Clinton New Era, 1892-05-06, Page 3INNS HEART if IN ST001 3thaxr fot' to love Him."—Sin T,
B'Y MAXWELL WIRY.
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CONTIN •
"But what," continued Cousin Jane,
fortunately missing the innuendo and.
mollified by the compliment, "is the
best cured tongue in the world like
this"
Another contraction of Mr Plum-
mer's features here nearly produced
another titter from Jessie, whom these
amenities sometimes made hysterical;
birt Cousin Jane went on with placid
plaintiveness, "Roger, my dear, do try
some. more pie. Keep yourself up, for
you naay need it; there's no knowin
CHAPTER L
LIICKNOW.
The 25th September, 1857, is the day
that Englishmen will not forget. For
eighty-eight days the heroic little
English garrison of Lucknow had de -
feuded their position against a leaguer
of overwhelming nuuabers, having
arms, provisions, a strong position in
their native land, and all the resources
of military training and skill; they had
maintained their frail, unfortified, un-
sheltered position with a courage and
constancy rarely equalled, though per-
haps surpassed by the heroic defence
of Cawnpore; and even that of Arab.
Cawnpore was more heroic because
when trouble may come. We may all conducted under still more aesperate
be gone by this time to -morrow." and, as it proved, fatal, conditions, be -
Roger manfully responded to this hind even frailer intrenchments than
appeal by finishing the beefsteak pie those of Lucknow. For at Cawnpore
the women had no roof but the sky,
under incessant fire, and no couch but
the bare earth; the garrison were only
upheld by the noble hope of saving
Lucknow by their prolonged resist-
ance.
have in my inside nobody knows. Isut Stimulated, paradexically as it may
I ain't one to corn lain." appear, equally by hope and despair—
hope of being relieved by a force they
knew to be in the neighborhood, des-
pair of meeting more mercy at the
hands of their enemies, should they
yield, than the tragedy of Seetapore
led them to expect; for an ominous
silence was the sole intimation they
had ever had of the fate of Cawnpore;
the defenders of Lucknow rose on the
25th, to go through one more day of
terrible, tragic monotony, and saw the
sun 'once more turn westward over
their wearied force diminished now by
one third, while the awful iron tem-
pest still crushed mercilessly upon
their riddled and half -ruined buildings,
and filled every open spot with dust.
Night and day those devoted men
row. Then Jessie went to offer her had fought and toiled in their unshel-
services in the complicated prepara- tered intrenchments, scorched by the
tions that she knew must be made for fierce simmer sun of India, drenched
the reception of guests, services that by its tropical rains; they buried their
after many gibes at her fine breed- daily tale of dead, they nursed their
ing and general incompetence, were sick and wounded, they did all the of -
finally grumblingly accepted. fices of daily life under an incessant
She was glad to escape her own fire of musketry, shot and shell, varied
thoughts in this household bustle, and by stink -pots and carcases, and only
put on an apron and 'tucked up her slackening a while from time to time
sleeves, and found her shaken nerves to be renewed with fiercer rigor. The
and feverish heart -beats calmed and sick', crowded on the lowest floor of
quieted, especially when she went into the hospital, were not secure from the
the clean, cool, fresh dairy to skim occasional round shots; the only really
milk. Dairy work always went to safe places were damp, dark cellars, in
Jessie's heart, it recalled her mother, which some of the ladies and children
whose butthr and cheese making she were crowded day and night among
had so often watched and admired. rats and mice, and where children ra-
She liked the absolute cleanliness and pidly sickened and died, and other
dainty scrupulosity necessary to dairy children were born. All the long, hot
work. Why had she not been brought day, officers and men, more or less
up to these things? She sighed, as the weakened by fever and dysentery, and
thick yellow cream wrinkled up in covered with boils, fought, rushing
riCh leathery folds over her skimmer; from battery to battery, because they
had her mother really destined her for were too few to man all at once: and at
Philip and for that reason wished her night the exhausted combatants, of -
to live differently? Philip had always ficers and men without distinction,
been considered a born gentleinan, she save that officers worked the hardest,
did, not know why; she had heard of toiled at burying the untended and
his proposed adoption by the Med- famished beasts, the carcases of which
ways. Was he connected with that bred pestilence. They could not fur-
la,mily? If so, why was the connection nish fatigue parties strong enough to
