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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1913-02-06, Page 7nig !4 ,1l Vtit TRH, T'I;[. TJABY �1 Lull i' 4***************43 � Purified * * unering • cbts664646*****6-w6646464645u BY MARY J. HOLMES, • That child, born two months before Katy's, was dead, anti the mother, finding her home so desolate, had'written, beseeching Mariam to come Ito het' for the remainder of the the winter. There was an eager look in Katy's face; And her eyes danced with the new idea that had suddenly taken pesses"ion of her. She could not trust Hilly with Kirby up the river, but she could trust her in New Lon- don with Mrs. Hubbell if Marian was there, and grasping the. latter's arm she exclaimed. 'Is Mrs. Hub- bell poor? Would she do something for money. I mean?" moments i Inn few mo t, s A Taranh a'd heard Katy's trouble, and Katy's wish that Mrs. Hubbell shotiki tape her child in the place of the little one dead. "Perhaps she would not harbor the thought far a moment, but. she ntir°ses her own ro much, it made am think ale might take mine. Write to her, Marian—write to-day— now, before I go," Katy continued, clastene Marian's acn., with an ex- pressien whirls. more than aught else, won Arariar ifazelton's con- sent to a plan which seemed so strange', "Yes, I will write," she 'answered; "I will toll Amelia what you de- sire." "But, Marian, you too must go, if baby does --I'll trust' baby with you. Say Marian, will you go with my darling?" it wens hard to refuse, with those great, wistful, pleading eyes, looking so earnestly into hers; but Marina meet have time to c•oneiclar. She had thought. of going to New London to open at shop, and if she raid she should board with Mrs. Hubbell, and so be with the child. She would ( decide when the answer came to the letter. This was all the encouragement she give;enough would g,tv , but it. was et n gh to , change the whole nature of Katy's t feelings, and heir face looked bright and cheerful as she tripped down the stairway, talking to Helen of what seemed to both like a direct interposition of Providence, and what rsh.e was sure would please Wilford quite as well as the farm -house up the river. "Surely be will yield to me in • this," she said, Nor was she wrong; -for glad of an opportunity to make some concessions. and still in the main have his oven way, Wilford rais- ed no objection to the plan as corn- municatod to him by Katy, when, at at,an earlier hour than usual, he care home to dinner and with the harmony of the household once more restored, felt himself at model hus- band, as she listened to Katy's plan of sending baby to New London, On the whole, it. might be better, even than the farm -Mese up the river, he thought, for it was farther away, feud Katy could not be tiring herself with driving out every. few days, and heaping herself constarttly uneasy and excited. The distance between New York and New London was the best feature of the whole; and he wondered Katy had not thought of \it, as an objection. But she had dot, and but for the pain when she remembered the coining separation, she wattid hate been very happy that owning, listening with Wilford and Helen to a new opera brought out for the first time in New York., Very differently from this was Mar.. inn's evening passed, and on., her taco there was a look such as Ka- ty's had never worn, as the asked for guidance to choose the right, to lav all self aside, and if it were AWAY TO ELL SHADOW. W. DO All Her Peoplep Thought She Hai CONSUMPTION. her duty, to care for the child she had never seen, but whose birth had stirred the pulsations of her heart end made the old wound bleed and thranb with bitter anguish. And as she prayed there crept into her face me look which told that self was sac - ',Bleed at last, and Kitty Cameron was safe with her. . Mrs. Hubbell was willing -- aye, more than that—was glad to take the child, and the generous remun- eration oilered would make them so comfortable in their little cottage, she wrote to Marian. who hastened to confer by note to Katy, adding in n stillyour tri It oa wish "Is it est f P i c that T should old go? I f s m, I am at your ttsposal." it. was Katy's wish, and she re- plied at, once, going next to the n u•set•y to talk with Mrs. Kirby. .nark were the