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The Wingham Times, 1885-08-21, Page 3,141104 -Journey, as we speed Out of youth's sunny station, The traok seems to shine in tae;ilght: But it eLddenly shoots over chasms, .And slake into tunnels of night: And the hearts that were brave In the morning Are filled with repiniage and fears, Aa they pause at the City of Sorrow, Or pass through the Valley of Tears. But the pith for this perilous railway The hand of the Master h made ; With all its discomforts and dangers, We need not be end or afraid. Stoade leading from dark into darkneep, Roads plunging from gloom to despafr, Wind out thro' the tunnele of midnight To the fields that are blooming and fair. Tho' the rooks and their shadows surround us, Tho' we catch not ono gleam of the day, Above us fair oittee aro Laughing And dirping white ret in so e ay And always—eternal- forever,— '• Down over the wale in the west, The last final end of our journey, There lips the great Station of Rest. 'Te the grand central point of all railways; All roads cluster here whore they end : 'Tie the final resort of all tourists; All rival tines moot hero and blend. All tickets, or mile -books, or passes, If stolen, or begged for or bought, Oa whatever road or division, Will bring you at last to this spot. If you pause at the City of Trouble, Or wait in the Valley of Tears, Be patient—the train will move onward, And sweep down the track of tho years. Wherever the plane to you souk for, Whatever your aim or your quest, You will comp at the last with rejoicing To the beautiful Station of hest. STORM AND SUNSHINE, CHAPTER 11I.— (CONTINUED.) And this would be no small sacrifice on my part ; the future holds great poesibil't'es for little fair-haired Lisle Warburton. When I am of age I shall come into upwards of two thousand a year—even now I have two hundred to do what I like with—more pretty dresses and furs than I can find any use for, trinkets and laces without end. My aunts receive' three hundred a year for my main- tenance ; I might havo a maid of my own if they had not abanrdly decided that it was better to make me attend upon myself. All this' wealth had come to me most un- expectedly about ten years ago, my mother's last surviving brother having died in Aus- tralia very rich, and I being the sole descend• ant of the Incledon family then extant. I was a child at school near London at the time ; but on my accession to fortune my guardians or trustees had transferred me to a much more expensive school abroad, given me an allowance, and one of them, who had been a friend of my uncle's, had had me to his house in Paris during the. vacations. My aunt, Mrs. Toni Incledon, the widow of an- other of my mother's brothers, had hitherto taken charge of mo ; but she had died a few months previonaly, and I suppose I ahonld have come to live at Osierbrook if thio for- tune had not turned np' in the meantime. So that, however my aunts may try to keep Inc in subjection now, the day is not very far distant when I shall be a person of some importance. They do not care whether I even "come 'out ".or not, whether 'I am presented at Court, or have any of the advantages which my brilliant " prospects " might have led me to expect; in fact, I believe they would be much better pleased if 1 renounced the world altogether, and made up my mind to ,pond the rent of mylifeat Osierbrook; but I am only biding my time. I am young and rich, and " pretty," as old Mollie says. The name of Lisle Warburtohrahell make a sensation yet in the great.:world of fashion which my aunts think lonlY a little less hope_ lesaly given over to perdition than the lower regions themselves! " Erroll, this is My little friend, Lisle Warburton." I have just come into the great drawing• room at Velfry, with a 'faint click clack of high -heeled shoos, and a soft jv'ou-jrova of my silken train. I have put on one of my prettiest dinner-gowns—a pale blue silk, which leaves my arms and shoulders bare ; and I have fastened a broad band of tur- quoises round, my throat, I feel I am leek- ing my best, with my fluffy golden lecke curling about my forehead, and a soft bright colour in my choke, People tell me my face ie like a kitten's face—so fair and inno- oent, with such a broad space between the eyes. Of course I am no judge of my own ap- pearance, and people may flatter me a little—the girls I know used to flatter me'' at school; but •I think I am pretty, and I , know my arms aro white and dimpled, and that my dross fits me to perfection. There- fore 1 do not feel at all indisposed when Mrs, Rutherford introduces me to a tall and very' handsome fair-haired man in evening - dress who had been standing with her in tho window when I came in, nor at all surprised when ho opens his gray oyes in a look of astonished admiration. Mother,, where did you find this Dresden shepherdess? I did not think anything se otherial could bo made 'of real flesh and blood !" "I am sure .Lisle is quite real enough to feel very hungry," Mrs, Rutherfurd smiles pleasantly ; " so, if you will give hor your r Arne, 4l:rroll, I 8011 follow a ott!ttpto 'the dining -room," This first evening at, Velfry 'gives me a delightful foretaste of the triumphs I had promised myself when I should go out into the fashionable. world ,of which Ilea,,h€aid and read, but of which I had hitherto.aeen nothing. I believe Erroll Rutjierfued fell in love with nee at'•first ,sight, and I know that bofore I go up to my room at eleven o'clock I have lost as' much of my heart as it was possible to lose -in the space of four hours. I feel happier than I ever felt in my life beforo. I begin dimly to comprehend the great possibilities the world holds for • me, to dream of what', that wonderful thing called love may mean. I have never even fancied that I oared for any one yet except Judith. Irving ; but it sends a little thrill of something more than pleasure through my heart already to think of Erroll 'Retherfurd,'to recollect 'how he had looked at me, how he ,had spoken to me —not as to a child, but as to a woman;, gently, reverently, chivalrously—I had never been so spoken to before in all my short ex- istence—to be treated Iike a princess by this man who himself seems like a prince. Itis as novel as it is delightful, and has already gone a good way towards turning my little, head. The next day we spend the delightful first hour after breakfast in the Bunny old Qardenr-Erroll and I ; he smoking, I walk- ing beside 'him down the long green alleys, and by the high wall where the cherries are ripening, in my pretty morning -dress of pale flowered chintz with pink bows, in which he.says,I look more like a china ehep- hordess than over, while the bees hum round us and the warm wind sighs by, laden with those " fitful blasts of balm that make the air of life delicious"—or so the Laureate says. " Do you remember Judith Irving, Mr." Rutherf urd ?" "Oh, yes—quite well 1" he smiles, glanc- ing round at me. '! She told me you had been playfellows as children.'', I . . nrd's name to ree,Q' Kox ;, intenae1y our, But I cannot deny }l?,o probability of there being some foundation forheroll's auapioien. Judith had said elle would rather live here, dull as' it•,is, than) anywhere else in'the world,, She also ,seems- like a pegoon who hay a ,octet -,.,who carets fpr, or has cared for, tomobody very much, lint then Mr. Ruth- erfurd had married before olio was grown 'up, end' had been confessedly heartbroken as a widower over since. I am surprised at Judith's throwing her heart away upon a man who apparently neither desired nor deserved it. And Yet she is just the kind of girl who would 'bo capable of such an act of self -immolations-- of just such a mad, vain; .foolish, obstinate, unfortunate, peace -destroying passion -sof just such a hopeless love. " Shell we have a game of tennio 2" Erroll asks a' moment later, throwing away hie cigar. Wo saunter round to the tenn.ie-court between the double row of walnut -trees, anti while 1 am waiting for Erroll to fetch the racquets Mrs. Rutherfurd comes out of the house, followed by a rather slight, dark - complexioned man, with a short gray beard. " This is my eldest son, Lisle," she says, smiling•gravely; and 14r. Rutherfurd shakes hands with mer: and then atande quietly by with hie hands in hie pocsete, while his mother talks to me, looking away at the old nun -dial 'on the grass -plot before the, door. CHAPTER IV. The next few `days at Velfry are the happiest I have ever known; Even now— "' nay heart is like a prophet to my heart, And tells me.1 ehall love." ' Erroll Rutherf;ard is alwayp with me—we ride, row, play tennis, walk together; the: long June days are all too. short for es—the June days with their glorious mornings, "''their long delidioua hfteleMoiii}i tbei' eamy evenings. Even at flight I lie awake thinking of him eind'gaiiig over and overagain< all the fond sweet things he had said to me during the day. The liking that we had felt for each pother on that very first evening has deepen- " So we were. But I did not think she 4ed into a warmer feeling—we are,,;never took sufficient interest in me ,von to tell (happy unless we are together, never satin- you so much es that." • ;find unless we are looking at or listening to " I don't know how much interest she ,each other. takes in you," I answer, laughing ; "butI Mrs. Rntherfurdis pleased at the fancy know you ought to feel flattered by her,:, Erroll and I have taken to each other. She taking . the' trouble to speak about you at never tells me, but I can see it in the all," happy contented expression of her, eyes " I feel much more flattered by your re- ;,when she looks at us ; I know she arranges membering what she said." jthe amusements of each day with but one " Do not you like her ?" I ask, looking up inion in view—that Erroll and. 1 shall enjoy into the handsome smiling face. -them together. • "Do you 2" _ . . ' Mr. Rutherfurd very seldom joins us, or "Indeed I do—better than any one else stakes part in any entsrtainment that may in the world 1" . "' ,,. - -•' = 'be going on at Valley. I see, • him at break - He smiled at my e earneetnese. fast and dinner, and oocasional'y in the " Then I must not say anything against'' 1 di•Ei'ieiliii renin', tafter, diprier,' but adldom at her?,, . t, f 7r,:,p ''''' , • ', t ;i3ny other time,,;Ile, appeare to be:a-fierltve, "Not to me, certainly'! But I, don't be- reserytedkind of mans !and, ' hetheri;he is Aleve you could say anything 3againet.her,c t -still fret ing fol hie young wife; or whether The things ;people say of her tied 'ale false 1' siicli'thinga poaeeaa no •intei'eat. for him, " What do they day ,its her #'e;: he alto a " eticheWa xit'bo $ lLtennie- parties yvith • little curiously. •• it persistence• win h ,agauees hie younger " I am rot going to tell you. I dont° eehrotheri,i .-„' i.i.:.; • tiaras .. • ,,: ' _ '...e know what they are saying, But etupidpeople ee ettItelpiilsaurninghisto;e. regular•edelity 1" who can't understand her talk a great deal he laughs,- on one.. of7theee occasions. " I bf nonsense—the feet is she is tbo aright think we meet ask Miss. Irving. to- Velfry,to and clover fort, theta, ;and sees too elearl rouse hint mit of his apathy ", ,. through their miserable make believes an, " I wish we could," i. answer, sigbipg, I hypocrieiee.;i She isFlike a flash of electric t ave, not seen .Tudithi#or, yiir de's, and, net - light ti a edtsuddtinly 'On a ball -room, show- withstanding my new` delicious sense of hap, ing up all the wretched shams and pretenses pines,, I pine fora glimpse of my friend. r , which had passed mnater in the deoeptive " ,Next time ,you come,', ro¢e.rrr)u t i manage rose-coloured glow of the oil -lamps 1" ' it,�!'Efroll says good.natured es. ,; t e " Bravo, Miss Lisle 1 I wish I had a friend We are foIowingrtho. rest of the party to stand up fortree like :thele !" es? , down through the pleasure -grounds to the 'Judith #foes liotwaiti:'i linyo$os. ftp'"'"sta'nd rivgr, Erroll. in white, flannel, ; boating clad= up for' hor,t' t anewer,a flhshing., ! "And tomo, I in a pretty serge dress, turned up' she does not care a fig what ignorant, stupid e with my fsvorite ,light quo, 'lV@'are going • heliotrope must always remind mo of it—I prejudiced old people think of her ; she has to row ourselves down to an island wh re, wear.a krot of heliotrope in my white dress, told mo`so"ashundrod'tuhes,j',:l..: there are the ruins'of' an old abbey; the fastened on the shoulder—that and the " I must renew my acquaintance with servants have gone -before with our luncheon, string of pearls round my throat my only this friend of yours," Erroll laughs, knock -It 14 a It:Adons 'mdrning, "'l the cuckoo telle 'iiinamonte. ing'the ash off his cigar. " She must be hie name to all the)Iille." Erroll dances with me very often—one something out of the common to have won "1 bolieve you would • rather have Miss : especially glorious waltz we have together, such a warm little partisan." Irving here than me, Lisle Erroll 'says. and when it is ovor we step out with the "I wish Mrs. Buther£drd would ask her in, his boyish, aggrieved way, turtling to others through the open French windows on to Velfry 1" I exclaim impetuously, "If she look at me as we walk clown the mosey to thelong terrace of smooth turf overlook - took her u a little m aunts—and other .path under, the yews and laurels. • others, 1 steal a glance at Erroll. He looks handsome in hie white dress with h' THE BOOK'JOF dOD. so an , his guy _ sunburnt face and fair curled hair hanging The bible is the beat book in the world.— about his forehead as he pulls the heavy John Adams, boat—bareheaded, his alcoves rolled up to There is a book worth all other books his elbgwa, his blue eyes laughing at me, which were ever printed,—Patrick Henry. An hour or two later I find myself sitting The bible furnishes the only fitting vehicle beside him on the edge ,cf the stream where to express the thoughts that overwhelm us it rune narrgwly between the mainland and when contemplating the stellar universe. -- the island, brown and foaming over lichened O. M. Mitchell, rooks and boulders. As we sit, we can ace The grand old book of God still stand,, up a long vista of leaf-ehoded pools, with and this old earth, the more its leaves are shafts of sunshine glimmering down through turned over and pondered, the more it will the branches and piercing golden through sustain and illustrate the sacred word.— the water—the sound of the 'water is alltheProf. Dana, sound we hear, it indeed we hear it, being All human discoveries seem to be made so entirely occupied with looking at each, . only for the purpose of confirming more and other, more strongly the truths contained in the " We looked on the broom bank, sacred scriptures.