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TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor nate or, Ontario
eed Veterinary College. All d of -Domestic
Aninaaletreated. Calls prompt attended to and
charges moderate. Vete rinary ntistry a specialty
Office and residence on Goderich street, one door
SANT of Dr. Scott's office, Beaforth. 1112te
'CHUNK S. Beattie, V. S., grsuate of Wade Vet
erinary College, Toronto, Member of tilt Vet
=nary, Medical Seele etc., rases all diseases of
lit Domesticated Animals. AU callapromptly at-
tended to either by day or ni ht. Chargee moder-
ate. Special attention given o veterinary dentis-
try. Office on Main Street, Sealorth, one door
south of Kidd's Hardware store. 1119
SOZAFORTH HORSE INF Y.-Oorner dJar
via and Goderloh Streets, wet door to the Pres-
byterian Chunk Seeforth Qat. All Mae see of
Homes, Cattle, Sheep, or any 4,1 the de n stinted
animals, successfully treated tha hammy or
elsewhere, on the shortest n ca. _largos meder-
ate. JAMES, W. ELDER, Vebeilnary Bingen'. P
8.-A large stook of Vaterleary Medicines sept con
*tautly on hand
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LEGAL
"lp S. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyander and
,1-1) Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion
Bank. Office-Cardno's block Main Street, Seaforth.
limey to loan. 1235 -
TATTHEW MORRISON, Walton Insurance
ay.1 Agent, Commissioner for taking affidavits,
Conveyances, &o. Money to loan at the lowest rate'.
H. Mosenon. Walton.
T H. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &a
e)Office-Booms, five doom north otOommercial
Hotel, ground Boor, next decor to C. L. Pallet's
jewelry store, Main street, 1Seaforth. Goderich
agents -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216
fl ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors,
Uro., Goderich, Ontario. J:T. GABILOW, Q. Cd
WK. PROUDFOOT. 6111
CAMERON, HOLT & HO, OILS, Bartrisien So -
Bolters in Chancery, &o.,Goderich, Ont M. C.
ClAmmon, Q. C., Pnmnr How, Dummy Holmes
ifANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Sachem Con
in mimesis, &o. Solicitors for the eBanb of
Johnston, Tisdale & Gale. Money to lean Office -
Elliott Block, Clinton, Ontralo. A. H. Yuma
Lamas Soon. 781
HOLMESTF.D, successor to the Ate firm
. McCaughey & Holmaiked, Barrister, So-
licitor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solloiter for the
Canadian Bank of Oommeroe. Honey to lend Farms
for sale. Office in Scott's Block, Male Street,
Seaforth.
W. CAMERON SMITH,
BARRISTER.
Solicitor of Superior Omni, Commissioner for
taking Affidavits in the High Court
of Justice, Conveyancer,
Money to Lend
Can be consulted after office hours at the Comm( r -
dal Hotel.
HENSAIffe ONTARil
DENTISTRY.
F W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, tffice over Riohardse
ree
. & McInnes' Shoe Store, neer Main and Johe
Streets, Seater/h, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad-
ministered for the painlese extraction of teeth. 1169
-TIM FRANK BELDEN, Oentist. New lam
.1.1 anaesthetic for painless extraction of teeth.
No uneoneciousuess. Office -Over Johnson Bros.
hardware Store, Seaforth. 1226
AGNEW, Di mist, Clinton, will
visit Hens 11 at Hodgene' Hotel
every Monday, and it Zurich the
second Thurada in mon month 1288
TT KINSMAN) Dentist, L. D. fle
fl . Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurich
- at the Huron 0104. ONLY on the
LAST TIIIMIDAY in each month, and
at Murdock's Hotel, Hensall, on the MAT Faroe
in each month. Teeth extracted with the leant
pain possible. fAll work first-class at liberal rates
971
MONEY TO LOAN.
rONEY TO LOLN._SbraIgI4I loans at 6 pet
AIL cent., with the prlvlleg4 to berrowel of
repaying part of the principal m, ney at an time.
1 pply to F. HOLMESTED, Barrister, Seaforth.
MEDICAL.
DR. CAMPBELL, Honor Graduate of Medical Fa -
amity of Toronto University, Physician, Sur-
geon, eta. Office -Zeller% Blo k ; night calls-
Greb's Hotel, Zurich, Ont. 1387
Tlit. ARMSTRONG, M. B., TorCnto, M. D. C. M.,
jJ Victoria, BL C. P. S., Ontario, successor to Dr.
elllicitt, office lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce -
field, Ontario.
1379x52
DR. MeTAVISH, Physician, Seon, dm. Office
corner southwest of Dixon's Hotel, Brucefield.
Night calls at office. 1323
DRS. SOOTT. & MACKAY,
RESIDENCE, ext Agricultural
OFFICE, Goderich Street, opradte Methodist
Church, Seaforth.
Grounds.
J. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. IL, (Ann i Arbor and Vie-
torke) M. C. P. S. O.
