THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

A NARROW ESCAPE. CHAPTER I —CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. “ Ettie, you do love me ? ” _ She turned towards him wi ll a smile — “ I have told you, George, a thousand times, that I love you better than my life. What need, then, to ask me agftin 1 3 * ■ “Because,” he said, “ you are all that I have upon earth ; and it is so sweet to hear from your own lips that you are mine.” They sat, hand in hand, upon a sloping bank overlooking the sea, which rolled in, drowsily, at their feet, and broke in Wavelets on a sandy beach, the tiny ripples sparkling like diamonds in the Sunlight. Two simple folk, forgetting all the world, even life itself, in the fulness of their love ! It was on the western coast, just where Somerset joins with Devon, and the softer beauties of the Bristol Channel begin to merge into the bolder scenery and mightier waters of the Atlantic. The time was many years ago, before railways were made or thought of, and when something of Arcadian simpli city was yet to be found in nooks and corners remote from high roads leading to and from great cities. In those clays there was a frankness in the intercourse of grown-up people, which one seldom meets with now : a touch of childlike directness and honesty long since smoothed away by what we call the refinements of civilisation. So these two sat, hand in hand, without a thought of shame, and talked to each other of their love, and their prospects in life, and their hopes of living over again in the future in the lives of their children. And ever and again, there came his eager question— “ You do love me,” Ettie ? ” And her bright and loving answer— “ Better than my life ! ” They were well matched—in age, in looks, and fortunes. Ettie Stanton was the only child of a substantial yeoman, who dying soon after she came to woman hood, left her mistress of Stanton Helm, a comfortable farm, not too large for a woman to manage, as women were in those parts and in those days, yet large enough to make Ettie something of an heiress. Partly the farm, and partly her own grace and beauty, brought many suitors to Stanton Holm. If Ettie had been so minded, she might have married half the parish—squire, parson, doctor, and yeoman alike were .at her feet. But Nettie, being heart-free, refused them all, for she had no thought of marriage— till one day there came to her the Destined One who at some time in her life comes to every woman, and who conquered, and himself was conquered at a glance. This was George Thursfield, a handsome and generous young fellow fr om a midland city, to whom an uncle had bequeathed the farm next to Stanton Holm, and who thus became first Nettie’s neiglabor, a id then her lover—for, this being their fate, acquaintance passed easily into friendship, and before they knew the difference, acquaintance had melted into love. And so it fell cut that on this August day, Nettie Stanton and George Thursfield sat hand in hand upon a sloping bank over looking the sunlit sea, talking with loving fondness of loving and wedding : with the sunshine of happiness in their hearts, and to all outward seeming, with unclouded sunshine lighting up the prospect of their united lives. But appearances are deceptive; and human foresight is poor and weak ; baffled even by the changes of an hour. While the lovers revelled in their sunny dream and all seemed bright and fair before them, heavy clouds were gathering, and without warning a bitter storm was preparing to break upon their heads. It fell out in this way. Amongst Nettie’s former suitors had been Richard Ellerton, the only son of old Squire Eller ton, the chief landowner in Stanton parish and the parts adjacent. Richard was no favorite, either with gentlemen or yeomen. His temper was marked with sullen obstinacy, he was proud and re vengeful, and us id to domineer in his father’s household, he could not brook resistance to his will by pe: sons of inferior station. So when Nettie Stanton refused his offer of marriage preferring to remain mistress of Stanton Holm rather than to become mistress of Stanton Hall, Richard Ellerton broke out into passionate exclamations of anger, then fell back upon humble entreaties, and at last, finding the girl determined in her resolution, he cried oat that his love was turned to hate, and vowed to he revenged. Soon after this rebuff, Richard Ellerton quitted Stanton, and went, so thej 7 said at the Hall, to cure his grief by travel in foreign parts. By and by there came rumors that he had fallen into evil ways, and more than one seafaring man belong ing to the Channel ports affirmed that Richard Ellerton had been seen in | the command of a fast-sailing schooner, part smuggler, part something worse, which now and then troubled the honest trading vessels in tlr se waters. Some color was given to these stories by the remembrance that he had always been fond of a sailor’s life, and that from a lad he had chosen his associates out of the lower class of fishermen, all of whom were smugglers at the bottom; for in those days of high duty smuggling was profitable, and on the coast fishing boats were built with an eye to run over t'i France and the stow age of a cargo of contraband goods, for the safe lodgement of which numerous caves in the rocky headlands afforded means in abundanc l To check these practices a revenue had long been posted at Stanton, and when suspicion arose it was his duty to send to the nearest coast-guard station for help. Of late, however the officer had not been much troubled, and with this inaction of the smugglers the rumors of Richard Ellerton’s connection with them had died away : the more so as every now and then there came to the squire letters in Rich ard’s hand from foreign cities, the very names of which were unknown to the Stanton folk. . Four years had passed since Ettie refused to become the wife of Richard Ellerton, and he and his threats had well nigh passed out of her memory. Ettie’s mind, indeed, was now absorbed by one idea and one alone—her love for George Thursfield. and in the happiness of loving and being loved, the Past faded into a dream. Even the -Future was en shrouded by a golden haze. She was g nscious only of the bright and sunny Present. So, when it was noised abroad that Richard Ellerton was expected home, the news fell idly upon Ettie’s ear. Richard was nothing to her; his entreaties and his threats alike had passed out of her mind. Alas ! poor tiling, she had cause, did she but know it, to remember both ! It was a week since George Thursfield and Ettie Stanton sat hand in hand be side the sea. George was absent in a neighboring town : gone, if truth must be told, to buy a wedding ring and a pre sent for his bride, for Ettie had consented 1o fix the day for their marriage. Hop ing to meet her lover, the time of his ex pected return being close at hand, Ettie wandered one morning along the brow of Stanton Clift) a bold headland command ing views of two roads leiding to the village—that which was inland and that which traverses the shore, and which is commonly used when the tide is out. She could see nothing on the former road; so, thinking that George might return by the beach, she turned into one of the numerous paths winding down the cliffs, and thus descending to the

