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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1900-06-15, Page 7Wen•il Islets tar meet it4b Giettuties the world where all ie perfect pe'ic'ei 411141 where we who l:ow Ere through a 1',in;':: darkly shall then %('e face to face, and know why thee. things are tee Si:, months had passed Awe Chortle de Vere Wed. Paul Hamill, Will 'lather, and l'apt::iu Vatic -ton !lad been together on a pilgrimage to 'Paul's old Imitati orheed, whew the p0:.p1(', wiser grown, ',relearned back their old friend and neighbor, and, .strove in various sways to "atone for all which had linen cruel and harsh iu their former dealing toward 111111. The war land loft them destitute, so far ifs negioes and honey were concerned ; lint snc'h ars they had .. they freely offered Paul, entreating him to stay in their midst and rebuild the homestead, whorls blackened ruins bore teetinlou•y to what well's passions will lead them to do when roused and um e&Ittrollee. But Pnul said no ; he could llt'a•rr agate live where there' was `140 nitwit to remind him of the port. A little way out of Nashville Waft a beau- tiful dwelling house, which, with a few Ames of highly cultivated halal, was •offered for sale. 11.o. de had spoken of the place when :she watt in the e:ty, anal had said : "1 sbbuld like to live there." Asad Tom had remembered it ; and 'when he found it for fele, he suggested ,tai lir. Iiavcrill that they buy it ars a -winter residence for 1lnu(le. Ainl so 'what little property Paul Ilaverill had left was he anted in flair Oaks, es the place was called ; and 'rola gave orc101's that the house should he refurni:lleft end ready for himself and bride as early •as the first of November, As far aa was poesible,'Will and Tom 'found and generously rewarded those Who had so kindly befriended them in their perilous journey across the 'mountains. But some were missing, and only 'their Marts remained to tell the story of their wrongs. This trip was made early in June, and early in August the whole Carle- ton family went to New Loddon, -where Mamie .improved so feet that few would have recognized the pale, thin invalid of Andersonville notoriety in the active, rosy-c'heeked, saucy -eyed young man, who became the life of the Pequet IIouse, slid foa: whom the gay belies practised their most bewitching coquetries. Bat these cycle- all lost on Jimmie, 'whom was seldom. many minutes away from the fair, blue-eyed woman -wlto, the girls had learned, urns a widow, end of whom they at first and no fears. But they changed their hinds when da;, after clay sal.w the 'handsome Car- leton" at her side, and night after night :found flim walking with her along the rood,. or sitting on the rocks and watch- ing the tide come in, just as he hod •done years ago, when both were young- -er than they were now. They lived those days over again, and, in their perfect happiness, almost forgot the sorrow and train which had come to ,them both since they first looked out spun the waters of New London bay. • Tole and !Mande were there, too, to- gether with Retie _Mather and •, Will, and Susan Simms and John: • .A. well-timed investment in oil stock, —a lucky turn of the wheel,—and Cep - thin Johan Simms awoke one morning • with one hundred thousand dollars; Ile did not believe it at first, and Susan did not believe .it either. But when John, who, with all his 'good sense, was a lit- tle given, to show, al; as his mother ex- pressed it, "to making a fool of him- self" .brought her a set of diamonds, !handsomer than Rose Mather's, and bought her a new carriage, and took her to Saratoga, with an E iglish nurse for Little Ike, she began to realize that something' had happened to her which brought Rose Mather's envied style of living within her means. She soon grew tired of Saratoga. She was too mush alone in that great 'Crowd, and when she heard that the Carl'etona were at New London she went there with her diamonds and horses, and, 8a- troriized by Rose, who took her at once under her protection,' she made a fe* pleteauit acquaintances, and ever after. talked confidently of her "summer at the sea -side." She did not care to go again, however. She and John were not exactly like people horn to high life," she said, and so she settled quietly down in her pretty home, and made, as the Widow Simms said, "quite a decent woman, tonsiderin` that she was one of then! Itntgglcses." Bill Baker was astir very early one bright Oetober morning,his face indicat- h 1• event was ing tat some important 1 ,pending in which he was to net a part. It wets' a doable wedding at St Luke's, is argued with he will playthat from 8 and Maude and Attila were the brides.. Ther, was a great crowd to witness th" o'olook till 12 for every dance except the ceremony, and Annie's "Boys" whe 1 Virginia reel. she had nursed at Annapolis were the Some of the old dancers were on the ,first to offer thir congratulations to let.