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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1890-09-05, Page 2ellefeety • • c01414m Chiles FRIDAY,. SEPTBMBER, 5, 1890. -zieett eon e or the aleatteeatta" mq day wee earn, the sky was bright, Proqfecte seemed so lair, Wile it dseave'round with splendor glowed, A.ua balmy was Me eta Oat trona the harbor with her Cove The Ittanitouhu Ver ou the bright and sparkling lake Their gallaut boat they hailed. Smoothly she o'er the water glides, tier captain's pride was she, 0 nobler ocat had crossed the lake, Or sailed the foaming sea. But who will tell her awful fate, Wes site driv, by storm Oa ta bold ro3ky coast, Or by the Wil tempest torn? The ceetain, ate and engineer . withh, weir power To save the of those on board, In that distre.,4ing hour. erne, from her side with hurried step Into thu lac coats flew, Wbilo otleers in the water plunged, And struggled bravely through, But, alas I for those who were left behind, To linger there and die; With none to soothe their dying mans, Nor hear their pitying cry. What words can tell, what artist paint, What poet can describe The agonies that they endured, each in turn they died f:lorne in the imorning of life's day, Their path so little trod ; *Yet sweeter far than earthly joys, Resting with their God. Others who reached.the noonday hone, And passed throtightoil and care, Oh, may they join that glorionisbandi, Those heavenly blessings share. There, too, was the uew made bride, Like summer's fairest flowers. Which blossom on the mountain side, • And in the shady bowers. Her rosy cheeks turn ghastly pale, Those loving eyes at. bright B'er long will be forever closed Front Natttre's sun and light. One glance at him who was so dear. She faints within hie arms, And there they perish in the flames, Amid life's fairest charms. Together here on earth they died, Together may they soar Unto that bright and happy land, Where mortals weep no ;flora. lama to. TWA% nn the other hated, disliked the lierrieee, so thee she often (ought herself regarding the Ltawries with a favor springing wholly ion to her IltlabitnCre out of her utters . The old couple were PS dry with their visitors as the visitors were grad - one with them. When Andra Lowrie visited Omah- a% be, could Dever make enough of Sandy. xlerris, and told his most in- terestmet stories with 'mollified good haID,Ort (Well When. he got bat slender enconrageMent to proceed. Weel, ye seta said Andra, oats evening, Tam Roy has been courtiue, b'et Implito interj taw, Sandy, dry. • Bet ib' the lang length they leucite. Invitee, with a prolonged and noisy yawn from Sandy. And then Tam fell in wi' his first two went to Royston market tegetheee raistrese. whenever Tibbie had got the butter. Sandy drew his 1Pg up, speaping the and eggS off her hande, she set of to floor totally with his heel ; but Andra Mr. Dempster, the writer, to get ilea held bravely on his. way,— will made. When she arrived Mr. But she was a very feckless body. Implim, with another yawn, and. Sandy rose and stretched himself. . . . he asked for Andrit's benefit.. It's the sanctum. After a little the door very thought yet her in a raze The. two watehed eget/ other Tihtne put away money on her own account and Rawly kheve it, Ile could not help himself, awl, to Make matters more aneourfortehle for lana proposed a divide, a 'proposal which only a seek on !ale hack- with limeete ° he imagined she kept twice es ranch afe she tactually did. In despair he *inanity itself. There's a gude-fort I Wad tt be cheaper to keep him heething wea-lerinte, bairn ehaes eewei bin aleg ? in about wi" .ittething noir thert a seek Weel, taking athing into areonot, oh his WWI ; What wad ye do wi' the II wad titty keep hitt'; bet peeler yoa% that, I.:Lindy Beane? Reid hie to eel, andflu..m. monnio, with ee 1110011 severiiy in hn' ANa ebeet the leo ihOlIgh the Child bed broetai ; beef% Anti ye mean hao yeee. Hay ill. the Teti Commandments in bevinl.7 the tejeteert fur Pal bee the 'host ado Tihnie jumped at, Better than line a tatudy looked. at the child, observe Aweel, tlfen,I think we mieht hop heck door to ;your hoose that there's ed his Miserealo