HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1887-12-2, Page 3TE1E MON ,ON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1187.
The Pr��se�L
MPS Grime.
It ain't every mea that has • chai.oe to
tee the truest side t f kis wife's character
afore marriage and the sweetuese after.
But 1 Win' • Haman, with es good so
03161 se travels • Ni• England road,
biters, parts, browns, toskitties, as' all
sorts of nicknacks, bean includ.J, pt a
pretty anent back ties of slat leunitd
people call society. Au' it was about u'
tollurtu' my trade in this fashion that I
first saw the predent Mrs Grime.
8ke was at the wash tub, an' the so 1.
was 61ine sur ail they was wuth. S4e
looked pretty, too, though y..0 might
not think it from the worst they tram at,
fur On had red bon and the water had
made it uurl *round her fortbead, an'
vyti the rubbin' bed Pada her cheeks 1• sy,
an' waetbing I 11 tell of whets 1 get to a
lied made her eyes snap.
It was Due of C:.xn big h ones is a
eubt:.b she was do.:,.' work at as hired
sir!, to help the old folks beck on the
farm. She could • gorse into a rai!1 to
work, but somehow she dila t take so
kindly to mill work, she told me after -
mods, as she did to housework, sten if
housework was more drudgih' and cot. -
Min "
Tho back yard -to this house was a
green 'en ..' pl*d, with lots o' brsbea
an' trees afore you gut in full sight of
the kitchen dour, an' whets 1'J got whet•
I was pretty near • good siew o' the
the primiat.,and afore I could get anoth-
er sight of the little woman at the tub, 1
beard somebody say, with lots of w:id
=emits' in the tones :
"You do that again, an' I11 do some-
tbiog anon than talk—sow mind
I stepped out in full view 0' matters,
an' there • litt'e mite u' rigged op
babyhood was spilliu' dirt iuto the wash-
tub.
1t was an sggravatin' thing,an' I kno g
jest how that bale woman felt. There
she was • Umskia' maid lir dear life --for
it was Wesel Imola see there was still
a big pile of Alba unwashed—an' that
little wretch a grinnin' au' tbrcwin' is
bats full o' dirt. I jest wondered what d
happen.
As I kept renin' nearer the bouee,the
young rascal ran out fur •notbir hand-
ful, an' with a face at me skipped back
IiselFais • cricket, aoticipatia', t*o doubt,
the of more scoldin.'
missed his calculations. He
hadalt
ao non than pm: his inserted
body close to the tub than the little wo-
^m�an he'd been a tormeotin'just swooped
Len on him may and swift like, an'
without a mite u' fuss or waste o' breath,
landed hies plump in the sada—slipFere,
velvet, dirt as' •U' While you could
count perhaps five she held him there a
bleached out little sinner, too completely
knocked out 0' his reckoning' to even
cry. Ties she set trim, all dripin' like a
drowned rat, on the floor, an' held him
fast by the shoulder.
"Yeti Te dose that times enough," sbe
said, with a grain of temper that I found
it easy to forgive, "an' no one has step-
ped you. Now I've taken you in bend,
and well tee what'll coma of it. Go tell
your mother, and tell her I'm ready to
give bar an =planation. Now yes r'r"
With • bowl that would have done
credit to a Fiji islaader, the waked tor-
ment started, aa' kis s.I1. owtitated
disciplined discipliner went to robtio
fast and furious, as if she had something
to work ed
Io spite of the temper, i should hes
liked to give her a hearty hand shake,
but I knew sooegh about suburb folks
an' their reitioes to their third girls to
know that mesh a ptroosedin' wouldn't to
prodest ; it wouldn't help the third qir
• mite, so 1 fleet travelled back the way
I bed comm, without a word about bilerr
or anything elm. I felt pretty sure the
~ fewer .psetaters to dresses* that ((plow-
ed whom that ysotegstee's mother came
dowirs the better.
i ike in the Idiotism bad seen me,
bet I knew at lead outlet them would he
rar,reipesfortabier if 1 left, aa' wouldn't
lay op •gam tie any leavin' out o' mar-
ten. not I made it is my way to all
around there an' see if they had say rags
j4 add neper they wanted to swop for fin -
The third girl wasn't there, only the
mooed girl irnnin' subdued like at •
tab'*. She said they didn't trade with
yahoos --they bonaht all their tin t hit p
down to the Mows. Thew 1 looked round
careless, aa' asked where the other girl
was, but at that she looked seared an'
said she didn't hone, she'd been die -
shamed an' ao one knew where she'd
goes.
