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The Huron Expositor, 1898-04-29, Page 6a eneense.err resenes ,:oemreltileteessfolOmeiweriree,-. - OW si 'f• •••• irETICRINABY ••••••••••••••• 'TORN GRIEVE, T. S., honor graduate of Ottario sej 'Veterinary- College. All diseases of Domestic animals treated. - Calls promptly attended to and changes inederite. Veteranary Dentistry a specialty. (Alm ared resideree on Goderich street, one door F.ut of Dr. Scott:s office, Seaforth. 11.12-tf G. H. GIBB, Veterinary &aspen and Dentist, Toronto College of Veter1nax7 dentists, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Soctoty. All diseases of domestic animals -Wittily treated. All calls prompUy attended to tiw or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty. Office and -Ispensery-Dr. Campbell!!! Old alio°, Mn street Seaforth. Faght cells answered horn the *See. 1406-52 LEGAL JAMES L. KILL RAN, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Piokard's Store, formerly Meehanice Institute, Main Street, Suforth. 1588 _ 1111" G. CAMERON, formerly of Ounuon, Holt & Di Cameron, Barrister end Solleitor, Goderioh, Clotaiits. Office-Harnlitoo sired, opposite Colborne Rotel. 1452 TAMES SCOTT, Banister, &o. Solicitor for Mol. e) font Bank. Clinton. Office - =on loek, Mien, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 1 HAYSBanister, block, Main Strest„ Bealorth. Notary Public. Solicitor tor the Dominion akfl. . nister, Solicitor, Conveyanou midi ' efenteir to loan. 1255 IL BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, 1 Iso. _ e Office -Rooms, five doors northotOommeteitta ground 11001* Hid door to; CseL. PaPete swift store, MAWstreet, Ilearonb. Ood eh ente-Catanon, Holtand Cameron; 1215 W*. LUOW kPROM:HOOT, BaniSten, Etralleitere, ., Goduidte Ontario. J. 19 �&310W. Q. O.; irlIOUDFOO. F. e86 I1011f & HOLMES, Banisters ' See tj notion in ChalenrI, hoseGOderteltr OM 31.0. 0A113011, Q. 0., Fans Hord, Duman Howse Et HOLIIE.STED„ ettoceseor to the late firm of , McCaughey & Hoimeeted, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notes*, Solicitor for the Can affirm Bank ot Commerce.i Money to lend. Fenn for sale. Offfoe in Scott's Block, Main Street lestorth. DENTISTRY. MI W. TWEDDLE, Dentiet. Offloe-Over Richard- .0son & McInnis' shoe store, corner Main and John streetsoaforth. _ DR. BELDEN, dentist ; crowning, bridge work and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of ,the natural teeth. All work easefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.' inardware store, Seaforth. 1451 • DIL H. S. ANDERSON, gradualist of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. D. 8.. of To- ronto- Univenity. Office, Market Block, Mikehell, Ontario. 1402 Dll. A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. 8., D. D. 8. Honor graduate of Toronto Univeraity, Don tat, will practice dentistry at hie father's rooms in Exeter, and at his room at Mn. Shafer's restaurent, Hensall, every Wednesday. II. Kinsman, L. D. $., at Zurich the last Thurdsday of each month. e 1546-18 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Graduate London Western University, meneber e t Ontario College ot Physicians and Surgeons. °floe and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Viotorta Street, next to the Catholic Church Night- calls attended promptly. 1453x12 Tale. ARMSTRONG, M. B. Toronto, M. D. 0.31., Li Victoria, M. C. P. 8., Ontario, succesur to Dr. offioe lately occupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce- eld,Ontario. no E. COOPER, M. De 31.3., L. F. le and 8. .Da. Glasgow, &e., Phyrdolan, Sesgeon Rnd Ao- muster, Conetance, Ont, 1121 LEX. BETHUNEM. D., Fellow 01 the Royal 11, College 'of Physiolans and Su.rgeozls, Kingston. Successor to Dr. Mackid. Offiot lately occupied ay Dr. Mrsekid,'" Mate Street Seaforth. Residence -Vorner of Victoria figuare. in home lately °coupled by L. E. Dancey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, f.ate resident Physician- and Surgeon, Toronto Gen- eral Respite'. Honor graduate Trinity University, member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron. , garOFFICE.--Same as formerly occupied -se, Dr. ' Smith, opposite Public Sebool, Seaforth. Telephone No 40. tff, It -Night calls answered from office. 1886 • DRS. SQOTT & ciKAY inisial,Axs AND SURGEONS, Goderieh street, opposite Methodist church,Seaforth 1 J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and neember Ontario College of Physicians end Surgeons. Comer for CountY of Huron. e. BlecKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member °liege of Physicists and Surgeons; Outiirio. 1483 4 F. II. KALBFLEISCH, Physician Surgeon je/ and Amoucheur, successor to Dr.., Graham, Brussels, Ontario. First Class Honor Graduate of the Universities of Trinity (Toronto), Queen's (King- ston), and of Trinity Medial College; Fellow of Trinity Medical College and member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post Graduate Course in Detroit and Chicago, 1896. Special attention paid te diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Diseases of Women. Catarrah treated Euccessrully in all lb forme. Consultation in English and German. - 158141 AUCTIONEERS. NIVLOY, Auctioneer for the Counties of lituon 'end Perth, and Agent at Henseli for the Marey -Harris Menu- eactnring Company. BOPP, promptly attended to, charges reobrate teat satisfeetion guaranteed. plpre by Wall addressed to Hensell Poet Office, or 1Z.