The Huron Expositor, 1898-02-11, Page 6VETER'INARY
Vanity in women is'
forgivable. It
was Nature's in-
tention that wo-
man should be
vain of her per-
sonal appearance,
and the woman
who fails of this
fails of her full
womanhood. No
woman should be
satisfied to go
through the world
with a complex-
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by unsightly
blotches,fpimples
and eruptions.No wonfan should
be satisfied to
have a'sallow,
sickly complex-
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TORN Oltutirit, V. S., honor grad:tate of Ontario
• Veterinuy College. All diseases of Domestle
= 'iamb treated., Odle promptly attended to _and
ahangeamoderate. Veterinary Dentistry a speolalty
Office- and resident* on Goderich attest, one door
• *iofDt Soot* office, Seaforth. 111211
G. H. GIBS,
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of
veterinary denote, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet-
etinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin-
ary Medical Society. All diseases of domestic animals
skilfully treated. All calla promptly attend to
day or night. Dentistry and Surgery a ta'•
Office and Dispensary—Dr. Campbell'. old o
Main street Seaforth. Night calla answered hem the
office.- 1406-52
LEGAL
JAMES L KILLORAN,
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary
Public. Morey to loan. Office oyer Pickard's Store,
formerly Ilecbanics institute, Main Street, Sestorth.
1522
Mir G. CAMERON, fermerly of Cameron Holt &
�1. Cameron. Beariater and Solicitor, &derrick
butane. Office—liansiltan street. opposite Colborne
. Rotel. , 1462
• TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mol.
p3 son's Bank, Clinton. Office Elliott lock,
Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage,
1451
s. HATS. Barrister, Senator. Conveyancer and
i3/4 Notary Publio. Solicitor for the Domhdon
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.1 a
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Illeaforth.
DENTIFRY.
an W.TWE, MLR Dentist. Office—Over Richard-
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1646-13
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of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Oflioe and Residence—Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm.
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• Night calls attended promptly. 1463.1,12
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JJ Viritoria; M. 0. P. S., Onterke mooessor to Dr.
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n E. COOPER, IL D., /iL Ba LLP. and S.
.n, Glasgow, &e., Physician, Sunoco and • Act
ocanater, Gendarme. Ont. • 1127
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()allege -of Physical/Armand Surgeons, Kingston -
MOMS to Dr. Repaid. Offics lately occupied
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—Corner of VictoriaSquare, in house lately occupied
by L. Z. Darrow. 1127
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Ude resident Phydolan and Surgeon, Toronto Gen -
oral Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University,
member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
- of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Hugon.
arOFFICK.--Same ae formerly occupied Sy Dr.
• oppoete Publie Behool, Seaforth. Telephone
10. 46. N.B.—Night calls answered from aloe.
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1483
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BY L B. WALFORD.
CHAPTER XL
THE CONTENTS OF THE POST -BAG.
s (Continued.) .
But in his vituperation against such mis-
management, Sir Robert did not include
Ida; whereas Lady Sophia, blamed Ida for
her brother's misdeeds as well as for her
own. Could her ladyship's lynx eyes have
detected the smallest approach 1 to levity of
demeanour in the stately mai who held
herself so upright, and did- t e honors so
punctiliously in the halls of her fathers, Ida
would have seen Lady Sophia to her best--
or worst. But prudery itself c uld not take
umbrage at anything which Went on at
Duckbill. ,
No prim spinster, no pattern of conjugal
virtue could have exhibited more severe
and rigid propriety, not merely in her own
person but in all the arrangements which
passed through her hands, than did the
young mistress of the house during the try-
ing period referred to.
Several young men had been present. Cap-
tain Vernon and his brother liked amusing
girls; but after one or two attetnpts they
gave up trying to be amused by Ida; while
towards Mr. Stafford her manner was so
precisely the same as it might have been
towards her own great-grandfather had he
been present in person, that even when in-
dignant with Maurice for remaining be-
hind, Lady Sophia in her wildest dreams
had not supposed an inducement could have
been found in the person of her young
cousin.
Blinded by egotism, intolerant of opposi-
tion, and accustomed. to subservience, she
would yet not bawoutonly unjust towards
those who °pinned or defied her. She
would not bridle her tongue as to any of Ida'
Barnet's enormities but she would not in-
vent enormities for her.
Wherefore, all that passed between Col-
onel. Jessop and Lady Sophia when these
two met and denounced Duckhill and its in-
mates, as already narrated, kft Ida's name
untouched ; and it was only when fresh
reeelations haa iieWly colored the retro-
spect, that the letter was penned which
molted the frost -bound manor on the alter-,
noon in question.
