HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1890-01-17, Page 2e 'eon), in fortunateiy for mt•,aud when
we returteed from ouri,out'ym'.tou the
volunteer cetnp was in full awing. It
(seemed to hue that when they were
not eetivdly Engaged in drill 'ori ,shoot.
i ing for prizes, the treater portion of
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eRQWN MgNp$,» Z4 t1,e voluntavrrs occupied their ilea ill
drive "^' w:Iking up and clown in froth of itty
ANUAR,' " lo, f13ilo.
he the eon's from tho posture
through the lima shauy tuuV,
the quad whistles loud latttt} wheat deki,
ellow with ripening grata.
'Viler flied; to the ,tJhleir'wavtnggratece,
Where the scarlet lippedatrawberry grows,
Thar gather the earnest snowdrops,
sped the first erjprn a bods of the root,
They toss tie hay to the Meadow,
They gather the elder blooms whites,
They And where the dusky grapesPurie
In the tsoft. tinted October light. i
Thor know -where the apples 1 i ug deed)
Thou. know whereetium Italy's wines;
the Sruft lathe thicket*
On the tong, thorny blackberry winos..
'They gather the denote sea weeder,
Aad build tiny cranes of s+wd;
The piek+,p the beautiful sea shad-.
Fairy barks that have drifted to laid.
They wave from tha tau. rocking tree tope.
Where the orioles hammock nest swing;
And at night time aid folded in eIuwber
Icy n'4 song that is toad wether slugs.
Thosii who toll bravely aft strongest;
The humble andneor b
Asiafror#r.tlroao brown hooded anorerr'
Shall grow mighty riders et state, .
The peof the author and etatesma;a„
The otible and wisp of our land;
'The sword and chisel and palette
Lan be held in the little brows band,
Tlnx Haven Nevi.
A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
only two
ist the e
to .l'.'otkesto
deep moa
t you would
kine man, and
afterw,u,rde,
a narrow'
never can (3t
ether what
me was t
l,is.-can
natural •e'
sl)ttl for human sympathy; or whether,
h use an A : ra canism, he was there
la filling ron•up.
It was not only my fellow traveller'
retreating forehead, but the nature o
Itis .travelling; literature, that cause
me to look upon hint as sot• ething
other than an intellectual giant. In
he first place he was reading Isis
Unveiled. Tile Proceedings of ,.the
Psychical Society wits there, too,' and
fat book, in very .large type was
abelecl, Fragments ,and remains . of
adame
He was.good enough to offer me the
end of one of hips beaks, and, like an
s, I'gave a eraort of indignation and
aved it off.
1 Have no sympathy with Such
binge, 1 said. ^
A skeptic, I perceive, said he polite-
yI look upon the whole thine', sir, l;
eplied,; as bosh and humbug; miser.
ble trash, wretched balderdash, nn
ortby of notice. , And then I glared;
1 tried to silence the little man in
ep.rnourning by 'looking as much
ke the Gordon• Medusa aa possible.
ar from being turned to'.stone, he
reply began to sit on the backs of
is hands, than which nothing is isore
dignified and irritating, •
was like you once, be paid with
; yes, I was a scoffer once; hut
ave been bitterly punished --in fact,
incredulity.wait *the 'cause of my
Pavement, and he pointed in a
etnn. manner to the deep black hat
d he wore,
When I looked up at Me hat band
saw the man's name printed in
tIe gold letters upon his travollieg
g, which lay en the :rack above his
ad ---Mr Augustus Boobyer,• "
When had 1 heard the name
course it comes to iris in
obyert that was the man who ran
with little Betty Star`eley, of the
�r`olttytheatre. :[ ata not a theat-
v1 roan, but 1 Bata Mies Starelev in
celebrated ballet Of 'The Swal.
n,* and very pretty indeed she look-
ivctlt herr big eyes, her curly black
e ,end her dot of a mouth, She was
tatty Istinp.little nonentity tilt she
fried Boobvee, when he 'became.
fee 'days' wonder.. Then she deft.
stage ; disappeared front the pike
'at hera� wiedow.flea hd liialiody ever
,el any :mem of Mass .E`etty Stareley.
