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The Huron Expositor, 1898-01-14, Page 6• THE HURON EXPOSITOR VETERINARY. Toms GIVCEVE. V. S., honor graduate of Ondo- ti Veterinary College: All diaereses- of Dounalik animals treated. flails promptly attended to and charges moderate. Vete finery Dentistry a specialty Offloi-aud realileeoe on GoderIch street, one door ART of Dr. Sot'e office, Sestoeth. 1112$f Veterinary Surgeon and Dentlet, Toronto College of vete:I/mu dentist& Honor Graditete of Ontario Vet- erinary College. -Bonar member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Society. An diseases of domestio animals skilfully treated. All calla promptly attended to AST or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Offloe and -Dispensary-Dr. Osumbeill old office, Mein street Seeforthe Night cells answered hem the ollice. 140642 e - LEGAL JAMES L KILLORAN,- Barrister, Solloitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Pickard's Store, formerly Meohanies institute, Main Strati, Elesforth. 1628 Ar O. CAMERON, formerly of Canieron, Holt els Camerou, Barriatee and Solicitor, Goderioh, Ontatio. °thee -Hamilton street. opposite Colborne Rotel. 1462 TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, 40. Solicitor for Mol. ei wall Bank. Clinton. Office - Eillotb loek, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 ID S. HATS, Banister, Solicitor, Oeirreyanosr and Lir Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Sank. 081oe-Oardno's block, Main Sb.esii, ileaforth. stoney So loan. E. BEST, -Beireeter, Solicitor, Notary, Se. Moe -Rooms, Ave doors northotCommerols ground floor next doox to C. L. Pagist s *mart store, Main street, Seaforth. Ooderich sing-Canieron, Holt and Cameron. 1216 pARROW PEW/MOOT, Beerfstses, Solkitosg„ Godsziah. Ontario. J. T. ammo. Q. Tatenereco. 04 re &MESON, HOLT HOLMES, Barriaten Sa- ke Bolton in Ohanoery, 40.,Goderkih, Oat if. 0. elessaar, Q. O., Paw Hole, Dunn Houma 161 HOLMESTED, suocossoe to the late firm of .30McCaughey as Hohneeted, Barrister, Solicitor Coilveyanoer, and Notaty Solicitor for She Oen adieu Rank of Commerce. Money to lend. rum for sale. Moe in Booth; Block, Main Street leaforth. DENTISTRY. W. TWEDDLE, Bonita. Office -Over Richard £• McInnis' shoe store, oorner Main and Min streets, Ssaforth. _sBEt7Nldentis; bridge work nd gfIatswtlPeeisisinidvef o theprvelonofhe naturslteerlt work carefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.' assetware store, Seaforth. 1461 DH. S. ANDERSON, gnduat• of Royal Oollep of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. 8.01 To - lento University. Office, Market Block, Ilitehell, Ontario. 1402 lat AGNEW, Dentisk Clinton, will .Lth visit Bengali at Bodoni' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the second Thursday in each raonth 1288 Talft. A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. 8., D.. D. S. I/ Honor graduate of Toronto University, Deto list, will practice dentistry at bis father's rooms in Exeter, and at his room at Mrs. Shafees restaurant, Hensel% every Wednesday. H. Kinsman, L. D. S., at Zurich the teat Thurdsday of each month. 15454a MEDICAL, Dr. John McGinnis, on. Graduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physician& and Surgeons. Offloe and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Viotoria Street, next to the Catholics Church Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12 TIB. ARMSTRONG, N. B., Toronto, M. D. O. IL, jj Victoria, 34.0. P. EL, Ontario, stiocessor to Dr. 11110*, offioe Iseely occupied by Dr. Llotit, Bruee- eld,Onterio. Di E. COOPER, M. Do M. B., L. Ft P. and S. IV. Glasgow, &o.,4t.hysizian, Surgeon and Ate ooueher, 00126tArtee, 1127 4 LEX. BSTKUNE,I M. D. Fellow of the Itoyal. tt, College of Phya11acsand Surgeona, Kingeton. Summer to Dr. Maokld. Ofike lately occupied oy Dt Maoldd, Mahe Street Seeforth. Rewidenoe --Corner ot Vittoria Sven in house lately °coupled by L. E. Danoey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, Late resident Phyidcian and Surgeon, Toronto Gen- eral Hospital Honor graduate Trinity University, lumber ot the College of Physicians and Surgeone it Ontario. C-QP7h9T !,9! the county of HII:013. 811rOPPIOE.-41438 tut formerly ceetipleat,'" Pr: Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephone Ne. 46. ef, B -Night cells answered item gt1100. •1986 DRS, SCOTT & MacKAY, l'YSICIAISEI AND SURGEONS, Goderioh etreet, opPealte Methodist church,Seaforth J. G. fletrTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and member Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeon& Coroner for County of Huron. e. MecKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. RHIHARD COMMON, licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron, eaten and bills attended to promptly, °bargee be keeping with time, &Mortis, Ontario. _ 1523-12 WM. M'OLOY, Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and Agent at Hewlett for the Massey -Harris Menu - lecturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. orders by ma11 addressed to Hensel! Post Moe, or lett at his residence, Let 2, Conceision 11, Tuck. aseraith,.. will receive prompt attention. 