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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-12-25, Page 5YOUNG POLES LIAME ILAGRIOE AND THERURGLAR. One day .1r. Horn was collect away to a neighboring town on business which was to -detain him all night. The house seemed lonely without him, and all were glad to go to bed early, especially Mrs. Horn, who bad a severe headache, Maurice slept on a cot in a small r.,oni which adjoined hers. The town clock struck 12. It was a moon- light night, and the boy's room was flooded with the soft rays. He was not asleep, for wax having one of his seasons of pain, which were so sadly frequent now. Still he was as quiet as a mouse, fearing to waken his mother, who bad at last fallen into a zoead elinnhen g* thoughts were busy with every subject a good little boy ever thought of, and at last turned to the Pleasant, society. " It is very easy to be kind," he thought, co except when my leg hurts me uncommonly bad, for eferybody is so good to me. I should redly like to try being uice to some- body quitek.eisagreeable." Then, the pain ceasing tor awhile, he slept. He was awakened suddenly by the creaking of one of the boards in the floor, and opening his eyes be saw a man stepping softly toward his mother's room. Maurice was not half as frightened as he thought he shouldbe under the circumstances. If ever there was a chance to he pleasant when it WAS hard to be so this surety was that ehanee, and who could be much more disa- greealde than a burglar? Quit* as a flash heseized bis UUQ crutelt- es and jumped out of bed. " Mr. Burglar I" he called, softly. The Mall turned. Please, Mr. Eurglar, do not wake my mamma, 8he has lust fallen asleep. Her head aches dreadfully." The men eyed the tiny figure standing there in the white nightsgown. " Well, I'll be Mewed I" said he - Maurice hobbled swiftly by him and shut he door between the two rooms. " cal, and my leg sent ne awlul to. morrow if I don't get back to bed." Then, thinking he must be very, very pleasant iu deed, he went on to the astonished "I think you must be a nice man and I am sure you only burgle because you are out of your head, or bung7, or something. Have you any little boys ' "Five" gasped the man. "Well, thereis 81.4a over in my tin bank on the mantel -piece which I am sure you are welcome to. And now," added Maurice, hopping into bed and making very sure that his crutches did not fall upon the floor, "will you be kind enough to tuck me ttp "WoU, I certainly will be Mowed r mut. tared Jack Janes again; but there was a moisture in his eyes notoften found in those of a burglar as be twked the bed-elothee around Maurice as tenderly as his own mother could have done. " Thank you," said Maurice in a whisper. "The money is at your servicc-1 give it to you." "Take your money," said the man, hoarsely. "Led, I'd die sooner. Let me tell you—P11 speak soft," as Maurice hold up his thin forefinger warningly ; It's the fleet time I ever undertook such a job, and Ws the last. But they're starving at home—yon don't know what it is to starve, lad—and the mill has been shut down for weaseled there's no work for an, honest man." knek you were out of yorte head, or hungry, or something," replied Maurice. "1w, don't knowyour real name — if you'll come around tomorrow—without mentioning how you got acquainted with me, you know—my papa will get you some work, and you'll never have to think of burglaring for a living any more. He always does what I ask him, because a s so sorry fo.esoe for being a cripple. Nurse dropped -le when I was a baby." Jack drew his sleeve across his eyes. " be here," he said, and was gone. "And he didn,t take my bank," said faurice, regretfully, thinking of the five little hungry boys, and hopping out of bed once more to secure the window, the fasten- ing of which he found broken. "Pm glad I was pleasant to him." Than he opened the door into his mother's room again. She was still asleep, so he erawled into bed and tucked the clothes around himself as best he could. When he opened his eyes tho next morn- ing his first thought was that his adventure had been a dream, but the broken window fastening told its story. He found his father at home wheuhe went