• at his residence, Let 2, Concession, 11, Tuck- seentith, will receive prompt attention. ,129641 -I-OHN 11. MoDOUGALL, 1.ioensed itioidoneer for • the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the County. Terme reasonable. From Mr. McDougall's long experience as a'dealer in farm stock of all kinds, he is specially qualified to Judge of valueseand can guarantee satisfaction. All orders left at Teta Exemerroz office, or at his residence, Lot 25, Huron Road. Tuekersmith. near Alma, will be pronaptly attended to. 1466 FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS 1DUN AKIN POWDE THE COOKS BEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. THE MAN With The Book - This meet excellent work should be in every house n the county of Huron. PRICE, $1.00 PER COPY. - Copies can be had from Mr. B. R. Higgins, Bruce - fields or Mr. David Ross, 540 Church street, Toronto. Rase Dr. MoVioer, Principal of the Presbyterian College, says :-- I aux profited and greatly pleased - with what I helm- read, and I intend next Monday to advise all our students to put it into theirlibraries and to study deligently as affording rich in- struction in putorial theology and practical godli- ness. I shall read them a few passages that they may see that it is far from being dull or dry. . Mr. N. Dryidale of Was. Dryadaio & Co., Publishers and Bookeellers; Montreal, says :-Itev. John Ross was a grand man, and the writing of his life could not have been pieced in bettor hands. What we need to -day more and more are books of this class The reading of which tends to tbe better circulation of the blocal,andstiring one's soul. 1565-tf The most criticai period in a woman's life may be properly called "Blossoming Time." It is the period when she blossoms from girlhood into womanhood. At this momentous time the best medi- cine fort a woman to take is Dr. Pierce's FavoritePrescription. It acts directly up- on the delicate and important organs that are to bear the burdens of wifehood and motherhood. It makes them strong, healthy and vigorous. It corrects all irregularities and displacements and stqps exhausting drains. Taken during the pe- riod of expectant maternity, it banishes the usual annoyances and makes babrs coming easy and almost painless. It in- sures the new -comer's health and an ample supply of nourishment. It transforms weak,sickly, nervous, com mi plaining wo- en nto happy, healthy wives. Thou- sands of women have told over their own signatures, the story of the Marvelous merits of this great medicine. An hon- est dealer will not try to persuade you to take something different from what you ask for, for the sake of a few pennies ad- ded profit. Mrs. Anna Ulrich, of Elm Creek, Buffalo Co., Neb., writes: "I was under doctors' care for two years with uterine disease. I was so weak that I could sit up in bed only a few mo- ments. I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Fa- vorite Prescriptiou and when I had taken one- half dozen bottles I was up and going wherever I -pleased, and have been very strong ever since --that was two years and a half ago." The only constipation -cure that never causes discomfort -Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. At all medicine stores. . MAID OF ATHENS. It was with a -deep sigh of regret that I see Mr. Stanthon approaching. He is no. by a gentleman in the Greek uni- form, and they are speaking in French and laughing heartily. Mr. Stanthon is evi- dently tali,* him about our drive, for I hear him say, "'Plus je jai donnai d'ex- plications, pule vite faisait courir sea chevaux." The Greek gentleman then tells our driver, in his own vernacular, where he is ta go, and reprimands him for having driven so fast-, much to the surprise of that individual, who seems to think that he has done a moat commendable action in the rapid way in which he has brought us hither. Mr. Stanthon then thanka the iareek gentleman, and geta into the carriage; and off we go. We ride on for a long, long time in sil- ence. The night, as I before said,is breath- lessly lovely, and as we drive along under the stars, the fragrance of oleanders breath- ing everywhere, I begin to grow very sleepy. My eyelids are _fast closing, when Mr. Stanthon says, authoritatively, "You must -hot-go to sleep in the evening air; that is the way to ca.tch the fever." "1 don't care if it is," I return, sleepily. And then, still more sleepily, "1 didn't know one could catch a fever in Athena." "Yes ; the fever here is very similar to the Roman fever, and there is no surer way of catching it than by going to sleep out in the night air. So come, wake up." "I'm not asleep," drawled I, in that semi- censcious