•e . :James Carleton, who looked so fnii "`anal floor the other night. Between dances Mare and lovely. while Matltcle, uvltose one of them went up to the old man :beauty _was of a more brilliant, (order, who sat rubbing the rosin on his bow. teemed to sparkle and flush as the hent "Uncle," says the dancer, "all the her stately head in response? to ,the.,. folks down on the floor want you to play greetings given to t s u en her. s fi gnextdance. upon Bill, who had tnrpeci' h:u(k- � Spee � the Plow'for the THE SING -$!NG OF OLD MiSSUS BUGABOO BOO 11Z BUI)2Altl) Ic1PLIN1). Beim; the third of tt Series of ":vot-4o' Stories—w ills Illustrations Omitted. €31h0 was forty-two, and she way bald- headed, and her pride was inordinate; she danced in yellow and sho went to Madame Valsolrairswitchero. She went to. Falsehairswitehero at twelve before breakfast, saying: "Mayo me a switch by five in the afternoon." Up jumped Plalsehairswitchero from 'her bath in 1t salt -cellar and shouted, "Go away!" She was forty-two and sho was .bald- headed, and her pride was inordinate; she danced a deuce on the solo of her shoes and she went to Madame Semi- •readyswitoh at twelve seven after break- fast, saying: "Mahe me a switch by five in the afternoon, make it awfully fetching," Up jumped Senzireadyswitcli from her burrow in spiuninflx and shouted, "Go away." She was forty-two and sho was bald- headed, and her pride was inordinate: She danced down the stops and wont to Madame Switch clo la readywhileyou- waite. She went to Switch de la readywhilo- youwaite at twelve eleven before dinner time, saying: "Make me a switoh by flee in tho ofternoon, make me the cor- reot thing by five." Up jumped Switch de la readywhile- youwaite from her roost and shouted: "Yes Iwill!" Switch do la called Dingo—Yellow Dog Dingo — always hungry, always yellow, and showed hint MissueBugaboo Switch de la said: "Dingo!. wake up, Dingo! do you see that lady dancing? She wants a switch different from all other ladies; she wants to be popular and very truly run after. Dingo we must make her so!" Up jumped Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo —mid said: "What, that jack -rabbit?" Off ran Dingo—Yellow-Dog Dingo— always hungry, weeping like a coal - heaver, and Missus Bugaboo after hint. Off went the proud Missus Bugaboo on her hind legs. Thus, so, kind reader, ends the first part of the tale. She chased him through the back yard. She didn't have to. She chased him up the street, She didn't have to. She chased him till her hind legs ach- ed. She didn't have to. Still ran Dingo—Yellow Dog Dingo. He ran like biases .all over the blasted vicinity. He had to. Then Madame Switch de la whileyou- waite slipped down of her roost and caught Dingo—Yellow Dog Dingo. She cut the hair off his back. She made the switch. She said, "It's five o'clock." Down sat Missus Bugaboo and said: . "Thank goodness that's finished." e a ab • This is the third of Mr. Kipliug's great hair-raising stories which he palls the "Not -So" Stories. No more of these st5ries will be published when Mr. Kip- ling resumes his work. „ 'Where are the Skeptics? In spite of all the evidence published in the daily press and even 1n spite of the testimony of your best friends you may still be skeptical regarding the un- usual virtues of Dr. Chase's Ointment. trial will Nothing short of au actual�� it of prove to you beyond the possibility doubt that Dr, Chase's Ointment is an absolute cure for piles. A single box will be sufficient to make you enthusias- tic as your neighbor in praising Dr. Chase's Ointment, for it is certain to cure you. I A3110100. . Collision. It was at a dance up in Greene. The old lin had been doing handsome work with.the fiddle. "He's great on time," says• everyone in Greene. There's a great deal of sameness to his playing, but for time he beats the Lewiston Brigade band. His favorite tune is "The oirl I Left Aehind Me," and unless he driver,- devolved the honor taking the Give 1 to us." T1IE WINGJIAN TINES, JUNE 15, 1'9OO. Miff bol. and keeps his o )118x11 and=s. 111 the Luro111 drawer. A 111a11 may reihrps have a l:g:tter time if he go'•s 011 a trip alone, but 1.44 health is( 'tetter ff 11e take:; hie ssife Luong.