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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1894-09-28, Page 2"POOR DAVID." BY AMELIA E. BARR. When he was a good-lntttucd little school -boy he was nothing; else but "poor David." I did not understand then how a lad could be called "poor" whose father kept a large grocer's, store, and was well-known to have, plenty of money to the fore in Kent -1 dale batik. Whatever the ricer boys had in the way of playthings, David had, too ; and 'if his big brother: Josiah did bully flim, and the wihole' school impose oil his kindness, it never struck talc' that David was a: lad to be pitied. ' But then I, too,' WAS "peculiar," 4nd measured pee -1 plc and things b a rule which I am rather :hard to thnk has never yet been quite squar''d with prudent and' popular standard I In fact, 1. cons' lorded David as a' sehool•!;i,v in. rattler enviable ease. To be sure, he di not make much Out (a' leis arit1nn tic and grammar,1 and he never coral get to the top of his c;r,.-s, or writea decent copy; but I tarily, and was ain then he had an o d aunt who lent' soon as the worst him all kinds c wonderful books, clo not mean `p :and he had the b 't fishing line that tinned eagerly. a "I think David, secrets. From the I knew of. We 1 ad the books to- with his love of n,l .sure and his clever childish nature had gether in quiet h y -lofts, or down sympathetic friend, feels just as rich of his rough compal :among the bluebe :•v bushes in the as he wants to b . " half-year there was Pine -Beacon; andgtve trolled the line "Possibly, my ;pear; but money is that would not have up and down the', mountain becks a geed thing, a very good thing! from clanger and d and brought hone fie biggest string: of trout that ever : tossed Stramon- gate bridge. I wai • twelve then, and a Daviel fifteen, and thought him, in c spite of the popular4verdict, anything but a poor fellow. But popular verdicts are not things to be despised. As grew older I began—not to doub plishntents, but—to ed of my apprec Still, the Saturday i away to a London t faithfully at his side pleasure t credulous THE W INGHAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER 28, 1B94. studying for the church to be doing." "Oh ! David is to be a clergyman, then ?" "His father thought it was the only thing lie was tit for." There was a touch of sarcasm in the rector's voice; but he added immediately, in his usual kind, thoughtful way : "Doubtless his father was right--- cluit,e right." "Why so, sir?" "Because it is an advantage for minister not to be wise among the generation of this. world. It is not necessary, my chair, r, to know how to make money to stave soulds." "True. Where; is David now ?" "Studying witl� a poor, clever cru ate over Patter ale way. He told me he was very happy. I dare say he is. The two live upon tete hills ; they are both naturalists and geolo- gists ; and ll'Iil Newton is a fine scholar every way. I suppose David will get knowledge of all kinds from him --he is goingto St. Bees College next term," "Poor David !'. I said it involnn- gry at myself as points. IIis long eraurnug on the welcome, that he, was just the one were littered. "I Westmoreland lad d taught him tiling not needful o them. They r David,' " I con- all sorts of gamin and culinary met him as if he il �as a returning Inst his simple, prodigal, and he dicta not care at once nlisted the love to undeceive them. '? He felt strange ions, and in a in his father's hous and sitting in of one of them the splendid dining room at a luxur- hielded David ous meal, he tboug t, with a swelling rivation, even heart, of the camp t Golden" Run, Old Josiah Fisher wanted his two at the price of them own risk or and the rough, 1 rd fellows who sons to take hislarge business be- suffering. To all of them he was loved him. tween them. Y Ing Josiah is doing "Little Brother." And "Little He longed to ask about Mary, but Two days after this every one 'You'll come back again, Little knew that David Fisher hate gone to Brother,' he said, as he bid David (California; a place which to the good-bye; and the rough ;ban's eyes majority of people in that little ; were full of tears. Westmoreland town, seemed thcj "I think not, trill; but I can abode of everything wonderful and , trust you. Invest