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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1894-08-24, Page 2Gj OLD SAWS U REETME. A.otiiont spcnl; louder than words ever de; • You eery': stat your cake, and lipid on toit too8 'Wen te gatis away, then the little -rice 1)10a Where .t sere isa will there is always a wad, Ona's• sleep in the Mud as the other in tuiiil; Don't jtttpt from the frying ran in the fire. There's no use crying o'er milk that is spilt; No aeonser is needed by conscience of wilt. Thererust be some fire wherever is smoke; The pitcher goes oft#to the well till it's broke. �4 By ropes falling otift honest Leen get their due; Whoever it fits, to must put on the shoe. All wort: and no It ay will make Jack a dal boy; A. thing of much b1anty is ever a joy. A. half loaf is better than no bread at all ; A.ud pride always g�oeth before a sad fall. Fast Lind and fast "incl, have two strings to your bow: Contentment is b!tter than utiles, we know. The devil finds wor ^' for hands idle to do ; .A. miss is as good as a mile is to you, r .io appear; speakt •i he's su e Fon of he $e, 1, PP + You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, ! A man by his comp ny always is known ; Who lives in a glass house should not throw a stone. 1 When the blind leach the blind, both will fall in the ditch: It's better born 1uky than being born rich.. Little pitohers havelbig ears ; burnt child dreads the fire. Though speaking th truth, ro one credits a liar. • Speeoh may be silver, but silence is gold; There's never a fool like the fool who is old. ;—Detroit Free Press. • A GIRL G4ADUATE. BY CYNTHIIa BARNARD. It was examine 'on week at Mouut •• Seward College, b t most of the Work Istudentsweret o was over, and a , waiting ie, rxl tt u 1 fever of anxiety the us u.1 .I]r y their papers, learn the verdic of her to � Pn , representing so m ch toil and pains. Some of the girls were nearly as much concerned a ` out their gradua- tion gowns as aboitt their diplomas, • but as inch:pendenae was in the air at Mount Seward, ihese rather frivo- lous girls were in the minority. During torr tune rte students wore the regulation capi and gown, and partly owing to th?e.fact that Mount Seward was aeolle a with traditions of plain living an high thinking behind it, `parts_ because the youngestand best. loved professor was it woman of' 'are and noble characteristics, a wiroman who had set her own stamp OA her pupils, and furnished them An ideal, dress, THE E WIV. NGU A11 TIMES, , ►.iYGUST 0, 1894 to whom: the unopened letters in her hand signified; so inuelt. Which should she read first ? One, in a large square envelope, addressed in li bold, business -like band, bore a had l wester!). postmark, and l a t te printed order to return if not deliver- ed in ten days to xIi1ox University, Colorado. The other; in a cramped, old-fashioned hand, bore the post- mark of a hamlet in West Vfrginie, It was a thin letter, evidently belong- ing to the genus domestic eori espond- ence, a letter from Margaret's home, Which should she open first? There was an evident fitruggle, and a per- ceptible hesitatioe. Then she laid the home letter ]resolutely down on the pillow of hart bed, and with a hair pin, that wwOman's tool which suits so many use§, dexterously cut the envelope of the letter from Hilox. It began forrnalty, and ended very brief: "My dear Miss ee ; The trustees and faculty of Hi ox University have been looking fora woman, a recent graduate of dist"- action from some well established (Eastern college, to take the chair of r Greek in our new institution. Your have been recom- mended as thor . ghly qualified for T1 the position, >'! e salary is not at gresent large, b our university is rowing, and, Ave offer a tempting tie and ambitious e write you more est, if you are inclin- vacancy into your ratiou ? spectfully yours." • the signature of the x ; a man whose field to an ewer woman. May w fully on the sub ed to take our favorable eonsi Very er -r I Then followed president of Hi! name and fame] were familiar to Margaret Lee. The girl's cheek glowed; her dark eyes deepened ; a look of power aid purpose settled upon the sweet, :full lips. For this 'she