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Home My WebLink AboutClinton New Era, 1892-07-22, Page 3TflECLUTO NEW A• • a IR TO 11$4 T of ilia ST011 Bt Max.).vaLL UrnL PONTINUED. .• Late that night Jessie, pale from her long conflict, held the precious letter firmly in the flame of her candle until it was a black ash fluttering in defiling flakes about her white -draped room. She felt once more as if she had de- stroyed a living creature. Then she cried herself to sleep and dreamed a fairy dream from her childhood. She heard the mill's drowsy familiar hum, ehe saw the baffled water perpetually trying to elimb the unresting wheel and perpetually slipping discomfited away; then philip, clasping her small, weak hand in his strong one, told her that it was, after 0,11,the defeated water which turned the remorseless wheel And set all the machinery going; and then she seemed to see the water as a part of the great wave that girdles the earth, rises in vapors to the sun, and - descends in snow and hail to encircle the great globe once more, . thus_per- meating the atmosphere in an eternal round. The diamond spry dashed from the turning wheel, circled the white feet of angels always descending the moving stair and streaming up- ward, in steady unceasing flight till her mind lost itself in the vast dim spaces of sleep, and she awoke refresh- ed and comforted, with the pleasant sound of the Mill -wheel and the cliinb- ing water 'mingling with heavenly music in her ears all day long. "You are quite a stranger," Miss Ingleby said to her one day on her ap- pearance at the Rectory. "Is it so long since I was here?" she asked, coloring, confused and sudden- ly conscious of the icy chill in Miss Ingleby as well as of a grave and pain- ed expression in her brother's always kind gaze. "You have ' doubtless been more pleasantly engaged," continued Miss Ingleby, intently considering the col- ors of some silks she was arranging on her embroidery. "I have been busy," she faltrred, "sketching." "Sketching," echoed Miss Ingleby, thoughtfully selecting the color she wanted and beginning to thread her needle, without looking up. "Hml Sketching pla,ns? Mailing designs? Some people are clever at designing, I think." "No; sketching from nature," she re- plied, with a quivering lip. vvIsile Miss Ingleby obstinatelyrefused to look up and. m meet the fiery indignation in her brother's eyes. "I am afraid sketchingis rather lonely work for you, Jessie," he said, with his accustomed kindness. No- thing more fascinating than sketch- ing -unless it, is fishing -it makes one waste all one's thne out-of-doors. Hut alone as you are, it is scarcely suitable -especially-hm-ah, being so young, and -ah, in short, for a young lady it is decidedly lonely -yes, lonely," he concluded with unwonted confusion and hesitation. - "No,..314:augleby,"., sreid Jessie, look- ing down at the dog, sili1C-h-lirad-run- up to receive the pats she always be- stowed upon it, `though it is very pleasant to be out-of-doors; I don't find it lonely." "I don't suppose you do," comment- ed Miss Ingleby, with • a sarcasm so awful in its dryness that Jessie was ready to sink through the floor. "Susan!" exclaimed her brother. "Did you speak, William?" she ask- ed, looking up with an air of utter vacuity. `How I wish you would learn to shut the door when you come into the room; there is Spot again, pawing Miss Meade's dress; you know that he always follows you.' That "Miss Meade" transfixed. Jessie as with an icy spear. She was accus- tomed to "Jessie,' "child," and other fondling -appellations; but that -freez- ing address banished her to the North Pole. As for all the pleasant pretty ways she had with Miss Ingleby - kneeling by her side to look at her work and to her, .pressing her cheek against _her arrn-they were now ut- terly impossible: She Wondered if it could betithatsbeJnr&eyezAacejj er-T77.1trai-id interesting things herself. "It -ah -it is not very flattering." she gasped, looking at this truly dreadful thing. "No," returned Mr Ingleby, sudden- ly conscious of his mistake, "photo- graphy. tannot flatter, it tells the truth;" which indeed it does, after the fashion of a Swift, a Hogarth, or an exceedingly spiteful old woman of either sex who prides herself upon ut tering especially unpleasant truths, but not after the fashion of a Raphael and a Shakespeare. Miss Ingleby continued to be con- sumed by an unwonted spirit of in- dustry, and her needle made little, swift, and most exasperating clicks against her thimble, until Jessie longed to snatch both from her hand, instead of which she rose and said something about going. She knew that Miss Ingleby knew that she had come over on putpose for tea; but instead of be- ing asked to prolong her visit, she re- ceived two cold fingers and a distant farewell. "May I see you home, Jessie, if you are going that way?" her gentle -heart- ed host asked, in spite of an admoni- tory frown from his sister. "By Jove Sue," he said afterward, "it takes a woman to pe really cruel to a woman. I've known you a good many