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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-18, Page 20 OR, A SAD LIFE STORY CliAP'i"i tt til, gaged to yorr" which? I I O.N'e you a r, choice of interpretation.' :c i)o you know that 'Willy has been sent flown again?" Six weeks have passed since lxur- goyne`s eye followed his quondam friends down Mesoparauzia. and lin fs not in Qslord scow, tie left it, indeed, twenty-four hours after the re-ere:ounter described; left it with something of a determination never to revisit it, This, too, In spite of the good Frown's voei- ferously reiterated invitation to hint to run down for another Sunday when- ever he should feel inclined, and which Ile accepted civilly, knowing that he should never feel inclined. At the pre.sent moment he is pacing up and down the still wintry, north- wirelswept walk of a Country -house garden in Shropshire, in the company of a lady whom he has known as long as he can remember; a lady wlio would have been a friend of circum- stance, even if she had not been one of choice, since her home has been in the immediate neighborhood of the only one he has ever had; a lady whose friendship he has tested by letters on thin paper from New Guinea and Cen- tral Africa all about himself; at whose feet he b.as laid on his return more heads. and skins, and claws than she has well known what to do with; whose husband he thought a very good fellow, and to wbom he wrote a very nice let- ter on that husband's death; lastly, con- cerning whose only child has been made the communication that opens this chapter— "no you know that Willy has been sent down again?" "I did not know it; but I am very sorry now that I do know." "You need not be," returns she cheer- fully, "he does not mind it in the least; indeed, happily for him, most of his friends have bean sent down too." "What has he been doing this time? Putting, the porter into the fountain? or screwing up the dean? or what other playful little pleasantry ?'' "You need not speak in that nasty sarcastic voice," says she, half laughing and half vexed. "After all, you must know that young men will be young men, or, at least, if you do not, know it now, you must have known it once." "If you take that tone to me," retorts Burgoyne, smiling, "1 shall have to souco your gardener in your fountain, to prove my juvenility; but come, what has he done? "Absolutely nothing, as far as 1 can make out," replies she, spreading out her hands as if to erephasize the state- ment. "Do yot? mean to say that the authori- ties have sent him down de gaite de coeur without any provocation at all?" asks Burgoyne, in a tone out of which' he is unable to keep ashade of incre- dulity. "I mean to say," replies she, nettled, "that he had a few men to supper, and I suppose they were making a little noise; did you ever in your day hear of an undergraduates supper where there was not noise? ` However, in this case, from what he tells me, Willy was tak- ing positively no part in IL" "lie was sitting in a corner, with cotton -wool in his ears, reading Aris- totle," suggests Burgoyne teasingly. "And it seems," continued she, not deigning to notice the interruption, "that the proctor came in, and was very• rude, and 'Willy was told to go to 'the dean next morning, and he either was a little late, or mistook the hour, or some trifle of that sort; and when he did go he was told that he was sent down. l3owever"---with some triumph in her voice "it did not matter, in the least— he, did not mind; in fact he was rather glad, as he has long wanted to go to Italy in the spring." "To Italy ? Then perhaps we shall meet; L. too, am going to Italy." "Are you 7" she says. "Wiry should you go to Italy? There is nothing to kill there, is there? Is not it at Naples that they go out in full cha.sscur uni- form to shoot tomtits?" Which speech is her revenge for his sarcasms upon her son. But l3urgoyne's face has taken on a rather careworn loolc; and her little ar- row misses its mark. "You see Amelia Is at Florence," he says explanatorily; "her father, Mr.Wilson, had a clergyman's throat Li the autumn, and was obliged to give ep duty, so they alt went abroad. They have been abroad all the winter; you know that I have not seen her since I came back from the Rockies." They aro now walking in a, winding ,shrubbery path, whose laurels protect 11hem trent the pincldng wind, They Have turned several corners, and tra- v'ereed half a quarter