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The Wingham Times, 1889-09-27, Page 2• f• 111■111111II11AI11111t1101111l111lll111enl Milli 't4' VlJ{'R! i ipP ; f' JIGM'tool,: 'iV a.+ .., •sallagamalar- !ter"! ,2... . afford it? Frank was yreeiviest ten weary, And yet there WA a kindly be forsaken. The good Lord wilt tU1Af C dollen a mouth and hie board. With- look in the worn face and his smite provide. We are door but we 'we not out itoara, he would get sixteen. was warm and winning. •Ue looked penniless. kiho alit down close ley 1 i -- --, •--. - .--^- -- -a- ---- Kate WAN earning, very merry the into Kate's face with excessive gate.- side, holding one of! his ilat:de in IiFr 'IIIDA.Y, SEPTEMBER 27, lee°. same. Certainly, they could live on nese. own warm weep. Tell me, uncle, -- that. And, moreover, the man for Young ledy, yon—you--should be is there not so'me'thing you can do? ' whom Frank worked owned a shall Kate %Vniton's child. If you lutd a home with me, could you l,t©'s Uncle. Kate Sawyer tad kept the little village school in Oakhatnpton during stint three successive terms. Oakhamp. toe, though rather imposing in name, was hut a small place, containing per- haps a hundred families, 'with two stores, a grist -mill, a 'meetinghouse, sohool house, and several shops, be- sides its dwelling houses, When Kate had applied for the primary school, a year and a half previous to the open- ing of our story, the eouimittoe had been fearful that she would not answer the needs of the place, She was too young and too small; she could tame -else no control over the larger scholars And it was doubtful if she could have patience with the smaller ones. ' She had told them, however, .that she was eller than she lfioked. She would be twenty years of age in three 'months from that date ; and, . as for .ability, she would only ask to be tried,. When they asked her for references,. ,he had none to give, save one poor family, in the etate of Maine, who had reared her from early childhood. Sbe did not think she had a relative living at all events, she knew of no such thine. She had lost both of her par- •ents while in her infancy, and might have been a pauper but for the kind- ness of an old friend of her father, who had taeen her and brought her cottage, in the edge of the village, Date wan startled, but she answer- not do something to earn a little whioh be would rent them very cheap- ed, prmneptly. money ? 1 ask for your own sake. ly, Yen,—they could afford to be My usotber'e name was Este ; and Yon shall live with ulo ; if you could married, and begin the hill of life she was a Walton before elle took ray earn something, you alight add to together. ' father's .name. your own comforts Upon reckoning up their assets they Aud he was Ferry Sawyer? Bless you, darling, I will find found that, together, they could coin- Yes, sir. plenty to do—never fear. I3ut,— mand one hundred and twenty dollars I have heard of him, but I never what will your lover say ? How will in ready money. That was the 0ui4 saw hale, he like the idea of your taking an old of the savings of both of them since Ife would have said more, but Kate and shattered uncle into your home they had been in the receipt of. moues bethought her that he was standing 'which he hopes will be his ? and that would furnish the little cot- there in the chill dampness, and she Uncle Abner, she responded, with tage very comfortably ; at all events, bade hilus come in where it was dry calm and seusible resolution, Israeli, it would furnish two or three rooms and warm. like myself, is an orphan, without and they would ask no more. One word before I come in, be said. known relatives. I can only think : But asst -back was coming which with a world of longing in his worn suppose'he were to find a dear old they had net anticipated. / change face, Did you ever hear your mother uncle -- his sainted mother's only had been made in the superintending speak of her ecapegraoe brother,- brother -0 ! how gladly 1 would school committee. One of the old Abner 1 welcome him, and try Go ,make the members bad passed beyond the misty My mother died, good sir, when I eveningg of his days comm rLabie. if vale, and a new man had, been elected was. very young: but I know that Frank cannot do the same for rue, to fill bis place. The new man was she had a brother by that name, her then.—then—he is not .the Frauk I Deacon Jonas Hopewell—a large, red- only brother, have taken him to be. faced, pompous,seif•satiefied man, who .One word more young lady ; Ifyou Well, well.