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P0WEH PKESS PRINTINO HOUSE,
• Ontario Street, Clinton.
$2 40 a .Year—$1.g5 424 Advance.
khat' t e4Ote,Oartiptilarti his goet,
but h -didn't 41uppoite i,k would' it
would itver ?ale '140 fglyneeinte,,
'Ile thtfoght liquid 4tte ,irltoot 'o
an'imal,;;rtdieti qd , tNere,1 and t ok
out, hie pito': 0.1 yelled'to Iiiinif
he fired into the goat it would be
sure deatktb ail of us. Rubinson
thought at and crawled around the
tree to get a good shot at the beast.
I begged and prayed- githAiin not
to shoot. 1 bared my breast and told
him if he must shoot to shoot me
first, as it would amount ,to that if
The propdetorsof THE Genoa:tut Nzws,
.having purchased .the business and plant he fired at the goat, loaded' as it was
of DIE HURON Itneonn, will in future with that awful stuff. I never was
ublish the amalgamated papers in Clinton,
so
nder the title of "THE Hullos NEWS-
outraged by any one as I was by
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the way Robinson acted. He
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would crawl around the tree, level
Clinton is the most prosperous town in
t
Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable his pistol at the goa, call it pet
manufacturing, and the centre or the finest names to get it to stand still so he
griculturat section in Ontario. could get a shot, atop and examine
Tho combined circulation of TH E NEWShis pistol and go through more
ttEconn exceeds that of any paper pub- motions than you ever saw in your
lished in the County of Huron. it is,
life. All the\ time I was begging
therefore, unsurpaesed as an
medium. hint not to shoot and thus murder
us in cold blood. At last he said
tarltates of advertising liberal, and
furnished on application. if I took that view of it he wouldu't
ea -Parties making contracts for a sped- shoot. Pretty soon he said : •
tied time who discontinue their advertise. If I was down on the ground I
ment, before the expiry of the same, will
be charged full rates. would boot the daylights right out
uf that blamed goat," aud then he
Advertisements, without instructions as
to space and time, will be lelf to the judg-
ment of:the compositor in the pisplay, in-
serted until .forhidden, measured by a
scale of solid nonpareil (12 lines to the
inch), and charged 10 cents a line for first
insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub-
sequent insertion. • Orders to discontinue
advertisements must be in writing.
itair' Notices set as READING si.arrna,
Oneastued by a scale of solid Nenpariel, 12
lines to the ineh) 'charged at the rate of
10 (tents a line for each insertion.
JOB WORK.
We.have one of the best appointed Jot.
Offices west- of Toronto. Our facilities in
this department enable us to do all kinds
of work—from a calling card toe mammoth
poster, in the best styie known to the
traft, and at the lowest possible rates
Orders by mail .promptly attended to.
Address
The News -Record,
Clinton. Ont
The Huron News -Record
C.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance.
Sar The man does not do just,W loh husineas
mho spends less an advert:sing than he does in
rent. I A. T. STxwAaT, the millionaire anerehan
of New York.
Wednesday, Sept. Mb, 1889.
THE GOAT WAS LOADED.
We used to freeze our nitro gly-
cerine out in the oil couutry to
make it safe to handle, said Uncle
Silas Bowersux. Oue• day Jim
RobineUn and me wit-ehooting a
• well on his place, and there was
about R pound irf the nitro-glycerine
.left etveree after charging the torpedo-
Rhell. We forget all about this
•cbunk of 'deadry stuff,' and before
we knew whet the cussed thing was
up to Jito's goat tante along and
A swallowed the explosioe at one
gulp. A pouud of nitro glycerine,
mind you, is enough to blow up a
wholesteamboat, to say nothing of
a goat. We knew that. as soon as
the warmth of the goat's stomach
had thawed out the glycet•iue the
:slightest shock would explode it :
and neither the goat nor any one in
the vicinity would ever know what
leurt 'em. 1 tell you it was a fear -
situation to be in, for there was
no telling what the •darned goat
would do. Robinson picked up a
tittle to throw at it in order to chase
it. away, and if he had hit the anim-
al we wonld both have been blown
to' •kingdon come. I grabbed his
arin just in .the nick of time.
Tho goat was an ornery cues, full
,of fight, and when he saw Jim make
the motion to throw he was 'right
•for a fuss in a minute. He put
his nose down to the ground, jump-
ed stiff legged towards ris as if he
was goin to butt, and, holy smoke,
you oughtto have seen us fly !
