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of east, consisting of .
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Clocks, Silverware, Fancy Goods usical Instruments, Etc., Etc.,
Wall Paper, Window Blinds;
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tionery, School Books,
Ladies' Gold -tilled Watches guarauteed for 15 years,
Cathedral Gong half hour strike ()looks, regular price 83,50,
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45o, now 30o. Presbyterian- Hymnals at cost.
SCHOOL BOOKS at 20 Per Cont.
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AU othe
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Everything that is found in a tirst-olass Fancy Goode Store.
MISS tifti.
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SUNSET.
. BY W. L. ALDEN. , •
"I don't claim," eontimeedthe land-
lord, "that the Blue Mountain Mansion
House is the biggest hotei in the United office a week longer if he had crawflshed
States; and I don't profess to keep a and made no attempt to defend. his •
brass band. to play while folks are eating honor, for naturally the judge drew just
their dinners and to keep them from as soon as he had. freed his Mind about
digesting their food. • There is nothing the postmaster, and if the latter hadn't
that will give a man dyspepsia so quick • been particularly. spry with his weapon
as listening to a brass band while he's ; he would have been shot before he courts i
eating. Any intelligent doctor will tell get out his gun.
you that music is g sight nore indigesti- 1 • "I thought that perhaps you might
ble than fried solesleather; and as I cal- 1 have heard of Judge Smith over in Eng-
culato to look sister the health of my land, for he was a powerful enemy of
guests, I don't allow any music at meal • your country, and was everlastingly
times, But as a moderate sized hotel making speeches denouncing the atro- •
without a brass band, Pm prepared to ctous conduct of England, just in a gen-
back my hotel against any other suinmer 1 eral way."
resort in the country for general healthi- T- The landlord paused for breath', ancl
ness, good cooking, first-class liquors and seized the occasion to remind him that
elevated moral tone. You've been hero a he had promised to tell mo the story of
fortnight, and I reckon that you'll agree an elopement.
with me." . "Speaking of Miranda Smith," con -
"Of course, I do," reeled 1. "rb is so tinned my friend "while she was as good
quiet hero that I can't tell a week day a girl as ever stepped, there is no deny -
from Sunday." ing that she had a temper of her man,
"Just so!" exclaimed the landlord. and a way of saying things that wasn't
"I've always said that there's a sort of calculated to please the general public, 1
holy Sabbath calm about this place. I She might have had the pick of eal tho '
suppose that it would astonish you some young men in town, but she made the
it I were to tell you that three ladies that majority of them mad by saying things
have been in the habit of spending every that no human young man would allow
to pass without shooting, if they were
summer hero for the last nine years left
said by anybody but &woman,. and the •
balance of the young men were actually
afraid to snake her acquaintance.
"There was a young chap in particu-
lar, who played the organ in the Second
Presbyterian Church—Sam Bartlett was
bis name—who, being naturally timid,
and having had what little courage ho '
was born with pretty near blowed out of
him by the organ, was that afraid of
Miranda that he would go a mile out of
his way to avoid meeting her in the
street. What it was that Miranda saw in
him I never could, tell; but she made a
dead set at him, and, after making his
acquaintance, and • taming him, so to
speak, she actinffly promised to marry
him, and the t*o used to walk out arm
in arm, to all appearances as sweet on
• one another as any two young idiots that
you ever knew.
"Everybody was astonished at the nows
of the engagement of Sani and Miranda..
Not that there was anything against the
young man, except that he was a little
too correct in his habits. Ho was rather
small and insignificant -looking, and you
would have said that he hadn't as much
muscle as an ordinary School girl. But
this would have been a mistake. Tho
way lie yanked the sound out of that
Church Organ, tl11 he Made Ali) whole
building shiver •ft's if it hall all attack of
thIlI.sf1,144 faYelle shoaled that he had. eon-
s
postmaster ti because i1i6exeStinaster,
who was a kind-hearted man, had told ,
tho judge that he was too drunk to'be on ;
the street alone, which was sheeny true, !
though, of course, the judge resented it, ;
and.of course the postmaster had to shoot
when he heard himself called a liar in
the presence of a crowd of leading citi-
eons who wouldn't have left him in
me this morning on the ground that 3.113'
11011S0 ein't moral enough for a reepect-
able woman."
"I can't imagine what they could find
to offend their sense of propriety in your
hotel," I said.
