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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1897-12-23, Page 2•l..ar \,+�,\a5 :,w�!)M1.N `1 `: "� , . a.. .. ....... . .. ... M _ ',rA. , �,, rt. r< ,. .w,,,qr. ,p•�"pu.:s w.,..•,.,�„x�v L r. r'•F'•^^T"!n^'*^^.- ,: ^�� � , vIL ON THE WATERS.room, agd, kissing her tenderly, bade her good night. — Going back to his own room, he re - A TALE OF TWO L'Hal6•r•NASES, sumed his reverie. " Well. "he thought, "I had a merry Christmas, for it's aft - "Well, this has been what I call a er la o'clock. And now for the ol8 life. Christmas, " said Ben IIabbertou, with Cowardly, folks would call it, I sup - a great sigh of confect as he throw him- pose, to run away with a charge like self into an easy chair in the great guest that over my head, but I don't think it Js. If I stay, the old man ohaulber that was his for the time and will surely i stretched his feet out toward the cheery make a row iu the morning and there log lire. will be a groat scandal. If I go, he will "Now, I imagine, " he went on, talk- be too proud to make the scandal for nothing. He will call $500 a cheap Ing to himself in a light hearted way, price tb get rid of good for nothing me, "that a few days of this kind of life and that will be the end of it. Poor mother thinks I'm guilty, too, but they r won't tell anybody else for shame's sake, and if they can't trust me lot them I , think what they will. "Five hundred dollars, " he mattered, r"r ,rte \.• 1 �y� with a nasty sort of ltaugh.,under his "That's breath. ret hler it shall suns to tilrn thief for, but I wish I had a huudrvdth part of it just to get grub i till I strike another job. I could got it �> from another vusily enough, but I'd �I !� rather go hi mgr..§..thau take it from her, 1 what she does. (thinking sr "But it's best for me to go. I would not care so much about if it it weren't for Alice. Perhaps that's best too. I don't know whether she would" care. Probably I never will know now, so "Oil, MY BONI How COULD YOU DO ITV" here goes." . I And opening his window carefully would tempt even me to give up knock- and noiselessly he swung himself out on o lug about the world and settle down, -as a huge vine that clung to the side of the they all want to. George, I have house, and, lowering himself hand over IU notion to do it. Mother says that hand, he was soon oil the ground. It was granddad wants somebody to look after only five miles to town, and he was the estate, and if he could only trust me there long before daybreak. he m ould be glad to have me do it. Nov Alice was a certain wide eyed, N "Confound it all; that's what sticks clear witted, young second cousin in my crop. Nobody ever trusted me so, this headstrong youth. They had never far as I know, and I never would dx- inet till three days before, but great plain'--anything no matter how susm- cious the circumstances might be. So I thugs are done in three days when ("- always got blamed for everything. pid lurks around old fashioned country houses where the mistletoe is used Hanged if I don't think that even moth; among the decorations, and Ben was hadn't asked me not to go to soar again Er used to think 1 took all the cream Christian lEntxe:¢yot• lindi,et. very much mistaken in thiulcing she I was a fool to make her even that half that any of the cats stile. wouldn't care. She would and she did. promise not to. Well, she knows wbore, The' annual •Convention of Huron "Foolish, of course, to run away and Beingnick witted, Alice ,was also I ani U this time, and if she doesn't go to sea, but what could a fellow ;do iq Y (_i(..n w C. E Union and S Assccon . impulsive, and sometinios it was well write and let mo otf, from what 1 said 1 iic•n will be held i❑ \Vltinh•tul on when he is always getting into scrapes a that she was so. On the morning after must leave here and. look for something Tgesdrty and 1`'ednead•ay, ,lune `31 t and is too proud to - deny anything even Lliristmas she passed old Mr. Habbei- I oa shore. This is neither land nor sea. wbeh he inn't guilty? Well, I've seen aur" 22nd, 1898, ton's door very early .on her way down ' I wondef what granddad thinks and I1 ow Tel PUT L.irF INTO A �UCIIsTY half a dozen years of life and had a good stairs and was greatly surprised to bear how he came to ' mako such a' mistake. fling out of .it, but I don't remember angry words inside. As the door was Confound him He ought to know that To put life -into a C, T 50ciHty, that I over dict anything to be ashamed open she catered. a Habbertou couldn't bo a thin(. It was thccro is uodiing like having epme nae• of: Hellol Who's there? Come in, the p"I tellwyou he stole the money, and I ! just like him, though, to jump