The Wingham Times, 1885-07-03, Page 2TRH TIMES, FRIDAY JULY 3
i__I.pi 0/01 were made to her, Ono she got st. Pot mYdear bay, I had. bora to Led hoop ,, ta ' . a ' orat
auKape s 4 ! 1 barrel of potatoes, onee a hue" ef see yon m the chair of the profeesor. Eliza Ilayne, ray sister, wept over really out ol his time uow, with my
This story is not about myself at all. _ whole the got along. U anybody came the ehair than sit in it, 1 knew it is elighted the least thing, worked early olothee fitted as well 'as if they were
though it is written as if it was going in while she was orochetiug, or at her pot so great a work, but it le my and late. 1 tell you ere didn't get wet and elueg to him. I tell yen, tie
toles.. 1 ape the Man thAt knows the - tatting, or her embroidery,(not an inch work, after all 4 the important thing. such 'prentiee work often 1 And such be steeeee along with his mother, Rneh
boy to story hi about* 1 am only of which she ever used at home) ono Anil if I melee. the eneir strong Alta work holds out forever, in more Mules lookell 'good enough to eat.' fio Eliza
jack Plaeue. He was a Very different would talk about bow much more r, , I
sort of a fellow from me. . ei01 me woek to build the pulpit for When Raab was about eighteen aud
ladylike it was to have nice under.
Ins mother was the Wielder Hen' ' clothing and plain dresses, time one, another man to Preach ill i end we paettY near but a his time, Squire
nitge Ilis father had. been aced Six side show on tags. Eliza used to may as well aecept the foots. Eut Porter came home. He'd been travel -
or seven years, where tine story begins. eay the things en her eiethes line /mother don't you want to see tome of ins in Europe several years, buying
They game to Greeribusli fora geed were raended. till they were real my work ; things Pee done od!1 spells1 pictures, books, and curious things
many =neuters 4 before he died. and euriosities. However, they were Ear his mother had bowed her generally, and the next thin was to
after that the wilder mule up her better than debts, and c1idn3 tangle, on Iler l'antl aud 4" vel'e was 4t up his hoe. 1 .1'4a a j°1')' Qf
mind to stay there, You see lien- her steps like mortgages for the place
White thread. She .wasn't one of the extra work—.alcoves for hie books
growing set, ithd, her liatt ehowed a course ; but in Ins library he wanted
°eying sort, I hate a weeper; but gothic carving, end what not ; and
they dont begin to he so =manage. of course it ineeded an extra good
ae the etoneeeeyed sort that neith, r hand.
In a min.ute or two, Rawl came iik`ertvheajtu;statyliseIh,a,nadndfoLfaynocuylicartviuinjgt author, in particular, was struck, the
Squire brought in Rash, mid intro -
speak nor cry.
down out of the woodshed loft with him with it, he'll go at it like training clued. him as "the artist" and intro -
his arms full. There was a set of day. (limed him and his mother to every,
11 lad—almost a ye= mai)
wniter apples, and once buebel of ' afraa dear motheresaid Betel, and stayed wita her a da7 or two. °lode iota Wee* ouley aunt mad just
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peers. or emnething like that, On the quit° bumb17, °At' I'd ri4ther 131413;° ThAt hOW Rada 40 WO* ; never a Outdo on his upper hp. .And Les
well and not just reepeetable tie be is. I than one. sted,
flings didn't leave much—just a couple
ofehousands en a lite insurance, and
the cottage an acro in Greenbush.
All. the rest was used up in settling
the estate.
Eat you'd never guess, :not from flings working so bard and faring
:her talk, that she dida't own a private 80 Plau.
was clear and her own. For ute* part.
I never could seethe Benet: of such a
common sort of :personi as Queen
Victoria living in such s tyle,tand such
natural born queen as widder He
• 13at as for Rash. Igo at what e
bank. She talked about the coaven-toy bedroom furniture, and a ship
• ieuee of a fixeincome, 'One might was the best of sons, ready to help be full wrigged. And best of all, was a
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,calculate so exactly how far it would errything she wanted done. And work box for his mother inlaid with
go and tomer be disappointed.' .And didn't he put into lessons, when he different kinds ol wood, with, a. raised
she would groan. over the income tax found how his mother was sot on his oval of appletree wood on the lid,
'when, poor thing, it never came .nigh learning ? And how good /1'3'4114°n carved out into a wroath of the finest
while she'd tell of the old govenor and
ben tern leaves, eneloraing her initialeit
the seeittore, and the teachers and
You see, sloe same of an excellent awl:3st ae neat work as if one of the
• family. In early times:one of her an. NewYork or Boston men bad done
.cestors was governor, and a great it. and Rest a boy, and altogether
uncle had beooine a senator, before It self-tntught in the way of °arm.
