The times., March 31, 1882, Image 8

About The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897

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We Shall Know.
When the mists have rolled in splendor
From the beauty of the lulls
And the sunshine, warm and tender,
Kails in splendor mi the rills,
We may read love's shining letter
In the rainbow of the spray;
We shall know each other better
When the mist has cleared away;
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone.
In the dawning of the morning
When the mists have cleared away.
If M err in human liliii.lm ! .,
And forgot that we are iust;
If we miss the law of kindness
When we struggle to lie just,
Snowy wings of peace (hall i
All the pain that louda our way;
When tin- Weary watch is over,
And the clouds h ive cleared away,
We shall know as wo are known,
Never more to walk alone.
In the l iwnlng of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
Whan the silvery mists have veiled us
From the faces of our own,
Oft we deem their love lias failed us,
And wo tread our path alone:
We should see them near and truly,
We should trust them d.iy by day,
Neither love or blame unduly,
If the mists were cleared away,
We shall know as wo are known,
Never more to walk alone.
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
When the misti have risen above us,
As our Father knows his own,
Face to face with those who love us,
We shall know as we are known.
Love beyond the orient meadows
Floats the golden fringe of day;
Heart to heart we bide the shadows,
Till the mi ds have cleared away,
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone.
In the dawning of the morning,
When tin- mists have cleared away.
Misulaot d Confidence.
"Wife, we are going to have com
pany tomorrow." Are wc? Whom?
"A couple of men I picked up on
the road to-night."
"You are always picking up some
one for me to wait on. Where are
they?"
"I didn't want to bring them home
to-night, so 1 left them at the hotel.
They told me such a pitiful story,
I paid for their nights lodging, and
requested them to come here in the
morning, but I don't exactly like the
looks of one of them."
"Then why did you ask them to
come here?"
"Well; they are Englishmen, and
I thought, perhaps we might learn
something about our friends in the
old country, besides they have been
very unfortunate the past summer.
They were ship-wrecked on lake
Huron and lost all they had. They
seem anxious and willing to work,
and I think we can find something
for them to do on the farm until
spring, then, perhaps, they can do
better."
"All right; let them come, if they
will only work we can get along with
them."
This conversation between Mr.
and Mrs. Rich occurred one evening,
just after his return, with the team,
from a distant village. He had
given the men a ride, during which
they related, briefly, their experi
ence of the past six months, complete
ly winning the sympathy of Mr.
Rich, and receiving the invitation
which brought them next day to
his home.
They were, apparently about 25
and 35 years of age, the younger,
whom we shall call George, being
tall, siim, and of fair complexion.
The elder, known as Tom, was
short, stout, of dark complexion, and
the one not exactly admired by Mr.
Rich, yet both were cordially re
ceived into the family, and soon
became familiar with the daily
routine of labor.
Mr. Rich was born in England,
near Leeds. His father was a Min
ister of the United Presbyterian
denomination, and he endeavored
to instruct his children in that
belief. When Mr. Rich junior
was quite a small lad, lie had de
veloped a strong liking for inorganic
chemistry, and used frequently to
experiment in his father's labora
tory with gasses whose nature he
did not thoroughly understand.
This ignorance and inexperience,
one day, brought upon him a great
calamity. He mixed two antagon
istic gasses that caused an explosion
which came near ending his earthly
career, and demolishing the whole
establishment, but it, undoubtedly,
completely changed his futuro ca
reer. His stern father issued an
edict prohibiting his further search
in that place for hidden mysteries,
and apprenticed his ambitious son
to a dyer; but this seemed too
practicafa curtailment of his varied
experiments, and uncongenial to
his literary tastes, so after four
years of this bondage, he entered
the university of Dublin, Ireland,
and prepared for the ministry. At
the ago of 21 he emmigrated to this
country, beind six weeks crossing
the Atlantic, in a sailing vessel.
After teaching school in New Eng
land some time, he took charge of
a congregation in St. Louis Mo., at
the same time performing the duties
of a pedagogue. He next went to
UK whore he married his wife
who has been the principal agent
in bringing the wild land lie pur
chased in Lapeer county, Michigan,
to its pre tent state of cultivation,
where there home now is. This
Pioneer missionary work developed
in Jlr. EUeh a eh.'iraotor not easily
frightened or discouraged by trifles,
yet his particular failing seemed to
Consist in being too lenient with
humanity, or in having too weak a
belief in human depravity.