I was might, sorry a1 that, for I'd ad -
admired that pheeky doaein', in spite of
the bit o' temper. Well, I said gondol e
to the second girl, an' travelled back to
ray can.
For mote than two months 1 jangled
r std ea h Ha earl, makia' good bar -
gales a swell**' my beak soonest a feta
iotas east week. I always wna oaf a
thrifty tet•, ma' 11 man• easy 1e lay by
somsthkeg, so I do mot speak of it to
=dee *edit, Daly w a beet I thottgbt
iola about the within' day'aa' woodwod
wit■t the two woman had mid whom the
1
mailed ohne I rho ht oR it, because I I e I. But 1 hadn't poem mores a trod or • 1a1ITIttR FROM HIS GIRL. I au m».:oda
was pretty earn the mistress dtdu't get te. when 1 turned book. y "Never despair," is a guard motto fare
r
•ll. 1d afflicted with may !impaling g du -
the beet of it its the words anyhow. Au' ". J you don't,' I says,"it o drewd A mrweawv, teams.sa b w Iseeads, sm
, te'eber "tr1100awn le late there
swtehow, between you and me, aim- up in your very beat and behind a hired mews Th, bevy testi. i• hofs," hewer deepair of rebid maul
timers a,u 1d have • dell,uf plata *peak- kora ! You •iu't Koine to take no such you baso tried Burdnck Blood Bitter. It
e
in' done to spa without lLivati. mute's alivutage ..f the little girt. Lake an out -- eines diesaes of the •tuntaoh, firer and
their abate. '-f ate will be tired with her day'. work, Ito 'married up to tht1ios as soon •a blood wb.a all utter medicines fail, 2
Ilot use interment drove into • barand in her oommon every day drew, sod he ignored the betel, st1 without wait-
so
yard and sante near rennin' into .n"cher you ain't going in epee her all deed up tag to tegioter, wle4"4111PrlY
er tis peddler establtaLment that had es if you had no work to do or sulbin'— 'Any letter for me i'
got there ahead of ins With due re- nook, sot by • I•.ng shot." The clerk sorted over a package with
s,oet fur the pedlar's rights, 1 was a pre- 8o I took o6 the shiny store clothes the negligent atIenito$ that mama of
pat log to turn ar.od an' git oat, when and put tau the old mss I'd had un when practice, doom nipped me --•very smell
w
I heard a voice that somehow seemed 1 tint teen her. They was pretty seedy "� on the eooater.
The inventor man took it with a
loather : but put *m on and when I'd hitched tie as tares
"You're a •windier,"' it was s* ii:', uld mare Tutu the tin cart I felt a sight 'furious .mile that twisted his pleasant -
'an'
''an' you know it ! The bottom to that more square and aiw1orteble_ 1 was oar haling face into • mak of expectancy.
�� i t O' EIIEAD CATARRH,
little is just the poorest kind o' stuff, better a fur as clothe* went than the
lie •ailed more as he read it. Then, CIl!T It ISH,
dear little women 1 wanted for w wits ebviuus of other travellers who jostled NAY FEYEI.
• e tits nose he• acute of and beim Ma- y �
taped un a un. I dou't want to treaty was—as to character. 1 thought of my him, be laid it tenderly a{•i•.•t its lips ttlftrfara
fou, w 1 won't, w you may as eel: pipes and rough ways. and felt way be -and actually loaned it. CATA R R Hthrwd�
A loud guffaw startled biro
to ! ' I,w hoe. Bit thou I thought too of her EASY TO USE. into the threat
brown eyes and dare on. "Now, look here, old fellow," said • sed expectorationive expectoration caused hp ca.
"It's my little washtub beauty," maid I y loud voice, "that wos't do, you know. tants_ Sold by Druggists. or sect pirs•pald os
to myself, wonderful glad, and an it was, It was jusi supper time wile° 1 got to r••dptorp�a.01a asdiD, AoSdiwss
Vie Nous s, and the all asked me in to Too sp000ey for anything. ConfessryaiORO & Oe., vUI , �*.
