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The Wingham Times, 1894-08-03, Page 2A PkE Tvt GOOD 'arum). Til JosErltist: rOmum. This world's to pretty good sort of world, Taking it all together, lu spite of the grief and sorrow meet, Irl spite of the gloomy weather. There are friends to lave, and hopes to cheer, And plenty c.f compensation For every aclre for those who make The best of the situation. The sun feud rain ripen corn and grain, And everything has its season ; And truth shines white and clear, despite The blackness of fraud and treason ; There's plenty of work for busy bands, And lave to lighten labor, And a chance Wont and me to do Some good to a,'needy neighbor. There are quint nooks for lovers of books, With nature in happy anion : There are of r rets from the noontide co et heats, Where souls may 'have sweet commu- nion ; And if there's a spot there the sun alines not, There's always a lamp to light it ; And iiRthers's a wrong, we know ere long That the God above All right it. So it is not for us to make a fuss Because of life's sad mischances, Lor to wear ourselves out tp bring abont .& change in our ciroamstnnces. For this world's a pretty godcl sort of world, And he to whom we are debtor Appoints our place, and supplies the grace To help us to make it better,. AT SASSAFRAS FARM. BY AMY R:#NDOLPI . Am, I --in love with him ? said -Etta Ilamersley to herself. ! She was sitting in heli sdlitary little garret room, her elbows resting on the window -sill, where Phe sun— setting after a brisk thunder shower THE W'INGI AM TIMES, AUGUST 3, 1S94. and she actually had the impudence to ask use to Mlle alai hells with the (housework. Said .he would allow Isle regular wages. if I would consent. The idea of me washing dishes and paring potatoes for a lot of stuck-up elty people! And Miss Marehlands elevated her nose at an angle of forty-five degrees and laughed derisively. Is it a pretty place? said Etta, w•itboLnt (much thought to what she was saying, 0, it's pretty enough, saki Miss Marchlands. Everybody knows the Jenks farm at Sassafras Ito110w, There's a glen t11er`e, and an echoing ravine, with a cascade in it, that everybody goes to see. Bat, it's ,.. awfully Ltict bele and I for one like a bit of life, shall go to Sara- toga. The next evelneiiig, when she had sketched until thio waning daylight bade her desist, Etta Hamersby put on her hat and went around to the shirt factory. You will want lliy services as usual in the month of August ? she asked of' the foreman, I But, to her surprise and dismay, he I shook his head. • Well, no, said he. Not this year. Tinges are dull, We've discharged forty hands and are working on half time. Pin very sorry, observing the perturbed expression of her count - nance, but we shan't take on am extra hands this season. And. Etta went away, bewildered and sad at heart. I can't work on in the art school, she told herself, unless I can pay my board ; and I can't pay my board if —was flooding all the wirlls with I don't earn something in the weeks tides of scarlet light; her great blue- of vacation. Oh, dear, dear, what a grey eyes gazing intently out at the dreadful thing is it to be poor ! - sky, and her golden (lair catching And one or two scalding tears the fiery gleams of the level declin- dropped from under her shabby lace ing light. The room wast small and veil, as she hurried along the sultry, scantily furnished ; the sloping walls dusty streets. almost touching one's • dead, if one Ilow hot it is here in these narrow attempted to 'stand upright in the lanes ! she thought, and how stifling apartment; and Etta;s own dress close the air is ! If only I could was of dyed silk, turned, patched breath a little country air for once, and mended in a score of places, with new -made hay and wild roses while the old lace ruffle around her white throat was reaCly to fall into And then like an inspiration, Miss shreds with olcl age. But for all Marchland's w(irds came into her that, our little dreanxlr looked like a head!? princess as she sat *ere, crouched A glen, ai$l an echoing ravine, up by the window -sill, her girl with a cascalte. fancies