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v will be lcfl ovor until the following week h r hoobf edltc and provriator vuic bided nay b found on ntestgco v 1 wo farpn rwii c- npwprr m r ulns bureau i k snrot st v wjew jadwi antracumarboniaoefortt 1 e ukb- business directory lowry m b m c a v h lowry m b m c p s t graduate ofitnnitv college mem ber of college ol physician and surgeons- office and residence at the head of frederick street acton e c v stac e y mdcm graduate of tryiitj university fellow of trxn- u medical school member of the college of phvicwus and surgeons x0vs7l0asrd oh approved 1 notes notes discounted and interest allowed on deposits dont read this i the undersigned ia prepared to furnish on the ihortest notice in any quantity and at bottom prices tiratolass lumber lath staves head ing sriingleswa8h tubs churhs butter tubs pork barrels wood also floraiaot f2bs and an thing in the 1 mo of farmers house keepers or i ontractors necessities thosc moore tiv e l r ii- business college gtjelph ontario oiiivt- campbells hotel georsetown ontitno i- x l bennttlds dentist ac dentist georgetown ont ns the new svstein of nitrous oxide gas com- rao il cilled vitalized air for extracting teotli without pam hanng been demon strator and practical teacher in itojal college of deuul surgeons toroutol pat ron- msj depend upon recetv in satisfafction m am operitious performed tsilluisit acton even second and fourth yteduesday o ach month office agnews hotel john lawsox graduate ofox- tario yetenuarj college toroijto yetennar saryeon acton ont ofpiiik iu kenuj bros boot and shoe store resi dence mthe rear horses examined as to soundness and certificates given i all calk night or daj prompth atteud- ied to terms easj mhe third scholastic year a begin september 1st patronage froni ten states and provinces and bos thoroughly prepared drawn young met for baioei pursuits i graddateseminent- treatment ladies admitted to the college ly aueoesa ul as aeeouutauts bnsiness managers shorthand writers clerks salesmen travellers etc both in canada and the vuitod states moderate rates thorough practical work and courteous characterize the institution all the advantages of days bo acton ontario thursday october 21 188 new goods cue 0kstore lph 25000 rolls wall paper 100 sets lawn croquet carload express waggons bi6 stock tndbhday mobmiho octonbb 31 pobj try day sel splendid facilities afforded for the ac quisition ojjf french and german for information address mmucormiciv slf principal xohxstox a mciieax barristers solicitors notaries convey ancers ac private funds to loan ojtice town hall acton e fb johsstov i vtji a mclean f e mitchell s solicttor cflxtetlmlb ac 0iice first door west of the champion osce mam street ifilton money to loan at 6 percent i hiltox allax a baird barristers solicitors ac toivro i geoboetqwv oincei creelmtns bloc georgetown s and b6 king street east toronto vf t vlias 1 shi to taix lfldlat uo bvkkistee4 a solicitors oi nets over imperial batik 24 1h lington street bast alle toronto john bvis q c willlui laidlau lumber shingles and lath rphe nudejwkneil ilesiros to iuionn the public jl that he has now on liatitt and will keep in stock a full lino of pino and hemlock as well as other kmdf 61 lumber also first and second class pine shiugles lath coal wood lurchased the coal business of mr c s smithtlani prepared to supply all kinds of stove coal i have alio a good stock of ood hardwood sh cedar and mill wood at reason able prices v ood and coal delivered james bkowk mutual fire insurance company of tile c0tot7 of wellington established 1810 head office cuelph gkj coth low prices s cheap ilph hall grandmother reading the bible hush little feet i gowftly over the eohoing floor grandm6thers reading thebible there by the open door all of its page are dearer still now she is almost down the hill the goldou summer euniliine round her 11 gently shed gold and silver together crowning her bending head while- she follows whero saints havo trod reading the blessed book of god grandmothers past the morning past the noonday sun and sbo is reading and resting after her work is done now in the qniet autumn eves she has only to bind hor sheaves no little feet to follow over this weary road no little hand to lighten of many a weary load children standing in honored prime a bless hor now in her evening time grandmother has closed the volume and by her saintly look peace i know she has gathered oat of the sacred book maybe she catches through the door glimpses of hoaveua eternal shore qub story tonguecrushed merchant tailors 1hkiu eived tilttk 05j ba t baibd bra wel- entranee exchange c a maste gtokoe katiele atexts secured for ixvextioxs hlxry grist ottawa casuja 20 years practice xo patent nc pay w m hemstreet