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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-03-15, Page 6c inijani (iuf ,l±RIDA.Y, 111AIt0I1 1i, 18e9. om ' 7TT,L (' TSE MILL,. r•air Lissy its fourth is growing slender underneath arbor to read a book ; but as soon as the same thing tra a re'asonLbut ubuai- • in he At. g k l 1V'll t four d tl a place Attd be turned book was laid aside ; hn rr'ns 'pintuly Will inti lib hand then l TJ goes sir: oeging over our' , my steps. And all this while 1 have lie had begun to observe Will, the ly vastly more Gun hieing .r 4 prefer � � e" „ ' • pad a little, r Ana what is the sea. asked 'Will- , un . i the t . The sea ! cried the miller, Lord and went Id� own way alone, leaxitlg. one of to trade o d peter. Will, stars raised it oho to re to h and lemit to help us ail, it is the greatest thing them astonished, i ed, 'haat. is where all the And yet this would scarcely parallel on his part, although he hacl not been 'sharper l,rilliauey ; and as lie kept waters infidel p vyaters iu the world,runs down into a the intensity of Will's feelings for the much interested iii the stranger at turning his ryes higher in higher, greae salt lake. `There it lies, as flat plain. If lie could only go fare hough first sight, soon began to take a greet they seemed to iuorease in multitude earn an as inn t there, 1 felt as if his eyesight .deal of Pleasure in his talk, which under his ;me. 1 ue lie sale , umin �, } 1 d d ocest Itke as ze nu talc to e y a to rho ottli itE mars n,Nn Tug STABS,' d b 1 d when the wind would be purged, and clarified, as if was full of good nature and goodsee, li l t Y 08 my child; but they o say w t r, blows it gets up. into water mountains his hearings would grow more delicate cerise, and at last conceived a great luau, a are in a rat -trap, " character ter wisdom,- Something of that size. Y gr eDid yott The mill where Will lived with his bigger than any of ours, and swallows and Itis vert breath wouldt come t eseGt for is far into the andfyht ;and ever me a ng f th t iIna cagey ? T Adopted parents stood in. a falling vel• dawn. great ships bigger than our mills, go with Inn ivy. e l? They quite- pand. makes such a roaring that you ed and withering where he was ; llo abot,t two in the morning \V ill oponed and another squired sitting philosol'►li- lao n between pine weedshill and great:in a and wits his heart to the young man, and told Wally over his outs? 1 needn't ask maintains. Above, eafter soared hill pail hear it miles away upon the land. es sick for home. Bit bit he pieced him bow be longed to leave the valley you which of them limited more of a - soared upwards until they out There are g;reaq fish in it five tiers ° of the depth of the hardiest timber, bigger then a bull, and one odd .ser- together broken notions of the world and what bright Lopes he had con- fool, •aiid stood naked against. the sky, pent as long as our river and as old a ..s below; of [;e river, ever it wiled forth moving and Pe d with cities i whistled, f the ared ptlieu (To in* ooNTiteuem ,t ,Some way up, a long grey village lay all the world, with whiskers like a growing uLangside. ,like a seam of a rag of vapor on a man, and a crown of silver on her majestic ocean ; of the cities, full of broke luta a alone, A socia] was held iats Bethel on Mont . ;wcoded hillside; and when the wind head. brisk and beautiful people, playing My young friend he remarked, you d o the church Will thought he lead never Beard any fountains,'uatide of music and marble are a very parietal little fellow to ebe day evening last Where the house was+ bewas favorble, the sound f this and he kept on asliiog palaces, and lighted rip at night from sure, and wish a great many " things filled from gnrrot to basement, al- to Will. would drop down valleyland silvery, ever thingguest litre thia, pthough it waspoorlyrepresented with it , Beloty the grew ever clneston after question about .tire .end to cud with artifioal stars of gold, which you will hover get. Why, you of Iltingside The choir fur. t \V l ,g would feel quite ashamed if ort knew' People steeper and, steeper,- and. at the aerie world that lay away down the river. of the teat churches, wise uutversi� how the little fellows in these fairy lout on either hand ; and with all its perils and marvels, until ties, brave armies. and untom q ytons of music number which very ch ceusele y timeoan emit n e beside the twill it the old miller became. quite interested lying in vaults ;: of the high -flying. cities of ours are all after the same