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THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 189
THE POET'S CORNER.
TIM hew teres tar Mein
New to the time 7• tiara tale ase
dew lest fur etaatom Whey eta•.
Aad sat our vibes mese and sarll,
S wear of at Wee liar mod earl ail.
Meatal rot srsokt-but twine * day
Thr weed ..• chew well threw away.
W will sewhisker treat nor take -
Incept fa oast atomised' ache.
Au Mad et meeaa•es well donne*,
• ev let au array passim* ries,
We'll gay the Cao► --or go witbost
W611 11•e at Osme. Myriad • doom ;
W. shall enemy a our naiads sad try
Ye tree .srselyea hoes leve of pie:
Wg skull sot Talk es wadi to show
The small sm.set otsr•se w• knew.
Aad w•, of core•*, will quickly tweak
These resoluTioas that we stake.
BEAUTIFUL JIM.
J031i STUQE MITES.
CHAPTER XI
t ROosess rNDta DirrterLTIL$.
Ae mon as he was free to get out of the
baseacks that afternoon Beautiful Jim be-
`teok himself off to the bazar, which was
open for the last day. lie found a great
crowd there, fur it was market day, and
nearly all the country people had con
halved to go to it for an hour or so before
.the y weut home.
Th. ladies wen all very bus}-: for. MI
spite of a week's good sale, there was
Mill large quantity of things to be dis-
posed of, and they were taking almost
may prise they could get for them so a• to
effect a clearance. Mise Earle was espe-
cially busy, her pleasant winning manner
and fair, bright face bringing her many
and many • customer who otherwise
would not have eared to spend a farthing
Beautiful Jim, however, suffered by
"this pnpularity, for he could not manage
to get • word with her, or hardly mat.
Be knew that she and Tommy were going
lime on the Monday moruing, and be
.knew, too, that he could uot hope by any
chance to get even • two dap leave on
this side of the let of September.
So Beautiful Jim. despite the gay and
'giddy throng of which he made one. was
es nearly miserable as be could be while
Ire had still the privilege of watching his
dlvtalty.
aha nit see you after today. Miss
lade." he saki. disconsolately. when at
Leet the had ten minutes to spate, and Le
hied the felicityy of taking her off to the
refreshment ehslet for a cup of tea.
'•Why not?'
•'Because I'm on duty to -morrow, and
I can't get any of the other fellows ado
11 for me." hr returned, mournfully.
-Ohl- she cried in dismay. "and lbw.
'Trafford is having a tea after the pariah."
•'Yea. I know," said he wretchedly.
Then after • moment be exclaimed in s
blighter tune. "There's one fellow 1
haven't asked, so there's jest a chance
yetfor me."
"Then 1 shall not say good -by today,"
said Miss Earle, with decision. "1 hat.
saying Rood -by. Dont you!"
It depends." said Jim. guardedly. "It
depends a good deal on the other person.
Now, if I war saying good•by to yon." be
mild. in a desperate tone -and )'wit ea Mites
Earle was beginning to .hcw the prettiest
of danger signals in her cheeks and a w
droop in her sweet eyes. some--eome-
idiot, Jim said to himself• saa•agely. came
clumsily doog and knocked a heave tea
tray against Tier arm, making her shriek het
out in unmistakable pain. "
• •Now. then! Where are on going?' a
ttiii�Mti1g 1. s �B 1WIN."el&
lustto revenge= as the dodo
aureartlng i
thing," he as
Iltem.v,r, he did net who N, for Our
Iasi[ and themes paries the raffle wet
coadected i• mate biles a state ap bra
corner, the does Ida self beidni the
and the cusshien fell to MIsn
lOnris herwit
She took U with very doubtful astlstac
tion.
• 'Mr. Beeesfmd.'site said, soddenly, at
If a really brilliant ides bad struck her
'you've bees as good as gold helping me
to get rid of It- ll give it to you.'
"To ar' cried Jim.
"Yea; it will belp to brighten your
room Will you accept KT
• MIM Earle," he said. "I will keep 1t
forever.'•
•'Them,' .aid .he, with a preens laugh
"I thunk 1 will take it back and Ind yon
something prettier for a keepsake. for if
you have such a thing as that la memo
bream of tor, it will not be very long be
fore you say. or at lead think, 'What a
hideous thing that la Why did 1 buy ttt
Olt a girl gave it to ma. Yee,oung
Bale's slater: It was at • bazar at -
hampton.' And 'beta you'll only remise
ber the girl by the cushion, and you'll
get to associate to. with the mishits,
•Del"—
•'1 will keep It," Jim declared. stoutly,
keeping 11e unmanly cushion fast under
his arm. "You gave it me --it 1s exqul
site I would not part with It fur tie
world."
Miss Earle laugbed again, and edit thea.
