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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-11-27, Page 6rereetheseltrulhaseeneeelee'leeteeetrettern fl FOUR GOOD SHORT STORIES 1 goirmi.te-ku.0-4,4porgs.,0-414.0-4(.2 ; en amusing ',lenient is quoted by IL T. P1ucl, in a recent, Volume oe primitive and. curious eustoina Nv111011 ladleate how mostly utilitar- ian eolleiderfetioue may gain the ellPreMacy among Africans. A traVeller enew a girl name! Yiennekl, who refused to merge a young Kaffir eultor, although tete coact:teed that She liked him. ea,nnot take nine') she snid, "as he ca.n offer only toe cows for ;me, and my father wants fif- teen." The traveller observed that it was .noit 'kind of ear father to let I a. few ewe stand in the way of her happinees; but the African dam - did not fall in with his senti- mental views of the carte. Businese and vanity were to her much more important matters than individual Preference, and She exclaimed, ex- eitedly "Weal: 1 You expect my father 1.0 give me away for ten cows ? Trate would (be a fine Sort, of a bargain 1 Ane1 not worth more than 01111, for When) the Tameaki chief paid tw,elve cows •last week? I an prole. ty, I can cook, SOW, OrUellet, Hlteak Efigliftee, and with all thee ac- complishmen•th you went my father to dispose of me for ten miserable cow.? Ohe sir, how little you e8 - teem ane I No, no, my father is quite .1104, in refueing to yield tit ;this matter. Indeed, in my °phi - ion, he might boldly ask thirty cows for me, for I am everth that 'much." • — In a village in 6eotland several workmeo were engaged in bonding a large brick structure, and there Wall a hod carrier working at the Job whose name was Paddy. The forema.n came to Paddy ono day anti - said: "Paddy, I pink 1 will have to get another man in place of you, as yOU aPe too slow for the place." "Well," says Paddy, "I am sorry you think so, but won't yo.0 kive ine anotber chance," and the head man consented. Reddy then started to work again, hut thought he would try a little scheme, SS) tee next morning he bought some nuts and dropped two or three in each bodfte of mortar, and of course when the bricklayers saw the mete they set to work to at there, and the delay thus en- abled Paddy to catch up on them. Again the foreman came around and, says lie, "Paddy, you are doing better now." gays Paddy, "an' If you'll give me a few more pennies per week I'll keep the whole job going in mor- tar." . • — Ve group of • professional people, among whom was Timms Q. Sea- brook°, were diseussing Miss Frances Rawl,* Pemberton's performance of "Camille" and her consequent en- gagement with Joseph Jeffereen for next ;season. "There is always some risk In en- grughlg persons unfamiliar retie the exigencies of an actor's life," re- marked Seabrooke. "Perhaps you have ;beard of the eeperience of Phelps, the eminent English trage- dian. Ho engaged a young mau trout -the ranks of society and gave lehe a not important bat really very oerocessary part in the production. —Whoa the oortain want up he had not bown up, and the performanee was spoiled Nvitil a poorly rehearsed understudy. Next morning the young man came • around to the theatre fittniling. " 'Where were yon lest night, sir?" roared Phelps. "'Gracious, my good sir,' replied the society recruit, 'you surely did not expect Me to come out in ench weather as we bed last night? Why, it wen raining cats and doge.'" Stories concerning the rivalry be- tween Chicago and St. Louis evident- ly will never 'grow old. Tbe lateet cent:term a visit which Alderman Mi.- ohael Kenna, "Milky Drake" re- cently paid to at. Louis. Ho witibed to talk to a friend who lives in the Missouri city, Med as he had a dime in his pocket for change called up over the telephone. He talked but feev minutes and 'then asked the central operator how much he must deposit for the call. "Fifty mats, Please," was the ans- wer, in a meet confident voice. "Fifty cents," gasped the alder- man "W•hat do you take rae 'for ? A man with eoin to burn? Why, in Chicago I cant call up 'lades for 00 gen:tele • , "Perhaps eo," was the answer, veil' framed ID the most unruffled tone, "but that's within the city limits, you know."