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THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 3. 1881.
She Poet's Corner.
lanae LsNrtew.
She sits, bent o'er with wrinkled tree,
Pow and fork/rely old; an Ipso*
tinioutha the sharp angles of her
Long buffeted by llfe's slow . c,a.
All else emit 1s fine and fair;
The stained Iltght falls, a golden glare.
lar seeming mockery urn her louse, grey hair.
The preacher, taut y arrayed.
Tells how our h far have strayed.
And how ell souls s ould be content
With theeli good ble*sings God has sent,
Ai.d one, of all that self -poised throng,
things on his word*, nor deems thein long,
And humbly thinks only her heart is wrong.
She meekly mumbles o'er the hymn.
Her eyes with age rod teardrops dlin.
[What can the gay world hold for her
This worn and weary worshipper?
Nuw rustling down the aisles iu pride,
They toes bright smiles on every side,
Nor does she know the hurts such fair looks
hide.
And still she sits with tear -wet flue.
As loth to leave that sacred place;
The organ. with quick thunders riven,
Lifts her sad, trembling sue( to heaven.
She feels a sense of blieerul rest;
Her bony hands across her breast
She elespe. and lowly sighs, "God knoweth
beat r'
One day. within some grander gate,
Where kings and ministers must watt,
While she hopes humbly :or low place,
Far from the dear Lord's shining lace,
Above the chant of heavenly choir
These words may sound with gracious fire:
"Well done. good faithful eerveut. come up
higher :"
The Peet and the *:Char.
While Col. Bangs, editoruf the Argue,
was Bitting iu his office one day, a man
whose brow was clothed with thunder
entered. Fiercely seizing a chair, he
slammed his hat on the table, hurled his
umbrella on the floor, and sat down.
"Are you the editor " he asked.
"Can you read writing
"Of course."
"Read twat, therl," he said, thrusting
at the Colonel an envelope with an in-
scription on it.
"B—" said the Colonel, trying to
spell it.
''That's not a 8, it's an S," said the
man.
"S ' Oh, yea, I see. Well the words
look a little like 'Salt f 'r Dinner,' said
the Colonel.
"No, sir,' replied the .man; "nothing
of the kind. That'* arty- name—am'1
H. Brunner. .I knew you couldn't read.
I called to see about that poets of mine
you printed the other day„on the "Sur-
cease of Sorrow.' ”
"I don't remember it," said the Col.
"Of course you don't; because it went
into the paper under the infamous title
of'Smearcase To -morrow.'."
"A stupid blunder of the compositor,
I suppose.''
"Yes, sir; and that is what I want to
see you for. The wet that poem was
multilated Was simply scandalous. I
haven't slept a night since. It exposed
me to derision. People think I am an
ass. Let me show you."
"Go ahead," said tho Colonel.
"The first line, \.-hen I wrote it. read
in this manner :
'Lying by a weeping w,llow. underneath a
gentle elope.'
That is beautiful, poetic, affecting. Now,
how did your vile sheet present it to the
pnblic ? There it is. Look at that !
Made it read in this way :
'Lying to a weeping widow; to induce her to
e elope.'
Weeping widow, mind you ' a widow +I
This is ton much ! It's enough to drive
a man t:ra-ty."
"I'm sorry," stud'thtColouel, "but
"But Look a' here, at the fourth verse,"
said thespoet; that's worse yet. What I
said was :
'Cantthem the 1K'arl.,dirt:' )More the �wir.e. and lose
in the
1 wrote that out clearly and distinctly,
in a plain, round hand. Now, what
does your compositor do ? Does he
catch the Burse of that beautiful senti-
ment ? Does it sink into his soul ' No,
sir ! He ,.r;ta it up in this fashion :
'Cart thy pills hefore the mantis". and love
them if they hurt.'
Now, isn't that a cold-blooded outrage
on a ntan'e feelings ? 1'11 leave it to you,
if it isn't !"
"it's hard, that's a fact, said the
Colonel.
"And then take the fifth verse. In
the original manuscript it said, plain as
daylight :
•Take awe_ thejingling money: it is only glit-
tering dross.'
A man e ith only one eye. and a cats -
tact ovc- that, could have read the
words correctly. But your pirate np-
etaire there—do you know what he did i
He made it read •
'Take away the jeering monkeys ss. ,. enredy
glandes• 1 boss.'
By George ! T feel like braining hum
with s shovel. I was never s•) cut up in
my life."
"It was natr.ra:, too. said the Colo-
nel.
"There, tot inetapct, was the sixth
verse. I wrote :
i ate weary with the tossing of the ocean as it
hes vis
It is a lovely line. tont but im%gine my
horror and the anguish of my family
when 1 opened your paper, and saw the
line trsneforined into
'I as weimft ontmytrousers. tin t; cy're ogee
st tlesglow,
That is a little too mu :1 ' That seems to
ne like carrying the thing en inch or
e w•. too far 1 think I bare a cvnstite.