— Sir John Herschel. Wo looked on the burn, And sidelong we looked on Eaoh other in turn." with anything in the bible on my subjects, " I wonder if you are as happy as I am, it always affords me a firm platform on which to stand,—Lieut Maury. In my investigation of natural science, I have always found that whenever I can meet Lisle 2" "I am happy enough," I answer with So great is my veneration for the bible truth . i : " Yon are a dear little thing to say eo 1" that the earlier my children begin to r " Why 1"—" Oh, because--" the more confident will be my hopes that He is lying, face downwards, pullingthey will prove useful citizens to their coun- try, and respectable members of society,— daisies one by ono out of the soft turf. John Q. Adams, "That is no reason 1" I laugh, looking at It ie impodsible to govern the world with - the rushing golden brown water close to my , out God. He must be worse than an infidel foot, " I wonder if you care for me as much as . that lacks faith, and more than wicked that I care for you 1" p has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his He is throwing a daisy into the water as obligation.—George Washington. he says it, and he does not look at me, If the God of love is most appropriately " That depends entirely upon how mnoh I worshiped in the temple of religion, the God you care for me 1" I laugh, watohing the of nature may be equally honored in the daisy as it is caught in an eddy and whirled temple of science. Even from its lofty min - round and round between. two of the brown arets the philosopher may summon the faith - round ful to prayer, and the priest and sage ex - "Have you ever cared for anybody else, change altars without the compromise of Lisle t"—" No." faith or knowledge,—Sir David Brewster. " Perhaps you do not really care for me so • much as you think ?" The Decay of Profanity. "Very likely not," From having been the loudest and coarsest " You provoking little thing 1". he laughs of swearers, Eaglish gentlemen have become raising himself on his elbow. "I believe the moat intolerant of profane expressions, you are thinking of Judith Irving this very and even the mildest expletives are account - moment." ed by them as bad taste. Soldier's and sail- " Iimagine you think of her more than I ors ormerly looked upon awearing as a pro- f do," I answer a little jealously. feseional necessity, and perhaps still do so ; " 1 ? I hate her.!" - but probably a man like Wolseley shares the " You just fay that to vex me." 1 feeling of other English gentlemen with re - "I do not want to vex you; but I do not spect to profanity, and we know that Grant like you to be always thinking of that girl, went through all the excitement of the civil " I often reproach myself for not thinking i war without an oath, though on both sides *of her more. I have been so happy at the air was often blue with cursing. But, as Velfry." we have said, most men sw, ar habitually or " Have you, da -ling ?" he interrupts, with - occasionally. It seems to give them relief, or a look which sends a thrill of passionate - they imagine that it does, and they know no pleasure to my very heart. : other way of strengthening an assertion than " How many questions you ask 1" I laugh, : by using an oath. In general, this swearing shrugging my shouldere. is in good nature, or, at most, expresses only "I mean to ask yon another before very momentary vexation, and often the profan- long," he smiles quietly, ity id only indulged in as a banter, for In - "I think I hear somebody calling us 1" I , stance, by the drivers in the streets, who exclaim a little hurriedly. " Perhaps we will curse each other np and down, and still had better go back to the others,"-• have no hard feelings. They simply swear "I suppose it is that wretched Trevor 1" , for fun and to vary the monotony of exist - he laughs, getting np lazily. " That fellow ' once. This applies only to thin country is always spoiling the fun for other pepple though. In England one can mount upon a -I suppose "because he can't knock up any 'bus at the Kensington Museum, and drive for himself." through the g -eat and crowdedthoronghfaree We saunter back to the others, or to all of London, all the way to the Bank of that are forthcoming of the others, camped England, and not an oath nor an expletive in a sunny hollow under the ruins. And I will be heard. feel happier than ever, find more than ever inclined to look upon it all as a dream from Behgion and Flies. which I must some time awaken—such pas- " I would give nothing for that man's re- sionate happiness cannot be meant,to last ! ligion whose dog and cat are not the better But, if it does last, how can people call this for it, " said Rowland Hill. Unity adds: a miserable world? One such hour as this, " Why not add one's flies? Shall we kill I think, could make my whole life sweet. them—or take a moment longer, open the Wo finish the evening with a dance at window, and banish them into the great out- ,Velfry, at which Mr. Rutherfurd puts in an side summer? The difference is no trifle appearance, though he does not dance; I either to the flies or us, To the flies it is the do not think I shall ever forget this night, difference between life and death. To us it ter the waltzes they play ; the perfume of is the difference of our religion and irreligion. It isn't ourreligion which will dash from life the harmless buzzers; their crimp, a little an- noyance their penalty; death. 