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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-11-27, Page 3The Glory and Majeety of the Unseen. ST T1100, wUIuuLD. " For the thtags which are Bean are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal,"— 2 Cor. WO, This world I deem But a'beautiful dream Of shadows that are not what they seem ; Whose vieieas rise Giving dim surmise 01 that which shall meet our waking eya. Arm of the t.ord Creating Word I Whose glory the shout aides record t Where stands Thy Name In scrolls of flame 'Meath the firmament's high -shadowing frame 1 I gaze overhead Where Thy hand peth spread For the waters of heaven their oryetal bed ; And stored the dew, In its depths of blue, Which the fires of the sun came tempered through. Soft they shine Through that pure shrine ; Ae benoath'the veil nt Thy flub divine - Shines forth the light That were else too bright Foe tho teebleneee of a sinner's eight, • I gaze aloof On the tissued roof Where time P'n1 space are the warp and woof, Which the King of Binge Like a curtain flange O'er the dreadfulness of eternal things. A tapestried tent To shade no meant lorem the bare everlasting firmament ; Where the glow of the skies Comae Eft to our eyes 'Meath a vell ct mystical imegerlee 1 But could I see, As in truth they be, The glories of heaven that encompass me, I should tightly hold• The tieeued fold 01 that marvellous curtain of blue and gold. Soon the whole, As a parchment aeroll, Allan before my amazed eight uproll ; And without a screen At ono beret bo Been Tho Presence wherein I hese ever been. But who may bear The blinding glare Of the Majesty that eball be there ? What eye may gaze On the unveilen blaze Of the ligbt•girded throne of the Ancient of Days ? Sr. Joules OOLLEoE, iambtidge, England. A Little Shop -Girl, '' She's an old darling," said Grace Crax- all, " and I mean to help her all I can. I've got a beautiful recipe for chocolate eclairs, and on Friday evening I am going there to make up all that I oan, so that the school children will buy them on Saturday. I know how to make cinnamon apple tarts, too, and lemon drop3 and cocoanut balls." Grace I do believe you have taken leave of your sense," said Medora May. " One would think it was.d'sgrace enough for Aunt Deborah—our own mother 's sister—to open a horrid little huckster ehop without oar mixing ourselves up in the affair." "But Aunt Debby must live, you know," said Grace, who was perched, kitten•fashion, • on the window•aill, feeding the canary with baits of sparkling white sugar. "And Cous• in Nixon couadu't keep her any longer, and her eyes are not strong enough for fine needlework, and her education has not fit- ted her to be a teacher, and her poor old rheumatic bones keep her from going be- hind a counter or entering a factory. I suppose you wouldn't be willing to have her come and live with you?" "I 1'' cried Medora. '' Do you suppose I want to proclaim to the whole town net I have such a dilapidated old relation as that ?" " I would take .her quick enough," said Grace, "if 1 didnt board with Mrs, Howitt, and share the little up -stairs back room with the two children. Just wait until I .harry some rich man," she added, with a sandy uplifting of her auburn brows, " and then see if I don't furnish up a stately apart- ment for Aunt Deoby ?" "Don't talk nonsense," said Madera acidly. "It's very likely, isn't it, that a factory girl like you is going to marry a riohman?' (trace Crux ell laughed merrily. All through life she and her cousin, Medora May, had agreed to differ on most points. Grace seeing no other career before her had, on the death of her last surviving parent, cbeorfully entered e i story, while Medora, taking her stand on he platform of a false gentility, had dono line sewing and silk embroidery on the sly to support herself, putting on all the airs of a young lady of fashion the while, And now Aunt Deborah May, to the infinite disgust of her aristo- cratically inclined niece, had actually open- ed a little low -windowed shop in a shady street just out of the main thoroughfare, and, as Medora despairingly expressed it, " &woce into trade 1" Her Aunt Debby, in her bewildered lone - linens, had scarcely known what to do until brace Craxall came to the rescue with her hopeful courage and straightforward com- mon -setae. a' I only wiah it wasn't sinful to take a dose of laudanum and put myself out of the way," sighed the poor old lady. ' Now, Aunt Debby, that doesn't sound a bit like you," said Grace cheerfully, "But what am 1 to do ?" said Aunt De- borah. s' What eau you do?" said Grace, "I don't know as I am good for anything," said the old lady with a quiet tear or two, " except to help around the house, and I ain't strong enough for regular hired help. Year uncle always used to say I was a master -hand at making bread." "Then make it," brightly interrupted Grape, Eh ?" said Aunt Debby. "There's a nice little store to lot on Bay Street," went on Grace, " for ten dollars a month." "But"I haven't got ten dollars a month," feebly interrupted Aunt Debby. "I'll lend it to you," said Grace, "out oi' the wages I have saved, And there's a pretty bedroom at the back of the shop, and a clean, dry basement under it, where you can bake your bread. I know, for the sister of the lady where I board is looking for dress -malting rooms, and I heard her speaking about it." " Do yon mean to open a bakery ?" said bewildered Aunt Debby. Not exactly that," explained Grace. Hut if Mre, Hewitt, or Mrs, Taylor, or any of the ladies around here could get real home-made bread, such as you make, do you suppose they would put up with the .our stuff they get at the baker shops? And you could easily get up a reputation on your raisin oakee, and fried crullers, and New England pumpkin pies. N.rw couldn't you ?'' The old lady brightened