of a mile before elihor again break's silence.. It is the lady who does so finally. "Tim, how long have you been engaged to Amelia?" There is 'a sigh mixed with his itrrswer. "Eight ,years --eight years this next lune; lt, wen the second summer terra after 1 camc up." "And a.s far as yen can see, you are atkcly to be engaged for another eight years'?" "As far as I can see--•yes;.but then I cannot see far." Perhaps his companion is a fancleal woman; hut she Acte es that' this time he dons not eigh. "Poor Amelia," she says, half under bei breath. "Poor Amelia.," repeats ho sharply; «why poor -for being engaged to .me?. You are notvete?.complimentary, 1vlr.L Cyng." Seefraud ills frAr:ht1llly at bun. "For beteg engaged to retiree bein; only err fviduats: cepties Burgoyrle, misan lhropteally, looking;. up from. hjj guide- ,boott. They are seuntet:ng down the Via Garibaldi, street of petaeee tlia,t ensues:.. on arntiquer narno than that. of tlto etnnewhat shoddy and recent #tern who has gotttathered It. Noblest Via, down whose stately length great towering hulks succeed each other in solid majes- ty on either hand; bulks on whose legit (routs, lofty portaled, o'urrun with fres- co* glorified by brush and chisel, btrzngth and beauty take hands in un- ending wedlock. Into the noblest of all, up the echoing stone stairs, down winch the feet of the masters have forever ceased to tread, they enter, As we all know, it has been given to the city of Genoa—lovely queen -city meriting so great a ,gift—by the dying hand of its latest possessor, the last of that high e of But either Jim is too ruffled by thet turpito d ad bel ihefracc pictures --it we wl ou dpaced pity expressed in her tone towards hist, its floors, and went forth in flttsi .tune betreffeel, or leer remares have ttrovoked eel pomp through its worthy -le -he -1m - in Ina i train of thought welch does not penal portals. tend tewnrds loquacity. The laud rooks, Burgoyne and By,eg are standing be - balancing themselves on improbably •fore the great Vandyke. The eitstade, small twigs above their heads, and,''opening n siauttet', and throwingwider a hoarsely melodious, calling out their 'door, casts a brighter ray of light for the staring Britons—several others have joined themselves to our friends—to gape at it by. What does the stately gentleman on his great white horse, whore Vandyke has made able to set at nought death's effacement, think of them, as the eustode slowly swings him forward on his lenges, so that the clay - beams ruay bring cut rthoro clearly still the arresting charm of his serious idea, tits outstretched arm, and grave, gallant nearing? Looking at hint, whose heart among us Is not besieged by an ache of ton tine that that "young and princely"' gentleman on the brave while charger should ride down to us out of his frame.' end bring back Itis world with him?,, Probably not a . better world than ours, but surely, surely a handsomer one. After awhile the other tourists drift eiway, but the two men still stand and gaze. Luta Burgoyne's mind ,has comet, a sense of disgust with the present, a 'revolt against steam trams rind the Cromwell Road—most perfect symbol of 'that bald, unending, vulgar ugliness, which, in some moods, must seem t0 everyone the dominant .rote of nine- teenth century life. The light-hearted Byng, who always takes his color from lbs surroundings, is hushed into silence 'that is almost reverent too. "What a difference there is between ins Italian and his English pictures," he says, presently. "Do you remember the Marchese. Balbi, and those divine I3albi children in the Grosvenor, last year ? Ott, no 1 by -the -bye, you were in America. The fog seemed to get into his brush whenever he painted an English - Woman, always excepting Henrietta ✓Maria, who was not an Englishwoman, and whom he was obviously rather in love with." "Is that a piece of scandal of your 'own invention, or is it founded ori atry vernal new i.o each other, are for serve time the only sound that breaks the silence of the cent spring afternoon. It is again Mrs. Byng who at last In- fringes it. • "It3 •ou and Willy ere bosh going to Italy, why should not you go to- gether?" Jim dors not immediately answer; the project is sprung upon hitu with such Suddenness that he does not at once know whether it Is agreeable to hint or the reverse. "You do not nee the idea?" continued the mother, trying, not very successful- ly, to keep out of Iter tone the