from an ami ie csort of nonsense, and keep breaking 3 vas possible to see its whole .length. himself,'. and at last took him by the voice that moved in the: sunsln[me, and ,, irtterin'ttdled with powerful literary ;and away beyond it over a wide plain, Band and lead him on to the hilltop the stealth and swiftness of Midnight their heertd to get up into the moult- talent, .where the river turned and phone, and tbatoverlooksthe valley and then plain. murder. I have said he was sick as tains. And let me tell you, those no ed. on from city to city on its Tho sun was near sitting, and hung if for hotne; but the figure. is made, who go clown ;oto the plains are a S , Helene. v Y g very short while there before they About. 15a persons attended• a .voyage towards the sea. It chart -cod low down in a cloudless sky: Byeryr quare. He was like some one 1 in a apass thing was defined and.glorified in gee- en twilight, formless preexistence, and wish. themselves heartily back again. social tinier the auspices of the Bethel into over gh[s valley there lay ag y The air is. not SO lig pure into a neighboring kingdom ; so that den. light. Will had never SAM so stretching outoloisdl andntino lovingly-to- nittartter. boAsfor Methodist ostid sdistcot' ndousAi Mr. Win. on Well - quiet and rural as it was the road great an expanse of country in his wards many -colored, y sounding nor is the sift. any hrigl hat ran along beside the river was life; he stood and gazed with all his life. It was no wonder be was un- the beautiful mien mull women, you Monday evening of this week. The t i hit he would go and tell the fish; would see many of theta in Cage teed pastor, Rev, R. Carson, occupied - the splendida Niand powerful between two eyes. lie could see the cities, they were 1 nada for their life, wished y powerful eaeleties. All woods and fields, and the Ori„ c i many of them deformed with portable chair and and an entertaining 'and .. thent er. travelling carri- of the river, and far away tel where =or more than worms and running disorders ; and a city is so hard a wholesome programme of musical 1 through sue n , r o 1 plain. treuclled along water and a hole below a falling bank;. place far people who are poor and selections, readings, recitations awl ages °erne g -up, plunging briskly �rloginwat•ds past the the shining heavelka;. Ad overmaster .o • crawling or went the rim of the e u ° int he was differeetly constituted, full sensitive that many choose to die by speeches was gone through. The p it happened that the tug einoticii..seised upon the boy, eonl f desires and aspiration,, itching at their own Band. large atteudscnce was hniidsontety tithe; and as h ppthe fingers, lusting with the eyes, Yo must think ase very simple pntertaineil by the host and family, asher side was, very much easier a and body; o chould heart beat so thickly whom the whole variegated world could answered Will. Alltl:ou it 1 have About $,?1 aero realized. ascent, the path was not mach fie: that be could oat breathe; the scene never been out of this -valley, believe - uented, exceptby people g; h' • the sun seemed not satisfy with aspects. ..The true qround d round, and threw lite, the tine bright u t.p , lay tap I have used my oyes, I know how East eo to Ding in one swam before his. eyes, s iisl r''r, , '.far E S W&WanOsh, direction :; and of all the carriages to w.eel „pun an o, sawgo by,five-sixths were off strange shapes as it turned, whi¢li out upon the plain. Allo¢ ih 1 t l see one thing lies en txuother; bow riga On �Vediln day week elr.. £�eorge ;that Will h he diefish hangs.iin. the eddy to °atoll his L. Shipley, cif Middlesex towuzbill plunging briskly downwards and only disappeared'withtherapidityeef thought this sunlight once before • rMuch more .and were succeeded by atJicsrr, 1S"onte move with a jocund spirit 'in that, fellows; end e118 shepherd who stakes was married te. 1tli,s A. 11. McG Await et as this crar,khn}, up. ugekieu land 1 to hear the tvained'sin was this the case with foot passengers. of these were like vi ;antic and 'sing - so pretty a picture carrying home the formerly, en earnest and sucaeasful purists all the 'shadowy birds, and some lime ccs;tart- ems and sweet ehur011-bolle, and sec the lamb, is only carrying it home: for• teaclier�in this townrihip. The sup -i.' Il the li ht -footed t Y the holiday gardens 1 And 0 fish 1 he diener. 1 do not expect to find 'all knot was tied- by Rev, 51r. McLean, would cry; it you would only turn things Tight.