[tonal right nr ringside 'liA' - lnpnsitnr
ilor ' v
"I think you lava"
Let the read you eR. Rl.g. TIM*. I
wrote :
•i seen the thea dying *ogVWees eu 1roam along
dip
And Ifsel my soul awakes se the eeetaay that
Now; what do you suppose your misera-
ble oukast turned that into 1 Why,into
this
'1 smell the trying shoes, as they roast alung
the halls,
And I peal way sole .*taken In the erotary
that wklrls.'
Gibberish, sir, awful gibberish. I roust
slay that malt. Where is he r
"He's out just now," said the Colonel.
"Come in to -morrow,"
"I will," said the poet. "And I will
come armed."
Then he put un his hat, shouldered
his umbrella, and drifted off down stairs.
- -Max Adeler.
Navels and Nevel•Wrttlag.
The1author of "John Halifax" thus
tells her experience and practice:—"How
do you write a novelr' has been asked
me hundreds of times; and as half the
world now write novels, expecting the
other half to read them, my answer,
given in plain print, may not be quite
useless. What other novelists do I
know not, but this has been my way—
a5 aa.. For, I contend, all stories that
are meant to live must contain the germ
of life, the egg, the vital prinpiple
Therefore, the first thing is to fix on a
central idea, like the spine of a human
being, or the trunk of a tree. From it,
this one principal idea, proceed all after -
growths; the kind of plot which shall
best develope it, the characters which
must act it out, the incidents which will
express these characters, even to the
conversations which evolve and describe
these incidents—all are sequence follow-
ing one another in natural order. Every
part should be made subservient to the
whole. You must have a foreground
and background and a middle distance.
If you persist in working up the charac-
ter, or finishing minutely one incident er
series of incidents, your perspective will
be destroyed and your novel become a
mere collection of fragments, not a work
of art at all. The true artist will al-
waya be ready to sacrifice any pet detail
to the- perfection of the whole. This, if
I have put my meaning clearly, shows
that a conscientiously written novel is by
no'meane a piece of impulsive, acciden-
tal scribbling, but a deliberate work of
art; that though in one sense it ie alio a
wore of nature, since every part ought
to result from and be kept subservient
to the whole, still, in another, the novel
is the last thing that ought to bo allowed
to say of itself, like Topsy, "S'pects I
growed." Not even as to the mere writ-
ing of it. Style or composition, though
to some it comes naturally, to others it
does not come at all. When I was
young, an older and more experienced
writer once said to me, "Never use two
adjectives where one will do; never use
an adjective at all where a noun will oto
Avoid italic,, notes of exclamation,
foreign words and quotation,. Put full
stops instead of colons; make your sen-
tences as short and clear as you possibly
can, and whenever you think you have
written a particularly fine sentence, cut
it nut." We novelists cannot help but
smile when asked if such and such a
character is taken from life, rind especi-
ally when ingenious critics persist in
identifying --usually falsely—certain per-
sons, places or incidents. For rte, I
can only may that during all the years I
have studied humanity I never met with
one human being who could hare been
put into a book, as a whole, without in-
juring it. The only time I ever at-
tempted (by request; to make a study-
frout nature—absolutely literal—all re-
n
viewers cried out to my extreme amuse-
ment, "That character is altogether un-
natural."
The Art of t'esspesltlea.
Even Gladstone has bemoaned the
trouble his graceful periods coat him.
"Every one," he once said bitterly,
"writes better, because he writes faster
than i." The account given by Rous-
seau of the labor his smooth and lively
style cost him is so curious thnt we shall
let him tell his own tale. "My manu-
scripts blotted, scratched, interlined,
and scarcely legible, attest the trouble
they cost ane. There is not one of them
which I hare not been obliged to tran-
scribe four or five times before it went
to press. I could never do anything
when placed at a table pen in band; it
must ba walking among the rocks or in
the woods; it is at night in my bed(,
during my wakeful hours, that I oom-
pose — it may be, judging how slowly,
particularly for it man who has not the
advantage of verbal memory. Some of
my periods I have turned or returned in
my head five er sit nights before they
were fit to be put to paper."
f Salopien pariah clerk seeing a wo-
nun crooning the church -yard with a
bundle and a watering -can, followed herj
curious to know what her intentions
might be, and discovered Nut she was a
widow of • few months' standing. In-
quiring what she was going to do with
the watering -pot. she informed him that
she had lagged some grass seed to sow
upon her htnband's gore, and had
brought a little water to make it spring
up quickly. The clerk told her there
was no nooaai ,n for her to take that
ttbti?ble--the (rare would h6 green in
goat( time "Ah, that may he,' was the
frank reply: "hut my poor hualvtnd made
me pr•odtise not to marry again until the
Ernshad grown over his grape; and,
having a gond offer. I don't wigh 1.
break my word OT loser es 1 aer innQrr
than 1 eon hely.
