Wingham Times, 1890-10-17, Page 6were decidedly aga{test him. 'Ile look
ter• I Vbt7s..:',',1,',):::efoCtheu,ott;y.,;it�' . ' ti,1 l�h f 11 . , .l' is ah:rtErnst, ton
'� +,+ �.
givalt "slat hued, too much care takes
of his hair, kris necktie aud his boots.
1 kill?..Y, OOT013B,t, 1`f. 80,0,
Ile Was plump, :short. bald, and about
A T"c Mtiaoriy rrotgabor. "l forty years of age. So fur its we knew
ea, Het; hboos neighbor," said Itupert, the i ns was a ba0hetor. I think the thing
wise. we disliked most in lritit was his uni-
Isnouletitiug no ouecau afford to dispiso,1
t verbal 'sigh. Every suet o£ us—every
nor Smiley or thebour we never cau leuaw ! 6
<R hen a neighborly uefghbor rare kindness • ops in the world, so fur as any miens
may phew."us cr auyonei else in t11( world etas
jrow it chanced that I dwelt an the edgeof 1 came up far lits remarks, was vt too
she tow u, � • •t•swere a
Brown
With as neighbor nearer than
I „ .
o fellow
Alia seldom,
sou ;was wets
found
' 1 partners were yea ly, painfully deur
;Bite seldom, if ever, was found at 1,er
home. I gooSi I' 410 -
Ct ouch. a real neighborly or bre was abe. Notwiths lauding that we took a
into
tl Charity 1 dear�,.oud fellow The alar t all
given to roam dt.ut „ d s, you know ; the
soul
,was
cause into brew . freer, s e came
yes, stroua dislike to him because of this
She came into dinner, and ealne
As long as she pleased :any hour of t y
Did. I haven friend who arrived by the
.train,
Alia 1sad but a very Short time to remain,
Bliss Charity Brown would be sure to
into stay
lie da
eternal perception of endearing, goud.
nets in everyone, it was not until he
found reason for. nothing but eongratw
lation in the weather here that we lust
iso aro y row
appewx� all faith in him, acid began to regard
%T
o keep you from being too lonesome, my lists with mingled feelings of distrust
dear!' was thaw
Abe borrowed my skillets, my pots, and my and hatred. A fog e a jolly ;
pane; a blessing; rain moat useful to the
In e, neighborly way she upset all my plans counts ninety-six , degrees to the
Old pitchers arta broke, and uew kettles country + y-
sbe burned,
,end borrowed more eggs than the ,ever re-
turned!
She clearly loved gossip, and forced me to
bear
0, many a story vat meant for my ear,
k'or any rrba..a in the way of a frown
Was entire,;, lost ou Miss Charity Brown.
If .aver b ugetl for the quiet and calm
•That comfort the soul like a heaven-sent
bahn,
My neighborly neighbor would enter
straightway
And keep all cry peaceful companions et
bay.
tiederetenl that you •
to the tiros for any ,.
That's a masterpiece t lie ea olaimed.1 boul{l,t; n my left a handful of atone", .angry, 'oil
Whatever the rest may be, that le , such as yuu could pick out . f any , emelt answer
fine, Ilan it ever been (tarrieed outl leaavel pit in Emit.
No. 1 I at once saw how be lead dune the Here he opened the door.
It teas a design for a brooch, Pour trick. Ile had, while I. was bent over 'st staA nding am, mt(bald ttncltheidsetx,.
l of rubies . a
ribbons of pearls wittl a cluster of `'the table, dropped the hal;
diamonds. at the outer ends of owl into his pookes aud produced the court t'te faei'leir ()uvula, e,
ribbon and a 'Targe ruby for the to felt bag full of h neat I uglieh VII. Stackland took is.
centre, pebble a I studs into • my chair aud O1 en it, said I,
Have, you got these retbies in your half stunted at the loss of the rubies, t tier did s0, coming buuk into
the
e Il he asked looking, eagerly hell carried awety by admiration of the room, and read sift
ot.l..tsi2 N
H s erne 'n � •" • .
$ r e it is just 1 to tact away was eau ecl by hie fear that Tabula; iu east . y ; rubies Wel
p `e 0lyice, Dover,
up at Lite, Ther i tie stone ir„anutty of th0 rubhel y• His haste d b 1: t
upon him in bag dc•scrii ed.
13
1 et'
[lbw on earth did y ou lift I1» t t
,Nothing simplt.r, ,pie left me hie
address,
Nonsense.
