Wingham Times, 1891-09-04, Page 2•
FRIDAY, SEPTEMSER 4. ti9L
George and Reuben.
Two brothers monad Green.—
George and Renben—were seen
At work overy dity in their mill.; •
And outside the seeks,
Bulged in old.fuehiened stacks!
Their industry showed and their will.
All day ran the wheel,
Turning corn into mel—
Upon them prosperity smiled;
The money Tolled* in
With a musical dM—
A din which their hearing beguiled.
Yet once Reuben thought,
As his cottage he sought
4I'm tired of the a bore.
With my money I know
To the town I may go,
And quickly naake fifty times more.
Into stoats I shall ge ;
Then no labor know, •
And the money will roll in in a trice.
My praise all will knell ;
Like a nabob, I'll dwell
In a palace of fabulous price."
He asked George to join
In his venture for coin,
Blzt George simply laughed and was
still ;
_And that very night
. Reuben sold out his right
To his brqther, and left the old mill.
'eTo the city be went,
With his prospects content.
„Saying mills never tum Fortune's
wheel;
-While George from the morn
Watched the kernels of; corn
And the oats turn to saleable meal.
Reuben went into stocks,
And he felt fortune's shocks --
For all he invested he lost.
His capital low
'ero his vision did show
'Tbe sum his experience cost.
He fretted all day,
Became haggard and gray
And cynical, though in his prime ;
He never dreamed that
George was.jolly and fat,
While the mill ran along on full time.
The story is told
Soon he squandered his gold—
He's as poor as a church -mouse to- day ;
He walks through the street
went home and asked her to eatilt a tell the truth, 1 didn't believe ie of
fine nseal for leitn, she wOutd, do it you, Or 1 woleldn't have come leere•and
cheerfully. sanetioned puttinglou to so much
ThO young men Were all in that treuble. I just wanted the fun. ot
convivial state when reason had not seeing Donald'"brags about his wife
her full away, and anything strange or come to nothing,
improbable takes the fallOY• Dontikl's eye $ flashed fire at this
They at.one caught at the proposis epeech, he half rase from his chair,
tioXand went with Donald to his but sat demi again, evidently putting
lame. It was R01110 testi miles distant, a trang restraint upon hilneelf,
and they made the cold, frosty air Mary leoked at Lawrie in surprise
ring with their hilarious mirth fer a as he spoke, area smiled faintly, aps
time. " parently thinking a reply unnecessery,
Then Lawrie an James began to But Donald spoke up suddenly,
feel uneasy and ashamed at the thought speak out, Molly, and satisfy the
of their errand. and they tried to fellow. What does make you so will.
dissuade Donald from it. but his pride ing to do anything that your wild
was aroused, He would not hear of Donald asks of yon I
a retreat,and being the stronger nature Mary flushed painfully at•hia words.
he carried his point. She had been brought up in Friend's
His wife same to the door. She faith, wherein an evapion is considered
looked at hien doubtfully, evidently a lie. A question put directly to her
fearing to find hint in the mausitin she felt compelledlo seesiver truly,
state whieh, alas ! was too often hie whether it should oceftdoei pleasure
condition. or anger.
Her face brightened suddenly when
she heard him say in his natural voice:
Well, 11:1011ye here I am. The bad
penny back again,- and two others to
keep me company.
At this rather ambiguous introd action
Lawrie and James bowed sharnefaced-
ly, and Mrs Le Brun said pleasantly':
I alas glad to see you. Come in.
That we will,Molly,if you'll promise
to get us some supper. I'm hungry
as a bear. Tell Jane to hurry up the
fire.
Jane has gone to her mother's for
the evening ; but I will get your sup-
per, Donald.
All right, Hurry up. Come boys,
Jet us have a game of dominoes while
we're waiting.
As Mrs Le Brurs left the room,
Donald toned to his companions
triumphantly.
I.. -
With old shoes on his feet—
A picture of wreck and decay. told you so. That girl would go
'
I
* * * * I through fire and water for me, and
By peace and content—
uucomplainingly, too. •
Had be known what' is meant—
To-day he full happy would feel; I sell you what,Donald,said Lawrie,
He'd bomerry and fat,
And he'd wear a white bat,
And his wealth would roll on with the
retool.
