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CHAPTER VIII.—A Paorienress or. Renee
"We ate nearing our destiaation MAIO
ledies,"
"Upon my word!" as ad emonstrated
I eircumstaoce she founded, her opunon, that
rAla -
Winthrope. ;servants were au uograteful aud rebellious,
• !class, and the lower ordea
rs generally
Bet Mr. Flint, .quite uncouseious of halal:dello-emus set of persons, for -whose good
cried the cevalier, the robe-
ing give:A offenee, pursued his self-congrata t.
gen to dip, aud then to fellow the windings conctuct the police were by no means a swat-
ulattous. "Tame premoue reltes are like 'ciwit (temente° ; she placed her cogailence
of a shallow stream)... ft There is the hill, ghosts," mitt he, "they so twely going to ets,!oo,y *
Profe.s.sort a which, I spoke; end halhway i in the military end "gem."
exeept at second-hand. Such goad fortune , The Hillsborough, iirms wee certainly not
up it is your treasure -house, As luck will ' as this befalls, a man but once ma life -time. 1,
baye it too, thea, re are couple of men a—Give m
t the spaiheend let me dig e„ High treet othe little and ha
an attractive caraxausera. It illagestood in the
it ,
work yonder, whom we may impress into menelf.—And do you, ladies and gentleman, i way otwerent jet a,ppearence
— ii Sf v, uo
• moo on either side of it, except by its pos.
, e from the cot -
our service.,—George" (this to my groom.), please to stand aside, and let the light help 1
"gellop off to those fellows, and bid them my old eyes as much as it can."
come (10011her&" So the Professor worked away i hi seselml of• a eloaa'
The groom obeyed ; and the "feliews" hi shirtesleeree withia the cavi ve, every nOtI4i5:u.T.111"_.Marshall, but 0 low tone, for she
T1113 will never, never do r ejmulated
no enemas unwillingly, left their fieldewora then comingsome new of that rude man, the (Liver,
forth excitedly with e re in
—they hail been. digging up roots, and came wonder, evhich, however, to the ladies ote end was secretly conviliced that he was in
, stood in. ewe
down to the orriage with axe audspadehh least, required his explanation before it :an advanced stage of intoxication; "not
'• Are these the same Poor men, •ll'h Wm' could be recognised as such; for stones un- dear," as she eou-
throp, W110111 you saw before ?et laquiraa set, and hones in need of setting, have little °meter of himself, MY
tided to Mrs. Pmmant ; " eapable of any
Mabel in a low voicesignideauce to the uneducated eye; and
atroeity,"
"To be sure, to be sure," ansutea he whae are called ' flint weapons' of the P' Mr. "Ilere ; you remember me, my historic times, seem to differ little from that Mr. Winthrophad lagged behind, and was
at that moment looking down the road, like
men, I entre you a shilling the other day historic one with which David slew Goliath.
for an old bone; well, here is half a sorer- _ another Sister Anne, for that something for
t After an hour or two of watching I
eIgu for you—since this young Ude. I ere i arn .: which be had sent back his groom but
1 t listening, the interest of the spectators iFrederick and tin Flint at ottee left the car -
thin" tvoa deserve it —and if Yon will dill flagged a little; the beat in their exposed
you, you shall be rwill tell riage, and made their may into the apart -
for Os whee we poettion upon the treeless ASO S01110-
. inept, which evidently formed both periour
paid for your servicesbesides."
" A very satisfactory arrangement for :1 what trying ; and with thew predaistoric; and kitchen of the little inn.
44 can gen give us some hutch, my gooa.
everybody exeept their own master," ob- , dreams began slowly to mingle OM idea ofl
lunch.
semi' Frederick drily. "Moreover, woman t ' inquired Mr. Penitent of the land-
metter ef fact, you have leo more right to Ian—
" ° A It was felt that the Professorwould regard . lady, a thin and poverty-etriekeu widow,
dig on the% hill without permission, than to sacrilege. ape au, penitent was, by volume,
h jui°"°Pli°° of 1'13 °°a°P°I141° 45 ° with three stimil ehtildren, who, to look at
breek iiiitit itaproprietor's house." her, should have been her giandeltildren,
"Stud alio weteense 1," ejaeulated the coneent, deputed to break this delicete sub. hrowdiria about her „ en Impede:tended
Profeeson eontemptuous ot this techtucal
difficulty. "Let us hate none of these
frivolous mat vexatious objeetious.—Set to
work, my boys, set to work."