C. MACKAY, M. D. C. hi., (Trinity,) F. T. M. C.
M. C. P. S. 0.
-r) E. COOPER, If. D„ IL B., L. F. P. and S.,
1.11Glasgow, &c., Physician, SUrgeon and Ac-
.
comber, Constance, Ont. - 1127
R W. BRUCE SMITH, M. D ELI M, Mambos of
.
„ the College of Physicians a:it;i Surgeons, lee,donee same as
Seaforth. OntarioOfilee and
occupied by Dr. Verooe. 848
A LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal
AIL, College of Phydolans and Surgeons, Kingston.
Successor to Dr. Mapidd. 0Mo( lately occupied
by Dr. Maeldd, Mak. Street Se/death. Residence
--Corner of Victoria Square, in houee lately occupied
by L. E. Danoey. 1127
AUCTIONEERS.
SORGE TAYLOR, Licensed AuCtioneer for the
ur County of Huron. Sales proMptly attended
to in all parts of the County. Satiefaotion guaran-
teed. Charges moderate. GEO. TAYLOR, Kippen
P. 0. 13574 f
T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for tht Conn
tl of Huron. Sales attended in el parts of
the County. All orders left at Tee Exresrroa
Office will be promptly attended to.
WM. M'CLOY,
Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth:
and Agent at Hensall for the Massey -Harris Menu -
featuring Company. Sales promptly attended to,
charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed.
Orders by mail addressed to Howell Post Office, or
left at his residence, Lot 2, Conodslon 11, Tuck-
ersmith, will receive prompt attention. 1298 -ti
Blaillop Directory for 1893.
JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0.
JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beephwood.
DANIEL MA, Councillor, Beeohwood.
WM. HoGAVIN, Councillor, LeadbUry.
WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Councillor, Leedbury.
JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop.
SOLOMON J. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop.
WM. EVANS, Assessor, Beeohwood.
CHARLES DODDS, Collector, Seatorth.
RICHARD POLLARD, Sanitary lespector, Lead -
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CHALK -LINE.
BY MARGARET SITTTOpi BRISCOE.
IN TWO PARTS. -I.
In a certain part of the country -what
matter where ?-the land rises and rolls like
an arrested ocean, except that its billows
are crested with a frothy green, not to • be
blown away as white foam, because anchor-
ed to the tree tops by myriads of tiny stems.
Between these foot -hills, that aspire to
scowl-, at each other after the manner- of the
great mountains off in the "distance, lies the
neutral ground of lovely wild ravines, fan-
ning out from their confines into sloping
pasture -lands, and dropping down finally to
the low-lying farms.
' Threading throitgh the ravines, and so on
to the pastures, trickle eumberlees little
streams, gathering something from each hill -
spring they pass, as the bees from the flow-
ers. In seamier these silver ravelings work
their- way between the green crevices, peace-
ful as the low lands they seek; but in that
season when all the earth beneath is preg-
nant with life to be, the spirit of unrest
seems also to permeate the springs; then
they overfeed the little streams till they
wax roistering, trying to swell into rivers,
as the hills above have ever striven to ape
'the mountains.
When summer comes, it is to lay a. quiet-
ing touch upon all this turbulence, smother-
ing the bent brows of the heights in verdure,
wholly drying some springs,, restraining
others and soothing all ;except the great
bubbling spring at the foot of the steepest
hill, which brooks no control.
The little wild 'animals have grown to de-
pend on that supply of water in the driest
season. The soft sides of the basin are al-
ways marked by their queer small foot-
prints. Though the spring lies close to the
county roadside, thereis no beaten path to
it save the squirrels', and that runs up and
down more than one tree.on its way; there-
fore the owners/of the queer little feet had
for years gone beat ond forth printing their
steps unmolested, until one hot day -im-
agine the consternation !-they came to find
a.strange footprint, as long as their bodies
which circled about the clear bubbling bash;
pacing it off, seven footprints this way, nine
that.,
After that first invasion the print of the
great foot, which was not so huge after all,
came to .,. be. as familiar a mark about the
spring' as was the little ones. It would.
leave the county ;road, break its path -al-
ways a different one -to the spring, mark
its impress on the bank, and go its way,
generally hack to the road, and on to the
country store a half -mile beyond. At the
tap of that feet on his weoden floor, the old
storekeeper would turn - from serving the
most prosperous farmer with -
"In one minute, sir;. the lady won't he
long. Now, Miss Delia, how can I serve
you?"
To which, on a memorable morning, Delia
answered, with an apologetic bend of her
head toward the young farmer she sup-
planted:
"A shoe string, please ; ,and how's your
daughter's baby ?" ,
The old man dragged down a box on the
counter, smiling fatuously over it as he an-
swered: -
"Just a man ! Will you see ildni ?
minding him to -day." - e'
"No, not to -clay, thank you. I stepped
in for a shoe -string; I've broken mine."-
` Short or long ?" said the storekeeper;
and Delia slid out from under her petticoats
a foot which only the squirrels could have
called great. A broken latchet hung in the
hole.
"About so long, see ?"
The old man leaned over the counter to
examine.
" That kind's three cents, then," -he said,
selecting and wrapping the purchase. "Shall
I charge it ?"
Delia looked up from her purse, in the
depths _of which she was searching.