down tobreak- fast. " Papa," he said, "I got acquainted with a poor man while you were gone, and ho has no work, and has five little boys, all very hungry. Can't you help him 2" "Where does he live and what is his name 2" asked Mr. Horn, wonderuigly. " I didn't ask him many questions. He seemed sort of bashful," answered Maurice, as discreetly as possible. Jack arrived about ten 10 o'clock, looking as unlike a housebreaker ascould be. Find- ing that he was used to driving horses, Mr. Horn procured him a good situation as team- ster, where, from the latest accounts, he was doing well. He and Maurice are the best of friends ; and although on all ordinary occasions there is the most complete silence maintained as to the .circumstances of their first meeting, yet sometimes when the little lame boy is perched upon the wagon -seat be- side his friend he will say : " You were out of your head or hungry, I was sure, Mr. 13." And ,Tack will reply with the same expres- sion of wonderment : "Well,PR blowed.' Grandma's Story. Just one more story,grandma, about when you were a little girl and lived in the woods," said Frank. And zrandma drew off her spectacles and shuti T book. She leaned her head back agaii '. the large easy chair and shut her eyes, thinking. " I remember as if it were only yesterday," she said, raising her head and looking at the children who had gathered around her. • "I was only 7 and my baby brother wasn't a year old." "I'm going to the spring -house," said mother,' and you must stay in the room and rock thbaby if he wakes.' So I took my knitting—for I had learned to keit, and was very proud of the stocking which was grow- ing under my hand." "It was a cold day late in the fall and the doors were all shut. Baby slept, and I knitted for half an hour. As I got down from mother's great easy -chair, where I had been sitting, 1 thought I heard a •strange noise outside. It wasn't Lion, for he had roue off with father to the mill. Something ribbed against the door and made the latch, rattle. I felt afraid and went to the door and fastened the bolt. I stood still, listen. ing, with baby in my arms—he had stopped crying—and I could hear my heart beat, thump, thump, thump must, have told me in that blatant of terror what to do. The wolf was climbing in through the small window, and to have lingered but a second or two would have been death. Moved as if by power not my own, and wi•'-nit thinking, what was best to do, I ran wits baby held tightly in my anus to the stairs that went up into the loft. Scarcely had my foot left the last step when the wolf was in the room below. When a savage growl Isesprang after me. As he did so I let the door fall over the stairway, and it struck him on the nose and knocked him back. A chest stood near, and something told me to pull this over the door. So I laid baby down and dragged at the ,:het with all my strength. Just as I eat one Kesler over the door the 'Wolf's headb strnek it and knocked it up a little. But before he could. strike it again I had thechest clear across. This wouldnot have kept him back if I had not dragged another chest over the doorand piled ever so many things on the top of these. How savagely did he growl and snarl But f was safe. Late British News Sb.ocking. Occurrences SUFFERINGS OP SEATATEN, Suicide of a Laudlord, importing Corpses tor Dissection. Jane Taylor, committed for forgery, fraud. embezzlment, and falstication Porloek. where she was sub-postmistress,wassentene ed at Taunton assizes to five years' hu prisonment, Litut G. S. Poupell, of 7th Fieldratten Royal Artillery, committed suicide at tlii oilicers' mess, lihortelifie, on Sunday even Wu, He was foiled. by Ns man-servare " And now I grew frightened about dad, h„ving shot himself with a- revels -el mother. If she should come back from the Lieut. Roupefl bad attended the garrisre spring -house the wolf would tear her to church parade in the morning. pieces. There was only one window or open- On Sunday evening Mrs. Smith, wife o ing in the loft, and thatdid not look toward, Joseph Smith, cutler, 29 Milton Lane,'Slid the spring -house, Ana so there was no way field, gave birth to three children—boys in which 1 could give her warning or let