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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-11-29, Page 2r ` A iDsiring your owu lta.adiwork, nuaed to brave all things, and fo with I brace that rlaatIi i ' 1? tuf;;ht not Fever r a ,, tl1fli� ci tit Bertie, testy Ily, 1 °itches 1. iluug Inv bran ten bt+Kgeary, bot it would lies, p!- sat+ h°.r bttlw hdare itlhteho,otu- sax no inure. gazing too. to nave Belted it• 3 ocean together, and I a Not exactly, Darrington answered, 'Ilia weeks went by and our voyage i Ten siert from the. Lilac Star roach- gruflly, I've never done anything in was drawing to an •end, the pretty . ed the shore and Iver° saved, I was r golf ou the opposite chair and fell too been Kona for him to Have died than l' then we were kill in the terinaltutruti • te>tDA,Y, NOTEMBEIt 29, 1889. can ascat Afford It? the paint brush line worth admieing .ocean idyl to its close, and of late theI one.. Oinrgung to it portion of the I that I know of, Whatever merit that lonely Alexia IE,ainsbrooks had Haddon. • wreck, how I never know, rowalied A Toftic x aonio. may have ---and 1 it has Borne or you ed and grown pule, The life long I it, For yards around the blue waters When tempte1te go with the boys fora wouldn't stare at it as you do—ie parting was near. She was realizing were crimson • with ; blood, and the lark, owing to its truth, Hamilton, I tell its bitterness already. frenzied shrieksof our poor fellows, 'think! • •Gan you afford it?you 1 often wake at night and see that 1 was awakened one morning,just as as the savage jaws of the sharks dark, The most kit their. mesas is spent Biter girl's face before nae with just that ex day was breaking, by an odd arrashiug closed upon them, are ringing in my Think! Can you aford it? mission, its I saw it last, poor ol)ild, sound beneath,then all at once motion 'cars yet, You may sit around the table. where cards before it went down forever, If Ceased, and the ship stood ' rtill, Ira- Her face has haunted me all those are dealt out"'',1 should like to hear the spry, mediately there followed an uproar years like a ghost. To exercise it ] Or paint the `town red on a rolliolring Carrington, if you don't mind, sat 1, and tginult, shrieks of women and painted that picture, And Ferry lathe codimu'reboth money,�and character while the red flames leaped and 41ow- shouts of Hien; I sprang ftp, .dressed, Christmas there .eotnes back to me boutout, •- ed,.ligating gp the lovely piolured rushed on deck, and ns one minute that Ohristmes.'.and the angelic Rine 'Think! Can you afford it? face, r j( knew what had happened. We had of Alexia ltaulsbrooke, as she went .Chorus. It is twenty years ago,said Caj!ring• gotten out ot our latitude and had down in her lover's arras ou the wreck Ohl Can you afford it? ' ton. It seems only yesterday ad I sit struck. of the Lone ,Star. Thiukl Can you afford it? here and think of it. 'Meaty years The sun rose as I stood there—the If you save every dime, they'll be dollars ago, and before your time, youg ester, sun of Christmas day—and showed us army Doughnuts. in time, the Lone Star, a transport vessel eni• our danger fully. We were near A. 1lnssachusetts officer details with think Can you afford it? ployed to take out detachments to Simon's Bay, and far on the heriz,e, You'd othes,rt be dudish and sporting new arous regiments in India; with the the land lige was visible ; but we evidentf enth rent aonie northern armforaging ur g Think! Can you afford it? ' wives and children,sailed item South- might as well have been a thousand Shermain's great march. " Otte of Sow they're to be patc1 tor nobody knolls, smpton. 1 was au ensign . t the time, miles off, for already the ship was these was of a sort which even the Thinkl Can you afford it? my commission as new as my unix tilling and•sinking fast. Before noon bittergst Confederate might have en• It's all very well to be deoept and clean, form myzeal as burning a, the fieryFb And when with the boys you appear very + g is o,. this radiant Christmas morning the. joyed. mean,, climate to which we were ordered. Lone Stat- would be at the bpttonu• One day a forager noticr�d an or :But your bank account's much better fat Our commanding officer was Ool Beres• Out of the confusion order came at One shrub growing ni a yard of Think! Can you afford it? than it's luau, ford; his second in commapd, Captain last.. The soldiers were drawn ftp on red elsy' with marks of black learn ou - Hawley, one. .of the bravest and •beet deck. by Colonel Beresford, stranding it. It amok taint