The "mays," who were about his own age,
and prematurely bent with that primeval
t
them away," whispered she; "for see how
angry they make thispoor woman."
Tin
The landlady was fact speechless with
rage, caused by the air and look of youeg
Winthrop, as much as by his father's offen-
sive speech, She might have been, and
probably was (as the latter subsepently
termed her), "a widow woman with a tem.
Iper ;" but the look of contemptuous disgust with which the younger of the visitors was
surveying her little home mid its beton-
lugs, would have beeht tryine, to any house
holden
" You young blackguard 1" roared she,
"haw dare you ?" and. WOUld doubtless have
giveu 111111111 much larger piece of her mind,
had not the Professor hurried them out of
doors.
"You are an honest girl, although you
are a lady," answered the engem) ohnestly-
"You. have a kind heart, and I will give you
a word of Advice that may keep it from be-
ing brok,en ; there is evil about your path,
though it seems so smooth. I see it, I see
it !" In the frenzy of her passion, she whirl.
he et. some culinary operation at the fire.
"My dear Mr. Fliut," %ad he, "have any "Nay, sir," was the civil reply '• "We IlaYe
Of those bonee in there got meat upon nought but bread and cheese ; and, since you
them?' have holies with you, not a etint as ou can
• "Meat ? Of mune not," answered the sit in. I for,"
ry
palvontologist contemptuously. "But oh• "Oh,, we are not particularabont the room,"
serve how the long bones have been broken, said Frederick dmibtfully, Then he went
agricultnral curse, he rheumatics, shoulder-
ed the euplements on whieb. they had been with the ohieet of extractingthe merrow, . out to the lefties, and bade them make them -
IN hen we get home, I will point oot to ) ou eavesa emefortable within PS mrcumetames
leaning. and hegen slowly to climb the I.
noodles in thein, which prove the flesh bas- permitted, while he went on to the other fun.
Mr. Flint descended from the carriage with been
eleerity, and before mr.wfuturop, who bad been cut off by sorne sharp iustrunteut ; there to see whether it offered better =outmode -
by this time dismounted, could interfere, are also traces of the action of tire. --Ah, tion.
only see what I've got here r Herella Flint' "I think we bad better purebom what we
hell handed Modiel down, aud offered her i once -teed from the cave, beariug in his hand eau here, and eat it in the open air," euggest.
bis arm. , a small and sharpened, object, which he re' ed Mot. Pennant softly.
"Vame along' Ju"'" sakirre'lerfektiumPt gaited with the air of one who bas at .41,,i ' "That is much the heat plan," cried :eilre.
ing down from his perch, and openutg the events in this world.
door upon the other side, for her eo alight; for. nothing more to won Mereliall • "I Ara sure I should be suffocated
"There is ouly one suck wither." cried. he suela a 'hovel."
"a man moat clove to his wife, saithe the ' he; "and that isthe Museum oft. Germaith She spoke el loudly that Mabel felt sure
Scriptures." So 1,Vinthrop ofWs° hati
1 t ha 11
5ie, This is certainly the whitest day in the that the poor woman, whout she could see
erforce to content himself with fee Mari wboio emegtherof my wet.,
through the open window, Inuit needs have
OA.
Toe olijeet whiell they
„„ "But what is it, Professor'!" inquired II/Alward the observatiou ; and elle jumped .
e
w- v° °my "1". ' audience, oleo more stimulated inth Interest 11etly down, and entered the 'unmet Olage.
proaching appeared a sort of niche of ahem by his burmsloged sir.
