HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1895-06-07, Page 2THE WINGJIAM
TIMES, JUN i„ 1b95.
THOM CHINA FALL.
1.3.5r HARIQN HAMAND,
For my part—Miss Wight wilt it
as if no other part or parcel of mortal
possession were comparable in value
—" for uv part, I have no sympathy
and little tolerance for the super -re-
finement (or disease) of nerves which
annihilates self-control. There is a
want of balance s tmewllere when a
grown woman does Miss Muffs at
the sight of aL spieler, or goes into
hysterics at the touch of a mouse. If
not — pausing Icing enough and
speaking lowly enough and to itali-
cize the addenda---alack of breeding.
• Tho true patrician is never off
guard."
" Mi, tress of herself, though China
fall," q' 'ted Frank Pryor, in the
lazy drawl that could be insolent
when he willed.
Some of Mr. Pryor's auditors felt
the really to be a retort, although his
eyes were sleepy, his tone impassive.
Only a week before, an awkward
guest at Miss Wight's had kicked
down au old jar into a dozen pieces
across the brass India fender. The
hostess said a frostily civil word to
the agonized blunderer, but her
brow was not clear for tate rest of
the evening.
To -night, Sara, Logan, a bright,
vivacious little thing, with a marvel-
lous voice, that accounted for her
frequent presence at Miss Wight's
to iueet a man who atiiniree the
heroic elenleat is aL woman. Your
sex covets a monopoly of the trait.
Lydiaowever you may sneerat I+3'd1YL
Languish on the stage, in real life
she has more adorers than Iii Ver -
There we are at variance ----the
dawn of something in his eyes and
smile Untranslatable by her unless
she admitted a probability which
fanned the flicker of color into a
glow, Even while you talked of the
number of timid. women you know,
my mind was confrastmg my estima-
tion of them with the intensity of ad-
miration I feel for the heroine of a
true story one of the fellows was
telling in my room the other night.
A tale that fairly froze my blood. I
labeled and laic. it aside to repeat to
yon. at the first favorable opportl;.n-
ity.
• Pryor's stories were the greater
treat because he seldom volunteered
a recital, Miss Wright would have
pawned her finest diamond to know
that she was the heroine of one. To
be ted in others, hearing that he had
treasured his or anything else he
valued for her, was distinction.
She did not join in the demand
raised at once that she should con-
sider this the favoring opportunity,
and that the rest .night share the
narrative reserved for her. When
he yielded gracefully, being too well-
bred to feign diffidence, she sat with
downcast lids, toying with her fan
famous " evenings," bacI severed hers while be talked, a beautiful study of
song with a stifled shriek and fat- modest attention,
len, half -fainting; against Frank It happened two years ago, when
Pryor, who chanced to stand nearest the heroine was a here slip of a girl,
to her. A mouse, mad with fright only nineteen years old. A gay
and blinded by the light had run , little creature who had never known
right across her feet. Like the do- ; a real care, or faced an exigency.
mestie fly, the Arab rodent is no re- I Her fattier owned a semi-country-
speetor of place and person, and': house in New Jersey. I think it
Miss Wight, the accomplished belle ! was near Norristown. A trim, ultra -
and heiress of four seasons should !modern villa, with as many improve -
not have been chagrined by
the in-!ments• in and about it as a Fifth
parent. The conceit may have been
original with My heroine. Ilut she
saw, as well its heard slim come to
her bedside, and stand there motion-
less. r111e only sound, in the room
was the thud of her racing heart
beats. He Trust hear them, she
feared, She controlled her breath-
ing by a powerful ewe' else of will,
taking in regular inspiration ---some-
what long, like one in heavy slum-
ber—and respired as regularly. The
time and rhythm of the lungs were the chamber, she was leaning with
perfect. The heart was a different alt her weight against the door, the
matter. The machinery of a young panels of which .were already split
woman's heart is usually an excep» by the shoulders and foot of the tui-
tion to the prevailing conventionality prisoned burglar.
of her system. Ir was almost a re- As I said the story is too true to
lief when the slight rustle of his be artistic, and I should have made
hand in moving to his pocket drown- more of the most dramatic point if
ed. the Agitated beat! beat! beat! of the narration had not been the
the lawless organ, means to an end. I designed it as
The plan drew out a handkerchief the preface to the announcement of
and a small bottle, She heard him my engagement to the heroine.
draw the cors:; the gurgle of the con -
clamorous
could not be heard for one
tents; even the soaking of the liquidclamorous minute: It was ;hiss
into the linen; the replacement of the Wight's voice, clear in tone, refined
the bed, beyond it into the spacious
closet where stood the big trunk.