that it was not its ''Chorus. fellows in the service, of good fami Y, firmly as if on parade, the boas were native soil, and he went for that hush, B. wife le a good thing to have in a house. but without a rap in the world except lowered and manned, the women and It easily Dame mit of ou Think! Can you afford it? his pay, and not a single' shadow of children put in and sent safely to land• and from the hole under iiitheof grwhichnd She'll keep you at home and stop many expectations. He was the hest of I see it all now the brilliant tropic carouses, P it was tits tell tale, carne a wheat. Thick! Gan you afford it? good fellows in every way, ready to sun in the cloudless morning sky, the stock of provisions and fatpily cloth She's a luxury, sure, and it yon would tell you a capital story, a good joke, soft breeze blowing, the sea a sea of filo, t' try or troll you off a song in his rich tenor, glass, the. long line of men standing Another of our men, while crossing To keep her you'll find, perhaps with $ and before we.were ont a week the finely erect awaitingtheir doom,field, y' a plowed rues attracted by suspi- That women, like the hats that they wear pet of all the women on board, the sobbing heartbroken cries ot the emus signs and ran his ramrod into now, Dome high. There were some hundreds of 'em and wives who •were never to see their: the ground. A foot down it struck (horusThiukl Can you afford it? • heaps of children, Hewley was a husbands more ; the ship was sinking, soniettrfnl; solid favorite with all the children in the sinking inch by inch, and `the black . The kind hearted finder hastened to steerage, as well as the ladies in the devils of sharks swimmifig slowly make others rich as well ail himself cabin ; prime favorite, in short, with round and round, knowing. in some fie ran down to the band with two officers,• men and all ; and so when horrible way what bad happened, and tin cups running over, one with syrup, pretty Hiss Rainsbrooke took it into waiting for their prey: Brave men; I the other with peach butter, while the her bewitching head to fall in love tell you, lad stood on that deck, but delicious sweets dripped , from his with hire almost at sight, nobody was the bravest there flinched as they clothing and his persue, as if in con - in the world surprised. Only, it looked at their deadly maws. Before hrmation of his pleasing tale. wouldn't do ; and so EIswley knew as night the women and children would"Plenty more right up there; forty weli as any of us. if safely reach the land—before noon two hogsheads full 1" HO7o THE "LONE STA t' WENT DOWN. AT MRS. ma' AGNCS n?LEMING. The picture hung over the fire place and had a fascination for me for which I conid not aicount. It wasn't by any means a irk of art. Bertie Carrington, latae ^Major of her Ma. jesty's—th, had painted it with his owu hand, and Burtie at best was only a second rate amateur. It wasn't, then, its artistic merit you perceive, and I never entered Car- ringtoa•s without drawing my chair in ftont• of that crude production in oil, and staringat it through the `smoke of my meerschaum byy the hour to- gether. The picture was this t . A wide, sun -lit sea, lying like gilded glass•beneath a sky of cloudless ultra- marine. A huge, white ship ground- ed on a reef, so filled and sunken that the oily, slippery waves were just softly gliding over the decks. Around the doeitxed vessel dozens of dark ob- jeuts moved, stealthily waiting. Sharks .► On.the deck;. drawn up as if. or parade, in the shadow, and • out where the brilliant light of the sun fell fullest, a man and a woman to. gether. It was the face of the woman, I think ,that had the fascination- for me. Tue face of a girl in her first ..and beautiful beyond the ordinary beautY:e1 girlhuod,or else idealized by . the artist. Her loose hair flew back in the gale. The face lay on a ;man's shoulder, uplifted to the sky, atid ou that face lay an unearthly expression of joy and peace, such as no - words 'of mice can describe. Veath Was at her side, but love had robbed death of its stiug. Teat was wh at that radiant tranatigured gaze said to you. One ureaof the man held her dote, the °titer lay on the ship's side, his bead bowed thereon. That was the picture. I tike pictures that tell,a story, said' I, the first titne I saw it, to earwig - ton This one does. It is the best tuing you have dune yet, old man, And Uerriogton,ustna'ly the freest and must genial of good fellows, had turn ed away. his face, changing and dark- ening in suddenly that •1 saw at once, 1 woe on "forbidden ground. The , picture: had a story then, a painful one' +'u hien ; and though 1 took my station 1,efore it every time 1. visited him; I haver Tried patine or criticism more. But one Christmas eve as we sat alone tuge'thee, the tragic. story, at my earnest entreaty, Ives told. It wed n wi.d and snowy Debember meriting, 1, remember a high gale abroad, and black London lying all white and frozen under the Christmas urt,, as 1: made my way to earring- , ton's boast,. . e I found him alone, as 1 expected to fiurl bI,n, his Livonian wolf -hound 'witted tit his feet, lying back In an eBay alttoir before a huge fire, smoking Hurt easing as 1 was wont to do, at the o-tr,...,,t red light of the fire, the fat I•.* girl xat„tt,. ort tvi;erdlylifelike from Alin own taso She was, I•think, HGailton, with- the Lone Star would go down. out exception, the prettiest girl I ever Captain Hawley was one of the meu saw, and I've seen some pretty girls who helped the women into the boats in the forty odd years of life, mind As Mrs. Beresford descended he asked you. She was exceptionally pretty, in after Miss Bainshrooke, . Only' once fact—no, you needn't look at that since the accident had he caught eight. daub, it does her no sort of justice. of her. But the'Oolouel's wife, terra She had your real golden ..hair—none tied and hysterical knew nothing. of the copper colored stuff they pile Alexin was in on :•cif the other boats ruountainously high on their heads —she could not tell 'which. A deeper now—eyes sapphire blueto their very sadness than any sadness death could depths, laughing and lovely; a corn- prodnoe lay on bis fade. To part like. plextoe of pearl, and a mouth the this forever -without a word. Then sweetest that ever was kissed. She the order was given and . the boats was tall andgraceful, accomplished pushed off. One long last wailing beyond all telling, and just nineteen. cry of farewell from the widowed The previous season she had come out, wives, and we stood to wait for death peen preseuted,ran the round of vanity on the deek of the Lone Star. fair, and the best men of the day had Frauk Hawley stood with set lips a been at her feet as suitors ; but she little apart, gazing after the boats. had laughed back 'no' to. one and all, growing mere specks on the sunny sea, came out of the ordeal unecrathed and when .a low and inexpressible cry now under the protecting wing of from every men on board simultane- Mrs. Col. Beresford was going out to ously made him turu around, And join dear papa in India, • up trona the cabin, and gliding for - Dear papa was Genera Rains- ward, a smile on her face, came the. brooke, K. O. Ha next heir to an general's daughter, straight into the earldom, and with the pride of ,Luci arms of Hawley. for incarnated. The man who won Did you think is had `. gone Frank? the fair Alexia, with . her birth and she asked, with that bonne. Did you tier beauty and herdowry, tntwt thunk I had left you? write his name high in the peerage He gazed at her—we all did—in indeed. .Royalty itself would not horror. have been one whit too high for Miss Great heaven, Alexia,! You here ?. Alexia Rainsbrdoke in the eyes of the It was all he could say.. haughtiest martinet in the service. She put her arms around his neck, And with Frank Hawley she had fall- and laid her golden head on his shout - en in love,. as 1 say, almost at sight, der, and looked up into his agonized and he with her; fat' And it was love, Hamilton --nous With you, crank, raver to part. of your modern silver«gift shams, but more now. I am not 'afraid to die the pure gold. They toyed each other like this. It is so much easier than and if ever two were made for each to say good-bye forever Aird to - other, they were—that was the un- to sayrow 16 must have been. Now it animous verdict on board. need never be, and - death is more But it won't do, Hawley, my hid, merciful than life. said Dolonel Beresford, soft-hearted He sank down and drewirer to him himself as a woman, you don't know as you see them there, his face bona, Rainsbroolce, as I,do. Ile'd see her without a word the loving,wistful eyes dead first. And you., are too fine a fellow to have your 1, life spoiled by at his. any woman, were she Venus herself.Prannk,. love,' you are not. angry 1. myself, but he was always in a class Alexia is an angel, but angels with Dear, believe me, this is the happiest of boys two or three years younger than himself, --•St. Joseph (&to.) Sometimes a Mistake was made. One of a band, passing a log house, levied ou it for a calabash of lard, and