129642 TORN H. MoDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for ei the County of Huron. Salea attended in ail parte or the County. Terms roaeonable. From Mr. McDougall's long experience as a dealer in farm dot* of all kinds, he is specially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at Tim EXPOSITOR office, or at his residence. Lot Huron Road. Tuckeremith, near Alma, will be promptly attended to. 1466 A CHANGE FOR BREAKFAST " Variety is the spice ' of life." Flake Barley for the break- fast porridge is a good thing -if oat meal hes lost it's breakfast ()barns, for a while. iLlson's Fla e Barley Is most easily digested. Rich, yet delleate. Served with cream or sugar, it almost melte in the mouth. Ideal for children and those of weak clisgestion. Sold by the pound by best grocers. THE TILLSON 00., Limited, Tilsonburg, Ont. 1527.52 kL'''',4;kc4t South Huron Agricultural Society. The annual ineeting of the members of the South Huron Agricultural Society. will be held at DIXON'S HALL,Brucelield, on WAN EDNESDAY,JUARY 19th, I S, at 1 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of re- ceiving the Directors' mid Auditors' reports; the election of Offieere and Directors, and the tremens ton of other business. E. 011RISTIE, President; eL Y. ifeLEA1'01, Secretary. • N. B -A meeting of the °fillers and Directors will be held on the fame day, and at the same place, at 11 o'clock a. m , for the purpose of winding up the past Jeer's business. A full attendsoce is requested. 16583 • If life is worth having it is worth taking -care of. . Recklessness does • not pay, either In our work or o ur pleasure. When people reed of a young man who has been killed while perform- ing some reck- less feat on a toboggan or at , some other haz- • ardous sport, their sympathy is mixed with surprise that any human being should thus care- lessly risk life. There are thou- sands of men who are recklessly risking their lives while they go about their common every -day avoca- tions. They over-work,they do not take sufficient time from business or labor to eat or sleep or rest, or to care for their health. Outraged nature throws out danger aignais, to which they pay no heed. They suffer from bilious or nervous disorders, from sick headache, giddiness, drowsiness, cold chills, flushings of heat, shortness •of breath, blotches on the skin, loss of iv - petite, uncomfortable sensations in the stomach after meals, loss of sleep, lassi- tude and trembling sensations. These are the advance symptoms of serious and fatal maladies. All disorders of this nature are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It restores the lost appetite, gives sound and refreshing sleep, makes the digestidn per- fect, the liver active. It purifies the blood and makes it rich with the life-giving ele- ments of the food. It is the great blood - maker and fiesh-builder. It makes the body active and the brain keen. It is the best • of nerve tonics. Thousands have testified to its merits. No honest dealer will urge upon Tou a substitute for the little extra profit it may afford. The man or woman who neglects consti- pation is gathering in the system a store of disorders that will culminate in some serious and possibly fatal malady. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a safe, sure, speedy and permanent cure for constipa- tion. One little " Pellet " is a gentle laxa- tive, and two a mild cathartic. 141044411111,74 THE ONE GOOD GUEST. BY L, B. WALFORD, CHAPTER V. (Continued.) It was a glorious winter atteifnoon in,Pic- cadilly. Not a trace of mist o fog marred the brilliancy of the atmos here, and a fiery sun whose beams spread far and wide sank with unabated sovereignty in a cloud; less sky. All the world was out of dooneand all the world of fashion was engaged in making calls. • &rutting along the familiar pave- ment with his chest well out, and his blue overcoat comfortable buttoned, our little Colonel experienced an internal glow of sat- isfaction of which he had not been conscious an hour before. He had gone to his 'club in rather a mel- anchely frame of mind. His wife was ill, his house was dull, and he had not been asked anywhere to dinner. Furthermore,he did not know exactly where to go for news, talk, and afternoon tea. Not that he took tea -he hated . it -but he liked to drop in at good houses while that lively function was going on, liked to think he was obliged to "put in an appear- ance" at affairs to which others were going, or at all events that "owed a call" in this or that smart neighborhood. He did not as a fact know many houses which he could thus enter. Later on in the year there would be more; but in Decem- ber, before even Parliament had met, who could be expected to have "sounds" to made? Still, it was e nuisance to hang onat the club throughout a whole fine afternoon'and the prospect had made the hapless little ,Teseop, as we have said, melancholy. With Thistleblow's naive in his pocket, what bet- ter could he do than make for Lady Sophia Clarke as sharp as he could go, and he could not have desired a better house to call at than the Clarke's huge corner man- sion in Chesterfield Gardens, CHAPTER VL A DDAWING:ROOM