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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1881-07-08, Page 22 THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 8f 1881, SI OH DOLLAR BILL. How it did rain t--1-.1 ovember night. None of your undecided showers with hesitating intervals, as it were, between; n me of your mild, perdelent pattering, the roof, but a regular tempest, • w deluge, $ rush of •rrowy drop and a thunder of opening floods ! Squire Pratlet heard the rattling up against the casements and drew his snug emu chair closer to the fire -a great, open mar of glimmering anthracite, and gazed with a sort of sleepy, rdecting sstiafaction at the crimson 'screen cur- tain,, and a gray cat fast asleep on the hearth, and the canary bird rolled into a drowsy ball of yellow down upon its perch. "This is snug," quoth the squire; "I'm glad I had the leaky spot in OM barn fixed last week. 1 don't objeelZ te s stormy night onoe in a while when a fellow's under cover, and there is nothing particular to be done." "Yes," Mrs. Pratlet answered. She wan flitting about between the kitchen and sitting room with s great blue check- ered apron tied about her waist. "I am nearly ready to come in now." "Well, I wonder," sotto woe, "if that was • knock at the door, or just a little rush of wind." She went to the door,. nevertheless, and a minute or two afterwards she went to her husband's chair. "Joe, dear, it's Luke Ruddiloye," she said apprehensively. The squire newer looked up from his reading. "Tell him he has made a mistake. The tavern is on the second corner be- yond. " "But he wants to know if you will lend him a dollar," said Mrs. Pratlet. "Couldn't you tell him no, without the ceremony of coming to me ? Is it likely that I should lend a dollar, or even a cent to Luke Ruddilove ? Why I'd a great deal rather throw it among yonder red coals. No --of course not." Mrs. Pratlet hesitated. "He looks so pinched and cold and wretched, Josiah. He says there is no- body in the world to let him have a cent." "All the better for him, if he did but know it," sharply enunciated the old squire, •'If he had come to that half a dozen years ago perhaps"he would not have been the Miserable vagabond he now is." "We used to go to school together,' said Mrs. pratlet, gently: "He was the smartest boy in the class." "That's probably true enough, said the quire, "but it don't alter the fact. He is a poor drunken wretch now. Send him about his business, Mary, and if his time is of any consequence, just let him know that he had better not Waste it coming here after dollars." And the squire leaned back in . his chair, after a positive fashion, as if the whole matter was settled. Mrs. Pratlet went back to the kitchen where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his poor fingers over the blaze of the fire his tattered garments steaming as if he was a pillar of vapor. "Then I've got to starve, like any other dog ?" said Luke Ruddilove, turn- ing away, "but, after all, I don't sup- pose it makes much difference if I shuffle out of this world to -day or to -morrow." "Oh, Luke, no difference to your wife ?" "She'd be better off without me," he said, down-heartedly. "But she ought not to be." "Ought and is are two different things Mrs. Pratlet. Good night; I ain't going to the tavern, although 1'11 wager the squire thought I was." "And isn't it natural enough that he should think so,' Luke "Yes, yes, Mary; I don't say but what it is," murmured Luke in the saine de- jected tone he used during the interview. "Stop," Mrs. Pratlet called to him as his hand lay on the door -latch, in a low voice. "Here is a dollar, Luke. Mr. Pratlet gave it to me for an oil -cloth to go in front of the parlor stove; but I will try and make the old one last a little longer. And Luke, for the sake of old times do try and do better. Won't you?" Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly at the new bank bill in his hand, and then at the blooming young matron who had placed it there. "Thank you. Mary. I will. God bless you," he said, and crept mit into+ the wild storm that reigned without. Mrs. Pratlet stood looking into the kitchen fin. "I dare say I've done a Tay foolish thing, but, indeed, I could not help it. If he will take it home and not spend it at the tavern I shall not miss my oil- cloth." And there was a conscious blush on her cheeks as if she had dom something wrong when she joined her husband in the sitting room. "Well," said Squire Pratlet, "has that unfortunate gone at lan ? "To the Stoki s tavern, i ,appose r "I hope not, Josiah." '1 me •fluid it's past hoping for,' said the squire, shrugging his shoulder". Rat Mrs Pattie/ bst+t her were in her own hear It was xis months afterwards that the quire arse into the dining rooq, caber" It temp tarot be generally knows fiat it bis wife wan prassrvtsg peat red apples i. the vibratos of the edam pendulum into jelly. _ '•Well, well," ailed hist••wonders In"__'deli1W causes sparing, but it is so ler a smatter of intend to *great coaly people who either snore themselves or are annoyed by snorers. Dr. Lewis H. Sayre, of Fifth avenue was asked why people sacra 'Because they don't shut theirmoatbs,' Wks rowans Som. never cease. The Rsddiloves haw ions awls. "Where r "1 don't know West somewhere with a colony. And say Luke's not drank a drop of whiskey for six months.'' I am glad of that," said Mra P. "It won't last long," be suggested dm - p17. "Why not r" "Oh, I don't know; I haven't any faith in thous sudden reforms." Mr. Pratlet was silent. She thought thankfully that, after all, Luke had not spent the dollar in hquor. * . s s s s s s Six months -six years; the tuns sped along in days and weeks, almost before Inlay Mn. Pratlet knew that it wasgone. The Ruddiloves had returned to Sequo- sett. Luke had made his fortune, Kittle story went on, far off in Eldorado. "They do say," said Mrs. Bucking- ham, "that he has bought that 'ere lot down opposite the court -house, and he is going to. build a house as never was," "He must have pKsper'ed greatly," observed Mrs. P. "And his wife, she wean a silk gown that will stand alone for richness. I can remember when Ruddilove was nothing but a poor drunken creature." "All the more credit to him now," said Mrs. Pratlet, emphatically. "It's to be all of stone, with white mantles and inlaid floors; and he has put a lot of papers and things under the corner stone, like they do in public buildings. " "Well, that is natural enough." "I know, yet it seems kind o' queer. that he should put a dollar bill in with the other things. He must have lots u' money, to throw it away in that manner." Mrs. Pratlet felt her cheeks flush. Involuntarily she glanced toward the squire. But he never looked around. She met Mr. Ruddilove that afternoon for the first time after his return to Se- quosett-Luke himself, save that the demon of intemperance had been com- pletely crushed, and his better nature triumphing at last He looked her brightly in the fare and held out his hand, saying but one word : "Mary... Tremulously she replied. "I am glad to see you here again." When Luke had overcome his emotion he continued. "Do you remember that stormy night when you gave me that one dollar bill and begged me not to g� to the tavern ?'' "That night was the pivot on which my whole destiny turned. You were kind to me when others gave me naught but the cold shoulder. You trusted me when all other faces were averted. That night I took a vow to myself to prove worthy of your confidence, and I kept it. I treasured it up, and Leaven has added mightily to my little store. I have put the bill in the corner stone of my new or with his head sufficiently elevated to house, for it -arose alone from that dollar to hold his law." he "Wtis scoring r' "Well, it's common enough," said Dr. Sayre; sad in an offhand fashion be ex- plained that snoring is a noise made in the posterior part of the mouthsnd nasal forte during the mumentsof inspiration. It is der to a relaxation of the leader pith sdit and the circumfuses paled in sleep, by which the velum pendulum. palati is left free to vibrate or flap in the two currents of the air which enter at the same time through the nostrils and the mouth. Besides the vibration of the Pelson pendulum palati or soft plate, there is also • vibration of the column of air itself. Thus is produced the rasping, snorting noise so well known and so unpleasant to everyone within earshot of the placid snorer himself. Dr. Sayre was asked what caul e i sn.. r- ing. "When a man is fatigued," he said, "and his self-control is unusually relax- ed in deep, he is apt to let his lower jaw drop down. No man was ever seen or heard to snore with his mouth shut The moral is obvious. The soft palate flap like a sheet in the wind, and the near neighbors of the snoring deeper are cor- respondingly disturbed. Now, the Indi- ans never mon. They think it a dis- grace. An Indian believes that if he mores when is young he will grow up to be even less handsome at maturity than nature originally intended. His vanity, therefore, is