HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1895-09-13, Page 2THE WINGHAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER I3„ 1895,
A LAMM IN OlIVB0g, ling into her eyes,4I love him dearly,
She sat as the eliding cushion, but I will riot rain his future, and
The dear wee WOMall of foer; mine,. to avoid being called au old
Rer feet in their fitnuy slippers.
Hupp, dangling over the door. 111014,'
She meant to bo. good; she had promised; And so that very day, when
so • with her big brown eyes, Robert Clare was dreaming over a
She eters'd se the meeting -hose wiedows book, with the blossoming clouds of
And counted the crawling Rim
the old apple tree raining their soft
Km looked flir up at the preachez•; pink shells down, over his head,
But she thotight of the honey bees Gerty came resolutely out to him
Droniug OilVtV in the blossoms
That whitenca ills sherry trees. • with. a littie turquois ring in ber
Se thought of the broken basket, hand.
Where:, curled in a. dusky heap, 'Robert,' saki she, I have been
Three sleek, wand puppies, with, fringy ears
.17.4ay smuggled and fast asleep. thinking the matter over, aud. I have
come to the conclusion that we both
shall be happier U our futures separ-
ate at this point.'.
'Gerty!' lie exclaimed, iu amaze-
ment.
'Here's the engagement ring,
Robert,' said she, speaking calmly in
spite of the lump in her poor little
throat. Please don't attempt to
argue the point, for nothing will
induce me to change my mind.'
As each one waked fHo accepted the tiny blue token
rom a nap;
But the dear wee woman hid her face. reluctantly,
—New Orleans Times Den:low:at. 'You will remember, Gerty,' said
• .
he, 'that this is your own doing.'
'I shall not forget it,' said she.
Such soft, warm, bodies to cuddle,
Saab queer little hearts to beat,
Swab sWift, round tongues to kiss,
Snob sprawling cushiony feet 1
She could feel in her clasping fingers
The touch of the satiny skin,
And a cold, wet nose exploring
The dimples undet her chin.
Then a sudden ripple of laughter
Ban over the parted lips,
So quick, that sbe could not catch it
• With ber rosy finger tips.
The people whispered, "Bless the child !"
"IT MOT HAVE BEEN."
'Seen her ! No, of eourse I have
DT Mas. HARRIET C. ANIT.R,SOL
seen ber,' said. Mr. Clare. 'Th
ess of A Lost Love,' cominr, to wet- we.fimixoTort LETTER,.
1
eome us,'
sled the next moment lie had
fettled a slight figure in his arras
with a most loviog itiss, She dis-
engaged herself; laughing and blush -
lug.
Phil, what an uncivilized savage
you. are!' said she. ' 'And. I have not
even spoken. to Mr, Clare.'
'But lr. Clare seemed. transfixed
in a sort of incredulous surprise,
`Gerty 1' cried be—'Gerty Deane.'
She inclined her head, with a
'roguish dimple in either cheek.
'Yes,' said she; Gerty Deane,
Oh ! you never dreamed you were
corresponding with me, did, you ?
For Phil's sister copied all my letters
and posted Mein from Philadelphia ;
and Phil didn't object, and—
'Bat what business was it of Mr.
Wayne's? rather haughtily demand-
ed Robert Clare. •
9b, none in particular,' said
Gerty, 'Only we were married last
month.'
Clareas
stood. aghast. His Gerty-.-.-.
the dark -eyed little gypsy who had
once been so submissive to his every
whim—the queeu of the literary
'world—the unknown correspondent
'
nt whose glittering intellect had so
ats dazzled, him—another man's wife !
When a bud is only half open no
one can tell. how royal a rose it may
become. And when Clarewent
back to the city on, the evening train
that night, he caught himself repeat-
ing Whittier's refrain:
"Of 8,11 sad words of tongue or pen, •
The saddest are these—it might have been."
For the book and the book -maker
were both, as far as he was concern-
ed, 'a lost love.'