and somewhat argumentative _e-oice peculiar to drowsy people. " Pauline," I hear him murmur, anxious- ly-" Pauline, child, don't go to sleep. Sies we have almost reached the hotel now." " .?m not Pauline," I say, partly waking up ; "1 am Miss Dinscombe, anti I-" I don't finish my seneence, for I am seized with a `violent chill. "Good heavens 1" he nseslaims, gazing down at me with an expnea4on of alarm in his deep eyes. And then, in khe voice of a man who pats a strong restraint, upon him- self, he rays, "1 fear you are k -old, Miss Dinscbinbe." "On the contrary," I answer, somviliat hysterically, I am very warm, or at least I will be if T keep on shaking so." The betel is at fasree.Z.4...: - first object that meets my gaze is pootrci ;mutchhe t L' worried Aunt Sophonisba standing in a de- jected attitude on the piazza,- holding an enormous telescope in her hand upside down. his she drop e avnen she spies me, and em- braces me without saying a word. I think she embraces Mr. Stanthon too, for I re- metnber I burst but laughing at aomething. I don't see Katharine, but I see a great many people stanciine in the hall as we enter, and they all turn and gaze at me curiously as I limp along between my aunt and Mr. Stanthon. I also see a great many lights ; and every light seems to change in- to three or foi4r. I hear Mr. Stanthon whisper something to Aunt Sophonisba, and then, without saying a word to me, he lifts ma up in his strong arms and carries me up. stair, I don't remember anything more, for I, !seoondotianzeii. - Though I do remember one thing, ary.11. that is gat in the night, when the moonlight`is shining in broad and clear through the window, and seeing Katharine sittinglaeside " I didn't take him from you, Katharine -indeed I didn't," I say, earneatly. " It was the horses -we couldn't. atop them - they went so fast -so fast 1" and then I re- lapse into my former state of unconscious- ness. When I return to consciousness,, the fresh breath of morning comes wafting through the erten window, and I see the gorgeous hues of crimson and violet and gold rise majestically over the ,mountain -tops and gleam on the white walls. One, ray, lights on a figure lying asleep in an arm -chair near the foot of my bed. It is Aunt Sophonisba. Poor soul! what is she doing -there ? Be- side her, on a small table, stands a candle, burned down to its socket, and on her lap lies I ox's Book of Martyrs, which. she al- ways makes a point of reading l whenever I cause her any unusual anxiety. I -wonder what I have bee is doing now. I have a vague' recollection of something having happened to me, and when I meve I feel as if I had been bruised all over. I try to sit up in bed and think, but to my surprise I find I fall baok exhausted on the pillows, with a strange sense of blended weakness and clear- nees in my head. Then, as I lie there, very gradeally and very gently I recall the events of what seenis to me the preceding night. I wish Aunt Sophonisba would ayake up. I long for some one to speak to/. I am glancing hopelessly about the room, when my eyes happen to fall on a mirror, and I see reflected therein two figures in the ad- joining room, which is our private parlor - Katharine and her guardian: they are standing witirtheir backs to me, and they appear in earnest conversation. "Well, he has explained it all to her about last night," I think to myself, "and now they are engaged." Somehow I don't feel quite as happy aboutit as I ought to. I heave an immense sigh. Katharine hears me, and turning away from Mr. Stanthon, comes toward me. I look serutinizingly at her, and I 'know she is engaged by the Children Cry for CASTOR IA. . - happy, contented expression on her face. -‘ Did you apeak, dear V' she inquires, gently, laying her cool soft hand on my fore- head. " I want to get up," I exclaim, imna- tiently, "and when I try to move, every- • thing moves too. and makes me dizzy. What's the matter? How long have I heen ill?' • "Poor child," she says, pityingly, "you have been very ill with the malarial fever for six weeks. - Six weeks I" she adds after a moment's pause; " it has seemed like six months to all of us, we have felt se anxious about yoe." "All of us 1" I repeat, a trifle bitterly. "That means von and Aunt Sophonisba. I have no other friends that I know of." , "Oh yes, you have," she says, quickly, while a bright flush steals over her faoe' ; "you have more than i you think you have ; " and she suddenly stoops down and kisses me. • , i ",‘eKathaitne," I say, impulsively, wen. dermg at her sudden demonstration,, " iire you engaged ?" The flush deepens on her face, and &soft ,dreamy look comes into her eyes as sh*answers, "Yes." The soft dreamy look only lasts for an inatant; and then she is her own quiet, practical self again. , You mustn't ask any more questions now, Pauline ; I will tell you all about it when you get well. I am going to darken the room, and I want You to try and go to sleep" ; and she moves yen toward the window. "You wouldn' say you lie.d no friends,".she remarks, as he slants up