Lady Miart beckoned to her. "Nancy
my dear. Alleva has had to ggou home. Bb.
has given to at last, poor eLLd."
Alleeu." cried Nancy.
"Is Mise Addl. faint? Can 1 do any
thong fur Lm, Lady Margaret!" Jim asked.
be gnat maniere.
• No. She is over tired, that is ad:
thank you so much. though. This long
week has been too much for her," lad)
' Margaret replied "She has gone to lie
down, but 1 hope she will be able to come
down for supper." great are. Then how lee bad eat beaids
For smelt evening there was supper at her at supper, and how tender and gelid Tommy joined the regtn.ent Mr Earle
the Deanery for the workersat lady Mar he had been. nod bow he bed Yat M! was seised with a somewhat severe at-
garet'. stall, and for suck of thoue helpers hand at parting and looked at hers-whyd tack of bronchitis. and by the erdnn at
as came from a distance. positively• lief cheeks weer linen 111q r' Mie medked advisers was on the very Bret
rstnmsni koro the Demme, 1st
es dill set get rhe of tom, mid kP Oa
tars last chimes et • gsM Wk Mgt
�nw in
was yew
The [*else did oat tea the Deanery
bowleg a Mate e1 their ewe aha+
light, bat as they from Massy a
the doer Nome saapldea of the trail
fawned open Sarek.
"Nestfla." the esclelmed. as ease at
they wore eat of ear shot. "did row >b
miss auytldsg tass•al shat Bes•ikfal
Jim to-aightr
"I thought he seemed uncommonly
tat --far k1,a, that is," return 1 Nortek,
promptly
that Miss Earle." exclaimed Barak.
"and he is ee gone on her as pw.ibls
What • joke -and oh! poor old fellow,
whet a shame we couldn't leave them to-
gether; she's going away on Monday."
"Oh, there's the parish to -morrow,"
said Norah, easily.
"Oh. bat he is on duty to -morrow,"
Sarah cried. "Young Towers told me s ,
because Jim wasted him to do it, and he
wouldn t. He said old Jim was in an
awful way about it."
"Then I think he might have taken It,
burin a loge women. tasmW or
D the ',Mike( that would
give you so meek ash • Mel it 1 took the
crotehis to he stvU 1s heel Naas you.
t , dealt flatter yeomen. Why, ft's
hawses these twwtekmise�s-t-heiaah you're suck a
glie-
e ast estop of htuanssit --thetilt a they k yogi
make the yosag show of yuansU that
yea d. Bet what 1 wast a Wow es.
what the devil do you mean a Mule tor
-Well, really. ]lm," Timmy replied.
with • certain "last ur the 'arise baaglttl-
seee in has time, "it SMMS 10 M yodre
troubling poised( in • very unsaseena y
w ayabout m private again, and"—
Bet Bountiful Jlw had broken ism
shouts of deri.lve laughter. 'Tammy,
'lama you'll be the death of ma yet -
you will, Indeed." he said " Y our private
atAtta-wh)) blear ms, child, the last
joined sub basu't got any private affairs
except in 'applying' for leave. Private
afilydrt., Itidaeed! Well, it's neo lovely, that
--imply too lovely,"
Tummy looked blandly blank. "1 dare
say 11's very tuttgy, Jim." he said, *ashy,
"but where's the joke!"
nab Little wretch!' mad Norah, who had
"TM ? to yes expected
Tommy. my
ehlld, and you can't is exp..cted tet sae it.."
hot little love for Towers. "Let us anubl But. after that, Jim gave up trytni tc
idea all we know to -morrow." keep the ltd from n.aking • foal of hint
But all the enubbi in the world didn't *ri with the Blaukhampton women, and
alter the fact that Beautiful Jim had iatned noothlug whatever by the attempt
found no ate willing` to do his duty, w Ile Led made, except to make Tommy
that he was eating lets very heart out in firmly believe from that time forward that
barracks on Nancy Earle s last day in the senior subaltern was eauy alive with
Biauktu nptoa ouay of ham. And if he had only
As for en all tie sweetness and own that Beautitnl Jim's whole heart
ight of the place seemed to have gone and mind was wrapped up in Lis own sin
tat, and out of her life too, so far as that tee! 1f he had only kuowu that to him,
went Ste sat • long :lee beside thethe-Tummy-was simply nothing but an
Teti endow of ber bedews. that nlgbm Impedest young rub whose only Maim to
blakIng - tIainkla %Malang! Fiat, interest, or even notice, lay in the fact be
how savage lie had � when Violet Lea was the brother of that tnsignidc*tt and
lie and Stuart came under the tree --as tf l sot-w-breouoted createre, Nancy Earle
poor dear Stuart would ever dream that; -wall, 1t would hare helped to takedown
they had gone there for more theta Avelthe young get Hamm.'* idea of his own
minutes' rest from the noise and turmoil
of the fair. Arid bow, when be had es-
pied Lis servant in the crowd, he had
given that hideous cushion to him. lead
bade him take 1t back to barracks wttb
greatness and Isla own importance velously
Cnfurtunately, however, Jim had not.
