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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-12-13, Page 6[ s' e> •i1 A TRAMP IN TIM SOHOQ r- !ttISE. When Lear% Peon found herself friendle<se fn the world, all her pes- sessions banaded on the four sides of a Saratoga, trunk and with a purse in Iter p'cket bolding exactly nioeteen dollars and twenty-five outs, she felt it tieeesslery to thiult of something be "Sides her troubles, unities she desired to be depeudpnt ou charity. She wee paying a visit to a frien{, but she was awaee that visits should never be too long. The details of the causes that had combined to throw her on her own resources rat nineteen years of age, are not necessary. Death, as you may suppose, lead Veer} very busy, .rind there had been the old story of a name signed for a friend, bankruptcy, a home sold at suction, and a broken heart. Laura had nothing to do with all this but to leole on and wonder ; to weep first for her mother, and then for her father, and to find herself dressed in black and all "slope on earth. One thine, ehe had, however, that the auctioneer's hammer could not rob tier of— a good education. She could certainly teach. The thought came into her mind one morning as she opened her eyes, and with it the ques- tion: flow shall 1 get a class or a school? Advertisement seemed to be the usual way, so the girl advertised, If she had not been very ignorant in the ways of the world, she would certainly have given initials or the number of the post office box; but as she, was a mere baby in all that pertained to the working world, the advertisment ended with; Address Miss Laura Penn, No. street.. Happily her friends did not read the advertisements, and she viiia spared ;advice and -leeture and information as to the impropriety of her conduct; and the advertisement resulted in a single lilcat whop', -house in the midst of the woods. The scholars were all young, and there were not many of them. The books were not the befit of their sort; the Week -beard was gray with age and there was a map of the United, States on the wall which hfid it been studied by the scholars, would have misled as to the tturnber of territories, However, most of the babies were still in their A 13 O's, or words of one syllable; and Laura !toped to influence the economical board to greater getter. osity in time, >S`lte had snttered so much that she could pot expect happi- ness until time had came to ber aid, and rude surroundings of inelegant cep. • pointmonts made little wetter.. The children were good enough; the girls caressing. Flowers and big apples were on her desk every morning. Little mouths ee..e lifted to her owtl in goodbye kisses. Any boy of there all was re,viy to do escort duty; ba: the wood -path both long and lonely, only delighted her; and Mrs. Cliff was !rind and motherly. Ott, the whole, 'her lines had not fallen in unpleasant placers. Fora mo•rth ,after. Laura Penn be- gan to teach the school the weather was clear sad bright, as September often is; not with October came a Monday with a great storm Tltt' roads were sodden, the trees dripped; people kept their little girls at home. The boys cane splashing in under water•prodf coats, and -with rubber .00ts to their knees, and boasted of their bravery; aAd the teacher lighted a, little fire in the big wood stovethat they might dry themselves. That was fun for all. Meanwhile, not to lose time, she set theta saying the multiplication table. Suddenly a big voice joined in the ehorus—Twice ten are twenty; twin eleven are twenty-b%to; twice twelve are twenty-four; and turning with a start, Lanra saw a figure, soaked in mud,—mud on its hair, mud on its nose, mud on its waist --standing in the door. A tramp, certainly. She had beard such dreadful things about tramps that she turned pale. St:11, in such a rain, she could have bolted the door in his face, if it had been „ iu ber power. A fire ! said the tramp, advancing. I expected nothing as good as that. call, May 1 come nearer, or ata I too About mite c'cbek the bell, rang. mcdcly? A portly tnrttrun inquired for Miss Bring a chair Johnny, " said the teacher. It is cieeadfui weather. Lie must'have been sleeping out of doors, she added to herself. The tramp confirmed her suspicion by remarking as he took the chair : It is weather, and I've.boen in the woods all. night. I presume I need washing the worst way. Tho teacher saw an opportunity for efforts in the senitary line. Johnny, she said, show the youug than where the wash basin and water buokot are, and you niri;y give him a clean towel! from the shelf. Johnny obeyed. He led the way; the tramp followed him, and