At the time of receiving these
sailors by Mr. Rich, his family con
sisted of his wife, a daughter Mag
gie, aged about 15 years, and two
lads younger. lie also had two
daughters married, living away
from his home. Tom, the elder
of the strangers just admitted to
this circle proved to be vjuito a
talker and acquainted with some of
Mr. Rich's friends in Bngl&nd,
which made the stories he related
during the long winter evenings,
doubly interesting to the family,
ami before spring Tom and George
were looked upon as heroes and
warm friends.
Very soon, Tom became quite
attentive to young Maggie, occa
sionally escorting her to parties
and elsewhere in the neighborhood.
When spring came, Tom had sj
far ingratiated himself into favor
with Mr. Rich that he leased him
the farm to work for one-third the
crops, and George went away.
Once, while Tom and Maggie
were visiting at neighbor Pratt's,
Tom's true character began to shine
through the thin shell in which lie
had thought to conceal it, when his
tongue betrayed him into lying
about Mr. Pratt's son Orson, then
working in Saginaw.
This little incident led Mr. and
Mrs. Rich to open their eyes, and
they forbade Maggie going to par
ties any more with Tom, but his
influence over her had already
grown very strong, and they occa
sionally got away together.
Tom had now become the ring
leader of the bad boys in all the
mischief of the neighborhood, and
a notorious liar.
One day he hired a man and team,
ostensibly to take him and Maggie
to church, but really, to Visit Mr.
Pratt. He then reported among
the boys that he was married to
Maggie, so one night the family
were startled from their slumber by
the most hideous noise imaginable.
Horse fiddles, tin pans, cow bells,
mouth-organs, squackers, horns, guns
and pistols, mingled with yells for
Tom "made night hideous" and so
frightened Tom that he dared not
make his appearance, but a few
words from Mrs. Rich soon dis
persed the would be mob. Next
morning an arrow with a threaten
ing letter attached was found stick
ing in Mr. Rich's barn door, also,
there had been thrust under the
door of the dwelling a letter for Mr.
Rich, but which Tom managed to
secure and read to some of the
neighbors. Mrs. and Mr. Rich
questioned Maggie and Tom con
cerning the confusion of the night
before, and inquired if they were
married, to which they replied they
were not.
Tom's scandalous lies and gen
eral deportment grew worse and
worse, until the boys were so aroused
that they sent letter after letter to
Mr. Rich, advising him to send Tom
out of the neighborhood, else they
would take the matter into their
own hands and either hang the
villain, or dress him with tar and
feathers and ride him away on a
rail. Only there great respect for
Mr. Rich prevented the immediate
execution of their plans, yet, strange
to say, Mr. Rich paid little attention
to these warnings, so absorbed was
he in his clerical duties, even to the
neglect of his daughter's reputation
and the happiness of his. family;
probably the most potent reason
why ministers sons are charged
with being unusually wild and
vicious. Yot these warnings so fright
ened Tom as to somewhat check his
low designs, but so determined was
he to ruin Maggie, that he would
not leave, and his cowardice finally
led him to ask Mr. Rich for money
to buy a revolver for self defense,
but he received, instead, wholesome
advice, by which he might have
profited had he not become so en
raged that he armed himself with a
butcher-knife, went into the kitchen
asked Maggie to marry or kill him,
if not, he would kill her. It was
now the mothers turn to be alarmed,
and she ptHMdtd Maggia to flee to
Mr. Pratt's. At noon, when Tom
returned from his work he milled
Maggie and inquired of her mother
where she was. Mrs. Rich Sgave an
evasive answer which only ai insed
Tom's suspicion; so, as an excuse to
hunt for her, he said he wanted to
go to Detroit, and applied to Mr.
EUoh for money to defray expenses,
saying they would divide the crops
after he returned. Mr. Rich said
he could not let him have any
money, but would take him to the
depot immediately, which did not
at all please Tom, and to prevent
the the frustrating of his plans, he
replied that he would rather wait
till morning, and before leaving
visit some of his friends, at the
same time asking the loan of a horse
to expedite the matter.