"As you were saying," said the; land-
lord, in an unnecessarily loud tone, "the
Bepublicans ain't as sound on the hard
• money question as they might to be." •
Just then an old man, white-haired
and feeble, crossed tho veranda, leaning
on the arm of a lady of at least 60 years,
whose wonderfully peaceful and happy
face I had often noticed. When they had
disappeared into the interior of the hotel,
the landlord said, in a lower tone:—
"Excuse me, but I didn't want those
folks to think that wo were talking
about the hotel, for it was on account of
them that the three ladies 1 told you of
left me."
1 was certainly very much astonished,
and promptly said so; for a snore in-
offensive couple than the 'old man and
his sweet-faced wife 1 had never seen,
The landlord seemed to take counsel with
himself in silence for a moment, and
Oen he said:—
Seeing as it is you, and seeing as it
alwkee oes nip good to talk when I'm
riled,' I'll jnst tell you the whole story.
That theee ora gentleman and the lady
that is with him are a runaway couple
and eon:whew my three olll patrons found
it out, and wouldn't consent to stay any
longer unless I turned 'those creatures'
out, as they called. them, NoW, I don't
allow no woman and no three women to
dictate to ine.how to run a hotel.
"Besides, the old couple aro friends of
Mine—leastways. the lady is—and I
wouldn't hurt her feelings to please the
• whole b'iling of guests. I said so pretty
plain, and consequently my three ladies
packed up and loft, and a nice reputation
they'll give mo among their friends. How
did these old. people come te, elope? Well,
that's whet I'm going to tell you. It
ain't a very long story, but in ease you
get tired, just say so, and I'll shut up.
"I've only been in this place a little
more than aim) years:. Before that time
Itept pe Grand Eastern Hotel, in East
Vapliank, whore I was born and. raised.
Verty gears ago the prettiest girl in the
Whole ttsW4 of Yephenk was Miranda
famitla and she was Siinilarly the richest
and the smartest, Her Mother was clead,
and her father WAS Judge Smith, who
perhaps you have heard about. Ho was a
very distinguished man having been'
justice of the peace for 83 years, and hav-
ing had the delirium tremens 18 times.
"Ile died accidently in the prime of
14. /4.41atinlierice of bari.na walla ths
sidereble strength concealed about him.
I never took to him very much, for he
used to write poetry for thaweekly news-
paper, and poetry is something that I
never could get on with.
"When you come to loot: at it, what is
poetry? Why, it is just a fashion of say-
ing things wrong at first, and a man
who gets into any such habit isn't to be
trusted. If you or / was wanting to say
that It was raining hard, we'd say so; but
the man who writes poetry would take
about 40 times as many words, and
would contrive to give us his informa-
tion about the weather upside down and
wrong end flrst. Still, rin ready to ad-
mit that Sam Bartlett was honest and
straightforward when ho wasn't fooling
with his poetry, and there isn't any
doubt that he had read a powerful sight
of books and knee" sin end of useful
things.
"Then, again, he was an amiable sorb
of fellow—the kind of man ,who can
never altogether make tip his mind
whether he'll bo Inan and act accord-
ingly, or whether he'll pass his time itt
showing that he Is sorry that he wasn't
born ft woman.
"X suppose he was find of Miranda,
1413 MY. WA gleall1.01 ti10.0Vatillit
was done by bier. .e.the was in love W4tr.
Sam from head to foot. If anyboay ven-
tured to say the least thing eefiectiag on
hien Miranda was ready to fight theni.
and there. Of course, I don't mean that
ohs carried.a gun and was in the habit,
of drawing on people; but whet I mean
to say is that she would show every sign
of being fighting mad. She always treat-
ed Stun as if she was the nian and he
was the woman. To see them together
you would have said that she was Sam's
doting mother, instead of his young wo-
man. Well, it wasn't any business of
mine.
"I suppose there's many different ways
of loving. There was old Smedley's wife
—Smedley the carpenter—who built the
;major portion of this identical hotel.
Well, his wife was as fond of him as a
woman could be of any man; but she
used occasionally to knock him flat with
the frying pan, and Smedley always
maintained that it was only her way of
showing her affection. I never fell in
love myself, and don't pretend to know
much about the business; but I loust say
that when a wainan's affections takes
the shape of a frying pan, and hits you
on top of the head, knocking you sense-
less for, say, half an hour at a time, I
can get along without it. Then, again,
there was Den. Bradford's wife—one of
the meekest little women that ever lived.
Dea Bradford was ono of our leading
men, being a direct descendant of Gov.
Bradford, who carne over in the May-
flower, which most people seem to think
was a mighty smart performance, though
I caif't see it in that light.