at the fill world to do. ti','urk that caLis door isn't locked, Why, mother, is it shall send for the police," stormed the conclusion that I had done something forth tae heart, and gives ,the heirrl you? Crying? What oneai•this the mat- old mail, and Ben's mother, who had ! wrong. Every one in the family is hasty something to think of', rl"d wakes a ter,' � been pleading for mercy, gave up the —except me. Hellol What's that?" demand on the rocki,t. Wodc foi Springing td his feet, he took the poor struggle. "I would have sent last night He. had seen a faint gleam out at sea, others; n oik that 'ware auniost our in little lady in his arms and placed her if it hadn't been Christmas." and watching as only a sailor can heient selfisbnese. \Folk that breaks carefully fu the big chair. Then pulling Why, who has been stealing, Uncle watch he soon saw another. a stool forward he sat on it at her feet, the bands of aelfiahnoc,r, and , ,k rt Ralph?" asked Alice. "It is certainlya rockets" he exclaim• the elan in the hi��hstat and best art and laying his• }read in her lap said: i , 7 P Even in his auger the old man paused. ed, talking to himself as his habit was "There, mother. Do youremember, this of his n„Into, fn c. Such w: rk mai` It seenled'a cruel thing to accuse`one of ;when he tvas,excited. "Some vessel is is the way I used to sit when 1 was a in distress. God help her and all aboard be looking after come -"our 1'suniliaa, little fellow? Now tell me all about it.I if they can't keep her otishora, and i4 tea,hiug it mission school held in a .What has haPPeued?” .• she is disabled in any way that'll be kitchen or a 'country teliuol house; But sho only sobbed the harder for a — - hard work against this gale. if she's supporting a native wurkPr on a foie. command and her length when she could f' t. one of these coasting steamers and her I irn misr•ion fi,4d, ora Ilihle women of con,tnand her voice she cried out as- p machinery's broken down it's all day I gyne. Ito aumethin;,� for othcnH; art sionnxely, "Oh, my sou, my son, how ' ; with her, for there's no anchorage out- I out of fit°if; thin- of others; play fon could you do it?" � F t '°'�'s: 1 I side the reef, and there's not a chanco ot4crs; live for othcis. Iu it sinn'e ."'lie curly bead was lifted instantly, ) in 5,000 of her driving in behind with- word, love others. and (he handsome, boyish face grew sul- ( } t a• Q out striking. " leu and hard. Recklessness and pride nt, I,N It was a coaster, and she wr6 certain- I[owCr. I; STAN[)-., IN Ten; WORLD.WORLD.r r-, were Ilabberton familytraits, and Ben, " It has 1,578 scr,ietie�, 3,000,('0'1 `a I ly beyond the control of those on Uoard, though a younger son, was a true Hab- � � ' 1 � members, adding; 100 now societies g+ - 1 for as he looked rocket after rocket Uerruu. . every -week, How it rov,a4 lie � went up in vain appeal, as it seemed. g So he said nothing, knowing that he / / There was no life saving station within you helpil it 4 would hear more presently, and he did, f Ib miles, and Ben's eye was the onlyIs CHRISTIANITY TRL'P', for scot his u:othcr talked ori weakly f .»�tY and, if she: bad only known it, foolish- r� ono that saw. Th re are many go�yowi, ,that a ist; ? Nearer and nearer she came, driven in'the minds of }one t1) it ly "You know your grandfather al-" b �- y the awful power of the worst storm the Bible. They ruse vPry lwrp ext":, stays suspected you of being wild, and 'Ben had ever seen. Fascinated by the and somewhat dWreasing. How min aicr•r you went to sea he always said .. ' sight, ho sat as if frozon, watchin for 'd come to some bac] orld, and I had g g they he met" .("m x,,, Ire env heli" yru' the tragedy that scented inevitable, He if answering them 9 To u.or t :inn c:"s hard work to get hint to ask you here 'IT'LL BE A AIFNRY CilMSTJ1;AS, AFTEri thought of the little boat below, but it ,,no %vi"lit"i a }landlioeld that call hr' for Christmas, but after you camoho Am.]" BE ftCLAIMED, was hopeless thought. Twenty "len .looked atr,` "ea'rdlt. ti,ich it hook liked you ever so ultleh. He would not his own kin, but the case was too clear. could not have'lautiched her from the ! havo risked you to, cit with him this ."That young rascal, Benl" 1•e exclaiiu- rocks iu ifle Urnakrrs that were dashiltg afternoon if he hadn't, and even when h s "wen .ItnhLr-h •d by tl;e Alurricnu tined v tichnr l f"ninn nl;d, sl",+ titlr, ed and tolyl the story of the r lonoy • up, and no one i:rm could ll;tve rowed he dropped asleep and you left the'room Then Alice had occasion, if never be- her a rod if she had been afloat, All ho '1, Ch l i i" n "'t! v Ti no " It lits :'ti'• he wasn't angry, Iie said of course you fore, to he thankful for her quickness. could do was to sit and watch. Ile ° r ria ft -0111 iLsl. ' Ilii' ll,nintneuls, wanted to be with the, young folks. But "I don't think Ben lcoks4'like a thief," could see the ship now from time to Nature, the dock, i.