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'I'HE :MERCHANT AND GENERAL'ADVERTISER. circula.tes largely in the Townships of Darlingtou, Clarke a.nd Cartwright. It is a. common plat£orm, open to the free d1scuaaion of all queattonsm \Vhtch the general pubhc a.re concerned, TERMS. · WEST DURHAM Steam Job :Printing O:fhe KrnG STREET, Bow~I.A.NVILLE. Seventy-five cents per annum1 in advance. The 'Merchant' and Observer,' $2·00. RATES OF ADV .l!.RTISING. One column 45 per annum. 11 Half do. 25 Quarter do. J ff " Trfl.ns1ent Mlvertiaements,5 cts per line first nsertlon, an11 2c. per line, each subseqnent one. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME Yll. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1876. NUMBER XXXIV POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, HANDBILLS, LABELS. CARDS, TICKETS, &c., &c., &c., .. EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE The Legal Value of an Omelette. A London papor tells the lollowrng story: "A commercial traveller JOUrneying through Normn.ncly, halts at a village inn, and or· ders an omelette to be made with e1x eggs f~r hia breoklast. He 1s suddenly call·cl away on bus1ness,and departs without either POETRY. CANADA GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY! DOMINION ORGAN CO'S I loY~ :EY l W. l'ORTER Trains \Vill leavo Bo,vmanvi1le Station, i3ow1nanv1lle tune; as follow·s : GOING 'Vll'..ST, GOING EAST, -IMPROVED AND REMODELLED- , 7.20, a. m. I Express . , , 8 30 a m. 9 30 a.m : ~I1xed ~ . 4 20 p.ro. Mixed ... 2 20 p.m. I) Local ... 7 uO p m. Ex.press . ,.!) 00 p, m. Express , , . 9 00 p.m, *This traia runs every moriung of "'eek, Mondays excepted, Local* Express CABINET ORGANS. rn I rn 1ny natiYe Canada, Her foreets large and free ; Where I may roam furever, In boundlesa liberty. I Jove her noble, rugged h1Hs - ;g IIcr valleys deep a.ud wide ; 'l'he water trickling l'tl. the r11la, Or down some mountain 1ndc. I Jove to v.:ander o'er n.nd o'er, Throug-b fol'est, bush ancl glen, 'I1he paths 10 ofteu trod before By hl\r<ly fronhe1 u1ea. I loyc to row my birch cn.noe Adow-n Bt)me Wll)ding river; Ghdu~g along so ca.Jm ruu.l eJo,v, W1thou.t a crue whateve1. I love to hear the chopper'!~ axo R1ng1ng through the " ood , 1 loT~ to see the ca.bins rise Wh ere onco the foi est stood I lov e to fl!ee th1J oit1es too, ... :z: -I 3: :z: Dr. BOYLE, St)RG ERY---SILVER ST. RESIDENCE ONTARIO STREE'J.. a -c c:: "" Eo" man ville, Jan 20th, 1876. , =i -c = This Company ha.s recently been re-organized by the itddition of three oJ I. W. McLAUGHLIN, M. B. the most practical men from the Factory of Clough & W airen Organ Co., Detroit, Mich, each taking an active part in his own particular departL.R.C.P., L.R.c.s., Ed1nborough. ment, and are now man11factming an 01gan equal, and in many points E'J.\.IBER of the Medical Council or Ontario. supe1·ior,to any manufactured in the United States or Canada. Our celeOffice opposite the market. and thud doo1 uortb of rra1t's Pbotograpb1c Gallery, Resi· brated " Vox Celeste," "Vo:-;: Humana," "Wilcox Patent Octavo Coupler," d ence, Onta110 Street. N1gbt messages may be " Cello." or " Clarionet " Stops, "Flugle Horn," " Dulcet," "..iEoline," ef t e1tbe1 at office or rer·:ndenco . "Cremona," and Grnnd Organ Step, and Rov; mauv1lle, :U'eb 18th, 1876 3 m. J.ll of Surgeons, Licentiu.te of the Royal Oollege of Phys·c1ans, Edinburgh. Cor· oner, etc. Residence, Corner of Church and Sc11gog Streets, Bowmanv1lle. Dec 3rd, 1875. 10-tf. l\1 rEMBER OF Dr. Jas. Fielding, ROYAL COLLEGE 'l'Hl~ En~lan<l ; .... Cl roll far outnumbers that olany other. When 'He inight as we11, on his own theory, shall reetrauit and hmitahon be p1aced on tt has fairly seized upon a ma.u, no influence prescribe tbin clothing and damp oir to one thooe who make no abuse ot liberty 1 We seems able to hold him back f'com the m- whose father or mother had died ol cou- ruuet tea.ch u1en self.control and .self· dulgence of bis passion for drink. To gratify anmption, as alcoholic stimulants to one maetery, if we would truly help and save tlus d~s1re he will d1a1egnrd every cona1der- who has the taint of dypso-manrn. ln his them. There is sorne exaggeration, ln my atlon atf<:!ctlug his standing 1n society, his blooct. 111 ont: ca1';e, ~s 1n the othe1, the dls· op1n1ou, about this disease theory of intern· pecuniary interests and hi~ domestic rcle.· ease will almost surely be developed This perance The deductions of one idea men t1ons, while the mOBt frightful instances of is common sense, llnd something that can be are not al ways to be trusted. They are apt the results at drinking have no po .....