ignored? No wonder Captain Med- repair breaches. and make counter -
way was startled at hearing it. Then mines; they had to grind their own
she paused, having emptied the skim- corn by hand; they had not strength
mer daintily into the wooden bowl she to bury their uncoffined dead deep
keld in her left hand, and fell into a enough to quench the foulness of de-
train of reverie, her cheeks flushing composition; the native followers and
and her heart throbbing, as the morn- servants had deserted; ladies, !mac-
ing's history repeated- itself and she customed to stir a finger in that ener-
thought of looks and tones that could wiling climate, had to perform the
never be forgotten. Ohl that Miss most menial offices at the most tryin
Lonsdale had never known her that season, On blniarn gea.iitilciiia, and in
she had never seen anyone at Marwell crowded, unholesome dens; all to the
Court! tAnd yet—and yet! She turn- never -ceasing thunder of cannon and
•ed to Ole milk -pans again, drawing her rattle of musketry. It was then that
fore -finger daintly round the inside of Englishwomen, seeing their husbands
the pan she had just skimmed so as to
remove the ring of cream adhering to
it, remembering her mother's instruc-
tions on the subject. Thriftless dairy-
maids left the ring on the pan, careless
ones forgot to wash and cool the fore-
finger; -untidy—ones-11BM' the whole
hand and so messed the cream over the
handle of the skimmer; a whole code
of ethics seemed to be involved in
skimming milk. And she had no
mother to teach her the ethics of more
important things. "Oh! mother, come
back, to your child. For one little
hour!"
The skimmer and bowl had to be set
down more than once because of the
tears, but all the pans were skimmed
at last, the milk poured from them,
and fresh, well -scrubbed ones set in
their place ready for the afternoon's
milk, that Abraham brought in in
foaming pails suspended from a yoke
on his shoulders.
"It do seem natural to zee Miss in
dairy!" he said, when he clattered in
over the wet flags, and Jessie's mind
and heart were in a much calmer and
healthier condition when all was done,
the waiting and watching Sebastopol
regaled with a saucer of milk, and she
went out to the orchard with a plate
of curds and new cheese parings to
give the young chickens, cheeping and
fluttering there about their imprison-
ed anxious mothers, each in her coop
with her head thrust between the bars.
If Mr Plummer would but let her do
these things regularly.
"To be sure Jessie's ornamental if
she ain't useful when there's com-
pany," Mrs Plummer confided that
evening to one of her guests. "Good-
ness knows her father hey spent money
enough on learning her music, and she
is a fairish singer."
Jessie was at the piano singing in a
fresh and artless voice.
in iis most heroic fashion, entreating
his mother between whiles tp "pick a
bit" herself, which she steadily declin-
ed to do.
"Only last night I dreamt of bride -
cake," she sighed, and the feelin s I
"Jessie," said Mr Plummer, when
Cousin Jane had left the room wafted
by her own sighs, "don't you ever give
Plailip the tongue pie for dinner, my
dear;" and she crimsoned with inex-
plicable pain at this indirect allusion
to her engagement. "The Lord only
knows," he continued, "haw I came
to forget to say I'd asked four or five
to drop into tea and supper to -night
till this morning; entirely forgot."
"Well, Cousin Plummer, you deser-
ved a scolding," Tossing replied, laugh-
ing. "I don't know what I should do
to you if 1 were Cousin Jane."
"She'll be all right," he averred,
cheerfully, "now she've giv out we
may all be gone by this time to -mor -
"Sweet is true love though given in
vain, in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end
to pain."
"So it's to be a match," she heard
one lady say, when her song was over
and the accompaniment was lingering
itself out beneath her fingers.
"Well 1 to be sure they've been off
and on again this two years past; the
captainhe likes his pleasure, as is na-
tural to a young man, but he'll hev to
settle down and marry somewhen,
and Miss Lonsdale isn't so young as
she was. Their property joins too, the
Suffolk property that is. And so they
say they're engaged at last."
t, The color rushed into Jessie's face
and she heard a hoarse murmur like
the sea in her ears. Al) the evening a
voice seemed to be saying over and
over again, "Engaged! engaged."
PART H.
"And there is no knight living that
ought to give unto God so great thanks
as ye; for be bath given you beauty,
seemliness, and great strength above
all other knights, a1 therefore ye are
more beholding u4to God than any
slain and their helpless children sicken
and die before them, sharing the
men's hardships, tending the sick, and
braving the tempest of death, showed
that they too came of heroic strain
and knew how to endure.