°e not so very long ago, he began,
it were my privilege to letcd to the
an eitceediegly+ lovelygirl. I
leaped the very ground ebe teed
sfr. My Wife wee so elraeeeivi}-
ed looking Jit to attract consider•
etteretiatt, wherever sll'e went. I
tondo( it at fhretr 'hot afttsr a
.Alit began id pall. My Wife,air tette
i experiereed giut,irtid she
Mine via li rlitriefay
lx, end it tirade. its oohi•
oIfuriesat t,a thee..
We were theoccupants
Ja compartmentexpress tra
frohn Londonn My cot
?anion was inruing.
was not w hcall an i
tellectnal loci on think
ing it. over I remennb
that; he. hadand retread')
forehead: T kite make It
Tay mind whether my
y' fell()
traveller told he alhsolut
truth; whethertide,Iroe wa
c tetsad by theyearning of hi
of
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p
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8,
s
good naturt tl' girl, rase at ouoo,.1
1 could reinee, trate . J.1t,tlsieur
deo ed her to*chez little table in
tektite of the stage. clow lovely
Melted ask she, stood in the well l
terse of the Greek ,slave, with eta
bends.1 I noticed, too, that
wore the diainond riviere •.that
Ihouse,i,hetrdlw to get a glihnpee at my boon my wedding gift. The conj
covered her with the great extiugt
er. Spirits of the vast heavens,
me 1 he shouted, in a Bort' of sc
of entreaty;' He ` knocked over
extinguieher, My wife lied di
geared ! W
There wee a tremendous round
applause, i:r wl'icle I joined ; bo
didn't quite Like it all the game,
the go$ :went out as is by magic,
felt myself entidenly seised by
wrist, and the ;voice of Raeder his
in city ear, iny, poor friend, enmeth
very terrible has bapptned :. , y
wile has been' carried off by the had
rant h,pirits ;,, but, lie added, molted
gotticafly, 1 will save her or perish
the attempt.
There Wee .a pause,
1 bavo><tever seen pay wife, sir, fr dayto this, said the little In
ae he buried , his face in. his ha
It vies ,the vengeence , of then dpi
world upon •anti whe was a
what you are, try. frig id—a ;t eco
and an unbeliever.
Have you never searched for h.
I said,
What would be the 'use? staid t
little Man.
Just then•the train rolled into t
station of Foikestbne harbour,
And the conjurer 1 said 1.
Re must have met with a simil
fate, said lc 1r; 73nol yer, who was co
letting his impedimenta ; for•lhe rev
game to receive the money taken
the. doors,
,efori4
Reite
the:
she
lo
sped
she
bad.
urer
iish-
help
reaut.
the.
Bap
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t 1
Then
1
the
aged
ing,.
Mir
ra-
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itt
tom
an,
ads.
rii,
on
Iyer•
he
beautiful wife. Poi not. exaggerating
—not the least bit. At last, how^
ever, it became unbearable to both of
us. We determined to seeti anlitutte,
and found it at Herne Bay.
Herne Bey is the most solitary
Alai I know, It is frequented by
persons of limited wane with large
families. There is a pier a mile loug,.
We passed a delightful fortnight at
Verne Bay, but. it wee' dull, terrible
dull. :We ws'r$ both,; feeling rather
lord, whew,I made an acq�iaint,hnoe
wide I was fishing for bees with . a
rod from the pier head. I used to fish
1 there the greatstepare of . the , after-
noon. I had never caught anything;
1 but at a. place dike Herne. Bay one
must do something. He pet$ a very
decent. young fellow, and took a great
interest in hay fishing. . If I had
known at the time who he was, per.
haps I shouldn't have been quite so
ready to forgather with, bink. The.
fact is the was a professsioual conjurer,
but. he was a most gentlemanly young
fellow and decidedly good' looking. Ile
talked about spiritualism; lie was an
tirivanceil thinker, and I from the
lofty pinnacle of hay erase ignorance,
looked down upon the whole thing' as.
bosky, humbug and balderdash.