We left Ida with the letter in her hand.
"From Lady Sophia Clarke," she mur-
mured. "What can Lady Sophia be writ-
ing to me about? That everlaating toy-
erness, or lady companion, I suppose ? er-
haps she put the advertisement in the
Guardian in spite of nie 1 All right, my
dear Lady Sophia, do your worst. Write,
and recommend.and -94-Verhia' 14. and. inter-
view, if aton please; you can't make me
take your lady, and I can snap • ray fingers
it all the rest. Our only lawful guardian
died with aunt Joanna, and though I am
willing to hear what good old Bees"—(these
were, fear, the very words of the irrever-
ent minx)--" though I am ready to hear
what that good old soul has to say, I am
under no need to go by her any more than
by old Sophia. Now, then, let us aee 'what
about this lady companion—this lady-
killer," absently unfolding the sheet, while
still gazing abroad over -the snowy land-
scape, where, however, no Maurice was yet
to be seen.
Bat the first words whit* met the reader's
eye caused an instant change of front.
Mr. Stafford ?" she exclaimed. "What
in the world can she have to say about Mr.
Stafford ?" Glancing hastily over the first
line to two, she then proceeded to read half
aloud, "The Mr, Maurice Stafford, whom
I am sorry to say Sir Robert and I met at
petit. house, and who I hear With real re-
gret is still staying on." re -
" Still staying on"
in Lady Sophia's large masterful handwrit-
ing, brought the sentence to the bottom of
the page. Ida glanced from the window as
she turned the sheet.
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"Very much 'still staying' on," she
smiled to herself. "1 suppose I am to be
taken to task for this piece of indecorum—
this having a young man 'still staying on'
when there is neither a lady companion,
nor a governess to make up the party !"
Then atarting to her feet as a distant ob-
ject emerged into view. "Is that him? It
is some one—something—some dark crea-
ture. Oh, it is only a horse 1 -e -how tire-
some. Well, to finish Lady Sophia—it is
very diverting, Lady Sophia's having come
in at this precise moment." (Reads). "You
will, I am sure, give me credit for hot being
a person to spread unfounded reports, so
that when I do most earnestly beseech you,
my dear Ida, to be upon your guard against
that most insidiougi young man, v•ho it ap-
pears is well known in certain circles, you
mai be sure I do it moat reluctantly, and
nly from a sense of painful duty. I knew
eine little time ago that Mr. Stafford was
ot what he seemed to you, to us,and to all
t Dualchill,during our pleasant visit there.",
Ida, loquitur, "Pleasant visit 1") "BuS
id not know until this morning that he bad
ny object in thus masking his real charac-
r, and deluding not only us, but you and
m—you, Ida, in particular. I hear now,
eed not say with what concern, that he
paying his addresses to you. He is a
nerd spendthrift, and a gambler to 1000t
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There are tartan of our properties which still re -
men/ unsold. Ietending puroliasers will kindly in and were I not writing to a young girl, it
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ing. This I believ� to be the simple truth
about Mr.- Maurice Stafford, and if this
warning should be in time to *prevent your -
giving him any further encouragement, I
shall rejoice at having been the medium of
saving yon from a lamentable fate. Your
usual prudence and reticence of behavior"
—(" Give the devil his due f" thought but
did not enunciate Lady Sophia)---" will
have, I doubt not, so Inc have enabled you
to check over -rapid attentions, so that I
have every hope I shall be enabled to pre-
vent further mischief. Yours affectionately,
• ' 46 SOPHIA CLARKE."
This was the letter; but in the postscript
. —as it hath ever done—lay the stir% of the
whole.
"01 course I do not know whether this is
anything to you, or not," proceeded the
ready pen; "but if Tom 'thinks it worth
his while, Sir Robert will inform him of all
the particulars, which one lady can 'hardly
write to another."
Until she came to this postscript, Ida's
. countenance had wore an air of -scorn, and
she had from time to thee broken out into
little explanations and ejaculations with
. which we have not needed to trouble our
readers. She had scarcely even been im-
patient of the large writing whiehcovered
page after page, ana seemed to magnify the
: acensation in its course.
1 I the schtary girl started, and the -smile fled .
- It was almost amusing, coming.as it did.
But this postscript ? For the first time
1 from her lips.