returned much improved in appearance—quite clean, in fact --having been, as he said, broomed down by the useful Johnny. He Was steaming beautifully sbort- ly,and continued to Pin in the exercise of the school, adding woad to the fire occasionally until noontime came. As yet he had done nothing desperate, hut, as he eyed the cans and baskets, he remarked : I wish I had m7 lunch with me, I assure you. I missed my supper and had no breakfast. I ata conscious of a azicimin. Now, perhape, thought Laura, the time has come. She flew to her desk, I have some lunch here,. she said, offering a napkin felled by good Mrs. Cliff with short -cake, cheese and mince pie, and a bottle of milk. The tramp looked at it. The spirit is unwilling, he said, but the flesh is weak. I'll take half; And accordingly Laura made. a fair division, thinking Wet this was a very amiable tramp, indeed, intended for better thinr s. Indeed, he was hand- some even in the case of dry mud ho wire. She wished she was of the order of people who -can give advice emits. She wanted to reform him But she sold not briug herself to prt aching. Ouly when he arose to leave, the rain fa'ling no 'longer pi torrents, but having subsided into a drizzle, she went to the door with him. Take this little path, she said. it will fend you straight to the village. I ate sure you must be tired of such hardships as you experieu eed last night; and if yam wi l go to the p+rsonago Mr L' r:lon will put you in the way •Lenra Penn, and the,grrl hurried down stairs, expeoting to ser. -the principal of a very seminary for young girls i,Snxione to Secure her serve ie. In the elladety of a curtained parlor she timid only see a figure of large dernen" _ eions, which arose And advanced to- wa411er, • Yon don't knew toe, said a soft kind old worn:su's voice; but I've knowed you from a babe. I served your pa and me, with milk when you took it from a bottle. 1 used to ride in with my old ni'ui when first . we were ileseeie.i; biter, when. 1 was a widow; I served myself; now my isoy serves. lith all along I've seen you frequent, and if -your pa ft,:iled, he paid up ,'sill'. Awl when i see that you, needed to teach, and wanted a school, 1 said, `The peer child!'—hers the old lady wee forced to hunt for her handkerchief to wipe,awway her tears --The poor child ! when she'd been bronglrt ii 0, so to speak on cream, to come to earning her own bread, But since she's in want of a school to teach, thank fortune I've got ane Wo give her if she'll .take it. Oh 1 remember you very well now, Mrs. Cliff, said Laura, who was hi tears hereelf. And the milk was al- ways so good, and how kind of you to tell me about a school. 1 suppose yen serve it with milk. No, Mins Penn, I don't, said bars. Cliff. It's only a day school, hut 1 board the tesaeher and make ber drink . all she Can,. for I believe milk to be -wholesome, and the way scene of 'em fatten up is astonishing. r don't say •rt because have a dairy, blit the -truth is the truth. It's the district :school at our plaee, and Miss Chester, -who taught last year, is married, and .I can get it for you if you like. 'Twenty-five dollars a month and board in. I'll arrange it that you shalt be with me, as laid last gear. There's no greaa distance td" walk and Ivy • family is only me and my bey and tnq husband's vieter, and you'll be quite'qui['t, as folks Pike to be after miction. 1 know tliati mysolf.. A country schooli neve the coun- try so trinch; I shall be retry glad, in- deed, staid Laura.. And I am so much eibliged, Mrs. Cliff. Set it was settled, sed after a ler. taixt delay, and a curious- ceremony, t.ppose to be a strict examination 1 a nrw teacher, had been duly per- i, srol�zl, Laura found hersdlf and her of••-of.--.fiurling your *le int a better t ►iIlk to Mre. Oliltit front, 1i . 'airs neth And thele Bee sl'pp'4 twt[nty- k MOM tib mistress of a little two five a:e :,-1.Ato his hand, 0 IIs .... . I. I.. '.i+,d.� .. '/ +...� ...mow. .�..�..