—before we decide upon telt himself to be a pillar and a strong were to find your utiother's brother the matter your Frank d Ian he in• support of society, both civil and reli could you give. him a place in your yenned, and he shall apse for him- gases, Jonas Hopewell—had living love ?•--in your ,heart's true love? self. with hila an impecunious niece-eaHer answer was quick and ampul And so they left it for alae time. maiden lady cif uncertain • age—whom sive, With Kate, a deep true lova fur her he had supported for many years; that Oh ! yes ! yes l In all the world I mother's brother --for the pi?e relative is he thought he had, supported her ; know not a relative. O ! if he would she could cliitnl on earth—had entered but, in truth, there could hardly have love me, I could love -him with all my her hearts, and ecorne a part of her been found in Oakhamptfin a harder heart, and thank God for having being, She put her arms around his worked maiden than she . was. given him to me ! neck and kissed him with the same However Air Hopewellas soon as he I wilt come in, Kate. `faith and trustfulness' that she might up. The wife of the man who had had been elected a member of the thus befriended her had died only a school committee, went at work for year before,, thus breaking up the the l,Yemoval of Kate Sawyer, and family, and throwing herself out upon the putting of his niece in her place. 'the world. Or,,she• had preferred to The other two members of the board goout into the world, anbravely seek were bitterly opposed at heart, but her own fortune, to retaining a bur- they could not openly atand out against den upon others. So sbb had wander- Deacon' Hopewell, so shortly after ed off into Vermont,and had at length Kate hadclosed•her thirdterm of the heard of the want of a female teacher school she was duly notified of her die - at Oakhampton. missal. At first the committee had decided, Never mind the deep and bitter :flatly and squarely, that they did not feelings of opposition that spread wan her; but, when she had told her throughout the village when this story --so honestly and so bravely,— movennent of Deacon Hopewell's be - 'confessing herself to be almost a pea came known. It was heart -sent and per; and when they had found that 'out -spoken, but it could not avail to 'she knew vastly moreabout reading, help the real sufferer. writing, parsing,nnd ciphering than Kate was cut to the quick. She they did; and further, moved, perhaps had come to love her school -to love by herpersonal beauty—the magnetism it dearly ; and she • knew that the of her blue eyes, and her ruby, amil- scholars all -loved her; and beyond ing lips—when all this hadbrought its this, the loss of her income as teacher influence upon them,they had oonclud- would seriously affect liar prospects in ed to bire her. And they had hired relation to the new life she had been her and she bad kept the school so happily contemplating. She and through the first term of five months Frank talked it all over, and after long and then another term, and a third ; and serious disoussion,the young black - for` never before had the primary smith laid down the final proposition school of Oakbampton been kept and as follows : - .taught so successfully. Darling, with a kiss; it will cost us In the matter of government oho no more to live es man and wife than had not had a particle of difficulty it now costs as to live single. But from first to last. She had oomrnenc•, suppose, by and by, the cost should be ed by winning the hearts of her pupils more,have we the energy to meet it 1 and beyond all that was easy. And What is life ? I might live all alone in she taught things that had never been an alpine cavern, but it would not be 'taught in the school before. She true life. No . it is national happiness taught drawing and painting, and she that make life worth living. Kerte; .1 taught music. During her childhood have thought it all over and have -re - :she bed enjoyed free access to a neigh- solved that we shall marry. 