HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1897-12-24, Page 7nIE W ING AM TIMES, DE JMJ3ER 24,1 1897.
SALE!
As W. WALLACE is leaving Wngham, his entire
of cost, consisting of .
St tiouery, School Books,
usical Instruments; Etc., Etc.,
Gold and Silver Watches,
Clocks, Silverware, Fancy Goods
Wall Paper, Window Blinds;
PRICES THAT Mi. AS
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he Incie to p1U the'eterein at a Meeting tir
a miselontvey seviety that was (bleat half -
past M. He got there 411 right and played
the orgau, bet he didn't ghee general
Hatisfaction.
"lie kept bureting out with tunes
every time a AMU rose up to speak, and
the noise that organ made was so tre-
inendous that folks thought there must
be a riot in progress and came rushing
into the thumb, from all Over the town.
They bad to get the Constable to remove
-
Sam before the meeting maid get A
chance to hear itself think, and I needn't
say than Sani was never allowed to play
the organ in that church. again.
"'When Sam woke tip the next morn- •
Ing with a head about the size of Daniel
Webster's and .A.braheen Lincoln's rolled,
iato one, ho found. a letter from 31firan4a,
waiting for him, in which she gave him
particular 'Hail Columbia!' 1 never saw
the letter, but knowing Miranda, I can
guess pretty well what was in it. Any-
way, the told hixn 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 had rather lose $6 any day than
go back on her word..
"After getting that letter and losing
his place as organist, and =being 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
hoarding house for the hands in Macdon-
uldee 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 owing en-
tirely to Sam's want of experience, began
to feel sorry for what she had clone. ,A
little while after Sam's marriage the old
I judge met with his last accident, and, I,
suppose, it sort of sottened niranda; for
when a person loses a, beloved relativee
e. no matter if that relative has beevi in the'
habit, of having tlae delirium tremens
once a year regular, and minealting his
daughter for a blue monkey or scone
other style of animal, and trying to cut
her throat, naturally that person feels
more kindly toward other people than
usual. I ain't saying that I'm built that
way, for I never lost but one reletive of
any consequence, seeing that bothe my
parents were cut off by a rallenad acci-
"I don't claim," eontinned the Ian - dent wheal was too young to appreciate
lord, "that the Blue Mountain Mansion zens, -who wouldn t have ee the circumstances, and when, that partio-
House is the biggest hetet in the United office u week longer if he had crawflsbed ed Sam as if she was the inan a
States; and I don't beofess to keep a and made no attempt to defend, his ' was the weinan. To see them together ular relative, who was my uncle on my
brass band to play while folks are eating honor, for naturally the judge drew just you would have said that she as Sam's leother's side, and who was as rich as
their dinners and to keep them from as soon as he had freed his mind about doting mother, instead of his young wo- Creasote, died of typhoid fever, as the
digesting their toed. There, is nothing the postmaster, and if the latter hadn't man. Well, it wasn't any business of doctor said, though 1 always considered
that what really killed the old man was
as listening to a brass band while he's be would have been shot before ho could i "I suppose there's many different ways the defeat of the Democratic party in
1 of loving. There was old Smedley's wife 1880, for then he was the worst kind. of
that will give a man dyspepsia so quick been particulaely, spry with his weapon mine.
you that inusic is a sight more indigesti- • "1 thought that perhaps you might —Smedley the carpenter—who built the a Democrat, being that ignorant that he
eating. Any intelligent doctor will ten get out his gun. .
ble than fried solerleather; and as I cal- have heard of Judge Smith over in Eng- -major portion of this identical hotel. could hardly read and write, and was
ciliate to look alter the health of my land, for he was a powerful enemy of Well, his wife was as fond of him as a oalculating on being made judge of the
guests, I don't a ow any music at meal your conntrY, and was everlastingly : woman could be of any man; but she supreme court in case the Democrats car -
times. But as a moderate sized hotel 3nal:ing speecbes denouncing the atm- I used occasionally to knock him flat with ried the election.
