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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1894-06-08, Page 2• 1 THE WINUTIAM TIMES, JUNE 8, 1894. THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMSTER,„ doctor told me to dig hi- the elements. impulse—who amid. ?—to follow tlw knowed him and Pete awould get . . . could converse were few; but Mis4w. 66 • -) \ it's been moat excellent for me." following it be eame preseatly into a I didn't want no more thieves raised; things going, and onee, when the • dt• 1 t I- • Time, the Saturday following the lonesome hollow, where a brook gur- so when your mother hobbled, with Martha Wab e mune( 0 %Rep 1 got 1110 a lior hoe and dug, and path and find out its deetination, and ,you bound to some of their click, and eks that filled it bed, Fel- all the way over here on that winter it PN conversation had died out entirely, company as far as the "forks" near stone ro she made a desperate effort to renew IlDWARD lattletaLESTON. Friday on which Ralph kept Shoelty gled among the heaps of bare lime- you a-leadiu' her, poor blind thing! (corrixtatial "Laws, yes; I jest let it run right GrallnY Sanders's house. Scene, the lowing the path still, he came upon a night, and Boni, emr, pears= you're on horseback, 'That horse switChes its tail just as they do at the East. remarking, as they met a matt • eilivriviat X. lout of the eat's tail onto the break:int- Squire'h garden. Ralph helping that queer, little cabin built of round logs, all the friend I've got and' I want 1 • • And Pr airesilielus, I don't worthy maglateate petite:an smithy in the midst of a small garden -patch you to save my boy -,'why, you see I 1N:hen I was to Boating I saw horses TUE 1.1EVIL. OF SILENCE. Ralph had reoson to fear Small, who was a native of the 5111110 vilioge of Letrielairg, and Rime five years the elder. Some facts in the doctor's Iifc bad only into Ralph's possession in. such a way as to confirm life-lont, suspicion without giving him. power to expose Small, 1 -who was firmly intrenched in the ood graces of the people of the cou ty-seat village of Lewisbuig, where he had grown up, and. of the little eityss-roads village of Clifty, where hi "shingle" now •Itnow nothinso good as the bloodof little jobs, such as a w aim whim. 1 a black lien." suggests to the fal mei,. • Miss tiartlia "How old?" asked the doctor. Hawkins, the Squire's niece, and his ‘There you showed yer science, house -keeper io his present bereaved doctor ! They's no power in a pullet. condition, leaning over the palings-- . The older the black hen the better, pickets she called them—of the gar - And von know tic cure for rheu- den feuce, ta king to the master. inatiz '?'" And he e the old woman Miss Ilawkii • Was recently from got down a bottle f grease, 'That's , Massachusetts. How many PeoPle ile from a black dog. Ef it's seta 1 there are in ti most cultivated coin- , dered right, it'll knock the hind munities whose education is partial! sights off any 1'1. eumatizyou ever I "It's very co 'anon for achool-nots see. But it must 10 rendered in the 1 'Let's to dig in . te elements at the dark of the moo , Else a black 1, East," proceeded Miss Martha. Like • 1 1 • other eo le born in the csales- hung. dog's ile a'n't w01111 110 more um a n ant P P . I tial empires (of which there ate Small 'Wait I10 ordinary . villain. white one's." , He waa 11 geniu . Your ordinary And all this timK; Small was smell -I three—China, Virginia, Massachu- kypocrite talks cat. Small talked jug of the uncothed bottle, taking 'setts), Miss Martha was not averse to nothing. He was the coolest, the a little on his fingc and feeling of it, 1 reminding outside barbarians of her ;steadiest, the most silent, the most • laromisiug boy eve. born in Lewis- burg. He made n pretensions. He set up no dahlia, le uttered no pro- fessions. He weut ' iatt on and lived a life above reprointi. Your vulgar hypocrite makes ng prayers in prayer-ineeting. 