The Wingham Times, 1894-11-23, Page 2:esthete Mover to It.
WItiTEgti ri,Ift MAMA' DON'S. Pleaso stop- you:. noise
You jelly. twee.
Ana (team jnst a minute,
Do etttlyegiu
cotti•se Of sin,
There's nothing clever in it.
Break Out H. clause
Of Nature's laws.
But -00,:t health try to win it,
A sickly son
•nub-; WINOHAM TIMES, NOVEMBER 231 1894.
wet it e flavor, if it ever had any. descauting'at sane length upon thet had changed her into the silent AVO- eXt11, OCcasions, announcing to Ms
During the next few weeks Mrs. sopa," the farmer has the best of man she now was? wife that Sophia Mills had come to
Bradley had opportunity to prove it every time; it's a healthy, hide- "If her busy hands and feet should stay till the "heft of the sunimer's
that, Deacon Bates had spoken truly pendent sort of life, ana he doesn't be still forever!" What awful words! work" was over, "and mind - yon
of his wife. Her 11011$0 was a model have to work like a slave the year He bad no more calculated on any keep hor busy," be told the Astonish.
of neatness, her 'victuals' were truly round. In the whiter he c.au get change of that hind than that the old. ed woman, "and you, get some time
delicious and each day she turned off time to tinker at odd jobs, and do a eight-day eloek whieh had ticked on Wrest."
an amount of work, assisted Only by sight of reading besides. if khe's so forty years should suddenly leave its 1 In the afternoon Mr. Bates drove
one other pair of bands, which was dieposed." place, And, then, that dreadful 1 to town, and as Mrs. 13mciley bad
truly iucredible, "A working- Then Mrs. Bradley could not resist thought about farmers' wives becomt: the day before said site wished to
=Chine," Mrs. Bradley thouglit, as saying— ing insane. He had read enough to match some worsteds, ho took her
she watched the treadmill round of "And the farmers' wives ? They, know that melancholy is simply along, taking occasion to say as they
Is often one, skimming milk, churn:nig, baking, too, have a good rest in the winter -s- another species of nisamty. What if were well on th
Thnt suIeer's what his father's done • aren't they ?" • a that state should be slowly coming "I'm much oblige
Ther ea nothing slaver in it. ' dressing poultry, lvashing, ironing, fairly idle,
I cooking and washing dishes, begin- "Oh, no : there's Plenty of work, upon bis wife, for certainly she grew 13radley, for givina
Don't learn to drink, •A
Just pause and thiak,!i
My lad, ere you begt;ri IA
Of crime, vice, woe, •
• .
!piing at smerisean uotby any means but it isn't hard. In tl e fall, lifter more silent and sad ye r by year. my wife last iiig1T
concluded at sunset the berries are put up, comes the It must be that,. sit clid work too blind as an old bat
j Sometimes in theitwilight the tired . drying ef apples and, Pumpkinshard, fbr when he bee to reckon it said. Things'll be
The tears that iIoW, i woman rested a fete minutes, then 'Then the sausages to in re, and lard I up and toll over to Mrs.- 'Bradley all I want to ask another favor. I wish
The wrecks we see .i4beree'or we go ' Mrs. Bradley, pit ng the nAlTOW - and tallow to fry out. When all !the work she didstun ner and winter, you'd pick out a dress for my wife.—
There's nothing ck4r in it. , life, would try to ataken her inter- that's done, there's a ot of sewing it was more than he ad supposed., a nice one that'll do for best. Pm
est In an article itthe uewspapea, and knitting and car
or a bit from an am sing book ; but wife makes her owu
the weary listener usually nodded in
the midst of it.
:ON u, eft's,
I I . it' about
been as
But 'nough
fferent, Now
Don't think that fame,
Will ;mild' your newel'
'Ou'se you a yara dttn spin it,
That would with sbi4xe
Your cheek inflame kt
Should your swift sister hear the One evening after tea, as Mrs.
Same, Bradley wandered about the place
Th,..we's. nothing 4ver in it, she eamo upon Mrs Bates, who was
t
Ask anyone oat under an apple tree engaged in
That has begun ;, ' picking chickens.