frowns and dire the dlsp!c'wiure of the Indy when tell that intend of going up the river, as she hail hoped, sit trot free to 1 1 t tea "genteel and h n totheC nt returnF. . g spectable home . on Bond Strict.." where Mrs. Cameron hull found her. "Wait till the niadetut cuutes and then we'll see," she thought. re - leering to lift's. Cameron, and fueling delighted when that very day she heard the lady's •voice in the parlor. But Mrs. Cameron, though a little anxious with regard to both Airs Mrs. Wm.. Martin, Lower Ship Harbor East, N.S., writes:—"I am sending you a testimonial of my cure by Dr. Wood's • N'orway Pine Syrup. Last May I tools 1i cold, acid it settled on my lunge. I got itF;bad I could not rest at night. I had ,two doctors to treat me but got no relief. "All of my people thought I had ,Consumption. I had fallen away to a ,ab'adow. I had even up all hopes of ,elder getting better again until my daugh- ate!f went to (oatore one day and bought But it was Alport woo eeee Tag • when she had the Canker -rush, one first one convenient, k'or an fnstattt , baby to the carriage, going with it evnryhody thought she'd die? And Aunt Betsy scanned him closely, to the train and seeing Mrs. Hub- when she swallered tinct tin whistle she surely had never seen him belort;, , bell off; then, on his way back, he %loin't she spat her on the back and but us lie seemed to claim acquaint- •drove round to his own house, swing her in the air till shb carne to Lowe she could not find it in her kind which even to hint seemed lonely,. antd blew the Whistle across the heart to ignore him altogether, and with all the paraphernalia of baby- room? Telpher that Catherine would so she grasped the offered hand, hood removed. Still, now that the be ashamed! she knew betteri" which she tried to shake, saying ap- worst was over, he rather enjoyed ft, Then, as a doubt began to cross ojcge tidally: for Katy was free from care; theta her own mind as to Wilford's reside. " 1 r'a'tty well, thank you, but you've was nothing to hinder her front tees to entertain her at his house, got the better of me, as I don't i recall your name. just - gratifying his every wish, and with she continued: ylr.s,tauttly the eyes of the young his spiritsgreatly enlivened es he "At an rata, the Tubhses who i y man under the window met those of 3 reflected how satisfactory every- moved from Silverton last fall, and the conductor with a look which t thing had been managed at the last, who are living in such style on the the the frown gathering in the he proposed taking both Helen and /love lt., wouldn't be ashamed, and Y face Of the latter into a coritical Katy to the theatre that night. But vans F op with them at first, till I Katy answer.d. "No. Wilford, not see how the land lies. They have fee- • smile its he withdrew his hand and to -night; It t3.meiis too much like vited me to come, both Miss Tubbs `.touted: 'Ticket, madam, your tick" baby's funeral. I'll go next week, and 'Tilda, and they are nice folks, "For the land's sake, have X got but not to -night." who belong to the Orthodox Church. to give fila up so quick, when it's So Kitty had her way and among Tom is in town now, and if I see at the bottom of my satchel," Aunt the worshipers who next day knelt hint I shall talk with him about it, Betsy replied, somewhat crest-fallet in (;race t laugh with the words of even if 1 never go."at her misteplietke. elle. funnbling,' • in her prayer upon their lips, there was ?text devoutly clic. ',tins. Lennox and pocket for the key, which was finally not en:i more earnest than she whose ' Aura Hume, hope that Tom would only chemo was, "My child, my '•.taa'n tai New York without honor- produced and one by one the paper darling child." Ms the farmu-house with a call; but parcels of fennel, caraway, and cat- She did notget over it by Mon- unfortunate) for them he came that Itip, dried plums, peaches and yeast y cakes were taken out, until at the day. as Mrs. Cameron had predict- very afternoon, and instead of thtow- td. She slid not get over it at all. log obstacles in Aunt Betsy's way, tI .l her warmly to make the pro - though she went without a word where "Wilford willed that she should posed belt. go. and was ere long, a belle again, "Mother would be so glad to see but nothing had power to draw one