Though sad bis fate,
He's but met the harsh fate
Of them upon every hand
Who leave what they know,
And pig-headedly go
Into something they dont understand.
--R. K. Munkittrickr.
ANUNEXPEOTED•ANSWR,-
BY MARY D. MORPATT.
Now, Donald, I doubt but you are
fooling. No wife would do diet for a
lean, no inatter hew Much she thought
of him, cavernous fireplace, 'in which hickory
the shoe ought tt"ilitiee :the other foot.
If I had a wife like that—
Wait till you get one, and then
preaCh, said, Donald, laughingly, ,hut
something in his tone warned Lewrie
to say po more, and they were soon
engrossed in their game.
An hour passed before „Mary Le
Brun came in: •
Come, Donald, all ikready,she said
pleasantly, an led the way to the
kitchen.
It was an immense room, with
strings of dried peppers hanging in
glossy reefestoons across the huge,
The Young man addressed sprang logs were sending out a cheerful light,
'up from his seat. as they snapped and cracked in cone
Go with me, James, and yon, too, suming. Strings of dried apples and
Lawrence Ring, and 111 prove the of pumpkin, kept them company 'as
trteth of my words. If Mary Le Brun well as flitches of bacon and noble
does not cheerfully get us op a supper looking smoked hams, All told of a
fit for a prince, at my asking— late careful, industrious housewifee
thongli it be—you may set me down The table,. too, was covered eith
for a conceited idiot. • snowy cloth and on it, was a daintily
All right, We'll go. And if the prepared repast. Everything was
mistress does as you say, she's an perfect in its way.from the crisp brown
argel and mesh an exaeting man as of the coachicken to the pale green
you are is not worthy of her, of the pickles.
The speaker was -Lawrie King, a Mrs Le Brun poured out a eup of
fine manfyelooking fellow, whose faro fragrAnt.Moeha for each of her geests,
would have been pleaeantto see had it and then seated herself at a eonve-
not carried upon it the trace e of diss nient distant* with her knitting. For
sipation. a time little was laid as the tempting
the three were boon companions viands. disappearede• Then Donald
• and had been since their boyhoed. i called out:
ads sorry to say that the innocent fun Cups aro empty, Molly.
and mischief of that tient: had degene And his wife came and refilled
* erated into cerdeplaying and a fond-' thetn.
nes,s•for the iutoxicating cup in their Lawrie was the must impulsive of
Matinee years the party, and many thoughts had
Donald Le Bran was. the only one seethed thrieigh his busy brain as he
of the three me had married. • As it eat at the teble.
is often the case, he had won the heart, _Now, as he looked at the comely
of a girl who deserved a better fate. face of the hostess, he saw Woes of
She was pretty and eapsble as the sadness about it, underlying all its
neighbors welled it, and managed her studied cheerfulness iof expression.
dairy with prime success. Her butter He said saddenly, not stopping to
and eheests• the aye eoininanded the think whethei•o not -Donald would be
bigheat merket peice, pleased:
Through all of Donala's exeesses ' What makes you eo kind and pains.
she had bever given him an angry taking, Mrs Le trim "i There ient't
ward, and he had evee now ben intik- one woman ist t•housand who would
ing spirit in drawing bis Mende into
following after the devices of the mat
enemy of eoule, and he was the chosen
instrument, with the blessing of God,
for their eonversion.
They are . now eteadY, welko-do
men, with young families growing up
like olive brenalies around thens.
Their ph at church is never
vacant and no unanswered call is
made upon their plethoric purses.
Charity and religion go with theus
band in hand and are the leading
principles of their live. As.to
Miry Le Brun, husband and children
rise up and call her blessed, and her
earthly life is a foretaste, In its calm
happiness, of the joys which are in
store for those accounted worthy of
the kingdom of heaven,
A Good Reference.
Jelen was fifteen, and wanted a des
sirable place in the office of a well.
know lawyer, who had advertise& for
a boy, but doubted his success beeause,
It was the first time ,that Donald beingoe stranger in the city, he had no
had asked her -such a question, and
he watched her face expectantly,
thinking to hear an answer pleasing
to his self-love.