—At(thison Globe. Cold -wet Smith on 1',irty Government. Darty Goverluneut is a pronounced failure 111 CV('ry country in Europe ex- cept (,rent J3litain. 1'lvcn in (treat I3i°it- ain Ilia parties a',ah in a t4tate of disinte- gration, and Mr.eCourtlzopo is proclaim. lug 111 letters to the Times that the enol of the system is come. In the United Stalls the parties aro organizations 1ze1(1 together nudely by the i:tru• gee for spoils; they aro always. changing their platform to suit the vote -catching lteces- siti.es of the hour. As intellect grows more active and political ideas multiply, it beeornes isupossil.l:s to 0:maw people like sheep is a partitsnlar fol:'; t113 part- ies break into sectiana, as they have done notably i(1 Prance. Germany end Italy; confusion ensues, and 110 solid basis for a government canbofound. The failure of party governinrnt which a few years ago. was (decided as e paradox, is now be- ing generally recognized as a patent truth. It is with all - this before their eyes that party managers litre Mr. Greenway denounce us as mugwumps, and threaten us with political excom- munication if we will not allow our- selves to be rolled flat by their machine. --Weekly Sun. party oto and from the chtll`ch, and his "I sh'd like to 'commodnte ye fust horses were covered with. the Federal rate," he said, "but there's suthin fiat!, while conspicuous 113 his button- sing'lar'boat that tune of 'Speed the hole was a small one etude of white p. .1.0 Jest as soon as I. speed the plow snit, ebygirl and presented t him n , whom he chilled "I nt,"%and sho blushed along a little ways I run right into 'The every time she heard °Bill's voice order- Girl 1 Left Behind Me."—Lewiston ing the crowd to stand back and his Journal. horses to "show th eats," as he drove firm the church w 4th the newly marri- The Cynic.* ed people. Their destinntfon nets Nashville, The older people become the excuses where in Malide's benntifel home, SInm- they etre able to find. tmie and Annie Passed a few delightful' Every luau falls heir to something—• weeket, end then returned to Boston to t11e old Carleton house, on Beaton ndually to it bad ease of kin. street, which had been fitted up for Everyone thinks he' works for a man their reception, lire, Carleton, senior, dlvldc, her who is mighty utlappreoiative. time between her three children, Tom, Alter' a man does a olevet thing he Jimmie and Rode, but her home presser flimsily talks about it too much. le with Amnia In Heston, where ,Were is Kw a little "Lulu Graham," six menthe There is a abeam) among cattle known Ola, and where Mose and w111 often go, 68 big 31"t', Many people oath11. .while each smuttier '1;em ?larletost coulee If .you hall) ;tit bad dream about a !man up from Fair Deka(with his beautiful ddn't tell him, Nearly all Ment are Pm). - %founttlins. Mende, the het'olne of the cjatisbeiiand erstitioul. Nearly *well man WO it cellar r acid a i REALITY AND DREAM. I can smell the scented snowflakes Softly falling at my feet; Hear the bees teat sip the honey From the cherry blossoms sweet. I but shut my ,,ves to see them, Orchard, mead.'w, brook and wells I can hear the (Attie coming Down the lane vita, tinkling bell See the clouds go swiftly sailing, • ci Summer zephyrs fragrant blow, Where the sunset and the river Meet and fade in golden glow. There are moss•incrasted pebbles IVitere the robin dips lois wings in the brook whose rippling music Of my boyhood ev•.; sings. Happy boy whose careless whistle Echoes through the vanished year{ Now a dreamer in the gloaming, Looking through a mist of tears. That the light and thht the shadow, Days Like passing vie,,ons seem, Till I whisper in the twilight That the real and thh, the dream. — )o. thoo's Magazine. • TRUE ELOQUEI';CE. '1 TIE WON THE REWARD The 1)nteb settlement of ;awart Noe in south Aflieal was all in a stir of ex- t'.t411tentl 1(11(1 4111 4'v('1'y side there was nothing to he heart! but "Jae spook wren!" (the gla(kit-liotil, 'r last it iiiu:st be killed every one agreed, but bow and by whom was not hoc tally settled. If it was a ghost -lieu, gena tvonid be a 1.131:, traps were equal- ly melt se, and there s