wandering obit into the great How I sh, pule( lite to sec it! she unknown land of Lot -c ! thought.pp why ' o And 5liouldn t I . No! she solemnly answeredher- Mrs. Jenks, at Sassafras farm, was, self, after a second ere two meditation. I to express her own words, 'driven to I am not in love with him. I think death' that summer. The roomy so, I ani quite sure . of it. Not now. old. farm -(louse was full of boarders, But I shall be if I dol't firmly resolve even to thc.low-coiled little rooms over to keep myself in ebeck. And the the kitchen, where she was wont to idea of a poor little- poverty-stricken keep her piles of homespun linen and -creature like me falling in love with sweet-smelling herbs ; and if Mrs. Professor Maxwell.;! It is too ridieu Jenks had six pairs of hands, sous ! instead of only one, she would have And she laughed' out in the silence had occasion for them all. She was of the forlorn littlea room, but some- how the laugh was rather mirthless. EttaHamersley t11as an art student: -She had her own rattle dreams of a career but there was many a dreary wilderness of want and self-denial, and struggling application to be passed, first. Herameans, poor child, were painfully limited( ; but the free art school afforded`her an opportunity for study, and 11.0 i ne knew of fireless grates, and half pounds of crackers and cheese eaten• by the light of solitary tallow canllles after the day's work -was done. •' It was a dull, dreary enough, but Etta was devotecl'to her alit, and when Kent Maxwell. the young professor at the art school, bent for a second over in it'. • rinsing out, milk pails in the crystal tide of a li$tle spring that bubbled up just under the dairy window, when a slight figure came through the velvet grass from the road. Is this Sassafras Farm ? asked a low, sweet voice ; and are you Mrs. Jenks? I am Mrs. Jenks, sure enough, said the good woman, bobbing the pails up and down to make quite , sure that they are spotlessly clean ; and Sassafras Farlm. But if so be as you've conic about board,nia'am, I'm • very sorry, but we're full. Every ' nook and corner, ma'am with cots in: the hall, and a sofa -bedstead in the parlor every night ; and a sketching ' gent as sleeps • in the barn o' nights, her canvas, and .spoke an encourag- and declares he thinks the smell of ing word of approval, she could live hay is healthy. on those accents for a mouth. I did not conic about board, hesi- Where are you going for your tated Etta Hamersley, scarcely knot • - sumnler vacation,? Miss Marshlands, ing how to broaicli the business to the who studied frons the antiques, had farmer's wife. I --that is your niece, asked her that date. Miss Marchlands, mentioned to ore I don't know, a•Etta answered`, I that you were inneed of someone to haven't thought, I suppose I shall help you with the work. stay in the •city. Good Mrs. Jenks started. • Miss Marchlands tossed her (lead, • But yon are not a servant, saki where crimps and puffs and frizzes she. over -lapped one another like the No, said Etta, coloring. But I am waves of the 5a ( willing g 1 1 to bo,` f - 1 oft will hire re sue. NobodyI stays in the city through like the country very lntich, and I August, said she: Nobody, that is, am anxious to earn a little ]Honey. a'n'ybody. I'll give you ten dollar's a month Etta said nothing. She slid not said Mrs. Jenks, effusively, Twelve deem it necessary to Miss Marchlands if you can earn its For you look hely, by unremitting toil in a great like Can 1 Ul( st straightforward, sol t shirt factory during the scorching of a girl, and I'm dreadfully in want month of A.ugiust, she contrived an- of help. nu.ally to amass something towards So Etta Ilamersley put on one of her year's. art expenses. Mrs. Jenks' big white Aprons and I think, Miss Mar'ehlands added,‘ went to work cutting up peaches for 'contemplating 10l canvas with ber I tea. head on one side, that 1 shall try al She liked it. I3orl and. breed in the few days at Saratoga this summer. city as she was, the sweets of country I was going down to lily aunt's farm life possessed indes •i ' . I � habl(, cllai•1us Sassafras Rollo tv l but my aunt