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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1895-03-29, Page 2THE W INGHAM TIMES, MARCH 29,1S9,!5, DAISY'S FARM. Ifi7 ANNA -.90t7TA. Daisy was engaged, and her betrothed was receiving the merry congratulations of the family, con- sisting of her uncle, her aunt, and nearly a round dozen of her cousins. Wharton Hill, a young lawyer, slowly winning name and fame in his profession, was being vigorously hand-shakert and noisily welcomed by the Truemans, when Ned cried: "Perhaps youdidn't know Daisy was an heiress, Wharton." "Ned—don't!" said Daisy re- proachfully. "A landed. proprietress," cried Tom. 4.1 do not refer to the paltry six hundred a year she draws from her father's estate, but to her own property." "Jh'r farm, in fact said Sue. "Yes, her farm," echoed Ned, com- ing to the front once more. "When you are tired of law you can start 'gentleman farming upon your WW1 - try seat." After they were all gone, having jested a long time on this subject, Wharton was surpaised to see tears in Daisy's soft, brown eyes. "What is it, darling?" he asked. "They don't mean to hurt my feelings," Daisy said, gently, "but they will jest about my farm, and— and I don't like it." "But do you really own a farm?" "It is not a valuable possession, as you will see when I telt you about it. When I was a baby, soon after mamma died, I was very ill, and the doctors advised my father to send me to the country for change of air, There was an old servant of father's family, who had married a farmer and was left a widow with a small farm. Such a farm, Wharton ! The house has only three rooms, and looks as if a high wind would utterly demolish it; the land is so poor that it was slow starvation to cultivate it. But it was all the home Margaret had. You may judge that she was very glad to receive the liberal price fattier paid for me, and niy own mother could not have given me more loving care. Every year father came to take me away, and .every year was persuaded to leave me, until I was eight years old, and a marvel of rugged Health and per- fect ignorance. Then I was put in a boarding -school, but I still spent my summer vacations with old Margaret, and my trunk was always half fined with comforts for her. Having no one in the world who claimed kindred with her, . no one else but me to love, Margaret loved me with her whole heart. Six years ago, after father died, and I came here to live with Uncle Tom, Marga- ret died and left me her farm. It has been'a joke in the family ever since. The place is so utterly value- less that we can neither rent nor sell it, and it represents only the love of an old woman for her nursling.' "Some time we will visit it. You ;have not told Inc its locality." • "It is in Pennsylvania, nine miles from anywhere, father used to say, because it is nine miles off therall- road. But you can always hire a waggon or carriage at G— to go over to Corn's Mill; and my farm is very near Corn's Mill.", After this explanation Wharton bore the jesting about Daisy's real estate with perfect good nature, and declared his intention of erceting palatial country seat upon the place, When he became a millionaire and Judge of the Supreme Court. Being people of modest desires, and having an income of about six hundred dollars apiece, Wharton and Daisy saw no reason to delay their wedding, and were, Married with a large assemblage of true friends around them. They went to hottse-keeping in a little house modestly furnished and were fair specimens of' "love in a cottage." But Wharton Hill was ambitious. Having studied his profession under great diffieulties, often going hungry to buy' needful books, often losing his night's rest to pore over knotty points, he was both fond and proud of his life work, and strove to win a good position therein. His love for Daisy, true, honest love, was never allowed to interfere with his pursuit of fame hi his profession, and after he was married lie attacked his ' duties with fresh ard,)r, spendinghis Ulan 111E,, aaice, when not actually &waged in the tourt-room, Little Daisy, whose -life was affee- Um, found time often hanging Wavily upon her hands, as Wharton became mere- imd more popular and the number of his clients increased. But she was always ready with ; loving welcome when be did come to his home, and she knew that much of his ambition and ardor was for her sake. The