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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1878-3-14, Page 2e• '4an.! WHEN THE SHIP COMES HOME. ""Yes, let me tell you all. and then you will no say that I have deceived you, listen. We, were so happy,. George ancl., I together --only we two, yon Anew, In the' evening he calve home from the City, and I used to make the tea, though I was such a little thing ! There never was so kind rL'±rJ T'T1V ' S essowisweessessomenenssweetegoansommessessonsir BY tii ALTBE BBAB .NT AND JAMES TRICE Authors at "BEADY MQNET MORTIBOE," "eve conn- ate onn-ate ) TEME,r" ETC., E. CHAPRER .VI,— (conanned.) His sister, unlike laird en face—so a brother, nor such a good man, be - Much unlike him that y t would Pot have been able to trace even a faint family resemillalice_ resembled him in cause now, you gee, I know what young men are sometimes. Oh, ole! How cruel it all is to think oft For one reaped, that her eyes, which were our happy lite was suddenly stopped." large, and of a hazeltilrt, had the same She paused a moment wbile Helen far-off look, and, in repose, gazed out soothed and caressed her. upon space like her brother's, as if "They said he forged Mr. Baldwin's waiting and expecting . Slits was tall, ' Mama, and robbed him of hie money. and of such a.figure as graces love ; How eau I believe it, Helen ? kf it her bead. crowned with its glory of was true, what did he do with the brown hair, was of such a shape as Canovawould have desired for a mod. el; her Noe outlined as if by some po- et inspired with the sister art of pamt- It was a Nee bora for mirth and gayety ; but tela. gayety bad gone ant of it, and left it prematurely grave, A look of care dwelt upon it forever, save when she turned her eyes upon her brother, and then the sweetest enule lit up her features, and effaced' the lines of trouble round her mouth. Observant members of the Lernire household made out, in addlti''n tea their personal note, a few other promi- nent facts as regards their lodgers. One was that they seemed all th,ee ut- terly careless as regarded their food. On wealth= days, that is, on Monday, Tuesday, and \\`ednesdey, when the mother of the family and the maid of all work were engaged with the linen of the household, they accepted, not murmuring As weaker brethern ultar- mur, cold toiled mutton, with or with- out potatoes ; they drank nothing but tea, coffee, or milk, except Ben, who money ? And yet—and yet --I once went to a place that I heard of in the City, aud looked in a file of the 7fstes • till I found a report of his trial ; and it was all so clear 1 He must heave done it, And still I can not believe it of my brother, for her was so steady and so true." "And you haver never heard any. thing of hien at ell 'y" "Never anything at all," the el;l said "I do not know where be i+, r if be is living," "His name was Genree -- George Warnefnrd ?" Helen replied, alncriv, "MY dear, I think I can tell you some- thitlg- lint n web- -nhnut hire. A•,d that tittle is gond. Thera c'uld not be tern George Warueforde to Sydney a the same me. It is three seaare ago end tn•"r0 that I kneed• of a priRnner of that name ; lee waw a young mon of fi%TIRO twenty "•Ceert'ta'• age—be is ten years 411(10 then I." o A prisoner for forgery—" "► '4W, worm„ "WW1 nbtaini (1 lli"1 relenseanil n fee (ince a day, teiWard the evening, welted pardon for a noble deed Ile did." the neareet publlc•house wide nn.elnpte "Oh. Geerge--my br =cher---tell mr" panniliin, whivll he brought hack fade. what he did." Tbvy wont