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The Wingham Times, 1885-05-29, Page 2ti. TIM TIMES,..FRIDAY MAT 2 If she had been starving for 'food, gy NG roll mop, or perishing with. coldishe could not have turned more wldly beseeoliing eyes upon me. I was utterly on; founded ; all ideas: aright and ,wrong civ IMV. x, WA.seemed turned upside. down; i£ site had raved, had. uttered oaths, had I asked food ; that would have been an I was sitting Ire the quiet house lire- !ordinary experience.; butto hear the side, the wind and the rain beating soft refined beseeching tones seetouch: upon the windows, the fire blazing . ingly pleading for that which had and roaring asit blazes and roars wrought her such evil, was something en winter nights only ; the day's work so new and confasing that I found done : pen, desk and room offering an myself uncertainly 'debating what to inviting welcome, do. s 'ou are wanted, sir ; a wild -look- '1 must not,. dare not, ought not,' ing woman is waiting in the passage I said at length. 'You know the evil to see you. 1 could not ask her fur: that drink has done you, and how ther in for she is ragged and drip. can you ask me to give you more r ping wet.' 'flow can I ask?' she repeated, So said the trim quiet servant who - tBecauso I want it en. dome notirpr is used to all kinds of visitors ; she and let me tell you. The doctor was didn't like it at an at first, but ie J here. this•afternoon,'and he told Bet quite used to it now. I that it was all over with me, that. I I went to my visitor ; she was standing on the mat ; and the rain was peurnag from lien garments as she stood. 'What has brought you out on such a night ?' I inquired 'I have come to fetch you to see an old acquaintance„ she replied. 'Do yon remember Maggio Smith ? 1 see you do. Well, she asked me to come and see if you *would visit her. She is lying in •The Rents' in West - minister.' One quiet regretful look at fire, desk and pen ; then the waterproof coat thick boots, and the beating wind and rain, Through the ehok: ing gutters, over the splashy roads, should be gone . before the Damning. 1 asked lute to order me something to drank, and he turned and went down stairs without a word, Bat you won't be sa hard hearted, 1 know. I should. be glad if you would read to me. and talk with me, but I could not listen with this raging thirst within Just a very little would do for a time, and then I wan.$,to tell you some: thing before 1 go. If, you will; only. give me a very little, 1 will tell y$$u the other things that I sent for you to hear, but just a little whiskey first,' 'Ask use for anything in reason,' I rejoined, 'and I will most igladly do it past the flickering gas lamps, out of for yoiu,but it will cost me never end - the decent thoroughfares, into courts ing 'regret to give you strong drink and alleys that even this rain could not sweeten, and . after a prolonged conflict with the tempest, that was not without its pleasantness, we reach• .ed ' TheRents.' A small square of house; tw.i stor- ies high, worn out equallid, fever smitten at their best ; at their worst ; —.never failing swift adjuncts to hos. pital and infirmary beds, and to pau- per's graves.. A small flickering lamp cn the staircase made darkness visible up the rotten dangerous stairs, and we turned into the small backroom. The only furniture w as an iron sauce pan, yellow basin and an old box In the broken-down grate a few ashes were smoldering away. An old lamp upon tie mautle:piece gave light upon some rags in a corner; and covered with an old quilt, a woman lay tossing knitter unrest of body and soul. Black hair streaked with grey • p;erc: ing blaek eyes, wildly roving, never still : pallid face; dull, deep, red lips: over all was clear witness that there lay the wreck of something that might "[tend ought to have been infinitely brighter and. better ; but as she lay, her own mother' would have hated to recognize the child of her love. 'you. have come,' she said, in a soft, refined voice, startlingly out of har- mony with her appearance and sur. roundings. 'I knew you would, though this is not much of aplane to come to, and I hear the wind and the rain. You have conie, and I am glad. I have waited for youwttli such an unutteralle, longing that the miuutes have seemed hours as i have watched for you ; but now you are Here, and I shall get what I have been longing and praying for., 'And what was that?, I asked. 