had studied itt1entlessly; to this end she had look4d; with this in view I her four years' course had been pur- `sued with pluckiand determination, . The picture of Toanna Baker, as i young as herself, climbing easily to • the topmost roue of the ladder had fired and sitmula d her, and she had allowed it to be :flown that her life was dedicated toy learning, and by and by to teaching. All the faculty] at Mount Seward knew her aspira the professors h in securing he had not expee ions, and several of d promised their aid a position, but she d anything of this kind so soon. >i , Why, her di]loma would not be hers until next week ! Surely there must be some benignant angel at •; work in her ehalf. But—Hilox ! 'Had she ever t et anyone from Ili - ,lox! Suddenly th light went out of her ' ardent face, an a frown crinkled the smooth fairness of her brow. This, then, he had d ' ed to do! Memory rec lied an episode two :years back andth<Llf forgot:en, Mar- 1g' lar- t garet had been, pending her vacation and fashion were sect ndary considers- , at home in the Vest Virginia mount - tions here. Ther were no low sins, and a alai bad fallen in love emulations•at Mount Seward. ; with her. T11 re was nothing re - A group of girls a bay window rlrarkable in tit for a beautiful girl 'overlooking the cam p us were discuss- : of twenty-one, graceful, dignified, ing the coming :Commencement, a accomplished, nd enthusiastic, is a From various rooms:came the steady, ! very lovely sreature. A visiting patient sound of *nos played for , stranger in the rliage, the minister's practice. On the +green lawn in , front of the president's cottage two or three inteilectuaa'�t looking profes- sors and tutors wanted up and down, evidently clisens:singt an affair that interested diem. The postman srolled over the Campus wearily, as if to say: "This is my last round, rend the bag is abominably heavy; He disappeared 7vititin a side door,; and presently the}•e was a hurrying and scurrying of 'resh faced young women, bright-eyed and blooming Under the mortarchps jauntily perch- ed over their braids and ringlets,' rushing toward that objective point, the college post -office. One would have fancied that letters came very seldom, to see their excitement, Margaret Lee received two letters. She dict not open either in the pres- ence of her friends, but with a swift step and a heightened color to her own suite of rooms. Two small off from a pleasant alcoves, curtained little central sitting room, composed the apartment Margaret shared with Iter four years' chum, Alice Raynor. • Alice was not there, yet Margaret slid not seat herself in the room th bit entered her own alcove, drew the portiere, and sett down tr't �ttr• to -'r' r•fthe iron bed, nut larger theft zt soldier's camp cot. Xt was= fxtstere little cell, simple as sides liEtm'%, with the light failing from Wee narrow window on the pale fake a brown hair of the young girl, cousin, had bee much in her father's house, had wal ed and boated with her, and shares her rides over the hills, both on s 1•e footed ponies. As a friend Mar ret had liked Dr. Angus, as a co rade had found him delightful, but her' heart had not been toueheci. "What had she, with her Greek pro ssoriate looming up like a star in id -heaven before ilex —what haci s e to do with love and a lover ? be had managed to make Dr. Ano s know this before 118 had quite co itted himself by a. proposal ; bu she had understood what was in h thoughts, and she knew that he knew all about it. And Dr. Angus had remained and settled down a, a practitioner in the little mountain own. The town pact I a future before•it, for two railways were projected o •cross• it, and there were eoal 'mine in theneighborhood, ] C] hborlro ocl g r and, altogethera man might do worse than drive his ,;roots into this soil, She hadt•• S t 1 e.ttcl now •L o and then of Dr. Angus sine° titian summer ----her law vacation had:them spent in Nest England -•–and be was said to be courting a Mrs. Atitrray, a rieh and °harming neighbor of her father's. Dr. Angus had friends in Colorado. Now she rementberecl he 1tacl a rela- tive who had helped to found Hilo; and bad endowed ft, °hair of langu- ages or literature ; Cie was not eels Wain which, So it must be to him she was indebted, and, oddly, she was more indignant than grateful. The natural intervention of a friendly was due the college; she thought, atnd baud, its the matter tool: Sal the she pointed ottt the fact that Mr. Lee satisfaction out of her surprise. had not asked her to leave until the Not that she loved Dr, Angus! lint exercise's were over, she did not choose to be under an But Margaret had only ono reply ! obligation to him. What girl would illy mother needs rile • 'must go! , under the circumstances a? g g �,t wweel:, later, at sunset, the r]lda Mb this time the letter from horn° lumbering stage rolled over the steep.i lay overlooked 0n the pillow. If at hills ;end the smooth dales drew up. Could have spoken it would have tp- at Margaret's home, Tired, but with preached the daughter for her absorb a steadfast light in her eyes, the girl tion in its companion, but it bided its stepped ed down, received her father's Presently 1p 1 U ares t •l eci rset flu tri, - ti a. 1 ° n .. t time. Y �' with a start, saw it, felt at remorseful Masan-idwaiting went straight to her mother, stab, and tore it o ,c u. with the aid, of in the doorway. 1 I tial clad-- glad you have come, the hair pin,. I my .darling 1 said tl,{��� mother. 1Vltile This is wlutt the home letter had you are here I can give everything to say. It was from Margaret's up. But, ray' level; t is not what we I father, and be seldom wrote to her, planned. 1 leaving as inany inen do the buil: of correspondence g With absent mom - that my clearest, aid the girl, but • Ucrs of the fattzilt• to be the acro of that is of no.y. eons ueneo. I wish 1 Itis wife and children. 4h° felt a had known •'sooner how much I was cemonitor thrill'wanted at home n The Lees were i very aifeetionato But you will not be a Professor of and devoted hous hold, clannish to at Greek! salt ▪ the nether that: night. degree, and t -demonstrative • as ( It was all arrange 1 tor the operation, mountaineers oft n are. The deep, which was to tai place in a week's well of their love clld not foam and I time, the surgeon to conte from the ripple like a broo , but the water was nearest town. `1`h. mother was brave, always there, to draw upon at will.; gay, heroic. Margaret looked at her, The shallows ]nit noir, but the deeps iwondering that one under the are dumb. It w s so in the house of shadow of death :°ootid la, and Duncan Lee. •tall: so briglhtly. >f "My Dear Dttu liter Margaret (the i No. I' will be li something better, Letter began)—I ope these lines will she said, tendert ; 1 will be your find you well, an your examination nurse, your con rt if I "all. If I crowned with °cess. We have had only known, there are. many I. thought and ta1 ed of you much . things 'better tha Greek that' might I rhave learned .4e d t wecouldbe with lately, wt i,.l c cot 1 w t t{ you to see you wv en you are grade-; Hilox did not get its Greek profes- ated. Mother wt• old have been glad • sor, but the ettltur of Mount Seward to go, but it is mt sad duty to inform' was not wasted. ' Mrs. Lee lived you that she is rot well. Don't beg years, often in an uish unspeakable, anxious, Merger . There is no int- relieved by interv, is of peace and mediate dange , but your dear freedom from pal The slaughter mother has beei more or less ailing • became almost t o mother in their since last March, , and she does not intercourse as tin passed, and the get better. We Hear there will have bloom on her cheek paled sooner to be a surgical operation—perhaps than on her mother' in the depth of more than one. 1Sllo ]nay have to her sympathy. Bt the end °ante live, as people often do, for years; at last, suffering lif went out with a with a knife altw tys�,over her head. 1 soft sigh, as a child falls asleep. We want yon to chine home,Margaret i On a little shelf i Margaret's room as soon as you ear. I enclose a , cheque for all empenses, and I will see that you are stet at the railway terminus, so you ;geed not take the long stage ride all' y yourself. But I am afraid that I have not broker it to you gently, mS dear, as mother said I must. For' 'e me ; 1 ani just breaking my heat n these days you as much