otted mashing flint could be (Inns to stop. the pal -t un - lees it wa:a to ftightelt it away, rand how to do that was a (poetical not 0115213• solved. Many of the settler's really thought Unit it was a gle,.'t, and one or tivo 11w had fired, at it and inirs'•d it loudly de elnre.t that if it had been n mortal el( attire their bullets must have brought It Sown. :•1t, whenever people tall(ea1 of the huge reward offered for the killing of the tloehl('sorue lion, thee, fellates would look knowingly at each other, null say; "Wait a fait! '1110 mall w110. wants that reward has got to earn it first." Whenever tivo or three farmers mot, there was sure to be (fatale talk or tate lira and his misdeeds. One malt had lost a fine ox, another a valuable deg, at third had almost been cateu u11.11hn- self, And at hast, early 011e rnorninfe :l Ifottcntet herdsman came into the village with at story that made every on' look grave. IIe and another native had been watching ia0me cantle not far from the village itself, and about midnight he lied lain down to sleep, it being his cone rutl;r's turn to stand can gaud. Pre. steely 11e Wan atwal(Onad by a 8trnalge mese. lie palled out, but the noise had Lee.;seal, and all was silent. He shouted to This comrade, but there was no are awes. 1'lleit a sudden 1tolxoe fell upon him, and he ran away into the bush and c'liatbed al tree, where he remained all night. 'When he returned to the fatal spot, et daybreak, there was ne trace of the lost man but a few shreds of the sheepskin (-Mak .and a 'pool of blood, When this news got abroad„ every one began to look rather uncomfortable, and those who had declared the lion to be a something more them nu ordinary wild beast were seen to nod'tlteir heads meau1iegly, "This won't (lo," cried a sturdy far- mer: "we shall have 'hint canning right into the village next, and eating ns 013 one by one." "Well, if he clods," rejoined a hard - Need old 1)ntclumtn with iron -gray hair, taking a big silver -mouthed pipe out of Isis mouth ars he spoke. "I only hope he'll begin with that black hull of mine." At this there was a general laugh; for Myuheer Van Ripper's bull was well known throughout the entire settlement —and manly people were aim,ost ars much afraid of it as of the lion himself. It was a huge, black. savage brute, with horns loug and sharp enough to have bored a full-grown buffalo; and the stery went that it hod once bunted Mynceer Vail Ripy.er himself right 1cross,,his own pastime load, and finally driven hint np :t trete when he had to sit quaking for more than an hour. with the- bull pawing and bellowing below, till et length some of the Hottentot Servants came to the rescue. "Well, neighbor ]:Inns," said one . of his friends, "why don't you shoot that rascal of a bull of your, and have done e itlh it?" "A1r, it is easy to say 'shoot!' " replied Van hipper. "But while the beast is. alive. look you, he may- always he worth something, and when he is dead he is worth nothing at all. No, 1 will not shoot him just yet." Now, there wax one man there who hacl laid carefully to heart the fate of the poor Hottentot killed by the lion, and that one ons a Bushman, Bltick Kiane by name, who was one of Far- mer Van Ripper's screants. It hap- pened to be his turn to keep watch that night over the herd. in which was the vicious bull, and this herd grazed in the meadow a good way from the village, Just 'the sort of place where the l'on might be expected to slake his appear- ance. I3nt, whether the lion, entre or not, Blare was determined to be en the safe side. As soon as it grew dark he climb- ed a tree, and fixed himself snugly in the fork, so that he might not slip down, even if he happened to fall asleep, which there was not much chance of hie doing. It was a black and dismal night. Even when the nl.)ogl re*se, the thick clouds made her light little better than tnt'1tl darkness. At first all was deathly still, but presently the savage's quick ear caught a rustle among the hashes below, which was quite enough for him. True, it plight be only n stray Ox, but the Buschman thought otherwise, and the next moment showed that he was right. The moon broke through . the clouds, end revealed the long, gaunt body, tawny slain, end huge, shaggy heed of the ghost -lion. Iilans inetnntly gave the alarm, with a nasal+h loud and eat -splitting enough to awaken everybody within half a' mile. • It was nuswered by - deep. 1101317140 bellow of