Sir Robert knew, and Sir Robert would
i inform her brother 1 Sir Robert was aiP
honest man; a man not likely to be carried
away by a canard; a man on whose word
she had only that day heard her brother ole
serve he would rely sooner than ott that of
most other men.
Tom had said Oil), and Maurice Stafford
had assented . avowing that 'roman he had
seen of Sir Relent he had come to the same
conclusion. He had not met the Clarket
before coming to Duckbill, and he had einilu
ed at the remembrance of Lady Sophia • but
he had had several long talks with Sir Rob-
ert—indeed he had been the only person
who had—and had decided that he was a
good sort.
The phrase rose cruelly before Ida now.
Sir Robert was "a good sort," and Sir
Robert would give Tom "all particulars.),
Her color changed ; her lip twitched; the
letter -bag, which till now had lain upon her
lap fell with a rattle to the Rome
ihe again glanced from the window.
Still no Maurice. He had been trapped
by a swollen brook which bad not been suffi-
ciently frozen to admit of his crossing at the
usual point, thus entailing a 'hound of half a
mile.
But for this cause, he would have been in
before the post came.
"1-1 don't quite understand this,"
whispered poor Ida to herself, turning again
to the firshpage of her correspondent's let-
ter. "If it had been only Lady Sophia—
Lady Sophia was nettled because she could
not carry off our one good guest, whom
everybody liked, and who in his turn liked
only us ; Lady Sophia went off angry with
Maurice, and angry, especially angry with
me. I could quite understand her saying
anything and writing anything to an-
noy us both, and --separate us. She saw
how things were between us sooner than we
did ourselves, I daresay. I, at least, did
not see at all, at that time. But it isn't
possible—it isn't possible—that she could be
so wicked as to go and make up an entire
falsehood. Oh, but she need not have done
that, she only needed to go gossiping about,
and get hold of some absurd story! If only
she had not said that about Sir Robert 1
And bow am I to tell Tom, and bow is he
to ask Sir Robert?- I can't tell Tom until
there is something to tell. And there is
nothing—as yet—nothing." Another glance
from the window.
Then a long pause.
"What if it should be true ?" The words
buret aloud from Ida's lips, and at the same
moment she saw Maurice coming.
With a sudden impulse she rose from her
seat, and, trembling in every limb, stumbled
acres° the little room; passed through the
door, and shut it behind her.
When he entered he found the apartment
empty.
CHAPTER XII.
44 WHY DOES IDA NQT COME 7"
Was Ida coy, or was she vexed, or was
she unwell? Possibly she had merely re-
treated to her own room at the sound of his
footsteps, and would return within the
minute. She might not care to seem to be
awaiting him.
He dropped into a °hear, then caught
sight of the letter -bag whose leathern jaws,
half open, permitted a stream of documents
to litter the floor by its side. -
"Post in, eh?" said Maurice, rousing
himself; and to pass the moment he cross-
ed the room and picked up the bag and its
scattered contents, looking to see if any of
the envelopes were addressed to himself as
he did so.
None were and he replaced the packetin
the ball. • Whir did nnt Ida -came'
• Then he stood in the place where she had
been standing, and it did not esoape him
that there were signs of a hasty exit from
the spot. A cushion bad fallen from the
easy -chair. The table -cover was dragged
on one side. Surest betrayal of all, the
post -bag and its freight had obviously been
oast down by some one in a rapid flight.
• She had been watching from the window,
had she ?
• He would not have found her doing ao,we
may be very sure; but the sudden rush of
emotion which bad made a headloug retreat
Ida's one thought; had also caused her to
neglect wiping out traces of it.
"She is only gone for a moment," said
Maurice, to himself.
- The moment, however, lengthened out.
"Can't I d anything? Can't I make a
noise of some sort to show I'm here ?" cogi-
tated he. "1 can't sendfor her,of course. I
can't even causually ring the bell audinquire,
but perhaps she would hear if I clattered
about a bit;" and hebanged over a footsfool
and shook the fire -irons. "There now,
Shat must bring her," the noise being great'.
er than was insended. "If she does not
know I'm here—but confound it all! she
must know, and she must know, too, that
there is not too much time. I really think
—bat, poor girl, she is so awfully shy and
strict—I daresay she hates coming into the
room, now that she is Out of it. The going
out of if was her mistake. That was a mis-
take. I could have dropped in as if it were
nothing --a .mere ecident—and she could
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have been sitting here as if she were never
thinking about me—and i we could have got
over the awkwardness in no time. I wish
she would come 1"
Then he fancied a rustle in the passage
without, and caught his breath, 'being him-
self not without a shade of nervous excite-
ment. c •
No result, however, followed.