sands. Here, also, there was nothing to be seen ; she was too soon, or George had delayed his return till another day. Still, with the hope of meeting him, the girl wandered on, listening unconsciously to the dash of the receding waves, and pausing now and then to note the dull re verberations that, like distant thunder, echoed in the cliff caverns beyond. Thus cocupied, Ettie sauntered further than she meant, and turned the point of the head land—a range of jagged rocks which strike out seaward like a reef—she found her self in Saint Bridget’s Bay, a little inlet formed by the ridge of rocks just de scribed and a corresponding ridge about half a mile distant. At the upper end of the bay, which is sharply contracted land ward, there are huge masses of rock. Between these are deep and narrow chan nels, giving access to Saint Bridget’s Cave, and other dim recesses in the cliffs —once the haunts of smugglers and, so said tradition, of pirates also, but now abandoned to the sea birds clustering thickly upon their sides. Usually, the bay is deserted, for there: is no trade at Stanton—not even the cus tomary little fleet of fishing smacks—but now, to her surprise, Ettie thought she saw the figure of a man amongst the rocks at the mouth of Saint Bridget’s Cave. Turning seawards, she noted, not without alarm, a boat floating idly at- the water’s edge. Beyond, well out in the bay, there lay a vessel, something like a fast-sailing schooner, but larger, and built with sharper lines than those of ordinary trad ing ships. For a few moments Ettie stood entranced at the unexpected sight. Then alarmed, and with a sudden fear, she turned hastily back towards home, not observing that the figure she had seen amongst the rocks was nearing her, and was now within hailing distance. Pro sently, as if ashamed of her fears, the girl stopped and looked back. Then, becom ing aware that she was followed, she ran forward once more, and was again brought to a pause by the sound of her own name, blown to her b}' the wind— “ Ettie ! Ettie !” It came clear across the bay. She turned and listened. The call was repeated, and then, emerging from the shelter of the rocks, a man came swiftly across the sands. One hasty look satisfied her that it was George, and as the cry of “Ettie ! Ettie !” was repeated, she con vinced herself that it was the voice of her lover. She turned back to meet the advancing figure, which was now hidden for a moment by an intervening ledge of rock. Before she could speak, the figure was again in sight, close to her, face to face. Involuntarily the girl trembled from head to foot. It was not George Thursfield who stood fronting her. It was Richard Ellerton ! CHAPTER II —STORM. Yes, it was Richard Ellerton—darker, sterner, more self-willed than ever, as Ettie saw by the first glance of his sullen face. As the memory of his passionate love and savage anger at his rejection came back upon her, she trembled like a leaf. Ellerton first broke the silence. While they stood, watching each other, his glance ran with nervous haste over her whole figure, from head to foot, resting at last with hungry eagerness on her left hand. Pointing to this he cried ab ruptly— “ There is no ring upon your finger. You are not married, Ettie ? ” She strove to answer him—with a calm ness that was all assumed. “ I am not married, Richard Ellerton. But, after what has passed between us, that is nought to you. Go your way and let me go mine in peace.” He came a stop nearer. “It is all to me, Ettie,” he said, “ I cannot live with out you . Years of absence have but strengthened my passion for you. It has brought me back here—to the place I hate—from the other side of the world, only that I may again demand you as my wife. Oh ! Ettie, Ettie, give me one word of hope and comfort. After all these years, just one word ! ” “It cannot be, Richard ” —she answered him with a touch of sadness in her tone —“ towards you I am, and must be, un changed. If I were free, I could not be your wife. But I am not free ” —she hesitated for a second, and then added, “I am going to marry our neighbor, George Thursfield.” (to be continued)

CHISPA’S LETTER.