My Heroine waited until she
heard hien raise the 114, and, then,
the faint jingle of silver. She turn-
ed her bead and saw him bending
over the trunk, his beak to her.
With the bound of a young chamois,
she sprang aeross the room, locked
and bolted hills into the closet, and
screamed for help.
When her brothers rushed into
cident. Yet the edge on the accents I Avenue brown -stone front. As
that supposed, after the bustle sub- I nearly as I can make out, the in -
sided, that " Miss Logan was hardly ; mates of the villa (semi -rural) were
equal, after such a disaster, to finish las comfortably and incorrigibly com-
her song," justified Pryor's aside to i nhonplace as their; house. They had
a crony he passing him on his— I plenty of money, lived affectionately
Pryor's — return to the drawing! with one another and socially with
room when he had seen Miss Logan I their neighbors; had a tennis -ground 1
and her mother to their carriage. out of doors, and tL billiard room in -
Isn't langne de femme areli strum! doors; a coachman who -slept' over
piguante rather a plebeian dish for a the stable, and a gardener .(married)'
fashionable reception? said the auda- ! at the lodge. Altogether the con -
elms favorite. Nobody bad, thus far ventional thing, you see, including a
been able to determine whether or pair of carriage -horses and a pony -1
not he knew himself to be that with ' phaeton, with a coach -dog to run be -1
the young mistress of the mansion. ; tweed the first named and a poodle 1
He was always at her house on " At ' to be aired in the last. My heroine !
Home evenings and occasionally -was the middle child—always an un-'
appeared as her escort in public.' eventful position—and had two
When conversing with her he be- brothers older, and two sisters
haved as though she were the only' younger, than herself:
woman ever made, but that passed One night—it was Tate in August,
for little when one noted the catho- and rainy—she went to her room at
lieity of his homage. the usual hour; read her usual chap:
It is my duty! he plagiarized ter in the Bible; said her usual
'" Pinafore," by saying, when rallied prayer (sweet saint !) and was soon
upon this one of his ways. as sound asleep as if the wicked god- •
The gentle resignation of the mother and the spindle had set her
drawl, almost as celebrated as was up—or down—as a modern edition
poor Traver's stammer, converted of the sleeping Beauty.
the quotation into a Gena mot. It was She thought it was daylight when
nearly midnight when Miss Wight she became vaguely aware that she
adroitly brought the talk around to was not alone in the room.
the unfortunate escapade of the Miss Wight! your royal indiffer-
mouse. A dozen people, grouped enee to the first thrilling point of buy
about the library-flre, were the fiat- story is depressingly uneomplimcn-
sam and jetsam of the brilliant tide tary, Were it riot for Miss Styles's
that had over -swept the superb dramatic sigh and Miss Rayner's op -
spaces of the drawing rooms earlier portune shiver, I should not have the
in the night. Pryor called the heart to proceed.
eonversazione of selected and as- Miss Wight glanced up shyly, and
sorted spirits, convened thus at the answered languidly.
close of each weekly reception, the Conventional still, she said. The
gilt • edge of the evening. Hiss disturber of the °Sleeping Beauty
Wight's widowed chaperon had a scene'was, of course, a burglar—en-
seat in a shadowed nook. The terprising or otbertvise. The glean
belle leaned back in a deep arm- of tight was a dark lantern. The
chair in the full but mellowed light setting is picturesque, bat haekney-
of the wax candles. Frank* Pryor ed. It is novelty, and of bold order,
stood at the corner of the hearth fac- that makes us thrill in this blase'
ing her, his broad shoulders against age,
the mantel. Ile was straight, tall Pryor's eyebrows expressed a thigh
and well -made,. with gray eyes and degree of admiration.