Suspicion now rested with Mr.
Rich, but ho did not refuse Tom the
horse, although he watched the
direction he took, and discovered
it towards Mr. Pratt's, four miles
distant. Mr. Rich immediately
staited on across lots, shortening
the distance it miles, and arrived
before Tom, at Mr. Pi att's, where
he met Maggie and Mrs. Pratt just
returning from berrying. Tom
soon came up, and asked the privi
lege of seeing Maggie alone, but her
father told him if he had anything
to say to her, to say it then and there
before him, so Torn again asked
.Maggie to marry him, but she re
plied by telling her father that she
had already promised to marry
wrson mil. loms anger now
knew no bounds, and the cowardly
villain stealthily reached for a pistol,
but Mr. Rich anticipated the act,
and placed himself between Maggie
and Tom, looking him steadily in
the eye as he would a wild bi-ast
ready to pounce upon him. Tom
cowered before the searching gaze,
and the pistol did not appear, but
seeing himself foiled in his dastardly
attempt to murder Maggie, he re
sorted to disgraceful and scandalous
assertions concerning her character,
implicating both her and himself,
which latter did him no harm, for
he had nothing to lose, while Maggie
had all. Mr. Rich took no farther
notice of Tom, but withdrew his
daughter and taking her to Marlette,
placed her in charge of a friend
there. Tom followed them about
one-half mile, then, with the horse
he had borrowed, returned to Mr.
Rich's house. Mrs. Rich had re
mained in mortal terror of Tom's
arrival, and tried to persuade neigh
bor Camp to stay at the house as
protector, but his cowardice over
balanced gallantry, and ho fled, leav
ing Mrs, Rich alone, but, fortunately
for her, when Tom came he did not
seem very savage and when Mr.
Rich arrived, he found Tom in tears,
but probably not those of penitence,
for Mr. Rich ordered him to leave
the house which Tom immediately
did, and went to a neighbors think
ing to receive sympathy, but was
only tolerated because people knew
no better or safer way of dealing
with one whose presence in the com
munity was like a firebrand continu
ally being shifted about a stubble
field, his contact sereing and black
ening everything.
Even Mr. Rich had discovered so
much depravity in Tom's character,
that immediately after driving from
his house, he feared Tom might re
turn and burn some of the buildings,
so he procured the assistance of a
friend to watch the premises.
Tom lurked about a few days tell
ing all manner of stories injurious to
the character of Maggie, even how
he had plotted to kill her, and that
the "Old Man" had been too much
for him. These stories soon reached
the ear of Mr. Rich, but being a
peaceable and respected minister of
the Gospel, he paid little heed to
them, neither had he ever thought
it necessary to walk about with one
or two revolvers in his pockets, as far
too many of the young men, and even
boys do at the present time, but his
neighbors, being more solicitous for
his safety than he seemed himself,
finally persuaded him to accept the
loan of of one of these deadly weap
ons, to be used in case of serious
emergency.
One day Tom went to Mr. Wait and
engaged him to cut the crops on Mr.
Rich's place. Mr. Wait then took
him to the depot, leaving his surplus
clothing ect. at Mr. Rich's, who,
hearing nothing from Tom for sev
eral days, concluded he had gone to
Detroit, so he packed up Toms duds
and marked them Abram Torade,
Detroit Mich., (Tom being an alias;
and sent them to that city, also a
letter descriptive of Tom to the
Mayor of Detroit. He next warned
Orson Pratt, in Saginaw to beware
to beware of Tom. Then he brought
Maggie home once more, and when
Mr. Wait came to cut the crops he
forbade any such performance.
Hardly had Maggie become again
settled at home before she received
a letter from audacious Tom declar
ing his determination yet to marry
her, and describing his fruitless
search for Orson Pratt.
Four weeks later while Mrs. Rich
and Maggie were filling a bed-tick at
a neighbors straw stack, she discov
ered Tom coming toward them, and
pointing him out to her mother, she
fled by a concealed path home, told
her father what had happened, then
prepared for further flight with him.