etate and Ilia fright- him for a wlitle a 1 we aee at onyrate. nac keeping whet ivies 001 o',elie gruin, eried,, startled gaze, and thought -1 lino point being settled, Sandy got bled, They, divided their goods in the Shtell tom beet!, ringitat on him, no, I down the Bible to reed a chapter bs. bons'„ in the field, in the }tyre ; they ever stunt he came in ; he's bean a I fore going to bed. After the chapter divided theimpapy hi the bank and foretwort o't, pine abaci) 1 But 1 dinna was read he glsoced across tp Tibbie opened separate accounts ; neither see 1100 we tomtit na keep the oreatnre, with a ceelous light in his eye, and the Harrises nor the LOWilea would Antl When Ile 'Oohed agate pity master, with a ttemulotis voice he Said --dltuja get everything. ed him, and he reeolved, ru keep Intit ye mind 'Nibble, when we had, ter ain But such eithan and Jacob:arrange. although it should cost IBA ten o' my Willie we aye bad a prayer ategither e moms briog little censfort ; they felt teeth. But 111 Imo to he nanny and tnichb, we, the nicht ? roe answer Tin; there was something, wanting to their eraw Tibbie richt, or hen nor hae the bie gravely bent her liee,d and kneite ' sepurity yet. One•Friday, when the life of a dog. So Sandy looked. un- down.% and Sandy got through a con ptopitioutly. upon the child and milted fused prayer, which brought the tear to the eyes of botha-a prayer to Jesus, gruffly- .•e.' NV hat's your name ?:1. • of Nozareth, wbu kept aviiet it was to, Willie, wetiepered the child, shrink- be homeless end shelterless himself, to, line into 1hteeornera send a blessiug on the helpless lanunie that had come to their door, and to gie them grace -to fend for the help - fess ween for 1118 ain ealre. The two, made a parting vita to the. little. sleeper.and then went off to their own . bed, Sandy thinking.: Tibiae's are tine a creature as there is in Noran. wie proper management, k and I ken hen, to humour her gin ouybody does. Tibhie tl'ought—If it had nut been for. me what would hie come of Sandy Berris ; 1 line led him and keepit him,. right for nearly half a century ; hat a mieht be thankful 1 ran manage hini, for there's no anither wumman I' the, country side gar .him put tie fit by ateither. ..From this night Sandy and Tibiae. were. changed e there were no morel() bickerings Ewa jealousies, no More di' visions of goods, and even the Low - :nes and Herris, s got a kindly, wel- ters were progressiug, and libbie ot come. 'Whits had changed everyabing once brindled up. . and yet the Lowries and If errises were more displeased than before, and, agreed that that iubearin wratote :should he drooned in the Miran. A A.year or two after their first asit to Mr. Dempster, Sandy and ' . bie• called upon him to change their wills. One will was enough , for both now, and they left all to their adopted seri, ' Willie Elerris, But, Mrs. Herne, said l'ilte. Demp- eter, with a smile, blood is thickee than water, you told me on your Isse visit. Alai there's something thicker than, bleicleMr. 1 lempster replied Tibhist. A sew weeps aet6r'ivards the Herris- es and Lowries were informed of the , new, will, they are now great friends41110 al thengh they were enemies befOre,and, - they, ?mar visit Outhe.l.s. Dempster was engaged, but the office- That \Viltie went to both hearts boy gavtalter a seat by the fire till his it,ithough they dteaed not show it, roaster was' free. Tibbio could hear Thirty years ago they had a the °maternal murmur of voices in and their . old veithered hearts gree tender as they heated the name again. jieet real ill-naeure4 with the puir thing, thought Tiebiee but that makes me mair positive; will keep him, • Ye mann gie hien hie dinner, any wey, gude wife, and you could mebbe reek out a steak or tete, to deed him, for he canna ;:wee1 sit that way. That'll put him ower the efternoon, and then wog' see what can be dune with him, and Salley went away to take a turn at the flail while his oxen rested after .their yoking. Tibhie immedielely set about bathing in warm Wateil the ;vendee limbs of the waif, And her aeart overflowed with motherly tenderness .to• hirn. Sandy took a look to to see bow map Thet cloelt's