" Run for your lifer yelled Jim,
And yon bet I did.
shinned up the first tree I could
reath, and trim got up otennot far
away. The goat deuced up to my
tree and placing his feet against the
trunkseemed to regret that ho had
left his telegraph creepers at .liorne.
'Then he backed otr a few steps like
he was measuring off the ground to
give it just one butt for luck.
THO e0AT TREES DOWERSOX.
Jim yelled at me for God's sake to
look out, and I yelled at 111111 in
heaven's name to call off his goat,
but ho said he had no influence
over the urinal when he was enrag-
ed, :and allowed the best thing we
could to was to keep still. Ho
would probably col down pretty
soon and go away, when we could
some down and make a sneak. I
retninded him that while the goat
was eeroliug down the uitro•glycer-
ine was getting warm and it vory
alight disturbance would send it off.
Then, I say, where will we be?
" You've been around glycerine
long enough to know where we will
be," replied Robinson. " We will
be blown sky high, and the only
reeleetning feature I see is that we
already have a eight start by being
well up these trees."
I reproached Robinson bitterly
for harboring the goat in the .first
place, but he said he had no idea it
would ever bring him to such peril.
Ifs knew goats wore careless about
threatened to go dowu.
Of course I begged hint not to
think of doing as foolish a thing as
that, telling him that the very
minute he booted that goat that
was the end of this world for us.
He might as well kick a can of
nitro-glycerine at once.
" Well, dog -nab the beast," he
would say. "I don't want to stay
up in this tree forever. We might,
as well be blown up as starve to
death."
I told him succor would surely
ceme, and then I would yell at the
top of my voice for help. At last,
Rdbinson declared he was going
down, goat or no goat. In vain I
told hint he Was taking his lite iu
his hands, but down the tree he
slid.
" Now, then," he says to the
goat, " you mosey away from here
or you'll hear something drop.
You dou't seem 'to recognize the
fact that you are loaded to the muz-
zle, as it were, with the most deadly
explosive known to man, and a bill'
from one of my boots would scatter
you to the four winds."
The darn fool would walk around
the goat, looking for a good chance
to lift it one, and I had to yell my-
self hoarse to keep him from doing
it. I tell you these were moments
of agony, for 1 believed that the
awful fright we received had shat-
tered Robinson's iutellect. I was
fully•convinced of it when he took
the goat by the horns, shook him
till his eyeballs fairly rattled and
told hill fur a cent be would kick. a
rib in for him.
" For. the love of high heaven,
have you lost your senses 1" 1
" Don't take any chances.
Get the animal off quietly some-
where. Tie Id 111 to a tree, and then
we. 'can get a rifle and shoot hint
from ti . safe 'distance. But, for
tuercy's sake, don't aggravate him
right here where we aro both liable
to be killed "
'Well, sit that fool of a Rubiuson
kept threatening to club the goat,
to boot hint, to shoot bit»; until I
could feel my hat lifting right up
on my head. And than what do you
think happened 1 Why, the cuse
just lifted the goat one or two biffs
and yelled up to me :
" Come down outer that tree,
you darned' old jay, and go crawl
under the bed. I knowed all the
time that I didn't leave any glycer-
ine around for goats to get hold of.
It was nothing but a ,cliunk of
tallow William swallowed."
And then Jim and William trot-
ted off together as if they had been
itt calieots iu the ornery swindle.
EDUCATION GRANTS.
Tito issue raised by Ald. Houder-
sou relative to the Ontario Govern-
ment grants to the Ottawa public
and sepleate schools, respectively,
promises to become a burning topic
in the capital. Mr. Henderson's
statements 81101V a method of doiug
business at the Education Depart-
ment which Mr. ltos ought to
clearly explain. Mr. Henderson
objects that there should be one
form for making returns for public
schools and a different one for sep-
arate schools. A graver charge has
to do with a certain ekes of build-
ings rented by the Separate School
Board, consisting of 1'00111S in con,
vents, etc., this, he contends, being
contrary to the provisions of the
Education .\ Ci.
WHEREAS.
NThereas much disease is caused
by wrong action of the stomach,
liver, kidneys, bowels and blood, and
whereas Burdock Blood Bitters is
guaranteed to cure or relieve dys-
pepsia, liver complaint, kidney some
plaint, dropsy, rheumatism, sick
headache. etc. Therefore, Be it re-
solyed that all sufferers should use
B. B. B. and be restored to health.
AT DEATH'S DOOR.
My little boy bad diarrheva and
came very near dying. After the
failure ,01 everything else we used
Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw-
berry which caused a quick tore, and
1 know of two others who were mired
by the same remedy,.