-Minneapolls eour- nal, It, --- la the Pity of Dublin it is an. estab- lished rule to give a reward of 45 to anyone saving a person from clais•iow: Mg, but If the party is dead only el is given. One day two liard-up Irnn were sitting on the end of a doter, smoking and bewailing their fate, when a happy scheme :struck Alike, fort be fold to las friend: • "Pat, you junrep In tend I will mono you, and we will divide the reevaril." "It's a go," said Pat, and in he went, and immediately sank. Now, Mike's echeme 10 make xnoney was good, only he had quite forgotten that he eouldnnot Wine a stroke. Pet, on coining to the surface, took a look at Mike, W110 Was still 011101C - fug, and down he went for the BP0.- owl time. On cOming up he was quite astonished to see Mike still ;taking things quite coney, NO down he went again and on rising for the third and lent time, and seeing Mike milking no move to save litre poor Pat nearly &vented as he managed to s•plutter Out: "Be jabere, Mike, if you don't pull me out this time it is only ten shil- lings apiece WO will be getting, for recovery of the dead body." I •e,a,bi 9/2 ca'ita de/ 44/ oxaele,t- ,o7tAjede," //it,o-P GOV. L VIE'S —XVI. .1.* 441(4444;44+4444414a,5pvt, I am not making an idle boast; I an reeording a rut when I .say that that gial laid siege to me with a kill and pail eee which filled rae al- ternately watt admiration, grati- tude and alarm. She learned my tastes, she studied my habits, she mastered my opinion's until I began to think thee if a pereonwho ap- parently keew me so well could like me so much. I must be eun infinitely more amiable man tie= 1 had ever frapposed. This frame of mead natur- ally led me to look kindly on the lady who had eatable(' me to make suce. a. pleasing diatovery, and I knew myself to be softening to such an extent that I felt that, unless Mr. Farington sthould leave Ballater be - ore the s-u.mmer Nyas over, I should be "a gone coon" before autumn. If vile held on until the evenings grew , cold and long, until the winds began to howl about lonely Larkluall, and to piing swirling showers of dead leaves -to the ground with the hiss - Vag sound of a beaell of pebbles un - dor the retr entIng waves ot I a, wintry eea, then I felt that 1 Mimed give way, that I should see inMiss Farington's pro- , sale gray eyes pleasant domestic piotumes, in ber erect figure and slop- ing shoulders, an attraction which, to a lonely man, When the deer- s -talking and fishing seasons were over, wore quite irresistible. from the womb above. "end II the school ever gets boat, I expeet there - Will be oaly ono thing it tylli want." "Klo on, thoegli I know what yoil • are going to say," she stile. " Seholara" I filly hed, briefly. telien FarIngton noddea.' The,v will come," sho extel colditlently, "If the thing is properly orgn nized." Organization was her bobby. If that little affair came off, my library would be partly catalogued and IPartly burnt, ant To -to would bo organized into the staltheyara. Still I did not flinelt. " Think," slot said, enthusiastically, "what it would mean 1 To plant the first footing or knowledge, civiliza- tion, refinement, among these peas- ants I To give them eyes to see the beauty of the nature widelt surround& them ! To give them resources for refined enjoyment when winter closes tho door of nature to them, to widen their knowledge of the world and teach, them that "hinter den Bergen sind much Lento 1" Oh, Mr, Maude, if building and darting title school Were to (met ten thousand pounds, I should say the money hod been well spent in It, if but one single Highland boy Were taught to read 1" Rather appalled by the thought 01 the lengths to which such a bound - leen enthusiasm might carry her, 1 , murmured something to •the ef- I fact that it Nvoelel be rather ex- 1 pentsive. Whereat elle turned upon me- ; "Alen can. you, Mr. Maude, who pro- fess to revel. in Montaigne and Shake- • epeare, delight in Charles Lamb and Alfred do Vigny, deny such plea- - aures to your !tumble neighbors?" I "But my humble nelghbore wouldn't read Shakespeare or Montaigne, nor even Wilkie Collins nor Deems the Elder. 