·er to re· understood by all men.' to dr&w lnrge conclusions from small facts. strnm him. A hundred deaths from thJS ' Aud yet, atrnnge to say, the "ery meu n.ian ts born a frf.e agent, and all men have cause, occnrring under the nLO!'lt painful and who have lll charge th e public health, the power, 1f they will, to hold their appetites revolting c1rcumstances, fan to jmpresa him very u1en Vi hose bllsineaei. 1t is to study the m cheek. This truth should be stongly uuwith a sense of lus own dl.\.nger. His nn· relations bet.,.., een co.use and effect 1n dts- pressed upou every one. Your" disease· deretand1ng will be clear as to the cases be- enses, are the men who, 1n fa1 too many in· theory takes a·vay moral responsibihty. It fore hu.o, and he 'v1ll even conde1r1n the stances, are making the worst possible pre- assumes that a man is no more accounta 1Jlc a~ lf dcstruct1ve acts whlch he sees in others, scr1pt1ona for patients in \vhom even the for geltmg druuk th·· !er ge1t1ag tl>e eonut \\'lll paa::i, aa it were, over the very bod· slightest tendency to 1nebriety inay exist sumption. His d1athes1s excaees him ae 1es of these v1ctia1s, without a thought of hered1tarily. We l1ave, to speak pla1nly, n1uch in one caoe as in the other. N O\v, I warrnng or a sense of fear, 1n or<ler to grati- too many \Vh1skey doctors, and the harm don't believe a word of thrn I do noo claas fy h1s O\\n ungovernable propensity. Such they are doing 18 beyond calculation. A appetites, ho'\\·ever inordinate, with phJ si1,ll is tile power of this terr1ble malady.' phJs1c1an takes upon h1mself a great res- diseases over 'vhtch the will ha~ no control. pons1b1hty v.hen, y;1thout any knowledge ...!\. wan 111ust control lna appetite. Reason ' Il a<J the profession found a remedy l' 'No; the profeas1on is alinost wholly at at the antecedents of a patient, or tLe stock and conscience require this, and God gives fault 1n its treatment. There are specialists from wl:1ch he may have con1e, he pre· to every one the mastery of himself, if he connected with insane nnd reformatory in· scribes \Vh1akey or w1ne or brandy as a will but use his high prerogative.' st1tutions ~ho ha\1e given much attent1on to the euh1ect, but as yet \\'e hnve no recorded hne of treatment that guarantees n cure.' 'Except,' said one of his heteners, ' the remedj' of entire abstinence from dr1u ks 1n which nlcobol 1s present.' eating the omelette or paywg for l~ Twenty years elapsed before, JOUrneymg through Normandy again, he reappeared at this particular inn, rrhe landlord IS still ahve. ' I owe you something for an omelette, 1 be· gan the co.n1nts voyagmr. ' Made with six eggs,' adds the landlord i ' you do, and with-a vengeance !' ' \Velli' pursues the commcrcu1.l traveller, ~ here a1e 16 francs ; that will be pretty good interest on the pnme cost of the owelette.' ' Sixteen tl'ancs J1 repeats the aHbergiste, disda1nfl1 l· ly. 'I v..ant 1,600,000 trancs, 12 sous and 2 hard~/ ' llow so 1' asked the debtor, aghast at the demand. ' Just in this v. ise,' answers in1ne bast. ' Those six ei:;r-:s \vould have produced so many chickens ; by sellmg those chickens 1 should have been enabled to buy two pigs ; by aell rng so many pigs I.should have been able to buy er, many cows; thence s~ many ca.rla, horses, farms, houses, and so forth. Aud I intend to sue you for 1 1600,000 francs l>e fore the tribunal. 1 rj'he CU.Se JS duly tru. 11 and for a while matters look d1sn1al tor, the con1merclf1l travelle:r; \\'·hen the Jllde~ --he1e a Norman Judge, and a. very 'l\ary one- intervenes. ' I \V1sh 11 he says,' to Mk the plrnnuff one question. Were these six egga broken in order to make them u:ito au otnelctte 1' '1'hey were,' says,' the plainplamtdf, 'Then,' adds the judge, ' there H1 an end of the case. The remunerative career of the eggs ceased as s(}on as they were put u1tothe frying-pan. 'rerdict tor the defendant." -I :z !""' Cl Vlhe1e church, and tower ::md steeple, Prove that men of 11kill are found .<\.moDg Canadrn.n peovle. I love to eee the pleasant farms '\V ell stocked w1th bro" sing cattlo ; To liaten to the gudew1fe's bum, Or tnf'a.nt's pra.ttie, M I Jove m 'v1nter time to see The snov.: come '\ hnhng clown, Till, like a mantle pure and white, It covere all the g'l"ound I love to hear the sle1ghbells too, With their n1erry tinkling noIBe ; I love tfil see the Bl!!1gbs glide paat, Cro"·rled with gi.rls and boys. 1'ht)ugl, other countries pr&u1e their own, Ihealthy ; and 1f you withhold 1t, -you create and the roan bc1,;owes more and rnore help· Dr. DAVIDSON. G lego of Physicians, England. and Yictona Unn'ers1ty of Victoria. College, Under Graduate RADUA'l'E OF 'l'IIE ROYAT, COLaud Prn:eman of the University of 'l'otonto,and Rayal Collf'.f{e of Ph)stcians and Surgeons J{1ngston Member of the Oollege of Physi01ans and Surgeons of lJntnno, Coroner, &c. Rerndence and office - l\farket Squa..l'e, How· man vi.Ile Bo\Vmanvillc, li"eb. 24th, 1876. 