daring all these months, the glw.t of a
thane of turtleAng his poo:tie.n with
Nancy. for admen immediately after
"Oh! I du hope so," Nancy exclaitued she thought of 1t. And then
She was very fund of the beautiful Aileen. .t roes up in her mind, • tbsaght
"Meantime," Lead) Margaret went on. of which, owing to her trwluL,g need the
"she told me to ask if you would enisholf traditions of her house, she felt inure thee
the ruse for this," holding out a child's half ashamed.
little velvet pelisse, handiomely trimmed "1l only Stuart had not chosen jest that
with lace. spot and just that moment to take little
Violet Leslie out of the rrowd-*h! Low
different all might have been" -and then
ber eyes fell upon the child's little velvet
pellase which Jim had won and lett be
"Oh, of course," Nancy answered, read -
11y.
Beautiful Jim would fain have raised
the objection that Nancy war almost as
worn out by Ler labors as Mhos Adair.' hino lam.
but Naory sew what was coming, and
chocked him by an imperative pat ou the
}arm.
("That's good of you." exclaimed the At last the time of young Stuart Earle's
chap'. wife gratefully. "Then nes here. Arlt long leave was over, and Le went to
,dame. There are thirty-five shilling*
CHAPTER XIII.
IJ. KEW grtaTQ•.
eehtamewa, and Allem had already got seven Blankhartipton to join his regiment. when
tees taken up. Here is the bag with the for wyeral months his life was eenteinly
•name.s and the money. It will leave you net of the most pleasant ltlud. and was
eighteen etW to get."
Beautiful Jim fair! groaned within
himself -eighteen shillings to be wbeedled
out of eighteen ttnwilfng pockets -
eighteen men or women to captivate by
all the pretty persuasions tad granas
which he wanted to keep too badly for
himaelf-eighteen-oh! it was too erne'
not to sic. Ler • moment's rest, and &-
ould like to have burned the thing.
"Very well," Nancy answered. How
needy and willing she was, worn out an.
weary tbougi. she mi lit be. u• take up the
trdcn again and keep working still
Dene, Mr. Bereford, will you carry It fog
Jim thundered. looking daggers at t
luckless bent rid ual.
After many apologies and regrets the
poor wretch went away forgiven, and
then. just as Jun was going to be tender
and lover like over the poor arm. a great
stream of people came in. among whom
were two of the Leslie guts and Tommy
Earle.
It is to be hoped that the recording
angelnot put own t t
words rise in the and never
peas the lips, if be does, he must have had
a busy ten minutes that Saturdayafter-
noon, for BeautifulJim's unspoken
s were-well,far from saintly.
Nancy,
Earle went back to her t, and never
atwtbeer chance did Jim have of uttering
words which. she won only ear
wouldhave made him the hap-
9ies man a an prom that y'
"With pleasure," returned Jtm, not
very truthfully, it must be owned, "ant
after this you too will knock o8 work,
won't yon?"
"06, yes, it will be time," answerer
Lady Margaret for her. "And, Nancy, le
sure yoga tell the people how it happens t.
so expensive. It la made of the best o'
vet, the lace is very good and tits
niogs are silk. In fact, there is no prod -
It whatever, for Mrs. Bateman made Y.
me for nothing."
••i'll tell them,' said Nancy, and she
started away at once on her missiou.
But beautiful Jim could not stand any
more of it.
"Miss Earle." he said, "please don't
ek that thing about any more. will
1 111 bny the chances remaining."
'•But, Mr. Bereeford," she said, •'yam
't need a little child's pelisse."
"No; but I'd -like to buy the other
chances if you've no objection," lie re -
meekly.
"But what can yon want with it!" she
"I don't want it, of coarse," he said.
Who would?" he asked. eyeing tie little
gn.wt with huge contempt. "But i
don't 11ke to see you killing yourself over
thing -and -and -please do let me
ve the rest of the chanoesr'
"But eighteen ebancss-and. If yon get
what will you do with it!" she asked.
"Oh! give It to some one or other," be
replied -"anything so that you don't go
tiny more, wasting yourself on such
crew as this," moving his bead imps-
tly front side to side so as to indicate
crowd gathered in the street of the
iss .Wage.
he
Fir! vol
li
does d all the naughty on
mrd that h heart for
Bu
nthottg►t 1
Thom reminded of Ler duties, � ha
post.