the usual batch of doughnuts were fried that night. A peculiar flavor, supposed to be due to an excess of soda, was noticed; but hard marched men, with sharkish appetites, did not stop for trifles. Daylight revealed the fact that the doughnuts had been fried in soft soap. —Youth's Companion. Z ark Twain's Boyhood. He wee always a rascal, said 'R. E. Morrit, the painter, 520 South Fourth street, speaking of Mark Twain, 1 was.boru and raised in Hannibal, and know when Mrs.Olemens (Mark's mother) moved from Florida, Munroe °iiunty, to Hannibal. Mark was a dull, stupid, slowing fellow,• but he was frill of prauks, and while he didn't do the meanness,he planned it and got other boys to do . it We went to school to Dr. •Meredith, and Mark alvtaye sat near the font of the class. He never t)ok any interest in books,, and 1 never saw him study bis lessons. Ele left school and went to learn the printing business, and soon after tbat left Hannibal and went steamhoating. I stayed at school, got a good educa- tion, and am a painter, while Mark is a millinnaire. It is a scandalous fact that as a boy from 10 to 17 years of age, Mark was a dull, stupid fellow, and it was the'wonder of the town as to what end would be his. Ile was pointed out by mothers as a boy that would never amount to anything; if be did not actually come to some bad end. And he was the most homely lad in the.. school too. Pranks 1 I oars think of a dozen of them, and his Huckleberry Finn is full of Han - tubal episodes worked over. I read that with as mtteh interest as I would a diary of Hannibal during my school days,. Mork is three years older than • flinty fathers don't marry young men Ghristmaa of my fife. whose fortune lies in their sword Only she heard his answer, as he blades. Sl.c is an angel, but she is held her close ; but her face took that r not for you, sogive it u before it is transfigured look of lovo;alid joy, and CAtrARb`i;H, too late , p kept it to the end. 8 Catarrhal Deafness, Play Fever. Frank Hawley flocked at him with The slow etunlight hours Wore onA NEw Mira 1usr. a smile. Colonel. Too late, he said, it's that new there, our Colonel at our ',head, faster =,,a07,1?.ving pa,asites In' the Hulett membrane Colonel. Co Nees. Without word or motion we stood Sufferers ars not generally aware that these dls• nttwtous, or that they aro dna to the of lite nose and ouetraehiah Athos, Microscoplo re - um has proved !itis to be a tact and me wltat wiit,t shall love and faster our fated ship sank beneath Alexia to the last lay of lily life and us, Still slowly round and rotted the the re Itis t' tai 1 n ed h h f' 91t nes 9lnp a 1'C 1 seeetl orIIlu• + i fated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deetness and ilay she will love We. All the fathers ill , black fiehdish ' ahatrka i SWAM. 0 fever are permanently cured in from one .to three the world Can't alter it, My wife she heaven 1 what a death for her. can never•be, that I know ; but she She did not fear it. does love me and -dome what will I 1 stood thatching her, I could watch have been bleated... nothing else -all thought of my own She knew it too--Icnew that bile end fate lost in utterable pity for her. As of the voyage would be the end of the ship .gave rte last tremendou=s bet life`s romance ----and yet in the beano and death throe—as the gold present they ootild still be happy, i1 •truces wanen cauls running °net the - lee bad asked her the would have pnro- • deck) 1. saw hjm clasp hest )tis an eel•+ raiment* Latest Fro Occasionally fashions start i 24'w York and min t,lttrriu h to knit. city at a pace that attr " f attention even of people who have gat inst in the attire of women. tunvetentnu'nt nt - curred last year with the Jane Bailin;; veil, The most obtusoof xnen eiiscoverr'11 that a now veil had conte to town, and began to talk about it within a month af- ter Mine. Hading's arrival, Sinee that time nothing has conte up which ap. proechod the sudden popularity of the veil until the little capes. whtrh are just now affected by women, caste to the surface. The ,ape, though a single gar- ment, ment, looks as though composed of five or six capes, each ono an inch or two shorter than the other, They are pat- terned apparently after the ones that ha Vo been worn by coachmen for the lust eight or ten years in New York. and the fash- ion is said to have been set by Lady Ber- esford, the wife of one of the most en- thushaetic coaching men in Great Britain. They are exceedingly pretty and effective, and they seem to please the men• Per- haps this is one of the results aimed at.