22 lly. All the Late Improvements Can be obtained.only in these Organs. more responeible for acts that 'l uickened into life an over-mastering appetite than In the Street. a disease that will destroy him, 'was answer· healthy d1str1cts from their invasion, and the youug girl who, not knowing that she the man who for gain or any other consider~ Ia the Street, is the title of a sens1 ble and ed. 'Not so the cravrng for ;lcohol, With had in her lungs the seeds of a fatal disease, sugge8tlve 1lrt1cle in H(l.rper's Ba-zaar. \re every new sup ply the craving is increased, ation should be detected rn the work of insmall-pox every eJl'u1t is made to guard should expose herself to scriptions, against Which I am gl11.d to kno\v some of the rnost eminent men in the profession, both io this couutry and Europe, have entered a solemn protest.' ' 'l'here is one thing in conncchon "'ith The doctor guve a shrug : 'You do not cure a thir.ty mou by with· the disease of intemperance,' replied the other, 'that is veiy remarkable. It is the holding \vnter ' only one from \\·luch society does not proHrn ruind wa.s a lit)le clouded by the wrne tect itselt by quarautine and aanitary rehe bad token. In cholera, yellow " fever and ' The tlursty man's desire for water ie strictions. stunulant. I beheve thousands of drun Mr Elliott spoke "!title loftily, and in kards have been made by these tmwrne pre- a voice that e'preased a settlement of the arguw.ent But one, at least, of his hsteners was feehn~ too strongly 011 the subJeC' to let the argument cloee. 'What,' he BBked, 'if ayopng man who did not, because be could aot, know that he had dyp·o-mama m his blood were enticed to drink often o.t parties where wine is freely d1speased 1 Would be not be taken, so to speak, unawares 1 Would he be any l R R LOSCOMBE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, !:iOLIOITOR IN GHANOl!:RY, tfc 0FrIOE,-0ver McClung's Store aame fiat as ~T. . l3rnna.comb's Dentu.l Rooms. BowmanVIlle, Oct. 27th, 1868, TlYenty-F.ive Different Style~, for the No land in a'l the eru.tb Parlor and the Church, the Best Can boast of cba.nu<i hke the'), now rn shout Material ·and Wo1·kn1anship. Farr Canada Quality and Volume of'ton.e LITE RATU RE. Unequalled. }==================== otbet So 11 Their wealth, thoir powe1, their glo1y, '!'here is no land hke Cana<la In f1eedom'e fairest story ' le" m the folds of an easlavrng appetite. Is it not true, doctor, that with few exceptions all who h3.ve e11gaged ui treatlug inebriates agr.ee that only 111 entire abstn1enco u1 cure forever for me pi possio!c 1' 'Vi/ ell, yes, yon arc p1obably right there,' Dr. 1\n-:., H·r returned, with some professional reserve. 'In the 1nost cases isolation and PRICES $50 TO $1,ooo. Factory and Warerooms, Gor. Temperance and Wellington Streets, Bowmanuil/e. Aqent.< Wanted in Every County. Send f(IJ' Price List. ly Address DOMINION ORGAN CO., BOWMANVILLE ONi. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICI10R lN ORANGERY, .Also General .Agents for Canada, /01· the BRADBURY PIANO. CONVEYANCER, tfe. Newcastle, Oct Sth, 1875. D. E. McMillan, NEWCASTLE. ONT. · Rice&; Barker, Agents for the Counties of Dwrha1n, Victoria, and Noi'f;h m51-tf. and South Ontario. 13-0wwauvil.le,Deo. 2J..t, 1875. .:.. !ltt.1tittt,11,11 <!fintdti. Something New. t1,es ....'\.e. fur cure, I am one of the skeptas. If yon have th~ dlnthc,.1s, you have the t.langer of expo~mre alv.ays, as In consumption.1 CHAPTER X u 'An occasion hke this,1 remarked the oth(Cont1uued ) er1 'is to one with a dypso mau1.1.c diathesis Dr. Angier JOin~d the two rnen at tluii hke a draft of oold, damp air oa tbe exposed morrient, and heard tite Jaet remark, The chest of a delicate gul who has the seeds of speaker added, address1ug hin1 . consun1ptiou In her lnngs. I s 1t not so; 'Your profes~ional t>xp:ter1eace will cor doctor ?1 roborate this, Dr. Angier.' 'Yes1 yes.> -,Co~;oborate what l' he asked, 'v1th o. 'rrherc are over three hundred IJeraons ellght appearance ol evasion 1n his manner. 