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a"DOWN BRAKES !"
"You say, Abby, he's one of the
children sent out from the city apick-
nlekin' ?" asked Engineer Lothrop,
as he was getting ready for his noon
lunch, that followed the arrival of
his train, "tire twelve o'clock local."
"Yes," said his wife timidly. "1
—I thought you would be willing.
Word was sent to— to --our church
-that they would be glad to have any
—any of the people take—take a
poor boy or girl from Philadelphy
for a few days, I thought you—you
would be willing."
The engineer was standing before
:a. looking -glass, and his only reply
was with a brush that gave his black
loeks an extra pat, to force them, if
possible, to lie down flat and straight
—a tiling he had never yet aecom-
lished.
"I thought you—you'd be will-
ing," said said his wife again.
"What's his name, Abby ? he
:said..
"The children seemed to be calling
him Bobby, and when I asked him if
that was his name, he said yes."
"I don't suppose he has, or ever
lead, any other name—one of the
sort growin' up by hisself, and you
don't know where he came from, or
-what he's up to. Bobby ! Welt,
that is as good a name as you ever
find tackled on to any of them raga-
T.,CI.E AN/INGHAM TIMES, NOVEMBER 30,1884,
the contrary, and another reason was 1 A Wonderful Farmer. Shabby 'hut Generous.
that he had a boy's desire. to see one There was the model of a new and Humphrey Niehols was an English
of the most lively things out ---a curious agricultural implement ex- parish clerk who lived parsilnonious-
locomotive. Having interviewed hibited at the Montreal board of ly a,nd gave away enormous sums of
this creature of active habits, lie trade the other day. It is called the money both to institutions and in -
sauntered down the track. "Romaine Modern Steals Farmer," dividuals, One afternoon, he
He was half a mile heyond the and as the circular says, "is destined presilnted himself at the door of a
station when ho reached the "Old to inaugurate a new era in farnthig." certain rectory, just as the master of
Big Bank," as the railway folks The machine, it is claimed, will the house was going down to dinner,
called a heavy slope of earth over -plough, harrow and seed the ground with his guests. The footman would
coming a eurve in the track, It was lin the spring and reapand thrash not admit the shabby old gentleman
intended some .time to cut down the grain in the fall. It is. supposed _ within the lobby, and was about
"Old Big Bank," as it showed an to do all the work of a farm, so as 1 telling nils to go around to the back
unhappy tendency to crumble away; not to require horse flesh and oats at door, when the rector caught sight of
liini, and asked his business.
It was soon told : he had .mine to
give a trifle of money to the fund for
widows an orphans. When he had
accepted an invitation to the study,
a shabby old pocket -book was pro-
dubed, and a banknote, a very dirty
one, laid on the table. The rector
took it up, thinking it a five -pound
note.
Have you looked at it ? asked Mr.
Nichols. •
Yes, said the rector.
Look again.
The rector could hardly believe
his eyes. The note was for. five
hundred pounds.
Perhaps I'm keeping. those fine
folks waiting for their dinner, said
the old gentleman,, But if you're
not tired of counting, I'm not tired
of giving.
Ile ended by putting down seven
thousand pounds.
Tell that fine gentleman of yours,
he said, in sly reference to the foot-
man, to be civil to an old man, even
if he should happen to wear a shabby
coat.
Tho rector asked him to stay to
dinner.
Dinner L said he, why, I ate my
mutton chop before I started from
Manchester. What would your lords
and la4ies say, to sit beside a shabby
old fellow like me ?
but it never had given wpeelal ail. It is intended fur large and fiat
trouble, and was allowed to stand, farms, and one machine will eulti-
As Bobby looked. at the slope, he vate from fifteen hundred to two
saw'a movement up near the ragged thousand acres in a season, , This
top. Tho earth was ' in motion 1 machine when complete is thirty
Quickly—how the boulders did .come feet by twenty feet in d1iuensions,
tumbling down 1 and six feet high, and is run by an
And hark 1 engine on the upper side. The total
He heard the roar of anearing weight is thirteen tons, but the ma -
train. If—if the boulders bounded chine is kept on the surface of the
down upon the track and blocked it; ground by eight rollcrs,each eighteen
if—if—how he /parted to see what inches Wide.
would happen G' _
Down upon the track crashed the A Terrible Experience.
boulders, and firmly lodged there. Mr. Geo. Tribe, of Staffordville, Ont.,
What now was to be done? Nearer, a pretty village near the shores of Lake
and nearer, louder and louder, Erte, went tbrougb an experience lately
i rumbled and roared that train. that he will never forget. He tells it in
bis own words :
Bobby ' thought a moment longer. For three year I suffered from skin
Then he pulled off that unpopular disease in its worst from. I tried Kerf-
red garment, his jacket, and, waving uedy's Medical. Discovery and the
Cuticuca remedies, and doctored one
it, he began a race down the track. year with the best physicians in the
Would an engineer be at a little land, but got no benefit ; they pro-
nounced my disease a Scaly Eruption,
but failed to remove it. It name on in
red blotches and spread over my budy ;
the skin became elry and formed hard,
white scales; the itching was intolerable,
but I am now completely cured by the
use of. Burdock . Blood Bitters. I can
truly say that I owe my good health to
B. B. B., and I advise all sufferers to use
this splendid medicine.
GEO. TRIBE, Straffordville, Ont.
muffins." window of his locomotive cab,looking
The wife said nothing but worked out for danger ahead ? Yes, he was
away nervously on a little white bib there. His keen, watchful, eye was
she was making for her baby. She at the window. What dict he see?
saw plainly that this boy from the
city was not fancied by her husband.
;She saw also it was wise to be silent.