5a11 did nothing of the sort. He sa , still in prayer - meeting, and listen to the elders as a modest young ma. i should. Your commonplace hypocrite boasts. Small never alluded to binlelf, and thus 0 consummate egotist' gut credit for .modesty. It is . but an indifferent trick for a hypocrite o make temper- ance speeches. Dr. t Small did not even belong to a temperance society. But he could never be persuaded to . drink even so much A a cup of tea. There was somethingtsublime in the quiet voice in which ,he would say, - "Cold water, if you please," to a lady tempting him with si4king coffee on .a cold • mornieg. There was no .. exultation, no sense 4 merit ia the act. Everything wiis done in a modest and matter-bf-course way beautifel to behold. Suid his face was a neutral tint. Nitither face nor ' voice. expressed axis -tiling. Only a , .keen reader of chorales might have .asked whether all thera was in that eye could iive content with this cool, austere, self -ca tained life; whether there would iot be some- what a volcanic eru tion. But if ' there was any sea of molten a. lav not discover and thus feeling h --drier than her witch. And Ulm the cabin gravely, rate bunch of di. sanelling of making an interro silent face, he ma ture from her on materia medico, way to the heart (good fortune nothis regard. It did ierbs—of the old (her good to speak of the East. he went around.1 Now Ralph was amused with Mist lifting each sepa- 1 Martha. She really. had a good. deal d yarbs from its , of intelligence *spite her affectation it, and then, by I and conversatiot with her was both •ation-point of his 'interesting and. itliverting. It -helped aged to get a lee- (him to forget IL main and Bud, and ach article in her 1 the robbery ami all the reet, and ith the most mar -1 she was so delighted to find rime- velous stories 1- astrative of their ! body to make ai impression on that virtues. When tic Granny had got she had come cat to talk while Ralph her fill of his sil it flattery, he was I was at work, Jut just at this mo - ready to carrt. forward his main =sit the eehoo•-master was not, so purpose. 8 I much interested in her irageating There was soitiething weird about ;remarks, nor so machainueed by her this silent manability to turn the amusing remarks, as he should have conversation a4 he chose to have it been. He saw a num coining down the Granny's tea- the road riding one -horse and leading recognized tae horses t inust be Bud W110 11S'S bay maw and to stimulate het medical talk and !leading Bucl a can colt. End had opened the veil of gossip. Once' been to mill, at 1 as the man who started, Granny, Sanders was sure to • owned the hors -mill kept but one allude to the repery. And once on , old blind horse Itimself,• it was neces- the robbery thetdoctor's COnr,S0 was sary that I3ud sliould take two. It clear. • • !required three liqroes to run the 111111; "I 'low some eV no fur away is , the old. blind one. could' have ground ( in this 're businliss 1" 1 the grist, but the• Not by a WOrtl, nor even by a nod, 1 Overcome the fri but by some m ion of the eyelids .1 Machine. - perhaps, 51110111 indicated that he 1 But it was nott about the horse - agreed. with heit•i, ' .1 m.ill that Ralph vas thinking nor "Who d'ye s'Aose 'tis?" I about the tWO 11 1.*Seitt. Since that But Dr. Small was not intim habit 'Wednesday eveni 'ig on which he of supposing. He moved his •head escorted Hannah t in a 'quiet way, jitst • the least . per- spelling -school he It ceptible bit, but Iso that the old crea-, Means. If• he ha 1 any lingering ture understood :bat he could. give 1 doubts of the truth' of what Mirandv beneath, the world clic it. Wild boys were Small held up to then immaculate of men. Ralph had failed to for which he had at attributed both fent shrugs of Dr. Smc I when he found Small Granny Sanders, the• telligence as well as o the neighborhood, he that Small would say never saki anything people by a silence w Granny Sanders w flattered by the visit. "Why, doctor, I Come in, take a eh to see you. 1 'low Old Dr. Flounder lots 0' things of MC the doctors sence b stuck up, you, know.. you ler a man of int ck of baring as the most get two schools tiled, and had. es to certain And now,. at the house of center of in- • ignorance for rembled. Not anything. He He damned rse than words. s not a little wdy, howdy! r. 1 am glad d you'd come. 1 to say he larnt But most of been kinder But I know'd. Iligence." * Meantime, Small, by his grave Silence and attention, had almost snaothered the old hag with flattery. ".Many's the case I've cured 'with atarlis and things. Nigh upon twenty year ago they was a man lived over 011 Wild Cat Ran as had a breakin'- out on his side. 