years, but I didn't know halt the venom that is in you. Hit a woman When she's down, nerer give her a chance of getting up again, especially if she has no friends. Thars your truly d am e motto." Which, as his sister tartly observed, was pretty language for a clergyman. Ile did see Jesine home, remarking Childten tOr 1 'With great originality Upon the west, h- er, the comet, the conduct of "Ofatm eney" canning, who actually Weigheq the WO Of "those black devde, tht irideos, against his countrymen's lust of vengeance, until her Agitation had serneWhat subeide4, and they had reached the bridge winch spanned the stream running , through the tiny wooded glen in which she had vainly 89904 41 make her eenfe,ssion. ".1,4et ns tee* down the stream," he said; "how rtgive hacks the rich colors of the autumnal trees! What a sketch for you!" "Too evanescent, the colors change before one's eyes," she replied. "Forgive an old fellow% advice," he added, rather ccnfnsedly, "and sketch no more this autumn; it is too cold for you." "It is growing colder, certainly." "Jessie," he continued, inconse- quently, "I have known you since you were -so high." "Yes, Mx Ingleby." "And I am your parish priest," "Certainly." "I knew your father and mother -I was always fond of you." "Always most kind." "You are looking very tired, my dear. I would rather not worry you, but -are you engaged to Claude Med- way?" he blurted out. The blood leapt to her face, she gave a start, but she turned and looked un- flmchingly into Mr Ingleby's grieved, kind face as she replied, quietly, "No, I am not." "Oh, my child, forgive me," he said, very earnestly; "but people say, that you ought to be, they do, Indeed. ' "Then they are wrong," she com- mented, sighing, as she looked down into the brown stream, which was now darkening into the evening shadows; "I am no match for him. Nothing could be more unsuitable for him or for me." They both kept silence for some mo- ments, she looking thoughtfully at the stream, every curve in her fea- tures indicative of settled, hopeless sorrow, he studying her face with deep pity and tenderness. "It is quite true," he said at last. "But, dear Jessie, you do not know the world's ways, and, there are so few to teach you, and I fear you have made a mistake." "Yes?" "Do you know what people say when a girl in your position and a man in his are seen walking alone to- gether? They say that that girl does not know what is due to herself, has no self-respect." "It is time to go home" said Jessie, moving away with crimson indig- nation. He followed her with confused words of apology. "Yon ought to know it, indeed you ought," he said; "what sort of a friend should I be if I did not tell; you are young, you don't even know what is thought correct." "Perhaps so." "My dear Jessie," he continued, earnestly, "I have a painful duty to perform, I must ask your promise that there shall be no more -no more oc- casions for babbling tongues." "Oh, Mr Ingleby," returned Jessie, with a little scorn, "you need not aIarrptirself, now that you have told ni:77hTETATtirre'etru "You .lon't know how all this has pained ale," he continued, "and how glad I :en to hear froin you that there is now no more fear of -of conduct that g..ssips may misinterpret. I was your father's friend and Phil Randal's -and-and I should have had to speak to your cousins unless—" "Oh! Mr Ingleby!" cried Jessie, in agonized tones, "pray don't do that. You don't know that they would -my cousins are not -not -they are plain people and they say things -for hea- ven's sake don't let them hear this miserable scandal. Left alone, it will die out, but -with all your age and wisdom and knowledge of the world, don't you know how things grow by being talked of? They would vex Philip too." "Now that I have your distinct as- surance that there is no engagement of any kind, nothing between you and Captain Medway, and that you will not again be seen with him," he re- plied, very slowly and distinctly, "there is DO occasion for me to call heir attention to this unfortunate scandal. But, my dear, you will have o be very careful to silence people's onguce. Could you not have some chool-friend to stay with you? You rad better not be seen anywhere alone ust now." "I should like to go away altogether, e -I have told you before-" "Oh! that would never do. You ould be still more friendless and un- rotected where you are not known. he only thing is to be very quiet and may yourself a good deal with house - old affairs just now. We all have to uy our experience, Jessie, and it is a nost expensive thing: costs one's very eart-blood sometimes. You will have o pay for this with a little discomfort and dulness, my poor child; don't shrink from it; and it will soon blow over. Jeseie, 1, for one, am perfectly sure that ig n orance of conventionali- ties is the worst charge against von. I am and always shall be your friend. I would give anything to serve you, I am not a faie-weather friend. You may trust ie." She welit, home heart -struck and de- spairing. The very trees seemed to mock