The pipe, if he'llihe answer wrung begin it,
yoaux ' "You aro at it eat ly and late,aren't
Again if r T •
yea ?" Mrs. Bradl ' said, as she
Is th, A lion every aged tongue,
Thna's nothing clever in tt. I watched the swift ngers fly over
t ' : the plump chichen.,1 "I heard. that
Ob, yes, my boy,,
Take all the you were perfectly !remarkable, but
joys f
Or life, of sport, bo in it, 1 bad not imagined 'that one so per -
But take advice 0 I .etistentIv industrious!existed."
There's nothing nice ' "You heard that ' of me?" Mrs.
la paths that lead to crime and yiee,
There's nothing Oever it.
Bates exclaimed, with more interest
in
—1
than elle had ever before displayed.
Arntx. 110wITT.
"How could von???)
"It was when th'e. convention was
DEACON BATES AWAKENING. lteld at Berkshire, ti happened to
--a everhear your huiband sounding
et rags, My- How could she get tu y time for go- going to take hor out West to see
carpets, and ing out ? And now that he thought her sister when the rops aro all in
any clothes and the bo„ s' all but our of it, she never wen anywhere, ex- She don't know a wo d about it yet."
Sunday mate. Then it takes at. let sept to church, and n ' t always there, Mrs. Bradley was plighted ; she
of cooking to keep three or four because often she wits !co geed, How would be glad to hel . What would
appetites going, and We don't have different it used toFe! Once she he like?
help in the winter us ally." frequently went to to at with him, "Oh, you. must settle that ; some -
"Ie it possible the; all this is added and they occasionally took tea with thing sort o'lady like ; black, 1
to the work of the mmer? I do a neighbor or drove iu to sewing- guess; and get softie of that sort
not wonder that according to stags- society. white stuff such as Tou wear to go
tics a large proportion of the women Bat of late years AN rk had been round her neek and some ribbons
confined in lunatic , ylums are far- so pressing that there 1, had been no and all the trinnuin's ' • .
mers' wives. It is t dreary life, time for going or inviting company. A more dazed wm axle than Mrs.
making a woman nto a perfect He had just gone on buying more Bates could not be fo ncl,twhen, her
drudge." land and more cows and employing husband, .that night, 'after averyone
"Well, I don't kno ," the farmer more men, so adding t to her labor, else had gone to bed, presented her
answered, inusingly ; jwe must earn while she had but the one helper with a roll of handsor e cashmere.
our bread by the sweat of our brow. they used to have whei the farm was "And Cynthy," to said, "you
The Bible says that work's good for small. And, as ifI his was not must have it made u nice, like Mrs.
us. I guess it is and a wise provi- enough, he had eneour gad her to go Bradley's, with some ibbon a-fiutter-
sion of Providence. in' in the wind."
as it's any worse fol
is for men."
"But it seems to n
the fumes wife i
than that of ber h
I don't know on taking summer boarders occasion -
women than it ally as she had herself suggested
long ago, one year when _the crops
A .;;YORIC or .A111,1 LIFE. your praises. 1 that the lot of had failed. And les1 pretended to
., . tire. Bradley bop, less desirable think she did it all because she loved
BY MRS. C. M. 4LIVINGSTON. had found the key t
band. Accord- work so mach. That ' was all stuff.
heart, as a gleam ofi ing to your own ace unt, she has less He had seen her sta in the door
Mrs. Bradley hadtome up to Berk- for an instant on the worn face of leisure, and thou he seems to have and look after him, wh n he rode off
shire with her hasand and many the farmer's wife, so she exerted all more variety. 111 his work, and it is' to town on a pleasant a ernoon, and
-Others- to attend the inmual convocas her powers of pleasing; she praised relieved by small %pleasures. In he had beard something like a sigh
tion of their chttieli. While she the flower garden, remarked on the summer it is mostly tout of doors; just as he started. The dear, patient
rested in. her room alter the morning fine eelekent and adthired the luxur- then he jump's into hi wagon and is woman had not complained or said
session, she heard t a conversation iant vine which clamliered over the off to town two or . hrec times a sharp words; he wished she had,
which interested he ', between two woodhosse ; but Mrs, Bates seemed week on errands ; and bis neighbor and then maybe her pig-headed
men on the veranda 'just under her absent-minded and I4ss inclined to often happens along a d teens on the husband might have seen things as
window. I talk than usual. There was silence fence and talks. At i oon he takes they were. The truth ;as, the love
. . Through the halftopen blinds she for a moment while $c !worked as if a, nap in his chair or e eads his paper of money had. taken posseSsion of him,
-ic
'recognized one of tl m as Deacon her life depended upqn getting done a few minutes;
but , according to and he had sacrificed verything.