'Twas the left side, jes below the waist. Doctor couldn't do nothint 'Twas Doctor Peachman. He never would have moth& to do with aile woman's cures.' Well, the man Was goin' to die. Everybody seed that. And they come a-drivin' away over here all the way from the Wild Cat. Think of that air never Was so flustered. But as soon as I laid. eyes on that air man, I says, says that air man, says I, has got the shingles, says I. I know'd the minute 1 seed it. And if they'd gone elean around, nothing could. a saved him, 1 says, says I, gib me a black cat. So 1 jist killed a black cat, and let the blood run all over the swellin'. I tell yon, doctor, they's nothins like it. That man was Well In a month." , "Did you nee the blond warm?" asked Oman, 'with aoleumity most inclosed by a brush T fence, htti e was sottish as ever I could be in stick chimney, daubed with clay and takin' of you. Your mother's cryin" topped with a barrel open at both sot me a-cryin' to0. We're all selfish ends, made this a typical cabin, in everything, altordin' to my tell. It flashed upon Rth alph at this Blamed laed ef we hH a'n't, Miss awkins, Place must be Rocky Hollowmam Hollow., and only soes I'd think you Was that this was thepouse of old John real benevi. nt ef I didn't know we Pearson, the one-teggedbaskeamaker war all sell a" and his rheumatOe wife—the house that hospitably( sheltered Shocky. Following his in.pulse, he knocked and was *admitt•ti and was . not a find Miss Martha fore him, ss Hawkins?" he returned Shoeky's n hands with the go. Sitting b table, nibbling drank his gla declined:even h corn -bread while be , another, a.nd lid s of water, having • at a distance. r sassafras, he ceased ' WAS ridhlg Me; little surprised.t Hawkins there b "You here, M said when lie ha greeting and shot old couple. two others had to don of the clumay 11=10 from the not seen Bud light if he want d to. had said, they had "I (Inn° a ybody that's been! by the absence of I been dissipated ad. from school. 'bout here longIs could be suspect -1 "When I was , o Bostinae•—." ed." I Miss Martha was to `13oston only Mate Another moti6n of the eyelids in her life, but as hir -visit to that indicated Small's agreement with sawed city was the pnost important this remark. occurrence of her She did not iniscences of it was to Bost - saying, when, n of Ralph's ming up the vkins's house. ulky, and to mark even by a ld,ok. Ralph s and Aliss Mar la Hawkins's "But I think theta oversm art young polite recognitions he ketusned only men'll bear looking. arter, I do." a sully nod. They Ttoth saw that Dr. Small raised his eves and let Ale was angry. lialplt was able. to them shine an assent. That was guess the meaning of "Shouldn't wonder ef our master, , Toward evening was overly fond 'of' gals." through the Squire's c Doctor looks down at his plate. "Had plenty of sweethearts afore he walked home with Hanner Thom- son Vother night, It bet." Did Dr. Small shiug his shoulder? Granny thought she' detected a faint motion of the.sort, but she could Aot be sure. "And I think as hew that a feller what trifles with gals' hearts and then runs off ten miles, maybe a'n't no better'n he had miter be. 'notes what I says, says I." To this general ronark Dr. Small as.sented in his invisible way—shall say intangible ?