at her as their sered leaves rust- led together in the evening wind. Every word of Mr Ingleby's had scorched her like the touch of fire. She could not look in Sarah's kind face when she crept by instinct, to the kitchen for comfort; she had fancied that some far...II-laborers grouped about an out -house in the dusk, looked at her and then whispered together as she passed; when she heard Abraham's heavy familiar step on the court -yard cobble stones'she rose from her nook ,by the kitchen hearth and fled away to the dim parlor, where the first fire of the season made a pleasant glow in the ifloom, but she could not look her cousins in the face. She sat palpita- ting and wondering if any whisper had reached them. When Roger came in, she shuddered and dared not look up; what if he had heard? "Where's Jess?" he asked in his bluff, theerful voice. "Hullo, Jess, been out to tea? Fire looks ,pleasant. There'll be a smartish frost to -night, 111 warrant, father." Ile would not speak like that if he knew, she thought. How glad she was when she could go to her room and be alone with her misery. She was sviser to -night than in the morn- ing. She knew . the taste of shrtnie. t from Me Inglehy; had it been ant . . _ , PIVOIWO Ca0Cirliao, fla, I892 one bat be She theught of the old days when he would ceme in the summer evenings and sit In the garden chatting, and sometimes atnelong, with her father. He would beekon her to his side end she would lean, clasped by his arra against hie shoulder, pleased and proud to be noticed. Sometimes he woutd blow tobacco smoke at her to tease her, then he would make her laugh by some droll remark or tell her funny stories, and she weuld rifle his pockets for sweets. He would take her with Philip for a row on the river. How she used to rue to open the gate when she saw him coming, a band- fmme young curate, with sunny eyes, calling her his little sweetheart, or pretending to be very cross and gruff and threatening to have her whipped. She seemed to hear the pleasant sound of the mill -wheel, to snae-11 the lavender and roses, and see the familiar garden and familiar lost faces again. She could bear him asking her to spell Constantinople, and puzzling her with catch questions in arithmetic. And he had thought shame of her, pityingly and lovingly according to his sweet nature; still he had thought shame, her only friend besides distant Philip. Then a hot rush of crimson dyed her face, when she remembered how near- ly, he had been justified in so thinking. Many little things showed themselves in a new light to Jessie on that sor- rowful night, as she sat sobbing in her shadowy room. She knew now why Mrs Blackley, of Fairfields Farm, had driven past her with her face so firm- ly set in an unconscious, straight - ahead look -Mr Blackley, who talked about "harses," and disliked sitting in a "earner." And why Ellen Dale, the daughter of another farmer, a girl whom she greatly liked for her kind heart and friendly, unaffected ways, had been so confused and hurried when they met in the village. Jessie, it must be confessed, had patronized Ellen as a homely, untaught girl, who once observed that she thought all poets were "lards," like Byron, and added that she liked stories without rhymes best, because they were easy to make out, and hadn't got so much flummery to make anybody's head run round. She shivered when she imagin- ed Cousin Jane's sharp tongue and plain truths upon the subject; she thought of Mr Plummer's broad com- ments, of Mr Clheesernan's unvarnish- ed obseevations, and probably coarse reproofs. She pictured Miss Blush - ford's speechless horror, and saw her gathering her skirts around her in fear of contamination; she fancied she heard Dr. Maule swearing about it. Then Sir Arthur's polished. contempt, Lady Gertrude's stony -annihilating glance, Miss Lonsdale's disdainful sneer, Ethel's perplexed dismay -she saw them all in imagination, and re- membered, with sickening terror, the sudden insolent familiarity of Adele, Miss Medway's French maid, the last time she went to the Court. If this skciallnhdearl.got wind she felt that it would And she had no friend to whom she might flee in this tempest of misery, she thought, casting herself, sobbing, by, her bedside -no friend but Claude, the Tempter whispered; Claude would never scorn her. She heard a faint rnstle and a familiar sound -something betcreitar a -growl -and -a eperr,..then warm furry thing brushed her face and hands, and she looked up into the oue brilliant remaining eye of Sebas- topol, who was limping to and fro on her three legs with erect tail and the tenderest wink of her one eye, striving with all her limited and crippled pow- ers to express sympathy. Jessie clasp- ed the scarred and maimed Crimean veteran to her heart and wept more comfortably over the disreputable iron - gray fur. "Dear, dear, Sebastopol !" she mur- mured, in her childish way, "you would never blame me, would you? Neither would dear Phil," she added, after a little while, wonderfully quiet- ed and comforted by the cross old creature's