Without a brass band, I'm prepared to Mem conduct of England, just in a gen- j the frying pan, and Smedley always "My uncle hadn't a relative in the
" inabatained that it was only her way of world, excepting myself, and, of course,
resort in the counta7 for general hcalthi- T.• The landlord paused for breath:, said. 1 showing her affection. I .never fellen I supposed that all his money would
back my hotel against any other sainmer Oral way."
mess, good cooking, ilrst-class liquors and • seized the occasion to remind him that love myself, and don't pretend to know come to ine•, but after I had given him a
elevated moral tone. You've been here a he bad promised to tell me the story of , lunch about the business; but I must say funeral that cost me $800, and was cal-
: that when a weinan's affections takes culated to make every corpse in the
"Speaking of Miranda Smith," con- ! the shape of a frying pan, and. hits you churoliyard green with envy if they were
"Of course, I do," repied 1. "Th is so tinned any friend "while she wits as`good on to of the head, knocking you sense- capable of knowing what was going on,
fortnight, and I reckon that you'll agree , an elopement.
quiet hero that 1 can't tell a week day a girl as ever stepped, there is no deny- less for, say, half an hour at a thno, 1 the lawyer produced a will in which all
1 's roperty was left to a lot of
with me."
from Sunday." ing that she had 0 teMper of her own, can get along without it. Then, again,
"Just so 1" exclaimed the landlord. and a wily of saying things that wasn't there was Dea. Bradford's wife—one of
"I've always said that tbere's a sort of Calculated to please the general public. 1 the meekest, little women that ever lived.
holy Sabbath calm about this place. 1 She might have lied the pick of all the Dea Bradford was ono of our leading
suppose that it would astonish you some young mon in town, but she made the lnen, being a direct descendant of Gov.
If 1 were to, tell you that three ladies that majority of them mad by saying things 13radford, who carne over in the 131ay-
have been in the habit of epencling eve* that no human young man would allow flower, will& most people seem to think
summer more for the last nine years left to pass without shooting, if they were was n mighty smart performance, though
me this morning on the ground that 3ny saki. by anybody but a woman,andthe : 1 °tort see it in that light.,
hong) gin't moral enough for a, respect- balance of the young men were actually i "My own idea, is that the people who
: dine over in the Mayflower had to come,
"1 can't imagine what they could find "There was a young chap in particu- for the reason that nobody could endure
able woman," afraid to make her acquaintance.
to offend their sense of propriety in your her, who played the organ in the Second them any longer on the other side of the
hotel," 1 said. Presbyterian Chureh—Sara Bartlett was Atlantic. As for their descendants, they
"As yen were saying," said the .land- his name—who, being naturally timid, make isle tired. Why, there was a meet -
lord, in an unnecessarily loud tone, "the and having had what little courage he ' ing of elescendants of the Mayflower gang
Eepublicans ain't as sound on the hard was born with pretty near blowed out of held in this very hotel two years age,
money question m they might to be," • him by the organ, was that afraid of and if I had to: go through with another
Just then ell old man, white-haired Miranda that he would go a mile out of suoh experience I'd. close the hotel and
and feeble, crossed the veranda, leaning his way to avoid meeting her in the go out of the 'business. if you are a
on the arm of a lady of at least 60 years, street, What it was that Miranda saw in Mayflower descendant I hope you won't
whose wonderfully peaceful and happy him 1 neveir could tell; but she made a tato any offence, for I don't mean any,
face I riad often noticed. When they had dead set at him, and, after making his and, of course, there are exceptions to all
disappeared into the interior of the hotel, acquaintance, and taming him, so to general rules.
the landlord said, in a lower tone:— speak, she actuelly promised to marry "For instance, a nigger, as a rule, will
"Excuse me, but I didn't want those him, send the tem used to walk out arm steal chickens. Everybody knoeve that to
folks to think that we were talking in arm, to all appearances as sweet on be a. fact, and yet I once had a nigger in
about the hotel, for It was on account of • brie another as any two young idiots that rne' employ who wouldn't steal tt, chicken
them that the three ladies I teld you of Yon ever knew. under any consideration. He stole nothing
left me." aEeeeyboey was astonished at the news but ;leeks and turkeys. Now, you'll
I was certainly very muth astonished, d 31' - mia admit that WAS strange1"
and -promptly said. so; for a more in- with- offensive couple than the old man and
his sweet-faced wife I had never seen.