her The mother and children, each of whos know, if she had seen the wolf,: that we • may be described as a big bounciug baby were safe. . are doing well. It is understood that at "For a long time the wolf tried to gei. at application will be made to her Majesty he - us, but at last I could hear him going down the customary gratuity. thestairs. Ile moved about the room be,. .Lt is reported that the two children of tht low, knocked thinga about for ever so long, notorious alas usybrisk—s mos boy bi and then I heard him spring up to the NVIll, .elOW.. At the MOW moment 1s heard any taken seven and a girl of four—are being wet father's voice shouting . not far o�eare of, a kind-hearted 'philanthropist Oh' and bis wifeleiving adapted them; and giver how my 'molt 'IR leap with haPPluess 1. them a happy home. The unfertnnati Then came Lion's heavy bark which grew . mother, who Is, devotedly fond of her child - excited, and. I soon beard him tearing down ren, has been informed, and her feelings ail the road in the wildest way. The wolf was neatly relieved. in eonsequenee, • still in the window. I could hear hint 0 struggling and breaking pieces of glaas. At Weat Ham a coroner's juq returned Lion was almost upon bun when my father a verdict of wilful murder agamst Annie • called him off in 4 sterneammand. Ail aMe, Howe, unmarried, for causiug the heath of her child, aged:wady three years, by thistas silent now, but the silence was quickly • broken by the creek •of a rale, which sent a ing. it into the -river Lea, -- The jury added a bullet into the u-olf's head, killing Idol in- ruler strongly recommending the amused to tnerey Owing to the persecution she suffer - staidly. • ed trent her mother, who continually taunt- " 1,1ither ! father I" I cried front the loia ed her about the child's illegitimacy mak- window. He told um afterward that HI y lug her life unbearable. . voice came to hint as front the dead. Re ran around to that tide of the ileum A telegram from I.4abastopol on Wednes" Mother was with him, looking as white as a day 4ated that the steamer Westbouree, sheet, low them both chop thew hands which lett Theodosia on the tlith November. together in thankfulneas to God. had foundered the same night at sea. The " When I tried to pull the eheSte away 1 - captain reached Theodosia last night Stith could not move them an Web. In my great eight men, four of whom have 4" 'BO. danger clod had given me, strength to drag Nothingisknownoftheremainderof thecrew . them over the lofteloor, but now that the The Weahenene was an iron screw 6teAun'r danger was past, m4 little bands were too of MO grass tons built at Sunderland in 18S7, and owned i Hun. weak to remove them. $o father had to climb up by a ladder in the loft -window On Tuesday the Albrighton hounds inta and Mose the Baby and me from aur Place at Worfield, near Dridgnorth, and a fax was of refuge. •soon on foot, which made across the meadow " Mother dill not know* anything of our in the direction of Dridemortla 011 reaching danger until she hail finished ler work in Bureate he was headed, and then made the epring-house. dust as she mine out ehe tracks to Drotracy, For Some time the scent .saw the well's head at the. window, and at was lost, but Reputed eventually came from the same moment father and Lion appeared his hiding -place and made for the Dridgoortk in *4b111 DWI keN1 Iliotore„ ' eellleterY• The bi,1311418 hunted up and down the paths and 411104 4 the graves, the Christmas. Morning% fox being eventually found belibid a bead. Over the snow POIlle4 soft and low, stone, where he was killed by the hounds in Prom farants ..l.it.; the presence of a large number of spectators. The old refrain. tho'biessest strain That never dies— r nehanged amid our (+emeriti years Ofjoy and pain, of bopes and ream Once more. owe mere, oh Willa of Yore, With sudden thrill We seem to feel around us steal, Amid life's That tender clasp, that elasp That draws the world's heart close to Thine. Oh. manger -bed. oh. pillOwed bead With radiant brow, .At thy low shrine of love divine Tho centuries bow. While through the night. With victor beams, Thine over -widening glory streams. Oh, giri. of heaven, to mortals given Bp Ood. above. To