my share always dreadful, Many supposed it would i as you think best, and sell out as take hint at least live years to get ;soon as you can. I don't think my there, and nobody ever expected to I little lady will leave England." see him come back again. So David He had such faith in Mary that Fisher became as a lost quantity in Will could not bear to suggest a all the calculations and prospi cts of doubt. the Kentdale community. So, after nearly six years' absence, But David carried light and love David Fisher was suddenly seen one fields of California. with hint. And if,a as I have before day walking up thea Stramongale of A good old Dominus was sitting said, good angels care for those who Kentdale. Some. kiiiew him, and smoking his pipe at lay fireside when it reached inc in niy f r away Scotch Noelle, and I told hint all about poor David. There is naething rvionderful, my woman, lie said, in your story, The lad had a trusting natliire, an' he im- proved the talents God had given him; then be left God to use them ! when and where he saw fit to. Davie was nae tradesman, but he was a geologist—he couldna be a miner ' but ho could mutt avid fish, an' love his companions. In"God's ain time the geology paid, an'+the loving paid too. Everybody thought when he went up and down the Westmoreland hills chipping bits of roc1a here and there, that he was a fool. Everybody* didnn know he was gauu to California. It pays a hantel sight better to inljl)love your ain special talents, an' th' n leave God to order - c e a'your way. , ;:than to lean to your ain understand ng and choose your Own gate. --•-4- I am glad, in t!tcrjinterest of any who maybe suffering 'tom Dyspepsia, to bear testimony tc the fact that I have ben greatly benefitted by the use of K. D. C., when other medicines prescribed as remedies afforded no relief. (REv) JO$ErH IIOGG, . Minister I n5tet of St. n tern• ' h d s Cliur c , ,• ring. 16, 1893. : Winnipeg Man. Free Sample marled to any address K. D. C. Co., New•,Glasgow, N. S., •) and 1.. ( StateSt.,l' ,Boston, glass. Experiments iii CM1heesemakin_. Prof. II. H. Den, of the Agricul- tural College, Gu 1ph, has issued an. interesting bulle • u on the vc:sults of s been carrying on While not draw- tlsions, he says his work thus far wduld indicate : 1. An increased. percentage of fat in the millc givesian increased yield of cheese, though not in the same proportion. 2 That a pound ' of butter -fat 'in mill: ranging from 3.2 to 3.7 per cent. will make more cheese than a pound Of fat 1n:milk ranging, from 3.6 to 4.5 per cent. of fat. 3 That there need not necessarily ,. sof•'t whey be more los fat in r lu � fi oln rich milk up to 4.5 per cent. fat than from poor milk, though Nye diel notice a little more "grease"i on the hoops, press and shelves fi�pm the rich° milk cheese (4.5 per cent! fat.) 4 That milk containing the same per cent. of fat des not always , o£' cheese, es- Raring one day with another or oTie month. with another. April 30thli 300 lbs. of 3.9 per cent. milk rade X81- lbs. cured cheese; May lst, sane quantity and quality of milk ni tde. 27; lbs.; lbs, May 1st it. milk made May 2nd, 27}• May 4th,, ler cent. and mired: cheese.. milk made the interest of what was left;. The Tests. Of dignity ; never to forget your- self. Of unselfishness: never to remein- ber yourself. Of a elcl'k; not what he earns, but what be spends. • Of a good comrades stow much You enjoy talking to hien. L)f sympathy: how much he en- joys talking with you. Of a Inillionaire; not what he spends, 1-nt what he earns. Of beauty; not that it is perfect, but that it always attracts. Of tact: not stow often you please, but how seldom you offence, Of purity; not what it has not seen, but what it has not touched. Of virtue: not what it does not clo, but what it docs not want to do. Of charm: not how deeply you feel it, but how keenly you remem- ber it. Of a student: not how much he knows, but how muddle wants to know. Of fascination: not how keenly you remember it, but how much else you forget. 0f the worst pessimism : leading a poor life, and then preaching what i you practise, Of a realist: not that he never 1 depicts ideally, but that ho never depicts falsely. Of a fine man: not the harm that , he does not do, but the good that he does do. Of a woman• 's power: not bow ex- , elusively you think of her when she is there, but how often you think of her when she is not there. Of friendship: 1. How much you can say- to each other. 