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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-09-20, Page 2r AW Alt, EVIVER 20, Ito, LOV* IN T] !AR WEST. nT Attt tarniez,e84 It was just exactly, like Cinderella in the fairy books,. said. Weldon, ex- ultently. One evening of light and splendor ---one delicious waltz with a partner, who seemed absolutely to float an wings ; oue glimpse of ,a that great, halm crowded conservatory, with the arched glass roof and: the festoons of colored lamps ! Wasn't it nice of Nell to lend me her blue crape dress and satin boots and the set of old sapphires that came down td the. Magnus family from nobody knows who 1 And now—oh yes, the lights are out, and the ball banquet faded, and its ten o'clock of a snowy December day, and if I don't make baste I shall lose the Western express! Oh, dear 1 oh, dear 1 why can't we all live in a fairyland forever. Because, Eleanor Magnus solemnly made answer, it is not in the nature of things. But Muisdora dreamed of that one glittering ball as the; train: sped past the law Jersey flats, and flew shriek- ing on its way to the Far Weat. - She never had- been to a ball before, she probably '.never would see one again. Now she smiled to herself as. she remembered how she had let her partner keep one of her little blue gloves—as a souvenir, he declared laughingly. But he didn't know I was going to Dakota, said Musidora gleefully. That it wad my last 'appearance on any stage east of the Mississippi river. I wonder how many nights he will look out for me at the opera and at balls and soirees and receptions before he gives me up ? It was nice ! And how divinely he waltzed ! Cecil Grieve—it was such a pretty name, too. Well, good-bye, Cecil 1 with a wave of her hand toward the salt marshes. " r- shall never raw you again. For Musidora was keying behind her all the traditions and associations of the East. She had tried in vain to earn a livelihood in the ofd seaport of Maine where fortune had originally . cast her lot. She had stormed the citadel with her needle, tapped at its gates with a pencil, 'written stories which were deiilined with thanks, and opened a little school to which nobody, ever cattle. It's no use, said Musidora. There are too many women here. I'II go, somewhere else. For surely there is some place where I must be needed. Sp she had written to' her. uncle not in Dakota to know if she could help him keep house out there. I'll try not to be in the way, uncle, she wrote, pathetically. I can •sew and spin, and cook and darn,. and it will be strange indeed, if I don't man- age to pay my way! Uncle Absalom had written back : "Come and welcome. Girls are as scarce out here as' sequins. You are not a true Magnus if you cannot sup- port yourself ; but even if you were a wax puppet I'd make you welcome for my brother Hiram's sake." Se Mueidore had followed .the beck- oning Finger of Fate; and on her way to Dakota she had stayed one night in New York and beeu to 'a ball in Eleanor Magnus' blue crape dress. If she had, descended into the Valley of Diamonds with Sin,bad the Seiler, or gone behind the scenes in a fairy extravaganza, the scene • could not have beeu newer or more delight. fel to her, We an experience, said Musidora; I'll put it down in my Diary, with my first lover, my wedding, my first glimpse of Niagara. And all that weary journey, when the train seemed to oscillate along the flat plains with never resting persis. tency, she closed her eyes to think over the lights of the palm trees, the z waying strains of "The. Beautiful Blue Danube," and the scent of the gardenia in Oeei[ Grieve's button - hale. Uncle Absalom was a tall, bearded man, with grizzled hair, sunbrowned face, and a coat which looked as if it hadn't been brushed in a twelve- month. He kissed itis niece, helped her into a red cutter, and drove away t -through the snowdrift to a log cabin, where there was a fire as, big as a blaokstnithy, and a dinner of s half race venison eteakt and scorched f g potatoes. ' iusldore looked pityingly on the t carpetless floor, the cobweb.drapsd utiltngs and IA, which did not seem o to have any Kneen itheets nn it. Are magi set werlt poor, Uncle Alma. To think, the said, that I, who dont F' raid else, wistfully. of a!1 persons •the most prosaio an Well, not Aivery, said Uncle Alma. home spun, should