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The Wingham Times, 1895-02-15, Page 2setitll," edit Cleo. { Mrs.Pollexfen, crisply, what he owes, but its soine- 1 suppose I must wait for rest." "I dare say he'll let you have is•more at his convenience," observed Clea, with the hardihood of an old gree Lugo- conspirator. cn but he prefers�you wdo ouldn't best g k go mention it again." "Humph r said Ms. Pollexfen, said think so," "Some folks aro awfully seusitive. aerrily, producing But 1 don't mind, He can have it her shawl a yellow his own way." d with the sunshine The next week Cleo brought two with an indescribable dollars, the next five. "Here's whi>,t I stole, "He'll never settle up this way," tole out of the borders said Mrs. Pollexfen, impatiently. ome through the Capitol "I suppose it is the best he can I dare say I would have do,"said Cleo. ted if the policeman bad Oh, by the way," added Mrs. pluck it, but I took the op- Pollexfen as she laid the last contra when be was scolding a bution filler meagre purse, "if you lid for letting lier small fry mean to buy your spring silk, now is rocs the grass. I'll put it in the time. There's real bargains at weetall's room. Ile does so flowers !" Mr. Sweetall, indeed !" said aunt en. "I'm beginning to be about ired of Mr. Sweetall. He's a month behind in his board bill and I must be paid!" "Give the man a chance, Aunt The very nett evening 311.r. Sweet - Pen," said Cleo. "Once his patentis all came down stairs pale, but exult- out--" • ant. "Fiddlesticks!" said aunt Pen. "Mv patent is all right," said he. "His patent indeed! Have I kept a "I've sold out to the Electro Galvanic boarding-house in Washington for Company for fifty thousand dollars. fifteen years not to know what Please allow me, Mrs. Pollexfen, the patents amount to? Wlty, I can tell pleasure of settling my bill." you of more folks ruined by patents He laid a pile of neat, crisp bank than would fill a directory !"notes on the table before her. She "I feel sorry for Mr. Sweetall," counted them over and handed back • riM1'As, FEBRUARY .A: 1 5, 1893, 1iC11i ICI&, "Ain' far Sale." ( She Stood Firm. Oen% of Thought The council. elect for the townehip A well-known magaelan is nwag, I In an Oregon court recently a ease That which we doubt is right, to of Howick met at Gerrie, Jalutary and finds amusement in mystifying i came up in which a husband sued to us is wrong'. 21st, ih95, at 11. o'clock, in township simple-minded folks, A correspon-!regain possession of real estate Undoing a wrong is quite as eredi- { hall, pursuant to statute. They tock dent of the Boston Transcript, writ-1whieh, in a. eminent sof generosity, he table as rin;nm ri,rht. the necessary oath of office and ing 'from Washington, where the had deeded to his wife. The follow - reeve f l d i b exhibit- t i dialogue tool- place between the Alm Graham 2nd deputy- astonishing a group of colored pee- 1 a lady of Irish birth; aid. clunlifieatian as follows : B. 5. Oook, s gig it -o - tan man las ten ex u r - � ng c t o r , -_ to :ill alio s R 1 C S tl t 1st deputy—lug ids skill tells of ins sueeess in plaintiffs lawyer and the defendant, jury ran does ail in- tall(1 itllreCCl Of reeve • , •�. Graham, . thrives s reeve • John T Gregg and Andrew ple . 'd , 1 "You admit that your husband le- Everything good in t1 1114&1 t e Doig, councillors. The Reeve took The magician one morning went, quested and even implored „you to best when properly recognize , the chair and the minutes of the last down to the market. Washington I excute a dead in his favor ? Don't wait until your friends die regular sleeting and special meeting has one of the largest and finest' "Yis, sor, he slid, an' stiwore at neo, before you discover their good goal&- were read and approved. eel Moved by market -houses in the world, and one too ties Messrs. Graham and • Doig that the of its Inst piettiresque features is the! "And you refused, point blank, to p - J row of comfortable coo , "Yis, Life without laughing is a dreary Treasurer procure the iiccessa.r •gro mammies do so , clothing for I3irtch boy.