fall first instalment oy mav goods shaw sc grundy merchant tailors guelph i- licensep acctionlek pjr thecounties of wellington and halton orders left at the fbbe press office acton or at my residencp in acton will be prompth attended to terms reasonable monet to loan also money to joan on the most favor able terms and at the lowest rate3 of in terest in sumssof ioio and upwards rohx day i otyiuj square abchitect guelhh om queens hotel block market f st raxcis xuxan successor to t f chapman bookbindeb georges square guelph ontario insures buildings merchandize manu factories and all other descriptions of property on the premium note sstem p w- stone cnas davidson president secretary john taylor affent sellol pause and consider that it will be to jour own interest to pat ronize home trade we would respectfully inform the inhabitants of acton and sur rounding country that we are again in full running order and in a better position thnh before the fire to fill all orders entrusted to us to parties building lumber will be dresseh t while you wait and mouldings ax made with nei tness and despatch x b we are also prepared to till all orders f r pumps on shorl notice and from long experience in the tjosiness we feel confident that we can give satisfaction every time so come on with lyour order and help to roll the ball along money makesjhe mare go whether she has legs or no hos ebbage manager wellington qtjebec john h wholesale and granite and marble works st guelph hamilton proprietor i retail dealer in marble everything pertaining to cemetory work direct importer of all kinds of granite and 1 marble 4 account books of all kinds made to order periodicals of every description carefully bound rnling neatly and promptly done john j daley successor to thompson jackson money to loan oirfarm property at 6 per cent mortgages purchased money oanedfor parties in mortgages and other security con veyanctog in all iu branches properly and neatj done charges low farms and city property for sale i4st with farms for sale sent to all parts of tye a ppl dominion tciutendingfarchasers and cir culated in europe european capitalists wanting farms in ontario wqi be sent du rections through our european agencies farms wanted for our lists correspon dence invited office near the post office guelph out np hanlan barber shop mill bthekt acton t an easy shave a stylish haircut a god seafoam an exhilarating shampoo always given razors honed and put in firstclais condition ladies and childrens hair tastily cnt j p wobdev tonsorial aftht t amdrray i licensed aictionkj for thfcounties of halton and wellington jjwers left at hisresidence main street opposite church street acton or addressed w aton po will receive strict attention ww reasonable notes discounted if i having latel vaulted the ba of fuudygranito- quanies and ha nr purchased the entire stock of gray and red granite monuments headstones crosses urns etc of alexander taylor at less than cost i will until farther notice sell at prices never before known tu ontario for in stance granite monumonts g ft high g0 7 ft its 8 1 tj 90 9 ft 10d 10 ft 6120 all work and material warranted firstclass parties wanting anything in this line will do well to call and see me before purchasing elsewhere as i guarantee my prices are from jo to 50 per cent below all other dealers f acton meat market a0t0n john 8treet acton e smith proprietor mrj smith has purchased the livery businels of mr hb mccarthy which he hajremoved to his commodious stables on john street in the centre of the business portion of the town mjr smith has had lenjjtbiy expenenc w this business and feels confident that ho can give satisfaction to every patron anyone desiring ft commercial ple- rere or company rig can be supplied with a firstclass turnout on the shortest notice t horses boarded and sold terms reaso m smith rutledge crosson butchers have purchased the business of mr r holmes and solicit a share of public patronage the members of the firm are practical batchers and are prepared to ensure their customers thorough satisfaction there will always be found on hand a full stock of all kinds of meat c in season we have settled in acton to stay and feel satisfied that by transacting business upon business principles we will win publio confidence and support r rutledge crosson acton feb oth 188g i galesmen wantqd permanent positions guaranteed with salary aa expenses pail any de termined man can succeed with us pecul iar advantages to beginners stock com- pleteibcludingmanyfastaellingspeoialties outfit free 5 address at once name this paper- bftown bbothebb j i tuu nubsbbtmen hoche6teb nt jame8tirt6nld8 i j f dbntibt hofior graduate and member of the ontario college of dental surgery painless extraction or no chaw artificial teeth perfect