but you ain't forgot that Charty Ann
always loved for me to call her that, which
it were the affectionatest I. knowed for the
good, lovinilwife and companion she made
me. If you had the experience, I hain't a
doubts but what you'd be jea like Chart),
Ann -when you got used to it. And to come
to the very p'int o' the case, Prudenoe, and
let the whole facts speak for their own
selves, I been algoin' over to the Hills jes
to see if it wouldn't put you to thinkin'
about thioge in your mind, and not • to be
willin' to have this whole -family, black and
white, all tore up and siplrated; some alio-
in' one ways and the tothers a.goin' no-
wheres, but to stay right here by their lone
selves, a-moanin' for them that's gone, and
a -trying to paddle their own canoe ag'inet
stumps and loge and everything else in the
world, where it seem like you ought to know
they ain't many. -1 am now speakin' of men
people, and my own self in partiok.lar-
that they love to paddle by their own selves'
special when they've 'tenet had a companion
to help paddle on her side. You know what
a stow I sot on Charty Ann, and it would
now be my fond desire to set that same stow
on you.
• Immediately after this, the longest speech
that he had ever made, he rose and went off
to bed.
Commenting on a proposal so unexpected,
Mies Sprayberry said alterward, with a sol-
emnity whose honesty ohuld not be doubted
by any who knew her:
"If they is any grain of honest truth left
in me, which I has to have my doubts some-
times, yit, on the top of it, if so be, I de-
clare to you that when Gibble Colt, a -sett -
in', him and me by that fire-h'a'th, when he
named them words to me, at the first begin.
nin', 1 'didn't know what the man meant,
and I didn't believe he knowed hisself. But
when he went suddent off to bed, which the
sleep have done flewed clean gone from me,
I set there, and I turned it over in my mind,
and looked at it that a -way, and then I
turned it back and looked at it, and it seem
like to me my mind kep' on a-lookin' at it
all and every single ways to find out what
Gibble Colt were drivin' at by them sollont.
est langwidges I ever heard come from him,
sollom though he always in Gener'1, but not
to them extent. But I couldn't.' And so I
ris, and I took myself off to bed the jes like-
- ways; but even then it kept a-ringin' in
my years till I got to sleep and got to dream.
in', that the sense came to me sort of dim
like, like a body sometimes they can begin
to see the firet crack of day of a cloudy
mornin'. Next day Gibble Colt hardly said
three words, except yes and no when he
were asked at the table if he'd take some o'
this and that; but that day and the day
after he staid at home allsday long, and if
he even looked over towards the Hills I
never see it. And not only so, but look like
he were tryin' all the time to see hewn' use-
ful and delicate he could be with everything.
He even went to where Synced !little girl
Jenny was a-churnin', and without sayin a
single word to her, he took the churn stick
out of her hand, and told her to go 'long in
the house and wait on her Miss Prudence,
and he whirled in and he churned as nice a
turn of buttermilk and butter as ever any-
body would wish to put in their mouth.
And when night oanie he were yit silenter,
and he looked like he were studdin' all the
time in his mind what I wanted, and (he'd
git up and,git it, oncet or twicet
out kaf Jenny's harm as she were comin' with
it and put in mine. And I never see in my
life sech a moanin' look as come out his
eyes, and I got actuil mad with myself for
trimblin' so when I helt out my hand to
take anything he handed me. And so the
second night, away in the night, I said to
myself, maybe it's my lot; but if so be, it's
been a long time a comin', and that unbe-
knownst. But, and, as the next day were
meetin'-day, I said to myself, I mean to see
Brer Swinney after meetin', and git his ad'
vices if he wouldn't think sech as that ougYt
to be a disgrace and a disgues. And I done
it. And Brer Swinney said no,
but it were
the Very best thing for me andGibble Colt
to do, and which he were glad, because he
been a-hopin' jes that way, he said. And
then he made me take a funny message to
Gibble Colt, and it were to tell Gibble Colt
that he said, 'Go it, Gibble!' Did you over.
And it all 'peered like to me that I have
never missed Charty Ann as much, not
sence she been gone. And when I told Gib
ble Colt what Brer Swinney said -because I
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Woaldn't done seeh thing if I had of knewed
what it were goin' to be when I promised
Brer Swinney--GibbleColtssid he were goin'
fast as he could, but he ready and a-waitin'
to peerten up whensoinever I give the word.