was 'low' to be a senator. That is she 'It's most a pity to show this to -
used to say 80. do.et know aboe't night, I was going to keep it for your
alma, it I,ve always. thud to work hard birthday, day after to -morrow, but
and live plain, and there was always somehow it seemed only 'aright anci
the taxes hot and heavy, whatever natural to show it now • when we were
else happened, and 'senator' always talking the thing over.'
looked high enough for me And • in
trust all families of herconueetion the
boys went to college and the girls „to
boarding school and spoke Trench
and played the piano. Not that I
have ever heard of their tbeiug much
money in the family, but they paid
their way and studied hard, and got
to belawyers, or doctors, or preachers.
Never none of em workeddown
right hard with his hands fora livingOae reason the widder stuck to Green.
bush, was the school. The teacher
was excellent, and as it eost nothing,
nothing could be better for her son,
te, e Horatio, path,' for shortyuntil' as
she'd say, 'he's reedy to prepare for
college.' Seems to me as if I could
see her now. The same black satin
dress, winter ani summer. In winter
a threadbare, black cloak, in summer
a neat shawl darned in some places
very nicely, aticl Weak mits and the
same black satin bonnet, made over
• and ovdr once a year through it all.
She had some lace she could eat on
when the went out to tea at the doe:
• tore or squire's and jet and gold
•ornaments, which were very old, to
fasten the lace and swing in her eats,
And V10 wielder Hennings was a
The squire Invited thein to the
house and took 'ern, into the wonderien
library, to have coffee, or ices or
something. Whatever it was, it was
a mere excuse to get them there.
Then he begem to shoe/ them his al-
coves ad explain them ; and wheat.
they had all seen the trade and judg-
ment lie had :da� s. in ticking out
his flowers and leaveand vines to •
match the kind of books, and °vete -
body had admired it, the English
and the profeesor, and how • anxious
she was so have him study hard 1
She'd been well eddicated herself, and
taught him some Latin and French,
and he wasn,t a bad scholar.
But wherever he gait from, it didn't
seem to be what he'd choose. He'd
study mid keep up his classes ; and
every spare minute he got, he'd be
fussing around in my shop. He'd
pick up bits of half and quarter incb
stuff, and notch and 'fellatio, and
carve and fit, and turn out the neatest
little toys, chain; and tables and such
like, that you. ever sawt He gave one
to My little Bess the winter the broke
her leg—she's got it yet It's like a
chair I once saw in a church, caryed
gothic. bitek and arms and a table to
match. Sometimes it has °been all I
could do to get him to give up enough
attention to his books. he'd be so busy
with his work. kept a strict look.
out for that. I've got such a little
le trning myself that 1 know iisytalue ;
and he never missed a lesson on my
account,
I'd seen to many make love of whit-
tling and talk a mere excuse for idling.
away precious time; and after all
there' was no genius of any account,
Horatio was . getting to be a large
boy, when some connections died and
left him a matter o' five hundred
dollars.. It was to be used at his
mother's discretion. either kept an be
was twenty-one or spent on his
eddSeatiou.
airs. Hennings she decided at once
the, it should help Min through
splendid woman 1 tell, seraight cie an college. She could help out the
Iudien, and head set well back on the , balance, somehow a and it seemed like
shoulders. I often watched her go the goOd old days of the govenor and
up the Dread aisle, and though senator canoe) again, when the could
I'd like to have tested her with a talk abut 'colleges,' and so forth.
• Plumb line? she was so straight. But So one evaierig, as he was sitting by
• Elea, says Ign forever carryine, the • Ilea reciting his Latin to her, she just
Fah op with me. Then she'd a wonder- began the subject, and Rash told nie
ful high. hocked nose, and eyebrows all about it the next day. Rash
that arched over her black eyes like said lie never saw no one so beat as his
the front door' of a 'mansion house, meteor, was when he told her she
and hardly a gray head in her. head shouldn't Vetch that money, but just
Must have been awful erose for such a as eobn I eliongev: him cid enough he
fine looking weincta to give up dress, was going to learn a trade.