"Has father opened an acconnt here ?"
"No, Miss, but I'd be glad to have you
or him do so."
Delia shook her head.
"So would I," she said, still ransacking
her pocketbook. " But father like e to -,pay
cash for everything, and he would be . trery
angry, if he knew I owed a cent to any-
body. ' She turned her purse upside down.
An old copper two -cent piece and a penny
fell out.
That's just right," said the storekeeper.
" No, it's not -that twcapents is my luck -
penny. The date on it is my birth year; I
have kept it an age." .
With bucolic naturalness the old fellow
lifted the coin, and, reading the date, smil-
ed broadly.
"If you'd cut your teeth on this you
couldn't have kept it an. age," he said. "I
can't make it more than seventeen years old,
any way I count it. You haven't another
cent with you-, eh? and you won't charge? I
I'm
TliE • HURON EXPOSITOR.
JULY 20, 1194.
Then let me make you a present of this,
Miss." .
He held the bundle toward her, which I
;Delia took laughingly.
" I don't really care so much as that," she
said. "Luck -pennies are just superstition.
There are the three cents.'
At the same time, as she drepped her two
cent piece into the shopkeeper's hand, her
fingers unclosed reluctantly, and she linger-
ed to watch her luck in another's poises -
alma
"What was you wanting to buy, Or ?"
said the shopkeeper, turning to the second
purchaser, identifia by his boots spurs and
stock as the'masterof a horse that neighed
impatiently outside.
The rider, who had been leaning unob-
trusively against the counter, now moved
forward. He had a nice face, with well -
shaped features, and brown eyes that svere
smiling. -
"Don't you remember you have served
me ?" he said: "I am only waiting for my
ehange.".
In the midst of the ehopkeeper's apolo-
gies, Delia walked to the door. Hetf I t
had already erossed the sill when she tiiiiHn „
her head swiftly, and stood on the -threshold
transfixed by these words :
"Well, now, Farmer Ellsworth, that cer-
tainly was too keerless of me; and I've for-
got your change, too. , Two cents, was it?
Now, to make up for my bad treatment, jest
you' take this luck -penny."
But Farmer Ellsworth's eyes were on the
doorway, from which a pair of indignant
gray eyes were staring at him. The next
moment the eyes and their owner had -van-
ished, with a glint of green drapery flicker-
ing against the door -post.
"Who was that ?" the young farmer ask-
ed, sharply.
" Don'teyou know ?" said the old man;t
with aggrkvatingslowness. "For all she's
a city girleshe's just as pretty as any flow-
er, tin't she? and in that green dress of
her's with -her yeller hair, she's just like a
dandelion - settin' in its leaves-tme.
Why, don't you know who. she is? you
ought to. Her father's the Mr. McEwan,
the old Scotchntan who bought your grand -
pap's old place t and -why, what's the mat-
ter with 'em all to -day ?"
In a country store of lingering farewells it
was not usual to see twd customers bolt
from the door, one after the other. This
came with importing new blood. into the
hills. Not that Ellsworth Was exactly new,
but then he had been educated in the city,
and come home with experimental viws of
farming, which was almost as bad. Shaking
his head; the old man went back to his
work, literally minding his grand -daughter's
baby -figuratively, the store.
Meantime the new blood in Ellsworth's
veins had sent him out into the middle of
the road, looking hurriedly up and down for
the bit of vanishing green. He could see a
hundred shades of brilliant summer foliage
hedging in.the road on either side -nowhere
the sage color he sought.
But as he glanced down on the dusty
track before him, he saw there 'the print of
a -small shoe that had been made on no coun-
try last. It pointed to the right, to be fol-
lowed by another footprint, and yet an-
other. Ellsworth accepted their leading un-
hesitatingly, the mute guides gaining per-
sonality to him as he went on. Sometimes
there was no heel mark whatever -there she
ran; here she turned sharply aside -the
reason, that dead snake in the road.
Finally, about half a mile from, the store,
the traileswerved to the left and was lost in
the roadside- tangle. The young farmer
plunged through the bushes after it. In so
doing he stumbled and almost fell over a
small cairn of white stones which he had not
seen from the. road. It was like discovering
a door -plate where the :entrance had, been
thought free. He hesitated a moment, then
trod down the bushes and blindly forced a
path into the woods.
After his first few steps, a sound of - gurg-
ling water smote on his ears, growing louder
as he went on. The undergrowth was so
, thick that he had nothing to aid hie imagi-
nation until he parted the laat boughs and
came abruptlY on the bubbling spring with
its great green -rimmed basin, a: calm surface
of- water reflecting the leaves that at every
bflirees.
ath fluttered over it like green butter -
Here and there the silver sheet was mo-
mentarily broken by bubbles rising mysteri-
ously from its sandy bottom in lovely white
globes, to beast in gagsy spouts as they
reached, the air. The straight, slender boles
of the surrounding trees seemed to sentinel
and accentuate the quiet of . the spot, while,
that nothing might be lacking to the pic-
ture, the spirit of the place sat balanced on
the overhanging root of re, tree whose trunk
she clasped with one arm, while she bent -to
dip her handkerchief in the water and cool
her flushed cheeks.
