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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1883-08-31, Page 3Tag IiiURON SIGNAL` FRIAY. AUG. 34 1883. WIFE OR SLAVE. re:, o'clock and the lunch basket uut rea ly to take to the isle' ! Ai usual ! ' grouted Fanner Brewster, as he threw himself into the rucking cheer in the kitchen, and fanned his flushed face with his straw hat. "A quarter of an hoar wasted, very likely, waiting here, riph: in the midst of as fine a hay day us ,pan would wtsh to see. Now. my mother used to have her lunch ready to ti e minute whenever we came fur it, an 1 I don't see why emilbeeally beep settle y4 lulu and her words, and his eyea turned often to wards the cream oolured farm house, be hiedwhose spruoe greets blinds his wife was buss preparing dinner. "I used to think how happy I would be if lever persuaded her to oome here," he thought. "It is ten years—why. 1 declare 1t is two years apo this very day that we were in tied ! 1 wonder if she remembers it bus it isn't likely, when she says she is afraid she hater me. ' D.d she remember 1 Ah in tta''very remembrance lay the stiug. All the morning, while the g .t break• fast at five o'clock, and washed the dish- es, swept the room,, w t le, beds, churned butter, and prep ere 1 .e heavy hitch fur six men, her heart tee ase 1 b.a..k to that mornin, twenty teur months ago, when the bright eyed, rosy checked country maiden rose at four o'clock to complete her preparations for her wedding day. How good. how kind, how handueene her George was then. Iiow his eyes followed her. How hie love b!eesed her. mowing machine, he. right arm ant right Was it all her fault that the bloom and leg broken by the wheels, his head cut beauty cf life had departed in those two and bleeding with his heavy fall. short years I Meauwhile Lettv, in the cream color - Looking back, she could see no day in el house, had not been idle. which she had shrunk from continual Tyi•eg on a great calico apron in place tcil,no day in which she had not at loft of her white one, she quickly washed tried to do her dut and put away the dinner dishes and re- duced t'to dining room o order. And looking in her glass she saw how the light and glow of youth had passed Tea was easily arranged, since et was to consist of cold dishes, with glasses , f front her Lace while accomplishing the task, uncheered by the approval of him milk for the men. She threw a clean tablecloth over the she bound. whole as soon u it was finished,and went "George has kept his color and his loxoks,because his work lies out of doors," upstairs into the .poare chamber to pack she mused, "but I have worked in this her trunk. old kitchen until I look old enough to be Yes, Letty had made up her mind at his mother. His mother"—she paused last She was going away. with • bitter laugh—"I almost wish I Life had degenerated into slavery, un - with what I do." wu his mother, then he would be suited brightened, as she fancied, by a ray of love. Noon came. The twelve o'clock whistle "And slavery will support one any- sounded, sharp and clear, from the fact- where," thought Letty, as with trembl- ory in the village a mile away ; and be- ing hands she lucked and strapped her fore thewhistle ceaseda little figure step- trunk, and fattened her few lines to ped oilt ••n the side porch of the Brewster George upon the lid. house and blew a horn. At the porch door she paused for one "There's a woman for you," said silo- last look around the house that might mon Wyse. admiringly. "Dinner to the lu't'e brie so happy' minute, sod won't it be a good one." She did not intend to glans` toward The dinuer was indeed asuccess. Every the hay field. R (Lenity of the season and the faun was Yet, in spite of her rim' elation her qts there,skilfully cooked,and neatly served tured that way to 'single oat the led on w trhle in the cool dining room—a figure that guided the attlialg, alit table covered with a snowy cloth fresh mowing euachine- from its fold, and glittering with bright "I wonder if he will miss melslitetju silver and glass and china. just at first 1" she mused, . "He este get In the centre of the table stood a ;rest '► divorce, I suppose, it.I; psytri h ,attd then he will mar` Tiiltieshe will china bowl full of red roses that perfume y �r ed the ruotm. Her cheeks were red, her he kinder is his Hid !) f' afal he- eyes e eyes shone dark and bright, and her been ko me ! iti,i.