an. old neighbor," the honest youth loo's front leer blue eyes, the look snocl. "foe she did not know many which many observed, and which Hel- 'folks in the city. "Till had made an :new sprang from Lhe mother ramie 1Lsby of whom love, hungering for its child. Only he did not think much, and they kept onto before had .Helen seen a look a few hoarders. but nobody had call - like this, altd that had come to ed, and mother was lonesome. IT.e Morris's rano on the sad night when wished' Miss Barlow would come; she she said to him, "It might have '•amici have no difficulty in finding been." It herd been there ever since, hent," trent on a bit of paper he and Helen :telt that by the pangs •'ttrked out the route of the Fourth with which that look was born he (venue cars, which passed their was. a better man, just as Katy Inns wbiCh Aunt Betsy wouldold Wes growing better for thathunger take«flex arriving n r the New I v- ii her heart, God was taking his ea depot. "If 1Le kuew when she was own way to purify them both, and aiming be would inset her," he said, Helen watched intently, wondering init. Aunt Betsy could not tell; she what the cod would be. was not' quite certain whether she CHAPTER XX,V, should go at all, she was so violent- ly opposed. Just through the woods, where Still she slid rot give it up entire - Uncle Ephraim was wont to exercise ,., and when, a few days after Tom's return to New York, there cause a i ressing invitation from .the slaugh- ter Matilda, or Mattie, as she signed herself, the fever again ran high, and (his time with but little hope of its abating. "We shall be delighted, both moth- er and me," Mattie wrote. • "I will show you all the lions of the city, and when you get tired of us you can go ap to Mrs. Cameron's. I know efiutlv where they live, and have seen !'ger at the opera in full dress, .00long like a queen." Over the last Fart of this letter Aunt Betsy pondered for some time. "That as good an Orthodox as Miss Tubbs should let her girl go to the opera, passed her. She had wonder- ed at Helen's going, but then she was a 'Piscopal, and them 'Piscopals had queer notions about usin' the world and ubnsin' it." Still, as Helen did not attend the theatre and did' at- tend the opera, there must be adif- ference between the two places, and into the old lady's heart there slow, iy crept the thought that Possibly she might try the opera too, if 'Tilde Tubbs would go, and promise never to tell the folks at Silverton. This settled, Aunt Betsy began to devise the best means of getting off with the least opposition. Both Mor- ris owl her brother would be absent from town during the next week, and she finally resolved to take that op- portunity for starting on her visit to New York, wisely concluding to keep her own counsel until she was quite ready. Accordingly, on the very day Morris and the deacon left Silver- ton, she announced her intention so quietly and decidedly that further op- position was useless, and Mrs. Len- nox did what she could to make her aunt respectable. And Aunt Betsy did look very respectable, in her dark Maine, with her hat and shawl, both Morris's gift, and both in very good taste. As for the black silk and the new cap, they were carefully folded away, one in a box and the other in a satchel she carried on her arm, and in one compartment of which were sendry papers of fennel, caraway, and catnip, intended for Katy's baby and which could be sent to it from New York. There was also a pack- age of dried plums and peaches for Katy herself, and a few cakes of yeast of her own make, better than, they had in the city! Thus equipped seat one morning took her in the iloston and New York train, which carried her swiftly on towards Springfield. "If anybody can find their way in New York, it is Betsy, Aunt Hannah said to Mrs. Lennox, as the day wore on and their thoughts went after the lone women, who with satchel, um- brella and cap -box, was felicitating in the. luxury of a whole seat, and the near neighborhood of a very nice young man, who Iistened with well- bred interest while she told of her troubles Concerning the sheep -pasture, and how she Was going to New York to consult a, first-rate lawyer. Once she thought to tell who the lawyer was, and perhaps enhance her own merits in the eyes of her audi- tor by announcing