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Exeter Advocate, 1914-3-5, Page 2Let me see, r]zat will. the nation do with it? Put it in a museum, don't they? Or le it in the academy matter)? Never maid; it"e a great honor, of cou ee. I wi;-h I had gone in for painting. But you look fag - teed. Want a change, eh? Z've diseoverecl the jolliest little place you ever saw. No railway, five miles from any- here, and a mile from the sea. Stuck on a cliff -- you can live like a fighting -cock at a Na -muco Laxatives ,. accomplish their purpose witle maximum efficiency and minimum discomfort. Increasing doses are not needed. esc..a box at your Druggist's, 174 National Drug andfhemical cast Canada, limited. Xs most as soon se I'nrrivo:d. Alen had a way of making room far mo near Maelge'e shilling a day, and never see rt soul. No side. Not only were we couainte, or ra• a tater step -cousins, for there wee no.real re- a's X walked I thought about xray Cous ! visitors --no room for any --,any you cant lationship between rte, but it wee one of hl edge. eee the french coast. 1 do 'o love tit those clearly understo. a geld a'ettled 0/early I was bound to her,'and I lik get away from the French coast on a alerar family arrangements that we' wore to no other 'woman well. l'ior eight ye; dozy. Run down in an -tour and a half, maitre a watch of it some 4ay. My zuc1e we had scan mole other almost daily, an and you can paint ripping big laudsenpes and Lady Caaellester certainly wisbed it, although I did not for a, moment'trotter all day without, any nat.vee to bother ae did the rest of the family, but -v�heu zzirreelk that ,she loved me, elle was fond you. There aren't any natzves•-besides, et,adge eame of age, three years before, of rue in her way, send had not the leaet they're too tetup•d. So you're an AR A. she lead resolutely' refused to lot the objection to marry me—at some time, nowt Fellow told me the other day it marri;'e talcs place until tele ha<1. -vlrat (Lo be continued,) metart rlrother Ruined Artist," as yon she celled ea few years' liberty' to eta . ' Painting shape never do any good evheu ,some decorous and ixigh1 r oultiyated nate you begin to stick letters after your t,zt her' awn account.. �„ name. Never mind; they ean't tape. it COLONEL'. �,t`OET Til,LS. away, and you're surd to be an Rea., if To. thit euggeatioxi, of ec uree, T agreed, You live long erouglt. Then you can soli I loved my 'art, and' wafted to gelate; tiny stuff. Not that you want .the money some name for myself, and it wee net ae How He Rose to the Top - in the though x k X bowed and laughed, hat 1 did not like, it. Madge -snow how to ivalte Iter speeches ,tia!g. 'k/xactly." I said; ""Mid play at being. nn nrt'.et. But my dest".tlatiou is a etate secret." Never mind," she returned, stabling, ra. diontly into my face, at though oauao1ous that her last thrust .had been too sharply barbed, 'I dare say •a n shall ,see the re- suit of your visit ou the line at Burling-, ton house raext spring': " .Among otlror respsotable and popular nxedlocritiee,"' "Now you aro being bitter at pour own expense, Your work is far above medio- erity. "But I don't starve : in a .gaarret, 'which. in your . opinion, ig the ono and only in. (+strove to talent. Good -by until this even- ing,,, flood -by, and don't be late for di'itea." -'hen she leaned for an instant toward me, and whispered very lightly, for Lady Cnrt+heeter 'wge rather deaf: "Don't forget Nicholas Wray." I did not forget laim. X boat my rte t once in the direction of his .studio a tenant -colonel, end in the same year was appeintted ediait'nl.akli quid clliief engineer of the Isthmian Ca:- ini.1 Coininieeion, He received leis connnlssion as a colones in 1909. " Colonel Goethals married Miss Rodman, of New Bedford, Mass., in 1884. They have two sons, one of whom recently was graduated near the head of his cites at 'Wrest -taint and now is serving in the canal zone, under his father, as a second lieutenant of engineers, Now that his- big job is `nearly over he j,s being sought ,niter by many cities and corporations, Ile lilts been offered the position of New York's Chief of Police, bv,t is Pa " not likely bo take it. He will to either remain as C-oveinor of the ed Cantil Zone or, go north to build ors the Alaska railway in all probe- d, bility.. Luche' dog! Bolling in 'wealth, and en- tug age enred ed for me; In my -ver gator' to an heiress. Wb.eu'e it coming she took A very real interest, and erten eengzneeiing Peedessiou. off?" • helped me greatly by her suggnsa.ions. Dollar drun iirrycei out, a t he Neither she nor I saw that anything was The soldier