enough to make a savage deep in a proper position." A well known physician up town, whose practice has been largely in cases of affection of the respiratory system, was asked whether snoring is' a disease. "Not so much a disease as a bad hab- it," he said; "but I am frequently called upon to prescribe for its cure." "Can- it be cured ?" "Easily." Y• `Why do elderly or corpulent people commonly snore r' "Because their systems are generally more relrxed in deep, and their mouths then fall open. Any one will be likely to snore if he sleeps with his mouth open, and no one will if he shuts it." • "How can the habit be cured ?" "Fint,ysu must give a person a chance to breathe through the nose, and then make him do so. If there is any obstruc- tion in the nasal passage, that must be removed by treatment. Then if a snorer can't keep his mouth shut by force of will, his jaw must be tied up. A har- ness for the lower jaw is sometimes em- ployed in bad cases of snoring. A skull cap worn upon the head serves to hold a system of straps under the chin, and keep the mouth shut until the patient can form a habit of sleeping on his side, The rs..11ar sass of *breasts. I write itt haste, bat I wW sem ep ftp impression of Abyssinia The King is rapidly growing toad. He outs oaf the nesse of those who tab waft, and sad the lips of thew who sadlte. The other day a atm west to salute Ras Abele. In Misting him ihir tobsoti- box dropped out Rea Aldol• struck. hint with his sword, and his people fin- ished him. The ting is hated more than Theodore wan Cruel to a degree, he doss not, however, take life.p.01:: cats off the feet . and hands of peoplI who offend him. He puts out their eyes by pouring hot tallow. into their eats. Several Dame to tell me this. I remonstrated with the King against his edict forcing men to become Christian from Muswlman. He said they wished it. I also remosstratod about the tobac- co edict, but it was of no use. No one can travel without the King's order if he is a foreigner. You can buy nothing without the King's order, no one will shelter you without his order -in fact, nu more complete despotism could exist. It cannot last; for the King will go on from one madness to another. Orders were given that no one was to approach me; nor was I to speak to any. The officer who conducted me to the King, the around in command to Aloula, met his uncle and cousin in chains and dont not ask why they were chained. The King is a man of some forty-five years, a sour, ill-favored looking being. He never looks you in the face, but when you look away he glares at you like a tiger. He never smiles; his look. always changing, is one of thorough sus- picion. Hated and hating alL I can imagine no more unhappy man. Avari- cious above all his people, who do not lack this quality, his idea of a free port is that fleets of steamers will arrive from ,the Powers of Europe with presents for him, to which he will reply by sending a letter with the lion seal, saying, "You are my brother, my mother, etc. How are you r Johannis is delighted with her Majesty, because shecalled him her son. He carries with him all his great prisoners -the poor (Imbeds:, with his eyes out, aid the red. At the great feast, on September 27, he had one bul- lock killed for some hundreds of per- sons. bill " "I wont offer to pay you buck, for I am afraid," he said, smilingly. "the luck will gf, from me with it. But I'll tell you what I will do: I'll give money and words of trust and encouragement to some other poor wretches. its you gaveto me.. The next day Mrs. Pratlet received from the deliveryman at her door a bundle which. when she had opened it, revealed to her astonished gase the most beantiful piece of nil cloth her eyes had ever beheld. This naturally attracted the squire's attention, and when Mrs. 1'. told him all. he only replied, with some emotion: "You were rigbt, and I was wrong." Tni.Ma Pr.veee.. "The foot goes where the heart leads." "Be a lion end est me; but do nut be a wolf to defile me." "If the au is invited to the wedding it is only that he may carry the wood." "Work for thy character until it be renowned, and then it will work for thee." "Bach kind is gond for its own kind." "He has no broad to eat and is look- ing for a wife" sirsiies: Be not ambi- tious whet your mane are limited. "The woman to whom Ieetaas doss not coin., says that her husband is bewitched." "it is the crier himself who has lost his as,, is need in sps•kiug +•f those who can not do for themselves what they amu do for others. "What the