brown hair. His face was too gaunt You are right as to outline, but a
to be handsome; this nose too pronhi- little off as. to detail, The intruder
Hent.. A heavy. moustache veiled the was not a common burglar, but the
corners of a somewhat large mouth new coachman who had, that day,
and gave opportunities of effects to assisted in removing the silver trunk
white teeth. ' His eyelids drooped from a small closet in hei Another's
slightly when he was not• speaking chamber to a larger one in The
or listening to a woman; the weary heroine's own room. She knew
lift of his brows, when he e1io e to be hail instantly, although lie wore a
cynical or incredulous, was inimi- shade over his eyes, and his faeo was
table by art. With all of what blackened. le was turning down
would be esteemed abstractly con= the gas -burner to a dins and most
sidercd, his physical disadvantages, unholy light. Before he looked to -
he contrived to be the ltloyt distin- ward her site did. what every dis-
gtiished-looking man of the Wight erect (and conventional) person, in a
ape'.
' story or out, does in such circuglrF
The hostess colored 'faintly, yet 1 stances, She shut her eyes and
perceptibly. ' feigned to be asleep. T do not know
It is evident that ottt' views etasil whether or not it is also the eonven•
here. She answered his tone, not tional thing for the pretended sleeper
his words. it is rather uncommon to fancy that her eyes are trans»
About limn ing Horses.
At the St. Thomas Division Court j
the other day a case of interest to
persons who hire hof ses was .tried by
Judge Ilugltes. Goo, Calver, livery 1
keeper, sued for .i3 extra for hire of
a team on -the ground that they were
driven further than agreed. The de-
fendant was to pay $3, and on re-
turning the bay who attended de-
murred on account of their being
driven beyond. the place agreed up-
on. Defendant paid $:1.50, but
plaintiff found out afterwards that
the horses had been driven still
farther. The Judge allowed $2.
For Over Fifty 7ieata
AN slow' See,othin! Syrup p hasD AND nbeen used for over fifty
years by millions of mothers for their chiluren while
1'ethhic, with perfect success. It soothes the child
sottens the gums, allays iYI1 pain cures wind collo,
and is thobest remedy for tiarrhrea. Is pleasant to
the taste. hold by Druggists In eery part of the
1Yot•Iu. omits -live cents a nettle, Its %also is
Incalculable. 131, sure and ask for ,Airs, Winslow s
Soothing Syrup, and take no ether kind,
The proper way to break alp. lea is
With the grain.
Fresh raw beef is the best bait for
mice traps.
A dish of water near a lamp will
prove a trap for moths.
A sponge bath with alcohol is ex-
cellent fol' delleate women.
The coldest place in the icebox is
underneath the lee not oil top of it,
Ito not beat eggs for m ister:is tpo
light, or they will float and not
mix well.
'Make your own orange extract by
adding the peel of six oranges to a
pint of alcohol,
That tired feeling, loss of atipetito and
nervous prostration are driven away by
Hood's Sarsaparilla, which utaakes pure
blood..
When serving codfish croquettes
as al supper dish, garnish llli"eilllyr
rvitih arsle3.s.
Pats Certificate. p' pars
les
hope, sor, you will assist a poor The Mexicans consider oranges
cork; heard hint set the vial upon the iu quality, measured end true in man whose house and everything more palatable and wfolesome when
that was in it, including me family,
sor, was burned up two months ago
last Thursday, sor.
The merchant to whom this ap-
peal was addressed, while very phil-
• anthropic, is also very cautious, so he
asked: Have you any papers or cer-
tificate to show that you lost any-
thing by the fire ?