—Carried. Carried. with baskets of eggs and vegetables, �. is, sor, I did. I tould .film a blank. A good laugh is sunshine in Letter from Division Grange No. 21, sitting outside th"b ttkIX • laughing !dada in ale hand s worth two in me a house, asking the council to pass a herd by- law, prohibiting cattle from running chatting and smoking. '' husband's -octet. But I offered to Truth, like the sun, submits to be The sleight of -eland exert who ; intake a will in fav+nr o£ inn, an' 110 obseurod; but, like the sun, only for at large on the highways. Moved had a friend with "him, saunterccl up wouldn't have it, He tould mo be'd a time by Messrs. Doig and Sotheran that it to ono inky -black old market -woman • sue me for a dade." 7„ ti , be laid over, ---Carried. Lewis Bol- "And you allowed him to do so . ' Courage c,onsrsts not in blindly with a pipe in her mouth and a ton, P. L. S., requested his pay for beatttiful array of #resp eggs before'"Yis, sor, I did, 1 says to hint, overlooking • danger, but in seeing it first award on Hood drain. Moved d 1 d asked 'John, me darlint, sue away ; but and conquering it. ' *- ' 1 ye'll have her. Ile leo cc as, t tom an by Messrs. Sotheran and that the price. we'll find it's a ease where » ' Gregg „ s always hope in a man „ it be Laid over until the Council as- �„ ”Ito take the willi 'or the dello.' " who actually and earnestly works. Meeham's, I saw 'em as I went by. "Twenty - three rents honey "Oh, I'm not particular," said !certain as to their right to pay or not. answered niamtn "tin' dere heap is , In idleness alone is there perpetual 1—Carried. A letter was road and y, aures n'SatiattLnviuu ciomont despair. Cleo, reddening a little, "I've pretty fvtecl front the Secretary of the Good fust rate gigs—dc hen tri hardly . writes from Montreal : "1 was suffering t There is nothingwhich marks much made up my mind to wait Roads Assoelation. Moved by Messrs. done eluckin ober 'em yit."from skin disease, and alter all drugs until fall now. Sotl:eralt and Doig that 45 bo paid "I should think so," said he and as failed tried Burdyck Blood Bittors, of more decidedly the character of mete Mrs. Pollexfen started. What bad Gideon Brown part payment on Knox he picked up one and cracked it, out health, three recom1eend s it also for red ma to pep and of nations than the manner in Clerk ,.�,,,� .,,,n,•f�,. which they treat women.drain.—Carded. Moved by 'Messrs.Mammy's jaw dropped, and the There f come over Cleo? said Oleo, pensively. "Folks in the boarding-house busi- ness can't afford to feel sorry for any one but themselves, and if he don't seventeen dollars. "You've forgotten to deduct what you paid me on account, Mr. Sweet - all," said she. settle up this week, out he goes, bag"On account ?" and baggage," said Mrs. Pollexfen. He looked puzzled. Cleo said nothing more ; she knew "Don't you remember ? The bills her aunt too well . to venture any that Cleo brought me from you?' I further remonstrances. But she felt didn't allude to it, because—" - sorra for Mr. Sweetall just the same; "Olt," said Mr. Sweetall, abruptly, the pale, long faced old -young roan as he caught sight of Cleo, telegraph - who had the hungry look of hope t ing signals of silence to him over deferredstamped on his every feature. her aunt's head, "yes, exactly." It was as Aunt Pen said. Patents But Cleo sdarcely knew how to had ruined many a man in this fair! apologize when at last her aunt had "City of Magnificent Distances." , gone to audit the baker's boy at the "I'm glad I am not a man of an ! basement door. • inventive turn -of hind," said. Cleo to! •`I ---I didn't mean any 'harm, Mr. herself. "My poor little salary is Sweetall," she said with her cheeks not much, but it is at least—unless I' all afire. "But •aunt , Pen was so am dismissed— a certainty." hard and 1 knee Cleo