—way. "1 oilers think maybe, that some folks has found it best to leave home and go away. You can't never tell. But when people is tobein' robbed it's well to lookout, Hey ?" "1 think so," said Small quietly, and, having• taken his bat and bowed a solemn and respectful adieu, he departed. Ile had not spoken tweuty words, WAS one r mining 111 4 My, irregular longue is all ve got to fight vvith but be had satisfied the; news -monger curves tlirough the tood, now -tine. now ; but I'll fightthem thieves till of Flat Creek that Ralph was a bad ing genqy to the right in 'Order to the sea goes dry, will. Shocky, character at home and worthy of avoid a stump,now swaying suddenly atim me a splint." • " f 1 arP — t the Iefit to &alit easier descene "But you wasn't selfish when you now turning . took me." ,Shocky stuck to his point "They at nobody come in here hesitate to air her rot lately 'ceppin' the - master." frequently. "When Small looked 4cantly at the wall. hag," she was just '4 "But I 'low he's allers bore a tip. following the indicat top character." ' : eyes, she saw Bud c The doctor wasItoo busy looking (hill near Squire IL at his corn -bread to answer this re-' Bud looked red and "Bless you, yes, "That blessed gyi called her a girl b of speech perba gyirl's the kindest saw—comes here cheer a body up t rather." Miss A.fartha blushed, and . said "she came because Rocky. Hollow looked so much like a place she used to know at the I . st, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson were . tie kindest people. They reminded t er of, people she knew at the Ettaq When she was to Posting---" Here the old basket -maker lifted his head feom his t work, and said:. "Pahaw 1 that ta1ls. about kyinduess" (he Wt1ti a Itlentucian and said kyincl- i liras) "is all hum ug. I wonder so smart a woman , .. you don't know better. You come neArder to bein' kyind than anybtydy I know; but, laws a me ! we're all selfish akordin' to my tell." "You wasn't selfish when 'you set up with my father most every night for two weeks," said Shocky, as he handed the old mon. a splint. "Yes, I was, toil! This in a tone that made Rai* tremble.' "Your father was a mis4able Bvitisher. I'd fit red -coats, in t hewar of eighteen- iy leg by one of dog-ou'd. bayonet mt night at Lundy s Lane; but my mosmate killed . him though, which ' a satifaction to think on. And father 'cause he But ef he'd a dia said the oltlady. 1"—the old lady a sort of fignre s—"that blessed reetur you ever ery day, most, to ith 5oniethin' or CI AFTER XII.' TUE }IA iSIIELL PREACHER. "Mey'S preachiut down to Bethel Meethf-house to -day," said the Squire at breakfast. 'Twenty years in the 1 West contd. no cure Squire. Hawkins of saying "to" 'for "at," "I rather guess as how the old man BOSA.W will give pertickeleil fits to- our folks to- day." For Squire Hatvkins, hav- ing been expelled from. the "Hard- shell" church of; which Mr. Bosaw was pastor, for the grave offense of joluing A temperance society, had become a member of the "Reformers," the very respectable people who now call themselves '•Disciples," but whom the profne will persist in calling "Campliellites." They had. it church .in the t illage of Clifty, four miles away. sy ways abeminal le to story readers, I kw* that (explanationt,' are al-, as they are to Story writers; but as so many of my readers have never 11 had the inestim ble privilege of sit- ospel as it is rams - cued neighborhoods I find myself under ed-eessity the. Rev. • fis tvrath. 'alph strolled rufield toward the woods. The me nory of the walk with Hannah tva heavy upon the heart of the youn master, and there was coinfort e very miser - twelve, ancl lost 'em stickin' 111 right through it, didn't like your was a Britisher. right here in this free country, 'thort nobody to give him a drink of w4ter, blamed ef I wouldn't a been a the platform at a barbecue, and to h leg far to make the was the selfishest 11 We're all selfish akardint to•my tell," 1 when you took 11 know," and ed with grati- 'named to set on -41ourth of July id up my wooden oys cheer! That 'ng I ever done. "Yon wasn't selfi me that night, y Shocky's face beat tude. "Yes, I war, too, iyon little sass - box! What did re you fer ? Hey ? Bekase I d dn't like Pete jones nor Bill Jones, : Phey're thieves, dog -on 'em 1" Ralph.shivered a liptle. The horse with the white forefpot and. white nose galloped before Vs eyes aatain. "They're a set of thieves. That's what they air." "Please, Mr. Pearson, be careful, You'll get into troubl, you know, by ableness of the corns lks with their talking that way," sed Miss Ham - disheveled blades ha ging like tatter- kins. "You're just hke a man that ed banners and rattlang discordantly I knew at the East."' in