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The Wingham Times, 1895-09-20, Page 2THE MASQUERADE, THE W INGGHAM 'TIMES, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895, , on the floor Lind cling round one's It was Rosa, Laming from the legs sol Oh, 1 know -the crinoline lower part of the garden. By 'the 'Three girls domiciled in the next ought to go under!' room! There's an end of ray writing ; Tin not certain taut what I should for one month, at least !' make quite a nice looking woman,' Kenneth Ross pushed his paper , mused Kenneth, strutting; backward into a confused heap, shut this desk , and forward before the mirror. On with a vindictive snap, and lighted a i the whole Tomb of the Prophet is cigar. a , that the girls?' Mr Ross gave a blindly desperate ! 'Three chattering, noisy girls, each , 1 jerk at his 'sacque,' and a pull at the longth. .There a tongUQ three times its propers my cousin J. lora, crinoline but all in vain, The gay leng voices intermingled here and there Alice .Aylmer and Rasa Fernall—! with a ringing laugh or a snatclhof bine eyes, black eyes and melting ! song drew nearer and nearer. For gray ; by the way, that gale monkey j an instant Mr. Noss. wildly contcm- Rosa, isn't bad. looking. I rather faney that peculiar shade of brown hair. She would retake a tolerable study for may next heroine. I may as well put her to some useful pur- pose, tI must stay and face it out !' he Iletgbo! I think Aunt Meg' thought ' but hold on ! there's the was crazy to invite all those girls closet. It's just possible they will here at once!' only stay hero a minute or two.' He 1-,:uused a moment, as the merry And totally oblivious of the `ma - Teal of girlish laughter echoed in the jesty of man,' the fled precipitately adjoining apartment, into the closet. 'They're laughing at me. Girls 'Why the mischief didn't I think always think a bachelor fair game.' to secure the key ?' he thought, as. Tap ! tap ! tap ! sounded softly on the girls streamed into the room the panel of the door, and he had .However, I can hold on to the door just time to .take his heels off the handle, if anyone attempts to get in. table before Flora Edgeworth put By jove, if the girls should see me in her head into the room. this rig, I should never hear the last `Cowin Kenneth, are you there?' of it.' `Well, what's wanting now?' He leaned against the shelves and 'May we come in?' breathlessly awaited the progress of 'I may as well say yes !' events. 'I just want the girls to see what a 'hy !u ejaculate) a soft voice— den you've got here.' 'Rosa's own—'where's my hat? Was Flora threw opehl, the door, and I careless enough to leave it down admitted her two companions. stairs ? Flora, you have hidden it.' 'Here he is, girls! the old bachelor, 'I wonder what you'll accuse meof as he appears in his ',native wilds !' next !' said Flora, in an injured 'Now, young ladies,' said Mr. voice. Ross, throwing his half smoked cigar 'You `told Mr. Rbss that Cousin. out of the window, 'I'll trouble you Simon's letter was to—to—' to be a little less unceremonious 1' 'Your sweetheart ! '; ell, he ought For Alice and Flora had pounced to be, I'm sure. He', is the hand - on bis sheets of loose manuscripts somest young man I know.' like honey bees on a bed of heliotrope, 'Oh, Floral, he don't compare with and were laughing over the illegible Mr. Ross.' chirography. Miss Fernall stood 'Rosa, be honest,' said Flora, near the door, a little confused. and 1 'which do von like best—Cousin Ken very pretty, in her blushes and un- or Simon Montrose?' certainty. 'Flora.' 'Don't be cross, Kenneth,' said 'Tell me honestly.' Flora. 'We are going down to the The answer came in a low, half - post office now, Rosa Fernall has inaudible voice. written a twelve -page letter to her sweetheart in Canada—' 'Flora!' exclaimed. Rosa. 'And,' pursued the relentless Flora, 'we're going to post it. Come, girls.' Ancl Mr. Ross was left alone with the heavy musk roses nodding at the open easement, and the dreamy murmur of maple boughs and far-off bees in his ear. 'A 12 -page letter to her sweet- heart ! he pondered. 'She must have had something very interesting to write. Canada, eh ? I wish it was Van Diemen's Land!' Mr. Ross rose from his easy -chair, and began to walk up and down the floor. 