FREEMAN C. AMO,
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,PYINES—BIR GEOROE CARTIER .
DEFENDED.
MONTREAL, Sept. 16—Elou. J. A.
Chapleau publishes a letter iu La
lifinerve denouncing the, article in
the • Mail which accused him of
being- a Natioulist at heart. He
urges the Male to retnect the false-
hood that Sir George Caitier was
dislo3al. "You know, he Bays,
speaking of Cartier,' "that he was
the idol of the Eastern townships,
that advanced post •of the English
and Protestaut forces in our pro-
viuce. You know it, aud if you'd°
not 1 will tell you that you cannot
find u respectable Protestant in the
whole couutry who will not declare
above his signature that Cartier
was not a loyal Brinell subject, and
a Christianlwith broad views, utterly
devoid of feuaticism and religious
prejudices." Speaking of himself
the Secretary of State 'says:—
"Are you aware who wrote to the
Canadiaus vi Fall River iu Juno
1885, the inuele discussed letter in
which 1 unntasked Reil and show•
ed hint up under his true colors 1
Do you know that iu the columns
of the Mail you landed my courage
in the turmoil which followed the
Roil aflrii 1 If you do not know
these thiugs consult the back num-
Iters of your jotirnaleand you will
learn them, and when you have
done so read over your article of
Saturday and you will retract. If
not 1 will say that there is no shame
iu you.
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CANAVIAN
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A DEALER 1%/tfkTffI1KO TUJOIaltipT;
OrtB,arstqu.
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A prominent lorouto grain,
dealer writes as follows to The
Nein :—
"For the past year or so the
market fur Canadian barley has
.heen the canoe of mach cconceru to
local grain' well, and now a new
danger is threatened. A year ego
the mister's ,nr New York State
arrived at the conclusion that the
barley of the Western States, while
not of so good a quality as the
Canadian article, malts as well and
is cheaper. They bought sparingly
of our crop, and dealersearried over
large stocks, on which they dropped
a good deal of money.
"The situation just now Ls not
encouraging. The new crop is
ready to move, but farmers are
holding buck for better prices than
dealers feel justified in offering.
The crop this year is as large, or
larger, than last and is 'the darkest
that has been harvested for years.
Tho western barley, on the contrary,
is very bright and the yield was
very large. The farmers are selling
it at very low prices, and New York
inaleters are making contracts very
freely. There were sold in New
York the other day four cargoes of
California barley at the lowest price
ever known. It was a fine sample
of bay, brewing barley, and the
sale is earlier than has ever been
known. So if we dou't get our
own iu itt time, there will k0011 be
no market for it at all.
"But the barley market is not the
only one threatened. The situation
of oats is alarming, IRON so than
AN0THElt GRIT HOIST IN that of barley, and if the farmers
HALD1MAND. don't wake up they will fiud
selves up to the neck itt the chow -
Too ELECTION DECLARED VOID 13Y der. They are holding back' their
JUDGE FA LCONBR IDG E. oats fui • better prices, and while
they are doing so, the American
Judge Falconbridge at the Toronto dealers are stepping iu and taking
Court House Tuesday morniug do- possession of the market. Oats are
livered judgment on the Haldimand away down on the other side, and
election petition. After guiug over grain men at Detroit, Chicago and
the various charges and referrino°severainther points are looking at
copiously to the evidence adduced, the Canadian market. A Detroit
the loathed Judge decided that tire firm has just sold one hundred
election was voided through corrupt thousand bushels to millers in the
practices of agents, but without the western part of the Province Con-
kuowtedge or consent of the re- tracts are being daily made, and it
.spondent. The question of costs was is being found very profitable by
left in abeyance and will be argued the oatmeal millers to grind oats in
to -day at.0s,good Hall later on. bond. The American crop is enor•
The two principal charges, which mous and low prices will rule.
were sustained by the Gotta iu the Oats are now selling in Chicago at
judgment, were Nos. 8 and 82. 19i cents, while Interiors here ask
In No. 8 it will be remembered that 31 aud 32 cents.