up a little. " I need to be pretty good at cooking," said she. " And if you think I could sap - port tureen e0 .., "1 am sure of It 1" pried cheerful Grace. "And 1'll go there with you this very day to look at the place, and will engage it for three months on trial, And I oan paint you a sign to pat over your door. " Home- made bread be Mrs, Deborah May 1" And I'll hem you eomd curtains and arrange the shelves in the low window 1 I almost wish I was going t-1 be your shop girl," she added merrily. " But I can help you. in the even- ing you know 1" Grace Craxall's prophecies proved correct, Aunt Debby's delicious home-made broad, whiter than powdered liltiea, sweat as am- brosia, soon acquired a reputation, and the old lady could scarcely bake it feat enough. People name half a dozen blocks to buy the yellow pumpkin pies and delicious apple tarts; children brought their hoarded pennies to invest in chocolate eweetme ate, vairilla caramels, and Dream cakes with puffy sbella and delicious oentres of sweet- ness. The little money -drawer grew fat with coins, and Aunt D.bhy's dim eyes grew bright and hopeful again. And one day Mr. Herbert Valance, walk- ing by with Medora May, stopped and look- ed in. "Isn't that your cousin Grace," said he, " behind the counter ?' Medora turned crimson with vexstion. " My' cousin C race ?" she said. " No, indeed 1 We are not—in trade." What poessesed her to utter this deliber- ate falsehood Medora could not afterward have told. Partly the sting of false shame, partly a disinclination for Mr. Herbert Valance to know that her relations were, to use her expression, " not ladies and gentlemen," Mr, Valance'lookod up at the sign over the door. "The name is May," he remarked in- differently. " Yes," said Medora, angry at herself blushing so deeply, "bat we are no re- lation." Mr. Valance thought over the matter; he afterward met Mies May at a party given by a friend, where pretty Grace Craxall was a'so present; he had 'taken rather a fancy to the bright blue eyes and delicate blonde beauty of,the former. Valance Hall, on the hill just out of the city, was solitary enough, now that his detain had all mar- ried and gone away, and perhaps a man might find a less attractive and graceful wife than Medora May. But he onuld not bo mistaken, he thought, in Grano Craxall's identity. And so the next evening, about the same time, he sauntered into the shLp. Grace was behind the daintily -clean little counter, taking soma newly -baked maple caramels oft the pan, She looked up with a smile. "Good even'ng,, Mr, Valance," said she. "So," he thought, "I wasn't mistaken after all. And the little blue-eyed seraph is mortal enough to tell a lie in spite of her angelic appearance 1" But he looked serenely at Grace. "I didn't know you were in trade," said he. " Didn't you ? Well," retorted Grace, " 1 am my Aunt Daborah'e shop -girl at present. 1 always come here in the even- ings to help her, because," she added, with a sweet shade of seriousness coming over her face, " aunt was old and poor. and she didn't quite know how to maintain herself in independence ; and, unfortnnately, my wagea�at the factory are nob enough for us both. So I advised her to open this business, and she did, and ahe'n doing well ; and she . bakes the meet delicious bread and pies you ever ate, so," with a saucy twinkle under her eyelashes, " if you know of any custom- ers, will you please recommend our firm ?" "To be sure I shall," he answered In the same spirit. " And I am very glad, Mies Craxal., to sae that you are not ashamed of being a working, girl." "Of course I am not," said Grace. " Why should I be ?" "Eat your cousin Medora is," Grace gave a little shrug of her shoulders. " Very likely," said she. " Medora and I differ in many things.'' Mr. Valance bought a pound of caramels, and went away, " She is a beauty," he said to himself. " And she is a sensible beauty into the bargain. One of those rare creatures in cur country, a thoropghly well-balanced girl." He must have been well pleased with his purchase, for ho came again the next oven - log, just in time to walk home with • Grace ^Craxall. And they talked over Aunt De- borah's affairs, and conoluded as flour was low j, rat then, it would be a favorable op. portunity for the old lady to lay in her winter stock through Mr. Valance, who was acquainted with one of the great To- ronto grain merchants. Only a few weeks had elapsed when Me- dora May was electrified to learn that her cousin Grace was engaged. " To some master baker or journeyman confectioner, I suppose," she said con- tomptuonsly. " No," said Grace. with eyes roguishly sparkling, " to Mr. Herbert Valance." "I—don't—bodeve—it," said Medora, growing red, then pale. • " Bat it's really so," said Grace. " And we are to be married in three months. And Aunt Dobby is to come to the hall and live with me as soon as she oan dispose of her business to advantage. And, dear Medora, I hope you will often come and visit me there." Medora May did not answer. She could not, But in her secret heart she recognized how infinitely more succeseful in life's lists had been Grace's true, frank honesty, than her own subtle and devious Douro. Like many another, however, the lesson had come to her too late. "Do you think, mamma," said a 1•ttlo one, "that Uncle Reuben is a good man and will go to heaven?" "I think so, my child. Why do you ask ?" "Oh, nothing much," waking from a sort of reverie ; " I was thinking what a funny looking angel he would make—that's ail," VIA THE FARM. The Poultry Yard. ` The fall work in the poultry yard does not amount to much, but it very import- ant that what little work there is to be dono should be dono properly, and at the right time. That is the little things about the oars and management of poultry, which, if tended to properly, keep the fowls in euoh