Here, still sitting on his bands, he
smiled irnpertinerptly at hoe.
Monsieur ICardp4 ( for that was his.
professional name) tried to convince.
roe, but in vain, Our stay at. Verne
Bay was drawing too a close, I'm going-
to give a little seance here to morrow
night, said Monsieur Kmiec, I shall
be
he
ar
l-
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Phil and Roy,
be greatly pleased if yoti would carne Tell usa story Uncle Phil, said Ito
and look at the. 'wonders the s hits and Archie, reaming to him.
will perform.. Don't Ilutiiiliato ri e b What about said Uncle Phil, as Itob
y' climbed on hie right 'knee and Archie
offering to pay at the door, here are on his loft.
a couple of tickets. Oh, about something that happened
I. was about to decline, but my wife to you, said' Rob.
s rave me an appaling look from those Sornething when you were a little
neat eyes of hers, which dial. not a�'- boy, added Archy.
d peal'in vain. W'e'll come with pleas. [Ince when I was a little boy, said
ure, said I, and I thought no niore "Uncle Phil, I asked rny mother to let
about the matter. ' boy and myself go play by the river.
As wo walked home we stopped to . Was Itoy your -brotherasked
read one of the posters. ' It was the I Reb.
orclinary programme—spirit rapp%u , No but he was. very fond .of playing
thought reading,clairvoyance,and.foll_ with tie. My mother said yea; so we
owed a rather extraordinary statement: went out and had a good ,teal of sport.
Monsieur ° Kardec, after. part the first,:!!after a while I took a shingle for a
will,pive au magma" of uioderh cm ` boat and sailed it along the bank. At
jurieg and presticei;itatiore. without 1 lrist it began to get into _deep water,
appar..us or accomplices. The whole : where I couldn't reetlh.ik'witii "si atiek
trill coheclude with the mysterious dies. ` the I told Roy •to go and bring it to
appearance of a .lady selected from 1 i„e. -
among the audience:. We bout rather r He almost always - did what I told
looked forward to the entertaiment as . hiss, but this time he did not. I
a break to the dull monotony of our beganscolding him and he ran towarddaily round at Iieroe. Bay, home.
Punctual to the tithe; we presented ! T,hen I was very an ry.. 1: picked
and•' upa stone andthrew,it at. him tabard
ourselves at the assembly rooms,
were the sole occupants ot what were as I coal's. . ,
termed the reserved fauteuils, which 0 Uncle Phil ! said Archie.
R ,1 ea , and
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it
were two rows of ordinary cane hot- dust then •.cloy turn d t s h d
torn chairs. I bolt"t: thinthinkthere' were st•ruc 0 Uncle cls P oyes the eye.
°ty people in the race altogether. Phil 1 cried Bob.
The first part of the performance was Yes' I made lief stagger.. I3u he
eeply interesting. Looking back a olitnd cry and lay down pip the
snot, it calmly as Ido now, andsp speak- bround.
° p Bee/ lyes still -angry with tether, I 9
inti with the authority of one who didnot go to hint, but waded into the i
nows, said the little man (and the water for sty boat.
re of entdhusiasm flashed in This
vinery eyes), I ata convinced' that Eefore it was deeper wasthin i thought, w
ousiene hardeo was a powerfnt efor•s . knew it I :a 'strong 0
esthetes Then followed art two current. 1 screamed as at carried the p
ZS down stream; but no inen were near S
but which there wail nothing very to help me.