[u your cities That is of Blyth. The bride was attended by your noses down• stream, YOU- ooutd wlra fxnubies one ; it might have been Miss Nettie alip`ey and the ;;roan: swirrl so easily into the fabled waters, that :ono upon a tit.ne; but although by .Mr. Robt- McGowan. Coatly aiid aiid see the . vast shills passing over 1 live here always, I have asked many numerous presents were given. '..l'4 -n your head like clouds, and hear over g,uestions and learned a great deal in couple lett ter his home on the •after3 great water -hills making music these last years, and certainly enough uoon train. you all day long ! But the fish kept •to dire me of my old fancies But looking; patieutly in their own direction ort would have me die like. a da Seafortin• ' ., until Will Hardly knew','�vlietil@r to • and not see all that -is to be seen, and The Methodist church hale extend laugh or cry. do I1 that a inaan can do, let it be a en iuvitation to the Rev, lir. Hitherto the tratlla on Elie road 11114 •good or evil ? you wonld not:Inve u;e Bartle M. A., of C•rraveii must. He passed by.\V, ll, like. $omethni;; seen in ..spend.all my shays between, .this. - road JHite r}cctiptecl sul,jeet to the- rtetiSan 1)11 tx g pedlars laden witlistrange wares, were d and gesticulating men,. who vanish - tending downward like the river that ' ed b:'' ore they had time to complete acoompanied their path. Ivor was a single gesture. Will coveted his this all; for when Will was yet a :face with his bands, and burst into :a .child a disastrous war arose over a violent fit of tears; and the poor miller great part of the world. The news- sadly disappointed paid perplei4ed., saw papers were full of defeats and victor- nothingbetter for it than to take hini :les, the earth rang with cave -try hoofs, pp iii his arms and carry lhim home in and often for days together and for silence. miles around the coil of battle tbrri- Front that day forward Will was'full fled good people from their labors in of new hopes and longings. Some - the field Of all this, nothing was thing kept tugging away at his heart- . r.,,.a. nnrrled heard for a long time .in the valley.; strings; the Turbine w here and the river, and not so much but at hast one of the commaders push his desires along with it as lie dream ap ucat a tslwicha a tourist, etee ,tationin; Lon,iui.ttea: lay. d er the ass by faced ed over its fleeting surface ; the wind, f id gentleman i Me -caught travel rig luttl;e a make a motion to be up Father tiotz's. on his cippa>ttire' .to k sightwould 1 f' e, an army over o , an o en a an n marches, and for three days horse and as it ran over innumerable treetops,, g and live any life ? i won c rather die Parkhill was presented with an ad - and tiuxlireil, drain and Bailed. hini with eiwouragrng words; lin; cap at, a carriage window ;:but for out of hand, heif cried, than linger on dressdlI w e foot -hall club leandthe foot, (salmon standard, kept pRu;ing downward branches beckoned downwards ; the tile most part it bad been a mere:symr 'as I am doing: following officers : 113.on. prey'., Col. the ui[Il. 11 da the solid stood open road, as it shouldered ronnd the bol', which be something mef ted rom apaet erstik us: Thousands of people, said rite young Colman ;.1st bon, vice. pree , D. tl. ansa ya and watched them on their passage— angles and went tnruiiig and vanishing feelin it h A time .Came _ at est tylion roan, live and die like you, and -are Wilson ; end Iron. vice pies., D. the rH taees t stride,, the dale eyes, fast and faster down the valley, tortur this was to be changed:- Inn miller, none the less happy. Johnston ; prey., R. Wilson ; Nice Y shaven faces tanned shoot the ed hini with its solicitations. He spout ii bo Was a trrcody iniad: in 'away, and Ah 1 said Will, if there are thous- pres. Wm. Langford ; Capt. G: A, the discolored regimentals mid the long whiles on the eminence, looking ands who would like, why should not Dewar ; seeyetreas, J. leuldrew Jt .: tattered liege, filled him with a sense down the r s. .bade and abroad on the neYer honest -forwent rofit,rtur ed theomilli 1 Ouse one of them have my place. committee, D. McDonald,. J. J. I�illo• of wearinc ss, pity and wonder; and lint 'lowlands, and watched the clou• ds into a little wayside inn, and, several It was quite clerk e there w{is a ran, J. Dickson, 13. A., fa. Anderson,; picas of good fortune falling in op banging lamp in the arbor whiub I. A. 112c#iea}l, portunely, built stables and got the eup fhe table and the faces of the position of postmaster on the road. speakers; andalong the arch, leaves Houriekt• It now became Will's duty