`:,ir i Irr4', rind 11,,0 how could you take that money? You she said, "but, uuclo, you say you saw time as sho rose and fell on.,tho waves, �nrowlh of (;hii ti,t" ity. it. is also ought to havo asked ale if you needled tho money in your <lesh just before he but every time she sank froln -sight Ile nv,duahlc; tri e runuot co""""ded such n I know you said you had come canto in. thought must surely be the last. He book too hi_lh v. Wcic as poor as you went away, but I "I certainly did, " said Mr. Habber- knew the cruel rocks that lay below the C. E AND THE C111-rIClr did not think you needed it right away. ton, surface. Dr. I.ubeitsuu, \1 ,� ,ill slur it iti�l" I can roturn it to your grandfather, of "But are you sure you left it there?" ! No earthly pilot cold have guided her WDr.ly, sa\ a to tae A ,Bri.I , 1161ioD of ovi'se, but ha is so angry that he says asked the girl. among those rocks to the leo of the reef C. I,•—"11e•+r 11." i;rn qll ileavorere .e will have you arrested in the morn- The old man looked at her in surprise on which the lighthouse stood, but, it fill the stn l i lets of your churches." .ng, and 1 do believe, Bell, that he Then one emotion chased another across was not written that. she should be 1 ) would have made you his heir. HOW his rugger" features until presently he wrecked that Christmas day Lying Sri aav tt e. L'e there yourfieldes, and conlrl`you.do it, Bell:"' sank back in his chair with an expres- helpless in the trough of the sea, she lake others with you, Ecil olid grown very white, and his sion of great disgust it himself. drifted past rock after rock till Ben _ _+----- fls; s were clinched tightly when his "I'm surely getting old," lie exclaim- sane with anitizemeut that she was float- u 'Inollwr paused, but Ile said quietly: ed. "I put it fn the safe and forgot that Ing fn behind the reef, avid still he "au you and granddad ba'vo discovered I had done so.. Don't let anybody tell watched with straining eyes. 101, . that i am a thief, have you? How did Ben that I suspected him. " Suddenly he sprang to his feet with a you find it out?" "But I told him last night, ".Said his shout like a crazy mail, and, rushing "Why, he bad $500 in bills in his mother, down ,the stairway four steps at a time, 1;r0newris N•ritirg desk, it seems lie saw it there "Then go quickly and tell him to herseized an ax and a big pannikin in jns.t before you went to his room, and come here till I apologize. You have all the room below and ran out into the P there was no one else there up to the of you been too ready to accuse that boy storm, A thought lead come to hint of tilliu he missed it. " all his life. " one chance in a ruillio ', and be was "So lie says 1 stole it, does he?" This seemed rather 'hard to Alice, after that chance. "Dot't use such words, Ben. Of who had certainly never accused 'Ben A single blow smashed ,in the head of but extremely good for the sufferer courso you didn't mean it for stealing, of anything, but that wiso young wom- a hogshead, and in another instant lie from that harassing disease is Dr. but 1 ani afraid he, will have you arrest- an r tongue while Mrs. Habber- i Was scooping out the oil it held with ed—anal think of the disgxacal Why on hurrie olit of the room. the paunikin and scattering it like mad Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. No medi- didn't coil ask nl'o for money, Ben?" In a fc� moments she returned, ex- as far as he could in every direction. cine can compare with this great It was something like an imprecation claiining, ' He is gone!" The wind carried! it all toward the ves- remedy in the prompt and perma- that the young sailor muttered under . . . . sel, and the great wonder of the sea was Light se 34 was situated about half wrought almost in a minute, for as the Hent aid it gives in all bronchial a mile •ore the mainland on the point oil fell the waves abated, so that the affections. It stops the cough, r of 'a of that lay irregularly parallel to ship was immediately in smooth water. soothes the irritated throat, and in- the sh qt leaving plenty of clear water .Overboard went her anchors as quickly be Ne n. q coast was rocky, and the as tileduces refreshing slee captain could give the order, and p' ^'.