After. the first moment of motionless sur-
prise, Ellsworth stepped from the woods
into' the charmed circle. As the released
branches closed behind him with a snap as
of a shutting &Or, Delia looked up,staatled.
She grasped her tree more closely, though
she was on the further side of the stream
and its width of water lay between her and
the intruder, who hastily held up the copper
two -cent piece in his fingers, as a kind of in-
troduction and excuse. " '
"You are Miss McEthan are you not ?"
he asked. Receiving no answer, he went
on. "" I followed you to return your coin.
I am very, sorry for what happened at the
store. May I bring the coin over to you, or
-shall I lay it here on a stone for you to take
after I go ?"
He had read of brownies who were thus
approached and placated by mortals:
Having still received no sign from the
other side of the water, Ellsworth laid _ the
coin on a flat stone by the spring and was
turning away again into the -bushes, when
the answer came:
"That is not my two cents."
"Then whose is it ?" Ellsworth asked,
looking back.
"I have nothing more to do with it. I
paid it for the shoe -string that is now in my
shoe. It can't be mine.'
"It can't be mine, either, for, though you
seemed willing that the old- storekeeper
should have it, when you knew it had
-fallen to me you showed resentment. Per-
haps you may not Mel two cents worth the
price of my following you, but neither, is it
worth its price to me. So, if you y.iUallow
me I shall leave the coin where it is. ,
fie was again turning away when . she re-
called him.
"But I can't allow you. You ought to
know I can't. How could I take anything
from you ?"
Delia- had unwound her arm from the
tree and retired from the jetting root to
firm la,nd.
Ellsworth stooped to take up the coin,
making his way deliberately around the
springand drawing near her before he replied:
"If running water destroys spells, I may
be unwise to cross to you," he said, smiling.
" If you could, I fear you would like to
change me into sonic enchanted monster,
wicked as you think me in reality. I run
my risk rather than call across the question
I want to ask you. Why should you, or
your father either/mind taking a little more
from me than you already have ?"
thiMore! Why, we've never taken any -
n'
" No, I really don't think you have, but
you've tried to, haven't you ?"
"'We've taken nothing that was not per-
fectly fair. Father says an auction is an
auction, and he had the right to outbid you,
if it was for your grandfather's home."
"I was not thinking of the auction.
When neither you nor yOur father have
hesitated to accuse me of burning- your
house down, I call that taking, or trying to
take, more than two cents from me. I rate
, a loss of character even higher than that;
don't kou, when you consider it? or have you
fully: considered, and decided that I must b
a criminal V
Delia's foot patted the soft bank into
little shapes upon whick her eyes fastened.
"What proofs have you against me I"
Ellsworth went on.
Delia, hesitated before she spoke.
"I don't think father ever quite said that
you yourself set fire to our house."
"No, I think this has been the formula of
accutation 'We can't; of course, identify
the hand that fired the building, but the
mind behind it not far to seek.'"
. Delia flushed suddenly crimson. She look-
ed up resentfully.
"Why don't you say all this to my
father-a:not to mile, ? And you know that you
did say at the auction you'd rather the old
home be burned down than see any ,other
man live in it,"
"1'. was very angry at the auction; I said
much that I. have been sorry for since I
was unreasonable, 'and I should have been
glad to tell your father so, did he ever give
me the chance to speak to him. I can offer
no more proof than I did not fire your house
than you that 1 did so, for I have no alibi.
My general character alone speaks for me,
but it can't speak very well or eloquently
when one of you looks full in my face, refus-
ing the mere courtesy of a passing greeting,
and the other has only to learn my name to
treat my touching a coin she had held as an
insulting contamination. -At least that's
what your eyes said at the door of the
store."
Delia
glanced swiftly at him, and he went
on eagerly:
"Don't you see that you have condemned
me, unseen, unheard, and without even cir-
cumstantial evidence. You have not once
looked at me fully. Do I seem to you as a
'criminal? I can never offer you an iota
more proof of my innocence than at this mo-
ment. If you believe me guilty -you may
as well believe it forever."
He spread out his hands when he ended,
as if all the evidence were in and the verdict
awaited.
Delia lifted her eyes, but it was to gaze
thoughtfully at the trees on the other side
of the stream. When, with a quick motion,
she turned her head, the young farmer flush-
ed to the roots of his hair; his eyes glowed
as hers swept his face.
"A vulgar tramp's revenge 1" he cried.
"Do you think I could stoop to that ?"
Delia gazed at him long and earnestly.
"No, you didn't do it !" she exclaimed,
suddenly. "I do believe you."
Ellsworth stretched out' his hand involun-
tarily, then drew it back.
-es, I will," said Delia, holding out
hers. "But you must convince my father
aleo."
Ellsworth took the girl's hand in his, and,
as he touched it, thought of the coin he held,
warm from these same fingers.
"Will you help me with your father ?" he
asked.
• She'withdrew a little, standing for -a mo-
ment with knit brews, thinking.
