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The Wingham Times, 1915-08-26, Page 7August 06th, 191 5 THE WINGHAM TIMES CD Peg 0' My Heart BY J. HARTLEY MANNERS Copyright, 1915, by Dodd, Mead 6. Company CHAPTER XXVIIII. After Many Days. RANK O'CONIstood ea the quay that morning In July and watched the great ship slowly swinging in through the heads, :and his heart beat fast as he waited Impatiently while they moored her. His little one had come back to him. Amid the throngs swarming down {the gangways he suddenly saw hie daughter, and he gave a little gasp of surprised pleasure. They reached O'Connell's apartment. It had been made brilliant for Peg's i etnrn. There were Gowers every- where. verywhere. His heart bounded he saw Peg's dace brighten as she ran from one ob- ject to another and commented on them. "It's the grand furniture we have mow, father!" "Do ye like it, Peg?" "That I do. And it's the beautiful ,picture of Edward Fitzgerald ye have. .on the wall there!" "Ye mind bow I used to rade ye his ,llter "I do indade. It's many's the tear +I've shed over him an' Robert Emmet." "Then ye've not forgotten?' "Forgotten what?" "All ye learned as a child, an' we 'talked of since ye grew to a girl?" "I have not. Did ye think I would?' "No, Peg, I didn't. Still, I was won- •.dherin' "- "What would I be dein' forgettin' the Ings ye taught me?' "An' what have ye been doin' all 'these long days without me?" He raised the littered sheets of his •manuscript and showed there to ber. "This." She looked over her shoulder and .read: "From 'Buckshot' to 'Agricultural -Organization' The History of a Gen- -*ration of English Misrule. by Frank 'Owen O'Connell." She looked up proudly at her father. '"It looks wondberful, father." "I'll rade it to you in the long even - dies now we're together again." "J?o, father." "An' we won't separate any more. (Peg. win we?" "We wouldn't have this time but tor you, father." "What made ye come back so sud. .den -like?" "I only promised to stay a month." "Didn't they want ye any tenger?" •"in one way tbey did nn' in another •they didn't. It's a long History -that's what It is. Let us sit down here as we used to in the early days an' I'll tell ye the whole o' the bappentn's since 1 •left ye." She softened some things and omit ted others -Ethel entirely. 'Chat era -sode should be lucked rorever in Pegs 'hen rt. Jerry she touched on lightly. "There's one thing, I'eg, that must .'pert us some day when It coves to •you." he nosily satn "Wont's that, father?" -"Love. Peg." 'She lowered her eyes and avid notb "W& "iias it .tome? Bus it, Peg?" She hurled her face on bis breast, .and, though no sound name, he nue! ,by the trembling or her little body that •she was crying. Se It bad conte Into ber life. The child he had sent away a month .:ago had come Dock to net, transform •ed in that little time tnto a woman. The cry of youth and the call of life bad reached her heart. Irti 'After awhile he stood up. ':XA1 d,bather- be goin' to bed, Peg." WAS SO WEAK WOULD HAVE TO STAY IN BED. Mllbtlrn's Heart and Nerve Pills Cured Her. Mrs. j. Day, 234 John St. South, 'Hamilton, Ont., writes: 'I was so run down with a weak heart thdt I could net 'even sweep the floor, nor could Weep at aught. I was so awfully sick sometimes x had to stay in bed all day as I was so weak. 1 used three and a 'half boxes of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pilbr, .and I am a cured woman to -day, and as strong as any one could be, and am doing my own housework, even my own wash- ' ing. "I doctored for over two years, but ;got no help until 1 used your pills." Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are .50e per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, "'Toronto, 'Ont. "All: right, tat�elt7'' -• --- • • • She went to the door. Then she stopped. . "Ye're glad I'm home, father?" He pressed her closely to him. 'TF1 never lave ye again," she whit pored. All through that night Peg lay awake, searching through the. past and trying to pierce through the future. Toward morning she slept, and in a whirling dream she saw a body Goat 9 love you, Peg,► said Sir Gerald. Ing down a stream. She stretched out her hand to grasp it when the eyes met het's, and the eyes were those of a dead man -and the man was Jerry! She 'woke trembling with fear, and she turned on the light and huddled into a chair and sat chattering with terror until she heard her father mov- ing In his room. She went to the door and asked him to let her go in to him. He opened the door and saw his little Peg, wild eyed, pale and terror strick- en, standing on the threshold. The look in her eyes terrified him. "What is it, Peg, me darlin'? What is it? She crept in and looked up into his face with her startling eyes, and she grasped him with both of • her small hands and in a yoke dell and hopeless cried despairingly: "I dreamt he was dead--dead!,An' I couldn't rache him. An' he'wet on past me -down the stream -with his face upturned." The grasp loosened, and just as she slipped from him O'Connell caught her in