1 tier heat WAS naturally tender, and constant
seven feet Wog, and very narrow, \thick "It is nothing lees than a whistle!" ex- intercourse with the poor folks about her
had been Ilistiosed but the day before—lia; '•
the removal of a tree- sunk. It was " a• claimed he excitedly.• home, so far from bluutiug her sympathy
bit of a squeeze," as Mo. :Marshall
"A whistle '1" echoed Mrs. Marshall, col- for them , as not seldom happens, had only
ob,
served, to puelt through tide opening lino"; 3,a,setl midi hunger and didalmintment.' shaped it arle,Olt. The insolent pron-e
'by, what of that !" i
the cave bora t and when % en had d(me ; 4% What of that, mthat some persons exhibit towards thew
adam!" retorted Mr., eoeial inferiors was mareely mare imnassilile
50, it was t at laded opinion that it was Flintindione antly. "Thisis theknuckle bona other than thee -Atolls ituneereueedotheret
hardlY %with while lo have " ;Pm' thv'mg" . of a reinilher's foot, bored with a hole,with: She felt the divine truth of the modern par.
so melt to NO so little."Eliere WaS 1110 evident and express purpose of emitting able of "the insect on the leaf and ite
hardly light enough, in fact, to see any. , sound. --Miss Mabel," here be turned to the, brethren in the dust," as deeply as be who
thing; but the Professor, who was used to young girl, with the earnestpleasure of seine, wrote it and preached upon that text his
such. explorations, and had the eyes of a
cat, exprtased himself more than satisfied munificent benefactor. "put your pretty whole life long. Though the daughter of a
with the exploration. This cave, the open- lips to this, and blow, my dear, blow." clergyman, she was not religious In the as.
The object thus presented was not an at-' eetie or doctrinal sense, but her heart was
ing a which had so long been hidden by a of the t
and to say the truth, full tritest Christian piety—piey for
debris of stones and vegetable earth, was in tractive oue,
the mild rock, and perteetly day and cool. much resembled a mutton -bone that has the poor. The Night anil beautiful gni, to
hehen rescued from the dust -heap ; but Mai, whom pleasure and gaiety were so welcome,
Tim flooring was of 'made ground,' and quite
intact, ewe where the men hail beeu di ging ULU as She. was lad with a gemt gruel ant Was always read • to minister to the wants of
on the prevtons day. Mr. Flint was s tweet succeeded In producing a shrill sound.
the exaet spin, where the previous bone had "The last person that used that instria
been diskived, and stooping down aud !Bent," said the Professor solemnly, "died
groping in the half-light, ete own fakeers probably no less than ten thousand years
e
ea.= upon some object, which caused -hint ago, oaul the echoed which it awakened were
to utter a sherp cry. 1 east back front the walls of ice."
"What is it 1' was the universal inquiry. 1 The idea was really a grand one, and in
"Let us go out into the light and ;neer 1 a silence followed by expression of it for
guoth the Professor. His hand was bleed- , some moments.
ing, but his thoughts were far too occupied I "Had they anything to wet their whis-
t. ahem.°it. The gravity of his face WAS ties with in those days?" inquired:Frederick
a *Inning grant ma, or to still the cries of a
sick ohm, In scenes of sordid equator, from
which taste, and evenalelitney, shrank ap-
palled. England has her Sisters of Charity,
though not in uniform—mere voluuteera
called out on ouly occastonal service, Gad-
baldians of Gina; who fight the battle of
Faith and Love as bravely as those in. the
regular army—and May Denham was eine of
them. '
"No fish .1" the Professor was saying as
beehted um
p by a look of intense triumph. ; deurep • she entered the inn kitchen, "and your
"Do yen see this weeper'. 1" cried he, after I The rofessor looked so indignant at this village within so few miles from the sea -
a short silence, holding up what he had ill-timed pleasantey, that Mr. Pennant shore? Why, that is most extraordinary 1"
found. I hastened to opt= that the tattles stool "There's plenty fish caught, sir, bat it all
"1 see a stone with a sharp point, said, in need of lunch, and had commissioned him. goes to ethineton for the quality; WO never
Fredrick.--" ju., my dear, you always . to say so. Then was a, village near called
-bout with you, I know; Hillsborough, close to the light -house, and
carry court -plaster a
give a bit to the Professor." food eould doubtless be procured there.