sympathy. -Pour Miss -Ingleby also became_ _a wiser woman on that day; for the first time in the thirty and odd years dur- ing which she had known her brother, she saw him really angry, and heard him say things that hurt her. (To BE CONTINUED.) ETERNAL VIGILANCE Is the price of health. But with all our precaution there are enemies always lurk- ing about our systems, only waiting a favor- able opportunity to assert themselves. Im- purities in the blood may he hidden for years or even for generations and suddenly break forth, undermining health and bast. ening death. For all diseases arising from impure blood Hood's Sarsaparilla is the unequalled and unapproached remedy. It is Ring of them all, for it conquers disease. The seasons nominally and accor- ding to the calendar begin as follows: SprIng, March 20, at 3 a.m.; summer, June al, 11 pan.; autumn, Setember 22, 2 p.m.; winter, December 21, 8 a.m. "Germ n Syrup The majority of well-read phys• icians now believe that Consump- tion ia a germ disease. In other words, instead of being in the con- stitution itself it is caused by innu- merable small creatures living in the lungs having no business there and eating them away as caterpillars do the leaves of trees. A Germ The phlegm that is coughed up is those Disease. parts of the lungs which have heen gnawed off and destroyed. TEese little bacilli, as the germs are called, are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but they are very much alive just the same, and enter the body in our food, in the air we breathe, and through the pores of the skin. Thence they get into the blood and finally arrive at the lungs where they fasten and increase with frightful rapidity. Then German Syrup conies in, loosens them, ki is them, expells them, heals the p1acS they • leatre, and so newish aid ii Soothe t at,n theft ia eft time em btigu tiirt'be, ointgebil-grootandwell. .• • ... ••••:... What is • .et (.41, '9! •. • ' • 1 Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Leant. 4, and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphtike NOW Ober NierCeitie substances It is a harmless substitute for -Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and castor 00, It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and Wale feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd. cures Diarrham and 'Wind Coli,. Castoria relievne teething troubles, cures constipation and ilatuleiery# Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Casio toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Castoda boo excellent medicine for Oren, Mothers have repeatedly told um of its aood effect upon their children." Da. O. 0. OtociOD, Lowell, Mass. "Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I min acquainted. I hopo the day is rot far distant when mothers will co nsider the real Interest of their children, and use Castoria in- stead of the various q uack nostrinus which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other liurtfti agents down their throats, thereby Sending thew to premature graves." Da. J. IP. reercramos, Conway, At' Castoria. "Castor's 18 80 well adapted to children that I recornmend it assuperiortonny proscription knowu to Inc." II. A. Aroma, M. D., 111 So. Oxford SL, Brooklyn, N. Y. "Our physicians in the chadren's depart- ment have spoken highly of their experi- ence lu their outside practice with Costoria, and although we only have amoug our niedimi supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us Si look with favor upon it," UNITBD 110sPITAI. AND DispaNairor, Borten, Masa Amax C. SMITH, Pres.. The Centaur Company, 71 Murray Street, New York City. McMURRAY & MUSE Desire to return thanks to their customers for past favors, their business during the year ending April 1st having shown a substantial increase over their first year's operations, and would ask all their old customers and others to remember that no house in town shall give you better value for your money than can be got from them. All kinds of Groceries as good and as cheap as is consistent with honest dealing. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the TEA trade and as our business in this branch is steadily growing, we conclude that our goods andprices must be right. SPECIAL PRICES TO THOSE WHO wzsu TO BUY NOW, FOR CASH, THEIR SEASoN'S SUPPLY OF SUGAR. CROCKERY away down in price and away up in quality. A fresh stock of all kinds of FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS. A trial respectfully solicited. .1111J-11RAUVILLTSE,..NEARIHEPOST OFFICE, CpNTQN. RUMBALL'S CI MHZ FACTORY Huron. Street, Clinton We have ori hand an assortment of splendid BUGGIES. CARRIAGES, 8L WAGGONS Which we guarantee to be of first-class material and woi kmanship. If you want a good article at the price of a poor one, call and see us. CILAIFINTECOIN" PEOPLE'S con do/ 6•1+4•4•0•0•011/ ffIF Pulit Asiono.044.24240,0mwo/NO013 MOW MOE, 0111111111011; •0 Coal in Car lots sold, direot 1* consumers. No intermediate prolitS# Write for Prices. 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