his strong arms and placed her gently on the sofa, and she fell asleep. • • • • • S • Those first days following Peg's re- turn found father and child nearer each other than they had been since that famous trip through Ireland when he lectured from the back of his his- torical cart. She became O'Connell's amanuensis. Daring the day she world go from library to library in New York verify- ing data for her father's monumental work. One evening some few weeks after her return she was in her ream pro paring to begin her. night's work with her father when she heard the bell ring. That was unusual. Their call ers were few. She heard the outer door open, then the sound od a distant voice mingling with her father's, Then came a. knock at her door. "There's somebody outside here to see ye, Peg," said her father. "Who is it, father?" "A perfect sthranger-to me. Be quick now." She heard her father's footsteps go into the little sitting room and then the hum of voices. Her father was talking She opened the door and walked in. A. tall, bion• ed man came forward to greet her. Her heart almost stopped. She trem. bled violently. The next moment Jer ry had clasped her band in both of his "How are you, Peg?" He smiled down at ber as he used to in Regal Villa, and behind the smile there was a grave look in his dark eyes and the old tone of tenderness in his voice. "How are yon, Peg?" he repeated. "I'm fine, Mr. Jerry," she replied in a daze. Then she looked at O'Connell, and she hurried on to say: "This is my father, Sir Gerald Adair." "We'd inthroduced ourselves al• ready," said O'Connell good naturedly, eying the unexpected visitor all the while. "And what might ye be dein' in New York?" be asked. "I have never seen America. I take an Englishman's interest in what we once owned" - "An' lost through misgovernment." "Well, we'll say misunderstanding." "As they'll one day lose Ireland." "I hope not. The two countries Un. derstand each other better every day." The bell rang again. Peg started to go, bet O'Connell stopped ber. "It's McGinnis. This is his night to 'call and tell me the politics of the town. I'll take him into the next room, Peg, until yer visitor le gone." "Oh, please," said Jerry hurriedly tali takit tL ager. tnwSLil the doff'.. "al• mw'i!taret ca111irrne areMar ' "Stay where ye are!" cried O'Coa hell, hurrying out as the bell refill again. "1 want to ask ye somethin', Su Gerald." she began, , °Jerry!" be corrected,. "Please forglee me for what l sato to ye that day. It was wrong of rue to say, in Tet It was just what .ye might have expected, from we Bray Ye'd been so fide to tne-a little P. body -all that ivondherfui month that its hurt me ever since, an' 1 didn't dare write to ye. It would have look- ed like presumption: from me. But now that ye've come here ye've found me out, an' 1 want to ask . yer pardon, ant' 1 want to ask ye not to be angry with me." "I couldn't be angry with you. Peg." He paused, and as he looked at her the reserve of the .held in,self contain- ed man was broken. He bent over her and said softly,; "Peg, I love youl" The room swam around:ller. Was all her misery, to end? Did this man come back : from the mists Of memory because be loved her? She tried to speak, but nothing came from her parched lips and tightened throat. .'ben she became conscious that be was speaking again, and she listened to him with all her senses, with all her heart and from her soul. "I knew you would never write to RA, and somehow I wondered just how Mach you cared for me -df at all. So I came here. I love yon, Peg. I want you to be my wife. I want to care for you and tend yon and make you happy. I love you!" Her heart leaped and strained. "Do you love me?" she whispered. and her voice trembled and broke. "I do. Indeed I do. Be my wife." "But you have a title," she pleaded. "Share it with me," he replied.' "Ye'd be so ashamed o' me." "No, Peg; rd be proud of yon. I love you." Peg broke down and Bobbed. "I love yon, too, !Mather Jerry In a moment she was in his arms. It was the first time any one had touched her tenderly besides her fa- ther. Jerry stroked her hair and looked into her eyes and smiled down at her lovingly as he asked: "What will your father say?" She looked happily up at him and answered: "Do you know one of the first things me father taught me when I was just a little child?" "It was from Tom Moore, 'Ob, there's nothin' half so sweet in life -as love's young dream.'" When O'Connell came into the room later he renhlzed that the great sum- mons had come to his little girl. The thought came to him that he was about to give to England his daughter in marriage! Well, had he not taken from the English one of her fairest daughters as his wife? And a silent prayer went up from his heart that happiness would abide with his Peg and her Jerry and that their romance would last longer than had Angela's and his. AFTERWORD. ND now the moment has come to take leave of the people I have livedo with t rso long. Yet. though I say "Adieu!" I feel it is only a temporary leave taking., Their lives