for her, The big -led calves, the ides :summer boarders this year, little goslings, the wid flowers in the meadows, the tinkling stream that flowed, between fringes of reeds, and bergamot, Were all ever new sources of delight.. She shrank instinctively away from the city boarders with their coquetry and archery, and gay dresses and laughter ; but she would sit forever beside . Mrs. Jenks in the great, airy kitchen, listening to her stories of the good old tunes. Etta, said Mrs. Jenks, ono day,you must bleach the curtains in the big south bedroom, and lay out Nall linen for it. There's a gentleman corning by the five o'clock train. Yes, said Etta, quietly, I will. .And she had not evenitlne curiosity to ask his name. n She was gatbpring ferns in the , woods that very afternoon, ftC 1 no011 just ass daylight was pelting into dusk, when, all of suck en, a dark shadow fell across the I irple refleeti.ous of the western sky She looked up -- directly into Kei Maxwell's eyes. Professor Max veli ! she: cried. Yes, said Kent stopping to pick up the fragran sheaf of ferns that she had droppe . It is I. Are you boarding at Sas afros Farm ? Etta said Ltta. - I am doing hoax - work there. PO.' mouthlvwag +s ! You? Didn't you 1: low it? said, she, courageously. 'Itlat I was very poor? That the only way by which I could keep myself at -le •t school was by working a 1p tib:. he weeks of vacation ? • I7ih;o1 course, I shall not expect you to ratcognize 111e, Professor Maxwell, if Not reeogniz, you ? lie cried, out. And why not ?' Because I illi a working bee in the world, she answered, smiling faintly. Because I am , not a gay butterfly like the Wallach, and (Mrs. Dalton's daughters. • That is the very reason I shall recognize you, said Kent asv 1 l. The reason I shall honor you, :hiss Hamersley, above all women. And 1] e walked alied tt•ith her the whole length of the glen, carrying her ferns and only pausing at the wide gate at the foot of the lawn. Engaged to be married, are you ? said honest Mrs. Jenks. Well, I never was so glad, in my life;, but I must say I ain't surprised: I. mis- trusted something when he, used to be so partial to picking blackberries and shelling beaus, and all that sort of thing, just When you happened to '. be.U ifT Good gracious, I ain't blind .. be sixty yers olcl. But Ire's a splen- did fellow, my dear, and I wish you joy. They were married at the little country church, and Kent Maxwell carried Mrs. Jenks' "help" back to New York with hint a smiling, happy -eyed bride. Good land! said Miss Marehlands, when sire heard it, and Etta has caught that handsome professor,after all! I wish I had . gone to do house work at Sassafra Pam! HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. —Rheumatism, Neuralgia.—It is something , cliffi tilt to determine which of these dieseases is afflicting the sufferer, but this ignorance will not matter if Iiolloway's remedies be used. They i lleviate and euro all muscular and nervous pains. -In hereditary rheariiatism, after bathing the affected parts with warm salt water, Hollowa`s's Ointment should be well rubbed Upon the spot, that it may penetrate olid exert its soothing and regulating 6 properties on the deeper vessels and nerves which are unduly excited(, siynd cause both the pain and the stt elling. Holloway's treatment has thd merit of removing the disease witlnqut debilitating the constitution, whigqji was the inevitable result of the bleeilhlg, moreury, and colchicum practic : formerly adopted in these complai11i1ts. Mon for tris Memory. Over 70,000 British soldiers in India. The best Chinlse razors are made of old horse shoe Irishmen tassel HOW TO SAVE A ROAD, As Worthy a Problem to Consid.,r as How to Make One. eon. 1). vs. MCC1,GJNG POin'S OUT THE GREAT AND INSIDIOUS ENEMY OJ .#xd. Geon B0.