surprise she teels at his not having jumped at D. plan so obylousiy to his c;vn uttvan sage. "1 did not say so. I did not even think so." ' "Willy is an ideal fellow -traveller," says she, "excepting in the matter at punctuality ; i warn you"—laughing— "that you w*Du1d always have to drag him out of bed." • "But," suggests Jim, slowly,"even supposing that I embraced your design with the warmth wieth I see you think It deserves, stow can you tell that it would meet with his approbation? Ile has probably made up a party with some of the other innocent victims ot a cor- rupt University system." "No, he has not; the friend with whom he was to have gone has thrown him over; at least, poor man, that is hardly the way to express it, for he has broken his leg; but anyhow he is hors de com- bat. If you went with Willy," she adds, after a pause, and with a rather wistful air, "I should be sure of knowing if anything went wrong." "I am to dry -nurse him, in fact, only I stipulate that, If he brings you home a Contadina daughter-in-law, or 'com- mits himself with a countess', like the I Tact?" asks Burgoyne, rousing himself, commercial gentleman at Todgers', you and looking aver his shoulder towards are not to hold me responsible." ltih.e entrance to the next frescoed, mir- And so it comes to pass that a fort- sorest pictured room, whence be hears night later, while April is still young, Burgoyne. en route to his Amelia, is standing at a window of the Hotel de Genes at Genoa, noisiest of hotels, though, to 336 sure, that is its only fault. He is Iooking out at the gay market that is held in the piazza below—the gay market that is over and gone by nine o'clock. It seetns odd that so many women, so many umbrellas, so many baskets, so many oranges and lemons—each lemon with a glossy green leaf still adhering to its inch of stalk—so many fresh vege- tables, can be swept away in so short a time. But they are; all the gay ker- chiefs are fled, and have been replaced by a row of nacres with sad droop - headed horses, a good hour before Deng appears—appears radiantly well washed and apologetic. "How manymousing chapels did you attend last term ?" asks Burgoyne with some dryness. "It is a vile habil,' replies the other, sweetly, sitting down at a little Mabel, and unfolding his breakfast napkin. "1 do not mean going to chapel, but be- ing so late; however, I really am en - proving, I am a quarter of an hour— twenty minutes earlier titan I was y es- tcrday, and, thank God, we have no train to catch to -day." Burgoyne is rather inclined to echo the thanksgiving a little later in the day, as they stroll with the pleasant vague- ness with which one strays about a little-known foreign town, not exactly knowing whither, through the streets of the queenly city, with which neither of thein has much acquaintance; Byng's twenty-two years of school and college, of cricket and grouse, and stalking, have left /tot much margin for aught else; and Burgoyne being In the case of some widely wandered shots and ex- plorers, to whom the Nyanza Lake and the Australian Bush are more familiar than Giotto's Campanile or the Lagoons. There is a greyish -looking English sky. 'with now and then little sprays of rain, and now and then Dashes of warns sun. Neither of the young men know much' Italian, and such as they possess they are ashamed to air before ea.eh other in asking their way, so they wander wher- ever chance or fancy leads ihetri. They look curiously into churches, they walk flown, deep narrow streets, whose douses have for three centuries been threatening to embrace each other across the straight sky strip far, far above thetr heads, They glance .at the palace fronts, and wonder at the sculp- tured portals where fresco and -fruit garland and fine tracery speak of a time at more leisure for delicate work that has no end but beauty, than this breathless one. Everywhere In the gar- dens they see budding green, untrained roses making hovers, ripe oranges 'hanging over the walls, They jostle tgainst women, each made charming,. evert the ugilest of them, by the bluetit Uwe kerchief tied about her head:., "Henry Tonnes says that an English crowd is the beet -looking in: the world," Says i3yng, in tx tone of strong dissent, following with his' eyes a Iittle tripping Illgume end ,with en expression Of pros flounced approbation he those eyes, iwltirh gives Burgoyne a meMentary twinge of misgiving es to Ms chaperon- ship.. "I should