are so linked with mine that some day in the future I may be tempted to draw back the certain and show the passage of years in their varlous lives. Some day with O'Connell we will visit Peg in her English home and see the marvels time and love have wrought upon her. But to those who knew her in the old days she is still the same Peg o' My Heart -resolute loyal. unflinching, mingling the laugh with the tear, truth and honesty her bedrock: 'We will also visit Mrs. Chichester and hear of her little grandchild, born ha Berlin; 'where her daughter, Ethel, met and married an attache at the embassy and has formed a salon. It will be a grateful task to revive old memories of those who formed the foreground of the life story of one whose radiant presence shall always live in my memory, whose steadfast- ness and courage endeared her to all, whose influence on those who met her and watched her and listened to her was farreaching, since she epitomized in her small body all that makes wo- man lovable and man supreme -honor, faith and love! Adieu, Peg o' My Heart! THE END. '"' %•x :::i4, Marjorie's Family. Little Marjorie went to a ohil- dren's party the other afternoon and was given a warm greeting by the hostess. "Have you any brothers or sis- ters?" asked the lady of the house. "Oh, yes'm. A brother and a sis- ter." "And are you the oldest one in the family?" "Oh, no'mt" very seriously. "Papa 'nd mamma are both older than me." Settling the Matter. The two British sailors had secur- ed tickets to the dog show and were gazing upon a Skye terrier which bad so much hair that it looked more like a woollen rug than a dog. "W'icb end is 'is 'ead, Bill?" ask- ed one. "Slowed if I know," was the re. ply. "But, 'ere, I'll stick a pin In'im, and you look w'ioh end barks." CONS"T"IPATION CAN BE CURED, There Is Nothing To Equal Milburn's Lan - Liver Pills For Thls Purpose. Mrs. A. Cumming, Manchester, Ont.. writes; "I have been troubled with constipation for over five years, and feel it my duty to let you known that your Milbum's Laxa-Liver Pills have cured me. I only used tbree vials, and I can faithfully say that they have saved me from a large doctor bill." Milbum's Laxa-Liver Pills regulate the flow of bile to act properly on the bowels, and thus keep them regular. Irregular bowels are the main cause of constipation. The price of Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills is 25c, per vial or 5 vials for $1.00, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co.,Limited, Toronto. Ont. Shipbuilding; In Canada. •; Canada is not only supplying Great Britain and our allies with large quantities of material, but will also soon be in a position to build war- ships of every type, says The York- shire Post. This will result from the activities of British firms which have laid down plant in the Dominion. The yard at Montreal, belonging to Messrs. Vickers, of Barrow, will shortly be capable of taking vessels up to 1,000 feet in length, and the berths are entirely covered, so that work can proceed in all weathers. On the opposite side of the river Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., of Elswick, are erecting works for the manufacture of forgings, shipbuilding sections, castings, shaft- ing, and high-speed tool steel, this enterprise being, it is understood, as- sociated with the larger scheme of making Canada self-contained in the construction of warships. At Van- couver, Messrs. Yarrow, of Scotstoun, are preparing to build destroyers and other small naval craft, in which they specialize. All these works will constitute a valuable addition to the resources of the Empire. A Gardening Secret. Said Herbert Adams, the sculptor: "When I first planted my garden I thought I liked some flowers better than others, but after you've worked among flowers awhile, no matter what kind of flowers they are, you like them. I've noticed that certain flowers grow better for some people than for others. There's William Howard Hatt -- anything will grow for him! When I asked him the se- cret of his success he just held up his grubbing fork. "'It's the secret the old woman had,' he told me, 'only she used a kitchen fork poking around the things. It is the care and affection you give them.' " How Ancients Squared the Circle. The rule given by Ahmes requires that the diameter of a circle shall be shortened by one -ninth and a square erected upon this shortened line. The area of such a square ap- proximates the area of the circle; but, of course, is not exact and is not even as close a result as that at which others eometricians have ar- rived. The Babylonians, who were also great mathematicians, had a solution, to which a reference in the Talmud has been traced. The Baby- lonian method, however, was not a duadratnre, but a rectification of the circumference. Not Qualified. Two men were getting warm over a simple difference of opinion. They turned to the third man. 