IN IS/AYFAIR. Colonel Jessop had not waited till now to pay his respects in so eligible a quarter as that to which we left him wending his way in the last chapter. - The one redeeming feature of that disas- trous shooting party which had resulted in his wife's sore throat and his own lumbago, was the introduction effected between them and the more august denizens of Mayfair. The Jessops had cringed to the Clarkes, and the Clarkes had permitted the cringe. They had not been genial; they had not emitted more than the faintest flicker of civility, but they had "hoped to meet," and on that hope desaop had already traded. He had looked in at five &clock on the previous Sunday, and had been endured. Something had been said about calling on Mrs. Jessop; and upon hearing that the hardships of the return journey, undertaken in such inelenaerit weather, had resulted in an actual ilinese, Lady Sophia, who was nothing if not a doctor, had prescribed with vehemence and uplifted finger. Jessop had caught at the opportunity. His poor wife would be i so grateful, so do- cile. • r Then the poor wife I had been neither grateful nor docile, being a woman who could never see an inch beyond her own nose, and who in the present instance could nob perceive that drinking dandelion tea and breathing sanitas out of a special in- haler, was little enough to do for the re- ward of Lady Sophia's favor. Accordingly the intimacy had not ripened, and all her augest ladyship'e mediceI intereet and tardily aroused goodwill might have been allowed to die away without result, had Jessop not been afforded a chance of re -awakening the latter by the bonne bouche he had picked up from his old friend Thistleblow. Somehow he had an instinct that Lady Sophia would rate at its true value General Thistleblow's discovery about Maurice Stafford. Hehad not heard Stafford's name once mentioned in Chesterfidd Gardens, but he had an observant eye ; he was tolerably sure that the tongue whielr had erat been loudest in praise of Maurice would not have been all at onoa and altogether dumb about him thereafter, had there not been a sore spot somewhere. "She will not be sorry to hear we were ail mistaken in him," he shrewdly concluded with a swift recollection of a little scene at Duckhill. He had been standing by when Mr. Staf- ford's intention ot remaining behind had been announced, and when in reply to Lady Sophia's authoritative interrogations and exclamations the delinquent had answered by the briefest and most rudimentary of as. endow) ; and it had struck him that the proud, imperious, domineering woman he SAW before him, would never forgive such a moment. Lady Sophia was -ahem ?-a tartar. • A charming, high -bred creature,no doubt, with every right to a epirit of her own, but not a person to lightly offend. He had caught his breath with amazement when Stafford thus offended. Stafford, he had told himself, was an idiot to Lehave so. That a woman of Lady Sophia's rank and status should condescend personally to look out his train, and intimate that he was to share her own and Sir Robert's travelling compartment, was a thing to be proud of, - • not to be snubbed. The young fool was blind, stglie blind, not to bee what a feather he might] have had in his cap: He had thrown away his luck, and it emight prove that he had done still worse. " What will she say now ?" triumphantly chuckled the malicious little gossip as he hurried along. "Sheet us all the exam- ple at 'Duckhill. My wife and Inderwick's wife only followed suit. And Lady Sophia is one of your virtuous women'by Jove! A devilish virtuous women, by Jove! c No virtuous woman, I should say. I'd wager a good round sum she never speaks to Mr. Maurice Stafford again. No more looking out of trains, by Jove ! No more proffers of seats in carriages. Ha'ha ha ! - All Thistleblow cares about is to deal that soft young Barnet one in the eye -but what is young Barnet to me? As long as he does not inveigle me down to that old rain tank of his a second thne, he may drown whom he pleasei in it, for aught I care." Aloud. "Lady Sophia at home ?" find- ing himself on the doorstep of the house he was going to. Lady Sophia was at home; and, truth to tell, Lady Sophia did not look overjoyed at the sight of her new visitor. She had given Colonel Jessop a finger and ,a smile the pre- view, Sunday, and had warmed up towards the end of his stay so far as to send mete sages and prescriptions to his wife. But it was too soon for him to have -called nein ; she was not sure that it was not presuming; for a full half minute she was inclined to consider that it was presnming, and in con- sequence to turn the cold shoulder, and turn off the still colder ainile-but aeon a thought occurred. The room was full, and a private conver- sation possible; she would gine Colonel Jes- sop the benefit of a' private conversation. "Bitter weather this must be in the north, intuit it not ?" she began, easily. " We were lucky in making our escape: from Yorkshire when we did, Colonel Jes= sop; I dare say Mr. Stafford has fled the seene also by this time." "1 fancy not,' rejoined Jess* delighted to have his tongue Una directed.. "1 have just come from