'It's too confounded hot to breathe here !' he said, impatiently taking up his hat. 'I'll go and take a tramp in the woods.' Flora Edgeworth had succeeded in planting a ranking thorn in her cousin's breast, all ' 'unconscious though she had been there. The sun was low in the sky when Kenneth returned from his abstract- ed ramble in the woods, and the wide, old-fashioned country house was very still, as he ascended to- ward his own apartment, 'Hello !' Mr. Ross gazed. vacantly around the room with something of the bewildered feeling that height have belonged to the Eastern Prince, when he found himself transported from pole to pole in an enchanted dream. 'I'm in the wrong room, I believe —for there is Flora Edgeworth's light wrap on the bed, and Rosa's hat and no end of ribbons and gloves and lace collars on the. bureau. He'balanced the coquettish little 'hat' on his hand. 'So this is the fashionable style of 'chapeau, eh ? I wonder now whether Rosa's hat wouldn't fit me: Mr. Ross adjusted the article jauntily on one side of his curls and viewed himself in the mirror. 'Upon my word, it don't look so 'had ! And now where's the sacque? A, little tight in the sleeves, but other - 'Wise :quite a decent fit, if a fellow holds his arms well back. There's Alice's blue muslin dress. I've two minds and a half to put it on, just r the jctike of the thing 1' A momentary silence ensiled,. 1li�roken by the rustling of the mils- 'Can'tmeet round the wast by a t od six inches, but l; can;hold It up. I wonder what makes the thing drag plated a rush through the hall tohis own door, but a moment's reflection convinced him that sucha retreat would be impossible. NI, brilliant moonlight he saw the traces of tears on her cheek. 'Rosa, you have been crying 1' •'No, I haven't!' And to prove the truth of her assertion, Rosa began to Cry afresh, 'Look here, Rasa,' said the young plan gravely, 'I have been thinking of leaving Warburgh taanorrow.' 'Rosa cried on.' 'But,' pursued Mr, Ross, 'I'll stay if—if - yau'il only tell me to my face what you told my cousin when I Was hidden away like a foolish rat in a trap, Rosa.. Speak, little one ?' 'What shall I tell you?' faltered Rosa, 'That you love rue, That you will be my wife 1' And she told him so—in the language lovers best like to hear. And. Mr. Ross stayed in Warburgh and braved the ridicule of Alice and Flora, with little Rosa marshalled on his side,—New York News. £10,000 A YEAR.—How one might play the part;of Prince Bouuti- The man sentenced to eight years' ful on such an income! What corn- imprisonment b. y the Arkansas judge fort and relief one could bring to the Self" Pefenca. THE L w RELATING TIIERET° LAID DOWN BY TIIE SUPREME COURT. A United. States district judge in Arkansas instructed a jury that everywhere except within his own house the law requires a man to run away and do hisbest to escape from an assailant before killing him. The judge further said that when assault- ed on his own premises, but outside of his house, a man must show his sense of danger by efforts to escape before his plea that be killed his assailant to save himself from great bodily harm can be accepted. This instruction washanded down from ancient times when weapons of assault consisted of knives, bludgeons, swords, ate,, which an active man had some chance of escaping. But it is not 'applicable to these days of revolvers and winehesters, whose bullets no man can dodge or outrun, and the United States Supreme Court has sent it to the black letter lumber garret, poor and to the suffering. And yet, even without money one can do good if one has the will. If I see a fellow -creature suffering from ague, fevers, or disorders of the stomach ; or from gout, rheumatics, neuralgia, and the like, I don't need to be a man of wealth in order to show him the way to health. If I point out to him the wonderful efficacy of Hollo- way's Pills and Ointment. I have perchance done more good by that one thoughtful action than I could have achieved with all the wealth of obtained from the supreme court au order for a new trial under a new instruction. This new instruction declares that wherever a lnan niay be, if he has a right -to be there and