"It is nothing less than a flint knife 1" ex- At first Mr. Flint was immovable; he
Cleimed the latter exultingly, and without was not to be seduced from his post by all
noticing this benevolent suggestion. "Look
where it has beeu wrought and chipped!
I have seen hundreds of them, and cannot
be mistaken. My dem' Winthrop,. I con-
gratulate you; this discovery is of incalcu-
lable value. I melte no doubt that this cave
was a human habitation in pre -historic
times. It shall be known to science by your
own name, as 'Winthrop Cavern.
"You arc very good," repliedthat gentle. this unparalleled prize It was true that ing saucepan.
man, somewhat precipitately; "but I bog nobody knew of the existence of the cave at "Oh, nothing as you d eat, ma'am, or
you woe't. I am really not deserving of present beside themselves; but your true even look at," replied the Woman curtly,
that honour." meant has the scent of a vulture for such her manner altered for the worse at once:
"It shall be henceforth known as Win- matters, and is always a rogue concerning "it's wolf -fish."
throp Cavern," reiterated. the Professor them. The temptation to build on another "Wolf -fish! what's that ?" exclaimed the
emlemnly. man's foundation, or rather to continue his Professor excitedly. "I should like to see
"Well, I only hope you may prove right, excavations, was too tremendous for human it, of all things. Dog -fish I know well, but
wolf -fish?"
"'Was never used here except for manure
before this year," continued the woman in
grumbling tones. "But folks • as lives in
hovels" —and she glanced with indignation
at Mabel as she laid stress upon the word
—"must just eat whet they can get, and
be thankful too, or else the parson picks a
quarrel with them."
"The parson must be hard to please
if he quarrels with you," said Mabel
softly, "whose house is so beautifully
clean, and whose children are so well behaved
as yours appear to be. Those two fine boys
look just of the same age; evlaith is the
elder ?"
StO 15 nere.
"WeB, you get the money for it, at all I
events," pursued Mr. Flint.
"The fishermen do, sir; but, then, you
see I am not a fisherman."
MIL AND RatS. DOWSER,
By etas. nowSr,a.
The other morningeve got a telegram from
mother, saying she was itt, and asking me
to come out for a day or two, and when Mr.
Bowser bad read it hemid
" You etwo go just as well as uot, and'you .
ueedn't hurry back on my acceuut."
"But the gook left e'esterilay, and how
will you get along ?" I asked.
" Oh, you tweet miud me. I eau sleep
here eights and lunch down town. You
needn't worry about me. Just take the
baby and go aud gee your mother and stay
as long as You wish,"
"Aad you—you---"
"I shan't elope or get drunk."
"But you won't try to make any changes
in the house while I'M gone !"
"Changes? Do you :suppose ringoing to
put on new doors and chimneys 1"
" please don't buy any uew fur -
ed the hideous object, which she still held nature or carpets, or move things around,"
Miter hand, about her heed,until she really "Don't you worry about my buying paw -
looked like some malign professor of the ,thing more this spring. Hurry up, now,
black art, "Beware of the young fellow and I'll telephone for a coupe. I may lock
yonder t lie is your lover, is he not ?" up the home at noon and go up to the club
110 !" mid Mabel, more terrified lest house for a maple of days. I feel the need
the woman's words should be beard with- of a little rest.'