Mary's reply came upon him like
references.
I'm afraid. Pit stand h poor chance,
he thought, but I'll try„and appear as
well Its I can, for that inay help.
So he was careful to have his dress
a thunderbolt in a cloudless sky. In
and person neat, and when he took
her embarrassment at having to give
utterance to the painful trutii she
unconsciously assumed the quaint
Quaker dialect.
Because I love thee, Donald, and it
is my wish that thou shouldst have
inueli comfort in this world; for surely
thou wilt have sorrow and tribulation
in the world to Come,; for it is written
that no drunkard shall see heaven.
Her words struck, upon Donald
like a conviction. It seemed as though
a subtle influence vibrated through
the truth which he had evoked from
the lips of his quiet uncomplaining wife.
Night after night rose accusingly
in his memory, the • visions - of the
gal -11341g table arid of the fierY, soul-
destroying draughts which had 6tina••
ulated frehi one .mad excess tts,
another. "He had surely bartered. his
hopes of salvation for a mess of pot-
tage. s,
An interval of some moments elapse
ed. It seemed an eternity to Mary.
Love anti obedience to her bus -
band had been her ruling puSsion, and
she feared theeeffect of her words up-
on him.
At last Donald roe to hie feet and
r
-moved towards his rife. Lawrie and
James knew of his hasty temper, and
fearing they knew riot what, rose also.
What was theii surrrisO to see
Donald put his arm about Mary's
waist, and draw. her to him.
Is it so, felony W Then by Him who
made me, you Wall have no more
fears for my sou.,
His solemn Manner gave his words
the effect of a more formal attestation,
and his really.fine face lit up with a
tram of enthusiasm as he looked from
one to the other.
. .
Whas-do Ye''''••• say. boys ? Shall we
give, a happy heart to this kind little
woman, and sign the pledge? Why
not be chums in aineridnient a$ we
have been in our wild frolics
No second appeal' was necessary.
The more enthusiastic Lawrie ileew
James forward.
Get the papers, Mrs Le Brun,
sign, and so will James here, too, I'll
speak for hies. °
It was enough, Mary Le Brun
felt a lightnesel of heart to which she
had long been a etranger, as she wen
to the Oldefashioned desk where
Donald kept his accounts,and brought
from it writing materiels.
Donald signed bis name in bold
characters, then jamas, and lastly,
Lawrie.
Now, Molly, pray for us, that we
may not fall into tetnptation and geed advise and hottest praise, Never uppear to nottce a Scar, "de,
break our promise, i fertility, or defect any one present.
1 will, Donald, r watt Not is day eawieg to the uopreceuented Aemitiol for ! Never refer to a gift,you, have made,
shall pass that I do not thank God irriete6.gInte8s'Itrahlltuaigneda reititrblYtein otierciNaueafvlitnevrtuirrorYelitt,ivttliiaLtoleteolt.utTonicijteoil'o6isidp.0-134fk an
for this great lo.ppincsn, and ask Uhyl fortueately triacle a warted before well -
advance for a Yore considerable; ges,nt'ty,
to belp you keep in the path of iight., este are time enabled to offer disk patrloa, "•""
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hie turn to be interviewed, went in
with his hat in his hand, and a senile
on his face, •
The keen.eyed lawyer glanced him
over from head to foot?.
Good face, he thought, and pleasant
ways.
Then he noted the neat suit—ltut
other boys had appeared' in new
clothes—saw the well -brushed hair and
clean -looking skin. Very well, but
there had been others here quite as
cleanly ; another glance showed the
finger -nails free 'from soil.
Ah 1 that looks like thoroughness,
thought the lawyer..
Then he asked a few direct, rapid
questions, which John answered as
directly.
Prompt, was, his mental . comment ;
•.
speak out when necessary. Let's
can sp
bee,yeur writing, he added aloud.
John welt the pen,and wrote his
resin e. •
Now what references have 3 ou ?
The dreaded question*, lest 1
John's face fell. He had begun to
feel so hopeful of suCeess, hut this
dashed, it,
I 1i -haven't any, he Added slowly ;
I'm almost a stranger in the city.