The landlord seemed to take counsel with
himself in silence for a moment, and
then he said:-
- ilSeeing es it i you, and seeing as it
alevitye 4opio nip good to talk when I'm
ilec11 I'll. Nit tell you the whole story,
That there old. gentleman and the lady
that 9 With hem are a runaway couple
and. sioniehow iny three old patrons found
9 out, and wouldn't Convent to stay any
longer Oiliest; 1 turned ;those ereatures'
out, as they called. them, NOW, I don't
allove no woman. and no three WOMOT1 to
dictate to inc how to run a hotel.
"Besides, the old. couple aro friends of
Inine—leastwaye. the lady is—and 1
Wouldn't laud her feelings to please the
whole b'iling of guests. 1 said so pretty
plain, and consequently my three ladies
packed up and left, and a nice reputation
they'll give Ito among their friends. How
did. these old people mine to elope? Well,
• that's what lem. going to tell you. It
ain't a very long story, but in case you
get tired, just say so, and I'll shut up.
"I've ottly been in this place a little
Moro than nine years. Ilefore that time 1
ept the Grand Eastern. Hotel, in East
-teripineule, eihere X as born and raisee.
Vert, rare Tip the loaded girl hi the
Whole teVele of Yaplanik was Miranda
Smith, and. she Weft eianilarly the richest
and the modest, Her Mother was dead,
and her father was •Attige Smith, who
perhaps you have heard about. Ile WM a
very distipguished man having been'
justice of the peace for 88' years-, and beg-
ing had. the delirium tremene 18 times.
"He died, accidently in the prime of
WA, itt.itatilgtOntie Of having as,11,x1 Out
ock must be cleared out regardless
t
Ladies' Gold.tillecl Watohos guaranteed for 15 years,
Cathedral (Ong halt hour strike ()Woke, regular price $3.50,
forS0 a roll ; regular 8o Glimmers for 0c1 reg,ular 10o Gain
45o, now 30c, Preebyteruur Hymnals at cost.
SCITOQT., BOOX$ at 20 Per Co.
WATCHES 01_,BAIIET) and guaranteed teyear,
A othe
Panay Goods, Toys and colored Cases of kind
NISH YOU,
althea/. am
ow e5.50 ; Pickle
ers for 7c ; regular
ent, regular 617.50, now $12,00., Eight day
lobes from 75c up ; regular 5et Wall Paper
t4c Gilts for 70; Window Blinds, raga-
scount, and everything els
50o.
work halt price.
Everything that is found in a lirat-oiass ram Goode Store,
n. proportion.
'Yuaraziteed a year, 500.
MISS AiiIAL AGE IS LEAVING TOWN
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the end ot the year, and the balance ot her Mx inery and Fancy Goods Stook 3111,1ST TIE CI.MAHD OUT.
alking Hate 50o to 0. ; Sailor Hate 40o to 81.; Trimmed Hats from 75e upward; Embroidery Washing Silks 30 a
skein ; Stamped Lisiens prioe ; L4pe worth 15o for 50.
Come early and secure your chola-as this stook must be sold without reserve.
3.11 0
We have Xmas stock. of Fancy China and
Crockery all ready for you now, and it is bigger
and. better than ever.