the club where General Thistleblow was talking about Stafford, and he eaid--" Other visitors demanded the attention of his hostess. (" Now, will she return to the subject or not ?" pondered Jessop.) He had scarcely time to ask himself the question. "And what did General Thisideblow say?" pursued Law Sophia, who was at any rate mistress of her own drawing -room, and not to be thwarted by any interrupten, or other adverse circumstance. " Was Mr. Stafford still at Duckhill ?" Very Much at Duckbill. Being del- uged, submerged, and probably by this time hung over with icicles! A terrible fate, "a it not? And that is ,:not the worst eithe " 1 deed ?" replied the lady, sharply'. "To Iie deluged, submerged, and hung over with icicles ought to satisfy anybody. It sounds like a modern rendering of the old eentence, To be hanged, drawn and • quar- tered:' " Excellent ? Very good. He ! he! he!" giggled Jesse!). (" It is a serious matter," quoth he to himself, "when a woman like Lady Sophia makes a jest.") "Excellent, indeed. But all the '‘same, I assure your ladyship there are worse thinga even than hanging, drawing and quartering. For in- stance,' with a sense of being keenly jocular "what do you say to being bored to death?" "Bored to death? Nonsense." Despising the jester, it was not worth Lady Sophia'a while even to smile at so absurd an anti- climax. Had she not desired an auditor for something especial she had to say, the little colonel would have had no more of her attention. But as it was: "11 he were bored, why did he not come away with the rest of us ?" demanded she. " You don't suppose, Colonel Jessop, that a man like Maurice Stafford stops a minute longer any- where than suits his own book ?" . " A man like Maurice &afford ?" echoed Jessop, faintly. He perceived that . the coup on which be had been relying for fu- ture favors'and a pootible invitation to dinner-theClarkes gave good dinnere-was likely to fall flat. "Yes, a man like Maurice Stafford," re- peated Lapy Sophia, with unmistakable sig. nificance. Now that I know the maw Matinee Stafford is -which I did not,, I con- fess, a fortnight ago. If you did, Colonel Jessop ?" with threatening brow. " Ton my word, I knew nothing about him, nothing whatever'Lady Sophia. I -I had not even heard the name," panted the terrified Jessop, (" A deuced awkward wo- man to deal with," muttered be to himself.) None of us knew, I suppose," resumed the lady, her frown relaxing; "and what annoys me most is to think he was clever enough to take us all in--" "Seemed such a nice fellow -easy to please -quiet -gentlemanlike," murmured Jessop. "Oh, gentlemanlike, of course. The one thing he was -and is. No one could say the man was not a gentleman. But that Sir Robert and I, who have always been so ex- tremely particular, and who disapprove so strongly of the ways of fast young men, should have been let in by a party of child- ren "-(Poor Tom ! Poor Ida !)-" and ac- tually made to stay in the house, and - hobnob, for that is Sir Robert's word for it -with a worthless, dissipated young man who had to leave the army for debt, and has been mixed up in all sorts of shocking trans- actions besides, it -it really -really I don't know -I don'e really know how to speak of it." ("How upon earth did she get hold of all this ?" cogitated Jessop.) His strong card was trumped, but he would still endeavor to win a trick or two. Lady Sophia obviously knew all there was to know about the delinquent Stafford, but he could agree and abuse, condole and con- jecture._ "Ib certainly was a mistake," he said, wagging his head with profound gravity. A mistake, Colonel Jessop? Well, if you choose to call it se. But I call it a piece of very great impertinence. We go down to an uncomfortable, out-of-the-way country house -we take la troublesome and' expensive journey 'a -(Lady Sophia was an Sarno of their Remark. able Cures. E. J. Lasalle, Dunnville, Ont. -Cured of moven) Kidney and Bladder Trouble by Chase's K. -L. Pills, a cure thee created a sensation. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, Foigar, Ont. -Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine saved her little boy, who was sinking rapidly from Lung Disease. , R. D. Robbins, 148 Cowan Ave., Toronto, Ont. -Oared. of an Eczematous Sore extending from knee to ankle. Eight doctors failed. Dr. Chase's Ointment cured. Miss Anna A. -Howey, Eden, Ont. -Cured of Catarrh of 10 years' standing and Catarrhal Sore Throat by Dr. Chase's Catarrh Cure. Mrs. Jos.Querin,Ethel,Ont. -Cured of Eczeinift, of the Heed and Pace f om which she suffered 9 years. Head 4 mass of scabs. Dr. Cheeses °intim nt cured her. - Dr. Claws rimne4ies may be hall (Tali dealers. or F.Vmanson. D.troa A Co., Toronto, Cut. • economist)-" we put our plans very con- siderably out, in order to do a kindness to the orphan children of an old friend "_ (" In order to give Sir Robert a week's good. _winter shooting," internally amended, Jee sop)--1" and we find domesticated at Duck- bill," proceeded the speaker, not regarding, truth as rigidly as she night have done this very -very undesirable guest. Nat- urally we were off our guard. We found Mr. Stafford pleasant, and we -and 1 -for it was I more than Sir Robert, I allow, per. him to make advances--" ("Made advances towards him," inter.