• lie looked at her vurtousty, You are very kind, he said. 1 hope. you will never net l half of any- body's luncheon. Ile was gone, itis voice,tremhlod she was sure ; but later she heard somebody laughing at a distance. It could not beau been that tramp. She went home after wheal was over and told the tale to Mrs. 01i111. A tramp 1 cried that good woman It's a mercy you are alive. They've got .the souls of gorillas, and .I expect if yeti hadn't had so many boys about . vou,you'd not be here to tell about it. This region isn't often trunlped,t'ither. It's off the trsck. I hope there's no more in the Wolds. Miss Penu sat down to iter supper. Half a luncheon had left her hungry but while she ate the pork and beans with a will there came a knock at the door. At it stood a servant in a sort 't livery, 111aster'e complements, be said, and handed her a boquet of hot- house flowers, from the stems of which depended a little note. She opened the note at once. With in was a silver quarter of a lobar and these words : MY Dean Mlss Psrrx: I return the twenty -five -cent piece, or rather another in its place. You were so .food to the tramp that I hated to wideeieve you. I went out shooting yesterday, lest my way in the woode, tumbled into a marsh, And was what You saw xne when I reached the sohool•house at nine o'clock. I never was so hungry before. Tile half of your luncheon was delicious. Will you permit me to call to make my apologies ? Mrs. Olin knows who I am, and can lutroduoo us. • ,,,Yours thankfully and sincerely, ANDREW I3ELLAIRLr. /L'aura Penn read the tate through twice. . He was not a tramp, nftor all, she said. \That an idiot " he must think me 1 and she handed the note to Mrs. Clift'. He is a son of old General Beilair e, the richest man in the place ; just home from travelling in Europe, cried the old lady; and it's just, as plain as apike-stall' that ho is smitten, and wants to conte a cont ting you. • Eventsproved that she was right. The little teneter who shared her luncheon With the tramp in the old school -house in the wood is ttow Mre. Bellaire. The Sisters' Presentation.) 1 heard a story lately of one of the experiences of a minister which are sonietirnes pathetic and sometimes arousing. An old parson was very much in need of a Elora° and the sisters of the fleck determined to raise him enough money to buy him the desired animal. Alter much exertion they raised an amount considerably below the estimated price, and the beast en- quired was proportionately deficient in the qualities which m'tde 13uc<p• halos superior in iteeivante. One day when the horse w is tied in front of the parsonage, a eportir; man strove by and seeing the outfiS',. ytnpped and remarked to the parson: Well dominie that isn't muck of an animal the easter gave' you i$ it ? Don't say a word against the horse, acid the. parson indignantly, that's a better beast than my savior rode into Jeru- saleln. '1he sport gravely descended from his carriage, examined the horses leers gazed into his blind eyes and look' d at his teeth. As he closed the horse's mouth and turned away he iaaonically remarked : Same beast, parson, same beast.— Pioneer Press. , TO O"TIR Si313SCIAIBEItS• The spltcrax. AnnatfNCsia taz' which appeared in our columns some time since, announcing; a spe:eial arrange- ment with Dr. 13. J. metal. L Oo , of E[nosburgh Falls, SI , publishers of Treatise on the Horse and his Dis ei st s," whereby Dur subscribers were enabled to obtain a eopy of the 'vain able work MEC by sendieg their tact. Arm to B, J: KsrtnALI. it Co., (and enclosing a two -cent , stamp • ew for for mailing.same) is renewed ed a limited period. We trust all trill avail themselves of the oppoirttttaity of obtaining this vainable work. To every lover of the Horse it is iridis pensealtle, as it treats to a simple manner all the diseases which afflict the noble animal. I'ta phenoininal sale 'thronaltont the United litate>, and Cana:la, make it Stain'btrd artthnl'- tty - 3MCrntion Chit paper when sending t. . Spezia is now the streintes' Mari- time fortress of Italy; neer $1O,000.• ')00 !save Igen expended on tee exten e. a fort1ftc,etiuis. iAws'u. Nest lbw*, Th. Frenpb .nater. A petrified alligator Wee recently f During the siege of Paris, in spite of on the beach at tG"utler, Die, the shells that sang overtim,d and of the ,A vegetarian prank iii Calambuei Prussian sentinels on the lookout. for a Fuses even to eat regetable l tlzat have mark, a great many or these bold sports been in the saute refrigerator with meat, men risked their lives outside they city hut the sauce fellow was once caught fortifications and went taquincrle goujon kissing a butcher's daughter.ou tho hanks of the Heine. These are the The vacation of the French school boys enthusiastic anglers who count the days bas led to a change in one feature of then and nights to the opening day, and who bas An order has gone forth pass the offseasnu in e. state of settle o tltitt, en raison des valances seolaii.es, nil uielanclzaly. Thorn aro the men' who fire .Ara[, .African, Egyptian and gypsy know every inch of the river's bantam()ehiddancing girls naurt moderate their style. the holes in which diet quarry lies hid, , Wise , and who stand 4mtionless hour After There is a growing sentiment in'STis hour, holding their breath, 'maims of cousin in favor of