and nil the penip ant vanities of the ,A trade 1 And what trade 7'
world to live insult a Plain: way ne 'Why, a carpenter and joiner, to be
Green au sh „
sure, I love that sort of work, and
Dear heart 1 she never kept no help, Jack Playa° says do wlI at ite
only once a fottnieht Bertie Dolittle nt my dear son, what ever leads
did the heaviest of her assailing, Tate .
yoa lama: ot marling that trade ?
little things, stiell as Handkerchiefs Peer.) never was a cerperiter in our
and collars she did herealf and called elv and in fact, Iden't know as
it her 'enc waelni It looked like a
they ever amotint to very much."
doll babys washing day,
'Why my deat mothet,' said Rash,
The defter itself wag cheeply 'pm forget. Wane t our Saviour One
built, plain finished affair, with coni awl a,„!, that make the cede haler.
inadwor , ; hu 1 oftea found ;deo femme,
time tl do tittle johe for her in sleek 'Tree rx ear ehild, 'Zoete is a
tnnee , ant what wit 1 t le geirdere and
e• lied reprocf, and yob our Saviour did
the ,-,,t e- ;t on the life tisur:tuee, an.a ' ;1.t choose his bumble cetlieg, eti talk. She had a Windt eielt, stupid hands. Sheply hand.; too, if aho ‘",.(1.
the • •"er color and wax fluviOr ,Vai ft lvsson cf obedienee whish he headache all chiy. She got tip when work ; ad itt one of them a i;rit, :aid
IC;t, i , (tette the Sgeire's wfe -------. e "gilt by a ibmitting to his par. i. t 7e sun event duvrre aud she clidret ;ape:nese floe which her grireelether
d '01.rs she it alit) * ! 1
Set ae Widcler Hennings was
aping- Rash's learning a trade, see he hid turned off, and all about it.
could not help admiring his werk, for And the Squire ho listened and laugh-
ed and says he— ed.
it was so neat and not ,a botch any-
where. 'or one day when he was 'Send him in. I don't know him, don't know about theta said he ;
nor he me ;, but take care, don't satal 'many a gooct mechanic is spoiled
to
making of it, saya 1 to him.,
it all.' make a poor professional man. It's
'Now, Rash, whatever you've got
on hawa, don't you stop to think if Just as I expected, the job was just freiebetterto be sure the work is your
to Rash's mind. Ho got up them ala own work, andit's the best of its kind,
you can afford to do it just as well for
coves in first rate stale, and threw in than to be notional about the work ;
.the money you're to get for it.- There's
a lot of fancy carving. There was an and by the ley, Horatio, there's a bit
one thing you can't afford, and ti at is
alcove for the 'English Classics,' as of spending money for you. and I'll
to bungle. It hurts you more than
them you work for. Don't over do
anything Syou can't warrant 'poti.
honor,'
And I'll neer forgot how his eyes
sparkled ; and he told me how the leaves, and the big ones tor histories York, and study with an artist friend
cathedrals of the 33aiddle ages were
had a centre -piece of armour and bane of hie who is also, an architect, for a
built by men who made religion of
'Who is'et 41' said the Sgaire. eMind
I don't mint it botched, and ain't
afraid of my money.'
'Not a bit of it,' says 1. 'les young could house books 80, royally must do
Horatio Hennings, son of the Widcler it for love of them, as well as love pf
Hennings --the eho lives in the cot- his work.' And he said something
tage by the big willow: • Rash didn't tell, (but his mother did)
'Dear, dear,' mid the squire, `I I 'most forgot about its being a won -
know her folks, and it must have cost
her a struggle to consent to have her derful country, where even its artisaue,
had tho winners of gentleman. Ata
boy learn a meehanie's trade.' least it was either artists or artisans.
So then I just sot down and told
the Squire the whole story, how the 1 don't know which. •
A.s Rash handed his mother a cup
boy would not- be kept back, though ate% he said to her in. a low voice.
he wasn't unmindful of bie book, bet 'Now, mother. isn't it better to be a
had sum ii hankering after tools that ant class carpenter, than such, a poor
heel have stolen his chance if it hadn't professor as I should have made
been allewed, and.whitt, excellent work '1 cloult think you would have fail.
ed anythitigS she answered. e,
But the Squire heard her and laugh...
body. And he got one order from a
New York man on the spot eandthe
Englishman said to him, that one wLo
the Squire called 'on, and Rash built come around to -morrow and got a
it out of the best oak, and carved a receipt in full.'
wreath of oak leaves and acorns over So ended this royal evening. Not
the arched cornice. The ova for Greek day, the Squire called aroma and
and Lathe he ornmeated with laurel proposed that Rash should. go to New
their work, and built as if they were
worshiping and dared not cheat the
Lord, .and that in' them the back of
the ornament or statue is finisher:a
though nobody can see them without
the greatest pains, with just as ranch
hAntheS4 as if ie were to. show in the
public squares ; and that was the way
he meant to work and Rye. As I
said, the wielder was pleased In spite
of herself.