herself as aunt to Mrs. Wilford Cameron, of whom. she had no 'doubt he' had heard—nay, more, whom he possibly knew, bias- Hubbell's and Marian's antecedents, old Whitey, was a narrow strip of saw that Wilford was in favor of New London, and so voted accord- ingly, only asking that she might t toNew London with regard to land, extending from the highway to the pond, and fertile in nothing ex- cept the huckelberr'y bushes, and the write rocky ledges over which a few sheep Mrs. Iiubbell and her fitness to roamed, seeking for the short grass take charge of a ch.iidrin whose veinsAand stunted herbs, which gave them Cameron blood was flowing. To this a meagre sustenance. ue a whole it CameronMaty assented, and as the answer re- was comparatively valueless, but to Aunt Betsy Barlow it was of great turned toMrs Cameron's letter was altogether favorable, it was decided importance, as it was—her property thee Mrs. Hubbell should come to the city at once for her little charge. In a week's time she arrived, seeming everything Ratty could ask for, and as Mrs. Cameron too, ap- proved - her heartily as a modest, well spoken young woman who knew her plaice, it was arranged that she should return home with her little charge on Saturday, thus giving Ka- ty the benefit of Sendry :n which,"to get over it and recovery her equal spirits." Mrs. Cameron said. 'I he Met that Marian was going to New I onion with'n a week after baby went, reconciled Katy to the plan making her ever cheerful during the last day of baby's stay at. home. Ilut. as the daylight -waned .anti the night came on, a shadow began to steal across her face, and her step was slower as she went up stairs to the nursery, while only herself that night could disrobe the little cum- . titre and hush it into sleep. "'Tis the last time, you know," she said to Kirby, who went out, leav- ing the you a; mother end child alone. Mournfully sad and Sweet was the lullaby Katy sang, . and Helen, who in the hall was listening to the low, sad moaning—half prayer, half bene- diction --likened it to a farewell be- tween the living and dead. Half an hour later, when she glanced into the room, lighted only by the moon- beams, baby was sleeping in her crib, whilst Katy knelt beside, her herbands, and h' —the land on which she paid taxes willingly—the real estate, the deed of which was lying undisturbed in her hair trunk, where it had lain' for years. Several dispositions the good old lady had mentally made of this property„sometimes dividing it equal- ly between Helen and Katy, some- times willing it all to the former, and again, when she thought of Mark Ray, leaving the interest of it to some missionary society in which she was interested. How .thou was the poor woman amazed and confounded when sudden- ly there appeared a claimant to her property; not the whole, but a part, -and that part taking in the big sweet apple tree and the very best of the berry bushes, leaving her no- thing but rocks and bogs, a pucker cherry tree, a, patch of tansy, and one small tree, whose gnarly apples were not fit, she said, to feed the pigs. Of course she was indignant, and all the more so because the claimant was prepared to prove that the line fence was not where it should be, but ran into his own, dominions for the width of two or three rods, a fact he had just discovered by looking over a. bundle of deeds, in which the boundaries of his own farm were clearly defined. In her distress Aunt Betsy's first thoughts were turned to Wilford as the man who could redress her wrongs if any one, and along letter face buried iln an s, her was written to him in which her grievances were told fn detail and form quivering with the sobs she his advice solicited. Commencing tried to smother and she, softly pray- with "My dear Wilford,” closing with ed that her darling -might come back "'Your respected ant," acetal with a again; that God would help the lit - wafer, stamped with her thimble, tle child, and forgive the erring me- and directed bottom side up, it nev- ther Who had sinned so. deeply since ertheless found its way to No. — the time she used topray in her I Broadway, and into Wilford's hands. thehillsf M h But with a an ishpof con - erne among o assac u -I frownd a setts. She was very white next tempt he tossed it into- the grate, morning, and