in appearance and use 1800 per set written guarantee with every set ofjs tpyelty block among the sources of social and domestic disquietude one of thp ohiet is the habit of husbands and wives correcting each other in public i mean that habit of correction which lets no slip of the tongue pass with- out a reminder making the corrected party feel cheap and casting a shadow npon the listeners at a party one evening charles lee was telling a knot of jiis friends about the won derful yield dm strawberry bed he prided himself on that bit of horticultural success we bball gather a hundred quarts of berries from that bed this season he said with a flourish oh no charles interposed his wife who had just come up if we get fifty quarts we shall do well why yon have picked as mnch ad flrfty quarts already no no but laura you forget how many are eaten direct from the vine and again when i say a hundred quarts i mean as we have to buy them with the balls on oh charles that strawberry bed is your hobby 1 and the wife laughed but the husband did not laugh he was cut to the quick and turned away without bpeaking further now any experienced gardener overlook ing charles lees strawberry bed during the month of julywonld have risked a goodly wager that its yield for the season would be over a hundred quarts and chales had meant to tell only the truth laura he said after thoy reached home do you know that you made me very unhappy this evening unhappy i j yes unhappy because indignant oh you mean what i said about that strawberry bed yes he replied well charles now 1 1 believe if you were to measure every lot of berries stop laura i shall not discuss that we cannot measure the berries tonight i only wish to remind you that this habit of correcting me in public is a most disagree able one to all who hear it makes me feel unpleasantly and it perplexes others and my dear wife the habit is growing npon you really charles one would think to bear you that i had been doing something awful what harm can there be i should like to know there is a great deal of harm laura the habit is an evil one and can only lead to evil evil she repeated aye laura of all the evils to be dreaded in social life an unguarded tongue is one of the most dangeroue i wish you would oh pshaw 1 i will not listen to your lecture then laura a greater evil may be yours i speak now from my heart if you do not try to restrain before he could finish the sentence his wife had swept from the room two weeks later charles lee and his wife sat together in their cosy drawing- room when mr fuller came in he was lauras father a genial and largehearted man dearly loved by his children he owneda large woollen mill and manufac tured a good deal of oloth most of which was sent to consigners in the east he kissed his daughter aid took into his arms and kissed the two liftle children and then sat dowp graduallthe smile faded from his face and an expression of deep concern took its place charles said he i have received a letter from claxton simmonds i have got to extend their paper i should have had a remittance of two thousand pounds a week ago and another like remittance will be due next month they cannot make either of them it is bad isnt it very bad said charles why don you push them as you call it demanded laura i think if they owed me i would ltnow why i didnt have my money ah my child said the old gentleman bmiling poshing them might be the worst thing i could do they are not the men to be driven id drive them if they owed me and didnt pay how can yon ton your factory if you dont get pay for your oloth thats a sober question laura and thats where the pinch comes 11 well id pinoh claxton simmonds i think let mo look at the letter said charles mr fuller handed it to him and while ho was reading it laura went away with tho children to put them to bed it doesnt seem so bad all charles said laying theletterupon oh no responded mr fullei can only give them time they will all right i know 1 can rely upon their word they have sent a heavy consignment or clothing to america and theres been a hitch in exchanges as they say i believe both ventures will tarn out remarkably well in fact i am rather inolfned to be pleased with the prospect only i must help them to open up these markets my doar sir if my name can bo of ai slstauce to you you may command it it can be of great assistance charles with your name i can get all tho money from the bank that i shall absolutely re quire for two months to come and by that time claxton simmonds will have heard from their american cor respondents yes i have no fear of their ultimate success laura returned at this moment and shortly afterwards her father went out on the next day charles called at mr ful lers counting house and the papers were made out for the