Yes, but he slid, Had he been sate-
fied with stealing the rubies, no dotil,t
he'd have gone off But he went in 1!1
for . nioro. He stole some of my .-
private property as well.
SeinethiLg of yours: ! The scoun-
to'Pustuu was a lie to seta" us. oil' the drel 1 A watch ?
eceut, No. A sheet of paper. When he
While was getting deeper into the came in there were six sheets there,
diflieu.ty a knock euunded at the dour an uatbr0ke,l gnti;rtt:r quire. I have
and our junior pttrtuer entered, - not couuted urea, slime, but if Ton
Is Peuuing with you `? 1 heard hien o.unt thein',ow you will find only AVO.
say you had some designs or diegrattta He asked me for an envelope, saying
to show him yo-ili_�ht, sail .\lr, abash- he had e� rltte41 a private note at home;
ivied. , instead of which he wrote it with my
kiss's gone ! three.I1 pencil while I was nut of the
Gone! reon:,aud as he had to lotto pretty hard
Yes ; itud with all those •rubies, ail to mark—why, there's his address on
bat one stone, _ the sheet
En 1 Aud holding up the. paper to tilts
Gooe off with the oticut rubbles, light, 'Mr. Sttielrland read but slowly
from the sheet :--
Dear Watsoli,—Oil' to Paris via
Dot er, in look.
with an uncertain 1 ar i , ,
the titin.; fur tt.is, `.Cake this design tenythilig tui4lit argues bre to take
with you to 13irn,ingham,aud let them ."uo'h.,r poop atnoua these stones. '
oarry u out with that rutty for thel I looked at ney watch. Eight thirty -
centre. ' le t me see that stone again, j live. There wits no use iu trying to
1 thought than this wits the first ; oVertt e him, mid geitig into the street
'shoe of ,. euuine enthusiasm I had t and eallig police! would be just as use.
mer in Edward Peniting, Aitiough' less.. 1 It ailed sty bead on my httuds
seen r,
I knew the design. fell far short of his' fur a few ►uontet.ts and ti ied to poi leot
extravagant estimate, there was no j ,ny thoughts. Jlight he not hiwse f
thin1t of goint, to Ireland `l Not he Of
denying it was pretty. '1 handedpini
the bag of rubies. He opened it and course at lint he trail said about going
poured the stones out into his hand,
celected the one he had spoken of,
placed it on the paper in. the centre of
the design, poured the other stones
back into tl,e bag,ancl passed the hand.
containing the bag under the portfolio.
Then he raised tip the portfolio, sot it
on the table, and stepped back with
his head on one side, looking cit the
design. I stooped a moment over the'
tabl� and made. alp wy mind to see
abbot adopting hie sug.,estion. Weer}
1 straigl:teasel myself he handed me
brick the open hag, and as he slid so
asked me could I let hint see a railway 'lis,, late 1 cried Mr. n5taok,an<1, in a
I
glide book, as a friend of his was 1• av-
sous of irritat,ou. Loots at this, lie
ing Enst.ou by the Irish runic that eves'
ing,and lie wanted to see this friend at I said, banding inn a letter.. 1 went
the station.t Leek to get the uorthere letters rind
look round and found this.
1 dropped the stone into the bagstiecl It was a telegram fru.0 1Vitauu,
up the bag, squeezed it from inert
hatit to feel that all was right, and Gort and Mayo, of 1Uauehester, Ed=
halving placed it in my inside pocket, ward Pennitig's refereuee, first class
people, with whom we bad uo business
said : and hardly any intercourse. The -body
Sit down a moment ; the guide is of the telegram rub as follows : -
iia the other scorn.
(,'reek of ours, \4t atsun, absconded
In a minute I was book and be was with property. lease sea oil to believe
exauliuing the guide -book in wlitit he forged our name to testimuuittl.,
seemed to me a veryruiekilfnl way. for one Penning, ,nteroepted your
Book for Kingstown, 1. shirt and not inquiry, and .urged repay. Know
ter Dublin. nothing of paneling. Ue.ieve Watson
Thank you, l Have ib. I am eo and Peunitig leagued.
stupid ! Eight twenty-five. 1f I take n No doubt .of their being it
hansom I shall be in tune. Can yon said 1, getting up.
obligeine with an envelope and pen i Elow long has he been gene 1
1 have to posta private note un inv More than half an hoar.
way to Easton ; and although I wrote Then he's out of London, or in some
the note before ltouving. home, I foundsafe hiciir.g place by this.
nn,envelope. No doubt of it.