* preted Jessop's mental guide.) "Which it will be extremely awkward now to repel," concluded her ladyship, stat- ing her own view of the cape with engaging faith in his credulity. Jessop bowed. "("Let her run en," he thought, "let her run on.') Inean invited him here "--LadySophia had now got the bit well between her teeth -"I told him Sir Robert and I would be very glad if he would call • and, indeed, he nearly travelled back with us--" ("Uncommonly nearly !") "We had proposed returning to town by the sanie train." (" Which you looked out.") - "And I had a little dinner party arranged • for this week to which I had meant to in- vite him." ("But to which you had not invited me. And I could have come without my wife, whom you know to be ill in bed! 'Pen my word, you deserved to have the /tables turned upon you, you nifty, tuft -hunting old vixen!" • Jeuop'e temper, never sweet, was now eying way. "To go and pester with your invitations an unprincipled young blackguard who will laugh at thein in his sleeve, and pass over a man of position and means, and respectability to boot !") He felt more angry with Maurice Stafford than he had done yet. Up to the present 'moment he had simply seen in General Thistleblow's discovery a chance for bettering his acquaintanceship with the eligible Sir Robert and Lady Sophia Clarke; stud while Thistleblow was •revelling in the opportunity afforded him for revenging' the attitude preserved to- wards himself by his hitherto irreproach. able ward,Jessop was mentally turning over all he heard, and selecting for use such of it as might serve his own ends. But now that he perceived how much greater had been the impression made on bis austere hostess than he had been aware of at the time, he experienced a new sense - time He also had a crow to pick with Maurice Stafford. As a matter of foot ev- ery individual member of the ill-fated shoot- ing party at Duckbill Manor now felt that they had been "done-' by Maurice. They had not liked one another. They had been about as badly assorted a set of people as could have been got together un- der one roof. In their simplicity and utter ignorance of the world, it bad seemed to the Ingenuous young hosts when devising their programme that certain people iof a certain order, and with certain tastes, would naturally -amal- gamate. They had, as we know, bestowed aa infinitode of pains upon the task of se- lection, and had fancied themselves highly in luck when ready aceeptancea had poured in, and not a single defaulter made a rocm vacant at the last. Subsequently they had supposed that it was only the rain. It was only the outer atmosphere which was heavy. The plain facts of the case had been that scarcely a man or woman present had had a good word for another, with a solitary ex- ception -that exception being Maurioe Staf- ford. Into the rivalries and jealoPeies of the rest Maurice had not entered. He had been the confidant of detraction, of back- biting, of sly hints and innuendoes -and he had discreetly kept every -word so uttered to himself., At the time this had won him golden opinions. 'A round, good humored face whieh could be truated was not to be met with every day '• and as one discorsplate hour after another had been dragged idly through, the possessor of this inestimable treasure had grown to be more and more in request. Everyone by turns had appropriated Maurice. In the end they literally strug- led for him. General Thistleblow, who but rarely Proffered a civility, had, as we know, extended, the hospitality of his' club; the taciturn and aggrieved Vernons, who had expected a smarter gathering and a ,bigger place, had owned to a yaeht when alone with Maurice, and had offered a • berth therein for a Mediterranean trip which was was to be kept dark from Tom Barnet; and Lady Sophia Clarke, most remarkable of all, had pounced upon an A. 13. C.- time- table, and !insisted upon it that Mr. Staf- ford's train back to town was the same as her own and Sir Robert's. It had been something of a shock to ev- erybody to leave Maurice standing placidly on the doorstep when the carriages drove off from Duckbill. • h They had felt themselves severally ag- grieved. Each one bad meant to have him. None of them, at any rate, had dreamed of the Barnett) having him. The poor Bar. nets ! They did seem such an utterly -in- significant little fipck for the favorite to be wasted upon! To be sure thew was consolation in the thought taken from one point of view. Since Lady Sophia was not to have Maurice, it was something that neither Mrs. Jessop nor Mrs. Inderwick, neither ,,Lord Wortlebury nor General Thistleblowchad thwarted her in the matter; and her ladyship's feelings were, with proper variation, the feelings of the rest. They were disconcerted, but not vociferous. It was only now -now on hearing how one and all had been duped, tricked, token in by .a frank eye and pleasant voice --that the biases, cynical men and women who had allowed themselves te be thus over -reached, opened cry as with one accord, and gnashed their teeth with bitter cha rin