to wait upon the trellis stood out illuminated The'' council tnet at I+ordwicb,on the upon people, as they sat to break their against the night sky, a pattern of 21 at tilt , in: Youag's hotel, pursue!' fasts in •the little arbor at the top of transparent green upon a dusty pur- to adjournment. Members all presene the mill Carden ; and you may be sure ?le. The fat young than rose, and except Mr. Robertson. Minutes of that Ire kept his airs open, and learned taking Will by the arm, led hien out last meeting approved. Moved by Mr. many new things about the outside under the open heavens. llultnage, seconded by Mr. Jacques... world as he brought the otnelette or Did you ever look at the stars? he that .the reeve interview the Local the wine. Nay, he would eften get asked, pointing upwards. Government on the Land Improve - into conversation with single guests, , Often and often answered Will. utast money coming to the municipal - and by adroit questions and polite And do you know what they are? ity--Carried. Moved by Mr. Dtilmage, attention, not only gratify his own I have fancied many things. Are seconded by Mr. Jacques that S. lay.., all night long, after lie was in bed, he that travelled forth upon the sluggish ,could hear the cannon pounding and wind and trailed their, purple shadows the feet trampling;,, and the great sr- on the plaid, or he would linger by rnament sweeping onward and dawn- the wayside, and follow the carriages evard past the hitt. No one in the with his eyes as they tattled down - valley ever heard the fate of the ex- 'Ward by the river. It did not matter peditiou, for they lay out of the way what it was; everythiug that went that of gossip of those troublesome times ; way, were it cloud or carriage, bird or belt Will saw one thing plainly --that brown water in the stream, he felt his pot a man returned. Whitler went kart flow out after it in an ecstasy of all the tgtlrists and pedlars with Mnging. strange wares et whither 411 the brisk We are told by men of science that barouches with servants in the dicky ?• all the ventures of mariners on the sea whither the water of the stream, ever all the countermarching of tribes and courein ; downward and ever renewed races that confounds old histol+y with from above? Even the wind blew its dust and rumor, sprang teem noth- • oftener down the valley, and carried ing more •abstruse than the lawsof the dead leaves along with it ite the supply and demand, and :a certain na- tal!. It seemed lilte a great uonspir tural instinct for cheap redone, To acy of things animate and inanimate ; any one thinking deeply, this will they all went ;downward, fleetly and ,,seern a dull and. pitiful eeplanation. gaily downward, and only lie, it seein The tribes that came swan -Mpg out of 'd, remained behind, like a stook upon the north and east, if they were indeed the wayside. it sometimes made him pressed onward front behind by others glad when he noticed how' the fishes were drawn at the same time by the ;kept their heads up stream. They, at - tnaguetic influence of the south and least, stood faithfully by , him, whiles west. The fame of other lands had :all else was posting downward to the - reached thew; the name of the eternal unknown world. city rant; in their ears : they were not One evening he asked the miller colonists, but pilgrims ; they travelled where the river went, tocvards whie and gold and sunshine. - p most aged suffice for such a otirney, og tax, Robert Jameson,, ox Itgoes down the valley, answered i,uttheir hearts were set on something inn door seemed to take a art of him f ig That t 'di divine unrest,that old away with it; and when people jest- When a great battle Inas been lost or part pay on C. line bridge, and $8.08 he, andturns tt power 'of mnllie-esti higher. I1 e.. Y t.• that ingly offered him a lift he could with a dear friend is dead when we are for gravol- Cat•ried. Counsel adjourn. score Brills, they. say, frrHnr hero to stinging tumble of livatanita difficulty cotnmaud his emotion. Night hipped or in high spirits, there they ed to meet ie. the township hall on the fter aleck -•-and is none the wearier makes all high rxe:lueverttersts and all,3rd Wednesday in March, t after ail. And then it. goes mg into miserable failures ; the same that after night he would dream that be are neweariedly shining overhead. v y, the path - the waters' . e' great spreads wings with Icarus, the sante was awakened by flustered servants, We may stand down here, a whole ►rasters, pound keepers, and • fence c untry and . -r n hr g h Columbus into