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SUNSET
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postmester liae beetle:901a pos•ti• naste-r, was done by bar. She was in love eNeett,
who was a kinci.hearted man, had told . Sam from head to foot, If anyboay von -
the judge that he was too drunk toeite on . tared to say the least thing eefleoting on
-the street alone, -which was strictly true, I him Miranda, was ready to fight then t
though, of course, the judge resented it, j and there. Of conrse I don't mean that
and of course the postmaster had to shoot • elie carriecl l, gun and was in the habit'
when he heard himself called a liar in of drawing on people; but what I mean
the presence of a drowd of leading chi- to say is that she would show every sign
' • of being fighting naw She always treat -
ts
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hospitals and such. His death never soft-
ened me a particle. On the contrary, they
do say that for the next fortnight after
that will was opened,any man that want-
diffi lty had only to mention the
A u
Lemons, Oranges, Figs,,Raisins,
Nuts and'Cit4ndies,
in any quantity, good pods, and as cheap as the cheapest.
A. Farquharson,
The China
House Grocery, Wingham.
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1 mingled. coddles • aeorleirig through- tliefr - inner, tun you say" I asked, for the
honeymoon here. landlord had suddenly betaine silent.
1' The isext night after Sam and Mir- "What did I say? Why, I told liirtuale
that she and Sam should stop -with me
forever, if they wanted to, and that I'd
lose every guest in the hotel sooner thee
inconvenience her. •And so I would,
b'gosle! And I said so last right to th
three lefties that somehow had got
f the fad that Sam and Miranda
sada came, she walked into my office,
Iand said. she wanted to talk confidential
to inc. Then she told me that she and
, Sam were not married, and that she had
j eloped with him, wag clean knocked
-word 'funeral' in tay presence. But, j over with astonishment that I justsa
then, you—" 1 with rny mouth wide open, not being
"For heaven's -sake get en with the 7 able to find any words that would do jue- eloped, and said that eithve 'thole re:1-
story of the elopement!" I interrupted. • tice to my feelings, though I'm consid- tures'—that what the' called. elnernaa,
"I've got to sail for England, in six ered to have a pretty good flow of bang- and Sam—should leave the hotel, or thee.
weeks more, and I'd like to hear the end nage. •
Would leave for good and all. Huse i
Hero they camel Yes Sir. There ain't
of your story before that time." 1 "Then Miranda told, me all about it.
"All right," said the landlord. "I'll She said that Sant:lied been a good hus- • nothing better for theurnatism than syrup
try to get through before you leave. 1 band to that Irishveottian for going on to of wild turnip, and I'm surprised to boar
think 1 was telling you that Miranda 20 years; lint that his life wasn't any yon say that they never us) it in En -
showed
g better than a hell on earth. land.'
shook poor Stun, Tho way she showed it • " 'I did my level best" said Miranda, The slanting rays of the settrag Sun
signs of being sorry for haring
was by making acquaintance with Mrs. 'to make them do their duty to one an- fell on the lovers as they crossed the
Sam, and trying to smooth things be- other, but it vaisn'tleny use; and I could veranda.
tween inan and wife. 'You see, Sam's see that Sara was dean brokenhearted', They were on their way to the pint.
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 arm, and
not having hs sound a judgment as a know what a good man Sam always has she was shading his head with her ram -
man would have had. been. He's the only non I ever loved,and sol. He walked slowly, and with the iii.
"And then, being what you might del it was all my fault that he took up with certain tread of an old end failing man.
a violent woman at all times, she made the Irishwoman. If I'd been reasonable She walked with heed etact, as though
the house considerably warm for Sam and married him he would have had a defying the judgment of tee world, eerept
when she wasn't quite sober, She didn't happy life; but ?ruined him by my- silly When she spoke to her companion. alien
actually take a club to him, and the and -wicked conduct in breaking off Mir the unutterable tendernese of a rather
never, so far ag ; know, threw anything -engagement. I went round to his house to a d7ing child was shown in her fame e
h el. calculated to dc clarnaga one night, and there was Sam, sitting itt
the, pine trees, and as I gleneed. at, tee
The lovers passed into the elenioneof
(1.