“I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —LONGFELLOW.

(From Ashburton Herald, June 19.)

I see the Hon J. N. Y. ilson isdownon the justices, and has poked up the Govern ment to shunt off the list all the insolvents “ and other unsuitable people.” I wonder how many features of a justice’s character he wants that word “ unsuitable ” to cover 1 I have heard of one justice who bravely fined a digger LI for beingdrunk, and an hour afterwards sat down with that digger and Iris mates, and helped and joined with the whole crowd in drinking the notes that remained. The diggergot the second offence in, seeing, I suppose, it was sanctioned by the august aid and majesty of the Bench. There is a Judge now on the bench who, while sitting as a Resident Magistrate, had to figure as defendant in innumerable debt cases, and even now his name does not seldom follow a small v for unpaid accounts. 1 should neither like to be plaintiff nor defendant in a case coming before a Judge like that, for I should be afraid that he owed my ad versary money, and the fear of a writ may wonderfully sway a decision. I have heard, too, of another case, in which the Magis trate is said to bo owing all round and the first question asked of a client by the solicitors who practice in said Magistrate Court is—Does the beak owe 3 T ou any money 1 and the next is—Does he owe the other side any ? If there is nothing owing, the case, of course, is safe to be heard on its merits. If there is money owing—well, justice has one eye open then. Those solicitors were at one time meditating clubbing a few notes, buying up LSO worth of the beak’s paper, and putting him through. Colonel Brett has come across a Justice in Hawke’s Bay who had been convicted of sly-grogging. Can any one wonder at decent men refusing to accept the position of Justice of the Peace? Back again to the Court. I have often heard my legal friends discourse learnedly on what constituted vagrancy, and when a man could be said to have no lawful visible means of support. I was never able to get exactly at the hang of their opinions on the subject, but I have known worthless characters who travelled the country living on their wits, carry a two feet rule in their pocket, just to show that they had some show of doing work, when a policeman hove in sight. These are the sort of men who are perennially unem ployed, who seek for work always, but are in constant fear lest they should find it. We have that class of character here, too, as well as elsewhere. A loafer, whom 1 have often seen within cooey of the R.M. Court, was once threatened with the Vagrancy Act. He stoutly denied being without visible means of support, “ For,” said he nnblushingly, “ my brother is very well-to-do, and I loaf on him.” But for the greater density of blood than water that brother would have been very glad to see his loafing relative do a month or two in a Government billet under very strict discipline. But the case of this moral weed Bariera seems to me peculiar. What good purpose [he can serve in this fair world of ours is an enigma. Still, it is also an enigma to me how, sentenced'to three months’ compulsory service of his

adopted country for being a rogue and a vagabond and without visible lawful means of support, he should yet turn out to be the owner of between L2O and L3O worth of property, and be able to emerge from his free dwelling under Colonel Felton’s sheltering wing and claim it. The business—if you can call it that—he carried on was, I pre sume, what his apprehension and convic tion aimed at stopping. Without the trulls he harbored his occupation was gone. Yet the furniture he claimed has been handed over to these women to help them on in their hellish trade. Brave law ! Strict and impartial justice ! I notice that one of the Wellington papers waxes jubilant over the fact that a considerable quantity of new silver and copper coin isfindingits way into circulation in Wellington. I don’t know that there is any very strong reason to be joyful over this fact ; but I would be very joyful in deed if -it wore a proved fact that a largo quantity of any kind of coin—new or old had suddenly been added to that already in circulation in Ashburton in this year of grace 1880. The Milton Pottery Company have en gaged an experienced hand for the mauu of glassware. This information reaches us at a strangely opportune time. For now that another sixpence has been added to the cost of a gallon of beer, mine host will be able to lay aside the glasses he has been using, and go in for a sot no smaller in bulk, but considerably reduced in capacity—reduced just enough to square that sixpence on the gallon. Tom Quill owes me something for this tip, and so do all his fellow’s in the trade. Chispa.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880,

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburton, Tuesday, June 23, iBSo,