einarkable , there were ordinary feats et
,f slelgfit of'.!snd"-good, ainiple eon' But, as .L went dawn tinder ' the et
wring of the old school. And then. me a cl draggedtere, something took hold of m
ot,siHur I(ardeo addressed as In a iw the .towards shore. ti
tort lecture. He told us diet what Awls when I was tetra on H the hank T i~
e wits clout to do before one eyes ,' a that it was Roy. I3e had i;aved y
ir1
wag no trick, no jtigglrs.... in fact, said bi Good follow t
there is no deception whatever. Was he yea coedit i" p
'is, he"added solemnly, the work of asked ' replied
at
o spirits. I did not pay match M W° roplred Uncle Phil, an
anon to whet I', lesojced upon then flat did you say ted. liter ? nttlted
then idle patter of, the professional. A toile. en
injurer. 1 her++s sstxee had reason to, Iva t my arms around the � dear ca
ange ray mind, and thee hegave a fllow i nem Jti,cl eried,i,nd asked him an
to forgive me, th
ep sigh. Mdnsieur Reale() exhibit• What did he say ? asked Rob. ' a su
to bis the ordinary big acardboard
inguisher. And, new, seid he. if He anis 8", seta, wow 1 cal
y lady will kindly step , bxwar'. 'x liy, who was. Roy, anyway? asked ins
1 1 ale her to dsstepr.ar by , 1 Archie, in greet netonis intent,• . be
came or ^rLiy ft<npti tr Vides, He was my dog, said Uncle Phil and
p• d the best dogI. ever saw. 1 have• to
e gentleman at thu.pittua , begun to never been unkind to is ' (Tog or ally : the
ay the ghost Cody •from The otoer animal since' and I lupe
Cor
lirotheta. I shover hear thatp you but
hirw, said then little
man, het ..it navar will he.•Syd`ney payee to Out the
Litt e
mak
my flesh ereep.• le Nee,
uli
obocl volunteered. t his
y htonoiehir The following advertittement muter fire
rdee w,ta. evidently disconcerted the head of ' Wife wanted' is ir, a they
ice and tz"entlemeih, he said, if no. Batesville, Akk,. pipet.: Any i;el' ,nus
Wiltoblige mos 1 shall (so Unable to• e'I:at's got a lied, a coffee pot and a Hie
you this • "'ittreteetini;- experiecee, skillet, knows liotvtocut out breeek+e$, lead
n he epoeeled to my wife.-eku,utake a huaitine pfdifte and knows epee
dtittle, het said, vote would confer an . hoar to bike mire of dltltsren, can have .tad
Milli) On M e' if yeti would ;otue to my sorvices until death parts both of ,t r
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13U't' YOU' N5'.'Ilt FINA TitE•• awn er -er.
The drummer always brings the tat•
est trick. Here it is, lays. the Lewis.
ton, Me., d onrnai
Toho a spool of white basting cot-
ton. .Drop Moto your inside peat
pocket sand, threading a needle with it
peas it np through the - shoulder of
ttetas tFi� tl hellcat- of la 'ft --
which ie required for its i,t,urielapl;, ee
Williiun A, Hnuon .nd,
AN ASK =C c flelt14 .. -•.•,,
Cartons Uabinaieuty, lt;pnur}•s *ad, 0004
to.t,N of rift Miat ;utih►ta Ship's throw.
The' British steamship Astor Hall,
which arrived here a few days ago front
Liverpool with a cargo of saleand pboew
your +Vat .and take off the needle.. and Cr•ehs now
wharf,, is th eod j the tourQueen
s is the ol+lect of touch
Ji' ur men out offiva will: try to pick ' interest in the Third {district at present,
that whale thread out of your sgouldai, The cause of attraction in the crew of the
vessel, one of do most unique ,seen here/
for some time, ooauiopolitanr as flow Or..
leans rightfully claims to be. The salt-
ors in. question comphise forty -sir io-
hanhirhedans, whose garruents of white:
cotton with red turbans for lieadje •
contrast strongly with the copper col,
ored visages of the wearers., The wetilth-
er yesterday was not pertiealarly° warm.
and the sight of the crew as the wei';e.
of the play. Everybody was rapt. I j at work clischargiug the cargo In sin*,
was sittiue bolt upright, and didtet mer attire was ihiculated tapend a shill
know or cater to knew a tical around down the back of the nuoet'indifferent
ns, when suddenly I felt some one (• observer; The peculiarities t4f the petty
tugging; at that besting cattorp that [ l e, their dress, but also apply to their
however, are not confined exclusive. -
myself had clean:forgotten. I did not
say a 'word and did not move. Foot by
foot it unrolled. Half glancing around
I sae' a man --a. total stranger -..yanks-
ing at that thread. Ilia faue was
scarlet. He had puiled out about ten
and will pull oil the spool until it
actually does seam as though your
clothes were all timings, and that
they were unraveUiug not only .your
clothes but'yourself,
I was in to see Wilson Barnett in
Claudine in Boston last week, said
the travelling clan. 11 was in the
Most interesting and pathetic portion
bablts and customs, which are even moi^o
markedly singular, They eat no beef
muspork, o prepgred,�coo ed m dhaeyr
by people of their own roue.