"My own idea is that the people who
came over in the Mayflower had to come,
for the reason that nobody could endure
them any longer on the other side of the
Atlantic. As for their descendants, they
make enc tired. Why, there was a meet-
ing of descendants of the Mayflower gang
held in'this very hotel two years ago,
and if I had to go through with another
such experience I'd close the hotel and
go out of the business. If you are a
Mayflower descendant 1 hopo you won't
take any offence, for I don't mean any,
and, of course, there are exceptions to all
general rules.
"For instance, a nigger, as a rule, will
steal chickens. Everybody knows that to
be a fact, and yet 1 onoe had a nigger in
1 fte Wee to piny; thelittain attt neing eif
I a IIIISsIOilat7 society that was due tit half -
past He got the hUeight and alayed
the cagey, but he didn't give general
satisfaction.
"He kept bursting out with tuns
every time a, man rose up to speak, and
the noise that organ made was so tre-
mendous that folks thought there must
be a riot in progress ana came rushing
into the church. from all over the tow.
They bad to get the constable to remove
Sam before the meeting could get a
chance to lime itself think, ud 1 needn't
say that Sam was never allowed, to piety
the organ in that church again.
"When Sam woke up the next morn-
ing with a head about the size of Daniel
Webster's and. Abraham. Lincoln's rolled,
into one, he found a letter from Miranda
waiting for him, in which she gave him
particular 'Hail Columbia!' I never saw
the letter, but knowing Miranda, I can
gums pretty well what was in it. Anyt,
way, she told him that, after his dis-
graceful conduct, she would never see
him again, and that if he dared to write
to her he would get himself into the big-
gest kind of trouble. Sam knew that it
was all up,' for Miranda was the sort of
girl who bad rather lose $5 any day than
go back on her word.
"After getting that letter and losing
his place as organist, and ruining his
reputation, Sam sort of wilted generally,
and the first thing wo knew an Irish
widow had gathered him in, and made
him marry her, and help her keep a
boarding house for the hands in Macdon-
ald's big carriage factory,
"Now, Miranda; seeing what she had
driven Sam to, and knowing perfectly
well that his disgraceful conduct, at her
father's birthday' party was wenn en-
tirely to Sam's want of experience, began
to feel sorry for what she had done. A
little while after Sam's marriage the old
judge met with his last accident, and, I
suppose, it sort of softened Miranda; for
when a person loses a beloved. relativea„
no matter if that relative has been in the
habit of having the; delirium tremens
once a year regular, and mistaking his
daughter for a blue. monkey or some
other style of animal, and trying to cut
her throat, naturally that person feels
more kindly toward., other people than
usual. 1 ain't saying that I'm built' that
way, for 1 never lost but one relative of
any consequence, seeing that both my
parents were cut oft by a railroad acci-
dent when I was too young to appreciate
the circumstances, and, when. that partici:
ular relative, who was my uncle on my
mother's side, and who was as rich as
Creasote, died of typhoikt fever, as the
doctor said, though 1 always considered
that what really killed the old man was
the defeat of the Democratic party in
1880, for then he was the worst kind of
a Democrat, being that ignorant that he
could. hardly reacl and write, and was
calculating on being made judge of the
supreme court in case the Democrats car-
ried the election.
"My uncle hadn't a relative in the
world, excepting myself, and, of course,
I supposed that all his money would
come to Ine; but after I had given him a
funeral that cost me $300, and was cal-
culated to make every corpse in the
churchyard green with envy if they were
capable of knowing what was going on,
the lawyer produced a will in which all
my uncle's property was left to a lot of
hospitals and such. His death never soft-
ened me a particle. On the contrary, they
do say that for the next fortnight after
We have Xmas stock of Fancy China and
Crockery all ready for you, now, and it is bigger
and better than ever.
ts
6.95
The biggest value in Wingham or anywhere
else. Come quick, they are going.
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YOU 04N ALSO BUY
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. . Lemons, Oranges, Fi0,Raisins,
Nuts and 'Candies, ,
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in any quantity, good gdcds, and as cheap as the cheapest.
9 • •
N. A. Farquharson
The China House Grocery, Wingham.
married emiples 'Working throrigh- their
honeymoon here.
"The next night after Sam and Mir-
anda came, she walked into my office,
and said she wanted to talk confidential
to rne. Thenshe told me that she and
--n-naz ma you say?" I asked, for the
landlord had suddenly became silent.