gnasboppen have left the little birds have eaten," lamas that mis- fortunes never come singly. "He went to the sea and found it dry," means that a cowardly main win always fail in his undertakings. "His Poetess has turned into mesh and straw" refers to a prodigal. "He emts the fruit of the paternal garden, and yet insults' his ancestors." refers to ingntitode. "One horseman does not make the dust cloud." This signifies that the work of one man cannot produce very great raaha -(Paris Figaro "It is an easy matter to hold one's jaw when asleep ?" "Hardly more so than when awake." "Why is snoring, then, so common if it is so easily cured ?" " Because catarrhal troubles are so common, which prevent free inspiration through the nostrils. In sleeping cars and in hotels one frequently hears the resonant snore, because people in those places usually go to sleep tired out. An old* doctor used to advocate sleeping on the face to guard against the possibility of snoring... Parting .f Married Females. Did you ever hear two married women take leave of each other at the gate on a mild evening ? This is how they do it: "Good by "' "Good by ! Come down and see us." "I will. Good -by !" "Good by ! Don't forget to come soon. "No, I won't. Don't you forget to come up." "I won't Be sure and bring Sarah Jane with you next tiime." "I will. I'd have brought her up this time, but she wasn't very well. She wanted to come awfully." "Did she now 1 That was too bad 1 Be sure and bring her next time." ••1 will; and you be aaresad bring the baby " "I will. 1 forgot to tell you that he's cut another tooth." "You don't say so ! How many has be now f" "Five. It nukes hits awfully cruse." "1 dare say it does this hot weather. Well, good by ! D( n't you forget to come down.' "No, I won't. Don't you forget to some up. Good by r' And they separate. In easy of chronic disease which doc- tors have failed to cnre, Rratsoes Buwtn Rieman has achieved its greatest tri- umph. All diseases of the Blood, Liver end Kidneys, Scrofula. Dyspepeis, Ner- vous Debility, Rheumatism, Piles, Fe- male Ce.npls,nts and all forms of lost vitality are promptly cured by this great renovating tonic. Trial bottles only cost 10 cents The following judicious rules have bees sawed bp several Philadelphia dry goods e.taiWbmente, Gad they are equity tppKoable to other trades and oto other countries. We publish than, onto withstanding the facts being so well un- derstood berg as not to be necessary, still there can be no harm in impressing such rake on the minds of young per- sons just entering on the business. Towards customers be more than rea- sonably obliging; be invariably polite and attentive, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable, fair or unfair, considerate or exacting, without any regard to their class ur oondition, unless, indeed, you be more obliging and serviceable to the humble and ignorant. The more self forgetting you are, and the more acceptable you are to whomso- ever your customor may be, the better you are as • salesman; it is your highest duty to be agreeable to all. Cultivate the habit of doing every- thing rapidly, do thoroughly what you undertake, and do not undertake more than you can do well. Servo buyers strictly in their turn. If you can serve two at once, very well; but do not let the first wait for a second. In your first minutes with a customer you give an impression, not of yourself, but of the house, which is likely to de- termine not whether the customer buys of you, but whether he become a buyer of the house or talker against it. If you are indifferent, he will detect it before you see him, and the first impres- sion is made before you have uttered a word. At the outset, you have to guess what grade of goods he wants -high priced or low priced. If you do nut guess correct- ly, be quick to discover your error and right yourself instantly. (It is impertinent to insist on showing goody not wanted) ; it is delicately polite to get exactly what is wanted adroitly and on the slightest hint. • Do not try to change a buyer's choice except to this extent: Always use your knowledge of goods to his advantage, if he wavers or indicates a desire for your advice. (The worst blunder you can .nake is to intimate in a supercilious manner, that we keep better goods than he asked. for.) Show goods freely to all comers; be as serviceable as you can to all, whether buyer or not. Sell nothing on a misunderstanding; make no promises that you have any doubt abount the fulfilment of; and, hav- ing made a promise, do more