Perhaps- the most striking charact-
eristic of the wasted garrison manning
those battered defences was their ex-
cessive weariness, for, except at Arah
and Cawnpore, never did fighting men
have to toil like these foreigners, the
meanest of whom had hitherto been
accustomed to be tended like princes
by the subject race now besieging
them.
The sun still lay bright upon the
gilded domes and graceful minarets
springing from the rich foliage of the
beautiful city, when the monotony of
the stern seige music was broken by
continuous firing from the direction of
Cawnpore; it grew ever nearer and
louder, till the hearts of the brave and
weary garrison were thrilled to their
depth by the actual sight of English
soldiers hewing their way through the
streets. Those who saw broke into a
<cheer that was taken up and echoed
from end to end of the intrenchment,
till the very sick joined in it, and some
even mustered strength to crawl forth
to see the blessed, long -expected sight.
Welcome indeed was that sight, but
terrible, for the enemy's fire enfilading
the narrow street was very heavy, and
the English fell at every step. Now
the battle was at its fiercest, the re-
lieving force had been lighting all the
long day, and had to cut their way step
by step in ever -diminishing numbers
through the besiegers, whom they
could not dislodge.
Amongst the European infantry was
Philip Randal, hardly to be recognized
as the smart, inanely smiling young
officer of Jessie's daguerreotype; his
face was blackeded by smoke and stain-
ed with his own blood, his sword ran
with that of the enemy, his right hand
was red and his sleeve soaked with it,
his breath came in short gasps, a burn-
ing thirst consumed him, his limbs
trembled, and a red mist swam before
his failing eyes; with his parched lips
compressed and his teeth clenched, his
one hope was that he might not fall
till he reached the Residency, if indeed
it might be reached after so terrible
a struggle. He had the good fortune
to serve under that brave and beautiful
soul who, "in gratitude for and in ad-
miration of the brilliant deeds of arms
achieved by General Havelock, cheer-
fully waived his rank in favor of that
officer" —tendering his military ser-
vices to Brigadier -General Havelock as
a volunteer, though officially appoint-
ed to the command of both Havelock
and the expedition. Philip felt that
it was indeed an honor to serve under
two such rare and chivalrous soldiers,
in an operation so fraught with peril
and honor.
Outram's force never forgot Cawn-
pore, that word so over -weighted with
agony and infamy, with heroism and
cruelty, with pity and horror. They
had not. like Havelock's Highlanders,
been tnaddened by the sight of the
THE Gt. NTON NEW 4
tragic Beebeegurb, ankle deep in the
blood of Christian women and child-
ren, and the yet more tragic well, over
the ghastly contents ot which they
had (vied aloud; but the whole reflex,.
ing force, as they hewed their way ,
through the living wall of dark faced,
white dressed foes under the concen-
trated fire of the street, trusted that
they were saving the Lucknow garri-
son from the fate of Cawnpore.
Philip carried Jessie's daguerreotype,
taken at the same time as -his own and
the cause of so much laughter, in his
breast pocket; early in the day a mus-
ket ball struck and shattered the outer
half of the case, starring the likeness
out of all recognizition and saving his
life; later on he received a flesh-woun
in the leg and a ball grazed his fore
head; else he was unhurt, though near
ly exhausted. Suddenly, in the naids
fill England, flashed before him, an
of all the fury and agony, a sweet via
ion of Jessie, safe in green and peace
he heard her voice above the thunde
of the guns, the shouts, the moans, th
awful tumult. Was she praying fo
him? Poor child, he thought, sh
would soon have no brother to pre>
for, though her picture had saved hi
life once that day.
The sun sank and the swift -coming
darkness fell over the city, its domes
and minarets, its dark groves an
terraced roofs, over the placid water
of the Goomtee winding through th
rich corn plain; over the battered bu
unconquered Residency; and then
through all the tumult of the battle,
rose the triumphant skirl of bag -pipes
and cheer, a deep -chested Englis
cheer, low, hoarse, continuous, thund
erous as the long incessant roar of the
ground swell on a ragged coast, and
like that, growing and deepening in
volume and majesty. Many a dying
ear heard it and was content, a com-
pany of wan and wasted women and
children emerging from their damp
vaults to snatch one breath of air in the
slackening of fire after sunset, and won-
dering among themselves when would
the relieving force come, heard it with
an incredulous, delirious joy, soon
changed to certainty by the irruption
of the Highland solaiers among them,
and the snatching up of the children
by their heroic deliverers, to be kissed
and cried over in their noble joy at
having saved them frona the fate of
Cawnpore; it rolled along the ranks,
and heartened up those still struggling
without; it struck terror to the souls
of the dusky foe, and brought new life
and energy to the exhausted garrison,
who took it up and prolonged the
grand note till it hushed every other
sound. In the rapid failing, of his
pulses, Philip heard it and rejoiced,
knowing that his life, the life so sweet
and precious to his youth, was not given
in vain; he too, uttered one exultant
cheer with his last strength, something
crashed on his head, he fell, and the
battle raged over and away from his
prostrated body.