MI
Abe rd hi h if h lel 1 h
and }teed don
t i BI kham 1 da
at for all that he hung about Lady Mar-
garet • chalet with Che persistence and turned
.fidelity of a dog. and once or twice, when
Nancy sallied forth to dispose. by the tut- said
lawful and sinful means of riffling, of
some rather large article of upholstery "
which hung on hand, he was privileged in
being allowed to that same, to stadi
by while she enlarged on the beauties a re_
soft cushions which nobody wanted to buy., ha
and descanted on the merits of banner
acreers which were a mockery and an it.
abomination.
"I may come and nee von when I am in
town?" he asked. *thou
"Ob! yes. Mr. Beresford, we shall be a
delighted if you do," she replied heartily.
h' 1 shall not be able to get leave
-until well on in September, or perhaps are
even October, and you won't be In town
thea," he Bald, in dejection and gloom.
'Totem sure not to be In town. then."
"1 ant not so sure," she Bald. "True,
ere always go to the country for several
.monthe and Intend to stay •L the winter
-only, somehow, my father likes our
boos. in town better than our errantry
plane. and we generally (:reel ourselves{
home &Fain In Ilan plan early in Octo-I
bei. 1'. a may stay in the country longer
this year, because Stuart may care to
bring friends for the shooting.1 suppose
,my father would like to be there if he did
'-only ie does hate the country so. The
country people bore him, and he says the
is a draught top. Aad them he
his paper at breakfast time, and he 1
likes his club and his whist and all that. I
(16, i dare say you will find us at Lome if
you happen to be in town in October, or
awes at the end of September."
"It's a tremendous time from this to
isaid Jim, feeling • little
by her Infewmnation.
5ber"
se." said Miss lire ---••it Is • sofa
�ashisa. worked b the Duchess n
sinew only ditty chances at a shilling
inch. and I only want three to make up
the number "
• Beautiful Jim stood dill and caned et
fate, the cushion and its noble soaker the
Inches., at the inquisitive person who
desired to see it, at everything, lu short,
sa�1 Mise Nano Earle.
• "Leek hem" be meta benign) . "Need
/amt hawk that thing •bre it any longer! i
Dote a hear you wading blendieImenta
e ever these people. 111 take t he minaluing
shames" "
'06' that le sweet and levels of von,'
SIIes Earle said. "Two. shillings. lease.
ft de MAO111& H, jR for I'm
a tired
v different from any experience he Lad
Lad before.
For one thing. be had made • bad im-
pression at his very arm ap rat►ce
among them on each and all of hL brother
/Beers, from his commanding officer down
e the latest joined subaltern, se that
every one of them was on the look out
for the smallest sign of that "cheek"
which every man of them felt It wee his
personal and Articular duty to try to ie Blankh•mpton it was dinen!nt
eradlcata A drtbt-ult task even for the ••�
:tasted strength of a whole regiment for
Tommy's native bounce was apparently
A unlimited quai.Uty, while in quality.
es bounce, 1t was of the very first water.
So far as his manners in the meas roma
were concerned, he wts in an Incredibly
short time what Bsantltui Jim called
'•lieked into shape." but in other ways
Tommy proved himself to be simply he
hale For instance. he never could
be brought to see that in Blankhamptem
society he was 1n any way inferior to his
minor officers. and even in the palace of
;he lord bishop himself be made no more
ado about openly chaffing Beautiful Jim.
or telling an absurd tale at the major's
expense, than he did of flirting deeper
ately with little Violet Leslie, who was
barely riot of the school room. Indeed,
before six mouths had gone by. Tommy
had the tame of being ghee most impabout
young cub who had ever graced the Bleak.
shire regiment or the old city of Blank-
hampton his preeenee.
It must owned that the women had
had a good deal to do with it -they ut-
terly spoih-d him, for they allowed bum to
take almost any liberties that he those,
partly becaum he was so young, partly
became he was so actually beautiful In
person. partly because be was the lam of
a very old and rich and emsusntly distln.
guished rue.
Not a day pawed. If he was not on dug
that as soon as he was free from work he
did not go flying off to some feminine
charmer, and he neither could nor would
understand that "the fellows" objected
to going to tea parties where Tommy was
the central figure, to dinners where
Tommy monopolised the whole of the
conversation, and to dances where Tom what s� said. '-there most be pigsty of
my's audacious flirtations made him the good people round about "
observed of all observer. "My dear boy, none," returned Mrs.
But. though Tommy did not become Pairlie, with an emphases which killed
=unit ordered off to the sunny
=unity
the Mediterranean, there to stay
well the very last east wind of our i n-
spring time should have taken its
nre from his mate, *boreal
t had liven a bitter blow to Lim. but It
was useless to ht ag•inet fate. and
though he tried for foreign leave,
bs was, owing to various rumor. of dis-
turb•nee Boating about the country at
the time, unable to get it.