out, than at the really formidable, appear- - Mr. Bowser caught at any going so eagerly
mace which she presented. "You are quite that half sopeeted hire of some design,
mistaken. But pray, hush !" • and the more I thought it over after getting
"lent not mistaken," answered the wee away the more I was convinced thet there
man, sinking her voice to a hoarse whisper. woe something in the wind. On the mom,
"Bo e•olt suppose because I live in a ing of the tided day I telegraphed hini that
hovel, and eat wolfdish. that I have no eyes? I was vowing home, and when the train got
That man Is you lover, 1 tell you; and be- in he wee at the depot to meet me, His
ware of him for he hoe a Meek heart—e, I fate fairly beamed with happiness, and as he
Week heart !" Hissing these last words " beeltoled to a carriage. he sand:
through her teeth rather than artieuleting it Here's the keys, as I &met be up for a
them, the woman dashed the Sell down on coupte of hours vet. I suppose it will take
"the Clean tiles, and resumed her occupetion I you a couple of howl to Clean up the mues 1
beside the tire; while Mallet, white as ashes* have made." -
left the room; and not without cliMeultY, d
ore I got into the house. Glancing at
for tate trembled in every limb, got into the la a' PreSentiment and it Was verified
the flesh -pots of Egypt; lot lower natures "But those who are such spend thew
act as they pleased; but as for him, be was money at your inn, my °cal woman ; so the
not going to leave this temple of antiquity fifth C01318 to you after al m some form."
even for an hour. He might possibly be In this lecture on political, economy,
upon the brink of some great discovery. Mabel perceived that Mr. Flint had evident -
Never yet had a whole skeleton, or even an ly quite forgotten the objeot of his visit.
entire limb of the skeleton of a Mall, been "But what is that savoury something
disinterred in any primeval cave, o.nd Win- which is cookingyonder ?" inquired she with
throp Cavern might be the first to present her sweet smile, and pointing to a simmer -
that's all," murmured the recipient o so
much honour; "because if it turns out to be
nothing particular, it will make me very
ridiculous."
"Nothing particular !" roared the Pro-
fessor. "Is it nothing to reflect that until
.yesterday that home of primeval man may
not have been looked upon by his
fellow -creatures for thousands of years 1
Is it nothing that in that cavern, into
which have just been admitted the
rays of our summer sun, he found
and above all, touch nothing till Mr. Flint's
found warmth and shelter from the inhospit-
return. —it command which they very readily
able and glacier -covered earth, and from a
promised to observe; they had too much
°Innate compared with which that of the
to do with "beans and muck," they said,
to be anxious to meddle with them without
need.
"What are you waiting for, Mr. Win-
throp ?" asked Mrs. Marshall a little im-
patiently, as that gentleman, to whose care
"Here's a boar -pig's t,00th for you, sir,
she had once more been consigned, tarried
said one of the labourers, coming out from
on the hill -top (while the rest trooped down
the cave,where he had been assiduously to the carriage), and gazed anxiously down
digging within, while the Professor had been
the road by which they had come.
haranguing without; "and its a good big un
too." "1 sent my servant back to Shingleton
"Impossible!" cried Mr. Flint with an for something," murmured he ; " but I
uneasy frown ; "the pig had no existence suppose these men here will direct him on."
nature to resist; and if anyone else—
"But, my dear Mr. Flint," interposed
Mabel pleadingly, "you promised to take
me over Hillsborough light -house yourself,
remember."
"Did I, Miss Mabel, did I ?" sighed the
Professor. " Well, I must keep my word,
then. 0 dear, 0 dear 1"
So the labourers were left on guard, with
strict orders to admit no one, though it
were the proprietor himself, into the cave ;
Arctic regions may be called temperate!
tellyou that if a human bone should be dis-
covered in yonder place, it would be worth
its weight in gold. It would prove that in
the same epoch. as that of the Cave Bear"—
before the alluvial inundation. Give it to me,
my good man.—Why, gracious powers, this
is the upper molar of a bison 1"
A child with a new- toy, a miser who had
found a sixpence, a maiden whose ear her
lover has just breathed his welcome passion
for the first time, are faint types of the Pro -
"Yes, yes; of course they will. Do,
pray, let as come along. I protest I would
give all the precious relics that have been
-found to -day for a mutton -chop, though it
was out from the neck ; and what a differ-
ence there is between the neck and the loin,
is there not ?—Now, my dear Miss Mabel,
fessor's joy as he gazed upon the misshapen
if you're tired sitting with your back to the
bone. horses, pray, say so ; it's quite indifferent to
"What is that he says, my dear, about a
me, and I know that it makes some people
mole and &basin ?" whispered Mrs. Marshall.