"What did I say:) Why, I told Miramla
that she and Sam should stop with me
forever, if they wanted to,and that Id
lose every guest in the hotel sooner then
that will was opened,any man that want- Sam were not married, and that she had inconvenience her. And so I woeld,
ed a difficulty had only to mention the eloped with him. I was, clean knocked b'gosh! And I said so last right to th
word 'fanerar in My presence. But, over with astonishment that I just sat three spies that somehow had got
then, you—" with my mouth wide open, not being of the fact that Sasn and Miranda
"For heaven's lake get on with the able to find any words that would do jus- eloped, and said tbat eithee 'thoee,. tea -
story of the elopement!" I interrupted. bee to nay feelings, though I'ni consid- tures'—that what they called Miranda
prettygoodOW ofang- ; and Sam—should leave the hotel, or they
"I've got to sail for England, in Aix ered to have afl 1
weeks snore, and I'd like to hear the end nage. . Would leave for good and. 811. Hos'i i
of your story before that time." 1 "Then Miranda told me all about it. Hue they min& Yes Sir' There ain't:
"All right," said the landlord. "I'll She said that Sanieliad been a good hus- nothing better for rheumatism than syrup
try to get through before you leave. I band to that Irishwoman for going on to of wild turnip, and I'm surprised to hear
showed signs of being sorry for having aoteeethan a hell on earth. you say that they never us) it in Ems—
land."
think I =A telling you that Miranda 20 years; "but that'. his life wasn't any
shook poor Sani. The way she showed it " 'I did my level best " said Miranda, The slanting rays of the setteng• sten
was by making acquaintance with Mrs. 'to make them do their duty to one an- • fell on the lovers es they crossed the
Sam, and trying to smooth things be- other, but it wasn't teny use; and I could veranda.
tween inan and wife. You see, Sam's see that Sam was dean brokenhearted, They were on their way to the pine
wife used to take more whiskey than was and that the time was drawing near when grove that stood. just behind the hotel.
good for her, she being a woman, and he'd give up trying to live. Now, you Sam was leaning on Miranda's ;inn, and
not having its sound a judgment as a know what a good man Sam always has she was shading his head. with her ea:m-
inim would have had. been. Ho's the only man lever loved,and solHe walkeeslowly, and with the MI -
"And then, being what you might cell it was all imer fault that he took up with, certain tread of an old and failing man.
a violent woman at all times, she made the Irishwoman If I'd been reasonable ' She walked with heed eeect, as though
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my employ who wouldn't steal ti chicken 1 the house considerably warm foe Stun and married him, ho would have had a '
under any consideration. He stole nothing 1 when she wasn't quite sober, She didn't happy life; but 1 ruined. him by Iny silly
but ducks and turkeys. Now, you'll actually take a club te him, and she and wicked conduct in breaking off o'er
admit that was strange!" never, so fax a% I know, threw anything engagement. I went round to his house
"You Were saying," I remarked, with- • at him that was calculated. to do damage one night, and there was Sam, sitting in
out answering the landlord's question, : to the furniture or anything else that it ai chair and looking at his wife, who was
"that Miss Smith was engaged ta Mn, ' might strike; but she used to abuse him tying dead drunk on the floor with a
Bartlett. Did she marry hire,"
with her tongue till his life wee a burden
'Not a air of it. They Were just on the to him. Mirancla did her level best to over Sam's face and I hadn't any—need
whip in her hand. There was a big welt
,
point ;:t leeing married when Judge ; exercise a good Influence over the woman, to ask how it mono there. I went up to
Snifth hitt a birthday, and celebrated it and to melee bee appreciate Sam's good him and put my arms around Itis neck.
in hie usual style. He was living at the qualitiee, and to go easy with him; but 1 said
time, that there teftfoetenete difficulty it wasn't much use. in course of time " 'Sam, we haven't but a, few more
with We peatineateri that I thiPli 1 1ton- Sam and l‘lirandt got to he friendly again. years to live, and I ain't going to have
tioned, not taking plage fill the following ' "I don't Mean to say for a single min- you die without ever knowing what it is
Deeenther, The judge was it matter hand tile that either of them ever said a thing to be happy. You jute; go upstairs and
pe: making punch and on his birthdays that a married man and a woman that pack your trunk, and in an hour's time
he used to have about half a dozen of his wasn't his wife ought not to say; but it I'll come to take you to the railroad de -
most intbnate friends up to his house to was a great comfort to Sam to know that pot. We'll go to some place where that
drink punch in the evening, Considering Miranda felt kindly to him, and she en- 'armen can't find you, and I'll take care
that Sam was pretty near a member of joyed herself considerable in thinking of you evory minute for the rest of your
his family, the jeelge insisted on his com- that she was helping to make Sam a life, You put yore! trust in me, and we'll
Ing to the birthday celebration, and little less miserable than he would have eiee if I can't net.' up for all the years
naturally Sam came. been without her. that you've had to spend with that wo-
"Now, Samhad never drunk a drop of "Things were going on in this way an.