And I jes got mad to see how I were hem.
mod in by Gibble Colt, with Brer Swinney
to help. And so I told Garble Colt to go
long off from me, and go back to Brer Swira
ney and see if he wouldn't please take back
what he said. And Gibble colt he went off
emost in'a skip to the lot, and he put the
bridle and saddle on John, andthe loped off;
and 'tweren't more than three- hours before
here come Gibble Colt back, a-fetehin' Brer
Swinney, and Brer Swinney him a fetchin'
Tommy Portid and Jimmy Pitman to be the
witnesses. And if I hadn't knewed it was
broad open daytime, I'd a deelared I were
a•draeming.
The marriage, on Miss Prudence's part
mainly of domestic convenience, yet not
without some portion of the tender senti-
ment with which Mrs Coit believed himself
to be, inspired, was a happy one. It requir-
ed some little time for the bride to become
used to her title of endearment.
"1 told Gibble Colt I wanted to be named
no ducks of no Bore But you know how
men people can aidge on and persuade.
'Tweren't long before here it come by de-
grees, and I thought to myself, if it please
Gibble Colt, it ain't a-goin to hurt me, fur
as'I could see. Seem like what he said come
true. I hadn't had the exper'ence of it, and
they ain't any doubts but what that do
make a difference. But, you know some-
times I got 'shamed of myself, thinitin' of
Charty Ann. Yit I clear believe she mire
in heaven ; and if so be, she couldn't be
hurted about Gibble Colt namin' me hie
little duck. Brer Swinney and Gibble Colt
may I ought to be riconciled, and I reckon
I am,"
THE END.
A Lesson in Hospitality.
Mind your own businese.
Avoid controversy and argument.
Do not monopolize any igood thing.
Go directly when the call or visit is ended.
Do not make a hobby of personal in-
firmities.
Do not overdo the matter of entertain-
ment.
;Do not forget bathing facilities for the.
traveller.
" Make yourself at home "-but not too
much so.
In ministering to the guest do not neglect
the family.
Do pot gossip -there are better things in
life tolalk about.
Do hot make unnecessary work for others,
even servants.
'Let no member of the family intrude in
the guest chamber.
Conform to the customs of the house, es-
pecially as to meals.
When several guests are present, give a
share of attention to all.
Be courteous, but not to the extent of
surrendering principles.
Introduce games and diversions, but only
such as will be agreeable.
Better sheltie food with pleasure, than
luxuries with annoyance and worry.
• Have a cOmfortable room in readiness,
adapted to the needs and tastes of the
guest. ,
A guest need not accept every proposed
entertainment -he should be considerate of
himself and of hie host. t
Learn the likes and dislikes of those who
are to be entertained ; but not through the
medium of an imperative catechism.
Bless His Dear Heart.
In a very elegant palace -car entered a
weary -faced, poorly -dressed. woman, with
three children, one a baby in her arms. A
look of joy crept into her face as she eat
down into one of the luxurious chairs, but
it was quickly dispelled at she was asked
rudely to " start her boots." A smile of
amusement wail seen on several faces as the
frightened group hurried out to one of the
common cars, Upon one young face how-
ever, there was a look which shamed the
countenancee of the others.
"Auntie," maid the boy to.the lady be-
side him, "1 am going to carry my basket
of fruit and this box of sandwiches to the
poor woman in the next car. You are will-
ing, Dof o cao, rbsee f?0"0
lieh, dear. You may need
them youreeif ; and perhaps the woman is
an "impostor.'not 1,11 need them," he answered,
decidedly, but in a very low tone. "You
know I had a hearty breakfast, and don't
need a lunch. The woman looked, hnngry,
auntie, and so tired too, with three little
babies clinging to her. I'll be back in a
minute. I know mother wouldn't like it if
I didn't speak a kind word to the least of
these when I met them."
The worldly aunt brushed a tear from her
eye after the boy left her, and said audibly,
"Just like hie mother."
About five minutes later, as the lady pass-
ed the mother and three children, she saw
a pretty sight -the family feasting as per-
haps they never did before. The dainty
eandwichee were eagerly eaten ; the fruit
basket etood open. The oldest child with I
her mouth filled with bread and butter,
said :
" Was the pretty boy an angel, mamma ?"
"No," answered the mother '• and a
grateful look brightened her laded eyes,
"but he is doing an angel's work, bless his
dear heart 1" And we, too, said, "bless his
dear heart ?"-Peoria Call.
Pitcher's Castoria.
Long Kip Boos
Hiozt my.Emw.,
1=1,101Nm,.••••••
Hand -made throughout, and every
pair warranted, and at prices
to suit the times.
GOOD BROS.'
STOCK OF
Shoes for Fall
Is now almost complete.