When Tom approached Mrs. Rich
and knew Maggie had gone, his coun
tenance betrayed anger, disappoint
ment and restlessness, but Mrs. Rich
managed by conversation, to detain
him till she thought Maggie was safe,
then allowed him to depart for her
house, but when he arrived, his bird
had flown, and seeing no one about
the premises, he went away crest
fallen. In the mean time Mr. Rich
had heard Maggie's story and hastily
brought the horse and carriage and
started with her for North Branch,
nine miles distant, where he left
Maggie with a friend, then placed a
warrant in the hands of a constable,
with instructions to arrest Tom as
soon as possible. Next morning,
about 4 o'clock Mr. Rich arrived
home.
Four hours later, Tom appeared at
the gate and was about to enter the
yard when Mr. Rich ordered him to
halt. Tom said he wouldn't. This
blunt opposition to his authority fully
aroused Mr. Rich. For once his
righteous indignation and courage
swelled within him. He grasped his
revolver, and stepping towards Tom,
told him, if he entered that inclosure
he did it at the peril of his life. Tom
knew he was in earnest and retreated.
Mr. Rich then inquired of Tom what
brought him there. Tom replied, he
wanted his share of the crops, or the
money. Mr. Rich was momentarily
expecting officers from North Branch
to arrest Tom, so he endeavored to
detain him until they arrived.
Tom, not getting any satisfactory
promises from Mr. Rich resorts to
his familiar practice of lying, and
says he has brought suit in Lapeer
against Mr. Rich and will see if he
can't have satisfaction.
No officers of the law likely to ap
pear Mr. Rich suffers the conversa
tion to lag, and Tom soon departs
muttering and growling like a foiled
dog. '
Three days afterwards Tom is
found at Mr. Strong's, but the cow
ardly constables are afraid to arrest
him, and he remains there several
days, during which, Mr. Strong as
sumes the part of peacemaker by try
ing to induce Tom to setttle honora
bly with Mr. Rich.
Finally, Tom agrees to leave the
country for $25.00, and signs papers
agreeing to never come into the
neighborhood again. Mr. Rich gladly
paid that amount to Tom, who went
to Burnside and spent it in drunken
carousing, and soon after went to
Detroit, from which place he had the
impertinence to send letters and
jewelry to Maggie, but she transfered
the letters to her father, and the
jewelry to the fire, which act seemed
but to feed the flames of rage in
Tom's bosom, and he declared he
would come to the county Fair, and
waylay young Pratt. Instead of in
timidating Orson, these threats rather
stimulated his desire to attend the
Fair and search for Tom, which he
did, but nothing has since been heard
from Tom, and the people of that
neighborhood rejoice that he has not
again appeared among them.
Maggie learned this useful lesson,
to beware how she flirts with strangers.
She is now the happy wife of con
tented and industrious OrsonPratt,
living in their comfortable home,
with bright children growing up
around them, prospectively to bless
and cheer their declining years.
Mr. Rich is preaching in Huron
county with none to molest, or make
him afraid, or drive him to the use of
a pistol.
J. K. G.
Vassar, Tuscola Co.
The Hunter and the Truant Urchin.
Several years ngo, with a line brace
of pointers, Prank ami Dash, I left a
little town on the Ohio Canal some
thirty miles from Cleveland, after an
early breakfast, Tor the Sedges," a
well-known partridge ground east of
the winding Cnyahoga. Before 1 got
out of the little hamlet a ragged little
bright-eyed, HO art-looking country boy,
between 19 and 14 years of age, oame
trudging along at my heels. I said:
"Where are you going, my boy?"
"Hunting with you, if you will let
me."
"You do not look stout enough to
stand the fatigue of the tramp J am
about to make. Don't you go to
school?"
"Yes, but I'm rutin in' away to-day to
show you when; the partridges is. I
l-.nowcd you was goln hunting, for I seo
you and 'them big dogs last night at the
tavern.'"
"Are you not afraid of getting a
whipping by both your teacher and
your parent-.'"
"NO, but I expect to have to lie some.
I'll tell the teacher 1 had the belly-ache.
anil I'll tell pap I've been to school ami
didn't want no dinner."