have been. living -loth, with a smile. I've got three real romance ellthese woke t thousand sheep, a hundred sack fifty think that he has loved me all thi fat cattle, and seventy horses. And time 1 Oh, Nelly, I Nosily l that on I think there's twenty•thou8and acres. Cinderella night was the turnin in my place, if the surveyor didn't. point, in my destiny, • A.cd you aro t make no mistake. Yes, following the come out to Dakota for the wedding direction of his niece's eye, I'm aware and then we will go back East again we halut much brio.a.brac here, but for Cecil declares that, after thi that will coarse in time.It's victuals warning, he will never live in a plats and drink, a. shelter from thestorm where there are Indian reservations and a good fire that's moat needed And Uncle Absalom says he does no reeve just at present, Now 've kan now what he shall do when I come, you can civilize us up a hit. gone, But of one thing, Nelly, I wan So Musidora , went cheerfully to you to be very, very sure, I am, th work, and in a year's time the old log happiest giPl in the world. Yes th cabin had been transformed into a very happiest. bright little hoose, all aglow with the nos ended Musidora's life tokens of woman's presence. To be the Far Weat, and thus begets he euro, it was lonesome there, and she new existence• was afraid of the red-browed Indians, And Uncle Absalom's sole continent who came now and then, ir. stealthy was: bands, from the ,Reservation. But I said so, all along. the country was so grand and the. , forests so sublime that she grew :to ' Dan and the Doctor. love the very solitude. I think it was. then very last time I Uncle Absalom, she' said solemnly, saw Dan Marble in life that this I like the (far West. I mean to stay humorous reminiscence fell from his here always with you. lips. Dan the inimitable ! Could That would suit me egzackly, said such a man have. an enemy ? His Uncle Absalom, who was smoking hie heart was as warm as his imagination, briar -wood pipe on the front door and fattens', jollity rippled upon.his lips steps But it ain't likely. Some fel- as sunlight dances upon the noontide low will come along and snap you up. wavelets. Dear old Dan 1 Requiescai Musidora laughed. in pace! There are no fellows here, Uncle Towards the close of his career Dan Absalom, said she. Unless you had occasion to visit,Boston—called by count Red -Feather Jack, at the Re- Ford, then of the Howard Athemetim; servation, or Simple Peter that goes and notices of his coming had been from door to door playing the bag- ported far and wide. On his arrival pipes. he was not feeling well. Really and Uncle Absalom said nothing. He truly, he was suffering in a fit of the only. laughed. and smoked on. ' blues.' But he fancied himself sick Next day news came from up coup- and was determined to have medical try. ' advice. He consulted his host, and Musidora, said Uncle Absalom, was was recommended to call' upon Dr, you ever in an hospital. Walter Channing. And away went No, the girl answered, looking at Dan to see the doctor. He found him him with wondering eyes. Why do at home, a genial, handsome, lovable yon ask ? man,with hair like. spun silver—a mail Because,he answered, you're wanted in the evening of a long, useful life, to go on hospital duty. Those devils who had' come to be widely known, of redskins have broke out again. and as widely loved. Nobody can trust 'ern no further tea Dan sat down and explained his you eon "0 'em. They've „yids feelings as well as he could. The a party going to the mountains, rob- doctor listened patiently .to the end, mules and left 'em for dead. putting questions occasionally, until he bed their 11Zusidora, you've got pretty go.. seemed to have gained all the -kno stet T(? OFT It GOOD SLEEP, a To A BOON FOR WHICH MANY WOULD s HAVE GIVEN ALL THEY HAD. e g insomnia a Widespread »heat. wad Soma. O gimes a Dinioult Ono to 1'orn.aneutt7 -�-A Curs movie Re,nedr niueovered b' ' a wise Mau who Was a Sutrorer. a. "Blessed be the man who invented. e sleep," exclaimed Sancho Panza, philo- t sophioal squire of the redoubtable Don Quixote, And no one appreciates this so muclt as the unfortunate individual at - t flicted with insomnia, e A remedy for sleeplessness should be e known by every one, since there is noth- ing which will so soon wear out the en- c tire system .as