Bates, a sturdy farm r delegate, who at a certain moment. Mrs. Bradley my observation a far er's wife is a Be had not hinted to hi wife that
had shown much go sense ni the was just thinking ho useless it was drudge. She seems t have no time she must spare. herself, nd he had
. few words he had sp ken upon one to try and get anyt1 ng out of such for these little rest p ccs, and the forgotten to speak word f praise.
of the resolutions i the business a wooden woman, hen suddenly cousequence is, all 3 dreary and He hated himself ! Fir, although
meeting.. ..
., Mrs. Bates, without li. ding her eyes monotonous. It is no wonder she he had been mean, selfish and grasp -
"Whether farmingican be made to from her work, jerkeil out a . ques-
; loses her mind and ha ' paralysis, for ing, he still loved the wife of his
pay or not depends alrood deal upon tionher work is never don ." youth. What would. all the money
the sort of wife 'a mai. has," Deacon; "Mrs. Bradley; I stiould like to : Deacon Bates sat sil nt for a mire and land he had seraped together be
Bates was saying, and'this was the know—would you mitel telling me Lite,.
. while he thoughtfully stroked to him when he had laicher in the
i
-sentencewhich arrest& Mrs.Bradley's what it was Daniel sat,i that day up . the gray stubble on lilt chin, then he 'aid burying ground? he sturdy
attention. • to Berkshire ?"said slowly,—
I farmer, as he sat th 'e thinking
"If he has to run th farm and the : 'iV,Tho ? Mr. Bates Oh, he said "I d'no, maybe it's so. I never these sharp truths in fo gathering
house, too, depend upon hired help, he had the best wife ii the whole thought, about it in jut that way." shadows, realized for , momept, the
he can't lay up . anything. One of country 1" 1 Mrs. Bates came are ud the col-. desolation of going on iwithout her.
my neighbor's is in Ode fix ; his wife And then, searching bar memory, ner of the house just hen, and took He bowed his head an4 prayed with
don't know how to wo4t.hemelf ; she: Mrs. Bradley gave a faithful report (loam. some clothes fro& the lino in all his soul that he night be for -
trusts everything to het, and spends . of what she had heard. the side yard. Her httsband watch- ! given, that he and his 1 ife
might go
her time gadding about.Things go 1 It was curious to note the effect of ed her mechanically tis she folded' together, hand in hand. down the
„
at sixes and sevens t their butter and her words in the light which came and placed them. in tlie basket. bill to the gate that leads out of this
poultry are the poorest ' 1 themarket. ' into the sad eyes, and the faint life into the life eternal. The dark -
I am sorry for him. I
in
believe I've blush which came ever the faded "Your wife is a malvel to me, ac-
complishing all slit does," grs. ness had settled down when Deacon
got the best wife in thecountry, my- cheeks. t Bates got up and went nto the house.
self," he went on, tipplg back his; "Did Daniel S0.3 titat ?" Bradley said as she watched her ! • '
eHe bad gone over eve 'ything, had
-chair against the house and clasping , The wistful tone and the starting "but she looks worn; she will breaks
some day suddenly, I fear. It would
reconstructed affairs 4n a new basis
his hands over the baelcof his head ; tear were pitiful tote other woman, make a wonderful hange in this and made several pia
"she beats every thing there is going who affected not to te or hear any- fle
have no difficulty hl
house to have her bus' y hands and.
far work. She 'tends everything She broke off a • spray of oat, for his word had
herself, is up at day li ht, and some- flowering currant, 'nd said, as she
thing. feet still forever, woaldn't it ?
in his own. house. If he had suge
times before, and her utter is tip tueked it in her belt and moved The deacon turned and looked at gested auything, it m- t surely be
top; we get the hives, prices goings away,— , Mrs. Bradley half wildly, as if such done, and this not on a count of the
She's a. splendid coolejtoo; I never j "Yes, he did, and .. 1 quite agree a thing bad never c4ssed his of the old -
need go away from. hope to get good : with him." And th§n remarked to Then he got up, strolle over torah:11de. fashioned tyranny, but on amen reverence for ter husband
victuals, now I tell yen. Well, the herself, "Poor creat re, she has a line just as his wife etas about to liftt - its head of the family Mob. Mrs.