if he has not himself provoked till assault, the law justifies him in standing his ground and killing his assailant, provided the provable cir- cumstances are such his to satisfy a jury that he had reasonable grounds for believing and acted on the belief that the killing was necessary to pro- tect himself from great!bodily harm. Putting any further ':limitation on all the Rothchilds, right to kill in self .defence would abolish it altogether. Arkanas is He Was Very Busy. only one of the many states in which a man may have to decide very has - HAD NO TIME TO LOOK OUT k'Oii nis . tily whether he shall be tried for 'INTERESTS!' killing a fellow -citizen or let the fellow -citizen be tried for killing him. Politician—Mr. Fennel, ` will you In these cases, with his attention come out to the meeting of the Good excitedly fixed on his assailant, he Government club on Wednesday ? has no time to get legal advice or to Farmer Fennel --Will, if I get my study h the the necessities eyeeof of the hy- situation hay all delivered— ers. But you can come to the Farmer's Court and jury will do that after - Successful Masons. APPOINTMENTS TO ORRICE IN GRAND T4orinn:—',rnr. GRAND MASTER'S SEi+ECTIONS• The M. W, the Grand Master ot the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Canada, has made the following appointments to office, for the ensu- ing year, each, of the brethren men- tioned being now entitled to the rank of Very Worshipful; Douglas Armour, Toronto, grand senior deacon, John Waddell, Kingston, grand junior deacon. D. W. B. Spry, Barrie, grand superintendent of works. George 0. Patterson, Toronto, grand director of ceremonies. A. E. Neil, Stratford, assistant grand secretary. H. Hyndman, Palmerston, assistant grand director of ceremonies. C. V. Emory, M. D., Hamilton, grand sword bearer. -.• N. T. Lyon, Toronto, grand organist. H. C. Winch, Peterboro, assistant grand organist. R. C. Millar, Pembroke, pursuivant. Walter Drew, Florence, steward. J. T. DlcKay, Alviuston, steward. J. Richardson, Aylmer, steward. J. Irwin, Wiarton, grand stewart. J, R. Atkinson, Simcoe, grand steward. Alex Logan, Niagara Falls, grand steward. 1-I. Wellbanks, Picton, grand stew- ard. J. G. Gillespie, Chesterville, grand steward. W. L. Blair, Ottawa, grand stew- ard. A. Carmichael, Rat Portage, grand. steward. J. C. Davidson, gr and steward. W: B. Hall, steward. H. Bradshaw, St. Thomas, grand standard bearer. W. Willison, Ayr, grand standard bearer. Friend club meeting, Thursday ward, and he is under. restraint 'Kenneth !' enough when he knows that in say - The heart under :Alice's Sac ue afternoon.' Will if I git my oats all cut— ing himself from the, peril of the gave a great jump i :Dir. Ross' head Oh, well you will be sure to be at moment he incurs the further came in contact with something on the meeting of the Farmer in Politices peril of having to satisfy a jury that the upper shelf, and.down came a society Friday morning at 10 ?' his act was justified by the circum - rain of bandboxes on his occiput . stances. ---New York 'W;old. There was an instant's terrific silence, and then the three girls began to scream in chorus. 'How silly we are!' said Rosa tremulously; 'it's only the cat.' 'As if a eat could make such a noiee as that !' said 'Flora. 'Call Uncle John ! Alice, do look and see what it is !' 'No—you look !' faltered. Alice. 'I'll look myself,' said Rosa Fernall, bravely advancing to the rescue. But when the door handle refused to turn even she blanched. 'Some one is holding the door in- side. Call the men!' ' 'There is no necessity,' quoth a voice fax' behind the panels, and the next moment the door flew open, disclosing a tall form in blue, and a countenance whose utter sheepishness can never be described ! 'Cousin Ken !' shrieked Flora. `Mr. Ross!' faltered. 'Miss Fernall. 'Why, it can't be possible !' ejacu- lated Alice. And then the three girls clung to each other in paroxysms of laughter. 