and administrative. Cellars had la P u , r ci to be gained by. tying ourselves up at etcpped to take breath, not to waren for au ,twenty-one and twenty-three. It .ens not military man -levo -teen bred fox answer. I handed him my 'pocketbook and pencil. '"Write down the ,address of that place l you epeke of," I eaid. And Dollars, taaken by surprise before be wag wound up again, wrote it down: reehe Rose and Grown Rotel, Lythinge, Kent," "It's an inn, not a hotel, really, you know," he explained; "but they think 'hate-' is liner because it has five letters in it and inn has only three. Jolly old sanded floor, you know. X sit there and drink beer and ask the farmers about the Grope. That sort of +thing rents a man at the end of the .season."- I burst out laughing, and he laughed also, without knowing why. The picture conjured up before any mind's eye of Col- lars, immaculately -.dressed, imperturably hobnobbing with .the sone of agriculture, and asking them, in his loud, slipshod Englieh, irrelevant questions about the crops, struck me ae 'being- irresietibly humorous. Still, `but of the moutle of babes" words of -wisdom have been known to come, and I mentally resolved to run down to Lythinge within •the next twenty- four haters. fact was, I was tired. and wanted to think. The London season was in full awing, and, being well off and successful, I had ea many friends and aequair.tances that I sometimes sighed for my own so- ciety. Above all, I longed for ,the sea, I was born at sea. on a voyage to In- dia, whither any, mother and father were travelling to join my father's regiment. My another's people had been in the navy for generations -an ancestor fell by Nel- son's side -arid a living great-uncle, of mine was a dsstirguished admiral. I had the sea in my blood, and, as they would eat make .a sailor of me, I became a ;mint- er of the sea and'ships. I believe I suc- ceeded because I loved it. I bad a bit of a yacht, and kept a deaf old salt and hie azrandeon always within call about the coast, and 1 got more pleasure out of that boat than the Smartest reception or ball could give nie. After getting lad of Collars, I made any ay a'along the Row, nodding to acquaint- ances, while I looked eat for old Lrdy Cnsaheeter's carriage. Everybody called eiedge'e mother "Old Lady C•ira'hester,", 'lthaugh she could net really have been more than five -and -fifty; but she .was eo email; and wizered. and painted, and had something so witchlike and uncanny about her that she might have been a hundred. She was the daughter and sale heiress of J.zohson's candles," or, to put,it another way, Madge's. =eternal grandfather had been a tallow millionaire from the north of England, a.rd his money had helped to build the parliamentary fame and eeoure a peerage for the sen of that eminent lawyer, Jehn Lorimer. created Baron Lorimer; whaee son, -• Iedge'e father, had - been buried in a brand•new family vault nine years ago, ruder the style and title of first Earl of Saardling. ger espreassion changed suddenly, and A year later his d'scozi ola.te ementees her dark eyed grew pitiful and moist, descended In rank a. step or two to become "Adrian," she said,, in a very:low voice, the wife of my ogees, Baron Carahester, `"von must find him out at once and help and Madge and I tire, became acquainted' him, .Se- has been illand he is nearly My uncle Carchester zras+the herd of our etaAnee " , house. I was het P varite nephew, anti ` Who, told you soP' after my parents' death his home was "Denvil said something` which made me mine. I know it bee grieved ban always srepeat it. So 'X wTott; Nicholas Wray e that I, the am of b',s beet -love -1 brother. erspec+sking him; to lunch with ns; a�s I eau tot heir le the title and what is left wanted ttr trlk. tm him about making an of the family. estates. My lJncle GGreville's outline aketoh of my fattier from his par - two boys. who come before me, are not strong phya?ea11y or mentally, but there traits. I sent it by hand, and got •a ver- they are. They are welcome 'to the title, bad answer, thaning me, but saying nt xltlrougt Madge, for ore, who thinks 'a could rot undertake any work at present. lot of tables, grudges it to them. I'm sure there's something very wrong But Madge must speak for bei -self, and with him." in order to tell my tale properly, I must But here the•thin, high voice of Madge's try and make you u"dereta,nd her, and meatl'er oued in:- eee her net I did on rids pliarticular after- 7f Nie]ihalaa Wray is ill, he area drunk bim noon, berding Forward in her carriage self into it. I have no patients with a .rd showing her fine white teeth in a