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Clinton New Era, 1894-09-02, Page 3Ju Its AL , Wxgi :i ENCE; M . ARTISTIC DESIGMM »URA.BLL VQNST VT1O1 Cezazoourxs Saari F7sen ox Arrrrc&TtoaG. pxrs�Fe1-Itogers-Co LISTOWEL Why • He Close Her, Why' is it that such unequal portions of goodare meted out to different per - eons? Was it not enoilggh that my ek- ter Della should have had a fortune le."t her by;her godmother, while I am the "poor Miss-Wh'ton," (I quote from a e each I chanced to overhear) that she should be the beauty~ also? I would not mind being plain looking, if I could have retained the symmetry which dwells even in a homely face. But when a child of eight, I was kicked up- on one cheek by a refractory colt my father was training, and owing to a lack.of skill in dressing the wound, the disfigurement bec8,mea permanent one. But I will not complain. The bright side shall be resolutely turned uppermost. .A sweet ringing voice calls: ''Meta!" • "What is it, Bella?" I respond. "Come to the music room and try ro- noised Mr Reynolds to sing it for im over that new duet. You know I this evening, and I rely upon your rich contralto to bring out my piping tre- ble." Little thinks Bella that her words are again arousing within me the evil spirit I have been trying to banish. Charles Reynolds was my little knight- errant years ago, when lie was in knickerbockers and I was a' tiny maid in pinafores. His parents went abroad before lily poor face received the im- print of Zephers hoof. He has not for- gotten his little playmate, for Bella says he was asking her about me at the Degnby's fete. THE NEXT DAY. Alas for the blighting sorrow which has come to,us 1 Charlie Reynolds is with us and he is at the point of death. He had made an engagement to accom- pany Bella for a ride, and then to take dinner with us and spend the evening; but just as he entered our grounds a band of urchins came marching along, and the sudden tatto of the drum frightened the horse,lwhich reared and fell back upon its rider. Bella and I have given up our boudoir for his sick- room, as it is the pleasantest place in the house; but at present he might be in a dungeon, for all that he knows of his surroundings. His injuries are mostly confined to his head, and he is unconscious. If maiiennawere`hiswery own mother she could not be more at- tentive tp his wants. She has consti- tuted herself chief nurse at his bedside, and if mortal help or solicitude can avail be will have the benefit of it. A $'3W DAYS LATER. Mamma has sent for me to come to the sickroom. ° What can she want of me? She meets me at the door. Her eyes shovw.tiiat she .has been Drying., "Meta," she says a in a low whisper, "he thinks I am his mother, and you know ,she died years ago 1 It is so piteous to . hear him. And he wants me to sing. That is why le sent for you, for I am sure that I should lose control of my voice if I tried. I fear the end is very near," I resolutely chokedown the tears which rise to my eyes, and go to the A Little Daughter Of a Church of England minister cured of a distressing rash, by Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Mr. Rlc:lnr:n BUM, the well-known Druggist,,`:27 )fcGiII st., Montreal, P. Q., says: I have sold Ayer's Family Medaciares for 40 years, and have heard nothing but good said of them. I know of many Wonderful Claris performed by Ayer's Sarsaparilla, one in particular being that of a little daughter of a Church of England minis. ter. The child was literally covered from head to foot with a red and ex- ceedingly troublesome rash, from which she had suffered for two or three sears, in spite of the best medical treatment available. Her' father was in great distress about the case, and, at my recommendation, at hist began to att- minister Ayer's Sarsaparilla, two bot- tles of which effected a complete euro, much to her relief and her father's delight. I am sure, wore ho here to -day, he would testify in the strongest terms as to the merits of Ayer's Sarsaparilla Prepared try]h.J. C. Ayer k Co., Lowell, Mare. ,Cufrei othelre, will cure you sufferer's bedside; ids is' rasping aim, lessly at, the air, as though in search o! something. I take the palet nerveless hands in mine, and coimeence to sing softly the words of a 'sweet old. bymki. The sound acts like 'magic upon his restlessness. Ile quiets down .and Soon .falls asleep. I etaud in the eagle poet- , tion, scarcely daringg, eo move, lest I shall waken hien. .At least I an'a•weary of the ;eunstrained.attitude that I feel as though I should .faint And fall upon i.the floor. So I release his hands and 'sink ,ixpon nay knees, ready to take 'them again, if he becomes restless. It m st be, true that there is arnesnler st a in in y hands, as 1 bave•often been told; for•l feTt~� the strength pass away from me as poor Charlie 'grew quiet, and now my hands seem cold and life- less. He still sleeps, and mamma says : "Thanks, dear, for your help. You have done ney poor patient more good than his medicine, I am sure, Now