"Dear me! There can't have been any
mistake, can there?" cried Maurice fling-
ing himself around. "1 am sure the child
understood me plainly enough, and I under-
stood her. Jenny's no fool. She cannot
have .gone and given the wrong message?
This is beastly awkward,"—after a pause—
" the mosconfoundedly awkward position
I was ever in! What is to be done? rn
make another diversien ;" and this time he
went to the door, opened it, and set it ajar.
Then he coughed loudly. He would have
given the world to call "Ida," but he knew
Ida would never have forgiven him.
"It would not matter if there wereplenty
of time," muttered Maurice presently, but
I. was late as it was, and could only reckon
on half an hour or so. Twenty mmutes of
gone," taking out his watch. "If
she does not come soon—Hark! there she
thathas !
is 1" his heart again responding by a throb
to a movement which was- just audible to
the ear.
It was not Ida. -
Another ten minutes, and thee,' Waa still
no Ida. The 'daylight outside bilge* to
wane.
"Good God ! why doesn't she come?"
cried Maurice at last. He ba,d been kept
upon the tenter -hooks almost lo ger than he
could endure. Every momeet might elope
the scene but no moment did ;. and we sea -
peal to all young men who have ever found
themselves in a like situation to say if it be
not a truly awful one.
And the haplese lover had al eady made
himself conspicuous enough;that is to say,he
had already given sufficient sign in several
quarters of the plunge he WSe a out to take
so that,, added to his own dice ointment,
there was a' sense of baffling t e expecta-
tions of others, to complete hi mortifica-
tion. What was to be done?:
Supposing he were to be oaugr t where he
was, alone; and an intruder—or a supposed
intruder—by pareons not in he secret 1
Were it Tom or Jenny—then a thought
struck him. Jenny might again be of ser-
.vioe. He_ would go and seek hi little mes-
senger, who would probably not be far off
now, for the light was rapidly ailing; and
the skaters had been warned no to remain
out late on their first day on the ice.
" She has got me in this hol , and she
must get me out of it," Aid Mau ce, gloom-
ily taking up the cap he had lai down on
his entrance. "There's a screw. loose some-
where, that's evident; but it . just pos-
sible I may get it straight y V Ida has
misunderstood, I fancy; gone to er tom to
teke a sleep, and perhaps - is ex oath* me
after tea. It must have been a iota e my
c
fancying she had been sitting b thlwin-
dow, and bolted at the sight o me. She
often moves quickly. The let r -bag was
nething," and thus seeking to soothe and
satisfy, he wehkt oft in search 1ft t e skaters.
' *
Let us now return to Tom, trn
towards the village posh office.
P086 in going thither, it may be
ed, was to carry up the aftern
ging along
His pule
remember-
• on'a mail,
which wae not delivered tur the postman,
but was fetched daily by some o O from the
manor.
By going early, the young mabter would
inot only have an excuse for returning to the
1 house, where he considered his piesence was
required, but would save .the fcetman to
whose lot the errand usually Id!, from being
sent out on a rav, frosty afternoon, when
e cleaning
eful house -
such de.
gone out
on. purpose to spare the footman, but being
ID need of al pretext such as fetching the
letters Would afford, he could reflect with
satisfaction that he would be back at the
house early enough to stop Thomas from
netting forth.
Some one, howevers_had been earlier still.
"We had a chance assuming op this after-
noon, sir," explained the beep* village
post -mistress; "our baker's eclat came
around about ten minutes ago; and we
asked the man if he would kindly drop the
bag at the manor. It will be quite safe, sir.
I have known the man these many years."
do when
loss, as he was apt to y little
" Oh !" saici Tom. He felt sligpitly at a
wile of his fen through. It .had meemed to
him to be such a neat arrangement alto-
gether, this calling for the letters, and tak-
ing them up, and being found in the library,
busy writing, if wanted by Maurice; being
able to explain, too, that he had expected
some important documents, one in particu-
lar, which would demand instant attention.
he would be much better at ho
his plate. Being a young and ea
holder, Tom's mind often ran o
tails. He would not have himsel
And he really did expect such a letter, as
will presently be seen.
Of course he could go off home just the
same, and it mattered not a pin's point
whether or not the letter -bag were there be-
fore him; he could open it,. extract his
epistles, and be busy writing in the library
presently, as well now as if he had himself
been the bearer of the particular blue en-
velope expected; but for the moment he
looked and - he felt an interrogative
" Oh --h ?"