than your share towards its fulfilment; see that the next after you does his share, if you tan. Tw.did aabsMsaass Clive Vicar Views. "Some folks seem,to think this warm weather," observed old Daddy Wother- spoon to old Uncle Linkinbotham, as the two old inhabitants stood before a thermometer that registered 91 in the shade. "'Pears to me 'twee worse than this in the May of twenty-eight, wasn't it T' "A heap worse," assented old Uncle Linkinbotham, but that wssn't as bad ss the May of twenty-two. You remember how the tin roofs melted and run off the houses, and we had to catty wrought steel umbrellss through the strode?' "Deed I do," rejoined old Daddy Wotherspoon, mopping hit visage with some anxiety. "I was out hunting that spring, and we had to carry oar powder in buckets of water to keep it from going off prematurely. Wasn't that the spring the hams fried on live hogs and the bills melted on the snowbirds r' "The same spring," said old Unite Linkinbotham, "I know I was off fishing in Long Island Sound, and the hest gen- erated the water into steam so as to flow ountboat clear over into the woods. The month was pretty warm, for I recollect how the forest out back of East New York melted down, and I bad a stream of liquid kindlingtrunning right through my farm. One of my boy" took a swig of it one day by mistake, and when he died in the fall we found him choke full of splinters. Killed him." "Yes, yet," murmured old Daddy Wotherspoon, streaming at every pore. "We used to hang meat and vegetables down my well, and they were cooked in 10 minutes by the watch," and the an- cient gentleman regarded his antagonist with some triumph. "We tried that," said old Uncle Lin- kinbotham, "bunts* heat melted the wires the grub was hung on, and the works of the clock run all over the floor, so we couldn't tell bow long 11 did take to cook. ♦ saeasasrs Inulase. Who is petted to death by ladies with marriageable daughters 1 The Baeiel- or. Who is invited to tea Gad maim parties, and told to drip in just when it is convenient 1 The Bachelor. Who lives in clover all bis days, and when he dies has flowers strewn on his terve by the girls that Could sot mteap him ? The Bachelor. Who goes to hod early become the time drags ihssvay with him 1 The tear rigid man. Who has wood to split and the mar- betting arletting to do, the roam Dans te wash, and the lay aareaa/a te leak after 1 The married man. Who gobs a sealing for picking nut the softest part of the bed, and for wak- iy tip the baby is the massing i The married inns. Who is taken op for whipping hie PAY SUP. Di i..tt .a« ir' eat isf ` twisty ofame i trlaR all to Mr .nes. 010R0E CATTL! THE LAW COURTS. Fall Amines. The following are the dates of the sit- tings of the fall assizes in western On- tario for the fall of 1881: , WISTRILN l'IR&'t-IT. The Hon. Mr. Justice Barton. London -Monday, September 19th. St. Thomas -Wednesday, September 28th - Sarnia -Tuesday, October llth. Sandwich -Tuesday, October 18th. Chatham -Tuesday. October 25th. BRocx CIRCUIT. Orangeville - Tuesday, September Owen Sound -Monday, September 26th. Walkerton -Monday, October 3rd. Woodstock -Monday, October 10th. Guderich-Monday, October 17th. Stratford -Tuesday, October 25th. NIAGARA (CIRCUIT. The Hon. Mr. Justice Morrison. Milton -Tuesday, September 10th. Hamilton -Tuesday, Se'ptember 27th. St. Catharines - Tuesday, October llth. Welland -Tuesday, October 18th. Cayuga -Tuesday, October 2bth. WATERLOG CIRCUIT. The Hon. Mr. Justice Galt. Barrie -Monday, September 12th. Guelph -Monday, September 2Gth. Brantford -Monday, October 10th. Berlin -Monday, October 17th. Simcoe-Monday, October 24th Chaaeery Augusta Circuits. WESTERN CIRCUIT. The Hon. Vice -Chancellor Proudfoot. Stratford -Monday, September 12th. Goderich-Thursday, September loth. Sandwich -Tuesday, September 20th. Chatham -Friday, September 23rd. Woodstock - Thursday, September 29th. Walkerton -Friday, October 21st. Sarnia -Tuesday, October 26th. London -Thursday, October 27th. HOYE CIRCUIT. T E Rea. visocmat mnar Fs,g Gas. Guelph -Tuesday, September 6th. Brantford -Tuesday, September 13th. Simooe--Friday, September 16th. St Cath•nnes-Wedneeday, Septem- ber 21st. Barris-Taeeda , October 4th. Owen Sound -Tuesday, October 11. Whitby -Tuesday, October 18th. Hamilton -Friday, October 21st Yellow Oil is par a velileane the remedy fovPain, Laenenesa, Rheaatatiwn, Cro�p� Deafness, Barns, Trost Bit.., Bti�' Joints, and all &eh wounds, Any mo- &seine dealer (art tarnish it. 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