HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-5-7, Page 5"?!]ow, here." L thought. as I arrived
WANTED), £1,000. abreast of the statute of the Iron Duke,,
whose fine chiseled face seemed to frown.
The great tirtiwuaeh to Inv lifts has a
been my tnte. 1 am almost loth to.
tell it you, dearest reader—but truth,
like murder. must out. Itis—:lits! my
pen almost refuses to record it—Peri- e
winkle Dabebuck.
There, it is all over; I have made 'a 1
clean breast of it and trust you don't t
think less of mo for it, '
My father was a well to do trades.
man, and departed from this life peace..
fully, bequeathing to rite little else than
the name, because, as he averred in his
will, the made'the tuoney by hard work
and intended that I should follow so
;cod an example.
The most extraordinary provision of
my late, but not deeply -lamented fa
a so
therswl ivastlt 5 Ou
present myself at his old bank and lay
down A, thousand pounds in gold ou
the counter, I was to be heir to what
property lie had left—no amount being,
stated..
I was now the only representative of
the Debchack family. my poor inoihor
having slowly drooped and died under
the awful mune she had assumed. as
:lid :also mauy batby P;al>chuoks, who.
wiser than 1, refused to hoe UL a world
where such a millstone of a n ante ivould
be sure brag thew down.
The only: person woo seemed Co
••' > w•
1111141 under ttadt'/> ltit it 114.14 n ,as tnv
father, who had the digestion of au us:
trach; atltl tin ustnseleuce to speak. of, 4)1'
he wouldn't Isaias treated hia t>lfsptit}g
so eruolly ;;s to leave hiul--plat 15 'Inc,
mind you—with only lira; iuttlstds to
face tau word with —excepting- two
Suits of clothes, not quitii 1,tn at AliQer
watch of the turnip style, Warranted
to go only when curried.
a,iasmess. fni•Ult0ree, and, every-,
thing was sold to.aalt to the . fortune 1.
was to come int:c,—oiler:,' was tartly wo
proo:04alaLit', •
own upon we, ''I'!1 try my spurs.
tbey wake my Arai) steed up ?"
And didn't it with: a vengeance—that's alil
First it put its back lip, and straightened its
ars—wuat it diel with iia tail 1 can't say,uut
:Ring the faculty of seeing backwards; thou
t' wheeled around in >► circle, . ash if dancing
ha whirlwind gallop, and then like au,;
arrow from a bow it shot the mati-
ns the direction of Koesin iu. I with-
bl t fualc It
' 11 that as I could
1 had often heard.thatfa,rtuues wore
wade out of, 1wopenit-h:tlipeltuy. but
:always in l>iaeo4 outer than while the
look. individuals were born.
iluviu;; seen- the - elder. ,ilallchuek
placed where everybody must resit
sooner or later, . :whether prince or
in a , utt, 1 made 111) my modest bundle,
;and ;mistin11 good lay to London. wont
iii e D:ei: Wiuttiugton on my travels;
but tutl,ke oho, with a dreadful name
at use heels, ready to bring 100 into
scorn and derision at any moment.
1.:at 410 0 milestone just Os he had,
feeling very. tired and iiangry,and with
a few promising blisters to remind me
that walking was not .all pleasure, anti
listened fur the sound of -belts, as an
augury (1f future grandeur and pros-
verity; inti Masi what chime of bells,
however proslle, wonld ring for the
name nt Periwinkle I).tb(:nuuk?
I did hoar a solitary tin.;))•. which
eertalltit was too £Clime to stir the
heart and quicken the puises,thc sound
being f,iaiowed by the well known mel-
ancholy ery, not of a bird, but of a
donkey., behind whish was a tinker':
cart.
"Good morning. . young gentleman,"
said the proprietor of the show. looking
critically at tins in a way that made mo
shift unoasih on the milestone, "you
don't happen to have a little baecy
about you?"
"Don't smoke," I answered mildly.
"Thoua'ht so, mister; does your mo-
ther know you are ont—oh?"
"haven't got a 'nether," I pro-
tested.
"Thought not, mister. What's your
moue?" was the sarcastic rejoinder, as
if the fact of my having no tobacco had
roused the tinker's choler.