slaty. drunken, money -borrowing Bo- delightfuI .laugh se she listened to what daubsna. ereIt'the fashion to call his Oharlie Brookton—who ie cersidered one clover, butitI've seen better work of the matt aatusing men about town, buv done with a bit of chalk one pave- whom I personally dislike intensely -was pave - anent." relating to her acrces the railings of the Lady Carcheter eeldom e•poke, but when .. she• did air her views they were usually Madge saw me seine she those to no old-fashioned and emphatic. Nicholas lite me; et least. I divined that fro ,theWray had been a. fellow student of mine in Paris studias. His work was chiefly extra interest she began to take in Meek and wh te; clashing, brilliant earl Brookton's conversation She knew I did caterer and iitipreesions, and ae that as though eve could eat see e olt otter three generations in George Wash - every day. My studio was close to mY uncle's place, and Madge and could be ingto,n Goethals the successful en - together whenever 'we pleased, Some- gineer who has just about. COM - times it seemed to me +that elle had about plated his bigjob • of di in the her capabilities for a, really .ardent air g tachment, should the right man come in ' Panama Canal He is claimed now 2aer way, and I confess I now and then ; 1)y many cities and States but he is secretly hoped he would del eo.' T wcs very: fond of Madge, but her biting, sax- a Brooklyn boy, and although his `testic remarks often hurt me, and her views of life, rand especially; of woman's proper Ohara in it,were disqu.'eting in the extreme. Then, too, she flirtel . so mach that, watching her, I often rejoiced that I was not in love with her, as so many other seen were. It was not that she -was unkind o,' orueI, She was, on the contrary, too kiud., and she encouraged all her admire..e to make fools of theni- selvee, so that ebe was always surround- ed by a little .court of half -accepted, half rejected worshippers, who waited about, an she herself expreened it, in case, I nlzould "drop out of the- running." ; 'a'bet was her way of putting, it, rand, of course, it was abaterd, Yet I often felt I etaod in the way of a brilliant match for her, and sometimes I used to tease her about it. ''you won't marry me," ' I used to say. "Yet .you let zee keep other fellowe off. Is that reasonable?" But the had turned on me with sudden temper. "I aot like this to, please myself," she. said. "Supprse I like to be a girl-bnchel- or, or, in other words, an old maid? I •presume I may please myself? 1t is not as if you were in love and wanted eo mer- ry some one else," "Il Geed heavers, no!" "You are not in love, are you. Adrian?" the had suddenly asked ane very eernest- ly,'layirg her finger-tips on my .ehoulderse cul. gazing up into my face. 'Not •a little bit," I had answered, with perfect truth, and she had pushed me from her it little impatiently, and chang- ed +the subject by billeting into extrava- gant praises of the beauties and graces of her kat favorite actor„ This had happened on the cccasion of our last meeting, two dams before. To- day she greetedme, as I said -With' a alt- tle offended air: ea. "Why didn't you come to 1unc er- day?" she asked sharply. 'Thep ' ' Tient came, . and we expected you. It eveuld do you good to meet him like thet,-and Den- vil, the new art critic on the Daily 'Poet, was there, too. It was very stupid of you not to come. What were you. doing?" "I was sketching, a.nd I couldn't leave my work," Poor, dear thirrg! Toiling for • your daily bread or perhaps for a little scrap. of butter to put on it, eh? A* d•,' by the way, talking of poventy stricken artists suclr ars yori-have you heard of Nicholas Wray lately?" No . Have a" "Yee." .ancestry is: Swiss, and of the mili- tary Swiss ?at that, his grandfather was a surgeon in • the French army and was with Napoleon at Anater- Colonel Goethals. lite. His 'own father, John Goo- gols, els, was born in Switzerland and moved to Amsterdam in his early boyhood. In 1848 ,he came to this country, making his home in Brook- lyn, where, in 1858, the present Colonel Goethals was born. The origin of the family name is interesting. In good Dutch it is the equivalent of the 'English; "stiff necked," and was conferred - on the first -of the present line, who - was one of the Crusaders, by 'an early Xing of Flanders. This man was fighting aside by side with his king when a foe struck him a mighty blow. : The sword was turn- ed +aside by the armor and the man kept ` on fighting. A. second blow was struck, but ebilll the -Plan kept on fighting before the eyes of his king, until the battle was won, Af- ter the