'Something to drink t' she replied. '1 ani dying for a aropm!, '.Do you mean to say taint you. have sent for me to tramp miles through wind end rain for ,this i' 1 inquirers, angrily, 'l'es, I do,' she replied ; and I don't see why not; but do let. Bet fetch thewhiskey ; give her a shilling, only one, and. Y will pray for you as long as I live, I, had no money -- nothing left topart with , all toy friends are tired .out ; you are tale only one left ; and lr any longing for a drop,, D nn"r say no, ;If 1: asked you fox' hread,. or. meat,. or tea or coals, you. wo•-ld•give at Orida; the whiskey won't c ,.,t inuch, and its more to me now than all the othor things put to: patb4r;• now. I ought not, I will not•' 'Bahl' said Bet, as she left the roost. '1 told you it would be of no use, and if I had not have fetched hint I'd have had it out of him for you be• fore now• But I'll try down stairs if I can get euough for a quartern• if he hadn't come through wind and rain to see you, 1'd have made him give it to you.' She clattered noisily down the rotten stairs:,evidentl'v bent upon procuring strong drink by and possible means. While sate was gone I sat looking at Maggie in silence„ for I saw that it would be useless to speak of anything else while that awful lo. k of expectancy was in her face. It was not long before bet returned with a white mug lacking its handle, in which was the stsirit. so craved for. She looked defiantly at Hie, as she tenderly raised her companion, slowly .poured the strong liquor between her quiver- ing lips, and after all was gone she. left the, room 'Now,' said Maggie,' 'I shall be strong for a little while.. It is like the old life and strength I had before 1 loved it. While it lasts I'll tell you what I want to say while Icon.. You know,how many times I have come• to you. Each time 1 meant to give up drinking but I never did. The Crush was, my father;• was an officer in the church, and lie dealt in strong drink, from my earliest childhood it was all around me. I used to smell it always, then I Game to taste it, then to like, than to love it, Before I was 16 I would drink'as 1 dared when- ever I could whit," My mother was dead, my father was always engrossed in the business, and for a loi:g time he did not see, but I thitilc lie sus- pected it all, until I had tame to watch w nob of the servants liked to dri,ik, then it wus easy. I gave nor the stoney, she procured the drink, and we had it secretly when we cont 1. After a while 1 was Dent to learn dress- making. I think I really loved learn- ing, and i was clever at my work, and now that I had My liber y when my work was dinte, 1 could do ab 1 pleas- ed and have all the think IS could pay for. , 'But just then drink lost its hold upon me entirely. I had become ao. quainted with, a young man, and we came to love Bach ocher dearly. Like myself he was well educated and ex reedingly fond of poetry, Not like rue, as I had been, he could not bear rho nems of strong drilmk. It was something about his /slather, heft, I never aaked'partieulers, and he never told xpo Ile never Spoke of it; but once. Time passed, we were happy, be at his work, me at mine, until the old love of drink returned and seemed to haunt me. The thought of it never left Me, asleep or awake. I bore it aslong as I could, then I thought I would ggiet myself by hay- ing just a little, and I went into a tavern to get it, There the very smell of it seemed to madden me with lust for it. The more I drank the more I wanted. I became quarrel - 'some when they would serve me no mere. and they thrust me out.. I wus staggering from the thrust on the pavement, and should have fallen in the gi.tter, but a man caught. any arm and held tile.. I turned. upon him iu unreasoning anger and looked in his face. There I saw eyes that I knew, dilated with Horror, lips that I loved quivering with disgust and shame. He helped me to the wall and left me. I have never seen him since. ' But the pure love died out of my heart, and the love of the drink took its place and kept it. It was not like his love, for it never left me through good or evil.' flex voiog'bad:- grown very tet•der while she was- speak -lug. The,.,.,pmver cf inecnory, excited by the drink, had carried her b ick into the past, and she evidently live.l again the days she described. bl have had many bitter fights for she continued. 