and unavail- ing regrets. Little did the four inno ents whose mis- behavior was now on ev re, angry lip im- agine the thunderbolt that was in store for them! CHAPTER SII. YOCR IINTILE AND I IOULD QUITE APPROVE. ' Meantime who more sup emelyresigned to fate than the younghost o Duckhil , as he surveyed his freshly arriveiI batch of guests, and contrasted their joy us, anticipatory countenances with the bla k looks of dis- satisfaction and despair w ich memory was for ever bringing before hi eyes. A dozen nice easy people; with whom he and his sisters were at home, who made light of disagreeables jested at disasters, and had become friends al round on the way down, were now insta led in the spare rooms of the manor. "Capital !" cried Tom to himself. "Capi- talRlis" weather would no lOnger be abused, nor his billiard balls foundl out. He could announce ten degrees of frort, and be afraid of nobody. "Now, Aunt Bess, no eitting over the fire, you know. Aunt Tibbie's coming out, and so must you. We will find some way of keeping you warm; we'll push you about in chairs. Eh ? What? What do you say? Oh, the ice is as safe as a house; we have had the ponds swept from end to end, and every living soul ought to be out upon them this glorious morning." "-My dear boy, I am afraid He laughed. "But it is so very cold." "Can't have skating without cold, ma'am. And what would Harry and Charlie ray if - IMEMIEZEREMIUMW.4' A\kge table Preparation forAs - s Imila t I og therood andlleg ula- ling the torxtef..9 and,Boweis of THAT T FAC -SIMILE SIGNATURE F - Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- !less and Rest,Contains neither 9putni,1%lorpliine nor }liner -J. Work 1...IA1'1c ()TIC. Je'rerias of Old Dr -M17.1211771.1-77 Purria:a Sal - -dfbarrma • Baal, S•kr - 4fthe &at • Appernint - ,610althatifoja. • Aim &al - CI Styli', • • f rpm ?UM: IS ON THE WRAPPER CF EVERY BOTTLE OF A pared Remedy for Constipa- tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms ,Convulsions,Feverish- ness and Loss OF SLEEP. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. seeelein °Astoria 1.s pat up in onaelze bottles only. It le not sold ia bulk. Don't allow anyone to sell you anything else on the plea or promise that it Is "just es good" and will answer every pre - pose." Se?* geo that you get 0 -A -S -T -0 -E -I -A. Ths fate simile .siguaturil Of 5 ea , 144,10. even, rearm. • -.1;1 • ••••• ' we had got them down here and no skat- ing ?" 'Well, come. But Tom," cried his aunt, as with an elated nod and a "Meet you at the ponds, then," he was turning away, "but Tom, one thing. I just want to ask you this one thing. I had no oppor- tunity last night. This young Mr. Stafford -he is a friend of yours -he seems very nice -and I find he has been at Duckhill nearly a fortnight--" " He came with the shooting party, you know, Aunt Bess." "1 know. Yea, Ida told me; but the shooting party all bit at the end of the week -" " Oh, before a week; they wouldn't stay a week." "And Mr. Stafford stayed on. Was there any --ahem 1 -reason for his staying ?" " Well, you see -the fact was -I don't suppose one could call it much of • a reason -but we sort of wanted him," said Tom, With rather an embarrassed laugh. In his heart of hearts he knew that strict pro- priety had been evaded. "We did have a time of it with those others Aunt Bess '• I do assure you it was simply horrible. Of course it was a mistake our attempting that sort of party -at least I suppose it was -but they paid tis Out, anyhow. If we had only had someone to boas our side we might have managed; but, as it was, they regular- ly bullied us in our own house. We seemed to need Maurice to stop on and comfort us. You have no idea what a comforting fellow he is." " I can quite believe it. A very agree- able young man indeed. So good-humored and well behareel." "He's most.awfully well behaved -that's just what he ie." "And your sisters like him ?" " Ask them. Just you ask them, and you'll hear what they say. Ida was quite pleased to have him stay -for, of course, I consulted Ida -and we agreed that as he was here -and if I put it to him that it was because he was here we asked him on -there would be nothing odd in his staying. I hope you don't think there was anything odd, Aunt Bess ?" Had General Thistleblow been present he would haveljbeheld in the speaker's wistful countenanee food for unrestrained mirth. Tom's aunt, however, saw nothing to amuse. Like himself, she was simple and serious. "1 am sure you and dear Ida always act properly, Tom; and yout uncle and I often hold you up as patterns in that respect. I merely thought -oh, it was nothing your asking Mr. Stafford, nothing at all -I mere- ly wondered -it seemed a little pecpliar his caring to stay--- " You think he finds it stupid 7" sug- gested her nephew, a little red in the face. " I dare say he does., But, at any rate, he has never said so to in. Those others did. You should have heard how they grumbled. That little beast of a' Jessop,' drawing nearer, ice and skating forgotten,-" you know Colonel Jessop of the Engineers, don't you? Well, but you know who he is, then? He and my poor father were brother officers, and I thought he