the gist of the charge was that beer "It will be seen, therefore, that
wait supplied by rhe respondents' the situation is one which must bo
agents for corrupt practices. In grasped at once.. If fanners don't
82, Haslett was charged with giv- begin to sell at once they will find
iug a' voter named 13riyclges $5 to that. millers have contracted with
enable him to go to Patrolea a day Americen deniers for all they want,
or two before the eleetion; and the market will be glutted with
American oats. Toronto grain men
IR summing up the evidence re -
are doing their best to acquaint the
gardiog tile latter charge Ilis Lent -
ship said, "But there is another• fanners with this outlook, and are
element which Cannot be loft out of urging prompt action•
cousidetation, and which in my "And while oats and barley are
opinion may effectually prevent the troubling Canadian handlers of
application of the rule, and that is grain, the wheat market is also
the question whether to use the corning in for its share of attention.
worth of Mr. Justice Morris in the Cash wheat in New York is ten
Mallon case, 'Some clear, definite cents cheaper than in Toronto when
act las followed the alleged offer or the prices should be reversed.
conversation.' The definite act Prises in Ontario are far • too high,
charged in the present case is the and farmers will not come dowu.
giving of the $95 to Brydges by Our farmers don't seem to know
Leslie. Did that definite act follow when they are getting, reasonable
the offer or conversation of J311108, prices. Last:year both wheat and
in the Renee of being done in cou- barley started in— too high, and
sequence and pursuance thereof, prices kentonp all season, but this
not post hoc but propter hoc? There year the crop is too large to
is a lacuna in this history. Leslie command high figures. Millere
Flaslett was that one man %rho could will not pay an exhorbitant price."
have supplied it, and told us how it
came to pass that he, a young man,
working, for wages on his brother's
farm, with no 11101303", 11108U mably,
Last week the Central Fair was
to Spend, suddenly volunteered to
make Itrydges a present of $5. held at Ottawa. The city wore a
\Without Leslie's evidence the state- holiday appearance. From 811 pub-
mont of Ilrydgee remains unite- lic buildings flags and ensigns floati
ed in the breeze, as well as from a
peached, as to the cbcurnstances
under which he actually received large uumbee of the business houses,
the money." whilst on the main thoroughfares
every tradesman had made a special
Cominebto the question of agency,
His Lordship, in conclusion, said : effort in the decoration and prepara-
tion of his windows. The fair was
—"The evidence of agency relied
opened by lion. John Carling,
on by the petitioner is that llaslett
minister of agricrilture. Charles
has always been a Reformer, has
Alagee, president, read the address
been active for two electione, thatMagei,
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set trauma at the polls, and of welcome. Mr. Carling in reply ie was 3
, thanked the president and members
that 110 attended one i ') b porta
for their kindly allusiou to himself,
Committee meeting. No one of
and touched tersely and briefly upon
these elements is pethaps sulTioieut
tha yariutis paragraphs of the of itself to constitute Haslett au
dress having reference to his own
ad -
agent, but all taken together with
tot recognition confined on him by official career and the inauguration
of the experimental Nun. He spoke
his local chief, Mr. Roble, in view
of the state of affairs as regards barley
end at length on the great
organisation which I lve shove
naey queetion, pointing out that
ie
alluded to, eous:t.tin ine to hold tit the pteseut time the Canadian
the • bat ley growth was nut fitted to the
hint to have been on agent of
English market. Canadian barley
candidate. 1 therefore find that
was a mixed barley, though a groat
James Hulett, an agent of the re-
, deal of funr•rowed and six -rowed
spondeet,° committed the corrupt,
barley was sown, and the English
practice charged without the know -
would not touch this. They wanted
ledge or consent of the respondent.
exclusively two -rowed barley, as it
would malt with no other kind and
THErRE SOLLI) ON 1'1'. gave a 'ergo amount of extract.
England imported 40,000,000 bush -
So far not a single English news- els of barley every year. Canada
paper in Manitoba has fond a only supplied 1,600 bushels. He
word of condemnittiou of the pro- impressed upon fanners the fact
posed abolition of dual language that two -rowed herby was as early
and separate schools in the province. of cultivation and would pay as well
Even the guns of the Free Press ae mixed or other kinds. Ile then
have been spiked. The worst it referred to butter, arid pointed out
can say now is that dual language that Canadian butter was not ex -
and separate schools nee wiling, but ported for English use, being of an
to handle them just now is to join inferior quality. He argued that
Dalton McCarthy in his efforts to by paying attention to cheese the
Overthrow the Mowat government exports to England might bo largely
HON. JOHN CARLING.
inereaseal °Ma* now 8OPPlie8
magniflUout kbeestPl to Etnileitd•
atuaunti*to (one-third of the whole
qui
tintitp tupgrteC into England.
He tcoultl see tit) rely3ou why butter
should not belsenf in as well as
cheese. Passing ou, he dwelt ou
the great increase of Canadian pros.
parity, pointing out that in ten
years the railway returns had wore
than doubled. The elthibition'was
then declared duly opened.