Men's and Bolit' Long Boots will be
a specialty this season; also solid
leather School Boots for boys .and
girls.
, Ladies' and Gents' Fine Boots;and
Shoes.
Ladies' and Gents' Overgaiters..
Miss& and Children's Leggings.
Rubber Goods of every kind.
TRUNKS AND VALISES.
Good Brothers,
Great Boot and Shoe House, SeafOrth
and Brussels.
[TRAMS MARK.]
DR. A. OWEN,
The OWEN
ELECTRIC
B E L
,e'td
• al ooese
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The Only Scientific and Practical Electric Belt for
General use, producing a Genuine Current of Elec-
tricity for the Cure of Diseases.
OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
contains fullest information, list of diseases, cut
of Belts and Appliances, prices, sworn testimonials
and portraits of people who have been cured, eto.
Published in English, German, Swedish and Nor-
wegatn languages. This valuable catalogue or a
treaties on rupture cured with Electric Truss will be
sent FREE to any address.
THE OWEN ELECTRIC BELT AND
APPLIANCE COMPANY
49 KING STREET, WEST,
TORONTO, ONT.
201 TO 211 STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.
The largest Electric Belt Establishment in the world.
Wheri7d;iting the World's Fair do not fail to see
Dr. A. Owen's Exhibit in Electricity Building Section
p, Space 1.
MENTION TI118 PiPER.
1337-52
CLEARING
The greatest Clearing Sale of the
season is now going on at
A.G.AULT'S Seaforth
In order to make room for my very heavy Fall
purchases, I will dear all Summer Dry Goods at
great bargains. Now is the time to save money, as
the balance of Summer Goods must be sold. Also, r
will give great bargains in Black Luetres, Plain and
Brocaded Cashmeres, and Blaok Bedford Cords. A -
large IA of Men's and Boys' Straw Hate will be clear
ed at from 50 to 20c. Also the balance of the Boys',
Youths' and Men's Readymade Suite will be cleared
at less than coot. Great bargains in Men's White
and Fancy Shirts, also a large lot of Men's and
Boys' Felt and Christy Stiff Hats.
I have just been receiving a large lot of Fresh
Groceries, and a large consigninent of new Teas, first
orop of May pickings, in Green, Black and Japan, and
all will be sold at very close prices.
Butter, eggs, apples and pluins wanted, for which
the highest market price will be paid.
A. G. AULT, Seaforth.
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PURE (n,
130WDERED (1°0,6
PUREST, STRONGEST, BEST.
Readyfor use in nny quantity. Por making Soap,
Softening Water. Disinfecting, and a hundred other
Uses. A cite equals 20 pounde Sal,So.la.
Sold by All Grocers and Druggists.
'EL We. ea-IXACAMPIatit, Teax-caxatcs•
Wellington, Grey and Bruce.
GORR) NORTH-. Passenger. Mixed.
thel • • - 3.00 r. ti. 9.30 r.m. 9.00 p.m,
Brussel* . - 8.13 o 9.43 9.45
BIuevale...,._ 3.27 9.67 10.10
Wingham.. .. 8.37 10.07 11.20
Gone SOUTH- Passenger. Mixed.
Wingham - 6.25 A. m.11.20 A. M. 7.30 P.M.
Bluevaie .. .. 6.37 11.85 8.16
Brussels.. - - .: 6.64 11.59 9.00
Ethel.... .. ... .,. 7.08 12.14 9 30
•
London, Huron and Bruce,
GOING NORTH- Peissenger.
London, depart.. ..... . _ .. 8.25A.m. 6e5'.m
Exeter _ .. . 9.29 6.18
Hernia. 9.42 6.81
/Lippert,- .. .. ..... ... ..... 9.47 6.36
Bruoelield 9.66 6.44
Clinton. • • • 10.12 7.00
Londesboro .....- .. 10.29 7.19
Blyth - . . - 10.38 7.28
Belgrave. 10.52 7.42
, Wingham arrive... ... 11.10 8.05
OWING SOUTH- - Paseenger
Wingham, depart.. ...... - 6.40A.m. 3.45e.m.
Belgrave 6.55 4.06
Blyth . . .. 7.08 4.20
Londesboro 7.15 4.28
• Clinton' 7.45 4.48
Bruoefield 8.05 5.06
Kippen. 8.13 5.13
Hensel! . 8.22 6.18
Exeter
- 8.40 6.30
Grand Trunk Railway,
Trahae leave Seaforth and Clinton station as
follows:
Gouts W JUIT- BEAFORTH. CLINTON.