8h i followed the man, s roeaohia', cross y now, your wife didn't write that lel-
eyed chap, to the dour, and I could see t.ke something with them, .only Eli ter 1"
she was almost as angry as she was on morningssbeh.th w Jan,, she didn't pemo dao
"No, she didn't," said the travelling 1888'* 1'�
the ant morning 1 had seen her. She
we.oucman, with au annexed look, as is be $BTtB y
an t so pretty this time either, fur she I suppose that supper was a• long as �%80�
would like to change the subject. "That w
hal • towel round her head and a faded common weals, but it seemed to dr by later is ILLCSTRATE D,
out ca'ico dress, •r.' hours that was OVA
t ,uta. After we were through I talked
MGM hie' BLIT u1RL
at the toes, but somehow my heart lore o.ops to the old gentleman, but watched Ti.. admission was so unexpected that
a thump and I was down (din my waggle
Elisabeth wabioa too d sites Site sea• the trio of friends who had caught him
in no time. 51 easy and good to look at,a she work-
said
Ikis make a trade with yea," ed I couWu't help it no how, spite of my ..id no aura until after they had eaten
determination to key m mind un her •
itsa goad dinner and were seated together
I saps, m•.ro jerky than I ever •peke be- P y the chow's room.
fore bather, and my eyes, too. 1 lucked and Then the
I eked, ani couldn't get enough of look-
" 7 began to badger him.
".yell, maybe you can,"she wys,erin "It's no use, you've gut to read it to
me. I knew she was tryin' to place me, i's.' us, Deck,- said one of thea ; "we went
bit c,n)dn't. I wanted to help her, but After that I dna't jest remember what to know all about your beat tart,"
somehow co:tlJn't diad the words I I happened, but wmehiw we found our- y, y,*1 shall," said Dick, with groat
could only briag out my beet kitties and
kick off half the regular price, sa that
ground that I wanIWITo dispose
quick, fu's te lay in a new and improved
stuck.
I was lungiq' to' know it this was her
home, but couldn't think of no way to
bad out wi!hcut in' in so many
words, and•at 1't the courage to
do. skt_i
She hesdid'int(s carefully, but
alt of s esdded, -alien I thoight eke waa
eza.ninirt' the noes of my biggest ta-
kittle, she spoke up quick and sharp.
"i know where I've seen you," she
said. "It was when 1 doused that Char-
ley Craipiy. Maybe year don't romem
ber, einem you didn't lose your temper
and place! bet lomis' your place makes
one remember."
Somehow them words made me light
beaded : she'd remembered me'
Retreat, eilenee and detachment are
l.eceesary to keep us ati meditation.
SOOTIiIS,
CIEAISI1S,
NEALINS.
selves ort on the porch alone, lucking at
coolness ; "I will ;ase you the letter
tam west that was all a mass of gold and
It was one of them moments ono you tam �� i1 lowslce*. There
it
that come to • moo now and then and �' and b. lead it ogee os. the table.
1 gum not," said the one who had
keep him sure as there's a heaven—ten-
been loudest in deiaaadiog it : "we like
der and deep and still. I don't mean to to chaff a little, out I hone we are gen-
say there worent no noises, for there demon. The young lady would hardly
were—the tree toads a singing and the are to ►ave her letter reed by this
frogs a croaking and the lases • rust -
crowd' and he looked rs r *chlully at
ling,
ling, but they was still noires and ten -
his friend.
dem •`But I insist n
x14111 Zith," I says, feeling how Lard upon o" gas 41N as The volumes of the Wrztct T begin with Ur.
aver. „There u bt.tlieR- t< Ito -to-'rm Numbaca
it would be with m* if she re[irael m*. mo 11.. is mer entiooned,forJanuary It of wille$r,h yeundr. eratoWheno4
ashamed of --except the spelling, that is that the ssc
ubriber walk" to oonmeaa wttb
"Elizabeth, I've got lots of faolts,and I a little shaky, I'll admit, but she won't he Number current at the thee of the receipt
lint got no polish like the city chap to Bound Volumes of If ►rtssw a Wcewt.T for
cover them, but I love your dear and care in the least. Read it, Hardy, and three years tack. In neat cloth binding. w
judge for yourself." be sent by mato paid. or by express.
want you fur my wife. De you suppue. free of expense tprovf ed the freight Anes not
Thus urged hardy took up the letter exceed one ttar per volume), for 17 00 per
re
you could cafor me like that r du. votu,ae
"1 sea standing very near der, and shamefacedly enough and read it. There Cbch came for each volume. suitable for
were only a few words. First be laugh- gym' will be seat by mil, poapald, on
Quaid hear her teen
bat fast, bet sbe og receipt of it attach.