earth come down for Thy thorn crown, The crown of love, Our conqueror Wove's. might alone, We bend beforeThy ]owly throne. Poor gifts have we to offer Thee: These lives of ours. Weary and pained:fallen and stained, These wasted powers, Our broken hopes and wills astray, Ninth pity, Lord receive to -day. In Thy great love their stains remove; And, given to Thee, May hopes grow sure, may joy bo pure, Pain blessed be. Our wayward wills their struggling cease At Thy soft touch of heavenly peace. Oh, undefiled, thrice -blessed Child, Into each home Where hearts ere glad, where hearts are sad, Come. Saviour, come ; And with each hearth -fire blend to -day Tho Belt of Bethlehem's mystic ray. JULIA LAO.N.ED. Alone. retied in this far away city On the days that aro past and gone, And over me quietly stealing Comes a feeling that I am alone. Alone in this populous city, Alone in the crowded mart, Far from MI,' home and loved ones, Alone with my aching heark nave friends in this far away city, Frioncls.who aro land and true, But, oh 1 Dear old friends of childhood I love you far more than tho now. It is twilight, the day, the sabbath, The sun o'er the hill has gone, I sit here enwrapped in tho shittlow Of the fooling that I am alone. Yes 1 O'er the space between us, At tho knell from tho church's dome Bly heart fliosin its emotion To my own my dear old home. Toronto, Deo. 8th, 18110. IL LOGAN. Oor Mither Tongue. 1 ha'e nue skill o' Soothern' tongues, Lat countra keep its aur uld Scotland's Doric suits me best,. An' wull while tongue an' speech remain. *An' while her burnies, wimplin' clear, Flow onward to the restless main, While heather eleods her bonnie hills, IT sing in homely Doric strain . The glories o' the land I lo!e, Her bosky glades birken sweet, Hor bluid-washed moors,,whaso every sod Has felt the tramp o' heroes' feet, An' echoed back the voice o' men wha lo'ecl aye best their mither tongue, Who, scorned to.apo the Soothorn yip% E'en though its accents pun' them rang. For aye keep mind whaun Bruoo sent forth His clarion voice at Bannockburn. 'Twas nao sift Soothern speech he used, But Scotland's Doric; terse an' stern. An' still its echoes ring fu' clear Adoun the changin' mists o' time, An' Scottish hearts leap high wi' pride To mind that day, sae lang, lung syne. E. M. E. IlLam. The Russian Government has decided to expedite the building of several ironclads now in course of constrnotion on The Black sea, and also to increase the number Tof tor- pedo boats in the navy. Fresh gathered raspberries this time of There is a rare ease of sleeping sick ness " the London Hospital just now. Tho patient is a negro, and inherits the peculiar disease which bids fair to termin- ate his life. $o stroug the propensity for sleep that no efforts eau arouse the man. Galvanic batteries even are useless. The mise is exciting censideralde interest in medical circles. An extensive silk mill belonging, to Messrs. Bamford Brothers, Patterson, -Niew Jersey, was destroyed by lire on Saturday, the loss. heiuse estimated at 400,000 dollars. When the alarm of fire was raised, many of the girls and women at work became panic- stricken, and made a rush to get out. Sever- al were trampled upon, while others jump. cd to the ground from the windows on the second story, but =stained. no material injury. The lire is believed to have been due to a defective electric wire. An excited political meeting has been held at Krurtlen, in Accrington Parliament. ary division. The meetingIasted six hours. It commenced at 7.30 on Irides, evening and broke up at half -past one on Saturday morn- ing, and was one of the most•uproarious ever held iu the district. The occasion was a Con- servative lecture by Mn Waddington, who was opposed at every turn by a body of Liberals, who made matters very lively. In London there is a growing scarcity of corpses for the purpose of dissection, and. there is now a large importation of dead bodies front Beligum. Theprice of a corpse for dissection is about 1:5, and at this rate the Belgian undertakers may do a profitable business. Tho corpses are brought over pickled, and therefore constitute no risk to health. • A young labourer named Rivers entered the Now Town