third year of her married life was nearly over, and her only ehild, Tom, Truman Hill, was eighteen months old, when Wharton, over busy and full of energy, began to complain of racking pain in his head, and loss of memory. Often in the midst of an argument the thread of his speech slipped from his mind, and cost a great mental struggle to be resumed. i Ile fought the symptoms bravely, but Daisy was full of terror at the change in him. He grew haggard and restless, oppressed with V ollO fears of loss of reason, and. really suffering great physical pltin. At last, much against his will, he allowed Daisy to eain the family physician, whose advice was simple, but strongly urged, consisting of two words only: "Perfect rest." "The brain is overworked," he ex- plained, "and no medicine will avail while he persists in study and prac- tice. Get him away if you can. H'm—this is May, a good time for a , country trip. Take him to the country, Mrs. Hill." Wharton rebelled. It was ruin to leave his office, where eases of im- fportance were in his hands. He ;must work, or they might all starve. He would decline some of the prac- tice offered hiin ; would take little trips during the summer ; would, in short, temporize. And then Daiay—little, brown - eyed Daisy --whose voice was soft as a flute, who was scarcely larger than a well -grown child of twelve, !, "put her foot down." Such a mite of a foot! It was absurd to imagine it had any weight ,in the world's machinery; but it was down, and Daisy kept it therp. Tom was a lawyer, and Tom could take Whar- ton's cases for the summer months. There was her farm; a poor place to be sure, but at least a house, and with some furniture in it, and sur- rounded by beautiful scenery, pos- sessing the purest Of air and water. With six hundred a year they would not starve, and there was a nest egg in bank in case of emergency. Wharton pshatved. Wharton fumed, in vain. 1 Resolute little Daisy packed trufiks, arranged her household, engaged her own half- grown girl to accompany the party as child's nurse, and. enlisted the en- tire Trueman family on her side. And Wharton, finding those queer feelings in his head increasing, the dizzy spells• becoming more frequent, finally submitted to fate, in the per- son of Daisy, explained the various points at issue to Toni Truman, and, aecompaniod by his wife, child and nurse, took up. his journey to Corn's Mill. It was early Morning when a rickety old waggon contain- ing tbe party and baggage entered an inclosure that had once been a fence, and the family at once took posses- sion of Daisy's fan* The prospect wns not encouraging. The house had not been improved in years of.emptines.V and neglect, and even Daisy's heart sank at the broken roof, the tamble-down doors, the shaky windows. But, as she said, covering her 'face with a brave smile, "there they were, and they must make the best of it !" Jennie, the nurse, proved. a treas- ure, and the women were soon busy "putting to rights," while -Wharton took Ton on an exploring expedition over the estate. Tiler?. was a queer glance in his eyes as:he came back in time for his dieiler, but he only said: "I win% quite 'trust my own bead yet, Daisy, but—is there a post -office at Corn's Mill ?" wccfi cG. envoi "Ns ing." "I'll dear." The d posted, unfailin ing abo the gro kneeli so tu plant said we t to s, the mail goes out twice a ye lite a sheet of paper and an 1;4 that's a dear." Wharton, that is not rest - only write a dozen lines, n lines being written and harton seemed to find an urce of amusement rov- 'he farm, poking holes in with a short cane, often to examine the earth, r. )aisy hinted at .getables, though she y they will grow if s and peas now, ave an answer June was young, the answer came in the per- son of two men, one white-haired and absent-minded, the other young and emphatically business -like. Wharton gave than a cordial wel- come, and after.pa,rtaking of a sub- stantial luncheon the three startecl out upon the farm. Little Daisy, intensely happy itt the knowledge that Whartonhad not had ono dizzy turn sine their arrival on the farm, that he had the appetite of a plowaboy, and. was cheerful and, full of animation, was busy baking a batch of pies, when the three gentle- men returned to the house. She could sea them from the kitchen window as they cattle over the neglected path, and saw that Whar- ton's eyes were full of