to Helen she seemed ,and vain were all Aunt Betsy's in- ter be expanding into something more quiries as to whether there was any womanly, more nature, as she din- letter for her when Uncle Ephraim ciplined herself to bear the Pain, came home from th e•oflice, Letters' welling up eo constantly from her there were from Helen, and scene - heart, and at last overflowing in a times one front Katy, but none from flood of tears' when Mrs. Hubbell ' Wilford, and her days were passed in was announced ns in the parlor bee 'great perplexity and disti ess, until low waiting for her charge. i another idea took possession of her It was Katy who made her baby mind. She Would go to New York ready, trusting her to no one else, herself! She had never traveled over and repelling with a kind of fierce half a dozen miles in the cars, it was decision all offers of assistance made true, but it was time she had, and either by Helen, Mrs. Cameron, Bell,' now that she had a new bonnet and or the nurse, who were present, shawl, she could go to York as Well while f?sty's hands drew on the little. its net! bright, soft socks of.Waal, tied. the Wholly useless were the expostula- hood of satin and lace and fastened tions of the family, for she would the scarlet cloak, her tears falling not listen to them, nor believe that fast as she met the loving, knowing she would not be welcome at that look the baby was just learning to house on Madison Square, to which give her, half smiling, half cooing, Mrs. Lennox had never been invited us site bent her' face down to it. ' since Katy was fairly settled in it. "Please all of you go' out," she! Much at first had been said of her said, when baby was ready—"Wilford coming, and of the room she teas to and ail. I would rather be alone." occupy; but all that had ceased, and 'I hey granted her request, but Wile in the mother's heart there had been ford stood beside the open door, list- a painful doubt as to the reason of ening while the Mother bade farewell the silence, until Helen's letters enc to her baby. i lightened her, telling her it was Wil- "Marling," she murmered, "what, ford who had built so high a wall Me a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine will poor Katy do when you are between Katy and her friends. gone, or what will comfort her ltd I'ar better than she used, did Nes, ,Syrup. After taking half of , it I felt ;batter, so I get two mord; agidthanke to ,there I am well to -clay, and able to do Ay house work. i cannot say toe much Anita praise, and I shall always keep it in Iles )house." Dr. Wbod'e,Norway•Pine Syrup Con* 40.iny alttlas lungg;;,healing;rtirtuds Of the, .famous Mornay Pint tree *Melt.make'tffit' ,th ver best • preperation. for Coughs, .G'oldirand elt•'Throat and Lung Troubles. See that you get "I)!. Wood's" whey► yt it ask for it. There are many imiitaa' bong on thelearket. Pince, 915 and SO cents. 'See.thet the sten tee. The T5 Milbura Lisfeiitefdi Ip o1• the yellow wren*. 1 her tears still droliPin • 1ike rail!. •girls, especially Catherine, carrying her in her erne ohs whole night you have done? Prenio'uS baby. my Lennox understand her son-in-law, heart is breaking to give you up, and she shrank in horror from suffer - but will the Father in heaven, who ing her aunt to go where she e'ould knoces hove much you dire to me, be so serious an annoyance, frankly keel' you from harm, and bring you tolling her the reason for her objet- bark again? I'd give' the -world to' tions; and!! dsking it she Wished to keep you, but•Iecannot do it, for mortify the girls. Wilford says that you meet go, and At this Aunt Betsy took umbrage Wilford ie your father.„at once. At that moment Wilford'. Cameron "Sherd like to kite* What there would hav+i Wen half hi9 fortune to there was about ,her to mortify any - have kept his child for ICaty ssake, body? Wasn't her black silk dt•esi but it was now too late, the cat- made long and full, arid the old pon- raine Was at the door, and Mrs. Hub- gee fixed into allalmeral, and hadn't bell was tvaitfng it the hall for the she at bran nein cap With, Temple riho, littie procession tllin%i n bon, arid couldn't she. travel in her stairs, Wt. Canteren and hell, R'il` delaine, and didn't she wear hoopla ford and Katy, who carried the baby always now, except at cleanly.' house