#PS A\P '1'EId.S UOW BEST TO 1.11KKUJMVENT IT ---A I'IAIN STATEMENT, The only essential condition to be secured in ((laking good. country roads, is so simple and obvious, that it is usually overlooked, or if secured at all, is reached ,bly an accident. The 0110 necessary j€otlditi011 for good durable roads is totkeep them dry. I The only agent that destroys roads 1 is water. All of ors may be disre- arded. If am 1 provision is made :g P against this one, everything else is secured. Few persons ver consider the enormous quanti y of water to be disposed of, or its ; destroying power. In any portion of kale United States east of the Mis lssippi river, the annual rainfall u � ordinary road thirty thousand to n each mile of is approximately is. It is heaty, it falls with groat fo •ee, it disintegrates the road material it is always in motion, lifting, p thing and rolling away everything 'u its path. If we expect volcanic a ion in the past, no other agent has b en so powerful in making changes upon the earth's surface, It has e. avatecl the valleys, les of the hills, re - the sea. It works he years go by, of its power every - rounded the outli claimed lands frog unceasingly as leaving the effect where. It is the actio and unrestin enemy of allIiui an structures It plc There should be sufficient crown to the Toad to carry the water at once to the ditches. Better still, the tiles fol° underdrainage may be laid below the bottom Of the ditelhes, • with in- takes at proper distances, and a free discharge - at the first natural water course. Ill this way our roads world be thoroughly drained, and the water would run oft without hashing the road sides. The ditches might be made shallow, s0 that there would be no "upset" by vehicles getting out Of the road, It is quite 0011111011 to see 0(11' country roads with a ridge en each sidle of the track used by vehicles, so that for long distances water cannot get into the gtitt4r, They serve for banks to confine ' 1 Int atter to the road, either soaking it 'So paste, or tearing up the surface as. its rushes toward an olntlot. �'von.thc rudest method( of getting rid •;f these ridges, and opening a way fsFr the water to es- cape will be ju�4 tified,. The writer has seen an ordinary clay road upon . z a hill side undist trbcd by the heav- iest rains, shop[ J.. because there was a smooth slope horn the crown of the road to the gutte . Almost universally the work of making the roadbed is done so as to invite destruction. The bed is not made uniform, f not compacted, and rarely ,has a iufiicient or lateral slope. It soon s'nks in spots, and then is furrowed sy the water. With a proper(r constructed bed a good and durab road is assured. Even if no rod metal is used, the road �vi1l be ex (lent during nine months of the r and passable t Y r a all times. But a roan( to e good at all times, must be turned a va r or shut out must have a c vexing of metal of S,, some kind. In 1 tris part 1 t of the work 1 G Ol if any structure � macre by hLuman the hands is to hav bio work of thi chief I. gimes is to devisl, water of its owe k P Notwithstandi there are very fe till reference rt 1(. Le usually constructe • durability. The aloe ousect architect a.11C1 ell- view, (lamely, to means to deprive to(.cep the road (lest• ^ gravel and siinila 3r• r this)loll(( fact, Erle 1 , .r roads constructed o it. They are 1 without unree- r411,C.li, Gll.iltat{¢Fpr t\'ith a fiat sur- a e F face, and often wish very imperfect ditches. The watt lies ot1 the sur- face, to soak the r . acs bed into the condition of a spcc�lge or °a mortar bed, to course along the .roadway, scoring great guttfers,aliddisintegrat- ing the road n>aterial. Often the water front adjoi ling fields is allowed to run into the r acs, so that the high- way • bcc mos .a itch for the farms. y o o _n 5. Anyone who wig observe our best roads, after a h ivy rain, will see loose stones, dri 'red piles of road metal, .gutters ii the middle of the road and all the fleets of miniature flood, that has ru lied along the sur- face, as if the' ro ,cl had been con- structed for a was or come. In this way w expend millions of dollars in road m king and seldom have a good road. The work of each season disappears before the • next summer; and the nuually recurring round Of repo j s b sins afresh. For this profligate ast there is no excuse. A properly constrnced road bed is one of the most du able works of man. There is noth deem-, and if the eff( provided against, it >lr ulaills