At this I Railed audibly, and believ
ing in his unsophisticated honesty, and
that he might show mo some new
grounds, us he declared ho could, I told
him to come along, keep close to mo
and 6top still when 1 did. lie promised
faithfulness in everything. We soon
turned into a thicket in a deep gully at
his suggestion, and had proceeded but a
few rods when Frank ituTened out and
Dash bached him beautifully. I stop
ped and looked back to see if tho DOT
bad Stopped too. To my surprise I
saw him flat on his belly, with a look of
astonishment on his face that I was not
in a like position, i had previously told
him that the dogs would stop and "point"
when they found a bird. I beckoned to
him to Ho still, and looking out a clear
plaee to shoot, walked up and Hushed
the bird. Luckily it rose fair and tum
bled to tho bottom of the ravine. Frank
had no retrieving to do; that boy had
that raffed grouse by the neck before tho
dogs could fairly flatten out on their
"down charge." He came back to me
with a face brilliant with approving
smiles and said:
"Is that the way you do it, by golly?"
"Oh, yes; we always shoot them on
the wing, when we can."
"Well, by golly! You may do it that
way, but sitting on a log is good enough
for me." Forest and Stream.
An English Opinion on Oscar's Trip.
The verdict passed upon Oscar Wilde
by the Americans, that he is no fool, is
not, on the face of it, complimentary,
though it was meant to be so. It is
certainly true. People may have their
laugh, but Oscar is having not only a
good time, but is making a good deal of
money. His present expedition was
undertaken at the suggestion of tho
shrewd head and kindly heart covered
by the hat and waistcoat of Mr. George
Lewis, of Ely place. Oscar was in very
low circumstances, beginning to suffer,
with Mrs. Langtry, from the caprice of
London society, which was getting tired
of both. He discovered that man can
not live by lilies alone, and was, in short,
faced by the grim and wholly ina?sthetic
necessity of earning his daily bread. Mr.
Lewis thought that something could bo
done in America, and broached tho mat
ter to D'Ovly Carte, who took it up with
the cheerful results of which we get
some inkling in the telegrams from tho
United States. In London people laugh
at Oscar, and certainly would not pay
to see him. In America they laugh,
but pay, and all is well. There is, ny
the way, a good conundrum current
about Oscar. I don't know that it has
reached you, but it will bear repetition.
"Who was the first iccthetic?" was the
question, and the answer, "Balaam's
ass, because the Lord made him to (o)
utter." London Citizen.
Fashionable dressmakers say they are
driven wild by the appeals of their lady
customers for artistic dresses.
Brought to Time.
A young man on a street in Steuben
rille with a fez cap, a fragile cane, and
smoking a vile cigarette which awaken
ed a suspicion in the minds of the neigh
bors that a dead mule was in the im
mediate vicinity, stepped off the sidewalk
to allow a lady to pass.
"Thank you," she said.
"Not at all, madame; I assure you I
always give way to the weaker sex."
The lady slowed up when she heard
this, and came back to the young man.
"What did you observe, sirP"
"I said (smile forced) that I always
gave way to the weaker sex."
"Ah, aid you," pursued the woman,
grabbing him with a firm hand by the
throat-latch. "Do you know who you
are (shake) calling the (shake, shake)
weaker sex?"
"I ugh that is, I meant to say
you hurt my neck politeness is consti
tutional in our ouch family."
"Tis hey? Well (shake, shake, shake)
if you think I'm (shake, shake, shako,
shake) one of the weaker sex you are off
your reckoning."
Here she gave tho young man a dex
trous flip which spun him three times
around, after which he fell under a fence,
while his cane and fez cap flew over into
a bed of last year's hollyhocks.
"Now after this, remember young
man, you can't play no weak sex game
on me. I propose to vote before that
dyspeptic looking moustache of yourn
has more than seven hairs on one side
and nine on the other." Steubcnville
Republican.
Mount Etna has changed its entire
aspect sinco the last eruption. Its pres
ent height is but .'1280 metres, it having
lost twelve at that time, while the intoi.
nal crater, but a few months ago only
1300 metres in cireumferenco, is now
1800.
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