House beerhouse, Croydon, on Sunday and asked for a glass of beer and some bread and cheese. He seized the knife and drew it across his throat, inflicting a slight cut, but the landlord knocked the knife out of his hand and gave him into custody. At the police-cout Rivers behaved in an extraordinary manner, and shouted out that it was a shame he didn't do it, ami that he meant to do it He was remanded for a week for the state of his mind to be in- quired into. The trial by court-martial of the Spanish carabineer who in the middle of July last shot dead Private Dunbar& of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, while the latter was on patrol duty on neutral ground, was com- menced at Algeciras on Saturday. The Crown Prosecutor demanded that a sentence of fully 20 years' imprisonment be passed upon prisoner, and that an indemnity be paid to the family of the deceased. air. John Ormsby, an owner of lend in County Mayo, was found drowned in the Moy River on Saturday. He had been de- pressed in spirits, and had been under obser- vation. Ho managed to leave his bed -room at a hotel at Ballina, unperceived. After a search kis coat was found on the bank of the river, and his body where the current bad carried it further down. His tenants owed him a great deal of rent, but he had never pressed them to pay. ' • Early on Xnesday morning ,Mrs. M'Ro- bests, her daughter,: and a young woman named Dickson, 'residing at Gtanshaw, near Rathfriland, comity Down, were discovered dead in bed, having been suffocated during. the night. A bucket of parbially-consumed coal was found in the bed room, and there being no chimney in the apartment the un- fortunate women were suffocated by the fumes. • John Fitzroy de Courcy, thirty-first Lord Kingsale, whose death is announced, enjoy- ed the singular privilege of wearing his hat in the Royal presence. The privilege was " All at once there came a short, cruel year are uncommon, is.ut in East Kent a granted by King John to De Courcy, Earl kind of a bark, and then a snap. A moment few clays ago some were picked, perfectly of ulster, an ancestor of Lord Kingsale. after the window broke with a loud crash, ripe and of full size.The extraordinary The only other English subject who is shni- and I saw the long head, open jaws, and mildness of the season is further shown by larly distingekheci is Lord Forester, on fierce eyes of it wolf glaring in upon me. .axi the inniunerable daisies that are adorning whose ancestoi'c'or the privilege was confer - angel seat by our good father in heavers the hi Isidss in Kent 'and Surrey. ' red by Henry Vill.• A VIN011111ft.. '00410110P1611100APPOR ()PULAR SUCCE:$a NORTHROP 84; LYMAN'S Vegetable Discultry ofia. ilUriEWELAIL,TO BLOOD PURIFIER lll in3us.nozunneaseanaminui: .11;t7,n HEALTH REGULATOR l ll lll .111t111$ llll 10 lllll 10111#1111$0101A1 lllllll flip No Medicine Equals Its Itiroperties are suet' as to Rapidly Insure Sowed lifealtlie and Long Life. 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All Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL DEE4S O1 UNDRESSED iorgo stock of Hemlock alwaye ou hand at mill prices. Flooring, i ng, dressed—inch, inelt and-aAptarter. inebatoba-half and two Inch. Sa.--11 Damns Minds, Mouldings and all Finishing Material, Lath. &e. SHI,N01,133 A SPECIALTY—Competition challenged The best and the largest stuck, and at lowest prices. Shingles A 1. All our timber thoroughly srasone and ready for u..e. No shrinhage a5surech A c 111%111 bear out the above. THE OLD ESTABLISIIED JaS. illis Mai -n St ; - FOUGHT A DEVILFISH RAIDER WAT- ER. The atonsier Vanquished by Myers Armed, wItherowbars. The Victoria Mem Atirertiser says i --.On Sunday morning the divers, 'Messrs. Lived. lyn and NieHardy, who are engaged in re- pairing the water pipes in the Narrows, hall a novel and exciting experience of a light with an octopus, commonly known as a devil. fish. It is well known that of all submarine monsters the devilfish is the most fearless and the most dangerous, and the chances of es. cape are small indeed for any one who may be unfortunate enough to be once wrapped in the embrace of any of its eight tentacles. There are not many of the species in the waters