herself, her face beat ever it and times? Didn't site nuss•'both the 'ammoiimaiMinimmismonomonimmt Children Cry for Fletcher's cASTOR I i . The Sind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature et and has been made under his per,. sonal supervision since its infancy. eG4, Allow no one to deceive youinthis. All Counterfeits, Imitations. and "dust -as -good.” are but { Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment, very bottom, as she had said, the iciest Wits found, the conductor wait • - Patiently.and advising her, b y way of avoiding future trouble, to lain the card to her shawl, where it could be seen. "A right nice man," was Aunt Betsy's mental comment,but for a long time there was a red spot on her cheeks as she felt that she had made herself ridiculous, and hoped the girls would never hear of it. ' The young man helped to. reassure her, and in telling him her troubles she ,forgot her chagrin, feeling very sorry that he was going on to Al- bany, and so down the river to West Point. West Point was associated in Aunt Betsy's mind with that handful of noble men who within the walls of Sumter were then the centre of so Hutch interest, and at parting with her companion she said to him: "Young man, you are a soldier, I take it, front your havin' been to school at West, Point. Maybe you'll never have to use your learning, but if you do, stick to the old flag. Don't you go against that, and if an old woman's prayers for your safety can do any good, be sure you'll have mitre." • She raised her hand reverently, and Lieutenant Bob felt a kind of awe steal over him,as if he might one day need that benediction, the first per- haps given in the cause then so ter- ribly agitating all hearts both North and.South. "VII remember what you say," he answered, and then as a new idea was presented he took out a card, and writing a,few lines upon it, bade her hand it to the conductor just as she was getting into the city. Without her glasses Aunt Betsy could not read and thinking it did not matter now, she thrust the card into her pocket, and bidding her commotion good-bye, took her seat in the other train. Lonely and a very little homesick she began to feel; for her new neighbors were not as will- ing to talk as Bob had been, and she (finally relapsed into silence, which resulted in a quiet sleep, from which she awoke just as they were entering the long dark tunnel, which she would have li:;etted to Purgatory, had she believed in such a place. •'I didn't know we ran into cel- lars," she said faintly, but nobody heec.d her, or cared for the anxious, timid looting woman, who grew more and more anxious, until sud- denly remembering the card, she drew it front her•pocket, and the next time the conductor appeared handed it to him, watching hint while he read that "Lieut. Robert Reynolds would consider it. as a personal favor if he would see the bearer safely into the Fourth Avenue cars." • Surely there is a Providence which watches over all; and Lieutenant Reynolds's thoughtfulness was not a more chance, but the answer to the simple trust Aunt Betsy had that God would take her safely to New Yore, The conductor knew Lieuten- ant Rob, and attended as faithfully to his wishes as if it had been a born princess instead of Aunt Betsy Barlow whom he led to a street car, ascertaining the number on the Bowery where she wished to . stop, and r,'poetiug to the conductor, who hewed in acquiescence, after glancing at the woman, and knowing intui- tively ntui- r U ch that sh 'N• • was from th the coun- try. ts;y. ('ouldi she have divested herself wholly of the fear that the conduct- or would forget to put her off at the right place, Aunt Betsy would have enjoyed that ride very much; and as it was, she looked around with in- terest, thinking New York a mighti- ly (lettered -up place, and wonde•in it all the folks v,e••e in the streets: then, as a lady in 11at:tiling ra'•e', took a :;eat heeler hi r. crcreeti'r;' i .. into n meta ow space, tee good , • dame Ihouoi'la! t., ••• ' ' P• :'i i tint rr:ont i!, h} ,it atterupt at so'- nt,tilile, .tire:f she lm'w ' Mies Peter Te:bb, e1' i,e hu: ;Lind Lep: „ store n t'_cl;:rcery?" •'l leave tett t! nt hart' ," am ''- hat , t'• t•, I•' the lady ,t owlets- t •. her co- ! h ! •:et arta met h. g a 1 1- i• tat,•.uv