1 have bor's pianoforte; and, furtbermore, plenty of ever -work through the coin - had been blessed with the teaching of ing. winter ; while You, if you choose' an able professor—a toaster of the so to do, can have all the scholars in tit. music • and in fine needlework that you Kate not only taught music in her cancomfortab•yattendto. And he went school but there were two families in on to give other reasons, but Kate fin- 'Oakhnlpton able to own each a piano ally interrupted him. She had come -forte, and in these two families she to feel just as he did. For herself she taught. Also, a small reed organ had had no fear; if he felt as sure for him - been purchased for the meeting- self,then married . they would .be. 1'ouse, and this she played on the And the day was set, - e at,hath. It was on a chill ' autumn day -a Kate Sawyer had made many friends day drizzly, dark, and disagreable-- ru Oakhnmpton, and not one enemy ; that Kate Sawyelt sat in the small ! present time, even to her proposed• hot her hest and dearest friend was sitting room of Widow Oolby's cottage marriage with Frank Bemis. Fronk Bemis, who worked in the engaged in copying a musio lesson for Well, well, he paid, after a silence said her uncle, taking her hand and success of great generals, one is as- b'acltstnith's shop, where be had sere- one of her pupils There was a piano•that was becoming oppressive, I kiesi>tg her. Let's get my luggage tonished to find that they did every - ed his time as a blacksmith, and was forte in the room, a sutall, wellworn plainly see.that I must soon be on in dismiss the team, and, then we'll thing necessary to insure them. now et work on his second year as a affair, belonging to the parents of a my wanderings again, Yet I shall talk. journeyman. Het was an orphat., like girl who had been her pupil. The forever hold deep in my heart the Frank Bemis chanced to be passing Chronic Coughs and Colds, 1. herself, and if he hacl relatives loving family had gone away to a distant sweet memory of this blessed hour ! just as the waggon was beim; driven - And all Diseases of the Throat and Lnnge can be he did not know them. Ile was now State to;spend the cold season, and And 1 shall henceforth, while my away, and naturally enough he came cured by the use of Scott's Emulsion, sett contain. two and twenty; a' stout, handsome --the instrument had been given into poor life shall last know that I have in, and we` can fancyhis surprise thehoaliett rtvesol Cod Ltvorohtl and:11:1:11.:7; Iypophos• � P phttes 1n their fullest Corm, Seo what CV S Dauer, Zq • li: eutiful youth ; steady and indus, . Kate's caro and keeping for the time a relative living. " Do you know Kate, upon beholding the wonderful meta-, D,0I', etc, Truro, N s, says: After three years' trious; with not a lead habit that he and a, blesslux R sing to her it proved. Thus a had allowed the foolish thought to morphosis in Kate's uncle, overseas lconsider Scott's lauulsion One of thevery knew to be such. His highest source sat Kate—now writing, and, anon, .possess me that, if I should ever find 'There, my children, the ne comer = b0st in the tnarket. Very oxcelitnt it,Throat affec- t! ons. Sold by all Druggists, 60o. and 11. of enjovaiont beim,' the society of turning to the ivory keys, and proving my dear sister's child, I methal . never said, We will have no more asguer- She led him into - the comfortable have 'given to a father. ., Welt, 1 resolved that I would up Kate's child if it eltou:d he liviir'. For one whale fear I have eel •la bearelling. Never tried theary�iy disnppoititments, Tills moment 1 • all right ---makes all hri;;ut at ed. Kate ! Frank 1 Brave, tree 'homes ! Henceforth be to we children; ,love rue, and all the good that wealthcart give shall bo yours. How people wondered when they heard the story ; and how many there were who envied the fortunate inaicien and the lucky blacksimith. ,Before the snow flew the school - committee of Oaklrampton were afar Kate Sawyer to Wei the village school for the fourth term. Deacon Hope - well's niece had tried her hand at it, and had not proved a succes& lu short, the scholars had risen in rebel- lion, and the elderly maiden had beets forced to give np. But Katie Sawyer could not give them further circle'; she was engaged, for then, and for all coming time, in a calling fur moto congenial and more blessed than even the tenchiti; of the little ones whom *- she she still loved, truly and devotedly, Aye,—she wase engaged to bl,als a happy home, furnished by good Une le Abner, where her dear Frank would be 'taster; where she was to be mis- tress : whet a Kate's uncle was to see the full fruit of hist, brightest hopes e and where joy and gladness should crown the devoted love of true and loyal hearts. —The greatest of all poetry is a girl's first love letter; sitting room, where a genial fire burn- When Mrs. Colby came i and had SI1ILou's Con Mill immediately relieve ed upon the hearth, and there she been introduced to the old turned to him and put forth her had heard his story, she rat hands. him. There was somethin; You—you—are my mother's broth. frank and kindly face that er—my uncle Abner ? confidence ° in the outset, and she Yes, sweet ohild,l an ,.thewanderer, agreed that she would board hila for I am poor and needy—as poor, I as email a sum as she could possibly have been as man can be; but this afford. 