exaltation, his face flushed, his,carriage erect. Ile looked like some one newly laden with good tidings, anti all three were talking eagerly find earnestly. • Daisy wondered a little, and scorched one of her pies. While she carefully pared the burnt edge of crust, the kitchen door opened, and Wharton, heedless of her big calico ! apron and bare arms, ushered. in the stra ngers. "Mrs. Hill," he said, bowing with great deference, "accept my con- gratulation upon your great good fortune." "In scorching my pies ?" laughed Daisy, "In owning fifteen acres of coal land." "I don't understand," Daisy faltered. "The farm, my dear, your legacy from your old nurse, is one solid bed of coal, and there is no mine within nine miks of it. Nobody knows how much lies beyond your fences in the vacant land about us, but in My mind's eyes I see this a colony of miners." "Are you sure, Wharton ?" "I suspected it the first day we came, but having no experience, I wrote to one of my clients in Potts- ville to send mo an experienced man to test my suspicions. These gentle- men confirm my opinion." "There is no doubt about the coal, ma'am," said thd old gentleman, "nor any Omit its, lying so near the surface that it can soon be avail- able." "The question is," said the young- er Stranger, "whether you will sell out or open the mine yourselves. I am authorized to make you an offer if you wish to dispose of the proper- ty " "Time enough for that," said Wharton. return with yell to Potts- "Wharton—no business !" "Don't fear, Daisy ; this • line of business will not injure me:. You will let inc decide in the matter ?" "Certainly !" And the decision after Wharton had spent a month in 'Pottsville, was to sell out to a company who were already buying up vacant land surrounding the farm. The young lawyer knew nothing of mining, and had no desire to learn, but he was no fool, and he made satisfactory terms for the sale of the "estate," and Daisy returned home a wealthy woman. • A European trip restored the health of the young lawyer, and. he resumed practice a year afterwards, with every hope of one day realizing his vision of fame, while little Daisy, still rather amazed at her new for- tune, entered upon domestie duties in a grand house, with servants, carriage, horses, plate and jewels. "It is like a fairy tale, -Wharton," she said, "to think of that miserable place being so valuable. Poor Margaret little realized the fortune she was bestowing upon me when she Ieftnte all she owned—her farm." Tim Truman cousins sharing in all generous Daisy's gifts and enter- tainments, no longer jest derisively, but speak in the most respeetful • terms of that precious legacy, Daisy's farm. .Taken tn Time Hood's Sarsaparilla has achieved great success in warding off sickness which, it allowed to progress, would have under. mined the whole system and given disease a strong foothold to cause much suffering and even threaten death. Hoods Sarsaparilla has done all this and even more. it has been taken in thousands of cases which were thought to be incurable. and after a fair trial has effected wonderful mires, bringing I health, strength and joy to the afflieted. Another important, point about Hood's Sarsaparilla is that its cures are per- manent, because they start from the solid foundation of purified, vitalized and enriched blood. But it is not what we say but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does that tells the story, A niOntiv sue:E1:171:171:0:. CUOSBN TOTIOX0TiO,a'Alelacc:eritli:in.—The annual oinacieutticinigan 0 rayeersot(fviduolityheosoeitinoerinililenthdes Aitt ssembly hall, E. Lyon ypreisalldlt Grand Counciagr A. mg, who called upon ho (rand Vrelato, Rev, IL 1, Allen, to open the proceedings by prayer. The following committees were appointed by the (rand Councillor: On State of the Order, S. R. Bailey, Church and J. J. Nairn ; on Grievances and Appeals, R. W. Rob - mason, Dr. Toole and J. McKenzie • on Miscellaneous Business, J. T. Wil- son, A. E. HenryAnd W. A. Shannon; on Secret Wor14, H. Glimmer, S. Broadfoot and 114 P. Jones ; on Cre- dentials, J. D. Skene, J. S. Roddy and E. 0. Runians Oon Grand Coun- cillor's Report, R. Littera, (.7r00. Bon- gough and J. Newstead ; on Grand Recorder's Report, P. E. W. Moyer, J. A. Schofielci and John Wilson ; Treasurer's Report, Rev. -W. M. Mar- tin, F. Frank anI W. S. Lawrence ; Grand Medical Examiner's Report, Geo. Forbes; M. 