"Dabchnek," I replied innocently,
taken off my guard liy his bouncing
manner.
"Good lor'. �ieddy!" beexclaimed,
addressing the donkey and dealing him
a blow from a short cudgel. at which
it lifted up its voice in derision; "that's
a name to go to church with. if you
like! Gee up!"
"Just my loci'," I muttered as I
arose from my hard seat; "even a tink-
er derides me. I think 111 try and got
my unfortunate name changed when I
get back to Londetn."
Having lived a vagabond life for a
while, and nearly spent my little all, I
fell in with a traveling circus. the
friendship of whose proprietor I was
lucky enough to makeat a roadside
inn, by ajudicious treat of unsweetened
gin.
Now if there was one thing more
than another I liked from babyhood al-
most, it was horse -riding; and I flatter-
ed myself I could do the equestrian
trick with here and there a one.
Most of my pocket money for years
wont on such treats—taken on the sly,
though. for had my father known it he
would have cut me out of his will en-
tirely, and not troubled me to go in
search of a thousand pounds.
On one occasion I narrowly escaped
detection at his hands, and even at this
period, wheu my busy pen writes this.
I have a sensation as if cold water is
trickling down my back, at, the mere
thought of -it.
My hack was obtained from a groom.
whose master never knew bow his
horses were let out on hire. or the wor-
thy Thomas Sly would not have re-
tained his place—a remunerative qne—
for a single hour after the discovery.
inflates" with daring ambition, I.pur-
ehased a pair of spurs, just to "appear a
real gentleman -rider and not a cockney
doing the grand ou a superannuated
bit of horsollesh that would soon- be
sent to the knftcker's to provide delect
able food for animals that are fond of
nocturnal rambles on the slates and
tiles. .
I piloted my firey Bueoplialus safely
down the aristocratio regions .of Bel-
gravia, and flattered myself that many
a fair one looked admiringly atmy still
buddiug form; that had' not then quite
dont ;rowiu'r, without,however, con-
netting its owner with any such :t very
snobbish name as that of Dabchuck
I was before Clatra's door, a German
band struck up a ivaren which our
�ud usually played during ley per-
Striu,anee.
Without a n1tu11ent'.c warning '1'rum-
�p1eter stood on his hind legs, lighting
the air with his front ones, and I rolled !
$1O 1 -W', , T
The above reward will be paid for the couvietiou tit those aierohsuts who are sailing
inferior
Machina Oils, and calling them colt a .tardive
ingloriously into the 'road. .---- -----
Elekin r up lllr hat with his teeth. the "
i�,eiligeut 4•eature galloped !to'ne The only gamble ii wanrf:te u el by ,
le:av rig rue insensible and suffering i
front eonctlssiou of the bran. pi CGail Bros.Co,Toronto.
I learned afterwards that, Clara, sate ° v 'f
out lay s. ltuct ih the • t.. l tb.E3 wo men; .awl had rue
has ever been my lot to es etienee It • t
conveyed
intra
i
was wonderful w1u a 4OP)1UoLlon 1 heaven to me
iter house, avll.e.t proved a vents o
mule in that aristocratic iumghuorhood 1ant hoav her husband, and the pos•
and how obsequious People Wore in get- s1„ol of
tin°. out of my war; if I had been :a sul- tlrunty thousand pottgtr5.
tat' titer could n01 have avoided 100
more than they did.
b •f ' • 1 g ' 10 Chelsea brh1're 1
managed: to get the brute a little u Lter
while Inv name has been chs iiged to
Vincent; for, on hearing lay slur y and
tee story of our love, her father ad- .°
vattletitl the nee '-+:acs Thousand, :1)14 1
00010 11114) illy f3:oer's fortune: so rho
in li:ttitl. 3)141 was thinking of sawing thousand is uo,uu•.lPr :anted.
adv:illuitt•troRe Nig ouldn't Pass the Butter.
Dabeltuei, in large gilt letters, and
seated in the front of the 0i1rt Aims my A young lawyer told some friends
away at his mouth, when; �h! horror,
1..•w.lit
111111 0'85 aha 0.1)01 0f
respeete.t !oLrtaut, who 11110)11 goodness.osst evening at one of the round to-.
was somewhat shortsighted, and not bles of the Hoffman House of his ex
good at making out objeets at long dig- pperlenees on a professional tour in the 1
trances. „ West.