Not that there was anything against the "Yen *Were saying, I Tema , at
a ciliate and looking at his wife, who wa
too correct in his habits. Ho WAS ratila "that Miss Smith was engaged eo Mn ! might strike; but she used to abuse blen Ifying dead, drunk on the floor with a,
whip in her hand. There was a big welt landlord I saw that his eyes we,e ni ea
of the engagement o Sam
young man, except that be was a little out answering the landlord's question, , eo the futuiture or anything else that it
small and insignificant-lookig, and you 13artlett. Did the emery. hieur with her tongue till his life wae a benden
over Sam's face, and I hadn't any- -need steel Oranics far t herehr4,
-
would ha,ve said that he hadn't as much • • t'Not a hV of 9.. They Were eyed OZI. the to hire. Miranda did her level best to
this would haVe been a miStake. The Sinith haa birthday, l celebrated it and to nolo heappreciate ain's goodto In comparison evith the inlinhee of new
Dauscle as an ordinary school girl. But Point P$, li.Oiog ne4reitid when :laicize exercise a good enfluence over the woman, to ask how it came there. I went. up
him and put my arms around his neck. buildings erected for various . thee age,
way he yanked the sound out of that in hist usnal style. • Ha Wits eieing at the nualitiee, end to go easy -with him; but the number built for chwele purenses 9
d Mur S
cinirch Organ, tile he Made tho whole time, that them unfortunate ditlicelIty 9 evalet't much use. in course of time I s,a;idstErm,
years to live, and I ain't going to have
we haven't but a few more extreinely.small, but among Nese a cot,
sidereble,number are now built wit e i le-
e . lelecetnheee The judge WM a Mader hand ute thee either of them ever said a thing ytootii3ediheavp_i_thout ever knowing what it is steel frerne construction se centat, nly
py You juet, go upstairs and need lef the business builtialge, met the
building shiver:•sts ef 9 had an attack of With, the retinas -ten that ; think 1 lean- Sam and 311ratela got to be frionale again.
tiiiiie and feyert showed that he had con. timed, not taking Plage tili the following , 'te don't mean to say for a single min-
eiddeble strength concealed about him. at Malting Melt, end op his birthdays that a married Mat and a woman that
he need. to have about half a dozen of his Wasn't his wife ought not to say; but it pack your trunk, anti in an hour's time proportion. of churches to owe-trio:ea le
I'll come to take you to the railroad de- icreasing. In erowded &tics' on lot- l''
I never took tp him very Much for he pot. We'll go to some plctce where that which the epace is limited it eeven 1. 44'
WW1 to write poetry for the weekly newe. Meet intimate friends up to his house to VMS a ,great comfort to Sam te know that
drink nttnch in the evening. Considering Miranda felt kindly to him, and she en- velem mane find you, and I'll take care ea it does in any building on ereenet g
never could get onveith. that Sam was peaty near a member of joeed herself considerable in thinking of
Itis family, the jedge insiseed on his corn - that she was helping to make Sam a life, You put yor • trust tunic, and NVe'll
you every minute for the rest of your the less thickeiess of wall retire-- i
in large Interiors, where betiee
paper, and- poetry is something that I
"Inen you come to look at it, what A little loss miserable than he would have isee If 1 tan't mig,. up for all the years -mans -might otherwise be un.. i to eel en •
ing things evong at first, log a man naturally Sam came. been without her. that you've had to spend with thM WO- arches or tionom or roof t-us-ees it ee
poetry/ Ma, it is just a fashion of say. ing to the birthday celebration, and
who gets into any such habit isn't to be "Now, Sean had never drunk a drop of "Things were going on in this way snits the use di much smaller teluntie
that it Was raining hard, we'd eay so; but said, altogether too correct in his habits; and, after selling it, came here, where I knew that Seen didn't like to have any
" 'I wanted to say 'that fiend," but I With a lessened obstruction to the VieW
The Way to rdentirr max.
trusted. If you or I was wanting to say punch in his life, being, as I have already when I gat a first class offer i0Dany hotel, man.
about 40 times as many words, and Imtkeill and finding it particularly good Miranda, and had pretty near forg,otten ,.< ...4uutre a p.:,,,Atz, 41(013 tutu tad or t A. certain farmer, who le by no /mete
tho man Who writes poetry Would take but he didn't date to refuse the judge's love lived since, I led sight of Saul cuul one nee iangeage about me wife.