establishing the whip- rein, wind and sun, half u1F's>nerieed 1>y Ping post in that state for the punish- elre gentle bobbing of the Cleat on which meat of wife beaters and petty thieves. their eyes are fixed. They will pass the Robert Sense, the principal of a hf;rlt night under a haystack in order to se school in Odessa, hanged himself while wire at the first etr:'ak of dawn a good suffering from melancholia recently. place where some legendary hite had oc- curred and which they have carefully ground -baited over night. Though a Taro hours after receiving news of his death Ws widow became insane, killed her four children and mortally injured . careful ratan, the French fisherman never herself by junipiug from a fourth story sells the contents of his basket; he fishes window. for his family, and the proudest hour of Disease bus ravaravaged some of tho grouse the clay, second only to the rapturous preserves in Scotland to an alarming ex - moment of capture, is when he sees the! tent, On one moor recently out of 2G0 "friture" placed upon the table. The birds killed all had to be buried. gudgeon, the roach. the col, the tench, Along the lino of the' railway which the barbel, the carp. tho perch and the pike are all welcome to the angler'spaste or maggot, for fly fishing he considers frivolous and as requiring a skill that is of the dangers of the road. out of pines in so serious a pursuit. l3ut• " although the net hae almost swept the A process has been invented by means French livers clear of fish, it is avainet of which photographs can be printed al - the modest angler that the law has fol- most es fast as a newspaper, and without urinated its edicts. Tho fisherman may dependence on sun or light. They are not make use of more than one line, and said to be of the first duality. may only have one hook tit the end of Two brothers-in-law iuNewYorkwere that line; ho may not put his rod on the engaged in a rough fight the other day, ground, but must bold it in his hand; len and the blind son of one took up'a slate is bound to leave the river at sunset and and hurled it in the direction of Aia may not begin to fish till sunrise, --A11 uncle's voice. Ilis ear was better than the Year Iwund. the eye of some of our riflemen, as the runs through the grounds of the Paris exposition aro placards in twenty-eight languages intended to remind passengers Dyeing; Bair. Bair dyeing is not -entirely a feminine fad or vice, whichever you like to call it, It is exceptional for men to take the trouble and suffer ties annoyance and even pain which continual bleaching and dyeing entail. But some men are guilty of the weakness, and they aro not all actors or men who live by their wits and personal appearance. Ladies generally prefer gold, but men who are dissatisfied with the natural color of their hair almost in- variably go in for black. To keep up the deception., two if not three applica- tions a week are necessary, and one cus- tomer of ming had me visit Mtn every alternate day for over three years. Dye- ing the hair halls it in time and makes it brittle and thin daring the process, while the number of scalp diseases sacrificed at the shrine of vanity is legion. Several barbers now decline all dyeing businese, and I ant ono of the number. But in years gone by I did my share, and ad- mit having made a quantity of money at it. The acids used are so strong that they positively make the fingers sore, and as tho scalp is much more sensitive than the fingers, the tortures endured by those who subject their heads to con- stant irritation in this manner can be More easily imagined than described. -- Interview in St. Louis Globe -Democrat. The Printer Did It. A., well known Australian writer—a. very bed penman—in mentioning the name of a certain lady in an article, said 'she was "renowned for her graciousness and charity." For "Charity" the com- positor read "chastity." The author, en seeing a proof, recognized at once that there was an error; but, unable to re- member the word he had used in place of "chastity," marked the proof with what is called a "query"—?—to refer the printer to his MS. When the article ap- peared, the writer—who had intended to pay a pretty compliment to the lady —was surprised to read that she was "renowned for her graciousness and chastity (?)." Verdict for plaintiff, £2,- 500 sterling, with coats.