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Medical. Advice to mothers.-—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to the chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless ; it produces natural, quiet sleep by reliev ing the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes £; as bright as a button,” It has been in use in America, and is highly recommended by medical men. It is very pleasant to take ; it sooths the child ; it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentry and diarrhoea, whether arising- from teething or other causes. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and see that “ Curtis and Perkins, New York and London,” is on the outside wrapper. No mother should be without it. Sold by all medicine dealers, at Is. lid.—Depot, 493, Oxford street. WHO is Mrs. WINSLOW? As this question is frequently asked, we shall simply say that she is a lady who for upwards of thirty years has untireingly devoted her time and talents as a female physician and nurse, principally among children. She has especially studied the constitution and wants of this numerous class, and, as a result of this effort and practical knowledge obtained in a lifetime as nurse and physician, she has com pounded a SOOTHING SYRUP for Chil dren. It operates like magic, giving rest and health, and is, moreover, sure to regulate the bowels. In consequence of this article, Mrs. Winslow is becoming world-rehouned as a benefactor of her race. Children certainly do rise up and bless her. Especially is this the case in this city. Vast quantities of the Soothing Syrup are daily sold and used here. We think Mrs Winslow has immortalised her name by this invaluable article, and we sincerely believe that thousands of chil dren have been saved from an early grave by its timely use, and that millions yet unborn will share its benefits and unite in calling her blessed. No mother has dis charged her duty to her suffering little one, in our opinion, until she has given it the benefit of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Try it mothers, try it now.— Ladies’ Visitor, New York City. YALUABLE DISCOVERY for the HAIR. A very nicely perfumed Hairdressing, called THE MEXICAN HAIR RE NE WE R, now being- sold by most Che mists and perfumers througout the coun try, at 3s. 6d. per bottle, is fast super ceding all the old restorers and dyes for the purpose of changing grey or white hair to its natural original color, for it will positively restore the hair in every case of greyness to its original color, with out dyeing it or leaving that offensive smell which most of the hair preparations of the day do. This preparation has never been known to fail in restoring the hair to its natural color and gloss in from eight to twelve days. It promotes growth and prevents the hair falling out, eradicating dandruff, and leaving the scalp in a clean, healthy condition. It imparts peculiar vitality to the roots of the hair, restoring it to its youthful freshness and vigor. Daily applications of this preparation for a week or two will surely restore faded,' grey, or white hair to its natural color and richness. It is not a dye, nor does it con tain any coloring matter or offensive substance whatever. Hence it does not soil the hands, the scalp, or even white linen, but produces the color within the substance of the hair. Read the follow ing from Mr. Nathan Berry, Chemist, Walkden : “ One of ray customers told me the other day he had had grey hair for thirty-five years, and after using one bottle of the Mexican Hair Renewer I sold him, it was restored to and kept its natural color.” It may be had of any respectable Chemist, Perfumer, or Dealer in toilet articles in the kingdom, at 3s. 6d. per bottle. —Prepared by HENRY 0. GALLUP, No. 493, Oxford street,London. OCKLE’S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS— These Pills consist of a careful and peculiar admixture of the best and mild est vegetable aperients, with the pure ex tract of the flowers of the camomile. They will be found a most efficacious remedy for derangement of the digestive organs, and for torpid action of the liver and bowels, which produce indigestion and the several varieties of bilious and liver complaints. They speedily remove the irritation and feverish state of the stomach, allay spasm, correct the morbid condition of the liver and organs subser vient to digestion, promote a due and healthy secretion of bile, and relieve the' constitution of all gouty matter and other impurities, which, by circulating in the blood, most injuriously affect the action of the kidneys ; thus, by removiilg the causes productive of so much discomfort, they restore the energies of both body and mind, To those who indulge in the. luxuries of the table these pills will prove highly useful, occasioning no pain in their action, unless they meet with an unusual quantity of acrid bile and acid matter in the stomach and bowels. To Europeans on their arrival in India or China they are recommended as a preservative against the fatal disorders peculiar to tropical climates. Their occasional use, if com bined with the strictest attention to diet, will be frequently found to remove at ’ once, by their influence over the secre tions, that congestive and unhealthy con dition of the liver which is so often the earliest antecedent of severe febrile and constitutional disturbance. It must be understood that these pills are not recommended as containing any new or dangerously active ingredients; on the contrary, they are characterised by a remarkable simplicity of combination, and whatever merit they may be found to possess depends as much upon the selec tion of pure drugs, and the unusual labor and attention bestowed upon their subse . quent preparation, as upon the acknow ledged peculiarity of their composition, They are not recommended as a panacea, nor are they adapted to all complaints; but as a mild and efficacious aperient and tonic in the various forms of indigestion, it will not, perhaps, be an exaggeration to state that they have been resorted to under all systems of diet, changes of cli mate, or atmospheric alternations with an extraordinary degree of success for upwards of seventy-eight years. This celebrated family aperient may be had throughout the United Kingdom in boxes at Is li-rd, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and 11s Od, as well as in India, China, New Zealand, and he Australian Colonies. THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN. gUBSCEIBERS in the Country are Particularly requested to communicate with the Publishers if their papers are not properly addressed. The number of Sub scribers has increased so rapidly that un less great care is taken in giving orders as to address and how to be sent, the papers may be left at the wrong place. All order .vill receive our prompt attention. WEEKS AND 3HXON,