the shutters, "if you could see all the flowers that have been sent' to you -some by strangers in the hotel interested in your 'romantic fever,' as they call it, and others by Mr. Stanthon. He seems to know all your favorites --oleanders, orange blossoms, roses- -" , " Mr. Stanthon ?" I interrupt. , "Yes. _Me seems to feel that it is all hi fault you caught cold that night and took the fever. And oh, Pauline,' she goes on, earnestly, " he has been so kind and thoughtful 'o -us during your illness 1 t, i don't know -hat we would have done wit out him." . • "Very likely not, I answer, quiet! closing my eyes. • It is teresting to Ketharin lover, but it is not so in I'turn awayt my head IOENIMtrOgITOA, R CHASES I ERAS' pats MR. BEEMEn, C.P.R. Agt., Wingham, Ont., says he was troubled with Dyspepsia. and Sidney nd Liver trouble 1 or about 8 ears. He took Dr. Chase' e KeL.P Is. They cured Bina, mid now h recommends. them to others. HEN Y ,MOORE, Plokering, Ont., sa • that for Costiveness and Bto soh Troubles he never found th beat of Dr. Chase's K.L. Pill . Be suffered many years, trl varIous remediesebut none 'gays he same relief as Dr. • 01214011. d R wended alsiand t- bY all Dealers. me with a queer e pression in his eyes ,I have seen there be ore. . "For Katharin 'a sake only," I think, somewhat bitterly with a sort of jealous, undefinable pain 0 eeps over me. . "1 am going to eave you to -morrow," he says, after a pause, during which he scans my face with an in entnees that I can almost feel. We ire agai both of us standing in the moonlight, that, shows our faces clear as at noonday. "1 had intended labcompany- ins you as far as Brindisi, - but I have re- ceived letters to -d y which frustrate my plane; and so I wil night, as I leaveAt bid you good-bye to, ens in the, morning. be - x fore you are up." i o doubt very n- I am very much atirprised at hearing this, to praise up 1+- resting to me, and earily. She sees 1 am tired, and after giving me a -spoonful qf medicine and shaking up my pillows, fill'e leaves the room, and I fall as1e4; It is our last evening in Athens. On -the morrow we leave for Brindisi, then north- ward into Switzerland, where the bracing air of the Alps, the doctor says, will soon restore me to my former robust health. It is a lovely June night, and I am stand- - ing in one of the windows of our saloon tak- ing a farewell view of Athens by moonlight. The curtain is drawn back, and I can see the moon glancing silvery and luminous, on the distant outline of the inonntains, on the light-colored buildings, and on the pal- ace garden below, whence etrains of dreamy music arise, mingled with the sweet per. fume of oleanders. 7 Mr. Stanthonia sitting outside of the etindow on the balcony, smoking a peaceful cigar, whistling softly to himself, and wait- ing, no doubt, for Katharine, who is at. present in the adjoining room helping Aunt Sophonisba with her packing. They are the queerest lovers, Mr. Lindley Stanthoii and Katharine, I ever saw. They don't act a bit as if ehey Were in love "with ,each other, for when together she appears distrait and he bored. Yet she must love him, for she is continually talking about him to me, and telling me of his thoughtful kindness, of his goodness, and deep warmth of heart, of his pleasant ways and bright words and ready sympathy. Well, I don't wonder at her loving him. It must be nice to love and he loved by some one who is good and noble, and I know Mr. Stanthon is both, as during my convalescence I have had plenty of op- portunities for judging. Somehow the thought of Kathrine'e happiness and my own lonliness unnerves me, and slow, pain- ful tears fill my eyes, and I move away from the window. As I do so I happen to see a reflection of myself in one of the mirror, and it almost startles me, it is so pale and sad ; so unlike what I used to be a couple of months ago. " Oh, Kathie, look 1" says a plaintive voice from the adjoining room. " I sat down on your bandbox by mistake. I didn't see it was there, and I am afraid I sat down pretty solid on it." I hear an impatient -little exclamation from liatharine, and I eau easily imagine the intcresting tableau. Poor Aunt bophottisbe Mier- keeharine_ is married, she and I will have to be "all in alt" to each other. -I don't know which I pity the more. I wonder, as the years roll, on, if I shall become like her. I dare say; 1 Involuntarily a sigh escapes, me, and I sink wearily into a chair ; I seem to have fallen on gad phQught4 thie 19Yely OrPniu.g. In fact, 1-fear'am becoming somewhat sentimental -a state of mind for which I have a moat heerty contempt. I will go and see how my Telatives are progressing in their packing,and how much damage is done to the contents of the bandbox. I have just arisen from my chair, when a dark shadow crosses the moonlight that fills the room, and a voice behind me sings, " Maid of Athena, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart i" turn areund, and there in the window, the moonlight shining on his dark, handsome head and tall, tell -knit figure, stands