"Hush!" said Mabel; listen 1" quite sea-siek.—Very good; then we'll sit as
we were I wonder what sort of a place is
But the Professor was speechless, wrapped
. Hillsborough. ---Driver, driver, is there a
• in veneration of this relic of antiquity out, of
respect to which he had actually taken off good inn?"
The driver answered that there were two
his hat. •inns, The Ugly Duck and the Hillsborough
"Is a bison more wonderful than a Cave nrea_omuch about the same" as to good -
Beer, ahen, Mr. Feint ?" inquired Mabel de- ness ; there was not a ha'porth to choose be-
ferentielly. •
"Not at all, my dear," answered the Profess- "1
tween them."
suppose we shall get ham and eggs
or; "butthepointis, that thishasbeen found there, at all events, eh, driver ?" continued
in situ, a,nd under my very eyes: the other Mrs. Marshall, pursuing her hiquiries with
bone I had only Mr. Winthrop's tvord for, a certain, liveliness and relish, after the loog
and he might neve stolen it from ti, museum, silence which she had perforce maintained
for all I knew." during the late scientific investigation.
"Very' true," observed Mrs. Marshall " Well, ma'am, that will just depend on
with that welcome whichis always afforded whether they keep pigs or fowls," was the
• in a scientific inquiry to an observation that abrupt reply.
one cad thoroughly comprehended. with confusion.T Mr. Flmt pray take
Mrs. Marehall's cross-examining manner, wl . • :
Well, ma'am unfortunately. they are of
the same age. It's bad enough, as my old
man used to say, when children are born to
poor folks at all; but when they 'comes
two at time,' it's enough to make one wish
one's self unmarried."
The relish with which the Professor re-
ceived this homely joke, joined to Mabel's
evident desire to conciliate, quite won over
the aggrieved woman. She took off the
saucepan lid, thereby exhibiting some shap-
less substance, which might have been
stewed tripe or veal; and when Mr. Flint
could make nothing of that, she entered a
little scullery, and brought out of it a trucu-
lent but flabby • object, at least four feet
long, and with a head like a pantomime
macs'Ikhere he is," said she, "as large as life,
but not so ugly. That's the wolf -fish; and
if you had to kill him with a chopper your-
self before you cooked him, you weulcl have
less appetite for him than you have now."
The Professor and Miss Mabel were still
conterimlating this unexpected spectacle_.
the latter with soine alarm, the former wieh
the profoundest satisfaction—when Mr.
Winthrop made his appeara.nce at the door.
"lViyedear Miss Denham," exclaimed he,
in accents of disgust, "do, pray, come out of
this horrible hut, where there are nothing,
11 seeres but monsters' I am thankful to
say we have obtained—that is, my. son here
has brought from Shingleton—something fit
for human food." •
•At his elbow stood Horn Winthrop, de-
vouring Mabel with dark eyes. Your
sister is waiting for you," said he, " and also
the lunch." ,
"We are coming directly," said Mabel
carriage. the front windows I saw that my lace eurt
tains had a queer, strangelook,and I rallied
in to find that they had been washed. They
had been taken down, welted, with bar
Imap, /Mel out on the grass to dry, and then
ironed like a sheet. Auy housewife eitu
imagine the result. They showed soap
status in a dozen places, and hung as limp
and lifelese AS the tail of a kite on a tele•
graph wire, 1 sat down on the floor and
had a. good ery, and then started out to see
what elm had happened. 'There was a,
queer, oppressive odor in the room, and it
•did not take MO long to discover that Some
one had varnished the furniture—gone over
the natural oil finish with a coat of fund.
ture wrath and left bristles from the brush
at every foot, It mathl beve been 310 one
but Bowser. Hie work was further Wail.
bed by six queerdooking spots on the velvet
orpet. Ho hail spilled, varnish and then
tried to scrub it out with soap, and in each
instance lie hail run the cetera sufficient to
make a blotch.