He had sat down with his gun between
his knee; and was not sorry for the brief
rest. A morning's skating and an after-
noon's shooting—even though the latter had
been out short–ehad entailed a fair amount
of bodily fatigue, just sufficient to make a
perch comfortable, while listening to the
prattle of of the ' geed woman behind the
"So they're gone, eh ?" said he, pr sently.
"They're early -this afternoon."
"Always in by this time, sir."
"Are they? Didn't know that. We
might as well have them up a little sooner
sometimes, then. I should be glad of them
sooner. Didn't know they were in before
this time usually."
"We do get them sooner than we used to
do, sir. Excuse me, that's, the telegraph
going," and the speaker tented round.
" Eh ? Oh, good -day, then " sa al the
young squire, rising and preparing to depart.
13ut he had only advanced a few paces from
the door when a shoutirecalled him. The
post -mistress herself WU calling his name
for you, sir—the mee age. Will
you come back, sir, and then yot can get it
at once? I must not stop!" and the speaker
flew back and was attending to the despatch
by the time Mr. Barnet had Otrisced hie
steps.
"For me?" said he, rather surprised.
Then, with, a sudden recollection, Oh. I
daresay about Beech Farm. I am glad that
fellow has telegraphed; it looks as if he
were keen."
But the telegram which was handed him
almost immediately was not from a possible
tenant of Beech Farm. It was from an un-
known individual, presumably a nurse, or
attendant, summoning him to the bedside
of an elderly relative from whom'to put it
plainly, he had expectations. Not for him-
self; he was already in hill possession of all
he was ever likely to have in this world;
bat he had been distinctly informed by Mrs.
Hilary, who was a womanof few words but
of spirited action, that he "need not bother
his head about his sisters if he wished to
marry and turn them out of Duckbill, for
that ene would look to it that they had a
roof over their heads."
It was this Mrs, Hilary who was now ill
and who had sent for him.
It was characteristic of the young squire
that he had never breathed a syllable of the
above communication in any mortal ear.
He had brought his sleben; back teethe old
place, and had installedthem in the rooms
which had been theirs in childhood. He had
seen them arranging and projecting, as
though Duckbill was to bd their home for
life. And he had smiled approval of all they
did or planned. I doubt if it had once o0 -
cured to Ida, and certainly it had not to
Jenny or Louie, that a queen consort, if such
were ever to reign at the Manor, might not
see things in the same lighe. That Tom
might marry seemed a far-off possibility,
but that Tom's wife would not adore them
or they her, was not to be thought of.
Tom, however, in his solemn, pondering
young souls. looked ahead. He did not mean
always to be a bachelor, and what if—and
this and that contingency Would occasionally
rise to view.
At such time Mrs. Hilarys assurance was
as " comforting " as the companionship of
Menribe Stafford; but with a curious old-
fashioned delicacy of mind entirely ont-of-
date'among modern young people, even in -
private consultations the elder brother
neither hinted at the prospecti e legacy nor
at the possibility of its being ieeded in the
manner suggested by his censin
He now stared atthe tele ram with a
blank countenance. •
There was no doubt about its rgency ; nor
about the -Wisdom of its being acted upon
promptly.
"Mrs. Hilary seriously ill. Desires Co see
you. Come at once." Snch were the words
of the message.
But how was he to go at once? It was
already between three and four o'clock, and
the latest train for York left at four. It
was a slow, bungling train on a wretched
little side fine, and even by catching it he
would not be at his journey's end until a
late hour of the night, since York was only
the half -way station, at which he had to
change for another cross-country, jog -trot,
happy-go-lucky little locomcitive.
Yet this was his only chance of reaohing
Pine Ridge the same day, and to put oft till
another day would hardly do. He knew
Mre. Hilary. She was not -a woman to send
for him until she had alusohate -occasion to
do so; if by delay he offended the old lady,
very serious consequences might ensue.
Besides which, Tom Barnet, who had an-
other mediceval streak in his nature, felt
grateftil to Mrs: Hilary. He always felt
grateful to people who were kind to him and
his sisters—more especially to his sisters.
Attention to them was the surest way to
win his affections; and the neglect, or more
strictly speaking, the cool indifference dis-
played by the aunt who had had charge of
Jenny and Louie during the tender years of
childhood, had roused almost a passion of
resentment in his breast.