being unable to sleep ✓ soundly. "Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care," saki Tcbeth. This was a philosophy born of is own experience, since his conscience made sleep a stranger to his eyelids, and be was verging on madness. We have all felt, atsonrettInle or other, the truthfulness of Young's thought that sleep, "tired nature's sweet restorer," was like the rich, "his ready visit pays where fortune smiles," while he "flies from woe and lights on lids un- sullied with a tear." 3did017S MATTER. ttlevpieeoness is dangerous: It will pre- vent the rebuilding of the body after sickness and will waste away the moat robust if not checked. And, worse than all, it is a prolific source of madness. To become unable to sleep soundly or even reasonably well is cause for serious alarm. It is also a source of great suf- fering. Any remedy, therefore, which will induce sleep to kiss the eyelids which, have wooed the drowsy god vain will prove a boon to every one. The causes of insomnia are legion, but outside of general nervous debility and chronic disorder of the nervous system, whether caused from mental or nervous &&:ease, or from . some injury to the nerve centers, the causes of sleeplessness may be put down as anything that causes the blood to flow to the brain it; increased • quantities. Strong physical exercise, rapid breathing or deep thought will, according to .the best authorities, conduce to bring about a state of sleep- lessness. And unless checked it will grow until it becomes very serious. It may be stated, as a fact overlooked by nanny who find .themselves unable to sleep, that their insomnia arises from carelessness .on . their part in failing to observe certain easily ascertained rulea in regard to sleeping. The body cannot sleep while the•brain is excited. Anything which will dimin- ish the flow of blood to the brain will allay excitement.. Very deep, slow and quiet respiration will soothe the brain to a great degree, and, at the sametime, serve the purpose of detracting the at- tentionof 'the mind from the matte pluck. Will you go with me t Lovely Fails, to see what can be don for the poor fellows ? Musidora shuddered a little, her face grew perhaps a=shade paler than its natural hue, but sheanswered valiantly. • Yes,. I will go. Lovely Falls bas been well :owned. The wind, frantic leap of a eheet of water over a solitary precipice, with stunted pine.s.leaning over the spray, eagles screaming overhead—.this was the scene. • And on a blood-stained blanket on the trampled grass lay two wounded men—one dead, the other unconscious. Musidora stood for an instant looking at the dark forms, Brave woman though she was, she had never seen death in this fearful aspect before. It chilled her blood,it drew a white mist before her eyes. For a moment only, however. Then she knelt bravely down, unpacked her little roll of lint and linen, and asked Uncle Absalom to give her the jug of warn, water from the mule's back. There may be some chance for double tick of the old clock in the this one, she said. The other is past corner—the doctor looked into the our care. Tell them to diga grave mellowing face before him, and then for him near where they have staked the explosion came. He had seen out the land for the little chapel. Dan on the stage several times; but For days the wounded man lay never before off, However, he knew unconscious of all that was transpir- him now. around him, in 'Uncle Absaloni's cab- We will only add,—it was betweet. in. And one morning, in the yellow eight and nine o'clock in the evening glove of early autumn, he seemed When Dan called upon the doctor,, and once more to emerge out of the troubled obscurity of fever dreams the clocks were striking eleven when into the real world again. Where am I 1 he said. What has One on tho Inspector. became of that copper colored fiend's _ A school inspector hailing from knife 1 And the girl I danced with— Glasgow has the credit, says the Dun. the girl in blue, with the little blue dee, Scotland, Advertiser, of telling the glove—where is she ? ' following story against himself. It Eh 1 said Uncle Absalom, with- ought to be premised that he is not tall drawing the everlasting pipe item his and has not been blessed with much mouth and staring its if every one of - personal beauty, but he thinks himself, his faculties were