Mr. Stanthon. " Where are you going ?" demands he, istepping lightly in through the window; and looking scrutinizingly at me. "This is our last night here, and I want to talk to you." " I am going to see where Katharine - is," I murmur, moving slowly toward the half -open door which separates me from my aunt and cousin. °As I turn to go, he puts out his head and lays it on my arm. "I want to know," he says, sternly, "why you are always evad- ing me in this way? Have you not forgiven me for &legging you down to Phalerum that night ?" "Oh yes, long ago," I reply, listlessly. " It was net your fault I had the fever; it was the result of my own imprudence. Aunt Sophonisba said so." "Ansi do you call it forgiveness," he goes on, "to always avoid me in the way you have done lately, morning, noon, and night? I don't believe Katharine would even treat an enemy that way, much less a frienn ; and I am your friend, child." And he looks at Catarrh Shackles Broken in 60 Minutes It's an alarming fact, but statistics bear it out, that at least 8o in every hun- dred persons in this country are tainted in a lesser or greater degree by that disgusting offen- sive and dangero s dis- ease -Catarrh. If symp- toms appear, such cold in the head, dizziness, pains in the forehead, headache, dropping i n the throat, offensive breath, loss of taste and smell, the Catarrh shackles may be tightening about you - DR. AGNEW'S CATARRHAL POWDER Is the most potent Catarrh cure known to -day -e - Recommended by eminent nose and throatspecial- ists-gives relief in from 10 to 60 minutes. " For years I was a -victim of chronic Catarrh; the first application of Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal pow- der, gave me instant relief, and in an incredibly short while I was permanently cured." -James Headley, Dundee, N.Y.-33 , . Tor sale by Lumsden & Wilson, Beaforth. for I have become mewled to seeing him that somehow I never thonght of hie going away. And for an instant the tops of the trees in the palace garden ;seemed wrapped in a mist. But only for an instant, and then I ask, with apparent nnooncern, "And are -you glad or sorry to ‘o ?" Of course he will s y he is sorry, as he leaves Katharine behind. But he does not speak directly, and I am on the point of re- peating my question, When he answers, very low: If you had asked me that questien a few months ago, I shoild have said it makes no difference to me where I am or where I go ; life is always the ‘me to me -always solitary. But within the last two months there has dawned upon me the possibility of its being different -a far-off possibility, but bright and beautiful beyond my dreams." He stops. I look at him questioningly. His eyes are deep and tender. I suppose he is thinking of Katharine, and so, to help him on, I say, as cheerfully as possible, though my heart feels as heavy as lead, "But you have known her longer than two months ; you must have known you loved her before now." "Yes," he answers, looking at me with the same queer expression in his eyes I had noticed there a few Minutes ago-" yes, I think I must have loved her ever since I first saw hen perched on the bough of a cherry3ree, pelting cherries at her aunt Sophoniaba, who lay peacefully sleep- ing in a hamMock under the tree." "But Katharine never climbed a tree in her lite," I s 'rummer, turning rather red, as certam wild ymnastic performances of mine rush over me with bewildering force. "1 didn't nean Katharine," he answers, slowly, while a smile lightens up his grave face. I meant Ton.' I raisemy eyes to his in astonishment. He is standing close beside me, and gazing into my face with a passion , of eagerness that startles me. A moment's silence -the deep, breathless silence of strong feeling and intense surprise. A strange; speechless tumult of jey seems to go through niy heart at the words " I meant you." Another mo- ment and I hear his ,voice, pleading, eager, tender, full of love- Is it pessible he loves me? And Katharine -where is Katharine? The thought recalls me to myself, and I start back in dismay at his disloyalty and mine to Katharine. For a full minute I gaze at hitt in speechless horror, and then I sink down on the eofa,,and tears begin to triokle down my ()heart. " My poor. little Undine,' 'he says, ten- derly, sitting down beside me, "have I frightened you ?" 