THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE DISRUPTION A TALE OF TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. — continued. Push bauldly on and win the day— Ramsay.

Stiffriggs luckily made his appear ance in time to relieve Robin Afleck from his perilous situation ; for, at sight of the honest farmer, Doctor Snapper dudgeon, for reasons which the reader will be at no loss to guess, silently and sulkily drew off and vanished from the scene; and the Rev. Mr. Aspen only remained to have a few words in private with Mr. Bacon.

‘ Now, Mr. Stimperton,’ said Robin, as soon as he had collected his mind sufficienty to speak, ‘ye see what a pretty job we’ve made o’ our meetin’, Pegs, things couldna ha’e happent better if that auld thief, Dr. Snapper dudgeon hadna come across us. But it’s nae matter, ye did as weel as the tup, and cam’ just in the nick o’ time. The Laird has shurely gotten the daft conceit shaken fairly oot o’ him at last.’

And Mr. Bacon had in truth got a salutary lesson, though he felt it hard to swallow. When he saw the ludi crous end of his efforts ‘to save the Church,’ he bolted himself into the room where he had awaited the assem bling of the meeting, and gave way to a fit of disappointment and anger. He vented his vexation in hot tears —yes, he wept like a spoiled child—and plucked passionately at his long tangled whiskers. ‘ I have been befooled, be trayed, and insulted,’ he exclaimed to himself. ‘ The infatuated idiots ! they have been jealous of me as a layman. Because I happen not to be of the cloth, they have spurned my aid. Well, let them take the consequences ! Let them find who else will do for them what I was prepared to do. I gave them a last chance, and it was the last —the very last.’ His soliloquy was interrupted by the request of the Rev. Mr. Aspen to be admitted to a private audience. When he entered, Mr. Bacon demanded of him sternly what he wanted. ‘ I came ■ here, sir,’ said Mr. Aspen, ‘by your invitation, and it remains with you to explain your pleasure.’ ‘ Oh, my purpose was to do the Church a service, by assembling a numerous meeting of the clergy and propounding to them my views. But see how I have been treated ! You are a most ungrateful pack, and richly de serve the calamities that have come upon you. There has been a con spiracy among you to insult me and thwart my intentions.’ ‘ I at least, sir,’ replied Mr. Aspen, ‘ am not chargeable with such conduct towards you.’ * You are all alike. You are a bad set, the whole of you.’ ‘ Why, if you have been thawrted in your intentions, I have no share in the blame. I have complied with your re quest in coming here; and if other? had done the same you would have no reason to complain.’ ‘ Well, well, that may be true enough, but I wish to have no more to do with any of your fraternity. From this day forth, I renounce all interest in the affairs of the pestilent body you belong to.’

Mr. Aspen attempted to smooth down the wrath of the baffled projector, but it would not do. He insinuated softly that he was not to be identified with any particular Church at the time, as recent events had shaken his old attachments and thrown him into a state of suspense. But this explanation had no effect. Mr. Bacon was too much exasperated by his disappoint ment to listen with patience to anything relating to the subject. His crafty self seeking visitor was therefore obliged to depart without having had any oppor tunity of currying favor or edging in a single word regarding his patronage. A grave consultation now took place between Stiffriggs and Factor Afleck as to the best means of soothing the Laird’s irritable feelings, and confirm ing him in the rational tastes he had begun to acquire before the crisis of the Church affairs had sent his wits a wool-gathering. Robin proposed a visit to Stiffrigg Mains as likely to pro duce the best effects. ‘lt wad put Mr. Bacon fairly richt again,’ said he, ‘ if ye wad just be sae gude as inveet him home wi’ you for two or three days to see your way o’ farmin'. And fegs ! if ye happen to inveet me alang wi’ him, I’m no shure if I wad refuse.’

Stiffriggs took the hint with charac teristic frankness and good_ nature. The invitation was cordially given and accepted, and the following Monday was fixed for the journey; for Ringan did not choose to leave Edinburgh till he had witnessed the first proceedings of the Free Church Assembly.