go and rest, I may need you again." But I was not agaili called to the sick room until aboutthe came hour next day. .Then carne a similar rest- leseness and delusion, and again I held his hands and sang for hien with the same beneficial ,effect. His rosin is darkened to that twi- light p•loom whicn is so grateful to an invalid's eyes. - Objects have a sort ofvisionary look to .lie as 1 enter it;and-when--1-emerge again into the full glare of daylight I feel like one who has been seeing visions. THREE WEEKS LATER. Our invalid is convalescing slowly, and the doctor says he can be wheeled into the sitting rooms for a while every day, and that sunlight must no longer be excluded from his room. So I must expect now to retire and give place to Bella. I feel a keen pang as I think of it—as a child might who was to be deprived of a pleasure. My voice helped to soothe poor Charlies pain --tel call him Charlie to myself by force of habit, but do not think anyone has heard me place thus at defiance the laws of etiquette—but melody does not make up for physical ugliness. Let me study my glass for the first time in months. Am I hideous? Bella comes in and finds me standing before the mirror. "Why, Meta," she says, with a light laugh, "what has come over you? Take care 1 Remember the fate of Narcissus 1" "Bella," I reply, earnestly,. "tell me truly; am I as ugly as I imagine? Bella looks at me an instant with un- feigned surprise; then she saps: "I wish that everyone looked as lovely to me as you do." "But that horrible scar 1" I say, and I lay my finger upon it shrinkingly. "True, I had forgotten that. Let me see;" and Bella stands a little away and studies my face with the look of a connosieur. "Well, it isn't a beauty spot, but one who is used to it don't mind it." "Ones who are not used to it would shudder at it, would they?" "Why, Meta, what has got into you this morning? Are you going to be sick?" I laugh at Bella's look of anxiety, and with that laugh my morbid fan- cies flee away, and I am again like the usual self which it is my habit to put into the background so, completely that since Charlie Reynold's advent into our sphere of action I have seemed to be changing, I have thought so much more about my deformity and how he would regard it. ._.J_forget.allbut pity when I come in- to the room auk see hispooh;"Teale-facts propped amid the piliows of his huge invalid chair. Mamma and Bella are there beside him, but as mamma says, `Meta, come here," he puts out one thin hand, and says feebly as I place mine within it:— "Miss Meta, I believe I owe to you a good share of my getting thus far on the road to health. Let me thank you for your sweet hymns. They soothed my troubled brain when all else failed." I am glad," I say timidly; for the pleasure his words give me cause my heart to thrill with a strange happiness which almost takes away my power of speech. "We are very proud and thankful for our Meta's gift of song," says my mother,. with a gentle pride in her youngest duckling. Like the bird in the story, her black nestling is as white as the whitest. "But you are to be very quiet, and not talk much," the doctors say. "By and by the restriction will he removed. Then you can chatter away as muchas you like." A few weeks later and our -patient, fully restored to health, is sauntering slowly along, by my side through the garden. It is June, and the roses are in bloom. "Please pick me a rose, Miss Meta," my companion asks. I give him a handful of the blushing beauties. He looks at them critically, and at last selects one for his button -hole. It is not the prettiest one, and I say: "Why do you take that homely little rose? I thought you had better taste." He looks at me with an expression which I do not quite understand.. " Beauty is not everything, Miss Meta," he answers. "This little rose le so fragrant that it is my favorite. It reminds nee of a young girl I knew. It is so modest and unassuming that, were it not for its sweetness one would pass it by." I raise my eyes wondering. and meet the full splendor of his dark lustrous ones. I begin to tremble, for his meaning flashes into my mind. "Will that little girl accept the devo- tion of one who loves her dearly, that without the hope of securing her gentle companionship the world would seem but a desert. I know not how it is, but his arms are about me, and I am hiding my tu- multiious blushes upon his breast. If Charles loves me, what care I any loner for beauty ? I am the happiest little girl in the whole world. Recent revelations of immorality in Montreal have startled end shocked the citizens. It has been shown that with the full knowledge of the police, houses of 111- fame for the debauchment of girls of tend- er yearsliavo existed for a long time in the heart of the city undisturbed. The mo. they of one of the child -victims coolly ad- mitted that she was award that her dangh-' for went there and that she herself had sent her there for immoral purposes. No wonder Judge Wgqrtelo expressed his horror of such a state of things ane denounced the police as oriminaliy negligent. Of all the,gnilty persons interested, however, the inhuman mother deserves the severest punishment. l 'PIS4I?I'OINT4D Tuopoar BE WAS oor>•ta• TO 71 S1i8celle Te m Se nolle Was , oU'r ;gins He's emve 4 i WE;z, aitii Wonrrrtip To-nsr. SQ10theltT, ge11. pt. 17th.,.... "Hard Timea" is the cry from farmers rn this country. Arthfr Coley, a farmer living near'here, has had. double reason to cry "hard times," for eight ?months ago he, lay on his back in boa a vietim of Bright's Disease. HeaoknowIedges that ire expeoe- ed to .