After weeping some mare 1 went into the
sitting room. There was the same smell
here, and I soon found by the bristles stick-
ing up all over it that by
lloweer had
varnished the sewing machine. He hail like-
wise repainted the radiator, making it a
(leek blue, awl in decorating it with white
• and rest stripes, his paint hail crawled
around like so many fithworms. Baliy at
ono wanted to tie a dent; to it null phi.)
.horse. Me %weer had 11,Peet the, varnish
pail in this room, and although lie had tried
soap and water a great spot three feet square
xemained as a. sad witness of his careless-
ness. While 1 stood looking. I heard a step
behind me, anti Mr. Bowser called out :
"Suiprise 1 Surprise 1 1 knew I'd sur-
priee you 1"
"Yes, you have," I answered.
"Why, w -what's the matter 1"
"If you had only let thhigs alone 1"
"Let thino alone ! Tins house needed
slicking up, and I've nearly broken my back
in puttmg things in tidy shape, and now you
complain of it 1"
I saw the silver water pitcher at that nue
ment and uttered a howl.
"What is it ?"
"That pitcher 1"
m"aYacts,.4 know. It hadn't been cleaned in
a b
"But you used sandtpaper on it 1"
"0! course, and you ought to have seen
the way the dirt peeled off! Anything else
to find fault with?"
"And you—you sandpapered all the sil-
ver 1" I shouted as I looked into the
ding -room and saw everything on the table.
"Yes. What have you got your voice
way up in ‘G' for e"
"You've ruined it 1 See the scratches 1"
"That's it—take on and find fault 1 No
one ever does anything right but you!"
tel'"And. what ails the glass over the man-
?'
"It happens to be clean for once. I Work-
ed at it alt of an hour."
"But you sandpapered it 1" s .
"No, I dial ! I used powdered beck.
I don't know how the scratches came there,
unless the catdid it."
"And these curtains, too 1"
"What are you crying about now! I
got a colored woman to come and wash
them, and I know he put 'em through
three tubs and then laid 'em on the grass to
dry. I pinned and hung 'em up myself."
" And they are ruined 1"
"Ruined your grandfather. Perhaps I
didn't pick all the grass off of them, but
I'll leave it to any artist in town if they
don't hang perfect. This all the reward I
get for my hard work 1" ,
. I entered the kitchen to find that he had
sandpapered the bottoms- of the flat -irons,
scattered every tie dish hi a hundred direc-
tions and given the rolling -pin two coats of
oil to prevent checking. In trying to dress
up the hardwood floor he had thinned down
some raw oil with kerosene, and the beauty
of the finish was eclipsed only by the
smell.
"You --you didn't touch anything up
stairs !" I gasped.
"Why not? I varnished all the bureaus,
bedsteads and stands, cleaned every glass,
turned our bed around, painted the radiator
in the hall a beautiful drab, and—.
What marc you howling about 1'1'
"Oh, Mr. Bowser, how could you go and
destroy our *limes in this way.'
"Destroy 1 Destroy !"
" 'The hells° might as well have burned
down 1" •
• "And I wish it had l The last thing you
said when you went 'away was for me to go
ahead ane slick up, and now the first thing
you do- is to find fault. Mrs. Bowser, we
aee not Mated. No man on math can
understand your erratic temperament.
This is the last straw—the' Very last. To-
morrow Morning we will settle property
matters r., . .
home and found 'a furniture wagon loaded
. .
witheadateads and bureaus, going. off to be
alley, gate and spent half an hour in the
scraped. and redressed, ha 'went in by the
barn so as not to see anythine.
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,
(To an eorrINVED.)
Atemones,
Arise, ye by -gone memories --
Sweet memories ot the Past.
Return the tuneful incloaiee
That ono were round me mit:
Return the heartfelt harmonies
Oteaeh cm:mewed theme.