In preparing for the journey and speculating on,the pleasure it would afford him, Mr. Bacon soon forgot his disappointed ambition, and was again rational and cheerful. His fancy for Miss Stimperton revived with new vigour, and he set himself most assidu ously to render himself as agreeable in her eyes as possible. His outer man underwent an entire. renovation, by the joint efforts of the hair-dresser, the tailor, and the bootmaker; and Factor Afleck was not slack in following his example. Robin was determined that both Mr. Bacon and himself should show off to advantage, and that much more should be made of the visit to Stiffrigg Mains than a mere inspection of the mode of tillage practised there. The following letter, which he wrote to Jean Brown, will explain his views. It must be explained that Robin had made con siderable improvement in spelling and cyphering during the interval not re corded m this history. : ‘Edinburgh, 20th May, 1843. * Dear Jean —Here am I aga : n within twenty miles of you as the craw flys, and just about ready to make the distance less than arms length. This disruption business drave Mr. Baccn nearly as far gleed as ever, and nothing would hinder him from coming here to save the Kirk. By good luck he wish t to have me with him, and I expeck to make the journey good both for him self and me, and may be some folk for ye that I could name. Mr. Bacon has gotten himself vext and affronted _ so much with his magot about the Kirk, that I think he will never try ought of the kind again, at least as lang as he has me for his factor; but to make shure wark shurer, I have gotten Rin gan Stimperton to bid him out on a

visit to Stiffrigg Mains. It may do him good to see the way the grund is man aged there, but a sight of Saft Shusie has a chance of doing him more good than ought else. It’s my opinion, Jean, if they would just match o’t at once, it would be the very saving of Mr. Bacon, and a very good bargain for Shusie. And I expeck nothing less to be the upshot of bringing them thegether again. At ony rate I count it no small matter to get him to Stiffrigg Mains, for. forbye this chance it will give me an opportunity of making a race to Whinny side and having a crack with somebody. The prospect of the jaunt had raised Mr, Bacon’s spirit, and made him brush up so much that you would hardly ken him now. The only daft thing I see about him is that he has begun to write metre; but as it seems to be Shusie, I think it’s no a bad sign after all. Here is one of his blethers— Fair lady, now ’tis summer tide, The land is all one bed of flowers ; In giddy rings the swallows glide, And songbirds warble in the bowers ; The western winds stir scented waves,. And fragant blossoms, red and white ; The rivers flow, the ocean heaves, Like joyous things, in dazzling light; No speck is on the azure sky, But trilling lark, or golden cloud ; The laden bee goes humming by, And children in the meadows crowd. ’Tis holiday with all save me, My heart alone in shadow lies ; I pine and languish far from thee -• My summer beams but from thine eyes. Now, Jean, if Mr. Bacon was not in a sense, daft, he would not write such nonsense about bum-bees and scented leaves and fragrant blossoms. It’s counted a great brag to raise metre ; but 1 think it’s no brag ava, unless it be sense forbye. But maybe you think I couldna do onything o’ the kind my self, for I keen ye never thought I had much in my head—except, maybe, a nievfu’ or twa o’ gey coorse common sense. So, just to let you see that you are mistaken, here’s a sang I’ve made on you, worth a dozen o’ Mr. Bacon’s havers :■ —

Now Whusunday is come, and Whusunday is gane, And the busy flitting day is in view ; But flitt wha like, and sit wha like, I’ll flitt, Jean Brown, to you. The tittling it follows the laigh-fleein’ gowk, An’ the calf it trots after the cow ; It’s the time o’ year o’ chasin’, an’ nane will I chase But you, Jean Brown, but you. The lang springin’ corn it is saft and green ; An’ weel may ye say, for it’s true, I’m saft and green mysel’, for I green For you, Jean Brown, for you. O 1 bonny is the peony, an’ bonny is the rose Hingin’ wat wi’ the blabs o’ dew ; But the bonniest flower in the worl’ that grows, Is you, Jean Brown, is you. If Mr. Bacon ever raises the like of that ye may ca’ me Cuddy. Now, Jean, ye’re no to be feart orblate when ye see me, for I havena grown the least proud. Ye’ll ken but little difference of me, except that I ha’e grown more genteeler, and can knop English when I like as correckly as the Laird or Mr. Duncanson. Bye-the-by, when I mind to speak of James, I may tell you he is sure of getting Miss Montgomery now ; for he has made up matters with her father, and is as far in his favor as he was out before. The old man has been at death’s door since he came intill the town, as ye would hear when Agnes and her sisters were sent for; but he is getting better, and I understand is to leave the town with his family on Mon day. Mr. James, and Mr. and Mrs. Calmsough are to go with them to see the auld roan safely at Burncrook ; and your Mistress, and me, and Stiffriggs, and Mr. Bacon are to take the road at the same time. Your mistress has every chance,to stop at Stiffrigg Mains in the byegaun; and if she does I’ll slip away by myself to Whinnyside to see You, Jean Brown — just you. It’s no easy to say what will come of all this coming and and ganging, but there is one thing, Jean, maun come out o’t afore lang, or you and me will cast oot, and that is But I’ll tell you when we meet, and aforehind it will be the precentor’s business to tell every body in the parish. ‘I am, dear Jean,