Pollexfen 'was a treasury, She stopped sl clerk, at a salary of six hnndred her bead. dollars a year, of which half was "Yes, I understand," said Sweetall. regularly paid to aunt Pen as board • "It was a generous deed, and nobly bill and a reimbursement towards thought. But Peen pay you now, the expenses of her "bringing np." Miss Cleo. if I '!night dare to offer "Three hundred dollars a year is you—to say what is in lay heart— enough for any girl' to spend for her Cleo's cheeks 'were redder than clothes and pin -money," said the old ever. lady. "And with good looks Cleo is "Don't offer me anything," she sure to harry before long. 1 only said. "Remember I ant earning a wish the child' was'nt so notional. 1 good salary now,. and—I am going never know who I may count on for to tell you a great secret, Mr. Sweet - a nephew -in-law ! I've always done all : I shall be Married in the fall to tort, and hung down my best to keep novels and such like trash away from her ; but, in spite of all that I could do, Pin afraid there's a lot of romance got into her; Mr. Sweetall, indeed 1" ' Oleo -met Mt• Sweetall coming with slow and weary footsteps up the stairs that evening, a few minutes before dinner time. She smiled,— to her the man of thirty-five seemed to belong to a bygone generation ! "There's a bit of sunshine in your room, Mr. Sweetall," she said. "1 Have just Ieft it there!" His wan face brightened. "1 think," said he, "there is always sunshine where you come, Miss a great lieutenant in the army." Perhaps she did not see how pale he turned; it is certain that her eyes were bent on the ground ' as she spoke. . "Indeed'." he said, after a second or two. "Then I may at least have the privilege of sending you a wedd- ing present. For you do not know, Miss Cleo, how your kindness and sympathy have brightened for me Municipal World for blanks, etc., J. 'blind to your faults; blind to the best right irkng; and get there on time. These dreary path of life during the past Weldon $6 for J. Saunders eharity,lines thoroughly cover the territory year. MayI kiss this little hand t that is in you. Now 1 can see clear- between Cbiva;,yo, La Crosse, St. k'aul, I3. Ringler $3.75 for gravel, 13,. Rots, ly, and to be simply your friend is Minneapolis, Aberdeen, Mitchell, Sioux Remember, my dear, I am nearly old $1 for Mrs. Oliphant dog tax un- all 1 could wish for, What splendid City, Yankton, Council Bluffs, Omaha enough to be your father—and I collected, J. T. Wiggins $62.50 for sense you showed ' when you refused and Northern Michigan. All the princi- shail leave Washington to -morrow collecting taxes for the east part of me 1 1 ; pal cities and towns in that territory are i d b th ti 1 P til" lines c u - - The dissipations that persons re - 1 care are like .tl1C be held reponsible if known in any- pretty good, •carelessly remarked man 111Ontario1 way to obstruct the water from get- ting away.—Carried. Moved by Messrs. Sotheran and Doig that the �xatcuca"a nasoa,.gg ,,....,. -�� i e with it. be instructed t0 notify raall parties in- p "And this one --&and this one seems . A onkoyt as a Dentist. sort to to drown c terested in Knox drain that they will re - curtains tarns that children in bed pull A onto owned a round them to keep out the dark. the man, craekingtwo more, out of monkey named "Dot, whit 1 was whioh 50 -cent pieces tumbled. brought from Deccan, India. It had Misunderstanding and inattention He cracked bat a dozen in all, been suffering from toothache for cre:,tte more uneasiness in the world $ ' store of silver was in- several days. tt last the pain be- than deception or artifice, or at least, council go into committee of the ; tinct mammy whole with Mr. Graham in the chair, t creased every time. As he walked carne more than, ordinarily severe, their consequences are more univer- to regulate salaries and appoint off, followed by a dozen pairs of and the monkey, Ike its human type, officers --Carried. The