When is wine like tobacco ! When
is in a pipe.
"How du you like the Episcopal
service 1" asked Jones. "Never heard
it," replied Fogg. "It was quite early.
and so I began reading the serice. I
didn't read far though before !found
that it would never du fur nie So -
came out." "Why, what was the
trouble r "Tis, vutn)) collections."
''Too many cuUeotionar "Yes, on al-
most every page it said 'collect' One
colluctiun is all that I eau afford to re-
spond to. Must be awfully expensive
to be an Episcopalian." —1.Bnston Trans-
cript.
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and get a trial bottle for ten cents, or a
regular site for $1. For sale by F. Jor-
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PAY UP.
BEING now out of business on account of
the fire, it is necessary that all debts owed
me should be settled early. I take this oppor-
tunity of .festring all concerned to pay up at
once.
1778-2m GEORGE CATTLE.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING DECIDED
TO
RETIRE FROM THE
Grocery Business,
will, on Monday next commence to sell
AT AND BELOW (-'UST
his entire stock of
CHINA,
GLASSWARE,
GROCERIES,
SHOP FURNITURE, etc.
TE RMS ( 'ASH
H. COOKE•
Goderich, 27th A ra.
1781.
To THE PUBLIC:—
Haring disposed of my Photo
Rosiness in Goderich, I would take this
rtunity h, retura thanks Pr the many
arors received since commencing business
here seven years ago. For my successor,
Mr..Yallows, 1 bespeeek a continuance of
the patronage so kindly tendered me, and
knowing him to possess superior ability,
predict fur hint a succ.nfltl business career.
Respectfully,
R. R THOMPSON,
Photo.
\With reference to the above I would inform
all interested that my aim will be to produce
work at the Lowest Prices consistent with
Good Quality, and shall *pare no pains to give
satisfaction.
A tine assortment of Albums, Frames, &c.,
to hand in a few days.
A call solicited.
R. SALLOWS,
Photo. Blake'* Block. nderich.
OSuccessor 10 R. R. Thompson.)
N.B.-Ae I have alhthe Negatives made by
R. R. Thompson previously to my taking the
business, parties wiahingduplfcatee will please
send me their ordrs.
R. SALLO\VS,
Fhotografo.
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FOR 1881_
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Ar
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AFTER TEE FIRE.
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I have pleasure to state that despite the inoenvenienoe 1 was put to in my business bl
the recent fire in my premises, that I am now 1n full blot again. prepared to give the greatest
bargains in uoderlch in
STOVES, TINWARE, LAMP GOODS,
and every other line in the business.
1 would also return my thanks to the Fire Brigade and people of Oaderiok Inc the suc-
cessful
arcessful efforts in caving my property in my absence from home, at the late fire -
John Story.
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recommend it for all wasting diseases of the
system.
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y C. A. BLACK, M. D.
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community. to make the following statement:
About three years ago my eldest daughter was
taken with a severe cold which settled on her
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worse, and appeared to be in the last and hope -
Ices stage of consumption. The Doctor said he
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Before she had used the first bottle, she felt
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she got inarrird IS months ego, and has now
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1 In addition to the ordinary lines of the Grocery and Crockery Trade, I carry a fu stock of
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11 'i MOTTO is.
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Coal Oil also sold. Seejnty Stock and get my prices.
t3 -Goods delivered to any part of the
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1,
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BEWARE OF AMERICAN COi'NTER-
FEITS. --I most respectfully take leave to call
the attention of the Publicgenerally to the tact
that certain Houses in New York are sending to
many parts of the globe aPORtoue t4rtTtATloNO
of my P111e and Ointment. Theme trknda bear
on their labels some address In New York. I
do not allow my Medicine to be sold In any part
of the United States. I have no Agentetherre.
My Medicines are only made by me, at 533 Ox-
ford Street, London. in the Books of directions
affixed to the spurious make ie a caution warn -
Ing the Public against b•Ingdeeeived by coun-
terfeits. 1)o not he misled by thin audacious
trick• as they ori the counterfeits they pretend
todenownee. These conetcrfrite are purehaned
by unprincipled Vendors atone -half the prioeot
my Pills awl Ointment tment and are Bold to you as my
ermine Medicines. 1 most earnestly appeal to
that sense of lnstice whh•h I feel Auer i may ven-
ture upon asking from all honorable persona to
amstst me. and the Public. aster as may lie In
their power, in dennnnetngthisehameful Frand.
Each Put and Box of the Genuine Medicine
bean the Rrlti•h Government Stamp with the
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rind Ointment hfnrilg W e,r onh•r address ore
r•nwaterreif. T' .- Trade Marks of these Madi-
Inc. are registered in O(tewa. Hence any one
throngeaot the British Possessions. who mss
keep[ e.\mericanruunterfeitaforsala.ribe
prosecuted. a ignedt THOMAS HOLLOWAY
ncford Street. Londe,- Jan 1. 1576.
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