'Sometimes I Coale go withbut for weeks together. Then my skill procured me clothing and a decent home. Again I must have drink, and home and clothing and money and all went for it. 1 ue ver made companions, no other man ever spoke of love to .me, the .drink destroyed my first dream, and I never dreamed again. 'I have seen many reverses; sometimes dressed well and quite respectaote, outwardly hap- py bac never for long. at other times • I would have to, sleep in fever .tried- en lodging houses, going thence to make the dresses of fashionable ladies; sometiines icy" doorways, and even the den of horrors, the casual ward. my father sent use money and I drankit away until he beard how I was living. Then he oast rue efl', and died, they said broken hearted about me. I drd not care --I could not • -I only waited to drink and forget all unpleasant things. 'Ah, it was good to drink, for then all 1 had came back to me, Then I was away back at school, innocent and happy, then I was learning my busi- ness Sand enjoying it; then, best of all, the time carne back when he loved mo and he spoke of the happy life we hoped to lead when we were married and had a house of our own. To.wake from such dreams to what I had sunk to was•tortu e, and the dreams only, came. ,with the drink. It is no wonder I loved it, gave up all for it,. never could leave its, -that I !still love and crave it. While she was speaking the excite- ment of the drink gradually left her, a gray awful .shade was, stealing. over her face, and she was silent forests brief space of time. A spasm of pain aroused her, and she said, 'Call Be;,, call quickly.' . 1 we it to the door and shouted for her friend As if waiting for the sunmmo'as, Bet was quickly iu the roots, and Iooking down upon her. 'More drink, diet,' she said, 'amore drink. I am dying for it.' But seven Bet saw the time for more drink had gone forever, as she sank shod whitey on her knees by the rugged bed. 'More druik,' cried Maggio, 'only once More. Bet, don't bo hard -heart. ed, Minister, give nee the last thing I shall ask for.' 'Let neo read, ---let me prey with i ou,' I entreated. 'fray for yottself, or ib will soon; be too late,' 'I don't want reading- 1 cton't want prayer—it is_ too late for those. I; some.ouce more, once more, I tell I am dying for drink. Ali,' she screamed, 'I never • thought of it until now, but I'm going where they, are always 'dying for a drop,' and beg- ging for it.,in vain.' With cne terrible convulsive spasm the gray shade settled down on the fine, never to be lifted any mere. 'Out, most gladly into the wild night, to bulletwith wind and rain, thinking as.T strode on homeward, that 1 would not be concerned with. the making or sale of strong, drink for all the mopey that wax ever coined, 'At last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.' 'Avoid it, pass not by it,: tura from it, and flee away.' WILL YE HEAR. THE NEWS IN SILENCE, PROM TRE MONTREAL WITNEse..c Will ye hear the news in silence, .FCow our gallant heroes fought, Hew they drove the creeping rebels. • From the shelter they had sought; How they dashed among the foemen With resouuning British cheers, Worthy -eons of worthy fathers, Are our gallant volunteers. Will ye hear the news in silence, lion, when bullets fell like hail ; They stormed the deadly rifle hits, With a rush that could not fail. How they drove. thoroute.d rebels - d Through the coulee, o'er the plain; Liverpool Currier. .As cur fathers did aforetime. water drain out ; weigh the butter'; salt, one ounce to the.pound ; sift suit oa the butter and wont with lever. worker.. Set away two to four hours ; ightly rework and pack, BE DID) NOT CATDE. Guy Tipple r is a. great practical joker, At a country house not long ago, when the ladies had retired fo tho evoninb, the gentrgmen eongregat• ed,in the smoking room. 'I say, Ewart,' said Tippleton, 'I think it's very bad forst your coming in here without taking the trouble to go up stairs and change your coat. If you do it again I, cot tainly shall have those claw -hammer tails cud, off.' Next evening scene repeated—young Ewart strolls into the smoking:room with his dress coat on, Wr.thcut.,, more ado Guy and a -few congenial spirits had. young Ewart loiva on the couch and cut the tails off his coat. Ewart took it very .cooly. Ile strolled up to the fire, and stood in the attitude the ladies allege to be the favorite one with: the male sex. 