2. How little yon need say to each other. 3. How much you enjoy differing with each other. My clear sols, why did you not tell ate? You could have done .better than Mary Egmont They have -- There is uo one 011 earth better than Mary Eamont. She loved 'mo when I had not a shilling, Every- thing I have made is for her. Six weeks afterwards thyro was a quint wedding in Rentdalc church, and I received as a memento of it a very handsome present not from the silver mines of Pososi, but the gold are not very wise t care for theta- some did not. Nobo selves, they surely 1 okecl after David. cularly to speak t His journey to San ''raneiseo was an thought little about unusually fortunateland speedy one not collie home like for those days; and a party with whom be travelled took Mini by uni- versal desire into their camp. They went far into the wilderness, and had to depend entirely\ upon themselves for the supply of th<sir ordinary wants raise it. His mother ;tad been long y cared parti- Bien. David cess and had t man worth more than a million of pounces ster- ling. By the time 11e had reached home his heart had sunk! onsiderabiy, and his reception was nbt, calculated to and comforts. i dead, and he could not help feeling. Now came outa11.�I)avid'sstrongest in spite of his father's and brother'; very well, very11 well indeed ; but David, poor Day d ! I am doubtful about David." "There, are poi for those. who eat David's accom- selves. He will. )e rather asham- believe he will bel permitted to go them. ition of then. far wrong." t Then, round the before I went Nevertheless, hen I next saw was greater than D school, I spent David Fisher it i •ls not in very pru- recited, he played tj I listened with dent circumstanc's, at least so far as of home and native the plans he human druid 'ucl e. I Wats p foresightjudge. men human and lei had for going all ON :'r the world,and married then, an had come with my ed them to talk of t I tried hard to understand his queer child to spend Oa early summer in hopes, and he said many a gentle talk about plants land butterflies, ' my old home. (due of my favorite word of God and Heaven that was and his enthused recitations of his walks was a narrrbw footpath by the' never forgotten. favorite poems. Readily enough I rapid running ]Keens, which led along The camp of "Golden Run" would divined that David Was not like other the backs of gardens and houses " have been a far more miserable and boys, and as we :walked slowly 1 nearly three hundred years old. I sinful place rvithoti "Little Brother," home, I•said:saw David saunte$ting slowly before for, as Will Loring+said, "he were "You'll be a great ran some day, Davie, and see far 4.tway strange countries. If ever y(,4u go to the 'Valley of Diamonds,',, or the silver mines of Potosi, I hop: you will re- member me." "0, I shall !" answ reel Davie, in the most confident an childlike man - Brother" MIS really invaluable; he darst not. Perhaps she, too, had kept a hone in the desert for this forgotten him. He ayes silently play - band of toiling main; their days work ung with the filberts on his plate when his father said : "Josiah, that bill against Eamont must be pushed. I heard some very ugly reports about his creditors to- day. David rose hurlredly, and said he would take a wag.. • The two elders; •full of business, made no objeetiorj.; David was rather in the way. S mehow, even his father and broths never liked dis- cussing a mean or harsh deed before him. He felt lidry far apart they were from him, and wondered with a pang if Mary would also treat him like a stranger. tut even to such a David's, the con - gives a certain dice. He never ers above that care over, they knew 7lthat they would 't care for then;- find a clean, rearm ;comfortable camp do, sir. I don't and a well -cooked Meal waiting for camp fire, who vid? I{e read and e violin, he sang land, ice kept the ng, he encourag- leir friends and ner. He was perfectly I was less so ; for, a girls lose the beauti11u.1 faith of child- hood sooner than good, natuual boys do. i - So we parted,. an David's hopes and plans had no ether part