Out in. the November twilight, the very spice and sparW; of the
thing. We have correspoaded
with the elms and oaks making a for
three years, and I've never so much
erimsou canopy of autumnal foliage
as looked at her photograph I'
above her fair young forehead, 'Incognito, eh?' said Philip Wayne,
Gerty Deane would havemade a carelessly.
pretty subject for an artist's sketch
'Something of that sort. And I've
as she stood in her pale pink muslin
read her book—A Lost Love—you.
dress, and her jetty, silken alt
know. Reallte I think it's the most
blown aboat in the riotous autumn
breeze. talented thing of the day. A.utunan
1Leaves, too, the little collection of
'Oh, Robert !' she cried, her poems, has bad a splendid ru
dimpled face brightening as a tall • Everyone is reading it. And y
figure strode up over the slope of really know her ?'
the hill, 'I thought you would never I
come!' 'I have the pleasure of knowi
her most intimately, r return
Mr. Clare surveyed his
fiancee critically. pre"y1Wayne.
n.
ou.
That Tired Feeling
Is a COn11:40D. complaint and it is a dan-
ng
ed
1 'She is beautiful, of course ?'
'Don't do that, little one,' said he,
'Very,'
as she tried to relieve him of one of i
And her manner?'
his traveling wraps, 'How you are
'She is quiet and retiring.
sunburned t And I think you stoop a one would ever suspect, either th
little. I with, they would look after
you a. little more.' 'she was a successful authoress, or t
" most cultivated woman in the Stat
eThe sunshine faded. out of Gerty'si Clare sprang up from his chair
face in a second. It was hard that enthusiasm.
he should begin to find fault with 'So much the better,' said he.
her in this first moment of their re-
union. !hate your blue stockings who'go
about in tattered. frocks and inky
'I'm sorry I don't suit you,' fingers!'
she, in a trembling voice. 'Youe 'Bat you haven't told me" inter -
Used to like me before you got that posed Wayne, 'how you commenced
horrid office in the Custom House , to correspond with a person whom
and left Yellow Valley.' you confess that you. never saw.' '
'A man is not a fossil, child,' said I 'Oh, that is plain, enough. I had
Mr. Clare, carelessly. 'We grow been reading A Lost Love, and in
mentally as well as physically. And the magnetic spell of the moment,
no one can help his tastes changing.' sat down and wrote to the authoress
Gerty Deane stopped short at the _directing, of course, to the care of
gate, where the honeysuckle made a the publishers. She 'ansivered
my -
natural arch, and the two great letter in the same spirit—and. by
columns of velvet -green box kept Jove, old fellow, this correspondence
their century -old vigil. has been a treat all along. Her
'Robert,' said she, 'your letters letters are charming.'
have puzzled me of late, and your Mr. Wayne
words and manner puzzle me still
'I see that I shall have to introdu
more. Do you mean that you.—are you,' said he.
tired of me ?'
I Stow Uncle Sam Prints His Greene
tmoico,
the paper money used in the
; 'United States is uow engraved and
, printed at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing in Washington,
D. 0,
, The plates, deseribed in a former
letter, from which the Money is
printed, are stored by the ton in an
I enormous vault on the groanc1 floor
of the building. Here, a short time
before work hours begin, the prin-
ters n in a 1ie aucl receive from
the custodian the plates they are to
use for the day. The plates are
num ere , and each man gives a re-
ceipt for his precious charge.
1 The presses, some two hundred, in
number, are all hand presses, and
each requires the presence of two
persons -'---the printer and his assis
taut, usually a young lady, whose
duty it is to plaee the sheet upon the
plate for printing and then remove
the same and examine it to see if the
impression taken is perfect. The as-
sistants receive $1.25 per day wages,
which is deducted from the f
Werba's Wheat Prodaation.
A recent .table on the "World's
Wheat Production" contains some
interesting figures. Most of the
countries whieh have to buy the
grain show a falling off in their own
• yields as compared with 1894 as.
follows ;
Ixcurmag,
Mesa.)
Froatee,, Pfg#,VPA
Great .
Spain .......
Italy
Netherlands, „, ,,,,,
ottngal,.. .14. V, •91.1.,,VD
Switglerlsna, .
Danmark „
Germany..., 1,000,000
Dscankss.