ed, then swallowed mus iciowl and en Remtttaneea shooks be made by Poet -Office
answered with a soft little laugh : P 1. ]looney order or Draft, to avoid chance of
"Too ain't gut • temper," she says be finished it throw it on the table again loam payers are sot to ropy this adrerlfae-
wader breath, ` and you ait't coot and rubbed the back of his hand across west self/seat at express nutter of HARPER a
' I for I ct," acid I, fait a *Ter I r your trio eyes as if troubled with dimness of BsteritKM*.
could fur the fit that had seised may I place on anounot of it,and I think you've
made • mistake and dont want me, at 'villa"'toads*, "ANA wanted to slake bands "Peh•w," he said, ' if 1
with you. Ha deserved all 705
save ise
le, I don't e how you can, any
the varmint 1" way"
letter like that- -` and then
She smiled a little, and sighed, too. I don't waste no words, I knew, my fit'
heart told me, the was to be mitre; "Fair play !" cried one of the others
"It let me my place, of come," ohs peace with ms oneaq laoah
went on, taking up a brad pan and the brown eyes had what I'd lost in them
"I11 reed it to you, boys," said their
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HARrims YOUNG PEOPLE roe
Poataar Frre to oat s.bsrriti•ra (a tit
routed Stales, Canada, or ilex/co.
had a love
be was Si -
taming it over. "I ain't had the Bart sad aomsthiug bosidea i jest put my
arms around her in the dee friend,aartng they moue a* once to take
to took op another we yet, so n hel •m P summerat, "and I thinkyou'll with me
at home, a sooidia' use pedlar an Dellis' sight and held her fast •S�
"I loos you, temper and all," I says,
that it is a model love letter.'
my affairs to another. You must have • Pe And the was what he read :
pretty poor opinion of pie, in' no wee. "washtub and everything. Dunt you
der," caro fur me, jest • little 1 ' Mt os'. nags Pa Pa—I se mi PRairo
She ended with a Irttla lash, and said "Yea," she whispered back, "in spite evry nits •sad Wen i kr yore Piot-aro
I ASK god to blips you gOOd bi PaPa
your best ger1. I)oLLT
For a moment or two the company
remained silent, while the little letter
paved from hard to band, and you
would hare said that every ono had hay
fever by the sneffrog that w*, beard
Then Hardy jumped to hi* feet :
"Three cheers for Dolly and three
e guessed they'd take the bread pea 01 my temp."
an' the smaller klttls
sh( er
And that's my wife Elizabeth Jane,
"Do you mistreat/ to stay round home that I call "mother' now, because
all summer T' I asked, hattng myself la- there's another Elisabeth Jane it the
mdse I was getting red as fire. family.
We live on the old farm, and barrio'
the mistakes that same into all houae-
keepio' arraprements and have to be
made straight by experience, wire u� cheers mon for Dick's beet girl."
happy as the day is lona.
I still peddle tios,and sometimes when , They were gives with s will
I's. Odin' along in the evening I think
of being without the wife and home fen sat tarewdrrt comatose.
going to, and by the weight in my heart Hattie Z Mantbero, of Mill Village,
I know how m xh the to SoOnt" sari, "My myrrh was dreadful, 1
7 aro ma. would out deep at nights sea a000met of
I say "Bow tie wires, *1f on 'em, but it, but when I used Hagysrd's Peeturral
more particularly bow my little wife." Balsam I had rest and was quickly cur-
ed. All dsegR'sts sail the invaluable
cough remedy. 2
She esswered back quite Sera :
"I shall stay tin I learn to manage my
temper better in tryia' times, which, ac-
cording to present appearances, won't be
any loo soon."
I said some modistes was suough to try
the patience of a saint, and then grow
redder's ever, beoaw I was afraid she'd
think I meant i was above all eioh and
an exception to them. Bet she didn't
seem to take it that way- She laughed,
and said there was pettier' and W-
hirs.
Then we settled for the things, mud
then bole' mo exeee for my •tiyta'lomg-
or, I woof,
I said to myself a good many times
ttiat day : "She's got red hair, sod
•'tis got a temper;" bet it didn't keep
her oat of my head a nits, aur hinder
me from patio' resod to that facia boots
again in • week. This time we didn't
make so trade, bot wo.'had • few words
of mongoose over, and we noticed the
hearty way thione were growin'.