nut, the brother and sister, "He risked his life to save the lives a good deal in the daytime, alai at oft there; there wag mutiny in pri en. night then alwar sat side by side, and murder. Desperate mon, made Stith joined handl, before the fire, lock. more desperate by the knowledge that it:g into it. Ben. °roil at such tins steer revolt wag 110110t'sR, had the, lives sat with them, his logs gathered up 'lis• of the prison warders in their 1u oda ; der bis choir, hi.; head ngaineb the in a fey tliiniifee it weld have been wall, sound asleep. Snmetitnes in t1,> ell over with them. This prisnnor-- morning, too, the lair wenld Pit silent. brave Gran, who was couvictett by a ly together. Onee Rupert Lemke. the enaninlnne inty after fiveminutfla' con. eldeet son, beard the lady say, after ,arrltatirm for a wi(:ked and trenaheroue one of their lc'ng silence'. "George, if Boston Tom is living any where in the world, we meet fled him. Ube in dead, we must find who and wlrnt ho MIA." :end on another occasion, Nettie Lemiret going to make the lod'_er'' bol, saw her on her kneed, by the 181. .side, in an agnny of tears, crying, pm. " von what the prison :Inoanr said to him eionately, "0 Lnrti ! boon long !" wlinn he left. Hn said. Ruth, that his There was only one other thing that' trial ahnned the clearest came against was remarkable shout the new lndgerr,1 him that ever was mode nut squills' which was the way in which Miss El. wood sought Beth Warnefnrd's society. Now at this time Ruth was tnelanehtly. by reason of her shattered love cantle, and would fain have satin silence ; but sten could not decline he invitations which Miss Elw showered upon her —to dine with her, to take tea with her. And it was difficult to resist the kindnes3 with which these invitations were offered, and the sympathy with which the girl was gradually eneonr- aged to respond to these advances Little by little Ruth fsuna herself talk- ing with Miss Elwood—l.Telen, as she called her -as if she had been her oldest friend. Besides, the room up- stairs was a retreat from the chatter of the children, and a gaiet evening with her new frien,is rested her after a day's bard work at teaching. They got into the habit of sitting together, talking in a low voice to each other, while Mr. Elwood. a rest- less rnan, paced np and dawn the room in silence ; and they talked its if Helen. if he were to stored bef're me be were not there, because he never thio very mrment, and hold ont hi - spoke, and never seemed to listen. rirma. T should ba more harpy than T And one Sunday afternoon Helen have been these eight years that I have Elwood told the girl a thing which lea him." made her heart leap up, and brought snob PI to her as she theiught could never come again. It was a very giliet Sunday offer. noon. After dinner old Bee might be beard marching np and down the pave- ment of the street, on the sunny Pide. where the east wind was not felt.. With him was RupertLemire, and they were discoursing—that is, Ben was lis eonrsing—on ships and storms and sailor's lives afloat. Helen and Ruth sat by the fire, the latter . lyine with her head on the elder girl's knees. Mr. Elwood sat in the window, silent and not, my dear ---faced almnet certain Beath to Rare them, lin did save them. and they released him for his re•w4trd." Reset seized l:'r bend and kissed it. ""(n nn, Ile!en : tell Lae more." "T have veru little more to tall von. Bet if it will comfort yon, ?' can tell nary man, hut that hip life and eh'rctrn belied the oirenmetantial evidence. If( sail he believed him innocent." Beth