bank a few evenings thereafter there wag a party at the bonao of a friend where many pf the chief business men of the place were present charles and his wife were of the number in the course of the evening a gentleman approached charles and tapped him on the shoulder by the way lee have you heard lately from claxton simmonds of liverpool they were standing within hearing of several gentlemen who gathered nearer as they heard the question charles replied in the affirmative and what is their condition do you mean financially yes their condition is undoubtedly good can they meet their maturing obliga tions i have perfect confidence in them oh charles cried laura who had been hanging upon his arm how can you say so laura i he exclaimed when they wrote to papa only a week ago that they couldnt pay him a shilling and you know how worried he was i de clare i dont believe they ever mean to pay a farthing didnt poor papa tell me with his own lips that he dared not push them charles lee was ready to sink from shame and mortification of those gather ed to listen were three directors of the principal bank in the town he would have stopped his wifes speech had it been pele three ce her father gathered her ijp in his arms and with her head upon his shoulder she confessed her fault oh papa i shall die if i have ruinedr yout hush my child i shall not be ruined chafrlesandl will find sone way out of the strait but surely this should be a lesson to you it will it will i never that wrong again 1 lauras misery for the time cast other troubles into the shade anc both her father and her husband tried to be cheerful she could find no joy a upon her and she was bitter hours than slie had ever suffered before in her life on the second evening fuller entered the cozy radiant hi i charles laura news read that and he threw upon the paper charles took it up and found it was a telegram laura looked over his 8houldcrashe read liverpool sejpt12th 1880 to john fuller esq manchester america all right we mail to you this day a draft for four thousand pounds send next consignment as soon as possible put on your whole force for manufacturing claxton 4 simmondb in one week from that ti me the directors of the manchester bank tc ok off their hats to john fuller and asked bis pardon and laura was happy not moi e for the good fortune which had come tx her father and in which she was sure to share than for the change in her own lit i she was re solved henceforth to stadj the right and to do it to set a guard up in her tonfiue- to be silent when necessary and to be cir cumspect always never will i do but great grief was to suffer more from that mr drawing room ive got good table a bit of nts whose choice i somo faces are supinely fair some sparkling in their splendor some are demure and debonair and some divinely tender borne win tig with one fatal glaw from eyes too brightly beaming some smile that smile that brings a trance till life is lost in dreaming some flit before us sweet andfay to fill our hearts with laugh ier then fade as fancies fade away and leave no aching after and some some faces sorrow kissed when holiest thoughts are thronging come book come always in tint midst of everlasting longing so faces come and faces go some make existence sweetej and some they make life sad we know yet being sad completer until one face comes up at las heaven knows each heart dont doubt jt the future fades the past iff p ist we cannot live without it 1 we ask not if men call her sw jet or fair or wise or clever we ask we passionately entreit will you be mine for ever possible but she rattled on in spite of his imploring look laura he said you do not under stand your father has no fears oh charles when he said distinctly that the two thousand pounds now due and the two thousand more iii a month he wouldnt get the bank directors turned away and so did charles lee his wife saw that he was very pale and she thought it was from anger so she embraced the first opportunity to slip away from him on their way home laura said i suppose you are very much put out charles about what about what i said concerning claxton a simmonds i am distressed laura but if you did right i have nothing to say goodness mercy 1 anybody would think i had been domgsomethingdreadful dont speak of it now please i wish to give you no more lectures for the pres ent let the matter rest as it is so far as you and i are concerned but charles you were telling mr bur- bank that claxton simmonds were good i was telling what i firmly believe to be the troth lanra you did not hear the whole of your fathers disclosures the other evening he and i both believe claxton simmonds to be financially stronger than ever before but the opening of new and distant markets for their goods has for the time absorbed