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And in the brave days that are described in "Lorna Doone" a successful highwayman was highly regarded for his courage and good marksmanship. In old Mexico things "are still run upon the medieval plan, and the time-honored business of direct and physical robbery still has a good deal of unofficial recognition. Every once in awhile some prominent Mex- ican bandit takes a running jump at the Presidential chair, and some of these road agents have a great hold upon the popular imagination, and long ballads about their exploits are hung from one end of the country to the other. Furthermore, the somewhat less spectacular profession of the sneak thief also obtains a sort of vicarious recognition. If your umbrella or your silver teapot is stolen from your house in Mexico City, you do not appeal to the police, but go to the "volador" or public market, and spend a few hours wandering along the crowded alleys, lined by shops filled with every conceivable sort of Junk. Very probably you will find 'your lost article among it, and after a good deal of haggling will get it back for the best price you can af- ford to pay. Very likely the man you buy it from is the very same who stole it; for the thief is protected by an old custom, which decrees that he may go free of punishment if he displays the stolen goods in the market upon the first Sunday after he steals it. This recognition is extended to thievery throughout Mexico, and thieves' markets are to be found in a number of cities besides the capi- tal, His Plan. "Well, yes," confessed the land- lord of the Periwinkle tavern, "it isan idea of my own painting a purple stripe all around the hotel at the top of the first story. You see, there wouldn't otherwise be anything to distinguish this particu- lar inn from thousands of others. As it is, a good many people drop in to point out to me that such a decora- tion is not in good taste or to urge some other color or something that a -way. And they usually remain long enough to spend a dollar or two before I am thoroughly con- vinced. "Persons' with literary talent and occasionally a real writer come along and suspect me of being a character and board here while studying me. As a matter of fact, a drummer gave me a can of purp''e paint out of his samples, and I didn't know what else to do with' it." Experiments With Sand. A very interesting fact about the ordinary sand of the seashore is that a pint of dry sand and half•a pint of water mixed do not make a pint and a' h'alf,' but a good deal less: •If you fill a child's pail with dry sand from above the tide mark' and then pour on it some water the mass of sand actually shrinks. The reason is that when the sand is dry there is air between its particles, but when the sand particles are wetted they adhere closely to each other; the air is driv- en out, iind ,the water does 'not ex- adtly take an 'equivalent space,' but occupies leas room than the air did, owing to the close clinging together of the wet particles. The Sun and the Earth., The diameter of the sun is 865,000 miles. It would take 300,000 bodies like the earth to weigh as much as the sun. It has been calculated that the earth utilizes only the two - billionth part of the heat that is thrown off by the sun. The path followed by our planet in its course around the sun measures 583,000,- 000 miles, 'involving a speed on the earth's part .in order to make the journey on schedule time of eighteen miles a decond, over 1,000 miles an hour, many times faster than the fastest express train, much faster indeed than a rifle bullet. A Sound Sleeper. 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Mothers Know iThat Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA TNC C6NTAUK CQM !ANY, N.M YOLK CIT!: The Vatican. The Vatican is the papal palace and derives its name from the hill on which it stands, the Mons Vaticanus, one of the seven hills of Rome. It is a collection of magnificent build- ings, which occupy a space of 1,151 by 767 feet. The most ancient of the present structures dates from the time of Nicholas V., about 1447. The various popes from time to time add- ed new buildings, in which are many works of art of a historical character. The. Sistine chapel, one of the Vati- can edifices, contains Michelangelo's first master piece in painting, "The Last Judgment." The Pauline chapel possesses Michelangelo's frescoes of "The Conversion of St. Paul" and "The Crucifixion of St. Peter." The Effects of Ammonia. The effects of ammonia upon the complexion are directly the opposite to that of arsenic. The first symp- tom of ammonia poisoning whicjt ap- pears among those who work in am- monia factories is a discoloration of the skin of the nose and the forehead. This gradually extends over the face until the complexion has a stained, blotched and unsightly appearance. With people who take ammonia into their systems in smaller doses, as with their water or food, these strik- ing symptoms do not appear so soon. The only effect of the poison that is visible for o a' time is a general un- wholesomeness and sallowness of the complexion,—London Telegraph. Scientific Borrowing. Some time since a little