punch in his life being as I Iwo already when I got a first claw; offer eoemy hotel, " 'I wrnteil to st; "that iletul " but I
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said, altogether too correct in his habits; an , si ng , co, me , knew that Stan didn t like to hare any
but he didn't dare to refuse the judge's have lived since, a lest sight of Sam and ow use language about his wife.
purieh, and finding it particularly good Miranda, and heti pretty near forgettan « *Inner° a pretty sharp man and etan;
he drank a middling fair lot of it, arid, all Omit then when ono day they drove use. your eyes; ee there'e no teed for .lie
consequently', it collared him. That's The up to this identical front door, and said to tell you that Sam's mind ain't what
danger of never drinking anything. 14 ow , they bad come to epend the summer with it once was, and that he's got consider-
you and It Who are iwOugt6med to: take met I 1)..xed them up as eomfortable as I
cur whiskey when wo 'want it, knOW lust could, oesel you never SAN' two people ae . able distance into his seemed childhood.
hew it wig not, and know when we've hantl, as they were from the first minute That don't melte nay ditfeeenee te leo.
had enough, But Sam had never had any they landed here, I could see that old age / love. him just the same, am: I'll never
experience, and that was the reason why and trouble, embined with a naturally leave him as knig as the breath is in Its
he found himself pretty considerably weak head., had told on Stun, and that body, He's perfeet]y happy with see end,
drunk long 'before the judge ot, any of he was nothing more o1 less than a feeble ;I you li sey that I've toseeace
his friends bad laid ill half the cargo old num, inetelf, and that I ain't fit to Ftay in
that they Were entitled to cetery. "But Miranda took as Much ente of &teed hotel, I'm not a bit a hamed o
"Itnewitig that soteething was wrong him as if he had been a baby, rand allwhat T 1
....ve Lone; for I did tias wholo oi
with him, Hain managed to, get away day long she was walking .with him or it, awl e'en een't Wens', Sam any mote
front the judge's about 8 o'cloek, and reading to him, or sittingandet the trees teen you could a baby. id tin I -I.,. in,
went straight, or pothers 1 should say, tmleing his hend and talking to Min, thine ugat't ,..-.1,titp v i"
to .tlie $tetltalPreAlAterian ohm% when my hoose hofoi..e, though in the seneon . 1.''.:1.: tstf;;;
considering his condition, went crooked, Such a pale of lovers I bad never had in
and 1 MUM to on,. ti. v ‘nt• re eaulleg tt
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it alre„ay •
Weltallertellef hata half it,...Aatift.tivolti : turn us out ot the how •;)
d afterit, here, where I •
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defying the judgment of tee world, eerept
when she spoke to her companion, what:
the unutterable tenderness of. a sia thee
to a dying child was shown in her faete.
The lovers passed into the slettielvoe
the pine trees, MA as 1 gleneea ae tee
landlord I saw that his eyes were melee.
Steel Frames for relte4.
In comparison with the number of new
buildings erected for varions ethey• teas,
the number built for chat& purpreas
extreineleasinall, but among these a vete
siderablenumber are now built: wite th •
steel fraine construction se ceenet, n]y
used itt"the business build nee, neat OP
proportion of churches so a :I.:steer:',: le
increasing. In crowded ;Cities on 1,-,1;! it
which the space is limited it nvet a or •
as it does in any bantling on eeeetet
the less thickness of wall regales; teeas.
in large inteelors, where bailey a -T.,:
umns might otherwise be ue, titt rig tie ;
arches or domes or roof tats -es it pe ••
snits the use de much smaller t.uiut •
With a lessened obstruction to the view
Tho Way to Iden tifs, flim.
.A. certain farmer, who is by no reeene
noted for his resembIcance t Ap Ie, has
a son of 7 who possesses snore el it than
reverence. One day a stranger tame to
the farm, and, seeing the lad, asked:—
"Sonny, where's your father?"
"In the pigpen," was the reply.
"In the pigpen? Thanks."
na the man moved in the direc-
tion indicated, the boy shoutede—
"/ say! You'll know hint,
got a hat on !"—London Tit -Tilts.
Mr. W. C. Macdonald has made an.
other gift of about $300,000 to McGill
UnirrNit17. Mr. Mardongld'a tittal
contributions to McGill mutant to
about 42,500,000.