1 only ehttdder, and a low quivering sob eseepes me. " it possible," he begins, takieg away my hands from my tear -stained face, while a quick triumphant gladness overspreads his own-" is it possible my little . Undine 'could care for me ?" "No 1" I fairly ethane while a burning, shameful blush cover a my cheeks and dries up my tears at the lie I am telling, for I know only too well that I do care for him- " no ; I hate you. rH�w dare you make love to me, when you are engaged to my cousin -a lovely, noble girl, who never did anybody any harm ?" Here I beconie rather incoherent, as I feel my argumentative powers veering toward the well-known nur- sery ryme of "Ding, dons, bell," and my- self veering toward, or rather being drawn into, Mr. Stanthon's outstretched arms, while he murmurs fond, foolish love words over -my drooped head -the substance of which is that he is not engaged to Kathar- ine, and never ware; but that Katharine is engaged, and it was in regard to her engage- ment that they had been corresponding so faithfully during the past year. In fact, the gentleman to -When) she is engagedis a navy officer, and his ship is now anchored off Piraeus. "But wby didn't you tell me all this be- fore ?" I ask,. after a ihort blissful silence -that hap succeeded his explanation. "Because I thought Katharine had told you long ago. She said she had." "Yes," I exclaim, interrupting him, "she told me she was engaged, but she. did not mention the gentleman's name, and I thought all the time it Was to you. You know in etory-books the guardians always fall in love with their wards, and Katharine is so handsome and clever and dignified-. much more so than I am- You are sure you don't love her ?" and I gaze somewhat anxiously up into his grave eyes. " Quite sure," he answers, smoothing my hair back fromtray face, and looking down on me with an air of pride and amusement "But she is so much more clever," I re- peat, persistently, " and more dignified-" "But she is not the soft, aderable, be- witching little creature that you are," he interrupts, folding his arms about inc. "Tell me, sweetheart, do you love me ?" "Aunt Sophonisba may come in," I say, nervously. I think she is al i through with her packing." "Never mind Aunt Sophonisba,' he says, looking into my face wit,h a passion of ten- derness ; "you haven't told me whether you love me." For reply I laugh a happy little laugh, and nestle closer te hirn, while a deep, still sweetness of intense peace and cOntentrnent steals over me ; and there, as we atand to- gether in the window, the night etill, not a murmur stirring among the trees,not a cloud sweeping across the pale pure stars gleam- ing beyond in the blue 'Grecian heavens, I will draw the curtain. My only hope is that the peace and happiness which . eur- round us now will follow us through life. Petty Grumblers. BY PA17L 81EGIVOLK. Everybody knows there are divers species of grumblers to be found almost everywhere. Some are local, but more are ubiquitous. Is It possible to classify * few of the _most familiar types? The constitutional grumblet in discontent- ed habitually with everyone and every- thing. The root of his dissatisfaction is, of course, mental uneasiness, probably caused, or at least exaggerated, by physical ailment perhaps biliousness or dyspepsia. From sheer perversity .or blindness he vents his spleen upon his neighbor, instead of upon his real enemy -himself. If he be a' hus- band, his wife is alwayte in the wrong ; if a father his children are: constant er expect- ing rebuke or punishment. If he be a critic, he is, as Dean Swift says, most vexed when he is most pleased. And so on to the end of the chatter. The passive idealist fairly may be called another. He lives in a castle of indolence. His storehouse of bias is either supplied wholly, or largely suppletented, by the spontaneous suggestions o his inner con- sciousnees. He finds the *We • world out of joint, because it is mit, i.nd will not be- come, so perfect as he fancies he wishes it ; or will not accept his orude suggestions for setting it aright. It is said Of him, some- times, he loves humanity so well he hates mankind for being no better. To hie myopic observation nearly every social axiom ape -pears to be uttiirly wrong.When he seeks information touching a- grievance -public or private -he looks for something to confirm it theory ; not for facts from which to de- duce one. He divines -or rather guesses - more than he observes or investigates. Hence he is more prone to teach than to learn -perhaps because he imagines he knows all, where- harder working men XIIONV only enough to doubt. Of him it may be said, as Hawthorne 'once hinted concern- ing it great American philosopher, he is con- stantly in pursuit of, or in search for a fact, but does not know what to do wit); it when he gets it., He is pretty sure to be sensitive aat,well as censorious. But, if he be amiable and generous!. he may be willing to make a personal sacrifice to set the world going in the right direction -to please Ms fancy. If so -and he be able to lend it hand in real work for reform hard experience, snubbing and ridicule, or frequent buffet- ings with vigorous realities, may educate him until he becomes a valuable practical reformer. Yet, if he be selfish and crabbed, easy -loving and vain, as is not unlikely, his protest against wrong -real or imaginary - ends in words, which soon become his sole capital in the market of philanthropy. Still he thrives upcn fault -finding -often the more when he has no remedy to pro- pose. Indeed, he makes cavil his chief hap- piness, nuisance though he become to his companions. rei s Teanother type of the small grumb- ler, common enough, but deserving notice - the social grumbler.j He is one who always strives to avoid paying