53,000,000
14,000,000
11,000,000
5,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000 92,000,000
Austria, Scandinavia and Belgium
are reported to have the same yields
for both years.
Those countries which have wheat
to sell stand as follows
IliOnEASE. DECEUASB.
(BM.) MUSA.)
52,000,000 .....
Bulgaria, , 21,000,000 ......
Turkey. . . . 13,000,000
Asia, without India,. 3.2,000,000
11,000,000
Roumania
Canada, 0 000 000
the printer. They aro appointed •
trputine ..... .
pay o .
ehrough the CiviI Service Commis- Austria,
sion, and usually are placed under Chili
the charee a the printers and re- United States.
main wit I7 the same ones who have ee'refearY. .
instructed theta in the duties of their , Africa
trade.
The paper, in sheets ]arge enough
for four bills, comes from the Treas-
ury Department in bundles of one
thousand sheets. When it arrives it
is counted into packages of one hun-
dred sheets each and thoroughly
ivi3ObV,666
21,000,000
740000,00008
8,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
118,000,00 103,000,000
It will thus be seen that while
those countries buying wheat. have a
deficiency of 91,000,000 to make up
over and above what they raised last
year, those countries having wheat
to sell have only sorne 16,000,000
moistened so that it will absorb the ; more bushels to offer.. All things
ink. •
considered, therefore, it looks very
The printer applies ink to the
much as if the grain ought to reach
plate with a hand roller. • • a very respectable and steady figure.
gerous symptom. It means that the a cloth,and then polishes it with the
system is debilitated because of impure open palra of his hand. No satisfac- I
blood, and in this condition it is especial- • The Trials of a Country Editor.
ly,liable to attacks. of disease. Hood's tory substitute has been.disccsvered
Sarsaparilla is the remedy for this oon- for and for this finishing! , ,..Whatever may be the truth or the
the.human h
touch in preparing the plate for ,-leaibitY of the stories that are told of
printing steel engravings, and for : the scarcity of funds in a Coun-
that reason fine work cannot be done try editor's pocket or the scarcity of
an steam presses. , food in his stomach, the stories are
The design is eat down into theiaIw`ays told, and neither the progress
plate and the fine lines are filled of education nor the growth and
with ink. Each 'plate has to be i development of the press seems to
studied by itself, for the skill of the I have any effect upon the crop. One
printer depends upon his knowledge ! of the latest comes from Kentucky,
of the proper way in, which the pare; where the mountain editor, at least,
titular plate should be rabbed. No ; rarely develops into a Croesus or an
two plates require the same treat- Apiehas, and this one is concerning a
ment. When the plate is polished A mountain editor. A subscriber had
off, the attendant places a sheet upon ;remembered him very kindly, and a
a.; day or two later a' visitor called at
the same; and then by taming
wheel the table carrying the plate isthis office.
passed beneath a roller under great : "Can. I see the editor ?" heeinquir-
presavre, and the ink in the lines ad' ed of the grimy little "devil" roost -
hues to the paper. Every imper_ ;ing on a. high stool.
feeds,- printed. sheet is thrown aside, [ "No sir," replied. the youth on the
and for each press an allowance is' stool. "He's sick."
made of one poor sheet out of every I "What's the matter with him ?"
hundred. If the number spoiled ex -1 "Dun'no'," said the boy. "One of
eeeds this the printer is charged for our subseribers give him a bag of
the estimated cost of the paper arid [flour and a bushel ofpertaters t'other
all the work put on it up to gee time day, and I reckon he's toundered."—
dition, and also for that weakness which
prevails at the change of season, climate
No or life.
at oogs Pities act easily, yet wompvtly
he andFi e oien y on the bowels and ef.
e.' 25c.
in.
Clare wrung his hand.
'How you do catechise one said shall be your debtor aU my lif
Clare, impatiently. 'Did. I say that time if you will, cried he.
I was tired of you? You are a dear, 'I am going down to see her this
sweet -natured little puss, and of afternoon,' said Wayne; 'and if you
course, a man. can't expect to have
everything at once, But the truth will. meet me at the three o'clock
train, I will venture to insure you
is that I have been mixing in rather welcome.'
intellectual society of late, and after I 'I'll be as punctual as the clock,
taste of champagne WS hard- t°I, said Robert Clare, with sparklin
come down to cold water ag' (eyes and heightened color.