almost as nether dots. Your loving father, jDuxoax LEE," A vision rose before Margaret, as i with tear blurred eyes she folded her i father's letter an replaced it in its' cover. She bras ed the tears away i and looked at thesdate. Four days ago the letter haci been posted. Her home, an olcl he estead in a valley that nestled deep' and sweet in the' heart of the gra] motultain range . e,. g;ttuam� it on c,v ry side lo;;e before her. She saw be ore her her father; grizzled, careworn, old fashioned in I dress, precise int manner, a gentle- man of the old *hoot, a man who had never much ]Taney, but who had'' sent five sons and/ one •clan„liter to college, giving th m what the Lees prized most in lifel a liberal educa- tion. She saw her bother, thin, fair, tall, with the golden hair that would fade but never turn! gray,. the blue, childlike eyes, the etistful mouth. Mother ! she gasp d, mother ! The horror of thelnalady-that had seized on the beautif' 1, daiuty; lovely woman, so.jike a rincess in her bearing, so notable in ]ler house- wifery, so neighborly, so maternal, swept over her in a hot tide, retreat- ed, leaving her shivering. I must go Volae, she said,' and at once ! With feet that seemed to her weighted with leadishe went straight to the room of the 1 Dean, knowing that in that graeiou woman's spirit there would be instals comprehension and that she would c receive wise ad- vice. .t hth Mydear said 1 heard front Hilox, h are proud:ot ;you; represent o r collo our g there. I is a, tna t ity, 11Margaret. !. 'Tice Dean was v y short-sighted, and she did not eat 1 at first the look 1 Y iiI11 <r s face. on < t c.t answer t1 Yes, she alts v ,z d, in a voice that sounded muffled at Ci lifeless, 1 Have heard front Hitox; dI bad almost for- gotten, but I must nswet' the letter. Dear Mrs. Wade, have heard from hotne, too. My mo • ler is very flt,and She needs ane. I st go at once— to -morrow :norma I eannot wait for Corn]nenaetnent The Dean 'asked for further infor tion. Then sire urged. that Namara ,should wait over the annual great oe Aston ; so nmtteh' De �nhw Dean, so have iven't you ? We sve want you to and our culttir e &cat opportun- her old text books, elclonr opened,are souvenirs of her u y life at college. Her hand has lean cd the eunnieg which concocts d my dishes and lucent jellies ; her housekeeping and her hospitality aro famous. She is a bright talker', witty, charming, with the soft inficctions, which - make the vibrant tunefitlnes of the Virginian woman's voice so rider and sweet a About Tuberrculosis, the local boarid of health lady deal ~~ ^^ with the matter in mishit way as wjll • TIU i'r;uvrlcctzn.r. WARD xti<� ill AT.i.'x best servo to protect the employes. Rin Trig; z.St'aiit,zsriAt>+a't' i (4) In all cases where the local Or HONES rjOts 0O;4StatIn'zw'ES. ;board learns that any apartments. have been vacated by it tuberculosis . At the recent meeting of the Taro- patient, either tht'ough death or re-+ vinejal l3oard of Ilealtlt, held in trioval, it will direct the cltslnfection presented a ed the ries ittoc on epiclettrics , ofl tale almrtluents tnicl of rill articles presented at sones of propositions rot liable to contain infection, according tuberculosis, as follows: ; to ilio titles published lay tltc I�rovin- 1 iec .it That the a s l t t 1 1 fo cl I t att pt v Llei eo aft :bate: to , tial board of has tl t g, sisin Ontario, both inrnenand cattle,:contagious diseases, and wall prevent calls for the active interference of all 'further residence in said apartments authorities to whom is delegated the !until satisfied :list siloli disinfection proteetiolr of the pt brie health. I has been carried out. 2, Tliat the p valence of the i (5) The authorities of all public disease depends (a upon the direct ;institutions, such as hospitals, ctis- ino lation with the• bacillus oi' germ ' perlsaries, asylums, prisons, homes, of erculosis, at d (b) upon .causes ore., will be required to notify within which either retina the resistance to • seven days the local board of health the contagion of tit disease, or which ,t of the municipality wherein they .arc increases the clstng. r of inoculation situated of the name, sex, age, oc- by