And where did you get this pretty
design r she said pointing to the fern
wreath.
ners and shields and what not.
• the one. of Americau authors, he carv-
ed the finest thing you ever saw.
Over the top was MOSS of wattr-
lilies, magnolias, golden rods, anti
drooping down the titles were 'vines of
the 'trailing arbutus,' he called it, but
for all the world our own Mayflower.
Why, the library was just a picture
before anything went into it. Itat
piers ago, and folks havn't done
mcnierieg at it yet. would not have
done it for ten thousand years.
.When it was all done, and the
ohips all swept out, thactaire invited
a party to ace his inaproveineats.
Note), large party, but some choice
friends feom Boston and. Nevv York,
and some acquaintances he'd natule
in traveling, and an Englishman who
hial written books himself who was
stopping with him. And the best of
all was, he invited Rash and his moth.
or too.
Ile did ow, really 1 Rash ho went
to Boston aid bought her a new black
silk, a good ore, and a dress cap
But year. Didn't he jump at the chance I.
Welsy I wanted a pattern of some
sort, aiid just then 'Bessie Playne came
along and she'd got such a wreath as
this twisted around herhat. through t
it.was none the worse for being so
near at liend, and so 1 -just drafted It
off, and whittled it out. See—here is
the dread
And with that ho took it out of his
tex. Now tho widde tootath she is
as fraud as Lucifer, ie nobody's fool ;
and she seed plaia enough that' there
was more than a common juoli of a
As foz. the envelope;, it had a cheque
for a thousand dcllars ; (the work was,
done dog eheap 'at that—I'd not have
done iafor twice that, if I eould have •
done it at all.) .
So now, Raeh's fortune was made.
He made lots bE money with his
designs and carvings, and now heel ,
maimed to the Squire's daughter, and
lives in Fifth Avenue Not a bites&
it. He came back, and married httle
Bessie Thayne, My pet, and- has a
pretty place at Yonkers, toad the wid•
der lives there, too. '
guees theyget along -pretty
Both the 'women think Rash is per.
feotion. which is the main. thing.
Somethaes 1 go up there for a day,
but the wict •or she has s much aa
say about the goveruor mad alto sena.
tor, and blood and gentility, treat I am
mostly glad to get horne, and stretch,
my lege by the kitchen fireplace, and
smoke iny clay pipe. ho bas a -great
deal to say about genius in bled; and ,
though I don't doubt genius helped
Itash, guess it was es intuth grit a g
carpenter in her bey tor sho could (wielder's cap, they eater! it) and -a
genius. however, deuit know inuch
drave and paint in water cantos her. new suit of clothes for bitnself. (He'd
abs rt it.
self, and was called a good halal at it, ' good wages .for overwork for
So the long and short of it was, that good whilo.)
she gave tor cement to hash going It was a wonderful bright inoon- Inilyng 44 innXpISCX
end of the echool term. And then (molting, 1 caw them go pass. .111).s
light night, and eis L Sat, at my door BArgagic3co. SOLICITORSroxt isAn
Tits to Manitoba, 1Pittioll8gnest4t!oraVIzaiggitt,
into my temp to learn my trade at the
she sent Rash up stairs with his treas. Harmings had 'en her new black sale Ltetl.';,e'test areiea'
em ease" 13took. Wind
urea mead went to bed. oeenect trove the neck to the witiel, le
.1, W. is use L. Dunir
what'a sick headache she had - front, and some tinea rim yellow Imo -
ilio next day 1 Rash got his own in, the neck, fastened with her littae
breakfast and came over after sister black pin, and Ler carrbigs on, end :
Eliza to stay with his Mother, end her wie,da's cap and he e net, shewl
that's how he told me all about the and her new laylock kid gime', oft
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it's name s. Hie work bad really fed like herself for a day oy had brAglit home in some of 1 i nirenneas eve suiteitowei
Siii eft e I • erements ler embroil. .men tixe.i and fitted for birn before 11two. Arid 1 oonsaitod her hide. was V0704064 1, I, tea a.m. *.C.,,rtavvr aota„.daotri. ck tartest, ghtai.
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