'We were speaking of the effects at in· here to·night ' 'No t less.' temperance on the more cultivated and re· ' In so large a compaay, taking socfety as fined classes, and I sa1U tb~t it me.ttered-htDY 1 DANGER, OR WOUNDED IN THE or, to speak more correctly, the only palba· HOUSE OF A FRIEND. .r. 8 ARTHUR. absHue1)00 are no doubt the only remedies, clean, and make a.Jn1oat as good Ml new, any .soiled 01 failed garment. 'I he color is re~tol'ed, ond tl1e coat, or '\hat else, puts nn a new np· pcru-nnC(l, Sn.tis:fact1on gua.rant1::ed, or no charge. THOS PEATE. Bow1na.nville, Apr1l 21st, 1876. 30-tf. mHE UNDERSIGNED mfonn· the Gentle.l men of the Dominion, that he is 'J)rep!l>rcd to ·Go TO · tJf Baxter University of ]ifusic GRA.DUATE }'nendship, New Y k. of Prnno and Organ, cultivation 01 Prof. J. Ruse, 'reacher V 01ce, Srng:ing, 'f1iorough :Bass, Harmony Composition, &c. Darlington, July 16th, 1874. 41_-ly Lyle & Martyn's For a good assortment of GROCERIES, PROVISIOi.~S, CROCKERY, &c. ALSO R. D. ·FOLEY, bas taken out a. license as AUCTIONEER for this Township SaleR will receive the best; att1 nt10n. Bowmanville, },eb. 24th, 1876. ly. 1n the land, 1t must be fearfully great.' ' Then wo cannot invite to our hou~Ps fifty or ,i hunared guests and give them aa much wine and sp1r1ts as they care to drink, without !5enously hurting some of the1n. I 13ay nothing of the effect upon unvituited Dr. Angier did noL reply, but his face be- blstes , [ r~fer only to those with diseased appetites "ho may happen to be present' came thoughtful. 'Have you given much attention to the 'lt will be bad tor them, certainly. Such pathology of drunkenuess 1' aek.ed oue of people ohould stay at home.' And eaymg this, Dr. Angier turned from the gentlemen. tle as to the social condition ; the hurt of drink " 'RA the same, an<l ti~ disturbance at uormal cond1t1ons as great 1n one "lass of society as in unother , that a confirmed JU· ebr1ate, wben under the u1fluence ot 1ntoxi· cants, lost all idea of re"'pectab1l1ty or 1noral responsibility, and \\'Onld act out his 1n· sane passion, whether he wen;i a lawyer, nn army officer, or a hod carr 1er. In other words, that socLal poe1tlon gave t.he \\lfe ot an inebuate no imruu1nty from personal violence v,hen alone with her druu l1..cn husband' we have 1t to-day, is it hkely that we have none h f le \\'lth a he1ed1tar)' or dcq111red love of dnok 1' 'Scart.:ely,poasible,' rephetl Dr Angier. 'How largs do you thmk the percentage1' ' I ha. ve no means of know·ing ; but if we are to J'ld ge by the large army of drunkards ·Some; not a great have to deal with.' d~aL one of the most perplexing and difficult The subject 1s the two gentlemen to speak >Hth a professwnal friend who came toward h1ru at the you saying about 1t 1' \Ve moment, CHAP XII atmospheric reproduce its moet salient pcnnts bt;cot.~e troducing infecting agentd \\'euld be execrachanges that were regarded by her com- Canadu is too much 1hsposed to 11n1tate the ted and punished But society has a.noth<·r pn.n1ons as harmless, but which to her were United States 1n the m:;i.tter and because an way ofdeal111g with the men who are enuadue regard for fasbwa aad its lo1bles fraught with peril l' gaged 111 spreading t11e disease o[ 1nte1nper· tends to folly ancl vice : ' Jn both c~ les,' rephed Mr. Elliott, 'the The principal streets of cities and tow11e ance nmong the people. It enacts laws for respons1bihty to care fl)r the health v.;ould are the dtnly reeort of American ladies for their protection, and gives the largest hber· come the 1nomeut it was found to be in the d1eplay of their charms of person and ty to get ga1n in their work ot d1s~ennnut~ dress. rhey do not fear to reveal to the ing disease and death, and, what ie still danger.' curious eyes of an indrncnrn1nate mob, all more remarkable, actually sells for inoney · 'Tbe d1scovery at danger may come, the n1cet1es of toilet and the graces of 1n('1n tho right to do thla.' a.las 1 too late for iespons1ble action. We which in other countries are reaervtd tor · know that it does rn ruost cases with tho special occas1ons. 'fhis habit of etreet <lres)'I· 'You put the cnse sharply.' consumpttve, uud quite as often, I fe11r 1 with 111g is imitated Ly the inen, and the mer· chants, tra.desmen nnd a1echan1cs, go to ur 'Too 15La1 ply 7' the dy~o-man1ac.' from their business in att1re most 111appro' Perhaps not. No gooJ ever comeF.1 of As the gentleman was elosrng the last priate to the ncc1.LBion, and g1v1ng the idea callrng evil things by dainty names, or veil sentence be observed a change pass over that they are either above their but11ness or ing hard truth under mild ancl conservative ashamed oJ 'vork. Their w1ves again can· phrases. In granting men a hcen ae to dis- the face of Mr Elhott, who wao lookrng not go to the