Two casks are ,employed by the ship,
yards and was now hauling in hated fur this purpose. They fare principally e
over hand, He didn't dare, to stop upon rice and curry, huge pots of which
end serve4
because he had decorated ney book 1 with u varare cooked ying monfor otony for ,rea.ttfast,''
and. the whole aisle with cohort bast
ing. He hardly ,dared go ahead, for !dinner and supper. The rich is'boiled
he didn't know what part of tlsy ! potindedr in tlhe primitimethodsve style and e whish
domestic interior euononay lie was l prevailed among them a thousand years
trifling with Rip ! Rip ! He yank. ago. A queer irlea'with tient ir! thatthry
ed it in. The aisle was full of it. hand of the stranger is sacrile iqus and
For tfeavens sake 1 will it never endi'.contaminates their food, 'which would
said he above his breath. I sat par -1 be intmec iitteIy disdained if ever sub,
feetly etil! and ran.the spool while he 'Jetted totlie simple touch of tiny other
pulled.: How I , wanted
to "yell:. 1 i race. This also applies to;theirl cooking
nexer saw anyt hfrtg half 80 funny, : utensils and all cooking implements ern -
They didn't know :whether to laugh at •they eat by
but the slicem. Sometimes for
a'mu go a
me or hien, and some looked on ,aniaa-;p must be
ed at th® spectacle, At cast • the k,lled by their butcher secretly, so that
� even the eye of the Christian map not
stranger gave one frantic rip and gaze upon the slaughter,
yanked out abort- 11 yards on one ! - With some tribes of the race the Mea
bunch, and as the cotton got- twisted , is even carried still further, the shadow,
around his watch chain, 'over hie , of a Christian falling upon their food
eyeglasses, in his very hair and filled' unfittini; it for use. A visit to their
his lap, I turned around and pruritic -
revealed quarters
iter inteheforwardendof the ship
ing the spool from ' hay pocket said : fact that,. though cleanli.
I ant very much obliged for your ;aces is one of the injunotiong of the 1,20-
ints;rest and very eget) that } misled 1 homed f faith, they were palpably>ig-
you: You see that I have about 124 sake. of its desirability fCr .its overt RS
yards Ir£t, but I resume that 1'sa,lre. Tile room in which .they were': ,
p you , gathered at the evening meal war their'
don't care for any more to -night. I sleeping quarters, and also served, as a
am Iso,Iebtiy sorry; but I can't helg' smolrih,groom anti pantry, as revealed
smiling, i y portions of a quartered sheep,
b
was suspended frm the ceiling;' which
The air was heavy with tlho fames of
The. man wan a modest ssirt of gen.
tleinan in appearance. FIN face was
red as fire even to has errs. He looked l tobacco smoke of a dued from cheroots, which such ofllar flavor, prv.:.`'
sages;,then at the spool. I3eoltau:e3urlh of the
p ! sailors who, lead finished their evening
calor once or twice, and then^ as 'the;•
crowd caught on a big laugh event op
right in one of the painful passages of
Cllatdian, and the gentleman who
had intended to pull that thread of
joined in the laugh and said, I will
square that up on my wife when I'get
home; but, my friend, .1. swear to
heaven that I did think at one erne'
that I was going to undress you where
you sats. It catches every time, and
my own wife has been fooled twice on
it.
To *lake the Heart t5trong.