slow, gm& wife, is it no •, ferret. on in the night. than ane wad think, • And she didna la.st 1/1141,. Weel, opened and out stepped bandy Herne, and when. he cast his eyes on hie wife he strata in the doorway as eta as a when she slipped awa'what disna !pillar of salt. Tibbteatood ap with •Tam 2 In spite of himself Sandy wanted to hear the end of Andra's story. Distal, het slip yont by in the gloam ing to Bet 'Ottird and tells her, I'm 4, free noo, Det; stop your carrying on • wi• Adam Glennie, and after a decent lithe we'll begin oor eoortini again whaur we loft aff. Wee!, disna Bet set Adam to the richt aboot the very twist nicht ; an' non she is Tern's •second wife,.There was only each - teen month atween his ceuarrel with Betty and his rnarriage till .her. Ye see it was an unto short courting his first wife got, and so'she eouldna •expect a lang mom:Irina Sandy tele this was a good . story 'about Bet, end be would tell her it the 'eret time he met her; but he was not to encoarage Andra any further. So he once more got up and retnaaked-- Just ye gae ore wi' your havers to • the gtieleeette thew I Mann r.away to eupper the shale., The Lowries, the .oulder they get they giow the todder- like,he mattered to himself when once Ise got out:: but I ken fine what brings the trifle of „Lowries and Her - rises here. Gan there were tette diet there wad be nae diet flees. ,and I tote come for a like ereand. Mag Herne was wonderfully grac Non the Eft -nista ere an inbearin' set taus to Tiebie, and., walen Mag was Wet 1 °lama thole joist; and my tneee's excelling herself Tibbie's mental set on Bien them Mat peony. bat no a conantent was, Ay, my teddy, 1 ken foondid get thee free ine,mind.A'thing, what ye are thinking of ; and 'Nibble to the Lowries, for bluirl's thicker was not taken in. than water ony day. So the wills Ye ken, Tibbie, in. there's any- were made out. The lierrises and thing ye need, anything I could do for Lowries made thoie usual calls, alai ye, it wad be an awful pleasure to me Tibbie and Sandy- watched eaele other to help ye. like eat and mouse. Wee", Mag, wad ye believe me, 1 About a month after the making. Of illunit a &Tip of buttermilk in the aim wills Tibbia had' gone out to the house and maim hoe bakin' of bent for straw to bed her cows, when HOOIlea this very day, or P11— she came upon somethiug white and Do ye say so, Tibbie said Mae, in wenn and evidently alive, for iD crept a state of excitement ; and before into the straw, Morey me 1 she ex - anything more was said she was up claimed,but that.eannot be cult; and and off. stretching out her hand she got hold Diana trouble yoursels, Meg, cried of .a bare foot. And if this is not a wean 1 Taking the 0j -et in her arms and carrying it to the door she saw e child shout three years old, clad in a tattered shirt, With feet and ankles torn and bleeding. 1 -le knew nothing about himself. Ile Lad been left in' the dark wood naked, mid .in terror had run through the broom and whins and had crept into the barn for shel- ter. Hoo howl inte ate bean Imre, my bairn? cried Tibbie; ana the bairn for answer closed his eyes and leaned on her breast. That wits epongh ; she was won, and she would have parted with her lie £4S soon as with the ehild. She outdo up her mind slite•woold keep him ; but how to win over Sandy tb that view bf, things! After giving him A, breakfast. of porridge. and mitlit But we lutist nob one, friend fotget, Wile Merits words of praise, 'Tis the brave wheelsroan, who displayed His courage in the blase. There, faithful at his post he stands, As noble Maynard stood, Amid the scorching flames, which throW Their tongues so high and rude. 