concentrated in the and deservedly so, an excellent public one sense of sight. speaker. Examining a junior class That's quite right, Uncle Absalom, one day lately, he wished to lead up to said Musidora, who had come into the 'breath' as the reply to a question. room with a basket of wild flowers, Ile had no reply at first, but, atter a which she had been gathering to pre- pause, he said : What comes out of serve, I am the girl 1 I did dance my mouth ? . A, wee little fellow with him in a blue dress once—i a promptly answered, Gas, sir. After. - New York. (-tut I never expected wards, in exaplaining what an adjective bus to meet him again. was, he said: I am a man, but place Then it was not a dream 1 said Cecil au adjective before 'tnan' I ani .a — Grieve, putting out his transparent, ' Little man 1' exclaimed one hopeful. keleton-like hand, and you were my The inspector does not like to be called wardian angel, after all ! little. Ile said ;Well— ah—give tme Soareeiy a month had elapsed• since another. -'Ugly little ratan 1' shouted hat bright autumn. manning when a ton literal boy. Musi4ora Magnus wrote a long and t onfdentiel letter to her codeine The seabick man is always selfish. lleauor, in NOW York. � no Wants the earth. o; you •.go, ' ex s on ay a sn- ug, and see Danforth garble. He is to play at the Howard Athenaeum, And follow it up. If ;he don't • cure you, then I can't. ' Dan looked up demurely; the smile upon his hitierto glum visage nos fairly awoke ; the bright light ap peared in his lustrous eyes ; and those luscious, fun laden lips seemed to be suddenly rollicking. The tone—the _ bearing—aye the whole man --changed upon the instant. Wa.a-11 t declar 1That's what 1 should call sendin' a feller pooty nigh hum, doctor. But I'll try it, anyhow. And neow, what's ter pay 1 Just a moment—perhaps for the ie left. could thoroughly rest anrecu body and mind after their laborer This is abundantly proven in the case of in - tants and convalescents. Both sleep in the day time equally as wellas at night, and both grow more while sleeping than while awake. Cool,fresh air is the best to sleep in. Extreme heat and closeness • of the, air tend to prevent sleep, as does profuse perspiration. The teeth should be well cleaned and the mouth rinsed before going to sleep. After all these necessary rules have been observed, and still sleep refuses to come at the bidding of the pleading eyelids, one may be sure they are suffering from insomnia, and 'should seek to induce sleep by amp means. But how to do this 'has been the question with many, and physicians are called in and soothing potions taken, all of which will fail in nine cases, out of ten. But what, then, is to be done? This is what thousands of sleepless persons have asked. There are many sure and simple remedies. •. The most celebrated remedy was thea of a Mr. Gardner, of England. It was known to the entire reading world about thirty years ago, but having been out of print in recent years only older people remember it. Physicians who make a specialty of nervous diseases are familiar with it, and recommend it in nearly all cases where a patient suffers from in - Mr, Gardner was a man of wealth and culture, and had accumulated a number of remedies, such as for allaying thirst where liquids could not be procured, for temporarily appeasing the pangs of hunger, and for improving the eyesight by various ingeniously contrived glasses. Ile became a great sufferer from insom- nia, caused by an injury to his spine from falling out of a chaise. The sufferer who wishes to Bleep must lie on his right side, with his head placed comfortably on the pillow, hav- ing his neck straight, se that respira- tion will not bo hindered in the least, The rips. aro tion to be sdosgct.trl(ghtly egad t► flat inept esiott Naive, through the noetribs only if bins. The full inspiration taken, the bun , are to be left to their own taction. At s feu roust now be fixed upon the rest crit. The person must imagine that - seers the brs•atth cues from his Dostrilst in, as continuous etreau, lilts are from art exlutust pipe. The he brings ids mind to conceive tl thus nes hie breath, and grasps this• idea apart front ill others, consciousness leavee hint taut he falls rsleep. If this method does not at once succeed it is to be persevered end, if properly carried out, ie believed to be infallible. I$ is founded on the principle that monotony or the ittiluencar on the mind of a Bingle idea inducee sleep.