Now.there is but one legitimate way
f taking; the heart strong. ,That
s by taking regular, systematic and
uifficieirt muscular exercise, into
hich climbing heights or staircases
niers as a prohhiineut feature, Let a
erson who Jidda his pulse increasecl
fty to sixtybeats in a Minute after
minting a staiteice climb a intndred
eircases day after ua^v for a month or
ore and he will find that the exer
ori does not add ten -beats tce the
cental nutnnber.of his heart throbs,
be exercise has acted upon this vital
gan just as it dots on the biceps of it
PR' fighter or ra blecks,nitlr, and ;
rength and the capacity for endur
ee ht}s beent'the result.
But this is not all the good that tvifl
gained by climbing a,hunctredsticir-
see qday --say fifty 'utile morning
d I ftyr in the sfteriiooii. Doubtless
o person with a weak heart has
were puffing; rigorously. Perhap10.,.
one of the most curious features of the
reporter's visit was the sight of these ..
people at supper. Eight or tent ,inert
'were seated tailor fashion around a Largo
basin of rice, in the center of 'which.
was a cure- sauce of about the consist-
ency of honey,
The Erindoostanese would dip hinright
hand into the dish, unmindful of table
etiquette, and, rolling up into r wad
about a handful of the rice, wculdflavot'
it with a little curry and then transfer
tihe.nrorsel'to'his mouth, His neighbor
would then proceed to do`likewise, until
the whole ci:roole was eoinpleted, The
interpreter, who, accoinpanied the're-
porter, stated that the Wren never used
the left hand in eating, and.. that before
and after each meal, they cleaned their.,
mouths thoroughly. •
They possess fine teeth, a distinguish
ing feature which is found even among;
the aged. While tho Mohammedan creed
enjoins that they shall offer. prayer to
.Allah four or Sive tales a day, they hared, .
sntiorlike, grown indiffereut to the' strict
decreescleanly, of their religion. They arb ver
however; and bathe every day,
no Wetter how cold the tveetiher fnaybe.,
They are, of course, teetotaIists, it being
a breach of their religious faith to touch
the' tempting arras, ':
As gaiiors, they were safc to.compare
'nthfav'orably with the 1;nglish its propos
tions of four to one, adds in oases or �.
emergency two 1Jngli'sh batons were
worth a boatload ot tlae. This teas:
due to the fact that they were fatalists,
pure and simpte,aod that nothing could
alter the mysterious vierkings of Al
Tho ltehanrnedans speak only R'indoo'
der ed more ter less froth what is stamen, and were engaged` at Bombay.
led nervous d less in'. His food about three ntonthtc ago, thh agreement,
teas. of being properly digested, has 'sh' shipping articles being ore. • they en linanityfetrneuted in his stomach should Lon retained twelve
to' thatnport at the
1 bas caused Iiia vttiiona thncorufor. .At egery nett/ mOOli tli 4t;
bli'feelitsge, which lin: has been .in and sing, Their the;cisiaises be e.
hlti',it.o£ attributing -to s beehi in helda'ksunrise and sunsetxerchses being
the proper e. i ot`ovly have This is tho fihxt' trip of the sten hi'
h'un gyred rxtiriates or sn spent in Astor Bail to this port, Navin
it
ttltnug staircasr.s put strength into ou y been eng ag od iir.tlhe L�orihl y
Loge, expanded his chest and saved ire T•lverpool. -•Neat/ drleaaaT#rtie
heart from fatty degeneration, butt "�`�".'�
have given tette act lint abdominal `-y-+•
cies and to filet digestive organs, Rgv :curliest WGodswor
f sod lid longer dice like a lung) of holt► Superintetiderat of tb` of=iy
in iia etoniaoli, torpor has ells- .storm, has caws to Ohrt iolJOdiet biro.
aves from (What; wA phybit.ans call the .next few I1,ol,tl a tel +acing
which for the Saito of delicacy, Weretittgs alis preaoliii,g sea f'r'i"c
utast tines' denignat s abed: j lhhg flue interviste of inflssi,u,s its Mxnlfpba
°rustle, tissce31L) ,brad his •aystnu.t.alis Hitt ivltll•wt;new
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