1 brought gin an envelope, pt n,iuis, tS`uddenly qty eye caught something
blotting paper and stamps front the that made me dash, but I said moth.
other ruutn. As he. emphasized the ing beyond
word private, I turned my back upon Leave it alt to' rr.e, Sit down 'aud
liim while he wrote. \Wen I turned smoke a cigar. I'm goitg out for an
round, l found his, stooping before the hour.
fire drying the envelope. He looked But, my dear fellow, something must
up tied said with a smile :— be done.
.If the envelope is 'too quickly blots And 1'tn going to do it. Rely on
ted, the sorter Mitten has a heard time my word, he is as good as snider a
of it, look and key. •
He stood up aud took my band: tar Stacklaud Pecked annoyed and
Thank you, ray dear good fellow— ,amazed, but this was not the tithe for
five ,minutes past eight. I'll Have to minding looks. 1 said, in ala resolute
double the fellow'e fare. a way as I tonic' assume—
And in less
than a minute he was In an hour I shall, be hack. You
gene., ' 141 lass was 01 Obartterh0use and I will toren sit Isere until about
Square. y p ' 1 ten o'clock, when we shall have a
S took the portfolio, and epent half telegram announcing his arrest. You
an hour looking over it and examining don't fancy. I hope' --anal 1 laughed --
thee otter: desigust Yes; there could that I am leagued ?
be no doubt Penning had selek;ted the
No, my detar fellow ; butes_
only Due with any real merit or oriui• I had left the room, and .vas out of
utility. I thought 1 would try the bearing.
efi'ect of the ruby with. the uneertaiti Punctually in an hour C was back,
tltni,e, 1 drery out the ling and undid and in spite of all Dir Strickland,
the string, I stood up neer the light could eely, declined to viva the least
that I might mote readily select the account of what I had done.
stone. I •empth d the bag into my left Ten o'clock aiid no telegram
hand and looked for the stoner I vet, said D1r.taekland, lin:
could havefoundit among the others by '
the weakest light of the snood.
1, separated is from the ethers and
put it down op the tables, rubbed my
(lee, mid again looked at those stones
01 city hand, 'Then, taking up the hag
1 examined it closely. In the one I
bought for nine pence there had been.
a knot of thread at one of the cornets.
I
1)
shade delightful, and snow no matter
wheu, seasonable.
At the time of which I spoke, now a
year ago, Ile bad, on hand exteltsite
orders for first-class rubies of lturge
size. We conics easily have disposed
of tive thousand pupas worth,but.juast
then swell stones were particularly
scarce. At last a large eonsigtlrnerit,.
about two thousand. pounds' worth,
reached us. They were all uncut, aud
dud sol asst rather inclined to believe I remember bow they were handed
grieve
That neighborly neighbors may cause us r.turid for inspection, and tansy we all
If they cross their attentions too closely, admired sties), and (:ougratulated our-
selves on the rare luck of getting them;
for we knew that other firms were
buyers as well as we. It was arranged
that I should take then. to Binning -
lima the next morning, 13, fore leav-
ing the office that evening I put the
rubies in 0 new chamois leather bag,
I had that dtiy bought. There wits
some joking aboutn,y'extravagance,tand
in reply I tuld 'them that the bag with
its red tape running string and all had
cost only nine peace; and thataiiyone
ambitious of owning oue similar could
get it for the same price at Matchlock's.
round the corner. Penning was fore-
most its the banter and took the bag
out t'f toy hand and felt it, and indul-
ged in high praise of its merits. When
he returned it to Inc 1 placed itin a
piicket inside my waistcoat, where I
always carried valuables of convenient
hulk, and then went away. It had
b• en arranged earlier in the day that
Penning should .eall on one that even-
ing and smoke a cigar ; he wished to
see some diagrams of crystal I had
made.
At seven o'clock he came, bland,
gracious, and exulting in a fog that
tarnished everytl;ittg,lven in toy small
Bitting-rontu. He would drink note•
not even tea, but would smoke a
cigar and admire my diagrams
Ele admires the diagrams a
thousand times too much and I vowed
1 would not again allow myself the
light of his company even for anhour
of au evening. What struckhale
chiefly about the drawings was their
extraordinary neatness.
It's easy enough to be neat with
good instruments and a good three -'EI
pencil, said I, pointing to .a %box of
mathetnutie;al iestr•u&Dents and a
pencil lying at his elbow on the table.