'When all wrre safe, this gallant man Swam tor the friendly shore, As brave lloratius stemmed the tide And Tiber's sullen roar. Why need, tell ot plaudits lon;1, How joy and grief for mastery strew, nsed not tell you why. Pensvine, Oct. sallionmeSMANSO).41, TH4 FORTUNE, HUNTE1PeS. PERGUS '1i1ACTIENZITe.. There witara "standing puzzle in the Cruise, which was warranted to fluor all hut "leaves. If it is twa, miles frac the Oruisie to Couthels in dry weather, how far is't in wet 1 The answer WAS five ; and this extraordin ary answer was capable of a reason able explettation. In dry weather, when Neale. ..st.a at its ordinary Tibiae, in a tone not to be heard. m level, the treve lee- could cross by the to ca' the limn in an oor or sae. ford ; but, when it was in flood, he When Meg returned with a pitcher of buttermilk, boa and out ne breath, she featel Tibbie busy at the churn. .eucum. need to fash, Mag. Did nit;bar me cry after ye 1 was to *ire 4ir a bit butter oily way? Na„, a„iu no' neeeine, youv buttermilk. hat. plenty of brew fresh • in a half hour. auist ye take it barna, leyes and mouth agape, as though she :had seen her husband's wraith:. • Tibbie 1 exclaimed, Sandy. Sandy ! gasped Tibbie. Sandythought. She hasfollowed me, 09. Tibhie thnught. Has jaloosed me, and has played this trick upon Me,, She was the,firet to regain her self possession and to take' in the true Oat() of the case. Ay. Sandy, orad ye tbocht to he eforehttnd wi' me, did ye? but there are two that can play at that game. 1 has some sale' business wi' Mr. Dempster myself, and without deign- ing another word, eo her husband ..she swept past him into Mr. Dempster's eciona When Mr. Dempster beard Tibbiete business he weut into , another room to laugh. The riesiees ef the movie were so much alike, and yet so differ- ent. - Sandy's husioess had been, Noo Mr, Dempster, (sauna bide thee Lawries by ony. I want the Flereises to get ilka stick atid rissona for there's tey,e a something Lt e kin ; but lebxoy gear gang hod it may. no hawbee to the Leweitraanind. Tibbie's had been, Yell bite been makin' oat Saedy'seeill Ye see therefis mut use of putting wenn things tal him withoot a gude dookin' ta let him, get the gude of them,aud he witut away,thinking that Tibbie did her 0,3tly,but was unco hard in the doing o't. When Sandy came in at the close of his day's work he -missed the „child. What's come (twee the bairn 1 he ask- ed suspicioesly. Weel, be has gotten his supper„ and as he was fair forfouctien. I put him into yon shakeedoon that oor ain Willie lay in, and he's sleepine as soond as though hp hacina seen sleep for a fertnielit. lmphre 1 grunted Sandy, ' His mental comment was, Weel, Tibbie is considerate. - Tibhie heard the imphm, and in- wardly concluded the heart of a whin. hool i butter iri comparison with irty man's heart: An, hour later, when Tibhte was milltieg the stows, she though% as she glanced out at the byre door that there was a light in ,the butt end where Willie lay asleep. She crept .up to the window and peeped in, -.There was Sandy with the crnisie eirt his hand gazing eantestly into the face of the sleeping ciui1d. He lifted his rough sleeve Foal rubbed away the tears that streetned down his cheeps and when Tibbie saw thie she fled back to the byre like it mati body. .1 ken what tny man was thinkineI ken what he was thinkin' ; puir Sandy 1 she said, and her tefiee flowed too., had to Lio round by the bridge, It was not considered within the powers of human ingenuity to grees the solu- tion of title toaster -piece. To discover the key to hieroglyphics was nothin to this. • if an encht days' rain wad, A thee Lowties frae us, Tibbie, sp Couthals to his wife etre evening after Mae. a somewhat lengthened stay of Audra And Meg, ufter' a het journey of Lowrie, 1 wed bear it nee al will. four miles, hua to, carry bone her Deed ay,or keep away e pack of idle butternnik. She stalled blandly to Harriette, amid Tibhh'. with sow.: as Tibbie, but when elle got, Into the perity in her tette. I'm sure it wad wood she put down her hitcher mid - be a Rud riddei Ce, if they were a' don mutteredi She's a main irladarn that Noma thogither. Couthals' Own. Milne Was Sandy Ilarrie, and he had married Tibhie Lowrie tory yews. ago. They had had one child, but they had been elifidleee foe nearly thirty yeera, and devoted that thine, to Malting money. They were worth five or six hundred Peunde i and the Lowries and the Lowries piiri i Gin only that nuld I Herrisee of the ernieie knit+, it. So eneekdrawer We deed and buried the in dry weether they were often at f ba'A' 1"44 wed qnlne in the) way intend, ed for ttlem. And no doubt they ' Tibbie Lowrie; then she clenched her