committee'; beady black oyes with nothing but resolved at last �o undergo a dental rose and reported progress as follows: the whites showing, somebody came operation. But the dentist, strange That all the salaries be the same as - up and asked the awe-stricken old to say, was itself. "Dot" found a last year. The council resumed with market -woman thc•.price of her eggs, string, fastened it around the aching the reeve in the chair. Moved by ; "Dere gigs air far • sale," she tooth, seized the, end of the string Messrs. Graham :and Sotheran that answered, and she 'gathered them up with its fore feet,. drew up one of its the report of committee bo adopted in her apron and iy ddled off in the hind legs between its fore feet, and —Carried. Moved by Messrs. Gra- direction of home. I gave a sudden shove, which jerked the tooth out and sent it flying half ham Lainei ,Greggand ;regg fillet the same officers y Dir; T -•- way across the room. This having be retained, viz : Wm. Dane, clerk; ' THE Bonn ovo.Unlike been aceornplishe , the monkey re - Jas. Perkins, treasurer .,Geo. ' Pad- most popular sayings, that has very field, assessor ; Robt. Russel, care- little truth in it. Experience every slimed its natural cheerfulness and 1, f theamiability. t ter o to an the a ointment o tai f 1 ll d t' pp t t t day plover that some at east o collectors be left over until fall— good are spared to make the world scrapped Wt a ;Gasp. Carried. Moved by Messrs. Graham brighter and better, and a more SI had such my throat felt as is s On taking Norway P the first dose gave rel bottle completely cur< Miss A. A. DOWN) and Sotheran that Peter Hepinstal be auditor—Carried. The Reeve appointed John Evans. Moved by Messrs. Sotheran and Doig that Jno. Johnston, Thos. 'Aikins and Robt, McLaughlin along with the Reeve and Clerk be the Board of Health for the present yeas -Carried. Moved by Messrs. Sotheran and Doig that the Clerk be paid $30, balance on salary and $10 expenses on Hood drain—Carried. Moved by Messrs. Graham and Doig that tenders be received by the Reeve or Clerk up to February 18th, 1$95, for alt printing and advertising ' required by this municipality for one year ---Carried. Moved by Messrs. Graham and Sotheran that $5 be given Mr. Den- nis as charity --Carried. Aecounts passed: ---J. Elliott°$2.75 for gravel, N, Koch $2.18 fir gravel, Wm. Rivers 50e. repairing scraper, Wm. Graham $0 for culvert on sideline 5 and G con. 5, T. Hemphill $2.45 for gravel, Ed. Knight $1 for repair- She—And now?.-.- ...... -" ing culvert lot 28 con. 2, S. I3raden' He—Now it is difficult to under -"Body now?.. Mind at base." $2.25 for feneing gravel pit at Ford- stand how I could 'be anything else. the test trains of the Chic:;'. o, That is what it is wbed traveling iliwt uk ee wick, E. Thomas $5 for charity, A. • This, this is so much better. & St. Paul Railway; besiyy �os there is no Strome $1 for plank for bridges,! She—Do you think so ? - chance to "kick," for the acYnommodations Wrn. Dane $3.25 for account due 1 He—I know it .• 1 was blind . are up to date, the trainfrit pleasant place to live in. In fact, our esperiencc is that good people, and good things geerally, live the longest. For exanj3 le, consider the thousands•of articic.twhieh have been widely advertised and are now for- gotten. Why? Because they were bad. On the other hand, we have Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which have proved the faithful friend of poor humanity fort fifty years and more. Why ? Because they are good. Of a truth, shat which is good does not die, but lives for all time. Straining a friendship. He—What chant 'es time makes ! Just think, only a 5=ear ago I was in love with you. She --Does it seem so short? He—What, since you refused me ? In one sense, yes. It shows how quickly one's feelings can be revolu- tionized. I never 'dreamt then that I could be just your friend, severe cough that raped With a rasp. le Syrup 1 found t, and the second t , Manutie, Ont. Bow About Your Son? If my choice were free. I would rather give my boy the memory of a fairly happy and untrammeled life up to 20, and leave h%in• nothing then but a consequent re- 'enable optim- ism, an unsa pped mirage, and a disposition to regar money as a means rather than an;end, than keep hint constantly facet to face with a .spectre of possible poverty, fill him full of premature cages, and leave hint $5,000 or $2.5,00 i a year and no memories, or well-grounded healthy tastes, or world to live in, indeed, except such as he commonly sets out to make'for himself udder these cir- cumstances, which is worse than nothing—From "The Point of View" in the February Scribner. s, keep moving for ood and all morning, " g to h•p, P Keating for deputy Oleo." • Cleo held out her hand, and he The gold -yellow blossom, In a pressed his lips reverently to its slender -throated vase, stood on his satin palm; that was the end of it. ! bureau when he entered the stuffy Mr. Sweetall went away the next baek•room on the third floor of the day --.whether to the East or to the Mouse. His eyes sparkled ; he bent West no one knew, When Cleo was Over and pre??sed his lips to the spice- wedded to her young lieutenant in Melting flower. the autumn --a handsome straight - "God bless her !" be murmured. featured, young fellow, who looked a At the end of the week Mrs. Poll- very Adonis trellis brilliant uniform exfen presented herself and her bill •_-there carne to her a letter which Simultaneously to Mr. Sweetall, with contained a certified cheek for a to mild but resolute announcement, thousand dollars on a well-known that "there was no use in putting Washington bank and a slipof things off anylonger." Mr. Sweet- " ' b paper on which was written the all's meek apologies --• her aunt's words : shrill tones out-voieing his --Oleo's "In Memory of the Yellow Narcissus." nerves jarred at the sound. The eolor rushed to CIeo's cheeks. 'VOL one thing I want tinder- "He loved nee," she said to herself, stood," said Mrs. Pollexfen, "The "yes, he did love nae! 1 wonder bill must be settled Before Monday where be is now. 1 wonder if he is . „ week, or I must lra'ctc tht, room for well or ill. Charles, she cried sonic one else.", aloud, "ought 1 to take this money?" On Monday week' she was just "I don't see what else there is for setting forth for Mr. Swcetall's room, vod to do," said; the lieutenant, When Cleo CAM to her with a black. laughing. en'elope in her hand. Cleo never saw Mr.Sweetall again. "Ten dollars!" said Aunt Pen. !Dead or living, ill' or well, he kept ton ' this ?" • his own Council townshi • returning officer's fees poll clerk and schoolhouse 411, E. Phair ditto $10, J. Corbett di o $10, Wm. McKereher, ditto $i1, J. Foster ditto $10, J. Moyer $G for rent of house for Mrs. Angst, indigent. Moved by Messrs. Sotheran and Doig that the council do now adjourn to sleet at the Albion Hotel, Pordwieh, on the third Wednesday in February next—Car- ried. Wei, Darr, Clerk. She --Indeed. IIe--Why, it wt one of the best things that ever h ppened me. It `fairly brought tits to my senses. .And now, how different it is! I don't suppose it would be possible for me to get up a grain qt' sentiment so far Covered With Liver Spore. Gt:Nmi.[.nixx,--1 was covered with Liver Spoth over my hawk and chest. I took three bottles of your Burdock Stood Bitters and am now perfectly cured of "Liver Complitint. I can truly say that I think I3. B, B. the best teedi- cine ever discovered. 