nor lot i mine, It n , childish friend- ship,n to •Is�i f in no way sha 'ed by the elders of eitherfantil • aI 1 m • letters from y, t c s ' home made no allui on to him. At rare intervals I spel''t a vacation in Kentdale, but I neer chanced to meet him. His eld t brother had fulfilled every desire of bis prudent father—passed a e'=editable youth, ken high honors ' at school, and settled respectably mown to the posi- a tion provided for hit in his father's business. I had never like , Josiah, and the universal a(lmiratio of "the excellent young man" rattle irritated than interested me. I vas riding one ncerc. I think a general thing, me. When he reveled a well-known sick an innocent, yer couldn't do wicket be pausedr and almost Mt- anything unhandsome where he mediately it open&d, and a young were." Their love and honor of girl joined hint. Then he re-entered him was shown by this fact, that when they shared their earnings, if there was a Benjamin's portion, it was unanimously given to "Little Brother." . One day David, in his wanderings after game, struck a new path. Something about the ground attract- ed his notice. His old geological in- stinets returned o him in their full power, That niit when the men came, back to ca .'� for the first c 1I17, o le time in two years ther9 was no fire, no supper, and, no "Little Brother." They were anxiou4 ,y discussing plans for ascertaining h fate, . when he appeared. All tI1 i men noticed at once that lie was trangely excited. "Come here, br 'thus !" lie shouted and then droppe his game bag heavily on the • table. The men shouted back in .mazenent as lee s full of the purest 1 ore. "I .found ago. You see, have passed without a recognition of 1 friends, I am a ?I -At of -a geologist. his old companion, if I had not said, I knew when 1 11 struck the place, "David!" I thi k no friend could from the look of 'it, there would be have pleased hil4 better at the time. gold about, and.I looked around a He went home ' ith me, and told me bit and found it,: It belongs to us evening with the god old rector,and all his plans as =f old. all equally ; rve;ll share and share we met him. He s oppcd, with un- "I am really going abroad now," alike." covered head, to sp,ak to the clergy- he said, sorrowfully,"but you cannot David's discovery was one of the man, and I could not help noticing guess where." ` richest made in: those rich days, and his thoroughly purpose -like manners The California, fever was then at it was prudently worked out. If and his shrewd, clever face. its height, and Ianswered without a ever a thought of . wronging him The rector seene+ much pleased thought of the .'obability of such a entered a hears; in that little band, it with his deference. , thing : tate garden with 11er, and they were lost at once among the thick shrub- bery. Of course I could put "one and one" together. everybody knew that Mayor Eamdnt occupied the great, old house whose garden David had entered ; and 14I was quite sure that if it was Mary Eamont whoDavid loved, there was nip hope for such a love • for 'f lI t Eamont c i Mayor vc a Wont could forgive David's lack of money I was quite sure he would never forgive his lack of good birth; Besides which, every one knew Eamont to be a proud, stern father; who regarded his daughter only as the necessary means for an alliance with some house wthrthy to prop the failing. fortunes of Eamont of Kent. I walked up and down the path for half an hour and then David emptied it. It w carne thoughtfully towards me. He � specimens of go was so full of trouble that he would! them two hour! was never more than a passing "A good young ip an, my dear," "To Californi r, of course. All the thought. Isis childlike confidence �v ;elfishness shamed it avid's welfare was re. David was a very ch that when Will om 'Frisco one night, ow much there was me in onion Bank t fainted with. i t wonder he said, looking bat good young rnan. the world, and his c at Josiah; "a world turns west. aryl now." and utter u le will get on in "You aro riglt ." away, and ays will be long "David Fishe , what can you everybody's c, in the land."mean? A man with your tastes, In five year "'' I thought it litter, and said so. disposition and y education l Sheer rieh man; so ';'hen I remomberec my old coil- nonsense, sir ! Y u will be pushed to Loring carne panion, the wall, or trampled under foot in and told him "Doctor," I inq iced, "what of no time." David Fisher ?" "Nevertheless, am going." ! there, he Min against his n "I'oor David ! IIn' t---•but-�- b11 "But what, sir ?" "0, nothing wron is a little queer; tha he has a hammer, c of rock here and th Science, they say. about it, but it don' foolish one." 4 He blushed lik a girl, .but an- David's rights, and then went with don't mean to say that you have "Geology, sir ?" si<ered proudly : 'him to San 1 raneisco, and saw the money enotlglt to buy lCirklands? I suppose so. avid always was "Mary �vi11 wai for ine. Site wilt immense sum credited to David I- could buy Stricklands and add strange. No* thi is a very Didion -1 wait telt years. .fie will wait all fisher transferred to a famous Ion. to it Rirkiands, mid buy Shear!utin lam thing for a y o'ang man who is • her life!" is a good fellow,1 "Does your fat er know? Will he and joy. give you money - You cannot go "I think I' '1 " without some oto ey," said,when h 3' , my dear. Ile "Father is drer__Ifully angry. Calls is all. I hear me a fool, Hoag ,cr, he has always pping off pieces done that. Ito ,ron't give me a re. It is a new penny; but my good old aunt takes know nothing care of me." seem a very "And Mary I ont?" go home, friends," he simple nature as seiousness of weal amount of con thought now of''" private meeting with Mayor Eamont's daughter. He went up the broad white steps, rang the bell, and askec' the footman for Miss gamont. i Tlfe servant stared curiously at the queerly -dressed visitor, but led him into a parlor, and told' his mis- tress. In a few minutes David heard her steps and the rustle of her dress ; the door opened; ..Mary looked at hint. one moment, 'David knew he wasforever. She said a happyman fore`e . S but two ds, Oh; David! but they were enough for explanation. I said I would come back, Mary, and I am here. I knew you would keep your word and I have waited. And now you will be my wife ? Now, David, I will be your wife. Aunt Mary left me £200 a year, and I ain my own mistress. We can live upon that, and perhaps you may get a church. . I think not. I saw in to -day's paper Kirkland is for sale. I always loved the grand old place; I will buy it. David! Mary Tooke' at hien so searchingly that David Tqr the first time was aware that his dress misre- presented him. �. He laughed and looked queerly at his rough clothes and big boots. I don't look as if I was worth a million pounds, Mary. But 1 ' think Mr. Eamont wood just as leavehave my banker's ter ficate as my tail. or's. I had. bets ;r see him at once. Next day. all 'entdale went into ,,,Inst as Gooci" as exclamations. `)avid Fisher and for Just headaches, G db. as ou Mayor Eamont aid ramont's daugh- ter rode together' and anyone could orders giveshrelief. see upon what to ams. In a few days t visits at Eamont i to longer ignored, her spoke of thein experiments he in cheesemaking ing definite con give the sante yiek pecially when come June 9th, it trade 28 300 lbs. of 3.60 per ce, 24.1 lbs. cured cheese lbs. ; June 6th, 28 11. loth vats tested 4.7 each made 271 lbs. June 8th, 3.7 per ecu 281 lbs. cheese. There is N David's Constant Court could be and old Josiah l? to his son Yon are 8 0 at deal with Miss Eamont, David. raised his head from We are to be married next month, between his ands. "There is a dear Ilam 1 I heard she had a little girl in l:ngk-td waiting for ine and money from her aunt. Are you this news. I think I will go at going to live at court, oneo." No. I bought Rirklands yester- So, after a `long talk about affairs, day. • Will Loring "assumed the care of You--•bought--=-IIirklands 1 You 1 don house." and keep good state in all three upon thing tipans Tabules less and all dis- and liver. One The total receipts Industrial Exhibit. $68,937„95, as a last.ear, a deer - y , e The attendance t w this year than last in receipts is attri off in grand. stall several rainy after no performance co for the Toronto n amounted to ainst $71,062.06 se of $8,024.10. actuallygreater g but the decrease heti to the falling takings on the (eons, on which Yd be given. Dyspepsia arises from wrong notion of the stotnnoh, liter, and bowels. Bur- dock Blood slitters pure Dyspepsia find all diseases arising froln it, 90 tithes in 100. 