eonflicat .the king .called the warrior to his side and, commended bim for his prowess. -• "Sire," said the soldier, "I break before I bend." "Heneefarth," said the king,' "thy name is Goethals, the stiff necked." The name has "stuck, r, and for centuries the family motto was "We break before we bend." not like the man. and she always tock ce+uld not commend itself to Aiadge'e 'mo- George Goethals started school g , malicious en I aro in being specially th.er, who in art, rated "finish" above all at the age of six at old Public when to mon I did not like, Even now, ,other .anaali�ties Madge, on her part, be- School No. 15, State and Powers sw71i f look back, X cannot pretend to lieved t int Wray had a• future. and -fad •c eve .rar Iadge s motives. That the she Ke Street(nowAvenue), a motive for almost everything she WES generally right. S e made a funny Third Avenue ; Brook- did I have ver little doubt, except on Iittle moue at me. unseen to Lady Clar lyn. That was in 1864, lie played occasions when very feelings carried her ti eater, but she wan wise enough to drop with the older boys around in the nway'away. But she not allow that to tree eubjeat of Nicholas Wray, who by the y n veryalirhe did. way, eheriehad-so profound an admiration. lots which are now in the centre of She was f often- naetwenty, and consider- S'r her the t now and then z wondered a great city. Nor was he a "star'' and n of the neriesoof con women dimeen in (411ght1 lmr prbad es on succeeded apparenttlsome pupil: The tainstoad by his teach. essailnhle heart. daring in speech, but irreproachable in ers and associates hint that he of- conduct, .a coaurtte •to her i[nger-tips, and You'll dine witch us. of course?'" she yet u times bluntly sincere. far too cynf- said. "Otherwise, we may be late; stud ten was among those detained after cal in her views, and yet believing with I don't -want to mica that duet in the first the regular boors. It was there, the most whole souled loyalty in those to act' Ohl And :I want you to go with me whom • her trust was given. X cannot lay ..to Firulinaalam til -morrow, wind—" however, ..that the soldier blood of claim to understanding Madge, and it of'To, mriorrow," 3 .said, "I am going out his ancestors first •showed itself, for would take renins of paper to recouxi my She raised her evebrevs. in the closing years of the civil war varied impres,eions of her changing, come ""Out of town! Why P" plea nature.great bodies of Soldiers were often Ag to her appearance, rho wart considered Because I am tick of it." a great beauty, but e ebe w'e that had Madge flushed. a.n ,rilY, encamped in the vacant lots Stir- rounding the old schoolhouse, and he recognized the dill of destiny in Oonr•plimentary to us, isn't it, .mama? am sure we here done our best-•„—„ , a pretty, interesting -looking girl. a hate a London senean. And 'haven't :I his earliest ears, Ilex. skin was very clear and fair, but she been good, doing everything and goingy powdered so'thickly that everybody said everywhere? Now T want to be out of, it It was in 1875 that the boy first eho rouged, aiso, which wee a calumny• for n few hours•—" became fired with an ambition to go , She had an abundance of pretty brown "Where are you going? Manna, there's hair, but she patronized some detestable Lady Wrexford bowing to you. What a the military academy. At the French halr•drese r, who frizzedand iluf- frightful hat! And her cemplexion'frsli't academy he soon won a reputation fed, and gilded and•bronzed it. 'until I made up to tone with it one bit. You as a diger because he was at was never euro of the color it would bo greet a.rt"sts, Adri.azr, 11..A.'•s, and A•1#, A;.'s, "digger," from one eea.son to another; a straight, anal all that, ought to take advantage of hips studies early and late. The el - end finely modeled nose, with g y sv eLHi m n al" g ;, your .social a a,aiti on to n cab fci lacer dfadaiitful and insolent about the hints to people how to go about out giving in t veneer of this was eo high curve et the tip of it; dark cyebrowe, properly 1880, he was graduated: so ltigli with that amok in the middle wlich phyei- their faces, I bv. There's Miss 5t. Al- °gnomfsis ten los ine;.rns wit; rather a silt last gone. by, With a areamcoltlun- UP 1n his class that he, wls.conaLYlls> large mouth well shrived.' but a little complexion, cleanly meant for bla�cit, un- stoned a, second lieutenant in the lama when ;eiceed: a prttily' curved clan airrobe/ih •t is claw, debup 'mere= with And a Leda Engineer Corps,' Which i and throat, and dainty little ears Snell <reee costume. A few elomentnry i aaout „ s toed with were