would like to come and shoot here once again -he used to come in the old days -and we have good winter shooting if we have nothing else. He accepted all right, and down he came,he and his wife, gladly enough; but when it turned out that we couldn't shoot because of the weather, he grew as sour as possible, and grumbled from morning till night. Andwhat's more, he went and -and found fault. Ida said he turned up his nose at our dinners. Well, we haven't a swell cook, that's a fact; but I thought she did rather particularly well when those' people were here: tromp said she had only one soup. Well, she did give it to us once or twice over, but it was a ripping soup, and I was always glad to see it. That was it again last nig'ht, aunt Bess." "A very nice soup, indeed, Tom." (Tobe Continued.) ATARRH SUBJECTS This dread malady lurks behind the most In- cipient head colds, and when the seeds of disease'. are sown steals away the beauty bloom and makes life pleasures a drudgery. DR. AGNEW'S CATARRHAL POWDER • will cure the incipient cold and the most stub- born and chronic Catarrh cases. It puts back the beauty pink and sheds sunshine in its trail. •) I "My wife and 11 -were both troubled with distres- • sing Catarrh, but we have enjoyed freedom from , hs clistresses.s1ncO the first application of Dr. Ag - neves Catarrhal Powder -it acts instantaneously - gives grateful relief in to minutes, and we believe there is no case too deeply seated to baffle it in a cure." -Rev. D. Bochnor, Buffalo, N.Y.-32 • For saheb), I. V. ear and Lumsden & Wilson • Baby Has Gone to School. The baby bag gone te school. Ah me 1 What will the mother do, With never a cell W button or pin Or tie a little shoe? How can she keep herself busy all day With the little hindering thing away? Another basket to fill with lunch, • Another 1" Good -by 1", to sesy, And mother stand, at the door to see Her baby march sway. And turns with a sigh that is half relief And half something akin to grief. She thinks of & possible future morn When the children, one by one, Will go from their home to the distant world To battle with life alone And not even baby be left to cheer . The scattered home of that future year. She picks uo the garaienta here and there Thrown down in rarelese haste, And tries to think how it would seem If nothing were displaeed, If the house were always as still as this How could she bear the loneliness FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGONY. Saffering'Ended in a Few Weeka by the Use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Petrolea, Jan. 10. -From Ingersoll to Petrolea, the way is marked at short inter • yak by houses, which are pointed to as those in which Dodd's Kidney 13ilbs have cured cases of , Kidney disease, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, or other kidney or blood disorder. Tohn Russell, a farmer living near here, tells of his cure, after suffering fifteen years, with Bright's Disease. Three doctors treated him; many reme- dies were tried. All failed. Then Dodd's Kidney Pills were recom- mended. He tried them. The invariable result followed, a few boxes cured him. This story, with variations as to the dis ease, is told by hundreds in Petrolea. Dodd's Kidney Pills have not been known to fail once yet. Every case has been a cure. • The Queen. FRANCIS E. WILLIARD. The moment one thinks of Queen Victoria, the purity of her life and court rise before the mental vision. Every English man and woman prays for her to live longer and yet more long, who has lived so well. They know that •the easy-going, pleasure -loving, soft-charactered Prince who is to succeed her, cannot, in the nature of the case, key the standard W that high point in the octave of social observance that has been maintain- ed for sixty years'although the Princess of Wales is in the heartiest sympathy with her mother-in-law on all questions of good conduct. , 1 While not an absolute teetotaler, the Queen has for many years been practically one, whether she would or no,because of her increasing physicial difficulties which were aggravated by the use of alcoholics. She has from the beginning been favorable to her Maids of Honor and Gentlemen in Waiting who did not take into xicants as beverages, and has even been known to reprove courtiers who have spoken lighly of them because they would not drink. • I seppose we can have no conception of the lonliness and the prectical isolation of one in the Queen's position, from the happy companionships and familiarities of ordinary cultured life. The worldle mercilees battle for precedence has its storm center at the • world'a greatest throne the smallest differ- encaof manner toward those wise hold the same rank, is well nigh an affair 1 of State. This perhaps explains the exceeding close- ness of the "tie ehat binds " the rnyal ilies of Europe have for each other., It cer- tainly made the happiness of Queen Victoria almost wholly dependent for real heart cheer upon the loving loyalty of her noble and chivalric husband. She is e grand 'figure, but at the same time, to my mind, one of the most pathetic in the world and as I think of her I feel like offering that beautiful prayer set