Of such emotions he couli not speak; no
one ever heard him enumerate the wrongs of
the past; but perhaps if even General
Thistleblow had known to what was due
the curtness of Speech, and the something
of defensive in Tom's attitude when an-
nouncing the plan of his future life, he
would not have taken the umbrage he did
at his ward's spirit of independence.
It now behoved our young man to look
'afresh after the interests of those so dear to
him. He felt—or thought he fell—a proper
amount of sorrow that Mrs. 'Hilary should
be dying, but perplexity and disturbance of
mind overshadowed the sorrow. How on
earth could he go off on a long, cold journey
without so muoh as a handbagl? And with-
out having anything to eat ? And with
shabby shooting clothes? Moreover, his
boots were sopping wet.
And there was al o another view of the
matter to be oonsidered. He had a houseful
of people, who had only arrived on the
previous day; what was to be done with
them? Worst of all, he had Maurice Staf-
ford,who was on the brink of a proposal for
his sister.
(To be Continued.)
Duty.
BY REV. MARCUS SCOTT, DETROIT.
The creed of an old Danish hero was,
"Dare nobly, will strongly, and never falter
ID the path of duty." What is your
duty?" asks Goethe. "Duty," he adds, "is
the carrying out the affairs of the day that
lie before you." At Borbonico, in Naples,
you can see the helmet, lance and breaet-
plate of the Roman sentinel who perished
at the post of duty during the destruction
of Pompeii, some eighteen hundred years
ago. While others fled,hestood at his post,
until death released him. Why? Because
it was his duty. During the Carthaginian
war Regulus was sent a prisoner to Rome
to sue for peace. If peace wee not affeoted
he was to return to captivity again. At
Rome he urged the Senators to carry on the
war, and on no account to agree to an ex-
• change of prisoners. The Senators in turn
urged him to stay at Rome and not return
te certain death. He answered proudly
"Slave as I am to Carthage, I have still the
spirit of a Roman. I have sworn to return.
It is my duty to go. Let the gods take
-care of the rest." He returned to Carthage,
and died under torture. At Trafalgar Nel-
son ran up on his mast as his message to
the fleet, 'England expects that every man
this day will do his duty." His very last
words were, "1 have done my duty: I
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reat Jacket Sale
We are oilering all our New
Perfect Fitting Jackets, at a
big reduction. This is a good
chance to get a • -
—.Yew
Stylish
• —Jacket
For very little money.
Also all . • . .
Pur Capes,
—Muffs,
—Storm Collars,
Caps,
etc., etc.
Til E3 CiErm.A.it) a..A.Ena STORM..
W. W. HOFFMAN.
• OARDNO'S BLOM, SEAFORTE
Agent for Butteriek's Patterns and Publications.
praise God for it." Wellington wrote from
Portugal, "1 came here to do my duty, and
I can neither do nor enjoy satisfaction in
anything excepting the performance of my
• duty to my own country." A keen sense of
duty and absolute fiedlity in the perfce-
• mance of it, distinguished this general from
his brilliant opponent, Napoleon, and won
for him the confidence of his contemporaries
and the gratitude of mankind.
15 18 Shia keen.sense of duty which trans-
forms boys and girls, as well as men and wo-
men, into heros and heroines. The humblest
and most commonplace life will afford ample
opportunities for the examine of the greatest
herolem. Life is but a battlefield, and we
are .the soldiers. The daily match, more
than the battle charge, tries the bravery
of the men. The Gordon Highlanders had
more to try their courage in the long,
weary march over the mountains than in
the storming of Dargai Ridge, and so ever
18 15 in life. Lotus be brave and Courageous,
obedient and faithful; and let us al says
try to do our duty. We owe a duty to God.
He is our creator and protector. We have
a duty to our friends and neighbors. Our
duty is W do right and to help all around
us. We ill have an influence, either for
good or evil. Richter says, "Geed deeds
ring clear through heaven like a bell." And
one greater than he says, "Do good unto
all men."
A little boy, by preeence .of mind, saved
part of Holland from inundation. He saw
the water trickling through a hole in the
dyke that shut out the ocean. He at once
closed it Up -' and watched beside it all the
night until help came in the morning. A
little Maori girl was once the means of the
conversion of her whole tribe in New Zea-
land. She simply did her duty he opportuni-
ties came to her. The little Hebrew maid
ID captivity did her duty and saved her
master. Mordecai's last and successful plea
with the young and timid Esther was that
it was her duty to try and save her people.
She tried and succeeded.
We have a duty which we owe to our-
selves.