'They'd red the Bow Bells novelettes. And as to teaching them to acnnire their own hills, why ; they love them more than- you do, I for Nature isn't to them a closed book in winter as it seems to you." j I was on the wrong tack alto- I gether, an I felt when by good !utak ' the lady herself brought me to more congenial ground. friend, that I would lend his wife and her mOther the cottage for a short time, adeleng that he was sure I would look after my Itttle favorite until, after a few days' time, be could rejoin her. I took this letter up to Craigen- darroole and had first a cigar and then a pipe over it. To refuee Fablan's request was impossible; to lend the cottage and go away my- self would be inhospitable and sue- pielous ; to lend it and stay erould be dangerous. Witte the last evielffs of tobacco an inspiration Immo. 1 ;swung back home, wrote back to Fabian that Larkliall itself, the cot- tage, the garden the stables, and every tool -shed abinut the place were entirely at Ms. Se,ott's disposal, to- gether with all the live stock, hu- man and otherwise; and that she had only to flx the tim.et of her ar- rival and Ws. Ellmer's, IT had had one plaentive little let- ter from Babiole, in Nviach she en- treated me, in rather stiff and stilted language, out of which peep - eel a most touching anxiety, to be- ware of her father, who, she assured ; me, was more desperate and danger- I one In his Intentions to do me harm than she had even dared to suggest I when face to face with me. I wrote bank in a clumsy letter, as stiff as 1 her own, butt not so touching, that ; she need have no fear, as her father I had settled down quietly at Aber- deen. I dared not tell the truth, which I had found out through Fer- guson -that Mr. Elimer had indeed come up to the Highlands with the avowed intention of doing me some desperate harm; but that, having availed himself too freely, through his daughter's generosity, of les favorite indulgences, he had . had an attack of delirium tremens, and lita,r1 been placed under restraint in tire county lunatic asy- • lune Babiole's letter I carried about with me, and &Meth/les-for loneliness among the Mlle would make a sem- t temente' fool of the meet robust of I as -1 fancied: that the little sheet of paper, enepite of Miss Faringten mid the domestie pictures, burnt into ray • heart,• It was tis the meddle of August, while the weather was still-everylvhere but en the Higleands-insufferably, I hot, that I received a letter from Fabian wheell gave me a great shock. Me wife hod been very ill, he said, and although she had now been declared out of danger, she re- covered Strength eo slowly that it had become imperative to send her nevay somewhere. Mrs. Ellnaer, wlio was now with her, having suggested her old home in the Highlands, the doctor had agreed warmly and Fa- bian therefore begged, as an old They 'were erecting a twelve -story building in New 'York, and ono day whet the bricklayere were up to the filth etory, two hod and briek Car- rters, one mined eetirphy and the other O'Brien, had a dispute nes to their relative powers end etrong•th as brick carriers. Murphy Wail a email man, only five feet two inches high, Willie O'Brirai was SIX feet high, nuitt In proportion. The later of- fered to bet $10 that he could carry a hoe( of bricke with 'Murphy on top up to the lifth rtory. furphy ace (opted the bet. O'Brien filled his hod with brieke and eturphy peddled biteeelf on top of the hon. O'Brien grasped the rungs Of the ladder and commeneed to necena. When he got Within ten feet of the fifth story, the Tung on he -Wag standing Menge n.nd after 0, desperate struge gin Ito Menage:I to get on n.nother rung, and rex-railed the fiftli atory I .sant and sound, with 11throby Ntill ; top Of the lied. When 'Murphy dia.! Wearied O'Brien 'demanded the Won Cy, saying, "Murphy, 1 won the NrilliPllY said, "Intiatle, you did; hilt, begarra, 1 thought I had yolt When the rung broke." The letter finished, and puit in the bag, I had a glass of sherry; and, fortified by that, sold by an heroic sense of duty, I