INIMME=01•11.111
THE GRAND AND GAY OLD
MAN.
Sir John A Macdonald opened
the Toronto Exhibition last week.
Among other remarks the old chief-
tain said " I have no doubt I
shall see a great improvement in
the Exhibition over the one that I
saw twu. years ago, great and
magnificent as that was. I •would
like, however, to ask one question
of you, Mr. President, in order
that I may know whether you are
equal to the exhibition I saw a year
ago at Kingston. I want to know
it you have a set of ballet dancers
to R11111140 the people. (Leughter.)
Mr. Withrow (smiling)—" Well,
I don't know about that."
• Sir John—I eee heehas failed in
that respect. He has evidently be-
come grave'enough to be a Senator.
(Laughter.) I never was more sur -
pi ised in my life, and agreeably sur-
prised, while in Kingston to see a
large number of young ladies, a
corps de ballet, from somewhere in
the United States, going through
all kinds of dances, and Mr. George
Kirkpatrick, the metnber for Fran-
tenac, said : " Is this not a strange
exhibitiou. for an agricultural
show'!" I said it was quite proper.
There was a splendid exhibition of
calves. (Uproarious laughter.) If
you have faired this year, Mr. Presi
,cleut, you will take the hint, and
wheu I come back next year, es I
•
hope to do—my good friends, the
Grits, say I will continue to live
for were cussedness, but I am still
alive aud kicking as you see—you
may have the corps de ballet. (Lau-
ghter.) Now I desire to ask your
permission to propose a toast with-
out any further rernaik, because
anything I would say iv addition
to the recognition of the services of
the gentleman in question would
be supetfluous. I propose the
health of President Withrow and
the directors of the Exhibition.
(Loud and prolonged cheers.)
THOSE SHAM SEIZURES. •
The Detroit Free Press :—When
the Black Diamond was captured
by the Rush,sent with a prize crew
of one to Sitka and taken by its
own crew to Victoria, the affair was
looked at in a hutnotous light. It
never occured to the American
people that the commander of the
Rush was acting under orders or
carrying out a policy of the admin
istration at Washington. lu the
light of what has since occurred it
is difficult to reach any other con.
elusion than this, which at first
seemed too far fetched to bo prob-
able. Seizure after seizure has been
made and the same course had been
pursued in each. A single sailor
has been put aboard the prize, with
instructions to proceed to Sitka ;
and the captaiu and the crew of
tiro prize have promptly proceeded
to take their vessel to Victoria.
The commander of the Rush must
have known ever since the first ex-
periment that this would be done ;
and as he has received no warning
from Washington against repeating
the idiotic performance the pre-
sumption is.that his course is acqui-
esced in by the administration.
The absence of heat on the part of
John Bull looks, also, as if the plan
were understood on the British aide
of the water.
If it really is true that these
siezures and farcical releases are con-
nived at by the Government it is a
disg'race. The policy of malting
seizures iu good faith is open to
some question ; but as to the impol-
icy of making bogus seizues there
ean be no question whatever.
PERvE:crED IN A CONVENT
SCHOOL,
Sister Euphrasie, Mother Gener-
al of the Sisters of Providence of
the United States died at the mother
house, St. Mary's of the Woods
near Tenn Haute, Ind., yesterday
morning, Shu was a Miss Hinkle
a Methodist, of Frankfort, Ky., and
while attending the Catholic Acad-
emy It Fort Wayne twenty-three
years ago was converted by Vicar-
Genetal Beuoir. Site was Sister
Superior of the 'Vincennes Acad-
emy until seven years ago, when
she was chosen by the National
Convention of the order Mother
General.—N. 1'. Herald, Aug. 31.
. Any Protestant who sends his
children to Roniieh convent schools
and expects them to retain a spark
of their faith, is either ignorant of
the teachings, purposes and prac-
tices of these female Jesuits, or a
hopeless eimplaton.
You might as well try to live un•
defiled in a post -house as to remain
a Protestant in a Popish school,-
13rook lyu N Y. Printilire Catholic,
F911.::,9418:i$7T48r,.
THE TJUN KON.tc.
.• At four &e.Lvi1 iueldtle., moon ug -
any but the (.1.4rmatt-deacaMled
V8rntilactncietlY1t wol11°
l)11.4Iwe
iatVeletten1)..eansillegleYpi.