'Do yon want to see 'oor Dod, 'ittle fly?' said the 3 -year- old, who held her captive in one hand, while she raised the other : ' Oo s'all see 'oor Dad—there!' and down' came the hand, slapping it out of existence, That God we call a devil, and we pity the little child whose home -creed taught it deviltry for p y ing the garden. The air is warm and full o .divinity. But if that sort of thought would peo plc -..could soon felicity ,her example." "I have khown her this longest," I anewpr the perfume of the flowers, the moony is make God a devil, that sort of act in us is " Miss Irving freed;toconiehere. occasion- coquettishly, without meetiug'his eyes, rising serenely over the woodland, touching not religion, ally beforo I went .to China:Does site never "Bet .that has nothing to . do with it. the house and garden with a silvery glimmer, come now 2"- I have known Miss -Irving,,longer than I butacarcely bright enough to discern who " au one is ma a me , Osierbrookat all events." terrace—certainly not bright enough to ee- ' "Perhaps you do like her bettor 1" veal us' to any one but each other as We "You might persuade my mother to ask "Lisle 1" I smile, but will not look at lean over the stone balcony listening to the her perhaps, 'She would do a great deal to hirri,'though I know he is looking at me, music and breathing in long draughts of please you." , • •" Yeti aro the most horrid little girl I ever the delicious night air. ''She is very good to me," I answer, mot 1" "Lisle darling, I think you love me a snill ing. "'But I wonder' Why she never „Iain egrets you thi;ak so. 't little ?" asks Judith help now 2" " But I, don't think so,fortunat l I His arms are round me, his face stooped "I will tell you what I think," Erroll „ y' returns ravel "I fano m mother had think you aro the dearest— to mine, pale in the light of the moon, an idea that bliss Irving was nutting her A c• ouple ahead of us stop to ask some. "Lisle, tell me. Is it true 2" cap at'iny brother Isaiah= atleas`t I thought thing about the way. Erroll never finishes I let him hold Inc so, close to his heart. so before I went to China throe years ago,: his sentence ; but I stand there for a moment, dumb A word can bring the colour to nay cheek ; With perfect joy, perplexed for utterance, And, as I suppose you are aw110e, are that; A word can all my wpm with happy dew." , But lie makes me say it 'at last. And po mother ever thinks any girl good enough Erroll loved me and I love him. The -tee linger in tho moonlight a little longer, for her son, my respected parent disoour- thought makes mo- intolerably happy -so murmuring, "I know not what of strange aged Miss Judith's visits to Velfry, • That happy that 1 hear and see everything like and sweet," and exchanging at least is the only solution 1 can find for have known you,' d d tl t k is who" of the shadowy groups about the " She:has neeer been hero since I came to like. her hotter ?" . ono in a dream—the laughter, the blue sky, "Vows, whore there is never Hood cf vows, the enigma. I never asked my mother any the Broad shining river, the happy faces, And kisses, whore the heart on one wild leap questions on the subject, nor did she vouch- the crowded boat, the green island, with lit Hangs tranced from all pulsation, at Above safe any information, But I think it was hoary ruin standing up fair and solemn The allhe rmystic between thou laity fleeting pato, very probably just ad I Bay." against the faint blue of the summer sky, Sow all their myett ;guile with tleoting stare:' " Judith never mentioned Mrs, Ruther- Whenever I can do so unobserved by th • (To BE CONTINUED.) The White Feather. It is well known that the phrase, "To show the white feather," is a synonym for cowardice, and it 'le said that no gamecock has a white feather. This expression must formerly have had a different meaning, as it arose during the war between the early set- tlors and the North Amerioan Indiana. A Quaker, who refused to fly for safety, on clay saw a band of Indians swooping down upon his home. As the tenets of his faith would not allow him to receive them with a volley of powder andball, he invited them in, and net food before them. The good, hearty meal so softened the savage heart that, on leaving, the chief fastened a white feather on the door as a badge of friendship and peace, Although of tor this many savage bands passe 1 that dwelling, none over vio- lated the treaty by injuring the house or its inmates, Old age is a tyrant that forbids the plea- sures of youth on pain of death,