-..,,_ light was maintainer) as a warning, for she wa-s safe. "I had a bronchial trouble of such a per - yr' a vessel that should approach too near For the rest of the night Ben watch- sistent and stubborn character that the doe- ; was liable to be dashod to pieces on hid- ed, throwing a little more oil from time for pronounced it incurable with ordinary ..,t• don rocks anywhere within a mile or to time, and in the morning, the storm remedies, but recommended me to try Ayer's two, having abated, lie rowed -out in his Cherry Pectoral. One bottle cured me." The lighthouse keeper bad a helper, small boat to the ship's side. J. C. WOODSON, P. M., j so that usually there were two men on As be stepped on her dock the captain Forest Hill, W. Va. / C J guard at 134, but leave of absence for one greeted him with such tbanks and "A short time ago I was taken with a of them was obtainable at times, and praise as could only be given by one severe attack of bronchitis, ailll neither phy- '\ it happened a year after Ben Habbertou who had just been saved from destruo- sicians nor ordinary remedies gave me relief. had left glia grandfather's house that the tion, Then as the passengers crowded In despair of finding anything to cure me, I /i,' l l \ \ • \ kee keeper hadup to havo their sa Ben saw, to pia bought a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. p gone to spend afew days Y t hose than one Mottle entirely cured mo." �•� �' Tamil with his at Christmas time, and , mazement, his gratulfathor, his mother -_—�� y Ra �,,;�•.��t". ' Ben, who was the helper, was alone on and Alice. .P GEb. B. HUNTER, Altoona, Pa. the reef. We came after you, my boy," said Long after midnight ChristmasXnorn- the old man, "as soon as your letter to 90 ing that impetuous youth sat up in the your mother came. You must;.come ANCP "HE La OoNn." }igbthouse tower, gaffing out at the fu- bonne again, this time to stay. " .+bis breath as he rose to his feet and riots storm that rliged and meditating ! Ben looked at his mother and then at walked up and down the room for a few by Llo means pleasantly on the events of Alice. In both their faces he saw what moments. But no word more of any the year. he looked for, and then he answered: charg �S�kind could his mother get from him un- "I shall go melancholy mad if I stay "It'll ll be a merry Christmas after all, til she had exhausted herself with weep- here long," he tholught. "It is no life granddad, " he exclaimed with a happy Por a young man, and I wish mother laugh. And it was. 5ng and pleading. Then be lea her to Medical advice free to all. Address, Med. DAVIU A. GURTI9 Dept. 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Are you a iSubscriber t© The News -Record A Y'ecul(:tr IT:n<xe INSpute• TIN SICKNESS ANI) Magistrate Turubull, of Galt, Men- IN IIEALTH." i day drAivered judgment in a peculinr -- cnee which catue tilt for hearing before I Man and Wife Join Hands in Proclaim - him on Friday tuurniug, on action ing the Great South American Ner- brought up by It. J, McPhail araioet vine King of Cures for Stomach d � Trouble and Nerves. James McDonald to recover $13 for --- Alr. Phillips, of V'a t nt. wages, Ale1 hail tvae engaged by iVic• S P it 1 l r on, 0 , Donald to work on hie farm for two wr'itrs: "I was very ranch emaciated menthe, After working for Five weeks by chronic dyspepsia for a number of McPhail met with an accident and was years. No remedy or physician seem - unable to work for three weeks. After ed to successfully cope with my case. herecovered he returned toMoDonald's When all else had fniled I rend of the _ farm, and completed the term of two cures being offectecl by South American mouths for which he was paid, The Netvine, I decided to give it a trial notion was brought to recover t•hQ wages Before I had taken half a bottle I wap, for the three weeka durint, which he much improved and felt greatly reliev- tvaa unable to work. The Magistrate ed. A few bottles of it has made me •a in his decision said that in hie opin- new man. I am better and healthier ion McPhail could not recoder, al. than I had felt for years," 11 -is wife though there appears to be an English was also a great snfforer from stomach I authority that would indlcatot the law trouble and headaches, She says:— to be otherwise; but the law is well ee- "Seeing the wonderful effect it was tablished here that an employe cannot having on my husband, I tried it also, recover from, his employer wages while 'Che remedy has given me almost instant I he is ill, and unable to work unless relief, and has cured and ninde a strong there be an agreement to the c_ntrary, woman of rine.."- -Sold by Watts & Co. or the case is a very special one. He therefore diiemissed the action without A very serious Are attacked Dover caa, coo to. Ile yesterday, and did great damage. a • A °. , . .,:..• :., ....., ...�i: .:x.. ...i. , , .�.,..... �:.:. , ... v. .. r. • •, a ,r n ..., ... a ,, •..