fol ageb. The well defined eat'th works scatter- ed over southern 0l1io, the work of "prehistoric races," fare a proof of the indestructible eh ratter of earth embankments and 1 ounds when pro- perly located. Eves uecessora had Sense their earth works a of water. Oki Roll structed 2,000 years traveled. The Rot how to construct goo • All experience joie Sc11se, in repeating t essential condition o ng about it to et of water is our savage pre- nougli to guard aiilst the action tau roads, con - ago, are still alts showed us l roads. s with common us that the only aL good roitd (granting a practfcatgrade), is drain- age--underdralnatg and surface ! drainage. The sur cc material is !, of secondary impo ranee. If l.ept dry our common, cls • makes an ideal . road. It is chosen r race coarses, = 'because of its ex client qualities. No One ever tried tl extreme speed of horses on rhea a,nl, atspllalt or granite pavement. The less of these the better' for our country roads, provided they coot d be kept dry, Above every otic rconsideration c � e is the roadbed itself. It should be undcrdrafnecl so that the water cau- ilotaccumulate or remain underneath. The inequalities 111. he surface, de- pressions and 111u;11 les. are usually y ' Caused by water softening the road - be& In the spring the frost heaves and disintegrates the road, because the earth below has been soaked with water. With thorough underdrain- age frost would not disturb the road. :' commit suicide. , Mental worry is the chief Cause of; Cancel'. Thet only rel 1aL111St the l e U ace splendid French p0sse•sions in Inclla are five towns. The ,Seyehe es Islands, tvllich politically foil( part of the British colony of Maurit"us, are supposed by many to be the original. Garden of Eden. Ldeu About the thinnest thing in the i world is the filth of a soup bubble of which it woulcllttakc x0,00 to meas.,' ure an inch. ight to be kept in 'et rid of the water ry. Broken stone, material Ci sal aLl' C not necessary for a luring surface. The claybeneath Y a will sustain anyload put on it, if it can be kept dry. The only intelligent purpose of using road metal, is to put a loaf over • the road(. This requires a slope to discharge the water directly, and a close compact covering to prevent water from sink- ing into the earth. • The custom of sing, gravel and stone of all siz except the right size, defeats the *pose or which' a covering is intent 1. N gravel as large a �a, 1 ,� hen's Ca Sl. OL 1C1 ever be put on a •road. It : aoulc be screen- ed, and if the larg ' stones are used, they should be •usilec . No stone should be used 1 rger than two in- ches its its lar, est measurement. Large gravel stop s will never pack. They work to 'he surface, ((lake a b P f 0 1 1 c 1 e 1 cL road dangerous iv horses, and help ' to destroy the=urfacc. The same rule applies to bi oken stone. ' 11laeadam's ru d, If you put a stone on the road that you can't put into your mouth, 1 t on't pay you a shill- ing, is still soon . The small st les soon forts a com- pact solid mass If laid upon a well - made foundatio , they will wear as long as the solie stone. It is not at all necessary to use great thickness of .road" metal. Thousands of miles of the best coun- try roads lasting indefinitely have been made with but three, four or five inches of i madam. But the foundation was roperiy constructed, smooth, compac and well drained. Indeed, the •oad is better for a lighter coating ot road metal, because it will then rota[ i some of the elasti- city of the underlying clay, so desir- able for horses al 1 vehicles. . If proper atte tion was given to the drainage all cousrr•uction of roadbed, much le:• metal would be required, and very ittlo expense for repairs would be required. Oar roads would be sin th, durable and elastic. The wo(ll: of each year would remain until the>• coltlitry by yearly additions wo Lid have abolish- - (Id had roads.