•i uta words and smiles were ready, for every \Pith teals tlistslhtesest.11t� ppa> &ell her su.orie a `bliallieg ltee:, a era,c LbIjt one,save George. �a.i and As he sat., grave and silent, at the foot failed to. See Yt_o-{ figdr4 phis sriilplllt , tr of the table,he looked at her wondering- ''1•r *, 0 40 a l° Irish'in look • 144, again. I have never been more ly'housekN r to him from the firsrr4ahe She wore s dross of silver grey alpaca blindl oh fiywiri that had been her travelling dress wwbeil ii. ht Stene blindly (• 'the gitee'alad apetGhir it, to dud linnet its they were married.thaoentregf an e;Citrd A large while apron with a bike shie'd1f'"09P- ".1here, don't Woven, like that," salt ed t'ae glories of this eserine. But laky ' did she put it on 1 Surely abs coaldnot'. hole ison Wyse, who aims first and sis* the tiara- open her cheeks llsl[itird shit' think of "going visiting'. drat taftarnoou, : . with six haymakers to get tea for,. awd a id. wine tlitpo ami*. the milk of eight cows to attend to effete •1.1',W 7t'A Vat to mist us We were is -ropes hopes -you didn't ase - any - w Thething 'vi it.' ids a "bad seaient, but The question burned upon his tongue heartythat he as he lingered amoinent behind the other . (lard`* is 111u tt li - : will bp tapered 'Fiesta- • &gam almost be Lure you katow ie. _ We've sent Ben Hal 1 But Scally sept out without asking it. off on one of the eoftsfor the doctor, ass Tho wife w�o•was afraid she hated him, vn Walked tell us where to carry seemed 'ahead like a stranger, although if 7 iW.. I she looked so mach on this occasion like: him? hi#o r� Lstty. the girl he married two years ago, • c'Beisson stepped aside. She saw be - As Gouge neared the door of tiffs. hid hitt a litter roughly Mads of hey w°odelid, olsere the mea were to regia g r;kest and c"`e r uvea breath. scats: chili away the felt of their mooning, he heard :on tiailt Gieor•g* was igen` a4lasi�rl I has ipme. :k7 Solomon Wyse in ibspgasitr.his oyes oln.e& in toes' of. water, • - t . : His jeremiad was cheekr.l by the al - peanine of his wife, who cause out of the pantry tugging along the great lunch• buket,almost too heavy for her strength. Farmer Brewster was a youug man in s; rte of his grumbling. ()rely twenty- three, tall, straight, healthy, with blue eyes, rosy cheeks, fair, curling hair, and handsome face, unless when it was dark- ened. u now, by a scowl of discontent. An only son, he had inherited a large and handsome farm, clear of mortgage or debt, which supplied all the wants of bia household most liberally and gave him a nice little sum of money to deposit in the bank each year. There was no reason why he should be "near, ' and yet miserly habits were gradually growing upon hire far faster than he knew. Nor was there need of grumbling over the household arrangernents, since the wife of his choice was a farmer's daugh- ter, who knew well how to work, and who lead taken .''elight in setting her hunie in faultless• order when she first carne, as a bride, to the pleasant Brew- ster place. • The same order reigned from garret to cellar of the square old house ; but Mrs. Brewster went thruu,ht ie. -r tasks mechau- ical: ; now, or with a ret r,u, haste and hurt, that snide them a:..o., e:rendur- able ...me times. T ,_ , , eetant dropping o.1 enter will wear a •.ev a stone, anti the constant fault-tiudrnt its which leer husband thought tit to indulge had nearly worn the patienoe,the hope and the endurance out of the young wife's heart. The comfort and happiness of that home hung now upon a thread, which frsyed more and more hour and hour un- der the pain of unmerited blame. Yet George Brewster saw nothing of this until the morninse of which I write. "There is the lunch, and it is exactly five minutes past ten," said Mrs. firewa- ter, setting the basket down with