A Marvel of Strength.
ft seems absolutely impossible that
a wheel thirty-nine inches in diame-
ter with a wooden. rim and wire
spokes,'so tight that the whole strut
tare weighs' only twenty ounces,
should sustain without perfect dis-
tortion the weight of four men stand-
ing on its side, with. supports at four
points only under the rim, and no
hub support whatever.
• It almost seems incredible that a
bicycle capable of carrying a man of
160 or 175 pounds in weight can be
made so light that the whole struce
ture weighs less than nine pounds.
Yet this has been done ; even at the
roadster weight of • twenty-two or
twenty-fonr pounds, the cycle carries
• a greater lead with safety than. any
Offs is already great and will prob- Illaalber'3 'are 8F--PledP airld &Lai' the
rtedhe ;:te,:hnee, bab can esrs areare:t Harper's.
printed first, then after SeaSOMIIIT,
The following maxims are given
Wise Business Maxiras.
ee other vehicle.
Theinflnenea
o e ce ele on somal and rernsiateentseg tree fee., a -en the
ably constantly extend, as it proved
ent ateart. by a periodical issued by a =m-
an outdoor sport and amusement for - e
featuring firm. in the 'United. States:
T gentert se L.... -50d and had
women which not previously exiketed _ e.„- . „ 4r ,,,, tr '1" Th011 shalt sell goods but six days
in any form in America. Ametleast '4'7- .--t-c-L'-'16. F:' a'r" er-i'Inteus a; of' the week, and on the seventh thou
, - e .
%eat. the fall face
women are not walkers, beet the.: .1‘41.e"raT Prm'61' t°' shalt take a rest.
a cycle is perhaps even better etited P-47 41—• A -YeeTe-
,
seems destined to add. an onefere
" denctaltatien. The
7-1-117. r313 .51..te. .'77"' hlr'') 216 Inat'ter tor's business, for he may be nearer
to woman's use than man% Thou shalt not covet thy competi-
g element to the life of tiroman. tale <Wet+ are ce-e,ases-A seize .9.1x117 tfraea
world over, which was not esetefgLee 5-3-z:1' ''''cl-'-z:-14.:4 .e..%' er.d,' atd tho SY8- Thou shalt not put snore sail into
, bankruptcy than thyself.
without the 'winged erheel:' eeeeese seerk IA di., rArf:,laIg areeed thy basiness than thou hasp wind to
fill.
Thaa shalt not blame thy clerk
for thine own mistakes nor tax. him
for thine own neglect.
Thee' shalt not sell goods for less
Gerty looked wistfully at him. And he kept his word.
don't venture to call myself! . yellow le 11 , •
ua , said she. Bat I read a ;the vieeteeee elee ex Veal; i'e ite aassest a-0,1 talica6vott thing
3, Said , e,
glancina at the railway tickets in his The miracle of
great deal, and. I try to Tr its birth, death and alpspx.:45,mb,,, , i%.,. f2,-,,1:2,,.:14„ a lailetelCse 117,a4.1. anysestere,
— -eel) up friend'sthand. 'Why ! it can't be
with the age, Robert—I do, indeed, possible ! I was a boy there. Ilenow its inereitible .load-bataTh!eg eres,--e;;;.: -e rix. ripatr,,v. rztc.tg 41 -Alt nine
for your sake,' proportion to weights le- ifie be't,';ilies-Ts .4'.-1.214.1z"it '11.-e.c."-i. a "-1"a7t. tr-e'Al4h c'e'
every one in Yellow Valley,'
He looked with a sort of patroniz- *Then of the horee .-ae,a ',tem:me ea 'itir•Z!"-t,C7 -'-‘ (t2tr'a, rgse,2,1 Worker
ing good humor down. at her earnest lady? perhaps you. know this pleenastnre and in eteeseeete ,..,0, se; revs teasseel a tessassestefe 111.0 pa - f. than wit, unless the market has
face.