earned forth( in the direction of the Mill o' Sterrin, in which neighborhood Miss Farington, 'who did everything by rade, was al- ways to be found distriet-vislting on a Thursday. • I suppose no man with ever so little brain or ever so little heart, wile has deliberately made up his mind to pro- pose to a hire sees th,e moment ap- proaching Nvithelit a certain trepida- tion. I Own that -when I saw the moment and Miss Farington ap- proaching together, although I had very little doubt about her answer, and very little enthusiasm about the result, I had a thumping at my heart and a singing in my ears. With the memory of Ba,biole and the thought of her visit lu my .mind, net even the sherry would cast a glamor over those exceedingly sloping shoulders, welch seemed almost to ergue some moral deficiency, some terrible lacer of some quality without which n9 woman's character Is oemplete. In the Meantime, she was bearing down upon me, and I west still without an opening- speech. But she was not. "What a treat to see you in title part of the world, Mr. Maude," elle said holding out lier hand. " 1 con- fess T did you the injustice to think yon would forget your promise." Promiee !" I repeated, vaguely. "1 am afraid I must confess-" " You had forgotten ?" she said, ranging. " Really this is ihm "At least, you see, I 'hadn't for- gotten that this is the way youi al- ways walk on a Thorsclay," said I, with a look that was Intended to convey much, "And had forgotten my beautiful site for. a new school 1" However she was more pleased with me for what I had remembered than angry for what 1 had forgotten. "At any rate you can come and see it now," she said, and turning back she led the way towards a broad meadow in the valley of the Mnick, with a fair view of the little river and of the hills beyond, which would have been a very good site for a school, if a school had been needed. "An awfully nice place for it," I agreed, as she expatiated upon the merite of a rising ground with drain - "Then I 'suppose I mustn't expect much help from you, Mr. Maude," she "Yes, you may, indeed, you may said, rather stiffly. expect every help," I said, ruching I. at the opportunity, and growing hot , ever it. "Itie*true doin't much. care -I mean I'm not deeply interested ; nt Htglatend children, except as scenery, yeti know, pratur- esqu'eness and all that; but -or -but for you -in a plan of yours, that Is to Bay, I should be delighted to do whatever lay in my power." During this 1.atne performance Mies Farington listened with a perfectly stolid face, but with a heightened color which told that she knew, in vulgar parlance, what I was driving at. Now that I was cooling to the Have It Down. Fine. point, however, she die not mean to The iliard of Oettoner u,see to be re - have any "humbugging about." At gareed by panteculorly well informed least, some such determenation as theologiene as Aelanes bireleday. The that rather than maiden coyness, seemed to prompt her next speeeli. learned &teems ot the eleeteenth and "I don't thenk I quite underetand sevenitoente oenturies evosted rnech , scholarship in efforts to settle both you, Mr. Maude." Thie was a challenge., I took . i the manner and ;the clate of ereation. it up "I thonk, Miss Farington, you must Dr. Jolin Lightfoce, viee-chancellor of Ceemetielg•e a ,Holireer teholor et Furta have noticed my growing intermit in peatreputation, punllethed a state- ment ito the effept that, after Years "In my plans? No, indeed, I haven't of ph, he had Succeeded in die - Don't you remember your saying pov7rLela'rIg the precise moment when the, other day that it seemed a the mrth "roe° out of eliaes" and pity to waste :good drainage and , roan made his aware/ice epon 11. eanitary regulations upon people woo Tees learned doeue declared that were never ill ?" ; "heaven and earth, centre and cir- "I-'S only mean that my Interest puanterence, .evere ere,atted all (to- ne you." gether, ii1 the Jeanie instant, and It was, the very last way ini which plumes full of water," and that "this should have chosen, to introduee ;work :took piece and mart was emoted declaration et love, but