" You had better leave convincing father
entirely to me," she said, at last. He's a
Scotchman, you know, and that means he's
hard to change. I'll tell him I'm sure we
were mistaken, and then, when the time
comes for you to speak to him yourself,- I'll
warn you of it."
" Do you think he also will accept tny
face as my sole evidence ?"
Delia again glanced up critically.
"You couldn't have done that, shaking
her head.' "Father will believe - you in
time, as I do; and when father and I be-
lieve, we believe, when we hate we hate,
and when we like we -like."
She smiled without 'coquetry. There was
an almost rural simplicity in her manner.
"I thought you were from the city," :said
Ellsworth, abruptly speaking his 'thought,
and Delia laughed.
"Do I seem like a country girl? I was
,never before in a real chicken and cow coun-
try like this, but I love it -I knew I should;
I've beenbegging father to buy a country
home for years. I've never seen much of
city life either, for father and I scarcely
went out of our house and garden there. He
taught me all I know himself. Poor father!
He never cared to go outside those walls
after my mother and my brother died." She
paused and sighed. "Somehow this spring,
all inclosed by the trees, reminds me of our
city garden -that's Why I like to come here.
Since I built my aquarium, I come every
day."
" Where is your aquarium ?" asked Ells-
worth.
He would have preferred saying nothing,
He felt as a man who by chance has uttered
an open sesame, and feared lest, equally by
chance, he would say the word which would
close the door.
Delia again climbed out upon the over-
hanging root.
"See this," she said, beckoning.
Ellsworth knelt at the back of the root
and looked down also, as Delia lifted some
veiling grasses, and discovered a stone -en,
closed fortress half under the water, which
trickled in and out between the crevices.
The fortress was filled with water -animals of
all kinds -spring -keepers, frogs' eggs, and
little tadpoles.
"I made that," said Delia. I dragged
all the stones here, and had the spring
muddy for days. I caught all those beasts
and put them in, too. Look at my tad-
poles. I raised that Whole crop. See, some
of them have put out two legs, and ;some
four. They blossom like flowers, don't
they ?-only they are so ugly. Why, there's
a new one with his tail quite gone -a real
frog. Aren't they funny? What are you
doing ?"
Ellsworth had leant forward over the wa-
ter, ancrwas making a seine of his hand, in
which he caught a little creature, all tail!
and legs, that was scuffling along near the
muddy bank. Delia gave a cry of rapture
as he flung it into the fortress, over which
she hung in delight.
"It's queerer than any I have. I'm so
glad you caught it." She looked at Ells-
worth, evidently turning over in her brain
an idea Of adequate recompense. "I'll
! speak to thy father about You just as soon as
I can, after I go home. Do you know, I'm
a little afraid of my father, so I must wait
for the best time."
"But you mustn't speak to him on my
account, if you are afraid."
"Oh, I'm not exactly afraid -only some-
times I think I don't know him so very well
for a person I live in the house evith, and
who is so devoted to me. You see, when I
was little, my father was too devoted to my
brother to think of me always. He used to
come to the foot -of the nursery steps and
call, 'Boy, boy!' Sometimes that made me
-cross and I wouldn't go, though I knew he
expected me to come without being called.
Then father would be cross himself and say,
'You know perfectly well that when I call
boy I mean girl, too!'But I wanted him to
say.gfrl. Poor father, he had to call girl,or
nobody, soon enough. I don't know which
he missed mest-my brother or my mother.
We all had fever, and -father and I got well.
You don't wonder father's cross sometimes,
da) you ?"
" Is he cross to you ?"'
"No, not really. He's just a little fussy
and scoldy sometimes; then I leave the
tents and come here and sit. -Did you
k-nowswe were living in tents since yen
burned our house clown ?"
Ellsworth laughed with her.
" I heard so,' he said; •` and of course I,
have seen the shine of your white walls in
the distance. Are you comfortable ?"
"Comfortable? I was never so happy in
my life as tkis summer. I Wish you "%multi
burn the house down again if father decides
to rebuild. Between my home and the tents
and my water resort here, it is as if I were
being swung up from the earth into the
branches. At night the stars all seem
speaking to us, the heavens are so close, and
when the moon shines -you .never saw
moonshine -you never lived in tents. It's
not like moonlight. I hope father will be
convinced about you before the summer is
over., I'd like you to see moonshine once."
"Draw me a plan of your tents," eaid
Ellsworth. Here's a bit of pencil and the
back of an old envelope. Let me see how
you live."
Delia laughed as she laid the envelope on
her knee tracing lines upon it. "I can't
dnew, but do you understand that ?"
She held out a, ;ground -plan of a group of
tents clustering about a central court, on
which she laid the point of her pencil.
"That's our dining tent," she said. "It
has a scrubbed board floor, and is very
large. The tent over there is father's; and
this tent on the other side,markedwith a
cross, is mimic. In the early morning we roll
up all the sides everywhere, and we can see
the sky and trees from 9ne end of our home
to the other. The dew comes in, and the
birds sing, and the branches are just out-
side, and its not being on earth at all."
Delia paused, drawing a long breath. " I'm
afraid I'm talking too much," she said,
"but its a kind of relief to talk outside the
tent. There, if you speak loud, the serv-
ants all hear you, and if you whisper they
think you are talking about them.'