the rising wind. Wandering "Why, do you Mails an old soldier without purpose, Ralph followed the like me hobbling on a wooden leg, is rows of stalks first one way ind then the other in a zigzag line, turning a right angle every minute or two. At last lie came out in a woods mostly of bomb, and he pleased his melancholy fancy by kicking the drat and silky leavea?.before him in billkws, while the soinghing of the wind, through the 1,4 long, vibrant \ boug s and slender' twigs of the beecit forest seemed into tl . wailing m own d took.. / Wha- path co knowie o put the world nor key of his switch their taila just that way. Whitt surprised Ralph. was to see that Flat Oreek went to meeting. Everybody WAS there—the 'Menses, the joueses-, the Barites, and all the rest. Everybody on Mat Creek scented to be there, except the old wooden -legged basket-maHi ker, s family was represented by Shocky,' who had come, doubtless, to get a, glimpse of Hannah, not to bear Mr. BOSaW, preach. In fact, few were• thinking of the religions service. They went to church as a common resort to hear the news, and to find out what was the current sensation. (TO BE CONTINUED.) • — -- Dangerous Summer COM- plaints.—Cramps, clysentery,cholera morbue, dituatosa, and, indeed., ail • bowel complaints, require quick re- lief, or the result may be serious. - At this season these troubles are common, - and no fondly should be without a. sopply of PERRI:Davis' PAIN' KILLER, a safe, sure, and speedy cure, for all the troubles named, This 'medicine was diseovered many years ago', and time has proved its excelleuce..Every reputable druggist keeps a supply on. hand, and each bottle is wrapped. with fall directions. 25c. New 13ift Bottle. ting under the tered in enligh like Flat Creek, the necessity -1 Mr: Bosaw twill 1. call it --of rising to explain. Son e people think the "Hardshells" 11, i yth, and some sen- sitive Baptist pepple at the. East re- sent all allusion "to them.. But the "Hardsbell Baptilits," or; as they are otherwise called, she, 'Whisky Bap- tists,' and the 'fttYagallon Baptists,' exist in all the 1, old Westera and South-western States. They call theinaelves• 'Antioneans Baptists' from their Antinotnian tenets. Their confeasion of faithilis a caticature of Calvinism,. and is expressed by their preachers about asfollows: titf you're elected, you'll be stAved; ef you a'n't, you'll be damned; i God'll take keer of Ilia elect. It's ia'sha 10 run Sun- day schools, or temp`rince s'cieties, or to send missionaries. You let God's business alm . What is to be tn't Under it.' ded a Sunday Intent of which will be, and you This writer bas atte school, the superint was solemnly arrainged and expelled from the Hardshell Church. for 'med- dling with God's business' by holding a Sunday school,. Of course the Hardsbelle are prqdigiously illiterate, - Some of their rious drunkards. rmons out . some- rs at a 'stretch,. t he was to ride re,' and that con- ld have to take Mifflin If it had and. often viciou preachers- are no They sing their s dines for three ho Ralph found th the 'clay -bank sequently he tvo Miss Hawkins bobli been Hannah ins cad, Ralph might not have objecte to this 'young Lochinvar' mode ' f - riding with a lady on 'the crtupt but Martha Hawkins was aitother affair. He had only this conso ation ; his keeping the company of Mi 4 Hawkins might serve to disarm he resentment of Bud. Al all event , he had no choice. What designs the quire had in this arrangement he c Id. not tell; but the clay -bank ma carried him to meeting on that D ember meeting, afraid of them thieves ? Didn't 1 with Martha Howitins behind. And face the Britishers? Pidn't I come as Miss Hawkins 'alas not used to this home late last Wednesday night ? mode of locomoti n, she was in a I rather guess I must a took too state of delightful 'right every time inueh at Welch's greet:rt.', and laid the horse sank to the knees in the down in the middle ;of the road to soft, yellow Flat Click clay. rest. The boys thought 'twas funny 'We don't go to 4u.tch so at the to crate me. I. wokentp kind o' cold, East,' she sold, 'The mud isn't so 'bout 0110 in the mornin. 