butchers or tho grocers \\'ith .. Foll;win~ the d1rect1on out fl1unt1ng their gaudiest attire. If it pense alcohol 1n every variety of ent1c1ng acros:s the room. only involved a question of good taste, al1 for1us and in a community where a lar~e of hrs eyee, he saw General Abercromb1e in this rutght not deserve serioua cons1derat1oc, percentage of the people have a pred1spos1- the act of offerrng bJS arm to Mrs. Aber but an1ong thf;! young ol both sexes the hab· It \\OS evident, from the expres· tion to intemperance, consequent WI well on cromb1e it of overdressing is -a frequent cause ol d<· .. hereditary tarn! as unhealthy soCJal. coud1- s1on of his countenance, and that of the n.ioru.hzation ; antl uselesgnesa, expense and 1 tions, society commits it.self to a J.1sastroue countenances of a l_who were neor hun, d1aconi fort charactenze our housebold8, The L.et but not least the lash10n of publi c cxerror, the t!u1t ot which 1s bitterer to .. the I hat somethmg had gone wrung. General's face was angry anll excited. Ilia Jub1tionei JS surely unfavorable to the d~h .. taste than the ashen core of Dead Sea ap· cate sens1b1hty '\·luch we l~ve to ascnbe to eyes had a fierce restlessness in th~m, and woman and certainly tends to dteenchant plcs' ' What about Dead Sea apples 1' asked glanced from his wife to a gentlemaa who thosA who wish to malnbun their faith in stood confronting bu11, nnd then back to her retlung modesty. Mr. Elliott, who came up nt the moment and h euul tbe last r emark. Thl;l two gen her in a strange and menacin_g way. A Wife's Powers. J\.irs. Abr rcromb1e's face was deadly pale. tlemen \\:ere pew-holders in his church ftlr She satd a. few words hurriedly to her husElhott's countenance ·was radiant A11 his A good w1fe1s to a man, ~isdon1, strcnglh fine social feelings \Vere act\ ve, and he was band, and then drew him from the parlor. and courage; a bad. one is contusion, " 1.ak· 'What's the matter 1' asked Mr. Elbott, uess a.nd dP.spa1r Ko cond1t10111s bopel~ss . feust of enJoying a 'flow of sonl,' Jf not' u crosatng over and speaking to the gentle- to a 1nnn where Jus "1te possesses firmness, ieason.' Win e was mo.king g1ad bis hea1t There is no out· man agn.inst whom the anger of General decision and ccononiy. -not excees of wine, 111 the ordinary sense, ward propriety which can counteract rndol· Abcrcroutbie ha.d see1ned to be directed . ence, extravagance and tolly at home. No for ~fr, Blhott bad no mo1 lnd desire for 'Heaven knows,' \Vas answ~red, 'unless s p1rit can endur~· bad tnfiucncc. .Man 11' stimulants. He \\·as oue of the number 1"11..rong j but bis heart is not adamant. He \Vho could take a soc1a.J 6lass and not feel a he'e Jealous of bts \v1fe.' needs a tranqu1l 1u1nd und especially it he 'Very stninge conduct,' said one craving for more. I:Ie beli~ved 111 wine as 1a an intelhge11t mun, w1tb a whole bead, he 'B~en dr1nk1ng too n1uch,' rematked needs its moral iorct! In the confhct of JJte. good tb1ng, only couclcmn iug its abuse. To recover his composure, hon1e muAt; be & l '\Vhat were you SU) u1g a.bout n~acl Sea another. place of peace arid com tort. Tber e hts soul apples 1' Mr Ell10tt repented Ins quest1oa. 'What did be do j' inquired 11 third renews its str ength, and goes forth with re· "\'Ve were sper~k111g of 1nternpera.ncP./ re'Didn't you see it 1 l\{r. Erte~n "as pro ne\\ e<l vigor to eni..;ountcr the la.bar and plied one of the gentlemen. menad1ng "With ~irs. Abercrombie, when croubles 01 hfe But 1f at home he finds no '0-b I' in a prolonged an cl shgbtly 1n the General swept dowu upon them as rest, aud there lS met v.·1th bad ten1per, J~al· different tone 1\Ir. Elliott's countenance fierce as .1 hon, and took the lady f1 om 1ns ousy and gloom, or assailed with compla1nte and censure, hope vanishes, nud he f!inks lost some of its rad1ence. ' And ·wbat v; ere nru1.' into despair, 1 - I i 1 This was ex·gKeration The thing was AUCTIONEERS For the Townshvp o.f Darlington. H. T. PHILLIPS, liA).1PTON. Pron111t attention given to sales, &c, on reason· able ttirms. W:m.. Barton, ENNISKILLEN, Sales promptly attended to on reasonable terms. . Bu~ o ~~~~~~. , All kinds of' Fielcl ancl Ga1·d~n SEEDS, on th e most modern style of architecture, Job· bing vromptlyattended to PlanR and specdicat10Jl1:1 got up on apphcat:Jon, on tho rnost rea- 'You class intemperance with d1eeaaes}do vou not 1' 'Yes, certain forms of it. It way be hereditary or acquired hke any other <l1s.. ease. One roan may h1ivc a pulmonai.y,another a bilious, and another a dypso· 1naniac d1athes1s,nnd an exposure Lo exmting ~11.usea, in