girl who lived in a rural community appeared at the back door of a neighbor's house with a small basket in her hand. "Mrs. Smith," said she, as the neighbor answered her timid knock, "mother wants to know if you won't please lend her a dozen eggs. She wants to put them under a hen." "Put them under a hen?" was the wondering rejoinder of the neighbor. "I didn't know that you had a hen." "We haven't," was the frank re- joinder of the little girl. "We are going to borrow the hen from Mrs. Brown." All He Wanted to Know. "Maria, I'm going to have Dr. Squillips treat me for my heart trouble." "What do you know about Dr. Squillips, John?" "All I know about him is that Mr. Gotsum recommended him to me." "Who Is Mr. Gotsum?" "Mr, Gotsum is one of the stock- holders of the life insurance com- pany that is carrying a $20,000 risk on my life." Two Texts. A church in Scotland being vacant two candida'.'s offered to preach. their names being Adam and Low. The last named preached in the morning, taking for his text, "Adam, where art thou?" The congregation was much pleased and edified, Mr. Adam preached in the even• ing, taking for his text, "Lo, (Low). here am I!" The impromptu and the sermon gained him the church. The Gentleman's Psalm. A reader of the Scriptures empha- sizes the Fifteenth Psalm as the gen- tie.,ian's psalm because it describes as among the many who are entitled to be considered as gentlemen "one Who leadeth an ineorrupt life, speak- etb truth from his heart, doeth no evil to bis neighbor, is lowly in hie own c yes, keepeth his word even 11 it be to his own hindrance," Children Cr FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA WATER AND •AIR. An Old Test Upon Which Many. Fa- mous Theories Were Based. Here is an ancient experiment upon which several famous theories have been based: If a vessel of wa- ter having a hole in the top and sev- eral narrow holes in the bottom be suspended in air no water will: fall from it so long as the upper hilts , closed. As soon as the upper here zs opened the water will fall. You nazi test this with a glass tube full of water. So long as you keep your finger over the upper end the water will not drop out, but the instant you lift your finger the water drops. Yet water is heavier than air and, according to Aristotle's physics, should fall to the ground. What, then, keeps it up? Early physicists said that the fall of the water would produce a vacuum and that a vacu- um cannot exist in nature. Roger Bacon said this argument was a fal- lacy, because a vacuum does not ex- ist. He advanced the hypothesis that although by their particular natures water tends downward and air upward, by their nature as parts of the universe they tend to remain in continuity. But a writer more than a century earlier than Bacon offered this law of universal continuity. A univer- sity professor points out in a letter to NaturethatAdelard Ade and of Bath,a in dialogue with his nephew about such, a vessel which they had seen, wrote: "If it was magic then enchant- ment was worked by violence of na- ture rather than of waters. For al- though four elements compose the body of this world of sense, they are so united by natural affection that, as no one of them desires to exist without another, so no place is or can be void of thein. Therefore im- mediately one of them leaves its, position another succeeds it without interval, nor can one leave its place unless some other which is especial- ly attached to it can succeed it." Hence it is futile to gave the water a chance to get out unless you give the air a chance to get la. PICKING A PICKPOCKET. Rules That Guide Chicago Detectives In Spotting Their Man. , How to tell a pickpocket when yon see one -the feat is apparently not difficult, for all applicants who take the civil service examination to be- come Chicago detectives are required to bave mastered it. "What are the physical characteris- tics of pickpockets?" the would be thief catchers are asked. And this Is the answer they are ex- 1'eetcd to give: "Pickpockets ordinarily travel in mobs and are of two distinct Wes - One small or medium stature, the other tall and muscular. As a general rule. the age runs from eighteen to thirty- five. Their hands are soft, show no signs of work, and the fingers of all except the 'stall' and particularly the fingers of the 'wire' are long and slen- der. Tbeir eyes are shifting and fur- tive. Their complexion is generally sallow and without distinct color, this being due either to prison pallor in types or to the use of cocaine or other drugs. The cocaine users show drawn features and prominent cheek bones and usually bave distinct rings around the eyes. "The temperament of pickpockets 10 high strung because of the dangers of the 'profession' or from the use of drugs. At the same time they are po- lite almost to the point of obsequious- ness. They seldom carry weapons and rarely resort to force. On duty they. dress to suit the occasion, generally well, but not conspicuously. They avoid wearing anything that might lel to identification," ,..