•be dead before the end of summer, but his Qxpeotetiona have been most'pleas- aptly disappointed, and all snmmtit he has worked on his farm just es thaneb be luta never known a day's illness. Last spring lie began taking Dodd's Kidney Pills' and a few boites,00mpletely cured hire, as they have every other victim of tbie disease who Imo need them. Prairie ares in the Eosenfeldt district, south of Winnipeg, are 'destroying many buildings and grain stacks. Thursday night Key's hardware store at Weston was brokeninto' and goods to the amount. of 020 or 330 taken. A sad drowning aeoident tioeurred at Peterboro on Friday evening, by which two well known eyoung ladies, lost their Iives. Mr H.U. Kerr took twolady frie ids, Alisala Forbes and Mias Ma gie ,Ken. nedy, out for a canoe sail on�ittle Lake; All went well until the steamer City of .Peterboro passed them and they entered the swells caused by the steamer, when Mr Kerr lost control of his boat and in a mo- ment it was npeet and all three 000npants of the boat were thrown into the water, the two young Indies going down almost at once, and were drowned before assistance arrived. Mr Kerr was saved by a life preserver which some of the crew threw to him. Minard's Liniment cares colds, eto. arlieeefn;s IQye, that while we were yet. aipgere Christ died for mi." Cgd!s f orgiveneee ie never bestowe4upon those who will not forgive. The devil never goes into a warm prayer mgoeetingldenruleto invite f 011ie to the dance•.. The devil i' always throwing darts se the man who shapes his, concha? by the , ' No church ie ready;fgr a -revival as long tee the metiebers are Afraid;to alt oboe@ to gamer. • There are kine who reign baud rulefir• the good of men, whose oroWAs and i+4'op* tare are unseen, Isn't it ea winked to make plane on Stir• day for welling goods se it is to open the etore and sell them? .: If none of yoqr neighbors seem to have mutchyou religihave ton, ooitlittnosyie. be thin it means tha Onb of the hardest things to do some- times,is to believe that the luau is honest who oesn't look at things just as we do. To be meek in spirit is to be like 'Christ, and to have a hold on God that neither the world, the flesh nor the devil can break. The only reason why any man is not a Christian is because he loves the devil bet- ter than he loves God, though there are none who will admit the eat W=herever there-ia.aa aure_te_lee_ foolowed by a sorrow unless at the very moment when its presence becomes known we take it to Christ and give it up. A young lawyer talked four hours to an Indiana jury, who felt like lynching him. His opponent, a grizzled old pro- fessional, arose looked sweetly at the judge and said: "Your honor, I will follow the example of my young friend who has just finished, and submit the case without argument." , Then he sat down, and the silence was large and Oppressive. CHLOROFORM nv HORSESHOEING ' Acting on the inspiration and advice of a local veterinary surgeon, black- smith "Gib" Pierce, of Norwich, Conn., used chloroform in shoeing Banker L. A. Hyde's valuable and refectory fami- ly horse last week. The horse was good enough ordinarily, but when it came to.a matter of having iron shoes nailed to his feet he kicked habitually and mightily. Mr Pierce, who was familiar with that fact, at first tried to coax the sprightly beast and convince him in dentist style that he wouldn't hurt him, but the instant he essayed to pick up his nigh forward hoof the horse showed him how easily he could raise his hoof. A crowd had gathered about the per- formers. Local Veterinary Tower said "Why not chloroform him? It's easy enough." So the animal was chloro- formed, though, he kicked against the operation vigorously, and yielded re- luctantly to the action of the anaesthe- tic. It was wonderfully easy to shoe him then, reclining on his side, with his limp legs dangling. Then all hands tried to arouse him, but the steed, no less contrary, kicked resolutely against taking up the burden of consciousness again. He lay all day motionless and flaccid• in the black- smith shop, and the surgeon kept hire swathed" in wet blankets and aoused him with cold water douche from time to time. At night he regained his con- sciousness, and was returned to his stall in Mr Hyde's handsome stable at Norwich town. But it was evident that his chloro- form drunk hadn't agreed with him. A fel* ditysifter re begamto droop then - was attacked with lockjaw, and he died in his stall of that malady. There is a difference of opinion here about the cause of his death. Many believe it was due directly to chloroform, saying that it was anunheard-of thing to em- ploy the drug in shoeing a horse. POWDERS Curs SICK HEADACHE and Nentalgia in 20 M/NUTs°, also Coated Tongue Diszi- aess, Biliousness, Pain in the Side, Constipation, Torpid Liver Bad Breath. to stay cured also regulate the bowels. VERY RMOE TO TAKE. FRtosl 26 CANTO AT °Rua STORss. COTTOLENE. ood for 1f iota► alnlc# Midi ri �..