one case is as ta.tat to health as in the other, If there ex11:1t a vred1spos1tion to conE!umptloq, the disease will be developed under peculiar morb1fic 1nfiuencea "h1ch wonld have no deleterious effect upon a.sub- Common pohtenesa rtquired as much as doue more quietly, but still ";th enough of this, even though the subject was felt to be n.nf(er nnd menace to create son1cthiug mor~ Impo1,ant to Bathers. Avoid bathing w1tb1u two hours alter '" n1t!nl. Avo1d bath1ug when exhausted by fatigue or trom a.ny otUcr cause. Avoid bathing when the boJ) IS \\ar1u 1 provided no time 1s lost in get.ting- iuto the water. ject not so predisposed.. The same law pvrt 11e has icccivcd the past two years 1 and hopes, b) continue<l Rtrfot personal attention to bu::1111P.ss, M:Jd \\ork1ng nt the lJJost reawoa.bl~ prices, tn enE!-ure a cont11111a11ce t)f l)ubhc pat1-on· nge W ll is prepa1etl to build houf.les, etc , Begs toretuin tbnnksto his fnends!orthosup of' tile very best quality, E L""'L .I. 1'.. W MA.R'I'YN · sonable te1ms, and of every desc.,T1ption Office and Shop, Ontario Stt !!et, neurly oppointe l\{r, 'l, Rowdcn's Bowmonnlle Dec 24th, 1874. Bly. DENTrsTR Y the Newest thing of the season, unless you wish to pnrchn;,;e Don't Read this, s. NEVV ---o--- ==(Jheap D1~y Goocls~-J Brimacom[ze, L.R.0.D.8. OFFlOE over lYfcGLUNG'S Sto··e Bowmanvtllo. D~c. FEES MODERATE. 1::174. lHf. MASON having opened his MARRIAGE LICENSES. EYNON, Lot 7, Gth (Jon fnear Bethesda Church] is duly authorJzed to lfiSt1B l\{arr1age L icenses Darlington, No'. 19, 1874 m8 tI. ,TOlll. H MnDailing-ton, STOR.E sn1APLE J.. with a full ass01 tmont of DRY _ ..,. ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. Liverpool London, and GlMgow on, Tickets, or inf<.-1mat1on, npply to GOODS, is prepaied to offer F I 'lV. A. NE.l~.os, Agenf.. BARGAINS FOR Bowrr1 auviUe, .Tune 9th, 1871. tf.30 A CAitD. have this <lu.y a.ppOJnted C. BARKER the Ecluc~te agent for the sale nf my YuL· VAJlizB:O PI:,NS for Bo·wmru'.l:nlle, Ont. .TOSEPH MAeON,P.P. J. J.JACOBS that will compare with any Store in the County. operates as unerringly in the 1nhented J.ire· d1spos1tion to tnten1perance. Let the man with a dJpso -man1nc drn.thes1s n1dulge 1n the use of 1ntox1cnhng liquors, and be will surely become a. drunkard. 'Inet~ 13 no more irouJua1ty for hun tbau Jar the mun who with tubercles 1n lns lungs expo:;es himself to the cold, bu<J. ,11r an<l enervn~ing bodily conditions.' · 'A more senons view of the case, doctor, than is generally taken.' 1 I know, but a moment's cons1deralionto say notb1ng of observed facts-will satLs· fy any reasonable man of its truth.' '\Vba.t do you mean by dypso-manrn.a s a medical term 1' 'The word,' replied Dr Aug1er, 'means crazy for drink,aud is used in the professto n to des1gnate tho.t condition of a.lcoh~hc dis· ease in \vh1ch the aubJect,wben under its influence, has no power of self control I.t is characteuzcd by au inordinate and irrea1stible desire for alcoholic liquors, varying In intensity frnm a shght def,(lrture from a normal appet1 to to the moat depraved and cntirt: abaudouruent to its i nfluence. '\Vhen this d1seaae becon1es developed, its action upon the braui is to deteriorate its qua.hty and impair its functions. All the faculties become more or less weakened. lleason, Judgment, perception, uien1ory aud under shJ.nd1ng- lose their v1gor aad capacity. rrhe will becomes powerles.:. before the stro11g , propensity to drink. The moral senl11uents o.nd affections likewise becoLne Involved in the general tn1pr urment. Conscience, the feeling of accountab1ltty, the sense of ri ght and \1iroug, all beco1n~ deadened, while th e passions are aroused and excited. 1 ' What an awful d1sease ! 1 exclaiu1cd one of the listeners. 'Yon n1 ay \\'ell call it an awful dtaease,' {eturned the doctor, who, under the influ. ence of a fe ,v gla'lse<J of vnue, was tnore lll chne<l to talk than usu:il. 'It has been Please Calf a.nd ex.a.mine Stock. Highest :Price pa.id for Butter a.nd Eggs. ONE DOOR WEST EXP.RESS OFFICE :Ee\\ Pl0Jl.V1lle, Sept.lOth,1874.m-t Bowmanville, April 12th, 187G. bp-ol5-m29. n·med the mother of <" ·Cr"cs. Its death- 'The doctor likea his glass of wine,' re· out of place. than a ripple on the surlace. 