;a10 have hesitated at this supremo
"% totem would ' bo to be lost. so in
ser desperation 1 plunged my ree-.
i spurs—this exprossion is used as a
a9lile, of co < — into my horse
'is
flanks, and thew by my pater like a
,lhaaslt of lk4itt.in11.
It will be 5104)) from this that 1 was
able to keep myself in a saddle, and
when Air. Manly—how I envied him
i5 name ---proposed that 1 should join
"I'd never been out that way before,
he said, “and I felt a little .nervoue
shout the stories I'd petard of train- ;.
robbers and desperados who ran their
.,
(, ..( bought a
)rlvatt� tea e} at 1 , 1 �,
1
l' :lvor in St. Louis. it turned out to l
be a good investment. I event all 1
through the ruining districts in Colo-
rado and Arizona, and never had oven
so melt as 40) uncivil word or look
from ;any 4),f the native,, and the dee- I
troupe, as a sort of utility young peradoes they pointed out to me seed,-
tnan. I jumped at the offer and was ed as peace:illy and inoffensive as any ;
forthwith enrolled among thecompany. of the rest of the citizens, until 1 got
having first lenttaffy master half a soy- to 0, little lhu” c•:alied. Steel Plate m
-erei n. which he promised faithfully to Arizona. lino traveling entirely alone
return to ane, but never did from that on a little branch railroad, and when I
day to this. wont into the smoker 1 no iced that one
Ih to this period 1 was to far off the or two miner:; who were smoking uteri
1
FOR STALE BY JAL PIOK.ARD, EXETER.
But duck
BLQOD
.BITTERS
Cures •Diz inesqLogi 1, l l' sett g,1 i ft 5t1olli . iiiowaeis,
.Dlyspepsia..Iagh•i•,-.-. i =+•I! sil tie .L;reraud11,t:alte7•t,
Pimples, _Blotches. I. _ . , t, .; Salt I,Tu'um, Scrofula.
Erysipelas, as,l al? 01 1 (are 7•yr from Impure° ffat(xid
eranjeil ,Sf`A'aw'ja, r r !r, gal.tri't:<`tion F,f 11#' J,)trels•
Advertise.
in the Exeter TIMES.
THE BANK of TIMI
Main Strc et, Exeter.
TIIOS i FITTON
Keeps Watches That Are Watches
wanted thousand pounds as ever; in pipet there size(1 me up for a tender- r
1 fault. metaphorically sneaking. 1 was foot, and were inclined to sneer at my l ..0 t are warranted l�d)rl't'd� t forY 1111@, Tide,all Railroad
Oa(1
on 11)43 rooks, as far as ruin w4)'. eon- (godless The dude of the party was $ `," Train, :1111 to please the most tit+I3tlil;,tls,
'turned, 1laving just 0043 sovereign, a, big trapping fellow, who wore an an- .
three -penny bit, two halfpence and a ; tient silk hat and a frock suit and pre-
farthing
ro-farthing in nay possession. rented the appearance of the ideal bor-
Ilide, indeed: blow all tile Congc]t der ruffian—'half man, half horse, and s
was taken out of ane! Why. 1 knew no ;half grizzly.'
more of the business 1 had taken in '•1, a all got ofl at Steel Plato for
hand than a baht, but I was willing to . dinner, which was served in a shanty i
learn, which in Manly's oyes was uv- on a loner table. T1to dude miner took
erstiiin,r--••at least, ea Ito averred, anti oft' his coat and vest in recognition of
' him. 4 di er-tabic in that
What a guy I must have looked, 4 part of the country, but lee this hat on ]4+'ate.