"To thine own serf be true,
And it must folio ra as the night the day.
Thou chest not then be Ube te any man."
Remember who and what you are. When
young Alexander the Great was challenged
to a foot -race by a plebeian he at once said,
" The son of a king can only contend with
kings." And when in latter life 'a soldier
was brought before him for a certain crime,
thinking to obtain the emperor's favor, he
said, "My name, too, is Alexander." A
flash of scorn came from the eagle eye as the
king thundered, Forever drop that name
or honor it." Tennyson sweetly sings :—•
Not owe or twice in our fair bland story
The path of duty was the very to glory;
He, that ever following her commands,
On with toil of heart and knees and hands,
Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won
His path upward, and prevailed.
• Shall find the toppling erege of duty acalei
Are clew upon the shining table lands
To which our Gad Himself is moon and Sun."
•
• Cycling and Asthma,.
A LONDON PHYSICIAN SAYS THE FORMER WILL
CURE THE LATTER.
Dr. Maroet, of London, recommends bi-
cycle riding as a remedy for itethma. Here
is what he says about it in a letter to The
Medical Record: "If asthma is a form of
mountain sickness and if that .distressing
affection of high altitudes can be cured by
trainining for the exercise of climbing, why
ahould not asthma also yield to the training
of the respiration carried out by practicing
the respiratory movements needed to carry
the tidal air through the lungs! Of all
means of training respiration I think cycling
is the best. When a person first takes a
cycling exercise, it will be found, especially
on going up hill, that the breath is wanting,
the heart beats uncomfortably and the legs
tire, but after training, these discomforts
disappear, nothing will be thought of
ascending hills, the heart has become per-
fectly comfortable, all breatblesenees has
disappeared, and the legs will no longer
feel any fatigue.
• "Cycling exercise, first of all, increases
the depth of breathing, and that -without
fatigue, as the respiratory movements are
automatic. At the same time it will ex-
4ustom the rider instinctively to take 42 at
eaeh respiration the volume of air required
to aerate the blood. Persons who de not
care for cycling out of doors can take the
same kind of exercise at home by means of
a dumme cycle, consisting of an iron wheel
driven by pedals, the resistance of the
wheel being so contrived as to stimulate bi-
cycle riding. A strap carried partly around
the rim of the wheel can be tightened at
will by the rider, thus increasing the labor
and recalling the effort of riding up hill.
My experience of the results of this treat-
ment is unfortunately limited to .only one
person. In this case it has proved eminent-
ly successful. This person took to bicycle
riding tbree years ago for pleasure and in
very great moderation for the first two
years. He observed that the attacks of
asthma to which he was subject became
fewer. The tightness and wheezing which
occateed every night have now entirely
disappeared."
•
—Abraham Tibbitts, a Boston embezzler,
was arrested at Regina on January 305h
with a woman with whom he was travelling.
1.1e will be held for extradition.
—An accident occurred in Arnoldi's spar
mine in Cantley, near Ottawa, last week,
owing to a dynamite explosion, which in-
jured four men. An unexploded mine of
last week had been left over for Foreman
Cox to unload. It was loaded with five
sticks of dynamite, and then filled to the
to with sand. Messrs. Cox, Mike Foley,
and John Coyle, of Cantley, began to cau-
tiously unload the mine. The vibrations
caused an explosion. Pieces of flying deb-
ris struck Foley and Coyle in the face, and
inflicted serious wounds. Both men are
still blind. At the time of the exphoaion
here were 17 men at work in the mine.
'wo of these were seriously injured about
he feet and bodies. The injured men are
oise and Calixte_Galipeau, of Ironsides.
eruptions of the skin and nialcers it soft /
and white. -27. •
For sale by L V.Fear and Lumsden & Wilsoa • M
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THE SEAFORTH
TEA STORE
Has just received another large eon-
signment of Teas, Coffees, and other
goods which • will be -sold very cheap.
Two pounds Japan Tea, for 25e ; and I
set giving one pound of Jersey 'Crean}
Blend Coffee, for 50e, and a coffee min
With every kand of coffee. I sell one
pound of Baking Powder, which is
equal to the Royal, for 50c, and I give
a vely,handsome-wall pocket with eaeh
pound of baking powder, which is
worth 75e. Besides these I am giving
10 or 12 other useful articles, with
every one pound tin of baking powder.
A fresh lot of Apricots, 103 a pound, or
three pounds for 25e. Also three -
pounds of Pited California Plums for
25o, or 10e a pound.