'Bout two deep at the East. When 1 wasyasto o'clock I come up Means's hill, and Bosting----' but Ralph never heard didn't I see Pete Junes, and them what happened, when elle was. to others that robbed the • Dutehman, flosting, for just as she said Basting and somebody, I dump who, a -cross, the mare put her foot. into a deep a faseinati n there is in a in' the bluegrass poster towards hole molded bsr the foot of the Squint 10 upon suddenly without a Jones's ? (Ralph shivered.) "Don't horse, and. already fall of muddy 0 of its teSmination 1 Here shake your finger at me, old woman. water, . at a tamp place, an 1)1081; positively. CHAPTER T. tvantonly to the one ide or the other, ed that ,the had/ As the mare's foot went twelve inches down int) this track, the muddy water spurted - higher than Miss ilawkins's he (1,. and mottled het dress with gol sp)ta of clay. She gave. a little k, aod &dor- Want it so at mrsa materna HAWKINS. As if front very eityripe in the man "Yes, 1 Wag, you rade '0\v -headed the mutt fool ! T didn't titke you kaae I was. The jct.,' These Were ainiost the only wordej It's very good for the health to dig who by kilo steiti unconsciously , had uttered since he entered. the in the elements. 1 WILS quite emitelat- marked -tie line of lie foot -path goody not a bit of it. I hated 13111 to Ralph, w ed last year at the East, and the 'first. Ralph could. not resist the • Jones what keeps the poor -house, and upon whi a Iittle long at the sabjeets Miss Hawkloa The &nth Huron semi-annual county Orange meeting will be • held in the Orange Hall, Clinton, on day, June ath, Dr, Low's Worm Syrup ewes and re- msvcis worms or an kinds in chtldreo-or a lulls. Price ;25c. Suld by all dealers. An Ottawa despatch says W. Marl: - tea has been appointed harbormastes at Goderich, r ver Fiy 'attars As sou. gym IIIINIK0Y.—mrs. Win ,:aes 5..01 :4yru1) hog houn us 1.1 for two( fifty ' 1,... ,,tmuttons for heir chilocutt alai* , : , o it It t,ricot lit11.1111.1SS. 11 southes.t.ho child sltrx1,4.11,e sIaos .11 cares vhu1 can, and ts thuhost, fie than him Is plensiot to the •• • , ty Dino' lots to :• or% part ut the V.4,1 h.. .flytt vont¥ a 11 141,1‘...11, valne i$ tot,:: nu. •.1•,1 ask hh• Mrs. Miogiow (M4 o land. itvn It e. Nelson M tas, M. A„ editor of the Expaaitor o'iHoliness, has been ll found guilty by a Ypecial committee appointed by the ttethodist church, of impugning and .diacrediting the Scriptures.. . y Gant la :a 2.n. --I ;Imre mad your _Yel- low Ott and neve impel it unequalled for bums, 51)1111 88, tseeldi-.4, rhettmatisuo,crou p and colds. /M Witt MSS it recommend it. Mrs. Ilignt, Muotreal, Q•te. The Climax diet. e fa ctorytat Tiver- ton,was 'burned on. Tuesday morninant loss 5,000, insured for 1t1800, The Dominion G overmnent luts made provision for th maintemtnce of two traveling dairies 'n Manitoba. . 4. • rmsmxinarre;iall;• Hood's C red \ Aft r ()tilers Failed Scrofula In the Ne4k—Bunches Al! Cone NOw. Blanche Ai! 00 Sangerville, Ma ne.. • "0, T. Hood s 0o., Lowell, Maps.: "Gentlemen feel that I e4nn0t say enough In favor of Hood's Sarsaparillg. For Ave years / have been troubled with scrofula in my ilea and throat. Several kinds oftmedlcinet which s = I tried did not do me any goodi and when / coin- meneed to take Heed'Sarsts arlila there wens large bunches on my neck so.sore that / could Hoodssate.' rail°Cures not bear the slightest:tench. 'When / had taken oni11%Ott1e of this Medicine, the soreness arta gonesirldbefore I had finished the secontlthe liunelies had entirely disappeared." tumult, AtEtW.11,Dif8yftenug6 41;11141°4 to title°. Hood's Satsapee rills do not he indueed to bey any other. Heed's Pills Otire colistipation by rester" hst ix aistaltia action of thesliremstary fet # ‘47.11 GO LInti (13”0/1.1.14'11) 11V run mum easmr.t.) P i t7- al and we read flare, Land ' wen ran rip. 141,siins, 01 the innliturs And :1114t1.411 10 1110 0.01, 1 hilt thu kV:ton:11'4 tdIti.tinn Teniner- Ineet.4 svero 'Monday st three Welook sharp, tor ono for, at meg residence, Vat - risk. street,. .iit intik-IAN mode weteomm As the Edfier Pins kindly Oren 11K part 01 ids apace, for our work, ws ask framils of the 0008010 send items of