The only other things on the table
Were the diautame, a cigar case, a
match stand, au ash pan, and halfa
dtfzen Sheets of COniti,on dote paper
just as they had conte girt of the
packet.
Have yon ever done eery designing
for jewels ? he asked.
I had dabbled at little some tiane.
before, andpulling down a portfolio,
1 showed hits a few rough and finished
drawings.
Ile began talking about Benvetito
Celiini, acrd myself, until 1 got alrobt
sick of hie smooth, hollow flattery
At last he suddenly stopped .at the
design I lilted most Myself, It was
nor teat
A sympathy far in excess of their zeal.
And thoul:h very much of my comfort,
depends
Oe being surrounded by dear loving
friends,
Di Than to be her n. nearlive
ne ghborway
ofout
Chartown
ty
Brown.
-Jusnphiue Pollard.
A THREE -H PENCIL.
Edward Penning, our new corres-
ponding clerk, had come to us in 0
somewhat unusual wayThe firm
rm
wanted a els rk H bo could write French,;.
German and Italian, and shorthand
as well. An advertisement was pet is
the papers, and the only one that re-
ponded ttud, was willing to take the
S dary offered --ane hundred and fifty
.puulads a year—was E dwatd Penning,.
The first was Vtneent, Bare Stack-
land, and the business cn.1nett on by •
then was tbat of wholesale jewellers,
at Milford bane, Holborn. It is oue
of the largest, firms in Loudon, had a
blanch house at Birmingham, an agent
at Cairo, aud one at New York, aud.
correspondents, buyers and. sellers in
twenty other large towns abroad. We'buy rough or Cut steues abroad, send
them to Birmingham to be worked ur>
and then scatter them all over the
kingdom, and souse, though not many—chiefly costly lots--atnou;{ our var.
ions foreign and colonial customers..
We have always a considerable stock
.est
Loudon. Often as much as three
thousand pounds' worth. of jewels lie
at Milford Lane, for a few days to.
gather. Upon an average we held a
hundredthoniand pounds' worth there,.
besides the large quantities deposited
on sale with, our maniere and eearrittd
abr,ut by our tcuvelhers. Al.hough a
timid pian alight be afraid to be liven
,,e,lose to such highly valuable aud port.
.table property, rise, is second nature,
and I, after it five years' %Altatitet with.
lthe trade, feel no More unea,.hless or
responsibility wheu in charge of the
whole place, than if each ring were
a spool ot cotton, and earth brooch ar
,finny bottle of ink. But 1 have to
'Add to my five years experience the.
'tet utast 1 torr the nephew of the
oteutvr parte, r, and that all toy life I
have beenaceustotued to hear a great
Altai of the articles we deal iu. This
beasts ee, no doibt, has helped
toy t:t Lowden any smiteof easyrafllarity with treasure,
Weli, tome r f its liked Edward Pen,.
Ili- references were satiefac• t�artta opt
t44i+•Ndtxr,lftt Mitt't ktta•k' n,, "F
league,
Yfi+
A three 11 peuci', 6441 I, with .a
ttugh-Ifelt 1 might laugh uew—blade
very hard lines for hon.
Facts About 1 lowing.
A contributor; to the Oetubsr until;
ber of the Canadian Lice ' tools. an
Farm Journal, of Toronto, draws t ,R
teution to the prevaleut practice of
leaving a ridge of thistles to tell where
each land has net•n struck out. lied
stn' mounts the difficulty us follows :
Plow the first furrow lightly, say
three or four incites deep; then instead
of geeing round and throwing the two
furrows together, thus leuviug apiece
between them unplowed, haw round
and threw the second furrow out. To
do this proper'y, put the nigh horse inM
the furrow and silts the plow an indite
or two deeper; titan the first furrow,
Naw;if .care is taken in throwing these
furrows together again, yon have no
difficulty in cutting all the ground, and.
l will gu .rantee that the thistle ridge
will disappear. .