The highest price paid fer good
Butter and fresh egge, in cash or trade:
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Shareholders Meeting.
A meeting of the Shareholders and Patrons of the-
Brunefleld Cheese -Factory, will be held on February
18th, at 2 o'clock p. na, for the purpose of letting
milk route', appointing a secretary by sealed
tenders, and to dispose of the whey; to: consider
whether the *Whey will be returned to patrons by
milk drawer. or otherwise.
JOHN BURDGE.
1672-2
MORTGAGE SALE OF VALUABLE FARM
IN TOWNSHIP OF MULLETT.
.
Under and by virtue of a certain indebenture of
mortgage, which will be produced on day of sale,
there will be offered for sale by public auction Ito
the Commercial Hotel in the Town of Seaforth, on
Saturday, the 12th day of February, 1898, at two
o'elook p. m., by Mr. Joseph R. Brine auction eer,
the lollowing lands, viz ,:—Lot number '9, in the 6th
Concession of the Township of Huliett in the Oo linty
of Huron, containing 100 acres of land. The lands
are Wasted just west of the Village of Kin burn,
where there are church, school, blacksmith shop.
post office and stores: Terms of sale.—Terree end _
oonditions of sale will be made known on dsY Of /Me
and in the meantime may be obtained from th
Undersigned.
• F. HOLMESTED
Seat th
or , Aoloor7 28th, 1598. Vaindor's Seli1c517tozra.
tEBRU-Ail
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Soft Elm, Rock Elr
and Maple Log
3.1000,000 feet ol
SOFT :13
Suitable for staves, for which 8i
be paid. Vasa logs to be eut
le h.
e highest cash price will be
liaartwood and Maple, and all of
will be taken.
All tobe delivered tbis winter
. CUSTOM SAWING done on Mr
GRAIN -CHOPPING on Tuesd
era& week, and malefaction van
The mill has ?smutty been tho
'audio now better fitted than =eve
'w�rk.
Draining Tile and Shingles for
JOSIAH WATS
In.dar..."1"70
Are you aware. a that.
The Canada Busiiii
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am doing more for its pupils than"
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limn all quarters are flocking to
nets :School.
aide points, 80 of them from .polal
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We preeumetheeepeople invest
ef tbe :different col:roots, and der
but the best would -satisfy them".
here.
Write for tratalogueof either Ai
petal the 43 pupils placed In two ri
McLACEMAIE.ItCoi
MONEY TO i
To lerin any amount private cr
on town or farm property, at 5!
•and on the most reasonable
'THOMAS R RAYS, Sealarth.
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System Re*
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lion of the Heart, Liver Coirplaint
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Jaundice, KI nay and Winery
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LABORATORT—Godericla 0040
J.M MeLEOD, Proprietoi
faeturar.
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Cheap _f
CHEAP MILL FEED.; --,W8 ari
dog for a limited time Oat Duet and 1
per ton in ten ton 1ote and over. Oh
the marker. Seaforth Oatmeal Rabe
Manager.
THE MACAO & ElAt
"Business and ShOrthani
Cor, Yonge and College Ste,
!whitely firet-elass Busthesaf
instruction by experienced te
intalieFt qualitleatlens. Cool result
%Ailed free. Enter now.
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Parties inten• ding to build;wi
there advantage to buy thew
P. KEATING, as I handle notli
best. SHINGLES.—I also Iwo
brands of Red Cedar Shing1es,e11
and at the lowest possible p
Valetta of Cedar Peat Inc sale,
P. KEATING, Ik
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12 Mortgages. Reduce your int<
money, Any terms desired.ili
vote. No delay, 'Charges low,:
Incurred unless loan is granted t
guaranteed, 4:1r no loan. X,oan
with loeal, agents. Agents want
write. Enclose stamp. E. 11. in
15 Toronto Street, TO
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every j -case
The best doctors emit.
No one but a quack
claim so. Ne reined
just fit every case. B
claim that in a large'
portion of eases of in,
tion, dyspepsia and
troubles
DR. 01.11.111CWS
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Our faith in it is strong.
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Price 50c.
At Fear's, Seaforth, and a
generally.
The perm' l Medicine Co.„
Tor
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R. H. Barr has removed his Dye Wer
ODERICH am near the
DIST 0111/ROTI
d would take this opportunity to than
rens customers for their liberal tear
niing to fileaforth, and to inform the pu
ly that I am now in a better poelidon
V. My customers satisfaction, So
aciothos and have them Cleaned e
all and Winter.
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