interest mi oil mondquestions of tne dav to any of our mambo s. 111.1.411011,11.co.moweenr.m.roawassura...wortr,pwrow,crmaa In 11,oup. Adirotettek Bentley esehool mission- ary tells, in the New York Observer, some of his experionces. tIzt Slyg : 1 had heard of a community where there werts many children, an unused church ma no Senday-sehool religious eervice of any kind. Enough for a ads- sionary, That church must bs found., the people arottsal, ami the childran go.therod ter instruction in the Scrip throe. At nightfall the chereh oame lute view. How bare and uninviting it looked! Turniug in- to a wide-porehed tavern next te the church, I finally had my hems pat up, and the landlord met me at the door. Taking e for a travelling salesman, he said: • ;What lino El' yer carry? I represent the air -line to heaven. Oh,' 1 see; travelin' preatiber, hey? ' Yes, something like that. I'm a Senday eohool man. Wall, yo'vo lost yer hearitt's mightily; hain't no Sunday-skules roun' yere. peopie are so hospitable that if 1 as drink, of water they always give Me O t milk. That's so; 'ad do it just th. mole in a chorus. A man saki, yez will come 10 813' house I'll giv( qn4rt o' milk to drink. Another, Stranger, I'd give twi an' a bit o' bread, A. little Prenclunan, not to be on stepped hi Bff se preach -man cc mine house he gets all the old cow It was dark; the company began perse, One Mall came and to,ki , hand said, Thank God ! I'm going !my wife it surprise party to.night home sober the first time in a long when yoa pray sometimes think and he was, off. .A. big stalwar ce,me up, saying, Mister, if you nle like two more of them tickets; one in each .hoot, so the prieet will lied them, and leave the other vs wife when I'm away. A. youm came up and seated himself on the and commenced singing an abeam Give me a cord for him, said on( jest come. AS it was handset him Ota, 'boys, that ain't e:t nice song ; sing you a better one. They stoca silently or slipped away into the d t as I sang: 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jestts, est ro take him at his word, I Just to rest upon his promise; Just to know, Thus Beath tilt The young man I had seen hand 3 No? What is that church for, .up on the hill? . , behind ,t post ami started away. 3 money so freely gave a sob as he ro him back. Sober now, he Game as Jest fer 01031816111 an' fenerals ; don't . hey ne use ter cluirolies roun' these parts.- a seat by niy ski). Oh; what a po01. . able fool 1 BM 1 011, sxby poor mot xen,yr iciligillIdtire,lignbp0::!, here ? the itill I was well brought up, but I got to II. ual ; lout say, don' i, go inter the bar -room t NY9915 /5 ov I Do ymi know where tuy ;Tor 'broke; i lip ieti'dsefxu.,11 o.'"the boys, an' they's a mite bit e.d .nuther is new, sir ? She is her miserable boy ; and she tented frisky; been fillite up , pretty well on . , room, kneeling :by my chair, pra Nothing stronger than sidar 2 '. fully when I pledged my honor keep etraight this tinie. 1 lual m Welk they ain't nothin'ill make a man . go and buy cattle ; but do yop 15wuss nor cider when they git too much. all ,gono—gone, I don't know . 1 prefer zto go in where the men ore. ,' it's , Well 3p.oyuu.userjbaidta,acnlide run, icIsimj(ilsots aofligt telted itrux f honor, alt gone. Yes, my hope, 104 I IN:o1:11:e:ilus ystilbLoPr'aying for me. 1 4 iny ' coat, my sl .1.,evea.liiseso,sci . 'east a drinking place; the smell oi All this time sounds of the wildest bilar- ' ity 6 comes out and coMpels me to go in came from the bar -room, mingled with the first glass it's all up with me. oaths and angry voices. AS I unic;:ed the room, blue with the fumes .of tobacco and why don't you stop the accursed t] liquor, I knew something snore than eider siuls 2 Why don't Christian m against licensing these gates to 11, was being sold. A haudsome young fel- : the ter-I/station were only removec low with ono shoe, no hat or coat, -his ands clothing torn end his face reddenof mothers' sons could be soy,ed with , i help me, poor fool that 1 am. drink, was giving away money. , Help 'selves, gen•traien ; plenty long as ! The landlord was very sour, an, 1.lasts. , --1 hardly treat me civilly for interferi . 