hand, 'made a few wild geeticutatione that meant death to libbieas soo- beekit roach, and elided the pro- gramme with a good ery. The Hereises said If it werena for that weld witch, Tibbie LoWrie, there wad be nee fear of tiny ; and the Oouthets. The Lowries and the Ilere tints hated each other ; hut when they net, eft they often did, at Couthala, they wore more than groats -me to one another, but tie's, got home they abutted ane aeother to thew heart's gontenf. eentlielp did not like the ffertiees, pit he would Noe olion,tori flipto otit knew what they were .spenicing about, in ri:l? ewe eetreely ,week paned evit nod ft from the Lowries and flerrises. Tihhiet and Bandy ware occupied with one fear. Gin Tibbie outlive me, the Lowries It get every penny of ; end Bandy felt if t11't hap. 'When Tihbie came in from the milking Beady was nerving himself for the conflict, and rut he was feeling more than usually tender to Tibbie and all the world, he felt he must be gruffer than ever. Weel,'wummnn, what are ye to do wi' that ben o' yours he asked in his surliest tone. There was silence for a minute or two. fie's nae bairn 0' mine, Sandy Ain', ris; what are ye to de wi' him yonrsell There watt silence tea it tninute or two. AnIkil be eetatt wey, obseeved, Sandy. How Gram Win shrine,. Farmers rarely 'gain by keeping their grain after it is fit for market, when the shrinkage is taken into account. Wheat, from the time it is tbreshed, will shrink two quarts 'to the bushel or six per cent ire six . months, in the mostjavorable citcutestances. Hence it follows that :. ninetysfour cents a bushel for wheatrtwhen first threshed ., in Septeinber is we goocl,takicg into RC.. couta the sheinAge alone, as one dole lar in the fuliowing February, Corn shrinks much more from the time it is first husked. One hundred bushels of ears, as they come from the field in• ,I November, wilt be reduced to not far .? from eighty. ;So that forty cents * t bushel for oor in the ear, as it comes from the fie d, is as good as fifty in March, shrinkage only being taken in,. to eccout. In the case of potatoes— taking those that rot and ate otherwise lost— together with the shrinkage, there is but little doubt that between October and 4nete,the loss to the own. er who holds:them is not' less thatas. thirty.three per cent. This estimate is taken on the basis at interest at 7; 1per cont and takes no account of loss by vermin. ,I Tibbie remembered the, old clotia,,e, Deed, we Oanta tioe bb n) Eitarvls re- )cIntql lithhte. His bit mast wad be neither here nor there, he plat in cautiously. It wad never he missed, chinned in Tibbie, decisively. And as for the bite of duds. he \tad need, they wad he neither here nor there. Sandy wee astonished ab his progress. We he claee thitt are not teen art of the drawers feast yeares end to year's end, end ire a kind of a ein to waste them, We could (deed hint for tang and not bo not a penny Ow. Deed, ey, atel Pee warrant you creature eottld art an errand for ye, Take, Ana not Alan behaticlen to that had lain folded up in .her chest tn- --- drawers for more than thirty years, and as she brought forth the little boots and stockings the tears rim down her withered cheeks, lier Witile would have been a grown man by this time lie had been spired. On sere and thoughts she let the child croueli by the fire the state whieli she had found, hit% Sandy was out in the limb and weird be in ion, and his fil-peel wife thought: Per be it from me to let him ken 1, etre for the bit wean ; for gin he jalonee 1 wad like to keep hire that atrange, 111411 0' mine wad rest tteithPr nicht nor day till nn perepeuted hire off a whet they croneWertal thew dee,. Paned he ofin1d. not lie in his strew. the frier the earth. So Tibbie was onibudy. / NU IKrs ot th„ iontiry, Tilibie, an the other hatai, thonaht: kindly end attentive, and hovered ever Or tnebhe herd the kyo, Sandy, 14 *Kim mond stree Deirrisa, Mu I shniild twig akttr4 ifelea in a field niothorlv way till Iler it *nisi rnebbe ha a Seving, VEMPERANCE COLUMN., 1 u 13V Tae Y. W. g. TR. u, D14 Take Care of rather. via Bennie wee oily ten, and Innen of 'gbh; age, but he was a hero, and fought Ins battle