his full score for any entertainment. He would fain make up the balance of his quota belittling what he receives. Your cheap boarder is ae shin- ing example of this sort. He lives -per- haps without knowing it -upon others, by sufferance, and is in part often a charity- dependeiet of his landlady. But he sustains his feeble equilibrium by counting every- thing amiss. He growls incessantly at whatever is provided for him -that isnot what he had been accustomed to, or had ex- pected. He takes supercilious airs uPon himself, and loftily claims credit for dignity of manner and superiority of breeding oy biting the hand that feeds him. When he is most amiable -although he be really a mendicant -he poses in the garb of conde- scension. Faugh How the very domes- tics of the household loathe him and his shallow impertinences All of these' ill -growths, and many nibre like them, known to everybody, are a kind of grotesque social fungi, that may take on the forms of some normal and solid product of nature -some unavoidable outcome of the accidental vicissitudes of real lite -but which are, for the most part, fantastic and without any meritorious substanse. They flourish and dominate only in ,simple com- munities, where they excite is grdundless sympathy, or perhaps a fear of disturbing amicable personal relations. Such People like a " fuss," and can never learn to spell properly the word "equanimity." Again, there is the man with a chronic grievance -chronic, whether real and incur- able or only fanciful -who is vulgarly called a " sore -head." Sometimes he is a politic- ian ; again only a member of private cor- porate body. fie is generally in the wrong as reepects either the nature of what he complains of, or the source to which he at- tributes it. Of course his remedy is wide of the mark -futile or impractible. Usually his affliction arises from a sour temper, or an egotistic indolence ; a disposition to over- estimate pereonal trifles, or a misplaced prejudice against othere who owe him noth- ing; and perhaps his sail has been excited by defeat in sotne •-unworthy, purpose. He has, too commonly, also an extravagant no- tion of his own desert e Said individeal im- portance -accompanied by a teasing de- ficiency of the goods of fortune, which he is too' lazy to endeavor to reach by his own ex- ertions. It Is easy enough for any one, who is in- clined that way, to find fault with almost anything -and, in many respects -to hit the truth nearly every time. The primary difficulty in most matters that are awry is to discriminate between what is inevitable or enavoidable in the nature of things surrounding, and that which is remediable. Again, few only are able to tell what may be done to alleviate or cure even patent evils. This benign function demands special gifts or acquirements. Among. them -besides pa- tience -must be counted imagination and invention, joined to knowledge and exper- ience,with perhaps over all -native common sense or an,acquired faculty of judgment. A fool may tell you sometimes what you ought to do in a trying emergency; but, generally, it demands a high intelligence to say what should be done when we are off the soundings of our common experience. - N. B. Advertiser. The Rights of a Young 'Wife. "Before everything else the young woman has a right to expect from her husband ten- derness, sympathy and faith," says Ruth Ashmore, writing in the Ladies Home Journal of "What to expect from a Young Man." "But sometimes, in his eagerness to enake all life fair to her, he fancies she is CATARRHSUBJECTS 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. PR. AGNEW'S CATARRHAL POWDER will cure the incipient cold and the most !stub- born and chronic Catarrh eases. It puts back the beauty pink and sheds sunshine in its trail. My wife and I were both troubled with distres- sing Catarrh, but we have enjoYed freedom from its distresses since the first application of Dr. Ag- new's 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. 13ochnor, Buffalo, N.Y.-32 For sale by Lumsden & Wilson, Seaforth. APRIL 29,j89. ••••ml••• Scott's Emulsion is not. a "baby food," but is a most excellent food for babies who are not well nourished. A part of a teaspoonful mixed in milk and given every three 9r four hours, will give the most happy . results. The cod-liver oil with the hypophosphites added, as in this palatable emulsion, no' t only to feeds the child, but also regulates its digestive functions. Ask your doctor about this. eoe. and $esso ; all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE„ Chemists, Toronto. doll, and not a woman. And a doll is tor very selfish toy; it demands careful treat-. ment all the time, and it gives nothing but a pretty appearance in return. It is the foolish wife who expects' infallibility in her husband. She forgets that there is a differ- ence between the house -wife and the house moth. She should expect from her husband politeness at all Units, and a certain gentle- ness that every man, possessing the real in- stinet of a man, gives to a woman. But she should not expect from him too much. She has no right whatever to ask Of him Ter - mission to live a lazy life herself, andto give up all her days and years to vain and idle thoughts. When the wife can make her husband's home -coming a joy, his home - staying a pleasure and delight, and hie leav- ing home a sorrow, then, and then only can she expect a great deal from Min." 111+....