"How did you discover this retreat ?"
asked Ellsworth.
"Just by accident. I was on my way to
see the old storekeeper's grandbaby. I like
to have a play with it every day. Have you
ever seen it 9'
"No, I don't think I ever have."
"Oh, you'd remember if you had. It's a
.most beautiful baby.- One day on my way
there, stopped to chase a squirrel that ran
straight here. I was so surprised and de-
lighted I built a cairn of white stones in
the road to mark my entrance. Did you
see • 9"
ot until I felt it. I fell over your
thre hold on my way. Has no one else ever
disturbed you 9'
"Never, but I live in fear that they will,
and begin to water cows here, or something
horrid."
" No," said Ellsworth, rashly. "Not a
cow shell eet its hoof here. I will have
this wood fenced off from the pasture that
lies at the back."
"You !" cried Deli% her eyes
"Then you own this spring ?"
"I did," said Ellsworth, retrieving, "but
I have sold it."
"To whom'!"
"I sold it in an informal kind of way. It
was of no earthly uss, to me. I didn't even
know it was here, and the purchaser didn't'
want the coin paial for it. I did. The sale
has never been ratified on either side, nor
the fences raised. Still, I consider I have
sold the place for this copper two -cent
piece.
"
He drew Delia's' luck -penny froth
pocket as he spoke.
"What do you mean ?" she asked.
"That this lot, with all the improve-
ments, aquariums, and so on, is to be had at
the price of a luck -penny. I need luck."
"Do you mean to say that I have been
trespassing on your land all this time?
Don't you think that was rather funny,
when I hated you so? Of course I can't buy
the spring with the two -cents that are
yours, anyhow."
" But, don't you see that if you buy this
spring I shall pace it off at once, stake the
lines and be trespassing whenever I come
over the boundaries? As it stands I have
the ret to come here whenever I will."
ell, I shouldn't care, so you don't let
cows come with you. lesides, you have
caught me the best beast I have in the
aquarium. See him trying to get out."
They bent together over the water.
"Yes," said the young farmer, wisely,.
"its far easier to keep out than to get out,
isn't it"
As he looked down he sow his face and
Delia's grey eyes mirrored in the spring. It
seemed to him suddenly that it was to and
of himself that he had spoken.
When, a few moments later. Delia looked
up to exclaim at the growing glee= of the
woods, and with a hurried farewell disap-
peared as a green vision melting into the
green of the bushes, Ellsworth did not at-
tempt to detain or accompany her. As he
stood alone in the quiet, following the rust-
ling of the branches in her hands and about
her feet, the gurgle of the stream swiftly
escaping from the basin, the whisper of the
leaves, the soft stir of the woods -all
spoke to him with new voices and seemed
repeating his words, Yes, far easier to keep
out -far easier.
He turned from the spring and strode re-
-solutelythrough the enclosing trees toward
the road.
"But being in-" he said aloud, as he
_beat his way through, "but being in-"
- (To be Continued.)
opening.
his
Precious Stones.
The best opals come from Hungary.
Black pearls are the most valuable then
pink and yellow, then white. Peoria are
steadily increasing in price; they cost three
times as much as they did ten years ago. A
pearl which could have been bought for
$1,000 in 1884 is now worth $3,000.
The American turquoise is the best. In
value this lovely blue jewel ranks below the
diamond, ruby, or sapphire, but its popular-
ity as a ring ornament never wanes. The
Persian turquoise fades when exposed to
light, and turns a dull green. Blue is the
favoritecolorof the Persians.
Every jewel has a peculiar significance.
Each is.a favorite in a certain month of the
year: January -Garnet, constancy. Feb-
ruary -Amethyst, sincerity. March -Blood-
stone, courage. April -Diamond, innoa
cence. May -Emerald, success in love.
June -Agate, health and long life. !Tilly -
Cornelia, contentment. August -Sardonyx,
matrimonial felicity. September -Chryso-
lite, antidote against madness. October -
Opals, hope. November -Topaz, fidelity.
December -Turquoise, prosperity.
The value of precious stones produced in
the United States last year was $300,000.
The export of diamonds from South Africa
averages annually about $20,000,000. there
are 25,000 diamond -diggers employed there.
A diamond is a chrystal of pure carbon and
as such is safe from injury by aoids. It is
verybrittle ; few precious jewels are more
so. Only one pure blood -red diamond has
ever been found.
The topaz, is nearly transparent. The
yellow topaz comes from.Saxony, the white
from Siberia, the pale blue from Brazil.
False topaz is yellow quartz. Chrysolite,
too, is often used to imitate topaz. The
topaz was once one of the most popular of
precious stones in fashionable use, but it has
declined much of late years in the public
estimate of its beauties.
These are the weights'given by a statisti-
cal authority, of the six largest known dia-
monds : Koh-i-noor, 103 carats ; Star of
Brazil, 125; Regent of France, 136; Aus-
trian Kaiser, 139; Russian Czar, 193 :
Rajah of Borneo, 367.