Having eitatt•d how to plow, the next
thing to consider is when to pow so am
to obtain the best results First, as:
regards fall plowing i am a firm be.
liever in fall plowing, and the earlieit^
the better. My own experience maynot be out of places. '1 came into posses=
sion of a farm a year ago last April that
was badly infested with thistles, on.
which there had been rro fall ploav'in
clone. As there was sixty.five acres
uuder the plow, and all apparently
ready fur sumurer.fttilo viug, f scarcely
knew what to do, We set to work!
however, and tlarefully nairrow-plowed
and sowed fifty acres of it, reservingfive of the remainder for turnips and
potatoes, and ten acres for summer-
fa'low. It is needless to say we had
plenty of thistles in the grain. In fact
there was so many that I could hardly
wait till the harvest was ori` before
starting the plows. As I had considers
able draining and fixing up to do`t
hired a boy for a month and a half acid
kept hien plowing near all the time, so
that all the ground had been well plot*;
ed, and two ot the worst fields plowed
twice, by the time the turnips were
ready to draw in. This spring we
narrow plowed it all over again except
the pea grouted, This field we sowed
With a eornbined cultivator arid seeder,
using three horses, To tell thetruth,
alit (wheeled of that pea•iteld and Milheartily glad it iii down bythe bash.
It is one mass of thistles, while the
patiently, Mind if your plait fails,
you'll have to be responsible for it.
quite content.
rive minutes past, he said raising,
I really cannot consent to longer de.
lay.
Your ears are not as well accustom,
ed to the polio of the square and this
use ae mine. Brat go now if you
1 Ill stay where 1 arra..
oty well' ail) atOl Uel ut5 guilt' >re lr of tilt) fatI i't<yon aratiVelly ilk ut41
O
MPERANCE COLT
, 1' CtoNntic7n t by xizt4 V. W. 4. 1
Cfpptnga,
Father Zieg er, of St
Church St. Louis, has irtdtit
effective tetuperanoo campaig
H
'f a�
cortin;, the drinkers He i
ed the names of the rue', of h
Will drink, and p aced this li.
hands of a commits. of six'
malty of resell wives of the me
list. '!hese bibulous hnsban
uformcd by tremhliug wives
ileus they straightway reform
tltilirt:s would be read by Fatht
from the altar. Great wa.t
eterUatittn among these mart
ners, it was as nothing eotxip
that among rhe bachelors on
ri'lie
young ladles litt,v'* ante
spirit into the plan, and the
piciou of a young man's fats
to the pledge, is visited with
Gott. Young men vie with
ones in 'swearing off', and. tt
which was at first laughed at
pushing great gond.
The cost of alcoholics pre;
infirmaries promises to pray
rnent fur gond in slice non
medication problem. Sots
Britons have been feeling
liquor bills for those institut
a heavy burden upon tamp
to test the matter, Aidermar
of. Ntewoasre-on•Tyuo, hate
'i statistics upon this point f,
seven hospitals aud intirata'
United Kinedom. Tie av
per5ptttient for liquors vara
,101c1. it. a surd! iuul
lirary
1v
IIi; as given in the record
London Temperance Hosts
with 753 patients, nota far
Tended. for aloohoiictt. 1
' stands the great Swanse
twin. 3,95' patients, where
expearlitnre per patient. p
may ld, . Il:ud rt prescril:
amount:of ala ,fiche t for e
patients that Elgin did, it'
Wou id have h,•tn over Ll 5(
£27, It is well that tax
be?ginntn, to ponder tea
w)teu they go a step furth.
the fact that the death rat
pit,.! which uses no liquor
.
to twelve per cent less tba
'wi,ieshi do use it, the. day
drunkardem,tkitig in hoop
A boy named Samuel 1
teen years old, a choriste,
Mary's Church, Brooklyn
recently iu St. Sole's Ho
most Lis last 'words wee
boy who eunoias, cigarette
Ynowattd know how +uiicl:
ereid, and he will ,lever p'
to this 'mouth.' 11e was ,
tut exquisite. siuger, ant
friendur. 'He lived west
mother. and worked it
faetory. Hero is his stn
his nurse, Sinter Cornelif
ooufessed that hie trou
from cigtarette smoleing,
be said he smoked twee!
At first he k pt bis gri
igciortl iee of his iodate
',Ontlnn0d t0 smoke the
up0tt bin, with such fr
•could choke it off, and i
feet hie'cotistitutiou.
him, did you not stop 'u
what it wan bringing yt;
qeonld riot, 1,e reelied,if
my smoke :f. a.hnoet vver-
thirrk of nothing els
frrarrdnaotiler might nut
worked extra haul's inn
ing my rrn:tilar wages
For Utotatlin I kept up
though 1 knew it wa
Thou 1 seetieel to fail 1
a suddeu. His disc esc
alfa drapery in the lege
paitifitl. ;1 -.ter tlnruel
story: Daring all his
.never forgot what bail
into this terrible condi
ate.iver tun to warn all
their vise. A few deaf
he elided mn to hilt be.
he thou Ink he he
•