the desolate and that a splendid equipage waited army of us together, and shout until viewers will be appointed•- OarrJed. corn country, and Trion through a th,�t sent inspired at the door to carryhunt down to the we break ottr Hearts, and nota wets•- ' Wm. Deng, Clerk. sight of fine cities (ac they say), Atlantic, and supported these lbarbarians on their perilous march, plain ; night after night, until the per reaches theta. We may climb Weeks kings live all alone iii great „ which rofoutdlt ari-am, which had seemed all jollity to the highest mountain, and we are no Calico at on xrAtt of is what ter i eed for pilaus, with a sentry walking up and There is one legend wl p y l+ lytn down before the door. AO it goes represents their spirit, of how a flying hint at first, beget* to take on a colon nearer them, All we can do is to and ail ayceeLo s of i yspepsia. Price ley under bridges with stone men upon party of these wanderers encountered of gravity, and the nocturnal summons stand down here in the garden and and '15 yenta per bottle. toot sale by Cir i; them,lookingdour# and smiling eo a very old matt shod with iron. The and resiting; equipage gocopied a place take o(I our hats ; the starshino lights '1Viltiams. curiouslye er and living folks old glean asked them whether they were in his tnitrd as something 10 be beth 1 nod our heads, and where mine is it »r. Stoan of /lyth, states that int hailing at the tYat , tohopedy you1887, ee last ge1O by duty,.ou'articJea leaning their elbow on the wall and groieg ; and they answered with one feared.and for. little bald, l'daresa calx 850 it rH' looking over too. And then it goes on verse: To the eternal 'city l he One day, when Will wets about sitC- glisten in the darkness. The mount• raised' inti his farted which lie sold for and on and down through the marshes t looked tipon them gravely. 1 bane teen, a. fat young mean. arrived et atm- ata raid the 1110(.1 e, ---that is like to tip r,xpt rt to tH3'(iuited States. until ablest it fatly inter the s sought it, he said, over tate most part ' set to pass the night. Ile was s all we shall ever have to do with .t.o" rbc snI'rtta with yenpetyi�is and AO OMANcontented--looking fellow, with a ,iolly Areturus or Aldebaran. Cate you I,Wi C,orruiasi e S ithli'i, 'lrittsebt iY4 in a, whore the ships are that beingss. i of the world. Throe such pairs as T' p ea and carried a kits sable. While 1r 1 a parable ' be added laying Wel uaranteed tap; cure you. Yoe rater b (l, Ae. rewrote and tobacco Frew* the bales. now carry on my feet Intent 1 worn'out Y ep ep y13r y g I f4 • t1�'`i It Les 40 trot b 'ic.i'.. it ,-g' t', upcu: ilii i pil rriran.t s, stud kinw thrd dillrrcrr ra•a' pre tLr in , tl ft in the i ltsnd tt�toix \Vill' shoulder it is pot; tl—Baine;—• curiosity, but win the good will of the they eyes • , Robert Mahood, and. Janes Spence he travellers. Many complimented the They are words like ours, answered j members of the $card of �liealth--Car- old couple on their serving boy ; and - the young urau. Same of them ereiried. Moved by Mr. Jadues, second-: a professor was eager to take him away less; many of thelia ` are a million : ed by Mr.Graham, that 11jjl1r.Hepiustall with him, and have him properly, times gecater ;. and some of thele sat be auditor --Carried : Theeeve ap- educated in the plain. The miller sparkles that you see are not only pointed William Wade. Moved 'by and his wife were mightily astonished worlds, but whole cluster') of worlds' Mr. Dulntage, seconded by Mr. Grit- and even more pleased. They thought turning about each .other in the midst bath; that the following 'a+icounts be it a very good thing that they should of spane. We do not know what passed : Mr. Drager, tor repairs ;on have' Opened their inn. 'You see,' the there naay leek any of them ; perhaps . serail" 75 cents ; Santtral Johnston, p old titan would remark, 'he has a kind the answer to all -our difficulties or the gravel, + $1.4; Hart tk.. CJs., for station - of talent for a publican ; he never caro of -all our sufferings ; and yet we ery, ' $8.75 ; Collector West Division would have trade anything else 1' and call never reach them ; not all the $7.92 for taxes I'm:UWad, being so life wagged on in the valley, with skill of the Draftiest of men can fat out Mrs. iiatusay, Mrs- fatties, Henry high sttisfactioni to all concerned but _ a ship for the nearest of these our SeiverB, and dog for Rolan,, 112osgrove, Will. Every .carriage that left the neighbors, nor would, the life of the ••and Wm. Oliphant; Jessie dos, 1 for d • 5O fo.