Can't take a boy without references,
was the brusque rejoinder, and as he
Crossing tie Atlanti6,
First Passenger $plenclid trip,
captain.
GaDtain—Yes, Sir.
First Passenger—In about what
time do you think we will make the
trip •
ceptete—In about mix (lavas Willa
say,
Second Passenger—(meeting cap*
tain)--Magnificent trip, Captain,
Captain—Yes.
Second Passenger—What will be
the time do you stenos°
Captain—About six days, I should
say,
Third Passenger—(meeting captain)
We are having grand weather, cap-
tain, and making pretty good time,
eh ? •
Captain—Yes.
Third Passenger—What will be the
time, or can't you tell 'I
Captain—About six days.
Foarth Passenger—tmeeting cap.
taini—Morning captain. This is 07
what I call nice. Making splendid
time.
Captain—Um !
Fourth Passenger—Get over about
the eighth day, guessi
Captain—Sixth.
Fifth Passenger — Yea, indeed 1
About five days, I . presume, What
do you think
Captain --Hum ! Six !
Sixth Passenger—(meeting captain)
Captain, you are doing wonders.
Captain (desperately)—Yes, we are • ,
having good weather, making splendid
time; and shall get over about the
sixth day.
Seventh Passenger '(naeeting cap-
tain)—Ah, Captain
Captain—Yes; we shall get over.
about the sixth day. •
Eight Passenger—meeting captain)
—Captain
Captain—Yes. Excuse me one
minute.
The captain retires to his stateroom
and presently recppears with a sheet
of paper in his hands, _which he pro-. •
coeds to tack to the mast. The paper
reads :
The weather is delicious, We are
malting splendid time and having a
-grand trip. Barring accidents we
shall make the fttin about six days.
Some Good Rules.
Never exaggerate. .
Never point at another.
Never betray a confidence.
Never wantonly fritgliten others.
Never neglect to call upon friends.
spoke a sudden thought sent a flush Never leave hotel() with unkind
to fohn's cheek. words.
I haven't any references, he said,
with hesitation, but here'e a letteefrom
mother I just received, •
The lawyer took ib e • It was a short
letter :
MY DDAn JOEN,-LI Want to remind
you that whenever ,you find work you
must consider that wok your own.
Don't.e,o into it, as some Lys do, with
the feeling that yeti will do as little as
you can, and get sonsethin,g better
soon; but make upyour mind you will
do as much as possible,and ;make your-
self so necessary to ,yoar employer that
he will never let yon go
You have been a good son to me.
Be as gdod-in business, and J. atu Sure
God will bless your efforts:
said ,the lawyers reading it
over the second" time:" That'll pretty
good advice, John—excellent advice ! Never read letters that yoti may find
addressed to others.
. Never fail, if a gentleman, of being
polite and civil to ladies.'
Never call attentimi to the features
Never laugh at the: „inisforttme of
others.
Never give a promise which you do
not fulfil.
Never schid a preseut, hoping -for
one in return.
Never speak muciel, of your own
performances.
Never fail to be puhctual et the
time appointed.
Never make yourself the Leto of
your own story, , •
Never pick the teeth or clean the
nails in compatiy.
Never fail to give a polite answer
to a civil question.
Never question a servant or child
,about family aflairs.
Never present a gift saying it is of
no use to yourself. , '•
I rather think I'll try youeeven with -
nut references.
John has been with him five years,
and last spring was admitted to the
bar.
Do you intend taking that young 1 or feint of any one present.
man into partnership 7 asked a friend
lately.
Yes I do. I couldn't get alone
without John.' s •
Aticl John always says the best
referenee he ever had was a mother's
Never associate with bad company;
ilaVa good company or none.
Never look over the shoulder of
another who is reading or writitig.
is t season a(em e vautega !nue, 1
It proved to be is turnmg poinkbsence makee the heart grow
hag the boast that, late as it was, if be, do as you have this evening, and to ' Donald's life. He bad been the feed.; viously imported» t in the quality being superior aity ever pre- ,
fonder. - 5O do presents,