—Col. D. W. ilieClung in Good roads. A sample of bind r twine from the Kingston penitenti •,y has been re- ceived at the Dcpatftnpent of Justice, Ottawa. It shows he smooth, even 11) tth`c rLnt, compact theca( composed 111 OSCd tit` ' - C !L 1 C P 1 Of manilla, and ' , y , 1 t0 bc, s0[Cl at from b 2 to 7 cents a you cl, which exactly covers' the Coit of 1a11(lfacture. . Two publication vete made at the tcperinierttal F'ta.' 1, Ottawa, late-. On was by 1 ioflet. Fletcher r✓ on the blights and roc) s of potatoes, and gave timely information. The other was by Prof. (;raig on the black knot of pith(( at1(1,ehorr'y. All who desire the nublicationa can haus theft upon applieatlon, A Lrttie Horoine, Jennie ("reel: is only ten, but bright, pretty and brave. She lives with Samuel i'ersollett, i.ler adoptee( : father, at 3iillgrove, a small station on the Panhandle railroad, five miles east of Hartford City, One day last September the rail- road bridge crossing the stream which runs through Mr. Personett's .fau'ln caught fire and was destroyed. Little Jennie was the only one at home at' the time, and the only one wlio saw the file. The west bound passenger was (1110, alai the girl knew that if it was not stopped a ter- rible catastrophe, would result. So •sho rail to the railroad track, and when she reached it alio heard the ,. r roar of the approaching Gla.in. Thus oughly frightened at the threatened danger to the passengers,. the little girl yet had the pre'senee of mind to snatch oft her reel petticoat and run up the track waving it aloft, and ms she had sten brakesmen clo with their flags. The engineer S1Llt' her and at o110e reversed the engine, The train. rushed by Jennie, but stopped with- in one hundred feet of the edge of the stream. The passengers swanned out the cars to find iiow narrow their escape !lad been, and when they found that they owed their deliverance to the tinlidl' little girl, who yet clung to her little petticoat, they almost overpow- ered her with caresses. They made !up a handsome purse for her en the r 11 Panhandle Company a 1 the all anclle C • ' Ot and 1 ;spot 1 3 fete days later presented her with tickets which enabled( her and the Personett family to visit the World's Fair free of expense. • Most of the passengers on the train were bound foe .Chicago, and it is supposed that among them were some Frenchmen connected with the Society of humanity; in Paris. This society has recently notified her - of its intention to present her with a medal for her bravery. --Epworth Herd. Mr. D. Chisholtnl, of Port Ilope, has been appointcp(1junior judge of Waterloo county. i I was attackoq severely last winter with Diar:bc" a, ("Tamps and Colic and tboe,:;ht• 1 wile going .o dio, but fortu- nately I tried Dr. 41?o.vler's lhx.,raet of Wild• Strawbsrry,,an:l now 1 cite thank this excellent rernticy for saving my life; Mrs. S. Kellett, 'linden, Ont, London Free Press says: Seaforth has been macre an outpost of entry, as Hon. Clarke Wallace promised during the hate election in South • Huron. , F. G. Nrelin, editor of' the Seaforth Sun, hal been sworn its as collector. ' 1 Dear Sirs.—I tvd)ntitiering very much -from dia:rrhxa, all tonic( get nothing to cure me. A fri nd told :no of Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, . and a few doses co npletely cured me. Thos. L. Graham, . elita, Man. Next year's secs on of the Ontario Dental Society twit. be held( iuToron- to. ' ) (' Mr... ' Dykema," 8t. George, rew Brunswick. After the Grip No Strength, No Ambition 1Hootl's Sarsap ilia Gave Perfect' IH alth. The following lett is from a wolf -know . •-1 merchant tailor of St.•Gloorge, N. 13.: ' C. I. Hood g Co., T:olwell, Mass,; , 01'::tle}non—I a1ri glad to say that I: y • •' tarra;au•lilaand llocd's Pills have dtn:o ar:r• .. peat t eat Of good. had }., •• a severe a.t the grip in the winter and after getting oi•e6 fever b et did 1 i I not seem t gather • strength. r T , S t!} ti ' tto annbitlotl. hood s Sar9aparllta prod •. t'a ; .- Just what I needod.i The results t5x1• 6• 1,•: , tglisillotory, and I L'ec nlnnenrt this me ,, • ell who are alllfeted With rhenn)atl:.•tn r . . r fO 'Ss `dila rvs ts is :.;tlicttons oatlsod by I)o on anti p!,nr 1 , nitrays keep hood's Sir anparlart t,. and Use It 'when I neer( rant', 'l' I load's rills on howl ant .1. w. ntIegIMAN, ht. 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