Just at first he was rather elated at the
prospect of a change. There wee a some
thing jaunty and soldierly .L.eit march-
ing out. colors eying bent playing. and
• dosen bruken hearts beh.tnd them, and
for • few hours Tommy went girl round
announcing that they wen ill to Wallas -
bury next work, witj. a '•fre..b Gelds and
putaraw new" air elect hie, that was ir-
resistibly funny to those of his brother
deem* who knew whet manner of pian
Walmsbury really was
Bat the elation of alis yonng Alexander,
longing for more worlds to conquer, did
not last long From 'the fellows" he
learned nothin , indeed. for any inform-
ation he would have had from Omni be
would have remained In the ignorance
which la bide. doublyso in this ease,
until lie. rwebed Wmabury itself, but
tag to alaxabury. cried (melody
to whom he told his news with • very
"girl I leave behind me" sort of air. "Ole
a dear boy, what a shame! Why,
yyo 1: be buried alive in Walm*bury.
There's nothing to do and nowhere to go,
and no a soul in the place that you es.
possibly know. No society whatever."
•• IIAp,
we'll be buried alive to Waleas.
Lary.
•
"Oh! I don't know, Mrs. Petrae," said
Tommy. trying not to look as if Lss jaw
was dropping perceptibly, yet with an un-
comfortable sort of feeling that the lady.
who was quite a small social nalebrity
her w• In Blankhampton. was right In
Se Nancy Earle gave way and allowed vpy popular In has regiment, he was pop +the last remnant of jauntlneae left in Wm.
ham to fill repp the eissbiteen plaea on her nlar enough in the town to satisfy any • "Not a soul who teeth take the •
card with hla lnttlalr and then he d caavin after the rood of t � very
r L lamps Take the smallest mots_ of mer
few o�nasy g p be!smallest notes. of yore.
her tea. from the • laze of the many I1. became
after the brat few
satU Le found a rimy and retired seat weeks, the intinute friend of all claims or -bead Tommy, feeling es 1f an earth
reader a wide spreading tree. -he was "Tommy" from nue end of 'quake bad suddenly rent the ground
Blankhampton to the other. under tbeir • fest
CHAPTER XII. Beautiful Jim did his hest, but his h- I "Yes, of you! Everybody who 1. any-
finean went • very •bawl way, for bi. Body in the neighborhood of Walm.bn
WHAT MIGHT neve eoz!e. advice was anything but n'"
1a to of the r laif palatable t* the Ile.. Fairlie answered, with an
opt pain. and trouble at which last of the Earle•, and it must indeed he mtling straightforwardness, "is so bor.
Beautiful Jim had been in order to aechre'• very strong and firm will which an fol- silly rich that they only eosat Inoomes b
• quiet half hour with Nancy Earle, they low the most exeeUewt advice in the world mill Bions .red daughters dote by bo
were not long left undisturbed under the 11 it is unpleasant. to the exclusion of all of tbunsands. Od hussies. like your owe
shadow of the wide spreading tree be- that makes life worth having, a mini Choy only regard as useful In having gut
math which they had taken refege. For stronger will than Tommy was blessed together fine eosntry plans for them te
hardly had they settled themselves them with. In truth, all Tommy's strength of buy,; and as for say 'meet them ewer makn
n mom fort before little. Violet Leslie, fol- purpose went in an remains direction. Ing yon to dinner -why, they would
owed by the ineorrigible Tommy. pushed that of 'serving his own ends and gnti4- almost as scan ask thele sweep. (*1 my
aside the branches and invaded their re- Ing bit own name of pleasure, dear child, 1 assure you, in going to
Crest; and the Incorrigible Tommy, it Look hen, you young bggar,'seM Walmwbnry you'll Ind yourself in no bed
must be understood, was quite too full Jim one day to bin. bs1�g Mired thereto o1 roma"
and overflowing with his own Importance not by any desire to do 'Rrmmy good, BIM "Bot, �.- Pklrlie," said Tommy, when
to dream for a moment of betaking him by an nneoeifortable feeling that lid he could get hes breath m as to speak,
sell out of the. mea for t • neo
officer. on n hamptes serety. U opus ")fewer," returned the lady, prompt y
And that happened to be the very led go ria like this, what do yes mess to ewes "Them hew do you knew all tbLt" 6m
banes he had t
y he convenience old be grieved H she terld em all tier "have you ever hem to Walmeheryr'
and pleasure of his
senior woof I Ilhaak
eas t Blank c
o • Parte
quarter of an to -hey �� triumphantly.
hear with Nancy Fade before she left' Tommy looked up with his own nna from tee tmfottanate moa wk. been
Blaakhamh�• 6 For no sooner did they bashed pm. been gasrte ed there," the replied hue -
immerge shelter of the braaehesl What au earth have i been dein, to
than they were seised urs two of the .pest you bowl' he demanded.