put it the other' way up, and say that they are the Ugliest." "M1 crowds are ugly, and spent ill the sound of approaching voices. In his eye is an idle and mechanical curiosity, Mixed with vexation that his short re- ipite front his fellow -countrymen is ended, for the tones that are nearing are those of awoman, a woman who is saying in a key of satisfaction, "Olt, here it 131 I thought I remembered that it was in this room." AL the same moment the speaker, as Well as the person addressed, came into eight; and in `an instant out of Bur goyne's eye has raced away the lack- eustre curiosity, and has given away to an expression of something beyond sur- prise, of something more nearly verg- ing on consternation; and yet, after all, there is nothing very astonishing in the tact that it is Mrs. Le Marchant Who is the woman in search of the Vandyke. leh.ere is nothing more surprising in her being at Genoa than his being there himself. At that mart of nations it can never be matter for wonder to meet hnyone; but who is this to whom her Observation is addressed? It is not Mr. Le Marchant, ft is not a man at all; it is a slight woman "White as a lily, and small as a wand"— like ' Lance's sister, dressed with that heat, tight, grey -tinted simplicity, - se- vere, yet smart, which marks the well- bred Englishwoman on her travois. Is ;t one of the younger ones, wito has grown up so startlingly like her? Mir- iam? Rose? or, is it, can it be, the dead Elizabeth? (To be continued). A woman cares not who has the first word, provided she has the rest of them. FIFTY CENTS IN some conditions the gain from the Use of Scott's Emulsion is very rapid. For this reason we put up A fifty -cent size, which is enough for an ordinary cough or cold or useful as a trial for babies and children. In other conditions the gain Is slower—health cannot be built upin a day. In _ such cases Scott's Emulsion must be taken as nourishnnentt a food rather than a medicine. It's a food for tired and weak digestions. t.' Sind foir free ttrMpfy SCOTT & BOWNE, Chem 'Gorget* tat. Doc. rad it•oo. Ml drurpgirti', \.131I; .'E I$WTOR. 't'UIES. Werner t iscovers f4ulistlfute tor Bt4" her Made Frons. Cereals. A new substitute for rubber baa been lotted, and If ,the claims Of a Middle, sex (England) and) inventor proves 10 be Well founded, we shah some day set; motor cars and bleyolea with tires Ittade of wheat, golf balls that once wore ker- nels of maize, paventents ot barley, and linoleum that might have .been rye bread. Patent tam records show that some 300 inventions of st..,stitutc,i for rubbed' have been filed, not one of which itas at- tained sueeets. • The new claimant is Mr, William Tere:ifall Carr, of Wembley. f10 ,pur- poses to make artificial rubber from cer- eals. It is said that a syndicate of cape t akisls intereated, in, Igo ma uhfacturing have offered him $1,25e,000 for his patent rights. IncreaseIn Navy Made Necessary by The invention of arliecial•rubber was prophesied at the recent meeting of the flee Dependence upon Imports. British As,soei:tilon, and the industrial p German'Govcrnmotet ofilcial of lti h world has ben eager for it ever since st:ulclftlg, Iran been giving a correspottt- the Motor ear and bicycle trades dent et tide Pan Mall Gazette some expla- threat'tned to etebaust the supply et the nation of the necessities driving Cloonan natural article. policy along the road to iutcrnationnl 1 Cloudy UPERIORITY Over Japan Teas is so pronounced that: tua critics have nothing but panne r► y it ors a teapot Profusion. CEYLON (:REIN Every leaf Is uncolored, undoctored and of virgin purity. 40ad pncx oto only.. a.ao, BOO anti 600 per fit. " (Mille AN'Y S NAVAL IDEA. Al all grooera.' WRINKLES AND NERVES WOMEN'S "FLOATING" FRILLS AN RIBBONS. Me. Carr's substitute Is obtained b.' collision, treating any cereal with phyalln, a One-third of Germany's raw food well-lenown chemical substance that arts he, nreirobncl, va- in solution as a ferment, turning the sfostuffsurlih of thesayspeopaoles fs ledtn aonroitittorletot starchy mallei'. in grant into dextrase. cereals;. and `75 per cent. of Yter forelgatl Another chemical is used in the process trade is sea -borne. it is our recogni- to check fermentation at any deslrecI tion of the utter dependence of German stage. This makes it. possible to pro-. industry and even the vitality of the duce elle artificial rubber in several . body poltltc upon lite volume of our different strengths. 