I did have a certificate, sor, sign-
ed before a notary public, to that ef-
fect, but it was burned up, sor, in
the house with me family and the
rest of ane effects.
light stand at her bed -head. With a articulation, that finally made itself
the'first spill of the volatile fluid, she i (Whet,,
smelled the chloroform. She had ! When are we to see the bravest of
known what wasicoming when she ` her sex, and take our part in award -
heard him open the bottle. In the • ing her the honor which is due?
instant that elapsed before he tower -1 She faced hien as they stood on the
ed it to within a quarter -inch of her rug; the chastened lustre of the wax -
face she had drag}n in a long, long lights showed each the depths of
breath. She held it until he fen each others' eyes, as he replied:
the e wet linen 11)011 her nostrils.1 You have already met and known
Then she gave it'out as a miser lets her. She fainted this evening at the
go of' his hoard --a nickel at a time, ; sight of a mouse.
we will say. t, i
Or -it was more like the way DOUBLED UP WITH RHEUMATISM,
rations are given out to the ship-
wrecked crew of a longboat. When A NORWOOD CITI%EN PRAISES SOUTH
that was exhausted there was 110 AMERICAN nnIyt7MATIC CURED,
more where it cane from, you. see. William Pegg, Notwood, Ont: "Last
The supply of ox$'gen lasted a fear- Christmas I could hardly walk, and was
fully short time, elute it out as she nearly doubled up with rheumatism. .E
might. When no air remained iu card liheutnattc Curd s et W. SouhP�uther-
Arneri-
ttte collapsed tangs, she held her turd, druggist, of Norwood, and Found it
breath again until her chest ached to the best and quickest acting medicine I
agony, In spite. of her heroic efforts ever saw. The first done gave relief and
the dead. Fumes we're gainingupon the three bottles completely cured toe.
yp I have had neither ache nor pain from
her, rheumatism since." Sold at Chisholm's
Miss Wight ! if your respiration is Cerner Drug Store.
entirely normal, nave mistaken my
vocation, and shall abjure story- Mrs. Grundy Says:
telling henceforward. Allow me ! That as a reckless talker the girl
Before she could. anticipate the of the period rivals the parrot.
movement, he stooled to lay his fin- That society ,; women who have
ger on her pulse. A. mere touch and special means of'livelihood are pum-
a light one, but the color leaped emus,
hotly up to her forehead. In the That unbridled, malicious tongues
eyes, suddenly upgFaised, there was do as much. harm{ as unloaded guns.
an anomalous mingling of surprise,
timidity and pleading. That the fine Iialian hand is seen
Thank you !said, Pryor; with an in some late international engage -
odd little smile. M'y Heroine had to 1nCnt''
breathe again by -and -bye, of course. That women who never went near
I must take in as little as I can Worth are loudest in deploring his
said the shrewd brain within the death.
curly head. That the sycollhant finds himself
Did. I tell you that her hair was entirely at home in fashionable
golden and curled naturally? She society.
lay on her right side, one hand part- That too many lawyers labor
ly under her chez, a circumstance more for their fees than for their
to which she probably owed her life, clients.
as we shall see. The anesthetic was That the commercial feature of in -
dizzying, her sldviip, but inevitably. ternational marriages is not given
As the voice of tine a long way off, publicity.
she heard the mail mutter; That the social ascendancy of the
Ily George ! shels off already ! Ho obscure does not interest the astron-
was not an. expert4 or the work of onher.
deception might •have been more That women . who compromise
difficult, He tur led to the stand, themselves are ads lost as those who
struck a match ahi'cl lighted a wax hesitate. ;}
taper that stood there. In so doing, That with so Many ^ comic papers
he removed his hand from the cloth it is to be expected that old jokes
he had applied to ter nostrils. In a Y1,-IIreappear. 4
quarter -second she slipped the fore -
That fashionable sympathy is the
finger of the hand on which ber
eheek rested under the edge of the kind extended tel get further parti-
handkerchief', and let in a. tiny culazrs,
stream of fresh ate. ! That some of the lectures under
Her head was preternaturally fashionable auspices are akin to
clear wben the ugly mouth muttered twaddle.
again : We'll see blow sound you are,
my jady !
Ile lifted the ?surer hand which
lay on the cowrie?. How was she, 1
an ignorant, untri.'ed child, 'to know
that it ought to be limp and nerve-
less, if site were insensible" That she
Inade it so is the highest proof of the
superiority of human instinct above
that of the brute creation I ever
heard of.
The cool devil ---(excuse me, ladies!
The fittest word will escape the best
regulated lips at times I•-- field the
pretty, taper, rose -tipped forefinger i
of this lax left hand in the flames
of the candle.