to the music of Tenny- son's verse: "May all love, His love, unseen, but felt, oiershadoW thee, The love of all thy sons encompass thee, The love of all thy daughters cherish thee, The love of all thy people comfore thee, Till God's love set thee at his side again. -Silver Cross. • -Dr. R. R. McFarlane arrived in Strat- ford lest week from England, having cense home via New York. The doctor has seen a good deal of the world since be was in Strat- ord a year or two ago. He has made sev- end trips to China and Japan in one of the teamers of the Glen line,asshiP's physician. He will spend some time with relatives thereabouts, and afterwards thinks of going west. -The happy and pleasant home Pt Mr. Aug,ust Herbert; Elnia, was thie scene of a harming event on Wednesday evening of last week, when his daughter, Mary, was, married to Mr. Wm. Love,. of Rhine, the eremony being performed by Rev. J. 1'. Kerrina Between fifty and sixty guests were present, and after the wedding supper n enjoyable evening was spent in dancing and games. • JANVARY 14 1898. Something New A I G. AULT --OF- THE SEAFORTH. TEA STORE Is DOW worth b to all toi call and s I am Selling, A o Powder *%ual to t for 60e ot pound, an 50e, and Shall giv worth 84 also wi der a clothes horse every pound of granite iron worth Baking Powder, with one pound carvinykinfe and every pound of triple plated silver pound Baking Po bread hosed and pound BOking Pow and get three poun worth 25e pound. Rio Coffee, eight pounds Of Sulphii Salts fore25c. Otto and Pitcher for 25c 25c alone, Six Ba Six Bars Standard thing right daw Come one, eome tying as4y hundreds of dolrare goods. E ry mouth gal invitation cure BUM of the goods tie pound tin of Baking Royal, which is sold I sell the Powder for et bred dish with lids, h every, pound of Pow - which is worth -$1, with eking Powder, and a 5c, with one pound of d a stand worth Vs eking Powder; and a fork worth $1.25, with king Powder; and ife and fork, with one der, worth 75c; also a hree knives with ono. er, worth $1.25. Come of good Tea for 50c, Also a first-class Green pounds for $1. Ten for 25e. Ten pounds pound Baking Powder The pitcher is worth. s Eclipse Soap for 25e. Soap for 25c. Every -- at quick sand prices. and get a good bargain. A. A LT, C4th. ARA 1 vare iS.E.A.FOR a complete .e103,Wood ' Cook $t out Steel ovens, of O. gttarnteed. u 'd values in and wood. mplete stock of Bt tirePliltestil'g°ivielnanfodGl r fu;1 ces right. ve us a call bef IP • • • • • • • • • I, m. • Is • HARDWA1 unter'n Old Statte pue s 01'340 3:0 at orei The fl erdale EAFORTI thefr4nt as usual, with, found itt , first-class w goGd in lat,est designs Seivina h Wil e marketie W 11 ,:vcrtr&veIlii at a sMall a.dvance iivei We seli wood cheap for iven on Ivood. itt zuathe 'Undertaking De - latt•isitgptese°:in"t toir:teelvfimuLlirnisrt51:1:118hit4f.mbhairsnistebi°11hall°, te d cavity etnb iuVifierifleipIes. Pi -afire -e rids Ve bau itur eyprecia from us. P. 84 tended ence, di do picture Lrat; °aiding to nele4 been instrunn eat reduction and Uniertakin this ehange--4 Night lad Sandi to at Ur. lAtt* eetlyin the rear therd andsb SEAFO 'Da PA -0 gages. Ranee 7 money. Any ;ems desir vete. No delay. Charge 1neurre4 unless idall 18ge Inuiranteed, or no loan. -with lo al agents. Agent "Write. Enclose stamp. , E 04 direct cowl etiorui will save you iiine and mo ey for all points, - Canadian North West. Via Tore Britieh Cohin Our tates aro the to 'nit everybody a IST CARS for you for further inform &and ' Tr Trains leave Seaton followis GOING .. .. . . Punnet Mixed Mixed ZOOS. ..... Goner Passenger.. Passenger .„ Mixed Tridti.... Virigillpgt012, Gotsd 'Kedah- PA3 Ethel. 1 9. BlrhSSOVIi lei.. .. JO. BItievt‘te. 10, WIDIr11441,:i.... 10, Cloned Soittele- WinghaM, .. .. - Mice -Yale r.; .... 5 Bnigrell I • ...... to or Chkago, is and California ints. lowest. We have them d PULLMAN TOUR - accommodation, Call: TOIL nk Railway. and Clinton stations ae SEAN:11TM s. CLINTON. 12.47 P. M. 1.03 in se. 10.12 P . 10.27 P. M. 9.20 A. M. 10.16 A. M. 6.15 P. M. 7.05 P. if 7.55 A. M. 3,111'. M. 5207'. M. Ethe 4i. &. , on"Aon, Hur n and Bruce. Goad CiL aee hIln Exeter,.tditrti e. P. At . . . • itilyeen 4 .. Clintoites ... G°1:eStid .... Wliejtheffr Witightilif, depart.... Linide,ibUro ..." . . . EIejlit6dt eOrt ("*;t1;.:).. * • • ,1 • • • 7.40 2 55 P. M. 4.35 P. M. ey and Bruce. tiger. Mixed. 0 y. M. 1.40 P., M. 110 2.45 05 - Paesenger. Mixed, 8.50 A. M. 8,55 a, ie. 7-00 • 9.17 7.1A 9.45 7.28 10.02 "* • Passenger. 8.15 A K. 4.45 rots. 9.18 5.55 9 30 '6,07 9.44 618 9.50 6.25 9.58 6.33 10.15 6.55 10 33 7.14 10.41 7.23 1050 737 11.10 8,00 Passenger. 6.53 A.m. 3.20-1'. 7.04 8.45 7,16 400 7.24 4.10 747 480 806 4.50 8.17 4.9 8,24 5.04 8.88 6.18 8.50 6,26 9.50 A. s.. 0.40' Ne cant cur eery case 1 i The best dodo No -one but a elaim MIL No infit fit every that in portion of tion, dyspepsia troubles • DE. Cis tomach auk Win effect s• cure, Our faith in it Test it for yo Price 50e, t Fates; Seafort enerally. ntperial Medi Barr bas removed h EltIeff ST. n DIST -O; anit itould take -this , Irons onstOniers tor It IIOnd to and 10 ittlY OMR MOW as * Irnyemblems Ur *Mimeo Ike Wen - R. H. BAR