Cla,re shook his head, mechaniLel details -of esetneeresee4 seat. 'ee S-''''-' -fa se4. eas - ---
support, tabular framing seake'es.it, A"-Y-rc '''''---"••'' 41ter 411-eltle*Ig" the
'' - 6 ... ri7 :$.....*1 (11'.1')47'Irr'' lbf%J11 60 gone back on you.
Thou. shah. not trust
'My darling,' said he, 'you are 'All theinen at Yellow VaUey are, driving. weaves ele Vess email -ant lase lerletee whom thou would'st not lend ten
a man to
perfect, as you are, -A man doesn't . humdrum, money -making machines,' len great aseeleveneeet ;sea Au .Ur te..> f.:1Z dollars» Ivr day
. fr.. ff ,•' ' do,rs.
expeet a canary to ape the liquid said he. 'All the womenare smilin ,
4 ' ally, the one
notes of the nightingale. Now run. and stupid without •ti b
•itt
g of the bieyete Is to increase the bust- n Adler his tervieee, The prinitare %hen shalt not use thy busitIOSS
o the dew and tell them to toq t and ted Y powers of loeonaotion so -that 'the elf iv
) e ue wors vor . , are now entitled lo a leave. ab- capital to spectfiate with nor borrow
bring me a cup of tea," perhaps she's visiting' there,' saute other
k t footed inan ma,de one of -the Iwifts f"e'n'w f°1-thirtY. per year, the from thy friends for that purpose.
eseof all running creatures.- es sove,roment elerks.
Gerty obOed, docile, but still un- i'We shall see,' said Wayne with neering magazine. and <luring this :Mine they ireecivo Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga
convinced,. What right had Robert provoking uneommunicativeness.
Al • / 4
Clare to treat leer like a child ? She At the Yellow 'Valley station It The temple of Karnae is described :,^eertahl Peried Previous to taking debilitated system 1 en
On Vitalizer trouble it
eagaged to him. And the Mere she who touched his hat to Mr. 'Wayne architectural magnifieenee ever pro -1
duced by itheumalsin ,0*--"tirtd ...-""r'01, a 4017,. 45,9uth excels. Price 75 ote. Sold at Ohm
` holites
the hand of mate et Altnertotkn ,Rheivzotin •Cm,rool Mennntioni Corner Drug Store.
thought of it, the more she was de
termitied to free him from bond
which she instinctively thought were
being burdetsomd.
'He shall not marry me because
he is sorry for ine,' she told herself
41f be had remained here at Yellow
Valley, alt would lave been right
But he has drifted into the wide sett
Of city society, and it is as' he says—
be begins to pereeive the difference
champagne and cold water,
with the bright tears spark -
as if he were a familiar guest, and
eovers twice the areeief se Peter's mai Neuralgia radinally elms in 1.40 3 dap.
s away they whirled, under the bend -
at Renee and utidoubtedly its one ,of, Intisztritlruse,n ree vetoes ,1$ xengttimble and At Troy. deep- Small boys often ask their parents
ing green' of the elm bmighsz anu- the finest buildings in the world. eithe disease lusissuiatel is the sea?" The
InPv" a"** ftle °I" ari—swer depends entirely upon the
past theonasesteads tbat i
lined the way to the village. J Cant& relieved in 10 to 80 toinuteet— sea, Tile following table, ` ecinpiled
. 'Why r eicelaimed Clare, as the il;19,1,71,2shg,,o,,,/,,:jusaffpttedt
earriage dresv up hi front of a pretty' hweithbreateathh bottbrtoloughof
help one to the solution of Otte of the AA% 0015
by one who has investigated, may is of
rhal Pewder, dilute*
. stone villa, this IS the old Deane . thister:tior oVer the antf$100 of the basal small boy's problems. Average' olsotkosick
depth In. yards: P'&eite 4 252 Ate as*
ftrst dose greatly benefits. 7,0 oents.
Warrantood nt Chistiowlisarug ,otoe,
A ,Georia judge 'warned his
people with regard to eesuing into
court lutoidcated, and um' these
BANK of HAMILT
WINGHA1V1;"
Capital, $I,250,000. t, 6650,000
President—.)ous Spurr.