Would contrive to give us his inform,- he drank a middling fair lot of it, an4, all ;dont them, when one day they drove use your eyes; 640 taeree no ne,,.6. /or le noted. for.,his resemblcance ti Ap 110 has
tion about the weather upside down and consegnetitly, it collared hint frilp,,s the up to this identical front dem aud mid tel tell you that Sam's mind ain't what a son of ( who possesses more mit ithal.
wroug end got. Still, Pin ready to ad- danger et never drinking enething. rim they had ono to sleeted the scumner -with it enoe was, and that Inset got coneldere' revel'enee'
1 the earm, and, seeing the lad, etre:eget asked:—
One day a value te
mit that Sane Bartlett Wee honest ancl leu and I, who are accustomed to, take me. I Axed them Itp as mores:table as I "Sonny, where's your father?"
straightforward when he wasn't feeling ' hi key when we want it, know end could, alld you never seiv teen people as able distance into hie Wenntl childhooci. a
doubt that he lied rend a pciNvotai eight Tbat don't inake caev lee t Iie the DigPen," was the relelY.
.. ' 1 "In the pigpen? Thanks."
And all the man moved. in the direct -
with his poetry, and there len't any 1 - kr from the first minute CI AMOCO ':i 'Pie
Of hOOICA and I:new no ' oral. Of useful
things.
"Them again, he was an amiable tort
of fellow...the kind of enett .Who can
never altogether nolo up Ms mind
whether be a Mau and set itecord-
ingly, et whether he'll pass his tilne in
Showing that he is sem that he wasn't
born. a woman,
"I suppose he, Was tend of Miranda,
but UtY. tritA tbatMizot_Pt tio .0outing
had enough, 3319 ani had never had any they landed itere. I could seethat old ago I love him just the saute, and i 11 never
ho 9 WM liet, end know when we 'le umpy .
eperience, and that was the reason why and, trouble, coinbitted with a naturally leave him as long as the, breath is in Ids
he found himself pretty considerably weak head, had told on Sam, and that body, He's perfectly happy it 11 .,,e,
drunk long before the judge or any of ho was nothing, more or lessen -In a feeble ,...„,„ „ you ii eg5 tent rye 40,,,v1,,,
menelf. and tient I ain't At to $,tay in •
his friends had laid in half the -cargo old"Bmilettn.liiranda took as Mach tare ot eeeent hoto, rm. nd a bit it lament o
"Iinowing that eernething was wrong him as If he hita been a, baby, and all 1 T 1
weet I've gone; for 1 did the when) 43:
that they were entitled to carry.
SAM inernaged to. tot away cl8 o'clock, and reading hin
ay long she was walking with him or it, Imit ;v,,,,! ma 1,ht:i,1„, so,,,, 1107r„,,,
from the judge's about to t, or sitting under the trees than yffit ronla a bahte. rd to rem ,111.1
to. tb,9 W011(1, probterio. Church, where
with him, my house before, though in, the season and e w am „, ,it„,, 4„. ,,,,,, re going ts
Went straight, or perhaps I Should say, holdin,q his haul raul tilleine, to him. thin,„ „gain ,„ .1"
st--11.11ver" turn us put of the hckel.'1'
WO .4;0:Metall, have hat
considering his conditions went erooked, Such ft. /Mir Of 10V011i I 'had never luta in it „ir,..„,*.•
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time. Indicated, the boy ehoutecle---
"I say! Yeell know him, lues
-
got a bat onl"—Lontion Tit-Illie.
Mr. W, a 'Macdonald has roads Yin.
other gift of about $300,000 to MeGill
rIliversit:v. Mr. Maetionn!d's
eontributioutt to McGill $tniurtnt
ubtatt,2,600,000,