HERE'S GOOD LUCK.

The touch of a hand, the glance of an eyfi Or a word exchanged with a passerby; A glimpse of a face in a crowded street, And afterward life is incomplete; A picture painted with honest zeal, And we lose the old for the new ideal; A chance remark or a song's refrain, And life is never the same again.

A friendly smile, and love's embering spark Leaps into flame and illumines the dark; A whispered "Be brave" to our fellow men. And they pick up the thread of hope again. Thus never an act or a word or thought But that with unguessed importance is fraught; For small things build up eternity And blazon the ways for destiny. -—Answers.

THE DRUMMER AND THE DRUMMER

A Story of War and Peace.

I BY CHfIRLES R DAY. |

I.—WAR. "Why, you're a Yankee, aren't you?" That was what Gladys Clayton, a lit tle southern girl, said one morning to a small boy dressed in blue who upon her approach had half risen to a sitting posture beside a patch which led both to a spring and a negro cabin, within hailing distance of the spot where the reclining uniformed figure was gazing in open eyed wonder on the vision of juvenile loveliness. "Yes, I'm a Yank," replied the boy, Instinctively saluting. "You »can tell that by my blue." Then he paused for a second and said hesitatingly, "Of course you are?—are a"— The boy in blue blushed, and the lit tle maid, with a twinkle in her eyes, said: "A little rebel. Do you surrender?" "Hardly," replied the boy, making an endeavor to take his feet, but falling back until he supported himself upon his elbow. An expression of pain swept over his face which startled the child as she exclaimed in sympathetic tones: "Oh, dear, what a pity! You are wounded, and only a boy!" Then, as a reassurance, she added: "You needn't be afraid, Yankee boy. I won't hurt you, and all the gray soldiers are gone away."

"Where am I?" asked the drummer . boy. "You fire on the Clayton plantation, T jTankee boy. My mother says that it is 20 miles from nowhere and the last place that was made." "There's been a big fight," said the boy. "Which licked?" "Mother says that she reckons they both got all they wanted and then {withdrew In good order," answered the girl. "Where Is your father?" "Licking Yankees," was the reply, .with a great deal of energy thrown into the words. "Oh, hoi" exclaimed the boy, and , then, In spite of himself, he permitted a groan to escape his lips. "Oh, dear!" said the girl, coming close up to him. "Are you hurt much, little Yankee boy?" For the moment the boy in blue had 1 forgotten himßeif as he asked in anx iety: ' "Please, little girl, have you seen my drum?" The girl looked up and down the path on either side, and at length she discovered the wreck of the martial Instrument. "Here it is, little boy," said the girl, with much dignity. "Thanks, miss," said the soldier boy. "The rebs have shot it full of holes, .and if sno good. Throw it away." The girl threw the shattered drum Into the bushes. "What can I do for you?" asked the Vgirl, somewhat perplexed at the situa tion. "I'll tell you," replied the boy. "And I want you to do it right quick. I want you to get me out of this 'right smart,' for a scouting party of rebs might come riding this way and capture me— Or worse"-— "Yankee boy, my mamma would have a fit if she saw you in that blue suit. She hates you all! Let me see let me see!" Then she clapped her hands and ex claimed: ' "I know what I'll do. I'll go to old Si, down at the cabin. He and auntie are the only ones of all the slaves who have not run away to follow the Yan kees. Si will do anything for me. Be as patient as you can while I am gone, for it won't be long." It was not long that the lad had to wait, but when the people returned With the two colored people he was quite faint, and gasped: "Waterl" "Bring the gourd from the springl" commanded auntie* who had arrived in advance of her rheumatic husband. The labors of years and perfect liealth had given the black woman im mense strength, and the drummer boy iwai little mor£ of a burden to her than an infant. Gladys ran on ahead to the cabin. Auntie strode on, taking such Immense steps that her husband, in a vain en deavor to keep up, was taken with a fit of coughing and was obliged to take a long rest by the wayside. When he did arrive at the cabin, the boy in blue was snugly hidden away in its privacy an<J receiving the kind offices of the colored woman, who bad had many years of experience in nursing. Now that the wounded drummer boy was made as comfortable as possible, auntie closed the cabin door and said ' as impressively as if she were reciting one of her best ghost stories: "You hear me, Miss Gladys, an you, ole man? You both done keep yer mouth shut 'bout this 'ere young un. (You both all know that the missy at the big house is jest pszen on the Yan kees, for all she's a drefful good worn

an. But for all that we mustn't let I her know of this little chap a-hidin I 'ere any more thari's If 'twas a-hidin i Linkum hissclf," i

11.-PEACE. "Lines," said the head of the house to a favorite commercial traveler who had just returned from an extended tour, "do you know anything of the south?" "A little," was the reply. "How far south have you been?" "Richmond." "Ah!" exclaimed the head of the house. "Long getting these?" "Pretty near three years!" "First time that I ever heard that you were in the 'late unpleasantness/ " returned his employer. "Never heard about your adventures in that line." "Well," interrupted the salesman, "you see, I am the only man engaged in the civil war who is not writing for - the magazines." "In many battles?" asked the manag ing partner. "Yes." "Wounded?" "Twice; once in the leg and the other time in the heart." "Recovered from the effects of both wounds?" "Recovered from the shot in the leg; the wound in the heart is still open." "Urn!" was the finale of this running conversation. The salesman nodded, and then the converse became "strictly business." The desire of the firm was concisely this—to renew a southern trade pre viously held by the house which had been interrupted by the civil war and never regained; never regained be cause the house had never made an ef fort to resume business relations with that section.