—San Francisco Argonaut. The housekeepers who in former years were wont to put 3p whole ranks 0'f jars of preserves are contenting themselves with a very. moderate store of sweets this season, and their remarks about the sugar trust would pain the trustees to hear. for Adoption. A gentleman living near Allegan, 11l reit., ,relates an interesting story of feline sagacity. Some person owning a cat with three kittens, and desiring to be rid of then, took them in a bag to a wood near the gentleman's house, and dropped them • In a short time the mother cat was seen to approach the house with a kitten in her mouth, Beaching the door, she dropped the kitten and retreated to the woods, from whence site soon returned withther kitten; but e , instead 04 leav- ing it where the first was left, she took it to a neighboring house. then return- ing to the woods brought out the third and last kitten, and left it at still an- other neighbor's. The olci cat then disappeared, and was not seen again until it was.; time for the kittens to be fed. when she visited each house, nursed the kittens, and then dis- appeared again. This course of procedure she followed until the kittens were weaned, when she disappeared, and bas not been seen tante. teras it reason or instinct that caused the another cat to distribute the kittens to different homes, so that alt might be adopted and the lives of all, aparedf-- Youth's Companion. slate hit the Yuan in the forehead and fractured the skull, so that his condition is critical. German colonies are forming in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois and some other states for buying lands and settling in Texas. A colony of 125 families.: from West- pltalia, Raw, is about to settle.in'Cook county, Texas, their purchase consisting of 22,000 acres, the consideration being 5222,000. Somebody has remembered that when the World's fair was held in New York, thirty years and more ago, a high tower which o'ertopped old Trinity church waa a prominent feature of the show, It was called Lathani'stower,from its inventor. When the Crystal palace,00nstruotedfor the fair, was burned, the tower went along with it. Tho Salo of n Child It would appear from a case that has ..just been heard before a French tribunal that the sale of a child is no very serious o1ense. The parents of the little girl in question resided in the Fanbourg St. Antoine, Paris, and intheir case it could not be pleaded that they had too many mouths to feed, since they had but ono child, a girl aged 0 years.% Even this charge, however, they found to be too heavy an encumbrance, so it was ds id- ed to get rid of the poor little creature to the best advantage. An acrobat chancing to be brought into connection with them, the unnatural couple sold the child to him for the sum of 01, half of which was at oAOC' paid, it Nein; . one derstood that the remaining half shou*d bo handed over after the purchaser bad tested the value of his acquisition. The little girl was in consequence taken away by the acrobat, but a couple of weeks later he put his purchase into a train and sent her home, alleging that elle possessed none of the requisite giralitfes for the profession to which he destined her. The aerate. came to the knowledge of the police, the father and mother were arrested and placed on trial. They were, however, treated with singular in- dulgence, the father getting :se f with a sentence of three months' implel'sonment, and the mother, who had so little o'"'l.t mother's feeling. as to sell her offspring to a stranger, escaping with a warning. —London Standard. Aftor litany Toon. Many years ago a little colored girl, ti years old, went to live in the family of Mr. James Mader, a worthy Quaker of Falmouth. In that family was a little white girl, h years tlld, The two children grew up as sisters and the friendship con- tinued for eighteen years, it is said, with - oat an unkind word passing between them. At the end of that time they were separated, the Metier ifl going west, where she married, and the colored girl Marrying a man named Furness in Bangor and moving to Brunswick in 1873. Not long ago the two old time friends mot once more, theirrneeting be- ing described In The Brunswick Tele- graph this week. The western lady, now Mrs. C. �Lambert, of Denver, had made several ineffectual attempts to find her old playmate, anti a few weeks ago, while in Portland, she asked a colored man whom she met in a store if he know such a woman as Mrs, Furness. As it happened the man could give the required information and Mrs. Lelnbdkt went to Brunswickk. When entering the room site looked theold colored woman full in the face and quietly asked, "Do. you know foe?" "No," was the reply. "What! don't thee know the Quaketrr The old familiar Quaker form brought instant recognition, andthe two ,thusr, • united indulged irl alternate amilete tears as the talked over their ' liwet< it't rear's, childhood.. `" ' • •-"IL.-'.,.'