their surplus capital and thus cramped them i have so muoh faith in their soundness that i have lent my name to carry their paper they had reaohed home at this point and the conversation was dropped on the very next morning mr fuller came in pale and haggard papawhatistbe matter criedlaura in alarm he kissed her and gently put her aside and having taken a seat he said to his son inlaw charles 1 am crushed 1 father i the banks wont touch our paper the directors know that my sole reliance is upon the bolvenoy of claxton simmonds and somebody has told them of the- letter i re ceived from the firm but the whole truth had not been told them they know that my liverpool consigners are short in their returns four thousand pounds what will you do what can i do thousand pounds within a week i must suspend oh this is dreadful i charles have you told anybody the substance of that letter i have not whispered it outside of my own house it is certainly known some of the directors have heard of it thus far laura had listened in silence and now gasping and trembling she sank down at her fathers feet and bowed her head upon his knees oh papa i did it i i am the wioked one 1 oh what can i dor as to canadian fruit exjmayor wickham of philadelphia has been in england he is a home now in conversation with a newi paper man the travelled philadelphian made some re markable statements tb is is a portion of the interview printed in the philadelphia twies what do you hear about the american exhibition of next year not much it is a private speculation hit were under better auspices it conld not compare with the brilish colonial ex hibition of the present year that was really wonderful the arrangement of it was most admirable and it gave an ex traordinary idea of the pioductaonsof the world as tributary to tie british jche australian exhibition was iemarkable the canadians showed a fine xhibit of things really belonging to them like lumber bnt in my opinion the frmu they presented and a good many other things come from over the american line certainly never heard of peaches growing in canada as big as a large coffee cup but they had them there all pnt np in bottles pickled spiced or preserved since that exhibition every englishman is talking of federation and so mr wickham you did not know that peaches grew in cam da big peaches one would naturally stppose that you might have learned somet ling about your own continent mr wickiam before you went to investigate another one bnt you evidently did not mr wickham your ideas of canada were badly gleaned mr wickham from some friend who had visit ed the montreal icehousf but we really do grow peaches big pefches here and we grew all those other fruits you saw in the bottles pickled spiced and preserved and if you will go back lo the exhibition in aweek or two you will see an exhibition of canadian fruit neithei bottled pickled spiced or preserved that ivill further open your philadelphian eyes in respect to the climate and soil of canada or mr wick ham if you have not time tocross the ocean you might come i o hamilton this week and see a fruit exhibition we will guaranteeithat you will b a astonished even more than you were at tt e colonial exhibi tion mr wickham ca lada does not re quire to exhibit fruit fron over the amen can line mr wickham time for a kiss kiss me papa if you hae time said my little fiveyearold daughter one morn ing as she sat leisurely finishing her break fast while 1 was hurrying off to my work with a cup of coffee and a hiscuit hastily stowed away in my stomach if you has time j what unmeant and unconscious irony lay 4n those four little words like a silver arrow tipped with gold they went to my heart was i then so busy that my httle child nust ask in all earnpstness and sincerity if her father could really spare the time tc give his dar ling a goodby morning kiss shame upon me and my business 1 whnt then was this great work in which i vras so merci lessly absorbed the mater of getting bread f br four little mouths ihoes for eight little feet and clothes for four little backs this was the real problem reduced to its simplest terms and has it come to this in our boasted era of laborsaving machin ery and in onr vaunted land of inexhaus tible resources that the little ones must be in doubt whether or not father has time to kiss them shame upon me and my work i lkept saying anc shame upon our civilization our macbukxy our riches and our achievements if this is the best they can do the words of baby nell kept company with me down the street it deed they kept me company all that day running through my mind at every interval of leisure they fnade me recall the manner of my recent living eating breakfast with half the family at table while half were still dress ing hurrying as if at a