'You take it very philosophically.' said one of Guy Tippleton's friends. •Oh,' replied Ewalt, 't; doesn't mat- ter to me. It's not my coat ; its Tip- pleton's garment. I knew he'd keep his word so I just clrokped into his room in passing and put his coat on. There was a roar of laughter, and to do Guys-Tippleton justice, no one ,join - e in it more heartily, than ' Istn-; . So their. sons have done again. Will ye hear theenews in silence -- News of brilliant victory— How Batoche by storm was taken, And the prisoners were set free. How our gallant heroes triup plied;' In the fierce and deadly fray ; How our boys like seasoned veterans, Bore themselves throughout the clay? No not in careless silence, Willeye hear the stirring tale, Of our boys too proud for silence, We ring out our glad "All Hail". ";All flail Ito, these wlio faltered not, Those who know ne craven fears, God bless" we cry, "God bless and keep Our glorious volunteers." . PRIZE ESSAY ON BUTTER - MAKING, • The fallowing took the first prize in the competition for prizes Offered by the Wisconsin Daryman,s Asso- ciation for the best essays on butter - making not to exceed 250 words each Itis certainly brief and to; the point : Select cows rich in butter -making qualities. Pastures should be dry, free from slough hofee, well t•eeded with different kinds of time grasses, so that good, feed is assured, If timothy or clover, cut early, and cure properly. Feed cornstalks, pump, kips, insilage and plenty of vegetables in winter. Corn and oats, corn and bran -oil meal, in small quantities. Let colas drink only such .water as you will drink yourself. Gentleness ancl cleanliness should be shown in managing cows. Brush the udder to free it from impurities. Milk in a clean barn, well ventilated, quickly, cheerfully, with clean hands and pail, Seldom change milkers Strain milk while warns ; submerge in water forty- eight degrees. Open sitting sixty degrees. Skim at twelve hours ; at twenty-four liou-s. Care must be erero:sed to ripen create by frequent stirrings, keeping at sixty:defirees until slightly sour, Better have one cow less than be without a ther uoneter. Churns without inside fixtures. Lever butter worker. Keep sweet and clean. In oliurniing, air the cream thoroughly ; temper to sixty • degrees, warm or cool with water. Churn immediately when .properly soured, slowly at first, with regular inbtiolm, in forty. to sixty minutes. When butter is formed in granules the size of wheat kernels,, draw ofd' want whiskey, and I must have it..the buttermilk ; wash with old Writer me It has Leen ho,.love , Bible, fatlmet,, rile brise until mnrt,r,toe of buttermilk other, religion tome, 1 Ceti. lite have. is+s.left, In.ns.orking and;salting let that • AN INSANITY EXPERT.; It was during a murder . A. witness for the defence wu ... on the stand. - 'What do you intend to prove by. this witness ?".asked the judge. 'That timeprisoner is insane,' re- plied the attorney, 'Does the witness know anyallilig about insanity.? Is be an expect?' 'Expert,' replied tame lawyer.' 'Well I should say. he was. He knows alk about insanity. Why. yr.ur honor, he has been as crazy as a loon for the . last ten years.' • A QUESTION IN DOMr3STIC. MATH EkIATICS.. Teacher—'If it takes one , servants nine hours to do the entire. ,.house. work of a family, how long will it Ake three servants to do it ?' Little Nell -40h 1 !1 can answeree that. I heard mamma speak of it . this very morning.' Teacher—'Well, how long wall t ate take tnem 1 Little Nell—+Three times as longer MISTOOK THE DISEASE. 'I, say young man,' said a physii, oian, sr. ippinw him on the street, 'you. are not well. Your face is tiuslied, and you are iu u high fever. , Let MEP, feel your pulse.' 'J- r•I'm all right,' protested the youth. "No, you are not,' said the p1 yti elan positively. ''Your .pulse is aver 100, and in lesssthan'two minutes you wi:l be in a cold sweat. You take my advice and go home.' I can't go home. 1 am resolved tl ask old:Jones for his daughter's heed tont ;its of perish miserably in the attempt.' 'Wrong diagnetsis,' muttered the clootor to himself.—Texas Siftings. CHOLERA PRE VENTATVE. In order to withstand Callers and such litre epedeniics a perf+,ot purity of blood, and a pioper action `Of _, "tb-e. atom oh are required, To insure theta end, in the ohenpesb, most available ' and complete ninneer, use McGregor's. Spetdy Cure .or dyspepsia and itn- pure blood, There is no purer, safer or more reliable remedy in exist nae ilii indisgestioa, despepsia, costive- ness, etc:., Aak your neighbor or any kerson who i,as toed it. Soli by O . Williams. Arial bottle giveu,free., 1 „ boo