—Ohicago Times JACKSON'S RUGGED NATURE. Bra cath. for Life and Patirat Sas!er1eg TM the.t. Andrew Jackson was blessed with a rugged constitution, or he must have euceumbed many years before to disease. that preyed on hint for thirty-one years. He niff'ered from a wound received ia>t 1884, which often produced hemerrhegea and chronic diarrhea. The medical treatment' in vogue by the best physis ;dans of the time prescribed bleeding for the hemorrhage and calomel for impair- ed digestion—a course that is' now looked on as homicidal. Yet he stood the rave ages of disease. the loss of blood, anti corrosions. of poison fora third of a cen- tury. During the last two years of bis life dropsical symptoms developed, one lung; teas gone, and the other diseased. $at chewed tobacco incessantly, though it aggravated indigestionand gave him the most agonizing pa% in the head. HO' sat motionless and silent for long days, absorbed in stoical endurance of pain, end no suffering ever drew a groan trona his lips. Many children of the family oonnection played about the Hermitagcr and he world not have their noisy sport stopped. Once a little nephew ram against him in his play. The sick mats 1.11 back, white as death.. breathless with agony. When lie could, speak he drew the boy to him and 'said, with pitying: tenderness: •`Oh, ray dear bap, you don't know- how nowhow mach pain •you have given your uncle." He was anxious about what posterity would think of him, and his own doctor told him he would bo condemned for proscribing people for their opinions. He answered with.Isis old time energy: "Calhoun and the Nullifiers should not have been proscribed; I would have bad them hung, sir, as high as Haman; and posterity would have pronounoed is the best act of my life." ' He waepestered by office seekers and hero worshipers to the day of his death. June 8, 1845, he called his family about, • him and said good -by to eacicene. "My dear 'children," he said;•"do not grieve for me, I have suffered much bodily' pain, but my sufferings are as. nothing t0 the blessed Saviour's." He spoke clearly for fully half an hour, and oost- eluded with: "My dear children and friends and servants, I hope and trust to tweet you all in heaven, both" black and white-" : The• last phrase he repeated with tenderest solicitude—"both black and white." At half pest • 5 his son took his hand and whispered'; itt his ear: "Father, how do you feel, Do you know me?" "Yes, I know you. I would knowyota all if I could see. Bring my spectacles," When they were put on: "'Where t'amy daughter and Marian? God silk take care of you for me. I ant my God's. i belong to, him. I go but a short; time before you, and I. want to meet yeas -a11, whiteand blade, in heaven." ' Every one about the bed and the'blecic servants on the piazza burst inti- tears. ,fad sobbed. Hrbad raised himself and spoke. again:. "What is the matter with my dear children? Oh, do not cry. Isle good chil- dren, and we will all meet in heaven." These were his last words. A .half boar later flo breathed his last in the arms of Maj. Lewis,. who.taict the bode down and closed the eyes,. The expres- sion of pain fell like 4 meek from the serene face, and the natural look of the said warrior returned' in death. -Chicago Tribune. Old Books. .1n antiquarian searching in the Oona-' necticut State library has discovered several books of a. very ancient date.; There is a black letter Latin dictionary printed in 1477, soon after the discovery of printing with movable types and fifteen years before Columbus sailed for America. There is a Melancthon book of 1501 and a notable one on logia, a queer old book which belonged to Samuel Parris, the Salem minister, in whose house the witch phenomena broke out and who himself led the persect>tion. It; bears his signature. Tile book was . printedmeJournin al. 16113ft at Leyden. --,New Bork Ho Cerannn mute, health and sweet breath secured, by SIAM'S Catarrh 11enmdy. Price 50 cents. Nasal Nectar free. .Font: sale by C. B. Williarm. Don't you know how to spell !asked the exasperated teacher of the ex- tremely phonetic boy. Oh, yes, said the boy, t know bow to spell welt enough, but the men oho nada the t diettonatir d ' q oat wan to,