\ 1 " HERS, Do You Know t1wt.,..,, DetWeemeia 14011:14 Godfrey gonna, many' soailed Most 'reasst les for children ar. ooatposed of optima or t Do Ten Know that opium and morpblue aro stupefying ner eot$o poisons? De Yon Siaow that in meat countries druggists aro not permitted to sell without Isieltug then poisons! Do Ton Ninon that yon should not permit any mediates to be given your chi: tmleea you or your physician blow of what It is composed t Do Ton Know that Castorla i8 a purely vegetable peep.ratien, sad that a list of Do Yon Know that Ca.:torte is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Cantona is now sold Akan , of all other remedies for children combined t its ingredients I8 published with every bottle 1 Do Ton Snow that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and or other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns toms) the word "Caatosla" and its formula, and that to imitate them Is a state prison offense 1 Do Yon Snow that one of the reasons for granting this government proteetionwa$ because Castorla had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do Yon Snow that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 35 oast., or one cent a does t Do You Know that when possessed of thin perfect preparation, your cbiidren nay be kept well, and that you may bare unbroken rest t Well, these things are worth knowing. They are tacte. The fan-oimile signature of ' eat are •1 11 be tt r When ?nada with. ie on every wrapper. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. Far 1hey aro Rf a from. qRE./t31i acid areienity ,. di– sest'ed. F she. -ren;„, and all cookerJzt4rJo*&* &TOLE KIII-1S—Erldrir &hit )carer Caw tard. Made only by The N. K. Falrbank Company, W.A alto* •ad era stay MOtTBZA . 115E•/Fott PERRY A ALL DAVISBOWEL ..TROUBLES PAINW KILL R WAR IN THE EAST, STRIKES IN THE WEST, PEACE AND PLENTY IN CANADA Business during harvest was quiet, but now that harvest is over, it has improved, and we are looking for still better. In order to help, we will give all purchasers of goods very close prices, and in several lines of BOOTS& SHOES will sell at or even under cost. Also special values in Dry Goods & Groceries. Our fall stooks are coming in and are excel- lent valetas. We expect a lot of Crockery direct from England in a short time, the prices of which will be very low. Any quantity of BUTTER and EGGS wanted --Highest Price for good quality. ADAMS' EMPORIUM, LONDESBORO R. ADAM S. l s� BOOTHS BiFFER Occasionally, but never on the question of " HEALTH BRAND" Combinations being. absolutely the best thing for women and children o wear. Every first-class dry goods house keeps them. Look for the word " Health" on silk label at neck. ,., Bu no imitations. THE MO$TREAL SILK MILLS Ltd, SIONTHIRAL. GOMFORT IN CORSETS Can only be obtained by wearing No. 391 " Improved All -Feather - bone Corsets." No side steels to break, hurt or rust. TRY A PAiR. All First-class Dry Goods Houses Sell Them. Hub Grocery MO- Tea Just arrived, a consignment of the celebrated BEE BRAND TEA, put in half ponnd and pound packages. This is the only package Tea put upher' w itie grown. The Bee Brand Tea is grown in 'the Palamootta Gardena, Ceylon, and is no mixture, but a pure Tea of very fine flavor and strength. This Tea took the first place at the World's Fair, Chicago. We ve-the-sole-agency for this -t ten,.• -Come-and-get-a.sample.and_try it—,, • C FO SWA T,L,cb Clinton . People Must Live :-m Ind in order to do so they want the very best they can get, We have anticipated their desire by purchasing the choicest GROCERIES, TEAS, SUGARS, CANNED GOODS, FRUITS, &ex Having had s5 years experience, think we know the wants of the people pretty well. Our stook embraces everything found in a first-class grocery, and we will not be undersold. We have a Beautiful Assortment of FANCY GLASSWARE and CROCKERY. Special Cuts on SUGARS and TEAS in large iota J. W. Irwin, Grover MACKAY BLOCK, -- - - CLINTON. BINDER TWINE ! A full stock and prices away down. It you • want 100 lbs., 50 lbs., or one ball, we can supply you. The best is the cheapest . New Store HARLAND BBOS1OldStand Haekay.BlockBrick Block IT PAYS TO ATTEND A BUSINESS & SHORTHAND SCHOOL' That has a reputation among business men for doing practical work, The work of the • Forest city Business & Shorthand College,. of Longo l Fri commended by every business mein at all ac_quaitited with our methods. 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