'V\re were talking with Dr. Angier JUSt A bttlt> while afterward thP General and marked one of the gentlemen, as Dr Angier left them. OO\V about hereditary druukennes~, or r.1th· ~Irs . Abercrombie were seen com1ug down fl JB face · IR that so !' er the u1her1tc:d pred1spobit1on to that vice stairs and gon1g along the hall 'Didn't you observe his heightened color -dtseqse as tho doctor calls it. This pre· was rigid and stern. He looked neither to and tLe gleam 1n his eyes 1' d1spmnhou, he saye, ex11:1ts iu a large num· the r1gh t nor the left, but with eyes act for· 'I noticed something unusual in his man- ber of persons, and is r.a well defined pn.th- ward iuade bis way tol\ard the i;treet door ner, but did not think it the effect of wine.' olog1cally, and as certain to become acLlve ThOBe who gut a ghmpse of :Mr._ Aber · He is a reticent man, with conSlderablc under favoring causes, as any of the other cromb1e as she glided past saw a face that of what may be called professional dignity, numerous d1seaseS Let, said. the doctor, huunted them. a loug time afterward, and doeau't often let himself down to lay- a man so predisposed indulge 1n the [To be Cont111ueU .1 men us he did j uiit now.' use of intoxicatLng hquors, .lnd he will sure·There waea't much letting down, that I ly become a drunkarrl. rfhtre IS no more John G Whittier. could see.' immunity for lnm, he added , tLau for the man who with tubercles iu htS lungs ex'Perhaps not; but professional pride is A. mus1og farmer's boy, ·working in the reserved and sensitive 111 some peraons. It poses himself to cold, bad air, aud euervat· field~, end ignorant of books, he early feJt 111g bodily cond1t1ous. Now·, l !S uot LLI$! a hasn't much respect for the op1111onsofnon· the poet1c instinct moving in hL9 soul, but expel tB 1 aud is chary of discussion with very senous view to take of th e matter 1' thought lns surround1u~s \\ere essenhall~ 'Certataly it 1s,' reph ~ d Mr. Elhott. 'In- prosaic, aud coald never be sung At last laymen. Dr Angier is weak, or pecuhar If If you please, 1n this direction. I sa\v that temperance is a sad thing, and a 01ost fear· one .1tternoon, while he was gathering Ju the hay, a peddler dropped a copy ot Burns he was annoyed at your rcplJ to Ju1:1 re1nark iu l curse.' into Lis band6 Instantly brn eyes v. ere that you do not cu1e a th1rsty man by withHe did not look comfortable, It was to unsealed. There m the n·1gh boring field holding \VateI. It was a little tlnng 1 but it him a.n untimely intrusion of an unpleas was 'Higldand J\i'fary ,' 'The Cotter's Su.t showed L1s an1n1u8. 1'he argument was ant .the1ne. 'Bl1t 'vbat Hl the world set the urday Night' occurred ln hts own father's pious New Englaud home; and the b1rd~ at;ain~t him, and it hurt hts pride. As I doctor off on tbiet subject 1' be usked, trying which caroled over bIS head, the flowers said, he hkes his glruis of "'ine, and 1f he to make a diversion, winch grew under his feet, 'vere as poetic docs uot take cau·, w1ll come to hke it too 'Occns1on11 are apt to suggest subjects for a::i those to wl,l1ch the Scottis h plowrrinn bad given perennial interest. Burns taui:;bt brw y,; ell. A doctor has no more immunity fro1n convetaat1on,' anawert:d the gent'emau. to detect the 1Je,iut1ful in the coru1non 1 but dypi:zo manui than b1~ patient. The former ' One call.not be Present at a large .eomal enBurns could not corrupt the singularly pure n1ay inherit or acquire the disease as well tertainmeot like this without see1ug some soul ot the laJ by hrs entic1ng suggestions fl.8 the latter.' things tbat a\Yaken doubts and questionings of idealized pb~·oical e11jeyment nnd unreg ulntcd pusEnoo. The boy grew JU to a man, ' Ho\v <foes the doctor kho'v th at he has It 1t be true, aa J)r Ang1tr flays, tba.t tbc cultivating aes1duouRly his gift of sorig, not from some a'lce&tor this fatal diathesis 1 disease of intemperance is as snrely trans· though shy of showmg 1t The an\1Slavery Children rurely, If ever, betray to their cb1l· mitted, potentially, as the disease of cou- storn1 swept o7er the land, awakening con d1en a knowled~e of the v1c-ee or crimee ot sumption, and \\ill b<Jcome active unUer tn.:1cuces as \veil as stimulating intellects ~V"h1ttler had always hved in a region of then· po.rents rr he death by consumption, fnvonng circumstances, then a drinking fea· moral Hleas 1 and this ant1slavery Jnsp1rat1on tiva.1 cannot be given without fea1ful risk to cancer or fever is a p11rt of oral family b1a· ll1flamed bis moral ideas into moral pa<Js1on tory, but not 80 the death from 1ntemper; some of the i nv1ted guests' and moral wrath lt Garr1son may be conOver that 1s dra" n a veil of silence ance. 