with a by 'the Trinity on Opt. Earel, 4004 girl too mon aboorbet1 In the pro- e3. C. est 9 o clock in the mistime gross of humanity to encourage that , This gentie,man evPeutly elassed the. of tile individeal man, there is noth- °logy MO the exeet :eciences. Ing for you but to take what open- ing you ca.a get. It wee all right, at any rate, for ales smiled and gave me her hand, the glove of which T - ; hot pincers. Stay indoors and use Perry reepeetfully kissed, noticing at the Davis' Painkiller. Ine blessed freedom from time that it smelt of treacle, and pain which totems cannot be told. Wondering how it had acquired that particular perfume. It oceurred to "World's Great Wonder. - I - The greatest by far among great me, even. as I stood there tre ate to think of something to say, that • the little boys see had been teach- ; ;geographic features le the Pacific ing, must have been eating bread basin. If all the continents and es - and treacle, and imparted its fra- lands forming the race of the earth gram° to their leseon-books. were joined in one great continent, "You leave surprised me very much', its extent would seterce equal that Mr. Mande," elm maid. 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I been:need about ; using her Crarletian name, and de- cided net to. "Lucy" seemed such an inappropriate appellation for Mist It'arington ; the ought at least to have. been "Henrietta." "I Will try to make you like it still more," I Said, quietly and sin- cerely, upon Which she went the length oi returning the preasure of my fingers on hers. But she could not keep long away I from those confounded plane. As We &ow near the grounds en Larkliall, and ramie tree tbe etablee and one cor- ner olf t11.0 roof of the cottage, ehe estopped short Lod said peneively - "I've Mein thought, Mr. Maude, • what a plty it its thet cottage eltould be Icept empty, when it is so nicely fureished too. Your 11011Se- keeper, Mrs. Janet, took me over it one clay." Perhaps It Wail anger 01 the thought that this ;young hely had mentally ilispoemi of all my property prenotturely, perhaps annoy:thee thet, who Should have Intruded In the cottago at all, wit„ ott netpat to furAinel I. the mid.. don fury wide!). 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One treats, the other, or others, as the ease may be, considers It manly to treat in return, and un- manly not to do so, What are the consequences? There are in the Majority of cases as many drinks as there are drinkers, ending too often in all being too full. Now, the men wno do this are not mean men -they are not our worst citi- zens, by any means. They are what we might call jolly good fellows, and honest, Nvethal, but they are adhering to a custorai that is do- ing much' harm-prebably more than any other custom practised in our social life. Making Change. A young lawyer received a call from a well-to-do- fo,rmer, who MIS in need statutes, and told the farmer what I made of legal advice, says the Philadelphia . for Mimes. The lawyer looked up the ' said; he sbould do. On being asked the dol- I ' ward." "That's all right," he replied: "Tennyson did it." "Yes," rejoined publication. "Why, Henry," she on looking it over, "you have 'hundred* rhyme with 'on - charge, "Well, letes call it three lane' replied the lawyer. T.he farmer 1 lete ,wile, "Tennyson could do elicit handed over a flveglollar bill. The a ehaelig, but you can't, Henry." lawyer seemed embareassed. But; after gear:thing through hie pockets THAT TOBMPINTING COLD that made and the drawere of hie desk, be rose rou wretched last winter will not come back i!hyr:auttaisker Alien's Ltivcrel4 al i' rile -wagnijaTille! to the occasion, and pocketed the bill w and as he reached for, a digeet, "I guess, remedy la free from. opium. Take it In time. nolghbOr," he remarked, as he resum- ed his sea,t, "I shall have to give you two (lettere' worth more advice.' Meese's. C. C. Richards & Co.: Centlemen,-Theodore Dorn•ls, a cue - tomer of mine, was completely cured of rheumatism alter five years ot ;suffering, by the Judicious DSO of MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT. The above fact oan be verified by writing to him, to the parent priest or any of bis neighbors. A. COTE, Merchant, St. Isadore, May 12th, 1898. It Made a Difference. A man of literary aepirations whO had his way yet to make jn the world wrote a poem, veleolz he submitted to his wife before sending it out STATE,' Or Orno, CITY OP TOLEDO, Lucee COUNTY FRANK 3. NANNY makes oath that hots the senior partner Of the firm of P. 3. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the C ty of Tolodo, County and State afo res aid, and that said firm Senator attended in Washington. will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRIDD DOL- I "Comundrume got to going around," that cannot he cured LAIfor each anevberyy thease ofOe use ofsman, Ham. s said the Senator, "and I could only ts d (Wrinan GIME. think of one, which( I used with apolo- The Young Lady's Story-. Washington Post. There is a laok of humor that is humorous, aecording to ex -Sena- tor Pettigrew, of South Bekaa. Alt instance of it ocergred at a little in- formal eoreety afar which tbe ex - IrnAwIt 3. eDENEy. glee. It was: 'What's the difference p rSeswenoreenAthoisbeeftehreeamyeoaDnedcesnaubbrztAb .ep(1.,11n8 smy6. tbletreWweeiniltear all,anadn 0. oing dog?' ' cliDurea°arna.eweinr A. W. GLEASON, is, a man pule on an °vele:mat and Notary Public. politely laughed. But thLrEdvoorgypbaateitts' y Hall's Catarrh Otte is takeninternally and wdziora10110Pifwahaima.t aA cif Win. ao tax! I erye cattel ymon tshebabal otoo rd teen:IT:not ua les frrefeaces abignirtsrearetiners F L CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0 ner where one of the guests was a Sold by young woman who lead heard me gg Hall's Pall druists-75e. apally .PflIs aro the beat propound my conundrum. She remem- • bored and told it, crediting, me with An Effective Dunning Letter. the ownerstrip or 'the clever thing.' No ono guessed it. In glee et the A youth was engaged as a junior pilvilege, the young woman an - clerk by a firm: of lawyers, and by ; nuanced the answer. . way of filling in his thne and testing j " 'Whey the man pets on an over - Ids worth, on his first day he was (*oat and -the dog trousers.' Everyone told; to write a letter demanding pay- wa,s puzzled. I loaned over and metre of a debt from a client who whispered to, the young woman, set - was long in arre.ars. To the great 1 ting her right. - surprise of his employers a cheque 1 eon, yes, I forgot,' e•Ite said. 'It's for the amount arrived the next daypantaloons inetead of trousers " They sent for the young clerk and letter which had had sueh an aston- ishing When washing greasy dishes cr pets and asked bim. to produ'oe a copy of the Jelling result. The letter ran as fol- ; Parisi Lever' e Dry Soap (a powder) will lows: "Dear you do not at remove the grease with the greatest ease, as once remit payment of the amount winch you owe us we will take steps An Anxious Father. that will amaze you." . The doctor OLLIE0 slowly down- stairs, and entering the room in which the master of the house was seated, said, "My dear sir, allow me to congratulate you 1 You are now th'e father of tw•In boys. Your wife Is doing fairly well ; still there are faint symptoms of re- lapse,. and I—" "Relapse," fairly yelled the astonished husbited. "1 was not. aware they had relapses in such cases Whatever will we do with Loury • Minard's Liniment le tne beat. ENGLISH SPAVIN LIzeiairENT removes all hard, soft or calloused Lurups and Blem- ishes from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints, Bing Bone, Sweeny, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, eta.