chin. the in their "Wall, I saw you myself kiss no fewer
frieedliest tones what wee the state e( them thaw women teat night," Beautiful
Madams at Lady s stall. Jam growled. 'The greater_ tools they to
Now, 1a Beautiful Im'. opinion, as 1n let you "
that of many another man, the Lsa11.i " Ake to have hese thele yourself, ebT
deters were quite the meet brUli•.t and remarked Tommy, flippantly
.
attractive A�iirls is the towb, bot, m •' if Beautiful Jim :eft: hall se coeawptta-
truthful elmnleler of ■aakhamptea life, eras as he looked .t that mammst he semi
I tont own that, et that moteest, he have attained to the furthses mop
found Moven weed clog what in the of diadain, for kh u(i� ss.md pati
wade weld he Mehl ever hare sees at led with unutternife gum&
*melee nbemfi any eat e1 them. Poor '•iAke to have Imo thew
Skil them tea MM*t until they weroi"Wky, lies pea( lot iresespose
disteiyy. and Tommy was crashed forth-
vitas.But Yea Addle was only the that of
Many who condoled with ►1m on the We -
tartans of being .est to a plea se un -
eolith. se ueatlrsrtive in ev r
b.o.g ory. Id..a.
Eby` thselelf the wadi
-this hist tate W les sod �s1M at his
Smits. 1� vb furthest
newt t MA.bated lasso sodMfif glmgMela hMasi t hemt bhi
waw natty •bleat. When he sell the TH& P� .
tewa�t
dirty. tenet ve tlkMts. the Paw
little .hops, Use lu ioahlsi nes sad woe
mea, and the utter akmMi Of save and
ewe= seri of rusk matt hahlsa, be tell
tate a settled rtaesary of rept*.
1br the int tame .lave he tyttd joked
him regimes& Tommy eegtetted das.44y
that he W not. whoa he bad the shims,
meds himself more plpsktt with Ids
brother dicers than he W doe.. For he
famed Walgaabttry so hotter that a prison.
the very end of the tenth, the abodsa-
Men d mi..ml.tiaa! Moreover, he w.. fairly
thrown on his beam sada for lack of fem
1nin. s.dsty.
And, as the uatural result of all this,
it was uot very lung before Master
Tommy Prrb gum
t into eery ssbtskabM
mLchief. Indeed
to es ttatllINVas.
Daub of fir. Tlsssaa. mesa$sm.
The news comes ley cablegram .1 the
death .•f Mr Themes Hesniag, at F.or-
tuee, Italy. Guly fifteen days atm. ••r
hereabouts, the death of lire Hseul"g,
in the muss city, was recorded. file.
Heasieg wigs .t that time in fair benne,
as good as be bad soj..yed for Mime time
previously, but never seemed le. rally
hum the shook he sustained try the &IA
demists of Mrs. Huumnt's death, and on
the 27th instant be died. The decreer.'
rentlem•n was widely bon.n and highly
esteemed in obie city, though for sesmul
years past he has resided chiefly in
Lurupe, un acoouut .•t ill -health eon the
part oil himself and Mrs. Manumit.
Meantime they travel!d considerably.
and Mr. Henning, being • keen ohserv.r,
and possessed of literary tastes, contri-
buted frequent article. descriptive ..f his
journeyings to the Canada Presbyterian
sed other aiseasi.ee and new.rap.rs.
Mr. and Mrs. Henning paid a final visit
of considerable length to Toronto, which
was brought to • close about eighteen
mouths ago. Mr. [leaning wee •
brother-in-law of the late Hoa George
Brown, and for about 6fteen years was
connected with the business maa.genent
of the Globe. He ass a native of Purt-
adown, Ireland, and was *deemed is
Belfast, Ireland. Daring hie early life
in Canada he was • teacher in Knox
College tad other institutions. Hs was
of • gate&, sedentary diepwitsu., an
ardent toyer of books and a deeply mai
Maw mate tam death will he • subject of
Natters regret to his wide circle of
friends.
A severe *tact.
Miss Belle Elliot. of Pontypool, Ont.,
write. -"My brother and I were both
taken ill with • wavers attack of sham
rb.ra, having tried other remedies, las
tried Dr Fowler's Emmet of Wild Straw -
`her. y, which gave immediate relief." 2
"They have • larger sale in my di•
trig," says • well knows druggist, "than
any other pill un the market, and give
the hest eatisf•ction for sick headache,
hell aou.nees, indexation, ste. , and when
oomb,ned with Johnston's Tunic Bitters,
Juhod..n's Tonic Liver Pills will per
form what no other medicine has dose
before for suffering humanity " Piles
23 rents per bottle. Bitten 50 cents
and Bl per bottle. Suld by Goode,
Druggist, Alison Week. Goderich, sole
(c)
he of Ntatusey Ar Them.