'Theta JS always danger of excitrng dis- Ridered the prophet of antislavery, and and secrecy, and the children and grand· enae where a pred1sposrtiou exists,' replied Ph1ll1ps its orator, and Mrs. Sto\\e its novelist, and Sumner its statesman, there cl11Ldren rarely, If ever, know anytb1ng :Mr. Elliott. ' A man can hardly be ex- can be no doubt that Whittier was its poet abo ut 1t. There may be in their blood the pected to make huneelf acqua1nted '\\'1th the Qnaker as he was, his martial lyr1cs hnd taint of a diseafe :tar more tcrriblo than pathology of bis guests before rnvrnag th·m eo1neth1ng of the (!nerµy ol a primitive bard cancer or consurupt1on, aod none to give to a feoet. If that " to be the rule, tho deli- u1g1ag on hoets to 'battle. Every \VorU was a blo\v, ao uttered hy tb1s newly enrolled then i \\ arn1ng al the cond1t1ons under which cate young lady 'v1th the seeds ot consump-e0Jd1er of the Lord 'The silent, shy. its development is certain.' t1on in her system must be lett at no1ne for peace-lo\ 1D~ man' became a. 'fiery parh· 'I~ it not strange/ \\.LB rephe1l 1 'that, fear ehe come with bare arms nud a san,' and held h1s 1ntrep1d way kuo'?fing as Dr. Angier certu.1nly does, fro~n low.necked dress, and expose herself, after .. ' agrunst the public frown, what he sa1·1 Just now, that 10 all classes of berng heated with dancmg, to the drau~ht of The b fPl of ohul'ch and state, the fierce mob's hounding down. ' society tLere 1s a large number who have in an open \\ 1ndow·. '!' he b1llous und d} speptlc He roused, condensed, and elevated the then· physieal conshtut1ons the seeds ot tb1s muet be omitted also, lest by Imprudent pubhc eenttment against elllvery. The dreadful disease-that, as I have aaid,kno\v· eating anU drinking they make thetnselves potitry \vas as ~enu1ne aa the wrath was 1ng tb1t<, be !!hould so flequently prescribe s1ek. \Ve cannot regulate these th1ngs. The terrtfic, and rnnny o. pol1t1<"al time-server, hottest w1ne and v. h1skey to his patients 1' best we can do is to warn and a.dn1on1sh. who was proof ngainf:l.t Garrison's Jenunciat1one and Ph1lhps1s 1noat shng1ng ' It is u httle sarpns1ug I have nohced, Every indn.1du a1 1 ~ re~ponstblc for his own invectives, quailed before \Vh1tt1er'a s1n1tnow that yon <1peak of it, his hah1t in tlus moral character, hab lts and hle. Becattl!e rng rhymes -ltd<i~n P. Whipple, in lla1some may b<come the slaves of appetite, p<1 '! MuJazine Joi· Ma1Ch. respect.' Avoid ch1lhug the bod) by smrng or stand· tng naked on the shott: or in boats atter hav· iug been Ill the ·wv.ter-leLLve the water in .. stantly 1f there i;:i the slightest feehng of chilliness. Avoid batlnng- altogether in the open air, if, after havi ng been a short time in the water, there ts a sense of cb1lhnees <;-1 1 with aum bneso of the band s ar;d foet. The vigorous and stro11g may bathe early 1n the mo111iug on an e111pty stomach. The young antl those that ltl~ weak had better bathe three hours after n 1oeal ; the fiest time for such is front twC't to three hours after break· fast. Thoac who are subject to dizziness or , fa1utnes~, and those who suffer fron1 p11lp1~ tu.hon o.od other sense ot diecomtort at the hanrt, should not bathe "ithout first con· suiting their med1-:al adviser. A Oooo .ti.~ s\1 En _rrhe conductor on tbs train which reached Clinton, Ind, from tlia \Vest, recently, was so l\Lnd to an old lady when she got off the train at De 9{1tt, and he rendered her so mucL assistance in get· ting her bag~ag e to the depot, that a vas· scnger ai-ked lnm if the old ludy wns his mother. '0, no,' \Vas the reply, 'but she 1s somebody's mother' 'rh1s 1s the conduct of a true genth'man, and is 1u strange con· ---, I trast with that ol the shoddy aristocracy which has grown up wltbin the last few yecr~. Death from Tight Lacing. There has JU~t died u1 P1111hco, :ltlr~ Ker.ia Wheeler, an old l.tdy at the age of seventy-seven, on who1n an inquest h te been held. :Mrs. Wheeler was found de.id tn her bed.room on LL recent Sunday mororng, dressed for ch!2"Ch, and with her Dible in her band, ho.ving apparently expncll l l suddenly. The surgeon said that death had resulted fro1n the bur:ihng of nn aneurism, o.nd the post inwrteni examination re~ vealeJ. terrible evidences of ttght la.c1n~ on l 1 1 the p·rt of the <leceased, who had been a very beautiful \VOOJan. In fa.ct, one ot the old lady s ri\Js had boen pressed against the internal organs, aud had kept them con· stantly at }1alf achoo, O.EI it werC', until npp~rently an aneurIBm was produced, by ihe maY sudden rupture of which she died. Mr<, \Vheeler niust have b<:len an except10 ially hea.lthy won1an to bave thus hved 1n spite of the corset which imprisoned part of her organs and interfered wiLh their natural J.ev elopu1enl; had she not laced, she would doubtless, ha'\ie been fl ~enlenarian -Chris- · tian Advocate. - - - ------