1 irnperis, which bass rovolulionizc l Ger- ilto tnvenlor proposes to make the mart policy and forced upon -us the con substance in six grades, treezn a liquid solution suitable for waterproofing to a hardnass suitable for golf balis, in which form it is said to possess the lightness of cork and the toughness 'of chilled steel.' In other trades it will bo service- able for tires, I ubes, linoleum work, and slabs and sheets for block pavements, Mr. Carr intends to visit, Canada nncl other grain -producing countries for the purpose of arranging for supplies of cereals in quantities sufficient to cope with the operations contemplated. When he was asked if his invention might not have the effect of increasing 'sity of the establishment of a central the price of food, he replied :— Europoan customs union, with like Rhine "There is no danger. The new lino-' under Germany's. protection and Ilio team will be a reserve food supply. in • Adriatic manned by her marines. the event, of a famine it can be boiled and reconverted into food." slruction of a great navy; the second im- pulse being the acquirement of colonies, and the desire to expand across the seas on economic -political lines. lie looks to a future with a Russian Empire bart'ing German goods, self- sufficient American continent, and a self-contained British Empire an Mr. Chamberlain's lines. In spite of nada cal and Socialist fanatics, Germany, he bays, means to be able to exercise, where necessary, the force upon which the ultimate success of commercial poli- cy is dependent. He claimed the neces- 4 1tiE CLOCK PLANT. There is a plant. a native of Borneo, which is known as the "clock plant." The name is derived from the action of the sun's rays on the leaves, which are three in number—a large one extending forward, with two small ones at rho base pointing sideways. These, coming in contact with the rays of the sun, oscil- late like the pendulum of a clock, the larger leaf moving upwards and down- wards, going its full length every forty- five minutes, the smaller leaves moving towards the, larger, completing the dis- tance forward and backward every forty-five minutes, thus resembling the hour and minute hands of a clock. WEIGHT -GUESSING. A. recent novel weight-guesing compe- tition, which was a feature of an agri- cultural show in the Isle of Wight, re- suttee in remarkably accurate judgment being displayed. A large number of people purchased tickets, which entitled ihent to enter the competition for judg- ing the dgad weight of a bullock stand- ing in the show -yard. When the bullock was slaughtered and weighed, it was found that three competitors had guessed tb.e exact weight of the carcass. When a man's temper gels the best of him, it generally reveals the worst of him. Talk is so cheap ihat betters are wil- ling to give a lot of it free with each shave. STAR RAYS. What, �hat causes the rays or pencils of light that seem to be thrown out by every star when seen by the naked eye? A German scientist has been wrestling with the tt'otliem. He limes that all stars show precisely the same rays, but that in the case of the brighter stars the rays are plainer and somewhat longer. it is further remarked that the rays seen by the left and right eyes differ, and that if the head be turned the rays are rotated in a corresponding manner. It 'is thus concluded that the source of the rays is not in the stars, but in the eye itself, the middle of the retina being not perfectly homogeneous in its sensi- tiveness. WHITE BEAR MINE. Favorable and encouraging reports continue to arrive concerning work on the White Bear mine at Rossland. The Rossland Miner has the following: "The development of the several new ore shoots found on the 850 -foot level and elsewhere in the White Bear, con- tinues with flattering results. Eighty tons of first-class ore and 40 tons of concentrates were shipped to the smelter during the week. This was taken out in the course of the. development." • "It is a great comfort to have a child about the house," said the man of do- mestic tastes. "Yes," answered the un- feeling wretch, -"when company comes that you' don't care for, you can make the child recite." srnMalmilo► sumrsonsimaitturwiammegiwo raperies 11Iowingin the Breezy Cause Series of Grimaces.. The unobservant man walking in Borid Street, liegent Street, London, er 'any place where fashionable women congreguie wilt infallibly' come to the conclusion that English