Bouton, Bass., Dee. 26. -The splen-
did new Slater memorial museum at
Norwich, Conn., whi.b was opened with
a (treat gathering of learned mon two or
three .eeks ago, is intended as an ex-
emplar of art, es well as literature and
learning, and in order to make 1t equal
to any in the land, William biota pur-
chased in Europe • rare eollectios of
statuary. easiest sod modern. which he
designed to present to the now moaswm
for the instruction and delight of the
future, w well as the prosect inhabitant.
of Norwict:. Bosse a.f the people of the
town, however, bol,og to the class which
swathes piano legs to bide their naked -
sena There is quite • somber of these
predi.i persons in Norwich, and they
settled the danger afar off. Indeed,they
seem to have righted the endo Apollo
sad Vacua, and before they assaged
from their hoses in the Custom hoose
there was an uplifting of hued. and •
roiling of eyeballa, and the prudes set
shoat wviug Norwich from the moral
postdates whish threatened. The storm
they raised was too snook of • sirocco for
the directors to withstand, and they fell
bonne it. The staeues were quara•tised
sod when they were henget out and
asounted on their pedestals in the rase -
mon it wee sees that the diesel had hems
plied remorselessly. Twisty 6n of the
most perfect works a sculpture had been
mutilated so that it w•s hardly passible
to distal/wish them. A more ludicrous
set of emits hes probably sever teen .en:,
bat the old maids of Nouei*h have b...
appeased.
Mew • Deft CasgM Cad.
A slim young man in the height of
fashiow was violently sneecing in a street
oar, when a cowepanien remarked, "Aw,
Chawles, dish boy, how d'ye estih that
dwmdfel add" 'Are, desk fetish, lett
my cisme is the lower hall tether day,
shod io soaking tie ivory handle, en
dwradful odd, it chilled nae almost to
death." If Charles had wed Dr. Har-
vey'. Red Pine Gum ►a *old would sot
trouble him eery much. Tor sale at J
Va dsoe's fxescripttos drug store. tf
A preacher's first business is to led
s1ou, to go to them where thee are, sad
thee to Ml oak to them se they are, and
speak m es to be heard. -Prof. Phelps, -
me •a T. tweed,
1)u*'t eller • onto is the bead to slow-
ly sod surely ren into 011Dink when
you can be Duret for lost by 44ag Dr.
Oha.s's Catarrh Outs. A few �pp�es-
tires sure 'stripiest salarrh ; 1 to = \saes
sorsa ordinary ttdaerh ; 1 to 6 bozo, is
Sseesteed to sees 'shrouds catarrh. Try
11. Only 1Ile and sere mgrs. /cry by
all druggists
To be idlest, to osier. to pray. whits
there is me netward roost fee melts, ie
w seeept•ble muni g to Ord. -modes.
A Pees elr
mats! battle of Dr Chaim
Use is • medial and neap
toter
100 mars, an/ brook allefekdsig �by dmston
seat e~ the Vie. ltedistee hes the
ose rod
bask SL Say by si dltemira
A Vsemaq of +.mare twat waw malrettt
she wltr`ML
RAa:tme• tae evalag airs lige
wreathed Semen are a. ro is the
bet tee ens meatej diepl.y is made,'
Pet della Int eisis•lly •p tad dun
sad -
skin
Broadway,
New Turk, with 6m.
a
Ws-
der bodies states that, tela
Usdrewd aasitkis, whey resemWy
peekored bearer bas is Wqt►t.y es
makes a shamus* Iriiamtna for a
ion
*skies, eloth cloaks sad dreamt
Costs for outdoor wear •pp.mr is *c.
end styles. Ona Inas and ttluemetti•g
he. a silk mesh folded about the waist,
which gives as egret or short kart waist.
ed.... .4 wast and kip* toast be added
to every erect terrmge.
Winter right -stows* of Wetly tinted,
soft 6asli 1, urestr.atod by silk bier
stitulti:it, hold • segwe+ti..n of sweet
oemturt that then damn l•ee•bed.ckd
Moen goes sever possesses. A white
auk host. w% toad oullare with fall
ruffles of lace abort throat .ad wren.
will stake as beautiful dud become( a
rube as was ever warn.
R.csmser gumene are math more ti♦-
b..r.te ; they Imre • socked ktmaeded
hih rallies from the Beck to the wont,
fastened un the sl..slder Is the must is.
..trtrrt.ce.t way wised, ; the siestas are
cut .bort mid puffed bomb ca 11. abosY-
era. To all .•f this ...tee added quite •
train, with ase .r tea•• lull r.$.s of left
&beet the hem to soften the straight tall
of lingo.
For housewear nothiet is more easy
and o.ovenie.t then the little gay jack-
ets made of fleecy 6saael. The gamest
it.elf is wavily of wale dell hitte or old
red, and Eta gaits .mocthly at the bask.