swinging from a revolviug crane, with is head. He satdownnext to m0, bands, lac'=
a large Ieathorn belt fastened around " and 1 noticed that beseemed verymuch
nay waist, vainly trying to keep my interested in everything that 1 dad, and
footing on an ambling; horse, now dap- that his companions watched him as if 1
(sling aehind his tail. anon pirouetting } he had p�aremised to show them some;
�ioforo his eyes, which however, did net # sport. -i felt very uueas� situates' as I
I boliov'd p the etiquette of the nn
jEWEI ERY
'1'llll,o is Rich, Bare, sparkling ttudl Substantial, Suitable
I+'xiel>td.s au C'ourtr�'men , Lovers, Brides,
Bridegrooms, Loving au Lovely ii' ives, Children, � us-
blink,. Tito brte was used to these', was so far from eivilizatlou and. alone i
kind of oxhiuitions, and, no doubt, among those ruffians, but 1 was deter: CxiS'e him 4)L call. No ti't)IIl)li: to ;;lit} Goods.could he have spoken, would have OX- mine(; if they slaughtered rat, to die
his contempt for my perform- 1 bard, and I cautiously worked my re-
nnet: volver around in my pocket, so that I WatchesaOS and Clocks Repaired and 13rdatlgk t�
However. I took kindly enough to ,could draw it at 'a moment's notice, Watches
t
pressed e.
the life, which so yand kept on with y , p
1 ing not to notice them, The big min-
i er was looking for a device to pick a
quarrel with me, and presently ho
a said:
ited m somewhat 1
•
SPECTACLES.- --Scotch and Brazilian Pebble. salt easy
and pleasant to the eye, aiul suit'tl>le #o1: youth or age.
i h m dinner retenti
Bohemian propensities, and got on well
with my comrades, with all of whom I
was :a great favorite.
We worn doing a grand tour, a week
at this place and that, sometimes t0
full houses--canvas—at others to slack ter,'
ones. The butter was just as near to his
Now 0:11043 the turning point in my i plate as it was to mine, so I replied:
life. I fell desperately in love with as 1 "'Hell) yourself to the butter.'
beautiful a creature as Hearoh ever a "The big miner went for his boot
created—a being tall, fair as a lily. and pulled' a bowie knife.
graceful as a gazelle, oyes liquid blue, '• •Pass that yeller butter,' he said
hair golden, and the sweetest of faces, savagely,
aagolio in expression. "'hulled out my revolver and re -
Our company haid pitched their tent peated:
at Dournomouth, that queen of Vamp- • .. 'Help yourself to the butter.'
shire watering places, and we were do- "So you see," concluded the young
ing right down good business. some- lawyer, "if I hadn't bought that re -
"'Stranger, pass me that yeller but -
times to quite fashion , volvcr I d have had to pass the butter.
for the upper as well as the middle and_yew Fork Times.
lower classes liko to attend a circus,
able audiences 11
the elders going on a plea of taking
the children. WIT ANI) HV1IO1G
It was at one of these performances
that I first set eyes on my divinity, in The blonde is nor iu fashion, and the
my character of a French chasseur, on brunette has come again. Blondes
his faithful horse. must dye.—Prorideaee .Ce1vs.
Her face haunted mo at night, and Professor Young has discovered some
new wrinkles on the face of the planet
Venus. No doubt she is growing old.
when she did not come to our show I
felt quite despondent; the world, in
fact, at such times seemed altogether
out of joint.
I admit it was the height of pre-
sumption in me, a poor professional,
earning a bare subsistence, to dare to
raise my oyes to suck loveliness; but,
after all. love is Universal, and does
net stop to :ask permission upon whom
it shall be bestowed, for it laughs nt
locks, bolts and bars, and is, excepting
dentia. the one thing common to -tile
highest and lowest of Heaven's crea
tures.
I followed her home surreptitiously
after one of the performances, and
found she lived with her father, a re-
tired merchaut, in a pretty villa in the
suburbs. where roses greav in wild pro-
fusion, end climbinv clematis and
spreading Honeysuckle perfumed the
air.
But I was as far oft from her as'I was
'of obtaining my thousand pounds
which I wanted before I could obtain,
my just inheritance. •
Fortune, or fate—oali • it what you
will—Dame to my aid. however, in a
most ))..looked for way; ,aptly iltnstrat-
Mr. Tarwin did said, man was corned
der monkey out. Ofer dis vas derorig-
inal of man, der monk vas ondidled to
llafe my sympady .— Carl 1'rcl„cl.
A Tombstone. A. T., reporter said of
the troupe at the Opera House: "Last
night's performance will be repeated
to -night, with an entire change of pro-
gramme.