The red variety of garnet is the meet com-
mon, but violet, green, and white garnets
are not altogether rare. Bohemian garnets
are dark blood -red in color, and in the larger
sizes are very valuable. Cinnamon rubies,
so called, are garnets.
Except in color, the sapphire is the same
stone as the ruby, but less rare. When of
fine quality it is as valuable as a diamond
of the same size. The choicest shade is
blue.
The breastplate of the High Priest, as de-
seribed in the forty-ninth chapter of Exodus,
was made of gold, blue, purple and scarlet.
Upon it were set four rows of precious
stones. In the first row were topazes of
various varieties. In the second row there
were an emerald, a sapphire and a ruby.
In the third row there were an agate and an
amethyst. In the fourth row were a beryl,
an onyx, and a jasper. They were inclosed
New
Shortening Shortening
If you have a sewing machine,
a clothes wringer or a carpet
sweeper (all new inventions of
modern times), it's proof that
you can see the usefulness of
new things.
91ene
IS A NEW SHORTENING, ,and every
housekeeper who is interested in
the health and comfort of her
family should give it a trial. It's
a vegetable product and far, su-
perior to anything else for short-
ening and frying purposes.
Physicians andCooking Experts
say it is destined to be adopted
in every kitchen in the land.
This is to suggest that you put
it in yours now. It's both new
and good. Sold in 3 and 5
pound pails, by all grocers.
Made only by
THE N. K. PAIRBANK
COMPANY,
Wellington and Ann Sta.,
MONTR,EAL.
in ornamental work of gold, the girdle be-
ing held together by strands of linen.
The ruby is, next to the diamond, the
most valuable of precious stones. The most
popular is " pigeon'S blood." The color
varies from rose to crimson. The ruby
jewelers say, is extensively imitated. The
Brazilian ruby, is a topaz; the Cape ruby
is a garnet. The true ruby will scratch
either of them, and may be thus distin-
guished.
Graceful Walking
Every girl desires, or should de sire, to
walk well, and yet one has only to watch
some of eur crowded streets to see how de-
plorably careless the majority of women are
in this respect. One will have a swagger;
another a sawing of the air with her arms
as she walks; a third goes with a jerking
movement of her body; a fourth with a
quick, nervous little out -of -step movement
with her feet instead of the free gait of
one whose legs swing from the hip
with every step ; a fifth has a shuffling, un-
certain step ; 'while a sixth hurries along
with her head thrust forward as though
there was much to be saved by her head
getting there before her shoulders; and so
on.
And yet every one of these might acquire
the habit of walking well with very little
effort if she were only in earnest about it.
It only needs a little thought, a littl com-
mon sense brought to bear upon and
then a good deal of practice -every ere,
about the house, about the gar n, ' as
well as on the street -until the habit is
formed.
The teacher of _calisthenics in one of our
best-known girls' schools used to say that if
he were asked to give the secret of good
walking it would be in five words, each
printed in capitals: KEEP CHIN CLOSE TO
NECK. Of course he did not mean the face
to be bent downwards, but that the chin
should be held down, and not carefully
thrust forward, as many girls do whenever
they try to carry themselves well. But al-
though this is a most important keynote,
since in throws the shoulders back, but not
up, and the chest well forward, yet there
are two other movements which, if taken
with this, will make the " secret " more
complete and more helpful.
If it be remembered that the hips are the
teentre Of motion for the legs, as the
-shoulders are for the arms, and that in
walking the' swing should, come entirely
from the hip, and not attempt to divide it-
self with the knee or ankle, the step will be
more free and graceful. •
The third point is to endeavor to feel the
ground with the ball of the foot at each
step. This brings the foot down properly;
not heel first, as we sometimes see women
walk, with an ; aggressive clicking of the
heels; nor toes first, in a equally disagree-
able mincing fashion; butt it brings down
first the central point whence all the muscles
of the toes spring, and the result is . a firm,
elastic step.
If these three points, the chin, hips, and
ball of the foot, are kept in mind, an the
rest of the body left to take care of itself,
an easy, -rhythmical walk can be acquired,
which will not be nearly so tiring as when
work was put upon the wrong muscles, and
which will thus • give- satisfaction to both
performer and beholder.
•
Measure of Value.
An old Confederate Army chaplain the,
Rev. J. H. M'Neilly, tells a story which he
thinks may be especially appreciated in
these times of financial stringency. In
January, 1864, he was in camp at Dalton,
Georgia. He had just been paid off in de-
preciated Confederate currency, and much
of it was in one dollar bills -red -backed
pieces of paper six or eight inches long and
alarhetnhraeeseinldciheersiewpidaeid. ,
he wants some-
thing to eat; so, as I had heard of a man
who was selling ginger -cakes in a camp
about a mile away, I went at once. I re-
solved to spend a whole dollar in ginger-
bread. My memory recalled with delight
the generous squate that I used to buy for
five cents from the old cake -woman when I
was a boy.
I found my man. He had constructed an
oven on a hillside, and he baked ginger-
bread in one cake about three feet square.
I imagined that my dollar would buy about
a whole square. Probably it would exhaust
his stock. So, with an air of riches, I
handed him my redback and said:
"Give me the worth of that."