"Walter," said the senior partner, be coming familiar, "we must win all that trade 1 back again. I not only want the city houses, but those remote planta tion stores at the crossroads which car ry such; big stocks of our very lines. And as for the salary and commission, the house will guarantee that your trio' tlip in the new section shall be no loss to you."

When the day for the salesman's de parture for Virginia came, the head of the house at parting said: "Well, you are advancing on Rich mond this time under somewhat dif ferent circumstances." "Not so very different," interrupted the salesman, with a quiet chuckle. "I was a drummer then, and I'm a drum mer now." Just at dusk one night he drove up to the store on the Clayton plantation and walking into the establishment announced himself and his business by presenting his card, as he said: "I want supper, feed and keep for my horse, lodging for myself and will talk business later." A young man behind the counter re plied: "That'll be all right, Mr. Lines. The proprietor will be here in a moment." Then he ordered a lounging darky to "take the horse round to the barn." The drummer was just going to ask the condition of trade when a woman entered. "Miss Clayton, the proprietor," said the clerk, introducing the newcomer. The greeting of the two was so hearty that the clerk almost fell over the counter. "Why, Walter!" "Why, Gladys!" That clerk was a jewel. He knew «his business. He hurried out of the store to feed the drummer's horse. In inclosing an order for a large bill of goods on the ensuing day, the drum mer in a communication to the head of the house wrote: "I have entirely recovered from that wound of the heart. In Miss Gladys Clayton I have found an old acquaint ance, a new woman of the new south, whom 1 shall have no trouble in bring ing into the Union. At present her mother is rather a hopeless case, but I am quite sure that she, too, will be come thoroughly reconstructed in due season."—Charles H. Day in Home Magazine.

Probably She Meant It.

"When she will, she will, you can depend on't," Is a line which many men have quoted of many women. The saying is often unjust, and the woman is often justified, but now and then the cap fits perfectly. :> Not long ago a fast express was' * bowling over the sands of Arizona. Just how It happened was frequently explained and never understood, but as the train sped along the side of a parched river it suddenly left the rails, rolled down the bank and landed in three feet of muddy water at the bot tom of the river bed. Within the cars there was some nat ural confusion. Men, women and lunch boxes were thrown into a heap, and not an umbrella or parcel was left in the racks. One by one the occupants of the rear car extricated themselves from the mass and sought for means of escape while stanching various wounds caus ed by broken glass. Every exit was jammed tight. Just then, In the midst of the doubt and confusion, rose a wo man's voice in emphatic demand: "Let me out! Let me out! If you don't let me out, I'll break a window!" —Youth's Companion.

A Unique Symbol of Freedom.

A curious custom is observed in the village of Great Bookman, Surrey, England. When the wife of a trades man goes off for the usual summer holiday to the seaside, one or two ex pert climbers ascend at midnight to the roof of the house and insert old brooms in the chimneys as a sign that the head of the house has the super vision of the domestic arrangements in addition to his ordinary work. The wife of the worthy landlord at the Crown hotel having departed, no few er than eight brooms adorned tht house.—Pittsburg Bulletin.

THE ABHBTJBTON StJAEDIAN ; THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1900

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MKS JOHNSTON mEACHER of the Pianoforte and Singing. Havolock Street. eoond Term commences on the 7th insb. OSBORN COOMBB, PIANO TUNER & EXPERT (Late of London), VISITS Ashburton and surrounding Dis' tricts every four inonthe—viz, March July, and November. ORDERS may be left with MR LLEWELLYN OWEN afe bis Music Studio, Arcade Chambers, Ashburton, or at Commercial Hotel. ~~TO hE~T. SUITE of Rooms, centrally situated in the new Victoria Buildings nexb Ar cade, Burnett Street. T. BULLOCK. for Tale " A FARM of 265 Acres, Springfield District, Rural Section 32643, mostly in English grasses, For terms and partiou ars apply to T. BULLOCK, Agent. TO LET. ' ' AT a Low Rental, vis. 5s 6d per week, Small Shop with Rooms attached, fronting East Street South, Apply to T. BULLOCK, Agent),



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TO ALL MY OLD CLIENTS FARMERS, AND RESIDENTS OF ASHBURTON OQJ|»TY. I BEG to Inform you that I bate •eVered my connection with the Canterbury Mill, which wm under my management for over leren yean, and hati* PURCHASED from Mr JBdwin Thomas the WAKANUI ROLLER;FLQUR HILLS. The Canterbury Mill, Which ia the property of the Bank of New Zealand Asset* Board, it still trading under "the name of Rollitt & Co., to to aToid-oonfuaion with correapondenoe, I would ltk» to.«akyoa to addren all order* to a THOMA3-IWLLITDi ROLLER FtMR MILLS, ASHBMXON On and after October Ist, lihtilJ^aWeaied to enpply. you with: firab-blau ' '. ROLLER FLOUR, WHEAT MEAL, BRAN & SHARPS, at loweit current rates. FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF FARMERS DOING GRISTING, I bare arranged to keep a supply: of Floor Bran, and Sbarpi at the Store* «f the N.Z. Farmen' AMooiation, Wa«t Street, where ' Farmers, Shareholder! or noa-Shareholden can leave their Wheat and get Float, Bran, and Sharp* in exchange^ THOMASIOLLtTT. WAKiNDI ROLLER FLOUR MILLS 9 255 ASHBURTON.



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