fat is, she is as smartlas asteel trap heart, after all !" the basket of clothes,:and taking Bates had always maintained, and
at anything she takes i hold of. She, It was an hour Iter, when she from her, carried it Ant the house. instilled into the minds of her child -
makes all her own dopes and most sat alone on the fro t piazza, that She followed arnazed4 ren. "Father knows best," was her
of mine, and boards lie farm hands
, Deacon Bates, his cons all done, Not since the first years of their unvarying decision.
and once in a while akes in some came and sit on the jipper step. He married life had "Dan" offered to It was not like t,eaeon Bates to
ity boarders. 1 nevi r would a been , was a man of muchshrewd intelli- do any of her work. What had say mull of his good esolutions, but
so forehanded if it hadn't a been for gence, who read hit; weekly rela m
coe over him ? ,
0 to proceed to pat the 1, into practice
her. And she's alivays at home, gious gious paper from en& to end, and When Deacon Ilatebad anything as soon as possible. here was no
1
summer and winter ;iI don't believe liked to discuss an article or doe- special on his mind a was wont to light in the sitting -Tut when he
she's been off the place, only to go to trine with a bright Amen like Mrs. betake himself to the. orchard. He entered but that of t moon whieli
thumb, this twenty fears." ;Bradley. His wife wasstillbusyinthe 'went there now and s4t down on, a streamed heat the lon window. He
"Poor drudge 1" Mrs. Bradley ex- kitehen, as the rattling of milk eans low, gnarled limb, an q leaning his thought the room was ompty till he
claimed to herself, al the dinner -bell frequently testified. Mrs. Bradley's head against a tree, tried to think eaught sight of his wife asleep in her
put an end to the 'conversation, thoughts followed the tired worker; . over the tormenting words Mrs. chair. Her mild, pale ace upturned
It so happened that in the course her kind heart longed to make the Bradley had just *ken. They in the white light Sent &long through
of : that summer Mattnd Mrs. Bradley, weary life of this women different. nettled him. He top himself she the heart of the self-et!ivieted man.
wishing to find comfortable quarters If only somebody would speak a ought to mind her ( wie business. He Went over to her nd laying his
for a few weeks in the .country, near few plain words to her husband, But, after all, he b d himself to hand upon her head, 'sr
enough to the city 0) that Mr. Brad- she reflected, and he got his eyes open- blame. By his eonf esion his wife "Come, mother, y
ley could go in and out conveniently, ed. . was a, hard -worked A man. It was wait up for the boys;
were directed to Berkshire and to "Why tot do that yourself 2" said too humiliating! I had prided bed, if 1 were you.
the house of 'Deacon Bates, her inner voice. himself en being kin to .animais and He continued to s
It was not until sic was seated at She shrank :from that, though, considerate toward elp. Was it as he said it, and Mrs.
the tea, 'table in the tool dining -room telling her conscience that ,she would possible he had been cruel to his lv sat up straight an
of iho Bates' familerone July even- sometime if she got a good opportun- own wife? It must 1 k so,oaagood It was long since her
1ng, that Mrs. B* indidentified the ity. woman like Mrs. i3ra ey would not :lost the habit of besto
deaeon as the man mkth an •extraor- The deacon., taking off his hat, 'have spoken as she did deartnents ; he used
Binary wife. Mrs. Ates did not look - ran his lingers meditatively through.. The &aeon was a od man. Ile 'very thing. in the old
in the least like the spusy, bustling his gray locks, and opened upon an was not going to spin bimself, now "Was Daniel going
worker, Mrs.' BradleA bad pietured, article he had read that afternoon on • that his eyes were gett
.She was a small, pale: woman, with the comparative merits of a trade Ile went back over t
gray hairs and wistfult brown eye% or profession, 'compared with farm- Amy first came to the
Ear low spoken words kere few, and ing. ,‘Cyntlif was young a
afar neanner apathetic, 'its If life had "In my 'opinion," he declared,aftcr used to talk and laugh
that at last site
open this closed
surprise flashed
•
In Year Grandfather's Day.
The mail of the whole country did
not equal that of a single wend rate
office now,
Buttons were scarce and capon -
sive, and the trousers were fastened.
with pegs or laces.
The only shoes were stout contri-
vances of strong bide, with wroodeu
pegs or hobnails.
A fever patient was forbidden te
drink water, and. smallpox was treat -
ea in a dark room.