lardge'e claims to benut,y,.wader- to in the art of making -up would coins as a to those students graduated with a shapely figure not tall enough for grrce, baorz..and a blirssins to so many woolen,the highest anaslcin s. and a nice, sort hand, tlntttnaIly et'-ong s,ld prevent 'PG, whog for. a girt. Her vcice was altogether 7? -ince apple -green In 1891 he was promoted. to the eharmfn cit tit rat at yourfrom purple, front having. our eyes sot air g p Y t erase, or it edge. Well, Adrian. what was it You were grade of captain and placed in Chilled Your bleed by its freezing quail. saying about ri tion, at x'ta toner's will, .end there was a an' tt un u F ngaway? And whither Tennessee s the improvement, -'et the tench of the +;hill on when she greeted DUE of obhespale of civilisation for a Tennessee xiivCr, for the text toter me after T had Minkron bands with Aunt day or two. i want to forget the now. Seatrs: 11n, was elle chief engineer - Lonfse, : ho znnnrmlfte4 onkin t' role` old• a.n-c1 the one -a, and .Hualingham and e lady who eat by Madge's ,side, and in. Lady hfarcbnzo it's makeup, aha--•--" of the First Army. C.tit lls in the whose sharp. hawklike. features there 'end ins?'" ODA,,itisll WV' c,f Cit!•'$ alit+.1 be.en,mo a. tnrrkrcj ittl . !' ii y, tr-c' of her. datzgh "Not ;rnu. of oeoesc. het (veeif, niy major in ib.+ (Isms of l;tlr'i' s1 ]vcnllnrrd. frnrlteintrd aye a, liar? -s Clawless Itxookton left the carriage ni- '•Aral play at being am artist?'" in 1cJ00. In l(0', 11•J:b, telae' at lieu ethic been pia•io hires Lorimer, without any I merely she would have been esteemed I Dont be silly, Stodge. You know how The Wedding Eve Or, Married to a Fairy. Chats all• I. Mien I was ill --very ill, bout in Mind' and body- nest many months ago, me kind nurse precured for me a, lame atesortiuent of the latest and most popular genie. The authors were ehleily ladies, aura one and all were cxauliied in showing how delt.7,'zte, and. how little understood .a thing glee heart of a woman, and how little unworthy a being is xnan to be iutrzusted -with the care of te; how coarse and groat a.re hie tastes, how uns•tr•hle and waver• ing in the pa'selent he dignifies by the name of love. The books containing these prima:lee have, luta a great sale, anti have rum oe thrh many editioust, and after read- ing them 1 was moved. perhaps in a epirit of pretest. to chroniele faithfully my own expet.encet3 as a lover, admitting, first, candidly that 1 may not be accepted as an ordinary type of man, on ;amount cf ney unusual eapabili.ty--a very unfaah>on- acble one in th'ei end of the eontury--tor making an utter fool of myself where my aff-eetione, are coneorned. I baro never written before, and have nothing but the memory of my experi- ence to guide mean experience burned co -deeply into say mind that X shall have great eliflioulty in speaking rot it without bttterneea, What I .want to show is taus; That erten, as well as women, occasionally have hearts, and are none the happier: oe tae better treated for it. It is tale old story, 1 euppoee in dealing -with the other DON, one must be the executioner, or the victim, All I maintain is, :that the work'.old strife is not always one-sided in' re. suit; the race ie not always to the swift, or the battle to the i'trong. The romance of my life. such ae it was, began just six years ago. 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NOiliiST NO WASTE I HAMILTON CANADA I NO RUST The Steei Tetis the Tae "TNVINCII31.aa" fencing means high grade quali.tY, 'Where would you look for a high grade fence 11' the Steel Company of Canada were not in this marker?. The life of wire fencing depends on the quality of stool wire used in the con- struction and the quanta and coating of MAC. • Vire are the only manu- facturers or wire fencing in Canada who lathe titter own .fence right frtom ilia ore tote. iY fin' rete +rat Ii d rod. r 'ai an ti d 1e w atop r c u - rvodi9 ai tLy '011 the way through. "TaIVINC!rBLEl" renel.ng in made entirely ar"orii ]sigh rv� grade open hearth creel -0wire and heavily coated FE j!�� (� (�T AND 0 A with pure rime. l \CING HND AT ES alarnee rs, make Year fence requirements a ones- tion of quality and you will tot regret It! Do you know, that tbe, majoilte of femme 'on the market are made from Bessemer wire, with skimped galvan- izing,' they surplus of the American Bra:sea ler :fn.ctcrieste I+'moos muds fr.'om soda wire will last a very ,few Years. Write 'to us alai let ustell : about Bessemer wire, and skimped galwtwizin and Ott rause pato of it. g the methods abed to ells - THE STEEL COMPANY OF3D CAN.��►A LIMITED l�Z MONTREAL f