1 tell you truly, solemnly ; I am ;an In the evening Frank Bemis came, honest man. ten these hands of mine and he was introduced to Kate's there is no statin of evil -doing. 1 uncle ; but she preferred to tell him never wronged a. fellow being. Will .the story alone, so she led him into you give me welcome ?. ' another room, and there, with the His two hands'were out stretched. doors closed, she 'told him all. For a and she, without a thought of hese- tittle time he was sober and -thought- tation, threw her armsaround his fur, At length he took Kate -to his neck, and kissed him upon the cheek bosom, and kissed her, and told her He clasped her to his bosom ,• deep she• had done right. He then went —The man who believes in 'ethane sobs buret from his lips, and great to Abner and told him the same, is as big a fool as he who believes . in everything. Croup, WhoopingCocgh and Bronchitis. For sale by tan, and C. E. Williams. er liked _.People who call each other liars in his often get hurt for telling the truth. on her A NesAL INSSCTon free witb each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price SO cent's: Por Bale by 0. E. Williams. —It's odd how much food a horse can go without, and still bee no faster; Aon you made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Shin ? Shilohfa Vitalizer is a poli• tive cure. For sale by C. E. Williams —The son who goes to work in a mill represents the hour of the family. SmILOE'9C3ATAaanREMEDY—a. positive cure for Catarrh,Diphtheria and Canker Mouth. /:'or sale by C. E. Williams. tears 'coursed • down his furrowed The old man returned his thanks cheeks like rain. a - as best he could, and then resumed By and by, ,when Kate's uncle could his seat ; and the rest of the evening compose himself, they satdown, and, panned pleasantly and happily. As he looked around, and presently he Kate afterwards said it Seemed to asked her if what he saw belonged to her, at times, as though an angel her—if he was in her own home. had come in amongst them. She No, she said sweetly smiling—and played on the piano, and she and yet there was sadness in the smile—I Frank sang in concert, and the good am but a poor; tenant here. I board old uncle sat, with tears trickling with the widow who 'owns the cot- 'down his cheeks, his face seeming sage. The pianoforte belongs ' to a to be framed in a halo of glory. gentleman to whose daughter I gave On the following morning, after music lessons, and'he has given the breakfast, Kate's uncle said he must instrument into my charge while hego away for a few hours. He must and his faint? are away,he Next he. as ed Kate if she,would had occasion to top a few dayso to an adoininwn,Qre befr.re play for him. 'It had been a •very and where he had left some • of his long time since he had •heard sweet luggage. He would be home to tea. music. She sat down at once, and ran her Thefalday passed, and, juin at night - She finers ,over the keye, and far half outertdooate heard a knock upon the an hour filled the air with the rich mons, door. She answered the sum - an melody of true music --that grand old and found— yes, it was her heart music which all of us love, and In place of thepoets, stiutteredPreold which so few venture to play, man was a man in the prime of life Whet she had resumed her seat healthful and vigorous, dressed in a near the fire, and her uncle had 'plain but costly garb his linen pure thanked her for the pleasure she 11ad and spotless while a diamond, gleam - given him, they talked for a time of ing like a stellar' fire, adorned his 'pant ; and he drew from her the bosom. Atthe gate was • awaggon, simply story of her life, from her in charge of a driver, and Kate saw earliest remembrance 'down to thetwo largo trunks therein, together with one or two smaller packages. Not a word here, my darling niece, Wiry will you cough when Shiloh's Cure will give you immediate relief? Price 10e, . 