It was near twilight, and when i watt
sway I had a tecta' e. if 1'd tucked • bit
of peacsfoloses down in my heart to make
ase glad and thankful in the dint std Sive
o' tb.'pkd.
it deeded it potty often that season,
for itgrew to be a dreadful dry sssatster,
and the Invclia' was vile. 1 hod to to
t r that farm homes • gond many
1i.aes ; was no use fryla' to keep
omit fill► the thought nI them bright
eyes chair me there sure as honsp draws
irrea
i made et aed made menses to
myosin till I • ferret 1 we• • Meth-
odist in goal, del regular aimed i n'. Tres
I drew myself ep short,
"It's no see, James Grime'" I said
"sow's•
hot snmethis', and you wool
'load it salmi you Snd it ie theme brass
eyes deet as the (fray term-"
Se I pet eta my bast gen of do's aed
light) omit* for it we. getting soar
W the sights wee chilly, sad 1
hi tfM • team of the livery stable at tie
• wema■'s motet win.
lithe is prematurely depri.ed of hie
charms of fees and form, and made un-
attraotire by the wasting effects of ail-
ments and irregularities peculiar t.. her
sem. To *heck this drain upon her
strength and health, bat upon her ansia-
ble q.alities as well, is her first duty.
This a safety mad speedily memempliahed
by $ cedes of eelf treatment with Dr
Pierei • Favorite Prescription, a nervine
and tonic of wonderful efiosey, and pre-
pared especially for the alleviation of
three coffering from "dragging -down"
pains, sensations of muses, and weak-
n ess incident to women—a boon to her
mom. Druggists.
•aRe4.. tact
A,tsestof eloth is being used for now-
ise apparel by the firemen of Petrie. The
Ammon, according to a newspaper re.
port arrived at the neem of a recant fire
—the basement of a how—dad in as-
bestos cloth Seita, and were enabled to
descend into the how and master the
Oases is a short thew
Says the Bre Jowrnat : Now is the
time to *protect the bogie from winters
cold Masts, If they aro to remain on the
summer stands. Peck them with abaft'
or leaves, of if nothing better 1. at heed,
build • corn - fodder shock around sash
biro, er sat boards op around them to
posted them from the wind. Of course
It would be better to peck them all
around with six or eight inches of cheer
shape the entrance from the direct rays
of the sun, an that the bees will not be
enticed net when it is loo eold.
• islet M •etmet.epsee-
Mrs Robert Wihiamaoe, of Glenila,
Parry Booed, Ont„ says, "i mold not
keep home without Hseyatd'• Yellow
Oil at hand- I have used it its my knit
Iy for croup, sore threat, aed • cot foot
and an highly reo,•mmend it to every-
body. ' 2
move Timm • Clossse,
Thal is to say, roe hints. Also all
your breatbing machinery. Very wow -
darted machinery it is hot only the
larger air -passages, but the thnesaads et
From the Pastor of the Olivet Baptist little tubes and arittee leading from
eherek, Philadelphia, Pa,: i have bees them.
troubled with eatavrh se bath Mr sever. When these cry elorg.d and shocked
al .teen that it seriowsly sleeted ay with matter which ought not to he there,
vete*. 1 tried Dr —'s remedy without your lungs cannot halt do there work.
the slightest relief. One hnttte of Ely's And shot they do, they cannot do
Orsani Rahn did the wyrk. My roam is wail,
folly restored sod may bead finds better C•11 it cold, e:.oeh, croup, 1 netnonce,
than for years, catarrh, eonsemption ver eel of the
B. F. Limen •m, (A.M) family of threat and toss and heed and
We tse mrmeed Ely's Oresm Balm ion obatraeti, all are had. AU
where a este foe Catarrh Is tolled foe, ought w
t to be got rid of. There is jest
mad 'mauler list we are doiwg the pub- ono sore wayto get ttel el them. that
es
lis asvies by •aakfag its vide known is Make Roseoa's Gemmel Syrep, whieh
to those allliet.d with this loathsome may druggist will sal yes at I'S eomte •
cess., for which it i* in mal instances bottle. iCven if imerythng mite hes
a psrfeet revs. Prez lfferou., Marries failed you. too deme denenalr anon this
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