about Vancouver, a stray one only now and again taking a trip up from Vic- toria, where they exist in. large numbers. Once or twice only have any qf them been met, with i,n the inlet. It was therefore with some surprise that Diver Llewellyn, who has met with them in the waters of San Francisco andVietoria,be- held ono yesterday when he descended from the deck of the steamer Clyde to the bottom of the channel. The octopus was lying be- side the pipe, engaged at this matutinal meal. His simple fare consisted of crab, and that his appetite was good was evinced by the fact, that crab shells were lying scattered along the pipe for a considerable distance. The octopus was reposing at the spot where the divers were going to work, and it was necessary either to remove him or to wait until he saw fit to remove himself. Diver Mellardy had followed Llewellyn to the bot- tom, and the two now held a conversation by means of signs as to how they should act, and it was decided to make the attack at once. Accordingly Llewellyn got on one side,Mo- Hardy stayed on the other side,and it was ar- ranged that at a sign front the former both should attack the enemy with the ironcrow- bars, about eight feet long, which they had with them. The octopus during this time was eyeing the divers with an intent gaze, as if sizing them up for a meal. He was also ex- pectant of an attack, and awaited the begin- ning of hostilities with confidence. The divers at a signal approached the monster, who, raising a couple ot his feelers, prepared to ward off attacafrom either side. A consider- able time was consumed in fencing, but at length McHardy, taking whathe considered a favorable opportunity, jumped forward and made an effort to run his crowbar through the body of the octopus. The blow was ward- ed off, and at the same moment the diver's leg was caught by one of the tentacles of the devilfish. The habitlIcHarciy wore protect- ed him, however, and Llewellyn, having the fish off his guard so far as he was concerned, stuck his crowbar through the brute's body, and then, seizing the sledge used for hammer- ing the pipe, worked away with commend- able energyon the tentacle with is eld his com- panion. It took him about two minutes to sever the tenacle from the body. They theu covered the body with large rooks, and, when they had completed their work, they lett it till they should return in the afternoon. When they did return, the fish were still alive. They hoisted it aboard the boat and brought it to the city, where it was examined by a number of citizens Tues7 day. The Navy Department of the United States, wishing to know what effect, if any, cold would have on the plate with which they are alma to ensheath their new war vessels, subjected the armor to a trial at Annapolis a few clays ago. After kesing reduced the temperature of tho plate to a point of 4. degrees ,below zero by a pack age: of ice and salt at its back, a six-meb Holtzer projectile was fired at it. The re- sult was said to be very satisfactory, the projectile, so far as could be observed, hat,. ilia no greater effect upon the plate than o when it was at normal temperature. It is held, therefore, that winter weather will not render the armor any more vulnerable. Had our neighbors been a little leas • pre- cipitate and allowed nature to attend to the cooling process the trial might have -been m . with less , laboe . for themselves and laving of considerable salt for their potatoes. *Rascal%) cold r4100. weed/awe, 1.t: lla5 maze a* the wce..1 RE Valeta tduaketper. canal. Cary Za,. and thect.e*Caawel2,14 lead PCLeit.i2CSMatiW.21k1 0114 CU,* cf. 1f,441 TAW% Oatererean Match 1.. raa wan act Ars tiestter nth oar lame and eat. eagle Iles ct Aleumettatct Hamptem. not umPtti. ea Well OM the watch. we *awl rroe.auft taw yca bars kepi them In yam ban* for Menthe and obcras shwa tallate eugo am have called, they dna:valour owe pat con_lba ato Wr710nt 040 CU he aure et updates Oa %%tele and Sample*. Weeny all amen, fah e.t.a*. Attlee* 'MI. ',ato.,1>ortt:zne =Wino. Sick Treadaelo and rel'eve all the troubles incl. dent to a bilious state of the systein, such as Itizziness, Nausea. Drowshiess. 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