i.oat her interlocutor, w' o ron- ti;,t•ed: •`1 i1 -ought lite enamel; dot', t':i;iht hay, r ,en 'Tilde, or 'tattle ne much as his home was in New York, she '• What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare. gorge, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotics r It destroys Worms substanro. Its age is its guarantee. de y and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constantuse for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.eP The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. IMMUNE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years 7HE cENTAUR COMPANY.77 MURREY STREET. NEW YORK CITY. eatt 1 into Aunt Betsy's mind, as with Tom's outline map in hand she peer- ed at the numbers of the doors, find- ing the right one, and ringing the bell with a force which brought Mat- tie attie at once to the rescue. It TTnttia as w not glad- to see her guest, she seemed to be, which an- swered every purpose for the tired woman, .who followed her into the dark, narrow hall, and up the nar- row stairs, through a still darker hall, and into the front parlor, which looked out upon the Bowery. Mrs. Tubbs was glad to see Aunt Betsy. She did not take kindly to city life, and the sight of afamiliar face, which brought the country with it, was very welcome to her. Mattie, on the contrary, liked New York, and there wets scarcely a street where she had not been with Tom for a pro- tector; while she was perfectly con- verstutt with all the respectable place's of amusement—with their .dif- ferent prices and different grades of patrons. She knew where Wilford Cameron's office was, and also his house, for she had walked by the latter many a. time, admiring the ele- gant curtains, and feasting her eyes upon the glimpses of inside grand- eur. which she occasionally obtained as sonic one carne out or went in. ('ince she had seen Helen and Katy enter their carriage, which the color- ed coachman drove away, but she bad never ventured to accost. them. Katy would not have known her if she had, for the family bad conte to Silverton while she was at Canan- daigua, and as, after her return tc Silverton, until her marriage, Mattie had been in one of the Lawrence factories, they had never met. With ITele n. however, she had a speaking acquaintance; but she had never pre- sumed upon it in New York, though 1 n some of her young friends she had told how she once sat in the same pew with ;tips. Wilford Cameron's sister When she went to the "Epis- copal meeting," and the considera- tion which this fact Procured for he• tills herself now. She ii at le' though ho spent much of his time at toes air., and 'rout is a y rem"; West Point, where he had been edu- hey " Wed. Bet certain disagreeable re- ^,•;a this livor was no reply: and as membt'ances of Aunt Ilanrnah's part- the luny sow left. the car, Ai'u' ing injunction, "not to tell every- it"t:v did (tot male, another al mete body in the cars that she Was Katy's at rem er' al lam, eeeent to ad; owl, aunt," kept her silent on that point, ;.,,•• far the} were f oto the flow,•+•, and so Lieutenant Bob Reynolds fail- twee. g• as s'n' rt•+'rived a t•ltl on - ed to be enlightened with regard to sue •• "You don't know 'lr. 1,0 ,1 the relationship existing between the hate'•?" fastidious Wilford Cameron of Mali- trent worthy man wits evidently a icon Square, and the quaint old lady whose very first net on entering the ear had amused hint vastly. At 'a glance h'e.satve that she Walt unused to traveling, amid as the car was crowd- ed, he had kindly offered his seat near the door, taking the side one under the window, and so close to her that she gave him her cap -box to hold while she adjusted her other bundles. This dond and herself com- fortably settled, she Was just re- marking' that she liked being clone to the door in case of a fire, when the conduetor appeared, exteedit i; his hand oiliciafly towards her as the vt••at.:;'r to the occupants of Ilei' oar, 'vheel slop+ted at last l:pon a cro' 1• g, the coutint•tdr pothole- a. oitttitle at fete ,ioors to the right, reel telling her 1'0 was her number, I should slue -e, he might have driv tight up, instead of leaving too 'here." she said, looking wistfully a'i- ter the re total ing car. "Coats, and trowac!'e, anti" jackets! I wonder it there la 