Lucknow was relieved at last, with
the loss of over a quarter of the reliev-
ing force; and though after the first
wild and rapturous emotion of the re-
lieved garrison had subsided, the relief
was found to be but a reinforcement,
food and quarters for which could with
difficulty be provided, the sequel prov-
ed that the deed was worth the terrible
cost.
How long Philip lay among the slain
he did not know; he was probably pro-
tected from further injury by falling
into one of the trenches cut across the
road to impede the progress of the
troops; when he regained consciousfiess
hefund himself a prisoner, deprived
if his sword, but furnished with the
water for which he craved with delir-
ious agony; food was given him and he
slept a long sleep, and on awakening
found himself not much the worse of
his wounds, which were not deep,
though their copious bleeding had
helped to exhaust him. As for the
crack on the head from a clubbed mus-
ket, that had left only a surface tend-
erness and a certain mental dulness
behind; and as he looked rtiaind—the
dark chamber in which he lay on a
purdah, a sort of thin mattress, he
knew that the honor of death on the
battle -field had been denied him, and
that he was probably destined to in
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In South Dakota will be operterl to
meat on or about April Vitla, 181)2,
reservation comprises some Ot the I;)
lands in Dakota for larmiug 0.4
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address W, E. ?owe'', general Ire
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either Opium, Morphine nor
It is a harmless substitute
Ina Syrups, and Castor 011.
tee is tligrty years' use by
la (lest roys Worms and allays
vents vomiting Sour Curd,
Id Con. Castoria relievea
constipation and flatulency.
ood, regulates the stomach
y and natural sleep. Casio
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C aStOria.
" Castoria 15 50 well adapted to d'undren thM
I recommend It as superiortoany priscriptiOn
known to me."
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111 So. Oxford St., 13rooklyn, N. Y.
"Our phystelexus in the children's depart-
ment have spoken highly of their experi-
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and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
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WILTSE
Desire to return thanks to their customers for past favors, their business
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SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the TEA trade
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BUY NOW, FOR CASH, THEIR SEASON'S SUPPLY OF SUGAR. CROCKERY
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Shop on Rattenhury Street.
sult and ignominy, and the horrors of
death by torture. The cold drops stood
on his brow; on searching his clothes GREAT RAILROA.D STRIKE IS NOW
he found that no weapon, not even a
pen -knife, had been left him. His
money was gone, but the ruby fasten-
ed into a portion of his dress had not
been discovered; Jessie's shattered
picture still remained.
TO BE CONTINURD.
The success of Hood's Sarsaparilla is be-
cause it possesses true merit, and no claim
is made for it which is not fully supported.
California is getting some pretty
severe shakes these days. The recent
earthquakes recall the shocks of 1812,
1868 and 1872 in more or less serious
form. Their origin seems to be in the
Sierra Nevada range of mountains, as
in 1872. The damage done has been
equally marked with the visitation of
1668.
"August
lower"
The Hon. J. W. Fennimore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del., and lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap-
ital of the State. The sheriff is a
gentleman fifty-nine years of age,
and this is what he says: "I have
"used your August Flower for sev-
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"own use, and found it does me
"more good than any other remedy.
"1 have been troubled with what I
"call Sick Headache. A pain comes
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" and then soon a general headache
"until I become sick and vomit.
" At times, too, I have a fullness
"after eating, a pressure after eating
"at the pit of the stomach, and
"sourness, when food seemed to rise
" up in my throat and mouth. When
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"me, and is the best remedy I have
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y, Now ‘•••,1
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—BUT
OVER,
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o
HAVING PURCHASED TWO CARS at the lowest prices this year direct from
REDPATHS AND ST. LAWRENCE REFINERIES, OtIontreal, I am giving
my old customers and as many new as will come,
SUGAR AT WHOLESALE PRICES.
tarSpecial Cuts in Barrel Lots to the Trade and Jobbers.—§Es
Just arrived 50 boxes of good sound Raisins, 20 lb., only 90o per box
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