1., Jas. O'Brien and J. D. Reilly; Executive Committee's Report, W. F. Waddell, 0. Harris and Rev. Mr. Johnston ; Financial Committee's Report, W. B. Burgoyne, A. Thompson and D. W. Campbell; Grand Inspector' Report, H. Evison, IL G. Phillips all J. R. Parks. The Grand CoOtteillor in present- ing his annual re ort drew attention to the extraordin y progress of the order during the Hest year, stating that it had exceetled their utmost expectations, and he outlook for the future was excee ngly bright. Ow- ing to the great are and skill exer- cised by the medical examiners the 1 death rate for thb year had been 1only a fraction osier four per thous- and, requiring warrants being drawn on the beneficiary fund to the amount of $61,000. He regretted to state that the sick benefit department had not kept pace, with . that of the order, its membership remaining al- most stationary. ;ale congratulated the order on the A•ood work being done by their *fat organ, the Rainbow, and by their Grand Inspeca tor, Mr. Campbell stating that other - orders, notably lithe A. 0. U. W., noting the successflof this officer, bad adopted their pliM and appointed one of their own. He also drew at- tention to the large majority of councils in favor of having this year's meeting in Toronto instead of London, the vote standing 174 in !favor of Toronto and 26 for London. He mentioned the large amount now • on deposit in the Bank of Hamilton, stating that it was far too large to be entrusted to any one monetary institution, and recommended that at least $60,000 be invested in the Dominion of Canada 812; per cent. -mock, winch can bq obtained at par. In closing lie said : "Fraternity, aid and protection art the prineiples upon which our ord r is founded, and the noble manner pin which these principles have becarried out in relieving the waits of suffering humanity, in, caring for the sick and in the relief it ha.s bestowed on the widow and orphan, and the many thousands of dollars thus spent is evidence enough to any . intelligent man that our duty is not hampered by creed, but that its sole object and aim and its principal consideration is the welfare of mankntd." The Grand Recorder's report was submitted and was foceived with ap- plause, the report ehowing a most satisfactory year'0 buelness. The afternoon and evelling sessions were generally taken nein the discussion of the proposed Inienduients, the first, to reduce the age limit to 50 years, being lost. ;!A long discussion took place on the second to reduce the mileage to four cents per mile one way, which was also lost. The motion to establish' biennial sessions met with a similar;ifate, _ the feeling of the meeting being strongly in favor of holding annual. meetings. Several amendments, all dealing with the table of rates, Were referred to a special committee. 11 Daring the afterOon Mayor Ken• nedy paid the Gratid. Council a visit, he having been male an honorary member at the Grati'd Council meet-: ing last year. Ile was reeeived with grand honors and invited to the dais. The Mayor cotnpllinented the order on its prosperity, and. wished it con- tinued suecess. Before, leaving the. hall a hearty vote of thanks was tendered him for his visit to Grand Council. March 21.—The Grand Council of' Chosen Friends concluded their eighth annual session at a, late hour past night, the eleetion of officers taking up the greater portion of the time, owing to the large number of eandidates, especially far the minor offices. The election resulted as follows t Grand Councilor, W. P. Bell, lUugston (acclamation); Grand. Vice -Councillor, Rev. IL 1. Allen, IsTapance; Grand Recorder; W. F. • 11Iontague, Hamilton, re-elected by acclamation; Grand Treasurer, S. Broadfoot, Guelph, re-elected by acclamation; Grand Medical Exami- ner, Dr, Woolverton, Hamilton, re- elected by acclamation; Grand Pre- late, :Rev. Mr. Johnston; Grand. ' Marshal, J. A Mathew • (*rand !Warden, J. P. Ross, Exeter; Grand Guard, Thos. Dindle, St. Thomas; (.rand Sentry, A. Mitchell; Grand Trustee, one year, Chas. Kister; three years,. S. S. Merrick, Carleton Place. Grand, Representatives. James 'Dixon, Hamilton; E. O. Runians, 'Brampton; John. Kane, Toronto. A long discusslon took plaeo on . the adjastment ofl the table of rates for the sick henbfit department, a 1 graded assessment plan receiving favorable considetation. 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