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but ••when Sam Sehiaader, Ij
daughter, awl lieury Verhawk
drove up ih id, the lensinees of". •
the day had bcguu all aloug.
It was Angst. A little later
and au excessiie.hent would dawn..
Even now, before the suu had risen,
it was damp rather than cool along
the dow-wet road.. Subraader had.
his hat off, and wiped the perspire -
tion from his broad face. &dame-
der's was a peddleCe waggon, with
an umbrella uver the seat, which
was not meaut Cu acewataudate
three. Se:breeder's laige bulk was
depueited in the laps of his daugh-
ter and Remy Vethawk, with dis-
comfort to all. But Hatay was oue
of the taiiii ly. Ile had beet*
neighbor all his life, lord he was to
marry Mary Schrauder wrieuever
their trauqui 1, unhu try itig m i ud s -
should tonere upon it ; he Wan VW
thirty aud she twelity-six ; and it
had been for several weeke erranged
that they should un the day ut the
Uniuu Sunday -school picnic at
Huut's Grove, twelve miles away,
give Henry a lift, • for Henry was
going.
Schmader had to -day a new stook
of the tin -ware and small merchau•
dise he sold, end he had Mary, who
helped her father ou his busier
trips, had made au early stale
But Hen ry had been ready and
waitiug. He was as pleased to ge-
to the picnic as he, would have }teen
twenty yeats.back. lie sat With a
pritnnesethut on'.aitterized 111M, 3
slim form iu a suit of white linen
and abroad-brimmed white hat
with' a green Iijiing. Hie face,.
cleau-shaven aud guilelees, erreue,
with his happiness in his coming
neat. He would attain it by walk-
ing seveu miles, and twelve wiles
beck that night ; but in 'his bright
anticipatiuu the cost was small.
The simplicity of his soul looked
out from his honest blue eyes.
Nobody spoke as they drove ou
They had lived their liyes together
till their information was all hut.
ideutical, and their ideas. This
added to their rustic slowness of
tongue, made it likely that when
Fleury carne to se Mary Sunday •
eveniugs they would maintain. un-
broken sileuce from beginning to
oud of the interview, nor feel ally -
-
thing but sereue content ; and they
jogged on now unembarrassed, in
•the clihnness of that thorough
mutual knowledge which is the
Bluest pronaidt3 of • married happie
oess, the tin -ware keeping up a
drowsy rattling. When they leach-
ed the tutu which .separated them;
Henry got down.
"It'.S going to be hotter'n 'twas
yieterday ; you better take it sloW,"
Schraader said ; and Mary turned
her serious face, broad like her
father's, and plain, and looked
after him as he tramped on alone.
He took off his hat iu the shade
of the woods on both sides, thick
and dark and vibrant with wild
sounds, and walked briskly 1 -le
was alruost aglow with his boyish
eagerness. He had so early a start
that he thought he should get there
in time to miss none of it.
The rustling grove was thickly
bordered with the vehicles which
had brought the picnickers hither.
Of the latter there were in the
neighborhood of a • thoosaud.
Nominally it was the yearly union
picnic of the Sunday -schools of half
a dozen neighboring villages, but
the Sunday -schools brought with
them the settlements almost, entire..
Henry sat on a fallen tree in the.
thick of the sceue. He had been
almost the first arrival, Now it
was eleven, and the 'deltic was well
under way. Thus far he had en-
joyed every moment. He had
travelled round the grove watching
the constant arrivals ; now and then
he had unharnessed and hitched
the horses of women who had come
with n men, tnd Ind taken ono to
the water trough. lie hall looked
on at the erection of the various
vendoi's stande, and had- watched
the assembling of the ministers of
the Fervent congregations on the
platfoitii, before which ran a few:
square rods of broad benches.
Now there had been full activity.
for an hour. A merry-onround
was in operatiou, the refreshment
stands were gaining patronage, and
tip and down, in and out, remit]
and round, waudered the thousand
picnicker's. To Henry it was a
marvellous scene. ite sat with hie
hands on his knees and his lips
apart, unconscious of all but his
simple, lialibewildered entertain-
ment.
Two girls had hood for some time
strolling back and forth before him
with anus intertwined. Henry had
seen them arrive, tvith a dozen
other girls and youths, in the bottom
of eu evergreen -trimmed lumber
wagon. A couple of the latter
ranged niter them 'at a distance,
exchanged occasional insinuating
sallies, but for the present held at
bay with pert, conscious indepen-
dence, the forerunner of the full
and giggling surrender intended.
They had looked at Henry as
they passed and repassed Mtn,