Vice.Preelcient O. Rums?,
DIRECTORS
JOHN PnacTen, One. ROAM, Wn 01080N, DTP, A. r.
Woou, A. D. Ls s (Toronto).
Cashler—J. T11111110,Ti.L.
$avings Ranh—Hours, 10 to 3,• Saturdays, 10
1, Deposits of 51 and upwards received and interest
allowed.
Spf,olal 0011091ts also received at entrant
rates of ir,..srest.
Drafts on Oreat Britain 0.111i the United States
heught and sold
B, WILLSON, Acusa•
B. X. DICKINSON, Solicitor,
HALSTED & SCOTT
is_
Josephine Street -
ir4
J, A. HALSTItn, J, W. Scarp,
Mount Forest. I Listowe
Deposits Received and Interest
allowed,
Money Advanced to Farmers and
Business Men,
On long or short time, on endorsed notes
or collateral security. Sale notes bought
at'a fair valuation. Money remitted to all
parts of Canada at reasonable charges.
Special Attentlen, Given to Col-
lecting Accounts and Notes,
Agents ln Canada—The Merchants' Bark
of Canada
Office Hours—From 9 a, m. to 6 p. m.
A. E. SMITH,
Agent.
FOR SALE.
A complete brick cottage in the Town
of Wingham, on Minnie street, one of
the most desirable streets for a residence.
Heated by a furnace; a large wood shed,
with hard and soft water in wood shod;
a good stable. The lot bas 55 feet front-
age and rune 163 feet back to a lane.
Terms easy. Apply to
JOHN' NEELANDS,
Wingham.
HOUSE AHD LOT FOR SALE.
The subscriber offershis house and
lot in Lower Wingbain for sale on
reasonable terms. The lot contains ball
au acre, on which there is a frame
dwelling house containing five rooms;
also good stable and poultry house; good
well, 16 fruit trees, &c. For particulars,
apply on the premises.
R. C. KITTSON.
LAND FOR SALE.
For sale, about 600 acres of land; 200
of it nearly all in pasture; with first-class
buildings; large part of it uncierdrained,
the balance, about 400 acres, mostly new
land, with a large quantity of timber
still on H. About 350 acres cleared and
seeded for pasture. Land will make a •
first-class pasture. Farm situated two
miles from Winghatt. On the promises
is a good saw mill running order. All
will be sold on reasonable terms. For •
particulars, apply to Post Office Box 125,
Winghatn, Ont.
• • •. e •
Consumption.
Valuable treatise and two bottles of medicine seta Free to
any Sufferer. Give Express and Post Office addrest. T.
SLOGUM CREMIG,11. CO., Ltd., Torento, Ont.
c'uFE TAKE
TH,c,T.
COUGH ,TR
SH 1 LOHS
ono cent a dose.
552051,40ttga.;3'atoatdu-NC-e-60. C 11 R E
It is sold on a guarantee by all druggists.
It Omen Incipient Consumaption and Is the
boo Cough and Croup Cuxe,,
Sold at Chisholm's Corner Drug Store.
at on earth are Ott passage& Petwiessaad b 1
stopping hero for P'
'Yes,' said Wayne; is the old
Deane mansion! and here is your
unknown torrespondents the eutuor.
.;8•••01,
1 g Mt to use, 1 wards ;.---.1 sirka ,to pdt ,avtrybody on
I It reile";* irlotAInt4Y, and e,,,,,rtaagirl i notice that, If they 0001e Into this
sures Catiutb, Hay Fever, idle Het - seeurt room 1,14,,te t __ ..1_, _ ._,
ache, Soft Throat, Tonffilit4s and Deaf-, ' a ta 0- an sin Erg on
State.
neve 60 Conte. At catelsolasts Drug , tihie bench crank, they bad better
look out !
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AL..1114..
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4,028; Indian,8,658; Aataretie
8,000; Artie, 1,000; Mediterranean,
1,476; Trish, 240; FaIglish Channel,
11; Adriatic, 46; 'tattle 48.
nattier's Round Table,
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