'The fact is, ladies,' commenced Kenneth confusedly, 'I—Won't some one help ine off with this mouse trap? Miss Alice, I'm very sorry, I've split your sacque, but—Well, if you won't stop laughing I can't explain, that's the long and short of it !', But Rosa Fernall had stopped laughing already; and 'the pink of her cheeks was deepening into scarlet. She had just remembered the words carelessly spoken not five minutes ago, In an inexplicably Short space of trine Mr. Ross had torn off his femi ne adornments,and fled ignominious- ly, followed by peals of' laughter of his cousin and Alice Aylmer. Rosa ---strange piece of Contradiction–had began to cry 'Poor little thing! she's hysterical,' said Aunt Meg, who had just appear ed on the scene. But Rosa was hysterical.. The full, delicious moon of summer was in the lmid•heaven that night, as IIenneth Ross strolled into the garden moodily puffing at a cigar, and contemplating . the ',feasibility of leaving Warbingh to avoid the Have to dig my early potatoes— Well, if you can't put it off come to the convention of the Sons of Am- erican statesmanship Saturday after- noon— ' Lookin' for the thrashin' machine Monday ; have t' spend. Saturday gittin' ready—' `Well, the Anti -Demagogue club's going to hold a Meeting Sunday morning ; what will you be doing then ? What time ? Ten o'clock. 'I'll be t' church praisin' the Lord fur good crops— Confound you, you haven't got brains enough to look after your own interests. Stick to your old farm as though you took no interest in our efforts— That's what !--Cleveland Plain - Dealer. 1 A Life Saving Medicine, I was attacked severely last winter with Diarrhoea, Clramps 4nd Colic and I thought I was going to die, but fortunately I tried Di?. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, and now I can thank this excellent remedy for saving may life. • MRs. J. KELLETT, Minden, Ont. A Timely Reminder. Each season forces npon our considera- tion its own peculiar perils of health. The advent of fall finds; many reduced in strength and .vigor, pdorly prepared to continue the business of life. The stomach and bowels, the great highway of animal economy, is especially liable to disorder in the fall. The'nervous system has also sufferer) in the 'struggle. Ty-, pboid fever and malaria' in particular find rn the fall that combination of grand grand grand ,grand Don't be a. Kicker. Don't be a kicker. A jackass can make a record in that line. Lend a helping hand to any enterprise hav- ing for its object the progress of the community, or the betterment of its people. Say a good wbrd for every man who manifests a. public spirit. Don't growl where you ought to lend encouragement. If you can't help, don't hinder. Some njen who have very little honey to put up do a great deal of good to their com- munity by words of , kindness and good cheer concerning public spirited men and movements:. Some' men who have money are; a handicap upon progress and prosperity through the disposition to cast reproach upon their neighborhoods generally and carping criticism upon •the endeavors of public spirited men.:1 If you don't feel like pushing thing yourself,give the town a chance b kee ing• off p r� earth, air and water that mark this the backs of the men who wort for season especially rlprogress e as rtos 'falling leaves, the decaying vegetables general Again we say,if you, pan,t help,don't hinder. SANK of HARM WI.NGrHA1.11 ' Capital, 01,250,000i, Gravenhurst, Princeton, grand Rest, x650,000 President—JOHN ETVA$T. Vlea-Freeldent.-•A- G. RANSex. 3'IIRF,CTORS ,^4. JOHN PROCTOR, QED,. 1toAoll, NAt 0nlisON, M P, A. T. wooD, A. B. Lull (Toronto), Cashier—J, TURNBUTLL. Savings Eank--Ilours,10.to a satardays, 1e 1. Deposita of S1 and upwards reeelved and interest allowed Special Deposits also received at current, rates of ia,srost. Drafts en Croat Britain ami the United States bought and sold contribute their share of contamination. Hood's Sarsaparilla , furnishes a most valuable safeguard at these important points, and should be used in the fall before serious sickness hats laid you low. Suis,-=-i-ty baby was. very bad with sutntner complaint, and I thought be would die, until 1 tried Dr. Fowler's Edward Bok, the editor of The Extract of Wild Strawberry. With the i .. bas °written a first dose I noticed a change for the Ladies' Home Journal, , h better, and now he is cured, and fat and book for young men called "Success healthy. Mas. A. 1' oRMAtabzrt, London, Ont. Abraham Lincoln's sentimental perplexities are to be shown in an phases