some emphasis at his feet. "1 was delayed that much by the butter. It had to be .leen to before the sun got Wo high. ' . "My mother always churned before breakfast,' observed George, slowly ris- ing to his feet. His wife said nothing, but the -color rose hotly in her cheeks till the lot bloom of her girlhood seemed to have come back again, and she raised her eyes to his with a look that startled h' 0. Very handsome eyes they were—dark, soft, and velvety, with a world of love and tenderness in their depth. Yet now they met his own coldly and sternly, with such an expression that be exclaimed : "Good gracious : Letty. You look as if you Aute me '" "I'm afraid 1 do,' was the astounding reply. And with a swift glance at the cluck, Letty hurried down into the cellar, with a knife and a pan, to make her prepar- ations for dinner for six hung.-- hay- makers. "Afraid she hates me ! My wife 1 She that was Letty Glover !" muttered he to himself in bewilderment, "Why, what on eat ch—! She must be going crazy or something or other." "Letty Y" he called at the cellar door. "It is ten minute' past this," she an- swered from the depths of the cellar, "If I don't see about,dinner now it won't be en the table at twelve to the minute, as tsaliblp yi - sad to have it. I e'1 -will arum to fink if s ome.ut us don't t Jk seriously to Jeore°. She don't look at a!l strung, and her hued tremb'ed wb eu she changed my plate. It's a boruina shame -and if none of the rest of you will speak to George about it, I will." They moved off to the hay held, talk- ing as they went. But when Oeugre l.ireaster joined them, So'om• a \Vyse deemed it prudent to defer CI • p:+•peued Talking to," for his brow was black as right, and he had no • more to say to his ueighb ors now than ti, his wife at the dinner table. And his wife was afrsidshe hated him. To whom could be turn fur comfort — from whom could he expect flue friend- ship if she, who had been nearest and dearest, was enemy in disguise 1 Lust in a moody reverie be paid little atten- tion to his work. And at last, at three o'clock iu the af- ternoon, there was a sudden uproar in the hayfield—a trampling of hoofs, a rush of terrified men, a coufusion of voices. and among therm all George Brester lay ou the ground beneath the 3 scan in a thousand ! I slwa;s knew it. Lett , if 1 never said it tk, I tell you e i[ t now before I die," he added, going off into another faint. It was all that Letty'e .o•rs heart needed. Beside that bed of suffering she spent two of the happiest months ,.1 her li'e. The first act of George Brewster ou his r .very wets te4.eunt help for his wife, so that res' set has lief:Ay of time to get back her lot collar and phunpneee' They are of e in heart u one in tun s and home now. And Solomon Wyse has never seen occasion to administer the threatened ''t elkit,g •lSotuelet• .. ether, elrowls Solomon "(,•elhr4 ruu over by a et tieing machine Wel the euakiug of George Itre • .ter." A. d L,t y and (lc..rge ibo.i. P • 1. fruit tag. T'er s n o. ficins: ; i..:..oat n• -.- It is as common as air, as ap •each. s • s• u - mon, that uuless it rises above its :tonal monotone, we do not even observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together of people and see how many minutas it will be before somebody freta—that ie,nta'r s inure or los+ c.•tut.laiuing statc.:ten• of something or other, which most 1•robably every one en the room, or on the stage, or the car, or the street our ter, as it may be, knew before. sod which must proba- bly nobody can help. Why say auytheng about it. It is cold, it is hut, it is wet, it is dry somebody has broken an al - pointment, ill -cooked a meal ; stupidity or bad faith somewhere has resulted its duaomfort. There are always plenty of things to fret shout. It is simply aston- ishing hnw much annoyance and discom- fort may he found in the course of every day's living, even at the simplest, if one only keeps a sharp eye out 011 that aide of things. CIGARS. CIGARS. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC T f f E BEST ASSORTMENT IN TOWN A full line of all the Leading Patent Medicine: always kept on hand (Physicians Prp•Oriptione a Specialty.) GEORGE =NAB, BLAKE'S BUIDCK, THE SQUARE BOOTS&SHQE elsvisareell_ 6.1.10 ilia- .nu..unue to the I'rb11C that th„). h:ive oprueel bii/iutisa in• t.he•atboive `tore its tile ,tore le'ely occupied by Horace Newton. Havhir:.V$cchaaetl a :largo and e.•It cavorted stock of `print; sand Sumioir Goods at,glo tures, nc,xedettr.nined t•, give the Public the r,motet.. QUICK SALES & SELL. 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E Ss •_...:)Ise ivonr:r. !c.. ! ,•tip.. 1,:ret • ER LIIOBS. G Jr�nn $per , Haeitpio ; s+ra pe la7ild ,y One miff! •tees fFttTigestuio ie heap' tit,' y• eYotlre• Pte. oat it s ked -ret tivfretirtp1dlT,"i d ee no U)tule'iif a evin heiiger hitf �sou 'hittle of M•:Oreec r s' 'Weedy r Oere'th'rtiy valise thein I wilted (it learner mgt learn et hiuge•and ge ng tnt'fEialt t 'Free tidal betties•ett{3. fiiP *,tdragshire- Rego- Ist raze. Qts. "* Biiei1 ':ttiasicaidstatw 1ll.he ospn the .rtl5xk r>f::i�'' i�JW: uron's IK iitditsgy �ii etre - elderl lady` � f,".'1it� ,'2(i ., who' �'1,�151d?f" ''•o fS{t � lii''tNe' baek�ftrr .b79 -J .1.. ��..i l amet avow' il�� acatL 6hi 7.,alyi.P funot 2 each a this don't beat all !" said he to the maltase and white at that aniseed s f from the cellar and tabbed herself a Mast his legs. A shout from the hayfield rooused hits to "ie recollection of that day's bei• nes. He went out and dispensed the trues - a vs of his beaket atiteant the hungry mien who praised Letty's excellent cookout with every mouthful they swallowed. "it is enough to snake an old bachelor Vie me sit down and cry to eat with rasp- berry ahnetswke u that," said i e oes"n Wyss, wiping the crumbs of the feast f his lips before he drink hard eider 111 9InBb 71, t O:r•l , P t ., earn r. aim 76d 1n tet 51 bhir. io - ytlsrittit ► •p;,t!ei rlr'itA` 't sent Orsini** 'i ;ivr it/skis lbtybest t gtititig' and allayln tier ves -ktid entfYrti iafer' Win* tit i •'t=' n t � I qhey .iii e horiii reffHH 'Vh, MP Wyse, is Ise delis t she ask- ITIM1folontalNl�! Ity!� #i' steps " Yes, I knew (urge f moa a baby up, Ili, taraing even paler than (#surge .•Net a bit of it ! Wm ;It twelve dozen and i always said he'd snake a likely deadmen yet I Only a bit s break in marl. But I 1tha iK is • shame to see one Men and one leg, and a tittle kitipoli: how he ttestts that pretty little creature ! on the head whips. he fell. `The horst Saab a lunch this morning and suet's diidn't,}aek�aadlbe'11 be sit tthpht as anew dintlerthisnoon,in such a cool reom,wi'th.,1-11. t►k add all the rest of it ; and she'll ase theiostor ileal:. b49 . : , -rid' !Otitis hint'Petaira tor w�e.r'... • ,,1 ' 1�'� ict°re with her tined • 7tg• l F.ttXl ;t • 'i�i1J A .._ V l4U11 `''ct$N'iPit i ,Liiiyt?fi betioelliltlsgt•etitehei'att'ttte •yeess esmIflile County eeaihilieeidsaldod t:euhsaaudaettgr' snruri ti:•(i;•.r:. :,.rine7 i.c,1ll i:,.1 .car,.. ei.! r ; MIRIAMIali]ODed/s.®set},>IiSQl7li%4-11•t�rr*42r!rV , iiif kill iii tf Mr iiiitli with 4tow•i blueness 1Cdt•'ths}yearkik* wHieltGseieaterial and Se irlotMisddpiwidllbereee nd.boinodet,.•, Do eetgiNeamitiogedef!f relia� or mow - eta �tM*4 3,Vti tli 9 gf+gelerf}4,•tbi•,N?+ -r1 V w• meted a Lbs aPr>~pg fairs in wlyj 1 ve a fariper' a nod. nppipi an* to .in "t out machines. e w sea 'get �l ii dei to Ali' ' Vondt+v-Riii ii anY'ot'N sill'!+ "We will al- laaw % t piren . Py 91.1 a 7. 1:1 ni .11 l !ISI: yll a .t i,nmI. ni can . i f,1, ,d...las, .n fee the Spring trade •r.'nuirri-,l';nor fro -1!T T. to Oerr:,•�iHs �co1o%- �LLa ( tLi V oil ern no -0.10 antlf7 1(PliC i� ahwaryt an kaadivell4 Will #4 Willl oh0lii tni‘1611, sats llalaiehTtqaaAnr mond, Cash 14044 q1J� iRP9• ,) 1°I" a isssiillii a InGO. 1,: Ask any *tail St :js anode eiiifeeM "Whet-ia•1jyp 14Mt.afd. qy rern.dy tar.: rap ba pieljed on to cure all diseases of he kidneyyss and urinary .organs : such, as the `(liiseliae;' diabetes±; retentiiirt or inability t•i retain •orhte, and all the dise les atitt- dbiketi' peonibar to Wo- mee --• - And they will tell yon e'xitlicatly and .wpb, atically `iBuehn:" Alt the stone physiiana "What ts'"he nnrtrel ihte :enol moue cure, (or ell fiver divested Or devilfish"! t con►tiipati'in, 'sleds' tbiN;'=leiltettam'sg . •Tpeftaiiitl'fever; tts+ne; e[e.; r Ktkl �le y n•1I f. .i tidbnri.iale•t ••oi srti !x11.1•' :,�1!d4�4. Foundry air,b lno� a (11 •,1 iv, fens „•, -• -s�� slaw,)_ -�..s .7a--•it+a++ laser akr1-*44 ..w..:. ay%- r•i J• moi; It •iso 41,7 r =..1•• Tl h. i C'• • . ' 3 ' s bran ,oeiv, cid rr• Ir h s 'Janie -tee f, i t o. a d`►/' siiw 7o3 elst'� a cult biro °ambo j ialia si r : f t of 36.f,t •tiJ� Vllatliab•eaaYOs A�t().T'fi�: Lx�%97 (�r",[p/Qt'M�.ilL6f�ll,lnl,il?t�� l�'1' iilh. b1.D Sc%iiY 917.13 1 pat r ,lCI.OTHS . !.,, !4(,W •tet• .,. - t3tQ.0 S;-' f N - jdxls #o TIP*, w0 TAze 'pLLO\t'Irpj' ort J®(�(�j1Tl� '41gge'Q titre i • DESIONS.Ts r1 ' +' e� '• y' FUIM1IsHING FOODS 77 . ti ., an•ot�iTit Yw•t'r"" .tel' r'u • .. , :, ,..,,..,1 7� k u a p !'$ring him in here,' said Y.etty reecr- cheeks and bright eyes and her wavy �� herself - And heir, and dressed as neat as a pink, too ! And he sitting there as glum as a Oros- ro elihe led the way into the bedroom on Oki Ulan of ninety. I awar I was siaiee t-. ed of him." " I've heard he does nothing but find faith with her all day long,- amid a second vides. " lily wife says if !threw my deur old'ntother• ince her teeth, as George does his in Letter, she'd run away from me before she ram a day older." " And ewe you right," °hinted in a third. 'sT' tell yea what my wife says. 8he sys 4 pq^founded mean and seer" d Geormene i b keep a woman here to t"he,ground !Ivor, and helped to shift the maimed figure from the lifter to the bed. ha 'Iter soul was dying within her for fear, I FOR ZT..I'111 yet not a word passed her bps. When the doctor came he found a tjt.nildteki''.5 if ilterdetisill: 1.• oe, wfiiitrt9ii(At 1'ebtedees are °ten - 1 n'vel sett i dtlirrl• ,Adv vetuatle Anti tii�riitFKi r'Nftti'Hop,,Bittei6. suck •, . , ! ,: •s. tit�ettuilatial neat week. 1." t .e •,e al ..,.: J. ..un Sr, :,:• nr n:1t ...t tr. • .4aoru A n...► *-e s r.• -Z .., .. . ;�(' 2'T XMST 0 • 1. Ica '`leek Y.►asttt. a TOMB BEER earn hie nurse drained en dark print, wh. TAKE -NO 0 T H(R.• listened inhelligently to bis directions ele and promised to a toy them out faith- S-•T.Tlso 1V d ftsu,. Swi0s N'o_ 1 And en it happened that u George $reverter returned to life the Fret words (Ioderieh• Auk. P. MIL that fell upon his.ear were uttered by — -- — a • from, from the jug. "Tell you what it is, help bis wife. And wineries* the des• the doctor outside the w edow as he George, you drew a prise when you went I net to -day that the prrdllr MAID thing mounted into kis gey— omitting." had got for us, all alone. 1 thoegAt en ••Y„„, he will d... Mr. WyM; h. sill "So he did. A red here's her gond too. Hang tee if i bade a half a mind pull through nicely if his wife num, i health." chimed in another mower. as M I to seep heave tale eftellemen and .help her , Lute. And she can do that nicely if you! too; tip the joi i t0elsthat great pile t f dolma. and will sand snots one to take there rd the i We '' ge assented Tamely. 'leads.:�aytcr6 go to thuadee. Tt's h ,rea. Rha Ylrttsasaa in a thousand. i `bey were talking of his wife —his wife enes>liti• fir hill tide *nail,• td hila tiil! I hope he 1tnAtrifitbW► eh treene hoe .. I who was strain she hated him. ererVta riesMad illielRe ie rieh. What The doctor drove away F"4". he•e the tee., //nun between on garlhie �jrlaIOing about 1 lint lie'll betty, bending over the bed, absorbed i e he soar/ fee this a year or two hence, amen sen liars N seesaw erste on a differ w_ .,d• v• lunch and droner seemed to drag eft slowly As he rode read and round the field, e with the sharp rattle of the veering mite chine he gui sed in bis Mrs, bis Aal114r , l' e,' !RAZ{w. ttid in the ;India, had not heard him.Rut she plainly hosed the fws'lt ureses of George galling her by name "What last, aegis r• 'iAs111sD WWI PAU/ s� c *. Thi! `octoe is t list. You are s no SMOKE >esSan AIIB�N it.AS TILE I+'1Ni$T BRAND O!' NED-_ P-:E•ACHES PN TOE MLAlifts'l: ARD, HIS CANNED. _TOMATOES AND CORN ARE DELICIOUS. 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