good condition and thrift, Above all thing's do not neglect cleant'. nese; for fowls will keep healthier and is better condition on meager quantities of coarse food with cleanliness, than if fed on the beet and most nourishing food If en- tombed in filthy quarters. Clean the house often and scatter plenty of dry earth and fresh sand around the house and under the roosts, Clean dirt surely is cheap, but be- comes quite valuable when applied for this purpou . Cara bestowed upon poultry is not lost by any means, as some persona seem to think, for the fowls appreciate kindness and care very quick in retaining favors is the shape of nine fresh eggs, The better the cars and the more varied the food, the bettor will be the results, and the more profitable they will be to their owner. There is at present a great deal of inter- est manifested in the rearing of Bantams, The smallest specimens are considered the beet, being the hardest to obtain. The praotioe followed by moat breeders seems very cruel, to say the least. They do not set the hens until very 1 ate in the season, so that the chicks will only be partlygrownwhen the cold weather comes. This will serve to stunt their growth more or lees, and this is just what the breeders want to accom- plish. Besides this, they are oftentimes very scantily fed for the same reason, it be- ing very desirable to have them as small as possible. They make beautiful little pets, and are much more profitable than moat of our ornamental fowls. The time for selling chicks is now at hand. They are now of a large size and the beet breeders can be easily pinked out. Now is really the time to start into the poultry buainese, far good s'ook can be purchased at reasonable prices, and by changing location now they will become accustomed to their new quarters, and be in excellent breeding condition in the spring. If they are bought in the spring at breeding time, the change will oftentimes break up their laying, and it will take considerable to recover and get in good breeding condition again. And, as time is so valuable in breeding season, it is sometimes quite a serious loss. Experience is a valuable teacher, The reader should look over the past seasin, and see wherein he has made mistakes, and try to improve the next season. Experience teaches that the best way to ship eggs is in baskets, and never in boxes. There is al- ways more or less complaint about eggs be- ing received in had order ; and anything that oan be done to avert this should be carefully attended to by the reader. The trouble with shipping in boxes is, that they are handled too rough; but the instant an expreaeman sees a basket with cloth oover sewed on, he knows immediately what it cont ins, and haedl3s It ac:ordingly. When shipped in a box, the chances aro that they will be handled as ordinary freight, no mat- ter how many special warnings may be writ - ton or pasted on the box, for the expressman does not take time to read them ; the na- tural consequence is that they get well shak- en up before they reap their destination. There is a great deal of talk and writing about the " beat kind of fowls" and which breed brings the best returns. This is most of it guess work more than anything else, as there is no one variety best for all pur poses, They nearly all have their special points of exeellenco,andbreeders should first determine qualities he wants beat developed in his fowls, and select ac.ordingly. He aheuldfully decide whether he wants eggs alone, or a good market variety, or simply an ornamental variety that makes a nice appearance on the lawn. No matter what quality is desired, it can easily be found, as we have so many varieties of fanny fowls, that it is but a simple:matter to get the right bird if the breeder knows just what he is desirous of obtaining. Farm Fences, Perhaps no bettor treatise llpon fen:es een be given than a farmer's reason for seek• ing a different fence that those already in use. Every year upon my farm I usually divided one or more grans fields, so as to mow one portlon, and pasture the other, ior to keep different kinds of stock by them- selveswhich 1 consider desirable, espe- cially n the ease of milch cows and sheep. I found it a great job to move the necessary amoant of rail fence to accomplish the de- sired purpose, and when built such tempo rary fences were blown down in places by every heavy wand that came ; stock, espe- cially horses, were constantly knocking It down, colts, finding it one of the finest of pastimes to res how many rails they could knock down in a day, till there was no rest for the weary old farmer from rebuilding 1 hence he thought, In his weariness, cannot this be changed ? Cannot some device be made that can b) moved with ease, that will not blow down, that mite will let alone, that is a good sheep and hog fence? Such a fen:e must be high as possible, therefore let lie use all the wire we can, forma bridge to keep it tight, put the wire at the top so that the wind will not blow it down or cattle press it over, with boards at the bottom to form the bridge, also to make a fence against sheep and hugs, It must be mado in lengths so that it can bo moved apart at any time (14 feet proves the beet length ;) we want it straight, to let us couple it together end to end. The couplers must allow the fence to follow the uneven surface of the ground ; the upper couplers will spread going over a hill, the lower through a hollow, hence it will leave no hog holes under the fence. This coupler makes the best point from which to support the lengths. What eball I antler it with was the next question An iron rod oan be driven easily ; being of uniform size it can be drawn easily abs. If I use a large, stiff rod when I draw the top one way the bottom will move in the op- posite direotion. 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