increased expo ure to the germs � cupation and last address of' every of tuberculosis, tuberculosis person cotningr under 8, That boards f health are tittle- their observation. fore called upon to investigate and (6) That every institution receiv- romecly to the gre:,test extent within ing either municipal or government their power such 'unsatnitati'�' condi- aid shall, under penalty of the with - tions, whether tau liclpal, dotmtic or I drawal of such aid, provide separate apartments wherein consumptive patients shall be maintained, • that (7) That its view of the filet t a there are on an average in the older settled counties of the province 50,000 inhabitants, exclusive of the large cities, aucl that there is an average of 50 deaths a year in each from consumption, or probably 100 cases es •oi - any b 1county at a CO disease 1 of the to I 3' given time, it seems a necessary part of any scheme for effectively dealing with this disease that one or more "domes for consumptives" bo estab- lished within the Province either by the Proyipcial government or by a nutnber of comities combining to- gether for the purpose. It will be seen'.that such a scheme would not be impracticable when it is remembered that there were in 1;39 2, 4,231 in- mates of our Provincial asylums. How They Come Upon Us.— Daring the green apple season, cramps come upon us like a thief in the night, and reniain with us until' the nearest physipian is called in, or the pain is driven away by a , r_ RY Da PIA or two Pix D . A se ort of a; do Rxrz,ER,. the celebrated cure for all summer complaints, from simple cramps to the most aggravated forms . of cholera morbus or dysentery. Ne household should t be without the PAIN -KILLER, unless there is a drug. store next door. Every reputable druggist sell the . medicine. Only 25e. New large siz'. • Iiobt. llcCortliic a market gar dener, who reside a utile this side of Paris, has four eros of land. On it he has planted 20,000 cabbage plants, 30,000 cele y, 2,000 tomatoes 1,000 red cabbage' and half an acre of potatoes. His crop promises well and if he sells thee: at a low price, say celery and cul;liage at 2e. each, and estimating 15� bus. potatoes and 250 bush. tamatoe at 25c per bush. the erop will brings $1,130. thing in the car. Mount Soward is to her the Medea of memory. If ever slie had a dh:aghter she will send het there, ants—who knows ?— the girl may be prf essor at Hilox. For though Margstret is not absent from her own household, she is not long to be Merger Leo. The wed- dineeako is mad and is growing rich and firm as awaits the day when the bride yill out it. .The wedding gown i ordered. Dr. Angus proposed 't last.; he had never thought of cooing or winning anyone except t. j e fair girl who caught his fancy and his heart ten years ago, and wet n Margaret next visits her New En land relations it will be to present 1 r huebatici. The .professor, who had been her most dearly beloved friend " during those happy college days, her eon= lidante and model, said to one who recalled ;:Margaret Lee and spoke of her as a great di t.ppointnrent, my dear. Yes, we expect l her to nutke a great reputation or herself and Mount Seward. S c Wisdom better. Site has been enabl 1 to do her duty in the station to wh h (rod has called her—a. good thin, for any girl graduate, it seems o me.—Harper's Bazar. individual, as are snow known to pro- mote the disease. 4, 'Etat inastu cit as inoculation with the bacilli of tuberculosis is direct (i. o., by heir inhalation into the respiratory ract as dust) or in- direct (i, e,, by being taken into the body with food Air drink), the sani- tary treasures to be taken for its 'Retention mus extend tQ the 1 + whether of infection- � hctlner fts source bo infected person , houses, and articles exposed to it feetion, or infected cattle, the pl. des occupied by them, and the food a d milk. obtained from thein. . ' 5. That th 'first .step:: to lessen the spread of ii fection front persons tubercnlized c pends so far as health authorities ar concerned upon the notification b- persons, householders,, _ and physician of existing cases of the disease. 