railway station nervous preoccupied silent so absorbed in the plans of the day that the little angel by my side was hardly more noticed than if her chair had been vacant and at last leaving home as if the house were on fire i thought of all this and i asked myself what i was getting out of life to pay me for all i was losing i was drudging to obtain the comforts and some of the luxuries of life and i was not enjoying them there- were books in my library bnt i had no time and little inclination to read them there were pictures on my walls but how often did i spend five consecutive minutes in looking at them there the house and my wife wa and she is just lazy enough to do nothing that she is not required to iohamilto land o the leal there are expressions suggestive as a sermoti i was a piano n i reputed a good but the instru- time now for bly for the rea- i spectator n scotch songs as lady nairns land o the leal ib n it only a pisture of the land of the living that lies beyond the land of the dying but a source of consolation to those who have been parted from friends that have gone before theres nae sorrow there john theres naither canldnor care john the day is aye fair in the land o the leal when the late dr dickson a godly olergyman of edinburgh lost a sweet little girl he sang the land o the leal at family worship so real was it to him that be said its a pity but what that was among the paraphrases i since ive thought more of our bourne bairns being there i must say that i cannot sing so heartily i and oh we grudged her sair to the land o the leal for she is safe and happy in the land f nae sorrow in the land of the truehearted youths companion i a speedjj care as a speedy cure for dysentery cholera morbus diarrhoea colic cramps siok stomach canker of the stomach and if i cannot raise two bowels and all formspf summer com plaints there is no remedy more reliable than dr fowlersextract of wild straw berry dealers who sell it and those who buy it are on mutual grounds in confidence of its merits very many persons die annually from cholera and kindred summer complaints who might have been saved if proper reme dies had been used if attacked do not delay in getting a bottle of dr d kel- loggs dysentery cordial the medicine that never fails to effeot cure those who have used it say it acts promptly and thor oughly subdues the pain and disease player before her marriage ment was silent most of tb some cause or other proh son that there did not seem to be any con venient time for me to listen there were plenty of people round about us but we did not have any intimate friends pet- haps it was because it takes borne time and some attention to make ana to keep friends and we really did not seem able to spare the time for it we thought year by year that we would make some effort to be sociable but the time slipped past so rapid ly and we were always so busy that the long-looked- for leisure never came i thought of all this end i concluded that i was getting too busy that in faot i had been too busy foi some time i reflected that while there were so many men out of employment ai id anxious to be employed it was not good economy for one man to be trying to do the work of two i determined that thereaftx r i would only try to do one mans- work and would try to have one mans time for edjoyment as i went along i began jaking lite more leisurely i spent an houx or two more at home each day i set deliberately to work to remedy the defects in my personal and domestiolife which i plainly saw existed isodght to revive my dormant love for literature by reading eaoh day in some book or magazine i talked and played with my children who at first did notquite know what to make of the novel innovation but soon oame to enjoy and expect it we had games and musio and evening talk occasionally we had friends in to spend the evening or went away to spend the evening with them we ato breakfast to gether as a family and nell did not need to ask again if i had time to kiss her is it necessary to say hat one year of this kind of living appear 3d longer and to have more in it than two rears of the tread mill period and contrary to my old- time fears my business cid not go to rain i did not see but that it trospered as well as or better than it had d ne before what i possibly lost in being away from j it more of the time seemed to be fully made up by itted safe ly assure my brother mkn who is working thetreadmut of business or professional life as i was doing that he is grinding an unprofitable grist and f he has ho little nell to remind bimiof t iiefaot i trnst that some other monitor wil arouse him to a true sense of his situati m selected or tne time seemea woe inuy made up sins in other ways ii never regret iking the change andjl think i can sa