'nothing else to he seen here," she continued, as her eye caught the long lino of clothing so conspicuously displayed in that part of the Bowery. "'Taint no great shakes," Was. the feeling struggling Allow the sheep Plenty of Room One often sees a flock of ewes huddleI ed up into very close quarters, but these are not the flocks that give the large lamb yields. Overcrowding is bad in the first place, says Farm, Stock and Home, because it is likely to result in injury to the ewe. This injury may not result seriously for the ewe herself but it is often sufficient to make her lose her lamb. Ewes ought to have room enough so that they will not jam and' push each other even when they get a11 little excited. If there is not sufficienti room in the barn, then the door should be left open so that some can stay in the yard. Care should be taken not to have doors opposite each other open, or a door and a window opposite each other. Such an arrangement causes draughts which are sure to make the ewes take cold. Sheep can stand a great deal of cold. but they cannot stand; a draught. from those who had heard of Mrs. Wilford Cameron, of Madison Square, awoke in her the ambition to know more of that lady, and, if possible, gain an entrance to her dwelling. To this end she favored Aunt Betsy's visit, hoping thus to accomplish her object. for, of course, whet Miss Barlow went to Mrs. Cameron s, she Was the proper parson to go with Iter and point the way. This «'as the secret of itlattie's letter to Aunt Betsy, and the warmth with which site welcomed her to t.httt tenement on the Bowe*, over a clothing store, tenth so suutil that it U. not strange Aunt Betsy wondered where they all slept, never dreaming of the many devices known to city house- keepers, who can change a. handsome color Into a kitchen or sleeping room; and Nice versa, With little or no trouble. But she found it out at last, lifting her bands in speechless amazement, when, as the hour for re- tiring came, what she had imagined the parlor bookcase Was converted into at comfortable bed, on which her first night in New 'York was paused in comfort if not in perfect quiet. The next day had been set apart by Mattie for showing their guest the city, and possibly calling on Mrs. Wilford: but. the poor old lady, un- used to travel and excitement, was too tired to go out, and staid at home the entit e day, watching the avowals of people in the street, and occasionally wishing herself back in the Clean, bright 1.itchen, where the windows looked out upon woods and fields instead of that never -ceasing rush Which made her dizzy and faint. (in the elide she was as nearly home- sick as she well. could be, and so when 'Mattie staked if ,ire Would like to go out that evening, the caught eagerly at the idea, as it involved a change, and again the opera came before her mind, in spite of her at- tempts to thrust it away. • "Did 'Tilde: know if Katy went te, the opera now? Ilid she s'pose she would be there to -night? Was it far to the sitow7 What was the price?-- . iTo 1te sosettarmi,j e HEST AND HEAtTU TO MOTHER AND CH(L11. Mos. WrssLow's SooTarrro SYRUP has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRIitBA. It is ab. solutely harmless, lie sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle, A. Chester county (Pa.) farmer, who has a first-class dairy of 30 cows, de -•E livering his milk to the consumer at 8' cents a quart, says that he is combining) cows and hens. He says that lceepingi 500 to 800 laying hens worked in veryi well as he had demand from his milk1 consumers for all his poultry and eggs.1 In speaking of the cost of keeping hens,' he said that free range from May 1 un -1 til October 15 cut down the cost con- siderably and the keep of me hen ranged from $1 to $1.21. He was not receiving, the prices that many do, but his hens° netted $1.15 to $1.50 a head a year from' eggs alone. He had an income of $1,000 a year from his laying hens. This Is the season of the year when , mothers feel very much concerned overt the frequent colds contracted by their children, and have abundant reason for it as every cold weakens the lungs, low- ers the vitality and paves the way for the more serious diseases that so often diseases that so of ten follow. 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