••••••••••••• HEART DISEASE. A Trouble No Longer Regarded as Incurable. An Orangeville Lady Who Had Suffered Severely Speaks of Her Illness and Tells How She Found a Cure. From the Sun, Orangeville, Ont. A remarkable case recently came under the notice of our reporter, and for the bene- fit it may be to some of our readers, we are going to tell them about it. In the south ward of this town lives Mrs. John Hubbard, a lady much esteemed by those who know her. Mrs. Hubbard has been a great suffer- er from heart trouble,and ultimately became so bad that it would not have surprised her -friends to have heard of her death. But it change has come, andsahe is once more re- joi3ing in good health. When our reporter called upon Mrs. Hubbard and made Lis mission known she said she would be de- lighted to tell him of her "miraculous euro" as she styled it. " Of course no one thought I would get better. I thought my- self I could not last long, for at times it seemed as if my heart was going to burst, Oh, the dreadful sensations, the awful pains and weakness, together with a peculiar feel- ing of distress, all warned me that any life was in danger. I consulted a doctor, but he could do absolutely nothing for ' gee. My friends saw me gradually sinking, alikl many an hour's anxiety I caused them. My strength waned, my nerves were shattered ; I could not walk, for every seep caused my heart to palpitate violently. It is utterly impossible to fully describe 'my condition. One day a friend brought me a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and told me to use them but I said there wile no use -they could do no good. To this my benefactor replied that if they did not they at least could do no harm, so to please her I took the box of pills. Then I procured another box, and began to feel that they were doing me good. I took in all eight boxes, and now I feel strong and hearty, each day do- ing my housework without fatigue or weari- ness. For anyone who suffers from weak- ness of the heart, I believe there is no rem- edy so sure or that will bring such speedy requite as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Had I only used these wonderful pills at first I would have been spared months of intense suffering." 'Mrs. Hubbard but re-echoes the experience of scores of sufferers, and what she seen should bring hope to many 'who imagine there is no terief for them in this world. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have saved more lives than we will ever know of. • The Town of Nogood. My friend, have you herdof the town of Nogood, On the banks of the River Slow, Where blooms the Waitawhile flower:fair, Where the Sometimeorother scents the air And the pit Goeasys grow? It ites in the valley of Whatstheusa, In the province of Letherslide, That Tired Feeling is native here, It's the home of the wrecking 'denture, Where the giveitups abide. It stands at the bottom of Lazyhill, And is easy to reach, I declare. You've only to fold up your hande and gIlde Down the elope of weakwill's toboggan sl.de To be landed quickly there. The Collegebredfool and the Richman's heir Are plentiful there, no doubt, The rest of its crowd are a motley crew, With every class except one in view The FoolltilIer is barred out. My friend, from the dead alive town Nogood If you would keep ter away, Just follow your duty through good and 111, Take Ulla for your motto, " L can, I will," And live up to it each day. • -W. E. PENNY. Peculiar Abbreviations - There can be formed from the names of some of the , States of the Union to the south of us a list of peculiar abbreviations, such as.the following: The most egotistical-" Me." Most religious-" Mass." Most Asiatic-" Ind." Father of States-" Poe" Most maidenly-" Miss." Best in time of flood-" Ark.". . Most useful in haying time-" Mo." Decimal State-" Tenn." State of exclamation-" La." • Most astonishing State-" 0." Most unhealthy Statie---" Ill." iitate to cure the sick-" Md." Not a State for the untidy-" Wash." State where there is no such word as fail The Lady was Satisfied. Traveling on a railway that eigzagged up steel hillsides and wriggled about among precipices, an old lady asked the conductor if there was any fear of n accident. - Plenty ef fear, nsadasi, he said, but no danger. , Why so ? Because there is a brake to every wheel. But supposing the brake went wrong ? queried the old lady. , Then we can reverse the engine, and pre- vent the train going up or down. But supposing that failed, what would become of us ? That madatn, finally said the grizzled and guarded conductor, depends on the life you have led: Children Ory for CASTOR 1A. "_. 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