'L. Hirano& , Hamilton, Ont, A poet in The Century says: 1 would 1 were her violin to rest beneath her dimpled chin. That would be nice, certainly ; but he might repose near her dimpled chin if he were supply her bean, And that would be nicer. as you are concern d. She (coldly)— ite a change from the fool you made f yourself. ; He (heartily)-1,,es, isn't it ? She (sneeringly,', --I suppose you now have an unbounded admiration i for yourself at such a marvellous recover ;'v. Ile (dumfounde ,) ----Why, surely, surely, you are not+ angry with me, lay friend. What rave I said ? She (bursting in tears) ---Nothing only you might have taken a longer time to get over it I., A Remarkable Cur$. -4, W. Jennison, °Ilford --Spent betv'een $200 and $600 Jin consulting .Doctors; tried X M*otts and all other treetinonts but got no benefit. Ono boa ae Chase's rv"atarrh Cure dict I me mere good than an other remedies, in Met I coesid myifelt« cured and With tit 26 cent box that•„ i reae re neeting at' St, Paul, (iouncti Bluffs and Omabb. with all lines fur points in the far west. • Write to A..1. Taylor, Can adian Pass'r Agent. 87.York Street,'Por onto, Ont., for one of their now map time table and a brochure giving a description of the Compartment Sleep ing Cars. 'Pickets furnished by any a cure for' coughs, colds, asthma, bron- coupon ticket agent in the`United States chitis and all throat and lung troubles is and Canada. Tho finest dining oars in due to the fact that the world are run on the solid vestibuled, pleasantest remedy eve electric -lighted and steam- eated trains because its action is p of the Chicago, t ilwauke & St, Paul Railway. t. In buying• presents give a boy sal. No process is so fatal as that which would cast an men into one mould. Every human being is in- tended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to de what no other can. There is no heroic poem - in the world but is at bottom of biography, the life of a man; also it may be said,,tbere is no life of a lean faith- fully recorded, but is a. heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. The shadows of the mind are like those 'of the body. In the horning of life they all Iie behind as; at,noon. we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad. • and deepening before us. Be honest with yourself, whatever the temptation; say nothing to others that you do not think, and play no tricks with your own mind. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in • the world insincerity is the most clangorous, Which Man Wins? The one with steady nerves and a clear brain. That means, in Wine cases out of ten, the man with a good digestion. A Ripans Tabule after dinner may save to -morrow's busi- ness. A Permanent Relief. Shade trees about a home, even in the country appeal to a certain senti- ment in human nature that is not reached by any other effort at adorn- ment. Buildings and fences may be • painted, the fields stmooth, the garden • near, the door yard nicely turfed over, and the Sower beds may show proof of refinement • and taste ; but these speak only foriths present and are subject to change, and call for constant eare. But a spreading tree, with its sweeping branches and cooling shade, gives in air of per- manent comfort and ,indicates that the man who planted it intended to make a permanent home and provide • for posterity. Reasons for Sueooes. The suocess of Norway Pine Syrup as t is the best and discovered, and mpt and certain. Mra. McBride—John, dear, why something he can cat. end a girl Seine 11 she 01111 rveal. • are some grocers called green grocers? e Mr. McBride --To distinguish thein from cash grocers, dearN, 1Brown—Is young' t'lying'wedge , practising law ? Jones& I think not, 1116 was adinitted to a bar, but I think he's practising economy. ,Iorkins—Say, old fan, can you Perkins—Hold on, lar boy ! Don't i dun me for that $5 1 owp you. 1 Jorkins—Why not? Perkins—I have been dunned by 12 num already to -day, and 18 is an unlucky number. let me— Landlord—I'ni afraid I'll have to raise your rent. Patent—I with yott would; I'm sire I can't raise it, Customer What that unearthy howl Clerk (smiling) -.--Th iu the world is ng overhead? e is a painless dentistry establishment upstairs, sir, Good-bye, Old Slow! shouted the bieycle. You are tot in niy class. Anyway, retorted the eart horse, I ata not as awkward as yott are, 1 don't fall dower when I'm standing' + still.