CAVA a great Paso. "Innnee'+t ? Oh, if it were only so ! What two"1d matter all our sorrow and all his suffering, if only he were in- nnepnt?" "Mint, Goorce Warnefnrd always saial theft he wasinnrcent. The dnetrr wan the first to believe it. Afterwrrd f have heard that others also believed him innocent." "'Why -tinea be not write to me ? Why eines he not come home to me ?" "Perhaps he door not know where von ere ; xrprhnne he does ant know how you would receive him. Fns• Ruth, your brother has last the moat preeinna jewel of }419 life—hie honor." "But sine innncent—" "Bow dopa he know that hie sister Iowa -v him elill ? Who has written to him nut there to tell h'm so ?" "Can I ever cense to love him ? Oh. In the window, in the shadea of the party December evening then darken- ing the room, the very man of whom They spoke sat still and nnricht. But aria hands .trembled, and hie fnee woe ,li,tnrted by some violent seaman. Helen looked toward hiin and niadr frim a geQfure of invitation. But he chnnlr his head. Then' she spoke "g tin t p thn veering girl. "•Tf he came to von a beggar in re- nntntinn.: Nn outcast nf, aneiety, heavily Wen with the weight of these years of AN:from-2' a llortterited disgrace," she said. grave, looking at the group of two. •'With nothing to say to you but that he wap innocent -yon would Nye him mid cling to hien against' all the world.,arainet Mr. Baldwin. against the (rind people or this hone?" !" Reid Rutli, "I have but one brother. You have 'told me that he wart innocent and brave. I am proud of my brother. "And if he came to von, bearing in his hands moors of his innocence, what then, Roth ?" "'I1 would be ton much lumpiness," 14her sii,►hed. "Helen, why havenn womb* me opt to tell mey thie star I [coeval/1m, ON PAGE THAZIt.] "And you are quite alone, poor child?" Helen asked. "No brothers, no sisters t" "I had a brother once," said the girl, coloring painiully. "But be—he ;l;. -went away eight years ago, and I have never seen him' since. Poor •>t;teorge 1 poor dear George t" She laid her cheek on the hand of ler new friend. Helen felt the tears fall fart. "Do Lot speak of it if it pains you,'' she went on, gisitciut." o►, her brother, who Eat rigid, pate, and wall trembt- fag lips. AS A MITT n a large class of wasting diseases, Physicians have foam), PROSPOZON o evert remarkably rapid curative action, and Dyspepsia, even of chronic type, liss,witheepat rapidity yielded. to its powerfully iusidiors•ac-• 'Oen, Hixon Mar r rn a• no., Druggists, et Toronto, writes as fellow. .4 We have st+a_d more PHOSFOZO\E than we ever did of atuy other preparation in a given time. Where we sell a bottle, it is generally repeater,^' Jan, 31, 6-m.. .11r. Smith,how do you ge1 such good atf read 1 OFT MY FLOUR FLOUR and GRIST MILL Exeter NQrtb>;, Itnow beitt; Ii full operation. Tl;eprogriterhe, supplied his grill with Orel -class new mucbinery and has oecura4the services of the rest Aliller lu the couatre. °MATING 1''8OuPTt.ir. ATTENDED TO. 1latisfactien agarantecd. I'atiel from a e);`Itenta Call trace tt;etr Grist to t:a10t,1"or*p Rule Awn. iarooms' (JQnIeQtiona!'"J/ Smoking! Tobacco 25 Cents per lb. WIOICB 'TOBACCOES ANIS CIGARS always insteck. SPORTSMEN'S IIEPOT. Se el1'ac►olts, Stationery, Magazin ['111 ALL THE LATEST nera Sot,n t,&t. NceAles efevery tied, A. 110 xr. THE GR^ATI ST Wonders of Melee. Times Holloway's Pills &Ointment The Pills Pu: ify the Blond. correct an tlf,aorders oftI.e Liver. Stomach. hien ws arae Benelce end' an, invaluable in all complaints incidental to Vent:nest The Ointment