50o. and O. For sale by C: L.Williams. —iOne of the most effectual ways of pleasifig and of making one's self, loved is to be cheerful. Joy softens ' more -hearts than tears. FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails t., cure. For salty by C. 11. Williams. --Lady-1 thought I told you Is wanted curried potatoes for dinner. . Bridget—The hostler was busy, mum, and I'm• no groom. •- Tun Rev. GEo. H. TuAvzn, oil Bourbon, . Ind., says: "Both myself and : wise owe our lives to SnXLon's ColtsUMPTrotr Cons." For sale by C. B. Williams. "There is no excuse tor .a man's coming to grief," said the plsilantbro• . pist tourist to. a travelling companion. "Why not?" "Because he would have. to wait but very little longer if ho were to set stilt and let grief `come to him." Consumption Surely Cured. To Tns EiITOa: -lease inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its tnnely use thousands of hopeless eases glove boon cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles 0f my remedy Atli' to any of your readers who have consumption if thoy will send Ins their Express and P. 0, address, Respectfully, Ds. T. A. SLUOL1tS 104 west Adelaide St., Toronto; Ont• —When one seeks the canna of the .Kate, with her to chat, to read, to what she had written --when she was part from her ! But, .alas 1 it cannot ading. Just about one year ago,' One hundred and thirty thousand sing, ai.d to study. And, it had now interrupted by a loud rap upon the - be, I must not be a burden upon away in California, I counted up my persons slept in the New York station or.rne that they talked of love. Yes, . outer door. Site was nearest and she your young life t No,—no.wealth, and found that I had far' houses during a year. The larger-: --he had loved lier ever since he had went to answEr. She was up in 'a moment, with her more than I could ever spend.' number . of thew were, in previous first S, f• 11 her in the village choir, It was a manwho had rapped --an arms around his neck. Where 1 could at the utmost legit:- years, men ; now the majority are wheat he end sang for several years;' eldrly man, perhaps five and fifty, of Dear uncle,—have you, anywhere mately spend hundreds, 1 had in women. ttls_1 elle bad loved hies since she had medium height and size, with a face in the world, a home to which you possession, safe and sure, thousands, - envies to usaitn,s.•••Areyou disturbed at night come to know how good anti true he that might at some time have been can goo And now 1 thought for the beat en- and broken of your rest by a sink child suffering and lr0 Data, trying with pain of Cutting Teeth? lit so send at wnhi handsome, but now worn'and sad, the , There never lived a joyment of the remainder of my life, Onccand got n bottle of "hire. Winslow's Soothing We have 'introduced Kate to the skin deeply embrowned by exposure to ' man. more utterly homeless than I am Where have I one true friend ? I did feeile;p rto°rwiuldeoll slettiier' peer° ittties leygere. reader' et the close of this third term sun and storm ; his grab very poor, at this moment. When 1 go out not know of one. Have I A relative ter l {10 t.Dependt ureon lttl@� medium ; there is no 1)y try and tarrhora, of the �vrllage school, because, at this though in every way clean,and poverty from here. I know not whither my living ? If 1 have one, it must be lily roaulatee the Stomach and Rowele, ouroewindColto, time. s(1e and Frank lid seriously ',tamped upon the whole personality. steps will lead me. Throughout the sister's child. I knew she had A tonttrn4na a° a ilio• howholen lancer ion, an gar°`, trtlkl-;! of marriage. For a year they In one hand he carried a `well -work world --saving that one place where daughter maned after herself—Kate— btow'e soothhy syrup" for cl>lldrah toethi glia had regarded margin a as a possible leathern portmanteau,and in the othee my sister's child may dwell—all places because she wrote to me to that effect theodestandl t°table* phhgeici a end n�,r°,ai n event; but now they were thinking of is stout oeken staff ; his limbs shook are alike to me.l;Zl,ortly before she died. Ah t 1 was the United Statue, and ie for Bale by all drigrriate throuirhout the world. Price % tydlve carie s •, Then, dear ttaole, vt�'il -part no poor• then; and from that day .f bottle. Be sure ane eek cos, "StiW: wttirmoN•s i�Xing sirs date of its . nsutnlnation. � es with weakness and fatlgLta, and haat 'ills', ;,Suot�glxee simmer." And tube noathorTtind,, The first gtte nice �--Could thus rtoiOe mals u the voted of once worn and, more 1 The righteonr man shall net never heard from homes again. e