rage from the bleak bull. which stood pawing the earth in the (men part of the meadow. As the lion sprang at him, with n roar filet shook the r, the moon plungs ed behind the clouds oat's more, but the growling, snorting and gasping that tore tip through the gloom showed that the fight was n fierce one. The herder's criers had a370118e(1 tiro people ht the settlement. ai141 the 1nC1t . en • v while the w one •., meadow, tl h 1 0th, (,Ira t 1 • huddled together in the houses. The horde sttt10ts were determirsed to prove whether or net the beast tee; really a ghc•st or net, and if net were prepared to ed themselves of it if at ell possible. "'Phis new!" shouted :lfynheer Van Itlpper's well- known voi00, ns he and :< doyen of his men envie up, with guns and torches. "II:i, Whist's this?" The red torchlight fail upon a vast, 'confused Mass of Week and yellow, 13'» quite still. 1'he death -grapple wee ended. The lion's 'powerful jena had broken, the ball's neck. hut,aa he .'penis, the terrible horn hard pierced through his aide to the very hetet. "Did 1 loot do w011 not to !'hoot that bull?" Med Van Ripper. with a fat ehutckle. "Now we are rid of both ilea and bull, and, att WAS my bull that killed the 1104.1, 'I 'ought to get the re• ward.' ane h('. aid get It the very tint day. I>ntia iter, its Golden Days: Ile Effect Upon as Oratorical Ten. dorfoot Prom the iflast. "Taikin about oratory," said Broncho Bob, "you ought to have been out to Crimson Gulch last fall, so n9 to hear some of the real thing." "We have some pretty luminous speci- mens in congress," ventured the elan who felt it incumbent on him to show a little Local pride. • "Not a circumstance. I've tend some of them kind of speeches. I've heard 'ern too. • A. feller come from the east an started In to tell .;rimson Gulch Iwai it otter do. Some of the boys allowed things was gettin ruder slack, an they says anything fur a change. So they took his advice all blazed away an organized a city council." "I see. You held an election." "Nary. We didn't want any bloodshed. We jes' passed the word around that the city council was gain to be field an made it an open game. Everybody was there except Nevada Bill, an he didn't dare show up because he was under suspiciotl, of sittin in a poker game with a private stock 'of bine chips which he had bought unbeknownst from a store in San. Auto - Mo. It wasn't long until, under the in- structions of the tenderfoot, we had the ' city council in good shape. Onfy officers was allowed to wear their weapons dur- In the proceedin's, an nobody was barred from the debate. The first business 11'e took up was the case of Nevada 13111. We reckoned tint it wouldn't he no more than decent local pride to prevent the importation of any poker chips except by the duly recognized authorities fur said Importation. Rattlesnake Pete said the only way to make the taw hilidin was to pervide that anybody hreakin it should be shot at least once. The tenderfoot got .r'iled in a minute. IIe jumped to his teet an got oft' the most long winded talk about constitutionality an the rights of citizenship an whereas an therefore that 1 ever heard. IIe talked hard, an he showed he had rend books. But you t o - ter have heard Three Finger Sam's his- toric reply. I.t jes' showed how quick a man who has the gift of .genuine elo- quence can end an argument. Crimson Gulch Itm u,,,t got through tnikin neem it yet. Three linger Sam dewed himself up to his full height an ti ini,.l itis finger at the tenderfoot.. '1 don't desire to use no hnrshcr words than is necessary.'It ' says he. but I'd like• to Icuott• whet yon wen, Son iow down, lop ear jack rabbit. by eomiu into this town an tryin to• tell ns whether a milli needs shaatirc er not. Have we got to wait for scene lantern lowed coyote to come walnderhr in off dm s good far us? l s hal. 0 prairie an tell u, w ill 1 8 Beware!' says Three Finger Sam. still p'intin his finger an griawln more do- queret every minute. 'Beware, you bow- legged burro! Don't yoti think you eon come here an overawe people beeriest. ,you wear specs. Ilaave n care, or the fest illmt of • t 1 t you'll be U nt klt thingyou 1 o V . this town with n hunch of patriotic citi- tens on year trail. every one of whom Ie dead anxious to shoot n freekh' Off 11 the hack of your neck!' The tenderfoot didn't have another word to say, an he left town the next mornin. 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