tied died e victor before hie ',eleventh birthday. I.tike wally other •dying moth re, liennie's hadlleft. Ghia •_nieitsage ; Take care of father; and <Bennie had attowered, I 'will mother. eAnd be kept his promise. The gaunt NV °If Of poverty was always lurkiug near the threeliold of the desolate room thae „Bennie called home. But the brave 'Child would not allow him 40 enter, .' lie could not do much, but the fought iiim off with all the strength :he possessal. He helped, a larger boy 44-giell papers wheuever he ceuld get away tfrom watching his father ; he did er. rands ; be held horses; lie sold apples for the old woineu who had the corner stand—in. fact, be did what he could, and trusted God for the rest, In win- ter's cold or summers heat, he was always to be found at night in the evicinity of a saloon whieli his fathei "vieited, Whether it was eighaor nine, eor tea, or eleven u'olook when • his 'tether reeled uut the faithful child was ,always ready to lead him home stifety. • Hie reward was usually curses; Boma 'times Wove; but Bennie did not Inure •naur; he would keep his promise what - 'over his father chose to do. , When Thos Dunn, Bennie's father, was sober, he seemed to care for his -iittle buy—once, even going so far es to put a Mind gently on his head, and f*ay, with a half sob, as if realizing the -child'a neglected condition; Poor boy! favor little 13eutliat But his sober moments were gettingf rare. Bennie, weary and heart-broken,bee • gan to fear that the wolf must cross 'their threshold, for it took all anis it ti e tiow to take cam of father. He 'we lways staggering around -some- where, or stumbling over something , he seemed to need Bennie every ino- -meta, One day, as the two were crossing the street,the staggering man 'Id!, and Bennie's full streagth wee ''• used to pull Win to a place of safety. In another moment Bennie's feet were 'crushed out of all shape as two run. away 4orses, drawing a heavy car- ••-riage trampled over biro. He was pick f' - ed up -gently and taken to a hospital. *wliither his sobered father followed 1,... -him. „ , Terrible days followed—daye of tphysical agony to Bennie—days ol mental torture to his repentant father 'One evening, just at dusk, Benoit opened his eyes, in which the light o reascn once more shone. eA. look o •wonder waa in his patient 4face. Ir the gloaming he could Bee the hospita 'surgeon sitting beside him, 'What dic it necan.1 Why atn I here? he atked, Lit 'voce faint and trembling with fear,, Yon were injareci, my boy,.axid w( 'had to perform an operation, answerer 'ea gentle voice. What was the operation ? His vole( 4trembling. Your feet were amputated, my Imo %child, Out off, sir, do you mean 1 Yea; cut of. 40h, sir, what will become of poo ';.fattrinel 1 pr,trnised mother Pd tak, :care ;Whim, mid—and— Dorn think aboot Met now,Bennie Attik'Said the -surgeon, his voieeshaken Wit sobs. Eel must •think a.bout it, eh; father',11 he under the horses' feet, an( mebbe killed, and he aint reiviy to.die ,Couldnettl have crutches, sir, and gi ;and find father ? Sorae.ene whom he had not nnticd( in the,dusk was knee'ing at the foot 0 his tied ; the person eow crept nearc and a sobbing voice said : You don' teed the. crutches, ilenuie, lad ; you ether's here, and he'll meter leave it Was even so ; over the faithfu child's orunhed feet, the dissipate( „ettileadiad, found Itiftway to tho,Croso Sizing 'Ens tto. An exehange has been doing something iti thin ;--earou 58.11 size up to, husineee tnau-by his ettitude to the newspapers of bio plate. 10 lie is of Certain size, he will regard the uewspe.pera as ',squatty Jae, portant 'with railways, and equally necete, eery to tho people's' prosperity. Ile 'recognize the toores et things a eowspa deem for whith it eau never renews direct temunetation. lie will think mit reasons for advertising rather than eeeedrIA ter net doing 80. et lo is oft the other colibre be will begin to psalmists whether, otter alt, lie mightn't 'gave lefty outs by getting out it SSW elltela thattrad 01 ea Vettleing 1 Ile ooktmsselodge the pros es a modern newts, sit , hold knowledgmetni to 0 VONA., thee 11 sru Ito Ipt co koo Mal hot think rt4 1' a '16#