A fall rpt of .ilk, gathered sad parted
at the throat sad waist, 6t. heists.
broad lapela turned hack back with silk
sod . bit of embroider. High collar
and cuffs or the wide platted falling cel-
lar can be added at will.
The loaner the plumes if which • IYa
W composed tit. greaser is the pride raj
pleasure .d it. owner. Some of time
imm.oas ostrich feathers are worth •
small fortm.e, provided they .re fall sad
seat.ral Thou the trouble and expense
is Auditor and owentt.g them sod the
'ignite Baia► of workmanship pet on
the .tisks give them fans s price and
pslrttity to c.mtssnd respect,
lied,, white silk for s*dirwusr is no
tiliagar nstard.d as the least and hist
1lMiwial, the talky Frond ssiemood
Igen,., foetid wily t• Treesh, nary -
tag elaboration is lace and .mbn*mry
with more gram thea silk. Tari spec
yards of the most delicate leer embeoid-
ery, as Ilse as irost work, with ribbons
to •i•tob the oomplesios, stake eves
the simplest almost tea fine for wisnag.
Converting ostrich feathers into mai
is • sew sod seseibie idea. Why should
one wear • boa of the rplendsd glossy
plumes and wit earl them shoat the
dainty duster of .ilk and satin read to
tisk ore's lan& in i &, the ostrich
feather mal came Into beteg and will
follow in the great feather triumph of
Ibis meson. Of course these ms -s
match the hoe, which is t.rdinarlly hlwk
or wine neutral shade fur street sad day
wear, with more farctfal topes foe eves -
W[.
Ooe o1 thew coats, for a carriage
drone, was of soft golden hr,,wo lad's
sloth, hang snugly to the Agent int e
back, the fronts ul which were daintily
embrodered ..o the edge is Ise gold
threads and almost met over • vest of
plaited white silk. The frosts extended
wore &stapes beyond the waist line,
with .mheoidered pocket bps en either
.id., hot the vest ceded st the wain in
. full soft sash of silk. Tb. high an-
brcid.red .ails sad collar *shared the
sharesimg east.
Amasg seals booed folk .s regard tae -
ay •ederwe.r in the light of frivolity sad
approve of wools wear for Wester the
sew "cellular doth" will Aad a.ny ad-
vocates. This (•brio is composed of
judicator parts 01 wool, silk and atter;,,
wove• in a canvas pattern. Physicians
recommend the cellular *loth for its
lightness .•d warmth. Meeh .slid d.eo•
ratios in the oroe stitch may be applied,
but as yet the material bas not been in
traduced for gal., most of it sees was
bought is Loodos. •�
Direstnire and Ree•mier gowns ars
drawn high and full shoat the tercet ;
clown the frost seised* • broad band of
finely tucked n•iasook, edged with I.M.
the back, from Deck to trust, n hod in
broad plaits and hangs gait* fall to the
floor. The sleeves, like those of ell
gowns made after the sew fashion.
Directoire or otherwise. en almost
balloon shaped .ad draws *early ep to
the elbow oto the isslds seem by • bow
of ribbon. Ribbons for gowns are jar*
tow a alter of rosddantion ; bread
grosgrain or moire bops with long .sds
is asy odor to ..it the wserar's tasty
may he on part of the gown to be chase
-
ad or varied by another Meade .t will.
•s the Verge .1 Mrvwtss.
"For three month. I amid sot est a
fell meal or do s day'. won. I Weight
• bottle o1 Berdo ek Blood Bitten, baps
ssisg it, sed in three days m
retuned, is a week I felt Iappetite
ke
as. It was woederfsl what that ass
bottle did for en," writes Arthur Mi-
shits. of Huntsville. Muskoka, who suf-
fered frees Iiyepep.ia 1
Dimas M.Oregov, who rs.eaty died
Is 0lengstry, wee • bees odes& of Rob
Roy MsO.Ilwt, of Highland lime.
Armee Omens she side
Aad all diesMsa of the throat and low
mss be ..red y the use of Soottt'e a4,s[.
alio, as it emosins the healisg virtuous of
Cod Liver Oil .ad la biles*H Mfes 1a
Week Germ. Be. what W. S.
Meer, 111. D., L R. 0. P., oto,, Teem,
N. iL says; ''Attie three years' agar -
taws I eameider:ntt's $.obis awe ed
the very boat is the sore. vary sit -
Wiest is threat aSsmtbea ^ Said by
ail drmsglate, 80e. sad SLOB
•'Pa," said Jehssy Es.wlal, "the
capersays emeriti gee is .&.vias M the
regi/ Whet tiese thsl tress i'
' 'Olbeleia' is • misprint X11 shield
he .0 bateisa, The all flsdwise 4em't
1N e N bursa maternal ma is mails
t"e,r b.elemu
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