A shuddering groan escaped the 1
audience. Only Miss Wight uttered i
no sound. 1ler fingers were inter-
locked, the blood pressed back from
her lips.
, Pryor watched her curiosily, in 1
continuing:
Sho did not flinch. When be lot
go the hand, it dropped limply back
on the coverlet. , Still carrying the
taper, he passed *and the foot off
That a power of removal bill for
operation in society would be a good
thing.
That it would'he a good thing if
some of the clubs went out of exis-
tence.
That everybody who is anybody
appears to have l4arranged to go to
Europe, rl .
That women 1. interviewed about
their divorce are'fnot in need of any
nerve tonic.
That how d'do' is the only thing
that does not cos money in a court
of law,
'That high co ars are the only
thing that make some Iden hold up
their heads—New York Advertiser.
A little girl was overheard talk-
ing to her doll, whose arra had come
off exposing the sawdust stuffing.
You dear, good, obedient doll, I
knew 1 Imd told you to chew your
food fine, but 1 didn't think you
would chew it so fine as that.
That Boy Could Talk.
Two papas were comparing notes,
'Does your boy talk yet?' asked
the papa with red, whiskers.
'Well, he's just learning,' replied
the papa with the bald head. 'And,
by the way, ire's learning a little too
fast to suit me, too.'
Never heard that complaint
before. What does he say?'
'Well, it was this way. You see
we've been in the habit of getting up
in the middle of the night and feed-
ing hint some milk. He's 20 months
old now, and we thought he was
getting old enough to d9 without
that. The other night he waked up
and began to call for 'mikum.' I
didn't pay any attention to him: so,
of course, be kept it up, as babies
usually do.
j 'Each time the 'Inikkum' came out
a Iittle more imperiously. Finally I
called out to• him:
I ,You don't need any mikkum.
Go to sleep again now.'
i 'There was a silence for a few
minutes, and then he began again:
' 'Par—par!'
'No answer.
'Parpar!'
'I said nothing.
• Tar, you old baldhead, get up an
gimme some mikkum,
'And did he get it?' asked the
papa with the red whiskers,
'He got it.'—Buffalo Express.
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eaten with salt.
Traces of mud may be reanovec
from black dresses by rubbing the
stains with raw potato.
In boiling rice, peas, or hnaearoni,
save the water in whiclh they are
boiled for use in soups.
Whalebones that are beilt_cai.n.tie
straightened by being thrown into
cold wacer for a few hours. .q
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of nervous pains, and another in cap-
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doss) which acts on; the Bowels, Liver
and Stomach, fortaing al never failing
nerfeet treatment 'for all Head and
StornaA cornplaints. Thty do not. as
most pills and so many other tned'cines
do, lose their effect or produce after
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cents a box, at, all medicine dealers.
Dundas Bannon : Whenever the
men in office at Ottawa tale off the
duty on any article they say that
they thereby remove taxation from
the shoulders of the people. When-
ever they put the' duty on again they
say that it does not matter, as the
people of other countries will have
to pay it on the goods they send to
Canada. An aringement of this
kind is a great convenience, and it
is a wonder that lit has not been
patented, Like the Irishman's leg,
it works both ways.
Hamiltlin Tinges: According to the
report of the minister of the interior,
the number of homesteads entered in
the whole Dominion Northwest in
the year 18114 was 3,174, the num-
ber of settlers being 9,71e, a decrease
of 716 homestead • and 2,1011 settlers
from the figure of the preceding
year, And of these homesteads 81G
were taken by Canadians and 471
by persons having previous entries,
Those people who talk about the
thousands who are rushing into the
Nortltwest' ought to help to get the
N. P. bars removed and give the
settlers a chance.
allowed.
Money Advanced to Farmers and
Bros n.ess Ai.l a?ri.
Oa long or short time, on trttrlorserl 11010u
or collateral security. Sale notes bought
at a fair valuation. Money to all
parts of Canada at renaonnbl,r r.IrnrgeN,
Spacial Attention Given to Cot•
looting Accounts and 14°tee.
Agents in Canada- The aeronauts' tti,k
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