He wasn't disconcerted in the least. He
took my dollar, laid it on his square of cake,
cut out the exact size of the paper, and
handed it tome.
I knew then why money is sometimes
called a "measure of value."
•
-" Going to the chicken show, Uncle
Mose ?" "No," said the old man, thought-
fully scratching his head ; "I des nat'rally
aint. I tinter lak te stan' aroun' de candy
shops w'en I was a Pickaninny, but I is a
heap too old now to go an' torment myse'f
des fer de fun of tormentin' myse'L
2 SPOONS.
7.1"9 The Frriar..er cue, filled with
SKREI Cod Liver Oil, will do more building up
than the large C•re tried with the best- cf. the
many eranIt.it.t..ts new in 21111,1ii et.
SKRbb costs no Ince e fled e 3 t.:±1: ee times as
much work as three bottles Of elAIII:Sa012. Almoet
tasteless. Prepared cnly by,
K. CAMPBELL Et CO., Montreal.
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**GOODS,*
We can supply and our prese
prices are sure to suit you.
Goods were never cheaper,
-will be pleased to show you 0
stock.
FINE ALL WOOL DRESS 0000S
42 inch selling at 25e.
44 inch selling at 40e,
PATTERN DRESSES
At clearing prices. Every dress
bargain. They are exclusive
designs and the richest
shown in the trade.
Don't pass our store without seeing
these goods.
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SEAFORTH.
Wellington,
Gonne Noun-.
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Brussels.. -
Bluevale. •
Wingham•
Gouts SOUTH-
Winghtut
Muevale
Brussels . •
Grey and Brum.
Passenger, Mixed.
5.00 r. IL 9.30 Lig. garat,
8.13 L43 - tee
3.27 0.57 10.10
8.37 10.07 11,20
Passenger. /Wed.
6.25 A.1.11.20 7.80 rat.
6.37 11.85 8.15
6.54 n.zo 9.00
7.08 . 11.14 980
London, Huron and Bruce,
' Going Now's-- Passenger,
London, depart...-. .... 8.25e.m. 4 40LII.
Exeter...-. .... 929 6 00
Hensel- .. MP • 9 III 9.42 fees
9.47 Leo
Brumfield.. ,.. ...... 9.55 Les
Clinton.... . ...... . _. .... 10.12 655
10.29 7.14
Blyth.... .. - • . .... 10.88 7.28
Belgrave.... .... ...... 4 . 4. 10.52 7,37
Wingham arrive .......... 11.10 8.00'
GOING Sours- Passenger
Wingham, depart - ...... - 6.35e.m. leele.o. •
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. iarlr 6.50 3.47
7-03 4.01
Londesboro- •-• .. ..... - 7,10 te7R
Clanton . . . 7.45 4.28
Brumfield . • a 8.05 4.40
Kippen.. ....• Or ... 8.13 4.53
Houma-. . ,.., . . • ....- ... 8.22 4.58
Exeter • . • • - 8.40 5.12
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station
follows:
Gonto Wier- SNAFORTN.
Passenger - - 1.40 r. re.
Passenger... - 9.05 r. re.
Mixed TrMn_ 9,30 1.
Goma Kw -
Passenger. 7.49*. /I.
Passenger ... 2.40?. 1.
Mixed Tram.. - 5.25 ? ar.
Freight Train.. .. 4.20 P. if
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THE STIN
LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY
OF CANADA.
SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORT
FOR 1893.
'New Life Applications received during • -
1e33 .1 9,589,155.83
Increase over 1892 $ 972,69878
Cash Income for year ending 31st Dec.,
1893 . 1,240,483,12
Increase over 1892 .105,615.61'-
Assets at 31st December, 1893.......... 4,001,776.90'
Increase over 1892..... „.598.076,11
Reserve for security of Policy -Holders. 8,533,16LIT -
Increase over 1892 544,941.1$
Surplus over all Liabilities,except Capital -351,096.01e
.1 IS and Capital
Stock 188.595,it
Life Assurance in force let Jan., 1894-27,799,766A
Increase over previous year.3,1098,700.117
R. MACAU LAY,
T. El, MACAU LAY, ^ President.
Secretary and Actuary.
0.0. WILLSON, Agent, Seaforth.
A. S. MACGREGOR, District Manager, London,
1376 10
A. LITTLE
Conveyanoer, Collector, Book-keeper and Amount..
ant, Real Estate, Life and Fire Insurance Agent
Money to Loan, Correspondence, etc. Pandas re•
quieter services in any of these branches will moan
prompt attention. Office in Whitney's Block, (up
stairs) Main Street, Seaforth. 138141
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JOHN WARD -
Manufacturer of and Dealer in all
kinds of
HARNESS,
SADDLES,
TRUNKS,
AND
VALISES.
HORSE COLLARS,
Made to order in the best style, anci
everything in stock that can be found
in a first-class harness shop.
Come in and examine stock and get
prices before buying elsewhere.
JOHN WARD,
Strong's Red Brick Block, next to the
Tirivn Building, Seaforth.
1378tf
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