There were no threshing machines,
Wheat was threshed out on the barn
floor with flails.
There were no pianos; the lattice
of musical talent played en the spinet
or1 •
Bear skins and buffalo robes were
common bed coverings. Quilted
comforts were a luxury.
A mail carrier was sent out from
Boston, Philadelphia or New York to
a country town only when there was
enough mail to pay for the trip.
Quarrels between the boxes and
the pit in the theatre were common,
and the people in the former $01113-,
times spat down on the heads of the
crowd below.
When a Virginian started on a
journey to New York, • he made his
will and bade farewell to his friends,
as though be never expected to see
them again.
"What's the matter with you,
Dan'I ?" his wife asked anxiously.
"Whatever does all this mean 2"
"It means, little woman, that I've
been an old brute. tI've let you
slave yourself 'most • c n
not a, mite of fun thr wn in. Now
it's going to be stoppe . I'm going
to take care of you he rest of the
way. What would u say now to
takin' a trip out West text month to
see your sister Hannah?"
It was too inueh. Mrs. Bates
could only cry and.ery as if she
would never stop, while her husband
murmured as he stroked her hairl
"Women are curio s. 1 looked
.for you to laugh ins ad of ery,
Cynthy."—The Home en:cm.
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'Tying them
ver been law' j
Presbytery of -Huron.
,
The Presbytery ot altiron met in
Willis 'eharch, Clinton, on Tuesday,
the 18th inst. The I 'nane,e Com-
mittee reported that rate of ten
cents. per family th oughout the
w
bounds would bo requ •ed for Pres-
[
bytery and Synod Ea rens° Funds
for the coming. year. tev. E. Cock-
burn, of Paris, a rept . sentatiye of
the committee on aug entation of
stipends, addressed tl Presbytery
upon the requirement of the fund
with the admistration f which they
are charged. The Presbytery
agreed to take the nee sary steps to
secure the amount ex ected in sup-
port of that fund, from he congrega-
tions under their juri lotion, viz,
$700. It was reporte that the stun
of $2,150 would be o peeted from
the same congregation in aid of the
Home Mission Fund. Rev. John
Ross, of Brussels, rept seating the
d :--- 'Presbytery of Maitlan , asked the
'd better not; co-operation of the P esbytery of
d go right to; Huron in the re-arran ement of a
portion of the field-conti uotts to both
-th her hair Presbyteries. A commi tee was ap-
ates present- pointed to consider the matterand
wouderillg. to report at ,the next reg ,lar meeting.
• husband had. It was agreed to hoict the; next meet-
ing little en- ing in Masan on the third Tuesday
tort to do this of January, 1805, and to Sabbath -
ys. School e otnmittee was instructed to
die 2" arrange for a conference on Sabbath
r soon after Schools at the same Nate,' on the
vent away irk preceding afternoon and evening.
riling in the,
th the strong, IL D. O. Pills lorodues hatuval ito.
ig wide open. The next mernin
years when breakfast, Mr. Bates
farm, when his spring wagon, r
bright, 8he space of two hours
then. What capable girl who fisted them on tion of the bowels.
Business men and politicians gen-
erally used a cipher in their corres-
pondence, lest their communications
become public property by being
read by the post -master.
Painted signs representing red.
dogs, blue monkeys and other re-
markable animals appeared over the
doors of dry goods stores and other
mercantile establishments.
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heads or the world have changed:
often. She has, in that time, seen
every throne vacated at least once,
and some of them several times. The
:post of Premier in her own country
has been held by ten men all of
whom are now dead, with the ex-
ception of Gladstone, the Marquis of
Salisbury and the Earl of Roseberry.
'Beginning with Martin Van. Buren,
sixteen men have in turn filled the
office of President of the United
States during her reign, and of those
only two remain, Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr. Harrison.
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Oshawa, Ont..;
Pains in the; Joints
Caused . by IhrifiainiTtettory
Swelling(
A Perfect Cure by Hood's Carves.
aerate.
"it affords ne; mush DICaSittO to wont:unit
ITOOd'S Sarsaparilla, Aly son ivas lammed e tilt
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to bed without drawling on hadds and hum. 1
was very anxious about Idm, And having rant
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It 11, to tare to got 'Hood' Sami.m..ii• t.
• Hood°. PM* at efie7, I Ye, 1 ro.• •
attiolontly, ort the liver atid
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