1 : his legitimate (3) business. An I A man seated in a ellair was mildly rm. testing. No, boys! 'bilged to 'no oE his own life,:once super': ;ilged to yer, I'm i fns a tick now; nether glass A433 1 don't of a floerishing school in th'e Z get home 't alt; wife's siek, prolnised to be itc1:101.1 711011011, ,. aInidl it.Ts•onwieitestr.iletcoeeldneldp in . home two o'cleok; a.' .. With a dreailfill 0,1,1th tt Marl sprung for- 111 has eontinnsrl or not I know no1 ward, pulling a heavy revolver, and say- 1 have learned, however, as reads 3 Mg, of yer don't cirlak 'long M3 1'1 I bore ye. Others caught the seated man by tLe collar, and two held him up, the revolver was heia close to tho back of his head, while a fourth man poured a tull tumbler of 1' nor dairrn the reluctant man's throat; th.01 they all let go of him, and the poor fellow fell he a senseless heap on the floor. Another man drew his pistol and said, Don't 'low no feller ter draw bead -on my mate. It's mean ter make feller drink card: When .tempted, afflicted, • siok, in health, rich, poor, opprem 4 saken, ancl I trust when dying, i circumstances, always "look to ac • A Boon to liorsernen.—On of English Spv.vin Liniment cot removed a curb from my horse. pleasure In recommending the 06 11 acts witb mysterious proarl tbe removal from horses of bar( calloused lumps, blood spavin, cants, sweeny, stifles and sprair 'RODSM , l'armer, arkham, Ont. vvhen he's gob nuff. Oorne outsidc.. I kin Clitsholm's Drugstore, 'V\ Ingham lick the hull pack o' ye. . • There was a. mad rush for the door opening into the entrance hallway. 1 fear- ed bloodshed; the num were so angry and drunken„ many of them armed with pistols. and murderous hunting .knives. I had bee 'lently lifting my heart in prayer, Lor e'help vie to help these mom 1Vfy vest pocket was quiekly relieved of its store of "Look to Jesus' cards. Hold - Jag them in my hands I stepped quickly °satin advanee of most of the crowd, and as the men scrambled out dco;:s helcl out the bright adored bits of pasteboard. Gen- tlemen, I have tickets here for eaeli of yoit. Some took me for a quack doctor, others for a showman, and they eagerly took the cards, seeming to forget all about the de- ' Biro to fight. W”pons were quietly put awai, and they clustered around. One madflaberiouslY spelled out L -0-0-K 11-0 the4 putting his foot Up to 'nine lie said sneeringly, Do you do it, Mister ?" Yes,. I replied ; It's the only „way to live, boys, and there in the door of the low tavern I preached Christ to as motley a evwd of nien as I ever saw. Their faces relaxed and eyes Moistened as I asked them to provide for their children if they cared nothing for the Bible them.- votional etercises by Rev. &q.v. One old man taid, yer 1111 t that-, After reading the niinutes o the little tins is wuth vention, and reports of Sahaatl strktor ; ' a verY concise report of the I A. big, brawny fellow now crowded up and said, Boss, don't ye never take a glass Convention was given by lifr. of beer on the sty? ieron. . We gathered many that No, I don't know how beer tastee. t Will be helpf al as well as gri4ning. Then, replied my interlocutor, if ye don't I idea of what that convention v drink no beer, What's made ye so tat? Ye it as fat as I, and 1 drinks, lots of beer. Ti,.* crowd laughed, then laughed louder 'UNION SABBATH SOB AS SO OIATION. THEIR ANNI.TAIi, MEETING LS NOW. ' The third annual convent* lose, Huron,. Ashfleld, West W and Luoknow was held on Mon in the St.Peter's Episcopal eh uri now. The first session opened 1( with devotional exoreisea by Miles. A goodly number of S. S. wol to take part in the "normal les ducted by Mr. Alfred Day, Get rotary of Sabbath School Provi sociation. This eession was very belpft struotive to those engaged in the young. All we regret is t were not more present to be and oar timi lonaer to listi who is culpable of giving such information. The afternoon soision Openee 2 possible in the time alloted Mr. Mr, bay pr000urioed 11 115 bus &mention he had heard give Ild cheered as / said, Oh I I drink Taylor, of Aehlield, spoke on 11Do/ know op here in the mountains -1h* impottanoe �t -geod tiltisie 09 it