is the only reliable remedy for Rad Legs,401d \i'nauaia. Sores and tiger , of ian"v• over king elt,'n ling. Per Bronchitis. Diphtheria, 001011, 0i:14, Itb.tamatisxn, and all Fein Malt's lt:e enc equal.. I3EveARE OF New York Counterfeits., Spurious imitations of "Holloway's Pills and Ointment,' ure manufactured and sold under the name o1 " Holloway tt Co.," by 3.11. Henry, Curran d: elists, and al+:o p 01 it an Medi - vow York, with, mark. thus---- Joseph Haydoci wise masses off own make undor the name of Iiol- Iowavn:Co.,havingforatrado murk a Crosent and Serpent; MoHCessen Sc Robbins of New Yorl.- are agents for the same. These 1persons, the better to deceive yen, nn- bluehingly cautiontho public in the small books of directions affixed to their medicines, which are rer.11y thespurious imitations, to Beware 0 Counterfeits. tluscrupumus Dealers obtain them at very low prices and sell them to the pubic in Cana- da as my genuine Pills and Oihtments. T most earnestly and respectfully appoalto the Clergy, to mothers of families and other ladies and the public generally of British Nortb Ameri- ca, that they may be pleased to denounce un- sparingly those frauds. Purchasers should look tothe label on the pots and boxes. If the autiress is not 533, Oxford Stre •t, Loudon, they are the counterfeits, Each pot and box of the ti ennine Medicines, bears the British Government stamp, with the words "HOLLOwt4's P1LL. AND OINTM}INT, London," engraved thereon: ('n the label is the address, 53 3 Oxford Street. I,onaoh,where alone they are It anufaotured. Parties who muy be defrauded by Vendors selling spuriou s "Holloways Pills and Ointment as my genuine maize sh, on com municating the particulars to me, bo amply re- mt nerated, and their x M me never divulged. THOMAS HOLLOWAY 633, Oxford St., W. C., Lond, n, England^ Company, Drug by the Metro- ine commauy of nassumed trade —Again one of ew York,like- counterfeits of hi. G. & J. BROOKS Manufacturers of LUMBER, LATH, STAVES! end deal ere in CEDARPOSTS RAILS,CORDWOOD t. 1 Sin ae—Two miles west of London Rodd. TOWNSHIP OF HAY AT THE Standard SashDoor BBlind FACTORY, is constantly kept on hand, all kinds of building materiel. flooring hard end soft, Siding Mould- ings ings dm, sold cheap. Planing Jigging and Turning promptly attended to. BUILDINGS CONTRACTED FOR, and satisfaction guaranteed. As we haVe,!on nand a large week of dry lumber, we fetl pure of satisfying those who may give ns a os1L,t;, 8058 HHOS. ! TATLO8: BEVY ?Raoul iE SHU'P. Wii�latn Kitching Wishes toIu(ortn the public that he ia••betteR prepared terepair all kinds ni Sewing : ichines, Watcile Clocks, Guns, &c., than any other person iv" the country, as his charges are moderate, and he guarantees, to give Sati$f se Non, THE EXETER P aning Mill Sash/ DOf AND NiAng 1035 o e s and Beapers 0 BLID na0111 t B1 TIITAl1 ALL KINDS,OF TURNING pow, to ()ram t3 era ember the place ager Q110 (limoward THE FALL AND WINTER TRAM O. .$ 01.1.thcott T.%11,ORs an t'LOTIIIhnt.$t. t'asure t"+ix fnrmt2 4 innabituanteof usliui en441era<4101.t they have n' 4401.014 an cat.; 1',' *t asaortuaient of r alis, Cezattila;.43, 151 14423 (18., be latest stylet ano1 aft ras,an,l fete assur_+d t iZl1114 matter oteeet anag, 't°a?i eau salt t °c 5'n8iaot44k 0rteostta, to :or "1'an?t`r T 1 41V444p Meaehinea n sitter. two eke -,4e ,writ .give"4 NEW BUTCHER SiTOP FrIltetuttlettiwori, wonlet 1r.rerre the inthal+i- 1- tants ".rExeter and vicinity that he I,cr+ OPENED A NEW lit I:"Cl1Elt S,lUOrr, )'pe,toor as+ntla of l.It+1(laa iaaa50it1+sbnp aloiho;,es 11,4cmr)uo 1il"s+lol patr'a,ua 6t' beat tine) tenon AC 'u5dr."