of a young flues life : his article of singular interest which business life, social life,; his amuse- John Gilmer Speed has, written from ments, religious life, dress, his at- unpublished letters d Lincoln to titude toward women and the ques- Joshua Speed, for the hhext issue of tion of his marriage. This is M. The Ladies' :Home Journal. The Bok's first book. article will show- that .the great President was not Steady in his Captain Sweeney,1:1, S. A,, San Diego,,affairs of the heart, thalt he flounder. Cal., bays: "Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is ed in his love, and. finally -induced sarcasm, that at+otrld doiclmei nerve ooa ' fPr a his friend Speed to marry and tell was a fool;'said be aloud; 'but 50e:. Sold at Obisbolreo (clotrner Drag hint (Lincoln) whether marriage was "Who's there?' Store. a failure or not. Baby Nearly Died. ward.: A. Young Man's Book for Young Men," which the;Revells will publish in -a fortnight. ` The book aims to cover alt the important 13, WILLSON, AGENT. 51. L. DICKINSON, Solicitor. HALSTED &SCOTT 33ANKCRS_ Josephine Street • - Wingham, Qnt, Yellow1011. For Rheumatism, Lame Back, Stiff Joints, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Outs, Frost Bites, Croup, and all Pains and Aches, either internal or external, Hag - yard's Yellow Oil is an unrivalled cure. Etiquette for Church Weddings J. A. HALSTED, J, W. Scowl, Mount Forest, I I45towve 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 Canadaat reasonable obarges, Special Attention Given to Col-. letting Accounts and Notes. Agenta in Canada—'Rhe Merchants' Sauk of Canada thnoo Hours—From s a. m, to E. 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 woodshed, with bard and soft water in wood shed; a good stable. The lot has tib feet front- age and runs 163 feet back to a lane. Terms easy. Apply to. JOHN NEELANDS, Wingham, SOME INVITATIONS TEAT MUST BE RECOGNIZED BY AUTUMN BRIDES. For church weddings everything pertains to formality,. and the invita- tion as well as the ceremony is iin- pressive in all details. The names of the parents heading the invitation are now more often written in full, thus insuring a good-looking line at the top of the note. The use of the initials, which areindefinite, is to be discouraged. The "r"`i and "rs" in "Mr." and "Mrs." are Frequently en- graved above the line,';a owing partly to the English custom of so doing and because, when the parent's names are long,more space on the line is gained. With short names the abbreviations aret preferable on the line with the other, small letters. For the same reason "and" in full is substituted for -'the abbreviation, although the latter Is more often used. The line, "request the honour of your presence," almost invariably appears on a church invitation with "honour" spelled with `a, "u." The names of bride sand groom are separated by the little word "to" although some consider! "and" quite as proper. fi The omission of the ,prefix • "Miss" from the daughter's name is custo- mary on an invitation but should never occur when the bride is a sister, cousin or niece 'pf the people issuing the invitations. l f a widow is remarrying she 'uses the prefix "Mrs." with her Christian names and surname of her deceased. husband. - , If the bride is an orjhan, 'with no one to issue the invitations for her, the heading reads, "The honour of your presence is requested," ete. When. the bride has more names than one it is customary to use all, The address of a well-known church is generally 'omitted al- though it is frequently a conveniened for out-of-town friends to know it. Thtines of ehurehes ending with "s," as Saint Thomas, are written with an appstrophe s, "'s1' . thus, Saint Thomas's.—September .Ladies' home Journal. NOOSE AND LOT FOR SALE. The subscriber olferehis house and lot in Lower Wingham for sale on reasonable terms. The lot contains half an 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'acras of land; 200 of it nearly all in pasture; with first•elass buildings; large part of it underdrained, the balance, about 400 acres, mostly new land, with a large quantity of timber still on it. About 150 acres cleared and seeded for pasture. 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