1r. D. p. ;'ills tone and regulate the liver. i I For OVer Fifty Years 1 AN BCL) AND WELL -TIMID REMI1ua.—Sirs. win sleuuvr' Sy ont1inonSorfumhahebreor ,thvorhiloenr „TAY. with perfectsac.ess. It soothes thu child sotfens the gums, allays', I pain, cures wind cetic. and is thubest remedy for Dmrnccea. • I8 pleasant to the taste. Sc1d by Drugg sts in ,very part of the \Vertu. Twenty -fir cent& amottle. Ira veil a is incalculable. De sure :in I ask for Mfrs. Winslow 0 Soothing Syrup, and take o other kind. A great battle was fought at Pring Yang on Saturday, in which the Chinese were utterly routed. Japan- ese despatches state that 16,000 Chinese were killec,wounded or taken. prisoners while oxlip 30 Japs were killed and 270 wo nded. Rheumatism Cure in a day.—South Amerioan Rheumatic Cure of Rheum atism and Neuralgia radical cures in 1 to 3 days. Its notion on the syst m is remarkable and mysterious. It rem es at once the cause. of the diseaseimmed' tely disappears. The $rata nose greatly. benefits. 75 cents. Warranted at Ohisho m's drug store. The trial of Wa icer for the Wil- liams murder will. not tomo off at the approaching t. sizes. • A neiv paper, d oted to the interest of Imperial Feder tion, will shortly appear in Toronto; J. Castell Hop- kins will be its e(itor and principal contributor. M'. J. St. Georg _r .. V..Dpkevtan New Brunswick. After he Grip No Strengt ,f No Ambition Hood's Sarsapa lits Cave Perfect H ath. The following lette is froth a well-known merchant tailor of St. eorge, N. Il.: "C. 1. llooc! & Lb ell, Mass.: "Gentlettien-1 am lad to say that 41's Sarsaparilla and Hooch Nils have (lotto 111t'• a great deal of good. 1{ gad a severe luta( k of the grip ter the Winter, at titter getting over the fever 1 did not seem to ather. strength, :;hat :card no ambition. Hood's tsaparilla t I .v.' l #a he just what Y_ riePded. rte results rvera r sty satisfactory, and tree 'tuletttl this its", ie1h.' #,t 51111HOod'Sziia who aro afflicted ry IIt rlteuntatism �r t.....: afflictions caused b ols . Y b Ott and pant tdnl.l, t al vays koep Hood's Sirsaparina in my 1,..a t at d use It when 1 reed a tonic. Wo also I,•'e•1 Hood's Pills on hand mid think hlghtytit ;1,..• :' J. W. DrxastAlsf, St. (1; orgo, Year Itruaswica. Hood's Pills care `purelyr•ogetnl.lr, alul ,lo trot pnrjie, pstln of gripe+ Bomb by still tern tsttl 44. A 1CONDVePtetD BY man 17%4 (Auld rf:e,l. !•Gain; well ra11 this attention, c to the fact, that the Wr'op aucu L"*110(1 meets weer ; Sharp, far one bent', at rick street. Ali ladles arc As the }8iitot• has kind) space, for one work, we ase send items of 'merest on D day to au v of our member ITI't It pays to weal' a an And laugh our to From all our little Onr.h.nghter or o Beneath the magic Our doubts will 1 As melts tho frost Beneath the sun It pays to make a By helping it, 01 To give the currew A true and noLle It pays to comfort Oppressed with Anel leave in sorra One gleam of br. It pays to give a b To eager, earnes To note with all tl Their courage a To strive, with sr Their oonii(leno I pays to open wit And let the sun It Biter 't. The Boston ' "The world ma sympathy by bet duty-bound, btu Christian, contr their own free, j time. Such a 1if rollicking, but it nor is it a good colt is only gam halter and a lona at the other en shorten it up. by us to dirty work free -banded yol swin3. He fou far-off lance, an away from exc: when he turned of narrowness only kept him i: countess. 1"ree dom valuable ance from evil most positive bi of heart and 1 that which is gl Be The Christia Sincerity is the that is wanting whatever ma• pearance. Sin in the use of w of misleading very opposite speak truth heart is'a rvor men by their ▪ as compared must conclude *ebb at present outward show many persons elders and mi 'and actual WE once, especia They profess their neighbc cheat them 01 can in malcin ing money will never amount of pit e devotion ea amends for s may be over twice, and if down ever fraud, But, repent :hull should for very- differ: the habitual sentations, but 1;es. .A. 'rhe tl'nie Mg' ' i refer; . n , circulated Frances W dent of the fi'on t tit brad drank inOhatitatj was circuit week to thj President dinner till her recent the Amide asked this rake an came the