A Kentucky teacher 'writes to ask
whether it is "the Duty of a teacher to
whip a pupil hard a• IsTuff to cut the
bind out or Nott."—New York Tele-
gram. •
Instructor(examining geometrical fig-
ures on the board)—"I don't under -
Stand these constructions." Student --
"Very well; I'll see you afterrecitation
and explain them to you."
In a cemetery in .France one reads:
"Here lies Gabrielle, my adored wife.
She was an angel. Never shall I be
consoled for her loss." On the same
stone: "Here lies Henrietta, my second
wife. She was also an angel."
Delmonico said: "Very few people
,ng the famous lines of the immortal understand how to cook water." We
3hakspeare: "There is a divinity that should think the best way would be to
boil it. Still some people- may prefer
shapes our ends, rough how. them as it°roasted or fried. It's purely a mat -
we will.
I hope I have .quoted this right, for I,
like to be precise; if I haven't, Peri
wiinkle Dabchuck hopes to be forgiven.
which is all that he can be expected to The "City of Churches" is Brooklyn,
say. N. Y.; the "City of Masts" is London;
My chief delight was to exercise my
mer of taste.—Plciladclplai(t Call.
famous steed up and down the roads in
the "City' of Monuments" Is Baltimore,
Mel • the "City of Refuge" is Medina,
front of, and oontlanogs to my Clare's' Arabia, where Mohammed took refuge
home. I had bribed a communicative when driven by' conspirators, from Mec-
servant, :and learned that my darling's ca; the "City of the Sun" is Baalbec;
name was Clara Vincent. • tile' "City of, the Tribes" is Galway,
One bright, sunny morning,' when;;I eland, the residence in 1235 ,of thir- Offlcehours f.oisi7.5oa.m.to7 p•ni.
1 i 1 th•
-a
ozone, came from off the sea, I was out I3o11nutl,M and the dirtiest city is 1173 -Lt is particulary requested bhnt the nat,i'vr, r!T,:laxtter -t�,Ji lciudly add) o names of the
with Trumpeter. as usual, when just as
1. i il:di irtn kt'2'�t
TOULD SAY TO
thole NO intend
t
the manufacturer
Chto di. . f'EOO
dealer who buys to sell
again must neoossarity
hay
to
ben
to r
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ma
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:t1>(1 Fai'11t1°ili'<•^ \�;t llttiitt•t1tl'fl,'
ferent
rE WOULD
r call sllecialatttentir+
co our 'undertaking dap sxt
al0ut,W'hleh is snore Cant
pletetb an a ver,as we have
added several uew,dosigu+• ,,v
of late The best 0051n);
uasktts ehrend$,and every
))neral requisite at the,
ion es.tprice s Our nen
Hearse is pronouncedbv
competent judges to lir
second. to note in the
provinces
Societies.
!AjwiI'
CABINRT-MARER.
r
con
est
111
goods s large, c
and wo assorted, an • any
person requiring anything
in this line will Audit to
their advantage to give me
a call and examine fel
themselves.
I have ]u -t retie ted n
targe stock Walnut and
Rosewood Caskets; also
Coffins of every descrip-
tion. A complete stook
of Robes and Trimmings
nlway on band.
'Che latest styles Of
Chamber and Parlor Suit.
/' all kinds of Furniture at
thotowest rates
THE BEST HEARSE IN THE COUNTY
Remember the place—Nearly opposite Kenap's Tobacco Store, Main -street, Exeter.
JOEN 23RAWN,
Exeter Post Office Time Table.
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ARRIVE CLOSE.
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Soutb,eastand weal ,inoluding,London,Hamilton, Toronto 'Montreal, 3Ianit-'9.45a.nt. 9.00 a. in
oba,UnitodStates,F,nglishand 1oreignmails ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ..
South, east west .4C ...'8.13 ti.m. 4.30 p. to
North and east,inclndingGoderich,winghaan,llincardineanti all points north,11C.00a.m 8.20 a. m
Stratto>d,Toronto, Montreal,aud 'eastern States... ... :.. ... ... ... ... p
North east, Sul ... 5.50 p.m. 5.50 p. m
7.15 p. m. 8.41, p.
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Sarepta Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays ... ... ;815au? 10000an
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