-- New York Star, A (,tarry of "Serpentine" fi!ar11+. Grand Rapids capitalists are busy pros- pecting the Verde Antique marble quer- ry, which they have discovered near Ishpeming in the upper peninsula, and thorough tests show that an inexhausti- ble ledge of the finest "serpentine" yet known on the . continent, better even than the old Greek quarry now worked out, has been found. It is close to the railroad, and L`hieago, New York and Boston marble dealers are enthusiastic in the extrerine over the discovery, and say that hundreds of thousands of cubic feet will be wanted annually. The }cork of developing the quarry will he pushed as early as possible next spring.—Grand Rapids (Mich.) Telegram. Rattlesnake 011. There are places in South Georgia where men extract oil from the rattle- snake and use it to cure rheumatism. These persons will give a negro $1 to point out a rattlesnake to them, and then they kill it in a peculiar manner. They place a forked stick over the snake's head, then put a cord around it and strangle the snake. This is done to keep the snake from biting itself. The body of the reptile is then strung up and the oil extracted from itis ft sells at $S per ounce, and this industry is a very profitable one. The snakes in that sec- tion are very large, averaging five feet in length, and one rattler gives up -44 great deal of oil. A little negro once saw two rattlers lying close together and wanted to get the money for finding them. It Was a mile to the nearest house. He was afraid the snakes would craw) off while he was gone, and so he took oft' his coat and placed it between the snakes. He went off, came back,. and found them still eying the coat. Ha• had them charmed. So the snake ie. cultivated down there as a profitable in- dustry.—Athens (Ga.) Banner. A Yount Trapper.. Sixteen -year-old Harry Spencer, of Ransom, is a successful crow trapper. Young Harry's guinea hens got in the notion of laying their eggs in the bushes back, of the house last summer, and every now and then the crows , would swoop down and carry off the eggs. At first Harry was at a loss to account for the disappearance of the eggs, but one day he caught two crows in the act of stealing thein, and he straightway went to work to outwit the black thieves.' Out in the field be built a little well of sods.•'with an opening on. one side wide enough for a„crow to pass through, and in the passage he Bet a steel trap, Then he placed an egg in the 'centre of the well, and the first crow that saw it alighted on the outside of the circle of sods, tripped into the opening after the egg, and got its foot in the trap. The crow began to flutter like fury, and Harry ran out and clubbed :it to.death. He has caught nearly two dozen of the sly birds in thatway this. season.—Rau. sons (Pa.) Letter. Renting for the Meteorite. tt Is reported that the Alpinitee are greatly excited over the failing of an im- mense meteor in the vicinity of Mount Bullion. The, ball of tire, which is dee scribed as much larger than the Markle- ville court house, struclz with a• force that made the earth tretbble, giving are-, port like a cannon. The citizens of Ale pine have been out scouring the hills itt search of the aerolite. Although many people saw it fall, opinions differ in lo- cation from five to ten miles. --Genoa (Nev.) Courier. Telephonic, Amnsoment. A novelty is reported front Ilastings in connection with the performance of "The Yeoman of the Guard” at the theatre. The stage had been connected'byy'tele- phone with various private houses and hotels so that numbers of people are slightly hearing the opera without seeing it. We are not aware that this has ever been tried except in isolated cases as an experiment. Hastings may, therefore, simple applications made at home by the patent ber once In iso Weeks. N. 11. --For catarrhal dischorges .congratulated On being in the ran en con peculiar to females (whites) this remedy is e. specific.. progress.—London (Globe, A pamphlet explaining this new treatment Is sent on 1 receipt of ten cents by A. Il. Daus A Sox, AOS t4'eec King St„ Toronto, Canada. Sc1cntlac American. Sufferers front tarrhattroubles should road the Sutterts r'ert, frns pose and above carefully keepCaliinocondition ropButter'tos Portrestore, where California gold was first discovered A, -•-The Totes will be sent front tow till hall containing relies of the pioneer era, the end of the year for 10 ante, Send ter will probably be erected on the lint of n or tall and eubso4 e. the old fort. ---Exchange, 11 r 4.