6. That wit t this end in' view, physicians aiJcl health officers are everywhere advised to take advant- age. of the futilitiestt lie the ag s np d by l e Provincial board of health for an examination oft the . sputum of any suspected case f the disease. 7. That, to t e end of accomplish- ing, these results: it is expedient in the public interest' that the Provineial board of health does by resolution recommend that- an order-in•council be passed placing tuberculosis on the list of contagious diseases, -requiring notification in the' same manner as diphtheria and other communicable diseases. S. That, therefo e, the provincial board of health, wh n informing local boards of health, p ysicians, and the general public o the regulation, should add in • thei circular of re- commendations to l cal boards parti- culers for their g idaxncc similar to the .following, most f which are now adopted in New Yo k city : (1) The local boa' el ,pf the munici- le name, address, person known Fom tubcreulosis, 'clans and house- { secretary of the of tuberculosis Irot.:.raUttr.�� a Piens, --Diseases and casuatti44 itieidental to youth imty be safe y treated by the use of these excel! It Medicaments according to the prix ted directions, folded round each pot and box, Not' is this Ointment alone applicable to external ailments; c \jointly with the Pills itexercises th most salutary iufltte]tco in Orating inflammations situated in the interio of the body; when rubbed upon th aekanci chest; it gives the most sen bre relief in asthma, bronchitis, lour'isy, and threatening consumpt n. Holloway's remedies are °sped ly serviceable in liver and stomach mplaints. For the cure of bad ' le s, all sorts of wounds, sores, and li ewwisc scrofula and scorbutic affections, this Oint- ment produces a coaling and soothing feeling most acceptable to the ouf fever. f Y 11. C. is marked, . rompt said Iustnig in its ei eots. parity will register sex and age of ever to it to be suffering and request all phy holders to notify t1l board of any cases within their charges This informa- tion is principally fpr statistical pur- poses, and no visits to any premises where such patients: reside will be made, nor will anyat surveillance of theta by the local 1 oard take place, except where the p rsons reside in a betel, boarding house or tenement house, unless the ho.rseholder or phy- sician requests thae an inspection of the premises be ,road°. In these eases, where patients reside in hotels, boarding houses clr tenements, the local board will no visit the premises to make stceh inspection, if requested by the attending physician not to do so, and it said plttsieian is willing hilnsef to deliverirculars of instruc- tions and to take !measures intended the e umunication of 1 to prevent the disease to others. (2) Wherever the local board of ns of to existence of cases health Zeal as s of consumption n hotels, boarding houses and tette lents, not dealt with as aforesaid, the; board will inspoet " es mai supply the patient the premrs pp yp ] G and fancily with circulars of Worms. - tion regarding •ineitsures to be taken to guard again .t the spread of the disease. Whorl: necessary, the board will dircet the cleansing of apart- t•. g l th en of t 'o t apart - matte with end d°s i yit b therein c;dstin eontagion. (3) In work 'oonts,factories,, etc•, whereWhere r lize;i persons are em - played. and • vhere, owing to the nature of the 1 ork er the number of persons angag . , there is danger of on of the infection, the dissemina FRANK LEis1 a'F- Osha -a, Ont. Pains in the Joints 1aii. � .3mt'rratoa•y fling by Hood's Cotes' rill w Caused by Y Svv A Perfect Cur "It affords inn mu' %toast's Sarsaparilla. great pain ht the • swelling so bad that to bed without crani was very ani:iotis al h pleasure to rnenmrlt+tnt Aly sou was antlered wt,.t chits, seeontlmulr,l v.l: t to could not get lip stairs ng on hands ant knees. I out 1.114 inid having' read 1aarsa ltd v " 00 i t pte ) so fetich about 1•fooct'a Sarsaparilla, 1 deter- mined to try it, nod got a half-dozen 1,nttlr r, tour of svhtcli etttlrely curt'. lilm;" ;thte. Al. A. /Am oshawn. Untarto: N+ BY Ire sure to get:food's Sarsap:trill,. ItlOOd'iti '11I tet easily, yet 1,rtoniuly a:cix .11teiehtty, on the liver and bowels. :t1e.