‘ The same as ever. And to alter never. Till my latest quiver, Yours truly,

Robert Afleck.’ (To be continued—commenced on July 56.)

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1880.

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Medical. Blindness, deafness, &c. a ----- i DE. GRANT, Member of Eoyal College of Surgeons, j England, and of the Medical Boards oi Victoria and New South Wales; also regis- £ tered in New Zealand, r OCULIST, AURIST, & SPECIALIST, r (From Europe), may be consulted upon t all Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat, - Deafness, Noises in the Head, Defective Sight, Squinting, Cataract, Amaurosis, . Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Loss of Eye- s lashes, Inflammation, and all Diseases of < the Eye, Ear, and Throat treated upon 1 new and scientific principles. | DR. GRANT has arrived in Christ- \ church, and may be CONSULTED at his ] Consulting Rooms, 4 HEREFORD TERRACE, ■ Hereford Street East, Christchurch, Near St. John’s Church. Hours of attendance : Morning, 10 till 1; afternoon, 2 till 5. Saturdays, morning only. Dr Grant’s consultation rooms, during the four months of his successful practice in Auckland, were crowded to excess, and attention is confidently and particularly requested to the following cases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and other special af fections : 211 Queen street, Auckland, July 23, 1880. Dr. Grant.—Dear sir, —I have to give you thanks .for the great benefit to my hearing since I have been under your care. —I am, &c., Robert Campbell. Ponsonby, July 23. Under Dr. Grant’s treatment 1 am very much improved in my hearing, and should recommend any one to try the same.— M. A. Parker. Taraaki West, near St. John’s College, Auckland, July 23, 1880. Dr Grant has greatly improved my hearing during the time I have been under his care.— Thos. Churches. Brookside, Pakakura Valley, July 23, 1880. I was under Dr. Grant’s treatment for squinting, and was completely cured in ten days. I would earnestly recommend any persons suffering from diseases of the eyes to make a trial of Dr Grant, feeling sure that he would benefit them as he has done me.— John Sinclair®, Juh. Ponsonby road, Hope Town, Auckland, June 16, 1880. I have been under Dr. Grant’s care since May 26, for great deaf ness, for more than twelve years, and am about sevantj' (70) years of age. Dr. Grant has removed a large and small polypus from my years, and I can hear much better, having greatly improved under his ’ care, for which I am very thankful.— , Charles Lowe. j Horne’s Estate, New North road, Auck [ land, June 16, 1880. I have been suffer ing from a severe local disease. Dr. Grant operated upon me on Saturday last, and I am now quite well, although I had been : in an ill state of health for four years.— Charles Muller. Cross street, Newton, Auckland, June 17, 1880. I have been nearly blind for over seven years, and unable to work at my trade (a confectioner). On the first day of this month I went under Dr. Grant’s care, and already see very much better in this short space of time. — John Whittle. Parnell, June 14, 1880. Dr. Grant has just cured me of a long-standing deafness of more than ten years, for which I am very thankful, having tried many other doc -1 tors without success. —M aria J. Treeman. Auckland, August 6, 1880. I have been deaf in the left ear for four years and in: , the right also. On August 2 I was treated 5 by Dr. Grant, and am now quite well, 1 being able to hear as well as ever I did. — T Arthur Parkinson, Farmer, Opotiki. ’ Maugere, Onehunga, Auckland, August' , 26, 1880. For thirty-five years I have been suffering with diseased eyes. Since August 5 I have been under Dr. Grant’s f care, and am rapidly recovering. —J. Nicholls. Symonds street, Auckland, August 27, - 1880. I have been deaf for eighteen years i (since I was four years old) the drums of - bothyearshaving ulcerated away. lam s still improving under Dr. Grant’s care, s and can hear much better now, sometimes • very well.— Margaret Sanderson. 1 Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Whan, Aug. 3 28, 1888. This is to certify that I have f been under Dr. Grant’s care for hardness of hearing from the 13th instant, and find I am so far improved as to hear the ticking . of a watch, which I could not do before I f put myself under his treatment. lam s over sixty years old.— John King. Auckland, September 6, 1880. I have 1 been under Dr. Grant’s treatment since ’ August 18 for deafness of both ears. lam 1 returning home to Tauranga this day, quite ’ cured, and can hear as well as ever I did. —Sydney Hoben. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ' We can conscientiously recommed those 5 suffering from deafness or other ailments that Dr. Grant has made a special study , of, to pay him a visit, when, if curable ! patients, they may certainly expect relief. An instance came under our notice on , Thursday, in the case of a man named , Charles Swanson, who had been very - deaf for three years, but, after ten days’ » treatment, can now hear perfectly even 5 the lowest whisper. The’cure is a rather remarkable one, as he had been under the care of many medical men, but has re ( ceived no benefit whatever from their " treatment —New Zealander, Dec. 27,1879. j Mr. Earnest D‘Egville Michau called at s our office yesterday, and stated that he i had been blind with the right eye all his lifetime. Hearing about Dr. Grant, the oculist, who is now on a visit to this city, r he determined to give him a trial. He i had only been under Dr. Grant’s treat -1 rnent ten or eleven days when he found ; that he could see large objects at some dis [ tance. Mr. Michau states that he had ’ been under the treatment of some of the : best medical men at home, but had not ; received the least benefit. We are at ’ all times chary of accepting details of . “ Wonderful cures,” but the. young man who called at our office appearei to be telling the truth, and was exceedingly grateful to Dr. Gant for the relief which he has already experienced. —New Zea land Times, Dec. 25, 1879. Dr. Grant is also SPECIALIST in the DISEASES of WOMEN and CHIL DREN. Dr. Grant has recently effected a very > remarkable cure in the cage of Mrs. D. Evans, of Kumara, who has been under his treatment for deafness since Feb. 14, last. Mrs. Evans has been deaf in both ears for a very long period—no less than thirty years—her affliction having been , caused by a fever, from which she suffered | severely. Since that time she has been , almost totally deaf, for she could only hear the the loudest sounds. Since she has been under Dr. Grant’s treatment her hearing has gradually improved, so that now she can hear plainly conversation in an ordinary tone of voice. She will re turn in a few days to Kumara perfectly well, and in possession of the full faculty of which she has been so long deprived.— West Coast Times, March 10, 1880. ; _ ! One of the employees in the Public Works office here has sent us the follow ing testimonial to the skill of Dr. Grant. He says “I wish to let you know that Dr. Grant has greatly improved the hear ing of one of my ears, the membrane of which was injured some six years ago. I may add that two surgeons, whom I con sulted a short time ago, considered the case incurable. ” Dr. Grant has also been very successful in several difficult cases of disease of the eye. —Hokitika Times, March 23, 1880., There are amongst Dr. Grant’s success ful eye cases at Hokitika, a young-lady;



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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 ee thing 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. l|d. —Depot, 493, Oxford street. VV7HO 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 Jis world-renouned as a benefactor of her ;e. 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; 1 =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, incur opinion, until she has givenit the benefit of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Try it mothers; ■ try it now.— Ladies’ Visitor, New York City. "T VALUABLE DISCOVERY for the V HAIR; . : ;; A very nicely perfumed Hairdressing, called THE MEXICAN HAIR RE NEWED, 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 evity 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 my 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. COCKLE’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 aud liver complaints. They speedily remove the irritation and feverish'state" .b£ r 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, removing 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, no pain ifi 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, of ten 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 se-lec- o 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 j 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 yearA This celebrated family aperient may be had throughout the United Kingdom in boxes at Is l|d, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and 11s Od, as well as in India, China, New Zealand, anp the Australian Colonies. TT 7ANTED.—THE GUARDIAN tells V \ your Wants for Is.—cash. ■ ITTANTED KNOWN—That Visiting VY Cards, plain or mourning, can be obtained printed in various styles, at the “ Guardian ” office, opposite i the 'Railway Station.