- Save 50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by all druggists. ORIOIN OF " LYNCIIINO." • _ A Story Tbat May Account for the . Very Irregular Verb. The Lame Boy and His Brother. Readers may perhaps remember Two small boys signalled a street the story published in the Observer car, and When, it stopped it was 1 nottoed that one boy was lame, says "of how Mrs. John; H. Drake, of Nash , a oll,pping Sent us by Clara Tulloss, County, saved her family from the Ottawa, Kan. With much solicitude ferocious attack of the Tray Major the other helped the cripple to board . the car, and after telling the eon - Beard by the judicious use of a ductor to go ahead returned to the jug of old Nash brandy. They will sidewalk. The lame boy braced him - recall that Major Beard was severe- self up in his seat, so that he could Ay Nvoutuled, captured and finally look out of the car window'and the • hanged in Franklin eounty. other paeseagers observed that, at According to Wheeler, this incl. intervals, the little fellow would dent resulted in the introduction waive hie head and smile. Following into our language of a word now. the Oireetion of hie glances the pas-' In the voeabulary of every songers saw the other boy running no other than the Word elyeiche- mail -along the sidewalk, straining every or the expression "lynch law." If muscle to keep up with the ear. we may accept Wheeler's author- They watched hie pantomime in awes silence for a few blocks, and then ity on this point the Word its origin to the faltering clreton- a gentlertian tusked the lame boy who *stances, the other bey was. After Beard's capture he was reply.‘.lvr'r brother," Was the prompt taken to the cam•p of Col. Seawell he bank of Lynch " 'Why does Ile not ride with you on t Franklin county. Creek in in the oat'?" Wats the rtext ouestion. courtemartial was atAr oncOtionlrhgeaaled"'Cause - he hasn't any money," an- ized and Betted brought before it. slwored the lame boy, sorrowfully. As they proceeded to trial bOITIO The little runner was speedily invited yt one brought le the report that a !letue,s°etl torer capr, and a, idnitilhe raeyvss_mpaptlixtettii: ' was thrown into a panie and after lagge band of Tories wore on their ChrOniele. • t Way to rescue Beard. The court • a hasty consultation decided to Minard's Lintmont Cures La, Grippe. swing Beard without trial. This was accordingly done. Soon after Can't Pool thn See. more authentic newts Came that the Tienits. reported pursuit Was a fake, and A young lady from London woe vita the members of the court-martial • iting for the fleet time a country recovered their presence of inied. 'With Ms restored calmness came the suggestion that Beard's execu- tion, being carried out before judg- ment, was illegal. In order to ease tire tender consciences of the Judges the court Was reorganized, the (botlY mils dowin, the trial proceeded, the prlsOlier condemned, judged, and ho doubt much to his satiefaction, re-huttg. The pr130 On Which the body was leung stood Ori the hank of Lynch Creek, add 11 soon be- came a common saying In the county round about, When a person ne48 hceused of Crime, that "he ought toilets taken to Lynch Clelek." nonce the term. "lynch law." • For the sake -of accuracy, we may ISSUE NO. 48, 19(N. Wine)owe Soothing klyrup should alwaye be used for Children retorting. ft soothes the child, softene thegurns, cures wind colic and Si the boot remedv Diarrhtee, EASTERN* 011TO FA.MIS 7011, SALK-- reel bargalne. Send for fieseriptive list. Addreee P. O. Box 23% Youngstowa, U. TEN coORses BV thoroughly taught. Expert instructors. 1n11- vldttnl attention. Send for handsome mita- logue for perticulars. Correspondence Depart - meet CENTRAL BUSINESS 001.1.E00, Toronto ,Can. 111PERIA1, MAPLE SYRUP. Tbe quality standard nem Ocean to Qcean, neer money back Itheteattefeetory ROSE a LAFLAeln, Agents, Montreal, note here that Webni or's Unabridg- ed Dictionary says this in regard to tire origin of the term. "The term 'lynch is said to be deriv- oil from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law Into his own hands. Dot this is very doubtful.', Wheeler says that the Ineldent W4(1 related to him by the P. Moore, who had the story from the Drake family, 31 is by no means improbable.,--tlfarlotte (l.) Daily Observer, fair. Seeing a cow looking My say age, she said to an old farmer, "Oh, how savage that cow In.r.:.4s." "Yes, miss; It's the red parasol you are carrylege" sald the farmer. "Well." she said. "1 knew it was a trifle out of fashion, bat I never thought a country covr would notice MUST TYPE OF BACON HOBS are produced by OAH. 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