women are suffering from St. Vitus' dance. In their carriages, on the pavement, or in, motor oar's, every woman in the street grins, screws up her mouth and her eyes, twitches her lips, jerks her shoul- ders, and generally behaves as if she were on wires. But it is not St. Vitus' dance. The grimaces and the gestures are caused, first, by the woman's hair, and, secotld- ly, by her "floating" frills and ribbons.' "There is a great outcry against the "fringe net, said a West End beauty: specialist to a London Express repre- sentative. "There will be a greater out- cry when its abolition results in prema- ture wrinkles and 'nerves.' WRINKLES I'WST COME. "Only one woman .in fifty is blessed With naturally curling hair, and the large majority those who have to use pins and curling tongs -are always ex- periencing the. uncomfortable sensation; of stray locks which free themselves. 'from hairpins and fall forward to tickle' The unfortunate person's nose. "It is an extraordtnary thing to watch! a smart woman, her hands engaged with 'her umbrella, purse, and skirt, trying, t0 blow a curl out of her line ot vision.; She twists her nose, strains her mouth' Sideways, and, in fact, would be horri- fied if she caught sight of herself in the' mirror. Wrinkles must inevitablyt come. Grimaces are the greatest enemy, to beauty." FLOATING FASHION.. A fashionable modiste attributes the —191 "society grimace" to what she design 'Hales the "floating fashion" "The well-dressed woman nowadays. must float;" she said. "The mare cloud- like her appearance the more she will' be admired. Iter veil must float from' the top of her hat, bunches of ribbon; depend over the brim, ribbons float' from her blouse, and her scarf floats in every breeze. "These cloudy 'draperies are liable to blow in front of their wearers' faces,; toed it is very unplelleant to see a woe man distorting her pretty features in the; vain effort to blow away the long 'end, of a rosette or a wisp of tulle." You cant judge every woman by her looks, because appearances may be bought at .most druggists. 1tR�P We have associated our name with White Bear Mining Shares, and to our established clientele desire to say that we give it the strongest possible endorsement. , Firm in our belief that 'White Bear is rapidly reaching c, position that will culminate in another Le Rai success. It has all the evidences NOW. Located and forming part of the group containing Le Rol, War Eagle and Centre Star at Rossland, B. C. Ship- ments already made (in process of 'development only) have netted SIO a ton after paying all: costs of freight, smelter charges, etc. Reports reaching us regularly are highly satisfactory, and we confidently expect to see another repetition of the Le Roi wonder. THINK OF IT! . THINK OF 1°11 And particularly note the location of White Bear. In a group of mining properties paying regular dividends of 0 per cent. CANADIANS WAKE UP I To the immense possibilities of White Bear, before it passes under foreign control. Act, and act promptly, if you would 'benefit by this, which we consider thegreatest opportunity that has been placed before you for some iim,o. DO *OU REALIZE IT ? $100 Invested in the cLe Ra << is now worth 16500 $20,000 100,000 $1,000 " „ « sr « 200,000 'You have magnificent possibilities in White Bear. Shares in a developed mine, producing tender the most favorable conditions, actually selling at prospect figures. To those who have already taken advantage.of this offering we want to extexid our congratulations. To those who up to the present have not seen fit to do so, we want to reiterate what We have already said, and assure them that our confidence in this property is unbounded. 1 You Cart *secure White Bear Now at About IO Cents a Share 1 lake our advice and do not delay an hour 1 INVEST t$50O O0 (Plot Speculate) IN WHITE BEAR A$ a beginning in a remarkably attractive offering. We have .buyers and sellers for C.tallforttia, White Bear, Cariboo, Syndicate, Butfaio, McKinley Dar- McKinncy, Sulliven, North Star, raftlt, Consnlfdated Smelter, Granby Gant,. Novelly, Virtflnia, Monte Smelters, Nipissing, Amalgamaiea Cristo, Molder, Can, Gold Melds Gabe% Albert, ttintversity, Fester, Colonial Investment and Loan, Can sullen Oil. Dom, Pornutnent, Trust and Guarantee, Sun Hastings Write or wire us about ANY Mining or Industrial Security. Da Not rail to Write or Wire .us 'ro-dray. 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