And all the golden galaxies
Rowel childhealn 11fit that gleam;
The seilltasighing summer breeze
Thewhitpered_ than the tenet.
And yellow needles from *her twee
can down on !nee et vluee ;
The wild -bird's tuneful minttreltlee
That waked the woodland iinwere.
The nuarmering hum of buiy bee.;
Among the summer Atmore ;
net= the Joyful eeetnelet
Tim% filled fond childhood*,; heart,
The 'meet Interim felleitiee
Of boyheadti gunineee art;
Return, vegolden memorial.
Fond Youth's delightful dream
That filled the soul with ineloillei
Far sweeter than they seem;
Return, life's sacred symplioniee,
The cherished Mends of yore.
Touth's spirit and its sympathies.
And I would ask no more.
Alas1 ye treasured memories'
Sweet memories of the past,
Ye are the miming elegies
Otjoys that could not lien,
Ye are the mourtifititittloiliee,
Too deep for human wars.
That tell in inraeuredntelotliee
The death of Childhood's years:
Ye are the sweet sad mysteries
That blend the herr and there.
That tell in buman bletoriee
We are not What we were.
Unexpected Windfall.
.A chimney sweep, a charwoman, a labor-
ing man, together with seven other persons,
all paupers or nearly so, are to become More
than millionaires in the French sense of the
term, according to an apparently authentic-
ated report published in a Paris newspaper.
It is said, according to a Paris correspondent,
that Firmin Nipped, a merchant, settled in
the 'United States, lately died suddenly and
intestate, leaving behind a private fortune
of 40;090,000 francs, or $3,800,000, which
ma been amassed in business. He had. no
relatives near hitn when he died, and the
authorities of the place accordingly institut-
ed a search for his next-of-kin. In his
papers was found the name of M. Nippert,
who praetised the calling of chimney sweep
18 tbe city of Paris, and this person was im-
mediately communicated with. It appears
that the deceased merchant was in Paris
during the exhibition last year, when lie
looked up the 'Waste, and 'invited him to din-
ner, but beyond this the wealthy man of busi-
ness does not seem to have troubled himself
about his poor relations. These people will
soon enter into the pleasing possession of
$750,000 each, and those among them who
live in Paris are now in the hands of a notary,
who is to put them constitutionally into the
full and free enjoyment of their property.
Another of the heirs is an old woman named
Marguerite Nippert, who lives from hand to
mouth at Thionville in Lorraine. A similar
slice of extraordinary and unexpected good
luck is said also to lieve fallen to a humble
haberdasher, who keeps a small shop in
Marseilles He has won 600,000 francs in
the Ottoman RailwayLottery. M. Pascal the
lucky person in question, however, will only
obtain about $700,000 for his 30 frame ticket,
owing to the commission and interest claim-
ed on the gros lot by the Turkish Govern-
ment.
1
Peg Pardon, Sir.
Themituster of a small country parish in
South Lanarkshire went to a horse dealer in
a neighbouring town with the intention of
buying a horse. The minister was accom-
panied by his man, an honest, intelligent,
hard-working fellow, but who was afflicted
with the unfortunate habit of saying things
one would rather have left unsaid. The
horse -dealer, who was a tricky customer,
failed, however, in persuading the minister
to buy, as none of the horses the .minister
• saw were to his taste. On the journey home-
wards the minister remarked to the mate
"Ale; John'that man thoughthe could take
me in, that I knew nothing about horses,
but I tun not such a fool as I look, eh 4"
"No," replied the man,. emphatically, "ye
are not." Then, seeing that the minister
looked at him somewhat suspiciously, he
felt that he had. something not quite right,
so he added, deprecatingly, "Beg pardon,
sir; I mean- ye wadna need to be."
The New England Telephone and Tele-
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to introduce him its system a machine for
the protection of telephoneenstrumentsfrom
lightning and electric light currents. The
instruineet has stood very severe tests and
proved its ability absolutely to protect tele-
phones and other electrical instruments
against overcharges of electricity caused by'
lightning or other sources of current. The
protector automatically grounds or shunts
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