Passenger .. .. 1.12 r. an L28 P. M.
Passenger... _ 9.05 r. M. 9.22 in M.
Mixed Train.. _ 9.30a, N. 10.15A.
Mixed Train.. 630r. te. 7,05 PM.
Goma EAST -
Passenger. _ 7.54 A. an 7.87 A. M.
• Passenger - - 8.05 r. m. 2.46 P. u
Mixed Train.. _ - 6.25r sr. 4.60 P. M.
Freight Train.. 4.25 r. 3.25?. m
WE DYE -
All kinds.of fal?rics on our own prem-
ises. We don't liave to mend them out
of town.
WE CLEAN
Faded and soiled clothing to look like
new. Bring along your dresses and
suits. before the rush sets in. We
always do a good job, and we do it .
CHEAP.
All you have to do to get to our place
is to
Follow the Pointers
.On Market Street from the corner o
Main Street.
J. W. SNELL,
High Street, Seaforth,next door to T.Kidd' residence
is Moistest triunaph in pharmacy/or tbe cure
of all the symptoms indicating 31IMMIC elm
Layne Complaint. II you are troubled With
Costiveness, Dizziness, Sour StODIRehi
MEMBRATS
Headache, Indigestion, Peon APPITITE,
TIRED FEELING, REatuaraTtO PAINS, Sleepless
Nights, Melancholy Feeling, BAOE ACHE,
Membray's Kidney and Liver I Cure
KIDNEY AND
wiligive
immediaterelieiandErpzoTACure.
Sold at all Drug Stores.
Membray Medicine Company
of Peterborough, (Limited),
PETERBOROUGH, . . ONT.
iyLcURE
For sale by I. IT. FEAR, druggist, Seaforth.
SEAFORTH
Musical : Instrument
mpoRauzet,
Scott Brothers,
PROPRIETORS,
SEAFORTH, 7 ONTARIO.
IA
BeP11 scCNo., Guelph; Dominion Piano Com.
PIANOS. -Dunham, New York ; W.
any, Bowmanville.
ORGA Ns. -W. Bell & Co., Guelph;
Dominion Organ Company, Bowmanville;
D. W. Sam & Co., Woodstock.
The above Instruments always on hand, also a few
good sechnd-hand Pianos and Orgatie for sale at
from $25 upwards. Instruments sold on the instal-
ment plan, or on terms to suit customers. Violine,
3encertinas and smal instruments on hand also sheet
music, books &o.
SCOTT BROS.
NERVE
BEANS
NERVE BEANS are a new tlis:
oovery theta cure the worst cases of
Nervous Debility, Lost Vigor and
Failing Manhood; restores the
weakness of body or mind caused
by over -work, or the errors or ex-
e.esses of youth. This Remedy ab-
solutely cures the most obstinate cases when all other
TELLAMENTS have failed even to relieve. Sold by drug -
stets at per package, or six for $5, or sent by mail on
receipt of price by addressing THE JAMES MEDICINE
00.. Toronto. Ont. Write for pamphlet. Sold in -
Sold in Seaforth by J. S. ROBERTS.
FARMERS,
ATTENTION!
All pat ties requiring Farm Machin-
ery, Implements and Repairs, would
do well to call at
Hugh Grieve's Wareroom
•- -OPPOSITE-
The Dominion Bank,
Before purchasing elsewhere, as he
keeps repairs for the ikiassey-Harris,
Patterson, Wisner, .Gondy, Mason and
Coleman machinery .and implements,
and he is also agent for the Bain
wagon, Massey -Harris binder and
mower, drills, rakes, &c; the Coleman
roller and a full stock of Plows con-
stantly on hand.
HUGH GRIEVE, Seaforth.
John S. Porter's'
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEA.FORTH, - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furnished on the shortest notice
and satisfaction gus anteed. A large assort-
ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.,
always on hand of the best quality. The best
of Embalming Fluid ased free of charge and •
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi-
dence GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in the -house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
alirEASZPSOMOINIMOSIEN
The Old Establistied.
BROADFOOT'S
Planing Mill and
Sash and Door Factory,
SM.A.P0RT11.
This old and well-known establishment is dill
• running at full blast, and now has better lac/Mies
Than ever before to turn out a good article for
inoderate price. Sash and doors,of all patterns al-
ways on hand or made to order. Lumber dressed on
short notice and in any way desired. All kinds of
lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Shingles kept
constantly on hand. Estimate' for the furnishing
of buildings in whole or in part given on application.
None but the best of material used and workman-
ship guaranteed. Patronage solicited.
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