"Let him alone," slie thought,
"What's that?" lie asked, speaking
to his fireman, yet not taking his
eyes off from the track, or failing to
notice that violently -waved object of
."and he'll come round himself." red. ,
The engineer was trying still to At the same time, glancing along
level his haystack of locks, and at the slope of "Old Big Bank," he saw
last broke out : a suspicious, ugly depression, and
"It may be all right to send child- thea he caught sight of an unsightly
ren from the city into the country ; pile on the track below.
but 1 know what Ivy brother, living; "Oh—oh—oh!" he was gasping ;.
• in Philadelphy, said last fall. He and then the next moment he had
told ins lie wished to send his child- reversed he engine, while clear,
ren into the country, but he preferred shrill; piercing, far -echoing, rang
to do it himself. He knew he was that imperative danger -whistle, that
poor; and it might take him • some order "Down brakes!" Every brake
time to get around to it, but he on board the train was quickly itp-
would get round to it. Of course, he plied, and slowing, reluctantly,
might be sick, and that would hinder sputtering as if in obstinate.objection,
it, but he did not think he would the. locomotive' cause to a halt, thrust -
probably be sick. Fact is, there is ing its cowcatcher, as if a scornful
" a lot of shammin' of sickness. Now, nose, ,amoung the first fragments of
1 daresay that boy had something to the obstructing heap. •
say about sickness,—didn't he ?" The engineer and the fireman
"He did speak of his father's sick- leaped to the ground, and the engi-
Bess." neer asked : . to write English correctly.
"Then I guessed right. I thought l ``Where's that feller what waved- She should have a moralnature,
.as much. Now, my brother told me , that red signal ?" clean and fine.,
there was a lot o' shammin'. You 1 Dont know 1" replied the fire- She should have a will, well train -
Good Education.
•
Pr. Thwing, of Vassar, has an idea
many parents have but a very poor
idea of what constitutes a good
education for their daughters. He
says every young bwontan leaving
college should show these results for
the time, money and effort spent
there :
She should have a-healtly body.
She should be able to• observe
closely.
She should be able to reason
soundly.
She should know something in
many fields of knowledge.
She should know much in one field
of knowledge.
She should be able to speak and
,ean count en him, though. He'd. man. "There's a boy putting on
never let his children come this way, i something red."
though he has so man, of 'em. Fact . The engineer• rushed up to Bobby.
is,I aven't seen his family for years, i "Did you give that signal ?" She should have the bearing of a
and wouldn't know 'em. 1 have ; Yes, sir. I true lady.
seen him, of course, and you have ; ' ',You don't know how many lives
but we haven't seen his family, for you've saved. I expected to be run -
Stephen Lothrop came out here alone. ning a cattle train, and instead 1 am
He is not one of the kind to send his driving the late afternoon express.
children a-trampin' round over the What's your name ? where do• you
country. live ?
"How many bas Stephen ?" ! "I live in Philadelphia ; my name
"Oh, five or six. 1 don't keep the • is Robert Lothrop.
Tun of 'em." j "Philadelphy? What's your
The engineer having in vain at- father's name?
tempted to humble that haystack of "Stephen Lothrop."
curls, turned away from the glass. .1 "What, a man that runs a news
"Wouldn't you like to , see that paper agency ?"
Bobby ?" I "He did, but he has been sick and
"Where, is he?" f lost his place, or 1 don't suppose he'd
"Oat in the yard." I let me come out here as one of the
"Oh 1 that thing in the red country -week -fund boys; but I guess
jacket?" you don't remember me?
• oyes:, I "What, you the chap stopping at
"I should think be was an organ- my house ? I'm your uncle, Bobby,
grinder's boy, goin' round with a and you look more than ever like my
monkey." ' dead Tommy." Here he was turn-
"Bobby don't like it," replied the ing away to hide his eyes. "God
wife, "but they have had sickness, he forgive me, and I'll have all the
says, at home. Both his father and family out here in less than a week,
mother have been sick and the and that Italian woman, too, what
neighbors took hold to fix him up, gave you forgive jacket. God forgive
,. and one poor Italian woman gave
that jacket. Say, Harry, don't he--'
,,
��? "Well, don't let him come round Beyond Comparison taken. The object of registration is
to the railwaystation when toy, Are the good qualities possessed by not to make public the names of
'Twill , hood a Sarsiaparifla. Above all it puri persons affected, but for statistical
cattle -train is duo, make some l hes the blood, thus strengthening. the
of the eattle mad . as if pisen was i nerves; it regulates the digestive organs, purposes.
After 'em, to see that red. thing. But Invigorates the kidneys and liver, tones = ---
11 and. builds upthe entire system, cures For Healthy *rungs.
you were going to say something r' land
Dyspepsia, sia, Catarrh and Rhee -
bon t you think his face makes' ,,...hum's Cod Liver ipil Emulsion
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She should be impressed with a
sense of the value of work.
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The Dangers of Tuberculosis.
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Sweet is sympathy, and thrice wel-
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In a western city not long ago a
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He went up to the, man, greeted him
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When he bad expressed himself at
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I'm much obliged for your pity,
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si t bl Ie m
Tommy was the ehilcl whose faee ache. 25e. • and $1. per bottle. •
was now under the daisies, white as , .
snow, in the old cllurcli yard, Tho Ascot amg to lliullor the total num-
was
A soviet for the prevention of ,altt fe`tnale. It rellcvot retention of water
engineer was not a hard-hearted l Der of words, or rather' ideas, express- y
r be by Clli.nes, characters is 43,59G- cruelty to animals has been orgiinized and rain ill rassinly it almost lmtnediately.
Ivan, but lately he `rad `tad dyspepsia. in OraliStVille. If you want quick relief and care this is
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to the railway ,lotion; and for two it up into a bathing suit. his papa and 11141t1nla let 111n1 do and Spavin... Indeed 1 Isn't it it .
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