• tae 405"0 In Clef+ nr.leasmty 4 Ali;- i%A(ON 2.1a5e4.0 tine cc)ID 4at'„rtetelvdtt, tun, inhib u"•0 t,raceia u a;enrue s, Mics latent ccn43"+u 0,11ea12 ret tic, r, wa• 1,+aatet nI the village taro. unto, e,uc1 52,1145045 I' R ;i{: S4 IT 'NU 14a A T au k,nos}itert ctrl.:tai:tl) on !anal at bis +at@Iter abZit• 0laeksiniehing and uativn ueaking.arritql as usual In a 11 Iib bra:abet, R. DAVIS. of,onr celebrated Si ngme Mowers Si ogle Reapers in all kind ofGra■sand'orate,analot, Rn con dlitionaaaf soil and :unlace. AND GUARANTEE SATISFACTION OR NO SALE l 4'tr a1Po offer a Trial of our Wrought ito Tiro liar STOWS COMBINED REAPER AND MLIWER Mashiaea supplied with `Two Pitlnaua, r1tw90 .l%ntlt,-iters, Two Eit g'Fr-baree T"calr Enivee, Forked and 1 ored. N tits. St?�1f�oiaera, '4te., eta. n bw char. Ma. from hewer co Roarer AND REAPER TO M10WE1 00 1'0 R..8‘ E. SP!CER' —FOR— Bsi'eonovnlc+t fourloltaa, ant intoss ti+auditeerl a ai.a 7t 'a' time I'1e:iy(? cal' at tier worlet ante inspect our Machines tsef"irc pnrebasnig aleetiw here. t Send for Qatka'at;;nes,. T11010SON 4 WILLIAMS Men llfletur:nt Co., Stretford. T. ;tit UtY`S LI ;EWOR I&r. our draws Ulna beim:: 4m.5, in f:a11 r,p=,4•5tlnxn au%4 tel:taazagootdnal,-a la:k„t quantal.) of LE tbutfenttt3 purr cannot be surpassed in the DomhI- ion. i''artiesfrim adiv:nucr can aluaynlairs-*I,litwt either at the Mins nr dniivt•rd by ti,z.at t' tit low r, n:uuerntive:ntee. tlr,3OralrOM,, d stzuace S pr.+:npt35 atit,ndt'3:o. 111liTSt1N .0 SOLATER. G R 0CER1E Always Mew and Fresh.. FLOUR, AND PROVISIONS, EA1;TTl1;N NYABE,. COAL t)IL Soap Given Away —21 Ear- for One Dollar. --- Gond Vinegar. 20c. per Gallon, Choice Syreps. Market Baskets—crimp. N, B. Don't forget the place—B. Jr E. Spi- cer's,opposite Mr. E. Christie's Hotel. Produce taken in exohangefor goods. R. &E• SPICER. CHISHOLM'S OLD STAND LONDON THE OLD RELIABLE HOUSE FOR GENERAL DRY GOODS, MILLINERY & MANTLES. MEN'S CLOTHING TO ORDER, OR READY-MADE. HENDERSON do BUCHANNAN • ' Late A. Chisholm ck Co. A COMPLETE STOCK; OF HONEST GOODS AT HONEST PRICES. Remember—Sign of the Striking Mock, 142, Dundee Street, LONDON. Important to DutterWorkers One Geed ActiviAgent Wanted in every town- ship J. t Se nr AOKseh nej Fre to Amit .CHE es so tet.011 opd $8.00 each. One Mellen to be es'old ,in the,Ihoniinion. Apyly early with stamp, for ants sti6nlar, to' the VICTOR W/LUTOEB CO. 1Ikarrmsern. h HghPpioedrour Does not affect the low pieces at which R. & T. BISSETT are offering their stock of TINWARE, STOVES, Etc.., Ott Exeter & Hensall which consists of all the latest and improved styles of Kitchen. Conk and Parlor stoves,litilk cant, pans, and Finis of Ilse most approved patten n, and everything in tltie line ; Also, a good selection of bvnalsome• FO,ve troughing as ubual, reteiv'es ereryat*eation, and tiono ' at the lowest figures. Raving opened out a branch establishment at Henesll, our friends in that neighborhood can be supplied on the shortest notice, PAIITIN G 1 PAINTING Jr KITCFI11I1#a Is prepared to do all kinds 64 House Painting, Paper -hanging Whitening, deo. at reavonable prices and punctually. J.K1TOHIl"1G, Main st FARM FOR SALE.—The subscriber offers for sale, los 13, concession 6, Stephen, four miles and at half from Exeter, compiising, 150 acres, 50 acres cleared. Good Tog honed aud frame barn.,,plendid water, soil B4'tar dairy or grain, sleor splendid brick yeti&' on the premises, For further particulate apply to Braman Fosse, on the premises -or so Zee -- tar, P O